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Julia Tangeman, 4, of Minster, is the picture of concentration as she competes in the kiddie tractor pull at the Shelby County Fair Thursday. Julia is the daughter of John and Mary Tangeman.

The fairgrounds were alive with rambunctious kids enjoying all the food, sweet treats, games and rides that the Shelby County Fair has to offer. This excess in children was due to Thursday being Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day at the fair. The specialized events of the day included discounted rides for kids and a Kiddie Tractor Pull.

However, kids were not the only ones to be found at the fair. Dan and Bonnie Wenrick, of Sidney, said that they have been attending the County Fair for â&#x20AC;&#x153;forever.â&#x20AC;? The couple especially enjoys the free entertainment tent and the food, particularly the elephant ears, French fries and butterfly pork chops. This year, however, their favorite event was watching the kids showcase their animals.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have grandkids with rabbits,â&#x20AC;? said Bonnie.

The Wenricks were also impressed with the weather the fair has seen thus far. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any better,â&#x20AC;? said Bonnie, gesturing toward the partly cloudy skies. The high for yesterday was 76 degrees, warm enough for fairgoers to sport shorts and tank tops in the afternoon.

However, later in the night the chilly temperatures forced many to put on the layers.

As the favorable weather of the week continued, so did impressive fair attendance. The Shelby County Agricultural Society (Fair Board) was pleased with the amount of tickets sold between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,

Houston man saves teenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life HOUSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Houston man was awakened by a crash in front of his house just after midnight Thursday morning, and his quick action possibly saved the teenage driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

Daniel J. Boyer, 52, 6424 Houston Road, was awakened by a crash and looked out his window to see a vehicle, 1996 Jeep Cherokee, on its side.

He ran outside and found the vehicle now on fire, with the teenage driver still inside.

Boyer ran to the vehicle and cut the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seatbelt, then pulled him out of the vehicle to safety.

Within seconds, the Jeep was engulfed in flames. The heat from the flames melted the overhead power lines and caused them to fall on the vehicle. The lines on the vehicle were arcing as the vehicle burned. The driver, 18-yearold Matthew E. Larger, 6655 W. Miami Shelby Road, Lockington, refused transport by Houston Rescue to the hospital, according to a release from the Shelby County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, but he was transported for minor injuries by private vehicle to Wilson Hospital.

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ating a vehicle while under the influence and for failure to control. A breath test for alcohol was administered, and Larger registered a 0.127 blood alcohol content.

The passenger in the Jeep, 19-year-old Aaron Christopher Felver, 8247 W. Miami-Shelby Road, Lockington, was able to get out of the vehicle before it caught fire.

According to the crash report, Larger was traveling west on Houston Road when he lost control on a slight curve and went off the left side of the road, striking a mailbox. He then overcorrected and went off the right side of the road, then back off the left side, striking another mailbox, where the vehicle overturned and caught fire.

Houston Fire Department arrived on the scene and was unable to extinguish the fire until a Dayton Power and Light crew arrived to shut off the power. Houston Rescue treated Larger and Felver at the scene. The two teens said they both had just come from the fair.

The crash remains under investigation.

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Undisclosed settlement reached in Jerry Dembski civil lawsuit Kathy Leese A settlement has been reached in the Jerry Dembski civil lawsuit after two days in Shelby County Common Pleas Court. The case was dismissed after a settlement was reached and agreed to bypresiding Judge Jonathan Hein of Darke County.

The trial started Monday and was expected to run through today, but it was announced late Wednesday afternoon that a settlement had been reached.

A jury had been seated and witnesses were in the process of testifying when the settlement

was reached. Dembski was scheduled to testify, according to court documents. A document filed on Wednesday in Shelby County Common Pleas Court stated that â&#x20AC;&#x153;upon oral application of the parties, based on the terms of a settlement agreement entered by the parties, the Court finds that the terms of the settlement agreement are fair and reasonable and will be approved.â&#x20AC;?

The lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice after being approved by Hein. The settlement amount is confidential and has not been released.

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Chamber Expo planned Aug. 8 The Sidney-Shelby County Chamber of Commerce is hosting its fifth business Expo on Aug. 8 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Sidney Middle School, 980 Fair Road.

More than 80 organizations operating in Shelby County are registered to exhibit. According to Chamber President Jeff Raible, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chamber Expo is a tremendous opportunity for both buyers and sellers alike to identify local resources for their products and services.â&#x20AC;?

Two free seminars are being offered this year at Chamber Expo. The first, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social Media Marketing Made Simple,â&#x20AC;? will offer ideas and insight as to how to increase the vitality of an organization using the power of social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and

LinkedIn. The second workshop, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Power of Email Marketing.â&#x20AC;? will help organizations better understand email marketing basics, how to build quality email distribution lists, and how to create effective email content.

Carlos â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Leadsâ&#x20AC;? Scarpero will be instructing both workshops. An Internet marketing consultant serving small-business owners in and around the Dayton region, Scarpero has been assisting organizations for several years and enjoys helping businesses grow by increasing their online presence.

People interested in attending either or both of these 90-minute seminars are asked to gather in the Sidney Middle School lobby 10 minutes prior

to the beginning of each workshop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social Media Marketing Made Simpleâ&#x20AC;? will begin at 1:30 p.m. and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Power of Email Marketingâ&#x20AC;? begins at 3:30 p.m.

One lucky attendee at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chamber Expo will win a three-/two-night stay in any Ohio state park resort. This package includes two nights lodging, breakfast for two each day, an activity for two, and a $25 gas card. To be eligible

the winner must be 18 years of age and visit a required number of booths as specified on the Chamber Expo Passport.

Completed passports should be turned in at Booth No. 6. A drawing will be held near the conclusion of Chamber Expo at 6:45 p.m. The winner need not be present to win.

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Attendance at Expo is open to the public and free of charge. For more information, call the Sidney-Shelby County Chamber at 492-9122.

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Leesa Baker in hall of honor The Lehman Catholic High School Alumni Association has announced the school’s seventh annual Lehman Hall of Fame Induction.

This year’s inductees include four distinguished individuals, Leesa A. Baker, Betty Hemmert, Clifford Hoying, and Robert J. (Pete) Meyer, who will be honored at the Lehman Catholic Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on Aug. 3.

The deadline for ordering tickets is Monday. Tickets are available at the Lehman Catholic Development Office.

The Hall of Fame ceremonies will begin with Mass at 5:15 p.m. in the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Chapel on campus.

Cocktails will be served at 6 p.m. with dinner to follow at 6:30 p.m. in the Harriett J. Frantz Gymnasium.

Inductee Leesa Baker was a member of the first Lehman graduating class in 1971.

Following graduation, she pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts

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Baker has been actively involved in many capacities with area organizations including the Miami County

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THURSDAY -11:08 a.m.: medical.

Medics were called to 200 Marvin Gene Court.

-9:26 a.m.: false alarm.

Firefighters were called to 1501 Michigan St. by an alarm. It was determined to be a false alarm.

-9:07 a.m.: medical.

Medics were called to 2600 Campbell Road.

-7:55 a.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the 1000 block of North Miami Avenue.

-6:48 a.m.: fire alarm.

Firefighters were called to 2615 Campbell Road by a fire alarm. It was determined the alarm possibly was triggered by a waterline break underground.

-5:38 a.m.: fire alarm.

Firefighters were called to 2695 Hidden Ridge Drive by a fire alarm. No problem was found.

-1:55 a.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the 500 block of West North Street.

-1:31 a.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the 400 block of North Miami Avenue.

WEDNESDAY -4:43 p.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the 700 block of Fair Road.

-4:19 p.m.: open burn.

Firefighters were called to the 100 block of Pike Street. A fire there was determined not to be in compliance with the city’s open-burning ordinance.

-3:17 p.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the 1000 block of Apple Blossom Lane.

-2:17 p.m.: medical.

Medics were called to the

200 block of Grove Street.

Police log WEDNESDAY -7:38 p.m.: property found. A bicycle found in a yard at 331 Franklin Ave. was taken to the Police Department.

-5:58 p.m.: theft.

Sherrye Lamma, 108 Overland Drive, reported her son’s game system and game, valued at $100, were stolen from Tender Hearts Daycare, 1611 Wapakoneta Ave. -11:09 a.m.: theft.

Desiree Shaffer, 12 Meadowview Terrace, New Bremen, reported her purse, valued at $50, was stolen from her auto at 752 Countryside St. -10:43 a.m.: theft.

Shelby Metropolitan Housing Authority personnel reported two baby swings and an adult swing, valued at $300, were stolen from the playground in the 800 block of Mount Vernon Place.

-10:29 a.m.: property found. A gun barrel and wooden gunstock were found as furniture was being moved at a 2400 Wapakoneta Ave. residence.

The items were placed at the Police Department to be destroyed.

-9:24 a.m.: animal bite.

Archie Carey, 622 S. Miami Ave., reported a neighbor’s dog knocked him to the ground and bit him on the face.

-9:17 a.m.: property found. A crack pipe and syringe were found at 433 E. Court St. They were taken to the Police Department to be destroyed.

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Foundation, the Piqua Chamber of Commerce, the Piqua Community Foundation, Mainstreet Piqua, the Piqua Arts Council, and the Buckeye Trails Girl Scout Council.

Baker has also been involved with her alma mater, serving several terms on the Lehman Foundation Board during the school’s largest capital campaign.

In her nominating letter, Gretchen Roeth, of Piqua, wrote, “Leesa does many things behind the scenes and has been doing that for many, many years. It seems like each year that I have been involved in working at the YW gives me even more insight into what Leesa does on a volunteer basis for so many different organizations in Piqua and the surrounding areas … She has donated time and talent in creating artwork and contributing to other projects that many organizations use throughout the year.”

the goal. Her leadership style is very understated and she is quick to give others credit for work that she has in fact accomplished.”

Cheryl Stiefel-Francis, executive director of the Miami County Foundation, said Baker has a “proven record of accomplishment as a superior leader. Leesa is always organized and effective at setting and reaching goals to improve every project. For more than 17 years, she has singlehandily organized a large group of ticket workers and tickets counters for Mainstreet Piqua’s annual, and highly acclaimed, Taste of the Arts event. Her leadership and accomplishments at the YWCA are also impressive. For example, hundreds of women manage their household records and finances better because of the YW’s Financial Outlook program. Leesa proudly represents Lehman Catholic High School. She has been and will continue to be an ambassador for the school.”

Karen Wendeln, executive director of the Piqua Community Foundation, said, “Leesa was instrumental in the development of the YWCA’s Women of Excellence program, which for 16 years has recognized women and young women who serve their communities with excellence. Leesa has steadfastly recognized others for their outstanding achievements. I think it would be quite fitting for her alma mater to recognize Leesa for all she has done for her community and those of us who live here.”

“I came to know Leesa when I was a rookie reporter at WPTW and quickly learned of her exemplary leadership of the YWCA,” said Lorna Swisher, executive director of Mainstreet Piqua. “Leesa is an organized, efficient and proven leader in the Piqua community as evidenced by her chairmanship of many committees.

She clearly defines the goal and leads the charge to accomplish

Upper Valley Career Center BOE approves insurance rate increase PIQUA — Health insurance and employment of personnel for the 2013-14 school year topped the actions taken by the Upper Valley Career Center Board of Education during its meeting Tuesday.

The board approved the renewal of the health care plan for its employees. The renewal reflects a 5.6 percent increase effective Oct. 1. Both the board and employees will be paying an additional 6.5 percent for insurance.

Amanda Helmstetter math instructor, and Karen Husa, sign language instructor, were both hired by the board.

Helmstetter will be paid $38,401 per year. Husa will be paid $39,929 per year. Each received a one year contract.

Bill Clark was hired as a bus driver for the district. He will be paid

$14.16 per hour on an as needed basis.

Part-time employees were also hired.

Hena Blacke was hired as an instructor/transitions; Penny Clark as an i n s t r u c t o r / S e r ve S a f e ; Julie Hagaman, instructor/transitions; Beverly Schroedel, instructor/ office tech; and Lisa Seger, instructor/transitions. All will receive $22 per hour. The contracts are through June 30.

The retirement resignation of Rose Hemm was accepted effective June 30. She was an assessment specialist in the adult division of the school.

The board also accepted the resignations of Ben Brigham, adult evening coordinator; Gaye Frey, substitute instructor; Ruth Jenkins, LPN instructor; Carey Leffew, office tech instruc-

tor, adult; and Beverly Schroedel, ABLE instructional aide.

The board approved a $300 stipened to Margaret Odle, SADD adviser; and $500 stipends to Kascy Lewber and Matt Stager, evening student custodian supervision for the 2013-14 school year.

The board also approved salary clarifications and/or modifications for Beverly Schroedel, adult student services secretary to Class XI instead of Class IX; for Kim Cathcart, instructor/LPN, salary of $27,000; Carrie Rademachir, instructor/ LPN, salary of $27,000; Kelly Hobert contract is effective July 29 instead of July 22; Sue Phillis’ hours changed from 25 hours per week to 28 hours per week.

The contract of

Michelle Brunson was approved as an instructional supervisor effective July 23 to June 20, 2015. She will be paid $82,982 in 2013-14 and $85,305 in 2014-15.

In other matters, the board: • Aproved repayment of advances from various accounts to the general fund.

• Approved the Microsoft lease agreement for $23,521.20.

• Approved a 60-month lease with Canon for $6,104.87 per year.

• Approved revisions to existing and new board policies.

• Approved textbooks for the 2013-14 school year.

The next board meeting will be Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Adams Board Room.

Fire damages grain dryer at Cargill Fire in a grain dryer at Cargill in Sidney Wednesday night did about $20,000 damage. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

According to a news release from the Sidney Department of Fire and Emergency Services, firefighters were dispatched to Cargill, 2400 Industrial Drive, at 7:52 p.m. on a report of a structure fire in a grain dryer. On arrival, firefighters found that the grain dryer had fire on the north and east sides of the structure, approximately 100 feet above the ground. Fire was confined to the dryer. Firefighters

established a water supply and began coordinating fire operations with plant employees.

After initial efforts by employees to extinguish the fire, and upon arrival of the fire department, all employees had safely evacuated the structure. There were no employee injuries.

A box alarm was dispatched to recall all off-duty personnel.

Mutual aid was provided by PerryPort-Salem EMS and the Anna Fire Department.

Firefighters said plant employees were instrumental in assisting

them, and provided information and details about the product and the structure, and were able to secure power to the dryer.

The grain dryer sustained moderate damage from the fire. The grain in the dryer was destroyed.

The dollar loss to the structure and contents is estimated at $20,000, but may increase as additional damage assessments are completed.

No injuries reported by firefighters and they remained on the scene until 2:30 a.m.

County Record Sheriff’s log THURSDAY -12:14 a.m.: accident with injuries. Deputies responded to a one-vehicle crash with injuries at 6424 Houston Road.

The vehicle was reported to be on its top and on fire. Fort Loramie res-

cue and fire personnel, and Houston Rescue also responded.

WEDNESDAY -11:29 p.m.: accident with injuries. Deputies responded to a one-vehicle crash with injuries at Hardin-Wapakoneta and Schenk Roads. Also responding were Houston

Due to the April 28th accident, the Pudlewski Family would like to extend our belated gratitude and appreciation for your thoughts and prayers. The Meal Train set up by Lehman for our family, and the help of our friends and neighbors during this difficult time has really been a Godsend for us. The Boy Scout Troops from Anna and Sidney contributed to our lawn care needs as well as our gasoline needs commuting to Dayton, then Lima, now down to Bellbrook. All has been much needed and we are thankful for all the help.

Mr. Pudlewski will be coming home soon. Thank you for all your prayers. This has been and continues to be a tough time for our family. Thank you again for all you’ve done to help us through.

The Pudlewski Family

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-5:23 p.m.: property damage accident.

Deputies responded to a two-car property damage accident at Fair and Miami-Conservancy roads.

-1:16 p.m.: larceny.

Deputies took a report regarding a stolen generator and chainsaws from 3013 State Route 66.

Fire, rescue WEDNESDAY

-11 p.m.: injury. Anna Rescue responded to a Honda, 12500 Meranda Road, for an injury.

-9:26 p.m.: medical.

Perry-Port-Salem Rescue responded to a medical call in the 200 block of West Poplar Street.

-8:02 p.m.: mutual aid. Anna Fire responded to a request for mutual aid with Sidney Fire at Cargill, 2400 Industrial Drive.

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Jimmy Fallon talks new-fatherhood NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t quite a royal proclamation, but Jimmy Fallon has shared the name of his family’s new addition: Winnie Rose.

Fallon joked in his “Late Night” monologue Wednesday that he hasn’t had a chance to respond to everyone’s messages, “but let me just say — Yes, William and Kate, we’ll definitely set up a play date.”

Fallon and his film-producer wife, Nancy Juvonen Fallon, welcomed their daughter Tuesday morning.

The 38-year-old Fallon takes over NBC’s “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno next year after hosting “Late Night” since 2009.

Fallon thanked fans for their support on social networks and joked about chasing people down to show them pictures of his baby: “Now I understand why people are on Facebook. I get it now, I get it.”

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Mr. Grieshop was a 1949 graduate of Fort Recovery High School. He served in the U.S. Army.

He was the cofounder, with his brother, Jerry, of J&M Manufacturing in Fort Recovery.

He was a member of Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Fort Recovery, where he sang in the church choir for many years. He was a member and former post commander of the American Legion in Fort Recovery, a charter member and one of the founders of the Fort Recovery Ambassadors and a member of Full Gospel Businessmans Fellowship International. He served on the Fort Recovery School Board.

He will be known for his love of Jesus, our savior, his generosity, his inventive nature and his harmonica.

A Mass of Christian burial will be Monday, July 29, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. in the Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Fort Recovery, with the Revs.

Michael Dandurand and Thomas Dorn, celebrants.

Burial will follow in St. Marys Cemetery in Fort Recovery.

Graveside military honors will be conducted by the Fort Recovery American Legion.

Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m., Sunday, July 28, 2013, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday, July 29, 2013, at BrockmanBoeckman Funeral Home in Fort Recovery.

In lieu of flowers and gifts, donations may be made to the Fort Recovery Community Foundation.

The funds will be used for area families in need.

Online condolences may be directed to www. brockmanboeckmanfh. com.

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which was 2,100. At $9 per ticket, the earnings come to $18,900.

Some of the major events responsible for drawing a crowd were the 4-Wheeler and Truck Mud Bogs and the performance of the band Steel Magnolia.

Kids Day has been around pretty much forever at the Shelby County Fair, but it’s grown over the years — and that’s just fine by Kids Day’s chairman, Mike Hoelscher.

“I thought it went great,” said Hoelscher, whose favorite part of Kids Day is, “All of it, start to finish.”

This is Hoelscher’s first year at the helm of the Kids Day committee, but he says he’s been a part of it “since year one.”

Six bikes were given away in the drawing this year, which saw 284 girls and 326 boys registered. The bike winners were Maddox Abke, 5, of Sidney, son of Hope and Chris Abke; Camdyn Reese, 9, of Jackson Center, son of Becky and Jamie Reese; Nathan Dulaney, 13, of Sidney, son of Katie and Sean Dulaney; Racie Dohner, 10, of Sidney, daughter of Tara and Mark Dohner; Lea Stangel, 8, of Houston, daughter of Jessica and Josh Stangel; and Jadyn Yinger, 11, of Jackson Center, daughter of Breezy and Jake Yinger.

In addition to the bikes, Hoelscher said there were about 100 gifts given away at the drawing Thursday.

The other popular event for Kids Day is the kiddie tractor pull, which was held Thursday afternoon.

The highlighted events for today include Harness Racing at 4 p.m., Pig & Calf Scramble at 8 p.m. and the performance of Mr. Speed The #1 Kiss Tribute Band at 8 p.m.

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F O R T R E C OV E RY — Maurice J. Grieshop, 82, of Fort Recovery, died Wednesday, July 24, 2013, in the Kettering Medical Center in Kettering.

He was born April 22, 1931, in St. Peter, a son of the late Henry and Rose (Schuh) Grieshop.

He married Jeanette (Schindler) Grieshop on June 16, 1954, in Holy Trinity Church in Bryant, Ind. She survives in Fort Recovery.

He is also survived by seven daughters and sons-in-law, Catherine and Carl Koesters, of Fort Recovery, Theresa and Phillip Hemmelgarn, of Anna, Sandra and Thomas Spettel, of Westerville, Judith and James Wood, of Fort Recovery, Alice and Rob Gaerke, of Fort Recovery, Lisa and Jerry Krieg of Lima, and Jaymi and Mary Stammen, of Fort Recovery; three sons and daughters-in-law, Jeffrey and Dana Grieshop, of Fort Recovery, Dale and Nikki Grieshop, of Lima, and Scott and Lisa Grieshop, of Fort Recovery; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Jerome and Norma Grieshop, of Fort Recovery, Lou and Charlene Grieshop, of Fort Recovery, Herb and Janice Grieshop, of Celina, John Grieshop, of Wapakoneta, and Doris Grieshop, of Celina; a sister and two brothers-inlaw, Rosemary and Herb Kaiser, of Coldwater, and Fred Wilker, of New Bremen; 44 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Dennis Grieshop; four sisters, Martha Dues, Ruth Wilker, Laura Langenkamp and infant sister, Catherine Grieshop; two brothersin-law, Cletus Dues and Ralph Langenkamp; a sister-in-law, Dorothy

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VERSAILLES — Ann Shirley Myers, 74, of Versailles, passed away peacefully at 9:47 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at her residence, surrounded by her loving family.

Ann was born Aug. 29, 1938, in Dayton, to the late Garland F. and Rosella “Sally” (Moorman) Redick.

Ann is survived by her sons and daughtersin-law, David E. and Joann Myers, of New Bremen, and Thomas Lee and Janelle Myers, of Versailles; daughters and son-in-law, Shirley and D Johns, of Versailles, and Tina L. Myers, of Greenville; grandchildren, Dustin and Jenni Johns, Lyndsey and Matt Ross, Krista Myers and fiancee, Douglas Wuebker, Heather Myers, Kiley Myers, Skylar Myers, Butch Myers, Nathan Myers and Tyler Warner and friend, Kayla; great-grandchildren, Dalton Johns, Corbin Johns, Isaiah Myers, Jackson Warner and Skylar Calvert; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sandy Barker, of Tucson, Ariz., Jackie and Charles Valentine, of North Carolina, and Vicki and Ray Woodie, of Dayton; brothers and sistersin-law, John and Joella Redick, of Eaton, Jim and Cheryl Redick, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Joe Redick, of Phoenix,

Ariz.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, Ann is also preceded in death by her husband, Crispin A. “Cris” Myers, on March 20, 1997, whom she married April 27, 1957; and sisters, Mary Agnes Redick, Sherry Palmer and Debbie Klopfenstein.

Ann retired from Johns IGA and Valero in Versailles, where she was a clerk. Ann formerly worked at Spidel, Staley, Hole & Hanes Law Office in Versailles, where she was a legal secretary, and the Y.M.C.A. Versailles Branch.

A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.,. on Monday, July 29, 2013, at Bailey Zechar Funeral Home in Versailles with the Rev. Kim Katterheinrich officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery in Versailles.

The family will receive friends on Sunday from 3 to 8 p.m. and Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to State of the Heart Hospice. Condolences for the family may be expressed through www. zecharbailey.com.

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Virginia Johnson, renowned sex researcher, dies Jim Salter Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — In an era when even talking about sex was virtually taboo, Virginia Johnson had a way of putting research subjects at ease, persuading them to participate in groundbreaking investigations that changed the way human sexuality was perceived.

Johnson, half of the renowned Masters and Johnson team, was remembered Thursday as one of the key figures in the sexual revolution. Johnson, whose legal name was Virginia Masters, died Wednesday of complications from several illnesses at an assisted living center in St. Louis. She was 88.

“She has one of the most extraordinary lives of any American woman in the 20th century,” said Thomas Maier, author of the 2009 book “Masters of Sex, the Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love.”

Dembski From page 1 Robert Fischer of Sams, Fischer, Packard and Schuessler, L.L.C., of Westchester, who represented Dembski, released a statement Thursday afternoon that discussed how the settlement was reached, but Dembski suggests there is question about his guilt on charges he was convicted of in the previous criminal trial.

Dembski’s statement read, “late Tuesday night the parties reached a settlement, which terminated the litigation. We are pleased with the terms of the settlement and are glad to have this chapter behind us. We are grateful for the jurors and the time they took out of their lives to participate in this important judicial function. While the settlement took the decision out of their hands, we are confident the jurors were focused on the evidence presented and would have followed the law as they would have been instructed.”

“The decision to settle came after two days of trial in which the plaintiffs presented their case, while we managed to shed light to doubt what really happened. The evidence presented in those two days resulted in the following: while there is doubt in what really happened, there should never have been a meeting off school grounds.

Therefore, after discussions with plaintiff’s counsel, it was determined that it was best to reach a settlement,” Dembski stated through his attorney.

Dembski’s statement finished by noting, “we wish the St. Myers’ family the best in the future.

If people are causing the young lady problems in school or public, we ask that it immediately cease.

We also ask people to respect our privacy. The affected people in this matter have mutually decided to move forward.

We hope the community does as well.”

Jon Paul Rion of Rion, Rion and Rion, L.P.A. Inc., representing the plaintiffs, told the Sidney Daily News by phone Thursday afternoon, “there is no doubt what happened. The testimony was clear and convincing.

Unrebutted testimony came from police officers, friends, school officials … (they) painted a picture that was without doubt as to the veracity of the claims made in our complaint. It was from a position of strength that we left court on Tuesday night. When court ended Tuesday evening, the facts before the jury spoke volumes as to the truth of every allegation made.”

Rion said there was a moment that changed the direction of the trial.

“The turning point in the case was the victim’s testimony, which brought tears to the eyes of the jurors.”

Rion noted that the young woman is “doing fine. She has courage.

She’s spoken the truth

and is not hiding like some other parties in this case.”

“It became evident that our case was very strong and there was not a doubt as to the quality or quantity of the evidence that was presented through 12 witnesses.”

Rion noted that “we are pleased with the confidential settlement agreement and the St. Myers family is pleased with the resolution.” Rion said the settlement must be approved

by Miami County Probate Court as to the percentages that will be paid out to attorneys and the victim and her family.

Rion, along with Bradley Anderson of the same law firm, represented the family.

Dembski was sued by Brian St. Myers and Tracy St. Myers on behalf of their minor daughter. The civil lawsuit followed the conviction and sentencing of Dembski in May 2010, after he entered pleas of no contest to three counts of child enticement, a first degree misdemeanor and one count of obstructing official business, a fourth degree felony. He had originally faced four counts of gross sexual imposition, five counts of child enticement and felony counts of intimidating a witness, tampering with evidence and importuning. Dembski, a retired Sidney police officer who was working at Sidney Middle School as a study hall aide at the time of the incidents, was sentenced to 45 days in jail, five years probation, a $3,000 fine and had to serve 60 hours of community service. He did not have to register as a sex offender. Among the claims in the lawsuit were battery and the fact that “on multiple occasions” between Aug. 15 and Oct. 31, 2009, Dembski had physical contact that was “sexual in nature” with the young girl, that there was intentional infliction of serious emotional distress, another claim noted punitive damages and attorney fees and the loss of consortium.

A fifth claim involved failure to report suspected child abuse by Sidney City Schools. In January 2012, it was announced that Sidney City Schools Board of Education had settled their lawsuit with the St. Myers family. The lawsuit, which named several Sidney City Schools employees as well as the wrongdoing by Dembski, was settled for a reported $27,500. The claims were dismissed against the school district “with prejudice,” according to Shelby County Court documents.

Sidney City Schools Superintendent John Scheu told the Sidney Daily News Thursday afternoon that the school district has no responsibility for this settlement and stated, “he’s (Dembski) on his own.” Scheu was not the superintendent at the time of the incidents and following the settlement of the school’s lawsuit called Dembski’s actions “wrong … it was a terrible thing to happen.”

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Crowds gather to welcome fallen Waynesfield soldier home

By The Lima News

AP Photo | J. Scott Applewhite

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. Boehner elevated his criticism of fellow Republican Rep. Steve King over King’s suggestion that many unauthorized immigrants are drug runners, calling the comments “deeply offensive and wrong.”

Boehner calls out Rep. King on immigration insult Erica Werner Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday elevated his criticism of fellow Republican Rep. Steve King over King’s suggestion that many immigrants in the country illegally are drug runners, calling the comments “deeply offensive and wrong.”

Boehner already had issued a written statement earlier in the week condemning King ’s remarks, but at his week-

ly news conference, he ramped up his criticism even without being asked.

The Ohio Republican took the unusual step of calling King out by name, dramatizing the concern among GOP leaders that incendiary comments from the right can tarnish the party’s image even as lawmakers struggle to find a solution to the immigration debate.

“I want to be clear.

There’s no place in this debate for hateful or ignorant comments from elected officials,” Boehner said.

WAY N E S F I E L D — Staff Sgt. Sonny Zimmerman was regarded as a hometown hero in the small community of Waynesfield even before his tragic death earlier this month.

That’s why, when the soldier was being brought home for good, the whole town seemed more than willing to show its respect and support.

Zimmerman arrived at Lima Allen County Airport Thursday morning at around 9:20 a.m. From there, he was transported via East Hanthorn Road to Bellefontaine Road, through Westminster, before turning right onto Waynesfield Road and heading south toward Waynesfield.

American flags stuck out of the ground throughout the Westminster and Waynesfield communities, and flags outlined the grass at WaynesfieldGoshen High School.

Flags were also hung at half mast from telephone poles in Waynesfield.

From the traffic light

at the junction of state Routes 196 and 67 (North Westminster Street and East Wapakoneta Street) hung a banner that read “Our fallen hero. Staff Sgt. Sonny Zimmerman.”

The events that took place Thursday morning for Zimmerman were put together with the help of Rolling Thunder, a nonprofit organization that serves as a POW, MIA and veterans concern group.

“He’s one of their own,” Rolling Thunder representative Jeff McDougle said. “This town takes great pride in the fact that he is one of their own, and they want to bring him home with honor and respect.”

Zimmerman, 25, was killed on July 16 in Afghanistan as a result of injuries he sustained when his mounted patrol was attacked by a rocket-propelled grenade. He was a squad leader in charge of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

He earned a purple heart along with three other

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Patriot Guard Riders and Chained Eagles line the tarmac Thursday morning at Allen County Airport in Lima as the jet delivering the body of Staff Sgt. Sonny C. Zimmerman arrives.

Army commendation medals.

The procession headed south on Westminster Street before turning left on East Wapakoneta Street and arriving at the Armentrout Funeral Home. The procession included emergency vehicles from several surrounding communities along with as many as 200 motorcycle riders.

“This is what we should be about,” McDougle said. “This country was founded on a belief in freedom, and along with

that should come the honor and respect for these men and women that sometimes gets put on the back burner. It’s nice to see the honor being paid to one of our fallen heroes, and at the same time you really hope that this is sort of an uplift that the family needs at this time.”

Vi s i t at i o n fo r Zimmerman will be held today at Waynesfield High School. Funeral services will be held Saturday at the school.

Man pleads guilty Man claims casino caused in slave labor case robbery of $35,000 COLUMBUS (AP) — A man who was robbed at home of more than $35,000 in gambling winnings sued the Ohio casino where he won the money, arguing a cashier should have issued him a check instead of cash.

Police said 29-year-old David Hayes was robbed at gunpoint of the stack of $100 bills when two armed men woke him at home hours after he left the Hollywood Casino Columbus with his winnings Oct. 21.

Hayes filed suit against the casino’s operator, contending that he asked for a check when he cashed out his blackjack winnings but was given cash instead.

And he claims the clerk wrote

down his identification information, including his address, on a piece of paper, and held it up for him to confirm, making it “visible to anyone in the vicinity,” The Columbus Dispatch reported Thursday.

The casino, in a filing this month, said Hayes’ losses were due to his own negligence and “unforeseeable misconduct by third parties over whom (the casino) had no control.”

Hayes said the cashier gave him 358 $100 bills in a manila folder that she stapled shut, telling him that he should take future winnings in the form of a check. He claims that when he said he wanted a check, she

told him it was too late. A casino security guard then escorted him to his car.

Hayes was robbed hours later by two armed men who entered his house through an unlocked back door. In the lawsuit, Hayes claims the men asked for “the money you won tonight.”

Two men were arrested and charged after one of them began bragging about the robbery, said Joseph Landusky, one of Hayes’ attorneys. They were scheduled for trial next week. A third man was being sought. ___ Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www. dispatch.com

1839 shipwreck found in Lake Ontario OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — The sunken remains of a vessel that’s believed to be the oldest confirmed commercial schooner shipwreck in the Great Lakes has been found in Lake Ontario near Oswego, where it went down during a fierce storm in 1839, a team of New York-based underwater explorers announced.

Jim Kennard of Fairport, Roger Pawlowski of Gates and Roland Stevens of Poultneyville said Thursday they located the wreck of the Atlas last month while searching for sunken ships on Lake Ontario’s eastern end. The team’s sidescan sonar found the shipwreck in more than 200 feet of water about 2 miles north of Oswego,

Kennard said.

The 52-foot Atlas sank during a violent storm in May 1839 while taking a cargo of limestone quarried in Jefferson County to Oswego. None of the five crewmembers on board survived. Built the year before in Jefferson County, the two-masted ship was built specifically for hauling building stone from local quarries, Kennard said.

The Atlas was nearing Oswego’s harbor when it was hit by gale-force winds that likely shifted the heavy cargo, causing the schooner to sink quickly and giving its crew no time to get to their lifeboat, Kennard said. The sinking was witnessed by people on shore. A rescue ship sent

out to look for survivors only found a few items belonging to the crew, he said.

“It literally sank like a stone,” Kennard said.

Video images of the shipwreck indicate the schooner hit the lake’s bottom hard, toppling the masts and causing the deck to collapse on itself, he said. The ship’s wheel, heavily encrusted with mussels, remains intact.

The ship’s name doesn’t appear on the hull, but that’s not unusual for a wreck as old as the Atlas, Kennard said.

“It would be nice if the name was on back of the ship, but names don’t end up existing after quite a number of years like that,” he said.

Kennard said the Atlas

was the only ship of that size known to have sunk near Oswego while hauling cut stone. The team’s video shows some of the stone cargo still in the ship’s hold.

Other commercial schooner shipwrecks on the Great Lakes could be older than the Atlas, but none have been positively identified, Kennard said.

“There was commercial shipping prior to that, of course, but we’ve not been able to find” those shipwrecks, said Carrie Sowden, archaeological director for the Great Lakes Historical Society in Vermilion, Ohio. “This gives us an opportunity to learn more about early shipping — how they were built, how they were operated.”

Feds keep northwest Ohio flood plan afloat FINDLAY (AP) — Community leaders in northwest Ohio who are pushing for the completion of a flood control study in an area that has been swamped by flooding were hoping for $1.5 million.

Instead, they got $20,000 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

But local officials say the money is at least enough to keep the project going and keeps it in line for more funding next year.

“Though most residents will find the amount understandably disappointing, it will make the project eligible for the 2014 budget process, which will be the

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next critical crossroad,” said Hancock County Commissioner Brian Robertson.

Finding a solution to the flooding along the Blanchard River has become a top priority for the region about 50 miles south of Toledo. Five major floods since 2007 have brought millions of dollars in damage to the cities of Findlay and Ottawa.

The worst was in August 2007 when flooding caused more than $100 million in damage.

The corps said this past week it would contribute $20,000 to the flood control study, which along with an environmental review is projected to cost about $3 million. The study is intended to identify potential

flood-reduction alternatives.

A six-member regional delegation including the mayors of Findlay and Ottawa traveled to Washington last December to seek congressional support.

Members of Ohio’s congressional delegation who’ve been backing more funding said they were pleased the work will continue.

“The Blanchard River flood protection project is critical for the region’s economic future, and I am happy that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responded to our calls to identify funds to provide a lifeline for this project to continue,” U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, said in a statement.

By ANDREW WELSHHUGGINS COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio man pleaded guilty Thursday to helping enslave and beat a mentally disabled woman who prosecutors say was recruited and targeted along with her daughter as part of a plot to obtain the woman’s government benefits and steal her pain medication.

The plea entered by Daniel Brown in federal court in Youngstown requires him to cooperate with investigators and testify truthfully in any court proceedings.

Magistrate Judge George Limbert set sentencing for Brown for Nov. 19 and ordered him to remain in custody.

Brown pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy charge.

A message was left with his lawyer, Russell Bensing, who had previously indicated his client would plead guilty.

Brown, 33, was among four people charged with holding the woman against her will beginning in 2010

and lasting until October in a house in Ashland, 80 miles northeast of Columbus.

Three other defendants — Jordie Callahan, Jessica Hunt and Dezerah Silsby have pleaded not guilty to charges against them, which include allegations the woman was denied food, sexually assaulted and threatened with dogs and snakes.

Prosecutors say the woman was hit badly enough to require a hospital visit for pain medicine, which the defendants then took from her. They also allege the woman was forced to use her public assistance money to buy groceries and cigarettes for the defendants.

Callahan’s mother, Becky Callahan, has described the charges as “lies.” Hunt’s public defender, Ed Bryan, has said the charges stem from overzealous police and prosecutors trusting the word of people who had something to gain by lying.

He said the woman was not held as a slave.

Gun group raises $12K for George Zimmerman COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio firearms group has raised more than $12,000 to buy guns or a security system for George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was recently acquitted of all charges in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Florida.

Ken Hanson of the Buckeye Firearms Foundation says the group sent Zimmerman a check for $12,150.37 Tuesday. He says the fundraising effort was launched because the group believes Zimmerman’s gun rights are being violated.

The U.S. Department of Justice has taken all the evidence from the trial, including the gun that killed Martin, as part of a civil rights investigation.

An attorney for Zimmerman has said his client is getting threats since the verdict earlier this month and has been carrying a weapon.

Hot weather, algae kills fish at lake ST. MARYS (AP) — High temperatures have contributed to the growth of toxic blue-green algae that has killed scores of fish in Ohio’s largest inland lake.

Area residents and Ohio parks officials found several hundred dead fish floating in the shoreline channels of Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio last weekend.

Fish kills are an annual summertime occurrence at the shallow, 13,000acre lake when decomposing algae rob the

water of oxygen and suffocate them. It grows thick from feeding on phosphorus from manure and fertilizers that wash from nearby farm fields.

Milt Miller, manager of the Grand Lake St. Marys Restoration Commission, tells The Columbus Dispatch that the recent hot days and calm lake with no wind contributed to the algae growth.

The state has spent millions trying to fight algae there.

Nation/World Today in History

By The Associated Press

Today is Friday, July 26, the 207th day of 2013.

There are 158 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista (fool-HEN’-see-oh bahTEES’-tah) with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba.

Castro ousted Batista in 1959.

On this date: In 1775, Benjamin Franklin became America’s first postmaster-general.

In 1788, New York became the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1863, Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.

In 1882, the Richard Wagner opera “Parsifal” premiered in Bayreuth (BY’-royt), Germany.

In 1908, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte ordered creation of a force of special agents that was a forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In 1912, the Edison Studios production “What Happened to Mary,” one of the first, if not very first, movie serials, was released with Mary Fuller in the title role.

In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, establishing the National Military Establishment, which later was renamed the Department of Defense.

In 1952, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.

King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank off New England, some 11 hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm; at least 51 people died.

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.

In 1971, Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America’s fourth manned mission to the moon. Photographer Diane Arbus died in New York at age 48.

In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.

American statesman W. Averell Harriman died in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., at age 94.

Out of the Blue

Lesson learned: Don’t drink and swim DETROIT (AP) — A man who wanted to prove he could swim across the Detroit River from Canada to the U.S. after a night of drinking ended up prompting an international rescue operation.

John Morillo told The Windsor Star that Monday night’s swim from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, was “really stupid” and said in retrospect he shouldn’t have done it. He was cited for being intoxicated in a public place and released from jail Tuesday.

“I was drinking, but I wasn’t really drunk,” Morillo, 47, of Windsor, said Tuesday. “The thing is, I’ve been telling people I’m going to swim across the river for years and they’re like ‘yah, yah, blah, blah, you can’t make it.’

So, I don’t know, last night I just decided it was the time to go.”

Morillo said he regrets causing problems for authorities, including Windsor police and Coast Guard crews from the U.S. and Canada. Three boats and a helicopter responded, The Detroit News reported, and authorities warn the river’s current makes a dangerous place to swim.

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‘Slum pope’ returns to slum with message of hope RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis, dubbed the “slum pope” for his work with the poor, received a rapturous welcome Thursday from one of Rio’s most violent shantytowns and demanded the world’s wealthy end the injustices that have left the poor on the margins of society. He received an even more frenzied welcome as he opened World Youth Day in a far different setting: Rio’s upscale Copacabana Beach.

Amid the stench of raw sewage and the shrieks of residents, Francis made his way through the Varginha shantytown, part of a region so violent it’s known as the Gaza Strip. The 76-yearold Argentine seemed entirely at home, wading into the cheering crowds, kissing residents young and old and telling them the Roman Catholic Church was on their side.

It was a message aimed at reversing the decline in the numbers of Catholics in most of Latin America, with many poor worshippers leaving the church for Pentecostal and evangelical congregations. Those churches

have taken up a huge presence in favelas, or shantytowns such as Varginha, attracting souls with nuts-and-bolts advice on how to improve their lives.

“No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world!” Francis told a crowd of thousands who braved a cold rain and stood in a muddy soccer field to welcome him. “No amount of peace-building will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins or excludes a part of itself.”

Francis’ open-air car was mobbed on a few occasions as he headed into Varginha’s heavily policed, shack-lined streets, but he never seemed in danger.

He was showered with gifts as he walked down one of the slum’s main drags without an umbrella to shield him from the rain. A well-wisher gave him a paper lei to hang around his neck and he held up another offering — a scarf from his favorite soccer team, Buenos Aires’ San Lorenzo.

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Pope Francis blesses a child during his visit to the Varginha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Francis on Thursday visited one of Rio de Janeiro’s shantytowns, or favelas, a place that saw such rough violence in the past that it’s known by locals as the Gaza Strip.

Probe of deadly derailment focuses on train speed Hernan Munoz Associated Press

AP Photo | Charles Dharapak, File

In this Jan. 5, 2011, file photo, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, talk after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. When Abedin’s name and face first started appearing in the media six years ago, lots of people couldn help but wonder what this beautiful, ambitious woman with high-fashion sense and a world-class rolodex saw in Anthony Weiner. That’s a question New Yorkers are asking themselves again.

Admiration, puzzlement over Weiner’s loyal wife David B. Caruso Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — When Huma Abedin first started getting media attention years ago, some people couldn’t help but wonder what this beautiful, ambitious woman with high-fashion sense and a worldclass Rolodex saw in Anthony Weiner.

That’s a question New Yorkers might be asking themselves again after revelations that Weiner, now a candidate for mayor of New York, didn’t immediately give up his habit of sending sexual pictures and messages to female fans after his humiliating resignation from Congress in 2011.

Abedin herself took a shot at an answer in an awkward joint news conference Tuesday, saying she had forgiven her husband and felt his marital indiscretions were “between us.” She offered an even more basic explanation in a first-per-

son essay in Harper’s Bazaar due on newsstands in September.

“Quite simply, I love my husband, I love my city, and I believe in what he wants to do for the people of New York,” she wrote.

Will that be enough to satisfy a bewildered public? Maybe not. But people who go searching for a deeper motive are almost certain to get it wrong.

“None of us know what’s going on with that couple now,” said Stephen Medvic, an associate professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania and author of the book, “In Defense of Politicians.”

“She made a statement,” he said. “Let’s leave it at that. Let’s not try to put into somebody’s mind what’s not there.”

In an email sent to campaign supporters Tuesday, Weiner tried to explain his actions, saying he turned to women on the Internet after his marriage hit a

rocky patch.

“Sending these embarrassing messages to women online, whom I never met, was a personal failing that was hurtful to my wife and a part of my life that Huma and I have put behind us. These things I did, as you have read in the papers, didn’t happen once. It was a terrible mistake that I unfortunately returned to during a rough time in our marriage,” he wrote. “After a lot of reflection, some professional help, and a general reorientation of my life, Huma has given me a second chance.”

Abedin now seems to be trying to shake off a cloud of humiliation, which seems an exceeding unlikely place for someone whose reputation as a top aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton was based on an uncanny ability to navigate the chaos of presidential campaigns and global diplomatic trips with the poise of Grace Kelly.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled.

The derailment sent pieces of the sleek train plowing across the ground in a ghastly jumble of smashed metal, dirt and smoke.

But a day after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades — which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others — one question surpassed all others: Why was the train moving so fast?

Investigators opened a probe Thursday into possible failings by the 52-yearold driver and the train’s in-built speed-regulation systems.

Experts said one, or both, must be at fault for the disastrous Wednesday night crash of the train that was carrying 218 passengers and five crew members to Santiago de Compostela, a destination of Catholic pilgrimage preparing to celebrate its most revered saint.

Instead, this stunned city of nearly 100,000 converted its sports arena into a shelter for the dead and the grieving.

“All Spaniards feel the pain of the families,” said Spain’s head of state, King Juan Carlos, as he and Queen Sofia met hospitalized survivors of the crash 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) south of Santiago de Compostela.

The royal couple dressed in funereal black.

“For a native of Santiago like me, this is the saddest day,” said Prime Minister

Mariano Rajoy, who toured the crash scene and declared a national three-day mourning period.

The regional government of Galicia, in northwest Spain, said 94 people remained hospitalized, 31 of them in critical condition, including four children. The U.S. State Department said one American died and at least five others were hurt but cautioned that those figures could be revised upward.

Many victims suffered severe burns as the train’s diesel fuel ignited a fire that caught some passengers trapped in mangled upsidedown carriages. Emergency officials took DNA samples from the most heavily burned or the unconscious in an effort to identify both the living and the dead.

Rafael Catala, a senior transport official in Spain’s Development Ministry, told radio network Cadena SER that the train appeared to be going much faster than the track’s speed limit of 80 kph (50 mph) as it approached the city.

Breathtaking footage of the crash captured by a railway security camera showed the moment when the eightcarriage train approached a left bend beneath a road bridge at a seemingly impossible speed. An Associated Press analysis of the video indicated the train hit the bend going twice the speed limit or more.

Using the time stamp of the video and the estimated distance between two pylons, the AP calculated that the train was moving in a range of 144 to 192 kph (89 to 119 mph). Another estimate calculated on the basis of the typical distance between railroad ties indicated its speed was between 156 kph and 182 kph (96 to 112 mph).

Afghan insurgents find new opening for IED attacks Robery Burns

AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The shrinking U.S. combat role in Afghanistan has given insurgents an opening to devise and carry out deadlier attacks using bigger improvised bombs against U.S. and coalition military vehicles and bases, American officials say.

With fewer U.S. forces patrolling road networks beyond their bases — and with the grounding of eye-in-the-sky surveillance balloons known as aerostats — Taliban fighters are adapting their tactics, according to officials at a Pentagon agency that tracks attacks that use improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

“Insurgents are able to invest more time in preparing and staging an attack, and when we see an effective attack, it tends to be more lethal to our forces,” said Al Sweetser, chief of the operations analysis division at the Joint IED Defeat Organization, which has its own team of analysts on the ground in Afghanistan.

So while the number of IED attacks against U.S. and coalition troops — as well as the total casualties they cause — has declined, certain attacks can be more elaborately planned, precisely targeted and more lethal because the insurgents have time and room to prepare, Sweetser and other American officials said.

The Pentagon has invested bil-

lions of dollars to develop gadgets, such as hand-held groundpenetrating radar systems, and techniques to find IEDs before they explode and to mitigate damage from those that can’t be stopped. The evolving struggle began a decade ago in Iraq with insurgent groups countering high-tech U.S. weapons with relatively cheap and surprisingly effective methods of killing and maiming. A hallmark of the insurgents’ use of IEDs in Afghanistan has been their ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

A recent IED strike near the southern provincial capital of Kandahar killed five American soldiers in an armored vehi-

cle in one of the more deadly examples of how the Taliban have taken advantage of a changing military landscape.

Insurgents took the time and effort to tunnel underground and place an unusually large improvised explosive well below the surface, said David Small, spokesman for the counter-IED agency. They also had time to plan where to position themselves to remotely detonate the bomb, Small said.

Hel said other details about the attack are classified, but it is believed the insurgents had learned through observation that reduced coalition patrolling gave them more time to plan this attack.

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Community Calendar To access the Community Calendar online, visit www.sidneydailynews. com, click on “Living” and then on “Calendar.”

This Evening

• Free at Last, a program designed to break the chains of addiction, meets at the Lockington United Methodist Church, 2190 Miami Conservancy Road, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. For information, call 726-3636.

• Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12-step programs to confront destructive habits and behaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E. 4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 937-548-9006.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St.

Saturday Morning

• Temperance 73 Masonic Lodge hosts a recycling event at the Sidney Transfer Station from 8 a.m. to noon.

• Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Lockington, 9 to 11 a.m.

• Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Pasco, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday Afternoon

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Revival for rusty tools Dear Heloise: I am writing to you to see if you can help me with a problem. My husband was a mechanic, and he has a lot of tools. He is now retired. I am going through his tools, and a lot of them have rust on them. I would like to clean them up. Can you help me? — Beverly in Florida You are going to love this easy and cheap hint.

It’s one of my favorite products: vinegar! Place small tools in undiluted white or apple-cider vinegar and let sit overnight or longer. Once they have soaked, scrub

with a small brush, then rinse and dry well. Have screws and bolts with rust on them? Soak them in vinegar to remove buildup. — Heloise P.S.: Tools are very personal to folks who have used them for a lifetime. So, don’t throw out something you may think is not important without permission.

TRAVEL HINT Dear Heloise: I have a separate wallet that I use when I travel. I go through my daily wallet and transfer only the necessities I will need to take with me on my trip. That way, I am not

carrying everywebsites, and the thing with me, local library is 45 and if I lose my minutes away. wallet, I am havHoping that you or ing to cancel and your readers can replace only a few help me! I read you things. — Steve in in the Northeast California Mississippi Daily Hints Smart, Steve! A Journal. — One good “road warfrom Piece at a Time, rior” hint indeed!

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— Heloise Heloise Cruse There are mats PUZZLE to work puzzles on.

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Trying to stay cool

• Amos Memorial Public Library, 230 E. North St., offers Legos at the Library program for families with children 4 through fifth grade from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Susan, 17, Verena, 15, and Benjamin It sure feels good to finally sit down • The Piqua Public Library, 116 W. High St., host the Lego Club from 2 to 4 p.m. Advance registration is and prop up my feet in front of a fan are detasseling corn, which is also a after a shower. It has been hot and very hot job. The factories that Joe and necessary by calling (937) 773-6753. humid this week. We have been trying Elizabeth, 19, work in do not have air to shade the windows from the sun. conditioning so they get pretty warm • Lumber Company Baseball hosts fundraising We have a wrap-around porch towards on days like these.

The young children have been staybingo to support the children on the teams. Doors open the east and south which provides at 4 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. at Sunset Bingo, some shade. It’s when the sun shines ing cool by filling tubs of water and 1710 W. High St., Piqua. $20 to play all night. For from the west that we feel the heat. In then having a water battle. Those are the house, we pull the shades always fun, and sometimes information, call 937-543-9959. everyone joins in.

• The Sidney-Shelby County Chess Club Checkmates to block out the sun until I canned Seranno peppers meets at 7 p.m. at the library at the Dorothy Love the sun goes down. We use this week. Today, I need to Retirement Community. All skill levels are welcome. battery-powered fans, but it can pickles. Joe picked two, seems on hot days like this, For more information, call 497-7326. five-gallon buckets of cucum• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Saturday Night they just blow the warm air bers. We are having tomatoes Live, meets at 8 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, around. Growing up at home, and lots of zucchini to add we didn’t have any fans. In 120 W. Water St. to our menus. I also canned Dad’s later years, he finally black raspberry freezer jam bought a small, battery-pow• Lumber Company Baseball hosts fundraising ered square fan to help him with berries Timothy has on The Amish his property. bingo to support the children on the teams. Doors open get through hay fever season. at 4 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. at Sunset Bingo, Benjamin had a nice 14th My husband, Joe, and sons, Cook 1710 W. High St., Piqua. $20 to play all night. For Benjamin, 14, and Joseph, 10, birthday on Sunday. I made information, call 937-543-9959. with the help of the neigh- Lovina Eicher a chocolate cake and deco• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, bors, put 400 bales of hay in rated it for him. We didn’t do Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian our barn this week that we anything special for our 20th Church, 320 E. Russell Road. bought from the neighbors. Plans are anniversary on the 15th. Where have to get our hay cut this week yet. Joe these years gone?

It is only 8 a.m. and the sun feels dosen’t think we will have enough as • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon at the Sidney we put one field into beans this year. warm already. Joseph and I watered Moose Lodge. For more information on activities or Putting up hay is a very hot job in this the gardens with the sprinkler. The becoming a member, contact Deb Barga at 492-3167. weather. hose wouldn’t reach the one corner,

Saturday Evening

Sunday Evening

Monday Afternoon Monday Evening

• Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step group offering experience, strength, and hope to anyone who suffers from an eating disorder, meets at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main St., Bellefontaine. Use the rear parking lot and door.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Church, 340 W. Russell Road.

• Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new members are welcome. For more information, call Tom Frantz at 492-7075.

• TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7 p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road, New Bremen.

• The Shelby County Junior Leaders Club, for youth 13-18, meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Shelby County Extension Office on Fair Road. For information, call 295-2665.

Tuesday Morning

• Wagner Manufacturing and General Houseware Corp. retirees meet at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast at Bob Evans.

• The Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster presents Stories in the Park at 10 a.m. Stories will be read in Paris Street Park for all ages.

Tuesday Afternoon

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St. • The New Bremen Public Library offers crafts for children who have completed grades K-3. Advance registration is required for sessions at 1, 1:30, or 2 p.m.

Wedding

Lambert, Schwable wed HOUSTON — Amy Lambert and Dustin Schwable, both of Houston, were united in marriage June 8, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in the Piqua Apostolic Temple.

The bride is the daughter of Ron Lambert, of Piqua, and Angel Lambert, of Houston. She is the granddaughter of Mike and Rita Brubaker, Pam Lambert, and James and Cheryl Lambert.

The bridegroom is the son of Randy and Pam Schwable, of Piqua. He is the grandson of Dorothy and Chuck Jacobs, Fred and Susie Schwable, Betty Lind and the late Paula Baker.

Nick Lambert, brother

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so we watered that with buckets. It’s time consuming but it is dry and needs rain. The Good Lord will provide. We have so much to be thankful for. Do we appreciate the many blessings we have? Let us thank God daily for our blessings!

Laundry is also on our list to do today, so I’ll sign off wishing all of you readers God’s many blessings.

Try this recipe with your fresh garden goodies.

CHICKEN GARDEN BAKE 1 cup chopped zucchini 1 cup chopped tomato 1/2 cup chopped onions 1/3 cup grated cheese 1 cup cut up cooked chicken 1 cup milk 1/2 cup Bisquick 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 /2 teaspoon pepper Heat oven to 400. Lightly grease an 8-inch by 8-inch square baking dish or 9-inch pie plate. Sprinkle zucchini evenly in baking pan. Beat remaining ingredients for 1 minute or until smooth. Pour evenly in dish. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting.

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of the bride, performed the ceremony. Michelle Workman, aunt of the bride, was the pianist.

Jacqua Workman, cousin of the bride, was the vocalist.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory-colored, taffeta, fit-and-flare gown by Allure. The fitted bodice had a strapless, sweetheart neckline, with crystal accents on the side.

Ruching continued asymmetrically throughout the bodice. She wore an ivorycolored, elbow-length veil and an ivory flower hair clip that had her greatgrandmother’s brooch in the center. She carried a bouquet of yellow and orange gerbera daisies.

Teanna Lambert served as her sister-inlaw’s matron of honor.

Bridesmaids were Hanna Cassel, cousin of the bride,

Mr. and Mrs. Schwable

and Danielle Holthaus.

Annaleah Lambert, niece of the bride, was the junior bridesmaid. Renee Jacobs, cousin of the bridegroom, was the flower girl.

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by Alfred Angelo. They carried bouquets of yellow and orange gerbera daisies. The flower girl wore a knee-length, ivorycolored, taffeta dress with a flower at the waistband.

She carried a ball of yellow and orange gerbera daisies.

Derek Schwable served as his brother’s best man.

Groomsmen were Matt Ryan and Cody Adkins.

Ushers were Holden Lambert, brother of the bride, and Brandon Jacobs, cousin of the bridegroom. Ryan Jacobs, cousin of the bridegroom, was the ring bearer.

The mother of the bride wore a knee-length, lavendar-colored dress with a fitted bodice and ruffled, tiered skirt and a matching jacket. The mother of the bridegroom wore a knee-length, sleeveless, navy blue dress with a lace bodice and ruffled, tiered skirt.

A reception in St. Boniface Caserta Hall in Piqua followed the ceremony. The couple honeymooned in Virginia Beach, Va., and reside in Houston.

The bride graduated from Houston High School in 2009 and from Edison Community College in 2011. She is employed

by Edison Community College as a college resource specialist.

The bridegroom is a 2008 graduate of Houston High School and a 2010 graduate of Edison Community College. He is employed by Koenig Equipment as a mechanic.

The couple met in high school.

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Shelby county fair results - Floriculture Open Class Floriculture Roses Red/red blend hybrid tea rose: Janet Driskell, first and second Pink/pink blend hybrid tea rose: Barb Wical, first; Selma Geib, second and third Yellow/blend apricot hybrid tea rose: Patt VanSkiver, first; Eldon Wical, second Orange/Blend hybrid tea rose: Janet Driskell, first; Eldon Wical, second Any other hybrid tea rose: Selma Geib, first; James D. Barton, second Rose, any unnamed variety: James D. Barton, first; Selma Geib, second; Della Shaffer, third Collection of three roses, different varieties: James D. Barton, first Full-blown hybrid tea rose: Selma Geib, first; Eldon Wical second; James D. Barton, third Miniature rose, named: Kendra Beal, first Miniature rose, unnamed: Selma Geib, first; Della Shaffer, second Shrub rose, Barb wical, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Della Shaffer, third Horticultural exhibits Tuberous Begonia: Kendra Beal, first; Lynn Cook, second Marigold, large: Lynn Cook, first and third; Russell Cook, second Marigold, dwarf: Lynn Cook, first; Russell Cook, second Zinnia, small: Patt VanSkiver, first; Russell Cook, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Zinnia, medium: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Lynn Cook, second and third Zinnia, large: Lynn Cook, first Snapdragons, large: Nancy L. Morgan, first Snapdragons, dwarf: Eldon Wical, first Gladiolus, large: Patt VanSkiver, first; Maddox Abke, second Petunia: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Janet Driskell, second; Kendra Beal, third Dahlia, large: Lynn Cook, first Dahlia, medium: Lynn Cook, first and second Dahlia, small: Lynn Cook, first, second and third Rudbeckia, white: Patt VanSkiver, first; Lynn Cook, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Rudbeckia, yellow or gold: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Lynn Cook, second and third Rudbeckia, purple or pink: Eldon Wical, first; Nancy Russell, second; Patt VanSkiver, third Rudbeckia, any color: Nancy Russell, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Della Shaffer, third Shasta daisy: Bab Wical, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Nancy Russell, third Liatris: Sharon Allen, first; Lynn Cook, second; Carole Carruthers, third Perennial phlox: Ann Heeley, first; Lynn Cook, second Celosia, crested and plume: Tori Bruns, first; James D. Barton, second; Russell Cook, third Any variety everlasting: Patt VanSkiver, first Hosta, single leaf, large: Nancy L. Morgan, first and second; Eldon Wical, third

Hosta, single leaf, medium: Barb Wical, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Eldon Wical, third Hosta, single leaf, small: Barb Wical, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Janet Driskell, third Hosta, collection of three variety: Eldon Wical, first; Kendra Beal, second Ornamental grass: Christina Bergman, first and third; Nancy L. Morgan, second Coleus, one stem: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Maxine Byler, second; Lynn Cook, third Artemesia, one stem: Lynn Cook, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Russell Cook, third Ornamental foliage: Ann Heeley, first and second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Any other annual round form: Patt VanSkiver, first; Kynn Cook, second; Kendra Beal, third Any other perennial round form: Eldon Wical, first; Nancy Russell, second Any other annual spike form: Janet Driskell, first and third; Barb Wical, second Any other perennial spike form: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Eldon Wical, second; Lynn Cook, third Any other annual spray form: Ann Heeley, first; Russell Cook, second; Tori Bruns, third Any other perennial spray form: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Janet Driskell, second; Carole Carruthers, third Any summer bulb: Janet Driskell, first; Tori Bruns, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Any summer rhizone: Ann Heeley, first and second; Linda Jennings, third Hybrid oriental lily: Lynn Cook, first; Maxine Byler, second; Tori Bruns, third Tiger lily: Ann Heeley, first Oreinpet lily: Maxine Byler, first and third; Nancy L. Morgan, second Hemerocallis, daylily, cream: Nancy L. Morgan, first and third; Tori Bruns, second Hemerocallis, orange/ gold/yellow: Janet Driskell, first; Nancy L. morgan, second; Russell Cook, third Hemerocallis, red/burgundy/pink: Russell cook, first; Janet Driskell, second; Linda Jennings, third Hemerocallis, purple/ violet/lavendar: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Lynn Cook, second and third Hemerocallis, mini, any color: Nancy L. Morgan, first and second; Lynn Cook, third Hemerocallis, specials: Nancy L. Morgan, first, second and third Shrubs, flowering: Eldon Wical, first; Linda Jennings, second; Nadine Bryan, third Hydrangea: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Carole Carruthers, second; Eldon Wical, third Potted plants African violet: Lynn Cook, first; Russell Cook, second Begonia: Lynn Cook, first; Christina Bergman, second; Tori Bruns, third C a c t u s /s u c c u l e n t : Christina Bergman, first and second; Ken Bergman, third Coleus: Lynn Cook,

SDN photos | Erin Pence Patt VanSkiver, of Sidney, won Best of Class Horticulture with Aubrey Byler, 12, daughter of Ben and Nina Byler, of Sidney, won her Sunflower at the Shelby County Fair Flower Show Monday Best of Class in Junior Artistic Design at the Shelby County Senior afternoon.

Fair Flower Show Monday afternoon.

Christina Bergman, of Russia, won Best of Class Hanging Baskets Lisa Spurgeon, of Sidney, took home top honors at the Shelby and Potted Plants with her Mandevilla Vine at the Shelby County County Fair Flower Show Monday. Her floral arrangement won Best Fair Flower Show Monday afternoon. of Class in Artistic Design and Best of Show Overall.

first; Christina Bergman, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Geranium: Russell Cook, first; Lynn Cook, second; Christina Bergman, third Blooming: Christina Bergman, first; Lynn Cook, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Foliage: Janet Driskell, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second and third Mixed pot, dish garden: Christina Bergman, first and second; Carole Carruthers, third Hanging baskets Blooming: Christina Bergman, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Carole Carruthers, third Foliage: Christina Bergman, first; Lynn Cook, second; Ken Bergman, third Mixed basket: Lynn Cook, first; Russell Cook, second; Carole Carruthers, third Adult artistic design Smoky Mountains: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Lisa Spurgeon, second; Patt VanSkiver, third Grand Canyon: Lisa Spurgeon, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Maxine

Byler, third Niagara Falls: Lisa Spurgeon, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Christina Bergman, third Mount Rushmore: Patt VanSkiver, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second Washington, D.C., White House: Maxine Byler, first; Lisa Spurgeon, second; Nancy L. Morgan, third Yellowstone National Park: Lisa Spurgeon, first; Nancy L. Morgan, second; Maxine Byler, third Mardi Gras, New Orleans: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Maxine Byler, third Seattle, Space Needle: Nancy L. Morgan, first; Patt VanSkiver, second; Lisa Spurgeon, third Golden Gate Bridge: Lisa Spurgeon, first; Patt VanSkiver, second Hollywood: Selma Geib, first; Patt VanSkiver, second Junior class artistic design Broadway, small design: Aubrey Byler, first Disneyland: Aubrey Byler, first

Barb Wical, of Jackson Center, won Best of Class Roses at the Shelby County Fair Flower Show Monday with her Touch of Class Hybrid Tea Rose.

Johnston Farm plans renovation committed $42,000 to the project.

The Duke Foundation, of Troy, has contributed $25,000.

The council is responsible for raising the remaining $100,000.

The new space will be the home of the exhibits that trace the construction, use, and eventual decline of Ohio’s canals. The new space will

be a classroom with audio-visual capabilities, meeting room, program room and community gathering place complete with catering facilities.

For information on how to become a supporter, contact the Piqua Community Foundation at 937-6159080 or the Johnston Farm & Indian Agency at 937-773-2522.

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PIQUA — The Johnston Farm Friends Council, which supports the Johnston Farm & Indian Agency, has announced a fundrasing campaign with a goal of $167,000 to fund a renovation project that will convert a museum patio into an educational center.

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Sidney Daily News, Friday, July 26, 2013

JUNIOR FAIR FFA Results – SHOP & CROP

Shelf (Small Wood) First — Alexis Regula Second — Seth Regula Top Shop Project First — Robby Boyd Second — Heather Davis BBQ Grill First — Darek Shider Second — Hannah Kuck Hitchpin First — Seth Hoying Second — Hannah Kuck Sign First — Ben Aufderhaar Second — Holan Greve Concrete First — Devon Jester Second — Emily Estes Step Stools First — Page Shonk Second — Nicole Smith Nail Box First — Madison Allison Second — Holly Boyd Arc Welding First — Zach Rogers Second — Mack Knupp Plasma Cut First — Derek Snider Second — Zack Egbert Wire Welding (Mig) First — Luke Gaier Second — Derek Snider Hog Hurdle First — Ethan Dieters Cap Racks First — Carter Huelskamp Second — Jacob Bice Gun Rack First — Brock Fullenkamp Second — Richard Taylor Cornhole First — Kristen Michael Second — Chase Footer Bench (Planter) First — Allison Burt Second — Emma Regula End Table First — Heather Davis Second — Anay Meyer Bench First — Michaela Kramer Second — Brock Fullenkamp Sawhorse First — Gracyn Scheffer Second — Deran Nagel Picnic Table First — Karina Butt Second — Ashley Michael Lawn Chair First — Clayton Wildermuth Second — Chris Mann Bookshelf First — Dominic Altsteartter Second — Michael Wampler Essay First — Craig Berning Second — Kara Short Desk First — Phil Greve Barn First — Cole Meyer Clock First — Robby Boyd Wishing Well First — Emily Brautigum Reconditioned Bench First Nick Ihle Oats First — Ben Second — Logan Schwartz Honey First — Mack Knupp Grass Hay First — Cody Koppin Second — Cole Meyer Mix Hay First — Carter Huelkamp Second — Elizabeth Wells Alfalfa First — Troy Hilgefort Second — Vinee Barhorst Peaches First — Mary Buehler Pumpkin First — Mack Knupp Second — Andy Meyer

Shelby County Fair

RESULTS

Blackberries First — Aunley Mizhael Second — Summer McCracken Apples First — Derek Snider Second — Trey Everett Pears First — Korash Ausani Second — Haley Vonednhuevel Raspberries First — Korash Grapes First — Shawn Werrick Second — Erika Homan White Potatoes First — Summer McCracken Second — Ashley Pleiman Red Potatoes First — Summer McCracken Second — Ashley Michael Sweet Potatoes First — Summer McCracken Eggplants First — Luke Meyer Second — Dillon Underwood Corn First — Ben Kettler Second — Whitney King Soybeans First — Emily Braugotiam Second — Cole Wildermute Variety Plate First — Andy Meyer Second — Derek Snider Wheat First — Olivia Hagmen Second — Mary Buehler Beets First — Summer McCracken Second — Kayle Moore Eggplant First — Luke Meyer Sweet Pepper First — Jacob Bie Second — Ben Afderhar Miscellaneous Plate First — Heather Davis Second — Summer McCracken Onions First — Cole Wildermuth Second — Summer McCracken Peas First — Gus Siegel Kohlrabi First — Emily Carinder Second — Holly Frey Green Beans First — Sara Maurer Second — Erika Homan Cherry Tomatoes First — Jacob Bile Second — Heather Davis Garden Tomatoes First — Koraon Assahi Second — Mary Buehler Roma Tomatoes First — Dillon Underwood Second — Luke Meyer Carrot First — Ashley Pleiman Second — Heather Davis Sweet Corn First Melanie Kramer Second — Mack Knapp Watermelon First — Heather Davis Second — Ashley Michael 3 Ears Field Corn First — Zach Rogers Second — Mack Knopp 3 Bean Plants First — Olivia Hagman Second — Carter Huelskamp Cucumbers First — Brittany Hall Second — Heather Davis Pickles First — Heather Davis Second — Summer

McCracken Rhubarb First — Ben Aufderhaar Second — Ashley Pleiman Mint First — Korash Asuani Thyme First — Korash Assani Green Onions First — Korash Assani Bell Peppers First — Mary Buehler Second — Derek Snider Lettuce First — Korash Assani Second — Samantha Bensmen Cabbage First — Mary Buehler Second — Andy Meyer Zucchini First — Brittnee Axe Second — Cole Wildermuth Brown Eggs First — Bonnie Altstaetter Second — Dominic Altstaetter White Eggs First — Dillon Underwood Second — Ashley Michael Squash First — Andy Meyer Second — Macknzie Eilerman

Horse Show — Tuesday, July 23

Keyhole Grand Champion: Jule Gephart Reserve Champion: Paige Oakley Keyhole 16-18 Class Champion: Jule Gephart Class Reserve Champion: Kaylee Adkins Speed and Control 13-15 Class Champion: Paige Oakley Class Reserve Champion: Cody Koppin Speed & Control 8-12 Class Champion: Braiden Thompson Class Reserve Champion: Jerron Reese Pole Bending Grand Champion: Paige Oakley Reserve Champion: Braiden Thompson Pole Bending 16-18 Class Champion: Logan Peeples Class Reserve Champion: Jacob Frieders Pole Bending 13-15 Class Champion: Paige Oakley Class Reserve Champion: Kennadie Reese Pole Bending 8-12 Class Champion: Caroline Frieders Class Reserve Champion: Braiden Thompson Stakes Grand Champion: Jule Gephart Reserve Champion: Paige Oakley Stakes 16-18 Class Champion: Jule Gephart Class Reserve Champion: Brittan Martin Stakes 13-15 Class Champion: Paige Oakley Class Reserve Champion: Amber Meyer Stakes 8-12 Class Champion: Caroline Frieders Class Reserve Champion: Jerron Reese Clover Leaf Barrels Grand Champion: Jule Gephart Reserve Champion: Kaylee Adkins Clover Leaf Barrels 16-18 Class Champion: Jule Gephart Class Reserve Champion: Kaylee Adkins Clover Leaf Barrels 13-15 Class Champion: Paige Oakley Class Reserve Champion: Amber Meyer Clover Leaf Barrels 8-12 Class Champion: Jerron Reese Class Reserve Champion: Braiden Thompson

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Winning first place in junior groom and clean for horses are (l-r) Lane Wells, 13, of Sidney, Briana Fanaff,13, of Sidney, and Caroline Frieders, 12, of Quincy, at the Shelby County Fair. Lane is the son of Fred and Kelly Wells. Briana is the daughter of Nicole Fanaff. Caroline is the daughter of Kay Frieders.

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Nikki Sommer, 18, of Anna, daughter of Andy and Lisa Sommer, and member of the 4-H Club McCartyville Producers, won reserve grand champion market steer at the Shelby County Fair.

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Cassidy Albers, 13, of Fort Loramie, daughter of Jeff and Shelly Albers and member of Fort Loramie Livestock won reserve grand champion single fryer rabbit at the Shelby County Fair.

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Lauryn Wolters, 9, of Anna, daughter of Dennis and Kellee Wolters, and member of 4-H Club McCartyville Road won best of class, outstanding of the day and state qualifier in sew fun at the Shelby County Fair.

Jacob Becker, 18, of Sidney, son of Ted and Jana Becker, and member of Anna FFA won grand champion market ducks at the Shelby County Fair.

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Opinion Friday, July 26, 2013

Express Yourself

Write a letter to the editor. All letters must be signed, 400 words or less and include the writer’s phone number and address.

Only one letter per writer per month will be accepted. Letters may be mailed to The Sidney Daily News, Jeff Billiel, publisher/ executive editor, 1451 N. Vandemark Road, Sidney, OH 45365; emailed to jbilliel@civitasmedia.com; or faxed to (937) 498-5991.

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Time to repeal the medical device tax

Reforming Medicaid to reduce government dependency Some of the measures Ronald Reagan was addressing the National being considered can be FFA when he said, “The agreed upon by many 10 most dangerous words parties, such as limiting the ability of drug in the English lanabusers to receive guage are, ‘Hi, I’m treatment. Another from the governconcept that I am ment and I’m here speaking with to help.’ In a way, decision makers he was poking fun on is plugging the at the inability of Medicaid system government to properly handle Buchy into faith-based clinics. Limiting everyday situations better handled by Reports care to those who individuals. But the Rep. Jim Buchy need it and have more serious impli- 84th District the intention of improving their cation is that we, situation will result as Americans, prefer to pull ourselves up in a lower cost to the by our bootstraps in the taxpayer.

West-central Ohio is the tough times. That’s why Medicaid reform needs to best place in the world focus on reforming depen- to live, work, and rear a family. We know how to dents into independents.

We want to provide get the job done and help the best services to our our neighbors through citizens at the lowest difficult times. Reforming possible cost. To achieve Medicaid is an opportuthis goal, we are weigh- nity to get the able-bodied ing all of our options and back to work and produckeeping dialogue with the ing again.

Please inform me of public open. The options being considered range your opinion on current from enrolling Medicaid topics by completing a recipients into private survey at tinyurl.com/ sector health plans, and buchyjune. Thank you for to providing job train- your continued commuing for those able-bodied nication. Your feedback on Medicaid to join the helps guide our legislative priorities. workforce.

Letters to the editor

Vote ‘no’ on senior-bashing tax To the editor: Now the school board wants retired landowners to pay more taxes for their schools. They first said an earned income tax and now they want a traditional.

This means that they now want to take some of our pension money that my wife and I worked for. They have no right to any of that. We worked all our lives for it. Supporters of this tax say we will save money when the 9.9-mill levy expires. You know as well as I do that it will not be long before the county will raise property values to get that back for the Board of Education.

The bottom line is that all retired (citizen) landowners will be paying double taxes. It’s hard enough to make ends meet without the Board of Education adding to our load. Vote “no” on this senior-bashing tax.

Charles Martin 1800 Simes Road

‘Living within their means’ To the editor: We have always been a supporter of the Sidney City Schools. We had four children graduate from Sidney and all four of them have gone on to college. Even though we have no kids left in the school system, we still support Sidney City Schools. We are active with the Sidney Athletic Booster Group, the 200 Club and VESPA. We have met and become friends with a lot of parents, kids and the Sidney City Schools staff.

There have been a lot of changes at Sidney City Schools since our children have attended. We

would like to mention two of them that we feel are very important: 1) They, like the rest of us, have learned to live within their means.

2) The quality of education is still there, even with all of the changes.

We are asking for the community to get out and vote and support the income tax levy on Aug. 6. This levy is just to replace the property tax levy that expires, which means that the school system is still “living within their means.”

Tom and Angela Martin 901 Fair Road

when he started, his company would never have made it off the ground.

At a time when the economy of our state and nation has not yet fully recovered from the recession, anything that kills jobs and hurts Ohio businesses is a bad idea.

The medical device tax will cost Ohio hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact that we can ill-afford.

Opposition to this tax has been strong and it has been bipartisan. I recently joined with 78 of my colleagues in the Senate to make it clear that the repeal of the medical device tax is a priority for both parties.

I am hopeful we can get rid of this tax once and for all very soon.

As I travel throughout Ohio, not a day goes by without voters making it abundantly clear to me that they want Members of Congress to work together in a bipartisan manner to promote policies that will get hardworking Ohioans back into the workforce. I couldn’t agree more, and repealing the job-killing medical device tax is a great step forward in achieving that goal.

Since the day it was blessed to have a thriving passed, conservatives and robust biotechnology have argued that the sector. In fact, biotechAffordable Care Act nology-related companies would destroy jobs. account for over 60,000 President Obama’s jobs in our state, decision to delay and that number is the employer manprojected to grow date contained in even more. the health care law It’s hard to overbecause it would state the impact undermine an the industry has already fragile jobs on our state, both market serves to directly and in the confirm our worst Portman ripple effect felt fears. But while Reports throughout our the president’s Rob Portman communities. At action has given a time when more U.S. Senator a brief reprieve than ever we need to businesses and “Made in America” job creators, the delay innovation, the medical is only temporary. Worse technology industry is still, there are other job- one where we are a leaddestroying provisions er on the world stage. in Obamacare that are This industry is creating already wreaking havoc good jobs here at home, across the nation and producing beneficial particularly here in Ohio. products for the health One of them is the medi- care field, and helping cal device tax. grow our economy by America is better off shipping American goods when we are building overseas. We should be things. We have a pow- doing everything we can erful service economy, to encourage growth in but the backbone of our this industry. greatness has always Unfortunately, there’s been our builders, our growing concern that a manufacturers, and our little known provision in innovators. We’ve seen the Affordable Care Act that firsthand in Ohio. could put America’s leadManufacturing is in our ership position in danger, blood. costing Ohio jobs and Today, we in Ohio are slowing innovation in the

medical device arena.

Recently, I met with Zimmer Surgical, a company that employs more than 300 workers in its Dover facility. They expressed the same concern I’ve heard at bio-tech companies I’ve visited from Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati. As a result of the Affordable Care Act, starting this year companies like Zimmer are required to pay a 2.3 percent excise tax. This excise tax is different from taxes that companies normally pay. Instead of taxing a company’s product, the excise tax in the act applies to revenue — without regard to whether the company is actually making any money.

Such a tax both chills innovation and harms the prospects of new startups in Ohio.

Established companies will be forced to divert resources from areas like research and development to pay this tax, while new companies — some of which struggle for years to become profitable — may not survive it at all. The founder of Zimmer told me that had this tax been in place

The United States is a nation of immigrants.

From the transcontinental railroad to today’s technological advancements on the information superhighway, immigrants have helped to build our nation. The solution to the immigration challenges we face won’t be simple, but now is the time to take a commonsense approach to immigration reform.

That means ensuring that the immigration bill is also a jobs bill — one that gives Americans workers a fair chance at fair-wage jobs.

At recent roundtables in Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, I’ve been asking Ohioans their immigration reform priorities. There is almost unanimous agreement that we must fix our broken immigration policy.

The bipartisan Senate plan finishes the job of securing our borders. It also creates a fair, but thorough pathway to citizenship for the millions of undocumented immigrants that require

I introduced a biparti- to engage in additional san bill called the H-1B recruiting steps designed and L-1 Visa Fraud and to attract qualified U.S. Abuse Prevention workers without Act of 2013. also requiring them Our bill requires to hire these workemployers to make ers if they apply. good faith efforts If there are qualito hire Americans fied Ohioans who first and much of can do the work, it was included in there is no need to the immigration fill a post with an Brown H-1B worker. That’s bill under Senate consideration.

Reports why I’ve introduced Our work Sherrod Brown an amendment to helped ensure U.S. Senator the immigration bill that the immigrathat will improve tion bill included hiring practices of a provision to require companies that temporarthat employers to give ily hire foreign workers in American workers the first crack at a job oppor- specialty occupations.

Our bipartisan amendtunity before it can be filled with a visa holder. ment requires H-1B But during committee employers to first offer a debate of the bill, our position to an equally or provision was altered better qualified American so that employers now worker before seeking a only have to take steps to visa to offer it to a foreign recruit American work- worker.

H-1B workers make a ers they no longer have contribution to give hiring preference valuable to our nation, but they to equally or better qualified American workers should be hired when and can instead seek a there is a demonstrable visa for the foreign work- need not at the expense of a qualified Ohio worker er.

It is counterproduc- is are ready, willing, and tive to require employers able to do a job.

Hiring Ohio workers first them. It also creates an employment verification system – to crack down on employers who are hiring workers without documentation — that prevents identity theft, and brings jobs out of the shadows.

But while the proposal we’re debating on the Senate floor is a critical step forward, I believe there are ways we can improve it further so our immigration policy is also a good jobs policy.

That means ensuring that American companies seek out skilled American workers before seeking visas for foreign workers.

Right now, the H-1B program serves an important, but specific purpose. When American employers cannot find the technical workers essential to their operations, businesses can recruit foreign workers through this visa. But we need to make sure foreign workers aren’t being hired at the expense of Americans.

That’s why Sen. Grassley, R-Iowa, and

Letters to the editor

Vote for levy; maintain high-quality education To the editor: I am asking the citizens of Sidney City School District to show their support of the school levy by voting “yes” on Aug. 6.

The school administration listened to concerned residents and acted

upon some key issues. They have stabilized administration, reduced staff, and tightened the budget.

All the while, the school system continued to maintain its offering of high-quality education.

To continue on this trek, we

need to pass the income tax levy, which will replace the expiring property tax levy. Join me in voting “yes” for Sidney City Schools on Aug. 6.

Fran Miller 448 E. Edgewood St.

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Weather

Sidney Daily News, Friday, July 26, 2013

Out of the Past 100 years

Today

Tonight

Mostly sunny; southeast winds 5 mph

Partly cloudy; 40% chance of showers, t-storms

High: 79

Low: 61

Saturday

Sunday

Partly cloudy; 50% chance of showers, t-storms High: 75 Low: 55

Monday

Partly cloudy

Mostly clear

High: 72 Low: 55

Tuesday

Wednesday

Partly cloudy

High: 78 Low: 60

Local Outlook

Pleasant today, rain and cooler Saturday

Partly cloudy

High: 80 Low: 60

A nice, cool morning will be followed by pleasantly warm temperatures this afternoon.

Another cold front arrives on Saturday bringing in scattered showers and t h u n d e rs t o r m s . Brian Davis This will also reinforce the cool air in place, and temperatures will remain below normal through early next week.

High: 80 Low: 60

Regional Almanac Temperatures Wednesday High...........................74 Wednesday Low..........................51

Precipitation Wednesday.............................none Month to date.........................7.24 Year to date...........................14.78

Sunrise/Sunset Friday sunset.....................8:57 p.m.

Saturday sunrise...............6:30 a.m.

Saturday sunset................8:55 p.m.

Source: The Sidney Wastewater Treatment Plant, official weather reporting station for Shelby County, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. For current daytime conditions, low/high temperatures, go to AccuWeather.com.

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Inflammation of rib cartilage called devil’s grip DEAR DR. ROACH: I was can have multiple causes, and diagnosed with costochondri- sometimes we never figure out tis about 33 years ago. Up until where it comes from, it’s poslast year, I had had little pain sible that this is something else with it. But this year, the pain causing the same or similar is really bad. I am 78 years symptoms. Chest pain in any old. Does age matter? What, 78-year-old, even chest pain if anything, triggers the that seems clearly to be pain, and what can help coming from the ribs, my pain? Is heat or cold should prompt at least better? — D.B. a consideration of heart A N S W E R : problems. See a cardiolCostochondritis ogist to rule them out. (“costo” means “rib,” DEAR DR. ROACH: ”chondro” is “cartiDoes the water in coffee lage” and “itis” means and tea count as some “inflammation”) is To your of the water a person thus inflammation of is supposed to drink good the cartilage of the rib. health daily? People are often This condition can be told to drink eight cups Dr. Keith caused by a virus called daily. — C.L. Roach Coxsackie B virus, and ANSWER: People has several other names often are told to drink including epidemic pleueight cups of water rodynia, Bornholm’s syndrome daily, but there is nothing and, my favorite, Devil’s Grip, magic about that number. which gives a colorful under- That amount that is optimal standing of how it can make for health varies tremendously your chest feel. The pain can from person to person, based last for weeks, and tends to on an individual situation. hurt more with breathing.

An athlete exercising in the This syndrome of pain at hot, dry sun may need much the rib cartilage sometimes more than eight cups. Eight can have recurrences, although cups is too much for some 33 years later is longer than I people with kidney disease. It’s have heard of. Since chest pain important to take in enough

fluid, especially in hot weather, but a better way of monitoring is just to make sure you are making urine throughout the day. Tea and coffee are perfectly good ways of getting enough fluid. Most people get all the electrolytes (sodium, potassium and others) they require from food, but again, athletes (who need more) and people with kidney disease (who may need less) may need to be very careful with supplemental electrolytes.

DEAR DR. ROACH: After reading yet another letter to your column from a lady suffering from urinary tract infections, I feel I must tell you of my experience with this problem.

For many months I had infections and the treatments helped but the infections kept recurring. One day my doctor’s nurse asked me if I took baths or showers. I said I always took baths. She suggested I try showers only, and see if that helped. I did, and the infections stopped, and now after some 40 years I have had only one infection — after being in a family hot tub.

This seems like such a sim-

ple solution that at least other women could try it at no cost or inconvenience. Could you please suggest it in your column? — E.R. ANSWER: I am always happy to provide possible solutions to common problems, especially when they don’t involve medications or procedures. I looked this up, and it seems to be consistent advice, but I hadn’t heard it. Thank you for writing.

TO READERS: Recurring vaginal infections are often troubling to women. The booklet on that topic explains them and their treatment. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Roach — No. 1203, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6. Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

July 26, 1913 A big crowd witnessed the demonstration of the new motor fire truck at the Water Street canal bridge this afternoon. Three streams were thrown toward the south and the water pumped from the canal was thrown half a square against the wind. One nozzle was attached and the water thrown to the north. It almost reached the South Street Bridge. The demonstrator is working with the boys at the fire department, teaching them to operate the machine and expects them to be able to operate it in every way in a few days.

——— A preliminary report issued by the Morgan Engineering Co. on the effect of the Lewistown and Loramie reservoirs indicates that these reservoirs had practically no effect of any kind upon the flood in Dayton this past March. The engineers indicated that the total amount of water in the reservoirs is so small as compared with the total amount that went by Dayton during the flood, that if both reservoir dams had failed completely and poured their waters into the Miami river, the flood at Dayton would not have been raised more than two feet and perhaps not more than six inches, though it might have lasted somewhat longer.

75 years

July 26, 1938 Arrest of 10 motorists charged with speeding, marked the opening of a campaign against fast drivers inaugurated this week at Fort Loramie, by the council at the insistence of the Civic Club, following several serious accidents that occurred there in recent weeks. Fines were assessed and suspended in each case by Magistrate Anthony Barhorst, but costs were paid.

Village officials have indicated that they are determined to see that the 35 miles per hour speed limit is obeyed.

——— J.W. Lorton, who has been associated

with the automobile business at Jackson Center for some time, has purchased the filling station at the west edge of Port Jefferson from J.E. Eiser, formerly of Dayton. He plans to open the business on August 4.

50 years

July 26, 1963 FORT LORAMIE — Ray Larger and Bob Nuesmeyer came all the way back through the loser’s bracket to take top honors in the weekly horseshoe tournament at Tony’s Place here Thursday evening. Larger and Nuesmeyer bested Paul Ahlers and Curley Pitsenbarger twice in the finals for the victory.

——— Mrs. Don Bolinger, a charter and 12-year member of the Rainbow Garden Club, will be the new contact chairman for garden clubs of Shelby County, to serve for a two year period. Mrs. Bolinger, who resides in Hardin, will take over the office for two years in October, succeeding Mrs. Harvey Hoewischer, who will retire after two years service.

25 years

July 26, 1988 An escaped murderer is in town.

Convicted killer Earl Jacobs escaped from the car of the Chillicothe Correctional superintendent and was seen in Sidney at Cain’s Market. He killed the West Liberty town marshal in 1962.

Jacobs is armed and dangerous.

——— An important civil suit has been filed against James Bush.

Copeland, his former employer, alleges Bush is working for competitor Carrier Corp and possesses trade secrets about the scroll compressor. An injunction is sought.

These news items from past issues of the Sidney Daily News are compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society (498-1653) as a public service to the community.

Local history on the Internet! www. shelbycountyhistory.org

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealthmed. cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Health newsletters may be ordered from www.rbmamall.com.

Saving her sanity is right step for mom suffering depression DEAR ABBY: I was a sin- EDGE IN JOHANNESBURG, gle mom for most of my teen- SOUTH AFRICA DEAR ON THE EDGE: agers’ lives. We have never been financially stable, and That your husband chooses lately things have hit an all- not to recognize that depression is an illness — one time low. that’s treatable — is a I am prone to bouts reflection of his ignoof depression. I remarrance. That he would ried last year, and my tell you your attempted husband unfortunately suicide was abusive to does not understand HIM suggests that he or tolerate the depresis more concerned with sions. He feels I should himself than he is with just “get over” things.

Dear you.

He also doesn’t believe You have teenage in anti-depressants. It Abby children who need got so bad I attempted Abigail suicide last weekend.

Van Buren their mother. Trying to hang onto what’s My husband said my left of your sanity and doing that was abusive to HIM. Had the pills I get the medications you need took not made me throw up, isn’t selfish — it’s SOUND I would have happily waited THINKING. If not for your sake, please seek help now for to die.

There are six people on my theirs.

DEAR ABBY: I’m pregnant medical aid, and the available funds are more than half used with my first child and live up. For me to see a psychia- 800 miles from my parents, trist will take a huge chunk who are retired. We have a out of it. I am caught between good relationship now, but a rock and a hard place. If I do growing up I had major emoit, my family will miss out on tional issues my parents didn’t medical care should the need handle well. Years of therapy arise later in the year. Is it self- in my early adulthood helped ish to try to hang onto what is to fix them. My parents have left of my sanity? — ON THE just told me they have been

approved to be foster parents and will be caring for an emotionally disturbed teenager soon. While I know I should be happy for them, I’m extremely upset. I feel they were ill-equipped to handle my emotional issues growing up, and they should be more concerned with their grandchildren in retirement than taking in strangers.

When I heard the news, I tried my best to sound supportive, but they could tell I was upset. How can I handle these feelings? Would it be beneficial to tell them how I feel? — MOMMY-TO-BE IN NORTH CAROLINA DEAR MOMMY-TO-BE: A way to handle your feelings would be to view the situation from the perspective of an adult, not a jealous child. That your parents will foster this teenager doesn’t mean they will love their grandchildren any less. On some level they may be trying to make up for the mistakes they made in your upbringing. Because they were ill-equipped to recognize your emotional problems does not mean they won’t be wiser now. I suggest you wait to

discuss this with them until you’re feeling less resentful.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 12-year-old girl trying to live a simple life. I read your column every day. I have one small question. I really wanna know why girls don’t like each other that much. Many girls at my school are really mean.

I wish I knew the answer to why girls are like that. Do you know why? — CONFUSED DEAR CONFUSED: Girls your age are mean to other girls for a variety of reasons.

Some of them may be acting out because they are having problems at home. They may do it because they are jealous or to make themselves feel more important (a power trip).

Girls like this have never been taught to respect the feelings of others. They behave this way because they haven’t matured enough to have developed empathy, an ability to be sensitive to the feelings of those they are hurting.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Odds and ends COLUMBUS (AP) — It turns out doughnuts, dog food and Gatorade are bear necessities.

At least those were the preferred foods of Dewey, a 400-pound Asiatic black bear temporarily housed at a state facility in Ohio.

The building holds wild creatures confiscated or surrendered under Ohio’s exotic animal law, which was strengthened following the release of dozens of animals including lions and tigers by their suicidal owner in 2011 in Zanesville.

Authorities fearing for public safety killed most of the animals in a headline-capturing saga.

At least five alligators and two bears have come through the state’s roughly $3 million facility since it opened in February. Ohio’s agriculture department then looks for permanent housing for the critters in sanctuaries or zoos.

Groceries and supplies for the hungry boarders have topped $1,025 since the end of May, according to records obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.

Sports Friday, July 26, 2013

Contact Sports Editor Ken Barhorst with story ideas, sports scores and game stats by phone at (937) 498-5960; email kbarhorst@civitasmedia.com; or by fax (937) 498-5991.

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‘This is real racing here,’says Eldora winner Dillon ROSSBURG, Ohio (AP) — Austin Dillon grabbed the golden shovel and scooped a pile of dirt.

His dirty work over, Dillon dumped the black clump in a small jar, a nice souvenir for a victory four decades in the making.

Dillon left the rest of the field in his dust to win NASCAR’s return to dirt racing in the Truck Series races at Eldora Speedway.

He pulled away in the green-white-checkered finish Wednesday night to complete a thrilling return to the muck of the clumpy dirt track.

“This is real racing right here,” said Dillon, a regular in the Nationwide Series who won for the fifth time in 53 career Truck starts.

The last time one of NASCAR’s top touring series competed on dirt was Sept.

30, 1970, when Richard Petty won a Sprint Cup — called the Grand National Division at that time — race at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

That drought ended with racing that started early in the day and bled into late night at the Tony Stewart-owned half-mile track.

Dillon was joined by his father, Mike, and his grandfather, owner Richard Childress, for the victory celebration.

“The coolest thing is, you’re out of control out there for a few laps,” Austin said. “You’re on the edge for every lap.”

NASCAR returned to dirt in an attempt to reconnect with its roots and give fans raised on asphalt and stock cars a taste of the slides and wall-banging that are staples of the surface.

Looks like NASCAR will have to come back.

Fans absolutely packed the track that opened in 1954, a rare feat for a series that often runs in front of mostly empty grandstands as a support race in a Sprint Cup weekend.

About 20,000 fans spread out on the grassy hills or creaky wooden bleachers; most seats with a hand-painted number.

They camped out along the street entering the track and turned Eldora into the site of Ohio’s biggest party.

Not bad considering rural Rossburg had a population of 201 in the 2010 census.

If fans weren’t chugging beers, they sipped the track’s signature drink, Toilet Water.

Just some vodka, with orange juice and 7-Up. Oh, and a Tootsie Roll plopped in the yellowish concoction for fun.

They got quite a show. The

trucks drove four wide in a parade lap. Then they skidded and slid around the track, mashed and bashed against the wall and doors, living up to the hype of one of the most anticipated races of the season in any NASCAR series.

Kyle Larson was second, Ryan Newman third, Joey Coulter fourth and Brendan Gaughan fifth. Darrell Wallace Jr. finished seventh.

“If I can get the dirt out of my eyes, I’ll be all right,” Wallace said, rubbing his eyes at the podium.

Stewart, a three-time Cup champion, was on hand to take care of every last detail of the track he bought in 2004.

Reigning Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski and Clint Bowyer also were on hand.

Cup drivers Newman and Dave Blaney were in the 30-truck field.

“I think our sport really needed something different,” Newman said. “I think it’s a monumental day. It’s something special. It’s over tonight, but hopefully it happens again.”

Will it?

“How far that goes, we’ll have to wait and see,” NASCAR President Mike Helton told Speed. “I think that’s what makes tonight very special, the fact that it is a combination of Wednesday night racing, on a dirt track, which has been a long-time coming from a lot of our fans who requested it.

So, tonight is very unique, and that’s what makes it special.

What the future holds? We’ll see.”

There sure seemed to be more excitement for the Truck Series race than the Cup stop Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Leave Indy, get off the highway, and there’s nothing but farmland, corn, a small town that could be mistaken for Mayberry — and then, Eldora.

Keselowski said on TV “there was more energy than for a Cup race.”

The track issued 130 media credentials and boasted that tickets were purchased from 48 of the 50 states.

Eldora hosts some of the largest dirt racing events in the country, including the Dream, Kings Royal, and World 100.

Qualifying was pulled out of the dirt racing playbook. There were five, eight-lap qualifying events and a 15-lap lastchance race to come up with the 30 competitors (regularly 36 in the series) for the 150-lap Mudsummer Classic. The feature race was broken into three segments of 60, 50 and 40 laps.

Norm Benning rode the

AP Photo | Greg Lynch

Austin Dillon celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR truck series Inaugural Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway Wednesday.

wall in the last-chance race to become the final driver in the field. But his No. 57 Chevrolet looked as if it went through 150 laps, not 15, with the exhaust pipes dragging along the dirt.

The 61-year-old Benning flipped the middle finger to Clay Greenfield after their trucks connected on the final lap.

It was a good race for older drivers. Ken Schrader became the oldest pole winner in a NASCAR series. The 58-yearold Schrader won the pole and a qualifying heat race. Dick Trickle was 57 years old when he won the pole for the June 1999 Nationwide Series race at Dover.

The trucks weren’t built to race on dirt, so some adjustments were needed.

The Goodyear dirt tire was widened from 10 to 11 inches to provide a larger contact patch with the track and give the trucks more grip. While the Eldora right-side tire basically remained the same height as a NASCAR tire run on asphalt tracks, the left-side was 3 inches shorter (85.8 inches) to build in more stagger, which helped the trucks turn better.

The trucks were fitted for mesh shields and hood deflectors to hold off debris kicked up from the muck.

The trucks were dirty, but the racing was clean, with the first big wreck not coming until the 116th lap.

AP Photo | Greg Lynch

Drivers head through a turn on the opening lap of the NASCAR Truck Series race Wednesday on the dirt at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg. Austin Dillon won in NASCAR’s first return to the dirt since 1970.

An added attraction at the tractor pull

There was more action going on in front of the grandstands at the Shelby County Fair the last few days. Here, the antique portion of the tractor pull gets underway, with one of the competitors trying to pull the transfer sled as far down the track as possible.

And Shockwave wrestling also returned to the fair this year, with six matches on the card Tuesday night.

While the truck and tractor pull annually provides some good entertainment at the Shelby County Fair, there was a bit of a bonus for some fairgoers this year when the event returned Wednesday night.

The three-or-so inches of rain that fell on Sidney Saturday-through-Monday left portions of the infield at the track a muddy mess, the perfect definition of a quagmire (a difficult, precarious or entrapping position).

You see, an event like the tractor pull, along with things like the domolition derby, and the mud bog races, make the infield at the fairgrounds look like a pickup truck rally, with drivers backing their vehicles right up to the edge of the “track” so they can just climb in the back and watch the action from there. And even having to pay extra for a pit pass doesn’t disway them.

Wednesday night, as the start of the big tractors got closer and closer, pickup trucks started showing up in droves. To get to their favorite spectator spot, however, the drivers were forced to drive through the mud.

Now you would be hardpressed to find a two-wheel drive pickup anywhere in the vicinity, so for some strange reason, all the drivers seemed

to have a smile on their face as they approached the swampy areas.

Most made it through without any problems, some had to keep all four tires spinning until they got where they wanted, and others, well… just got stuck.

But no problem — there was always another four-wheel drive pickup, with a smiling driver, ready to lend a hand.

It was a good show — and there was no extra charge to see it.

Meanwhile, the tractorp ull got off to a slow start — literally — as the antique tractors took center stage first. And there were a lot of competitors, so many that the regular tractor pull — the at times very loud one — didn’t get started until well after 7 p.m., though the fair premium book advertised a 6 p.m. start.

When it was all over, Wally Hill of St. Paris emerged as the champion.

Following the antiques, there were six classes of trucks and tractors taking over, and as the noise level rose, so did the crowd in the grandstands.

The mud bog racing took over the infield Thursday night, and today will mark the only day of harness racing at this year’s fair, with post time set for 4 p.m.

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Leake leads Reds to 8-3 win SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds found just about every way to beat the San Francisco Giants this season after falling in frustrating fashion to the World Series champions last October.

Mike Leake led the latest — and perhaps wackiest — performance Wednesday night, pitching six-plus innings of wildly effective ball in Cincinnati’s 8-3 victory over San Francisco.

Leake (10-4) allowed a career-high 12 hits but gave up just one run. He also snapped an 0-for-26 skid — his longest hitless streak — with the third three-hit game of his career.

“I don’t know if that combination happens too often,” Leake said.

The last pitcher to give up at 12 least hits and record three of his own was Houston’s Mike Hampton at Colorado on July 28, 1999.

Joey Votto, Brandon Phillips and Devin Mesoraco each drove in two runs to power the Reds to another impressive win against the Giants. After allowing San Francisco to rally from an 0-2 deficit to win the NL division series last fall, Cincinnati finished 6-1 against the Giants this season — and most of the wins weren’t even close.

The Reds outscored San Francisco 45-14 in seven games, including

Homer Bailey’s no-hitter on July 2. They also outscored the Giants 31-11 in four games this week at AT&T Park.

The 55 hits in the last four games are the most by a team at San Francisco since the Dodgers had 60 in another four-game series from July 1-4, 1977, at Candlestick Park.

“They pretty much had their way with us,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.

In the series finale, the Giants had 15 hits — including five singles by Hunter Pence — while the Reds had just 13 total. But San Francisco was 4 for 16 with runners in scoring position and stranded 15 on base.

Adding to the embarrassment, even the chalk that makes up the batter’s box was off-center.

Buster Posey was out of the starting lineup after playing first base in the opener and catching the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader. He grounded into a fielder’s choice as a pinch hitter in the seventh, when the Giants loaded the bases with no outs before reliever Sam LeCure shut them down.

Chad Gaudin (4-2) gave up six runs and seven hits in 3 2-3 innings in his worst — and shortest — start of the year for San Francisco. He also allowed a season-high five walks.

“We’ve played better than them. I don’t really know if there’s a way to

AP Photo | Ben Margot

Cincinnati Reds’ Mike Leake works against the San Francisco Giants in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 24, 2013, in San Francisco.

explain it,” said Reds right fielder Jay Bruce, who had two hits and also one RBI. In the last regularseason matchup of this one-sided series, the formula remained the same: early runs and patchwork pitching for a runaway Reds win.

Shin-Soo Choo hit a leadoff double, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on Votto’s flyout to give Cincinnati a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

In the third, Votto scored from first when Pence missed Phillips’ two-out single to right field. The ball trickled off the glove of Gregor

Blanco behind him. Bruce followed with an RBI double, and Mesoraco had an RBI single to put the Reds ahead 4-0.

Pence matched his career high with five hits, including a single in the third that put San Francisco on the board.

But after Brandon Belt singled, Jeff Francoeur grounded into an inningending double play.

The Reds manufactured two more runs in the fourth. Votto drove in a run when he grounded out with the bases loaded, and Phillips hit a sacrifice fly to extend Cincinnati’s lead to 6-1.

The Giants also loaded the bases in the fourth

— and wasted that scoring opportunity. Leake got Pablo Sandoval to pop out, ending San Francisco’s rally.

After Votto tripled leading off the sixth, Phillips singled him home. Mesoraco’s twoout single put the Reds up 8-1, sending a large chunk of the announced sellout crowd of 41,512 to the exits.

Sandoval’s two-run double off Logan Ondrusek in the eighth accounted for the only other San Francisco runs.

Reds manager Dusty Baker, mindful of San Francisco’s remarkable rallies last October, even had closer Aroldis

Chapman warming up in the bullpen — just in case.

“You can’t figure it out,” Baker said. “We dominated them in the first two games of the series last year, then they came back and won. So it’s just baseball. I’ve been around so long, nothing surprises me too much. I just like to win.”

NOTES: Reds SS Zack Cozart sat out with a sore hip. He is day to day. … Mat Latos (9-3, 3.53 ERA) starts for the Reds against Zack Greinke (8-2, 3.36) in the opener of a four-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday.

Browns owner optimistic about outcome of probe

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is confident there will be a favorable resolution to his legal mess.

Speaking to reporters moments after the Browns began their first practice of training camp, Haslam said he’s “very optimistic” about the outcome of a federal investigation involving fraud at his family’s truck-stop chain.

Haslam’s Pilot Flying J had its headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., raided on April 15 by the FBI and IRS. Haslam was later accused of knowing about a program to overcharge customers.

He recently reached a settlement to reimburse customers who were cheated out of fuel rebates.

Haslam reiterated his ongoing legal situation will not force him to sell the team he took over last August.

“We’re committed to owning the Browns for a long period of time,” Haslam said. “I understand in Cleveland there’s a great deal of uncertainty because of

past history, but the fans should not worry. Our family is going to own this asset for a long, long time. We’re excited and we feel it’s a privilege to own not just an NFL team, but to own the Cleveland Browns with all the heritage and history it has.”

Haslam was asked if he would remain in charge of the franchise if he was indicted.

“Let me say this and I think you all have seen this with us and with me, our style is to be very transparent and very open,” he said. “When the government investigation happened on April 15, one of the very first calls we made was to the NFL. We’re in constant contact with them, they have been very supportive in working with us and I’d say we’re very optimistic on the outcome.”

Haslam said the investigation has not been a distraction in rebuilding the Browns and he denied there were any problems with his cash flow, citing the team’s spending in free agency, recent renovations of the team’s

AP Photo | Mark Duncan

Cleveland Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski, left, talks with owner Jimmy Haslam during training camp at the NFL football team’s practice facility in Berea, Ohio, Thursday.

headquarters and plans to makeover FirstEnergy Stadium.

“There’s absolutely no worry about cash flow,” said Haslam, wearing a gray Browns T-shirt

and brown shorts. “If there was, we wouldn’t be doing the things we were in Berea, we wouldn’t have signed the free agents, we wouldn’t be talking about doing

the things we are at the stadium.

We’re looking at this as a longterm vision. We want to be successful as quickly as we can.

“We want to build a long-term vision here.”

Haslam is excited about the upcoming season, but cautioned Cleveland fans to be patient with the team’s new front office and coaching staff. He wants the Browns to win consistently and would like that to happen as soon as possible.

“You are talking to one of the more impatient people in the world,” he said. “It’s not easy.

We were talking today, ‘How badly do we want to win the first game?’ We all understand the importance of that. What really counts is how we perform in the last three games versus how we perform in the first three games.

And are we a better team at the end of the year than we were at the first of the year. I think that’s important to all teams and particularly for young teams.”

SCOREBOARD BASEBALL Major Leagues National League The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta. . . . . . . 57 45 .559 — Philadelphia . . 49 52 .485 7½ Washington . . . 49 53 .480 8 New York . . . . . 45 53 .459 10 Miami . . . . . . . 38 62 .374 18½ Central Division St. Louis. . . . . . 61 37 .622 — Pittsburgh . . . . 60 40 .600 2 Cincinnati . . . . 58 44 .569 5 Chicago . . . . . . 45 54 .455 16½ Milwaukee . . . . 42 59 .416 20½ West Division Los Angeles . . . 53 47 .530 — Arizona . . . . . . 52 49 .515 1½ Colorado . . . . . 49 54 .480 5 San Francisco . 46 55 .455 7½ San Diego . . . . 46 57 .447 8½ Thursday's Games N.Y. Mets 7, Atlanta 4 Washington 9, Pittsburgh 7 San Diego 10, Milwaukee 8 Miami 5, Colorado 3 Philadelphia at St. Louis, inc.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona, inc.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, inc.

Friday's Games N.Y. Mets (Mejia 0-0) at Washington (Zimmermann 12-5), 1:35 p.m., 1st game N.Y. Mets (Harvey 8-2) at Washington (Ohlendorf 2-0), 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Philadelphia (Hamels 4-12) at Detroit (Fister 8-5), 7:08 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 9-2) at Miami (H.Alvarez 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 13-5) at Atlanta (Minor 9-5), 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 7-9) at Colorado (Chatwood 6-3), 8:40 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 8-8) at Arizona (Delgado 2-3), 9:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (H.Bailey 5-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-6), 10:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 6-11) at San Francisco (M.Cain 6-6), 10:15 p.m.

Saturday's Games N.Y. Mets at Washington, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 3:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Philadelphia at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 8:05 p.m.

—— American League East Division W L Pct GB Boston . . . . . . . 61 42 .592 —

Tampa Bay . . . 60 42 .588 ½ Baltimore. . . . . 57 45 .559 3½ New York . . . . . 54 48 .529 6½ Toronto . . . . . . 45 55 .450 14½ Central Division Detroit . . . . . . . 56 45 .554 — Cleveland. . . . . 53 48 .525 3 Kansas City . . . 47 51 .480 7½ Minnesota . . . . 43 55 .439 11½ Chicago . . . . . . 40 59 .404 15 West Division Oakland . . . . . . 59 42 .584 — Texas . . . . . . . . 56 46 .549 3½ Seattle . . . . . . . 48 53 .475 11 Los Angeles . . . 47 52 .475 11 Houston . . . . . . 34 66 .340 24½ Thursday's Games N.Y. Yankees 2, Texas 0 Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 4 Houston at Toronto, inc.

Tampa Bay at Boston, inc.

Baltimore at Kansas City, inc.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, inc.

Minnesota at Seattle, inc.

Friday's Games Boston (Dempster 5-8) at Baltimore (Tillman 12-3), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 5-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 9-8), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 3-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 7-5), 7:05 p.m.

Houston (Lyles 4-4) at Toronto (Dickey 8-11), 7:07 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 4-12) at Detroit (Fister 8-5), 7:08 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 4-7) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-2), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Williams 5-6) at Oakland (Colon 13-3), 10:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Diamond 5-9) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 11-4), 10:10 p.m.

Saturday's Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees,

1:05 p.m.

Houston at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Texas at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Houston at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 1:08 p.m.

Boston at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

GOLF Arrowhead ladies Arrowhead Ladies At Arrowhead, Minster Play of the day — Most 4s with handicap Championship flight — 1.

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Susan Cindy Newman; Hogenkamp First flight — 1. Jane Kaylor; 2. (tie) Sandy Schmitmeyer, Sharon Mueller Second flight — 1. Cathy Bernhold; 2. (tie) Pat Gavit, Susan Quellhorst Put pott winners — Sara Ombrello, Rebecca Regnet, Lisa Griner

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Alex Rios, Chicago With the White Sox going nowhere in the AL Central, it’s likely that Rios will be wearing a different uniform by the end of July. He was tremendous over the weekend, batting .500 with eight RBIs in the three games with Atlanta.

Bartolo Colon, Oakland Amidst swirling rumors that tie Colon to the Biogenesis scandal, the veteran righthander keeps putting zeroes up on the scoreboard.

Colon tossed a complete game at Los Angeles to earn his 13th victory of the season. He allowed just four hits and walked one.

Hanley Ramirez, Los Angeles The Dodgers’ shortstop is healthy and playing with a renewed spirit of late. In the weekend sweep over Washington, Ramirez logged six hits, including two home runs, scored four times and drove in six runs.

• Very few managers elect to remove pitchers during a no-hitter. But that’s just what Houston skipper Bo Porter did on Saturday. With a runner on and one out in a tie game in Houston against the Seattle Mariners, Porter lifted lefthander Erik Bedard, even though he had held the Mariners hitless to that point. Porter’s explanation was simple: “He told me to.” That’s right, Bedard asked to be relieved after throwing 109 pitches. “I’ve had three shoulder surgeries,” Bedard explained. “I’m not going over 110 (pitches). I’d rather pitch a couple more years than face another batter.” Reliever Jose Cisnero got an out, issued a walk, then gave up a double to score the go-ahead run and tag Bedard with the loss.

• The Lansing Lugnuts certainly haven’t been hitting balls on the screws this season. The Single-A affiliate of the Blue Jays has been no-hit three times this season. The most recent came at the hands of Victor Sanchez of Clinton (Mariners affiliate) in a 1-0 loss. On April 14, Kyle Schepel of South Bend (Diamondbacks) blanked the Lugnuts over seven innings as part of a doubleheader. Four Bowling Green (Rays) pitchers combined to hold the Lugnuts hitless on June 21 at Bowling Green.

• Among the many issues that daily interleague play has brought to the game are quirks in the scheduling. There are two-game series, short, cross-country road trips and single visits to cities, to name a few. And that’s when everything goes as planned. When weather doesn’t cooperate, quirkier things happen. This week, Cincinnati will visit San Francisco as part of a planned 10-game road trip to the West Coast.

However, it’s now an 11-game trip. The July 4 game between the Reds and Giants, scheduled at Cincinnati, was rained out. The makeup date will be this Tuesday as part of a doubleheader — at San Francisco. The postponed game will begin at 4:05 PT, with the regularly scheduled game to follow after a 30-minute break. The Reds will wear home whites for the first game with the host Giants in road grays. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the first game of the doubleheader is statistically a road game for the Reds, even though they will bat last as the home team. That means that the Reds will finish the season with 80 home games and 82 road games.

Christian Yelich, Miami The 21-year-old outfielder batted .262 over 41 games at Double-A Jacksonville before being sent back to the Rookie and High-A leagues for 11 games. He’s back at Jacksonville and batting .500 over his last five games.

July 28, 1991 Dennis Martinez of the Montreal Expos pitches a perfect game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

The Expos defeat the Dodgers 2-0 as Martinez strikes out just five batters in the 96-pitch outing.

Catcher Ron Hassey, who caught a perfect game by the Indians’ Len Barker in 1981, becomes the first backstop to catch two perfect games.

July 28, 1994 Three years to the day after Martinez’s performance, Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers retires all 27 California Angels he faces in the Rangers’ 4-0 victory.

Mariano Rivera

Cardinals Red Sox Rays A’s Pirates Orioles Braves Rangers Reds Tigers Dodgers Indians Yankees Diamondbacks Phillies Rockies Mariners Nationals Giants Blue Jays Angels Royals Padres Mets Cubs Brewers Twins White Sox Marlins Astros

Two first-place teams meet in Atlanta this weekend.

Key four-game set with Rays could set tone for second half.

Have won 17 of 19 and carry confidence into Boston.

Three-game cushion matches largest lead of the season.

Winnable series at Washington and Miami this week.

Huge sweep at Texas, host Red Sox this weekend.

Gave up 17 runs to worst offense in AL. Curent standings have Rangers missing postseason.

Road struggles may continue with 11-game trip to West Coast.

Still looking for bullpen help.

Winners of 20 of their last 25 games.

Tough decisions whether to buy or sell at trade deadline.

Mariano Rivera gets touching tribute at All-Star Game.

Mustered only six runs against Giants pitching over the weekend.

Challenging week coming up at St. Louis and Detroit.

Still searching for reliable No. 4 and 5 starters.

Needed just one hit to plate four runs in win at Houston.

The season is slipping away fast.

Still contenders in the mediocre NL West.

Latest team unable to solve Tampa Bay mojo.

13 of next 20 games vs. A’s or Rangers.

12 of next 16 games vs. teams with records worse than K.C. Eric Stults becoming team’s ace.

Starting pitching gives team bright future.

Who will be the next player traded?

Held Marlins to 15 hits, six walks, no runs over 31 innings.

Is Rod Gardenhire a lame duck manager?

Had little trouble solving Braves’ pitching.

Long, discouraging season continues in South Florida.

Bad start to second half.

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Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Luke Scott, Tampa Bay Chris Davis, Baltimore Michael Brantley, Cleveland Sal Perez, Kansas City Alex Gordon, Kansas City Alejandro De Aza, Chicago Manny Machado, Baltimore Ian Kinsler, Texas Jose Iglesias, Boston

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NL Player, Team

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Allen Craig, St. Louis Freddie Freeman, Atlanta Carlos Beltran, St. Louis Brandon Phillips, Cincinnati Matt Carpenter, St. Louis Yadier Molina, St. Louis Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona Kyle Blanks, San Diego Matt Holliday, St. Louis Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco

.489 .430 .418 .408 .403 .395 .393 .383 .368 .357

(Minimum 50 plate appearances)

Pitchers WHIP (walks + hits/IP) AL Pitcher, Team

Hisashi Iwakuma, Seattle Max Scherzer, Detroit Chris Sale, Chicago Hiroki Kuroda, New York Yu Darvish, Texas

NL Pitcher, Team

Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Matt Harvey, New York Madison Bumgarner, San Francisco Patrick Corbin, Arizona Cliff Lee, Philadelphia

WHIP 0.95 0.98 1.01 1.04 1.05

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0.88 0.89 0.96 1.00 1.01

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Best Offensive Quartets

The St. Louis Cardinals feature a quartet of offensive players that could accomplish something that’s been done just twice since expansion in 1961. Currently, the Cardinals have four hitters with an OPS+ of 136 or better. Only two teams since 1961 have had four players with a 140 or better OPS+.

Okay, let’s explain OPS+, which has become a simple metric that is an accurate way to compare players across seasons, and different eras. OPS is simply on-base percentage plus slugging percentage. Simple enough. But adding the + sign compares hitters to the league average each season, adjusted for ballpark effects. An OPS+ of 100 is the league average, and each point above or below 100 equals a percent above average prior to ballpark adjustments. So an OPS+ of 140 means that the player is 40 percent above the league average — give or take for ballpark adjustments.

Using this metric allows us to compare players in the near-dead ball era of the 1970s with the steroid era of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Having four players rank 40 percent above the league average is pretty special. Only the Big Red Machine in 1976 and the 2003 Red Sox have done that since expansion in 1961.

1976 CINCINNATI REDS Just how good was the Big Red Machine of the 1970s? As the offensive machine was beginning to power down in Cincinnati, the Reds had one of the biggest seasons in the expansion era. In 1976, two-time NL MVP Johnny Bench was injured throughout most of the season and batted just .234 with only 16 home runs. Yet the Reds still had four players with an OPS+ of 140 or better. MVP Joe Morgan led the way with a .320 average and .444 OBP. His slugged .576 with 27 homers and 62 extra-base hits. George Foster, just beginning to

break out, had an OPS+ of 150 with a team-best 29 home runs. Leadoff hitter Pete Rose scored 130 runs and batted .323 for an OPS+ of 141.

Right fielder Ken Griffey Sr. hit .336 as the No. 2 hitter and checked in with a 140 OPS+.

The rest of the team wasn’t bad either with Tony Perez, a Hall of Famer who drove in 91 runs, and Bench, who was the World Series MVP after the sweep of the Yankees.

2003 BOSTON RED SOX The Sox didn’t reverse the curse until the following season, but the group in 2003 could score runs. As you would think, the two leaders Athlon Sports were Manny Ramirez (160 The St. Louis Cardinals bolted out of the gate with strong pitching, leading them to the majors’ best OPS+) and David Ortiz (144). record. But since Matt Carpenter (right) was moved to the leadoff spot, the offense has taken off with Ramirez hit .325 with 37 RBI machine Allen Craig (left) as the Redbirds easily lead the majors in run differential. home runs among his 74 extra-base hits. He walked 97 strikes leads us to think that he will it, Beltran will just miss and Yadi times to boost his OBP to .427. Ortiz maintain this extraordinary pace. slips to the 130 range, leaving the Big began the season playing sporadically Craig, who has become an RBI ma- Red Machine and 2003 Red Sox as with just 103 at-bats and two home chine will continue to hit. The first still the only two teams with a quartet runs by the end of May. He hit .293 baseman-outfielder is hitting .484 of hitters among the elite. with a .635 slugging after June 1 to with runners in scoring position this finish with 31 homers and 101 RBIs. season after hitting .400 in those sit- OTHER TEAMS THAT WERE CLOSE: Their top running mates were third uations last season. Beltran has a his- 1971 BALTIMORE ORIOLES baseman Bill Mueller, who led the tory of hitting well down the stretch, Frank Robinson (153), Don Buford AL with a .326 average and hit 45 but as he gets older, his legs need (153), Merv Rettenmund (149), Boog doubles, and Trot Nixon, who was more and more rest. Manager Mike Powell (138) the fourth player with better than a Matheny has been able to give him 1972 HOUSTON ASTROS 140 OPS+ at 149. regular days off when Matt Holliday Cesar Cedeno (162), Jim Wynn was healthy. If Beltran can stay fresh (146), Bob Watson (141), Lee May 2013 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Can the Cardinals place four players down the stretch, it’s conceivable that (137) at or above the 140 OPS+ mark this he can end up at 140 or better. Molina 1979 CALIFORNIA ANGELS season? Currently, the top four Red- is clearly the long shot here. The Don Baylor (145), Bobby Grich birds are leadoff hitter Matt Carpen- catcher, who leads the NL with a .336 (145), Brian Downing (142), Willie ter (148), Allen Craig (139), Yadier batting average, is certain to wear Mays Aikens (137) Molina (139) and Carlos Beltran down during the dog days. Catching 2001 CLEVELAND INDIANS (136). Carpenter has been the sur- every day is certain to take its toll on Jim Thome (170) Roberto Alomar prise of the group leading the NL the five-time All-Star, and he’s too (150), Juan Gonzalez (148), Ellis with 30 doubles and carrying an on- valuable behind the plate to get too Burks (137) base percentage of .398. The way that many days off. The prediction here is he hits lefthanders and with two that Carpenter and Craig will make

0 .857

Hits allowed by Erik Bedard of Houston in 6.1 innings against the Mariners before being relieved.

.000 37

Batting average of the Baltimore Orioles (0-for-9) following an intentional pass to Chris Davis.

250

Wins for Buck Showalter as manager for each of four different teams. Recently, he became just the fourth manager to win as many 250 games with a quartet of teams. He won 319 games as the manager at Texas, 313 as the Yankees’ skipper, 250 with Arizona, and now 252 with Baltimore. He joins Joe Torre, Gene Mauch and Dick Williams in the select group.

96

Brandon Phillips’ batting average following an intentional walk to Joey Votto. Phillips is 6-for-7 with a walk, HBP, three sacrifice flies and 11 RBIs.

When was the last time teammates finished first and second in MVP voting?

Consecutive innings in which the Marlins have been shut out. The Nationals held the Fish scoreless in the final six innings prior to the All-Star break. Over the weekend, the Brewers’ staff shut out the Marlins three times, the finale going 13 innings.

RBIs for the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera through Detroit’s first 97 games. With four more RBIs, Cabrera will become the 17th player in history with 10 100-RBI seasons. Alex Rodriguez owns the record with 14.

AP Images

TRIVIA ANSWER: Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants finished 1-2 in NL MVP voting in 2000.

Kenley Jansen, Los Angeles The Dodgers’ closer pitched two perfect innings to notch a pair of saves in the Dodgers’ sweep of the Nationals over the weekend at Washington. Jansen struck out four and gave up two harmless ground balls.

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MUTTS

BIG NATE

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

DILBERT

BLONDIE

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI AND LOIS ZITS

BEETLE BAILEY FAMILY CIRCUS

DENNIS the MENACE

ARLO & JANIS

HOROSCOPE

BY FRANCES DRAKE

For Saturday, July 27, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be patient, because power struggles with authority figures or family members are likely. Plus, with the Moon in your sign, you feel feisty!

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This could be an accident-prone day because you lose your temper or feel emotionally uptight. Avoid arguments with siblings, neighbors and relatives.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Squabbles about money or possessions might irk you today. Try not to lose it. Some will have arguments about cash flow, earnings or the disputed ownership of something.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your attempts to make things better or to improve someone else could end in disaster today. Don't force your opinions on others, even if you are convinced you are right.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You might feel annoyed with someone, and yet, you're muzzled. Therefore, you are simmering and seething in silence. Just let this go, because it's not good for your health!

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Heated differences with others, especially in group situations, might occur today. Do not expect to get your own way. These power struggles even might affect your goals. Be careful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You'll have to compromise or go more than halfway when dealing with others because the Moon is opposite your sign. In addition, authority figures and family members are looking for a fight. Oh, dear.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and racial issues today because people are aggressive and looking for trouble. Speaking of which, avoid crime-ridden areas or dangerous neighborhoods.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Disputes about inheritances, shared property or the ownership of something might arise today. If you can't persuade others to share your values, at least listen to what they say.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Difficulties with partners and close friends will arise today because ego battles are rampant. In particular, be patient with family members, especially females.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Work issues could be aggravated by arguments today because everyone wants to have his or her own way.

Furthermore, each person thinks he or she knows what is best for everyone else. (Bummer.)

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Be patient with children today. Machinery and equipment might break down, or romantic squabbles could add to your problems. It is what it is.

YOU BORN TODAY You are forceful, decisive and powerfully organized.

You know how to run any organization. This is why others turn to you for answers and decision-making. You like to plan ahead, and you know how to get the best out of others. At times you are intimidating; nevertheless, people respect you. Work hard to build or construct something this year, and your rewards soon will follow.

Birthdate of: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor; Jack Higgins, author; Jeanne Bare (Baret), explorer.

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Bethany Althauser, 9, of Anna, daughter of Kristian and Heather Althauser, and member of Anna Livestock won reserve grand champion meat pen of ducks at the Shelby County Fair.

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Tiffany Bayhan, 17, of Jackson Center, daughter of Jay and Kristi Bayhan and member of 4-H Club Spoons-n-Spools won state qualifier in quilting 20-G at the Shelby County Fair.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given of the 2013 meeting schedule for the Miami Valley Risk Management Association. Members of the Association include the cities of Beavercreek, Bellbrook, Blue Ash, Centerville, Englewood, Indian Hill, Kettering, Madeira, Mason, Miamisburg, Montgomery, Piqua, Sidney, Springdale, Tipp City, Troy, Vandalia, West Carrollton, Wilmington and Wyoming.

Quarterly Board Meetings will be conducted at the Miami Valley Risk Management Association offices located at 4625 Presidential Way, Kettering, Ohio 45429 beginning at 9:30 am on the following dates: Monday, March 18 Monday, June 17 Monday, September 30 Monday, December 16 July 26

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Lost & Found LOST: YELLOW LAB, Cody is a large male yellow lab, neutered, gold eyes. Friendly, Last seen behind Shelby County Line between Piqua and Sidney. REWARD (937)238-9122, (937)2140568.

Miscellaneous

Emma Delaet, 12, of Russia, daughter of Chad and Ann Delaet, and member of Russia Livestock 4-H Club won outstanding of the day and state qualifier for her junior scrapbooking at the Shelby County Fair.

Lucas Huber, 15, of Anna, son of Randy and Chris Huber, and member of McCartyville Producers won grand champion pen of fryers chickens at the Shelby County Fair.

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DVD, books, puzzles, Avon Jewelry, old milk and other bottles, miscellaneous. Call (937)492-9062 SEARS LT/10, 10HP, lawn tractor, 42"curt, snow blade, chains, $250.00 Call (937)3947455

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2003 30" DIXON, runs great! $600 firm, call (937)596-5583 Real Estate Auction Yard Sale 1663 KUTHER RD Friday Saturday & Sunday 9am-?, Kitchenware, glassware, tools, fishing items, LOTS of bedding, miscellaneous.

ANNA, 12083 Staley Road, Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th 94pm, some clothes, knickknacks, lots of miscellaneous, household items.

PIQUA 4182 St Rt 185.

Thursday & Friday 9am-3pm, Saturday 9am-?. LARGE SALE! Vintage toys, games, including 70's & 80's Star Wars, 80's & 90's GI Joe, Transformers, Nintendo 64, puzzles, books, antiques, household items, clothing for everyone.

Lauren Bergman, 10, of Fort Loramie, daughter of Amy and Keith Bergman, and member of the Girl Scouts won best of class in Brownie Girl Scouts: food with her York Sensational Brownies at the Shelby County Fair.

Grace Hockaday, 10, of Sidney, daughter of Mike and Jarla Hockaday, and member of the Girl Scouts won best of class in Junior Girl Scouts: food with her chocolate cake.

PIQUA 505 Glenwood, Thursday & Friday 9a-5p, Saturday 9a-1p. Mens: hat collection, coats, bicycle. Ice machine. NEW womens shoes size 5.5. Jewelry. NEW grass carpet. 8' umbrella gazebo with screen. Trolling motors. Loading ramps. Desk. Toolboxes.

PIQUA, 10315 Springcreek Road, (take Looney Road north, to Snodgrass, left on Springcreek) Saturday, Sunday 9-3pm, MOVING SALE, ox-acet tanks, tools, mower, appliances, furniture, bikes, fair boxes, collectibles, beer steins, antiques.

SIDNEY 1843 Westlake Drive.

Friday 9am-2pm & Saturday 9am-1pm. Household items, adult & child name brand clothing, toys, bikes, LOTS of miscellaneous.

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Sophia Flood, 11, of Sidney, daughter of Cheryl and Scott Flood, and member of Adveturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-H Club won outstanding of the day and state fair qualifier in You Can Quilt for her quilt at the Shelby County Fair.

Claira McEldowney, 15, of Russia, daughter of Craig and Connie McEldowney, and member of the 4-H Club Russia Fashionettes won outstanding of the day, best of class, best of show and state fair qualifier in 28 photography at the Shelby County Fair.

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Yard Sale

See each garage sale listing and location on our Garage Sale Map. Available online at sidneydailynews.com Powered by Google Maps SIDNEY 1029 Boradway (Near the Moose), Friday 8am-?, Saturday 8am-noon, DOWNSIZING! Large solid wood work table, stained glass, tools, grinders, pattern books, diamond tip ring saw, cook books, decorations, Campbell soup items, MUCH MORE! SIDNEY 1289 E Hoewischer Friday 8am-4pm, Saturday 8am-1pm. 3 FAMILY! TONS of name brand women's clothing sizes small-xl. Jewelry, purses, women's shoes sizes 7-8 & 1011. Men's clothing size XXL, infant boy clothing, baby cradle, cook books, books, household items including seasonal, microwave. Some proceeds going towards Uganda Missions Trip.

SIDNEY, 1214 Morris Avenue, Friday, Saturday 9-5pm, HOUSE SALE, washer/dryer, bedroom furniture, living room furniture, free stove, lots of women clothing, microwave, lots of miscellaneous, everything must go!

SIDNEY, 126 Frederick Place, (off East Parkwood) Thursday, Friday 8-3pm, name brand clothes boys, 8-10, girls smalljunior, women 6-8, small & medium, Wii system, Wii games, DS games, small electronics, toys, board games, home decorations, Vera Bradley, trumpet SIDNEY, 1336 Constitution Avenue, refrigerator, dishwasher, riding mower, edger/trimmer, tools, home furnishing, home interior, Longaberger, dishes, dried flowers, teachers, supplies, coffee table, lots of miscellaneous!

SIDNEY, 18000 Maloney Road, (near Sidney-Plattsville Road) Saturday 8-3pm, dishwasher, toys, books, clothes, hamster cage and lots of miscellaneous items.

SIDNEY, 221 Gemini Street, Friday, Saturday 8-2pm, HUGE SALE, baby gear, clothes, baseball cards, men/women/kids clothes, exercise bike, books, bedding, toys, home decor, games, queen mattress set, and much more!

SIDNEY, 2333 Brierwood Trail, Friday, Saturday 9:30-3pm, 6 JAPANESE FAMILIES, dining table set, golf club, toys, boy & girls clothes size 12M-8T, women & men clothes, tableware, cleaner

SIDNEY, 415 Fifth Avenue, (near Wendys) Thursday-Saturday 9-5pm, EXTREME HEAT/DOWNPOURS - TRYING AGAIN!!! More added; Wagner-ware, precious moments, Longaberger, 100+puzzles, 200+books, many Christian, recliners, lift chair, kitchenware, furniture, bricks, clothing s-XXL, microwave, miscellaneous.

SIDNEY, 446 East Lyndhurst Street, Friday & Saturday 9-?, HUGE GARAGE SALES women, teen clothes, girls 3-4T, many household items, outside furniture, jewelry, seasonal items, miscellaneous.

SIDNEY, 708 West Parkwood Street, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8-4pm, books, toys, car seats, puzzles, pictures, frames, glassware, Precious Moments, Dresser and nightstand, clothes; girls sizes 6-8, boys sizes 8-12. No early birds SIDNEY, 709 Arrowhead Drive, Friday, Saturday 9-1pm, LARGE MULTIFAMILY BACK TO SCHOOL SALE, dorm items, weight bench and weights, furniture, bar stools, home decor, clothes, gaming systems and games, exercise bike, miscellaneous.

VERSAILLES Community Garage Sales. Over 40 registered locations: Thursday, August 8th 3-9pm & Friday, August 9th 9am-5pm. Sale locations may be picked up at Worch Library & John's IGA. Accounting /Financial Fort Loramie Schools Treasurer Search The Shelby County Educational Service is pleased to announce it is conducting a search for the Fort Loramie Local Schools Treasurer position.

Interested applicants need to send the following information: * Three letters of reference * Latest five-year forecast and associated assumptions, if available * Latest audit report, if available * A copy of a recent article in a district newsletter or publication, if available To apply: send information to Jana Barhorst Shelby County ESC 129 E. Court Street, 4th floor Sidney, OH 45365 Deadline to apply is July 31, 2013

Drivers & Delivery

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DRIVER Dancer Logistics is looking for Class A CDL drivers with at least 2 years experience for home daily runs, over the road and regional. Great Benefits, Vision, Dental and Major medical with prescription cards. Great home time and your weekends off. Also looking for Teams to run West coast.

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PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

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Local company looking for a Production Supervisor to work 12 hour rotating off shift. Five years of manufacturing experience is required and experience in extruding is a plus. Duties will include overseeing all operation of evening production and filing out reports.

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Electrical / Plumbing COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICIAN

A reputable distributor of fertilizer application equipment & parts is looking for an inside sales representative to work in their store, in west central Ohio. Seeking a motivated individual with agricultural and customer service experience that can help them service customers with their equipment and parts needs.

Duties include but are not limited to: * Working directly with Farmers and Fertilizer Retailers on parts projects. * Providing product service and support in the store and over the phone. * Filling orders for UPS shipping. * Receiving incoming product for customer orders. * Assisting in the reordering process for stock parts.

Salary range based on experience; benefits are full and comprehensive.

Please send cover letters and resumes to:

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ELECTRICIAN

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Our rapidly expanding residential, commercial, and industrial divisions require professional individuals looking for job growth and job security. We are in need of experienced CARPENTERS CONCRETE FINISHERS LABORERS We offer the opportunity to make above average wages, liberal benefits, and work 52 weeks a year.

Send resume to: Weigandt Development Ltd. 90 N. Main St. Minster, OH 45865

or 106 W. Monroe Street PO Box 500 Philo, IL 61864

Slagle Mechanical Inc. an established HVAC & Plumbing construction/ Service company is currently seeking qualified Electricians to better serve our growing customer base. This new opportunity will provide steady employment with industry leading benefits to allow the right individual many opportunities for growth in a new department.

Applicants must have a minimum of 3 years experience or more, have an excellent knowledge of the Electrical Code, Safety Processes, and hold applicable licenses.

Work experience to include commercial & industrial construction, maintenance, and service work, Residential experience a plus, Must be proficient with low voltage to 600volt applications.

Competitive Wage & benefit package based on experience. References required.

JANITORIAL, Part time in Sidney, 2nd shift, 15-20 hours per week. Send resume to: KTM Enterprises, PO Box 896, Greenville, OH 45331.

Electrician Slagle Mechanical P.O. Box 823 Sidney, Ohio 45365

Maintenance Coordinator Requirements: CDL license or ability to obtain one, 2 year experience, strong computer skills, willingness to learn and to improve existing systems and processes.

Desired skills: preventative maintenance and repair, equipment specification, research and analysis, best practices, vendor relations, warranty submissions, purchasing, remote diagnostics, communications, technician support, data management and implementation of computer processes.

DISPATCHER Republic Services is accepting applications for a Dispatcher. Duties include coordinating activities of drivers in the most efficient manner while assuring prompt service to customers, data entry for all the hauling operations of the company, along with maintenance of customer, and productivity databases, customer service. Qualified applicants will possess excellent oral and written communication skills, strong math skills, past logistic or scheduling experience, the ability to work independently and under pressure, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to safety and attendance. We offer competitive pay and excellent benefits, including –medical, dental, life insurance, 401(k), along with paid vacation and holidays.

Maintenance Technician Requirements: CDL License or ability to obtain one, 1 year recent experience in heavy duty truck and/or trailer preventative maintenance and repair.

Technical school graduates considered with less experience.

Please send resume in confidence, to HRD@cheeseman.com or fax to 419-375-2437 Attn: HRD. Please no phone calls.

FULL or PART Time openings available. Apply onlin at www.walgreens.com.

HELP WANTED ON LOCAL DAIRY FARM

Got Work? We Do! *Machine Operator *Packaging Parts *Forklift *Tool & Die *Production *Welder *Industrial Painter *Assembler *Press Operator *Lumber Stackers *Customer Svc/Traffic/Shipping *CDL

Questions about this position can be directed to the HR Dept in Bellefontaine Phone (937)593-3566 We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V Medical/Health

Send resume to: P.O. Box 35 Versailles, OH 45380

Busy OB-GYN office at UVMC Seeking Full Time CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT 1 year experience preferred Please fax resume and references to: (937)339-7842

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ALL NEW 2014 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab 4x4 IS HERE!!

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CDL Class B Driver We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits including 401(k), paid vacation & holidays, and the opportunity for advancement.

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2014 All New Chevrolet Impala 2LTBlue w/ Graphite Cloth V-6 Must See 2013 Chevrolet Sonic LT Cyber Gray w/Gray Cloth Interior 4 Cyl Auto Trans 2013 Chevrolet Sonic LT Blue Topaz w/Gray Cloth Interior 4 Cyl Auto Trans 2013 Chevrolet Cruze LT Crystal Red w/Ebony Cloth 4 Cyl Eng Auto Trans 2013 Chevrolet Cruze LS Blue Topaz w/Ebony Cloth 4 Cyl Eng Auto Trans 2013 Chevrolet Malibu 1LT Champagne Silver w/Graphite Interior 2013 Chevrolet Malibu w/Eco Boost Silver w/ Ebony Cloth 2013 Chevrolet Equinox 1LT Black w/Ebony Cloth 4 Cyl Eng Fwd 2013 Chevrolet Traverse 1LT Crystal Red w/Ebony Cloth 7 Passenger 2013 Chevrolet Traverse LS Silver w/Gray Cloth Interior 8 Passenger 2013 Chevrolet Silverado ½ ton Ext Cab 4x4 1LT White w/Ebony Cloth 2013 Chevrolet ¾ ton Reg Cab 4x41LT 6.0 V-8 Gas Full power 6 to pick from 2013 Chevrolet Silverado ¾ Ton Ext Cab 4x4 1LT Mocha or Ruby 6.0L V-8 Gas 2013 Chevrolet Silverado ¾ ton 4x4 Crew Cab 1LT Gas and Diesel’s 7 to Pick From

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Local company looking for a self motivated person that has excellent communication, computer and organizational skills. Duties include customer relations, order processing and other miscellaneous duties.

FENIX, LLC PRODUCTION TEAM MEMBERS Seeking team members who want to build a career with our growing company.

The ideal candidate should be highly motivated, excel in team environments and, have 3-5 years of manufacturing experience. The plant operates on a 12-hour shift basis with current openings on the 7pm to 7am shift. We offer a highly competitive wage and full benefits.

Please send resumes to: HUMAN RESOURCES 319 S. Vine St. Fostoria, OH 44830 TELEMARKETER Local company seeking experienced Telemarketer to work 8:00 a.m. till 12:00 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Position pays an hourly rate plus commission. We also offer paid vacation, bonuses and more. Computer knowledge required. Telemarketing experience preferred but willing to train the right candidate.

Please send resumes to Dept 103, Sidney Daily News, 1451 North Vandemark Road, Sidney, OH 45365.

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Possible Owner Financing 305 Elizabeth Ct., Russia 2 beds, 2 full bath, large living area, screened porch.

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Asking $119,900 Call/text 937-726-9055

Pre-Owned 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4x4 LTZ White Diamond w/Leather 27000 miles 2011 Chevrolet Equinox LT 4 Cyl FWD Crystal Red w/Ebony Cloth 27000 miles 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Extended Cab 4x4 Z71 Victory Red w/ 23000 miles 2010 Chevrolet Traverse 2LT Crystal Red w/Tan Leather Captain Chairs 43K miles 2010 Chrysler Town & County Touring. Silver w/Gray Cloth DVD Player 35972 Miles 2010 Chevrolet Malibu LT Silver w/Ebony Cloth. 4Cyl Eng Factory Warranty 31K miles 2008 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab 1500 Z71 4x4 Graystone w/Ebony Cloth 57K miles 2008 Honda Accord EX Gun Metal Gray w/Gray Cloth V-6 Eng Sunroof 57000 miles 2005 Chevy Silverado ½ ton Reg Cab Short Bed Black w/Gray Cloth 118K miles 2002 Pontiac Montana Mini Van. Silver w/Gray Leather 7 Passenger 143K miles 1996 Chevrolet K1500 ½ ton reg cab 4x4 Victory Red Cloth Int V-8 Engine 4x4 1995 Saturn Station Wagon. White w/Leather Interior 4 Cyl A/c blows cold 106K miles 1992 Chevrolet K2500 ¾ Ton Silverado Reg Cab 4x4 350 V-8 Auto Trans A/c 92K mile

Business Development Specialist Have you been looking for a position in sales that really rewards you for your efforts? Could any or several of the following words be used to describe you or your personality? Fast paced, competitive, decisive, persistent, eager, bold, forceful, and inquisitive. How about assertive? Do you like to meet new people? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with others and with the public? If you answered yes to many of these questions, you may be the person we are seeking.

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Send resume to PO Box 4699 Sidney, OH 45365

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A Fort Recovery Ohio financially strong company Providing LTL, TL, dedicated and leasing services With a fleet of 250+ power units, 1000+ trailers & multiple locations Is Hiring

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SIDNEY, 137 Mound Street,(End of S. West) Friday & Saturday, 9am-?, TOOLS only!!! Power and Hand tools!!!

SIDNEY, 225 Gemini, Thursday & Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-noon. Metal futon, toys, bikes, car seats, single and double strollers, crib, toddler bed, bed rail, Vera Bradley diaper bag, baby-4T clothing, golf clubs, miscellaneous.

Advertise today by calling (877) 844-8385

Civitas Media is looking for a Business Development Specialist to sell online and print advertising for our Newspapers. Position will be based in our Sidney, Ohio, office. These are full time salary positions with a generous commission program.

Benefits include Health insurance, 401K, vacation, etc.

If interested send resume to Becky Smith at bsmith@civitasmedia.com Civitas Media LLC is a growing company offering excellent compensation and opportunities for advancement to motivated individuals.

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Civitas Media has publications in NC, SC, TN, KY, VA, WV, OH, IL, MO, GA, OK, IN and PA.

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JUNIOR FAIR Senior Drawings Outstanding of the Day: Kelly Brandewie Outstanding of the Day: Amber Buehler, State Fair Qualifier Outstanding of the Day: Chloe Heins Honorable Mention: Trisha Schulze Honorable Mention: Rachel Schmitmeyer Junior Drawings Outstanding of the Day: Haley Supinger Outstanding of the Day: Samantha Gaerke Honorable Mention: Jenna Monnin Honorable Mention: Chloe Weingant Junior Painting Outstanding of the Day: Charlie Vondenhuevel Honorable Mention: Emma Gerdes Senior Painting Outstanding of the Day: Erin Inman Honorable Mention: Courtney Inman Junior Needle Work: Outstanding of the Day: Becca Seger Senior Needle Work: Outstanding of the Day: Erin Gaerke Junior Underglazed and Glazed Ceramics: Outstanding of the Day: Jenna Monnin Honorable Mention: Caleb Pleiman Senior Underglazed and Glazed Ceramics: Outstanding of the Day: Rachel Schmitmeyer Honorable Mention: Lauren Luthman Junior Stained and Dry Brushed Ceramics Outstanding of the Day: Emily Pleiman, State Fair Qualifier Honorable Mention: Allison Meyer Senior Stained and Dry Brushed Ceramics Outstanding of the Day: Kelly Brandewie Honorable Mention: Amanda Seger Junior Toys: Outstanding of the Day: Zachery Carey Honorable Mention: Samantha Gaerke Senior Toys Outstanding of the Day: Lauren Luthman Junior Knitting and Crocheting Outstanding of the Day: Emily Pleiman Honorable Mention: Corynn Heikamp Senior Knitting and Crocheting Outstanding of the Day: Julie May Honorable Mention: Lauren Birkmeyer Junior Quilts Honorable Mention: Alyssa Presser Senior Quilts Outstanding of the Day: Tiffany Bayhan, State Fair Qualifier Honorable Mention: Claire Spicer Junior Other Outstanding of the Day: Paige Wiktorowski Honorable Mention: Allison Langenkamp Senior Other Outstanding of the Day: Christina Gaerke Honorable Mention: Julie May Junior Scrapbooking Outstanding of the Day: Emma Delaet, State Fair Qualifier Outstanding of the Day: Emily Bohman Honorable Mention: Maddie McEldowney Honorable Mention: Olivia Clark Senior Scrapbooking Outstanding of the Day: Morgan Pleiman, State Fair Qualifier Honorable Mention: Aubree Middendorf Junior Digital

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Outstanding of the Day: Kennedy Jackson Honorable Mention: Sarah Clark Senior Digital Outstanding of the Day: Sabrina Greve You Can Quilt Junior: Outstanding of the Day: Sophia Flood Honorable Mention: Emily Hess

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Judges: Jennifer Bumgarner and Jenny Ban Matre Overall Winner, Junior Division: Hannah Cassel Overall Winner, Senior Division: Erin Gaerke Reserve Best Overall Age Group Winners Junior: Samantha Gaerke Senior: Rachel Pinchot Junior Division Winners Free Style Poetry Jenna Barlage, Merry Mod Makers, Best of Class Short Story Hannah Cassel, Houston Livestock, Best of Class Essay Cassel, Hannah Houston Livestock, Best of Class Rhymed Poetry Samantha Gaerke, Russia Livestock, Best of Class Senior Division Winners Rhymed Poetry Erin Gaerke, Russia Livestock, Best of Class Free Style Poetry Rachel Pinchot, Russia Livestock, Best of Class Short Story Kage Brubaker Houston Livestock Best of Class Essay Erin Gaerke, Russia Livestock, Best of Class Award Sponsors: Best of Class- Amos Memorial Public Library Best Overall JuniorSidney Daily News Best Overall SeniorSidney Daily News

Reserve Champion: Emily Brautigam Dairy Feeder Calves Champion: Meghan Bruns Reserve Champion: Kaitlynn Morrison Dairy Steers Champion: Benjamin Aufderhaar Reserve Champion: Lane Monnin Market Heifers Champion: Lauren Heaton Reserve Champion: Jared Egbert Steer Class 1 First Place: Derek Schaffer Second Place: Sarah Monnier Steer Class 2 First Place: Nikki Sommer Second Place: Jessica Monnier Steer Class 3 First Place: Cole Wildermuth Second Place: Tianne Spicer Steer Class 4 First Place: Amber Zimpfer Second Place: Emma Regula Steer Class 5 First Place: Carter Huelskamp Second Place: Madison Barker Steer Class 6 First Place: Tyler Zimpfer Second Place: Madison Barker Steer Class 7 First Place: Macey Huelskamp Second Place: Austin Barlage Steer Class 8 First Place: Riley Huelskamp Second Place: Michael York Beef Showmanship Senior Division: Carter Huelskamp Intermediate Division: Macey Huelskamp Junior Division: Hannah Heikamp Showman of Showmen: Carter Huelskamp

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Tyler Zimpfer, 13, of Anna, son of Ted and Molly Zimpfer, and member of 4-H Club Anna Livestock, won grand champion market steer at the Shelby County Fair.

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Jule Gephart, 17, of Sidney, daughter of Bob and Karen Gephart, member of 4-H Club Equus Unlimited won grand champion keyhole, grand champion stakes and grand champion cloverleaf barrels at the Shelby County Fair.

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Judge: Allen Gahler Beef Breeding Grand Champion: Madilyn Platfoot Reserve Champion: Drew Brautigam Shorthorn, Junior Heifer Calf Class Champion: Emily Brautigam Shorthorn, Winter Heifer Calf Class Champion: Emily Brautigam Shorthorn, Early Spring Yearling Female Class Champion: Drew Brautigam Crossbreeds, Junior Heifer Calf Class Champion: Jayme Baugher Crossbreeds, Late Spring Yearling Female Champion: Class Madilyn Platfoot Crossbreeds, Junior Yearling Female Class Champion: Sarah Monnier Market Beef Grand Champion Market Steer: Tyler Zimpfer Reserve Champion Market Steer: Nikki Sommer Third Place Overall: Amber Zimpfer Fourth Place Overall: Madison Barker Fifth Place Overall: Carter Huelskamp Beef Feeder Calves Champion: Aaron Brautigam

Intermediate Showmanship Champion: Connor Smock Junior Showmanship Champion: Claire Larger Showman of Showmen: Connor Smock

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Winning first place in senior groom and clean are (l-r) Willow Market, 14, of Jackson Center, daughter of Charity Market and Randy Market, horse provided by Big Sister Lindsey Jung; Ally Werts, 14, of Sidney, daughter of Dayna Harter and Bryan Thompson, stepdaughter of Dan Harter; and Braiden Thompson, 12, of Maplewood, son of Mike and Amber Thompson. They are all members of 4-H Club Trail Riders.

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Eric Egbert, 17, of Botkins, son of Jim and Elaine Karly Kies, 16, of Anna, daughter of Troy and Tracy Egbert, and member of Botkins 4-H Club won reKies and member of Anna FFA won grand cham- serve grand champion market goat at the Shelby pion pen of broilers at the Shelby County Fair.

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Rides move and shuffle in multiple ways at the fair KYLE HAYDEN Many familiar faces are along the Midway at the Shelby County Fair this week, along side a few newly arranged ones.

Among some of the veteran stands lining the central part of the fair’s walk way, is the traditional “fair fries” stand, staffed by two college students and an elderly Ecuadorian man, one of them agreed to an interview.

“I think maybe we get 500 customers on a typical day,” said Botis, a 21year-old university student studying mathematics in Lithuania. He said he travels with the fry stand during the summer, simply as a job, and returns home at the end of the fair season.

The lemonade-shaker stand just adjacent to the fries was also staffed by some far-away workers. Laura, 23, of Ecuador, travels and works with the lemonade stand until September, and then returns home, but enjoys her time traveling with fairs around Ohio she said after the Shelby County Fair, she’s going to head to Lima, also to the Champaign County Fair, the Jackson

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Blake Holtzclaw, 3, of Sidney, smiles as he rides a purple dinosaur at the Shelby County Fair Sunday. Blake is the son of Ashley Fitchpatrick.

Cody Wiley, 7, of Sidney, kicks his feet on the on the grounds where Bungee Jump at the Shelby County Fair Sunday. the ferris wheel typically resides during fair week, Cody is the son of April and Jereme Wiley. staffed by Todd Schoch, County Fair and Colum- fair,” said Jerry of Ashland.

“We were across from bus.

Schaffner, fair secretary.

Also, in response to The fair office also the tiger show last year passers-by wondering on said the absence of the so, it wasn’t very visible the absence of the ferris ferris wheel allowed a so not a lot of people wheel, the Sidney Daily chance for some of the showed up,” he said.

The same shuffling of News inquired upon the other attractions and whereabouts of the Fer- rides to be near the area rides and attractions the National ris Wheel at this year’s of the ferris wheel or be made fair. moved entirely to new lo- Guard recruitment and “Well, the availability cations, just like the information tent a more of the ferris wheel isn’t laser tag attraction central part of the midalways in line with our which takes up the spot way this year, staffed by

Sgt. 1st Class Brett Frilling and Staff Sgt. Andrew DuBois.

The Guardsmen refused to comment on anything other than the volume of potential recruits they receive on a typical day because of restrictions on their press communications privillages, they said. They see only four-to-five qualified individuals a day, but mostly children and older veterans stopping by to say “hello.”

Sidney teenagers Kyle Lloyd, 17, and Caleb Smith, 17, were surveyed about their experience with the rides and qualified them in true teenagespirit as “OK”; they already rode “Scat 2” and “Music Machine” but said they’d like to ride the “Plane Loop,” which was debated between them to exist, but described as going “up and down, and up and down.”

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Drew Alt, 14, of Russia is awarded Best of Show at the 4-H Modeling Contest on WednesKatie Egbert, 13, of Botkins, daughter of Jim and day evening at the SDN Photos/Luke GronnebergE Elaine Egbert and member of Botkins 4-H Club For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com Shelby County Fair. won grand champion market goat at the Shelby Derek Wolters (left) 11, and Logan Ziegenbusch, 4, both of Anna, compete in Drew is the son of TIna the open barrow show at the Shelby County Fair Monday. Derek is the son of and Dale Alt of Russia.

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Kellee and Dennis Wolters. Logan is the son of Kristi and Andy Ziegenbusch.

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Allie Hall, 15, of Sidney, holds onto her two meat ducks in a bag as she waits Flashback The Band rocks the Free Entertainment Tent at the Shelby County to show them at the Shelby County Fair Wednesday. Hall is the daughter of Fair Monday evening.

Craig and Tracy Hall.

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Guitar Kids share their talents at fair Hayden Fisher The Guitar Kids performed Wednesday evening in front of family, friends, and onlookers in the gazebo at the Sidney County Fair.

This is the first of two shows this year, with the other taking place at the Miami Valley Center Mall two weeks before Christmas. The Guitar Kids are led by Tim Musser, who trains and mentors each student on a regular basis. The first performance of the evening was by Kendel Strasser, a senior at Anna Local Schools.

She began playing guitar because she found the instrument intriguing and she loves music.

Next up was David Ostendorf, of Sidney, and he performed two songs during his time playing. Ethan Potts, of Sidney, was the next member to perform in front of the crowd. He has been learning from Musser for about a year now and he also is learning how to play the piano.

Bethany Haverfield, of Jackson Center, is the youngest member of the group at 8 years old. She performed the Star Spangled Banner and even wore a red, white and blue dress for the occasion. Alex Van Der Horst, of Sidney, has been practicing for two years under Musser’s tutelage.

The final member of the group to perform was Max Pelletier. He is from Minster and he performed one song with Musser and also one solo. He has been working with Musser for more than two years. Pelletier’s advice to all young musicians is to just keep practicing and working hard.

Musser said he loves what he does and hopes that he can inspire more kids to learn the guitar. He is glad his students get the opporunity to play at the Sidney County Fair.

For more information about Guitar Kids, contact Musser at 937-726-1624.

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The Guitar Kids perform at the Shelby County Fair Wednesday afternoon.

71 percent of teens believe in the American dream TEENS: What is your defini- teens believe the American tion of the American Dream? Dream is achievable today, 10 According to a poll by the Job percent aren’t sure, and 10 perShadow Coalition, which pro- cent feel the American Dream is now out of reach. vides students with onHow will the American the-job experience, most Dream be achieved? teens would describe it Seventy percent believe simply as, “being happy, higher education is the no matter what you do.” key to attaining this That answer was the goal. The remaining 30 top choice among the 644 percent believe educateens polled in the survey. In second place was, ‘Tween 12 tion “doesn’t matter.”

Seventy-five percent “having a house, cars and & 20 a good job,” followed by Dr. Robert of the boys believe the American Dream is “being able to provide Wallace obtainable and 68 perfor my family, “having cent of the girls feel that a career of my dreams,” “being rich and/or famous” and way.

DR. WALLACE: I have tast“owning my own business and ed whiskey and beer one time being the boss.”

Overall, 71 percent of the each just to find out how they

taste, and they both taste terrible. I’m shocked that teenagers would drink that stuff. It can’t be because of how they taste.

Why, then, do teens drink? I’m sure it takes a long time to acquire a taste for alcohol. — Bruce, St. Louis, Mo. BRUCE: You’re right — it’s not the taste. Teens, (and just about everyone else) drink because of the intoxicating, inhibition-lowering effect of alcohol, and also because others are doing it. It helps them socialize.

Many young drinkers use alcohol especially when they want to impress a member of the opposite sex; this is sometimes known as “finding courage in a bottle.” They tell

themselves they can’t overcome their shyness without a couple of drinks. Also, some males think drinking will show off their masculinity.

For some teens, the motive is almost entirely to be accepted by the group. Hard-core teen drinkers sometimes drink just because they’re bored and feel there is nothing better to do.

They get their alcohol from their parents’ liquor cabinet.

DR. WALLACE: I’m 15 and have just started dating. My parents have set an 11:15 p.m. curfew for Friday and Saturday nights. On my first date, a guy I really like got upset when I told him what time I had to be home. He said all the other girls my age he’s dated have

midnight curfews. He wanted me to try to convince my parents to extend mine to midnight, too. If they refuse, he wouldn’t take me out anymore, he said. What should I do?

Please hurry with your answer.

—Penni, York, Pa. PENNI: Since your date can’t accept your curfew, tell him goodbye. There are many boys, I’m sure, who will be happy simply to be with you and won’t complain about your curfew.

Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net.

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Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice Calvin Woodward Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now.

The vigorous debate over the collection of millions of Americans’ phone records, underlined by a narrow House vote upholding the practice, buried any notion that it’s out of line, even unpatriotic, to challenge the national security

efforts of the government.

Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, joined in common cause against the Obama administration’s aggressive surveillance, falling just short Wednesday night against a similarly jumbled and determined coalition of leaders and lawmakers who supported it.

It’s not every day you see Republican Speaker John Boehner and Democratic

leader Nancy Pelosi facing off together against their own parties’ colleagues — with an assist from Rep. Michele Bachmann, no less — to help give President Barack Obama what he wanted. But that’s what it took to overcome efforts to restrict the National Security Agency’s surveillance program.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush warned the world “either you are

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The passage of time, for one thing, and the absence of another attack on the scale of 9/11. Americans have also discovered, through Edward Snowden’s leaks, that surveillance doesn’t start at the water’s edge or stop with terrorist plotters in the homeland, but sweeps in the phone records of ordinary people indiscriminately.

Even in the frightening aftermath of 9/11, when large majorities told pollsters they were ready to trade in some personal protections for greater security, any effort to monitor phone calls or emails of average people was considered a step too far. In a Pew Research Center survey the week after the terrorist attacks, 70 percent said no to that.

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona says memories of those days have faded and the political climate has changed.

“The stuff we went through last year about detainees we never would have gone through in 2002,” he said Thursday.

He was referring to the debate in Congress for two years straight over the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens captured within the nation’s borders.

The closeness of the House surveillance vote “says there’s great and widespread concern about the extent of the NSA’s activities,” McCain said, “and that’s why we need hearings in Congress.”

This, from a supporter of the NSA surveillance.

Concerns about drone use domestically, as well as the NSA’s powers, have energized the debate in Congress, though they have hardly rolled back the national security apparatus. Lawmakers have prevailed repeatedly on votes to keep Guantanamo open for terrorist suspects and, on Wednesday, the House easily passed a nearly $600 billion defense spending bill once the air cleared from the surveillance showdown.

Public opinion appears

to have shifted toward privacy but in measured ways.

A Washington PostABC News poll released Wednesday found rising concern about threats to privacy, with a majority saying the NSA’s collection of phone and Internet data intrudes on people’s rights.

Yet 57 percent said it’s more important for the government to investigate terrorist threats, even at a cost to privacy, than for it to put privacy first. In 2002, that view was held even more strongly, by 79 percent.

Ever since the 2001 attacks, Congress has authorized and presidents of both parties have signed extensions of the powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists, tools provided by the USA Patriot Act. The act passed in October 2001 with only one vote against it in the Senate, and with a lopsided 357-66 vote in the House.

Two years ago, it won yet another strong endorsement, renewed despite a delay achieved by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a tea party favorite though first and foremost a libertarian when it comes to the government exercising its national security powers.

The clash over the surveillance program Wednesday was the first chance for lawmakers to act since the breadth of the government’s monitoring was exposed in classified documents leaked by Snowden, the former NSA systems analyst.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, implored fellow lawmakers to support the program, asking: “Have 12 years gone by and our memories faded so badly that we forgot what happened on Sept. 11?” In opposition, Republican colleague Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin said the collection of phone records exceeds anything he foresaw when he helped to write the Patriot Act, and should be stopped.