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Letters to Obama, mayor had threats

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspicious letter mailed to the White House was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s most potent gun-control advocates, officials said Thursday.

The Secret Service said the letter was addressed to President Barack Obama and was intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. Two similar letters postmarked in

Louisiana and sent to Bloomberg in New York and his gun control group in Washington contained traces of the deadly poison ricin.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the letter sent to Obama contained ricin. It was turned over to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation.

The two Bloomberg letters, opened Friday in New York and Sunday in Washington, contained an oily pinkish-orange substance.

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Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday that all three letters apparently came from the same machine or computer and may be identical but referred specific questions to the FBI. The FBI said in a statement that field tests on the letters were consistent with the presence of a biological agent, and the letters were turned over to an accredited laboratory for the kind of thorough analysis that is needed to verify a tentative finding. “More letters may be received,” the statement said, without elaboration.

The body of the letter mailed to New York was addressed to “you” and referenced the gun control debate. Kelly said the unsigned letter says, in so many words: “Anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face.” He refused to quote directly from the letter, saying he didn’t want to do the author’s bidding.

Bloomberg has emerged as one of the country’s most important gun-control advocates, able to press his case with both his public position and his private money.

The New York letter was opened at the city’s mail facility in Manhattan in a biochemical containment box, which is a part of the screening process for mayor’s office mail.

“In terms of the processes and procedures that are in place now we think they worked,” Kelly said. “This is sort of an effect of the post-9/11 world that we live in that these checks and facilities are in place and the system worked.”

The second letter was opened Sunday by Mark Glaze, director See Letters/Page 2

Laura PCS ends year with celebration Buckeye man Chucks guilty in indicted porn case

BY WILL E SANDERS Staff Writer

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STAFF REPORT TROY — A Miami County common pleas court judge found a Laura man guilty this week on 12 counts of pandering child pornography.

Lee D. Hodge, 24, will enter a courtroom next on July 22 for his s e n tencing hearing on t h e d o z e n HODGE child porn felony convictions.

Until then, he was released on his own recognizance.

Hodge was found guilty on 12 counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor, which are all felonies that carry possible prison time for each charge and carry sex offender registration for a period of 15 years, possibly longer.

Authorities say Hodge accessed, downloaded and stored the pornography on a home computer where he used an Internet filesharing website to download the pictures.

Law enforcement began investigating the case after they noticed suspicious Internet activity originating from Hodge’s residence, according to a sheriff’s report.

A Miami County grand jury indicted Hodge on the sexual felonies following

PIQUA — School is out for the summer, but before the staff of the Piqua City Schools District wraps up another successful school year they held an annual celebration that honored several across the district.

The district held its annual End of the Year Staff Celebration on Thursday afternoon at the Piqua High School inside the Hartzell Center for the Performing Arts, and with it the tearful retirements of longtime educators and the celebratory honor of some teachers and administrators who received service awards.

Speaking to the assembled audience of teachers, administrators and classified employees, Piqua City School District Superintendent Rick Hanes spoke to the audience and thanked each and every single one of them for all of their hard work over the past school year.

Both retirees and service award recipients were announced during the

staff celebration.

Retirees, along with their position, school building and years of service, include: Mary Burkhardt, teacher, Nicklin, 16; James W. Conley, director of technology, 36; Rebecca Dickinson, teacher, Favorite Hill, 35; Rebecca Doak, teacher, Favorite Hill, 35; Lois Hartings, teacher, PHS, 19; John Hauer, guidance counselor, PHS, 5; Molly Hay, principal, Springcreek, 5; Julie Henkaline, teacher, PJHS, 30; Jody Josefovsky, teacher, PHS, 34; Neil Long, director of curriculum and instruction, 7; Mark Scott, teacher, PHS, 17; Neil Shade, teacher, PHS, 24; and Beth Sullenberger, teacher, Wilder, 35.

Years of Service Awards also were awarded at the ceremony and the recipients include: Jared Askins, Julie Berning, Terri Burkholder, Erika Butler, Brandi Dingledine, Janet Dunlavey, Ami Fashner, Dan Hathaway, John Hauer, Molly Hay, Loretta Henderson, Abbey Hewitt, Karen Horvath, Mick Leffel, Libbey

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Kim Didier is congratulated by Piqua City School Superintendent Rick Hanes after she was named Teacher of the Year for 2013-14 during the annual staff appreciation awards ceremony at Piqua High School on Thursday.

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New business caters to creative shoppers

PIQUA — If you’re a creative shopper in search of something a little different, a new business in downtown Piqua might have just what you’re looking for.

Lovely Variety, which opened May 1, offers something for everyone — antiques, furniture, a variety of collectibles, jewelry, original stained glasswork, dresses and scarves, MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO See Porn /Page 2 Owners Jeff and Deborah Katz in their new down- gemstones, vintage linens town store, Lovely Variety, at 320 N. Main St.The store and much more. “It’s kind of an eclectic mix,” said cospecializes in antiques and unusual items.

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TROY — The corporation that owns Buckeye Chucks, 1130 Park Ave., and an employee who works at the gas station and convenience store have been indicted by a Miami County grand jury.

During common pleas court arraignments Thursday, six criminal charges were announced against Maradi Petroleum, LLC, for illegal use of food stamps. Due to the nature of the charges the corporation (as opposed to a person) was charged, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Nageshwar R. Ega, 56, of Piqua, was also charged as a result of the investigation. Ega, who worked at the gas station, has been charged with six

owner Jeff Katz, who opened the store with his wife, Debora. The business is located at 320 N. Main St. in the space formerly occupied by Internet Consignment.

Among the treasures housed in Lovely Variety is a paint-chipped chest of drawers that Katz estimates is 50 to 60 years old. “Some of the antiques have a lot of character and a lot of people go for the rough look,” he said. The Katzes also repurpose and recycle items. For instance, what once was a Victrola cabinet now serves as a sophisticatedlooking bar. In addition to

finding items at garage sales and auctions, the couple has “pickers” who bring things to the store for them to buy.

Jeff Katz is a native New Yorker and former physical therapist, while Debora Katz hails from southeastern Ohio and is a former nurse. Though their professional backgrounds are in the health care industry, both were fine arts majors in college, which inspires their current work, which includes making jewelry and stained glass art. “We hope our artistic talents See Business/Page 2

School staffers upset over reassignments STAFF REPORT PIQUA — School officials recently decided to reassign several teachers and educators throughout the district to different grades, buildings and subject matter, a decision that upset some of those staff members affected by the changes.

The Daily Call received several correspondences from those affected by the school changes, but all declined the opportunity to provide a com-

ment.

Piqua Superintendent Rick Hanes, when asked to comment, said teaching staff were notified of the changes Wednesday.

He said he supported the decision, saying it was needed for a variety of reasons, including looking out for student needs, staying in tune with the district’s five-year forecast and the three new schools that are being built.

“We have a lot of people retir-

ing and we looked carefully at openings and positions based on student needs and what we need to be doing as far as our future,” Hanes said. “With us going into new buildings in less than two years … and because of retirements we needed to make sure that we are filling them with experienced people that can do the job well and a lot of those moves were based on looking at the qualities of our teachers.”

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Hanes said he wanted to remind the public the reassignments were in the best interests of the students and the school district.

“I think we are holding very true to our pledge of good schools,” Hanes said. “Good values and making sure we are looking closely at what needs to happen, what is in the best interests of our students and the utilization of staff in an extremely positive way.”

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Continued from page 1 an Oct. 31 search warrant conducted at his residence that stemmed from “large volumes of child pornography” that was being downloaded from a computer IP address traced back to Hodge, according to the search

warrant.

Sheriff’s reports indicate Hodge, arraigned on the charges in February, possessed “thousands of child pornography files” on his personal computer equipment and other media storage devices that were confiscated and forensically examined by authorities.

Buckeye Continued from page 1 counts of telecommunications fraud.

He was given a recognizance bond.

Not guilty pleas were entered on the behalf of both defendants.

Authorities with the Ohio Investigative Unit and the Piqua Police Department executed a search warrant at Buckeye Chuck’s earlier this year as a part of an investigation into food stamp violations. Maradi Petroleum, LLC, does business as Piqua Marathon, also

known as Buckeye Chuck’s.

Law enforcement said the investigation was launched after complaints were made and during the course of the investigation agents made several transactions involving the purchase of alcohol and tobacco using EBT. The EBT service is intended to purchase eligible items, such as food, and cannot be used on items deemed ineligible, which include alcohol and tobacco.

Pretrial conferences are scheduled in both cases for later this month.

PCS Tiffany Williams for five years of service; Kathryn Booher, Amy Davis, Kimberly Dyar, Kendra Krouskop-Smith, Kathy Motter, and Ray Putnam for 10 years of service; Marcie Anderson, Brandi Clark, George Crickmore, Kristie Dankworth, Jennifer Everett, Melinda Gearhardt, Terry Hess, Victoria Keller, Judy Nicholl, Nicole Palsgrove, Carolyn Pearson, Lori

Smith, Jackie ThaseBurch, and Brenda Vetter for 15 years of service.

Susan DeBrosse, Jill Hughes, Cheryl Jones, Stacy Patton, Susan Subler, and Dwayne Thompson for 20 years of service; Kathryn Graeser, Lori Huebner, Jane Peck, Michael Riley, and Maryanne Siefring for 25 years of service; Julie Henkaline for 30 years of service; Rebecca Doak and Beth Sullenberger for 35 years of service; and Mike

Voskuhl for 40 years of service.

Also at the event the Teacher of the Year for 2013-14 was announced and this year’s recipient was Kim Didier. Didier was hired by the district in August 2006 and serves as a first grade teacher at High Street Primary School.

Finalists for the award were Deborah Allen, Angela Bergman and Troy Ouhl.

In addition, school ad-

ministrators also announced the recipient of the Classified Employee of the Year Award, which went to Misty Iddings.

Also honored at the end of the year celebration was this year’s Friend of the Schools, which went to two recipients this year: Shane Wolfe and Harmony Systems and Service, Inc., 1711 Commerce Drive, Piqua.

antiquing and auctions and we like to make people feel at home here,” Jeff Katz said.

Debora Katz added, “We live upstairs from the store, so we really do feel as if people are coming into our home. Even though some of the things we sell may just be ‘pret-

ties,’ I want people to feel good about coming here and happy about their purchases.”

As their business grows, the Katzes hope to offer classes in stained glasswork, pottery and other art media. They also do eBay consignment and research for customers.

Lovely Variety is open from noon-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit the website at w w w. l o v e l y v a r i e t y piqua.com or call (937) 606-2592.

came into contact with the letters showed no symptoms of exposure to the poison, but three officers who later examined the New York letter experienced minor symptoms that have since abated, police said. The mayor visited the mailroom on Thursday but made no public comments on the topic.

On Wednesday, he said he didn’t know why they were sent.

One of the letters “obviously referred to our antigun efforts, but there’s 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns, and we’re not going to walk away from those efforts,” said Bloomberg, adding that he didn’t feel threatened.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans.

Symptoms can include difficulty breathing, vomiting and redness on the skin depending on how the affected person comes into contact with the poison.

The letters were the latest in a string of toxinlaced missives, but authorities would not say whether the letters to Bloomberg and Obama were believed to be linked to any other recent case.

In Washington state, a 37-year-old was charged last week with threatening to kill a federal judge in a letter that contained ricin. About a month earlier, letters containing the substance were addressed to Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge.

One of the letters postmarked in Memphis, Tenn., was traced back to Tupelo, Miss., and a Mississippi man was arrested.

Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino founded Mayors Against

Illegal Guns, which now counts more than 700 mayors nationwide as members. It lobbies federal and state lawmakers, and it aired a spate of television ads this year urging Congress to expand background checks and pass other gun-control measures after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The background check proposal failed in a Senate vote in April, and other measures gun-control advocates wanted including a ban on sales of military-style assault weapons have stalled.

Separately, Bloomberg also has made political donations to candidates who share his desire for tougher gun restrictions.

His super PAC, Independence USA, put $2.2 million into a Democratic primary this winter for a congressional seat in Illinois, for example.

Bloomberg’s choice, former state lawmaker Robin Kelly, won.

Business Continued from page 1 will lend themselves to us having a successful business,” Jeff Katz said.

Being newlyweds, their desire to spend lots of time together was one impetus for becoming business partners as well as life partners. “We also love

Letters Continued from page 1 of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Washingtonnonprofit based Bloomberg started.

The letter Glaze opened tested positive for ricin initially. The other letter to Bloomberg at first tested negative but tested positive at a retest Wednesday.

The postal workers union, citing information it got in a Postal Service briefing, said the letters bore a Shreveport, La., postmark. Kelly would not comment on the origin of the letter.

Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said state authorities have deferred to the FBI and have not opened an investigation. The Shreveport postal center handles mail from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, so the letter could have come from any of those states, Lewis said.

The people who initially

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Paul David Wogaman HOUSTON — Paul David Wo g a man, 92, of 3 6 1 9 State Route 6 6 , Houst o n , passed a w a y WOGAMAN at 12 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at the Kindred Center at St. Rita’s Hospital in Lima, surrounded by his family. He was born on August 8, 1920, in Darke County, the son of the late David and Elizabeth (Didier) Wogaman.

On April 10, 1943, he was married to Glenna Russell, his wife of 70 years, who survives along with their three children; Larry Wogaman and wife Terri of Houston, Donna Jean Weaver of St. Marys, and Darlene Mummey and husband Dave of Houston, seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchiland six dren, g r e a t - g r e a t grandchildren. Paul was preceded in death by one brother, Robert Wogaman, and son-in-law, Doug Weaver.

Mr. Wogaman was a WWII veteran of the United States Army, where he served in the 99th Division - 371st Field Artillery. Paul was stationed in Germany in the area of the Rhine River and in Belgium. He was a heavy machine gun operator and in the course of his three years he was also posted in several parts of the U.S., including Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma.

After the war Paul worked full-time on a

farm. In 1954, he took on a job as custodian at the Houston School until 1966. He worked at LeRoi Dresser for 2 years, and then for the Shelby County Garage until he retired at 60 years old.

After retirement, he helped out at Houston Elevator and Michael’s Mowers.

Paul was proud that he helped start the Volunteer Fire and Rescue departments in Houston. He was a member of the Houston Community Center and a member of the Oran Christian Church. He was also a member of the American Legion and VFW in Fort Loramie.

Paul enjoyed playing cards, camping and boating with friends and family. He loved his old wheel horse tractor. He also loved to square dance and go to flea markets where he would sell his wood crafts. Paul will be greatly missed by his family and friends.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave., with the Rev. Dale Ritts officiating.

Burial with full military honors will be at Houston Cemetery in Houston. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 1-4 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to either Houston Fire Department or Oran Christian Church in memory of Paul David Wogaman. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy may be made to the Wogaman family at the funeral home’s website, www.cromesfh.com.

Eleanor Jean Wilhelm

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Women. She was a mem— Eleanor Jean Wilhelm ber of Bloomington-First of Bloomington, Ind., a United Methodist Church. resident of Golden Living She was preceded in Center, passed away death by her parents; huspeacefully on Monday, band, Harold O. Wilhelm, May 27, 2013, at the and sister, Margaret E. Bloomington Hospice Wilhelm.

House at the age of 87.

Eleanor is survived by Eleanor was born in her three children, ChrisCasstown on April 6, 1926, tine and son-in-law Larry into the home of Harry C. Robinson, Catherine Al and Ellen La Tourrette. Hamad, and Ronald WilShe graduated from Lost helm; and two grandchilCreek Township School dren, Charles Swinehart and Wooster College. and Karima Al Hamad.

Upon graduation, she Funeral service will be moved to Bloomington to held on Friday at 2 p.m. at study Sciences at Indiana Casstown United University. She worked as Methodist Church in a lab assistant in the bac- Casstown. Burial will be teriology department for at Miami Memorial Park Dr. Mc Clung. She was in Covington. Chandler employed by MCCSC as Funeral Home in Elboth a substitute teacher lettsville, Ind., is assisting and a Title I reading as- with the arrangements. sistant at Clear Creek and Visit www.chandlerfh.com Broadview elementary to view Eleanor’s tribute schools. Eleanor and her page and share condohusband also delivered lences, memories, photos newspapers for the Her- and more with the family. ald Times in Bloomington.

In lieu of flowers, meShe was a member of morial contributions may Business and Professional be made to either Hospice Women’s Club and a mem- House or to First United taxes is the job market ber of United Methodist Methodist Church. has improved. Employers have added an average of Death notice 208,000 jobs a month since November. That’s TIPP CITY — Frank “Richard” Benham, 65, of well above the monthly Tipp City, passed away Wednesday evening, May 29, average of 138,000 during 2013, at the Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy. Servthe previous six months. ices are pending at Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

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BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a modest 2.4 percent annual rate from January through March, slightly slower than initially estimated. Consumer spending was stronger than first thought, but businesses restocked more slowly and state and local government spending cuts were deeper.

The Commerce Department said Thursday that economic growth in the first quarter was only marginally below the 2.5 percent rate estimated last month. That’s still much faster than the 0.4 percent growth during the October-December quarter.

Economists believe growth is slowing to around a 2 percent rate in the April-June quarter, as the economy adjusts to

federal spending cuts, higher taxes and further global weakness. Still, many say the decline may not be as severe as once thought. That’s because solid hiring, surging home prices and record stock gains should keep consumers spending.

Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said that the small revision to firstquarter growth supported her view that the economy will grow a moderate 2.2 percent for the year, the same as last year.

Still, Lee expects growth to improve to 3.2 percent in 2014, as the job market accelerates and consumers grow more confident in the economy.

Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity as measured by the gross domestic product. GDP is the economy’s total output of goods and services, from haircuts and com-

puters to trucks and aircraft carriers.

The government’s second look at first-quarter growth showed that consumer spending roared ahead at a 3.4 percent rate. That’s the fastest spending growth in more than two years and even stronger than the 3.2 percent rate estimated last month.

Healthy consumer spending shows many Americans are shrugging off an increase this year in Social Security taxes that has reduced most paychecks.

And more consumer demand could also prompt businesses to restock at a faster rate later this year.

Business inventories grew in the first quarter but at a slightly slower pace than first estimated.

That was a key reason for the small revision.

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Ragtime River Boat Rats will perform at the Tipp Roller Mill Theater at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 8, at 225 East Main Street in Tipp City. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for students K-12.

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In Brief Covington BOE to hold special meeting TIPP CITY — The Tipp Roller Mill Theater presents the Ragtime River Boat Rats at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 8. The band will perform a program reminiscent of the showboat era with good old ragtime music, some Jolson, Americana, and a strong flavor of patriotism.

The Ragtime River Boat Rats have been performing since the early 1980s and feature music that is fun and has stood the test of time. The music and the mood are happy, lively, and toe tapping. It is the intent of the group to preserve and promote a style of music extremely popular and loved by genera-

tions of the last century.

Audiences delight in the distinctive and unique sound of the four-string banjos featured by the group.

The theater is located at 225 East Main Street in Tipp City. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for students K-12. For more information call (937) 667-3696.

Don’t forget ... The ‘Community Night’ Summer Concert Series kicks off it’s 22nd Season in Downtown Tipp City on Friday, June 7. The concert will be held on N. Second St., in the same location as always (this

area remains unaffected by the Main Street construction project). The evening of free music will begin at 6:15 p.m. with the ‘McCrazies’ followed by the popular band the ‘Termites’ at 7:30 p.m.

The McCrazies started at Tippecanoe High School with a few teachers and students jamming for certain school events. The band has now grown and branched out to take their show to various venues in the Dayton area. The McCrazies mainly play covers that include rock, pop, and blues.

For 25 years the Termites have kept the classic rock music of the 60s

and 70s beating strong. In 1988 two brothers from the Centerville/ Kettering area got together to form the core of the band. The band blends male and female vocals to create an infectious sound from their impressive 200 plus repertoire of the greatest rock-n-roll hits ever.

Community Night is a hometown tradition and is held the first Friday of the month June through September. So bring a lawn chair and join with friends and community for a little fun and relaxation. In case of bad weather the concert will be cancelled. For more information call (937) 6673696.

DCCA announces ghost walk in June GREENVILLE — Darke County Center for the Arts will present a warm weather version of their Ghost Walk on Tuesday, June 18. A tour of Greenville featuring costumed tour guides spinning ghostly tales, the organization’s popular annual Halloween-season fundraiser will be one of the activities offered to those visiting Greenville while participating in the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure. “Many cities use ghost walks to provide intriguing, entertaining

looks at their unique history, so since we already knew how to do that, we thought this would be a fun and useful way for DCCA to cooperate with our community’s hosting of GOBA. We realize that local citizens always enjoy this peek at the unexplained, so our event is available for everyone,” explained DCCA Executive Director Andrea Jordan.

DCCA’s Ghost Walk is based upon Arcanum-area resident Rita Arnold’s Ghosts of Darke County

books, and has been a Halloween staple for many area families for the past ten years. Historical figures featured in the tales include Annie Oakley and General “Mad” Anthony Wayne as well as lesser known characters from Greenville’s past. The walk lasts about an hour and a half, and requires a brisk pace through some uneven terrain and dimly lighted areas.

The Ghost Walk in June, which will take place rain or shine, begins at Henry St. Clair Memo-

rial Hall at 6 p.m. In case of seriously inclement weather, the stories will be told indoors. Tickets for the Ghost Walk cost $10, and can be purchased by contacting DCCA at (937) 547-0908 and are available at Ann’s Gifts and Readmore’s Hallmark in downtown Greenville.

Until DCCA's 2013-14 season website is online, tickets may be purchased online by searching for "Ghost Walk" at ticketforce.com. Tickets will also be sold at the door.

Darke County OSU alumni hold gala DARKE COUNTY — Turtle Creek alight in scarlet and gray with echos of “OH-I-O” was the scene of The Ohio State University Alumni of Darke County’s annual Spring Gala. The naming of their 2013 scholarship recipients and the chance to hear Jon Waters, the new director of the OSU Marching Band were the main attractions for the County’s OSU alums!

Rhonda Williams, president of the local alumni club, introduced the scholarship recipients as guests settled in after a delicious meal served by the Turtle Creek staff. The four bright young people graciously accepted the $1,378 scholarships and each gave sketches of educational goals. Receiving the scholarships were Matt Albright, son of Doug and Anne Albright of Arcanum, Megan Carroll, daughter of Patricia Carroll and step father Christopher Sandman of Greenville, Britnee Dunfee, daughter of Doug and

Susan Jones of Greenville, and Jordan Henry, son of Bruce and Brenda Henry of Versailles.

Keynote speaker of the evening, Jon Waters, Director of the OSU Marching Band, held his audience spellbound as he spoke using power point scenes to enhance his presentation. Jon is only the 9th director since 1951 of the “best damn band in the land”, a moniker given the band by the late Woody Hayes. Waters was cut from the band on his first tryout in 1994 but persevered and made the band in 1995. He is only the second former student member of the band to serve as director. Giving credit where credit is due, he included past local club president and current and long time arranger of the Marching Band’s music, Greenville’s own Ken McCoy, in his comments about the Band’s many highlights.

Director Waters took guests through the evolution of the band since

1896, showing how much has changed, yet how much has stayed the same. The first famous “I” dotter for the “Script Ohio” formation was, in fact, a cornet player but soon changed to a sousaphone player for the sake of visibility. The band, patterned after the Brittish brass band, is now the largest brass band in the world with 224 members.

The first truly influential arranger for the band was a 1934 graduate of Greenville High School, Richard “Dick” Heine, the originator of the OSU Marching Band “sound”.

Given where credit is due, he included past local club president and current and long time arranger of the Marching Band’s music, Greenville’s own Ken McCoy, in his comments about the Band’s many highlights. He remarked that “there must be something in the water” around here.

During his first season as director, Waters presented a show designed by

assistant director, Chris Hoch with music arranged

by John Brennan, the horse galloping across the playing field from goal post to goal post. The U Tube view of which had 20 million hits and made the OSUMB an international celebrity. The alums and guests also heard about the Darke County Juniors visit to the OSU campus and the annual OSU Tailgate Blood Drive in November.

Bill Barga encouraged members to come out for the August new student picnic in which seasoned upperclassmen and University representatives share information about campus life. Dennis Baker mentioned the annual football raffle in August with two tickets to each OSU home game being drawn in August. Later in the fall, Darke County high school counselors will be invited to a luncheon to hear an OSU admissions person outline opportunities and procedures for the coming year.

Covington Elementary announces summer hours Summer office hours for Covington Elementary School are 8 a.m.–3 p.m.

The office will be open through June 6 and then closed for the summer.

The office is tentatively scheduled to reopen Wednesday, Aug. 5.

Class lists will be posted on Thursday, Aug. 15, in the front entrance of

our elementary building.

School fees may be sent in with the students the first week of school or paid during Open House.

Students new to the Covington school district need to call the elementary office at 473-2252 prior to June 6 or after Aug. 5, to schedule an appointment to register new

students. Documentation needed to register new students includes certified birth certificate, social security card, proof of residency, current immunization records, legal custodial records (if applicable), most recent report cards, IEP’s (if applicable), and photo ID of parent/guardian register-

ing student(s). All documents must be provided at the time of registration.

Open House will be Monday, August 19 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. School begins Tuesday, Aug. 20, for grades 1–5. Kindergarten students begin school on Thursday, Aug. 22.

COVINGTON — The Covington Board of Education will meet in special session on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Board of Education office located at 25 Grant St. The purpose of this meeting is to vote on a resolution to proceed with the OSFC building project and any other action that may come before the Board. This is an open meeting and the public is welcome to attend.

Classes for kids at Piqua School of the Arts PIQUA — Several sets of age-appropriate art classes are taking place in June at the Piqua School of Arts, 322 Main St., Piqua.

The schedules for each class, sorted by ages, include: • Up to 3 years old: Art Exploration Workshops will be held every Monday in June from 10-11:30 a.m., which is June 3, 10, 17 and 24. The sessions are called “Paintings so good you can eat,” “Body painting,” “It’s a all about texture,” and “Color, color everywhere.”

• Four year olds through completed kindergarten students: Art Adventurous Club will be held every Tuesday in June from 10-11:30 a.m., which is June 4, 11, 18 and 25. These sessions are called “Painting with toys,” “Body painting,” “It’s all about texture,” and “All the colors of the rainbow.”

• Grades first through sixth: Mighty Artist will be held every Thursday in June from 10-11:30 a.m., which is June 6, 13, 21, and 27. These sessions are called “Who put the paper in the paper mache?” “Body painting,” “Downtown Piqua through a child’s eyes,” and “Clay Play.”

All classes are $15 per class or $55 for all four classes.

To schedule or for more information on the classes, contact the instructor, Heather Schaefer, at (937) 5411359.

Girl Scouts seek nominations DAYTON — Girl Scouts of Western Ohio in Dayton announces a call for nominations for its annual Woman of Leadership Awards. Woman of Leadership honorees are role model for girls and women, have made the world a better place, and demonstrate initiative, integrity and leadership. Nominees must live or work in the Dayton region—Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble or Warren counties. Honorees will be recognized in one the categories listed below: Civic Professional Philanthropic Girl Scout Alumnae Trailblazers—Pioneering efforts opened doors for other women to follow. Advocates—Contributing significantly on a regional or national Girl Scout level.

Honor Keepers—Demonstrating outstanding commitment, exceptional service and extraordinary dedication to the Girl Scout movement. Leaders of Promise—Distinguishing themselves professionally or in the community and are under the age of 35.

Nominations are due Friday, June 28, and may be submitted electronically to Heather Balitzkat at: heatherbalitzkat@girlscoutsofwesternohio.org or by mail at: 450 Shoup Mill Road, Dayton, OH 45415.

More information can be found at www.girlscoutsofwesternohio.org.

The Woman of Leadership Awards reception will be held on Sept. 19 at the Schuster Center.

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Celebrating the art of compromise Hint, hint Stan Lee C I Mother of the Munchkins

ompromise is one of the noblest words in the political lexicon. Especially when power is divided between the parties, as it is now, governing a country this vast and diverse is virtually impossible unless lawmakers bring a certain level of trust and flexibility to the bargaining table.

Too often in today’s Washington, too many legislators — in both parties — refuse to acknowledge this basic truth. Too often, compromise is equated with betrayal, even treason. But without it, the machinery of democracy seizes up and breaks down.

That’s why the immigration reform bill that recently emerged from the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13to-5 vote was such a heartening development. A bipartisan “Gang of Eight” — four Republicans and four Democrats — forged a reasonable, common sense package and then defended it against attacks from both sides.

The center survived.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the chief conservative critic of the measure, expressed his frustration at the Gang of Eight’s success to the Washington Post: “They announced ... that they would rally around and defeat any amendment that would alter their agreement. The core has held, and the bill is coming forward to the floor of the Senate with not a lot of STEVE AND COKIE changes.”

ROBERTS There is a long way to go.

Columnists A fusillade of amendments will assail the bill when it hits the Senate floor in June, and hard-line conservatives in the House are plotting to torpedo the entire effort. But there’s a real possibility that the core will keep holding, and the bill will become law later this year.

Four challenges to the immigration measure show how compromise can work in practice: how consensus-building is not entirely dead in a capital that often seems gripped by holy war. The first challenge came from the left and involved the rights of legally married gay couples.

A citizen can easily gain a green card or permanent residency for a non-American spouse of the opposite sex.

But same-sex couples do not have the same right, and gay activists lobbied hard for an amendment that would grant them equality.

That’s certainly a worthy goal, but in a compromise nobody gets everything they want. Liberals had to face a harsh fact: Giving gay couples equal rights was a deal breaker for Republicans. “To try to redefine marriage within the immigration bill would mean the bill would fall apart,” said Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, a key member of the Gang of Eight.

Then there were the numbers. Perhaps 30,000 gay couples could benefit from a marriage amendment, but many millions of illegal immigrants could potentially gain citizenship from the bill that the amendment would jeopardize. The cost-benefit calculus was clear. The amendment was withdrawn.

The second challenge came from the right: a strong push to make a path for citizenship contingent on enhanced border security. The Gang of Eight accepted some modest suggestions from Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the panel’s senior Republican, but rejected targets for severely reduced immigration flows that would have been impossible to meet.

The third challenge was posed by organized labor and concerned visas for foreign-born graduates of American universities with STEM degrees (science, technology engineering and math). The original measure doubled the number of visas granted annually, but unions pushed the sponsors to make them harder to use by high-tech companies.

Those companies lobbied fiercely to ease those new restrictions and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, said he could not support the bill unless the limits were alleviated. Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York faced a tough choice: side with the unions or win Hatch’s vote. They went with Hatch and broadened the coalition backing the bill.

The fourth challenge involves the use of facts. There is an extremely pernicious notion out there that facts don’t exist — that there’s no such thing as independent reality, just subjective opinion. The Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, issued a report alleging that the immigration bill would cost American taxpayers more than $6 trillion. But even fellow conservatives could not swallow the report’s total disregard for the clear consensus among professional experts that immigration boosts economic growth.

Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour dismissed the report as “a political document. It’s not a serious analysis.” That’s exactly what it was, and to their credit, most committee members rejected it as ideology, not evidence.

The committee action was one victory in a long war, but any time the spirit of compromise wins in Washington these days, it’s worth celebrating.

it any further than a single ’ve decided, should the year in veterinarian training day ever come, I will be a in my far younger days. You zombie slaying nun. In try giving an animal a shot fact, my Plan Z consists of with no aim and uncontrolthumbing, and then boating, lable wooziness at the sight to the Nova Scotia monastery of blood … doesn’t make for a where the first fully ordained good combination but gives American woman Buddhist your teacher a good laugh. nun Pema Chodron resides What may really surprise upon the arrival of the zomBETHANY J. ROYER you is my phobia of golf clubs. bie apocalypse.

Columnist I’ve a small white scar on my If it seems I speak a great deal of Chodron, about as much as I do on forehead as a testament as to why and divorce and zombies, it is because she has what better weapon of choice than one you influenced the redirecting of my life since despise, right?

I abhor golf clubs. I can get along fine June 2010 in a very big and positive way.

It wasn’t so long ago when I crossed her with miniature golf clubs but the actual, path, albeit in a literary sense and not real deal -um, no. Thus why Michael has physically, via an Internet chat forum yet to get me out on the range and why, while desperately searching for guidance whenever he happens to be checking out to my imploding marriage. Someone on clubs in a store, I take a good two dozen the board suggested I should check out steps back or sometimes disappear from Chodron’s work. At first blush I rolled my the aisle all together.

The simple fact my body can react so eyes and said something snarky, unable to see how a (to me) very foreign religion negatively to an object from an unfortucould be of any assistance to my unravel- nate episode when I was in kindergarten ing life. But after some online research I amazes me to this very day. All because a realized this wasn’t so much a religion but neighbor boy I happened to chum around a discipline, a whole new way of thinking. with wanted to show off his golf swing. The Believe me, I needed a whole new way of unfortunate part is that I chose to watch thinking, a new outlook, a new everything from a standing position directly behind on life as opposed to the one I’d been re- him and failed to take heed when he told me to step back. peatedly living.

I have to hand it to him, for a six year What struck me was how a nun and I had so much in common. So as to date I old his aim was fantastic and his swing own about everything Chodron has ever strong as the end of the club connected written, along with a few recordings, and with my forehead. This may explain why I someday I am going to write her a thank have no aim and do not deal well with the you letter. Or just wait for the zombie sight of blood, or at least a lot of it.

A few stitches later I was all well and apocalypse when I hoof my way north to that small province in Canada attired in good.

Regardless, I’m a very tenacious, stubmy favorite and faithful Converse sneakers, reporter’s jacket (Those who see me born individual and the fact I would often enough know precisely the one) and choose an abhorred golf club to rid the world of zombies speaks volumes. Or a golf club.

Yes, my weapon of choice for the zombie maybe I was hit on the head a few more apocalypse will be the golf club for dubi- times than I realized some 33 years ago.

Or perhaps I can’t help but picture this ous reasons. One, and I’m ashamed to admit it, I have absolutely no aim to speak as a perfect setup to some new comic strip, of, but a good solid swing. That saying book, or related movie with Chodron the about not being able to hit the side of a super hero and I the faithful, golf-club barn with a bulldozer was coined by my wielding sidekick.

Hint, hint Stan Lee. mother on my amazingly lackluster aiming capabilities. When Michael talks about Bethany J. Royer is the mother of two my getting a CCW license, I laugh and munchkins, a closet gamer, and third year laugh.

Second, my mind cannot wrap around psychology student. She can be reached at the sight of blood, thus why I never made broyer@civitasmedia.com.

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Public officials can be contacted through the following addresses and telephone numbers: ■ Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, ward5comm@piquaoh.org, 773-7929 (home) ■ John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 773-2778 (home) ■ William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner, ward2comm@piquaoh.org, 773-8217 ■ Joe Wilson, 3rd Ward Commissioner, ward3comm@piquaoh.org, 778-0390 ■ Judy Terry, 4th Ward Commissioner, ward4comm@piquaoh.org, 773-3189 ■ City Manager Gary Huff, ghuff@piquaoh.org, 778-2051 ■ Miami County Commissioners: John “Bud” O’Brien, Jack Evans and Richard Cultice, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373 440-5910; commissioners@comiami.oh.us ■ John R. Kasich, Ohio governor, Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 644-0813, Fax: (614) 466-9354 ■ State Sen. Bill Beagle, 5th District, Ohio Senate, First Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-6247; e-mail: SD05@sen.state.oh.us ■ State Rep. Richard Adams, 79th DisSteve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at trict, House of Representatives, The stevecokie@gmail.com.

Riffe Center, 77 High St. 13th Floor,

Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 466-8114, Fax: (614) 719-3979; district79@ohr.state.oh.us ■ Jon Husted, Secretary of State, 180 E. Broad St. 15th floor, Columbus, OH 53266-0418 (877) 767-6446, (614)466-2655; ■ David Yost, State Auditor, 88 E. Broad St., 5th floor, Columbus, OH 43215, 800-282-0370 or 614-466-4514 ■ Mike DeWine, State Attorney General, 30 E.Broad St., Columbus, OH 43266, (614) 466-4320 ■ U.S. Rep. John Boehner, 8th District, 12 S. Plum St., Troy, OH 45373, 3391524 or (800) 582-1001 U.S. House Office, Washington, D.C., 1020 Longworth, HOR, 20515 ■ U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-2315 ■ U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, 338 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-3353 ■ President Barack Obama, White House, Washington D.C. 20500, (202) 456-1111

To the Editor: Covington Outreach Association (COA) would like to express its appreciation to the Covington Postal Service mail carriers, COA volunteers, Covington Middle School Students and staff for giving of their time in helping with the Post Office Food Drive. We also very much appreciate the generosity of the residents of Covington for supporting this important drive. We are pleased to announce that we received 1,097 food items. These non-perishable food items will help us serve many families in our community. The need for emergency food assistance is very evident in the fact that in just the past week alone we served nearly 30 Covington families.

If you would like to donate to the Covington Community Food Pantry please bring non-perishable items to Covington Church of the Brethren, 101 N. Wall Street, Covington weekdays between 8 am. and noon. Monetary donations can also be sent to COA, Box 125, Covington, Ohio 45318.

For more information please e-mail: director@covingtonoutreach.org or by call 473-2415. Covington Outreach Association is 501(c)3 Non-profit organization. Contributions are tax deductible.

— Cindy Miller, Executive Director

Bethany Center in need of new furnace To the Editor: The Bethany Center is in need of a new furnace in the old section of our building. This section houses Piqua Compassion Network offices, the reading room, Christmas room, furniture room and fully pardoned jail ministry offices.

This past winter there were several times we had to close that section due to no heat.

We hope to get this taken care of this summer and be ready for fall and winter.

We have an estimate for approximately $40,000 to replace our old heating system.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you and God bless you!

— Wilma Earls and Bethany Center staff

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‘After Earth’ a disappointing sci-fi tale

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This film publicity image released by Sony-Columbia Pictures shows Jaden Smith in a scene from “After Earth.”

BY JOHN DEFORE The Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES (AP) — Humanity’s home planet hardly merits the namecheck in “After Earth,” M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our hero scrawls a crude map over Lascaux-like cave paintings) take place on any old life-supporting globe in the cosmos. The disappointingly generic film, which strands a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) on Earth a thousand years after a planet-wide evacuation, will leave genre audiences pining for the more Terra-centric conceits of “Oblivion,” not to mention countless other future-set films that find novelty in making familiar surroundings threatening.

Will Smith’s presence, not just as co-star but as originator of the story, seems likely to carry box office receipts beyond the benchmark of Shyamalan’s previous picture, the wretched “The Last Airbender,” but those hoping for a franchise should navigate elsewhere.

Plans for such a franchise seem to be afoot, with filmmakers reportedly having written “1,000 years of back story” for these two characters and their society. They must be saving an awful lot for comic-book and videogame spinoffs, though, as the film squeezes its millennium-long setup into a few short moments of voiceover introduction.

We learn that, having ruined our environment, humans decamped en masse to Nova Prime, which would have been a nice place if not for the monsters that had been bred to kill humans. (By whom? Buy the comic book, kid.) Those beasts, Ursa, are blind, but can smell the pheromones humans release when afraid. When a member of the United Ranger Corps, the elder Smith’s Cypher Raige, found himself

able to suppress his fear, he was suddenly invisible to the monsters. Harnessing this “ghosting” technique, he became a hero in the still-raging war.

What we don’t learn in the too-quick intro is how all humankind came to speak in the same accent, most reminiscent perhaps of New Zealand’s -- one that suits none of the cast very well, and makes Jaden Smith’s voiceover hard to follow. The script also fails to explain why future warriors, whose technology allows for a “cutlass” whose two ends morph into any type of blade the user requires, choose not to use guns or lasers against the mighty Ursa. One assumes it’s because somebody saw Darth Maul and

storm and must land on the nearest planet. A crash landing on Earth leaves three survivors: the Raiges and the Ursa specimen they’d been transporting for use in training aspiring ghost-ers. With both legs badly broken, Cypher must coach Kitai via cameraphone as he makes a 100-kilometer trek, dodging the freed Ursa and Earth’s own predators, to find the chunk of wreckage that can save their lives.

This is the first Shyamalan-directed film on which he’s not the sole screenwriter, and in fact it takes a while to discern any trace of the filmmaker’s personality in a screenplay credited to him and “Book of Eli” scribe Gary Whitta. The script hits its action beats competently as

Winfrey to speak at Harvard commencement exercises CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is the featured speaker during afternoon exercises at Harvard University’s commencement.

Harvard’s 362nd commencement begins Thursday morning with the annual conferring of degrees and honorary degrees. Winfrey and Harvard President Drew Faust will both address attendees during afternoon exercises, which serve as the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Faust calls Winfrey’s rise WINFREY to global prominence one of the great American success stories.

Winfrey’s private foundation has awarded hundreds of grants to organizations that promote education and support women, and children and families worldwide.

Forbes listed Winfrey as the 11th most powerful woman in the world last year. She has a net worth of $2.7 billion. thought his double-trouble light saber looked cool.

In any event, Cypher Raige comes home between long campaigns to find his son Kitai unsettled, struggling to live up to his legacy.

He decides to take the boy along on an interstellar voyage, but the ship is thrown off course by a gravitational

Kitai copes with marauding animals and dwindling supplies, and works best when the teen is in motion. But Shyamalan is of little help to the actor when Kitai faces internal challenges: Smith’s performance, all furrowed brow and worried eyes, gives us no reason to believe Kitai is made of the same tough

stuff as his father.

Will Smith, meanwhile, is as hobbled as his character: Forced to sit in a chair, slowly bleeding to death as he impotently observes his son’s various perils, Cypher is a man of action who can’t act; Smith is a charisma-powered performer made to hide his charm behind a stern military demeanor. (When Kitai enters his first dangerous standoff, faraway Dad offers a stoic non sequitur: “Recognize your power: This will be your creation.”)

Shyamalan would have to try hard to make another film as bad as “Airbender”; “After Earth’s” missteps in conception and execution are more akin to the headscratching choices that kept “The Happening” from fulfilling its doomsday-flick potential. Who let that herd of fake-looking bison roam Earth’s grasslands, and who lit the critical scene, set on a tree stump amid roaring waterfalls, that was obviously shot on a soundstage? On a planet that now freezes every night, how do the flora of tropical rainforests survive?

What seasoned soldier would send his son on a deadly fourday mission with a backpack the size of a bicycle seat?

The film’s resolution, predictable to any viewer, feels oddly impersonal for a father/son bonding tale both dreamed up and enacted by a father for the son following in his footsteps. Whatever the faults of 2006’s “The Pursuit of Happiness,” that film employed the bond between the two Smiths much more effectively. One wonders if it might be wise to wait a while before the next pairing — letting Jaden Smith, like Kitai Raige, come into his own before asking him to share a screen meaningfully with one of Hollywood’s biggest personalities.

“After Earth,” a Sony/Columbia release, is rated PG13 for sci-fi action violence and some disturbing images.

Running time: 100 minutes.

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New wife’s short leash keeps dad away from his young son DEAR ABBY: My exhusband and I divorced a year ago. We share a 4year-old son and have a cordial relationship.

Shortly after our divorce, he married a woman he had been carrying on an affair with while married to me. Since their wedding she has not allowed him to enter my home beyond the front door, be alone with me for any reason regardless of what we need to discuss, and he rarely calls to talk with our son anymore — all at her “request.” He has also informed me that she’s “not comfortable” with the idea of us communicating unless she is part of the conversation. I think she is being silly and immature, and he claims to agree, but he wants to keep the peace.

I explained to him that even though he may allow her to dictate his life, she will not be dictating mine.

If I feel I need to speak with him about something, I do not have to include her. Am I wrong? I am in no way trying to cause a problem in their marriage. I have decided that whatever answer you give I will abide by as I respect your opinion greatly.

— NEEDS AN ANSWER IN TEXAS DEAR NEEDS AN ANSWER: The current “Mrs.” is acting more like a jailer than a wife, but then, she knows what your ex is capable of if he gets past the front door or has private conversations with another woman. This is happening because she perceives you as still a threat. That your former husband allows her to exert this amount of control is unfortunate. The distancing from his son is happening because he is permitting it, and the loser here is the little boy.

You’re not wrong, but if the only way your son can have a relationship with his dad is for this woman to be ever-present, then bite your tongue and go along with it for as long as this marriage lasts or your ex summons up enough backbone to set his No. 2 straight.

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Advice DEAR ABBY: My sisters and I look out for our “Aunt Lil,” who is in her late 70s and never had children. Physically and mentally she’s fine right now. She quit driving a few years ago, but that had more to do with the price of gas than her driving ability. We run errands for her, take her to appointments, etc.

Our question: For most of her life, Aunt Lil has kept up a steady correspondence with many people all over the world.

When I say she has pen pals everywhere, I’m not exaggerating. When the time comes and she is gone, how should we notify her friends? I think a simple form letter would be fine, but my sisters think each person should be notified individually, either with a phone call or a personal letter. Abby, there are 100 people she writes to and those are just the ones we’re aware of! Your thoughts would be appreciated.

— AUNT LIL’S GIRLS DEAR GIRLS: Considering that people live longer these days, I wouldn’t write off Aunt Lil too quickly. Because she still has all her faculties, ask HER how she wants it handled. She may prefer to write her own farewell note to be mailed after her death. (“By the time this reaches you, I will have gone to that great stationery store in the sky …”)

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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smaller portions of his namesake treats in “Ding Dong, Elmo’s Here!” and other books from the folks on Sesame Street.

“Food is everywhere kids turn,” said Betsy Loredo, executive editor for Sesame Workshop’s publishing group. “So it’s natural for us

to want to think of ways we can integrate that and make choices that are healthier.We try to go for at least equity.”

Sesame Street, with an appearance by obesity fighter and first lady Michelle Obama, took on nutrition and exercise as an initiative back in 2004. The

effort expanded to other divisions and special projects that included distribution of kits to six million families and child care centers offering ways to eat healthy on a budget and educate parents on the difference between “sometime food” and “anytime food.”

‘Boy or Girl?’

Gender a new challenge for schools

BY MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones.It’s a societal norm, an expectation even, that you just are what you are born — a boy or a girl.

From early on, we divide toys and activities by very distinct gender lines, with superheroes and trucks and muck on one side and princesses and dolls and all things frilly on the other.

Many children land, enthusiastically, on the expected side. Others dabble in both “girl” and “boy” things.

But what if your kid, even from an early age, mostly showed interest in doing opposite-gender things? More importantly, what if they wanted to BE the opposite gender — or a less-defined mix of both?And what if they wanted to test those limits in public places, like school?

Would you let them?

It’s not, of course, that pat of a process. Parents don’t just decide to let their kids switch genders.But,whether parents are dragged through the process, or if they decide to work it through more openly, more kids are challenging the boundaries of traditional gender, and going public at younger ages.

And they are doing so with the guidance of a growing faction of medical experts who no longer see this as something to be fixed. Last year, the American Psychiatric Association removed “gender identity disorder” from its list of mental health ailments.

Some experts predict that views on gender will evolve in much the same way they have for sexual orientation, since homosexuality was removed as a mental illness nearly four decades ago.

Today, the gender spectrum includes those who are transgender, who see themselves as the opposite gender, and those who are gender variant, or gender nonconforming, whose gender is more “fluid.” For kids, it means they identify part of themselves as boy and part as girl.

“Now these kids . are be-

cupcakes or carrots?

This book image released by Sesame Workshop shows an inside page from “Eat Your Colors! A Puzzle Book,” by Sarah Albee and Joe Matthieu. With the childhood obesity rate tripling in the past 30 years to 1 in 3 children in the United States overweight or obese, a collection of picture books are available to help kids make choices that are healthier.

ginning to have a voice . and I think that’s what’s been making things interesting and challenging — and difficult, sometimes — depending on the family, the kid, or the school,” says Dr. Robert Garofalo, director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

While the numbers are relatively small, it means that,increasingly,schools are having to figure out how to accommodate them, some more successfully than others.

The questions often start with the basics: Which bathroom do they use? Where do they change for gym class?

What if teachers or students don’t want to use the pronoun, “he” or “she,” or a new name the student prefers?

It can be difficult, and uncomfortable. In Colorado, for instance, the parents of a 6year-old transgender girl are suing their school district for trying to make her use a separate bathroom.

The center at Lurie opened recently, in part, to meet the demand from parents seeking guidance for children who are questioning their gender identity and to provide support to older transgender youth who sometimes struggle more in adolescence, even facing a greater suicide risk, especially if they have no backing from family and others around them.

The center also serves as a resource for schools with transgender and gender variant students.

Increasingly, those students are making the transition as early as elementary school, if not before. ___ Ryan, a fourth-grader in suburban Chicago, is one of those kids.

Most people, upon seeing her big blue eyes, long lashes and flowing blond hair, would never know she’s anything but a girl. But underneath, she is still physically a boy.

Doctors call that gender variant,though Ryan prefers to call herself a “tomgirl.”

“I feel that I’m a girl in my heart,”she says,“and a boy in

my brain.”

Her parents allowed her to be interviewed and also agreed to speak to The Associated Press on the condition that the family’s last name, the name of the town where they live and the school Ryan attends not be used in the story.

Though the decision to publicly express publicly as a girl happened at the end of kindergarten, Ryan had slowly been becoming “she” at home for a long time, even when she still had a crew cut.

Six months after her second birthday,her parents say Ryan was drawn to all things pink and sparkly. Ryan, the boy, wore pajama pants on his head, pretending it was long hair, or acted out girl roles from movies.

“I’m wishing . for the one I love . to find me!” the preschooler would enthusiastically sing into the toilet, copying Snow White, who sings into the echoing wishing well in the animated Disney movie.

By kindergarten, Ryan would bolt through the door of the family’s suburban Chicago home, leaving a trail of boy clothes up the stairway — then quickly changing into a skirt and matching T-shirt.

Ryan’s parents, initially told that Ryan had gender identity disorder, tried to get their child more interested in traditional boy things. But Ryan preferred chasing butterflies instead of footballs.

Her dad scheduled extra “father-son” time, thinking that might have an influence. But nothing changed.

“The next step was to

eliminate all girl things — can’t write about girl things, can’t draw girl things, can’t talk about girly things ... and that just didn’t feel right,” says Sabrina, Ryan’s mom.

They decided to stop resisting and allowed Ryan to start taking small steps into the outside world, at a nearby park, for instance, where she wore her girl clothes.

For her kindergarten Halloween party, Ryan dressed as a princess and, shortly after, asked her parents to refer to her as “she,” a request to which they agreed, though it took a few months to adjust.

Their first support came from a pediatrician who specialized in gender, as well as other parents with children like Ryan, many whom they met through an online listerv. They are, as they call themselves, “affirming parents.”

“There’s a realization that it’s not a phase or something that’s ending when the preschooler gets to kindergarten,” says Kevin Gogin, the program manager for school health programs at the San Francisco Unified School District, which recently added a transgender category in student health surveys. The survey found that 1.6 percent of high school students and 1 percent of middle school students identified as transgender or gender variant. Elementary students weren’t in the survey, but Gogin says the district has seen more young transgender and gender variant students, too.

With the childhood obesity rate tripling in the past 30 years to 1 in 3 children in the United States overweight or obese, books with healthy eating pictures and messages may not be everything, but they’re something, advocates said.

Sesame Workshop, for instance, concluded in a 2010 study that when children are shown fruits and vegetables linked with favorite characters from the show they choose those foods at a much higher rate and eat more of them, according to Sesame researcher Jennifer Kotler.

Even broccoli, she laughed.

“Something happens between 3 and 5 where there’s a growing awareness of what healthy means. Where 3year-olds like the foods they like, 5-year-olds know things they might choose might not always be the healthiest,” Kotler said.

David Goldbeck in Woodstock, N.Y.,isn’t an absolutist, but he does care about what kids see in their books when it comes to food. He wants more of them to eat fruits and vegetables, so he cowrote an alphabet book that puts broccoli and yams in equally healthy company.

The Michigan Fitness Foundation,which is home to that state’s Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports, uses Goldbeck’s “The ABC’s of

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The book includes an alphabet format with illustrations (E is for eggplant!) but also history, fun facts and recipes for older kids. Scott ordered 500 of the books in 2008 and routinely reorders to keep up her supplies.

In this alphabet world, C is for carrots, D is for date, as in the “desert fruit found in Kuwait,”and O is for organic.

“I wanted to make these words familiar to kids so they’re not so loaded,” Goldbeck said.“These things have a history to them.” The book skirts on some buzz foods, making H for the herbs on pizza andV for vanilla,which sometimes flavors ice cream cones!

So what accounts for the cupcake-creep?

“I don’t think parents really look at every book, page by page. They buy online or grandparents buy or they get books as gifts,” Scott said.

“Mostly parents put their trust in the book stores and the publishers.”

Picture book illustrator Betsy Johnson in Portland, Maine, was thrilled to take on cauliflower and figs in an alphabet book depicting healthy foods by their colors.

Her mixed-media collage work with text by Libby Koponen is featured in “Mmm...Let’s Eat!” from Blue Apple Books and just out in May. The book isn’t entirely about food and includes other items by color like a yellow rain boot and a sunflower.

The same goes for Sesame Street’s 2011 “Abbie’s Pink Party,” telling the story of a birthday bash with a final spread featuring cake and other treats that include watermelons and strawberries.

As a mom of two girls,ages 10 and nearly 13, Thompson worries about the motives behind unhealthy food choices in books for kids.

“I don’t think you need to beat kids over the head with things because I think kids are a lot smarter than people give them credit for, but a lot of people in the business are looking just at what will sell, and I’m totally horrified by it.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Leslie Patricelli didn’t keep junk food in the house when her three kids were toddlers, but the goofy, bald baby in her board book “Yummy Yucky” grins from ear to ear over chocolate sauce and cookies.

The prolific picture book writer also included pepperoni pizza as a positive, acknowledging in a recent interview that some of her empty calorie imagery for kids too young to seek out sugary and fatty foods on their own have earned her a kvetch or two from parents.

“If I were to do it again I would probably make a few different choices, but I don’t think I would leave everything out,” said Patricelli, in Hailey,Idaho.“All you have to do is watch a kid eat a piece of cake to know that they’re in heaven.”

Heaven,indeed,especially when it comes to an abundance of frothy pink cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies and candy in books aimed squarely at babies, toddlers and preschoolers who may not be intimate with the meaning of moderation.

But some authors and publishers are focused on creating alternatives to c-isfor-cupcake picture books for parents struggling to promote broccoli. Even Cookie Monster sometimes eats smarter, chowing down on celery and demonstrating

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Molecular mixologists raising the bar

BY MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press

—Conigliaro: Source your ingredients well.

Look at not just what you find on the supermarket shelf, but go that little bit further and find those spirits and cordials. Compare one gin to another.

Compare your Beefeater to your Tanqueray and see how the drink works and make choices off the back of that. That's how you really kind of understand how things work. ___ SWEET BROILED LEMON MARGARITA

"And the more questions people asked you kind of got to points where the only places where you could find the answers were either in the chemistry of food or the science of how it works," he says.

"For years and years all we've ever had is recipes passed down and you get shown how to make them and shown what they should be like and how they should taste, but it was scratching below the surface of that and seeing what was actually going on that really proved to be of interest for us."

Kevin K. Liu, author of "Craft Cocktails at Home," sees cocktail chemistry as something that fits into his overarching interest in how science can improve everyday life, something he began exploring while studying technology policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "I wrote the book about cock-

tails because I thought this was a field where bartenders and customers alike could benefit from some simple scientific knowledge, but I think the concept applies to many other fields as well," he says.

The best of the new breed of drinks look like regular cocktails but "taste like nothing you've tried before," says Duecy.

Bartenders like Dave Arnold at Booker & Dax in New York are developing new techniques like nitromuddling (flash-freezing fresh herbs with liquid nitrogen, then crushing them into a powder and incorporating it into the cocktail). What you get — intense herb flavor. What you don't get — herbs stuck in your teeth.

And in San Diego, Erick Castro of Polite Provisions, a new bar, works with carbonation so the cocktails are premixed

and come out of a kegerator, a refrigerated dispenser, like beer or soda.

One of the best molecular cocktails Duecy has tried was at Eleven Madison Park in New York, where bartenders used liquid nitrogen to make a frozen gin sorbet, which they then mixed with bing cherry syrup and grapefruit juice and topped with Pop Rocks. "The drink is refreshing and clean, yet invigorating and fun with those Pop Rocks crackling in your mouth. Surprise and delight is the reaction molecular mixologists are going for, and that's what this drink delivered."

New tools open up new possibilities. For instance, a rotary evaporator is a piece of lab equipment that lets you "boil" water or alcohol at low temperatures. You can put orange juice in and end up with orange water and orangeflavored jam, "both of

Making your grill shine

BY W. WAYT GIBBS Associated Press Compared to other basic cooking techniques,grilling is hard: the temperatures are high, timing is crucial and slight differences in the thickness or wetness of the food can dramatically affect how quickly it cooks.

Bad design choices by equipment makers — kettleshaped grills with black interiors, for example — make it harder still.But if you're willing to do some simple arithmetic or break out a roll of foil, you can reduce the guesswork and get better performance from your grill.

Similar tricks work for broiling; after all, a broiler is basically just an inverted grill.

Every grill has a sweet spot where the heat is even.

You know you're cooking in the sweet spot when all of the food browns at about the same pace. In most situations, the bigger the sweet spot, the better. One notable exception is when you need to reserve part of the grill for cooking some ingredients more slowly or keeping previously cooked food warm.

If you find yourself continually swapping food from the center of your grill with pieces at the periphery,that's a sure sign that your sweet spot is too small.

You can get an intuitive feel for where the edge of the sweet spot lies by looking at the heat from the food's point of view. I mean that literally: imagine you are a hotdog lying facedown on the grill. If the coals or the gas flames don't fill your entire field of view, then you aren't receiving as much radiant heat as your fellow wiener who is dead-center over the heat source. If the falloff in the intensity of the heat is greater than about 10 percent,you're outside the sweet spot.

You can use the table below to estimate the size of

the sweet spot on your own grill. The 26-inch-wide gas grill on my deck has four burners with heat-dispersing caps that span about 23 inches. The food sits only three inches above the burner caps, so when all four burners are going, the sweet spot includes the middle 16 inches of the grill. But if I use only the two central burners, which are 10 inches from edge to edge, the sweet spot shrinks to a measly 5.4 inches, too small to cook two chicken breasts side by side.I can use this to my advantage, however, if I have a big piece of food that is thick in the middle and thinner at the ends, such as a long salmon fillet. By laying the fish crosswise over the two burners, I can cook the fat belly until it is done without terribly overcooking the slimmer head and tail of the fillet.

Sweet spots are narrowest on small grills, such as little braziers, kettles, hibachis, and the fixed grilling boxes at a public parks. If the sweet spot on your grill is too confining for all the food you have to cook, you can enlarge it in several ways.

If the grill height is adjustable, lower it. Bringing the food a couple inches closer to the heat can easily expand the sweet spot by 2 to 3 inches.The effect on the intensity of the heat is less than you might expect: typically no more than about a 15 percent increase.

If your grill is boxy in shape,line the sides with foil, shiny side out.Your goal is to create a hall of mirrors in which the heat rays bounce off the foil until they hit the food. A hotdog at the edge of the grill then sees not only those coals that are in its line of sight,but also reflections of the coals in the foil-lined side of the grill.

The foil trick unfortu-

nately doesn't work well on kettle grills because their rounded shape tends to bounce the radiant heat back toward the center instead of out to the edges. But if you can find a piece of shiny sheet metal about 4 inches wide and 56 inches long, you can bend the metal into a reflective circular ring and build the coal bed inside of it.

All food within the circumference of the ring should then cook pretty evenly.

Jury-rigging a grill in this way wouldn't be necessary if grills came shiny on the inside and we could keep them that way. But, presumably because nobody likes to clean the guts of a grill, the interiors of most grills are painted black, the worst possible color for a large sweet spot.A black metal surface doesn't reflect many infrared heat rays; instead it soaks them up, gets really hot, then reemits the heat in random directions.

Someday, some clever inventor will come up with a self-cleaning grill that has a mirror finish inside, and the sweet-spot problem will simply vanish.

element.Multiply that measurement by 0.44, then add 0.2 inches to the product. For example, if the rods are 2.4 inches apart, the sweet spot is 1.25 inches from the element to the top of the food.

Width of heat source (inches) Height of the food above the heat source (inches) Width of grill sweet spot (inches) 14 3 8.1 14 4 7.7 14 5 7 16 3 9.9 16 4 9 16 5 8.3 20 3 13.2 20 4 12 20 5 11.2 23 3 16.1 23 4 15 23 5 13.3 29 3 21.8 29 4 19.7 29 5 18.9

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Unused lemon juice can be refrigerated for several which would taste clean weeks. and fresh," says Liu. AlStart to finish: 25 minternatively, you could put in bourbon and end with a utes super high-proof distillate Servings: 1 of bourbon and bourbonflavored powder.

5 Sicilian lemons Still, while gadgetry can produce new flavors, it takes a skilled bartender Sugar to balance those flavors, notes Liu. Ice cubes Conigliaro would agree.

He may create his cock1 1/2 ounces reposado tails in a lab-like setting, tequila but he serves them in an atmosphere that's any2/3 ounce triple sec thing but clinical. The liqueur menu at his Bar 69 in Islington, North London, Heat the oven to broil. has just 12 cocktails, three wines and Champagnes, Slice the lemons in half, and one beer. The gee- then arrange cut side up whiz techniques are gen- on a rimmed baking sheet. erally out of sight, though Broil at the center of the customers who want to oven for about 10 minutes, know what went into a or until the lemons are drink are welcome to ask. golden brown. Set aside Conigliaro rather likes until cool enough to hanthe idea, he writes in dle, then juice the lemons "Cocktail Lab," that "the into a bowl or 2-cup liquid rest will contentedly sip container. on a Bloody Mary, bliss- measuring Using a mesh strainer fully unaware that it took lined with cheesecloth, two years to perfect each individual component of strain the lemon juice into a blender. Blend for four their drink."

Want to up your home 25-second bursts. Set bartending game? Here aside. are some tips.

Sprinkle a few table—Duecy: Make sure spoons of sugar on a small you're using top quality plate. Use one of the ingredients, i.e., no shriv- squeezed lemon rinds to eled limes. Try infusing moisten the rim of a liquors or wines with fruit, coupette or other suitable herbs and even vegeta- glass for a margarita. bles. Start with vodka Overturn the glass into until you get familiar with the sugar and gently move the length of time and re- around to coat the rim. sults you'll get from cer- Refrigerate the glass until tain ingredients. To a ready to fill. vodka-filled jam jar, just To prepare the cocktail, drop in some ingredients, in cocktail shaker filled and leave the infusion on with ice, combine the the counter. Try spices tequila, 3/4 ounce of the (cardamom, black pepper, broiled lemon juice and horseradish), fruit the triple sec. Shake well, (pineapple, lemon peel, then strain into the preberries), and vegetables pared glass. (beets, celery).

(Recipe adapted from —Liu: Get some gear. Tony Conigliaro's "The Start with a water filter Cocktail Lab," Ten Speed (Why would you fill up Press, 2013)

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Among the equipment at his London-based Drink Factory consulting business are a centrifuge (the better to filter macerated liquids), a cold smoker and smoke gun (for smoking garnishes as well as syrup ingredients), and a refractometer to measure exact alcohol levels. Not quite your standard issue bar gear.

And an ordinary day in the lab "can involve thermo-mixing, sous-viding, dehydrating — even stripping bark from trees," Conigliaro writes in the introduction to the book, due out in July.

Conigliaro, a renowned British bartender, is a pioneer in so-called molecular mixology, but he's got a lot of company these days as more bartenders on both sides of the Atlantic work on elevating the art of the cocktail into a science.

"All of the regular tools of molecular cooking are in play: they're Cryovacing (putting in vacuumsealed packaging) and slow cooking ingredients, smoke-infusing liquors, carbonating drinks, barrel-aging cocktails, centrifuging juices to get clear liquids, infusing liquors with unexpected ingredients, and using rotary evaporators to get strongly flavored distillates," says Erica Duecy, cocktail historian and author of the upcoming book "Storied Sips." ''The highend bar has become as devoted to this equipment and these techniques as the kitchen."

For Conigliaro, molecular mixology started with people asking questions.

half a cocktail with poortasting water?). Then get a dual infrared/probe thermometer. Use it to check temperatures, from how cold your freezer gets to whether you've stirred a drink long enough.

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Turkey burgers both delicious, healthy Greek-style recipe with feta and spinach will tantalize your tastebuds

BY SARA MOULTON Associated Press Summertime is burger time. And it’s so easy to throw a few beef patties on the grill. Not much is required in the way of embellishment, yet they have a big happiness return.

What’s the magic ingredient? Fat, of course.

Beef burgers are high in fat, which guarantees flavor and juiciness. And because fat enhances flavor, it also makes anything else you put in or on the burger taste better, too.

Heartbreakingly, as you decrease the fat content in a burger, its flavor tends to go bye-bye, too. This is a real problem if you want to dig into a delicious burger and still want the blood to continue sailing through your arteries.

The solution? Turkey.

I know. I know. You’ve tried turkey burgers and it was like eating wet cardboard. Hah! But you haven’t tried my turkey burgers‌ Let’s start with the basic ingredient — ground turkey. While researching this recipe, I discovered that the labels on ground turkey can be quite confusing.

You’d figure that a package labeled “lean� would mean what it says.

Weirdly, it turns out that the calories and fat in a 4-ounce portion of “lean� ground turkey can range from 120 calories with 1 percent fat to 160 calories with 12 percent fat (which is as rich as a lean beef burger). As always, it’s best to read labels and not rely on words such as “lean� or “white meat� when looking for healthy choices.

Or, better yet, grind your own turkey. Start

by buying a small package of turkey tenderloins, the flap of meat that lies just under the breast. As little as a 1 1/2 pounds of turkey tenderloins can be ground to produce six burgers. Cut the tenderloins into 1inch cubes and freeze them for 30 minutes. Pop them in a food processor and pulse until they achieve a medium-grind consistency.

Now we come to the crucial part of the recipe, the part I call Turkey Helper. The blandest and driest of white meats, turkey cries out for flavor and moisture. Happily, any number of vegetables can answer this call, including sauteed onions, bell peppers or mushrooms, shredded raw Napa cabbage, or carrots.

But I wanted to give these burgers the Greek treatment, so I moistened them with spinach, garlic and onions, then seasoned them with crumbled feta and fresh oregano. A staple of Greek cuisine, the goat or sheep milk cheese called feta is so packed with flavor and saltiness that a little goes a long way. And if you’re not a fan of oregano, you can swap in dill or basil instead.

In search of a simpatico sauce, I built one out of pepperoncini. Also known as Tuscan pickled peppers, pepperoninci are the little green hot peppers that have spiced up every Greek salad you’ve ever eaten.

They’re briny, too, which is why I added some of their pickling liquid to the yogurt-mayo base.

This creamy sauce comprises the last splash of our Turkey Helper.

Nobody in my house cries “Where’s the beef?�

when we pull these burgers off the grill.

GREEK-STYLE BURGERS TURKEY WITH PEPPERONCINI SAUCE Start to finish: 45 minutes Servings: 4 1 1/2 tablespoons extravirgin olive oil, divided 1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion 5 ounces baby spinach Kosher salt and ground black pepper 1/4 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt 1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise 2 tablespoons minced seeded pepperoncini 1 tablespoon liquid from the pepperoncini jar 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice, or to taste 1 teaspoon minced garlic 3 ounces crumbled feta cheese 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano 1 pound ground turkey 4 whole-wheat hamburger buns Heat the grill to medium.

In a large skillet over medium-high, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Add the remaining 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and the spinach and cook, stirring, until the spinach is wilted. Season with salt and pepper, then transfer the mixture to a bowl. Chill in the refrigerator until cooled to room temperature.

Meanwhile, in a small bowl combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, pepperoncini, pepperoncini liquid, lemon juice, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.

Once the spinach has cooled, remove it from the

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refrigerator and add the feta, oregano, ground turkey, 1/4 teaspoon salt and ground black pepper.

Mix well, then shape into 4 patties, each about 1/2inch thick.

Spray the burgers lightly with olive oil cooking spray, then grill over

medium heat until just cooked through, about 6 minutes per side. Spread some of the yogurt sauce on the bottom half of each bun, then top with a burger. Spoon the remaining sauce over the burgers and top with the remaining bun hales. Serve im-

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Nutrition information per serving: 460 calories; 220 calories from fat (48 percent of total calories); 24 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 110 mg cholesterol; 34 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 29 g protein; 1030 mg sodium.

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BY ALISON LADMAN Associated Press Caribbean flavors jazz up this simple supper salad. We glaze the shrimp with a zesty rumspiked marmalade, then toss them on a hot grill with tomatoes and corn before combining everything with a few more veggies. We serve the whole thing with grilled bread seasoned with garlic and orange for a bit of crunch and to aid in scooping up all the delicious bits.

C A R I B B E A N GRILLED SHRIMP SALAD Start to finish: 35 minutes Servings: 4 2 tablespoons orange marmalade 1 tablespoon packed dark brown sugar Kosher salt Zest of 1 lime 1 tablespoon dark rum 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 pound raw large shrimp, peeled 2 ears corn, husked

10-ounce container cocktail (small) tomatoes Olive oil Ground black pepper 1 clove garlic, minced Zest of 1 orange 8 slices of baguette 1 medium jicama, peeled and diced 1 avocado, pitted, peeled and diced Juice of 2 limes 1 bunch cilantro, leaves and stems, roughly chopped 4 ounces soft goat cheese Heat a grill to mediumhigh.

In a small bowl, stir together the marmalade, brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, the lime zest, rum, coriander and red pepper flakes. Add the shrimp, stirring to thoroughly coat.

Arrange the corn and tomatoes on a rimmed baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper.

In a small bowl, stir together the garlic, orange zest and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Brush over both sides of each slice of

baguette.

Arrange the shrimp, ears of corn, and tomatoes on the grill and cook until the shrimp are cooked through and pink and the corn and tomatoes are beginning to char. Add the baguette slices and grill until lightly charred.

Transfer to a platter and allow to cool slightly.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, toss together the jicama, avocado and lime juice.

Slice the corn kernels off the cobs. To do this, one at a time stand each ear on its wide end and use a knife to saw down length of the cob. Add the kernels to the jicama-avocado mixture. Add the tomatoes, shrimp and cilantro.

Stir gently. Crumble the goat cheese over the top and serve with the toasted bread.

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Buccs name scholars Covington High School scholar athletes for this school year included: Sophomores: Austin Lefeld, Ben Miller, Morgan Arbogast, Nathan Dunn, Alex Schilling, Robert Gengler, Heidi Cron, Cassidy Cain, Sadie Canan, Jared Hagan, Jessica Dammeyer, Joe Slusher.

Juniors: Allison Ingle, Amber Edwards, Jackie Siefring, Hannah Retz, Tyler Henry, Briana Grilliot, Stephani Shane.

Seniors: Bryan Hicks, Jenna Rindler, Jamie Crowell, Trent Tobias, Cassandra Ingle, Sam Slusher, Tara Snipes, Shelby Waag, Ryan Craft, Casey Yingst, Alex Bitner, Kyrstyn Boyer, Zoe Reck, Rachel Carder, Brock Smith, Austin Angle, Matthew Reck, Lindsey Frantz, Katie Blair, Troy Cron.

Kiefer to swim for Falcons

BY ROB KISER Call Sports Editor rkiser@dailycall.com Emma Kiefer has had her fun.

Now, Kiefer is ready to have fun in the pool as well.

The Piqua High School senior signed her letter of intent Thursday morning MIKE ULLERY/CALL PHOTO in the PHS lobby to swim for Bowling Green State Emma Kiefer signed her letter of intent to swim for Bowling Green State University. In front with Kiefer are See KIEFER/Page 11 her parents Patti (left) and Greg Kiefer. In back is Piqua swimming coach Lisa Seas.

Buccs make own breaks

ScoresBroadcast.com will air the Russia-Convoy Crestview D-IV regional final today.

Air time from Carleton Davidson Stadium is 4:40 p.m.

First pitch is at 5 p.m.

Yingst no-hits Marion Local

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Amie Rinaldi was low net with 34, while Clara Sowry was second with 39.

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Ryan Harmon, Mike Ford and Mike Butsch tied for third with 38.

Tony Cox and Dave DiPace shared low net with 32, while Doug Cantrell and Hal Cain tied for third with 33.

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Cassidy Cain drills a base hit for Covington Thursday against Marion Local.

TIPP CITY — Sometimes when things aren't going your way you have to find a way to make your own breaks, which is what the Covington Lady Buccs did after a frustrating first two innings against Marion Local in a 10-0 win in the regional semifinal at Tipp City on Thursday.

"Things weren't happening for us early on," said Covington coach Dean Denlinger. "Casey (Yingst) was struggling and we had a couple of girls thrown out on the bases."

Yingst, who is one of the most accurate pitchers in

the area and ended up recording a no-hitter, allowed three walks in the first two innings.

But a huge catch by Jessica Dammeyer in center field and some plays made in the infield helped get Yingst out of the first two innings without damage.

Covington couldn't break through offensively in the first two innings despite connecting for two hits in the first and two more in the second inning.

That's because Marion Local threw out two Lady Bucc runners at second, switching the momentum heavily to the Flyer side of the field.

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Tough call hurts East Lady Vikings fall in regional semi

BY JOSH BROWN Civitas Media FAIRBORN — In the long run, the questionable call may not have mattered.

But it sure got the Miami East Vikings off to a bad start.

A Clermont Northeastern baserunner touched Miami East’s third baseman from behind on her way past as Olivia Edgell was waiting for what should have been an inning-ending pop to come down and what appeared to be an obvious interference call. But the ball hit the ground and the run was allowed to stand, giving the Rockets the lead in the top of the first inning — and they used that momentum to bury the Vikings in a 6-0 Division III regional semifinal victory Thursday at Wright State University.

That first run came without the benefit of a hit in the inning, and the Rockets (22-5) added two more unearned runs in the second — and then unloaded for three earned runs in the fourth to put the game away.

“They’re one heck of a team,” Miami East coach Brian Kadel said of the Rockets. “Their pitcher threw well, held us to only one hit, their defense played well and they hit the ball hard.

LUKE GRONNEBERG/CIVITAS MEDIA PHOTO “You’ve got to have your best day against a team Treg Francis dives in safely at second base in sixth inning Thursday. like that — and we did not have our best day.”

Things certainly didn’t start well.

After a leadoff walk to begin the game, the Vikings recorded two outs and looked ready to get out of the inning. A hitbatter put runners on first and second, but starter PaigeKiesewetter induced

BY ROB KISER an easy pop to third.

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Schwartzel leads at Memorial DUBLIN (AP) — Charl Schwartzel made sure one hole didn't ruin an entire round Thursday in the Memorial.

Schwartzel hit the ball so consistently well at Muirfield Village that the former Masters champion twice had stretches of four straight birdies. And when he made a double bogey with an 8-iron in hand and his ball on a tee toward the end of the round, he got rid of that bad taste with one last birdie for a 7-under 65.

Schwartzel had a oneshot lead over Scott Piercy, who went from smashing it to playing it safe, and he was six shots clear of five-time winner Tiger Woods.

Woods hit the ball well enough to be much closer, though he missed too many birdie chances and didn't make up any ground on the par 5s.

"That's probably the highest score I could have shot," Woods said after his 1-under 71.

Woods was one shot worse than 53-year-old Fred Couples, the Presidents Cup captain at Muirfield Village this fall, and one shot better than 14-year-old Guan Tianlang, who has played more PGA Tour events than Woods over the last two months.

Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, might be headed for another short week at the tournament Jack Nicklaus built. After opening with a birdie, McIlroy didn't putt nearly well enough to atone for some loose shots.

McIlroy four-putted the par-3 12th for a double bogey, had a three-putt bogey on No. 7 and ended his round by missing a 4foot birdie putt. That gave him a 78.

"I don't really have many explanations for this," McIlroy said.

Schwartzel played in the morning, when the slick greens were still smooth, and he made 10 birdies in his round. Most of them were in the 10foot range, though he picked up a bonus with a 25-foot putt down a slight ridge on the 16th. As well as he played, he thought a great round might turn into just a good one with one swing.

His 8-iron on the par-3 eighth hole drifted right and caught the downward slope of a bunker. The South African tried to put a little more spin on the difficult shot and wound up sending it over the green. He chipped past the hole to about 8 feet and missed that to take double bogey.

What saved him was a 12-foot birdie putt down the hill on his final hole, allowing him to leave the course with a smile. That's not to suggest that if he had made par on the last hole he would have been ready to retire from the game.

"It would still be OK," Schwartzel said. "It's really when you've played that well and you're thinking you get these few rounds a year where you really strike it well and you're making lots of birdies and you walk off with your 8, 9 under. And today was one of those where I really did flush it.

And you're think maybe another birdie, and then get knocked back with a little 8-iron making double."

Woods, trying to win five times before the U.S. Open for the first time in his PGA Tour career, looked as though he might get much closer to the lead.

Reds have to settle for series split RBI single by Jason Kipnis chased starter Homer Bailey (3-4) in the fourth.

Asdrubal Cabrera added a run-scoring double off Alfredo Simon.

Jay Bruce drove in Cincinnati's only run with an RBI single in the sixth.

The Indians carried a five-game losing streak, in which they scored 14 runs, into the series.

Cleveland had also dropped seven of eight, but the bats woke up when the Reds hit town.

Cleveland homered twice Wednesday, including a game-clinching three-run homer by Jason Giambi, and fell one run off their biggest inning of the season Thursday.

Cabrera was hit by a pitch to start the fourth and took second on Carlos Santana's one-out single. After Mark Reynolds struck out, Brantley, who was in a 1-for-15 skid, singled sharply through the left side to score Cabrera.

Gomes followed by lining a single to left, scoring Santana.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Scott Kazmir allowed one run in seven innings and the Cleveland Indians scored seven runs with two outs in the fourth to defeat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 on Thursday.

The fourth-inning rally, which featured six straight run-scoring hits, gave the Indians a split of the annual Ohio Cup interleague series. The Reds won in Cincinnati on Monday and Tuesday before the Indians took both games when the series shifted to Cleveland.

The Reds have lost nine in a row at Progressive Field and haven't won in Cleveland since May 22, 2010.

Kazmir (3-2), recording his longest outing in the majors in three years, dodged a bases-loaded jam in the third when he got Joey Votto to bounce into an inning-ending double play.

Run-scoring singles by Michael Brantley and Yan Gomes, an RBI double by Ryan Raburn, a two-run double by Michael Bourn and an

Raburn's double to left scored Brantley before Bourn drove a double into the left-field corner for two more runs and a 5-0 lead.

Kipnis, who was in a 4for-34 slump, singled to right to score Bourn and finish Bailey. Cabrera doubled to right against Simon.

Brantley and Kipnis weren't the only Cleveland hitters to break out of slumps in the inning.

Santana came into the game batting .204 in May while Raburn was in a 3for-24 skid.

Bailey, who threw 45 pitches in the fourth, lasted 3 2-3 innings, his shortest outing of the season. The right-hander allowed seven runs — tying his season high.

Kazmir, a two-time AllStar with Tampa Bay, had his career sidetracked by arm problems that began in 2009.

He was traded to the Angels that season but was 9-15 in 2010 and appeared in only one game the following year before being released.

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wins regional Earns state berth in D-II The Versailles boys 3,200-meter relay team (Chad Winner, Richie Ware, Sam Subler, Sam Prakel) got the D-II regional at Welcome Stadium off to a great start Thursday, winning in 8:02.91.

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day’s finals were Chad Winner, 400-meter dash, 50.77; and the 1,600meter relay (Darren Subler, Prakel, Craig Pothast, Winner), 3:24.53.

Winner had the sixth fastest time in the 400 and 1,600 relay had the second fastest time.

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Madison Linn attempts to make a catch.

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Covington’s Haley Adams slides across the plate with a run Thursday.

Buccs Continued from page 9 the third, however, as Yingst found her groove in the circle by shutting down the side and then Covington followed up with a three-run effort in the bottom of the inning.

"Casey lost her focus a bit in the second inning, but she started to find herself in the third inning," Denlinger explained. "We kind of fed off of that at the plate."

Jessie Shilt got things rolling with a one-out single and the Heidi Snipes followed with a single to put runners at the corners.

After Snipes stole second, Casey Yingst helped out her cause with a sacrifice RBI that scored Shilt for the first run of the game.

Connor Schaffer then wrapped a hard hit ball up the middle and reached on the error, which set up a two-run single by Brittanie Flora.

"We hit the ball well," said Denlinger after his team connected for 15 base hits in the contest. "I

think once we broke through we relaxed and kept the pressure on."

Covington followed up the huge third inning with another three-run effort in the fourth as Haley Adams led off with a double to left field and hits by Cassidy Cain, Heidi Cron and Jessie Shilt followed to push the lead to 6-0.

A pair of Covington doubles by Schaffer and Morgan Arbogast pushed the lead to 7-0 in the bottom of the fifth and then Covington put the game away in the bottom of the sixth.

Jessie Shilt singled and stole second with one out and Heidi Snipes followed with a walk to set up a two-run double by Connor Schaffer.

Brittanie Flora then connected on a walk-off double that scored Erin Olson, who was inserted as a courtesy runner for Schaffer.

"The girls are focused," said Denlinger. "We're playing solid defense and that's who we really are.

That's our identity."

Covington once again put together an error-free performance in recording its sixteenth shutout of the season, but the offensive firepower was just as impressive as nine Lady Buccs recorded hits or contributed with an RBI. Connor Schaffer led the way with a pair of doubles and two RBI on three hits, while Brittanie Flora drove in three runs on a double and a single.

Jessie Shilt had a pair of base hits for two RBI to go along with doubles turned in by Morgan Arbogast and Haley Adams.

Heidi Snipes had a pair of hits, while Cassidy Cain and Heidi Snipes reached on singles.

Casey Yingst rounded out the Covington offensive performance with an sacrifice fly to drive in a run.

The Lady Buccs advance to their third straight regional final on Saturday at noon against Triad at Tippecanoe Middle School.

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son got the final batter of the inning swinging to end it.

The Vikings' lone highlight in the game came on defense in the fifth. After a leadoff double by Alexis Burden and a single to put runners on the corners, Miami East caught the trailing runner trying to steal second. Then Rachel Ward hit a grounder to Bowling at short. Bowling paused to look the runner at third back then fired to SamDenlinger at first — and Burden took off. Denlinger recorded the out and fired home to Sarah O'Neal to complete the double play.

It was the second time the Vikings' senior class had been to the regional semifinal — they were there as freshmen.

"Two district titles, district runners-up last year, and I haven't checked the record books but I have no doubt that this is thewinningest senior class to go through the school," Kadel said. "They've helped us get this program moving in a positive direction, and it's going to be sad not seeing them here anymore."

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plays we should have made defensively early on, and it gave them a little momentum," Kadel said.

The second play came in the second inning. After a one-out single and a two-out infield single, Chelsae Osborn blooped a single to right. The fielder overran the ball on the ground, allowing both runners to score.

"We've been able to work out of situations like that before," Kadel said.

"Usually we're putting the ball in play hard. But if we don't have it going at the plate and the other team gets going, it's tougher to come out of it."

And with Emily Anderson dealing on the mound, the Vikings (23-7) couldn't get its offense started.

Anderson struck out five, walked four and gave up one hit in the game to Lindsay Brookhart in the fourth inning. And that was the one inning that the Vikings threatened in — after Brookhart's oneout single, Christine Bowling drew a two-out walk and Paige Mullen reached on an error to load the bases. But Ander-

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Austin Gariety looks to first after getting a force out of Donnie Kress at third.

Russia Continued from page 9 Russia will play Convoy Crestview, a 3-2 winner over Tri-County North in the first game Thursday, in the regional final game at 5 p.m. today.

And the way the Raiders got there was another prime example of what Gold was talking about.

The game was tied 1-1 in the Russia sixth inning and Arcanum relief pitcher Grady Garno had retired the first two batters in the inning.

The Raiders did not have a hit after Bailey Francis’ double in the fourth inning, but they weren’t going to need it.

Pitcher Treg Francis started things with a walk.

“To be honest, we were just trying to find a way to get on,” Gold said. “Treg (Francis) gets the walk, then gets to second on a pitch in the dirt.”

Pinch-hitter Andrew Daniel and DH Bryan Drees drew walks and suddenly the bases were loaded.

“Andrew (Daniel) has been a monster (as pinchhitter) for us all season,” Gold said. “He was able to get a walk and so was Brad (Schafer).” when both That’s coaches went looking for some magic and only Russia had the “Gold”en touch. brought Arcanum Austin Ripple in to pitch and Gold countered with pinch-hitter Brandon Barlage.

“It is a position everyone dreams of being in,” Barlage said. “I was just looking for a way to get on.”

It only took one pitch.

He was plunked on Ripple’s first pitch, scoring Francis from third with what would be the winning run.

“I really didn’t know what to think,” Barlage

said when he saw the pitch coming at him. “It was exciting to be able to get the run in.”

Trevor Sherman then worked a full-count, before fouling off several pitches and drawing a walk to score a second run without a Russia hit in the inning.

“Four walks and a hit batter,” Gold said. “That’s pretty amazing.”

And it was all Francis would need. He finished off a five-hit, 96-pitch masterpiece with two fly balls to Bryan Drees in right after allowing a oneout single to Jacob Weaver. He struck out two and walked two.

“There was no doubt I was going to finish it,” Francis said. “When it happened (the runs in the sixth inning), it just felt great to have those runs.”

Russia’s line of three hits, two errors and eight left on base doesn’t sound like a winning combination.

“First, Treg (Francis) just pitched an amazing game,” Gold said. “He was a little out of rhythm and he didn’t get much help from our defense. To keep Arcanum from scoring in the first three innings and only give up one run in the fourth, we were pretty fortunate.

“Treg made some good pitches and Arcanum hit some balls right at us.”

Arcanum had second and third with one-out in the second and Francis got a strikeout and slow roller back to him to end the threat.

In third Arcanum had a runner on third with one out and Francis got a line drive to first baseman Isaiah Counts and ground out to shortstop Cole McEldowney to end it.

“I was a little out of rhythm at the start,” Francis said. “I knew I was going to have to slam

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She, then transferred to Piqua for her junior and senior years.

“I wanted to have fun my junior and seniors years,” Kiefer said. “Now, I am ready to get back into it. I have got to back into (swimming) shape, but I have already started training.”

Not that she wasn’t successful at Piqua.

Kiefer has a knack from raising her game at the right time — and she qualified for state in the 100 backstroke in Division I the last two years.

“I think that was a great accomplishment, especially because she was swimming by herself (at district),” Piqua coach Lisa Seas said.

And Kiefer wouldn’t have done anything differently.

“I feel good about what I accomplished in high school,” she said. “Especially my first two years (placing at state).”

It was a special day for Seas as well.

“Hopefully, the kids in our program will see this (someone swimming Division I),” Kiefer said.

“Hopefully, that will help our program.

“This means a lot to me because I have been watching Emma (Kiefer) swim since she was six years old.”

Seas expects Kiefer to be a success at Bowling Green.

“I think it is a great fit,” she said. “But, I think Emma could swim for just about any program.”

Kiefer knows success at Bowling Green won’t come easily.

“I know I am going to have to work really hard,” she said. “I am determined I am going to be successful at Bowling Green.

“It’s exciting to be getting back into the program.”

And what could be more fun than that?

the door if we wanted to win.”

Russia had taken a 1-0 lead in the first when Sherman walked, McEldowney sacrificed him to second, he moved to third on balk and scored on Bailey Francis’ fielder’s choice.

Arcanum tied it in the fourth when Garno led off with a triple and Donnie Kress singled him in.

An error put runners on first and second with no outs, but Counts fielded an attempted sacrifice and fired a throw to Austin Gariety at third for a force out.

“That was a big play,” Treg Francis said.

Francis got a fly out and fielder’s choice to end it and aided by a double play to end the fifth from second baseman Cordonnier to McEldowney to Counts, kept Arcanum from threatening again.

“I don’t get nervous out there,” Francis said. “I just make pitches and let my defense make plays.”

That set up the bizarre sixth inning that sent Russia, 23-7, to today’s regional final.

It is the third for Gold, who took both Miami East and Piqua to regional finals.

“Both times we got beat by the eventual state champion,” Gold said. “So, hopefully, it will be different this time.”

The players understand what is at stake as well.

“We have got a chance to do something a Russia baseball team hasn’t done in 40 years,” Francis said.

“We need to take advantage of an opportunity like that.”

And prove there truly is something special about this Russia team.

Covington had its spring awards program recently.

Special Awards winners included BASEBALL MVP: Austin Angle, Bryton Lear Coach’s Award: Isaac Canan Dr. Girouard Sportsmanship Award: Isaac Canan Dick Minnich Award: Austin Angle, Kyler Deeter Offensive Player: Justin Williams Defensive Player: Bryton Lear Kent Moore Memorial Award: Bryton Lear 3-Year Award: Austin Angle, Kyler Deeter, Bryton Lear, Sheldon Rank, Justin Williams CCC Academic: Brock Smith, Austin Angle, Austin Lefeld.

BOYS TRACK & FIELD MVP Track: Troy Cron, AJ Ouellette, Lane White MVP Field: Ryan Craft Dr. Girouard Sportsmanship Award: Trent Tobias Dick Minnich Award: Ryan Craft, Trent Tobias Coach’s Award: Dalton Bordelon Most Improved: Alex Schilling Mr. Relay: Dustin Fickert 3-Year Award: Alex Baskerville, Troy Cron, Matt Reck, Dalton Bordelon, Alex Fries, AJ Ouellette, Lane White 4-Year Award: Dustin Fickert, Trent Tobias CCC Academic: Trent Tobias, Ryan Craft, Matthew Reck, Tyler Henry, Ben Miller, Nathan Dunn, Alex Schilling

SOFTBALL Coach’s Award: Brittanie Flora Dr. Girouard Sportsmanship Award: Haley Adams Dick Minnich Award: Heidi Snipes, Jessica Shilt Offensive Player: Jessie Shilt, Connor Schaffer Defensive Player: Heidi Snipes, Casey Yingst 3-Year Award: Haley Adams 4-Year Award: Kyrstyn Boyer, Brittanie Flora, Connor Schaffer, Jessie Shilt, Heidi Snipes, Casey Yingst CCC Academic: Kyrstyn Boyer, Casey Yingst, Morgan Arbogast, Cassidy Cain, Heidi Cron

GIRLS TRACK & FIELD MVP Track: Tara Snipes, Jackie Siefring MVP Field Events: Jenna Rindler Dr. Girouard Sportsmanship Award: Sadie Canan Dick Minnich Award: Tara Snipes Lady Trackster Award: Shianne Fortner, Julianna Yingst Most Improved: Briana Grilliot Coach’s Award: Carly Shell 3-Year Award: Briana Grilliot, Hannah Retz, Anna Snyder 4-Year Award: Tara Snipes, Jenna Rindler CCC Academic: Jenna Rindler, Tara Snipes, Jackie Siefring, Sadie Canan

All-SCL teams named Softball, baseball players honored The All-Shelby County League baseball and softball teams were released recently.

In baseball, Russia’s Trevor Sherman, Bailey Francis and Treg Francis were named to the first team.

On the second team were Cole McEldowney, Russia; and Jamie Riffell,

Houston.

Named honorable mention were Isaiah Counts, Russia; and Tyler Davis, Houston.

In softball, four local players were honored on the first team.

They included Nicolette Holthaus, Hannh Trent and Macey Stang, Houston; and Olivia Monnin,

Russia.

Named to the second team from Houston were Kayla New and Sara Young as well as Alex Counts from Russia.

Receiving honorable mention were Alyssa and Taylor Stang Willoughby, Houston; and Heidi Petty and Julia Drees, Russia.

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University.

“They called me,” Kiefer said with a laugh when asked why she made the decision to swim for Bowling Green.

Actually, there was a little more to it than that for the daughter of Greg and Patti Kiefer.

“I was already going to go to Bowling Green for my major,” Kiefer said. “It is special education and they have a really good program. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to swim.

“But, when there coach contacted me, I knew that is what I wanted to do.”

Kiefer’s energy for the sport has been rekindled after two years at Piqua.

For 12 years, swimming was everything for Kiefer.

As a freshman and sophomore, she placed sixth in the Division II 100 backstroke at the state meet, where she also qualified in the 200 individual medley as a sophomore.

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BY MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A young Lebanese immigrant was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling city street near the Chicago Cubs’ baseball stadium.

Sami Samir Hassoun’s sentencing in federal court in Chicago came little more than a month after bombs concealed in backpacks exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding hundreds more.

In imposing the sentence, the judge invoked the specter of the Boston Marathon, saying had Hassoun’s bomb been real, it would have made Boston look like a minor incident by comparison.

Minutes before, Hassoun, a 25-year-old onetime Chicago baker and candy-store worker, apologized for what he’d done in a five-minute statement.

Crying, he also turned to look at his mother and several friends on a nearby bench and told them he was sorry “for the shame I brought on you.�

His mother sobbed aloud and said back to her son: “I love you.�

The defense has depicted Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth sucked into the 2010 terrorism sting during an alcohol-addled stretch of his life by an informant eager to please his FBI handlers.

But prosecutors say he showed enthusiasm and initiative, including by deciding to drop the device given to him by undercover agents into a trash bin near Wrigley Field and a bar packed with latenight revelers.

As part of a plea deal with the government, Hassoun pleaded guilty last year to two explosives counts. In return, he faced a sentencing range of 20 to 30 years, rather than a maximum term of life in prison.

At Thursday’s hearing, government attorneys displayed the fake bomb undercover agents gave to Hassoun on a September weekend in 2010. It’s a paint can fitted with blasting caps and a timer.

They also played a surveillance video of Hassoun dropping the device into a trash bin near the stadium shortly after receiving it. FBI agents arrested him moments later.

Before Thursday’s sentencing, Hassoun apologized in a seven-page letter to his sentencing judge, Robert Gettleman.

He also insisted he’s worked hard at becoming a better person, including by doing yoga in jail.

The Beirut-born Hassoun blamed his actions in part on childhood trauma living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. During civil strife there, Hassoun, then 11, witnessed machete killings from an apartment balcony, he wrote.

Fleeing that African nation, he said he left everything he knew behind, even his beloved collection of “ninja turtles, matchbox cars (and) Japanese cartoons.� His family emigrated from Lebanon to the U.S. in 2008.

To dampen his lingering emotional pain, he wrote that he drank alcohol “all day, every day� for months before the would-be stadium attack in 2010. He favored whole bottles of Johnnie Walker Black, he wrote.

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Enter on Winston, Chevington Chase, or Stonehenge.

TROY 1101 South Walnut Street Friday and Saturday 9am-6pm Baby crib/day bed, changing table, rocking chair, car seats, baby clothes birth24 months, Avon, Nascar models , luggage, miscellaneous tools, and lots of miscellaneous Child / Elderly Care Do you need summer childcare? All 3 shifts, retired nurse, 4H advisor, references.

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BY JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s biggest bicycle-sharing program got rolling Monday, as thousands of New Yorkers got their first chance to ride a network billed as a new form of public transit in a city known for it.

Suraf Asgedom pedaled along a lower Manhattan street on one of the royalblue, quick-rental bikes, headed for a gourmet supermarket that’s usually a 25-minute walk from his apartment. The medical executive doesn’t own a bicycle because it’s a hassle to haul one downstairs, find a place to lock it up on the street and worry about it, he said.

“This just makes it much more convenient,” said Asgedom, 39, who plans to use the bike system to get to work at a downtown hospital.

The privately financed program — called Citi Bike, after lead sponsor Citigroup Inc. — kicked off with 6,000 bikes at more than 300 stations.

Plans call for expanding it to 10,000 bikes docked at 600 places in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Riders now can unlock the three-gear, cruising-style bikes from any station, take them for 45-minute rides and return them to any rack.

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Tourists sit on bikes that are available as part of a bike share program Monday in New York. The privately funded Citi Bike bike-share program will launch with 6,000 bikes at 330 docking stations in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Officials hope to expand to 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

“We now have an entirely new transportation network without spending any taxpayer money,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.

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A great summer for U.S. theme park vacation ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — If there’s ever been a summer to visit a theme park — or two, or three — this is it.

High speed wooden roller coasters? Thrilling, sense-assaulting rides? Penguins?

Yes, yes and most definitely.

In Orlando alone, four of the area’s big parks — Disney, Universal, Legoland and SeaWorld — have opened, or are about to open, new attractions. Cedar Point in Ohio unveiled a new roller coaster a few weeks ago and in Las Vegas, a $50 million water park debuted on Memorial Day weekend. In California, visitors to Disneyland can meet all of the Disney Princesses in one place. Elsewhere in the Golden State, four different parks boast new roller coasters.

“Wherever you live, that park is likely to have something new,” said Jeremy Schoolfield, the senior editor of Funworld Magazine, the trade publication for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA). “There’s lots of innovations, what we call immersive experiences.”

There’s been an onslaught of new attractions in Orlando in recent months.

Back in December, Disney World opened a newly expanded Fantasyland, the largest project in the park’s 41-year history. There are two sections: Enchanted Forest, where visitors will find Belle from “Beauty and the Beast” and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid,” and Storybook Circus, which is inspired by the Disney film “Dumbo.”

A new ride called Under the Sea-Journey of the Little Mermaid and Enchanted Tales With Belle, a walkthrough experience that features a magical mirror and costumed characters, will impress movie lovers. And the popular Dumbo attraction is now a little less crowded, because Disney built a second, identical ride.

The new spaces are built on what was once the site of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea experience, and the expansion doubles the size of the original Fantasyland.

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dent of the Walt Disney World Resort, said that if he were bringing his family to the park on a summer day, he would begin with the Enchanted Tales with Belle experience, then check out the new Doc McStuffins segment at Disney Junior-Live on Stage at Hollywood Studios.

Hollywood Studios is also the place to find costumed characters from the DisneyPixar movie Monsters University.

“Something new in every park makes it easy to satisfy everybody in the family,” he said.

Over at Universal Orlando, a 3-D theme park ride based on the Transformers toy and film brand will open June 20; a similar ride is already open at Universal’s parks in California and Singapore.

The park describes the ride as an interactive,“larger than life battle” between the Autobots and Decepticons. It uses flight simulator technology, along with wind, heat and smoke to make the riders feel immersed in the experience.

At SeaWorld Orlando, the Antarctica — Empire of the Penguin attraction opened on May 24.

With a ride, restaurants and the penguin habitat, it’s the largest expansion in the park’s history.

The ride takes visitors through a queue, themed around a fictional penguin named Puck. As visitors make their way through the queue and ride, the temperature keeps dropping — until visitors are in 30-degree temperatures.

The ride ends at the penguin habitat, where more than 250 birds live. Visitors can watch the birds frolic on shore or underwater.

Park executive said that in doing research for a new attraction, penguins are a big draw at parks.

“As we developed this attraction, we found that adults like penguins just as much as kids, and we’ve seen adults act just like kids when they’re around them,” said Terry Prather, the vice president of park operations at SeaWorld Orlando.

Busch Gardens in Tampa has two new offerings: the Madagascar Live show and

three just-born rare Malayan tiger cubs.

Over at Legoland Florida, the park is expanding to include a new ride and interactive play area based on the company’s popular Legends of Chima product line.

The section, which is scheduled to open July 3, will include an interactive water ride called The Quest for Chi, a Lego-building challenge, a 4-D movie and a meet-and-greet with costumed characters.

perstorm Sandy, and a woman made off with one of the bicycles Sunday evening as workers unloaded them at a Manhattan station, police said.

Bloomberg said the bike was recovered. Police were looking for a suspect.

Some residents are incensed about the bike stations, saying the racks block entrances to their buildings or take up park space for a profit-making program. The city intends to split any proceeds with NYC Bike Share LLC, a company running the program. Citigroup is paying $41 million to sponsor it.

MasterCard is paying an additional $6.5 million.

“We’re not against the bikes — we’re against them in our park,” said Lora Tenenbaum, one of the sign-carrying critics who came to Bloomberg’s news conference. They

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BY TAMARA LUSH Associated Press

Transportation Commissioner Janette SadikKahn said.

While many New Yorkers already do without cars, Bloomberg’s administration has added hundreds of miles of bike lanes and promoted cycling as a healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to driving. Officials see bike-sharing as a big next step.

So do Mick and Victoria Patterson, who took a look at a lower Manhattan Citi Bike station Monday and plan to sign up. They split their time between New York and Los Angeles.

“We really need to be rethinking the use of the automobile, and this is part of it,” Mick Patterson said.

The bike-sharing rollout has hit some bumps.

The launch was delayed because of problems including damage from Su-

want a bike station in Petrosino Square, a small park, to be shifted to an on-street car-parking area across the street.

Some racks have been shortened or moved, including one in front of a Greenwich Village apartment house where owners sued the city over it. Some of the rack was removed last week to create a gap in front of the main door.

Still, resident Deborah Stone worries that the remaining bike rack could make it difficult for emergency vehicles to pull over near the building. doesn’t belong “It there,” she said by phone.

Officials say they held 400 community meetings to decide where to put the racks. And Bloomberg noted that New Yorkers have long had to work around parked cars and other curbside obstacles.

“We have a busy city,” he said, and “we like that.

That’s good.”

Citi Bike subscribers pay a $95 annual fee for unlimited rides of 45 minutes. Starting June 2, riders also will be able to buy a 24-hour pass for about $10 and a seven-day pass for $25; both allow for an unlimited number of 30minute trips. The usage time is logged when a bicycle is returned to a dock, with additional charges if the bikes have been out past the allotted time.

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