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PIQUA — Though the agenda contains a purchase order for road salt, don’t pack away the sunscreen and swimsuits just yet as the last commission meeting of the summer season gets underway at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the government complex.

Starting out the night’s meeting city leaders and commissioners will begin with old business related to nuisance assessment ordinances. No frets, it’s not about snow — yet.

But these second readings do pertain to issues revolving around tall grass, trash, and building demolitions, among other nuisances. As according to Amy Welker, Health and Sanitation Director, at the previous commission meeting, many of the properties in question are either abandoned or foreclosed. With the city seeking unpaid costs for rectifying such nuisance issues via placement of monies owed to individual property taxes by the county auditor.

Bill Lutz, development program manager, also spoke on a similar, second ordinance at the previous city commission in regards to demolitions.

Half of the assessment costs for the demo work being billed back to the owners, with any unpaid fees to be added to their property taxes.

Commission will then proceed with two, firstreading ordinances under the agenda’s new business.

The first ordinance will cover appropriations for the city — general housekeeping by the finance department to cover unexpected expenses during the fiscal year. While the second will look to amend traffic schedules for a potential conversion of Wood Street into a one-way eastbound street between Covington Avenue and College Street.

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PIQUA — New Bennett Intermediate School Principal Chris Barr says he is excited to be back with the Piqua City School District and is looking forward to a wonderful school year.

Barr has been busy since the end of July getting acclimated to Bennett, 625 S. Main St., and says he is look-

ing forward to the new school facilities in the district that will open next year.

This week Barr was placing the finishing touches on his preparation for the coming school year with the staff.

Barr graduate from Sidney High School, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne

(where he also played baseball), and his master’s degree in quality schools from Graceland University. He acquired his principal’s license from the University of Dayton.

He first came to the district in 2005 and served through 2011 by teaching special education science classes at the Piqua High School, but left for two years to serve as an assistant

principal at Graham, which he said “was a very good learning experience.”

Now that he is back working with the Piqua City School District Barr said he and his family feel fortunate.

“Coming back to the area was definitely attractive,” Barr said.

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Spectators watch a runway show at the 8th Annual Weddings of Distinction Bridal Show held at Fort Piqua Plaza on Sunday. Vendors from around the area displayed their wedding-related products and services at the show.

Remembering D-Day WWII vets relive historic event through re-enactment Mike Ullery

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CONNEAUT, Ohio — “It’s about them.”

Those words were used repeatedly this past weekend in the small town of Conneaut, Ohio, where thousands gathered to re-enact the Normandy invasion— D-Day. “Them” refers to the dwindling number of World War II veterans who attend the annual recreation of on the most historic events in the history of our country.

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They also prefer the focus of all efforts be on “them,” the veterans of World War II, who gave so much, yet, on their return home, asked so little.

Mike Ullery/Staff Photo D-Day Conneaut is the largest D-Day living history experience in the United Lee Adams, of Piqua, left, and Kimberly Chiodo, a retired U.S. Navy Senior States. More than 750 re-enactors take Chief Petty Officer, right, escort U.S. Army veteran Arden Earll, of Clorry, visitors back to the 1940s. American, Penn., aboard a Higgins Boat during D-Day Conneaut in Conneaut, Ohio, on Friday. Earll is a veteran of the Normandy invasion, having landed on

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2 Monday, August 19, 2013 MARGARET H. ‘PEG’ BRANDON SIDNEY — Margaret H. “Peg” Brandon, 73, of Sidney, formerly of Piqua, died at 10:15 a.m.

Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, at her daughter’s residence.

She was born June 21, 1940, in Piqua, to the late Anthony and Gertrude (Coppernol) Mabbitt.

Mrs. Brandon is survived by three children, Randy (Marcella) Varney of Sidney, Sheri (Bob) Martin of Piqua and Ellie (Judy) Varney of Troy; nine grandchildren; 16 greatgrandchildren; and a sister, Virginia “Irene” Wireman of Harrod. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Allen and Bob Mabbitt; and a sister, Mary Wright.

Peg retired from Copeland of Sidney after 40 years of service. She was also the owner and operator of Brandy’s Tanning Salon of Piqua.

Peg attended Solid Rock Pentecostal Church of God, Sidney, was a member of the Eagles #614 of Piqua and a former member of the VFW #4874 Auxiliary of Piqua. She enjoyed bingo, cooking, cake decorating and her dogs.

A funeral service to honor her life will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with the Rev. Anthony Krummrey officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

WILLIAM FREDERICK ‘FRED’ WAGNER SIDNEY — William Frederick “Fred” Wagner, 89, of Sidney, passed away at the Pavilion Nursing Home, 705 Fulton St., Sidney, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, at 3:05 a.m. He was born March 3, 1924, in Casstown, the son of Clarence and Sylvia (Buchman) Wagner and they preceded him in death.

He was married on Jan. 15, 1955, to Eileen Boerger of Sidney, and she survives along with two daughters, Sylvia Cover and husband Steve of Columbus and Sara Skelton and husband J. Michael of Mt. Gilead, and three grandchildren, Abby Cover and Fletcher and Julie Skelton. One sister, Doris McMullen is deceased.

Mr. Wagner graduated from Troy High School in 1942, and from the University of Dayton in 1950, with a degree in civil engineering. He was proud of being a Marine, serving in World War II for 3½ years, with one year in the South Pacific as a navigator-bombardier, Korean War for 1½ years in Japan and Korea as a navigator, where he was awarded two Air Medals and also awarded eight other medals for good conduct and area medals designating duty in the Phillipines, China, Japan and Korea.

In 1979, he retired from the District 07 of

the Ohio Department of Transportation with 30 years. He served 20 years in construction as project engineer of 10 projects, including I-70 and I-75 and four years as district deputy. He then worked for Frantz Brothers.

He was a licensed professional engineer and was awarded the “Iron Man” award.

He received 25 AASHO awards.

He had an NSPE lifetime membership, was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Sidney, Sidney American Legion, University of Dayton Alumni Golden Flyer, National Democrat Party and Holy Angels Catholic Church.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held on Aug. at Holy Angels Catholic Church with the Rev. Dan Schmitmeyer. Burial followed in St. Michael’s Cemetery, Fort Loramie, with full military honors.

A Knights of Columbus service was held at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Holy Angels School, 120 E. Water St., Sidney, OH 45365 or Lehman High School, 2400 St. Mary’s Ave., Sidney, OH 45365.

Condolences may be expressed to the Wagner family on Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home’s web site at: www. salm-mcgillandtangemanfh.com.

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Obituaries LETA V. BUTZIER PIQUA — Leta V. Butzier, 89,of Piqua and a former resident of Bettesville, died at 2:05 p.m. Friday Aug. 16, 2013 at Heartland of Piqua Nursing Home.

She was born Feb. 2, 1924, in Fostoria, to the late Chauncie and Eva (Morrison) Bostic. She married Lester H. Butzier June 1, 1947; he preceded her in death in 1981.

Survivors include a daughter, Margo (David) Bush of Piqua; two grandchildren, Amanda D.Bowman (Jeff Roseberry II) of Troy and Liberty J. (Emily) Bowman of Franklin; and a sister, Nancy (Jim) Hagenmaier of Fostoria.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Harry Bostic, Forest Bostic, Floyd Bostic and a sister, Dorothy Douglas.

Mrs. Butzier gradu-

ated from Fostoria High School in 1942, and retired in 1986 from the Singer Controls Co. in Fremont. She enjoyed the casinos on the Ohio River, playing bingo, playing lottery tickets, holiday gatherings with her family and was a Cincinnati Reds fan.

Private services are being provided to her family through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Private burial will take place in Kansas Cemetery in Seneca County, Kansas, Ohio. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bethany Center, 339 South St., Piqua, OH 45356. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through j a m i e s o n a n d ya n n u c c i . com.

DARLA E. BEHM PIQUA — Darla E. Behm, 52, of Piqua, died at 6:50 pm Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, in Piqua. She was born Dec. 10, 1960, in Piqua to the late Gene Dankworth and Donna (Scheik) Dankworth, who lives in Piqua. She married Craig D. Behm Aug. 7, 1980; and he survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, D’Anne (Jason) Wappelhorst and Chelsea Behm, all of Piqua; three sons, Dale (Dorian) Dankworth of Athens, Tenn., Darren (Destiny) Behm and Donald (Heather) Behm all of Piqua; 12 grandchildren; and three brothers, Doug (Jackie) Dankworth of Cocoa, Fla., Donnie

(Shelley) Dankworth of Bradford, David Dankworth of Minster. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by a granddaughter.

Mrs. Behm worked in customer service all of her life. She enjoyed painting, cleaning, collecting oil lamps and spending time with her family.

Private services are being provided through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to one’s favorite charity.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

LYNNE L. CRUSEY-DEMBSKI SIDNEY— Lynne L. Crusey-Dembski, 67, of Sidney, went home to be with the Lord at 8:20 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, at her residence. She was born in Dayton, on Dec. 15, 1945, to the late Forrest and Josephine (Zwiesler) Valentine.

On Aug. 7, 1965, in Sidney, she married C. David Crusey and he preceded her in death on May 26, 2002. She then married James Dembski, who preceded her in death on July 28, 2013.

Lynne is also survived by one son and daughter-in-law: Philip and Dawn Crusey of Piqua, as well as three stepsons and daughters-in-law, James and Margy Dembski, Sidney, Jerry and Francine Dembski, Sidney, and Jon and Connie Dembski of Piqua; one stepdaughter and son-in-law: Julie and Tom Tyler of Piqua; two sisters: Karen Valduga, Georgia and Beth Fruchey of Sidney; 21 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one sister: Sandra Jacob.

Lynne graduated from

Sidney High School in 1963.

She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Church, Seminole, Fla., and St. Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua. Lynne was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 138. She worked as a probation officer for Shelby County Juvenile Court for over 20 years before retiring in 2000.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua, with the Rev. Fr. Angelo Caserta, Celebrant, and the Rev. Fr. Charles Caserta, Co-Celebrant. Burial will follow in Graceland Cemetery, Sidney. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua. Prayers will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Boniface Catholic Church, 310 S. Downing St., Piqua, OH 45356. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

Ohio aiming to raise child support collection C O LU M BU S ( A P ) — A st atewide push to improve child sup port collection rates is getting mixed results from county to county in Ohio.

T h e va r y i n g o u tcomes can be attrib u t e d m a i n l y t o t wo things, say child sup port experts: how much money counties spend to find those who owe child support and the economy in the individual counties.

Ohio last year set a goal of increasing col-

lections to 70 percent by the middle of 2015 so that it can to apply for federal grants to p ay fo r c a s ewo rke rs and programs to help parents.

T h e s t at e ave ra ge is about 66 percent , which is still better than the national average of 61 percent , said B enj amin Johnson, a D e p a r t m e n t o f Jo b a n d Fa m i l y S e r v i c e s spokesman.

Two of Ohio’s biggest counties, C u ya h o ga a n d H a m i l t o n , we re among those with

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the lowest collection rat e s . M e i gs C o u n t y in southeast Ohio, which had the worst unemployment rate in the state in June, also was near the bottom in collections.

The d i re c t o r of Fr a n k l i n C o u n t y ’s Child Support E n fo rc e m e n t A ge n c y said that the number o f p a re n t s w i t h l at e child-support payments grew in recent ye a rs w i t h t h e e c o nomic downturn.

A l m o s t a t h i rd o f those who owe in the

c o u n t y t h at i n c l u d e s Columbus have limited education and are l i kel y t o e a r n l owe r wa ge s , s a i d S u s a n B ro w n , d i re c t o r o f Fr a n k l i n C o u n t y ’s agency.

Another factor is government funding.

Each county decides how much it wants to spend on collecting child support , meaning that the number of cases assigned to child-support casewo rke rs d i f f e rs b y county.

MARCELLA R. MAHAN ST. PARIS — Marcella R. Mahan, 91, of St. Paris, passed away at 9:40 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, in Hearth and Home of Urbana.

Born on April 7, 1922, in South Charleston, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Elva (Slagle) Massie. She married Roger Jason Mahan on April 25, 1943, and he preceded her in death on May 11, 1988.

Mrs. Mahan is survived by two children: David (Marjorie) Mahan of St. Paris and Sheryl Lee of Columbus; two grandchildren: Jamey (Karen) Mahan of St. Paris and Kristy (Mark) Lightner of Huber Heights; and five great-grandchildren: Derek, Lindsey and Logan Mahan, and Josh and Hayley Lightner. She is also survived by four sisters: Agnes Lemmon, Eleanora Schneider, Rosella Lee and Mary Lee; and two brothers: Jerry (Gloria) Massie and Roger (Sandy) Massie and many nieces, nephews and extended family members.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a

sister, Eloise Putnam, and two brothers, Raymond and Francis Massie.

Mrs. Mahan was a graduate of Westville High School and attended Bowling Green University.

She loved playing basketball and was proud to play on the high school and college teams. She retired from Hirchfeld Agri Service in Degraff and she was a member of the First Baptist Church of St. Paris.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the First Baptist Church, St. Paris, with the Rev. Dr. James VanZile and the Rev. Paul Mitchell presiding. Burial will follow in Rosedale Cemetery, Conover.

Visitation for family and friends will be held on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. in the Atkins-Shively Funeral Home, 216 S. Springfield St., Saint Paris. Memorial contributions in Mrs. Mahan’s name may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 584, St. Paris, OH 43072. Condolences to the family may be sent to www.shivelyfuneralhomes.com.

Commission From page A1 ning, three resolutions will seek to authorize purchasing the aforementioned road salt for the Street Department and whether or not to award a contract for the Fountain Park Bridge Rehab project. A late addition to the commission agenda for Tuesday included a resolution to amend an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for the US 36 beautifica-

tion project.

Commission meetings are held every first and third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the commission chamber on the second floor of the Government Municipal Complex.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend with a copy of the meeting agenda available at the city’s website: www. piquaoh.org.

Bennett From page A1 munity. … I think this is a great school district and you don’t find better teachers than in Piqua.”

Barr and his wife, Megan, a biology teacher at the high school, reside in Piqua and have two children, Cael, a fourth-grader, and Laurynn, a third-grader.

Officially, Barr began his new duties July 29, and since that time has been getting acquainted with the aging school building, which was built in 1929.

“There are issues with it (the building), especially when you start talking about technology and you start talking about conducive learning environments,” said Barr, who looks forward to the school district’s news schools that will be opening next school year. “We don’t have those things, but we will with the new building.”

Barr said he is really anticipating the new school, but knows it will take a lot to make a smooth transition.

“Any time you are going to move into a new building facility there are all types

of different emotions that go with it,” Barr said.

While Barr is looking forward to the upcoming school year and working with the approximate student body of 250, he does admit he is anticipating the new school.

However, he said it’s important to make sure the transition to the new school is a smooth one in order to “provide the very best for our students.”

“I am looking forward to working with the students and getting my hands dirty with them,” he said. “We want to be able to create a positive environment for the students and help them reach their goals. Everything they want to do in life is at their finger tips. As long as they work hard for it and put forth the effort, that’s all that’s needed.”

Barr also said he could not have a better staff than the one he has.

“We have a wonderful staff,” he said. “I feel like I have been dealt the dream team. They have been phenomenal to work with.”

Dayton eatery to auction memorabilia DAYTON (AP) — A 113-year-old restaurant in southwest Ohio will auction off its antiques, memorabilia and equipment next month after an attempt to sell the building and contents together failed.

The lone bid of $50,000 was well below the $175,000 minimum that had been set by the owners of the Stockyard Inn

in Dayton.

The building has operated as a restaurant since 1900 and still has its original bar.

The current owners have had the building for 35 years and set the auction for Sept. 14.

The Dayton Daily News reports the building has had only four owners in its 113-year history.

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Feels calls for local actors Temps to climb again

TROY — When the Mumford & Sons’ Gentlemen of the Road Tour performs in Troy Aug. 30 and Aug. 31, the British immersive theatre company Reuben Feels will perform, too.

Reuben Feels is calling for actors and drummers to participate in a roaming, theatrical engagement during that weekend.

Immersive theatre is a concept that incorporates the audience and makes them part of the storytelling experience. Reuben Feels have worked extensively with Mumford & Sons in the past, appearing on the cover of Grammy awardwinning album, “Babel.”

The troupe already has performed in the Lewes Stopover Festival in Lewes, England. In Lewes, the company researched the town history and incorporated

its culture and local identity into the festival-wide performances.

“No longer is the audience a mere spectator. The world of the actors is the world of the audience.

We connect them to our narrative, fully engage them, and give them permission to play,” a member of the theatre group said.

Reuben Feels is looking for local thespians and participants to fill its cast during the Troy show. The group is looking for six actors and six actresses who have strong improvisational skills, are great listeners and reactor, have immersive theatre experience (ideally), can build a character while understanding the importance of being grounded in a reality, can engage truthfully with guests; there is no fourth wall, are confident, enthusiastic, understand the generous

idea of “yes and…” in the rehearsal room, are team players, and are passionate about playing.

Get set for a BIG warm-up as the mercury climbs Reuben Feels are also searching into the upper 80s by the middle part of this week. for drummers that can participate High 84 Low 60 in a drum corps that will travel throughout the venue into a largescale powdered paint fight. Anyone with experience in either of these two fields is invited to try out. In order to audition, complete the following: Improvise a scene to camera based on “A Day in the Life of a Scout Leader,” one minute maxiMostly Partly mum length. Get as creative as you sunny cloudy like but always seek for truth in your choices.

Upload your audition to YouTube HIGH: 88 LOW: 65 and send the link to play@reuben- HIGH: 85 LOW: 63 feels.com.

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Colton Jones Birthdate: Aug. 20, 2009 Age: 4 Parents: Steve Jones and Brittany Dagley of Piqua Siblings: Nicholas Jones of Piqua; Kyndra and Erianna Jones of Cincinnati Grandparents: Peggy and Larry Jones and Jill Banning, all of Piqua Greatgrandparents: Dick and Janet Kolker of Piqua

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Ed Thornburg, who has been chosen to judge the Piqua Arts Council’s Fine Art Show on Sept. 12, has created award-winning metal works including “Survivors,” pictured above.

Artist-lecturer Thornburg to judge PAC art show PIQUA — The 21st annual Piqua Fine Art Show is just around the corner and Piqua Arts Council is proud to announce its selection for show judge. PAC has invited Ed Thornburg, lecturer in fine arts at Indiana University East, to select the award winners.

Thornburg, who holds a master’s degree in education and a bachelor’s in fine art from Ball State University, is an accomplished juror and artist. ED THORNBURG His works in metal have won awards in the HWD the Area 9 Competition in (Height, Width, Depth) Richmond, Ind. As the judge of the Piqua Exhibit at Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Best of Fine Art Show, Thornburg Show at Adkins Arboretum will judge approximately Juried Competition in 200 works of art from Ridgely, Md., and many local and regional artists more. He also has judged in a variety of categories shows in Ohio, Indiana including drawings, paintand Kentucky including ings, watercolors, photog-

raphy, three-dimensional works and mixed media.

The exhibit opens with a gala awards reception on Sept. 12 from 6-8 p.m. at Apple Tree Gallery. Tickets for the gala are on sale now at Readmore’s Hallmark, the Arts Council’s office and on the PAC website, www.PiquaArtsCouncil. org. The exhibit opens to the public Sept. 13 during normal AppleTree Gallery hours. The prospectus for the exhibit and entry form can be found online at the PAC website.

In addition to the art show, PAC has collected 15 works of art for an artwork raffle. Tickets for the raffle can be purchased at Readmore’s Hallmark, the PAC office, 427 N. Main St., and from board members and Piqua Visual Art

Society members.

One winner will be chosen and they will receive their pick of the 15 works of art. The rest of the pieces will then be made available to the public for $150 each. The drawing will take place on Sept. 12 as part of the gala awards reception.

Piqua Arts Council is dedicated to making the arts accessible to our community through education, support, and presentation.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Fall Art Walk on Sept. 13. For more information on upcoming PAC activities, visit the council’s website. For volunteer opportunities, call (937) 773-9630 or email Jordan Knepper at Jordan@ PiquaArtsCouncil.org.

Supervisor to be voted in at Miami SWCD TROY — The Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission will have an election of supervisors of the Miami Soil and Water Conservation District.

Residents or landowners, firms and corporations that own land or occupy land in Miami County and are 18 year of age and older may vote for supervisor. A nonresident landowner, firm or corporation must provide an affidavit of eligibility, which includes designation of a vot- Nick Shellenberger ing representative, prior to casting a ballot. Residents, which will take place from firms, corporations, LLCs, 5:30-7 p.m. Sept. 5; (2) At the Miami SWCD trusts and non-residents that office until noon Sept. 5; or own land or occupy lands (3) Vote absentee by in Miami County wishing to vote absentee by mail must requesting the proper absenrequest this absentee ballot tee request forms from the application no earlier than Miami SWCD office at the Aug. 15 and the district office following address: Miami must receive the request no SWCD, 1330 N. County Road later than five days prior to 25-A, Suite C; Troy; phone the election (Aug. 29). The number (937) 335-7645.

One supervisor will be election for Miami SWCD elected, and the nominees will be Sept. 5. are: There are three ways an eli• Nick Shellenberger gible voter can cast a ballot: He and his wife Jennifer (1) At the annual meeting, reside outside of Pleasant Hill

Wade Wilhelm

in Newton Township, raising their six children.

Working a 70-acre dairy farm and currently milking 35 cows, Nick also works a rotation of corn, barley and hay, along with pasture for his cows. Along with raising his family, and tending to his cows and land, he also is a director of the Miami County Agricultural Society and a deacon at the First Brethren Church in Pleasant Hill.

When asked why he’d like to be a Miami SWCD Supervisor, he said it was due to an overall concern for natu-

ral resources and the practices that help benefit the land.

• Wade Wilhelm Wade Wilhelm resides in Elizabeth Township, New Carlisle with his wife, Diane.

They have two children, Steve and Michele; and three grandsons, Sam, Matthew and Will.

He and his family operate 200 acres of land in Lostcreek Township using 100 percent no-till on a corn/soybean rotation. Several years ago, Wilhelm retired after 35 years as ag instructor at Fairlawn High School, where he also spent 31 years as volleyball coach. He and his wife Diane had been 4-H instructors for more than 20 years. A member of the Miami County Farm Bureau, he and Diane attend Cove Spring Church in Walnut Grove. A current member of the Miami SWCD Board of Supervisors, if reelected, he hopes to continue advancing communication between the district, NRCS and the farmer regarding what resource practices may be available to them.

Colin Luke Roe

Birthdate: Aug. 19, 2001 Parents: Luke Roe and Sara Williams of Piqua Sibling: Caylee Roe Grandparents: Wayne and Becky Roe of Piqua, Debbie Smith of New York, Brent Williams of Bradford Great-grandparents: Richard and Viola Ault and John and Edith Williams, all of Piqua; Bill and Betty Groves and Dan and Shirley Hudson, all of Troy Great-greatgrandparent: Cledia Hubbard of Piqua

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Elizabeth School reunion planned TROY — The Elizabeth Township, Miami County School Reunion will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Elizabeth Township Community Center, 5760 Walnut Grove Road, Troy.

The reunion is open to all graduates, teachers, bus drivers or anyone who attended Elizabeth

School at any time. Please bring a covered dish and tableware. Drinks will be furnished.

For more information, call Phyllis Meek at (937) 570-8701, Lester Rosenbaum at (937) 5527752 or Glenn Musgrave at (937) 473-2608.

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SAN ANTONIO men who are Knights — The talk of the under his leaderKnights of Columbus ship “become better convention here, Catholics, better men, which I attended as better husbands.”

The Knights are an invited speaker, were missionaries increasingly dealing from the Philippines. with disaster relief The Marikina Valley — helping some of Council in Luzon trav- those devastated by eled by foot for an hour Hurricane Sandy and tornados in and a half, Oklahoma, each way, and donatto establish ing mila relationlions of ship with an dollars and i n d i ge n o u s m a n - h o u rs Dumagat to general tribe livrelief efforts ing in the across the r e m o t e country. mountains T h e despite the KATHRYN LOPEZ Knights physical and are doing language Columnist the work of challenges. civil responSevero S. Del Rosario doesn’t sibility, at a time really understand what when America’s future the big deal is. They in this regard is an were just doing what open question. In his good Christian men annual report to his do: helping, sharing brother Knights, Carl their goods and skills Anderson, head of the and spreading their organization, brought faith. Offerings of food up the Department and clothes — the of Health and Human men and women were Services’ abortion walking around largely drug, contraception exposed — soon began and sterilization mana deeper sharing date that is “only one between the communi- of many legal and ties. As the Dumagat regulatory challengpeople learned about es that threaten the Catholicism, they free exercise of reliwanted more, some gion in the United wanting to get mar- States and elsewhere ried, others wanting around the world.” He to have their children pointed to a relentlessbaptized. When the ness by which some Knights built a small attempt to “persuade chapel for the Dumagat the courts to stand the people, “they were First Amendment on overjoyed,” Rosario its head and give it tells me through some a meaning completely English and the help contrary to its origiof a Tagalog transla- nal intent.” In the face tor. What the Marikina of “those who would Valley Council is doing, banish religion from says Arsenio Isidro G. the public square,” Yap, Knights deputy he said, Knights, and for the state of Luzon, Christians more broadis an “integral part” ly, “must lead by the of Christianity, “to go good that we do” and to poor places, where “must not be silent in people are in need speaking up for our and where the faith rights … “show[ing] is not being taught to the world that it is the people.” In Manila, love that motivates us Yap’s council works to to help and protect help pregnant women the poor, the widow, and families with more the orphan, the intelchildren than they can lectually disabled, the support. Most recent- cold and the hungry. ly, they helped a small And it is that same fishing village obtain a love that motivates us no-interest loan. to work to help and As members of protect families, marthe world’s largest riage and the unborn.”

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Keep our institutions out of politics Politics is tribal, often less committed to “posibuilt on difference and divi- tive polarization,” but sion. Success can depend certainly more pragmatic, on how effectively oppo- attacked the idea full force. nents are cast as somehow Senate Minority Leader “impure” or “the other.” Mitch McConnell, House Ross Douthat, in review- leaders John Boehner, ing Rick Perlstein’s book Eric Cantor, Sens. John “Nixonland,” claimed that McCain, Lindsey Graham, “divisive rhetoric” is practi- and 2012 GOP nominee cally built into our system: Mitt Romney all came out “‘Positive polarization’ is a against the scheme. Even trick that all majority-build- some conservative senaing politicians have to man- tors opposed it: Oklahoma age, and the idea that one’s Sen. Tom Coburn called it “a pregnant political foes strategy that are not merely will deliver wrong but unnothing other American is than pain,” and as old as the Wisconsin Sen. 1800 election.”

Ron Johnson Still, differensaid shutting tiating values down the govand demonizernment “is not ing opponents the right way.” aren’t rhetoriFurther, as the cal equivalents. donna brazile nonpartisan Not all politics Congressional is “divide and Columnist Budget Office, conquer,” and noted, a shutsome forms of “positive polarization” down wouldn’t defund are more malignant than health care.

Only former House others. Thus, Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” echoes Speaker Gingrich was keen in the morphed racism of on another showdown, tellcurrent attempts at voter ing tea party Republicans suppression, exemplified to forge ahead with their by serpentine restrictions, effort. I said above, “unfortulimiting access and crass nately for the country,” and gerrymandering. The 24/7 some might wonder I, of negative campaign had all people, am discouraging been field-tested before this lemming-like impulse Newt Gingrich became among Republicans. I’ll speaker of the House, but tell you why: As Thomas many observers would Jefferson said, “I never conagree that something sidered a difference of opinchanged when the budget ion in politics, in religion, battles of 1995 and 1996 in philosophy, as cause for led to a shutdown of the withdrawing from a friend.” federal government. Instead And, as I am an American, of politics leading to policy, I want the best for all politics became the policy. Americans, even those I Although Gingrich still disagree with. That means claims the policy — or poli- preserving our institutions, tics — of the government so that we are “a governshutdown was success- ment of laws, and not of ful, the Republican Party men,” as John Adams said.

There has been, until ultimately suffered in the polls and tarred Gingrich’s recently, a consensus about image sufficiently that some how our institutions should House Republican leaders work: The majority generwould attempt a coup in ally rules, but it must com1997, and Gingrich was promise with and acknowlforced to resign a year edge the concerns of the later. Unfortunately for minority. We have balances Republicans — and the of power to prevent two country — the party re- tyrannies: a tyranny of the emphasized the “politics is majority and a tyranny of policy” after Obama’s elec- the minority.

We are now in danger tion, threatening us all with of succumbing to the lat“deja vu all over again.”

Tea party Republicans ter. The filibuster, for want to return to what example, was intended to amounts to political black- give a minority of senators, mail: Defund Obamacare or or even a single senator, we’ll shut down the gov- a chance to be heard. (As ernment. The Republican the Roosevelt Institute puts establishment, maybe no it, “think Jimmy Stewart

in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”) Instead of the Senate being a “cooling chamber” for legislation, however, now, thanks to the threat and abuse of the filibuster, it’s become a cryogenic chamber — freezing legislation until the zombie revolution.

Two-thirds of all filibusters have occurred since 1980, and Sen. McConnell has orchestrated 427 and counting. In order to get the Senate to vote on legislation — and executive branch nominations — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to wipe the filibuster from the books. Are we at such an impasse?

Apparently. It’s been the custom, except when a candidate is demonstrably unqualified, for the Senate to let the president have the people he needs to run the executive branch. But the filibuster threat has handicapped the executive branch, forcing it to work under acting directors and temporary appointments.

No institution or business can run effectively that way.

And the courts have had judgeships go vacant out of political spite. We’re crippling the functioning of our government to thwart election outcomes.

Which returns us to the government shutdown of 1995 and its sequel in 2011 — and another potential sequel this year. In the crisis of 1995-96, Republicans under Gingrich threatened to refuse to raise the debt limit. The shutdown of government and the potential of putting the country in default backfired.

Republicans tried it again in 2011, and it backfired on them in 2012.

If the tea party Republicans force the issue, it will probably backfire again. But at what cost to the country? Romney asked, “What would come next when soldiers aren’t paid, when seniors fear for their Medicare and Social Security, and when the FBI is off duty?” Is political purity really worth it?

(Donna Brazile is a senior Democratic strategist, a political commentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a contributing columnist to Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine.)

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CINCINNATI — A plan to provide housing and substanceabuse treatment for homeless veterans in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown has been derailed by a planning commission vote against it, with panel members saying the neighborhood might not be the best fit for the men and that the home was too close to other shelters.

John Porter, the homeowner, said Friday that he’s exploring options to appeal the Middletown panel’s unanimous decision against allowing the veterans to stay in the house.

Porter and Dayton-based Holt Street Miracle Center had paired up to house three to five homeless veterans as they’re treated for alcohol and substance abuse, but needed the city’s approval.

At a commission meeting Wednesday, several neighbors of the proposed veterans home spoke out against the proposal, saying they didn’t want the veterans in the neighborhood because they could add to an already rife drug problem in the area.

“I deal with people every day who are on heroin, all kinds of drug use,” neighbor Barbara Arnold told the commission before the vote, according to The Dayton Daily News. “If this goes through, honestly, I would have to move. I wouldn’t stay there. I don’t feel it’s the right thing to do.”

Supporters of the home say the veterans just need a place to pick themselves back up and are required to undergo random drug testing in order to stay in the program.

“It just tears my heart out,” said Willa Fletcher, founder of Holt Street Miracle Center, which provides housing and treatment for veterans. “They just need somebody to love them, care for them and let them know they can make it. … As much as those boys go over there and fight for America and keep the enemy out of our country, they just have nowhere to go.”

Porter, a Vietnam veteran himself, said it bothers him that neighbors didn’t want homeless veterans living in the house.

“It really hurts,” he said.

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Husband’s retirement not all it’s cracked up to be

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This April 2, 2012, file photo shows TV personality and businessman Bill Rancic in New York. Rancic embraces the notion of being part of a power couple with wife Giuliana. Together they have a reality show “Giuliana & Bill” on the Style Network and are in the restaurant business.

Rancic on being a power couple with E! News wife JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press

NEW YORK — Bill Rancic embraces the notion of being part of a power couple with wife Giuliana. Both together and separately they have pretty busy careers, made exponentially more intense with the arrival of their son, Edward Duke, last year.

You may remember Rancic from winning the inaugural season of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice.”

As the only one to not hear Donald Trump utter his trademark phrase, “You’re fired,” Rancic went on to work for the real estate mogul.

These days the couple remains busy with Giuliana hosting E! News, being part of the “Fashion Police” crew, and having her own fashion line, “G by Giuliana Rancic.” Together they have a reality show “Giuliana & Bill” on the Style Network and are in the restaurant business.

And if that’s not enough, he’s moderating a competition for small business owners sponsored by the software maker Intuit where one business wins a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl.

Recently, the 42-year-old television personality sat down with The Associated Press to talk about family, business and the power of a Super Bowl ad.

AP: You and Giuliana lead busy lives. How do you kick back?

Rancic: We run a lot. We exercise and now we have a little boy at home so I’m now a father so that’s my new role, that’s my new job and it’s the best job I’ve ever had in my life. It’s pretty amazing. He’s 11 months yesterday. He’s crawling and 25 pounds.

He’s a big kid. We just started filming another season of “Giuliana & Bill” so we will have 85 episodes completed by the end of the year this year which

in reality TV that’s like dog years.

These things don’t last that long typically.

AP: Do you ever get used to the intrusiveness of having your lives documented?

Rancic: Well, the “Giuliana & Bill” show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power but I will say in the seven seasons we’ve done the show we’ve never used our executive producer powers to cut something out. And I guess that’s what is unique about our show. We keep it real. We keep it authentic and we’ve used the show as a platform to try to tackle some heavy issues. We’ve used it for good and not evil and we’ve tackled breast cancer and infertility and a lot of my work in Haiti that we’ve covered so we’re pretty proud of the way we’ve used our platform and I think we’ve done a pretty good job over the last seven years.

AP: Tell me about your business ventures.

Rancic: Giuliana and I own some restaurants. We have RPM Italian in Chicago, we have RPM Steak opening this fall. And then we’re branching out to Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas so we’re growing our restaurant brand quite a bit. I’m really proud of Giuliana … so we’re continuing as a husband-wife team growing our entrepreneurial ventures.

AP: Why restaurants? They’re a tough business.

Rancic: We’re inspired. My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9 and then she came to America and her mom was a great cook and they have great recipes and whenever her mom would come

into town we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house and eventually we figured out why. They wanted mama’s cooking. So we took some of her mom’s recipes and we partnered with an amazing group of people.

AP: Tell me about this competition for a Super Bowl spot.

Rancic: Essentially what we’re doing is calling for small business owners to go to the website to submit their story, they get 600 characters to tell us about their business and then what we do is we turn it over to the 8,000 employees at Intuit and they narrow down the process and eventually we come to the final four and when we get to the final four small business owners we turn it over to America and America gets to vote, and in the end one small business owner will get a fully paid, fully produced commercial that’s gonna run in the biggest football game of the year.

AP: After winning the first season of “The Apprentice,” what experience do you bring to the table?

Rancic: Well, I’m a small business owner. Obviously many people may remember me as the first winner of “The Apprentice” but prior to that I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on. So it’s kind of serendipitous. Now I’m in the position where I’m going to be able to provide a lucky break to a small business owner to showcase their business on the biggest platform in the world with all the big boys, all the automotive companies and the beer companies and all these companies that are on that huge stage.

I’m gonna pay my luck forward so it’s really kind of come full circle for me.

DEAR ABBY: My husband lost his job more than a year ago because his plant closed. He was almost retirement age, so he took an early retirement. The problem is he isn’t adjusting well to the change.

He has his hobbies, but he seems to have lost interest in them. He is angry a lot of the time and lost at other times. I understand it’s a huge adjustment for him, but I’m concerned that it has been going on too long. I have tried to get him interested in things, but he doesn’t take my suggestions well anymore. He thinks I want him out of my hair, but it’s not true. I want him to be happy.

I know he’s depressed but he denies it. When other people ask how he likes retirement, he says he loves it. I think he feels silly for not enjoying it. He doesn’t want to spend money for counseling, even though he knows he can get the fee adjusted according to our income.

I’m at a loss about what to do to help him. He reads your column regularly, and I think he would take seriously any advice you could offer.

— CONCERNED WIFE IN MICHIGAN DEAR CONCERNED WIFE: Retirement is not for everyone, and not everybody “loves it.” That’s why it’s so important that before a person retires, he or she have a plan in place for staying mentally and physically active.

Your husband may have valuable skills he could pass on by mentoring others. He could volunteer in the community, delivering meals to shut-ins, coaching youngsters’ sports, help out at the police department or a hospital. All he needs to do is go to his computer and type in “volunteer opportunities in Michigan” to find plenty of opportunities. He can donate as little or as much time as he wants. But first, he will have to admit that he ISN’T loving retirement and needs an outlet. Please make sure he sees this column. ** ** ** DEAR ABBY: I’m 12, and for the last five months my family hasn’t been getting along. We act like we love

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each other, but I’m not so sure. My mom and dad have been fighting. I saw something Mom left on our computer she had been looking at, and the title was “How to Let Go of Emotions During the Divorce Process.” I don’t know if my parents are getting a divorce or not, but it’s slowly tearing my family apart, and I don’t know what to do. What can I do to prevent it? — CONFUSED PRE-TEEN DEAR CONFUSED: Tell your mother you saw the article she left on the computer, and ask her if she and your dad are separating. If the answer is yes, tell her you hope they’re getting counseling.

It is important you understand that while they both love YOU, they have reached a point where their relationship may no longer be working. Much as you might like to, there is nothing you can “do” to head this off because their problem has only to do with them and not you. ** ** ** DEAR ABBY: I was just wondering why when men drink and get drunk, they always talk about themselves. — HEATHER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE DEAR HEATHER: They may do it because the alcohol allows them to loosen up and open up. Or, because they think the subject is fascinating, and you are a willing listener. ** ** ** Dear Abby is written

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“That’s a first for me, it’s good to be a part of that,” Robertson said.

“They look like my kind of folks with the camouflage . that was cool.”

On the “Duck Dynasty” Season 4 premiere, which aired Wednesday, family members threw a surprise wedding for patriarch Phil Robertson, wearing a black jacket over camouflage garb, and his wife, Miss Kay. They could only afford a justice of the peace when they married 48 years ago.

The show drew 11.8 million viewers on the A&E channel, making it the No. 1 non-fiction series telecast in U.S. cable television history in total viewers as well as all key demographic groups.

Cook said she had been engaged to another man, but he died in a car crash four years ago. But she met Miller at the scene and eventually the two started dating.

“I never thought it would happen again,” Cook said, tearing up.

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MARS, Pa. (AP) — A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson.

WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed Saturday morning at a Field & Stream store near Pittsburgh.

Robertson popped in for the nuptials of Mehgan Cook, who sported a camouflage sash on her dress, and Charlie Miller, who was completely clad in camo gear.

The two hadn’t planned on marrying at the store but Cook said they were eager to meet Robertson.

“I was going to cancel the wedding ‘cause I heard Willie was coming,” Cook told KDKA-TV. Instead, Cook said, her mother came up with the idea of a wedding at the store — and they got a surprise when Robertson appeared during the ceremony.

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State Briefs Students bunk at water park amid housing squeeze COLUMBUS (AP) — A central Ohio university short on housing says some students will start the school year in temporary, off-campus living quarters with an unusual perk: free access to water slides.

Capital University says Fort Rapids Indoor Water Park and Resort will serve as a temporary dormitory for about 30 students until more rooms become available at the Columbus school.

School spokeswoman Nichole Johnson tells WBNSTV that Capital had high enrollment and demand for on-campus rooms, causing the student housing squeeze. Johnson says officials decided the water park hotel was a better solution than adding beds to existing rooms or converting storage spaces into dormitory areas.

Jobless rate steady in July

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Gov. John Kasich says he will continue resisting calls to spend the surplus Ohio has built up. He wants to cut taxes for individuals and businesses by a total $1.4 billion.

Ohio ethics chief: Kasich made clean company break JULIE CARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. John Kasich appears to have made a clean break from a corporation whose subsidiaries were granted $619,000 in state tax breaks brokered by JobsOhio, the state’s leading ethics regulator said Thursday.

Ohio Ethics Commission Chairman Merom Brachman said he saw no reason for the panel to investigate the relationship between Kasich and Worthington Industries.

“It’s a clean break and clear as a whistle,” Brachman said.

Brachman’s remarks followed a request by Kasich rival Ed FitzGerald to expand an earlier complaint to include an Associated Press report detailing Kasich’s longstanding financial and political ties to the central Ohio steel processor, including board salary and deferred compensation payouts into 2011.

FitzGerald, a Democrat, is seeking to take the governor’s seat from Kasich, a Republican, in 2014. He and other Democrats were upset by the commission’s swift rejection Thursday.

“This whole mess of cronyism and self-dealing at JobsOhio — which now includes Governor Kasich himself — is clearly unethical, and if it isn’t illegal, it ought to be,” FitzGerald in a statement.

Kasich served a decade on the Worthington Industries board while working in the private sector and was paid more than $611,000 as a board member between 2007 and 2011, the company’s federal business filings show.

Kasich quit the board a day after winning the 2010 gubernatorial election but continued to receive three years of deferred payouts under a schedule agreed on in 2008. The amount of deferred compensation Kasich collected was not tied to the performance of the company, his office said.

Kasich’s final payment came less than a year before the Ohio Tax Credit

Authority began approving a series of job-creation tax credits for two Worthington subsidiaries, ArtiFlex and Westerman Inc. JobsOhio, the privatized job-creation board appointed by Kasich, had recommended the tax deals to the board.

Brachman said Ohio law gives the commission no power over tax deals brokered by JobsOhio, so that effectively puts the issue to rest.

He said that the commission’s only role is to assure Kasich’s finances are properly reported — and that those appeared to be in order. He cited a 2009 ethics opinion issued to then-Gov. Ted Strickland’s lottery director clearing dealings with her former law firm while receiving deferred compensation from the firm.

Also, ahead of publication of the AP’s report, Kasich’s chief counsel Michael Grodhaus sent a three-page letter to the Ethics Commission’s executive director, Paul Nick, closely detailing the governor’s payouts from Worthington Industries ahead of Thursday’s commission meeting.

Grodhaus said he was writing to dispel “vague suggestions by certain Democrats” that the governor’s ties to Worthington Industries pose a conflict of interest for JobsOhio.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he wrote, adding, “Governor Kasich had no role in approving these tax credits.”

Worthington Industries spokeswoman Cathy Lyttle said the company has pursued tax incentives in Ohio and in other states for years, and received $400,000 in state tax incentives under Strickland.

Lyttle said the incentives aren’t paid unless the company delivers the promised jobs at its 19 facilities statewide.

“Our goal is to create good jobs for those local communities as well as for the state,” she said. “We’ve increased

our employment by 30 percent over the past five years, from 2,250 in July 2008 to 3,200 in July 2013.”

The company’s founder and late chairman, the powerful John H. McConnell, was an architect of Kasich’s political rise from state legislator to congressman to governor — joining family members and employees in giving hundreds of thousands to his campaigns and political committees over the years.

The governor had severed all financial ties to and any fiduciary role in the company by the time the tax deals were approved, spokesman Rob Nichols said.

“Those who are politically active have the same right to use job-creation incentives as those who are apolitical, and Ohio’s transparency rules exist to give the public confidence that the appropriate rules and processes are followed,” Nichols said.

JobsOhio has faced legal and transparency questions nearly from the beginning. Structured to “move at the speed of business,” the entity is funded by proceeds from state liquor profits. Ohio’s Republican state auditor has subpoenaed its financial records.

Thursday’s lack of action appeared to answer questions about what, if any, role the Ethics Commission would have over JobsOhio issues. Besides the Worthington Industries issue, FitzGerald had asked the panel to review alleged conflicts of interest by members of the JobsOhio board that were brought to light by the Dayton Daily News.

But Brachman said FitzGerald has made no actionable allegation or complaint against JobsOhio — because the state law creating the entity largely shielded its actions from ethics and public records laws.

“That is not an issue before us. It’s a red herring,” said Brachman, a generous Kasich campaign contributor first appointed to the commission decades ago by Democratic Gov. John Gilligan.

Obesity very high in several states AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA — Adult obesity still isn’t budging, the latest government survey shows.

The national telephone survey found 13 states with very high rates of obesity last year. Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults deemed obese has been about the same for years now.

“A plateau is better than rising numbers. But it’s discouraging because we’re plateauing at a very high number,” said Kelly Brownell, a Duke University public policy expert who specializes in obesity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does the survey each year, and recently released 2012 results.

At least 30 percent of adults were obese in 13 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. In 2011, a dozen states reached

that threshold.

Louisiana and Mississippi led the list.

In both, nearly 35 percent of adults were obese. Colorado was lowest, with less than 21 percent obese.

It’s not surprising states in the South and Midwest top the charts year after year, experts say. Many states in those regions have higher poverty rates.

“When you have a limited income, you have to buy foods that are cheap. And foods that are cheap tend to have a lot of sugar and salt and fat,” said Dr. George Bray, an obesity expert at Louisiana State University.

The CDC defines someone as obese if their weight-to-height ratio — called a “body mass index” — hits 30 or higher.

A 5-foot-9 person would be considered obese at 203 pounds or more.

The CDC’s annual telephone survey asks adults their height and weight.

Overall, nearly 28 percent of Americans

were obese, the 2012 survey found. That’s roughly the same as it’s been since 2008.

Another CDC survey — which weighs and measures participants — is considered more accurate. Since the middle of the last decade, that survey has found that around 35 percent of U.S. adults are obese.

The story may be different with children. A CDC study released last week showed — for the first time — slight drops in obesity for low-income preschoolers in 18 states.

Experts called that report encouraging, but note it studied children fed through a federal program which provides food vouchers and other services. The decline in obesity was largely attributed to program changes — instituted in 2009 — that eliminated juice from infant food packages, provided less saturated fat, and made it easier to buy fruits and vegetables.

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MIAMISBURG (AP) — Health officials in southwest Ohio are urging customers of a suburban Dayton nail salon to get a free tuberculosis test after an employee there was diagnosed with the disease.

Public Health of Dayton and Montgomery County said the employee of Galaxy Nail Spa in Miami Township is on leave and being treated for drugresistant TB. Officials say current customers aren’t at risk of contracting tuberculosis.

The agency says customers who have been to the business more than once since March 1 and any customer with a weakened immune system should be tested.

The owner of the business tells the Dayton Daily News an employee began feeling sick after returning in March from vacation in Vietnam. He says the employee thought allergies were the problem until she was diagnosed.

Mom charged with murder in baby’s death

CINCINNATI (AP) — A Cincinnati woman has been charged with aggravated murder in the death of her 15-month-old daughter.

Police haven’t said how the girl might have died.

She was found when police officers went to the woman’s home Thursday afternoon. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a relative requested that authorities check on the child.

The county coroner’s office is investigating the cause of death.

Police arrested 23-year-old Janishcia Cottingham, who was expected to be arraigned Friday. Court records listed no attorney for her.

The child’s father, Robert Midell, told Cincinnati TV stations that both parents had sought help in caring for the girl through the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.

WKRC-TV reports a statement from the department said it recently became involved with the family and was assessing the situation.

Lesbian teacher won’t get job back at Catholic school

COLUMBUS (AP) — A lesbian teacher challenging her firing by a Roman Catholic school in Ohio will not get her job back as part of a settlement reached with the Diocese of Columbus.

The attorneys for Carla Hale and the diocese on Thursday, Aug. 15, announced that as part of the agreement, she will receive “acknowledgement” for her years of service at Bishop Watterson High School. Both parties declined to give details of the settlement.

Hale is a physical education teacher. She had argued she was fired after her mother’s obituary included the name of Hale’s partner and someone complained.

Bishop Frederick Campbell had said Hale was fired not because of sexual orientation but because she violated the church’s moral teaching by having what he described as a “quasi-spousal relationship” with a woman.

School not liable for puck injury, Court of Claims rules

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state’s Court of Claims has ruled that a southwest Ohio university isn’t liable for injuries to a Connecticut woman hit in the head by a stray hockey puck during pre-game warm-ups.

The court found Miami University in Oxford is not liable for Emily Austin being hurt on Nov. 9, 2012.

The Fairfield, Conn., woman sought $200 from the school to cover her medical insurance deductible.

A message was left at a telephone number listed in court records for Austin.

Miami University said Austin assumed the risk of being struck by a hockey puck when she entered the arena. Miami also said the arena has protective glass and boards, and that spectators are warned of the risk.

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COLUMBUS (AP) — The state says Ohio’s unemployment rate held steady in July at 7.2 percent, matching what it was a year ago and remaining slightly higher than earlier in 2013.

Ohio’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has varied only slightly since the beginning of the year.

It has hovered below the U.S. unemployment rate, which dropped slightly to 7.4 percent for July.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says Ohio had 416,000 unemployed workers last month, up about 3,000 from June.

Nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 5,300, bringing good news a month after Ohio reported the second-largest job loss for any state in June.

The categories that added jobs in July include manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, and trade, transportation and utilities.

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Airline mergers have already led to higher fares SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

AP Airlines Writer

NEW YORK — The government is trying to put a stop to rising airfares and fees by blocking the latest airline merger — but for fliers, it’s already too late.

The past decade has seen the largest transformation of the airline industry in a generation.

Prior to 2005, there were nine major U.S. airlines.

Today, just five.

The merger of American Airlines and US Airways would bring that number down to four. But Tuesday, the Department of Justice moved to block the deal, saying it would cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in higher fares and extra fees.

But even before this, the cost of flying had gone up for consumers as the industry consolidated. The average cost of a roundtrip domestic ticket — including baggage and reservation change fees — grew to $378.62 last year, up from $351.48 in 2008, when adjusted for inflation.

The American-US Airways merger would create the world’s biggest airline and help propel American out of bankruptcy court protection.

For smaller US Airways, the deal represents a chance to be a significant player in global aviation and to better compete with the larger airlines that now dominate the market.

The airline industry has been searching for stability ever since the government stopped regulating routes and prices in 1978.

Companies that once had profitable monopolies suddenly faced startups that undercut their fares.

Since deregulation, 195

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airlines — small and large — have filed for bankruptcy. Some emerged stronger. Some stopped flying. Others survived only through mergers.

While deregulation created havoc for the airlines’ bottom line, it did open up flying to the masses. Air travel used to be only for the rich.

In 1979 — the first year after deregulation — a roundtrip domestic ticket cost $590.49, when adjusted for inflation.

As new airlines started flying, prices fell dramatically. Mergers have reversed that trend.

The latest round of consolidation started in 2005, when America West bought US Airways out of bankruptcy, taking its name. Then Delta and Northwest merged in 2008, followed by United and Continental, and Southwest and AirTran.

All of those easily won the blessing of antitrust regulators — the first two under President George W. Bush, the second pair under President Barack Obama.

Andy Brennan, an analyst with IBISWorld, said the government approved those deals to save the then-struggling industry.

Now that the airlines’ health has improved, regulators are more concerned about airfares.

“While there’s still a bit of turmoil and volatility in the economy, it’s much more stable than it was only a few years ago,” Brennan said.

The number of players in the European industry has shrunk as well, with the mergers of Air France and KLM, British Airways and Iberia, and Lufthansa with Swiss and Austrian.

Consolidation has made

the airlines more stable, provided job security for thousands of employees and rewarded Wall Street investors. Business travelers have benefited from more flight options and easier connections. But families looking to go on vacation face higher fares and fewer airlines to choose from.

“It’s too late. It’s already a very consolidated industry,” said Savanthi Syth, an airline analyst with Raymond James. “I don’t know if you want to stop an industry from being profitable.”

In seeking to stop the American-US Airways deal, the government contends that airlines already follow each other’s moves in setting prices and adding new fees. They even bully each other out of offering sales.

For instance, on April 18, United Airlines

increased its fee for changing a reservation from $150 to $200. Like lemmings, American, Delta Air Lines and US Airways all matched the higher fee within two weeks. Even JetBlue Airways — which has largely resisted fees — increased its change fee by 50 percent.

In the past, passengers might have balked at such fees and boycotted a particular airline. Today, they have no choice but to pay because of fewer options.

The airlines instituted many of the fees in 2008, when the price of fuel spiked 46 percent and the Great Recession sharply curtailed travel.

Fuel prices are slightly lower today and travelers have returned to the skies. But airlines rely even more heavily on fees as a source of revenue,

while increasingly catering to the highest-paying customers.

Airlines have taken their newfound profits and reinvested in new airplanes. That has led to some improvements for passengers, most notably individual TV screens and Wi-Fi. But those features really just distract fliers from the realities of modern air travel: no pillows or blankets, less legroom and no hot meals.

At the same time, those fare wars that once allowed families to sneak away for a cheap vacation are quickly disappearing.

To deter aggressive discounting, the airlines have set up mutually assured destruction mechanisms known as “cross-market initiatives.” If one airline discounts fares on a route that is highly-profitable for another airline, the affected competitor often responds with discounts in another market that hurts the first airline.

In the fall of 2009, US Airways lowered fares to Philadelphia on flights from Detroit, an extremely profitable hub for Delta. In turn, Delta lowered its fares between Washington D.C. and Boston, one of the more-profitable routes for US Airways. The message was heard and US Airways quickly bailed on its Detroit sale.

The big airlines are all now playing by the same rulebook: They are keeping planes full, cutting unprofitable flights to small towns and not encroaching on the other guys’ territory.

And all of this has occurred while American and US Airways were separate companies.

Congress split on cutting off Egypt aid

if it succeeds in overriding a mayoral veto, would establish a monitor but not select the person or specify exactly what gets investigated. And a new mayor will take office next year, which could well mean new police leadership.

“The complexity, at this point, is that there are so many moving parts,” said John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Eugene O’Donnell, who isn’t involved in the litigation or legislation.

“And it doesn’t help that it became very adversarial.”

Some other police forces, including the Los Angeles Police Department, also have had both court monitoring and an inspector general. The NYPD was under a 1980s federal consent decree that involved undercover and surveillance techniques, but this would be an unprecedented level of outside scrutiny for the agency.

Advocates see distinct roles for each of the prospective new NYPD watchdogs, who would have different scopes and powers. They wouldn’t directly intersect, deriving their authority from different parts of government.

The court monitor could compel changes, via the judge,

but only concerning stop and frisk. If the ruling stands after the expected appeal, the monitor will flesh out details of U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s calls for changes to officer training, supervision and discipline.

The monitor also would keep tabs on specific initiatives Scheindlin required: revising forms that document stops and testing body-worn cameras for officers.

The inspector general could look at many aspects of policing — surveillance of Muslims or officers’ response to the mentally ill, for instance. But the inspector could issue only recommendations, not orders, though the mayor or council could make them mandatory.

people dead and thousands more injured.

Obama has denounced the violence, canceled joint military exercises scheduled for September and delayed the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets. But the White House has refused to declare Morsi’s removal a coup — a step that would require Obama to suspend $1.3 billion in annual military aid. The president insists that the U.S. stands with Egyptians seeking a democratic government. But he says America cannot determine Egypt’s future.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona renewed his call Sunday to stop aid as the Egyptian military continues to crack down on protesters seeking Morsi’s return.

“For us to sit by and watch this happen is a violation of everything that we stood for,” said the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We’re not sticking with our values.”

The military ousted Morsi July 3 after millions of Egyptians took to the streets to demand he step down, accusing him of giving the Brotherhood undue influence and failing to implement vital reforms or bolster the ailing economy.

But Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said he supports the president’s approach.

“These are very, very difficult choices,” said Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I’m very unhappy, obviously, with the crackdown. But we essentially have two choices in Egypt. And that’s a military government, which hopefully will transition as quickly as possible to civilian government, or the Muslim Brotherhood. I don’t think the Muslim Brotherhood is a choice.”

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said Congress should give the president flexibility in dealing with Egypt.

“I do believe we have to change our aid,” said Reed, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “I think also we have to have included in the legislation a national security waiver, because we have to give the president not only the responsibility to deal with the government of Egypt but also

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NEW YORK (AP) — After years of burnishing a reputation as one of the nation’s most potent police forces, the New York Police Department appears poised to become one of the most closely monitored.

A federal judge this week said the department made thousands of racially discriminatory street stops and appointed a monitor to direct changes. And city lawmakers are readying for a final vote Thursday on creating an inspector general for the NYPD and widening the legal path for pursuing claims of police bias.

It’s a one-two punch of outside tinkering that will muddy police work, a pair of complementary steps to protect civil rights or a rash of policymaking that may end up meaning little on the street, depending on who gets asked. But from any perspective, it would be the onset of a new era of oversight for the country’s biggest police department, though the impacts would be defined by particulars and politics still in play.

The federal ruling outlines but doesn’t always detail reforms, and the city plans to appeal it. The City Council,

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress are split over whether the U.S. should cut off military aid to Egypt, highlighting the difficult choices facing the Obama administration amid spiraling violence on the streets of an important Middle East ally.

Democratic leaders have generally supported the president’s approach. But on Sunday, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said he would end aid to Egypt. Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress and is co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

“I would cut off aid but engage in intense diplomacy in Egypt and in the region to try to say, look, we will restore aid when you stop the bloodshed in the street and set up a path towards democracy that you were on before,” Ellison said. “In my mind, there’s no way to say that this was not a coup. It is. We should say so. And then follow our own law, which says we cannot fund the coup leaders.”

Among Republicans, there were growing calls to eliminate military aid to Egypt. But others were more hesitant.

Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., said curtailing aid could reduce U.S. influence over Egypt’s interim government, which controls access to strategic resources, including the Suez Canal.

“We certainly shouldn’t cut off all aid,” said King, who chairs the House panel on counterterrorism and intelligence.

King said there are no good choices in Egypt. Ousted President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was democratically elected. But, King said, the group has not demonstrated a commitment to democracy.

“The fact is, there’s no good guys there,” King said. “But of the two, I think there is more opportunity to protect American interests if we work with the military and continue our relationship with the military.”

The split among members of the same political party illustrates the uncertainty facing President Barack Obama as he tries to navigate volatile developments in Egypt, where crackdowns last week left more than 600

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Covington principals report enrollment up for 2013-14 Jennifer Runyon

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COVINGTON – At the Covington Exempted Village Board of Education meeting Thursday, Aug. 15, building principals reported large enrollment numbers for the 20132014 school year. The elementary has enrolled 404 students.

According to Principal Rick Fry, the is an increase 12 or 13 students from last year.

“It’s been like the ‘Field of Dreams’ movie. If you build it, or in this case tell, them you’re getting ready to build it, they will come,” Fry said.

At the middle school, enrollment is expected to be 228 up from the 217 students enrolled last year.

“This is the first time since I’ve been in the office that I’ve had to turn people away,” said Josh Long, principal.

As opposed to the other buildings, the high school actually saw a decrease in enrollment with 249 students.

“We’re down a little bit, but that’s just because the junior and senior classes are just small classes. They always have been,” said Ken Miller, principal.

New this year, all entrances at the schools will be locked from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. A buzzer at the front doors will ring to the buildings’ secretaries. The secretary will then unlock the door after determining that the guest is appropriate.

Superintendent Dave Larson said that all of the buildings now have wireless Internet connectivity. He added that the access points at the elementary and middle schools are transferable to the new building.

Site work for the building project is expected to begin in the next few weeks. Also, project leaders will be working with an engineer to find a solution to the drainage problem. The new building will be located to the northeast of the current high school. Larson said that community meetings

regarding the design of the new building will begin soon.

“We want to invest early in finding out how the community feels about design,” Larson said.

Salaries were approved for many district employees.

Principals saw a 2 percent increase retroactive to Aug. 1. The network coordinator/ webmaster got a 2.5 percent increase and the secretary to the superintendent and secretary to the treasurer saw a 2.5 percent increase. These increases are retroactive to July 1.

Larson said these increases were given due to the district getting a 5.25 percent increase in funding from the state.

“We’re able to have these increases and still stay well in the black,” he said.

Also during the meeting, the resignation of Gene Gooding, high school teacher was accepted. His resignation as high school girls’ basketball coach also was accepted.

Also, the retirement resignation of David Beeman, CHS custodian, was accepted. Beeman had 20 years of service. The retirement is effective Sept. 30.

Nancy Wise was hired as the school transportation aide.

Wise retired from the transportation supervisor position one year ago. As the transportation aide, she will be working roughly four hours a day or less riding in the special needs van.

And, much discussion centered around whether the school facilities should be closed after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays to allow students to take part in family and church activities.

“It’s bigger than church night.

It’s an opportunity for kids to visit their parents. Board member Jon Furrow said regarding the approximately 40 percent of students that come from split homes. Furrow added, “And, it’s great for coaches to spend time with their families also.”

The current district policy “strongly encourages” that

events and practices be over by 7 p.m. There was debate whether that time should be 6:30 p.m. and if the wording should be clearer.

“The concern is we can excuse kids, but do they feel encouraged to be there,” Larson said.

Miller then told board members what he gets the most questions about is when students are required to be at an event or practice on a Sunday.

“I don’t know when these kids get a break,” board member Alex Reck said.

Larson will prepare wording for a revision to the current policy. The policy must have two readings before it can be voted on. Board of education members will meet again at 5 p.m. Thursday to pass a needed resolution for the building project. The revised policy will have one reading at this time.

Discussion will continue and a second reading will be held at the board’s September meeting.

Maurer named Teen of the Year

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Emily Powell of Piqua, a member of the Trojan Horse 4-H Club, won first place Novice 3 Gait Huntseat Equitation. She is the daughter of Carolyn and Tom Powell.

SIDNEY — The Sidney Noon Kiwanis Club has named Colleen Maurer its 2013 Teen of the Year.

Maurer graduated from Botkins High School this spring as valedictorian with a grade point average of 4.023.

She is the daughter of Curt and Laura Maurer.

Her academic activities, honors, and awards included honor roll, FCCLA, volleyball and track scholar athlete, president of National Honor Society, class secretary, high school office assistant, FFA Colleen Maurer Green-hand Award and Scholarship Award, Academia, Future Teachers of America, FFA, Something Creative, Foreign Language Club and

Sidney Kiwanis Teen of the Month.

Among her extracurricular and community activities and awards, Collen has participated in FCCLA for four years, Volleyball, Track, Academia, Future Teachers of America, FFA, Something Creative and Foreign Language Club.

Her community activities include 4-H, Comprehensive Youth Ministry, Special Olympics and Big Brothers/Big Sisters.

Maurer plans to attend Bowling Green State University to study speech pathology.

Outreach clinic hires director MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Dental Clinic announces the appointment of its first executive director.

Claire Cain Timmer of Tipp City brings experience in the areas of public relations, fundraising, volunteer recruitment and management to the clinic. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in communications from Miami University and a master’s degree in business administration from Wright State University.

“I am honored to be part of this outstanding organization and look forward to expanding its mission,” Timmer said.

The Miami County Dental Clinic (MCDC), a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, provides a dental home for children and adults in Miami and Shelby Counties. It serves uninsured, underinsured, low income and Medicaid patients.

“We are dedicated to providing quality dental care and oral health education in a safe, compassionate, accessible environment,” said Dr. Lytha Miller, chair of the MCDC Board of Directors.

The dental clinic opened its doors in

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2008 and has improved the community’s overall health thanks to generous donations from The Troy Foundation, The Physician’s Charitable Trust, the Stouder Foundation, the Miami County Foundation, the Piqua Community Foundation, the United Ways of Troy, Tipp City and Piqua, the UVMC Community Benefits Grant, the Anthem Foundation, and the Tipp City Area Community Foundations. ITW, Inc. and Emerson Climate Technologies have been instrumental in the success of the clinic with substantial donations.

Dr. Tony Hirschfield and Dr. Victor Dubel are the part-time dentists for

the clinic. Services provided include preventative teeth cleanings and oral hygiene education, nutritional counseling, restorative fillings, dentures, extractions, root canals and crowns. While MCDC is not a free clinic, sliding fees for services are dependent upon household income and family size.

One of the MCDC’s outreach programs is the Portable School-Based Oral Health Program.

Since 2011, this mobile dental unit has provided dental screenings, preventative and restorative treatment to underserved children on site in Piqua and Troy City Schools.

Dr. Lytha Miller and Dr. Leslie Culp volunteer their services and Dr. Shazia Sheik will be employed two days a week for the mobile unit for the 2013-14 school year. The clinic hopes to expand oral health services to all Miami County school districts.

The clinic is located at 1364 West Main St. in Troy. Appointments can be made 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday by calling (937) 339-8656.

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American and Allied troop re-enactors prepare to board landing craft on the shores of Lake Erie to participate in D-Day Conneaut, Ohio, on Saturday.

D-Day From page A1 German and other Allied troops are represented in encampments in a Conneaut city park, on a bluff overlooking the “invasion beach” on Lake Erie.

Troops dress and live the life, as accurately as possible, of World War II troops preparing for, and participating in, Operation Overlord, what history knows as D-Day. The troops are a vital part of the living history event, but the stars of the show are the authentic vehicles that roam the land and sea around Conneaut, during the weekend.

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bluff and every hour, the thunderous crack of her cannon splits the air.

Thanks to the Adams family and friends, troops storming Conneaut’s D-Day beachhead are transported aboard five World War II land craft. The fleet consists of two LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel) or Higgins Boat, two DUKW, an amphibious wheeled landing craft and a LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) or Amphrac.

The event is attended by thousands of visitors from around the country.

The highlight for members of the Adams family and friends, as well as the other 500 volunteers who organize and work D-Day Conneaut, is spending time with World War II veterans who attend.

As the ramp on Adams’ LCVP lowered on Friday afternoon, Arden Earll, of Clorry, Pa., was standing on the beach. Lee Adams, a Piqua firefighter/paramedic and member of the Adams family, along with D-Day Conneaut volunteer Senior Chief Kimberly Chiodo, USN.

(Ret.) helped Earll across the ramp and onto the LCVP. This was not Earll’s first time aboard such a Navy vessel. In June of 1944, Earll was a member of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division.

The unit became legendary during the Civil War when, under the command of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson — the Stonewall Brigade.”

Earll, who was 19 years old at the time, found himself aboard a Higgins boat on June 6, 1944. After crossing the English Channel on AVA Thomas Jefferson, Earll boarded the LCVP and landed on Omaha Beach, Dog Red, at 0700 hours (7 a.m.) Less than one hour later, he was wounded and later evacuated, one of thousands of casualties during the invasion of Normandy.

Earll was one of the lucky ones. Many never made it home.

“It’s about them.”

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Bengals diverse

Lehman boys play at Celina

Look sharp in win over Titans

CELINA — The Lehman boys golf team finished 18th in the Celina Invitational Friday at Mercer County Elks.

Sam Dean led Lehman with an 89.

Rounding out the top four were Mitchell Shroyer 91, Bryce Eck 107, Zach Scott 112.

■ Tennis

Lady Cavaliers edge Tipp 3-2 TIPP CITY — The Lehman girls tennis team edge Tippecanoe 3-2 Friday in a match played at Tippecanoe Middle School.

In singles, Julia Harrelson defeated Hailey Winblad 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Sarah Gravunder defeated Ali Merrick 7-5, 4-6, 6-3; and Diana Gibson defeated Ladin Coning 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2).

In doubles, Meghan Burner and Kaitlin Gibson lost to Katie Gross and Kennedy Reeder 6-0, 6-1; and Emily Hoersten and Elaina Snyder lost to Mallory Reynolds and Nefeli Supinger 6-0, 6-1.

Emma Simpson lost a JV match 6-0, 6-1.

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Trent Yeomans heads for the end zone on a 20-yard Piqua touchdown run Saturday.

Piqua gets challenge T-Bolts visit for football scrimmage ROB KISER Sports Editor rkiser@civitasmedia.com

■ Baseball

Rampage to hold tryouts

The Piqua football team knew they would be in a challenge when GWOC Central favorite Northmont visited Saturday.

The 13U Troy Rampage That thinking proved correct as Northmont outscored the Indians four touchdowns baseball teams will hold to two, with the T-Bolt second scoring two tryouts Aug. 24 and 15 at touchdowns to Piqua’s one.

Duke Park.

“The first scrimmage (with Tecumseh) was Tryouts will be at noon. our competitive scrimmage,” Piqua football Players need to bring their coach Bill Nees said. “We looked at this own equipment and can’t scrimmage as our ‘challenge’ scrimmage. No turn 14 before May 1, matter what, anytime you get on the field, 2014. you learn from it.”

For more information, conOn the first 10-play series, Northmont tact Frosty Brown at (937) didn’t score until its 10th play from inside 339-4383, (937) 474-7344 the Piqua one. or ibrown@woh.rr.com See PIQUA/Page 11 Austin Hall makes a tackle against Northmont Saturday.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — The two touchdowns were nice. The diversity in the Bengals' offense was even more pleasing.

With All-Pro receiver A.J. Green watching again, Cincinnati's offense had an impressive first half in a 27-19 preseason victory over the Tennessee Titans on Saturday night.

Everybody got involved.

"It was a successful Week 2," coach Marvin Lewis said. "We had a lot of positives. All in all, we got some things done that we look forward to getting done."

Rookie running back Giovani Bernard started in place of BenJarvus Green-Ellis and made quite an impression. The second-round pick carried seven times for 37 yards and a touchdown, and turned a short pass into a 22-yard gain, giving the Bengals (2-0) the diversity they're seeking out of the backfield.

"I'm eager to prove myself," Bernard said. "I want to be an everyday back. I don't want to just be a speed back, a guy who's shifty, or a guy who can catch the ball out of the backfield. I want to be able to do it all."

After failing to score in the first quarter of a 34-10 win in Atlanta last week, the Bengals' starters piled up 220 yards in the first half on their way to a 17-3 lead. Andy Dalton was 9 of 14 for 115 yards, including a 2-yard touchdown pass to Mohamed Sanu in the back corner of the end zone.

"I think we were a little bit hungry tonight," Dalton said. "After last week, we wanted to put points on the board with the (starters) in there.

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STUMPER is Q: What Michelle Wie’s record in the last two Solheim Cups as a captain’s pick?

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Piqua’s Xavier Harrison is on his way to one of his two goals Saturday night against Preble Shawnee at Wertz Stadium.

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Piqua boys cruise in season opener Rindler back for East girls

The Piqua boys soccer team scored early and often in beating Preble Shawnee 11-0 Saturday night at Wertz Stadium in

the season opener.

The Indians scored five goals in the first 15 minutes and never let up.

“The team came out focused and prepared after a long summer of workouts, summer tourneys and scrimmages,” Piqua coach Nick Guidera said.

“We expect to be the more talented team and it was very important to play to our capabilities — and we did just that.”

It was a balanced attack.

Griffen Jennings led the way with five goals, while Xavier Harrison and

Dustin Gray scored two each.

Luke Brown and Hunter Comstock both added one goal.

Comstock dished out three assists, while Jennings, Harrison, Andrew Lamphar and Bradley Hohlbein each had one.

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Logano holds off Harvick Picks up crucial win

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Cincinnati Reds’ Ryan Hanigan hits a two-run scoring single during the second inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, in Milwaukee.

Bailey shuts down Brewers Reds end two-game skid MILWAUKEE (AP) — Homer Bailey allowed one run and three hits in eight innings, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-1 on Sunday.

Bailey (8-10) won his third straight decision by beating a team that has given him trouble.

He improved his career mark against Milwaukee to 2-7 with his first win in three starts against the Brewers this season.

Scooter Gennett’s double in the second, and Khris Davis’ solo shot in the fifth and infield single in the seventh were the only hits for the Brewers.

Bailey walked one and struck out eight, including Juan Francisco three times.

The Reds, who lost 2-0 on Saturday night, batted around in the second inning as an erratic Wily Peralta (8-13) allowed five runs. Cincinnati sent 10 men to the plate in the fifth and tacked on four

more runs.

Peralta gave up singles to the first four batters, capped by Ryan Hanigan’s two-run hit. A walk to Shin-Soo Choo loaded the bases for Joey Votto, and a passed ball added another run.

The Brewers walked Votto intentionally and set up Peralta to face Brandon Phillips, who was 1-12 against the right-hander. Phillips’ two-run single foiled the move and gave Bailey a 5-0 lead in the second.

Peralta settled down for the next two innings, but walked Phillips to start the fifth. He advanced on a wild pitch and took third on a fly ball to the warning track in right.

Chris Heisey ended Peralta’s 26th start of the season with a run-scoring single.

Tyler Thornburg took over, but was just as bad as Peralta. The Reds batted around for the second time and capitalized on

Thornburg’s wildness. He issued four walks, including two with the bases loaded, and a run-scoring single to Hanigan, who had two hits and three RBIs. Alfredo Simon pitched the ninth for the Reds.

Bailey struggled a bit after throwing his second-career no-hitter with a 3-0 win over the San Francisco Giants on July 2. He lost the next four starts, but turned it around with two consecutive wins.

Peralta was totally unlike the last time he faced the Reds at Miller Park. In what might have been the best start of his first full season in the majors, he threw a three-hitter on July 9 in Milwaukee’s 2-0 win.

But he allowed seven runs and eight hits, walked four and struck out four over 4 1-3 innings on Sunday. He slipped to 1-3 in four starts this season against the Reds.

NOTES: Brewers AllStar center fielder Carlos Gomez missed his third

consecutive game with a sprained right knee. He was on the field for several drills and long toss before Sunday’s game.

He is listed as day-today after being injured making a twisting catch while colliding with the wall during Thursday’s 2-1 loss to Cincinnati. …

Thornburg allowed two runs on one hit with five walks and one strikeout in 1 2-3 innings of relief for Milwaukee. … Jay Bruce started the Reds’ five-run second inning with a single and ended it by fouling out to third. … Choo was on base five times with two singles and three walks. … Reds RHP Bronson Arroyo (119) faces Diamondbacks RHP Randall Delgado (4-3) on Monday as Cincinnati opens a fourgame series with Arizona at Great American Ball Park. … Brewers RHP Marco Estrada (5-4) and Cardinals RHP Shelby Miller (11-8) open a three-game series as St. Louis visits Milwaukee.

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Joey Logano gave Ford a Sprint Cup sweep in Michigan — and enabled team owner Roger Penske to celebrate a victory in his home state.

Now Logano can start to envision a happy finish to what has been an eventful season for the 23-year-old driver.

“We’re close, we’re close,” Logano said. “What a great place to win — what a great time to win, being in Ford’s backyard.”

Logano boosted his chances of reaching the Chase for the Sprint Cup, winning for the first time this season in a fuel-mileage race at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday.

Logano and Kevin Harvick both breezed past Mark Martin with just over three laps to go in the 400-mile, 200-lap race. Martin had been trying to stretch fuel, but when he faltered, Logano was able to hold off Harvick.

The win put Logano in 13th place in the standings.

He’s seven points behind Martin Truex Jr. for the second wild card.

It’s been an up-and-down year for Logano. He and teammate Brad Keselowski were docked 25 points each after NASCAR inspectors confiscated parts from the rear suspensions of their cars before the April 13 race at Texas.

More recently, Logano has had to recover from back-toback 40th-place showings at Daytona and Loudon, but he’s now right in the middle of a wild race for the final Chase spots.

“A roller coaster, to say the least,” Logano said. “We’ve just got to keep that momentum going. It just goes to show, as long as nothing goes wrong — knock on wood — we’ve been pretty good. We’ve had some good speed in our cars.”

Everything went pretty much according to plan at Michigan. Logano won the pole Friday and took Sunday’s

race by a second over Harvick, who is safely in fourth place in the standings.

“I was very pleased with the day,” Harvick said. “It’s just going to come down to getting on a hot streak over 10 weeks and not making any mistakes.”

There are three races left before the Chase, and the jockeying for the final spots is just as muddled as it was before Sunday’s race. Keselowski, the defending champion, is still in eighth place with 667 points, but Kurt Busch is now only two points behind him after a third-place showing Sunday.

Greg Biffle (663) is in 10th place. Kasey Kahne (659) and Truex (653) are currently in line to be the wild cards, but Logano closed a lot of ground.

Points leader Jimmie Johnson lasted less than 60 laps Sunday before engine trouble knocked him out. He still has a 41-point lead over Clint Bowyer.

Biffle finished ninth after winning the previous two Cup races at Michigan. His victory in June was the 1,000th for Ford Motor Company across NASCAR’s three national series — Cup, Nationwide and Truck.

Biffle drives for Roush Fenway Racing. This time, it was Penske’s turn to celebrate.

“I go back about 30 years here at the track — this is probably one of the biggest wins,” Penske said. “I say it’s my home state, it’s my home track, and Detroit’s my city.”

It was the third Cup win of Logano’s career, and it came after he posted the ninthfastest pole-winning speed in NASCAR history during Friday’s qualifying.

Johnson, Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were among the big names to have problems, but the race was a clean one for Logano in his No. 22 Ford. He was battling Kurt Busch for the lead at the very start and needed only to

Europe makes Solheim Cup history Wins on American soil for first time

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PARKER, Colo. (AP) — Europe showed Sunday it can win the Solheim Cup anywhere.

Caroline Hedwall became the first player in Solheim Cup history to win all five of her matches, holing a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 1-up victory that assured the Europeans retaining the cup. Moments later, Catriona Matthew finished off a rally to halve her match against Gerina Piller. That gave Europe 14½ points for its first win on American soil since this event in 1990.

And it wasn’t even close.

Charley Hull, the 17-year-old teenager and the youngest player in Solheim Cup history, capped off her amazing week by demolishing Paula Creamer in a match that set the tone for Europe.

Carlota Ciganda of Spain handed Morgan Pressel

her first lost in singles in four appearances to go 3-0 for the week.

Not even a one-hour delay due to lightning in the area could damper this European celebration.

Suzann Pettersen was lining up her putt on the 16th hole when she heard the cheers from the 18th, got the news and began pumping her first.

Europe still trails 8-5 in the competition, but this was the first time it has won back-to-back.

“It’s a fantastic feeling right now,” European captain Liselotte Neumann said. “I’m so proud of them.

They played such good golf this week. They just played tremendous golf.”

Matthew holed the winning the putt, but the Europeans really won Saturday afternoon when they swept the fourballs matches to build a 10½-5½ lead, matching the largest

margin going into Sunday.

Raucous cheering on the first tee raised American hopes of the greatest comeback in Solheim Cup history.

Once they got on the golf course, it was a hopeless cause.

U.S. captain Meg Mallon stacked some of her best players at the top of the lineup with hopes of filling the leaderboard with red scores and building momentum. Europe was ahead early four of the opening five matches.

Brittany Lang delivered a point, though she had a tussle with Azahara Munoz until winning on the 17th.

Stacy Lewis, in the opening singles match, didn’t take her first lead against Anna Nordqvist until driving the green on the par-4 14th for a birdie. But the closing stretch belonged to Europe, as it had all week. Lewis missed an 8-foot birdie on the 16th for a chance to go 2 up, and the Swede found more magic on the 17th. One day after her hole-in-one, she holed a 20-foot birdie putt to square the match, and Lewis had to make a 7-foot par to get a halfpoint.

Ciganda, the Spanish rookie who couldn’t break 80 in her opening four-

balls match, finished with five straight birdies to pull away from Pressel.

Europe’s biggest boost came from its youngest star.

Hull, playing like she had been here many times before, dropped in a 45-foot birdie putt on No. 6 to take her first lead, and she demoralized Paula Creamer from there. The English teen hit an approach to 8 feet for birdie on the seventh, won the ninth when Creamer made double bogey and went 5 up when Creamer missed a short putt. The matched ended on the 14th in pars, and Hull’s week was over with two wins in three matches.

“I didn’t really feel that nervous, to be honest,” Hull said. “Because this is how I always look at golf — I’m not going to die if I miss it. Just hit it, and find it, and hit it again.”

Indeed, she made it look that simple.

Creamer has not made it beyond the 14th hole in singles losses the last two Solheim Cups.

Hull only showed her age at the end. She took a marker from her bag and asked Creamer if she could sign a golf ball for a friend back home. “He’s a big fan, so I thought I might as well get one,” Hull said.

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Roundup Continued from page 9 shots and over 80 percent were on goal.”

Grady Stewart posted a shutout in goal, as Piqua limited Preble Shawnee to just a few shots.

The Piqua JVs opened the season with a 2-0 win.

Andy Newbright and Tate Latham scored goals.

Nolan Maurer had an assist, with Ethan Trapp and Joey Symons combining for a shutout in goal.

Lady Vikings win

COLUMBUS — Kelly Rindler made sure her return was worth the wait.

And the Vikings’ recordbooks will always attest to that.

After the Miami East goalkeeper missed her whole junior season with an injury, she was back in action in the Vikings’ season opener at Crew Stadium in Columbus. And she made two saves in the game to post her 24th career shutout, tying the Miami East school record as the Vikings blanked Tecumseh 3-0.

“She was excited, especially after missing her entire junior season,” Miami East coach Lil Carson said. “To tie the record on this field, it was a pretty big deal for her.”

She still needed offensive support, though. And 6:34 into the game, she got it.

Kendra Beckman hit a shot off the crossbar, and Lindsey Roeth was there to collect the rebound and score to make it 1-0 Vikings. Two minutes later, Beckman set up another score, this time by Emily Holicki. And early in the second half, Holicki capped off the scoring by driving home a through ball from Katelyn Gardella.

Miami East (1-0) is now 2-0-1 at Crew Stadium, having played there each of the past three seasons.

Bengals Continued from page 9 “So we go out of this game feeling a little bit better than last week."

Green didn't suit up for the game. He bruised his left knee on the first day of training camp and and returned to practice last week on a limited basis.

He hopes to play in one of the two final preseason games.

The offense also was a focus for Tennessee (0-2), and things didn't go nearly so well. Jake Locker played the first half and went 12 of 20 for 116 yards, but failed to get a touchdown. And Tennessee's kickers didn't help, missing three straight field-goal attempts.

The defense had some bad moments, too, giving up big plays because of missed tackles.

"That was disappointing to watch," coach Mike Munchak said. "It was frustrating. We missed some plays when they were there.

“We missed field goals.

That's why it was disappointing."

Receiver Kendall Wright — Tennessee's first-round pick last season — injured his right knee while running a pattern.

He walked around after the game with a wrap on the knee. He got an MRI but didn't have the results back.

Asked if he was worried, Wright said, "Right now, I am. I'm just waiting and being patient."

The Titans spent the offseason reconfiguring their offensive line through free agency and the draft.

They had a new combination for the second preseason game.

libero position, had 12 kills, a block, an ace and 32 assists, Ashley Current had 11 kills and six blocks, Trina Current had five kills and four blocks and Anna Kiesewetter had three aces.

Miami East held late leads in each of the sets against Coldwater — including a five-point lead in the second set before Coldwater closed the match out on a 7-0 run.

“Coldwater was a regional finalist last year, St. Henry is a storied program, all three of these schools are MAC schools,” Cash said. “But we didn’t play consistently like we usually do.

“We left doors open for the opponents, and we paid for it.

“They took advantage of PHOTO PROVIDED BY MKB PHOTO us giving them opportunities. Now our girls have to Lindsey Roeth controls the ball against Tecumseh. decide where they want to “It was huge,” Carson 25-22, 25-14 loss to St. go with this.”

Miami East is off until said. “Tecumseh is a Henry.

BEN ROBINSON/GOBUCCS.COM PHOTO Aug. 29 when the Vikings pretty decent team, a big“Most teams would be A.J. Ouellette runs the ball Friday night. ger school than us. Having happy to come into a tour- travel to Newton. that experience of playing nament like this, stacked here before, we had the with regional and state Russia beats Buccs RUSSIA — The Russia advantage early on — and qualifiers, and go 1-2,” volleyball team defeated we definitely used it. After Miami East coach John starting off the season Cash said. “We’re not. Covington 25-12, 25-8, 25here, we’re hoping to end We’re not happy with how 10 Saturday.

Kyle Wilson led the it here, too.” we played today.

“Consistency is one of Raiders with 16 kills and Next up for the Vikings is a trip to Graham on the things we’re known 10 digs; while Camille for. But this was more like Puthoff had nine kills and Monday. a rollercoaster ride. We five digs.

Taylor Daniel had 26 didn’t have consistency, VOLLEYBALL assists, eighth digs, four and that leads to close East takes fourth kills and four combined COLDWATER — After losses.” blocks.

Despite graduating two straight state champiMaggie Kearns had onships, the Miami East three seniors off of those BEN ROBINSON though Covington was in three kills and eighth digs, championship Vikings have certain ex- state full control of the action GoBuccs.com teams, the Vikings still whil Claire Sherman had pectations. between the two teams.

COVINGTON — FriWhich is why they have plenty of firepower seven combined blocks But complacency set in day's scrimmage against for Covington as Eaton weren’t pleased with Sat- — and it was on display at and eight aces.

Russia won the JV Eaton was a case of the urday’s fourth-place finish different points in the day. marched right down the match 25-12, 25-14. great and the not very field to tie the score with a Sam Cash had 25 kills, at the Coldwater Classic Tiffany Hatcher and good at all. to open the new season. four blocks, six aces and touchdown run of its own.

One play the Covington Miami East won an up- 34 assists, Angie Mack Katie Swarts had five asCovington fumbled on and-down three-set match had 17 kills, a block and sists each, while Christina Buccaneers looked like the first play of the ensuworld beaters - a team set ing possession and Eaton against New Knoxville 25- an ace and Kati Runner — Gaerke had three kills.

Chloe Sherman had five out to do what is written 9, 21-25, 25-14 to start the new to the system — had responded with a ten-yard day, dropped a 25-22, 25- 15 kills. Allison Morrett, digs, Carrie Petty served on the back of their team score to take a 2-1 lead.

23 match to Coldwater who moved to outside hit- five aces and Leah Francis shirts — "Max Out" in After exchanging punts, their potential. and finished with a 22-25, ter from her traditional added three aces.

Ouellette broke loose on The next play, the Buc- back-to-back Covington caneers looked like a team possessions for long touchin search of an identity — down runs to give the a team unsure of them- Buccs a 3-2 lead. selves.

Eaton responded once The result was an up- again with a scoring drive and-down effort across the of its won, passing the ball board in the Buccs' second with methodical precision full contact scrimmage of against the Buccaneer dethe season against Eaton. fense. The drive was After mixing it up with capped with a one-yard the Eagles in special touchdown run on fourth teams segments, Coving- down. ton held Eaton scoreless With the sun settling on its first ten-play series behind Covington High of the live scrimmage.

School, Covington closed The Buccs then scored out the scrimmage with twice on their first ten one more Ouellette run plays, once on a touchfrom 70 yards away. down pass from Jared In all, Covington's Williams to Justin scores came on big plays Williams and then on an as the Buccs failed to A.J. Ouellette run. move the ball with consisCovington scored again tency against the Eaton in it's second ten-play sedefense. quence on another OuelROB KISER/CALL PHOTO Defensively, Covington lette run, but Eaton Piqua running back Austin Reedy finds running room Saturday. failed to get a consistent bounced back with a pass rush and struggled to touchdown on its own.

After the junior varsity contain the Eagle resquads battled through ceivers and their elusive two ten-play series with a back out of the backfield.

Continued from page 9 touchdown each, the var- The Buccs were hurt desity went back to the field fensively by missed tackand missed for a quarter of down and les The T-Bolts added a assignments.

Charter bus for Rogers game distance. touchdown with the secWith two weeks and After surrendering a ond 10-team in the 10- Piqua High School will be making a charter bus one scrimmage left before first down on Eaton's play series. available for fans for the opening football game at opening possession, Cov- the season opener at St. In the down and dis- Toledo Rogers on July 30. ington forced the Eagles Henry, the Covington Buctance, Northmont scored There will be 36 seats available at a cost of $45 to punt and took the ball caneers have a lot of work on a 55-yard pass on its per person. to do if they want to start over at its own ten. first possession and added Departure time is 4:45 p.m., with arrival back exOn the first play from the 2013 season on a positwo more touchdowns. scrimmage Ouellette tive note.

“We have three sopho- pected to be around midnight.

And yes, St. Henry was brook free for a 90-yard mores and a junior back in The bus will take fans to the gate and pick them score as it appeared as watching. the secondary,” Nees said. up outside the stadium after the game.

“They just have to get For more information, contact Piqua athletic disome experience back rector Chip Hare at (937) 238-2939 or email there. We will learn from harec@piqua.org today.”

And while Northmont sweep on the next play. ble 90 yards for a score, stymied Piqua’s passing On its next series, Yeo- backup quarterback RuMore Than Just A Cosmetic Issue game for the most part, mans broke through the pert Dela Cruz ran 10 Pain Phlebitis the Indians were able to middle and went 20 yard yards for a Piqua score.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Parents must be patient with children because the Full Moon today affects them as well as your family pet. Romantic partners must likewise be patient and tolerant with each other. And so it goes.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You might be pulled between the demands of home and family versus the demands of career and your reputation today. Classic. However, this Full Moon says you cannot ignore your private life.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is an accident-prone day for your sign because of the Full Moon energy.

Think before you speak and act. Count to three.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You might feel pulled between your financial needs and the financial needs of someone else today. Nevertheless, you can't ignore your own survival.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is the second Full Moon opposite your sign this year -- two in a row!

(Most unusual.) Be patient with partners and close friends. This is your only choice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Difficulties with co-workers or even health issues might come to a head today because of the Full Moon. If issues are too heated, postpone your decision.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Social occasions, sports events and romantic relationships will be stressed because of the Full Moon energy today.

Everything will be all right if people are civil and patient.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Every Full Moon heightens emotions and blows things out of proportion. You might feel this way dealing with family members and bosses. Just remember: They feel it, too.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Avoid controversial subjects like politics, religion and racial issues, because today is a Full Moon day. Don't go looking for trouble and don't let it find you, either.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This could be an accident-prone day because of the Full Moon energy, but it doesn't have to be. Keep your wits about you. Stay calm and carry on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Relationships might be stressed because this is the second Full Moon in your sign this year! Be easygoing and mellow, and all will be well. (Patience requires mental discipline.)

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Be patient with co-workers today because of the Full Moon. Things can go smoothly if you are cooperative and accommodating. Be especially patient with others who are losing it.

YOU BORN TODAY Many of you have a secret in your past or something that motivates you to behave in a certain way in the future. You might not even be aware of it. However, you have a fantastic imagination and you are always fearless. You understand human nature. Make time this year to study or learn something valuable.

(Your rewards will follow.)

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Skepticism as N. Korea shows home-grown smartphone YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s announcement that it is mass producing a home-grown smartphone has been met with skepticism in the tech industry in South Korea and abroad.

The North’s state media last week showed leader Kim Jong Un inspecting “Arirang” phones at a Pyongyang factory. The Korean Central News Agency’s Aug. 10 report said the factory began manufacturing smartphones “a few days ago” and they were already in high demand.

North Korea has promoted the development of science and technology as a means of improving its moribund economy. It says it developed a tablet computer last year and has its own Red Star operating system.

But access to the global Internet is severely restricted and mobile phones used on the state-authorized network cannot make overseas calls.

The North’s Intranet gives access to government sanctioned sites and works with its own browsers, search engine and email programs, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry.

Factory workers in photos released by the state news agency are inspecting and testing finished phones but no

manufacturing is shown, said tech expert Martyn Williams on the northkoreatech.org blog.

“Despite KCNA’s reporting that the handsets are made at the factory, they are probably made to order by a Chinese manufacturer,” said Williams, who writes for PC World and other publications.

South Korean computer experts say North Korea is strong enough in software technology to have launched cyberattacks that disrupted banking and government websites in the South but it lags in hardware capabilities behind South Korea.

The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce and the Korean Peninsula remains technically at war. Since then, the South has prospered and produced giant corporations such as Samsung Electronics Co., which is the world’s biggest maker of smartphones, computer memory chips and displays. The North’s economy has languished under socialist central planning though the capital Pyongyang is an oasis of relative affluence.

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long-range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone,

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This undated photo released on Aug.10, 2013, by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Aug. 11, 2013, by the Korea News Service, shows North Korean Arirang smartphone. North Korea’s announcement that it is mass producing a home-grown smartphone has been met with skepticism in the tech industry.

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A car moves along the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, Nevada, in this Wednesday, April 10, 2002 file photo. The CIA is acknowledging the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents.

George Washington University’s National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it Aug. 15.

CIA: Area 51 — yes!

But no UFOs or aliens HANNAH DREIER Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — The CIA is acknowledging in the clearest terms yet the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories about aliens and flying saucers for decades.

The recently declassified documents have set Area 51 buffs abuzz, though there’s no mention of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.

The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the activities that took place there, but places the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed.

It also describes some cool planes, though none of them are saucer-shaped.

George Washington University’s National Security Archive used a public records request to obtain a CIA history of one of Area 51’s most secret Cold War projects, the high-flying U-2 spy plane program.

National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information, and sure enough, he received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored.

It’s not the first time the government has acknowledged the super-secretive, 8,000-square-mile installation. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush acknowledged the “location near Groom Lake” in insisting on continued

secrecy, and other government references date to the 1960s.

But those who are convinced “the truth is out there” are taking the document as a sign of loosening secrecy about the government’s activities in the Nevada desert.

Barbara Mervine, who describes herself as part of the “UFO community,” said the declassification of the documents is “quite important.”

The site is known as Area 51 among UFO aficionados because that was the base’s designation on old Nevada test site maps.

Beginning with the U-2 in the 1950s, the base has been the testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117A stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber. Some believe the base is also a storage site for alien vehicles, evidence from the “Roswell incident” and extraterrestrial corpses.

Even for those who do not believe, the mystery surrounding the site, situated about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, across miles of empty desert speckled with Joshua trees and sagebrush, has been a boon.

One Nevada bicycle event company produces an “X Rides” event that incorporates mountain and road biking near a certain heavily guarded patch of Nevada desert. Las Vegas’ minor league baseball team is called “the 51s.”

Small-town restaurants along State Route 375, officially designated the Extraterrestrial Highway, sell souvenir T-shirts to tourists making their way to the boundary of Area 51, which consists of a no-trespassing sign, a surveillance camera and an armed guard on a hill.

Power companies dangle free nights, weekends Jonathan Fahey AP Energy Writer

NEW YORK — Electric bills have long been take-it-or-leave-it affairs: Pay one rate for all the power you used the month before, no matter when you used it.

But some electric companies want to shake-up that rigid business model. They are increasingly offering plans that sound like come-ons from mobile phone companies: Free nights, free weekends and pre-paid plans.

“We are seeing a transformation in the way people buy and use electricity in the U.S.,” says Steven Murray, president of Direct Energy’s residential energy programs.

The more customized plans are made easier by the growing use of digital meters that wirelessly link electric companies and customers, allowing both to track usage in real time. Digital meters have not only spurred competition, they have also enabled traditional utilities to reduce their costs by encouraging customers to use electricity during off-peak hours, when it is cheaper.

Forty-two percent of U.S. electric customers have digital meters, up from less than 5 percent in 2008.

In 2015, more than 50 percent will have them, according to Navigant Consulting.

This new breed of electric plans comes with risks.

Customers can end up paying a lot more for power than they expected. Some plans offer low introductory rates that can quickly skyrocket.

Others have high early-termination fees. Some fixed-rate plans are a great deal if power prices rise, but they may seem awfully expensive if prices fall.

If customers are careful, though, they can pay less.

Dorothea Miller of Sinking Spring, Pa. signed up for a Direct Energy plan that gives her one day of free power every week. She

picked Saturday, and now saves as much of her housework as she can until then. She stops short, she says, of letting mountains of dirty laundry or dishes accumulate in anticipation of Saturday’s free power.

“We pretty much run things the way we did before the plan, but now we set our dishwasher to go on after midnight (Friday) and do most of our laundry on Saturday,” she says.

TXU Energy offers a similar plan to Texas customers that offers free power every night from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m., or free power Saturdays and Sundays, in exchange for a higher rate during other times.

Customized plans are most prevalent in the 13 states and Washington, D.C., where regulators have allowed companies to compete to sell electricity, but they are also popping up in other states.

Electric competition has been around for more than a decade and utilities have experimented with pricing plans for even longer. But digital meters have made these plans easier to offer and manage. They are being installed around the world; utilities in China, Japan and across the European Union have aggressive plans to expand the use of digital meters.

In the U.S., companies have different motivations for offering innovative plans. Traditional regulated utilities are trying to reduce stresses on their grids. Upstart power providers are trying to lure new customers.

In both cases, they are trying to get customers to use less electricity when it costs more. Wholesale power prices fluctuate depending on the time of day, from zero overnight to thousands of dollars per megawatt-hour during a hot day.

Yet most customers see one average price every month, a price that includes those sky-high peak rates.

With plans that offer prices that vary based on the time of day, customers can avoid high-cost power in the

same way air travelers can save by not flying on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.

Power providers use fleets of pushy door-to-door sales people, pop-up-booths in malls and tens of thousands of mailed flyers to sign up customers. But it can be difficult to get people to switch because most people don’t think about electricity unless they lose it, and the cost of electric bills isn’t a major concern.

“It’s not like an entertainment purchase where you can see the reward,” says Bruce Stewart, chief marketing officer for Constellation Energy, the retail arm of Exelon Corp.

U.S. power prices have been mostly flat or declining since the mid-1980s, adjusted for inflation. A typical residential customer spends $110 per month on electricity. That’s one-third the average amount spent by a family on gasoline.

Power providers have only had success attracting customers in the past when electricity prices are falling sharply because they can offer a quick, obvious savings compared with what the traditional utility offers. But now that 60 million customers have digital meters, they can offer plans that help customers save money based on how and when they use power, not just with a cheaper price.

Direct Energy ran a simple, silly TV advertisement pitching its free power day that included a woman blow-drying her golden retriever — why not, if the power is free?

Oklahoma Gas & Electric offers a plan called “SmartHours” that offers lower rates to customers who cut back on power usage during hot summer afternoons, along with a thermostat that can adjust itself based on electricity prices.

“To differentiate yourself you have to craft a product that makes things easier,” says Bill Massey, a former federal energy regulator now at the

Compete Coalition, a group that lobbies to expand competitive electricity markets.

Companies are offering pre-paid electric plans that, like pre-paid mobile phone plans, can be cheap and include no sign-up fees or deposits. Customers get text and email alerts when they’ve used most of the electricity they’ve paid for. By paying attention to their use they use less, which lowers their bills further.

Prepaid customers can have their power cut more quickly, though, if they have trouble paying for more electricity. In Texas, for example, if a prepaid balance falls below a certain level, power can be cut in as little as a day after the power provider issues a warning.

“Some (new plans) will be good for some people and some will be very very bad for other people,” cautions Janee Briesemeister, a senior legislative strategist who works on electricity issues for the AARP. This week New York’s electricity regulator threatened to block a power provider called Buy Energy Direct from operating in the state over complaints that it signed up customers who never intended to sign up, a scheme called “slamming.”

“It’s even more confusing than shopping for a cellphone contract,” says Briesemeister.

Many in the industry think that companies will learn to offer ever more straightforward and useful plans in order to woo and keep customers, and customers will learn to shop for electricity the way they shop for phone or cable service.

“The industry is only at the beginning of learning to understand their customers and figuring out what people want to do,” says Brain Seal of the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded technical group.

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