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Havana —from cobblestones to cars For a city where people earn an average of $20 a month at government jobs, Havana can be a surprisingly pricey place at least for tourists.

From $6 daiquiris at El Floridita, Ernest Hemingway’s favored watering hole, to the ubiquitous hustlers looking to con visitors into buying knock-off cigars, much about the Cuban capital seems geared toward separating travelers from their money.

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Ohio starts driver reinstatement fee payment plan COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio officials hope to get hundreds of thousands of suspended drivers back on the road — and in some cases back to work — more quickly through a new program allowing them to pay reinstatement fees in monthly installments and legally resume driving in the meantime.

Nearly half of the roughly 1 million suspended drivers will be eligible for the plan that starts Monday, according to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The option will apply to drivers whose only remaining license reinstatement requirement is $150 or more in outstanding fees, but it excludes those who have court-ordered pending suspensions or payment plans.

“It gives people that want to help them-

selves a way out,” state registrar Mike Rankin said. He noted that Ohioans lose licenses for 45 reasons, 20 of which aren’t directly driving-related, such as not paying child support or failing to pay for a fuel purchase at a gas station. The most common reason is getting caught driving without required insurance.

“Most people out there are — at least in the last eight years — are not willfully not paying,” Rankin said. “They’ve lost jobs.

They’re piecing together jobs to just, you know, support themselves.”

Rankin said the installment plan offers more options than the previous process that required a trip to one of seven reinstatement centers and could be more time and cost prohibitive, spurring some drivers to hit

the road illegally despite their suspensions.

Under the new program, drivers must apply, prove they have insurance and make a $50 payment toward the fees they owe.

Participants then must make $50 monthly payments by mail, phone, online or in person at a reinstatement center or deputy registrar’s office to avoid returning to suspension.

Drivers’ fees range from less than $200 in some cases to thousands of dollars as costly penalties increase for repeat offenders, making it harder for them to pay their totals and become a legal driver, BMV administrator Tim Fisher said.

“A lot of the people that we’re talking about here have absolutely just given up,” Fisher said.

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Mark Hirtzinger, owner of Picture This, is shown inside his studio recently. Picture This is located at 23 1/2 Race Street in downtown Troy.

Capturing the moment Local man opens photography studio in Troy Melanie Yingst Staff Writer

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TROY — Capturing the excitement of a student’s senior year of high school is just one of the many focuses of a new photography studio hat recently opened in Troy.

Mark Hirtzinger recently opened a state-of-the-art photography studio at 23 1/2 W. Race St., Troy, after being in the yearbook and photography business for more than two decades.

Hirtzinger said he decided to open his photography studio, Picture This Student Photography — and the studio branch called My Studio — not only for himself and his staff of professional photographers, but

for any interested photographer to use.

“Really great photography is all about experience — I think that makes a big difference,” Hirtzinger said, noting his experience in portrait photography spans more than 24 years.

Hirtzinger said he wants to bring his knowledge and expertise of photography beyond the lens to capture important moments in time like the senior high school portraits and photography sessions.

“That whole senior year experience is so special — it’s the grande finale,” he said. “It always seems like that’s the one time in a person’s life you always look back upon. It’s the one picture people keep around before they get mar-

ried and such so it’s important to capture that moment in their lives.”

Hirtzinger said often people are wary of the expense of senior pictures, but said it’s an investment that is worth it rather than settling for photography done by a family member or amateur photographer.

“It’s that one last memory of high school,” he said. “It’s always around somewhere, that why its so important it really is important to capture that and have a good experience.”

My Studio also will offer family portraits and traditional studio photography with its backdrops and props.

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Russia: no asylum for Snowden

Preserving the past Preserving the past has brought history back to life inside the quiet gates of two Miami County cemeteries.

Last month, hundreds of Miami County gravestones received a face lift. The work revived the history of generations buried in small town cemeteries thanks to a headstone restoration company that recently completed work at Casstown Cemetery and the McKendree Chapel Cemetery, located on Walnut-Grove Road in Elizabeth County See Valley, Page B1

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Country music singer Chris Cagle performs during the 33rd annual Country Concert on Saturday, the final day of the three-day music festival in Fort Loramie. Cagle also played at the 2004 Miami County Fair.

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian immigration officials said Saturday they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia.

Snowden came to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport on June 23 from Hong Kong, apparently intending to board a flight to Cuba. But he did not get on that flight and is believed to have spent the last three weeks marooned in the airport’s transit zone.

On Friday, he met with human rights activists there and said he would seek Russian asylum, at least as a temporary measure before going to Venezuela, Bolivia or Nicaragua, all of which have offered him asylum.

But the Interfax news agency quoted Russian migration service head Konstantin Romodanovsky as saying no asylum request had been received as of Saturday. The state news agency RIA Novosti cited migration service spokeswoman, Zalina Kornilova, as also saying no request had been received.

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Zimmerman not guilty SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate across the U.S. over racial profiling, selfdefense and equal justice.

Zimmerman, 29, blinked and barely smiled when the verdict was announced. He could have been convicted of second-degree murder or manslaughter. But the jury of six women, all but one of them white, reached a verdict of not guilty after deliberating well into the night Saturday. The jurors considered nearly three weeks of often wildly conflicting testimony over who was the aggressor on the rainy night the 17-year-old was shot while walking through the gated townhouse community where he was staying.

Defense attorneys said the case was classic self-defense, claiming Martin knocked Zimmerman down and was slamming the older man’s head against the concrete sidewalk when Zimmerman fired his gun.

Prosecutors called Zimmerman a liar and portrayed him was a “wannabe cop” vigilante who had grown frustrated by break-ins in his neighborhood committed primarily by young black men. Zimmerman assumed Martin was up to no good and took the law into his own hands, prosecutors said.

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Cynthia Bradford, of Casselberry, Fla., wipes away tears while showing her support for Trayvon Martin outside the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla., Saturday.

Zimmerman has been charged in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

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ijuana, up 11 percentage points just since 2010, recommended decriminalize according to Pew. Sixty percent think prohibition to a more laisshouldn’t sez-faire approach without Washington enforce federal laws against full deliberation.

“It’s a remarkable story marijuana in states that historically,” he says. “But as have approved its use.

Where California led the a matter of public policy, it’s charge on medical marijuaa little worrisome.”

More than a little worri- na, the next chapter in this some to those in the anti- story is being written in Colorado and Washington drug movement.

“We’re on this hundred- state.

Policymakers there are mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addic- grappling with all sorts of AP Photo tive substance,” says Kevin sticky issues revolving Sabet, a former drug policy around one central quesadviser in the Obama tion: How do you legally regadministration, lumping ulate the production, distrimarijuana with tobacco and bution, sale and use of marijuana for recreational puralcohol.

Legalization strategist poses when federal law bans Ethan Nadelmann, execu- all of the above?

The Justice Department tive director of the Drug n Continued from page A1 Policy Alliance, likes the began reviewing the matter State Attorney Angela Corey said after the case, race was barely mentioned at the direction the marijuana after last November’s electhe verdict that she believed second- trial. Even after the verdict, prosecutors tion. But seven months smokecharge is wafting. degree murder was the appropriate said race But was not about race. later, states still are on their hisbill side has“This considerbecause Zimmerman’s mindsetknows “fit the case has never been about race or own. able work yet to do. of second-degree murder.” the right to bear arms,” Corey said. “We sides the bounddebate constantly remind“We charged what we believed “I’m we could believe this case allBoth along was in about paid Zimmerman close attention when ing my allies that prove,” Corey said. aries,marijuaand George exceeded Obama said in December na is not going to legalize As the verdict drew near, police and city those boundaries.” that was “it does make sense, he says. One exception leaders in the Orlando suburbitself,” of Sanford thenot testimony of from a prioritization point of Eighteen states and the and other parts of Florida said they were Rachel Jeantel, the Miami teen who was view, for to focusmoments on recreof Columbia taking precautions against theDistrict possibility talking have to Martin byusphone ational drug users in a state of marijuaof mass protests or unrest in legalized the eventthe of use before he was shot.

She said he described has alreadycracker” said that an acquittal. being followed that by a “creepy-ass as na for medical purposes “There is no party in thissince case who he walked through the neighborhood. under state law that’s California voters wants to see any violence,”made Seminole Jeantel gavelegal.” some of the trial’s most the first move in 1996.

County Sheriff Don Eslinger said immediriveting testimony.

She said she overheard Rep. Jared Polis, a Voters in Colorado and ately after jurors began deliberating.

“We state Martin “What are you following Democrat who Washington tookdemand, the Colorado have an expectation upon thisnext announcefor?” and and then yell, “Get off! Get off!” favors legalization, predicts step lastmeyear ment that our community willapproved continue pot to for before his cellphone went dead.

Washington will take a recreationact peacefully.”

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But on the question from in on56Obama’s civil rights protesters angrily2014, demanded ing police, neighbors, friends and family and a few other states he’s quick to add: “We would Zimmerman be prosecuted. members. to see that in writing.” put example, recre- like Zimmerman wasn’t arrestedare for expected 44 days to For witnesses who got fleeting The government ational use on the ballot in after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting as police glimpses of the fight infederal the darkness gave already has taken a similar 2016. in Sanford insisted that Florida’s Stand differing accounts of who was on top.

And approach toward users in Nearly halfMartin’s of adults Your Ground law on self-defense prohibited parents and Zimmerman’s parents states that have approved have tried marijuana, 12 them from bringing charges. Florida gives both claimed that the person heard screamfor medical use. percent of if theming in for thehelp pastin marijuana people wide latitude to use deadly force the background of a neighIt doesn’t go after potyear, according to a survey they fear death or bodily harm. bor’s 911 call was their son. Numerous cancer patients or Research Martin’s parents, along withbycivilthe rightsPewother relatives smoking and friends weighed in, too, grandmas with leaders such as the Revs. Jesse Center.

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is Hispanic — had racially profiled their prosecutors suggested the injuries were son. And they accused investigators of not serious. dragging their feet because Martin was a To secure a second-degree murder black teenager. conviction, prosecutors had to convince during his timewith in the Before a special prosecutor assigned the jury Zimmerman acted a ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 that him Army. to the case ordered Zimmerman’s arrest, “depraved” state of mind — that is, with said, ‘Without veterthousands of protesters gathered ill will, spite.

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felt like it was right,” said Elliott, who is married to wife Erica, and has two stepsons, Chance and Skyler. “To be honored for it is a great feeling.”

The one thing Elliott said he thinks of on holidays such as the Fourth of July and Memorial Day is something a World War II veteran once shared with

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They warn that baby legitimate pot businesses buyer’s remorse, but more a eager to keep their operat- course correction before the boomers who draw on their ing licenses make sure not inevitable next push for full- own innocuous experiences to sell to minors. on legalization in the state. with pot are overlooking the “Having a regulated sysGrowing support for much higher potency of tem is the only way to legalization doesn’t mean today’s marijuana.

In 2009, concentrations ensure that we’re not ceding everybody wants to light up: control of this popular sub- Barely one in 10 Americans of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot, averaged stance to the criminal mar- used pot in the past year. ket and to black markeThose who do want to see close to 10 percent in mariteers,” says Aaron Smith, marijuana legalized range juana, compared with about executive director of the from libertarians who 4 percent in the 1980s, National oppose much government according to the National Cannabis Industry n Continued from page A1 Association, a trade group intervention to people who Institute on Drug Abuse.

Plan

Jack Frech, director of the Athens program will reduce the number of drivCounty Job and Family Services in ers making repeat court visits related to southeast Ohio, said even the smaller their suspensions. fees add up to big obstacles for people The BMV expects to see more paysaid the departwith city and ments county come law in She Veterans Museum. struggling to get by. through thefirepayment involved in the firealso which are ment “It is gets hoped “That to that be aTroy huge enforcement, barrier for plan, grewis out of legislation works andtime issues linelast up.year, and area willtoconthem thencitizens in trying get included and keep in a the passed but display it will take to themuch permit for the tinueespecially to be very in supportive job, the ruralCooper areas said like unfortunately determine how thatallowing might benefit show, and againto this bands Rankin of thewhere volunteers who work have this you absolutely haveyear, thenobureau, said.makes certain of thegetting safety attention of those inbeyond attensigned up to perform in the so hard organize access to atovehicle and athe driver’s license Ohio’s plan is July 4 parade and His turnagency out parade. to work,” he said. is offering state lines, dance. too, said Brian Ursino, are very for pleased HondaforPowersports of law“We to watch saidpayments cover the the parade,” initial $50 director of enforcement the that we of can provide an Troy is helping, Sue Knight, administrative residents who qualify for the planagain and American Association Motor Vehicle fireworks which show Knight said, as peo- excellent assistantwelfare for the city of through receive assistance the acting Administrators.

The association, the enjoyment of our ple movers, and Troy. state. hassupplying publishedfor a guide to best practices citizens anddrivers, generator tofor be reducing used for suspended Brenda Cooper, visitors, but In southwest Ohio,secreDaytonthe Municipal points tary of has the been Miaminotifying Valley “Songbird” having of a how safe states fireworks Court potentiallyBetty to itTasker’s as an example can performance Veteransdefendants Museum,to said of utmost importhe people Public show eligible spread the word athelp whoseissuspensions don’t paradethe participants tance to the city ofUrsino Troy,” Square. about plan, said will presiding Judge stem from dangerous driving, include veterans nonKnight saidsaid. the city of said Knight, who said city John Pickrel, whoand hopes the installment profit groups, athletic clubs and more. A group of three gentlemen with the fife and drum corps will pern Continued from page A1 the form throughout parade, along withmade a horse Snowden had a group. City along previous bidofficials, for Russian

Snowden

asylum, but President Vladimir Putin said he would have to agree to stop further leaks of infor■ CONTINUED FROM A1 mation about American intelligence service(Friday) activiwork this morning ties before it would be and are working to modify considered.

Snowden the pipes slightly to avoid withdrew the that bid, but parthat conflict papered, ticipants in Friday’s meetbut otherwise progress on ing said heportion was now ready southern is moving along well,toand we leaks. expect to agree stop to Granting have a minimum asylum base to course of asphalt Snowden woulddown addto drive on by new the end significant stressof August already-troubled for Gentlemen of to the Road.”

Washington-Moscow relaBusinesses on the north tions. end of the — Putin and project President including Obama Splish Splash Barack are Auto Bath and Dollar expected to hold a sum-

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Troy again is working with the Rozzi Co. of Loveland to bring an approximately 25-minute fireworks show to the community at approximately p.m. mit in Moscow 10 in early Thursday.

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both take part in the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, and the Snowden— issue overGeneral willcould easier to shadow both gatherings. access now, although work and Putin onObama the sidewalks is disstill cussed Snowden, among underway. other issues,the during teleThough city a origiphoneintended call on to Friday, the nally complete White House a the project in said three insegments, dividing itthat intoprotwo terse statement parts more sense, as vided made no specifics of their the railroad provided an conversation about the easy contractor NSA divide leaker. for White House Finfrock Construction spokesman Jay Carney Company. said the call was planned In other work is several days news, ago, suggestnow under way for the ing that it was unrelated 2013 paving program, after to Snowden’s meeting John R. Jurgensen Co. was with the activists. awarded a contract with Russia so far has side-

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Today • ART SHOW: The sixth annual art show will take place at Hoffman United Methodist Church. The show will be in the activity center located at 201 S. Main St. (one block west of State Route 48). It is a non-juried show. There is no admittance charge and it is open to the public.

Hours are 11-3:30 p.m.

For more information, call Cheryl at (937) 698-7030.

Information also is available at HoffmanUMC.org.

• ICE CREAM SOCIAL: The Miami County Park District VIPs will hold their “Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social” from 2-4 p.m. at Lost Creek Reserve, 2385 E. State Route 41, east of Troy. The VIP’s will be serving up ice cream for all. Come and relax in the park, tour the historic Knoop House, play some old-fashioned lawn games such as badminton, croquet and maybe even a round of corn hole. Meet in the parking lot. Register for the program online at www. miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

• BREAKFAST SET: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will present an all-you-caneat breakfast prepared by the ladies auxiliary from 8-11 a.m. for $6. Items offered will include eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, sausage gravy, pancakes, waffles, French toast, home fries, toast, cinnamon rolls, fruit and juice.

• INSECT WALKS: An insect walk will be at 2:30 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

A naturalist will lead walkers as they discover some of the many fascinating insects that live at Aullwood.

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Monday • LITERATURE CIRCLE: “A Taste for Civilization” will be discussed to examine the intricate relationships between meals, family, culture, and the fabric of civilized society from 7-9 p.m. at the TroyHayner Cultural Center, Troy. The event is sponsored by Stone’s Throw Cooperative.

• CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty Listeners will meet from 1-2:30 p.m. at the MiltonUnion Public Library.

Participants listen to an audio book and work on various craft projects.

• STORY CORNER: Stories will be read to children from 6:30-7 p.m. in the children’s area of the Milton-Union Public Library.

• BOOK GROUP: The Milton-Union Public Library evening book discussion group will discuss “Fire,” by Sebastian Junger at 7 p.m. For information about joining a group, call (937) 6985515.

• TRAILING TOTS: The Miami County Park District will have the Trailing Moms & Tots program from 10 a.m. to noon at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. This program is for expectant mothers, mothers and tots newborn to 5 years of age.

Participants can socialize, play and exercise during this walk. Be sure to dress for the weather. Register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

• BLT SANDWICHES: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer BLT sandwiches and chips from 6-7:30 p.m.

Civic agendas • Monroe Township Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. at the Township Building.

• The Tipp City

Call Melody Vallieu at 440-5265 to list your free calendar items.You can send your news by e-mail to mvallieu@civitasmedia.com.

Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Government Center.

• The Piqua City Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

• The Troy City Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the meeting room in Council Chambers.

• The Staunton Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Staunton Township building.

• Covington Board of Public Affairs will meet at 4 p.m. in the Water Department office located at 123 W. Wright St., Covington.

Tuesday • TINY TOTS: The Tiny Tots program will be from 1-1:30 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library. The interactive program is for children birth to 3 years old and their parents and caregivers.

• COLLAGE MAKING: A Beneath the Surface Collage Making event will be at 6 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Public Library, 419 W. Main St., Troy. Looking for a fun arts and crafts activity? Help participants dig through old magazines and newspapers to assemble a collage art on poster board. Call (937) 339-0502 to register in advance.

• QUARTER AUCTION: The American Legion Post 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will host a charity quarter auction from 7-9 p.m.

The charity of the month is Open Bible Church, Graceland Children’s Ministries. Food will be available for purchase from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

• ADULT EXPLORATION: The Miami County Park District will hold an adult exploration hike at 9 a.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. Join a park district naturalist or volunteer leader as they head out to explore nature. Walks are not strenuous or fast-paced.

They are held the first and third Tuesday of every month. Register for the program online at www. miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

• PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: The Miami County Park District will have the Mother Nature’s Preschool “Friends in the Water” program from 10-11 a.m. at Garbry Big Woods Reserve, 6660 Casstown Sidney Road, east of Piqua. Get out in the parks with park district naturalist Millipede Mike and discover our animal friends that live in water. Join Mike as she leads the group in song, story, play and a toddler sized hike. Meet in the shelter. Choose either weekday series or the Saturday series when registering. The fee is $10 for each series of four. Preregistration is required.

For more information, visit the Miami County Park District website at www.miamicountyparks. com.

Civic agendas • The Concord Township Trustees will meet at 10 a.m. at the Concord Township Memorial Building, 1150 Horizon West Court, Troy.

• Pleasant Hill Township Trustees will meet at 8 p.m. in the township building, 210 W. Walnut St., Pleasant Hill.

UVMC sponsors women’s health forum HPV, breastfeeding among topics For the Troy Daily News

said she believes parents are educated on the virus and the vaccine’s benefits. “I have not had a lot of concerns,” she said.

Dr. Bachman agreed, pointing out pediatric offices are getting the word out about the need for the vaccination. “A good variety of them (young patients) coming in have been vaccinated,” she said. “It is a preventive measure.”

Dr. Vignali discussed surgery as part of women’s care, noting that one in three women have a hysterectomy by age 60.

While laparoscopic surgery is commonly used today, robotic assisted surgery is the next step beyond that procedure, he said, adding that less invasive surgeries mean faster recovery times.

Jane Pierce, Clinical Nurse Specialist, addressed breastfeeding today.

“Breastfeeding is the number one thing that should be done. It is best for the baby and we are pushing for breastfeeding … It is good for the baby, and it is also good for the mom,” Pierce said. “We are working hard, looking at exclusive breastfeeding without bottles/formula.”

The forum was provided by Upper Valley Medical Center with support from the UVMC Foundation.

The benefits of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and continued advocacy for breastfeeding were among topics • STORY HOUR: The at the recent UVMC Health Symposium Milton-Union Public focusing on women’s health.

Library will have a sumMore than 85 people attended the mer story hour at 10:30 Women’s Health: Important Issues Across the Lifespan forum at the Crystal Room a.m. for children kinderin Troy. garten through second Topics ranging from the reproductive grade and 1:30 p.m. for years to menopause and other issues were children third through addressed by Dr. Victoria Ocampo of sixth grade. Programs Gyne Associates, Troy, and Dr. Katherine include puppet shows, stories and crafts. Contact Bachman and Dr. Sergio Vignali of Upper Valley Women’s Center. the library at (937) 698Although The New York Times recent5515 for weekly themes.

• KIWANIS MEETING: ly reported on a Pediatrics journal report The Kiwanis Club of Troy that more parents reported in 2010 than in 2008 that they did not intend to vacwill meet from noon to 1 cinate their daughters for HPV, the local p.m. at the Troy Country physicians said they have not seen resisClub. Steve Baker from tance. The same article reported HPV, WHIO North Bureau the most common sexually transmitted chief, will speak about his infection in the country, had declined by role with Channel 7 and one half in teenage girls in recent years. his coverage of the comDr. Ocampo said that the vaccine is munity. For more informa- recommended for those ages 9-26. She tion, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 418-1888.

• WOMEN’S • Eastern Kentucky education and fine arts.

CONNECTION: The University Students with more than meeting of the Troy-Tipp RICHMOND, KY one listing have earned addiWomen’s Connection — Eastern Kentucky tional degrees or honors. will be at noon at the University has announced Kathryn Marie Troy Country Club. The that 1,145 students earned Beanblossom of Bradford theme for the luncheon is President’s List honors for received a master geronto“Celebrating Our Nation.” the Spring 2013 semester. logical studies degree.

Brooke King of Tipp Xiang Cheng of Tipp The feature will be Kenny City, a junior pre-occupa- City received a bachelor of J Williamson of Ludlow science in Business degree Falls with music presented tional science major Kelsie Richardson of University Honors w/disby Rebel Marcum of Tipp City, a senior public tinction; Cum Laude.

Tipp City. The speaker health major Chelsea Nicole Dotson will be Debbie Bailey Alyssa Waitzman of Tipp of Piqua received a bachof Dublin on “Tooth or City, a senior occupational elor of science in business Consequences.” Lunch science major degree. is $12.50 inclusive and Robert Joseph Harrelson reservations are due July • Miami University of Troy received a bachelor 13 and can be made by OXFORD — Miami of arts degree. calling Nancy at 339-7859 University awarded 3,678 Wesley Scott Marsh of or Joan at 335-3001. A degrees to students dur- Tipp City received a bachcomplimentary nursery is ing spring commencement elor of science in business provided if requested and exercises May 11 at Yager degree magna cum laude. is located at the Nazarene Stadium.

Cody C. Owen of Piqua Church located on State Miami University is a received a bachelor of sciRoute 55. public university located in ence in education degree.

• BLOOD DRIVE: The southwestern Ohio, offerKaitlin Mae Patzek of First Presbyterian Church ing more than 100 degree Tipp City received a bachprograms in humanities, sci- elor of science in business of Troy will host a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. ence, engineering, business, degree honors in economin the large meeting room, 20 S. Walnut St., Troy.

Everyone who registers to donate will be automatically be entered into a drawing to win a Harley Davidson Road King Classic motorcycle, and will receive a free “King of the Road Summer Blood Drive” T-shirt.

Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment to donate online at www.

DonorTime.com.

• SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami Valley Troy Chapter of the National Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Group will meet from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, 1200 Barnhart Road, Troy. Use the entrance at the side of the building. For more information, call the Alzheimer’s Association at (937) 291-3332.

Civic agendas • The Elizabeth Township Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in the township building, 5710 Walnut Grove Road, Troy.

• The Covington Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Covington Middle School for a regular board meeting.

Wednesday

College Briefs

ics university honors w/distinction; magna cum laude.

Ellen Elizabeth Puthoff of Troy received a bachelor of science degree university honors w/distinction; summa cum laude.

Ellen Elizabeth Puthoff of Troy received a bachelor of arts degree university honors w/distinction; summa cum laude.

Logan Nicholle Subler of Tipp City received a bachelor of science in business degree summa cum laude.

Lori Kim Weaver of Troy received a bachelor of science in kinesiology and health degree.

• Oxford College of Emory University ATLANTA — Giles Hinders of Troy received an associate of arts degree from Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., at its 168th commencement ceremony on May 11.

Thursday • BOOK CLUB: The High Nooners book discussion group at the MiltonUnion Public Library will meet at noon. They will discuss “On the Island,” by Tracey Garvis Graves. For information about joining a group, call (937) 698-5515.

• CHILDREN’S PROGRAM: A children’s program with “The Rock Man” Mike Manning will be at the Milton-Union Public Library from 1:453:15 p.m. He is a retired teacher and geologist.

His program will be about crystals, minerals, dinosaur fossils and gem sluicing. Children will be able to screen for fossils, minerals, crystals and gemstones which they will get to take home. Preregistration is required.

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP July 7 San Antonio Express-News on how a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and a Texas law requiring voters to show photographic identification: What’s the rush?

The ink was barely dry on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act, and there was Attorney General Greg Abbott saying Texas’ voter ID law would go into effect immediately.

The problem: the ink has been quite dry for a while on another federal court ruling. This one, in August 2012, said discrimination and voter suppression was written all over Texas’ voter ID law.

Yet, the state is now gearing up to implement this law, and county election officials around the state are surely scratching their heads.

Why would a state, whose voting numbers are nothing to write home about, want to diminish them further? Particularly since this is ostensibly to address voter fraud — a problem that substantially doesn’t exist.

Abbott wants to be governor, by the way. And he likely sees campaign gold in Texans’ anti-federal sentiments.

But here’s what happened last year. Circuit Court Judge David Tatel in Washington, D.C., wrote an opinion in which he called out Texas on its requirement of photo ID for voting.

“It imposes strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor and racial minorities in Texas,” he wrote, joined in the opinion by two other judges. …

Things remain highly unsettled — all except Texas’ desire to get as much mileage out of voter ID as soon as possible and to set in concrete redistricting lines that do not yet do justice to minority growth.

Unseemly doesn’t describe half of what’s going on here.

July 9 The Bulletin, Bend, Ore., on a college tuition installment plan advanced by the state legislature: The Oregon Legislature has unanimously decided to explore the “Pay it Forward” concept for college tuition. The idea is that students would go to college for

free, and then pay for it with a percentage of their income for the next 20-25 years.

The costs and risks of the concept are so massive that the move can only be understood as a sign of our widespread desperation about college costs and debt. In Oregon, we also have the pressures of the governor’s 40-40-20 plan, which sets the highest value on awarding more degrees, assuming that 80 percent of high school graduates need some sort of advanced degree or certificate.

House Bill 3472, which the governor is expected to sign, instructs the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design a pilot project to test the Pay it Forward idea, which originated at a Seattle nonprofit and was brought to the legislature by Portland State University students.

Although the approach is supposed to be self-sustaining eventually, the cost to get there is estimated to exceed $9 billion. That’s shocking enough by itself, but the bigger danger is unintended consequences, about which we can make only limited guesses.

Here’s one: Pity the programs that don’t lead to high-paying jobs.

If the fund gets repaid based on the graduate’s income, you can be sure that programs such as literature and social worker training will struggle for support from cash-strapped university administrations. Engineering and high finance, on the other hand, would be in line for disproportionate investments.

In takes only a cursory look at history to see a prime related example. When the federal government made student and parent loans easy to get, it freed colleges and universities from normal market forces. Many analysts believe that’s a major factor in the surge of college costs. It was a well-intentioned move to level the economic playing field, but it had unanticipated and severely damaging effects.

Pay it Forward ducks the fundamental questions about whether higher education should cost what it does, and also which students benefit from going to college.

They said it “It will be a lot safer and more efficient to do things to lessen inmate movement,” Norman said. “This is what they call a “California style corrections system” with direct supervision verses the cell system.”

— Lt. Dave Norman, jail administrator, on changes made at the Miami County Sheriff’s Office Incarceration Facility reopening soon “We decided to open it up to anybody and everybody who wanted to come in the county.

We do this to make a connection with the youth. We do it every year to make a positive connection with the kids so they can see our people in a different light.”

— Jim Wysong, Deputy Detective, Miami County Sheriff’s Office on the 10th annual Miami County Sheriff’s Office Youth Camp “She took it in, so to me she is a hero, but when it comes down to it, people should not have them for pets.”

— Tim Harrison, well-known exotic animal expert, on the rescue of a brown bear from Covington to a California rescue

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Saying goodbye to a family member way too soon Josh Brown TDN Sports Editor

When I was a child, I had a dog that was my best friend. I grew up, graduated and moved to college, so he kind of became my dad’s dog. So when it came time to put him to sleep when he was too old and in pain, I wasn’t there to say goodbye at the end.

Not that I would have been able to handle it if I was. I could barely handle the phone call I got that night.

Yesterday, I had to be there to say goodbye to more than just a best friend.

When Mandie brought a couple-months old brown rat of a schnauzer-yorkshire terrier puppy home a couple of years ago, I never expected it. Sure, we’d talked about how we both wanted a dog really bad, but she’d only moved in with me just a few months before that. The moment I saw her with him, everything changed.

Splinter turned us into a family.

Sure, we were headed that way anyway. A couple short weeks later, I proposed, we got married a month after that and we’ve been a family ever since. I always tell Mandie that I don’t remember a time when she wasn’t in my life, but honestly I don’t remember a time when both she and Splinter weren’t in my life.

And now Splinter’s gone far too soon.

He got sick late Monday night, and when he wasn’t better the next morning I took him to the vet. Through all the tests and X-rays and everything, they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, and eventually he ended up staying there to be treated. But I got woke up with the call on Saturday morning saying that he’d improved for a while the night before, only to pull a severe 180 that

morning. That he wasn’t going to make it.

That they’d be there if we wanted to come say goodbye.

I couldn’t have wanted to do anything less.

How could I say goodbye to someone so important to me, to Mandie, to our little family? How were either of us ever going to be able to sleep again without him tucked behind our legs in bed? How could I ever walk into our house after getting off work without him being waiting at the door to say “welcome home” with puppy kisses? How will I ever be able to wake up again without him standing on my chest, ears flopped out to the side, all excited to start the day?

But we went. And we held him and petted him. And we told him not to be afraid and

that we would always love him. And I told him, when he got wherever he was going, to find whatever higher power decided it was a good idea to steal him from us, bite its neck and tear its throat out. Because it has a lot to answer for.

Do it for your baby sister that should have celebrating her first birthday tomorrow.

We held his paws and kissed his furry forehead, and then he was gone.

He was 2.

It just isn’t fair. He deserved better. The entire family that he built, our family, did.

Goodbye Splinter. You’ll always be the bestest little buddy anyone could have.

TDN Sports Editor Josh Brown appears Sundays. The first person that says “everything happens for a reason” is getting their nose broken.

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Winans’ sweet success

New coffee, chocolate store opens Belinda M. Paschal Staff Writer

PIQUA — Fans of Winans Fine Chocolates and Coffees will be going Looney for their caffeine fixes — Looney Road, that is.

That’s where owners Joe and Laurie Reiser opened their new store, their second in Piqua and 11th in Ohio.

The Reisers weren’t looking to open a new store, but when the location, 8090 Looney Road, near Interstate 75, was mentioned to them, they couldn’t resist.

“It seemed really, really right because of the location,” Laurie Reiser said. “I think this store will attract our traditional clientele, but also people who may be going somewhere else for their coffee will now come to us because it’s convenient.”

Though the Reisers expect most of their traffic to be on foot in the store, they’re also offering a drivethrough window for coffee lovers on the go. The shop also features a cupping room for coffee tastings and small, private meetings.

Reiser said she also hopes the store’s accessibility will make it attractive to to students and staff at Piqua High and Junior High schools, Edison State Community College and Upper Valley Career Center.

“It’s a prime location near four educational facilities and it’s near the highway for commuters,” Reiser said. “I think the decor Civitas Photo/MIKE ULLERY and design will be attractive to a Natalie Schaurer stocks shelves inside the newest Winan’s location on Looney Road in Piqua, on Wednesday morning. younger clientele as well. It’s got Schaurer, who has been with Winan’s for two years, will be manager of the new store, which is located at 8090 Looney Road. kind of an urban edge to it. It

looks a little more ‘big city.’”

That decor will include items reflecting Winans’ history. “People will see the return of some fixtures and shelving units from the carriage house. We’re also bringing back a beautiful old piece that we used to have all the coffees on,” Reiser said.

Established in the late 1800s, Winans is in its fourth generation of family ownership, having been passed down from great-grandfather to son-in-law to sons, then to grandsons and great-granddaughter.

In addition to the two Winans in Piqua, there are two stores each in Troy and Dayton, and a shop in the Upper Valley Medical Center, as well as locations in Beavercreek, German Village in Columbus, Dublin and Maineville, northeast of Cincinnati.

The new site will give customers a chance to learn about the goods they’re purchasing.

“I think more so than our other stores, this one is going to show off the origin of our products. If people come in and have questions about chocolate or coffees, we’ll have materials to explain to them how coffee goes from the farm to the cup and how chocolate goes from the bean to the bar, as they say,” Reiser said.

“It’s exciting how, kind of like with wine, people are getting interested in how coffee is farmed, who the people are who farmed it, how it’s processed and why our coffee is so good.” bpaschal@pdceditorial.com

Ledger Briefs New cardiology office opens in Tipp City TIPP CITY — Upper Valley Cardiology has opened a new office at UVMC’s Hyatt Center, 450 N. Hyatt St., Suite 206A, Tipp City.

Cardiologists Aaron Kaibas, D.O., and Thomas Kupper, M.D., are now seeing patients in the new Tipp City office. They and Cardiologists Cass Cullis, M.D., and William Czajka, M.D., also will continue to see patients at their Troy office at 3006 N. CR 25A, just south of the Upper Valley Medical Center.

Appointments can be made by calling (937) 3353518 Monday through Thursday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. or Friday between 8 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Aaron Kaibas, D.O.

Boeing stock tumbles after fire on 787 Dreamliner LONDON (AP) — A fire aboard an empty 787 at Heathrow Airport spooked Boeing (NYSE:BA) investors Friday, as they feared the re-emergence of battery problems that grounded the plane for months earlier this year.

At one point, a rapid sell-off had knocked $6 billion off Boeing’s market value. The stock recovered slightly as speculation about the cause of the fire shifted away from the batteries. Shares closed down $5.01, or 4.7 percent, to $101.87.

The cause of the fire on the Ethiopian Airlines plane — which broke out more than 8 hours after it had landed — remained under investigation.

Meanwhile, an unspecified mechanical issue caused another 787 flown by Thomson (NYSE:TMS) Airways to return to Manchester Airport, adding to concerns about the plane.

AT&T to buy Leap Wireless for about $1.2 billion DALLAS AT&T says it will acquire Leap Wireless, the pre-paid cellphone carrier behind the Cricket brand, for $15 a share in cash, or about $1.19 billion.

Under the deal, AT&T will buy all of Leap’s stock

Thomas Kupper, M.D.

and wireless properties, including licenses, network, retail stores and 5 million subscribers.

Leap, of San Diego, had $2.8 billion of net debt.

AT&T says it will keep the Cricket brand name and provide Cricket customers with access to AT&T’s “4G LTE” highspeed wireless network.

FDA sets new limits on arsenic in apple juice WASHINGTON — Parents who have been fretting over the low levels of arsenic found in apple juice can feel better about buying one of their kids’ favorite drinks.

The Food and Drug Administration is setting a new limit on the level of arsenic allowed in apple juice, after more than a year of public pressure from consumer groups worried about the contaminant’s effects on children. Nationwide, apple juice is second only to orange juice in popularity, according to industry groups.

Studies have shown that the juice contains very low levels of arsenic, a cancercausing agent found in everything from water to soil to pesticides. The FDA has monitored arsenic in apple juice for decades and has long said the levels are not dangerous to consumers, in particular small children who favor fruit juice.

Twinkies make early return at Wal-Mart stores NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart and other retailers are making Twinkies available this weekend, even though Hostess says it asked stores to wait until Monday to start selling the spongy yellow snack cakes.

The world’s largest retailer announced Friday that the cakes were available at about 1,600 stores and that about 3,000 of its 4,000 U.S. stores should have them by Sunday morning. That’s a day before the July 15 return that Hostess has trumpeted in its marketing. Supermarket operator Kroger (NYSE:KR) , which owns Ralphs, Fry’s and Food 4 Less, also said the cakes were available in about a quarter of its more than 2,400 stores Friday and that the figure would expand over the weekend.

Hostess said in a statement that it shipped out products to give retailers the same opportunity to display the product on Monday.

“Hostess has not, and is not, giving any particular retailer exclusivity or preference to have products first and is making a great effort to fulfill orders equally and timely to everyone,” the company said in a statement.

But Wal-Mart announced Friday morning that Twinkies would make an “early comeback” at its stores.

“The product was in our distribution centers, and we went out early,” said Veronica Marshall, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) Inc. Marshall had earlier said that WalMart had worked with Hostess to make the snack cakes available early exclusively. But she later clarified the statement to say that Wal-Mart

had worked with Hostess to make special packaging with the words “First Batch” available exclusively at its stores.

By late next week, Wal-Mart says its stores will also have Hostess Mini Muffins and fried Fruit Pies, Marshall said. Coffee Cakes, Ho Hos, Orange CupCakes, Suzy Qs and Zingers will be available by August.

Sno-Balls will arrive in the fall.

A representative for grocery store operator Safeway (NYSE:SWY) did not immediately respond to say when it would start selling Twinkies.

Notably, the new owners of Hostess say that Twinkies now have a shelf life of 45 days. That’s nearly three weeks longer than the 26 days the previous company had stated for the cakes. Hostess says the changes were made under the previous owners and longer-lasting cakes hit

US Airways shareholders approve American merger

JPMorgan’s profit surges on investment banking

NEW YORK — US Airways shareholders overwhelmingly approved a proposed merger with American Airlines, bringing the companies closer to creating the world’s biggest airline.

The main hurdle now is a review by antitrust regulators at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Concerns have been raised about the merger’s impact on airfares, and the combined airline’s potential dominance at Washington’s Reagan National Airport.

The man who will lead the combined company, US Airways CEO Doug Parker, was once again adamant Friday that the combined airline should not be forced to give up any takeoff and landing slots at Reagan National, where it will be by far the biggest carrier.

NEW YORK — A surge in investment banking pushed up JPMorgan’s second-quarter profit even as results at its consumer business sagged.

JPMorgan earned a bonanza in fees fromunderwriting stock and bond offerings in the first three months of the year as financial markets thrived. The gain offset a slight decline at the bank’s consumer business, which struggled with lower mortgage fees.

The bank made $6.1 billion in the second quarter after stripping out payments to preferred shareholders. That was up 32 percent from the same period a year ago, when it made $4.6 billion.

Profits in the year-ago period were affected by a trading loss.

shelves right before the company went out of business.

Hostess also says it will be freezing Twinkies for about 10 percent of its retailers upon request, which lets stores stamp their own expiration dates on the cakes. Marshall said Wal-Mart isn’t one of the retailers that will get frozen Twinkies.

Hostess went bankrupt late last year after years of management turmoil and a standoff with its secondbiggest union. The company sold off its various brands, with Twinkies and other Hostess cakes going to private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co., which is known for fixing up ailing brands, then selling them off for a profit.

Marshall declined to say how Hostess cake sales were performing at Wal-Mart stores before the bankruptcy. The retailer also sells Little Debbie cakes, which are made by McKee Foods Corp, and Tastykake, which is made by Flowers Foods.

(NYSE:FLO) Wal-Mart also sells store-brand versions of the cakes.

In a statement, the second largest union for the bankrupt Hostess company said that it had consistently stated its interest in working with the new owners of the company. It said that the experience of its members would give the “best chance for long-term success in consistently putting out a quality product.”

The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union said it hoped the new owners would change their approach and work with its union members to ensure long-term success for the cakes.

Hyundai US CEO: We can’t build cars fast enough ANN ARBOR, Mich.

— Hyundai Motor Co.’s (OOTC:HYMOF) factories have reached their maximum capacity to build cars, and that’s costing the company sales in a growing U.S. market, its American CEO said Friday.

Hyundai’s U.S. sales are up only 1.9 percent for the first half of the year, less than a quarter of the overall market’s 8.4 percent growth rate, according to Autodata Corp. Industry analysts are predicting that sales will rise as high as 15.5 million cars and trucks this year, a million more than last year, and there are predictions of nearly 16 million in 2014.

A Hyundai factory near Montgomery, Ala., that makes the Elantra compact and Sonata midsize car, the company’s two top-selling vehicles, is at capacity, as is a plant in West Point, Ga., run by sister company Kia where Hyundai’s popular Santa Fe crossover utility vehicle is made. Other models are made at factories in Korea, which also are at capacity.

U.S. CEO John Krafcik said both U.S. plants are on the maximum three shifts with workers on maximum overtime, yet they still can’t keep up with demand.

Owners call off Hulu sale, to inject cash instead LOS ANGELES — The on-again, off-again sale of Hulu is off — again.

Hulu’s owners, 21st Century Fox, Disney and NBCUniversal, said Friday that they will remain owners of the online video service, while providing a cash infusion of about $750 million to ensure its future growth.

The owners accepted formal bids for Hulu as recently as last week as part of their second attempt in three years to sell the company. But Friday’s announcement suggests the bids were too low. Reports pegged the high end of bidding around $1 billion, which is half of what Hulu was valued at when the existing owners bought out Providence Equity Partners’ 10 percent stake for $200 million in April 2012.

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Mandela situation sparks end-of-life discussions

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Sean Davison’s mother, a doctor, knew she faced an impending, painful death from cancer. Not willing to endure it, she chose to end her life by not eating. That attempt, Davison said, went terribly wrong. “It went on for five weeks drinking a glass of water each day,� said Davison, a South African citizen by way of New Zealand. “She was decomposing.

She couldn’t move any limb of her body, which is when I helped her, at her request, to end her life.�

End-of-life decisions have become a burning topic of discussion in South Africa, where former President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized for five weeks, much of that time in critical condition.

A court filing late last month stated that Mandela was in a “permanent vegetative state� but that appears to have been either exaggerated or simply incorrect.

A report from the Mail and Guardian, a respected South African newspaper, said that the 94-year-old does not have a living will, meaning tricky end-oflife decisions could be left to a very fractured Mandela family.

Mandela’s wife — his third

— said Friday she is “less anxious� about the health of South Africa’s first black president than she was a week ago. “He continues to respond positively to treatment,� said Graca Machel.

Friends and family who have visited Mandela say he is responsive and they feel he is communicative through facial and eye movements. But he being assisted by mechanical breathing, medical support he may require for the rest of his life.

law requires greater clarity. “Ultimately, at issue here is the suffering of people in the end stage of life,� Landman wrote.

His paper argued that South Africa should decriminalize assisted dying for the terminally ill and asks whether creating such a law is consistent with or even required by South Africa’s constitution.

South Africa’s National Health Act of 2003 says that health services may not be provided

action. “I would speculate that he believed in the concept or that he believed the concept should be debated,� Davison said. “It’s a taboo subject for many.

Homosexuality, abortions, AIDS, drug abuse — these subjects are no longer taboo. They are dinner table discussions, and hopefully death and dying will equally be discussed around the dinner table one day,� he said.

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Pupils from the Leeuwenhof Academy school wave South African flags and sing to the sound of drums to show their support for Nelson Mandela outside the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa.

That means delicate decisions may still have to be made.

Ahmed Kathrada, a close friend of Mandela’s and a fellow anti-apartheid leader, said after a recent hospital visit that Mandela is a “shell� of his former self.

The legalities of end-of-life decisions — including terminal pain management and the withholding of life-saving treatment — are murky in South Africa, said Willem Landman, the executive director of the Ethics Institute of South Africa, who wrote in a 2012 paper that the

to a patient without that person’s informed consent unless the patient is unable to do so. If no person has been appointed, then consent can be granted in Mandela’s case by a spouse or an adult child, in that order.

Mandela when president commissioned a government report and draft bill on assisted dying in 1998, said Davison, who is also founder of DignitySA, a group working to pass a law giving the right to terminally ill people to end their own lives.

The bill was presented to parliament, but the legal body took no

utive, watched her husband, Joe Slovo, one of Mandela’s Cabinet ministers and a leading member of Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, die a slow death from cancer. Dolny is writing a three-part series in the Johannesburg paper City Press called “Let’s talk about dying.�

She wrote that Mandela is giving South Africa a “precious parting gift� by spurring a conversation about death. “I think this is one of the most awful times any family has to bear — watching the slow ebbing away of life from the person

you love so much,� she said.

Davison’s mother was 85 and terminally ill when Davison helped her die. He was arrested, charged and eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of assisted suicide. He was sentenced to five months of house arrest in New Zealand. His wife and two children remained in South Africa.

DignitySA, which is attracting audiences of hundreds of people to end-of-life discussions, is recruiting high-profile patrons and has a three-year strategy to persuade a member of parliament to table a bill and open it to public debate. Davison said he’s heard from many families where elderly grandparents or parents are on life support but nothing was ever put in writing about their wishes in the situation. “You and I probably think the same thing and we think we’ll put it in writing one day, but we don’t,â€? Davison said, who referred to Mandela by his clan name, Madiba. “(Former Israeli Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon has been on life support for seven or eight years and we’ve kind of forgotten about him ‌ Theoretically Madiba could be on life support for a very long time.â€?

In the night, train brings grief to Quebec town LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — It was surely the most festive spot in town as a Friday night turned into a Saturday morning at the Musi-Cafe - a full house, live music, plenty of beer and nachos to animate long-time friends.

Among the dozens enjoying themselves in the pub was a sizable contingent of the Lafontaine clan, celebrating the 40th birthday of a daughter of prominent local businessman Raymond Lafontaine.

Four days later - having lost a son and two daughters-in-law who were among the revelers Lafontaine stood near a throng of reporters on a street near the town center, watching them pepper an American railroad executive with questions. “I wanted to see my children’s killer,� Lafontaine said. “And I wanted to see the killer of other people from here who didn’t ask to die.�

Any possible culpability on the part of the railway remains to be determined; police say their criminal investigation will proceed slowly and carefully. But it is fact that an unmanned Montreal, Maine and Atlantic freight train with 72 cars carrying shale oil turned into a runaway death machine - rolling away from its overnight parking spot, barreling for miles down an incline in the dark of night, derailing in the heart of Lac-Megantic at 1:14 a.m. on July 6, and snuffing out 50 lives when a series of explosions set off a ferocious fire.

For some, it became known as “the train of death.� For others in the close-knit, French-speaking town, it was “le train d’enfer� - or “the train from hell.�

Gilles Fluet, a 65-year-old retiree who used to work at a door-

making factory, left the Musi-Cafe just moments before the first explosion and saw the train go by. “It was moving at a hellish speed ‌ no lights, no signals, nothing at all,â€? he said. “There was no warning. It was a black blob that came out of nowhere.â€? “I realized they were oil tankers and they were going to blow up, so I yelled that to my friends and I got out of there,â€? he said. “If we had stayed where we were, we would have been roasted.â€?

Those who were still in the pub, he said, “had no chance.�

It’s daunting to ponder the toll exacted on Lac-Megantic. Fifty dead in a town of 6,000 represents nearly 1 percent of the population - a rate that high for a big city would verge on apocalyptic.

Some residents have suggested that the train disaster is comparable in its impact on their town to how the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks affected New York City.

And indeed there are similarities - sudden, deadly conflagrations; victims whose virtually vaporized remains defied easy identification; the circulation of photos of the missing, posted by relatives clinging to faint hopes that somehow their loved ones might be seen alive somewhere.

In mid-week, those hopes were largely dashed when Quebec police informed families that the people still listed as missing were presumed dead.

The victims included Eliane Parenteau, vivacious and gregarious at 93, who lived in one of the homes ravaged by the blaze. “She always said she would never go to an old people’s home and she wanted to die in her house,� her son, Michel Boulanger, told the Journal de Quebec.

At the other end of the age scale,

the presumed dead include the two young daughters of Talitha Coumi Begnouche - all three died in their home near the crash site.

A photo of the girls, released by the family, shows them embracing - 4-year-old Alyssa with a giggly grin and 8-year-old Bianka with a soft, radiant smile.

Another victim was Guy Bolduc, a father of two children who was one of a pair of musicians performing at the Musi-Cafe. The other performer, Yvan Ricard, had taken a cigarette break outdoors when the inferno broke out, and he escaped unharmed. “The last words he said to me were, ‘Yvan, I really like playing with you. We have so much fun together,’� Ricard told the television network TVA. Among those spared by quirks of fate was the cafe’s manager, Sophie L’Heureux. She told reporters she went home around 9:30 p.m. that Friday evening, planned to return after a nap but overslept. Three of her employees are among those presumed dead, along with many of her loyal customers.

Nathalie Royer and David Isabel could have been among those doomed regulars, had it not been for home repairs they planned for later Saturday morning. The couple, both 45, left the cafe shortly after 1 a.m., with Isabel telling Royer to forgo one more drink with their friends because they had to get up early.

They decided to leave their car parked outside the bar and started to make their way home on foot. They ran when they spotted the train; Royer lost a shoe, stumbled, and suffered a burn on her arm, according to her mother, Louisette Nadeau. “The people that died there - it’s a lot, because we’re a little town,�

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In this Thursday photo, Raymond Lafontaine, who lost his son and two daughters-in-law, receives a hug from Quebec Premier Pauline Marois during her visit to Lac-Megantic, Quebec as Marois toured the site where a runaway oil train killed 50 people in a fiery explosion.

Nadeau said. “There’s almost none of them that we don’t know.�

The explosions and fire destroyed 30 buildings in all, including the public library that housed irreplaceable historical archives. Roughly 2,000 people - a third of the populace - was ordered to evacuate their homes, and the town’s central business district was cordoned off throughout the week, keeping out journalists and townspeople while scores of police officers and other emergency responders searched for remains of victims and sought clues to aid a criminal investigation of the crash.

Several hundred of the evacuees took shelter at the local high school, under the care of the Canadian Red Cross and other agencies.

Red Cross spokeswoman Myriam Marotte said some of the first volunteers who arrived in the middle of the night to help organize the shelter were local residents who themselves had been ordered to evacuate their homes. “They are very dedicated,� said Marotte.

Cots arrived around 10 a.m.

- nine hours after the crash - followed by an array of other supplies and services, ranging from pet care to psychological counseling. “The most important thing was to listen to people,� Marotte said. “Not knowing what’s coming in the next hours and days is very difficult.�

Adding to the grief and shock for townspeople were the circumstances of the crash. The train was loaded with a potentially dangerous cargo, yet transport regulations allowed it be left unattended overnight in the town of Nantes, seven miles (11 kilometers) away on a stretch of track leading downhill to the center of Lac-Megantic. The CEO of the railway’s parent company, Ed Burkhardt, compounded local frustrations by waiting four days to visit the town and in the meantime suggesting that firefighters in Nantes may somehow have contributed to the runaway while fighting a small fire on the train late on Friday, July 5.

Iraq: Blast at Sunni mosque in Baghdad kills 13 BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb exploded outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad late Saturday, killing at least 13 people leaving prayers and extending a daily wave of violence rippling across Iraq since the holy month of Ramadan began.

A separate attack at a funeral northeast of Baghdad killed another three people.

Police said the Baghdad blast went off around 10 p.m. near the gate of the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, a largely Sunni Muslim area.

It struck just after special late-evening prayers held during Ramadan ended.

At least 35 people were wounded in addition to those killed, police said. A hospital official confirmed the casualty toll.

Iraq is weathering its worst eruption of violence in half a decade, raising fears the country is heading back toward widespread sectarian fighting that peaked in 2006 and 2007. More than 2,600 people have been killed since the start of April.

The pace of the bloodshed has picked up since Ramadan began Wednesday, including a suicide bombing at a coffee shop in the northern city of Kirkuk late Friday that killed dozens.

In another attack

Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in the town of al-Abbara, near the city of Baqouba, which is about 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. Police and hospital officials said that attack killed three and wounded 10.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information to journalists.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the recent wave of attacks.

Sunni extremists, including al-Qaida’s Iraq branch, frequently target Shiites, security forces and civil servants in an effort to undermine the Shiite-led

government in Baghdad.

They also could be behind Saturday’s attack on the Sunni mosque, hoping that the bombing could spark a sectarian backlash against Shiites. But Shiite militias that have kept a low profile in recent years also could be to blame.

Attacks on Sunni places of worship have spiked in recent months as security has deteriorated and sectarian tensions grow.

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Kirkuk police chief Maj. Gen. Jamal Tahir said his officers could not guarantee the security of patrons at the dozens of teahouses and coffee shops scattered across the city. It is unclear when the shops will be allowed to reopen.

Kirkuk is a flashpoint for ethnic tensions, with its mix of Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen holding competing claims to control of the oil-rich area. The Kurds want to incorporate it into their self-ruled region in Iraq’s north, but Arabs and Turkomen are opposed.

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In Pa., farmers keep camel herd, sell milk

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Let’s get the obvious questions about camel’s milk out of the way first.

It tastes like skim milk, just a wee bit saltier.

And with regard to how you milk a camel: Very carefully, it turns out.

Camel’s milk has arrived in Lancaster County, courtesy of Little Bit, Twila and their herd, who can be seen grazing placidly in a pasture on an Amish farm in Upper Leacock Township.

A local Amish organic cooperative is operating a camel dairy here, milking the long-legged, one-humped animals twice a day.

Miller’s Organic Farm ships the milk all over the United States and even into Canada, for $10 a pint. It has about 100 customers who regularly buy camel’s milk.

Miller’s is one of about a half a dozen camel dairies in the nation, operating in states including Missouri, Michigan and Indiana. Like Miller’s, many of the dairies are operated by Plain Sect farmers.

The local co-op also offers other camel’s milk products, including camel’s milk yogurt; camel’s milk kefir, which is a fermented milk drink; and camel’s milk soap, which is made by a local company.

The co-op also sells cheese, butter and other items it makes in its own dairy using milk from more conventional sources, such as cows, along with other natural products, including grass-fed beef, pickled beets, organic potato chips, coconut oil and raw honey.

In the past two years, the farm has built up a six-camel milking herd, along with a bull camel to propagate the group.

The dairy camels are milked twice a day, with a conventional milking machine.

The animals can be a bit choosy and a bit stingy with their milk, says a Miller’s employee, Ben Stoltzfus.

Camels only can be milked while they are nursing a baby and they only will give up so much of their milk in a session, he says.

“A camel will allow milk to be withdrawn from their udder for only 90 seconds,” he says.

“They have like a spigot on their udder, and if they choose not to give milk there is really not much we can do.”

Camels also tend to be a “oneman animal,” Stoltzfus says, functioning best with one caregiver who is used to their personalities and temperaments.

If their local caretaker has to go away, the camels get a bit funny and won’t give much milk for a milking or two, until they get used to his stand-in, Stoltzfus says.

It was Stoltzfus, 35, who brought the camel’s milk to the co-op after he became interested in it due to one of his sons who has an auto-immune disease and diabetes.

A few years ago, a friend at the Bird-in-Hand Fire Company told Stoltzfus that he had a cousin in Turbotville, in Northumberland County, who had a camel herd and was selling the milk, which some people believe is helpful for children with autism or people with diabetes.

Stoltzfus was looking for natural remedies for his son.

He got in touch with Noah Peachey, who was operating the state’s only camel dairy at the time, and purchased some of the milk. He and his wife felt that the milk improved their son’s

Pictured is a bottle of camel’s milk from a dairy farm in Upper Leacock Township, Pa.

temperament.

The Stoltzfuses decided to buy their own camel, purchasing Little Bit, a one-hump dromedary, in April 2011.

Sold on camel’s milk, Stoltzfus talked to his boss, Amos Miller, who contracted with Peachey to provide camel’s milk to Miller’s customers.

But Peachey’s sales took off so much that he no longer could supply Miller’s Organics with the milk.

Miller’s decided to develop its own herd to supply camel’s milk to customers, Stoltzfus says.

The co-op refrigerates and ships the milk, which is dated and marked with the first initial of the camel who gave the milk, in insulated boxes.

Most of the customers who buy camel’s milk are parents of children with autism. Miller’s has sent the milk to a school for autistic children in Vancouver, Canada, as well as parents in California and other states.

Customers have told Stoltzfus they have noticed an improvement in their autistic child’s vocabulary due to the milk, and others have said the milk has helped with diabetes.

But he is hesitant to say the milk has curative properties.

“I’m not a doctor,” Stoltzfus says. “I don’t want to make any false claims.”

His own son’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of

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This April 25 photo shows a pair of camels that belong to a dairy farm in Upper Leacock Township, Pa. A local Amish organic cooperative is operating a camel dairy here, milking the long-legged, one-humped animals twice a day. Miller’s Organic Farm ships the milk all over the United States and even into Canada, for $10 a pint. It has about 100 customers who regularly buy camel’s milk.

Philadelphia “think we’re out of our heads with the camel’s milk. They don’t acknowledge it would make a difference.

“My wife and I are convinced that it makes enough of a difference that we want to keep using it, without a doubt.”

Other parents who share Stoltzfus’s feelings, or who want to know more, congregate on several Facebook pages, including Camel Milk for Health and Healing With Camel Milk.

Jacqui Zimmerman, a registered dietitian with Lancaster General Health, says camel’s milk still is a relatively new product in the United States and there are not many studies examining its effects.

She says many parents believe diet can impact autism; others are not convinced.

Talk to your doctor first, she

urges. If you decide to use it, start by giving a child a small amount.

Don’t substitute the milk for any medications. And don’t expect miracles, she says.

Also be aware that camel’s milk is sold raw, unlike milk in the grocery store that is pasteurized, or processed at a high heat to kill bacteria.

She believes it’s fine to try it and see what happens, as long as it’s not going to be harmful in any way.

Zimmerman encountered Miller’s camels while jogging near the farm, before she knew their purpose.

“I thought I was hallucinating,” she says, laughing. “I saw these three camels. I even took a picture.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh. Is that a camel?’ “

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Sunday, July 14, the 195th day of 2013.There are 170 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 14, 1913, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb. On this date: In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-

day New Mexico.

In 1911, Harry N. Atwood became the first pilot to land an airplane (a Wright Model B biplane) on the grounds of the White House after flying in from Boston; he was greeted by President William Howard Taft.

In 1960, British researcher Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe (GAHM’-bay) Stream Reserve in the Tanganyika Territory (in present-day Tanzania) to begin her famous study of chimpanzees

in the wild.

In 1999, race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Harry Dean Stanton is 87.Actress Nancy Olson is 85. Actress Polly Bergen is 83. Former football player and actor Rosey Grier is 81. Actor Vincent Pastore is 67. Former music company executive Tommy Mottola (muh-TOH’-luh) is 64. Rock musician Chris Cross (Ultravox) is 61.

Ohio events mark 150th anniversary of Civil War raid HARRISON (AP) — Several Ohio communities have events marking the 150th anniversary of a daring Confederate raid that abruptly bought the Civil War into the state.

The city of Harrison on the Indiana border west of Cincinnati planned a Saturday of music, food and reenactments of the day Gen. John Hunt Morgan led his raiders into the state.

Also included, the dedication of a heritage trail that will help history buffs follow Morgan’s path across the state with interpretive and directional signage. Morgan was eventually captured in eastern Ohio, escaped, and was killed by Union troops in 1864 in Tennessee.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Harrison organizers also arranged reenactments of Civil War events that didn’t take place in Ohio, such as the 1865 surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to southwest Ohio native Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

“You get two years of history in one afternoon,” said Mary Lou Smith, president of the Harrison Village Historical Society.

“We aren’t celebrating the war or Morgan. But remembering its place in history.”

Morgan led nearly 2,500 rebel soldiers from Tennessee through Kentucky, then into Indiana and Ohio. They battled state militias; seizing supplies, taking

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Re-enactors of members of Union General John Buford’s artillery fire their cannons during the first day of the battle of Gettysburg. The first day of battle is represented by a skirmish between Union General John Buford and Confederate General Henry Heth. The July 4 reenactment marks the 150th Gettysburg Anniversary of the Civil War which is being held held at The Redding Farm near the actual battlefield.

horses and causing Union troops and gunboats to be diverted to stop him as he stunned the North with his audacity. After battling Union troops at Buffington Island while trying to move into West Virginia, he and remaining raiders were captured July 26 near Salineville, Ohio. Held in the Ohio Penitentiary, Morgan and

six of his officers escaped in late November.

“Many saw Morgan as a genius,” said Civil War historian David Mowery of Milford, Ohio. “Others saw him as a simple horse thief.”

The nearby Colerain Township organized a 5-mile run or walk along part of Morgan’s route, while farther east, the city

of Wilmington planned to become a living Civil War museum for the day.

The Caesar’s Creek Pioneer Village arranged a Civil War Ball with live music, period-style beans and cornbread to eat along with home-churned ice cream. People had a chance to take horsedrawn wagon rides, and view a Civil War exhibit

from the Ohio Historical Society.

The Cincinnati suburb of Evendale will have tours Sunday of a barn from where Morgan and his men took horses, and the nearby city of Blue Ash will dedicate its interpretive sign for the Morgan Heritage Trial.

Next week will find a July 20-21 commemora-

tion and “living history weekend” with reenactments, tours and other events of the Battle of Buffington Island, the only significant Civil War battle fought in Ohio.

Morgan lost most of his force there to Union troops, who pursued him until his capture the next week.

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TODAY’S TIPS • GOLF: A parent meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 23 for any boy interested in playing golf for Troy High School. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the Miami Shores clubhouse. Tryouts will begin Aug. 1 at Miami Shores. Please contact Mark Evilsizor at (937) 875-0785 or evilsizor-m@troy.k12. oh.us if you have any questions.

• BASKETBALL: The Covington Police Department and the Noon Optimist Club are sponsoring the Covington 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, which will begin at 9 a.m. on Aug. 3 at the Covington outdoor courts. The tentative deadline for entry is July 29, and the cost is $60 per four-player team. T-shirts will be given to all participants with trophies for first and second place. Registration brochures can be picked up at the Covington Police Department. For more information, call the police station at (937) 473-9487.

• SOFTBALL: Tryouts for the 2013 Miami County Blaze college exposure softball team for players in grades 10-12 will be at 6 p.m.

July 18 at the Lowry Complex in West Milton.

For a registration for and details, visit www. miamicountyblaze.com.

• SKATING: Hobart Arena will hold public skating sessions this summer. All public skating sessions are held Fridays from 8-10 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for Children (14 and under) and $2.50 for skate rental. The dates for public skating this summer are July 19 and 26.

• HOCKEY: Registrations are now being accepted for the Troy Recreation Department’s Summer Youth Introduction to Hockey Program held at Hobart Arena.

The program is for youth ages 5-10 years old and includes three dates: July 16, 23 and 30 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The program is for those who have never participated in an organized hockey program. An equipment rental program is available. The cost of the program is $10 for all three sessions. To register, visit the Recreation Department located in Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St. or visit www.hobartarena.com on the “registrations” page and print off a registration form.

Contact the Recreation Department at 3395145 for further information.

• COACHING: Bethel High School has three coaching positions open for the upcoming school year. For the asst. varsity football coach position, contact head coach Kevin Finfrock at (937) 216-5036.

For the boys junior varsity basketball position, contact Eric Glover at (937) 510-7795 or at coacheglover@aol.com. The seventh grade volleyball coaching job is also open.

For more information, contact Tim Zigler at (937) 845-9487.

• BASEBALL: Locos Express will be having tryouts for the 2014 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U teams at Simmons Field (home field of Lima Locos) on the following dates: 1-3 p.m. Aug. 11 for 13U, 4-6 p.m. Aug. 11 for 14U, 1-3 p.m.

Aug. 18 for 15U and 4-6 p.m. Aug. 18 for 16U. Locos Express is a non-profit subsidiary of the Lima Locos that is dedicated to the development of youth baseball. The Express select teams will be competing in tournaments and single game schedules after the start of each school’s 2014 spring baseball year. Visit http://www.limalocos.net/locosexpress/tryout-registration to register for tryouts. Registration is required. Email locosexpress@gmail.com with any questions.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@civitasmedia. com or Colin Foster at colinfoster@civitasmedia.com.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY No events scheduled MONDAY No events scheduled TUESDAY Legion Baseball District Legion Tournament Lime at Troy Post 43 (7 p.m.)

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LYON, France (AP) — Now, the Tour de France goes sharply uphill, much more sharply than last year. More likely than not, the champion who will be crowned next Sunday in Paris will be the rider who copes best with this last week of vertical torture.

The pain starts on Sunday on the horrid climb of Mont Ventoux. The barren white mountain rises from the sunbaked plains of Provence. The 181 brave souls who have survived the 2,325 kilometers (1,444 miles) ridden so far, out of 198 who started two weeks ago, will see the climb coming long before they hit it, so there will be plenty of time for apprehension, for butterflies in the stomach, to build.

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MILWAUKEE — Jim Dabbelt had never been so nervous.

Being in front of 25,000 people does that to you.

“I was nervous as all getout,” the 1986 Tippecanoe High School graduate said of his experience July 8, when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Major League Baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park in Milwaukee. “And Joe (Crawford) could tell. He was catching the first pitch.

“There were about 25,000 people there that night. It was very intimidating. I just tried to walk out, take a deep breath, pray and fire it.”

Just not enough fire.

“It didn’t make it there,” Dabbelt said with a chuckle.

“It hit in the grass in front of the plate. Luckily, Joe didn’t have to go that far to get it.”

Not that it mattered in the grand scheme of things.

“It was a great experience,” Dabbelt said. “It was a great trip and a fun experience. I’m a lifelong baseball fan, and I have girls basketball to thank for the opportunity.”

That’s because Dabbelt is very involved in the girls basketball scene in southwest Ohio. He operates a website called “The Dabbelt Report” (jimdabbelt.wordpress.com), which gives exposure to local players looking to find a place at the next level in college.

“It’s considered, by everyone else, as the top girls basketball media source in Ohio,” said Dabbelt, who also works in the cancer center at UVMC. “Newspapers and TV news covers all sports, but this is only for girls basketball. It promotes the game and players from southwest Ohio, which is where about 90 percent of our coverage is. We’ve promoted players from Miami County like Kristen and Julia Wood from Troy, Tara Benedict from Troy Christian and Abby Dowd from Tippecanoe, as well as current Red Devil Halee Printz.

“It’s just a great avenue to help promote the top players and teams in the area. It gives colleges a starting point for who they should look at.”

He also runs a basketball camp in the fall — which is where the chance to throw out the first pitch came along.

“Back in October, I had a a basketball camp in Dayton with Jim Clayton, who runs Sports City U,” Dabbelt said. “I basically supervise it while Jim and his staff run it. Well, Joe Crawford with the Brewers asked if I minded if he brought his daughter down to it. He’s originally from Hillsboro, and his wife is from Willard. They came down, and he and I just talked baseball for six hours.

“I’ve been a die-hard Reds fan since 1981, and Joe actually pitched for the Mets.

Now he’s the Digital Media Coordinator for the Brewers, and he throws batting practice and catches the ceremonial first pitches, too. He said anytime you’re in town, I’ll set you up with tickets.”

TROY — Troy Post 43 built up even more momentum leading into next week’s District Legion Tournament, hammering the Miami Valley Yankees 16-0 Friday at Duke Park.

Garrett Mitchell was 3 for 4 with two RBIs, Dylan Cascaden was 3 for 3 and Nick Antonides was 2 for 3 as every player on the roster got into the game.

The team pounded out 15 hits total, including a back-breaking eight-run fifth inning that made the score 13-0 at the time.

Starter D yl a n Schumaker got the win, pitching the first three innings as six Post 43 pitchers saw action in preparation for the District tournament.

Troy travels to St. Leon (Ind.) for one final tuneup game today before hosting Lima Legion in the opening round at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Duke Park.

No more Superman

Howard now a Rocket Man HOUSTON (AP) — Dwight Howard has a new team and catchy new nickname.

“He’s not Superman anymore. He’s Rocket Man now,” longtime Rockets broadcaster Bill Worrell said Saturday as he introduced the team’s major free agent acquisition.

As Howard took the stage Provided photo and greeted several Houston Jim Dabbelt, a 1986 Tippecanoe High School graduate and creator of the website The officials including owner Dabbelt Report, prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Leslie Alexander and coach Baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers July 8 at Miller Kevin McHale, a couple of Park in Milwaukee. his new teammates playfully repeated his new moniker — ‘Rocket Man, Rocket Man’ — and were met with a huge, toothy smile from Howard.

“It means a lot to me just to have a fresh start and have an opportunity to write my own story,” Howard said.

“I don’t think people understood the fact that I got traded to L.A., and now I had a chance to really choose my Jim Dabbelt throws out the own destiny, and this is the place where I chose and I’m ceremonial happy about it.” first pitch at a The Rockets gave him a Major League four-year deal worth about Baseball game $88 million, a year less and between the Cincinnati Reds far below the $118 million and Milwaukee the Lakers could have offered.

The center was formally Brewers July 8 introduced in Houston at Miller Park in on Saturday after spurnMilwaukee. ing the Lakers to sign with Provided photo the Rockets. He was greeted by some of the brightest stars in team history.

Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon and Yao Ming were among those on hand to celebrate Howard’s signing. Also joining the party were Ralph Sampson, Clyde Drexler and Elvin Hayes.

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Minor leads Braves past Reds ATLANTA (AP) — Dusty Baker sensed the opportunity for an early knockout against Atlanta’s Mike Minor.

Instead, the Reds and their manager were left to bemoan a missed opportunity in the first inning that helped Minor stick around for seven innings in the Braves’ 5-2 win over Homer Bailey and Cincinnati on Saturday.

The Reds didn’t score in the first inning after loading the bases with one out.

“It’s disheartening to see it happening over and over again,” Baker said. “(Minor) wasn’t sharp. We had him on the ropes and then we came out with nothing. His pitch count was high, then he settled

down in the middle innings, and was extremely tough on us.”

Minor (9-4) appeared headed toward a short outing when he threw 51 pitches in the first two innings. He gave up singles to Shin-Soo Choo and Joey Votto and walked Brandon Phillips to load the bases with one out in the first.

Minor escaped by striking out Jay Bruce and ending the inning on Todd Frazier’s liner to third base.

Minor’s two-run double in the fifth gave the Braves a 3-2 lead.

Bailey (5-8) lost his second straight start since throwing his second career no-hitter on July 2.

AP photo He allowed four runs on 10 hits in Cincinnati Reds’ Homer Bailey delivers a pitch to Atlanta Braves’ six innings.

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Bailey said he was hurt by infield singles and groundballs, including Minor’s double, that skipped down the line.

“It was just one of those days,” Bailey said. “It just seems like I’ve had a lot of one-of-those days.”

Braves All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts.

“Go figure,” Bailey said. “It was more the bottom of their lineup that beat us today.”

The Braves, who lost starting outfielders Jason Heyward, B.J. Upton and Justin Upton to injuries in the first two games of the series, found success with their fill-ins. Jose Constanza, recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett, started in left

field and hit leadoff with Reed Johnson in center and rookie Joey Terdoslavich in right.

The patchwork outfield combined for seven hits, including three by Constanza.

“I feel bad for them to be hurt,” Constanza said through a translator.

“It’s a bad way to be called up, but I was ready to come up here and help the team win.”

Brian McCann and Dan Uggla hit home runs.

The Reds took a 2-0 lead in the second. Zack Cozart tripled, Chris Heisey doubled and Choo hit an RBI single.

Minor then recorded 11 consecutive outs, providing his teammates an oppor-

tunity to rally.

Braves reliever Luis Avilan walked Votto and gave up a single to Phillips with two outs in the eighth. Bruce ended the inning with a fly ball.

Craig Kimbrel struck out Frazier, Cozart and pinch-hitter Xavier Paul in the ninth for his 26th save.

Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said before the game he is confident Heyward can recover from his strained right hamstring by resting through the All-Star break. Gonzalez said the “trickiest” injury is Justin Upton’s left calf strain.

He said calf injuries can be nagging.

B.J. Upton, who has a right adductor muscle strain, said he felt “a little better” Saturday but couldn’t predict if he

expects to be ready after the All-Star break.

The Braves plan to delay decisions on possibly placing the Upton brothers on the disabled list until after the break.

NOTES: In two starts since his nohitter, Bailey is 0-2 with a 6.17 ERA. …

The Reds had been 4-0 in Bailey’s first four starts against the Braves, including a 5-4 win on May 7. … Choo has an 11-game hitting streak. … The Braves optioned LHP Alex Wood to Triple-A Gwinnett. He is expected to be recalled after the All-Star break. … The fourgame series ends Sunday when Reds rookie LHP Tony Cingrani faces RHP Julio Teheran.

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LYON, France (AP) — Now, the Tour de France goes sharply uphill, much more sharply than last year. More likely than not, the champion who will be crowned next Sunday in Paris will be the rider who copes best with this last week of vertical torture.

The pain starts on Sunday on the horrid climb of Mont Ventoux.

The barren white mountain rises from the sunbaked plains of Provence.

The 181 brave souls who have survived the 2,325 kilometers (1,444 miles) ridden so far, out of 198 who started two weeks ago, will see the climb coming long before they hit it, so there will be plenty of time for apprehension, for butterflies in the stomach, to build.

The forecast is for uninterrupted sunshine, so the riders will find no relief from the weather either. As if the climb itself wasn’t hard enough, they will already have ridden 221 kilometers (137 miles), setting off in the mid-morning, before even reaching the foot of the mountain in the late afternoon. So they will be tired for the ascension, too.

Sunday’s stage — a grand total of 242.5 kilometers (150 miles), including the final climb — is the longest of this Tour and starts in the Rhone valley town of Givors.

“Ventoux is always scary,” said GarminSharp rider David Millar, a veteran of 12 Tours.

“It’s going to be horrible for everyone.”

One of the big questions is whether yellow jersey-holder Chris Froome will zoom or go boom on the climb, perhaps extending his race lead if he has a good day or losing it if he has a disastrous one.

The Briton is an excellent climber. The steepness and length of the Ventoux ascent should suit him. But because the climb is so tough, even top riders can lose bags of time if they wilt.

Ventoux has the hardest rating for Tour climbs.

In around one hour of sustained physical effort, the Tour will go from an altitude of 300 meters to 1,900 meters (the equivalent of a vertical mile).

The uphill goes on for 21 kilometers (13 miles) to an old weather station at the summit.

Froome is bracing for his main rivals, who need to make up lost time, to try to ride away from him. If they succeed, leaving him far behind, Froome’s Tour could be ruined. But they will be equally wary of him. If they tire too early and Froome then powers away, they may never catch him again before Paris. It could be fascinating cat-and-mouse. Or Froome and his challengers, tired from recent exertions, could spend the ascent mainly eyeballing each other.

“A lot of people have reason to attack now.

A lot of people spent energy in the last cou-

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The pack with Christopher Froome wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, crosses the finish line of the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 191 kilometers (119.4 miles) with start in in Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule and finish in Lyon, central France, Saturday.

ple of days so it will be an interesting one,” said Froome, the Tour runner-up last year.

Saturday’s stage was a hilly 191-kilometer (119mile) ride to the city of Lyon, France’s gourmet capital. With the main Tour protagonists saving themselves for Sunday, a group of 18 lower-ranked riders broke away. They included Matteo Trentin, who perfectly timed his sprint finish to win his first Tour stage and the first for an Italian in the 100th race.

Rolling in more than seven minutes later with the bulk of the pack, Froome gave a few brief television interviews but skipped the usual daily news conference for the race leader so he could get to his hotel earlier and rest up for the Ventoux stage.

With 14 of 21 stages completed, Froome’s closest rival is Bauke

Mollema — a surprise because the Dutch rider has completed only one Tour, finishing 69th in 2011 and abandoning on Stage 11 last year. He is 2 minutes, 28 seconds off the lead.

Alberto Contador, the 2007 and ‘09 champion stripped of his 2010 win for a failed doping test, is 2:45 from Froome, placed third. Another danger for Froome on Ventoux could be Nairo Quintana, 5:18 back in eighth. The Colombian climber already jousted with Froome in the Pyrenees.

Contador said the first time he climbed Ventoux, admittedly not in top shape, “my heart almost came out of my mouth.”

“The first part is a steep slope,” he said. “The second part is exposed to a lot of wind, mainly blowing toward you.

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n Continued from page 9A He will be the latest in a storied line of centers to play for the Rockets. He has long worked with Olajuwon to improve his game, and “The Dream” was among the contingent that flew to Los Angeles to woo him into joining the Rockets.

Olajuwon didn’t shy away from raving about his student.

“He is the missing piece where he can really bring the team to a championship contender,” he said.

Howard joins a team starring James Harden that reached the playoffs for the first time since 2009 and battled back from a 3-0 deficit before being eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6.

General manager Daryl Morey, who led the effort to land Howard, is excited about upgrading his team and knows this puts the Rockets among the preseason favorites to contend for a championship.

“I think it absolutely gives us a chance,” he said. “What you do this job for is to have a chance. The reality is five to seven teams have a chance any given year. The way it is in this league, you’ve got to have multiple All-Stars, you generally have to have dominant top players and we have two guys that we think are in the top 10 in the league in James and Dwight.”

Howard was traded from Orlando to the Lakers in a four-team trade that also included Philadelphia and Denver last year. He recov-

Jim Dabbelt stands with Fairborn High School graduate and current Marquette University basketball player Brooklyn Pumroy after they threw out the ceremonial first pitches July 8 at Miller Park in Milwaukee.

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Dabbelt looked at the dates, found a series in early July that the Reds were playing and made his request — and got an off-hand remark in return that turned into much more.

“He said, ‘Maybe I can set it up so you can throw out the first pitch.’

I didn’t think anything of it,” Dabbelt said. “Then in December I drove out to Tiffin Columbian to watch Willard play there, and he asked ‘How’s your arm doing? Keeping it loose?’ I said what do you mean, and he said, ‘To throw out the first pitch. I can make that happen. For all that you’ve done for all of these kids, I’d like to do this.’”

So, before the Reds fell 4-3 to the Brewers, Dabbelt threw out the first pitch, followed by Marquette University sophomore and Fairborn High School graduate Brooklyn Pumroy

and NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth.

“Brooklyn fired a seed right over the plate, and the whole place went nuts,” Dabbelt said. “Then as we were walking off, Matt Kenseth was walking on and he kind of points at me and smiles. So I told him, ‘I just took all of the pressure off of you.’

“It was just an unbelievable day. I was stunned to get the opportunity, and it’s a great honor. I’ve been doing this for 27 years, the last 10 of it with the Dabbelt Report. I never thought I’d still be doing this. It just shows that if you stick around long enough, people notice.”

And as for a future in Major League Baseball after the Dabbelt Report?

“Maybe as a writer,” he said with a laugh.

dominating and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Of all the people the Rockets enlisted to help lure Howard to Houston, the star admitted that his new teammate Chandler Parsons made the biggest impact.

“Chandler is probably the guy you should really thank,” Howard said. “He’s been blowing my phone up every day. He’s been great.”

Howard couldn’t pinpoint one thing Parsons said that helped sway his decision, but noted that they had numerous conversations about Houston’s great team chemistry and the feeling of family.

Parsons, a second-round pick in 2011 who has developed into a solid starter, said he tried to sell Howard on the idea of winning.

“I just told him: ‘We’re going to be really good without you, we’re going to win games without you. Come make us great,’” he said.

The Rockets also got a push in a rather random way.

Howard was in Aspen, Colo., while mulling his options and prayed for a sign

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Tour de France Glance A brief look at Saturday’s 14th stage of the 100th Tour de France: Stage: After two days of flat stages for sprinters, the race went back to the hills on a rolling (191mile) 119-mile trek from Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule to Lyon, featuring two medium climbs and five smaller ones.

Winner: Matteo Trentin got the first win for an Italian rider this year.

Trentin timed his attack to perfection to surge from the back in the last 200 meters and beat Swiss rider Michael Albasini by half a wheel. American Andrew Talansky was third.

Yellow Jersey: Chris Froome. The day after losing more than a minute to his main rival Alberto Contador, he preserved his overall margin. The British rider leads Dutchman Bauke Mollema by 2:28 and the two-time former champion Contador is 2:45 back in third.

Stat of the day: 27.

The number of categorized climbs weary riders have to face between now and the Champs-Elysees on July 21, when the 100th edition of the race ends.

Quote of the day: “Five years too many” — the 41-year-old German rider Jens Voigt reflecting on why he wasn’t able to last the pace until the end of the stage after forming part of the early 18-man breakaway.

What’s next: Stage 15 returns to mountains for the first of the four tortuous stages of climbing that remain. It is the longest stage, starting from Givors and spanning 242.5-kilometers (151 miles) before ending with a mammoth 21-kilometer (13-mile) ascent of Mont Ventoux. Britain’s Tom Simpson collapsed and died on the famed climb during the 1967 Tour.

of what he should do.

“I believe in signs … and when I was in Aspen it seemed like everybody I met was from Houston,” he said.

“I just had a good feeling in my soul about everything, the direction of the team, and just had a great feeling about what they were trying to accomplish.”

Though his nickname got switched on Saturday, the Rockets unveiled a Superman-inspired marketing campaign this week that features a man’s torso with hands ripping back a suit to reveal a red shirt that says ‘Rockets,’ above their slogan ‘A New Age.’ That picture along with several other shots flashed on a video screen above the stage during Saturday’s introduction.

After he was done speaking with reporters, Howard and the other Rockets’ stars made their way outside where the street in front of the Toyota Center was blocked off for a rally to allow fans to welcome him to Houston.

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ered from back surgery last season and averaged 17.1 points and 12.4 rebounds His one season in Los Angeles was filled with unrest, including an admission that there were times that he wasn’t having fun and what many believed to be a less than positive relationship with Kobe Bryant The Rockets believe that will change in Houston.

“If you can be a great player and can’t be happy, what difference does it make?

He’ll be very happy here,” Alexander said. “Dwight recognizes that his boyhood dreams will come true as a Rocket.”

Yao made a call to Howard to help recruit the 27-yearold player to Houston. As the most recent star center to play for the Rockets, Yao is eager to see Howard take the team to “the next level.”

“I feel so happy that he chose the Rockets and I feel the Rockets will be the best fitting team for him because we have such a great, rich history of big men,” Yao said.

Howard is perfectly happy dealing with lofty expectations from outsiders because he believes he should control the game every time he sets foot on the court.

“That’s what I’ve always expected out of myself,” he said. “Before I got injured, that’s what I did every night — I dominated the game on both ends of the floor.

It’s not about putting up big numbers, none of that; the biggest thing is just going out there and having fun and

on this climb you can lose a lot of minutes.”

British rider Tom Simpson collapsed and died on Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. Ventoux is only the start of a brutal final week of uphills.

From Sunday to next Saturday — the Tour will grind up 27 rated ascents, six of them with the hardest “uncategorized” rating given to Ventoux.

That amounts to 224 more kilometers (139 miles) of climbs.

Judging by the thousands of people who turned out on the roadside to cheer on Saturday, the atmosphere up Ventoux promises to be electric on Sunday, also Bastille Day. “It’s such a legendary mountain,” said Polish rider Michal Kwiatkowski, 4:44 from Froome in seventh. “I’m a little bit scared about it.”

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

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Midweek Races?

Ahhh, the dog days of summer — and those nights when there’s nothing exciting on television.

Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon believes auto racing could fill that void. Gordon grew up in the “Thursday Night Thunder” era when he raced at tracks that hosted USAC races across the country that were televised on ESPN2.

NASCAR doesn’t venture into that territory with the elite Sprint Cup Series, but the addition of Eldora Speedway to the Truck Series will mark three midweek races. The trucks ran on a Thursday night at Kentucky in June, are scheduled to run Wednesday, July 24, at Eldora and Wednesday, Aug. 21, at Bristol.

Gordon thinks maybe it’s time for other series to try a midweek date.

“I think when ‘Monday Night Football’ ends, we should start ‘Monday Night Racing,’” Gordon said. “But that’s just me.

Of course I came from ‘Thursday Night Thunder,’ and ‘Thursday Night Thunder’ was ridiculously successful back in the day.”

NASCAR SPRINT

CW TRUCKS

Next race: Mudsummer Camping World RV Sales 301 Classic, July 24, Eldora Site: Loudon, N.H. Schedule: Sunday, race, Speedway, Rossburg, Ohio.

1 p.m. (TNT, noon-4:30 p.m.).

Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway (oval, 1.058 miles).

Last year: Kasey Kahne won, taking the lead on the 240th lap when leader Denny Hamlin fell back with a four-tire stop. Hamlin rallied to finish second.

IZOD INDYCAR

Honda Indy Toronto Site: Toronto.

Schedule: Sunday, second race, 3:33 p.m. (NBC Sports, 3-6 p.m.).

Track: Streets of Toronto (street course, 1.75 miles).

Last year: Ryan HunterReay raced to his third straight victory, winning under caution. The Andretti Autosport driver finished the season with four victories and won his first series championship.

FORMULA ONE

Last race: German star Sebastian Vettel won the German Grand Prix for the first time, holding off Kimi Raikkonen. The Red Bull driver leads the season standings and has a serieshigh four victories.

Next race: Hungarian Grand Prix, July 28, Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary.

Goodwood

Michael Waltrip Racing co-owners Michael Waltrip and Rob Kauffman are headed to Europe this weekend for the 20th annual Goodwood Festival of Speed in England.

It will be Waltrip’s second appearance at Goodwood, which features a hill climb in historic motor racing vehicles in front of 150,000 global motorsports enthusiasts.

Waltrip, the two-time Daytona 500 winner, will drive a 2012 Toyota Camry that Clint Bowyer won three races in last season while finishing second in the Sprint Cup standings.

TOP 10 RACERS: Sprint Cup 1. Jimmie Johnson, 658 2. Clint Bowyer, 609 3. Carl Edwards, 587 4. Kevin Harvick, 585 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 548 6. Matt Kenseth, 540 7. Kyle Busch, 533 8. Greg Biffle, 516 9. Kurt Busch, 501 10. Tony Stewart, 499 Nationwide Series 1. Regan Smith, 558 2. Sam Hornish Jr., 552 3. Elliott Sadler, 544 4. Justin Allgaier, 543 5. Austin Dillon, 541 6. Kyle Larson, 516 7. Brian Vickers, 505 8. Parker Kligerman, 501 9. Brian Scott, 494 10. Trevor Bayne, 488 Camping World Truck Series 1. Matt Crafton, 319 2. Jeb Burton, 297 3. Ty Dillon, 279 4. James Buescher, 275 5. Johnny Sauter, 272 6. Ryan Blaney, 272 7. Brendan Gaughan, 267 8. Miguel Paludo, 248 9. Darrell Wallace Jr., 236 10. Timothy Peters, 234

Last week: Johnny Gray raced to his fourth Funny Car victory of the season, beating Ron Capps in the final in Norwalk, Ohio. Khalid alBalooshi won in Top Fuel, Mike Edwards topped the Pro Stock field, and Matt Smith won in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Next event: Mile-High NHRA Nationals, July 19-21, Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, Colo.

Back in the race Kurt Busch storms into Chase chase

Positive Pocono

For years, about the only thing in NASCAR as popular as Dale Earnhardt Jr. was bashing Pocono Raceway.

The track wasn’t safe.

The races were too long.

The facility was outdated.

On and on it went.

But, slowly, the track has won over Sprint Cup drivers with a series of upgrades to the track — everything from additional SAFER barriers to a repave of the 2½-mile surface — that left them raving about the new look the last two years.

NHRA DRAG RACING

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Kyle Busch celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H.

Overtime victory

Kyle Busch wins Nationwide race at New Hampshire LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kyle Busch needed some OT to grab that checkered flag.

Once he did, he bowed twice to the crowd.

He could have done it one more time — one for each green-whitecheckered finish he needed to survive to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Busch dominated in regulation, then proved he had the car to beat in three attempts of NASCAR’s version of overtime to win the Nationwide Series race.

Busch needed to drive 213 laps of a scheduled 200-lap race to win his seventh race of the season. He snapped a four-race winless streak and won his 58th career Nationwide race.

He had enough fuel left in the tank to win from the pole for the fourth time this season.

Busch then used it all up with one big burnout.

“We didn’t want to have those late restarts,” Busch said. “We felt like we had just enough fuel to make it to the end.”

Who knew they’d need every

drop?

The bonus racing stretched just about every car on the track. Not everyone made it.

Brian Vickers ran out of gas just as he crossed the finish line.

Busch pitted for the final time two laps after Vickers, on lap 119. He tried to conserve fuel through various methods and pad his stats for total laps led. He passed the 12,000 mark in career laps led and has 12,085 now.

“It’s just about being out front and setting your own pace,” Busch said. “It’s kind of like minding your own business. I like everyone away from me and to be doing my own thing.”

Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Busch (141), Vickers (63) and Matt Kenseth (nine) led every lap in the race.

Vickers was second and Austin Dillon third. Brian Scott and Michael Annett round out the top five.

“Finally, nothing stupid happened and we kept our nose clean and brought home a top-five,” Annett said.

Nothing stupid, just wild.

Busch had been the car to beat and seemed like he could put the No. 54 Toyota on cruise control heading into Victory Lane.

Then the real fun started.

Chad Hackenbracht spun out with two laps left of the scheduled finish, setting up the first G-W-C. No sooner did they restart, than Landon Cassill ran out of fuel and stalled on the track. The caution came out and Mike Wallace pushed Cassill out of the way.

There was a four-car wreck on lap 206 that brought out the caution flag yet again. Parker Kligerman’s car was stuck in the infield mud for a bit after the accident.

Elliott Sadler then spun on the lap 212 but, this time, the caution did not come out and Busch finally pulled away for good.

His four wins from the pole matched Sam Ard’s record set in 1983.

“Every time I get in Victory Lane, there’s some sort of record I tie or break,” Busch said.

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kurt Busch has lost rides with top teams. He’s paid the price for losing his cool more times than anyone in NASCAR can count.

Busch, though, has never lost his ability to drive.

He’s kept his composure, kept that superior skill behind the wheel and kept pace this season with the best in the Cup series.

Yes, Jimmie Johnson is again the driver to beat.

Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth are primed to be in the thick of championships contention.

But look who’s lurking not too far behind. Just the 2004 Cup champion who’s found a home at Furniture Row Racing and found a regular spot running up front to put NASCAR on notice that he can still be as good as it gets in a stock car.

Busch is ninth in the points standings entering Sunday’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He’ll start second in the No. 78 Chevrolet at a track where he has three career victories — and he has win No. 1 of this season in sight.

Busch has reeled off three straight top-six finishes and has five top 10s in his last seven races to storm into contention and up the standings.

“For us to be in the Chase is a huge accomplishment for a single-car organization,” Busch said. “For me, it’s great to be back in the Chase and the fraternity of guys I’m accustomed to hanging out with over the years.”

With 24 career Cup wins, Busch had long proven himself as one of the top drivers in the sport. But he’s had more teams (2) than wins (0) the last two seasons and hasn’t pulled into Victory Lane since winning the fall 2011 race at Dover.

He has plenty of time to take the checkered flag this season — not that he necessarily needs a win to make the Chase. With eight races left until the 12-driver field is set for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, Busch just needs to keep the steady top 10s coming to stick around.

“You don’t have to win, but you have to stay away from those bad finishes,” Busch said. “If you do just nice, consistent runs, then you control your own destiny going to Richmond.”

Dixon wins race, Franchitti wins appeal at Toronto TORONTO (AP) — Long after Scott Dixon raised the winner’s trophy for the second week in a row, controversy and comedy hung over the first of two races through the streets of Toronto.

What was certain was that Dixon’s win Saturday at Exhibition Place was the 31st of his career and moved him into a tie for seventh all-time with teammate Dario Franchitti, Sebastien Bourdais and Paul Tracy.

It was also official that Bourdais finished second for his first podium since the 2007 Champ Car season. He didn’t get much of a celebration, though: His trophy slipped off the pedestal and smashed into thousands of pieces.

So he raised the biggest chunk he could find in triumph on a podium shared with Dixon and third-place finisher Franchitti.

Then right before the traditional champagne spray, the party turned seri-

ous: IndyCar had stripped Franchtti of his finish for blocking Will Power on the final restart. Franchitti’s Target Chip Ganassi Racing appealed the penalty, and the driver was summoned before series officials at least an hour after the race.

It left the final finishing order undecided for two hours as the Ganassi team presented data from the incident.

The end result? Almost two hours after the race,

Franchitti was returned to his third-place finish.

And to think, IndyCar gets to do it all over again Sunday in the second of three doubleheader weekends on this year’s schedule.

Dixon will be trying to make it three in a row, just a week after picking up his first win of the season at Pocono. There’s a $50,000 bonus out there if he can sweep the Toronto doubleheader.

“Yeah, you know, it

sounds simple, right?”

Dixon said. “But it’s not going to be. There will be people trying to mix it up; people who had a bad day today will be trying to make it up in race two.”

Things got hairy right at the start of Saturday’s race, which was supposed to be the IndyCar debut of standings starts. But race control aborted the procedure when Josef Newgarden’s car stalled on the track and the drivers couldn’t line up in the proper formation.

SCOREBOARD

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Scores

BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Boston 58 37 .611 Tampa Bay 54 41 .568 Baltimore 52 43 .547 New York 51 43 .543 Toronto 45 48 .484 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 51 41 .554 Cleveland 50 44 .532 Kansas City 43 48 .473 Minnesota 38 53 .418 Chicago 37 53 .411 West Division W L Pct Oakland 54 39 .581 Texas 53 40 .570 Los Angeles 44 47 .484 Seattle 41 52 .441 Houston 33 60 .355 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 54 40 .574 Washington 47 46 .505 Philadelphia 46 48 .489 New York 40 49 .449 Miami 34 57 .374 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 56 35 .615 Pittsburgh 55 36 .604 Cincinnati 52 42 .553 Chicago 41 50 .451 Milwaukee 37 55 .402 West Division W L Pct Arizona 49 44 .527 Los Angeles 47 46 .505 Colorado 45 50 .474 San Francisco 42 50 .457 San Diego 41 53 .436

GB WCGB — — 4 — 6 2 6½ 2½ 12 8

L10 7-3 9-1 4-6 6-4 4-6

Str W-4 W-1 L-1 L-1 W-1

Home 31-16 33-19 28-20 28-22 25-21

Away 27-21 21-22 24-23 23-21 20-27

GB WCGB — — 2 3½ 7½ 9 12½ 14 13 14½

L10 7-3 5-5 4-6 2-8 4-6

Str W-1 W-3 L-4 W-1 W-2

Home 28-18 29-19 22-22 21-23 19-21

Away 23-23 21-25 21-26 17-30 18-32

GB WCGB — — 1 — 9 8 13 12 21 20

L10 6-4 5-5 6-4 5-5 3-7

Str L-2 L-3 L-1 W-1 L-1

Home 28-15 27-19 24-25 23-25 17-32

Away 26-24 26-21 20-22 18-27 16-28

GB WCGB — — 6½ 4½ 8 6 11½ 9½ 18½ 16½

L10 5-5 5-5 6-4 6-4 4-6

Str W-1 L-2 L-1 L-1 W-2

Home 31-14 27-18 24-21 17-27 20-26

Away 23-26 20-28 22-27 23-22 14-31

GB WCGB — — 1 — 5½ — 15 9½ 19½ 14

L10 7-3 4-6 4-6 6-4 4-6

Str W-1 W-2 L-1 L-1 L-3

Home 27-16 31-17 30-16 21-25 22-26

Away 29-19 24-19 22-26 20-25 15-29

GB WCGB — — 2 4½ 5 7½ 6½ 9 8½ 11

L10 7-3 7-3 4-6 3-7 1-9

Str W-2 W-1 L-1 W-2 L-3

Home 26-19 27-22 26-21 25-20 26-22

Away 23-25 20-24 19-29 17-30 15-31

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Cleveland 3, Kansas City 0 N.Y.Yankees 2, Minnesota 0 Baltimore 8, Toronto 5 Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, ppd., rain Detroit 7, Texas 2 Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Boston 4, Oakland 2 Seattle 8, L.A. Angels 3 Saturday's Games Minnesota 4, N.Y.Yankees 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Philadelphia 4, 11 innings, 1st game Toronto 7, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3 Cleveland 5, Kansas City 3 Texas at Detroit, 7:15 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m., 2nd game Boston at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Kansas City (Shields 4-6) at Cleveland (U.Jimenez 7-4), 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 1-2) at N.Y.Yankees (Sabathia 9-7), 1:05 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 3-1) at Detroit (Verlander 9-6), 1:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 4-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 4-11), 1:35 p.m.

Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-4) at Baltimore (Feldman 0-1), 1:35 p.m.

Houston (Bedard 3-5) at Tampa Bay (Archer 3-3), 1:40 p.m.

Boston (Workman 0-0) at Oakland (Colon 12-3), 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Blanton 2-11) at Seattle (Iwakuma 7-4), 4:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games All-Star Game at New York (Mets), 8 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Mets 2, 11 innings Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, ppd., rain Miami 8, Washington 3 Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 2 Arizona 2, Milwaukee 1 Colorado 3, L.A. Dodgers 0 San Francisco 10, San Diego 1 Saturday's Games Chicago White Sox 5, Philadelphia 4, 11 innings, 1st game Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Dodgers 1, Colorado 0 N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, 7:15 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 7:15 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 7:15 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m., 2nd game Milwaukee at Arizona, 10:10 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Washington (Jordan 0-2) at Miami (H.Alvarez 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 4-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 4-11), 1:35 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cingrani 3-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 7-4), 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 6-7) at Pittsburgh (Cole 4-2), 1:35 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 8-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 6-8), 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 6-9) at Arizona (Kennedy 3-5), 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Zito 4-6) at San Diego (Stults 7-7), 4:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 12-5) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 6-6), 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games All-Star Game at New York (Mets), 8 p.m.

Braves 5, Reds 2 Cincinnati Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h bi Heisey lf 4 1 1 0 Constnz lf 4 0 3 1 Choo cf 4 0 2 1 Smmns ss 4 0 0 0 Votto 1b 3 0 1 0 FFrmn 1b 4 0 0 0 Phillips 2b 3 0 1 0 McCnn c 3 1 1 1 Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 Uggla 2b 4 1 1 1 Frazier 3b 4 0 0 0 CJhnsn 3b 4 1 1 0 Cozart ss 4 1 1 0 Avilan p 0 0 0 0 CMiller c 3 0 0 1 Kimrel p 0 0 0 0 Paul ph 1 0 0 0 RJhnsn cf 3 1 2 0 HBaily p 2 0 0 0 Trdslvc rf 4 1 2 0 CIzturs ph 1 0 0 0 Minor p 2 0 1 2 MParr p 0 0 0 0 Janish 3b 1 0 0 0 Simon p 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 33 511 5 Cincinnati .................020 000 000—2 Atlanta.......................000 121 10x—5 DP_Cincinnati 1. LOB_Cincinnati 6, Atlanta 7. 2B_Heisey (8), Terdoslavich (1), Minor (1). 3B_Cozart (2).

HR_McCann (12), Uggla (17).

CS_Bruce (3). S_Minor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati H.Bailey L,5-8 . . . . . .6 10 4 4 1 7 M.Parra . . . . . . . . . .2-3 0 0 0 0 2 Simon . . . . . . . . .1 1-3 1 1 1 0 0 Atlanta Minor W,9-4 . . . . . . . .7 6 2 2 1 7 Avilan H,14 . . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 1 0 Kimbrel S,26-29 . . . . .1 0 0 0 0 3 HBP_by Simon (Re.Johnson).

Umpires_Home, Joe West; First,

Sam Holbrook; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third, Rob Drake.

T_2:40. A_46,946 (49,586).

Indians 5, Royals 3 Kansas City Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi AGordn lf 4 0 0 0 Bourn cf 4 1 1 0 AEscor ss 5 0 1 2 ACarer ss 3 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b4 0 2 0 Kipnis 2b 3 1 3 1 BButler dh 4 0 2 0 Swisher 1b 3 0 0 0 S.Perez c 2 1 0 0 Brantly lf 4 1 1 0 L.Cain cf 3 1 1 0 CSantn 1b 3 1 1 0 Mostks 3b 4 0 1 0 Stubbs rf 0 0 0 0 MTejad 2b 4 1 1 1 Giambi dh 3 0 0 0 Lough rf 4 0 0 0 Chsnhll 3b 4 1 2 4 YGoms c 4 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 31 5 9 5 Kansas City ..............000 000 300—3 Cleveland..................001 004 00x—5 DP_Kansas City 1, Cleveland 1.

LOB_Kansas City 8, Cleveland 7.

2B_Brantley (13), Chisenhall (11).

HR_Chisenhall (6). SB_Kipnis (21).

SF_Kipnis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Kansas City Guthrie L,8-7 . . . . . . .7 8 5 5 3 3 Hochevar . . . . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 0 0 Cleveland Kazmir W,5-4 . . . .6 1-3 4 2 2 3 6 Albers . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 2 1 1 1 0 R.Hill H,8 . . . . . . . .1-3 0 0 0 0 1 Pestano H,6 . . . . . . . .1 2 0 0 0 1 C.Perez S,12-14 . . . .1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP_by Guthrie (Giambi).

WP_Guthrie 2.

Umpires_Home, Dan Iassogna; First, David Rackley; Second, Mark Carlson; Third, Gerry Davis.

T_2:50. A_29,740 (42,241).

Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota .010 000 120—4 6 0 New York . .100 000 000—1 8 0 Deduno, Fien (8), Perkins (9) and Doumit; P.Hughes, Kelley (8), Chamberlain (9) and Au.Romine.

W_Deduno 5-4. L_P.Hughes 4-9.

Sv_Perkins (21). HRs_Minnesota, Plouffe (10), Doumit (9), Florimon (5).

Toronto . . .200 002 300—7 12 0 Baltimore . .010 200 000—3 7 0 Redmond, Loup (5), McGowan (6), Cecil (7), Delabar (8), Janssen (9) and Arencibia; Hammel, Asencio (7), Patton (7), O'Day (8), McFarland (9) and Wieters. W_Loup 4-3. L_Hammel 7-6.

Sv_Janssen (18). HRs_Toronto, Encarnacion (25). Baltimore, C.Davis (36), A.Jones (18).

Houston . . .300 000 000—3 6 0 Tampa Bay .000 031 00x—4 8 0 Keuchel, Harrell (6), Fields (8), Blackley (8) and J.Castro; Ro.Hernandez, McGee (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9) and J.Molina.

W_Ro.Hernandez 5-10. L_Harrell 5-10.

Sv_Rodney (22). HRs_Houston, Wallace (4). Tampa Bay, Scott (8).

INTERLEAGUE First Game Chi . . . . . .00002100002—5 13 1 Phil . . . . . .20000010001—4 13 1 (11 innings) Joh.Danks, Lindstrom (7), Veal (8), N.Jones (8), Troncoso (10), A.Reed (11) and Phegley; Pettibone, De Fratus (7), Bastardo (8), Papelbon (9), J.Ramirez (10), Diekman (11) and Ruiz. W_Troncoso 1-2. L_J.Ramirez 01. Sv_A.Reed (24). HRs_Philadelphia, Ruf (2).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado . .000 000 000—0 2 1 Los Angeles100000 00x—1 4 0 Chatwood and Torrealba; Greinke and A.Ellis. W_Greinke 8-2.

L_Chatwood 5-3.

Midwest League At A Glance Eastern Division

W L Pct. GB Bowling Green (Rays) 14 7 .667 — Great Lakes (Dodgers) 14 8 .636 ½ x-South Bend (D’Backs) 13 8 .619 1 Lake County (Indians) 12 8 .600 1½ Dayton (Reds) 11 11 .500 3½ West Michigan (Tigers) 10 11 .476 4 Fort Wayne (Padres) 6 14 .300 7½ Lansing (Blue Jays) 5 16 .238 9 Western Division W L Pct. GB x-Beloit (Athletics) 14 6 .700 — Cedar Rapids (Twins) 14 7 .667 ½ Quad Cities (Astros) 12 7 .632 1½ Clinton (Mariners) 10 11 .476 4½ Peoria (Cardinals) 10 11 .476 4½ Wisconsin (Brewers) 9 11 .450 5 Burlington (Angels) 7 14 .333 7½ Kane County (Cubs) 4 15 .211 9½ x-clinched first half Friday's Games West Michigan 3, Clinton 2 Burlington 10, Great Lakes 3 Lansing 4, Peoria 3 Cedar Rapids 7, Dayton 1 South Bend 5, Kane County 4 Beloit 7, Lake County 6 Bowling Green 4, Quad Cities 3 Fort Wayne 8, Wisconsin 6, 13 innings Saturday's Games Bowling Green at Cedar Rapids, 6:05

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 1 p.m. TNT — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, New Hampshire 300, at Loudon, N.H. 3 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, Indy Toronto, race 2 11 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, Indy Lights, at Toronto (same-day tape) CYCLING 8 a.m. NBCSN — Tour de France, stage 15, Givors to Mont Ventoux, France GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Scottish Open, final round, at Inverness, Scotland Noon NBC — European PGA Tour, Scottish Open, final round, at Inverness, Scotland 1 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, John Deere Classic, final round, at Silvis, Ill. 2:30 p.m.TGC — LPGA, Manulife Financial Classic, final round, at Waterloo, Ontario 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, John Deere Classic, final round, at Silvis, Ill. NBC — USGA, U.S. Senior Open Championship, final round, at Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, Utah Championship, final round, at Sandy, Utah MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. TBS — Texas at Detroit 1:30 p.m. FSN — Cincinnati at Atlanta WGN — Chicago White Sox at Philadelphia 8 p.m. ESPN — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN2 — Exhibition, All-Star Futures Game, at New York MOTORSPORTS 7:30 a.m. SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, German Grand Prix, at Hohenstein, Germany 3 p.m. SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, German Grand Prix, at Hohenstein, Germany (same-day tape) SOFTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — World Cup, round robin, United States vs. Puerto Rico, at Oklahoma City 9 p.m. ESPN2 — World Cup, championship, teams TBD, at Oklahoma City p.m.

Kane County at West Michigan, 7 p.m.

Burlington at Lansing, 7:05 p.m.

Clinton at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.

Peoria at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m.

Lake County at Wisconsin, 7:35 p.m.

Dayton at Quad Cities, 8 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Beloit, 8 p.m.

Sunday's Games Kane County at West Michigan, 1 p.m.

Lake County at Wisconsin, 2:05 p.m.

Clinton at South Bend, 2:05 p.m.

Burlington at Lansing, 2:05 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Beloit, 3 p.m.

Bowling Green at Cedar Rapids, 3:05 p.m.

Peoria at Great Lakes, 3:05 p.m.

Dayton at Quad Cities, 6 p.m.

CYCLING Tour de France Results Saturday At Lyon, France 14th Stage A 118.7-mile hilly ride from SaintPourcain-sur-Sioule to Lyon, with numerous Category-3 and 4 climbs 1. Matteo Trentin, Italy, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, 4 hours, 15 minutes, 11 seconds.

2. Michael Albasini, Switzerland, Orice GreenEdge, same time.

3. Andrew Talansky, United States, Garmin-Sharp, same time.

4. Jose Joaquin Rojas, Spain, Movistar, same time.

5. Egoitz Garcia, Spain, Cofidis, same time.

6. Lars Ytting Bak, Denmark, LottoBelisol, same time.

7. Simon Geschke, Germany, Team Argos-Shimano, same time.

8. Arthur Vichot, France, Francaise des Jeux, same time.

9. Pavel Brutt, Russia, Katusha, same time.

10. Cyril Gautier, France, Team Europcar, same time.

11. Julien Simon, France, Sojasun, same time.

12. Jan Bakelants, Belgium, RadioShack Leopard, same time.

13. Blel Kadri, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 10 seconds behind.

14. Marcus Burghardt, Germany, BMC Racing, same time.

15. Imanol Erviti, Spain, Movistar, :46.

16. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, 1:35.

17.

Jens Voigt, Germany, RadioShack Leopard, 4:31.

18. David Millar, Scotland, GarminSharp, same time.

19. Ian Stannard, England, Sky Procycling, 7:17.

20. Kanstantsin Siutsou, Belarus, Sky Procycling, same time.

Also 22. Chris Froome, England, Sky Procycling, same time.

24. Alberto Contador, Spain, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

28. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, same time.

29. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, same time.

42. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Astana, same time.

55. Thomas Danielson, United States, Garmin-Sharp, same time.

77. Michal Kwiatkowski, Poland, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, same time.

88. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC Racing, same time.

102. Laurens ten Dam, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, same time.

Overall Standings (After 14 stages) 1. Chris Froome, England, Sky Procycling, 55 hours, 22 minutes, 58 seconds.

2. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, 2:28.

3. Alberto Contador, Spain, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 2:45.

4. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 2:48.

5. Laurens ten Dam, Netherlands, Belkin Pro Cycling, 3:01.

6. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Astana, 4:39.

7. Michal Kwiatkowski, Poland, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, 4:44.

8. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, 5:18.

9. Jean-Christophe Peraud, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 5:39.

10. Joaquin Rodriguez, Spain,

Katusha, 5:48.

11. Daniel Martin, Ireland, GarminSharp, 5:52.

12. Andrew Talansky, United States, Garmin-Sharp, 5:54.

13. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC Racing, 6:54.

14. Michael Rogers, Australia, Team Saxo-Tinkoff, 7:28.

15. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, RadioShack Leopard, 8:32.

16. Maxime Monfort, Belgium, RadioShack Leopard, 10:16.

17. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Movistar, 12:10.

18. Rui Costa, Portugal, Movistar, 14:22.

19. Daniel Navarro, Spain, Cofidis, 14:50.

20. Sylvain Chavanel, France, Omega Pharma-QuickStep, 14:57.

Also 34. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing, 32:26.

65. Thomas Danielson, United States, Garmin-Sharp, 58:56.

87. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC Racing, 1:12:08.

GOLF PGA-John Deere Classic Scores Saturday At TPC Deere Run Silvis, Ill. Purse: $4.6 million Yardage: 7,268; Par: 71 Third Round a-denotes amateur Daniel Summerhays.....65-67-62—194 David Hearn..................66-66-64—196 Zach Johnson...............64-66-67—197 J.J. Henry ......................68-65-65—198 Jerry Kelly .....................68-64-66—198 Nicholas Thompson .....69-66-64—199 Chris Kirk ......................67-66-66—199 Matt Jones ....................66-65-68—199 Jordan Spieth ...............70-65-65—200 Kevin Sutherland ..........70-65-65—200 Patrick Reed .................67-63-70—200 Morgan Hoffmann ........74-64-63—201 a-Patrick Rodgers.........67-69-65—201 Jim Herman ..................66-68-67—201 Troy Matteson ...............68-64-69—201 Lucas Glover.................68-62-71—201 Jason Bohn...................69-69-64—202 Erik Compton................72-66-64—202 Ryan Moore ..................67-70-65—202 Chad Campbell.............69-67-66—202 Scott Langley................68-67-67—202 Steve Stricker................67-66-69—202 Chez Reavie .................72-61-69—202 Robert Streb .................66-72-65—203 Harris English ...............69-69-65—203 Scott Brown ..................71-67-65—203 Ryo Ishikawa.................68-69-66—203 Justin Hicks...................71-66-66—203 Joey Snyder III..............72-64-67—203 Martin Flores.................67-67-69—203 Kevin Streelman ...........66-66-71—203 Brian Davis....................70-68-66—204 Heath Slocum...............71-67-66—204 John Kimbell .................69-69-66—204 Kevin Stadler.................70-68-66—204 Steven Bowditch...........69-68-67—204 Jonathan Byrd ..............69-68-67—204 Mike Weir ......................69-69-67—205 Andrew Svoboda..........68-69-68—205 K.J. Choi........................67-70-68—205 Dicky Pride....................68-69-68—205 Joe Affrunti....................69-67-69—205 Y.E.Yang........................70-66-69—205 Charles Howell III .........68-66-71—205 Rod Pampling ...............69-69-68—206 Stuart Appleby..............70-68-68—206 Vaughn Taylor ...............66-71-69—206 Nick Watney..................67-70-69—206 Gary Woodland.............69-68-69—206 Michael Letzig...............68-69-69—206 Brandt Jobe ..................69-67-70—206 Bryce Molder ................70-66-70—206 Boo Weekley.................66-69-71—206 Steve LeBrun................67-67-72—206 Andres Romero ............71-67-69—207 Tim Petrovic ..................70-68-69—207 U.S. Senior Open Scores Saturday At Omaha Country Club Omaha Neb. Purse: $2.75 million Yardage: 6,711; Par: 70 Third Round a-amateur Michael Allen ................67-63-72—202 Kenny Perry ..................67-73-64—204 Fred Funk......................67-70-67—204 Corey Pavin...................69-73-64—206 Rocco Mediate .............68-67-72—207 Chien Soon Lu..............68-75-65—208 Tom Pernice Jr..............74-69-65—208

Sunday, July 14, 2013 Chris Williams...............70-72-66—208 Steve Pate.....................72-69-67—208 John Riegger ................72-69-67—208 Bart Bryant....................72-69-67—208 Peter Fowler..................70-70-68—208 Mark O'Meara...............67-71-70—208 Tom Lehman.................67-71-70—208 Jeff Sluman...................69-67-72—208 David Frost....................72-70-67—209 Jeff Brehaut...................69-68-72—209 Bernhard Langer ..........68-74-68—210 Joe Daley......................72-70-68—210 Gary Hallberg ...............67-74-69—210 Fred Couples ................71-69-70—210 Gil Morgan ....................73-70-68—211 Larry Mize .....................71-72-68—211 Loren Roberts...............76-67-68—211 Gene Sauers ................73-70-68—211 John Cook.....................72-70-69—211 Peter Senior..................68-73-70—211 Steve Elkington.............70-70-71—211 Esteban Toledo.............71-69-71—211 Duffy Waldorf ................70-69-72—211 Gary Koch.....................71-68-72—211 Barry Lane ....................73-71-68—212 Mark McNulty................72-72-68—212 Don Pooley....................74-69-69—212 Larry Nelson .................73-72-68—213 Kohki Idoki.....................69-74-70—213 Brian Henninger ...........71-72-70—213 LPGA-Manulife Financial Classic Scores Saturday At Grey Silo Golf Course Waterloo, Ontario Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,336; Par: 71 Third Round a-amateur Hee Young Park............65-67-61—193 Angela Stanford............63-67-64—194 Catriona Matthew .........63-64-68—195 Meena Lee....................65-66-65—196 Anna Nordqvist.............67-64-67—198 Gerina Piller ..................70-67-62—199 Amy Yang ......................66-67-66—199 Austin Ernst...................68-64-67—199 Inbee Park.....................65-67-68—200 Suzann Pettersen.........68-64-68—200 Chella Choi ...................66-65-70—201 Christina Kim ................71-65-66—202 Stacy Lewis...................68-67-67—202 Karine Icher ..................67-66-69—202 Ryann O'Toole ..............66-65-71—202 Hanna Kang..................69-70-64—203 Jacqui Concolino ..........69-67-67—203 Michelle Wie..................69-67-67—203 Jennifer Johnson ..........67-68-68—203 Sun Young Yoo ..............68-67-68—203 Jessica Korda ...............68-66-69—203 Sydnee Michaels..........70-69-65—204 Jodi Ewart Shadoff.......67-71-66—204 Irene Cho ......................65-72-67—204 Na Yeon Choi ................69-68-67—204 Haeji Kang ....................70-67-67—204 Lisa McCloskey ............68-69-67—204 Lizette Salas .................70-67-67—204 Jee Young Lee ..............68-68-68—204 I.K. Kim..........................68-66-70—204 Belen Mozo...................65-66-73—204 Jane Park......................71-67-67—205 Mariajo Uribe ................70-68-67—205 Dewi Claire Schreefel...69-67-69—205 Momoko Ueda..............67-68-70—205 Paola Moreno ...............67-67-71—205 So Yeon Ryu .................71-67-68—206 Jennifer Kirby................71-66-69—206 Mina Harigae ................71-64-71—206 Mi Hyang Lee ...............75-64-68—207 Katie M. Burnett............72-66-69—207 Danielle Kang ...............70-68-69—207 Amelia Lewis.................71-67-69—207 Morgan Pressel ............68-70-69—207 Lorie Kane ....................69-68-70—207 a-Brooke M. Henderson70-66-71—207 Ji Young Oh...................66-70-71—207 Alena Sharp..................68-71-69—208 Alison Walshe ...............68-71-69—208 Amanda Blumenherst ..68-70-70—208 Becky Morgan...............67-70-71—208 Felicity Johnson............71-65-72—208 Candie Kung.................68-68-72—208 Kris Tamulis...................71-65-72—208 Sandra Gal....................68-66-74—208

AUTO RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Camping World RV Sales 301 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, N.H. Lap length: 1.058 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 135.922 mph.

2. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 135.835.

3. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 135.786.

4. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 135.757.

5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 135.525.

6. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 135.487.

7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 135.482.

8. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 135.333.

9. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 135.246.

10. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 135.107.

11. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 135.073.

12. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 135.006.

13. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 134.978.

14. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 134.868.

15. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 134.849.

16. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 134.753.

17. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 134.71.

18. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 134.492.

19. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 134.411.

20. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 134.089.

21. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 134.028.

22. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 133.839.

23. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 133.835.

24. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 133.821.

25. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 133.778.

26. (51) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 133.778.

27. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 133.637.

28. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 133.431.

29. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 133.273.

30. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 132.993.

31. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 132.919.

32. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 132.905.

33. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 132.72.

34. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 132.485.

35. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, 132.002.

36. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, owner points.

37. (32) Ken Schrader, Ford, owner points.

38. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, owner points.

39. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, owner points.

40. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, owner points.

41. (52) Morgan Shepherd, Toyota, owner points.

42. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, owner points.

43. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, owner points.

NASCAR Nationwide-CNBC Prime's The Profit 200 Results Saturday

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At New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, N.H. Lap length: 1.058 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 213 laps, 148.2 rating, 0 points, $46,700.

2. (2) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 213, 128.5, 43, $35,775.

3. (11) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 213, 107.3, 41, $31,450.

4. (5) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 213, 100.4, 40, $26,700.

5. (23) Michael Annett, Ford, 213, 89.5, 39, $23,100.

6. (14) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 213, 87.3, 38, $20,075.

7. (12) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 213, 105.5, 37, $19,625.

8. (4) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 213, 105.6, 36, $19,525.

9. (8) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 213, 113.5, 0, $13,100.

10. (21) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 213, 78.4, 34, $20,825.

11. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 213, 90.1, 0, $12,850.

12. (15) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 213, 70.4, 32, $19,050.

13. (6) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 213, 85, 31, $18,575.

14. (13) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 213, 85.3, 30, $18,325.

15. (22) Billy Johnson, Ford, 213, 76, 29, $19,375.

16. (17) Travis Pastrana, Ford, 213, 73.8, 28, $18,075.

17. (20) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 213, 65.8, 27, $17,950.

18. (9) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 213, 99.6, 26, $18,800.

19. (3) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 211, 96.7, 0, $12,250.

20. (10) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 211, 73.8, 24, $18,375.

21. (19) Chad Hackenbracht, Toyota, 211, 57.8, 0, $17,600.

22. (18) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 211, 63.7, 22, $17,550.

23. (35) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 210, 54, 21, $17,500.

24. (27) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 209, 63.7, 20, $11,435.

25. (36) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 208, 44.1, 19, $17,875.

26. (40) Dexter Stacey, Ford, 208, 35.6, 18, $17,365.

27. (38) Stanton Barrett, Chevrolet, 208, 40.2, 17, $17,330.

28. (34) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 208, 47.1, 16, $17,295.

29. (39) Tony Raines, Toyota, 208, 39.8, 15, $17,260.

30. (24) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 207, 56.3, 14, $17,525.

31. (33) Eric McClure, Toyota, 207, 42.7, 13, $17,190.

32. (16) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, accident, 205, 77.5, 0, $11,155.

33. (37) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, electrical, 144, 34.2, 11, $11,135.

34. (29) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, engine, 126, 46.4, 10, $17,115.

35. (28) Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, engine, 117, 43.1, 9, $17,068.

36. (26) Brett Butler, Toyota, accident, 100, 36.4, 8, $16,345.

37. (31) Blake Koch, Toyota, brakes, 99, 29.9, 7, $16,325.

38. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, brakes, 10, 33, 6, $10,311.

39. (32) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, vibration, 7, 30.8, 0, $10,190.

40. (25) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 3, 30.2, 4, $10,105.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 105.087 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 8 minutes, 40 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.465 seconds.

Caution Flags: 7 for 27 laps.

Lead Changes: 6 among 3 drivers.

Top 10 in Points: 1. R.Smith, 594; 2.

S.Hornish Jr., 589; 3. A.Dillon, 582; 4.

J.Allgaier, 574; 5. E.Sadler, 570; 6.

B.Vickers, 548; 7. K.Larson, 546; 8.

B.Scott, 534; 9. T.Bayne, 526; 10.

P.Kligerman, 525.

TRANSACTIONS Saturday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX_Transferred LHP Andrew Miller from the 15- to the 60-day DL. CHICAGO WHITE SOX_Recalled LHP Donnie Veal from Charlotte (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS_Agreed to terms with 2B Jose Altuve on a fouryear contract through 2017. Activated CF Justin Maxwell from the 7-day DL. Optioned RHP Jarred Cosart to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS_Optioned RHP Michael Tonkin to Rochester (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS_Activated INF Brett Lawrie from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Buffalo (IL). Sent LHP J.A. Happ on a rehab assignment to GCL Blue Jays.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES_Recalled OF Jose Constanza from Gwinnett (IL).

Optioned LHP Alex Wood to Gwinnett.

CHICAGO CUBS_Claimed OF Cole Gillespie off waivers from San Francisco.

MIAMI MARLINS_Recalled RHP Tom Koehler from New Orleans (PCL).

Placed RHP Chad Qualls on the paternity list.

NEW YORK METS_Sent 1B Justin Turner on a rehab assignment to GCL Mets.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES_Sent C Erik Kratz on a rehab assignment to Reading (EL) WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Sent RHP Ryan Mattheus on a rehab assignment to Hagerstown (SAL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKS_Agreed to terms with G Monta Ellis.

HOUSTON ROCKETS_Signed C Dwight Howard to a four-year contract.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS_Signed G O.J. Mayo. to a three-year contract.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS_Acquired the rights to F Royce White, C-F Furkan Aldemir additional consideration and from Houston for future draft considerations.

MOTORSPORTS INDYCAR_Placed Takuma Sato on probation for five races for running into Ryan Hunter-Reay on pit road at Pocono on July 7.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS_Suspended Montreal MF Sanna Nyassi for his act of simulation in the 78th minute of the July 7 game against Chivas USA. Suspended Chicago MF Daniel Paladini an additional one-game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his reckless challenge of Sporting Kansas City F Dom Dwyer, in the 93+ minute of a July 7 game.

COLLEGE LIMESTONE_Named Ryan Groneman assistant strength & conditioning coach.

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Life beyond the grave

Two local cemeteries receive a facelift from a grave restoration company

By Melanie Yingst Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

MIAMI COUNTY — Preserving the past has brought history back to life inside the quiet gates of two Miami County cemeteries.

Last month, hundreds of Miami County gravestones received a face lift.

The work revived the history of generations buried in small town cemeteries thanks to a headstone restoration company that recently completed work at Casstown Cemetery and the McKendree Chapel Cemetery, located on Walnut-Grove Road in Elizabeth County.

The science and art of restoring headstones in small cemeteries around the country is a labor of love for Helen Wildermuth.

Wi l d e r m u t h , a Nashville, Ind., resident, and her team of professional restoration experts, Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration, recently rehabilitated more than 300 headstones in the two local cemeteries in the last two years.

“We’ve restored stones all over the country now,” Wildermuth said.

Wildermuth said most of work is done at small, non-working and abandoned cemeteries around the country.

The careful cleaning, reconditioning and restoration of the stones brings life back to the names engraved on the markers that were once decrepit and barely legible.

“The feeling you have when you are working in the cemetery is satisfying,” Wildermuth said.

“There’s attention to detail. It’s very detailed, hands-on work. You have to like what you do because we are out there in the heat, the cold and the rain.”

The Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration company goes one step further in their work.

“One of the big things we do is that we document every stone we restore,” she said.

Wildermuth presents a binder of pictures and grave marker information — complete with before and after pictures of the stones — to the caretakers of the properties for their records.

S o m e t i m e s , Wildermuth’s restoration work will correct dates that were misread after the stone has been cleaned.

“That’s just one extra service we provide for them,” she said.

Wildermuth said she the oldest gravestone she has restored was a hand carved marker dated 1812.

“It was hand carved with a chisel,” she said, noting 200-year-old stones are so delicate it takes “faith” to carefully clean the fragile pieces of stone.

Wildermuth said her personal favorite markers are from the Victorian era.

“The art work on them are just remarkable. I love seeing them, especially after they are cleaned up and restored,” she said.

Wildermuth said she often thinks about the stories behind the names she carefully cleans.

“You step back in time and you wonder what their life was like back then,” she said. “There are husbands, wives and the names of small children. There are places in the cemeteries where you know an epidemic must have went through in the area because of the dates and where they are in the cemetery.”

Wildermuth said she enjoys seeing the longevity of surnames as she leaves the graveyard and travels through the small towns.

“It’s really neat to see a barn with the last name on it, or a street named after a family of a stone I worked on,” Wildermuth said. “It’s just so cool to see the names — the storekeeper, the town doctor, the banker — on these stones. It is a very fullfilling job.”

It was the second visit to the village of Casstown in two years for Wildermuth and her

staff, according to Denise Miller, a village council member and chairman of the cemetery committee.

“I hope we can keep having them back,” Miller said. “It is an art form, it truly is.”

Miller knows how delicate and tedious the work is and has attended seminars on how to restore gravestones herself.

“You have to know what type of stone you are working with,” Miller said. “The whole point is ‘do no harm’ because it can’t be reversed.”

The village of Casstown now has restored a total of 43 stones in two years.

A few of the dozens of local headstones were those of veterans of wars as far back as World War I, which had fallen and were barely legible, Miller said.

“There was a pile of tombstones in an area we didn’t know who they belonged to,” Miller said.

“Helen (Wildermuth) and her team came in and cleaned the tombstones and restored the markers.”

Miller said some of the markers were from an area of the Casstown Cemetery, which was vandalized — ripped from the ground and tossed down a hill by teenagers — in the 1970s.

Miller said Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration Inc. has restored “the worst of the worst” in Casstown Cemetery.

“You could keep going forever and ever, so we are doing the worst ones — ones that are falling down and the ones that

have been disturbed,” Anthony Weber | The News Miller said. “After they Workers, above and below, from Stonehugger Cemetery are done, you can’t Restoration Inc., out of Nashville, Ind., completes the work on believe how good they several stones at McKendree United Methodist Church recently. look — they are so pristine.”

Miller said she has enjoyed the comments from the community and visitors about the work that has been done thus far.

“The people are just thrilled,” Miller said. “A lot of people are excited just being able to read the stones. It’s nice that people still care and they want the tombstones cleaned.”

There’s one corner of the Casstown Cemetery that is close to Miller’s heart and hopes it can be restored in the near future — the 30 grave markers of the Children’s Home orphans.

“There’s nobody to care for them,” Miller said, with a note of sadness in her voice. “Some are crooked and hard to read. I would love to see them restored.”

Miller said she hopes the village can continue to work with Wildermuth and her team to restore more of the cemetery. ted $20,000 for the two uments.

“It’s a big ordeal for a Miller said she has been visits of the Stonehugger trying to procure grants Cemetery Restoration village as small as ours,” to continue the restora- Inc. to clean and restore Miller said. “It’s excitsmall sections, including ing because we are contion work.

“We now have at least the graves of war veter- necting people with their 10 people we can put in ans, of the cemetery. past.”

“We generally make our the (new computerized Miller and her husband, registry) and place where rounds and they tell us Randy, also has spent they were buried,” Miller which ones they want to countless hours computsaid. “It’s a very interest- be restored and what they erizing the cemetery’s can afford,” Wildermuth ing job that they do.” records and the cemetery The cost of the restora- said.

Wildermuth estimated has a kiosk for visitors tion for the 43 cemetery stones was costly for a her company has restored to log in and search for village of Casstown’s size. more than 16,500 grave- names and graves of long The village council allot- stones, markers and mon• See GRAVE on page B2 A worker from Stonehugger Cemetery Restoration Inc., out of Nashville, Ind., completes the work on several stones at McKendree United Methodist Church recently.

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50 years after JFK, Dallas sheds shadow of history DALLAS (AP) — Anger seethes from the letter mailed to City Hall on Nov. 23, 1963, the day after the tragedy, raging that this city “virtually invited the poor insignificant soul who blotted out the life of President Kennedy to do it in Dallas.

“Dallas, the city of Hate; Dallas, the city of Shame.”

As the nation and world mark this year’s 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, special attention once again falls on the Texas metropolis. The “hate/ shame” letter, which came from California and was one of many that poured in after the shooting, shows how the city instantly became a focus of fury, resentment and confusion, which locals have struggled with in the ensuing decades.

With scrutiny renewed by this year’s milestone, Americans are learning again about the hostility toward Kennedy and his policies darkly voiced by some Dallasites before the assassination. The passing now of five decades prompts new reflection on the city’s tormented but evolving response to the crime here that changed history. And finally, many Americans wonder: How will Dallas mark that terrible day this year?

No longer are residents confronted by scorn when they tell people they’re from Dallas as then-Mayor Wes Wise was a decade after the assassination when asked by a fellow mayor how it felt to be the leader of “the city that killed Kennedy.”

But it was a legacy that took time for the young city to come to terms with a conundrum symbolized by its debate over the fate of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald fired on the presidential motorcade from a sixth floor window.

The old depository building could have been razed but instead now houses the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, dedicated to telling the tale of that day unflinchingly.

“The story of the museum is also the story of Dallas,” said Stephen Fagin, associate curator. “It’s the story of the city and how the city has emerged from the long, dark shadow of history.” n “Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas.” That was the headline across a full-page advertisement in The Dallas Morning News on Nov. 22, 1963, as the president made his way to the city on a political fencemending trip.

A quick read made it clear the ad’s greeting was sarcastic: It went on to ask a series of questions that implied he was a communist sympathizer.

Reading it, Kennedy quipped to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy that they were “heading into nut country.”

Just four weeks earlier, his United Nations ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, had been harangued by a group of ultraconservatives as he spoke at a downtown auditorium. Frank McGehee, a Dallasite who had founded the anti-communist National Indignation Convention, shouted questions at Stevenson through a bullhorn until police took him away. Audience members loudly interrupted Stevenson’s speech, and as he left, a woman

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In the November 1963 file photo above, mourners leave flowers on the lawn near the Texas Book Depository after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Below, visitors look at memorabilia newspapers for sale at the Sixth Floor Museum, in the former Texas School Book Depository building, in Dallas on Jan. 25.

bopped him on the head with a protest sign.

“It was headlines across the nation,” recalled Darwin Payne, a professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University who was a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963.

Three years earlier, during the 1960 presidential campaign, protesters accosted Kennedy’s running mate Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird as they crossed a downtown Dallas street from one hotel to another. At a White House luncheon in 1961, Dallas Morning News publisher E. M. “Ted” Dealey, told Kennedy to his face that a “man on horseback” was needed to lead the nation, not someone “riding Caroline’s bicycle,” a reference to Kennedy’s young daughter. James F. Chambers Jr. of the rival Dallas Times Herald stood up and told Kennedy that Dealey’s views didn’t represent everyone in Dallas. A war of editorials followed.

Besides McGehee’s group, the anti-communist John Birch Society had an active chapter in Dallas. And the outspoken Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, who resigned from the U.S. Army after being reprimanded

for giving troops right-wing propaganda, settled in Dallas, where he flew the American flag upside down in front of his home.

Anti-Kennedy fliers in the form of a “Wanted” poster with a mug shot-style portrait of the president appeared on the streets just before Kennedy’s visit. Michael V. Hazel, historian of the city who was a high school sophomore in 1963, remembers his younger brother and a friend found such literature on the neighborhood sidewalk, leaving his family appalled. To most locals, Hazel said, “I think those incidents seemed rather isolated and almost fringe-type things.”

But beyond the city, after the assassination, those incidents took on greater meaning to those looking for explanations. “The city got branded with the ‘City of Hate’ because the extreme conservatives, the right wingers, had a following and they were good at getting publicity,” said Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, who added, “A lot of people knew about them, but they didn’t have a lot of followers.”

In fact, as the president and first lady arrived in Dallas

after buoyant stopovers in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth, bright skies and cheering throngs greeted them. As the motorcade made its way downtown, Kennedy even had his car stop so he could greet children who’d lined up.

Crowd estimates range from 150,000 to 200,000 people, about a third of the population of the city at the time, said Mack, adding, “When you look at the films and photographs, you cannot find more than two or three negative signs anywhere. There were nothing but cheers.”

Wise, the future mayor who was a reporter with KRLD radio and television in 1963, agreed.

He’d covered the Stevenson fracas, which was on his mind as Kennedy’s motorcade left Dallas’ Love Field. “It was such a cheerful crowd that my fears kind of went away,” Wise said.

Near the end of its route, the motorcade approached the school book depository, located across from Dealey Plaza, a grassy area marking Dallas’ birthplace in 1841. Texas first lady Nellie Connally, sitting beside her husband in front of the Kennedys in the limousine, recalled saying: “Mr. President, you certainly cannot say that

Film shows FDR in concealed wheelchair INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A professor at an Indiana college says he has found film footage showing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt being pushed in his wheelchair, depicting a secret that was hidden from the public until after his death.

Ray Begovich, a journalism professor at Franklin College south of Indianapolis, said Tuesday he found the eight-second clip while conducting unrelated research in the National Archives in College Park, Md. The National Archives and the FDR Presidential Museum and Library couldn’t say for certain if other such footage exists but both said it is at least rare.

Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921 at age 39 and was unable to walk without leg braces or assistance. During his four terms as president, Roosevelt often used a wheelchair in private, but not for public appearances. News photographers cooperated in concealing Roosevelt’s disability, and those who

did not found their camera views blocked by Secret Service agents, according to the FDR Presidential Museum and Library’s website.

“This raw film clip may be the first motion picture images of the president in his wheelchair, and it was never meant to be shown to the world,” Begovich said.

Bob Clark, supervisory archivist at the Roosevelt library in New York, said he wasn’t aware of any other similar film.

A spokeswoman for the National Archives concurred.

“With respect to whether or not this is the earliest or only existing footage of FDR in a wheelchair, we cannot state that this is definitively the case, although such footage is certainly rare,” Laura Diachenko said in an email.

The film shows Roosevelt visiting the U.S.S. Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944. Eight seconds of the clip show Roosevelt exiting a doorway on the ship and being escorted down what is apparently a

ramp. The wheelchair is not clearly visible because the view of the president is screened by a line of sailors, but Roosevelt’s distinctive white hat can be seen gliding past the men at a lower level. Roosevelt, at 6-foot-2, was likely taller than most of the soldiers.

Although Roosevelt’s disability was virtually a state secret during his presidency, which spanned the Great Depression and most of World War II, it has become an inspiration to advocates who successfully pushed for a statue of him in his wheelchair to be added to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington.

“To me, the importance of this clip as historic media imagery is that it reminds all of us that this president fought the Great Depression and World War II from a wheelchair. I think it’s a tragedy that we haven’t had many candidates for national office who use a wheelchair or guide dog or sign language,” Begovich said in a statement.

Dallas doesn’t love you.”

The rifle shots came moments later. n As mayor at the time, Earle Cabell was on the receiving end of much of the criticism of Dallas that quickly followed.

The letters from around the world are part of his papers housed at Southern Methodist University, one of the sponsors of a series of public programs to mark the anniversary.

One letter writer alluded to an “insanity” predominating the city and its politics, while another was incredulous that Oswald himself could have been fatally shot while being escorted by police.

Oswald was not part of a far-fight contingent (in fact, he had fired a shot at Gen. Walker in April 1963). He was a Marxist sympathizer who lived for a time in the Soviet Union, but his motive in the assassination remains murky.

“It’s one of the great tragedies of history that he and Kennedy would be on the same block at the same time, but it’s not Dallas’ fault,” said historian Tim Naftali, a research fellow at the New America Foundation.

Some letters to the city offered sympathy and support and leaders began contemplating how to move forward.

Stanley Marcus, who led the Dallas-based luxury retailer Neiman Marcus, wrote a paid editorial on New Year’s Day 1964 titled “What’s Right with Dallas?” that got widespread attention. He listed not only the city’s positives such as its business climate but also noted areas where the city could improve, including a need to eradicate a “spirit of ‘absolutism.’”

Also in 1964, J. Erik Jonsson, co-founder of Texas Instruments, who succeeded Cabell as mayor, announced his “Goals for Dallas” initiative focusing on the future. Results included the new Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, kindergarten in public schools and other changes.

Current Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings called the program “a healing process as well as a planning process.” n A dozen years after the assassination, with her appointment as chairwoman of the Dallas County Historical Commission, Lindalyn Adams began spending time at county offices near Dealey Plaza and noticed something striking: the constant flow of people who came to see where the president was killed.

“I could see visitors, no matter whether it was icy cold, terribly warm, hot, or whatever, night or day in that area,” she said.

Adams herself had vivid memories of Nov. 22, 1963.

Her husband, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, had an office overlooking the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was taken. They lived close enough to Love Field that she heard the engines rev up on Air Force One later that afternoon to return the body to Washington.

“It was absolutely terrible on all levels,” said Adams, a Dallas native, “the fact the president was lost, the fact that it happened in our city, which we all loved.”

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lost family members buried in Casstown.

Miller said people from Texas, Tennessee and all around the country have visited the Casstown Cemetery to retrace their family history.

“We have people stop in and log in our registry to find distant family,” Miller said.

Miller and her husband also have connected with people from around the country to take photos of graves to post online to share with families looking for names and dates for their genealogy history through findagrave. com.

“People stop in and log on from Colorado and Texas trying to do family tree work,” she

said. “They also request certain names and stones so we’ll go and take pictures of graves, too.”

“There’s so many websites now and people are looking for their descendants through ancestry sites so we record it as we work,” Wildermuth said.

Both Miller and Wildermuth said their work is satisfying for those who are interested in preserving history.

“It’s hard to stop,” Wildermuth said. “I leave a cemetery always thinking ‘Who did I miss?’ We try to find all of them.”

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Ke’sha Scrivner, left, kisses her daughter as they pose for a photograph after picking up her daughter Ka’Lani Scrivner, 1, from day care July 9 in Washington. Once on welfare, Scrivner worked her way off by studying early childhood education and landing a full-time job for the District of Columbia education superintendent. She sees education as the path to a better life for herself and all five of her children, pushing them to finish high school and continue with college or a trade school.

Demographic change amplifying racial inequities WASHINGTON (AP) — One-yearold Ka*Lani is so fascinated by a round plastic toy that she doesn’t see her mother, Ke’sha Scrivner, walk into the Martha’s Table day care, chanting her name while softly clapping out a beat that Ka*Lani keeps with a few bounces on her bottom.

Once on welfare, Scrivner worked her way off by studying early childhood education and landing a fulltime job for the District of Columbia’s education superintendent. She sees education as the path to a better life for her and her five children, pushing them to finish high school and continue with college or a trade school.

Whether her children can beat the statistics that show lagging graduation rates for black children is important not just to her family. The success of Ka*Lani and other minority children who will form a new majority is crucial to future U.S. economic competitiveness.

A wave of immigration, the aging of non-Hispanic white women beyond child-bearing years and a new baby boom are diminishing the proportion of children who are white. Already, half of U.S. children younger than 1 are Hispanic, black, Asian, Native American or of mixed races.

“A lot of people think demographics alone will bring about change and it won’t,” said Gail Christopher, who heads the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing project on racial equity. “If attitudes and behaviors don’t change, demographics will just

mean we’ll have a majority population that is low-income, improperly educated, disproportionately incarcerated with greater health disparities.”

In 2010, 39.4 percent of black children, 34 percent of Hispanic children and 38 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native children lived in poverty, defined as an annual income of $22,113 that year for a family of four. That compares with about 18 percent of white, non-Hispanic children, according to Census Bureau’s 2011 American Community Survey.

Asian children overall fare better, with 13.5 percent living in poverty, the survey said.

The overrepresentation of minority children among the poor is not new. What is new is that minority children will, in the not-too-distant future, form the core of the nation’s workforce, and their taxes will be depended on to keep solvent entitlement programs for the elderly.

Based on where things stand for nonwhite children today, it’s not hard to make some educated guesses about what the future holds for the youngest of America’s children who already are a majority of their age group, said Sam Fulwood III, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

The recent recession worsened conditions for many children, but minorities were hard hit and are having more difficulty recovering.

The Pew Charitable Trusts found that, from 1999 to 2009, 23 percent of black families and 27 percent of

Hispanic families experienced longterm unemployment, compared with 11 percent of white families. Pew Research Center, a subsidiary, found that the median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households.

That means more minority families end up in poor neighborhoods with underperforming school systems, leading to lower graduation rates and lower lifetime earnings, said Leonard Greenhalgh, a professor of management at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

“You are looking at the future workforce of the United States — what we need to be competitive against rival economies such as India and China, and we are not educating the largest, fastest growing percentage of the U.S. workforce, so as a nation we lose competitive advantage,” Greenhalgh said.

It all starts with preschool, where overall enrollment has been increasing but Hispanic children are less likely to be included. Of Hispanic children ages 3 to 5 in the U.S., 13.4 percent were enrolled in full-day public or private nursery school in 2011, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

That compares with 25.8 percent of black children enrolled in full-day preschool and 18.1 percent of white children. But already, Hispanics are one-quarter of students enrolled in public schools.

ATLANTA (AP) — The homicide rate for older children and young adults has hit its lowest point in at least three decades, but the decline has been slowing, according to a new government report.

In 2010, the homicide rate for victims ages 10 to 24 was less than half the rate seen in 1993, when there was an explosion in crime tied to crack cocaine.

The report released Thursday echoes earlier findings about a national decline in killings and other crimes, but offers a more focused look at what is one of the most affected groups. Ages 10 to 24 account for about a third of slaying victims. The highest homicide rates are consistently seen in people in their late teens and 20s.

“That’s what drives the national numbers. That’s the ballgame,” said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center. He was not involved in the new study.

There are various theories for the drop in youth killings and other crimes since the early 1990s, ranging from the economy to police work or public health campaigns. None completely explain the trend, said Hemenway, a member of a National Academy of Sciences’ group examining crime trends.

For the report, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention searched a death statistics database that goes back to 1981.

About 4,800 youths ages 10 to 24 were killed in 2010, the most recent year in the analysis. That translates to a homicide rate of 7.5 per 100,000 people — the lowest since 1981. It also appears to be lower than rates in the 1970s, a CDC spokeswoman said.

But it hasn’t been a steady trend down.

The rate dropped a bit in the early 1980s and then rose sharply, peaking at about 16 per 100,000 in 1993. It plummeted for several years before the decline slowed.

The rate inched down about 1 percent a year, on average, from 2000 to 2010, the CDC found.

The study showed youth homicide rates fell across the board — in males, females, whites, blacks and Hispanics. However, males and blacks continued to be killed at far higher rates than females or people in other racial and ethnic groups. The 2010 rate for blacks was nearly four times higher than the average for all youths that age.

The rate of gun-related slayings was about four times higher than of the rate of homicides using other weapons.

Based on overall rates for 2010, homicide last year fell off the nation’s top 15 causes of death for the first time in almost half a century. It continues to rank among the top three leading causes of death for people ages 10 to 24, however.

Magazine fights child obesity 1 recipe at a time (AP) — For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children.

No one was interested.

But by 2010, the time was right. Alarm over rising rates of childhood obesity was reaching new heights, as was awareness of the importance of cooking and eating real foods, not just for children, but for whole families and communities.

Sampson seized the moment, launching ChopChop, a cooking magazine for children.

And in the three years since, she has transformed a simple idea — that getting children cooking is good for them — into an award-winning quarterly that reaches some 2 million families.

The concept is straightforward — the magazine portrays real children eating real food that they can cook themselves with little or no help from an adult. The recipes are nutritious, ethnically diverse and inexpensive. Most of its circulation comes from free distribution by doctors during well child visits. It also is available by subscription, and in Spanish.

“We think about kids as beginner cooks,” Sampson says, noting that her target audience is 5- to 12-year-olds.

“We don’t do ‘kids’ food.’ We do simple dishes. If you had a 20-year-old who didn’t know how to cook, you’d teach them the same thing.”

The idea is that children who know how to cook and feed themselves will not have to rely on fast food and processed meals. And that families who cook and eat together have healthier lifestyles overall.

Since its launch, ChopChop — which is based in Watertown, Mass. — has become an industry darling. Renowned physicians stack its board of direc-

tors. The magazine relies on sponsorship, not advertisements, and receives its largest chunk of funding from footwear company New Balance, which has given more than $1 million.

And in May the James Beard Foundation named ChopChop “publication of the year.”

And this year, Sampson returns to her cookbook roots.

Sporting more than 100 recipes, “ChopChop: The Kids’ Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your Family,” will be published in August by Simon and Schuster.

“This is like a magnet for kids,” says Barry Zuckerman, professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a member of Sampson’s board of directors.

Zuckerman says that 20 years ago he saw maybe two obese children a week in his practice.

Today, he sees two to four a day. A founder of Reach Out and Read, a 24-year-old program that promotes literacy by giving books to children during doctor’s visits, Zuckerman responded immediately to Sampson’s model.

“Advice is cheap,” he says.

“Giving a one- or two-minute lecture about healthy foods is nice, but when we give ChopChop it really amplifies the message in a way that words just don’t.”

Nothing in Sampson’s public background would suggest that she was a nut for children’s health. Many of her cookbooks tackled single subjects, including party dips, ice cream, cookies and burgers. But her views had been formed while tending to her daughter, who was ill through much of childhood.

(Her daughter, now 20, is fine, Sampson says.)

Her “ah-ha” moment came seven years ago, when she read a newspaper article by Harvard

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In this June 27 photo, staffers Joshua Peters and Katie Henry confer in the office of ChopChop Magazine in Watertown, Mass. The publication is an award-winning cooking magazine for kids.

pediatrician and medical school professor Donald Berwick that took the nation’s medical system to task.

“It was like I was reading for the first time about somebody who cared about what I cared about,” Sampson said. “I wrote an email to him and said, ‘If I could work for you I would never write another cookbook again.’”

Berwick wrote back. After dabbling in various healthrelated work, Sampson began approaching pediatricians with an idea to prescribe cooking during appointments. The enthusiasm was fierce and immediate, she says. She received more than 140 requests from pediatricians for the as-yet unborn magazine. She began raising

money, collecting enough from companies such as Stonyfield Farm, Oxo and children’s hospitals to print 150,000 copies of her first issue. She parked her car on the street and kept 8,000 copies in her garage.

After that first issue, Sampson says, requests poured in from afterschool programs, YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Indian reservations, food banks, neighborhood health clinics and other organizations. New Balance came on board as the main sponsor and remains the biggest donor.

“We were really excited about being part of a movement to get kids cooking again,” says Molly Santry, the company’s charitable programs manager.

“We had funded hands-on cooking classes and the magazine was another resource for kids and families to get inspired to cook.”

Sure, Sampson would like to see every family in America cooking together or to have obesity eradicated by 2020. But her immediate goals are more straightforward: she wants “to make cooking cool” and to give children the skills to stay healthy throughout their lives.

With the editorial machine in motion, she says only one obstacle remains.

“Money,” she says definitively. “The demand for ChopChop is huge. We are only slowed down by money. The more money we get, the more people we can reach.”

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AP Photos A tourist looks at a book for sale with photos of Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana, Cuba. For a place where most people earn just $20 a month at their government jobs, Havana can be a surprisingly expensive place to be a traveler. But there are plenty of free ways to have fun in this city known for sea, sun and salsa.

Havana — from cobblestones to cars 5 free things to do in the city

HAVANA (AP) — For a city where people earn an average of $20 a month at government jobs, Havana can be a surprisingly pricey place at least for tourists.

From $6 daiquiris at El Floridita, Ernest Hemingway’s favored watering hole, to the ubiquitous hustlers looking to con visitors into buying knock-off cigars, much about the Cuban capital seems geared toward separating travelers from their money.

Fortunately some of Havana’s most charming details can be experienced free of charge. Here are five great ways to explore this city stuck in time, without adding to the hefty fees charged by tour companies.

(Note: While millions of tourists visit Cuba each year from Canada, Europe and elsewhere, Washington’s 51-year- old economic embargo still outlaws most American travel to the island.

However, tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are now visiting legally each year on cultural exchange trips. These so-called people-to-people tours are rigidly scheduled to comply with embargo rules, but there’s almost always a little free time to go off on your own, and some of these attractions may also be part

of official itineraries.)

THE MALECON Begun in 1900 during U.S. occupation and completed in 1958 under strongman Fulgencio Batista, the Malecon, or seawall, stretches 4 miles (6 kilometers) from old town to the Almendares River. There’s no bad time of day for a stroll along what’s known as “the great sofa” for being Havana’s 24/7 center of social activity. At dawn, fishermen dip lines into the gentle waves as the city rouses itself from slumber. In the afternoon, when the sunlight seems impossibly bright don’t forget the sunblock! kids keep cool by doing somersaults into the water. But the Malecon truly comes alive in the evening when thousands gather to laugh and sip rum, and canoodling couples form romantic silhouettes against the crimson sky. Weekends at 23rd Street and Malecon are a real party atmosphere; for a more mellow experience and the best sunsets in town, pull up some concrete where Paseo Boulevard meets the Florida Straits.

OLD HAVANA No visit is complete without a leisurely walk through the cobblestoned Spanish colonial quarter, much of it patiently rehabilitated by the Havana City Historian’s Office. A tour of four public squares is enough to hit the highlights: intimate Cathedral Square, home to the city’s main Roman Catholic temple;

Tourists pose for a photo with a classic American car in Havana, Cuba.

In this July 8 photo, musicians play trombones as a tourist from Colombia takes their picture along the Malecon in Havana, Cuba.

leafy Plaza de Armas, where vendors hawk books, coins and Ernesto “Che” Guevara memorabilia at a daily flea market; sun-drenched Plaza Vieja, where uniformed children from a local school play rollicking games of tag; and breezy Plaza San Francisco, the jumping-off point for tour buses to Old Havana.

The latter teems with colorfully dressed, cigar-chomping women who make a living as what you might call officially licensed “greeters,” attaching themselves to the arms

of male travelers and leaving lipsticky kiss marks on their cheeks. A tip is expected if you have your picture taken with them, but a polite, preemptive “no gracias” before they can pucker up should keep you on budget.

OLD CARS Havana doesn’t disappoint on its reputation as a living automotive museum, with finned 1950s Chevrolets, Fords and Cadillacs rarely seen elsewhere still cruising the city’s avenues. While some are barely held together by makeshift parts and creative soldering, many have been maintained with surprising amounts of TLC. For a fourwheeled blast from the past, head to the streets around the wedding-cake-like Capitol building, where classic car owners park their antiques so nostalgic tourists can gawk.

Motorcycle enthusiasts will delight in the weekly gathering of the “hogs” just down the hill from the Hotel Nacional.

Members of Havana’s tightly knit Harley-Davidson club meet informally here each Saturday afternoon to show off their vintage rides, nearly all of them predating the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

ARTISTS’ WORKSHOP See art come alive at the Taller Experimental de Grafica, ensconced at the end of an alley off Cathedral Square in a former public bathhouse. Founded in 1962

on “Che’s” instructions, the shop hosts dozens of artists who are remarkably friendly and happy to chat with even the slightest prompting. Some speak English and will give visitors an up-close demonstration of how lithographs, etchings and woodcuts get made. Just about everything you see is for sale, but there’s no pressure to buy.

For more free art, walk up gently sloping 23rd Street, also known “la Rampa,” or “the Ramp,” where dozens of mosaics by Cuban masters such as Wilfredo Lam form a sidewalk gallery that goes for blocks and blocks.

BASEBALL FEVER Cubans are just as crazy for “beisbol” as Americans, and Spanish-speaking fans won’t want to miss the Central Park’s “esquina caliente,” or “hot corner.” Named after the baseball term for third base, this shady spot is a favorite place for Havana residents, mostly men, to engage all comers in passionate arguments about the sport during the November-June season.

Still haven’t gotten your fill of Cuba’s national pastime? A ticket to the raucous bleachers of El Latino Stadium, home to Havana’s most storied ball club, Industriales, costs just a few pennies’ worth in the local currency.

Go on, splurge after a day in Havana without once opening your pocketbook, you’ve earned it.

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Rate on 30-year mortgage at 2-year high WASHINGTON (AP) — The average U.S. rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week to 4.51 percent, a two-year high. Rates have been rising on expectations that the Federal Reserve will slow its bond purchases this year.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average on the 30-year loan jumped from 4.29 percent the previous week. Just two months ago, it was 3.35 percent — barely above the record low of 3.31 percent.

The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage rose to 3.53 percent from 3.39 percent last week. That’s the highest since August 2011.

Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed could slow its bond purchases this year if the economy

strengthens. The purchases have kept rates low. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which mortgage rates typically track, has been rising.

Even with the gains, mortgage rates remain low by historical standards. Low rates have helped fuel a housing recovery that is helping to drive economic growth this year.

The annual sales pace of previously occupied homes topped 5 million in May for the first time in 3 ½ years. And sales of new homes rose at the fastest pace in five years.

Greater demand, along with a tight supply of homes for sale, has pushed up home prices. It also has led to more home construction, which has created more jobs.

To calculate average mortgage

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The average fee for a 30-year mortgage was 0.8 point this week, up from 0.7 point last week. The fee for a 15-year loan also rose to 0.8 point from 0.7 point.

The average rate on a one-year adjustable-rate mortgage was unchanged at 2.66 percent. The fee rose to 0.5 point from 0.4.

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The truth is that any surface — from your kitchen counter to your nightstand — can become a bar. But if you’re reaching for the alarm clock and knock over the Seagram’s, it’s time to get help.

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on AMC’s “Mad Men” or the guilty pleasure of sipping with a tiny umbrella.

More likely it’s the public’s nostalgia for the cocktail culture, cultivated to perfection in the 1950s and early ’60s and continuing to evolve from flavored vodkas to handcrafted drinks. Whatever the case, consumers are clamoring for shaken, stirred or straight up — and a pretty place to put all the accoutrements.

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Right at home: Artful decor from recycling (AP) — Many of us dispatch our used paper to a bin, the first step on the way to Recycle Land.

These household accumulations of paper and cardboard are just one more thing to get rid of.

Luckily, there are designers and artists who see possibilities in all that wood pulp. They’re busy using it to create art, decorative accessories, even furniture.

So what you sent to the recycling center just might find its way back, in some form, to your home.

Trent Mayol’s company, SmartDeco, designs and makes heavy-duty cardboard furniture that’s simple, stylish and easy to put together without tools. The idea came to him when he was a University of Southern California neuroscience major dealing with the packing and logistical hassles of his fifth collegehousing move.

“Nobody likes dealing with furniture. Especially those living what we’ve deemed the ‘one-yearlease lifestyle,’” Mayol says. “These people are young, economically savvy, and never in the same place for too long.”

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS TROY

Briana Walsh to Richard Ritchey, Briana Walsh, two part lots, $0.

John Cremeens, Tess Cremeens to John Creemns, trustee, Cremeens Family Revocable Living Trust, one lot, 40.

Mitchell Bradley to Keith Skaggs, one lot, $88,200.

Estate of Mabel Adkins, Tammy Adkins Carter, administrator to Elbert Feltner Jr., one lot, $17,000.

Jean Baker to Roy Baker, a part lot, $0.

Estate of Dorothea J. Henne, deceased, William Henne, executor to Brandy C. Smith Schnell, Douglas Smith, one lot, $185,000.

Caroline a.k.a. Carolyn Robbins to Brian Robbins, one lot, $0.

Kathleen Mary Moore to Kathleen M. Moore Trust Under Agreement, Kathleen M. Moore, trustee, one lot, $0.

JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. to Bonner Construction Inc., one lot, $40,200.

Rafael Echevarria Alvarado, Mary Echevarria to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, one lot, $91,700.

Sam Helmick to U.S. Bank, N.A., one lot, one part lot, $36,700.

Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Justin Willhoite, Kara Willhoite, one lot, $295,900.

Gregory Bensman, Gretchen Bensman, Kelly Bensman, Gretchen Billing to Kay Billing, Velma Billing, one lot, $110,000.

Ernest Hartman to Miriam Cawley, Sharon Walker, one lot, $139,000.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Cathy Bice, one lot, $0.

Jaclyn Bone, Matthew Bone to Kelsy Ford, Ryan

Ford, one lot, $111,900.

Nicole Riley to Kasey Thomas, Lara Thomas, one lot, $225,000.

Jane Behm, Parker Behm to Heather Davey, Robert Davey, six part lots, $750,000.

Bac Home Loans servicing LP, Bank of America N.A., successor, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, one lot, $0.

M. Susan Fry to Constance Willis, one lot, $0.

Constance Willis to M. Susan Fry, one lot, $0.

TIPP CITY

Robert Clevenger, Tanya Clevenger to Amanda Dietz, Dustin Dietz, one lot, $101,000.

HSBC Bank USA, N.A., JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., People’s Choice Home Loan Securities Trust to Catherine Smith, one lot, $63,200.

PIQUA

Fannie Mae a.k.a.

Federal National Mortgage Association, Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Kelley Hall, one lot, $24,000.

Jason Kolley, Nancy Kolley to Jason Kolley, Nancy Kolley, two lots, $0.

Dale Adams, Wonda Adams to Frederick K. Schwable Jr., a part lot, $22,000.

Marianne Etter, successor co-trustee, Etter Revocable Trust, Ned Etter Revocable Trust Agreement, Ned Etter and Ardith Etter Revocable Trust, Debra Toomey, successor co-trustee to Charlene Baker, Paul Baker, co-trustee, Baker Family Revocable Living Trust, one lot, $130,000.

CASSTOWN

Christy Motter, Dale Motter, Diana Shellhaas,

James Shellhaas, Charles Wintrow III, Jan Wintrow to David Motter, Juanita Motter, one lot, a part lot, $0.

$94,000.

Mary Berger to Amy Simmons, Matthew Simmons, 1.617 acres, $290,000.

COVINGTON

ELIZABETH TWP.

Fifth Third Bank to Kandi Burgess, Jefferey Guillozet, one lot, $57,000.

Annette Meyer, Annette Wesco, Steven Wesco to Annette Wesco, one lot, $0.

HUBER HEIGHTS

Dec Land Co. I LLC to NVR Inc., one lot, $30,500.

Inverness Group, Inc. to Donald Barry, Pamela Barry, one lot, $214,700.

Inverness Group Inc. to Jessica Whitby, one lot, $222,100.

WEST MILTON

Carolyn Mohr to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, one lot, $66,700.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Karl Weitzel, one lot, $64,900.

BETHEL TWP.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Daniel Rief, 0.470 acres, $0.

John Young to Gina Logel, Lawrence Logel, one lot, $156,000.

Franklin Wolfe to Franklin D. Wolfe Revocable LIving Trust, Franklin Wolfe, trustee, one lot, $0.

CONCORD TWP.

Linda Stroup, Robert Stroup to Linda Stroup, trustee, Robert Stroup, trustee, Stroup Family Revocable Living Trust, one lot, $0.

Dave Mers, Marvin David Mers to Sycamore Ltd., a part lot, one lot,

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742 OAK LEA DRIVE TIPP CITY Beautiful must wee home! 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, dream kitchen, open floor plan, full length windows for beautiful view. $599,000

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Gary Lavy, Sharon Lavy to Athina Emory, Phillip Emory, 10.002 acres, $77,500.

Carl Parks, Mary Parks to Kenneth Eugene Parks, 10.175 acres, $0.

Carl Parks, Mary Parks to David Allen Parks, 10.175 acres, $0.

Estate of Mark Weisenborn, S cot Weisenborn, executor to Deerwood Farm LLC, 5.001 acres, $155,000.

LOSTCREEK TWP.

Mary Watson to Cathy Chambers, Elwood Chambers, 9.4823 acres, $30,900.

MONROE TWP.

Francis March to Cynthia March, Francis March, 1.048 acres, $0.

Clyde McWhriter, Grace McWhirter to Jeffrey Trick, Julie Trick, 29.8302 acres, $240,000.

NEWBERRY TWP.

Jennifer Hosler, Timothy Hosler to Kidron Crist, Rachel Crist, 10.1178 acres, $257,000.

Peggy Williams to Daniel Elsner, Karin Elsner, 10.001 acres, $171,000.

Fannie Mae a.k.a.

Federal National Mortgage Association to John D. Clunk Co. LPA, attorney in fact to Adam Hess, one lot, $23,500.

rediscovers what the last one already knew: Parties are more fun with a bar and a bartender behind it. Designer Celerie Kemble’s Art Deco-inspired, parchment-lacquered and

leather-inlaid bar for Maitland-Smith stirred up a lot of interest at the market. The silver eglomise top and brass accents set it apart from your run-of-the-mill man-cave bar.

A decade ago, photographer and artist Adrienne Moumin was relocating from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Maryland. Before she moved out of her rented darkroom, she began printing up a bunch of architectural shots she had lying around. She noticed that the prints had the makings of a collage, so she printed some more, and the project took on a life of its own.

“I started the series in 2003, thinking it was what I’d do in the meantime while I searched for a rental darkroom,” says Moumin. “It soon turned into the main art form I practice.”

The pieces, many of which she showed at the recent Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York City, are intricately hand-cut assemblages drawn from the geometric, often fractal images of skyscrapers and other urban elements that she had photographed and turned into silver gelatin prints. (www.picturexhibit.com ) Got a carful of old maps, but now have GPS? Decoupage cartographic pages onto waste bins, serving trays or furniture, or wooden or cardboard letters for instant décor.

Old atlas pages make cool lampshades, drawer liners or framed wall art. You’ll find instructions galore online.

Daisy Rapp, Nathan Rapp to Heather Couch, Paul Couch, 3.333 acres, $250,000.

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n Continued from page B5 The bar cabinet was the first piece to find its way back into the home.

More recently, standalone bars and cocktail carts have crashed the party as well.

Every generation

Decor

n Continued from page B5 Restoration Hardware Baby & Child has papier mache animal heads, including sharks, antelope, giraffes and stags, made by Haitian artists out of recycled paper similar to newsprint. Each piece has the look of a typographic sculpture. (www.rhbabyandchild. com ) Sometimes inspiration comes when you’re just trying to clean up a bit.

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Great 3 bedroom brick ranch with a bonus family room! New 3D roof shingles, some newer windows, patio door and garbage disposal!! All kitchen appliances convey including washer and dryer.

Outside well for washing the car and watering your plants. New interior paint. Ceramic tile floors in the kitchen. 1.5 car attached garage.

Fenced in backyard with patio and shed. Move in condition!

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Trisha Walker

Cute ranch offering 3 bedrooms, 1 bath and family room with woodburning fireplace. Many updates, take a look! N Market to R on Staunton to L on Skylark, house is on the left. $102,000.

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1172 SKYLARK, TROY

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Directions: Rt 41 E to Sayers to Lt on LeFevre Rd.

3 bedroom brick ranch, family room, freshly painted, 1.5 baths, 2 car garage, possession at closing.

Asking $99,500.

Dir: W. Main to South on Dorset

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Miami East Schools, Immediate Possession! 1.3 acres, newly painted 3 bed, living & Family rm, basement, 3 car garage new price of $114,900.

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216-6116 Crestwood Estates, .7 acres, 3 bed, nice great room, oversized garage, plus 22x21 workshop with lots of Trisha Walker possibilities. Priced in the $170’s* Dir: Piqua Troy Rd 573-9767 to 5 way to Crestwood to Valleyview.

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758 Dartmouth Rd.

Westbrook Beauty! 3 bed 2 bath brick ranch on large corner lot with major updates! $136,500 Dir: N Dorset to W on Cornish to S on Dartmouth to the corner of Clarendon Visit this home. @www.MaryCouser.com/349134

TROY

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40326544

TROY

Shows like a model home! This 3 bedroom 2 bath Keystone build is ready for you to move right in and enjoy. Cathedral ceiling with plant shelf, open concept living, lots of storage space, kitchen with island and pantry, split bedroom floor plan. Fenced rear yard offers just the right amount of privacy to enjoy your back patio. Pride of ownership shows! Miami East Schools. $164,000. Directions: Troy-Urbana to Hunters Ridge, house is on the right.

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907 Mayfair Circle Simply Charming! 3 bedrooms and full basement!

Major updates and convenient location! $86,900.

Dir: West Main to South on Penn Rd.

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UNION TWP.

Bar

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2620 MEADOWPOINT DR. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, full unfinished basment ready to be finished! $229,900.

Jonathan Price, Tina Price to Sheri Kearns, one lot, $138,400.

Linda Beavis, Robert Beavis to Jerry Collett, one lot, $145,000.

Lesla Cultice to Lesla Wogoman, Russel Wogoman, 1.64 acres, $0.

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NEWTON TWP.

1728 HUNTERS RIDGE DR.

1069 KNOOP RD. 3 or 4 bedroom, restored historic home on 4 plus acres, beautiful, tranquil setting.

STAUNTON TWP.

Bank of America N.A. to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 0.909 acres, $0.

Lena Hymer, Lennith Hymer to Serena Bradley, Timothy Bradley, one lot, $107,000.

JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. to Brian Wooddell, Katie Wooddell, 1.33 acres, $56,000.

Gaye Gabel, Robert Gabel to Michelle Smith, Scott Smith, one lot, $184,900.

SPRINGCREEK TWP.

Estate of Theodore Meyers to Gayle Meyers, $0.

2012 Irrevocable Dynasty Trust, Gary Hunt, trustee to Reckertown LLC, 4.316 acres, $0.

Corinna Adams 937-552-5818 ®

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My husband lied Energy options may not boost home values

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y husband always ready for seasonal lies. Maybe planting. Here’s the probI shouldn’t lem. He lied. He does not be airing my love to do yard work. He dirty laundry so publicly loves the idea of having a for all to see, but I felt perfectly manicured lawn. obligated to share. It’s the So, we hire the mowing, truth. He lies and I want hire the mulching, hire you all to be aware that the tree trimming, hire your partner could be the weed people to spray lying to you, too. This is for weeds and bribe the serious business - it could kids to pull the weeds affect your comfort and in the mulch beds on a cause habitability issues. weekly basis.

Some may think I’m a The point I’m trying bit of a drama queen, but to make here in this let me share my story. (hopefully) humorous Maybe then you will see post is this: make sure that I’m ratting him out you’re honest with what for your benefit. you want when purchasWhen we were dating ing a home! If you are and getting to know one buying with your partanother, my husband told ner — make sure he or me straight up “I love to she is honest with you do landscaping and yard as well! That way, when work.” you select the house That little statement that is perfect to meet right there played your needs you can a big role when honestly know that we eventually marit is! ried and began Don’t get me our home search. wrong…I love and Of course, being enjoy our home and a newly wed, I yard immensely. wanted to please Sitting outside on my husband. Being the patio looking Robin down toward the a real estate agent Banas stream and enjoyallowed me to sniff Contributing ing the garden beds out the perfect Columnist is so enjoyable and house that would suite my decoratrelaxing. But someing and renovattimes I wish that, rather ing desires and yet still than wondering when satisfy my husbands love the lawn guy is coming of landscaping and yard to mow the lawn, I could work. fire up a push mower Well, I found it. The and get the yard neatly perfect house. Well mowed in 30 minutes constructed, beautiful myself while getting some colonial design, enough exercise. This is what space for everyone to be would suite me - and now happy and an acre and a that I know my husband half inside city limits. I really does not love yard thought to myself, “Boy, work and landscaping this yard sure does look that is what would suite big!” And I told my husus! band as much. I mean, People have vast and there were probably 50 varying tastes and preferbushes, mulch beds surences and thank goodness rounding the house and they do! So, be honest trees, trees, trees! But, he with yourself and one insisted; “I love to landanother in regards to scape and do yard work!” what you really want in Seven years later the your home and then share yard looks lovely, the that with your real estate trees are neatly trimmed, professional. He or she the shrubs and bushes are can help you, truly, find at just the right height the right home! and the weedless lawn is perfectly mowed. The Robin Banas is the offfice manager for mulch beds are weed free Bruns Realty Group at (937) 332-8537 or email her at rbanas@brunsrealty.com. and the garden boxes are

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Most Realtors say a home’s energy efficient features make it more attractive to buyers. But there is much debate over whether amenities such as solar panels, tankless water heaters and smart technology offer homeowners a return on investment when it comes time to sell.

“Buyers definitely want it and more of them are looking for it,” Carol Jambon Jr. of Latter and Blum said. “But it’s not likely that any buyer would be willing to pay what the seller wants . to make up for what was spent.”

Jambon said such amenities do not make or break a deal, so they do not change the way he lists properties for sale. However, he makes sure sellers understand that much of their investment likely won’t get a return.

“If features like solar power or a

tankless water heater were really important selling points, you would see more investors installing that sort of thing when they renovate or build new properties,” Jambon said. “You don’t see it because for them it isn’t worth the expense.

It’s more often an investment for a homeowner who is staying in that home forever.”

North Shore Realtor Bob Mack, also with Latter & Blum, reports interest has been higher in the basic elements of energy efficiency, such as double pane windows and weather stripping. But when it comes to more sophisticated upgrades, people will sometimes shy away from it out of fear of complexity.

He singled out systems that offer smartphone connectivity to heating, cooling, lighting and other home energy elements. While the convenience factor adds value for

some buyers, there are often concerns raised with maintenance.

“Some of these systems developed in the last five years come with some technology baggage that can be a burden,” Mack said.

“Maintaining the equipment to keep it working properly can get expensive because much of it is not standardized. More of the system might need to be replaced because of one outdated component.”

The presence of energy efficient windows, doors and insulation can sometimes make or break a sale, he said, but more complex elements just serve as another selling tool.

“The average buyer is just not looking for solar power or wind energy,” Mack said. “It’s not a strong element in the area. You don’t find it on new homes, and there are very few on existing homes.”

Hormones help make new plants Take a look at new shoots growing on a favorite shrub or vine and you’ll see that the bases of these shoots may be beginning to toughen up, their once soft, green outer layer turning brown and woody.

Such shoots, snipped from the mother plants as so-called half-woody cuttings, can be rooted to make new plants.

Cuttings made from shoots still soft and green are called softwood cuttings. Those cut from thoroughly woody, leafless shoots taken in winter are called hardwood cuttings.

Plant hormones, called auxins, play an important role in rooting any of these kinds of cuttings. Under natural conditions, auxins are produced in the buds and growing tips of plants, and are then carried down stems in decreasing concentrations. If you apply auxins directly to the bases of your cuttings, rooting can be hurried along, and you get an increase in the percentage of cuttings that root as well as the number and quality of roots that form.

Powders to help you root

Natural auxins, once extracted from a plant, decompose too quickly to be of practical use. But we can still use auxins by applying commercially available, synthetic ones, such as IBA and NAA, which are slower to degrade.

These synthetic rooting hormones are available either in liquid or powder form. Concentrations and combinations of auxins will vary with the manufacturer, with higher auxin concentrations generally are used for more difficult-to-root species. Fungicides may be added to prevent cuttings from rotting.

Apply a powdered rooting hormone by dipping the base of a cutting into the powder, tapping it to shake off excess, and then sliding the cutting into a hole without brushing off the powder. Because varying amounts of powder might adhere to a cutting, rooting response to powdered hormone preparations is less consistent than it is to liquid ones.

Liquid rooting hormones also are more rapidly absorbed than powdered formulations. Merely

soak the bases of cuttings in the liquid formulations.

The soaking time required depends on the hormone concentration.

Whether you use powders or liquids to promote rooting, pour only as much material as you need into a clean container, then discard that portion after use.

Eventually, the materials do deteriorate. An easy way to test whether a material is still good to use is to snip a leaf from a tomato plant, treat its base, then poke the base into moist sand or potting soil. If the preparation is still good, abundant roots will have formed after a couple of weeks.

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FOR SALE BY OWNER 4190 West Miami-Shelby Road (2nd house east of St Rt 66 on 1 acre) OPEN HOUSE: July 13, 2-4pm Call 937-295-2636 3 BR, LR, DR, new kitchen and deck with awning, new full bath up and remodeled ½ basement.

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Candidate must be proficient in hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems.

Responsibilities include providing maintenance support for a multi-department manufacturing facility in a cost effective manner. We need an individual who can function independently and participate as part of a team.

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Different floor plans to choose from. Garages, fireplaces, appliances, washer/ dryers. Corporate apartments available. Visit www.firsttroy.com, Call us first! (937)335-5223 2 BEDROOM, sweet upstairs, good area, appliances furnished, $445 monthly includes water, no pets! (937)335-5440 2 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 2 car garage, appliances, W/D hookup, $775, 1642 Brook Park (937)335-0261 2 BEDROOM, washer/dryer hook-up, CA, off street parking, quiet cul-de-sac $475 monthly, Metro approved, (937)603-1645 DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $550/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

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KTH Parts Industries Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts, located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening for an individual in our Equipment Support Group (ESG). The successful candidate should have two years industrial experience or an equivalent technical degree. Good working knowledge of Robotics, PLC’s, Basic Electricity, Pneumatic and Hydraulic systems is desired.

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KTH Parts Industries, Inc. a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts, located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening for a Production Staff member in our Engineering Tooling Department. This position will provide a wide range of support, including the following: -Inputting die quotations; -Tracking press capacity; -Document creation for New Model Evaluation meetings; -Responsible for creating purchase orders for procuring dies, components and tooling supplies; and -Maintain and organize all die drawings.

The successful candidate for this position must have strong communication, organizational and analytical skills as well as being detail-oriented. Also the candidate must be proficient with Microsoft Office Software with emphasis on advanced skills in Excel. Flexibility and short notice overtime is required.

KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and team oriented manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates should send a confidential resume including salary requirements to: KTH Parts Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 940 St. Paris, OH 43072 Attn: Engineering Tooling Production Staff Recruiter Or Email: kth.hr@kth.net KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer 40326908

KTH Parts Industries, Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts, located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening for an individual in our Equipment Support Group (ESG). KTH is a state-of-the-art robotic facility. The successful candidate will have the following: Associate’s Degree in Electrical/Electronics or equivalent; A working knowledge of PLC’s, robotics, and HMI controls; Strong mechanical ability and knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, and automated systems; Good working knowledge of computers and applications; Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities; Good mechanical abilities; Good written and verbal communication skills; and Experience in the related field KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and a team oriented manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates should send a resume to: KTH Parts Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 940 St. Paris, OH 43072 Attn: Industrial Equipment Technician Recruiter OR Email: kth.hr@kth.net KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Allen County Pallet is looking to hire employees with Pallet (skid) and Forklift experience.

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History, science, scenery blend on New Hampshire’s Isles of Shoals

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Edison Community College invites qualified candidates to apply for the following positions: Controller

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER French Oil is a custom manufacturer of hydraulic presses and screw presses for rubber and thermoset molding applications as well as synthetic rubber screw press applications. We are seeking to fill an Electrical Engineer position for our expanding business: Associates degree in EE is required but BSEE is preferred. Experience in AB or Siemens programming, HMI, PLC knowledge, and troubleshooting systems of electrical and hydraulic controls for custom machinery is a plus. Must be willing to travel to customers' plants for start-up and service work.

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AP Photos In this photo taken June 25, the sun rises over the Isles of Shoals taken from Star Island in Rye, N.H. Since the English explorer Captain John Smith spotted the islands just under 400 years ago, the cluster of nine small islands, five in Maine, four in New Hampshire, have evolved from rough-and-tumble 17th century fishing outpost to posh Victorian-era vacation destination.

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ISLES OF SHOALS: The Isles of Shoals are a group of nine islands straddling the Maine-New Hampshire border, 10 miles (17 kilometers) off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. GETTING THERE: n University of New Hampshire Isles of Shoals Discovery Cruises from the UNH pier in New Castle, N.H., to Appledore Island. Tickets are $40 per person and RYE, N.H. (AP) — Year-round residents are scarce, but the Isles of Shoals come alive in summer with a rich blend of history, science and scenic beauty that has long inspired artists and writers.

Since the English explorer Captain John Smith spotted them just under 400 years ago, the cluster of nine small islands — five in Maine, four in New Hampshire — evolved from a roughand-tumble 17th century fishing outpost to a posh Victorian-era vacation destination. Today, a cutting-edge marine research lab run by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire overlooks the stone foundation of 19th century poet Celia Thaxter’s cottage and her restored flower garden on Appledore Island. Across the harbor on Star Island, the island grouping’s last remaining hotel beckons with its wide wooden porch and rocking chairs arranged to take full advantage of the ocean view.

The 140-year-old Oceanic Hotel is owned by the Star Island Corporation, which was founded by members of the Universalist Unitarian Church and Congregational churches and has been hosting summer conferences on the island since 1915. This summer’s offerings include everything from photography and painting to international affairs. There’s a “paranormal adventure weekend,” a conference on “the mysterious and misunderstood world of mushrooms,” and a host of family, adult and youth conferences, several focused on religion or spirituality.

Until a few years ago, only conference

include a guided tour of the island. http://seagrant.unh.edu/islesofshoalscruises. n Star Island can be reached via the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company in Portsmouth, N.H. Adult tickets for day trips are $35 for adults, $25 for children 4-12, http://www.islesofshoals.com/ or 800-441-4620. n Island Cruises in Rye, N.H., also offers service to Star Island, http://www. uncleoscar.com/ or 603-964-6446. participants could stay overnight at the hotel, but it’s now open to individuals and families for “personal retreats” if space allows. But don’t expect to be whisked back to the golden age of grand hotels — the furnishings are sparse and shabby, bathrooms are down the hall, and showers, allowed on alternating days, are in the basement. There are no locks on the door and some rooms lack electrical outlets, though you can charge your cellphone at the front desk.

The fact that my family’s recent stay coincided with a youth conference — think slamming doors, pounding feet and yelling in the hallways late into the night — further contributed to what my husband called the “bad dorm” atmosphere. But others take a kinder view.

“I sort of look at it as faded glory, because you go up the staircase and you can see how grand it was, and how a person could make an entrance. But there’s a faded part,” said Ann Beattie of Stratham. “It’s like camping on the ocean.”

Beattie, who was leading a conference for the Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association during our stay, had read a bit about islands’ history before making her first trip to Star about 20 years ago and was so enchanted, she’s returned as often as possible ever since.

“It was almost like this magic went up through the ground through my feet.

I could imagine people walking around here in Victorian clothing, I could imagine the fishermen out on the rocks in the 1600s,” she said. “Being where it happened made me feel like the history

n Smuttynose Island can only be reached by rowboat or dinghy.

STAYING OVERNIGHT: Star Island Corporation offers conferences and personal retreats from mid-June to midSeptember. A seven-night conference costs $850 per person/double occupancy and includes all meals and ferry transportation. Personal retreats cost $175 for one night, per person/double occupancy, including meals; http:// www.starisland.org or 603-430-6272. was alive.”

Betty Olivolo of Kittery, Maine, said she used to pride herself on never vacationing in the same location twice. But after attending a Star Island retreat 15 years, she has come back every year.

“A lot of it’s the people — amazing friends. It’s kind of like going to an adult camp, you want to go back and see your friends,” she said. “And it’s the amazing scenery. I’m a photographer, and no matter how many trillion pictures I’ve taken on Star Island, there’s always another angle, another little corner to peek around.”

The hotel’s sloping lawn dominates one side of the island, while the back features paths that wind through lowgrowing brush to the ocean, where seagull chicks scurry into crevices and waves crash against the rocks. A small chapel sits on the island’s highest point, surrounded by a handful of stone cottages, one of which houses a tiny museum. There’s a small marine lab with salt-water tanks and terrariums, and guests can rent row-boats to explore some of the other islands.

Aside from a few private homes, Appledore Island also is owned Star Island Corporation, which leases the property to the Shoals Marine Lab. While marine biology students research the movement of invasive seaweed, changing bird populations and other topics, others students participate in archaeological digs on Appledore and nearby Smuttynose Island, the scene of a grisly 1873 murder that spawned what newspapers at the time called the “trial of the century.”

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In this photo taken from Star Island in Rye, N.H., on June 24, a seagull is perched of a rock pile overlooking the lighthouse on the Isles of Shoals, White Island.

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Weinstein, Warner Bros. spar over ‘The Butler’ NEW YORK (AP) — With the drama of a summer blockbuster, the dustup over the rights to a film title has turned into a public battle between Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros.

Disputed is the claim to the title “The Butler,” which the Weinstein Co. has promoted as the name of an upcoming drama about a White House butler. An arbitrator last week ruled Warner Bros. has the right to “The Butler,” having released a so-named silent short in 1916.

Weinstein, appalled that his potential Oscar bait could be derailed by such an old, inconsequential film, took to “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday to claim Warner Bros. has an “ulterior motive” in refusing to allow use of the title.

In an interview later with The Associated Press, he claimed that Warner Bros. is using the “Butler” dispute to attempt to extort his share of the three-part series “The Hobbit,” of which he owns a percentage having developed the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy while running Miramax.

“They mentioned that if I gave up ‘The Hobbit,’ they could make the title problem go away,” Weinstein said.

The film, directed by Lee Daniels and starring Forrest Whitaker, is to be released Aug. 16. It’s based on the life of White House butler Eugene Allen, whose service extended through decades of U.S. presidents.

Weinstein acknowledged that when he bought the project at the script stage from Sony (NYSE:SNE) , “We thought that they had cleared it (the title).” He said bargaining between the heads of distribution for Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. was moving smoothly “and then all of a sudden it changed.”

“There’s never been a DVD of it,” he said of the 1916 short. “It’s never been on television.

What are they protecting?”

A certain number of Hollywood titles are protected by the Title Registration Bureau, of which the Weinstein Co. and Warner Bros. voluntarily subscribe to, agreeing to be bound by its rules to prevent public confusion over similarly titled films. The registry, a division of the Motion Picture Association of America, mediates any disputes, which are usually resolved quietly with some horse trading.

Warner Bros. re-registered the title in recent years, but has no known plans to use it.

Weinstein is appealing the decision and has enlisted attorney David Boies to represent the company in the matter. He claims possible alternatives like “White House Butler” and “Lee Daniels’ Butler” are already registered.

“I hope we get a good result,” said Weinstein.

“If not, we’ll go to court with a restraining order and David will file saying this is anti-competition.”

Warner Bros. issued a statement Tuesday claiming Weinstein was using the matter to publicize his film “by disseminating deliberate misinformation.” The studio claims the Weinstein Co. “is following an oft-trodden path of creating ‘well-publicized controversies’ in order to promote their films by disseminating deliberate misinformation about the true nature of this dispute.

“The Weinsteins are sophisticated experts in this arena and three neutral arbitrators have penalized them for blatantly disregarding MPAA rules. It goes without saying that Warner Bros. has no issue with Lee Daniels’ film (never has) and fully supports the artistic goals of the filmmakers. The Weinsteins’ suggestions to the contrary are deeply offensive and untrue.”

Weinstein has taken advantage of such spats before for the generated publicity. Last year, he launched a public attack against the MPAA over its initial R rating (due to harsh language) for the anti-bullying documentary “Bully.” After the film was initially released unrated, it was edited slightly and the MPAA changed the rating to PG-13.

“People are always saying you’re maximizing a controversy,” said Weinstein. “I’d rather have the title than the controversy. We have to take our trailers down. We have to take our posters down.

We’ve already taken our website down. And if we don’t do it, it’s $25,000 a day.”

In recent days, Deadline.com has posted angry back-and-forth letters between Bois and Warner Bros. attorney John Spiegel. Spiegel has cited previous Weinstein or Miramax titles that disregarded the procedures of the title registry, and had to then pay, for films like “Scream,” ”Il Postino” and 2007’s “Control,” for which Weinstein paid $100,000 to use the title.

“What are they doing, trying to teach me a lesson?” says Weinstein. “These big corporations just think they can bully the little guy.”

Certainly, when Weinstein is claiming the plight of the underdog, there’s a degree of Hollywoodstyle bluster. On “CBS This Morning,” MPAA chairman Chris Dodd urged cooler heads to prevail, telling both sides: “Sit down and work it out. This is silly.”

AP Photo This film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company shows Ariana Neal, left, and Michael B. Jordan in a scene from “Fruitvale Station.”

‘Fruitvale’ about empathy “Fruitvale Station” is more than the dramatization of an obituary.

It’s about empathy.

In recounting (and slightly fictionalizing) the final day of 22-year-old Oscar Grant’s life, firsttime writer-director Ryan Coogler has made a film that piles small daily gestures — and one final, heartbreakingly tragic one — into an inspiring reminder about basic human decency.

That may sound trite, but “Fruitvale Station” — already a hit on the festival circuit — resonates not just for its portrait of injustice, but because its argument for treating strangers kindly, decently, comes at a time when fear and presumption often trump simple kindness, and the public sphere is navigated in cellphone bubbles.

In a star-making performance, Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar, the San Francisco Bay Area exconvict and former drug dealer who, famously, was fatally shot by a transit police officer early on New Year’s morning, 2009.

The moment is glimpsed in raw cellphone footage at the start of “Fruitvale Station,” before shifting

back to the morning before and the start of Oscar’s last full day.

On its surface, it’s a regular day of errands. But all of the stops reflect Oscar’s struggle to balance his past, his unemployment and his family: girlfriend Sophina (Melonie Diaz), four-year-old daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal) and mother Wanda (Octavia Spencer, also a producer of the film).

He’s hotheaded and imperfect, but he listens to his mom, helps strangers (like a supermarket shopper in need played by Ahna O’Reilly) and, in the surest sign that a dose of martyrdom has crept into the portrayal, tends to a dying dog. It’s a day, presumably like any other, of fraught improvisation for Oscar, a young black man trying his best in circumstances stacked against him.

Jordan, the talented young actor of “The Wire,” ”Friday Night Lights” and “Chronicle” — who’s in nearly every scene of the movie — puts the film on his shoulders in an unqualified display of leadingman charisma. It’s a naturalistic, hoodie-clad performance, with “bruh” warmly peppered through-

out his speech. His proud posture is belied by friendly, intelligent eyes and an awe-shucks smile.

Coogler intimately captures Jordan’s performance with fluid camera movement while illustrating Oscar’s constant text messaging on the screen. The Oaklandnative’s passion for the story is evident as he transfers with surehandedness from the sunny, dayin-a-life meandering to the frenzied action of the devastating nighttime finale. Though Coogler verges on ham-fistedness, he’s crafted a film not just heavy with racial truths, but one whose humanism reverberates.

For a movie about an unjust death, “Fruitvale Station” is bursting with the colorful, messy striving of life. The fullness of Jordan’s Oscar is as staggering as his end is appalling.

“Fruitvale Station,” a Weinstein Co. release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some violence, language throughout and some drug use.” Running time: 90 minutes.

Three and a half stars out of four.

‘Pacific Rim’ is skillful — and very noisy It’s one of the saving graces of “Pacific Rim,” Guillermo del Toro’s new mega-budget monsters vs. robots extravaganza, that at a key juncture, it knows how to make fun of itself.

This welcome bit of comic relief amid all the crunching, smashing and groaning in 3-D comes just as the good guys — that would be the robots, or rather the humans operating the 25-story machines built to save humanity — have hit a snag. These massive, digitally controlled contraptions suddenly all fail at once.

But then — eureka! — someone points out that one rusty old robot is analog. And so, in a movie that has spent some $200 million to boast the very best in state-of-the-art tradecraft, an analog machine saves the day, at least temporarily. Ha! Holy retro technology.

It’s too bad that del Toro’s film, a throwback to the Japanese Kaiju monster films made famous by “Godzilla,” doesn’t have many more such deft moments. Though it’s made by an obviously gifted director and will likely please devotees of the genre, it ultimately feels very short on character and long on noise, noise, noise. Did we mention the crunching, smashing and groaning?

Happily, the plot is not convoluted (the script is

by Travis Beacham and del Toro) and there’s at least one really cool concept, called “The Drift.” No, this doesn’t involve land formations.

It’s the mind-melding that occurs between the two pilots of each Jaeger

AP Photo This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket, left, and Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori in a scene from “Pacific Rim.”

— that’s what they call the mega-robots that humans have built to fight the monsters rising from the sea.

Subjected to a pre-flight “neural handshake,” the pilots are suddenly sharing brains, the better to command their robot.

This leads to amusing dialogue, such as: “You know what I’m thinking?”

Beat. “I’m in your brain!”

That’s meant to be funny, but a later remark seems inadvertently so, when the hero balks at going back to battle: “I can’t have anyone in my head again!”

The real action begins some seven years into the Kaiju offensive (and circa 2020.) The Jaeger program, once successful, is failing.

Global defense authorities decide to drop it and go for a giant coastal wall.

Didn’t they see “World War Z?” Ask Brad Pitt: Walls don’t keep out zombies, and they won’t keep Kaiju out, either. It’s back to the Jaegers.

Enter jaded former pilot

Raleigh Becket (a handsome but bland Charlie Hunnam). Raleigh lost his co-pilot and brother in a Jaeger fight, and is in no mind to share his, er, mind again. But humanity’s at stake.

His new co-pilot is a young Japanese woman named Mako (Rinko Kikuchi) with a serious beef against the Kaiju.

Showy supporting parts are played by Idris Elba as the impressively named commander Stacker Pentecost; Charlie Day as a manic, nerdy scientist (but not as funny as he could be); and Ron Perlman as a shadowy Kaiju-parts dealer.

It takes a good hour for the real battle to get going.

You’re glad when it does, but mostly, you wish the mind-melding concept had been mined more fully, especially since the scenes inside people’s minds show, too briefly, another, subtler side of del Toro’s talents.

One arresting flashback to Mako’s youth almost seems

to come from a different movie — like the dloeperloeirector’s powerful 2006 “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Too bad del Toro doesn’t share a bit more of that terrific side of his moviemaking mind with us here.

“Pacific Rim,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief language.” Running time: 131 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

PACIFIC RIM 3-D ONLY (PG-13) 10:30 AM 1:30 7:40 GROWN UPS 2 (PG-13) 11:00 AM 1:40 4:15 7:00 9:45 PACIFIC RIM 2-D ONLY (PG-13) 4:35 10:45 DESPICABLE ME 2-D ONLY 10:40 AM 1:10 3:45 6:20 9:10

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THE HEAT (R) 10:50 AM 1:35 4:25 7:10 10:25

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY 3-D ONLY (PG) 10:45 AM 6:50 WORLD WAR Z 3-D ONLY (PG-13) 11:10 AM 5:00 7:50 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY 2-D ONLY (PG) 1:20 4:00 9:30 LONE RANGER (PG-13) WORLD WAR Z 2-D ONLY 12:00 PM 3:20 6:40 10:00 (PG-13) 2:00 10:35 DESPICABLE ME 3-D ONLY (PG) WHITE HOUSE DOWN (PG-13) 11:45 AM 2:15 4:50 7:25 10:15 PM ONLY

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

DATES TO REMEMBER Today n DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixth-grade. n AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open. n AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. n AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. n AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. n Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy.

Open discussion . n Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville. n Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney n Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy. n Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons.

Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building.

For more information, call 6671069, Ext. 21. n A Spin-In group, practicing the art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. n Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua.

Refreshments will be available.

Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

Monday n Dollar menu night will be from 6-8 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Dollar menu items include hamburger sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for $1 each. n Come join an Intermediate Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library every Monday at 1:30 p.m. Beverages and relaxed company provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. n An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n An evening grief support group meets at 7 p.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any grieving adult in the greater Miami County area and there is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit the website at homc.org. n AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The discussion is open to the public. n AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy. n AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United

Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). n AA, West Milton open discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible. n Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. n Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. n Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699. n TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. New members welcome.

For more information, call 3359721. n Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401. n Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. n Parenting Education Groups will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and ageappropriate ways to parent children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program. n Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door. n Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public.

Must currently be in therapy.

For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 n Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. n Pilates for Beginners, 8:309:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City.

For more information, call TippMonroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 6692441. n NAMI, a support group for family members who have a family member who is mentally ill, will meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the third Monday at the Stouder Center, Suite 4000, Troy. Call 335-3365 or 339-5393 for more information. n The Ex-WAVES, or any woman who formerly served during World War II, will meet at 1 p.m. the second Monday at Bob Evans in Troy. n Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

Tuesday n The Miami Valley Chapter of the National Alzheimers Association will meet from 7-8 p.m. at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 325 W. Ash St., Piqua. For more information, call (937) 291-3332. n The Miami Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors meet in regular session at 8 a.m. at the district office, 1330 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Call (937) 335-7645 for more information or go online to www.miamiswcd.org. n Double deck pinochle is played at the Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Come enjoy the relaxed environment with beverages provided by the library. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n The Friends and Neighbors

Club of Miami County, a women’s nonprofit and social organization doing charitable work in the Troy area, meets at 7 p.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. For more information, contact Joanne at jrosenberglvspopcorn@hotmail.com. n A teen support group for any grieving teens, ages 12-18 years in the greater Miami County area is offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers. Crafts, sharing time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal. n Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more information. n Mothers of Preschoolers, a group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to information from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from 6:15-8:30 p.m. Single, married, working or stay-at-home moms are invited. Children (under 5) are cared for in MOPPETS. For more information, contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074. n The Miami Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more information, call 778-1586 or visit the group’s Web site at www.melodymenchorus.org. n Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people. For more information, call 335-8814. n AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. n AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. n AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion is open. n AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discussion (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). n Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Group, Presbyterian Church, corner North and Miami streets, Sidney. n AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Open discussion. n An Intermediate Pilates class will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n Women’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. n Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion. n Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion. n Public bingo, license No. 0105-28, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Instant tickets also will be available. n Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available.

Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959. n DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State

Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 335-8397. n Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

Wednesday n Come join the Experienced Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library, played every Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., beverages and relaxed company are provided. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n The Troy High School class of 1962 will meet at 1 p.m. at Marion’s Piazza, 1270 Experiment Farm Road, Troy.

All classmates and spouses are invited. For more information, call Sharon Mathes at 335-1696 or Esther Jackson at 339-1526. n Skyview Wesleyan Church, 6995 Peters Road, Tipp City, will offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. n An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n The “Sit and Knit” group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. n The Milton-Union Senior Citizens will meet at 1 p.m. at 435 Hamilton St., West Milton.

Those interested in becoming members are invited to attend.

Bingo and cards follow the meetings. n Grandma’s Kitchen, a homecooked meal prepared by volunteers, is offered every Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48.

The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $7 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s. n The Town and Country Grandmothers No. 329 meets at 7:30 p.m. at the AMVETS Post on LeFevre Road, Troy. n The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy.

Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989. n The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564. n The Toastmasters will meet at American Honda to develop to help participants practice their speaking skills in a comfortable environment. Contact Eric Lutz at 332-3285 for more information. n AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m.

Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m.

Monday night and is wheelchair accessible. n AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open. n AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs. n Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. n A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will

meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from partner violence is offered.

There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 339-6761. n Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. School-age children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy.

There is no charge for this program. More information is available by calling 339-6761. n Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. n Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 252-6766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www.region5oa.org. n Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. n A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from 5:306:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104. Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance. Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 667-4678 for more information. n Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200. A 12-week video series using Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.

Offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life and practice in being able to say no. For more information, call Linda Richards at 667-4678. n The Troy Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the TroyHayner Cultural Center. For more information, call 3351923. n A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465. n The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

Thursday n The Upper Valley Medical Center Mom and Baby Get Together group will meet from 9:30-11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm House, located northwest of the main hospital entrance and next to the red barn on the UVMC campus. The meeting is facilitated by the lactation department. The group offers the opportunity to meet with other moms, share about being a new mother and to learn more about breastfeeding and the baby. For more information, call (937) 440-4906. n Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n The Generations of Life Center of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restaurants on the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Locations vary, so interested parties can call the office at 573-2100 for details. This is a social event for grieving adults who do not wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu. n An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Parents are invited to attend the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open discussion. n Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at

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TODAY’S CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Anthony or Chagall 5. Remnant 10. Popular snack food 15. Guess —!

19. Edible spread 20. Orate anagram 21. Old Greek storyteller 22. “— 911!”

23. Candies 25. Candies 27. Enlightened 28. Weaken, in a way 30. Treeless areas 31. Tie 32. Push-button predecessors 33. Scheme 34. Field of scholarship 37. — Hawkins Day 38. Cousin to a cobbler: 2 wds.

42. Type size 43. Candies: 2 wds.

45. Directed 46. Goes off course 47. Pallid 48. Genus of shad 50. Joke of a kind 51. Police broadcast 52. Guessing and waiting 53. Queasy 55. Brown pigment 57. Sea nymphs 59. A real sidesplitter 61. Dele’s reversal 62. Barkin or Burstyn 63. Reserved 64. Lend — — 66. Krater 67. Mongol invaders 69. Jazz band vocalist: 2 wds.

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77. Currency of Serbia 80. Backwoodsy 81. Pesky creature 82. Summit: Pref.

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87. Good-looker 88. Breaks up 90. Excoriate 91. Lounges 92. Blackthorn fruit 93. Golf club 94. Chinese — -pei 96. Tonic beverage 99. Chirps 100. Enumerate, Britishly 103. Candies 105. Candies 108. Muscat and — 109. Cards in a hand 110. Overplay a scene 111. “Star Wars” princess 112. Existed

‘My Education’ in love and loss

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2. Fleshy plant 3. Rip 4. Some airmen: Hyph.

5. Canary relative 6. Flow of water 7. Incursion 8. Pt. of NATO 9. An Olympian 10. Wheedled 11. Minds 12. Seagirt region 13. Office-seeker, for short 14. Telescope 15. Flower arrangements 16. Direct

17. English queen 18. Discard 24. Blazing 26. Voting group 29. What ombrometers measure 32. Noblewomen 33. Pumpkin, e.g.

34. Of a Mesoamerican people 35. Yawning 36. Candies 37. Fair and opposite 38. Do a dance 39. Candies 40. Eskimo 41. Gas burner 43. Bemoan 44. Hastened 47. Walk from bank to bank

49. Acquiescence 52. Balm of — 53. Line of cliffs 54. Yellow water flag 56. “L’—, c’est moi” 58. If not 59. Supernova 60. Callas and Sharapova 63. Attack 65. Pere — 66. Leonardo di ser Piero da — 68. First veep 69. Like a mink or marten 70. Expect 71. Observes 72. Pewter ingredient 74. Elementary particle 78. Nescient 79. Painter’s subject 80. Sunken

81. Underground fighter: Var. 83. Bawdy 85. Faineance 86. Audible signal 87. Crowd 89. Pub orders 93. Goddess of agriculture 94. Tell 95. Start of many a toast 96. Something calamitous 97. Hoarfrost 98. Remotely 99. Robert — Warren 100. Muscovite’s moniker 101. Fat 102. Release 104. Contend 106. Thurman the actress 107. Two cents

New book documents Cold War experiments on orphaned kids PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A half century later, Charlie Dyer still vividly remembers the day he was picked to join the “Fernald Science Club.”

It was 1954 and at 14, he had already spent nearly half his life in a succession of Massachusetts institutions that unflinchingly labeled kids like him “morons.” But his new place, the Fernald State School in Waltham, seemed like it might be different.

“They picked some of the oldest guys and asked us if we wanted to be in this club,” Dyer, 72, said in an interview from his home in Watertown, Mass. “We all got together and decided, why not? We’ll get time off the grounds.”

The boys were promised presents, outings to the seashore, trips to Fenway Park and extra helpings of oatmeal.

“It was like Christmas,” Dyer recalled. “Red Sox games, parties. I got a Mickey Mouse watch that I still have.”

It took decades before Dyer learned that he and the boys he still considers brothers were little more than guinea pigs. A state task force in 1994 found Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists fed the unwitting boys radioactive oatmeal and milk for a Quaker Oats nutrition study.

His story is one of many told in a new book, “Against Their Will,” the result of five years of gathering data from medical and university libraries and archives, medical journals and records from many of the now-shuttered state hospitals and orphanages where experiments were conducted.

“We thought something wasn’t right, but we didn’t know,” Dyer said. “They were using the kids who they were supposed to be helping.”

The authors interviewed nearly a dozen former test subjects, along with relatives of test subjects, medical researchers and historians.

“These are throwaway, unwanted, damaged people,” said Allen Hornblum, one of the book’s authors. “You had the best and the brightest minds doing this stuff, doing it very cavalierly and doing it exclusively to the most vulnerable.”

While researching his 1998 book “Acres of Skin” about medical experiments on inmates in Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Hornblum came across documentation about similar experiments conducted on children and even infants.

Thousands of children warehoused in overcrowded orphanages and facilities for “feebleminded” children underwent spinal taps, lobotomies and electric shock. They were also exposed to viruses, radioactive and hazardous chemicals and were administered psychotropic drugs.

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In a photo made June 20, Charlie Dyer looks at a photograph of his school buddies from the Fernald State School at his Watertown, Mass. home. Dyer and his friends were essentially used as human guinea pigs about 60 years ago by scientists, who fed the unwitting boys radioactive oatmeal and milk for a Quaker Oats nutrition study.

Often lacking legal or family advocates, they were treated in the decades after World War II as cheap and abundant raw material for trials that proved lucrative for scientists who conducted the tests and for the institutions housing the kids.

“I think people are going to be shocked,” he said. “These aren’t inmates … these are children who are having these things done to them.”

While disenfranchised children were used as human guinea pigs during the American eugenics fervor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Hornblum said, the practice rose along with Cold War fears of nuclear and biological threats from the Soviet Union and a booming pharmaceutical industry.

In one of the most egregious cases in the book, more than 90 children as young as 6 were given large twice-daily doses of LSD some for a year or more as an experimental treatment for schizophrenia and autism at Creedmoor State Hospital in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1960s.

On New York’s Staten Island from the 1950s to the early 1970s, mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School famously called a “snake pit” by Sen. Robert Kennedy after a 1965 visit were intentionally infected with viral hepatitis by feeding them an extract made from the feces of infected patients.

In dozens of orphanages and sanitariums, children were exposed to hepatitis, meningitis, ringworm, influenza, measles, mumps and polio in the name of medical advancement. Dietary experiments induced severe vitamin and mineral deficiencies to observe the effect on the children’s health.

“All of this information was out there. It was just a matter of someone pulling it together and giving it context,” said co-author Judith Newman, a psychologist and Penn State associate professor who teaches a course on medical ethics.

Attitudes about medical research were different then, and many prominent researchers of the era felt it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society prisoners, mental patients, poor blacks, orphans in the quest for finding cures of deadly infectious diseases.

Ethical guideposts from the Hippocratic oath to the Nuremberg code were also trumped by misguided patriotism, veneration of doctors, eugenics ideologies and the financial and career benefits for people and places that conducted and published such large clinical studies, Newman said. It wasn’t until the late 1970s that the federal government issued a report outlining principles and guidelines strictly limiting the use of children in medical research.

“My E ducation” (Viking) by Susan Choi Our first glimpse of Regina Gottlieb is as a graduate student in her first days at a prestigious university.

Somewhat naïve and more than a little intimidated by the sea of bright lights around her, Regina is drawn to a notorious and notoriously handsome English professor whose reputation has been both burnished and tarnished by rumors of sexual misbehavior.

Nicholas Brodeur, Regina muses when she first sees the infamous academic, was “certainly the best-looking man I had seen to that point in my life.” So enthralled by Brodeur and his dangerous aura that she enrolls in a seminar for which she is severely under qualified, Regina soon becomes Brodeur’s teaching assistant and is drawn into his innermost circle.

There, “My Education”

by Susan Choi, takes an abrupt and unexpected twist by thrusting Regina into a torrid affair not with Brodeur, but with his beautiful and charismatic wife, Martha, also a professor at the university. And the novel itself becomes an exploration of love, loss and obsession.

Choi, whose previous novels have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and for the PEN/ Faulkner Award, is at her best when describing the soul-consuming, life-spinning vortex of Regina’s desperate, needy love for Martha. The young student ignores the realities of her lover’s world — the husband who was once Regina’s mentor, the infant son who still needs tending, the housekeeper who views her with suspicious disapproval. All that matters is her hunger for Martha.

“My adoration for her was so unto itself it could not refer outward, to other affairs between women or even between human beings,” Regina recalls of her descent into heedless desire. “It was its own totality, bottomless and consuming, a font of impossible pleasure that from the start also bore down on me like a drill until it at last accomplished a permanent perforation.”

Choi wields a dazzling dexterity with language, spicing the novel with gems of precisely-crafted phrasing and slivers of insight into the human psyche.

Here, she captures the intensity of utter, bereft agony familiar to anyone who has been on the wrong side of a love affair.

“I slid down, into dusty unregarded margins, and was left behind and forgotten by the flesh part of me, which went on. But the flesh part did little apart from go on. Waking in the morning I was conscious I had woken, a pain so intense that it solved its own problem. It gouged like the edge of a spoon scraping flesh from a pelt, and destroyed what could feel it.”

Ultimately, however, the novel suffers from the self-absorption of its central characters. Although painted as alluring, magnetic women, Regina and Martha emerge as selfish and unlikeable, only dimly aware of the impact their actions have on the lives of those around them.

Even Regina’s eventual awakening rings hollow, a redemptive act negated by an all-too-facile infidelity.

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Tunneys reach 50th milestone Louie and Rosie (Fecher) Tunney of Vero Beach, Fla., formerly of Troy for 38 years, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

The couple were married Sept. 14, 1963, at St. Anthony Church, Dayton, Ohio.

The couple’s children include Peggy (Jim) Fairbanks of Middletown, Ohio, Jeff Tunney of Columbus, Ohio, and Kelly (Mark) Henderson of Troy; and four grandchildren, Elizabeth, Jack, Nathan and Lucas.

The couple are mem-

bers of St. Patrick Church, Troy.

Louie is a member of the Ohio Knights of Columbus 3rd and 4th Degree.

He retired from Hobart Corporation after 32 years.

Rosie is a member St. Vincent De Paul.

She was an auxiliary service clerk at St. Patrick School, Secretary at St. John the Baptist, Tipp City, and retired after 12 years of child care in her home.

The couple will celebrate with family and friends in this month.

Hale, Smith plan 2014 wedding The engagement of Megan Kay Hale is announced by her parents, Roger and Sherry Hale of Troy.

She will marry Anthony Smith II, the son of Anthony Smith of Troy and Susan Nunn of Piqua.

The bride-elect graduated from Troy High School in 2008. She earned her associate’s degree in law enforcement and corrections from Sinclair Community College. She also graduated from the Sinclair police academy.

She lives in Columbus and is a police officer at Columbus State University.

Her fiance is a 2008 Troy High School graduate. He graduated from basic training on Jan. 13,

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Couple to celebrate 50 years Dan and Shirley (Bartlett) Hudson of Troy are celebrating their 50th anniversary.

The couple was married July 18, 1963, at First Methodist Church in Wellston, Ohio.

The couples children include Debbie (Steve) Smith of New York, Stephanie Perkins (Greg Avey) of Troy and Stacy and Dennis Kirk of Troy; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Dan is retired from the city of Troy Waste Water Treatment Plant after 32 years of service.

Shirley is retired from Marsh Supermarket after 30 years of employment.

There will be a small party for family and

Lugabihl, Hoffman plan September wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lugabihl of West Milton/ Union are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Sarah M. Lugabihl to Chris Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Hoffman of West Milton.

Sarah is a 2005 graduate of Milton-Union High School and received her bachelor’s degree from Wright State University in social work in 2012.

Chris is a 1998 MiltonUnion High School gradufriends at 5 p.m. July ate and received his associ20 at their daughter’s ate’s degree from ITT in applied science. house.

A September wedding is The couple request being planned. that gifts be omitted.

Pinkertons celebrate 50 years together TROY — Dave and Carol (Gearhardt) Pinkerton of Troy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 13. They were married on July 13, 1963 at the United Church of Christ in Troy.

They have two children, Amy (John) Cassady of Cleveland Heights and Lori (Scott) Robinson of Troy. They also have five granddaughters.

After graduating froom Bowling Green State University, he served two years in the U.S. Army and taught music for 33 years at Norwalk, Tipp City and Troy public schools. He is president of

2012 and from Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on May 2, 2012. He currently is serving in the United States Air Force at Altus Air Force Base, Okla.

A June 21, 2014 wedding is planned.

the Troy Mayors’ Concert Committee and directs to area church handbell choirs. He is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Troy, the Noon Kiwanis Club, the Master Gardener Club, the Retired Teachers’ Association and the Handbell Musicians of America.

She graduated from Troy High School and Bowling Green State University. She taught in the Oberlin, Norwalk and Tipp City Schools.

She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, PEO, United Methodist Women’s Society, Miami County Retired Teachers’

Association and helps with the FISH and Troy Lunch Club. She also plays in the Methodist handbell choir.

A private ceremony with family and friends will celebrate the occasion.

MARRIAGES Chad Chester Corn, 26, of 1938 S. County Road 25A, Troy to Meghan Valley Weaver, 30, of same address.

Michael Theodore Hernandez, 31, of 703 South Roosevelt, Wichita, Kan. to Laura Ann Sollenberger, 29, of same address.

Matthew James Akers, 21, of 488 North Jay St., Apt. 2, West Milton to Brandi Michelle Harris, 23, of same address.

Jonathan Greogry Cox, 26, of 21 N. Kings Chapel Drive, Troy to Allison Nichole Wasson, 21, of same address.

Dylan Thomas Burgan, 22, 90 Maryville Lane #353, Piqua

to Kayla Nicole Waddle, 20, of same address.

Jerry Eugene Swineford, 43, of 638 N. Main St., Apt. 3, Piqua to Misty Marie Miracle, 39, of same address.

Wayne Tyler Sletten 23, of 2909 SE 96th Street, Oklahoma, Oklahoma to Katelyn Danielle Yeager, 23, of 6536 U.S. Route 40, Tipp City.

Michael Lee Craft, 53, of 43 Wagner Rd., West Milton to Cheryl Ann Mitchell, 56, of 2164 Lehigh Place, Dayton.

Corey Louis Vossler, 837 Gearhardt Lane, Troy to Jayna Marie Luebke, 25, of same address.

Cody Michael Walters, 19, of 728 Country Side Lane, Sidney to Cheyenne Nicole Quillen, 19, of 854 Wilson Rd., Troy.

Naithan Michael Manson, 39, 6100 S. Rangeline Rd., West Milton to Dawn Marie Smith, 44, of same address.

Wayne Reese Werling II, 24, of 1337-7 Trade Square W, Troy to Elizabeth Marie Jergens, 24, of same address.

Ronald Eugene Coppock Jr., 27, of 1405 Severs Dr., Piqua to Sarah Eileen Riley, 27, of same address.

Scott Edward Sullenberger, 53, of 2001 N. County Rd. 25A, Troy to Wendy Dawn Branscum,

36, of 1441 Skylark Dr., Troy.

Victor Ivo Schmidt, 45, of 71 Franklin St., Chickasaw to Donna Marie Grissom, 43, of 1601 Washington Ave., Piqua.

Donnie Doran Jones, 54, of 1301 Clark Ave., Piqua to Shirley Ann Edwards, 52, of same address.

Christopher Scott Hile, 36, of 4090 Rasor Drive, Troy to Chere Kaye Edwards, 53, of same address.

Brian Edward Clark, 37, of 405 Genetta Dr., Miamisburg to Misty Elaine Musselman, 34, of 2146 Lefevre, Troy.

Timothy Calvin Benedict, 34, of 526 South Wall St., Covington

to Julie Kay Sink, 26, of 965 North Greenlee Rd., Troy.

Benjamin Ireland Murray, 22, of 310 Miami St., Troy to Fierra Kathlyn Shade, 21, of same address.

Larry Russell Howard, 39, of 25418 Coffey Road, Sedalia, Mo. to Laurie Marie Thorpe, 34, of 708 Brice Ave., Piqua.

Adam Kristopher Kemper, 28, of 4 Pearson Ct., Troy to Samantha Nicole Branham, 30, of same address.

Justin Ralph Caldwell, 35, of 9 W. Grace St., Pleasant Hill to Jennifer Liane Caldwell, 34, of same address.

Broadway gets beastly — thanks to a dog lover NEW YORK (AP) — Bernadette Peters stopped by a desolate corner of Brooklyn the other day to hang out with a special group of fans. They were literally barking.

A deafening chorus of woofs greeted the two-time Tony Award winner as she toured the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition and checked in with shelter dogs Louise, Melissa, Sparrow, Joseph, Bobby, Greg and Diamond.

“This is my passion,” she says after scratching furry backs, stroking tails and caressing grateful ears. “I realized what a womanizer is because I’m a dog-inizer. I want every dog, like the man who wants every woman.”

The love goes both ways: Many animals in this no-kill, privately run animal shelter owe their lives to Peters, who is known to scan the lists of dogs scheduled to be euthanized and rush over to save them from death.

“It isn’t hard to find people who care about animals, but when you have the passion that Bernadette has and the drive and the consistent effort to save all these critters, that’s special,” says fellow actor David Hyde Pierce.

Peters visited the shelter on this day hoping it will be the last time she sees many of “her dogs” there — several will be starring in Saturday’s adopt-a-thon she co-founded 15 years ago called Broadway Barks.

She and fellow actress and animal advocate Mary Tyler Moore started the annual star-studded event in 1999 in Shubert Alley — a pedestrian alley at the heart of the Broadway theater district — to help promote animal adoption and raise awareness of the plight of homeless animals.

The free event has grown from a folding-table affair with a few animals from six shelters to a mammoth one with celebrities, musical acts and animals from 27 shelters across the city. There will be signed memorabilia like calendars and stuffed dogs, with all proceeds going to help homeless animals.

Broadway stars this year scheduled to attend and introduce the animals include

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This July 8 photo shows actress Bernadette Peters with Chili, a 9-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, at the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition in the Williamsburg section of the Brooklyn borough of

Sigourney Weaver, Laura Osnes, Bebe Neuwirth, Isabel Keating, Annaleigh Ashford, the girls rotating the lead in “Matilda the Musical,” the lead of “Annie” Lilla Crawford, Victoria Clark, Harvey Fierstein, Andrew Rannells and new Tony winners Gabriel Ebert and Billy Porter.

Music will be provided by the cast of “Jersey Boys.”

“We’re all there for the love of animals,” says Jane Lynch, a veteran animal rights activist who has been playing Miss Hannigan in the “Annie” revival on Broadway and was asked by Peters to help out Broadway Barks this year.

Shows represented will include “Once,” ”Newsies,” ”Motown the Musical,” ”Kinky Boots,” ”Rodger’s + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” ”Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark,” ”Pippin,” ”Wicked” and “Mama Mia” and “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

“What’s so wonderful about Broadway Barks is that it reaches a whole new audience all of its own — theatergoers

and theater lovers and show fans, not to mention so many of the cast and crew,” says Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of the ASPCA, which sponsors the event.

“It’s got a brand of its own and a fantastic draw. Who doesn’t want to see the cast and crew members of Broadway shows that are running now? It doesn’t get any hotter than that.”

The event estimates it helps find homes for 200 animals each year, part of the reason the numbers of animals killed in the city has been falling. An estimated 31,000 animals were euthanized in 2003 and only 8,000 last year.

“We’re doing better, but we’re still not there yet,” says Peters, who calculates that there are 7 million unwanted animals nationwide. “I’m not giving up. I’m not giving up.”

From poodles to pugs, Peters is a dog lover, a woman whose hand naturally gravitates to a snout and a muzzle. At the shelter, she is no Broadway diva. She unlocks the cage doors and gets down on

her knees to play with the dogs, scratching bellies and getting licks. Chili, a 9-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, later comes out to melt into her with what has to be a doggie smile.

Peters grew up in New York with a father who loved animals. “He would rescue birds and bring them home and fix their broken wings,” she says. She got her first dog at age 9.

A visit to the city shelter 15 years ago galvanized her into an activist. She saw so many homeless and abused animals facing death that she felt compelled to act. “We shouldn’t discard them,” she says. “It’s the last frontier where we’re allowed to behave barbaric.”

Peters, who has two rescue dogs of her own, is always on the lookout to connect a homeless animal with a loving home, as she did recently with the actor and singer Cheyenne Jackson. He had been mourning the loss of his dog Zora and wasn’t ready for a new dog when he got an email from Peters.

“Not even any text in the email, just this picture of this dog came up,” recalls Jackson with a laugh. “It was this little scrapper. He looked like the Tramp from ‘Lady and the Tramp.’” Jackson and his husband, Monte Lapka, soon welcomed Brillo into their lives.

Recently, Jackson was named one of the grand marshals at San Francisco Pride’s Parade and Peters was delighted to see him photographed along the route cuddling Brillo. “It was meant to be,” Peters says, like a happy matchmaker.

Lynch and Pierce may be the big stars at Broadway Barks this year but both know they’ll be taking a backseat to the sweet, furry visitors to Broadway.

“The irony, of course, is that when you go there you think you’re the celebrity but once you get on that stage you realize, ‘No, it’s the animals,’” says Pierce, who is starring in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and has two pooches at home.

“You’re sort of a glorified plant stand for a dog or a cat — and that’s absolutely fine.”