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Boil advisory issued in city, later lifted Will E Sanders

Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Residents and area businesses boiled water or bought bottled water and soda — some by the cart full — Wednesday after an ongo-

ing boil advisory was issued in Piqua that began at 6 a.m.

About 10 hours later the boil advisory was lifted at approximately 4 p.m.

After the boil advisory was announced by the Piqua Municipal Water System Superintendent Don Freisthler,

city water officials conducted a series of tests on water samples taken from the water system in hopes of alleviating the problem and once those tests provided positive results the ban was lifted.

Freisthler said the boil advisory was caused due to

increased turbidity in the city’s drinking water.

“This is a precautionary measure due to the water treatment plant’s finished water exceeding the allowable limit for turbidity in the drinking water,” Freisthler said shortly after the advisory was announced.

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Liberti Tipps, 4, of Piqua was the Statue of Liberty during the Piqua Kiwanis Club annual Halloween Parade through downtown on Wednesday.

Turbidity, or the appearance of cloudiness in the water, is a key test in the quality of water and can occur from a variety of reasons.

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And a ‘roundabout’ we go?

Bethany J. Royer Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — An intersection in the city has made it to the top ten list, number six to be exact, but it’s not a position one would want to brag about as it relates to accident history, according to Amy Havenar, city engineer, and Chris Schmiesing, city planner.

Havenar and Schmiesing were speaking on the Looney and Garbry Road intersection that sees some 5,800 vehicles through every day and has been the center of oft-times heated debate in regards to the potential installation of a roundabout. Both due to its price tag and questions as to its subsequent need, but the reasons go further than discussions have revealed at several commission meetings.

What’s a roundabout?

According to the Ohio Department of Transportation or ODOT, roundabouts are circular intersections that require all entering traffic to yield at entry. While initially mistaken for a traffic circle, a roundabout is far more and not just for aesthetics either as it allows for a host of traffic controls and safety measures thanks to its innovative design. Thus one of the prime reasons the city of Piqua has brought the subject of a roundabout up for consideration at the current fourway traffic stop is due

to the unfortunate current design and accident proneness. Thanks to the two lane rural crossing that was at one time the thru-road, with a four lane urban cross-section that was once the stop street.

“Any time you have a four lanes coming into a stop section - that’s unhandy to begin with,” said Schmiesing with sight-distance complicating the intersection, along with a host of other issues contributing to the area being less than ideal, even after the change to a four-way stop.

The resulting number of incidents at the intersection, continued Schmiesing, has drawn the attention of the state via traffic accident statistics.

Cause for concern from a safety standpoint, the potential resolution and discussion of a roundabout for the intersection began with the arrival of Gary Huff, city manager, nearly two years.

“He’s (Huff) been very much about challenging us to look for innovative solutions to problems that exist,” said Schmiesing, “And his familiarity with the roundabout concept —he knew full well how affective they can be— so when this discussion came up he was very much a proponent of that.”

To better understand the innovations and safety of a roundabout, Havenar, Schmiesing and Bob Graeser, project See ROUND | Page 2

Candidates draw on experience at YWCA forum Bethany J. Royer Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Jim Roth, Forest Hill Cemetery Superintendent, was a lone reed at Meet the Candidates hosted by the YWCA Wednesday evening.

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renewal tax levy to be on the Nov. 5 ballot.

Unlike the contested seats surrounding him that included the 3rd Ward Commission seat currently held by Joseph H. Wi l s o n Fess against newcomer James H. Cruse Jr., and the mayor’s seat currently held by Lucinda L. Fess (also 5th Ward Commissioner) against current 2nd Ward Commissioner Wi l l i a m D. Vogt.

The emphasis concerning Forest Hill Cemetery is Cruse continuing the current rates for the 128 acres maintained by three full time groundskeepers, including Roth.

When asked if renewing the levy would mean an increase in costs Roth responded,

“The answer is no.

We are very proud of the fact we are able to ask for a renewal and not an increase.”

Meanwhile the contested seats had each candidate utilizing their experiences, whether in current positions or in citywide activism, and knowledge of citywide issues to field questions from the audience that included concern over We d n e s d a y ’ s boil advisory.

All candidates gave a relatively similar response in terms of the water issue that was identified by Fess as “lime and solvents that had run over” but otherwise nothing of worry or as stated by Vogt “a hiccup” and with the water department

staff acting according to Environmental Protection Agency policy to boil as a p re c a u t i o n a r y measure.

This question was minor in comparison to inquires as Vogt to addressing blighted areas within the city, something Fess stated the city was constantly searching to remedy by applying for grants — whether through state or f e d e ra l funds— and Vogt citing the issue as more of an educational issue and the Wilson need to provide the necessary tools to citizens to aid in finding a resolution.

For Cruse, his emphasis was on the prevalence of minimum wages that creates the criteria in terms of upkeep and

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Wilson stating the need to get more people involved while broaching the implementation of a pilot program by the city over the spring.

“We are getting a lot of good response, it’s a very friendly approach,” explained Wilson of the program b e i n g conducted by a company out of Dayton.

Another question of concern was increasing public involvement with city programs.

“Five people on commission cannot make a city,” said Fess, stating it takes an entire community.

“We just need your help, it is your city, we can’t do it alone.”

Vogt voiced similar sentiments, stating the need for more involvement was evident in the lack of candidates in the current race.

Remember: Election Day is Nov. 5, with polls to open at 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.

Information on polling locations are available at the Miami County Board of Elections or by calling 937/440–3900.

Take a proof of identity with current address and photo such as a current and valid Ohio driver’s license or a state issued I.D. card, military identification, copy of utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, or government check or government document showing voter’s name and current address.

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Incumbents running for re-election Jennifer Runyon

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COVINGTON – Voters in the Covington Exempted Village school district will see three names on the Nov. 5 ballot for members of the board of education.

All three members are currently on the board.

Their term is expiring and all three of them wish to remain on.

Dr. Dean Pond: Pond has been on the board for 12 years having served as the board’s president for many of those years. Pond enjoys giving back to the

community through his service on the board.

“I also continue to enjoy making a contribution to the school and community through my service,” he said.

Pond is the former superintendent of Tipp City Schools. He believes that this experience along with his experience as a university professor at Urbana University and University of Dayton as well as his experience as a local businessman with Perryhill Farms allows him to “see the big picture with respect to our Covington schools and community.” He added, “I look forward to providing the best possible educational environment for our young people.”

Alex Reck: Reck has served on the board for four years. The self-employed

investment property owner said that when he initially decided to join the board, many people told him it is a thankless job. He noted that in some ways that is true, but said overall his experience has been a positive one.

Reck is happy with the progress the board has made during his four years.

“I try not to be one to pat myself on the back, but as I reflected back on the four years, I can’t help but to feel proud of the accomplishments that the board has made. The board as a whole does not always agree, but we’re all on the same page 90 percent of the time. We are a board that respects each others’ opinions whether we agree with them or not. And at the end of the day, I believe this board has made decisions

that have been in the best interest of our district and, most importantly, our students,” he said.

Lee Harmon: Covington Police Chief Lee Harmon also has been on the board for four years. The building project is a strong reason Harmon is choosing to continue.

“I chose to continue because I felt strongly about the need for a new facility, and I would like to stay involved until that project is complete,” he said.

Harmon also serves as the district’s representative on the Upper Valley Career Center board. He noted that he enjoys his involvement with this school as well.

Elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Polls are open 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Kiwanis Youth collect for UNICEF

PIQUA — Piqua High School Key Club and Piqua Junior High Builders Club will continue their support of Trickor-Treat for UNICEF from 6-8 p.m. today, during trick-or-treat night in Piqua. The youth groups are sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club of Piqua.

Now in its 20th year of partnership, Key Club and Builders Club have raised more than $5 million for UNICEF. For more than 60 years, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has served as the Original Kids Helping Kids campaign. In 1950, children across America were inspired to collect coins for UNICEF to aid children abroad enduring the after-effects of World War II. It was not just a charity effort — it was a call to end the needless suffering of their more vulnerable peers around the globe. Since

then, for generations of Americans, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has been a powerful way to make a different in the lives of the world’s children.

Both youth groups are student-led service leadership programs of Kiwanis International. Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. Key Club gives its members opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership skills. Since 1925, Key Club International has provided more than 12 million hours of service to homes, schools and communities each year. Builders Club is the junior high introduction into Kiwanis Club and K-Kids are the primary and intermediate clubs sponsored by Kiwanis.

This year all monies collected will be used

to support the Kiwanis International Eliminate Project. The Eliminate Project has been adopted

by Kiwanis and UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT).

“MNT kills one baby every nine minutes,” said Kelly Meckstroth, local Kiwanis Club chairperson.

“The effects of the disease are excruciating — tiny newborns suffer repeated, painful convulsions and extreme sensitivity to light and touch. A significant number of women die from MNT each year too,” she said. “It is the goal of our International Kiwanis Club and UNICEF to help eliminate MNT and give the poorest families the chance to lead the healthy lives they deserve,” she said. “We are proud to be a part of this project.”

Kiwanis is a global

Builders Club members, along with other Kiwanis youth groups, will be collecting for UNICEF during Piqua’s trick-or-treat from 6-8 p.m. today.

organization dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.

Kiwanis Club of Piqua meets on Wednesdays at noon at The Bistro Room (formerly the Backyard

Bistro) in Piqua.

For more information, call Brian Phillips at 7781586.

Brown Twp. to see issues, candidates on Nov. 5 ballot Jennifer Runyon

For the Daily Call pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com

BROWN TWP. — Voters in Brown Township will see issues and candidates on the Nov. 5 ballot.

A replacement tax levy for fire protection services will be up for a vote. The levy is

for the unincorporated areas of Brown Township and is for 1.5 mills for each one dollar of valuation. This amounts to $0.15 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for a period of 4 years.

Voters also will see a replacement levy for ambulance and emergency medical services.

Like the fire levy, this levy is for the unincorporated areas of Brown Township and is for 1.5 mills for each one dollar of valuation. This amounts to $0.15 for each one hundred dollars of valuation, for a period of

4 years.

The levies are on as replacements instead of renewals because the property valuations the millage is based off of will be updated. The current levies use valuations from tax year 1998 which is calendar year 1999. If passed, the replacement levies would be based on property values from tax year 2012, which is calendar year 2013.

According to Brown Township Fiscal Officer Art Bowser, the township has seen a steady decline in revenue for

Fletcher attempts Round to pass tax levy for second time Sheryl Roadcap

For the Daily Call pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com

FLETCHER — Mayor Dan McEowen hopes to see additional tax levy pass on Election Day for “maintaining our streets.”

On Nov. 5, the village of Fletcher will attempt to pass a 1.5 mills levy for general construction, reconstruction, resurfacing and repairs of streets, roads and bridges.

“Funds are getting tight for our roads and streets. We don’t have an operating levy; this (year) is the first time we have tried to get an operating levy. We have just gone with the tax money that we have and we are not getting as much as we used to,” McEowen said.

The village tried to pass this levy back in April, but was unsuccessful mostly due to low voter turnout at the polls, McEowen believes.

The Mayor explains that if the levy does pass, it would only be an additional $40-50 annually added to homeowners’ property taxes for homes valued at approximately $100,000.

“For the most part, for most people, it (the tax) will be less than that because there are not that many homes in town that are worth that much — for the most part,” he said. “But, we really appreciate the owner’s support so we can maintain what we’ve been doing the best,” McEowen claims in gratitude toward Fletcher homeowners.

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From page 1 manager, took a tour bus to Carmel, Indiana, a neighboring city of Huff’s previous location in Fishers, just north of Indianapolis.

Carmel is known as the roundabout capital of the world with over 68 in the growing community.

“They even took us around the tightest (roundabouts) they had on purpose,” said Havenar explaining they also had the opportunity to watch traffic at various locations, including school buses that “buzz”ed around without problems.

What makes the roundabout unique?

According to ODOT, roundabouts are designed with safety in mind and are more efficient than a traditional intersection. The design creates low speeds of approachment, between 20 to 30 miles per hour, and prevents high angle (T-bone) and left turn angle crashes. Which means the roundabout allows traffic to proceed with less conflict and with slower speeds even pedestrians or bicyclists are safer when in the mix.

A 2001 study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on 23 intersections in the United States that had converted traffic signals or stop sign intersections to a roundabout found injury crashes reduced by 80 percent and crashes over-all reduced by 40 percent.

For the city of Piqua, Havenar states they are working with a state consultant who is also overseeing the installation of a roundabout at the intersection of State Route 235 and U.S. Route 41 in New Carlisle. After multiple

the last four or five years.

Brown Township Trustee Larry Coffing agrees.

“Costs keep going up. We’re trying to do what we can with what we have,” Coffing said adding that the replacement will help to align the revenue brought in from the levy with the increasing costs.

Coffing’s name will be on the ballot as well as the levies as he is up for re-election. Coffing has been a bus driver with Piqua City Schools for nearly 30 years. He plans to retire in December but wants to con-

attempts to reduce accidents and fatalities at the intersection, including traffic lights and rumble strips, the intersection faced its own share of debate concerning the associated cost for a roundabout and whether it was really needed.

The decision made in New Carlisle is clear, however, for the city of Piqua, it will take time for the roundabout to be implemented, if at all.

Havenar estimates it won’t be until January into February 2014 when the city will hear back in terms of the CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality) grant funds through the MVRPC (Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission).

It was the application to seek a grant through a recent commission meeting that brought the subject of a roundabout to a head and where its popularity was mixed.

Mostly due to the project listed at an estimated $1,416,000 with 75 percent

tinue his service as a trustee.

“I enjoy it. The work is helpful to people. I enjoy trying to improve things around Brown Township,” he said. When asked about plans for the future, Coffing said he hopes to see repairs made to monuments at Fletcher Cemetery that were damaged by a car in January and that there is always road surfacing and ditch work to be done.

Douglas Cron is also running for re-election but did not return attempts to reach him for comment.

tied to Federal funds and 25 percent local funds or $1,062,013 and $354,004, respectively.

The hope expressed by Huff, Havenar and Schmiesing is to secure other funds so local monies will be further minimized or unnecessary, with Havenar stating ODOT has potential safety funds they can seek, as one course of action.

“Anything we can get our hands on,” said Havenar while pointing to an oft-misunderstood conception about how grants and Federal funds may be applied to city projects, especially when compared to other needs within the community. In particular, the CMAQ grant the city applied for could not be used for resurfacing projects.

“They look at reducing emissions, anything to help the environment,” explained Havenar. “You can’t use that money to build a bridge, or resurface, so it is limited on

what we can use it for.”

Explaining that reconstruction projects, as opposed to a resurfacing or maintenance projects, the cost is much higher, Schmiesing explained, “You can’t neglect the needs that you have on the reconstruction side, whether it’s a new intersection or reconstructing the length of a street, you still have to find a way to accomplish or fulfill those needs as well.”

Though Schmiesing did point out that in the upcoming years, “Our resurfacing program is going to be pretty robust,” the trick is balancing the maintenance side and the capital improvement side of reconstruction as they are, “Two needs that are competing for the same resources and you have to be able to prioritize them.”

Time will only tell in terms of the roundabout. Should the city receive CMAQ funds they will not be available until 2019.

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Edison presents at annual leadership congress PIQUA — Edison Community College trustees, administrators, staff, and industry leaders gathered with nearly 2,000 peers at the 44th Annual Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Leadership Congress, held October 2-5 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Members of the group contributed to the programming for the event, sharing their expertise and vision by presenting on best practices for collaborations between community colleges and the manufacturing industry.

The team from Edison included President Cris Valdez; Marvella Fletcher, trustee; Darryl Mehaffie, trustee and vice chairman of the board; Tom Milligan, trustee; Jim Thompson, trustee and chairman of the Board; Patti Ross, senior vice president for Academic Affairs; and Heather Lanham, executive assistant to the president. Also in attendance were Ken Monnier, vice president of engineering at Emerson Climate Technologies.

Milligan, Monnier, Valdez, and Ross delivered a presentation titled, “Moving Manufacturing Forward in Southwest Ohio.� “At this particular conference, it was stimulating to share ideas with trustees from across the country

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Edison Community College staff gave a presentation titled “Moving Manufacturing Forward in Southwest Ohio� at the 44th annual Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Leadership Congress held earlier this month in Seattle. Pictured, left to right, are President Cris Valdez; Tom Milligan, trustee; Patti Ross, senior vice president for Academic Affairs; and Ken Monnier, vice president of engineering for Emerson Climate Technologies.

and validating to know that in the area of moving manufacturing forward through industry partnerships, the area on which we presented, we are seen as an innovator and leader,� Milligan said.

The presentation outlined Edison’s response to the needs of manufacturers and its willingness to work with high schools, career centers, universities and industry to align curriculum to employers’ needs. Working together with

Emerson Climate Technologies and Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc., Edison has piloted new internship opportunities, highlighted pathways from education to employment, and helped ensure that students are ideally prepared to step into local opportunities for employment upon graduation.

Among the keynote speakers for the conference was Bill Gates, cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

PHS Key Club attends rally at OSU

Piqua High School Key Club members recently attended the annual Fall Rally at The Ohio State University. The rally is designed to give students an opportunity to attend workshops to develop leadership skills as well as work on service projects. Pictured above, the participants included: Row 1, left to right, Rebecca Dunaway, Kylie Divens; row 2, left to right, Devon Parshall, Kayla Harshman, Abby Helman, Abby Rudd, Clayton Brown, Kirk Divens, Frankie Munoz; row 3, left to right, Brutus Buckeye, Kayla Jones, Lyric Wyan, Katie Sherman, Tere Hogston, Tori Helman, Emily Williams. The group was accompanied by advisors Kim Bean, Bonnie Jackson and Gretchen Roeth.

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TROY — Overfield Tavern Museum, 201 E. Water St., Troy, will host the living history group, People of the Ohio Country, from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3.

The group will provide demonstrations of early 1800s cooking and crafts.

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Unfortunately, because of health department requirements, food cannot be provided to visitors. For more information, call Terry Purke, 216-6925.

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PIQUA — Piqua Kiwanis Club will be meeting the following dates in November: •Nov. 6: “The Rehab Centerâ€? with Ruth Hahn and Carla Bertke •Nov. 13: White Elephant Auction for Kiwanis members •Nov. 20: Ohio State Medical Association: “Changes in Health Careâ€? •Nov. 27: Spiritual Aims Committee speaker Kiwanis meetings are open to the public. Luncheon and meetings take place at noon on Wednesdays at The Bistro Room (formerly The Backyard Bistro) at 1876 Commerce Drive in Piqua. Reservations are required by noon on the Monday prior to each meeting. For more information, call Brian Phillips (7781586) or visit the website.

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Columnist’s sound advice should not be misconstrued

Not every fundamen- be done to them … That’s talist is a right-winger. not blaming the victim; Crackpot utopianism and that’s trying to prevent black-and-white thinking more victims.”

Yoffe added that there infect all social, political and religious movements. are many things schools could be doing Indeed, it to educate often appears young men that abandonand women: ing common “Educating sense for students dogma is one about rape, of the main teaching them concomitants that by defiof a certain nition a very kind of liberal drunk woman arts educaGene Lyons can’t consent tion. to sex, is Consider Columnist crucial. Also a recent bitter controversy involv- important are bystander ing Slate’s Emily Yoffe programs that instruct and an angry swarm of students in how to interself-described feminist vene to prevent sexual detractors. As “Dear assault on drunk classPrudence,” Yoffe writes mates and about the need an online advice column to get dangerously intoxifor that magazine and cated ones medical treatthe Washington Post. ment.”

So sane and sensible, You know, “I had a onenight stand with my in other words, as to be fiance’s brother,” or “my almost banal. Ah, but ex-wife is stalking me on that was until the avant Facebook.” That kind of garde online thinkers thing. caught wind of Yoffe’s I’m a big fan and a offenses against womanfriendly acquaintance. We kind. Writers at sites like had dinner in Washington Jezebel, Feministing, and some years back along Salon alleged that Yoffe with a mutual friend who had written “a rape deniwas in town on a book alism manifesto.” tour. We’ve exchanged The Slate columnist emails now and then, had not only “blamed the mostly about her col- victims” of sexual crime, umn. Unpretentious, non- but implicitly promoted dogmatic, skeptical and something called “rape compassionate, Emily’s culture” — a catch-all what my wife calls “real propaganda phrase like people,” her highest enco- something out of Orwell’s mium.

“Animal Farm.”

It’s not necessary to Four legs good, two agree with Dear Prudence legs bad! every time to see her colGirls good, boys bad! umn as a useful antidote Some of the maketo a Washington disease believe outrage was I call “hardening of the so over the top as to categories.” When you be downright comical. read about the astonish- Salon’s perpetually indiging messes people make nant Katie McDonough of their intimate lives, — she’d recently written the wonder’s not that the an angry screed about world’s chaotic, but that a porn star famous for it’s as safe and orderly performing an anatomias it is. cally improbable act who So anyway, writing was having trouble findunder her own byline, ing respectable work in Yoffe took note of a num- her Arkansas hometown ber of high-profile sexual — basically accused Yoffe abuse and rape cases in of writing that “women the news — the U.S. Naval deserve rape.”

Academy; Steubenville, There was no obvious Ohio; and Maryville, Mo. evidence that McDonough — and noticed something actually read the Slate elementary: “A common article. For that matter, denominator in these none of Yoffe’s detractors cases is alcohol, often felt compelled to provide copious amounts, enough a halfway fair summary to render the young of her argument. To get woman incapacitated.” the flavor of this absurd Friends warned episode, it’s important to her against saying so. understand that this is an “Talking about things essentially dogmatic and women can do to protect ideological dispute havthemselves from rape is ing almost nothing to do the third rail, they said.” with the visible world.

Let’s pause a moment Unless, that is, you can to contemplate such an imagine a professor of absurd situation. Warning Women’s Studies actually college girls how not to urging her students to get be victimized is contrary blackout drunk at frat parto crackpot feminist ide- ties. ology, which evidently Actually, Yoffe may holds that vomiting into have found such a person. the toilet while a football In response to her origijock you met five minutes nal article, she wrote, one ago holds your hair is an professor wrote that “to empowering act. Warning reiterate the old Puritan readers that fully 80 per- line that women need to cent of sexual assaults on restrain and modify their college campuses involve pleasure-seeking behavalcohol — with victim and iors is a big step backperp alike getting wasted ward.”

— Yoffe added that there Meanwhile, out in the are also disturbingly boondocks where I live, frequent reports about it’s reliably reported that “shrewd — and sober — most people admitted sexual predator(s) who to hospital emergency lurk where women drink rooms for snakebites are like a lion at a watering intoxicated. Apparently, hole.” booze makes them insen“Let’s be totally clear,” sible to danger. she wrote. “Perpetrators I do hope that saying are the ones responsible so doesn’t make me profor committing their copperhead. crimes, and they should be brought to justice. But we Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons are failing to let women is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the know that when they ren- President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). der themselves defense- You can email Lyons at eugenelyons2@ less, terrible things can yahoo.com.

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My choice for Principal of the Year Soon after I began reporting on edu- Laura Italiano, New York Post, Oct. cation in the 1950s, I found the princi- 14).

An active, available principal who pal of Public School 119, an elementary school in Harlem. His office was always helps make school a communal learning open to parents — and often to kids. experience for all involved may posiDr. Elliott Shapiro knew the names tively affect the current splintered state of many of his students and paid par- of teachers’ job satisfaction in American ticular attention to those who especially schools: “Anywhere between 40 and 50 perneeded help.

In largely black neighborhoods of cent of teachers will leave the classNew York City in those days, there was room within their first five years (that an active parents’ movement to have includes the nine and a half percent that more black principals in public schools. leave before the end of their first year)” (“Why Do Teachers Quit?

But Shapiro was so respected And Why Do They Stay?” Liz by many parents of kids at Riggs, theatlantic.com, Oct. P.S. 119 that they called him 18). “the principal of the neighIn this Atlantic article, borhood” because they felt so Richard Ingersoll, a professor welcome there. of education at the University For most of a year, I spent of Pennsylvania who previmany days in the school, getously taught in public and priting to know him, the teachvate schools, said that one of ers and a number of the stuthe reasons he quit teaching dents. That experience was Nat Hentoff was “just a lack of respect. responsible in large part for Teachers in schools do not my continuing to write on Columnist call the shots. They have very education from then on, as I also kept looking for other princi- little say. They’re told what to do; it’s a pals continually involved with their very disempowering line of work.”

Not in all schools. But in many. students.

Adding to Ingersoll’s explanation is A few weeks ago, I found such an administrator: Seventy-year-old Joann Emma (no last name given), who forBarbeosch, principal at P.S. 94, an ele- merly taught at a Kansas public school: mentary school in Little Neck, Queens. “It stems from this sense that teachers She has been paralyzed from a spinal aren’t real people.”

But many kids, I’ve found, also feel cord injury and can no longer get to the second floor, where she has access to that they’re not real people in school. the classrooms. Instead, she is moored Like the suddenly surprised fifth-gradin “a cramped first-floor utility room er in one former Bronx, N.Y., school, with no ventilation” (“Paralyzed NYC which at the time was beginning to Principal Holed Up in Cramped Room focus on individual students rather than Waiting for Wheelchair Lift,” Susan on collective standardized tests.

“You know,” this kid said to me, “here Donaldson James, abcnews.com, Oct. they know my name!”

16).

But when there is a principal like Students and parents are angrily agitating for the New York City Joann Barbeosch or Elliott Shapiro visDepartment of Education to install a lift ibly focused on how students can keep or elevator, but, as of this writing, she’s discovering their capabilities and on how teachers can stay motivated, educastill marooned.

And dig this: In New York City, whose tors seldom want to leave.

Elliott Shapiro was like the head of a self-described “education mayor,” Michael Bloomberg, is finishing his family at P.S. 119. In a Feb. 23, 2003, third term, the principal “would not New York Times obituary, Wolfgang elaborate on her situation at the school Saxon wrote of the former Harlem because of a DOE policy that prevents elementary school principal, who died at 91: employees from speaking publicly.”

“People of the neighborhood honored Have the kids at P.S. 94 heard of the First Amendment? I’m told Principal Dr. Shapiro for his years of ‘outstandBarbeosch will soon be liberated, but ing service to the children and parents it’s still vital for students, parents and of the Harlem community’ with a dinprincipals around the country to know ner in 1964 at Riverside Church. The she was the center of a community of event drew 450 guests and helped start a college scholarship fund for black learning at that elementary school.

Parent Gia Ann Bonavita told ABC students.”

Principals still have much to learn News: “Before, she was all over the place. Kids would constantly pass her from Dr. Shapiro. For example, he once office … Her door was always open and said to me: “If we do give tests, let’s she was in plain sight. She was there give them on a one-to-one basis — one child to each tester. That way, the and could hear what was going on.”

According to Bonavita, whose two test would involve real communication daughters go to P.S. 94, Principal between the tester and the child. “If a Barbeosch “had a very open-door poli- test is being given to a group of 30, how cy. In my experience, whenever we had can one tester know which children are an issue, we could always speak to her daydreaming that morning and which and surprisingly enough, you never had didn’t have any breakfast?” (from my book “Our Children Are Dying,” Viking to make an appointment.”

An employee of the DOE told the Press, 1966).

New York Post: “This is her life. Her life is school. Watching kids learn, and Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the just being there” (“Disabled principal Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cato stuffed away in school’s basement,” Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

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To the Editor: On Nov. 5, we should all exercise our right to vote, and be active participants in the shaping of our future.

I firmly believe that one of those votes should be to retain Joe Wilson on the Piqua City Commission. Joe is informed, calmly thoughtful, and can be counted on to always have the best interests of Piqua and it’s citizenry at heart as the leaders of this community face the challenges of both maintaining and improving our city.

He has a vested interest in the health and well-being of our hometown, and favors long term solutions over short term fixes. As we all know, it can be a thankless job, but his understanding of the issues, dedication to Piqua, and clear thinking vision of where we can go, and how to best get there, make him a valuable asset to the commission, and the city as a whole. Voting to keep Joe on the commission is a win for all of us.

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Health policy cancellations: New blow for administration

WASHINGTON (AP) — Move over, website woes.

Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health care problem — a wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance.

At the same time, the federal official closest to the website apologized for its dysfunction in new sign-ups and asserted things are getting better by the day.

Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner said it’s not the administration but insurers who are responsible for cancellation letters now reaching many of the estimated 14 million people who buy individual policies. And, officials said, people who get cancellation notices will be able to find better replacement plans, in some cases for less.

The Associated Press, citing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, reported in May that many carriers would opt to cancel policies this fall and issue new ones.

Administratively that was seen as easier than changing existing plans to comply with the new law, which mandates coverage of more services and provides better financial protection against catastrophic illnesses.

While the administration had ample warning of the cancellations, they could become another public relations debacle for President Barack Obama’s signature legislation. This problem goes to the credibility of one of the president’s earliest promises about the health care overhaul: You can keep your plan if you like it.

In the spring, state insurance commissioners started giving insurers the option of canceling existing individual plans for 2014, since the coverage required under Obama’s law is more robust.

Some states directed insurers to issue cancellations.

Large employer plans that cover most workers and their families are unlikely to be affected.

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‘Ender’s’ is a thought-provoking adventure Peter Debruge Variety

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An anti-bullying allegory writ on the largest possible scale, “Ender’s Game” frames an interstellar battle between mankind and pushy ant-like aliens, called Formics, in which Earth’s fate hinges on a tiny group of military cadets, most of whom haven’t even hit puberty yet. At face value, the film presents an electrifying star-wars scenario — that rare case where an epic space battle transpires entirely within the span of two hours — while at the same time managing to deliver a higher pedagogical message about tolerance, empathy and coping under pressure. Against considerable odds, this risky-sounding Orson Scott Card adaptation actually works, as director Gavin Hood pulls off the sort of teen-targeted franchise starter Summit was hoping for.

Card’s novel assumes a situation where, in the wake of a massive Formic attack, the world’s children are somehow best suited to protect their planet from an imminent second strike. The most promising young recruits train on elaborate videogame-like simulators while a pair of officers — Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison

Ford) and Major Gwen Anderson (Viola Davis) — monitor their techniques in search of “the One,” a child with the strategic instincts to save his species. The leading candidate is Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a runt-like outsider whose behavior toward his aggressive classmates reveals his true potential.

Like “The Hunger Games,” the pic peddles the unseemly idea of watching kids thrust into lifeand-death situations. Though they’re not instructed to kill one another, these moppets’ prime directive should also give parents pause, raising the stakes from hand-to-hand combat to the potential genocide of an unfamiliar race. Fortunately, Hood (who also penned the adaptation) factors these weighty themes into the story without making them the primary focus. Between the officers, Graff’s agenda is more complicated than he lets on, while Anderson represents the voice of reason, remarking, “It used to be a war crime to recruit anyone under the age of 15.” But these are not soldiers, per se, but highly skilled Junior ROTC types, training on virtual conflict scenarios.

Butterfield — who has grown into his big blue eyes, if not the rest of his body, since “Hugo” —

makes ideal casting for Ender: He’s scrawny and physically unimposing, yet there’s an intensity to his stare that suggests he might indeed be masking deeper (or darker) gifts. It’s nothing so powerful as the Force, or Neo’s Matrixbending abilities, though “Ender’s Game” dedicates nearly its entire run time to Battle School, where our hero and his fellow recruits practice various drills, including an anti-gravity game (the rules of which aren’t terribly clear) that looks like the next best thing to Quidditch.

Despite the obvious “be all you can be” subtext, “Ender’s Game” manages to make these training sequences compelling without veering into pro-military propaganda, doing so by focusing on the interpersonal dynamics between the various squad members.

Though Card may have publicly revealed his own prejudices, the casting department has assembled a wonderfully diverse group of young actors — male and female, they come in all colors, shapes and sizes — to serve alongside Ender.

“Ender’s Game,” a Summit release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some violence, scifi action and thematic material.”

Running time: 114 minutes.

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Happy home life stops couple from getting out DEAR ABBY: My boy- for their food, so I had to pay friend, “Mark,” and I have for all of us. been together for a year. We My son is 32, and I would met at work, and have dated like to say something about ever since. Several months this to him. Or should I just ago we were offered a job not invite him to nice dinners opportunity in another state. out? — TAKEN ADVANTAGE We moved in together and are OF IN SUGARLAND, TEXAS happy.

DEAR TA K EN My problem is, over the ADVANTAGE OF: No. SAY past few months we have been something to him. And when living together, our personal you do, it should be something relationship has come like this: “Son, springto a halt. We still ing unexpected guests care about each other on your host is bad deeply, but no longer manners. You should do the things couples have asked permission do. We don’t go out on first. I was appalled dates or see the new that your friends city we’ve moved to. didn’t offer to share Do you have any the expense. Please advice on how I can Dear Abby don’t do that again get Mark to go out and Abigail Van because if you do, I’ll Buren see the sights without stop inviting you.” sounding whiny or pushy? — BALTIMORE AND DEAR ABBY: My parents D.C. BECKON divorced many years ago. Dad DEAR BALTIMORE: Tell started dating and moved in Mark the two of you appear to with a woman I’ll call Crystal a have become housebound and few months later. They stayed you don’t think it’s healthy — together for several years. particularly because Baltimore I lived with them part-time and Washington, D.C., have then, and eventually only occamany entertainment and cul- sionally. I don’t have a good tural opportunities to offer. relationship with my father.

Then create a “bucket list” Since then, he and Crystal and have him choose from the have broken up and Dad menu of choices that are availmoved away. I never felt parable. If that doesn’t inspire ticularly close with her, but him, ask HIM to create a list, she calls and emails me incesor start exploring on your santly, begging me to spend own. If you are successful at getting Mark out of the house, time together. She even refers it may liven up your relation- to her daughter as my “sisship. But if it doesn’t, you may ter.” She never showed much have more serious problems interest in me when we lived to deal with, and a heart-to- together, and I’m confused how heart talk with him about your to respond. — BEWILDERED DEAR BEWILDERED: entire relationship is in order.

Crystal may be attempting to DEAR ABBY: My son’s maintain a presence in your birthday was yesterday. I invit- father’s life by continuing a ed him to dinner at a very nice relationship with you. The restaurant. When he showed next time she emails, email up, he had two other men with her back and point out that him. They didn’t offer to pay your father has moved on with his life, and it is time for her to do the same because you are busy.

Solution:

A NOTE TO PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN: Tonight is the night when wee witches and goblins collect their loot. Please supervise them so they’ll be safe. Happy Halloween, everyone! — ABBY

For the solution to today’s puzzle, see the next issue of the Piqua Daily Call.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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On Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, a woman kisses the Bible during a service in an Armenian Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria. Attacks on Christian districts of the capitals and on Christian villages elsewhere have fueled fears among Syria’s religious minorities about the growing role of Islamic extremists among the armed rebels fighting against President Bashar Assad’s rule.

lion people.

“When you bring a Christian and make him choose between Assad and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the answer is clear,” said Hilal Khashan, a political scientist professor at the American University of Beirut, referring to the alQaida branch fighting alongside the rebels. “It doesn’t need much thinking.”

The rebels have targeted other Syrian minorities, particularly Alawites, the Shiite offshoot sect to which Assad belongs and which is his main support base. Altogether, ethnic and religious minorities — also including Kurds and Druze — make up a quarter of Syria’s population. The majority, and most rebels, are Sunni Muslim.

But Christian areas have recently been the focus of fighting.

A week ago, rebels from the al-Qaida-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra attacked the Christian town of Sadad, north of Damascus, seizing

control until they were driven out Monday after fierce fighting with government forces. The rebels appear to have targeted the town because of its strategic location near the main highway north of Damascus, rather than because it is Christian.

Still, SANA reported Monday that the rebels in Sadad vandalized the town’s Saint Theodore Church, along with much of Sadad’s infrastructure.

Similarly, thousands fled the ancient Christianmajority town of Maaloula when rebels took control of it last month, holding it for several days until government forces retook it. With rebels in the hills around the town, those who fled are still too afraid to return.

Two bishops were abducted in rebel-held areas in April, and an Italian Jesuit priest, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, went missing in July after traveling to meet al-Qaida militants in the rebel-held northeastern city of Raqqa. None has been 40044564

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sami Amir is used to the deep echoing rumble of the Syrian army artillery pounding rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus.

It’s the thump of mortars launched from an Islamistcontrolled neighborhood that scares him to death.

The mortars have repeatedly hit in his mainly Christian district of Damascus, al-Qassaa, reportedly killing at least 32 people and injuring dozens of others the past two weeks.

“You don’t know when and you don’t know where they hit,” says Amir, a 55-year-old Christian merchant. “Life here is often too difficult.”

Rebel shelling into the capital has increasingly hit several majority-Christian districts, particularly al-Qassaa, with its wide avenues, middle class apartment blocks, leafy parks, popular restaurants and shopping streets busy with pedestrians.

The shelling and recent rebel assaults on predominantly Christian towns have fueled fears among Syria’s religious minorities about the growing role of Islamic extremists and foreign fighters among the rebels fighting against President Bashar Assad’s rule. Christians believe they are being targeted — in part because of the anti-Christian sentiment among extremists and in part as punishment for what is seen as their support for Assad.

Though some Christians oppose Assad’s brutal crackdown on the opposition and the community has tried to stay on the sidelines in the civil war, the rebellion’s increasingly outspoken Islamist rhetoric and the prominent role of Islamic extremist fighters have pushed them toward support of the government.

Christians make up about 10 percent of Syria’s 23 mil-

heard from since.

In August, rebel gunmen killed 11 people in a driveby shooting in central Syria as Christians celebrated a feast day. Activists said at the time that many of those killed were pro-government militiamen manning checkpoints.

Al-Qaida-linked fighters have damaged and desecrated churches in areas they have seized. In Raqqa, militants set fires in two churches and knocked the crosses off them, replacing them with the group’s black Islamic banner.

Jihadis also torched an Armenian church in the northern town of Tel Abyad on Sunday, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group that tracks the war through a network of activists on the ground.

The apparent deliberate campaign against Christians and other minorities have stoked worries in Washington and many

European capitals over providing advanced weaponry to the mainstream opposition Free Syria Army, amid fears the arms will end up in the hands of extremists.

Christians in Damascus are convinced that extremists are deliberately targeting their neighborhoods as rebels battle government forces trying to uproot them from the towns they control outside the capital. Al-Qassaa is close to besieged rebelheld suburbs where Muslim residents have pleaded for international help to save them from starvation and constant government bombardment.

“Recently I noticed that every Sunday, they launch more than 15 mortars a day,” Amir said. “They are targeting specifically Christian areas.”

The most recent shells in al-Qassaa hit Thursday on the doorstep of a fashion clothing shop and next to a wall of a local hospital, killing three young men and damaging a church and sev-

eral cars, which were left riddled by shrapnel.

Hundreds of Christians have fled al-Qassaa to other areas of the capital or into neighboring Lebanon.

Nationwide, some 450,000 Christians have fled their homes, part of an exodus of some 7 million during the 2 ½-year civil war, according to Church officials.

Almost all the 50,000 Christians in the mixed city of Homs have fled, and another 200,000 have fled the northern city of Aleppo, both battleground cities.

When insurgents occupied the strategic central town of Qusair in 2012, about 7,000 Catholics were forced out and their homes were looted.

Thousands who fled Maaloula have found refuge in the al-Qassaa and other Christian districts of Damascus. Maaloula was a major tourist attraction before the civil war, home to two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria. Some of the residents still speak a version of Aramaic, the language of biblical times believed to have been used

by Jesus.

Youssef Naame and his wife Norma, an elderly Christian couple from Maaloula, described how bearded extremist Islamists stormed the northeastern village early last month chanting “God is Great!”

“The jihadis shouted: Convert to Islam, or you will be crucified like Jesus,” Youssef said with a shaky voice in his daughter’s alQassaa apartment.

He said they were trapped with other Christians for three days in a small house next to the town church, without food or electricity.

“There were snipers shooting everywhere, we were not able to move,” he recalled. “We were so scared. I lost my speech.”

Syrian Church leaders fear that Assad’s fall would lead to an Islamist state that would spell the end to the centuries-old existence of Christians on Syrian soil.

Pope names Ohio bishop to lead Hartford diocese HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hartford’s new archbishop says he has no specific directive from Pope Francis on how to lead the 700,000 Roman Catholics in the archdiocese, but plans to stay faithful to the mission of the church and continue its charitable works in the region.

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Toledo, Ohio, Blair Bishop Leonard Paul Blair had been named by the pope to succeed Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell,

who is retiring.

Blair will be installed as the new archbishop Dec. 16.

Blair also defended the Toledo diocese’s handling of clergy sexual abuse cases during a news conference Tuesday, saying he and his predecessor had to remove priests from public ministry.

Blair is one of three bishops the Vatican appointed last year to oversee a reform of the largest umbrella group for U.S. nuns.

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COVINGTON — Covington United Church of Christ, 115 N. Pearl St., Covington, is excited to announce Pastor Nathan Paulus as the new full time pastor. Paulus and his wife Miranda will begin their ministry on Sunday, Nov. 3.

Before coming to Covington, Paulus was the associate pastor at Trinity Wesleyan Church in Greenville and Youth Pastor at the Brethren Church in Bradford. He also is known in the area as a revered soccer coach.

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Staff: Dakota Rench David Wysong Kayla Bowermaster Sherry Boggs Adviser: Debbie Allen

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Piqua and Troy battle for more than 100 years David Wysong Staff Writer

Piqua and Troy: if you live in the Miami County or surrounding areas you automatically think of a tough, hard hitting rivalry. These two schools have been playing since 1899, consecutively since 1911, and have the rights for one of the oldest high school rivalries in the state of Ohio. Troy has had the best of Piqua some years, but Piqua got the win last year in a torrential

down pour.

Both schools have festivities throughout the week like pep rallies and parades downtown.

This year in Piqua there will be an after party after the game for the students at Z’s Food and Spirits.

The supportive students like to go all out, too. There are rumors that the Piqua Student Section will be dressed like Indians, and some of the students will enter the game via canoe.

When talking to some of the players from Piqua about the rivalry, they all had a lot of mutual feelings towards it.

Quarterback Dan Monnin said, “The Piqua-Troy game is by far the biggest game of the year.

The adrenaline rush is nothing like you’ve ever felt before. It’s an awesome feeling, and it will be an even better feeling when we win.” Monnin is obviously pretty confident going into the game.

Running back Austin “Speedy”

Reedy talked about the game and said, “The Piqua-Troy game is the anticipation of the year. You have to deal with Troy people all year, and this game decides who’s better. Just knowing that everyone on the other side of the ball hates you makes things more crucial and fierce.”

Along with that defensive back Jacob “Tiger” Teague added, “The Piqua-Troy game is just a game of pure hatred where winning is the only thing that matters.”

This Friday the rivalry will continue at Troy Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m. Both teams had much higher expectations coming into the season than what their records have turned out to be, but records are always put to the side in this rivalry and whoever wins gets bragging rights for a whole year.

So if any football fans out there have no plans on Friday night, come out to Troy High School to watch one of the most storied rivalries in Ohio.

PHS collects tabs for Ronald McDonald House Kayla Bowermaster Staff Writer

For the month of October, Piqua High School has collected tabs from soda cans to donate to the Ronald McDonald House in a program called “Tabapullooza.” The students were encouraged to turn in any tabs pulled from cans into their homeroom teachers, which were collected and measured out by the advisor of the event, science teacher Gwen Stiver. Though the high school has collected tabs for the Ronald McDonald house in the past, this is the first

time the actual “Tabapullaooza” event has really taken place.

The Ronald McDonald house helps hundreds of families a year by providing a place to be able to stay while their children are receiving treatments in Dayton hospitals, so that they do not have to pay for hotels, sleep on chairs in the hospital rooms, or constantly make the drive from their home to the hospital to see their child.

The Ronald McDonald house does not collect whole soda cans, on since they are harder to store, and because they are made with a combination of metals, not just alu-

minum. They also do not accept tabs from steel cans like pet food or soup cans. Tabs from aluminum soda cans are only accepted.

“The tabs from soda cans are more compact, and have more aluminum, which makes them a lot more valuable than the whole can,” said Stiver. “The tabs are also a lot easier to store.”

More than 65 pounds of tabs have been collected by the PHS students, with teachers Kathy Buehler and Leann Buchanan being in the leads. The class with the most tabs collected by weight per person will win a juice and doughnut party.

Math teacher joins PHS brigade Dakota Rench Staff Writer

Matthew Kerns is now part of the Piqua High School community in the mathematics department for the 2013-2014 school year. Kerns is a graduate of Tipp City High School and Wright State University.

Speaking of his high school career, Kerns said, “I enjoyed the whole experience tremendously, but being the marching band field commander was the best time I ever had.”

Now, in Kerns’ free time he enjoys traveling, going on cruise ships, music, and going to the theater.

When asked his impression of the students here at

Piqua High School Kerns said, “They’re fantastic! A joy to teach.”

Kerns currently teaches Algebra I and II, along with R&D Water Robotics.

Kerns says that the best thing about working for Piqua High School would be the interactions he has with his students as he observes their personal growth within the classroom.

Although this is Kerns’ first year in Piqua, it is not his first time teaching. He has previously worked as an adjunct at Clark State Community College.

As of now, Kerns’ future plans are to be the best as possible at everything he does in the classroom.

McDonald’s Student of the Week

Ouhl plans future in business Sherry Boggs Staff Writer

The McDonald’s Student of the Week for the week of Oct. 28 through Nov. 1 is senior Tyler Ouhl, son of Linda Ouhl.

Ouhl was n o m i n at e d by Josh Burns for his diligence and Ouhl responsibility. According to Burns, “Ouhl has done very well in psychology class this semester. I have witnessed an increased effort and a sense of responsibility. I’m very proud of his improvement.”

When not in school, Ouhl is on the varsity football team and enjoys fishing, hunting, and racing dirt bikes. His favorite classes include psychology, history of rock and roll, and finance and banking.

In the future, Ouhl plans on joining the army, and through the army, he plans to go to college for business management.

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Taking care of business

Point of YOU!

BY: JOHN HUSA With tournament underway and another successful regular season by the Lehman volleyball team, the girls look to make a another run for state, following in the tradition of Lehman’s three state championships in 2000, 2005, and 2010.

This year the team is led by the two veteran seniors Erica Paulus and Ellie Cain.

The juniors are Olivia Slagle, Ellie Sargent, Ava Schmitz, and Margo Baker. Sophomores are Madeline Smith, Michelle Duritsch, Marianne Hissong, and Adrianna Sehlhorst. Freshmen are Sidney Chapman and Camille Odle.

The Cavaliers had a slow start to the season, but since then they have kept things rolling and are dominating the competition. In their first year in the Northwest Central Conference (NWCC), they went a perfect 6-0 and won the conference title. The Cavaliers finished the regular season at 14-8.

Junior Ellie Sargent said, “I am very excited to make another run in the tournament. We know we can go far, and are going to give it our all.”

Senior Erica Paulus said, “My favorite part of the season has been how close all of us on the team are.”

Young but talented, the Cavaliers have proved they are growing up this season and will not be stopped. The Cavaliers have a great history of doing well in the postseason, and we wish them the best of luck. So come out and support the Lady Cavaliers as they take care of business, one game at a time.

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BY: GRACE FRANTZ What is your point of view?

What has your year been like?

How has Lehman impacted you? The Lehman Catholic Cavalcade Staff wants to be sure your voice is heard and your story is told. That is why we have chosen the 20132014 Yearbook theme to be “Point of YOU.” With this theme people will have the opportunity to voice their fond memories and what they enjoyed this school year.

Whether it is scoring the game winning goal in a soccer game, going to the state science fair, or an embarrassing moment you wish to never forget, we want to know!

The Cavalcade Staff is really enthusiastic about the 2013- 2014 yearbook. We have been brainstorming for weeks and have come up with some neat and different ideas to incorporate everyone’s story, in a way that we believe Lehman has never seen. Senior Journalism student Madilyn Brown said, “I am really excited to put all of the ideas we have been working so hard on into action. Being a part of the yearbook staff, The Calvacade, is always the best part of being in Journalism class. Each of us get to bring out our creativity and it is so much fun to see the final product that we create for our school. ” The Yearbook staff is incredibly excited to get started on the yearbook and we hope you will be excited too!

Halloween, a Lehman Tradition BY: LAUREN VANDERHORST The Celtic people started with a festival, Pope Gregory III made a feast day, countries made a tradition, and Lehman turned Halloween into a way to help change lives.

Halloween was not always called “Halloween.” It started out as the festival of Samhain. The Celtic people thought October 31 was a time that the dead would come and destroy crops so they would dress up, make bonfires, carve pumpkins, and all sorts of different things in hopes of scaring away the ghosts.

This day eventually became known as All Hallows’ Eve, which inspired Pope Gregory III to name November 1 the feast day of All Saints, the day after All Hallows’ Eve. All Saints Day was created to remember and honor all the saints and martyrs.

Over time, countries started making it a tradition that on All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), children would dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, make jack o lanterns, watch scary movies, and listen to frightening stories. In the United States almost 90 percent of children participate in this annual event. Dressing up in costumes is not just for little kids; the students at Lehman participate in this ongoing tradition too!

Students at Lehman not only dress up for fun, but they dress up for a cause. Every student that dresses up on Halloween donates $3 to Multiple Sclerosis research. This tradition was started by the Student Council in 2005 with guidance from Terry Sheffield, the Student Council advisor at Lehman at the time. The Student Council wanted to have a fun way to raise money and it has become just that. Students every year participate in this tradition and have gone far and beyond the norm when it comes to costumes.

If one happened to be walking around Lehman on the Halloween dress up day, one would find all sorts of creative costumes. There are traditional costumes like superheroes, villains, and animals, but Lehman students like to mix it up by dressing up as teachers, the shark and the man being eaten by the shark from the movie Jaws, Lego people, Sesame Street characters, and so much more.

The creativity never stops here at Lehman and certainly not on Halloween. All the students have loads of fun with seeing who is dressed as whom and taking pictures. All also remember the reason behind the dress-up event and that is to help those with Multiple Sclerosis.

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Preschool gearing up for Dazzle Dash Fun Run and 5K fundraiser PIQUA — The Center for Early Learning at Piqua Catholic will be hosting their first Dazzle Dash Fun Run and 5K on Nov. 9. The race, which starts at 9 a.m., will begin and end at Lock 9, head north along the banks of the Miami River with at turnaround midway. The event is similar to the newly popular Color Runs, which have been popping up in big cities across the country.

As participants run or walk along the bike path, they will

be doused in colored powder.

The event is family-friendly and strollers are welcome.

“Families are participating together, some doing the onemile Fun Run while others will complete the 5K,” said Jennifer Smith, director at The Center for Early Learning. “Our goal is for this to be a fun way for families to be engaged in physical activity together, and have a blast along the way.”

Interested individuals are encouraged to register by

emailing dazzledash5k@gmail. com or by calling The Center for Early Learning at (937) 773-3876. All those who register by November 1st will receive a race t-shirt included with their registration fee.

The fee for the Fun Run is $10 and the 5K is $20. A limited quantity of extra t-shirts will be available at the registration table on the morning of the race.

The preschool would like to extend a special thank you to

School Briefs PIQUA — The following events and programs are taking place in Piqua City Schools: • Congratulations to Favorite Hill, High Street and Springcreek Primary Schools. The Ohio Department of Education has selected all three Piqua City School District Primary Schools as 2013 Schools of Promise, recognizing their success in closing the math or reading achievement gaps for students in the school. Being named a School of Promise is an example of what can be achieved when educators, parents and community members come together to help all students succeed.

• Bennett Intermediate School 5th grade students won the October Sum Dog Competition in Miami County by correctly answering 37,000 math problems. Congratulations to the following students: 1st place – Ca’ron Coleman, 3rd place – Malachi Weitholder, 4th place – Andy Oldham, 5th place – Matt Simental, and 8th place – Jeremy Santos.

• The Piqua High School Show Choir will hold a children’s clinic on Saturday, Nov. 2. The clinic is open to students in grades one through eight. The day

will conclude with a performance at 8:00 p.m. in the Hartzell Center for the Performing Arts. For more information, contact the Main Office at Piqua High School at 773-6314.

• Congratulations to the Upper Valley Career Center Students of the Month!

For September – Christian Bowman, Hunter Hall, Darian Heater, Brandon Isaacs and Kayla Morris. For October – Taylor Arnett, Jenna Fidelibus, Casey Garpiel, John Hampton, Kayleigh Jones, Brock Toopes and Allysshia Wise.

• Building Project Updates are available on the Piqua City School District website at www.piqua.org. Click on “Construction” on the left hand side of the home page for regularly updated information.

• Heard It Through The Grapevine — Do you have a question or have you heard something about the Piqua City School District that you want clarified? Link to “Heard It Through The Grapevine” at www.piqua.org to submit your questions. You will receive an email with the answer/response. Frequently repeated questions will be posted in the Q&A on the “Heard It Through The Grapevine” page.

The Knights of St. John for allowing the use of their facilities for race check-in, registration, and the after race awards party. The Knights of St. John is located at 110 S. Wayne Street, and race participants can start checking in at 8 a.m.

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“This event has helped to build community within our preschool. Parents and community members are helping out in big ways,” said Smith, speaking about the logistics involved

Students add monthly buffet to the Cornerstone @ 8811 PIQUA — The Upper Valley Career Center student-operated restaurant recently re-opened for business. The Cornerstone @ 8811 quickly became a community hot spot when the school unveiled the new facility last November. Now a new class of juniors and returning seniors are carrying on the tradition with a twist, a monthly buffet, which begins Friday.

Marie Shaneyfelt and Gwen Rose, Culinary Arts instructors, are working with the students to offer a unique theme for each buffets. “Our November 1 buffet will be all about Thanksgiving,” said Rose.

She said the students are preparing traditional fare plus a few surprises. The buffets continue: Dec. 6, Italian; Jan. 10, German; Feb. 7, breakfast; March 7,

Go Piqua! Beat Troy!

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Piqua varsity cheerleader Cecily Stewart tosses miniature footballs into a large crowd gathered at the gazebo in downtown Piqua Wednesday night for a pep rally, in preparation for Friday’s Piqua vs Troy rivalry football game. This year’s contest is being played at Troy Municipal Stadium.

Boil From page 1 Agency regulations, all residents were advised to start boiling all drinking water taken from the public water system while the advisory was in effect.

The boil advisory was not only advised for the consumption of water, but also water used for everything from making ice cubes and washing foods to brushing teeth.

Residents were told that water should be brought to a “full, rolling boil” for at least five minutes “to ensure that it is safe for consumption.” Boiled water may then be stored at room temperature or refrigerated in a closed container until needed, according to a press release issued by the Piqua Municipal Water System.

Freisthler said the order remained in effect

“until satisfactory testing of the drinking water is complete,” which was the case by late Wednesday afternoon.

In the past boil advisories have lasted between a few hours, as was the case Wednesday, to some that lasted several days.

Freisthler said once the water condition was brought up to code the advisory was lifted, at which time the department issued a secondary release to the public through the city’s website and via email to area media outlets.

During the advisory some restaurants in Piqua shut down, while others, like Buffalo Wings and Rings, purchased mass amounts of bottled water and soda from nearby grocery and department stores.

in the implementation of this event. Several volunteers got messy making 150 pounds of colored powder in preparation for the race. Smith explains that since “this is our first race so we are keeping things low tech this year, but we are really excited about bringing this to the Piqua community.”

Refreshments will be available after the race, and certificates will be given to the top male and female runners in each age category.

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Pop cans and bottled water took the place of fountain drink containers on the trays of those having lunch in the food court at the Miami Valley Centre Mall on Wednesday as a city-wide boil advisory affected not only homes, but restaurants around the city.

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Dulcinea Lesley of Newton and Francisco Munoz of Piqua are seniors in culinary arts.

tailgate; April 11, seafood; May 2, Mexican. “Offering this wide variety of cuisine broadens the students’ experiences, besides providing delicious dining to our loyal customers,” Shaneyfelt said.

The Cornerstone @

8811 operates Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. when school is in session.

The current menu and announcements regarding operation are regularly posted on the school’s web site www.uppervalleycc.org.

PIQUA — August 20 marked the start of the 2012-14 Piqua Catholic School year. The theme for the year is “Strength for the Journey.”

Students have been working diligently since the school year began.

In music class kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders have enjoyed singing and folk dancing while 3rd grade students were studying rhythmic chanting and body percussion.

Native American music and folk songs of the Western Expansion are the topics covered at the 4th grade level. The 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades have taken a little detour to an “Old Time Radio” project. They listened to examples of radio, pretelevision era, and then broke into small groups to create their own radio programs. It was difficult getting past the idea they wouldn’t be seen, only heard. Teacher Heather Lindeman commented, “I was impressed with their creativity, especially with the sound effects and how well they worked together.”

The band members spent September preparing for the annual marching band night with Lehman Catholic High School only to have it cancelled due to the weather. The musicians are now prepping for the Christmas program scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 10.

The 3rd graders are learning about and praying for the people and missionaries in the Philippines. Since the recent visit of the Pilgrim Virgin statue of Our Lady of Fatima these students have been praying the sacrifice prayer and offering their daily “little crosses” to God for world peace.

The second grade class and their families began preparing for two special celebrations, the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist. The students in fifth grade are studying the sacraments of the Catholic Church in more depth.

September found the fourth-graders concentrating on the Beatitudes, Works of Mercy. They are hoping for a grant to purchase supplies to make pillow cases for the home-

less that sleep at the St. Vincent Hotel in Dayton.

For 20 years students from Piqua Catholic have been visiting nursing homes. This year, 3rd and 6th grade students will visit Piqua Manor.

The visits are meaningful both for students and residents.

Camp Wilson will be the site for the annual camp outing for 5th and 6th graders. They will enjoy outdoor education, camping and learn more about teamwork. The 7th grade class will make a road trip to the Cincinnati Zoo. There will be much for them to learn and the highlight will be sleeping near the manatees.

The sixth-grade students have been studying cells and genetics while 7th graders have been learning about and preparing reports on severe weather.

Fifth graders each chose an animal to research their biome, predators and prey.

The junior high students and parents met Oct. 15 to make plans for their trip to Washington, D.C. The trip is planned for May 18-23.

All the children were invited by Fr. Tom Bolte to bring their pets to church on Oct. 4, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. During the mass celebration, Fr. Bolte blessed the animals.

In Social Studies the sixth grade is focusing on the Ancient Civilizations of the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The 8th graders made trivia board games based on the information gathered through their study of the Reconstruction Era. Mrs. Wagner’s fourth grade students will visit the city of Piqua water treatment plant. They will witness the many steps performed to insure water quality and the employees will educate students about the importance of safe water consumption.

Spanish has been added to the school’s curriculum. Buenos dias is a familiar greeting through the school building.

The students are learning Spanish words for colors, numbers and greetings for starters.

The most fun is signing Spanish songs to aid in learning the words.

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In brief n Mom’s Club to sell shirts

The Piqua Football Mom’s Club will be selling Piqua/ Troy shirts for the upcoming Piqua/Troy rivalry game.

Shirts will be sold today at the high school and junior high during the lunch hour, and will also be available for purchase at the annual pep rally, to be held at the downtown gazebo on Wednesday evening. Shirts are $10 each, and are available on a first come first serve basis, in adult sizes small to 2-XL.

n PressPros to air Troy game

PressProsMagazine.com will air the Piqua at Troy football game Friday night.

Air time is 6:30 p.m., with kickoff at 7 p.m.

The game can be heard at the stadium on Stadium FM 107.3.

n Scores to air volleyball

ScoresBroadcast.com will air the D-IV regional volleyball doubleheader tonight at Tippecanoe High School.

Air time is 5:40 p.m.

Jackson Center plays Marion Local at 6 p.m., followed by Lehman Catholic and Fort Loramie.

They will also air the championship game at 1:40 p.m.

Saturday.

On Friday, they will air the Riverside at Fort Loramie football game.

Air time is 6:35 p.m.

n Lehman tickets are on sale

Lehman will play Fort Loramie at the Division IV regional semifinal volleyball match at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Tippecanoe High School..

Tickets fcan be purchased in the main office at the high school from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. this week.

The cost is $6, and all tickets at the door will be $8.

n Team Atlantis to hold tryouts

Team Atlantis Volleyball Club will be holding tryouts this Sunday for the 10-14 age group.

Tryouts will be held at Lehman High School. 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. (10’s-12’s year old), 10:30 - noon 13 year old (seventh graders), and 12:30p.m. - 2p.m. 14 year olds (eighth graders).

For more information please visit our website at teamatlantisvbc.com.

n Brown to offer lessons

Frosty Brown will be starting private pitching/batting lessons, beginning Nov. 11.

For more information on his lessons, go to www.frostybrownbaseball.com, email ibrown@woh.rr.com, or call (937) 474-9093 or (937) 3394383.

Stumper was the Q: When first Piqua-

Troy football game played?

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1899

Quoted “Cleveland is my first home, the team I got drafted to.

It’s a great place to be.”

— Josh Gordon on staying with the Browns

Indians ready for big game to close season

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Sports Editor rkiser@civitasmedia.com

It is a week like no other for the Piqua and Troy football teams.

The oldest continuous high school football rivalry in Ohio will be renewed Friday night in the 129th meeting between the two schools.

“This is always a big week,” Piqua football coach Bill Nees said. “There is a lot going on. A lot of different things that the kids are involved in.”

This week’s game is a rarity, where there are no league titles or playoff berths on the line.

Both teams come into the game at 3-6.

Piqua is 2-2 in the GWOC North, while Troy is 1-3 in league play.

“Sometime their are league titles at stake and sometimes there aren’t,” Nees sad.

“This just happens to be one of the years where there isn’t (a championship) on the line. But, it is still a huge game for both teams.”

It will again be part of the Great American Rivalry Series and the Great Miami Traditions trophy — currently held

by Piqua — will be at stake.

Troy is coming off a 14-10 win over Greenville where senior running back Miles Hibler (5-10, 190) scored a touchdown in the final 20 seconds to give the Trojans the win.

Hibler leads the Troy rushing attack with 1,412 yards rushing on 212 carries and 19 touchdowns.

Quarterback Matt Barr (6-3, 195, senior) has also had success throwing the ball, completing 81 of 177 passes for 846 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions.

Alex Magoteaux (6-1, 175, senior) leads the receivers, with 27 receptions for 342 yard, while sophomore Austin Kyzer (5-10, 150) has 18 receptions for 180 yards.

“They have a balanced attack on offense,” Nees said. “They have a strong offensive line and (Miles) Hibler is always a threat to go the distance. Their quarterback (Matt Barr) does a nice job throwing the ball.”

The Trojans will play a 50 defense.

Troy has one of the top pass rushers in the GWOC in junior defensive lineman Marco Anverse (6-0, 220).

He has six sacks and leads the Trojans with 101 tackles, while also forcing two fumbles.

Josh Detrick (5-11, 175, senior) has 73 tackles and two forced fumbles, while Magoteaux and junior Justice Rees (5-11, 160) both have two interceptions.

“They rotate a lot of people in-and-out on defense,” Nees said. “They always have fresh bodies on the field.”

Piqua linebacker Dom Stone (40) makes a big hit against Troy in last year’s game.

Like Troy, Piqua has a breakaway threat in the backfield in the GWOC’s leading rusher Trent Yeomans.

Yeomans has 1,803 yards on 190 attempts, averaging nearly 10 yards per carry. He has run for 20 touchdowns.

Quarterback Dan Monnin has completed 67 of 136 passes for 1,078 yards and 14 touchdowns against six interceptions.

Tate Honeycut has 18 catches for 413 yards and six touchdowns to lead the Indians receivers.

Colton Bachman has 15 catches for 233 yards and Noah Lyman has 11 catches for 176 yards.

Noah Gertner and Yeomans both have nine catches each.

“What we want to do on offense is use the entire field,” Nees said. “We want be able to throw and run to the perimeter as well as in the middle of the field.”

Defensively, Hayden Hall leads the Indians with 76 tackles, two sacks, two fumble recoveries and an interception; while Dom Stone has 68 tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and one interception.

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Derrick Gullett has two forced fumbles and two interceptions, while Alex Nees and Andrew Lee also have two interceptions each.

“Last week, we had four three-and-outs on defense,” Nees said. “But, we also had four series where we didn’t get off the field as quickly as we needed to. Our offensive line played well last week, but we really struggled on the perimeter on both sides of the ball.”

There would be no better way to go into the off-season then giving the “Traditions” trophy a round trip back to Piqua and a win over the Indians biggest rival. *The Piqua-Troy game will remain as the final game on the schedule into the future — as a game with its tradition should. *The Piqua offensive line will be wearing gloves in the memory of Scott Edgell — Scott’s mother Sheila - wanted to donate something to the team this year in Memory of Scott who died earlier this year. We thought what better than to equip the offensive line with new gloves (Donated by Sheila Edgell) since Scott was an Offensive lineman from 2000-2002.

Not the end for Lady Vikings Miami East girls fall to Versailles Josh Brown

Civitas Media jbrown@civitasmedia.com

KETTERING —Four straight undefeated runs through conference play.

Three straight sectional and district title.

Two straight Division III state championships.

The last thing that could ever define the Miami East Vikings is a regional semifinal loss.

“The girls didn’t want to see it end,” Miami East coach John Cash said. “But I told the girls that they can’t measure themselves by how this ended tonight.

They haven’t lost a conference match, not even in junior high. They’ve won 101 matches. This isn’t the end, though.

Just a turn in the road.”

That road, unfortunately for the Vikings, led through the Versailles Tigers, who displayed no weaknesses, took the match to Miami East, took control early and never let go in a 25-13, 25-19, 25-21 sweep in the D-III regional semifinal round Wednesday night at Fairmont, snapping the Vikings’ 20-match postseason winning streak.

Versailles advances to take on Sparta Highland (27-0), the No. 1 team in the state, in Saturday’s regional final.

“You’ve got to give Versailles the credit.

They were the aggressor from beginning to end,” Cash said. “Their outsides controlled us.

We knew they could, but we thought if we could slow down the ball, get some touches, that we could control those hard-driven balls into our quick offense and catch them out of position. But we just weren’t able to do that.”

From start to finish, Amanda Winner was the answer to everything Versailles (24-2) did.

She finished the match with 13 kills — seven of them coming in the final game with Miami East fighting back hard — 1 block and two aces. Winner served six straight points to close out the first game, then gave the Tigers a 10-3 lead in the second game with eight straight serves.

Miami East (24-5), meanwhile, couldn’t find a way to set its offense up, much less use it to punch a hole in Versailles’ armor.

“Our ball control was very poor,” Cash said.

“I thought that was one of our strengths all year long, so that piece was disappointing. And when we got good looks, they just flat-out picked balls up. They came in and were one hungry

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team. We were, too, but every piece of the play tonight, they were on it.

“We threw the kitchen sink at them. And they didn’t flinch.”

In the third game, though, Miami East finally found something that worked — Allison Morrett.

The senior — who broke the all-time digs record at the school Wednesday with six, giving her 855 career digs — had eight kills in the third game alone.

With Versailles up 17-12, Morrett put down three straight kills and an ace by Trina Current (three kills, one ace, one block, six digs)

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closed the gap to one at 17-16.

But a miscommunication on Miami East’s side and a pair of Tiger blocks widened the gap again, and three kills by Winner in the final six points — including one on match point — put it away.

Morrett finished with 11 kills and six digs.

Angie Mack had eight kills, an ace and six digs, Sam Cash had five kills, 12 digs and 12 assists, Ashley Current had two kills, four digs and 15 assists and Anna Kiesewetter had 16 digs.

And though the Vikings won’t get a

chance to defend their state title for a third time, the Vikings won’t let one loss define them.

“The journey never ends. This isn’t the end, just a turn in the road,” Cash said. “It’s a life lesson. Now, how you respond is what defines you as a person.

It’s the next thing. For the seniors, it’s college ball. For the (Current) twins, it’s basketball.

They know the next thing is there, and they have to move on from this. Sure, there were some tears — because they give a (darn). And that’s the coolest part of this for me.”

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Russia runners look for another strong showing ROB KISER Sports Editor

RUSSIA — For the third time in four years, the Russia cross country program will invade National Trail Raceway with a “Gang of 14”.

And they won’t be coming alone.

As always, it will feel as if the entire community of Russia is there supporting them as both boys and girls teams will compete in the state meet.

“It is always amazing to look up and see all the blue-and-gold in the crowd,” Russia boys senior Bryan Drees said. “It feels really good when you see that.”

The boys are making their eighth straight appearance at the state meet.

“It is not something we take for granted,” fellow senior Steven Stickel said.

“We work hard throughout the year to accomplish our goal.”

Joining them on the boys team are Caleb Ball, Ethan Monnier, Alex Seger, Trevor Monnin and Jordan Gariety.

“Everyone takes it seriously here at Russia,” Stickel said. “And the community expects a lot from us.”

The girls will be making their third appearance in four years.

And they go in as regional champions for the first time in school history.

And while they feature two All-Ohio runners in regional champion Emily Borchers and Lauren Heaton, they are solid all the way through.

Along with seniors Emilie Frazier and Kirstin Voisard are Molly Kearns, Claudia Monnin and Karissa Voisard.

“It is funny,” Kirstin

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Lauren Heaton and the Russia girls left the competition behind Saturday at th regional meet.

Voisard said. “I hated cross country in junior high and I never expected to do it in high school.

“Then, we made it to state my freshman year and I have enjoyed it ever since.”

Frazier has had a breakout year for the Lady Raiders this season.

“I had some injuries after my freshman year and then I was in a car accident right before the season (as a sophomore).

“I was injured last year,

but I am finally health this year.

“The community does a great job supporting us, which makes it a lot of fun. I will get cards from them wishing me good luck at state.”

Doug Foster, who was a successful cross country coach at Covington before coming to Russia, said he didn’t realize just how lucky he.

“They don’t have football here,” he said. “All the sports and academics are

important to the community and they do a great job supporting all the teams.

“I didn’t realize how big basketball was here until I came here (as freshman coach).”

Foster says the key to success are a simple one.

“Boys golf is the only other boys sport in the fall,” he said. “So, we both get good athletes.

“The girls really took off with Katie (Borchers) and Lauren (Francis) and we

have been going to state ever since.”

And when Foster once a true appreciation for what he has, he simply has to visit Russia Community Park on any given summer night.

“I come over here a couple times,” the Covington resident said. “This park will be full. If you drive through Russia in the summer, you will see people running, people jogging, people riding bikes.

Everyone is out doing

things.”

And the close-knit community will make sure their voices are heard at the state weekend as both teams expect to run to top 10 finishes in the team standings.

“The support we get from the community and the school administration is just amazing,” Foster said.

And the “Gang of 14” plans to show their appreciation with another strong showing.

Lady Cavs breaking new ground Play for regional title Saturday night ROB KISER Call Sports Editor

SIDNEY — The Lehman girls soccer team has gone where no Shelby County high school soccer team has gone before.

On Saturday night, the Lady Cavaliers, 17-1-1, will play Hamilton Badin, 12-4-4, at 6 p.m. at Lebanon Junior High in a D-III regional final.

“I had a speech prepared for the girls last NoPHOTO PROVIDED vember,” Lehman coach Katie Edwards is held by Addy Smythe of Summit Tony Schroeder said. “We Country Day Tuesday night. talked about the goal this year being to win state and we are three wins away.

“But, when you get to the elite eight like this, it can come down to a lucky TONIGHT bounce.

D-IV Regional Volleyball Semfinals At Tippecanoe High School “But, you need to have Lehman Catholic vs. Fort Loramie, 7:30 p.m. to the drive to get that SATURDAY lucky bounce and they State Cross Country have that.”

At National Trail Raceway, Hebron And Schroeder knows Division III Girls, 11 a.m. they wouldn’t be where Teams they are without some Russia: Emily Borchers, Lauren Heaton, Molly Kearns, great fan support, as could Karissa Voisard, Claudia Monnin, Kirstin Voisard, Emibe heard in their 4-2 relie Frazier. gional semifinal win over Versailles: Murphy Grow, Madison Grilliot, Lexi Summit Country Day. Fliehman, Brooke Pothast, Katelyn Goettemoeller, “The fans were so loud, Jadyn Barga, Camille Watren.

I told the girls before the Individuals game, they (the players) Carly Shell, Covington; Anna Dunn, Covington; Carowere probably be hoarse line Heitmeyer, Lehman; Jenna Zimmerman, Lehman; after the game, because Marie Ewing, Miami East. they were going to have to Division III Boys, 1:30 p.m. talk louder.

Teams “It was great. It was one Russia: Caleb Ball, Jordan Gariety, Steven Stickel, of the loudest crowds I Trevor Monnin, Bryan Drees, Alex Seger, Ethan Monhave ever heard for a high nier.

Individuals school soccer game.”

Joe Fuller, Lehman Catholic; Devon Jester, Houston; Schroeder also praised Richie Ware, Versailles. all those that helped his D-III Volleyball Regional Finals players along the way.

At Trent Arena “I think it says a lot Miami East-Versailles winner vs. Sparta Highland-Fenabout the Sidney and wick winner, 2 p.m.

Piqua youth soccer proD-IV Volleyball Regional Finals grams to produce a team At Tippecanoe High School like this,” he said. “I Lehman-Fort Loramie winner vs. Jackson Center-Marcoached a lot of the kids ion Local winner, 2 p.m. from Sidney.

D-III Girls Soccer Regional Finals “It shows how imporAt Lebanon Junior High tant all the volunteer Lehman Catholic vs. Hamilton-Badin, 6 p.m. coaches and everyone like

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Taylor Lachey (middle) battles Jess Dejesus (4) and Addy Smythe (6). that are.”

And the Lady Cavs, who have played their last two games on turf, have gotten help from Piqua High School.

“We are hoping to get one more practice there Thursday,” he said about Alexander Stadium/Purk Field. “We really appreciate Piqua’s generosity in letting us get some practices there on turf.”

As for Saturday’s game, Schroeder expects quite a challenge..

“We play a tough schedule, but I think Badin plays an even tougher one,” he said.

Their losses have come to Summit Country Day, St. Ursula and Alter, who are still alive in D-I and D-II and McNicholas, who just lost to Alter.

And one of their ties came to defending D-III state champion Middletown Fenwick, who is still alive in the Columbus regional.

“With the exception of one or two games, everyone they play is really tough,” Schroeder said.

The Lady Rams run a 4-

1-4-1.

“They like to possess the ball with their midfielders,” Schroeder said.

“Our scouts say they can make things happen from midfield quickly.”

Midfielder/forward Madi Kah will play for Ohio University, while sophomore Malia Berkely plays for the national ODP team.

“They have some outstanding players and so do we,” Schroeder said.

Lehman has allowed just seven goals all season.

“We feel like our two defenders, Carly Baird and Jordi Emrick, are the two best in the state,” Schroeder said. “McKenna Guillozet and Madeline Franklin do a nice job back there and so does Hannah Fogt (off the bench).”

“Then you have to hand it to (keeper) Grace Frantz, who is a four-year starter and we have Marla Schroeder playing right in front of her. We feel like defense is a strength.”

On offense, Ashley Keller had three goals

against Summit and Taylor Lachey added one.

“We are playing really well on offense and those girls are doing a nice job of finishing.

“Sara Fuller had misses some time and came back against Bethel.

“She is playing with a fractured bone in her foot and had two assists against Summit. She really makes a difference.”

Nine of Lehman’s 11 starters are seniors.

“I think that is our biggest advantage,” Schroeder said. “Seniors play with a different intensity level this time of year.”

While Lehman was effective with the long ball Tuesday, Schroeder expects a different game Saturday.

“I think we are going to possess the ball more, because Badin likes to posses the ball,” Schroeder said. “Whoever gets the lead is going to be trying to hang on.”

And Schroeder hopes the will be his team as they try and take another step in the history books.

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Spread and edged for $30 per yard.

Total up the square feet of beds and divide that by 120 to equal the amount of yards needed.

(937)926-0229

PORTABLE kitchen oven, turkey fryer, 13" LCD TV $50 each. Deep fryer $25. AC unit w remote, patio grill $75 each.

Soda Stream $20. TV cabinet $35. (937)778-2131

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SCOOTER, 3 Wheel handicap scooter as seen on Duck Dynasty, Walker with wheels, (937)552-9021 leave message SEWING MACHINE, Singer, Fashion Mate 237, works great, $25, (937)418-9271 UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: DONATE YOUR CAR - FAST FREE TOWING 24 Hr. Response - Tax Deduction UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION Providing Free Mammograms & Breast Cancer Info 888-928-2362

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Silver with Black interior 40,000 miles, New tires, like new, Rebuilt title $9890.00

SEASONED FIREWOOD $125 cord pick up, $150 cord delivered, $175 cord delivered & stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237 FIREWOOD $150 split, delivered. Round wood $110/cord, delivered.

(937)844-3756 or (937)8443879 SEASONED FIREWOOD $145 per cord. Stacking extra, $125 you pick up. Taylor Tree Service available, (937)753-1047 FIREWOOD, Seasoned Hardwood $160/cord, $85 half cord, delivered and stacked.

(937)726-4677 SEASONED FIREWOOD Call (937)564-3468

Landscaping

Construction & Building INERRANT CONTRACTORS Stop overpaying your general contractors!

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Firewood

2011 Chevy HHR

SERVICE / BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Exercise Equipment

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Autos For Sale

Self performing our own work allows for the best prices on skilled labor.

• Kitchens • Roofs • Windows • Baths • Doors • Siding • Decks • Floors • Drywall • Paint 25 years combined experience FREE estimates

WASHER & DRYER, Maytag, good condition, Toro Snowblower, (937)335-2016

Pet Grooming

(937)573-7357 InerrantContractors@gmail.com

Maintenance Technician Darke County manufacturing company is seeking a qualified Maintenance Technician for 2nd and 3rd shift operations. Qualified candidates will perform constant evaluation, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs of production equipment in a maintenance team environment. 5 years minimum experience with mold machines, robots and PLC’s a plus. Send resume and salary requirements to: FPE, HR Department, 1855 St. Rt. 121, New Madison, OH 45346 EOE Auctions

• All Types of Roofing • Insulation • Gutters • Gutter Cleaning • Painting • Concrete • Hauling • Demo Work • New Rubber Roofs

Mobile Veterinary Service Treating Dogs, Cats & Exotics

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You are required to answer the Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last publication of this notice which will be published once each week for three (3) successive weeks. The last publication will be made on November 7, 2013, and the twenty-eight (28) days for answer will commence on that date.

In case of your failure to answer or otherwise respond as required by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Remodeling & Repairs

/s/ Jan Mottinger Clerk of Courts, Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio

MULTI-FAMILIES PUBLIC AUCTION

Amy E. Walker, D.V.M. 937-418-5992

The object of the Complaint is to foreclose any interest held by you, your heirs, devisees, successors, and assigns, and to by judicial proceedings sell certain real estate located at 930 E. Snyder Rd., Piqua, OH 45356, Parcel No. J27-050540. A legal description may be obtained from the Miami County Auditor.

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LOCATED AT Co Rd 25A, Troy, Ohio – Duke Building – Miami County Fairgrounds

NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF SCHOOL BUSES

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2013 11 a.m ANTIQUES/FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD, GARAGE ITEMS, COLLECTOR ITEMS, RIDING LAWN MOWER LIKE NEW: 2006 Yard Machine by MTD 6 transmission, 15.5 H.P. 42” cut riding lawn mower. LOTS OF NEW TOYS JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS, APPLIANCES, COINS, SIGNED SPORTS MEMORABILIA, GUNS TERMS: Cash or local check with proper I.D. $50 bank charges + $19 auctioneer fee. Subject to prosecution on all returned checks.

Sealed proposals will be received by the Piqua City School Board of Education of Piqua, Ohio. Bids will be opened in the second floor Board Room at the Board of Education Office Building located at 719 E. Ash Street, at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, November 7, 2013. At that time, proposals will be opened by the Treasurer of said Board as provided by law for two new 2014, 84 passenger transit style buses, according to the specifications of said Board of Education. All bids must state that buses comply with all safety regulations and current Minimum Standards for School Bus Construction of the Department of Education adopted by and with the Director of Highway Safety pursuant to Section 4511.76 of the Ohio Revised Code and all other State and Federal provisions of law.

Specifications and instructions to bidder may be requested from the office of the District Business Coordinator, Piqua, Ohio.

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Please call (937) 773-4321 with further questions.

OWNERS: Multi-Families Go to auctionzip.com, under Larry Lavender, for photos and details.

AUCTIONEER LARRY L. LAVENDER 937-845-0047 H 937-875-0475 Cell llavenderauctioneer@msn.com www.lavenderauctions.com Licensed in Favor of the State of Ohio Clerks: Lavender Family Not responsible for accidents, thefts or typographical mistakes. Any statements made by Auctioneer on sale, may, supersede statements herein, believed to be correct, availability are NOT GUARANTEED BY AUCTIONEER. May I be of 40515241 Service to You? Please Call ME!

By the order of the Piqua Board of Education Andy Hite, President Jeremie Hittle, Treasurer

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The Estate of Roger Luis Fogt will sell the following farm machinery and shop tools at the farm located at 13631 Kirkwood Road, Sidney, Ohio (Go 4 miles south of Sidney on 25A to Kirkwood Road, the 1 mile west) On: Saturday November 16, 2013 • 10:00 A.M. Tractors: 1979 John Deere Model 4440 diesel tractor, 3449 hrs., cab, quad range, weights, SN 4440H025374R; 1973 John Deere Model 4630 diesel tractor, cab, 8 spd., weights and duals, 4154 hrs., SN 4630-003795R; 1965 John Deere Model 4020 diesel tractor, wide front, home made cab, weights; SN T213R095942R; 1967 John Deere Model 4020 diesel tractor, Lincoln cab, narrow front, weights, 6076 hrs., SN T213R151254R; 1962 John Deere Model 2010 gas tractor, w/ JD 35 loader, SN 2010RU25745; 2002 John Deere Model 4310 diesel 4 x 4 utility tractor, 6 spd., 729 hrs. w/ 72” finish belly mower; Ford Model 3500 tractor / back hoe, w/ 754 industrial hoe, 1905 hrs., gas engine. Duals. Combine: 1984 John Deere Model 7720, diesel, 764 hrs., 4 spd. grain / loss monitor, bin extension, SN HO7720-X600867. JD Model 920 grain table; header wagon; JD Model 643, 6 row corn head. Farm Machinery: JD Model 750 no-till 15’ drill w/ markers; JD Model A2700, 5 bottom, variable width plow; JD Model 145 plow, 5 bottom w/ Kasco harrow; JD Model 235 Bi Fold disk, 18’, w/ Remlinger 3 bar harrow; JD RWA 12’ pull type disk; JD Model 1100 field cultivator, 3 pt., tri fold, w/ 3 bar spring harrow; Kasco 3 pt., 15 ft. field cultivator w/ single bar harrow; Yetter Model 3415 rotary hoe; JD Model RM, 6 row cultivator; Frontier 7 ft. snow blower,never used; Mayrath 8” x 30’ auger, w/ ele. motor; Kill Bros. 400 gravity wagon on J & M gear; JD MX7, 3 pt., rotary mower; JD Model 80A, 8 ft. scrapper blade; home made push blade; 2002 Novae single axle utility trailer; 2 wheel utility trailer; JD Model 112 lawn mower, 4 spd., w/ 42” deck and other related machinery.

Trucks / Cars: 2006 Dodge TRX off road, pick up truck, 4 x 4, 54,470 miles, repaired; 1996 Dodge SLT pick up truck, 4 x 4, standard cab, 139,932 miles; 1996 Ford Model L-9000 truck, diesel engine, 146,242 miles, tandem axle, w/ booster axle; 8 spd., air brakes; 20 ft. aluminum Kahn bed, roll tarp and hoist; 1986 GMC truck, 62,804 miles, w/ 15 ft. Midwest bed, roll tarp, hoist; 1973 Ford Model 800 cab over, 15.5 Omaha metal bed w. hoist; 1968 Chevy Series 60 truck, w/ 2 spd., 20 ft. metal bed and hoist; 1946 Chevy cab and chassis, as is; 1964 Buick 2 door sedan, V8, as is; 1981 Pontiac Grand Prix, as is; 1986 Chrysler Fifth Avenue, as is; 1978 ford pick up truck, as is.

Shop Tools: Acetylene torch set; vertical air compressor; grinders; power washer; Reddy heater; Craftsman 2 pc. tool chest; 12 ton hydraulic press; trash pump; battery chargers; chain saws; socket sets; wrenches; large assortment of power and hand tools; Lincoln welder; anvil; floor jacks; drill press; porta power unit; chop saw; shop vac; bolts; cutters; equipment repair parts; filters; many other related shop items.

Household Goods: 2 JD bicycle; assortment of household goods.

NOTE: Sale to begin with HHG’s, shop equipment with Farm Machinery to sell approximately 12:00.

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Roofing Windows Kitchens Sunrooms

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LEGALS Advertisement for Bids City of Piqua IFB 1334 FOR CNC ROUTER MACHINE FOR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Sealed bids for the purchase of a CNC Router Machine for the City’s Public Works Department will be received by the City of Piqua Purchasing Office, 201 West Water Street, Piqua, Ohio, until 2:00 P.M., on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at which time the bids will be publicly opened and read.

Each Bid must contain the full name of the party or parties submitting the Bid and all persons interested therein.

Shelby County Fairgrounds 655 South Highland Ave. Sidney, OH 45365

No Bidder shall withdraw his Bid after the actual opening thereof.

The City reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, waive irregularities in any Bid, and to accept any Bid that is deemed by City to be most favorable to the City.

Saturday, November 2, 2013 10:00am ANTIQUE FURNITURE, PRIMITIVES & COLLECTIBLES: Pie safe; (2) oak washstands, 1 w/towel bar; Old kitchen cupboard with dry sink; Curio cabinet; Large wardrobe; Oak 5 leg drop-leaf table w/4 leaves; (2) drop-leaf tables w/gate legs, one w/drawer; Wood highchair; Wood workbench stool; Oak rocker; Piano stool w/claw & ball feet; Large wood noodle board w/rolling pin; Coffee grinder; Wood sieve; Granite coffee pot; Candy & candle molds; Half & Half tobacco tins; Iron gate; Jars of marbles; Quilts; Sprinkling cans; Spinning spools; Red box w/door; Crocks; Rug beater; Copper boiler; DeKalb Corn signs; Model T jack; Mouse trap; Bowl & pitcher; Halloween noise makers; Rag rugs; Sleds; Oak handcrafted cradle (not old); Bakers Chocolate boxes; Old Santas; Tobacco rack; Over 30 vintage hat pins & 3 holders; M.A. Hadley Kentucky Derby Cups; Salmon Falls Stoneware; Beaumont Bros. pottery; Wampler (Sidney) pottery; Roseville, Ohio sponge ware; Goebel Sheep; Hummel plates; Decorated box; Denmark plates; Wagner Ware; Griswold; McCoy & USA vases; Lizzie High Dolls; MANY Steiff & Boyds Bears (plush & resin); Williraye figures; Costume jewelry; Pedal fire truck; Occupied Japan Red Hat items; Minster, Ohio small green bottle.

GLASSWARE: Royal Ruby; Pink Depression; American Fostoria & Red Coin glass.

BOOKS & MISC: Over 30 antique reference books, including The Encyclopedia of Collectibles Collection of 16; The Books of Griswold & Wagner; Roseville Pottery; Fostoria Glass; Charles Wysocki; Cook books; Piano & organ sheet music; Dennisons Bogie Book. SEASONAL DECORATIONS: Extensive amount of decorations for Halloween, Christmas, July 4, Memorial Day, St. Patrick’s Day; Easter & others. SPORTS: 1951 Crosley Field program cover; NFL & OSU signed football; Very old Cincinnati Reds child’s ball cap; Dragons Roofman bobblehead; OSU picture.

HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Over 10 pictures, including Charles Wysocki; Pfaltzgraff dishes; 10 shelves including beautiful 5 ft carved wood shelf; Green bench w/ matching birdhouse lamp (Amanda Wilder); Wing back chairs; Relay for Life baskets; Dresser w/mirror; Bookcase; Small oak table; 3 bar stools; Folding chairs; Pots & pans; Dishes; Newer kitchen hutch; Oak TV armoire; Stereo; Nice sewing cabinet; Blankets & quilts; Lots of linens; Bunk beds; Deacon’s bench: OUTDOOR & MISC: Large lawn trailer; Old mailbox & post; Large green garden wagon; Wheelbarrow; Yard tools; Coleman cooler; Portable grill; Ceiling fans; Light fixtures; New & old cupboards; Stainless steel sinks; Garbage disposals; Tools; Craftsman Weedwhacker; Saw horses & other yard items.

OWNER: Steve & Peggy Baker TERMS: Cash or check w/proper ID. 4% fee on credit & debit cards.

FOOD: Provided by “Farmer’s Daughter” NOTE: Steve & Peggy are downsizing and no longer have space for these items. You will find these items to be clean & well cared for. Plan on attending.

AUCTIONEERS: Phil Thompson & Harley Jackson 937-243-1408

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Bids must be signed and submitted on City bid forms included in the bid package. The sealed envelope must be marked “IFB 1334 – CNC Router Machine.”

LARGE PUBLIC AUCTION

“The Professionals”

937-573-4737

www.buckeyehomeservices.com

The Bidding Documents, which include Specifications and Bid Form, may be obtained at the City of Piqua, Purchasing Department, 201 W. Water Street, Piqua, Ohio at no cost or download the documents from our web site at www.piquaoh.org.

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LEGAL NOTICE BY PUBLICATION To: Terry L. Peake, Deceased, and his unknown heirs, beneficiaries, devisees, legatees, their spouses and creditors, and the unknown personal representative or fiduciary of the Terry L. Peake estate: you are hereby notified that you have been named a defendant in a legal action entitled American Budget Company vs. Jodi L. Peake aka Jodi L. Cagle, et al. (the “Complaint”). This action has been assigned Case Number 13-533 and is pending in the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio, 201 West Main St., Troy, OH 45373.

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Beverly M. Yount, CPPB Purchasing Analyst City of Piqua, Ohio Resolution. No.: R-6-13 10/31, 11/06-2013 40516039 Auctions

MIKE HAVENAR AUCTION

BARE LAND AUCTION • 3 FARMS - 304 Acres DATE: Saturday, December 28, 2013 Time: 10:00 a.m.

LOCATION: 601 Broadway, Covington, Ohio 45318 “END ZONE”

FARM A: Located on Piqua Clayton Road, Piqua, Ohio 122.48 Acres, 105 Tillables Acres Parcel: N44-100700 This Farm is located in the City of Piqua, Ohio.

This is a good Farm and would be a great future investment.

FARM B: Located on US Rt. 36, Piqua, Ohio 79.379 Acres, 66.149 tillable acres, 10 acres woods Parcel: M40-057000 This Farm has Road frontage on US Rt. 36 and Brown Rd. The farm is located next to the City of Piqua.

FARM C: Located West Brown Road, Piqua, Ohio 112.618 Acres, App. 64.406 tillable, 43.25 woods Parcel: M40-056100 This farm runs from the North side of US Rt. 36 to the South side of Brown Road.

This farm is great for farming, hunting and building.

FARM B & C: The farms will be sold by the multi-parcel auction method where by a potential buyer May purchase either of the 6 Tracts individually or a buyer may bid on each farm as a whole. Farm B having 2 tracts and Farm C having 4 tracts.

Terms & Conditions: $25,000.00 down the day of the sale. Balance due in 30 days or on delivery of the deed. Buyers will need to have financing approved prior to the sale date. Owners have the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Farms to sell in the order as listed above.

OWNER: HINSCH FARMS & RAMSEY FARMS LTD Attorneys-McCulloch Felger Fite & Gutmann Co. LPA AUCTIONEER / REALTOR MIKE HAVENAR SHIVELY REALTY For information or Bidder’s Package Call: 937-606-4743 Email: mike@mlh56.com “HAVE GAVEL WILL TRAVEL”

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www.dailycall.com • Piqua Daily Call

Ohio housing discrimination lawsuit to proceed Amanda Lee Myers Associated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal lawsuit accusing the predominantly white Cleveland suburb of Lakewood and its leaders of waging a racially motivated campaign of harassment to drive out a group of black residents can proceed to trial, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that a reasonable jury could conclude that the city, its for-

mer mayor and two retired housing department leaders discriminated against black members of a program that helps young people transition from foster care or juvenile detention to living on their own.

The ruling stems from a 2010 lawsuit filed by the Hidden Village apartment complex, where the youths live, that said black members of the program were constantly harassed by police, given frivolous citations with “astronomical” fines for offenses like jaywalking and riding bicycles without

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license plates, and had their living quarters improperly searched by a team of police, fire, and health department workers who didn’t have a warrant.

“It is bad enough that Lakewood officials targeted a predominantly black organization in general,” according to the 6th Circuit ruling, written by Columbus Judge Jeffrey Sutton. “But worse, a jury could conclude that the officials targeted the organization’s black members in particular.”

James Climer, an attorney who represents Lakewood and the former city leaders, declined to comment on the ruling or the case, saying, “Our comment will be reserved for the court.”

Avery Friedman, the Cleveland civil rights attorney representing the apartment complex, said the behavior of city leaders and police toward black youths living at Hidden Village was “blatant.”

“It’s something that one might see out of the 1950s in Selma,” he said, referring to the Alabama city. “There was nothing discrete about it.”

City attorneys have argued in court that city actions were not based on race, but rather a duty to enforce zoning laws, and that the program sparked an uptick in crime in the area.

The 6th Circuit judges rejected those arguments, saying the city continued taking actions against the black youths well after the city planning commission gave the program zoning approval.

Additionally, “there remains a genuine dispute about whether there was any basis for believing that an increase in crime occurred and if so whether the program contributed to it,” Sutton wrote.

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Piqua

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