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One man dead, three charged in Troy murder Melanie Yingst

Civitas Media myingst@civitasmedia.com

TROY — Screaming for help, a Troy woman pleaded for 911 dispatchers to send an ambulance after her boyfriend, Nathan Wintrow, 20, of Troy, was fatally shot in the head after two men

Falling back, change batteries in smoke detectors, fire chief says Will E Sanders

Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Prepare to gain that extra hour of sleep you lost in the spring as daylight savings time ends Sunday, Nov. 3.

While forgetting to “fall back” can cause some problems — nobody wants to arrive at work on Monday an hour earlier — local fire officials say it’s just as important to replace batteries in household smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

From the time the first smoke alarm sounds in a burning home a family has an average of only a few minutes to escape the structure and smoke detectors can mean the difference between life and death in those circumstances.

Piqua Fire Chief Mike Rindler said residents should make use of that extra hour by making the life-saving decision to change batteries in all detectors, noting it’s the best line of defense a family can put forth to avoid a potentially fatal fire.

Rindler and fellow firefighters say they have heard every excuse in the book when they are called to house fires that do not have working detectors.

“I’ve been at fire scenes where several children were hurt and they used them (batteries that were in the smoke detector) in a toy, or homeowners heard the detector chirping and just forgot to replace the batteries,” Rindler said.

“Firefighters get terribly frustrated by that because a two dollar battery goes a long way.”

Another piece of advice Rindler encouraged residents to take is keeping the instructional manual for detectors. He added that keeping the instructions can be helpful since See CLOCKS | Page 2

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with masks broke in to their home on East Canal Street, Troy.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 911 call was made by Saddie Barker after two men allegedly wearing masks broke in to back door of Wintrow’s apartment on East Canal Street in Troy and shot Wintrow

in the head. Wintrow was pronounced dead at Miami Valley Hospital Thursday morning.

According to Capt. Joe Long, three white males, including two juveniles, were Terrel charged with aggravated

murder following the incident Wednesday evening.

Wintrow was pronounced dead by the Montgomery County Corner’s Office in the early morning hours on Thursday after he was transported by Troy

medics to Upper Valley Medical Center and then Miami Valley Hospital with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Brenden Terrel, 19, of Troy, is currently in Miami County Jail on one count of aggravated murder. Terrel appeared in court Thursday, and he remains in jail in lieu of

$250,000 cash bond.

Two juveniles are being held at the West Juvenile Detention Center.

The 16-year-old, Jason Sowers, was confirmed as one of the suspects by officials.

The 911 call was placed at 10:31 p.m. as Barker, See MURDER | Page 12

Spreading Indian fever

Above: Students and staff at the Nicklin Learning Center gather on the playground on Thursday afternoon as Piqua football players, cheerleaders and band members, led by athletic director Chip Hare, held a pep rally in preparation for the Piqua vs. Troy rivalry football game tonight at Troy Memorial Stadium.

Left: Senior defensive back Jacob Teague, 20, leads football players, cheerleaders, and kindergarteners in the tomahawk chop during a pep rally at Nicklin Learning Center on Thursday.

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Piqua primaries named 2013 Schools of Promise Belinda M. Paschal Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Piqua’s three primary schools — Springcreek, High Street and Favorite Hill — have been recognized by the Ohio Department of Education as 2013 Schools of Promise, acknowledging their success in closing the math or reading gaps for students in the schools and ensuring high achievement for all students.

All of the schools have received the honor before, but their principals are as proud as if they were first-time winners.

“I think the significance is that our staff has worked really hard in the last couple of years to develop our RTI (Response To Intervention) program, spending time daily focusing on student

needs and very specifi- sure that all students cally using the data to succeed and we want determine what to reach every kids need, what student and their gaps are make sure every and how to close student shows the gaps,” said growth.”

Teresa Anderson, “ The excelprincipal of lence was here Springcreek, before I got which has been here,” she added. a School of Gearhardt “We look at what Promise for four individual stuyears. dents need and Since Favorite what we can do Hill has been to address those named a School needs, whethof Promise for six er it’s having years, it practithe teachers go cally has become through more an expectation Anderson training, requirthat students ing more from and staff will students or just work to continue holding everyone earning the disto higher expectinction, said tations.” principal Mindy Since he’s just Gearhardt. finishing his first “One one of the year at High things we strive Street — a threefor at Favorite Amlin time S chool Hill is achieving of Promise — this honor,” Gearhardt Principal Jake Amlin said. “We want to make deflected accolades

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from himself, instead praising the school’s dedicated staff, hardworking students and involved parents.

“I’m really impressed with what we do to meet kids’ needs at every level. Through the (RTI) process, we make sure kids are getting the kind of instruction they need and not just the grade-level content,” Amlin said. “For kids that need some foundational skills, we’re making sure to meet them there. For kids who have already mastered that, we’re offering them opportunities for advancement beyond their current grade level.”

“I believe it’s safe to say that a student that comes into Piqua, regardless of what previous opportunities they did or didn’t have before they came here, we’re See PROMISE | Page 2

Board approves five-year forecast

Jennifer Runyon

For the Daily Call pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com

COVINGTON – The Covington Exempted Village Board of Education met in special session last Wednesday to approve the district’s five-year forecast. The forecast must be on file with the state by the end of the month. Superintendent Dave Larson shared that although the forecast is filed it can still be changed.

Treasure Carol Forsythe began explaining the forecast by sharing some good news.

“We don’t project deficit spending at the end of our five year forecast. Not a lot of schools can say See BOARD | Page 2

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Obituaries JOSHUA D. RICE UPPER SANDUSKY — Joshua Denver Rice, 28 of Upper Sandusky, died at his residence on Friday Oct. 25, 2013.

He was born in Canyon City, Colo. on Dec. 30, 1984, to the late William Rice and Carolyn Sue (Mitterholzer) Rice whom survives in Clarendon, N.C. Mr. Rice is survived by a sister, Holly Rice of North Carolina; two half brothers, Shawn (Crystal) Adkins of Upper Sandusky and Chris (Trisha) Adkins of Loveland, maternal grandfather, Otto Mitterholzer, Springfiled. He was preceded in death by a brother William “Billy” Rice.

Joshua worked on oil rigs and was a shrimp boat fisherman. For hobbies he enjoyed ocean fishing and listening to music.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. today at Piqua Baptist Church, 1402 W. High St. Piqua, with Pastor Charles Wilkins officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to Joshua Denver Rice memorial fund in care of Bringman Clark Funeral Home 226 E. Wyandot Ave. Upper Sandusky, OH 43351.

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RICHARD L. SMITH PIQUA — Richard L. Smith, 74, of Piqua, died at 2:05 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at the Upper Valley Medical Center. He was born May 9, 1939, in Covington to the late James and Geraldine (Hole) Smith. He married Judy K. (Briggs) Morton February 29, 2004, in Celina; and she survives.

Other survivors include two sons, Scott (Brenda) Smith of Hamilton and Todd (LuAnn) Smith of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; five daughters, Carla (Jim) Hill of Rossburg, Maria (Brad) Monroe of Lebanon, Ill., Melissa Smith of Union City, Julie Smith and Virginia Smith, both of Ansonia; four stepchildren, Bryon Morton of Piqua, Brent Morton of Sidney, Brad (Kim) Morton and Kimberly Collins all of Piqua; 21 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Virginia (John) Rickert of Sidney. He was preceded in death by a sister and a step-daughter, Rocky Morton.

Mr. Smith was a graduate of Covington High School,

worked at the Union City Body Company for many years, and then retired as a painter from the Warnock Painting Company of Ft. Recovery following many years of employment.

He served with the Ohio National Guard for eight years. He was a talented musician as evidenced by his being a guitarist and lead singer for the County C. G. Band for many years and he enjoyed painting pictures. He will be deeply missed by his family and many friends.

A service to honor his life will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Monday, at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with the Rev. Fr. Thomas L. Bolte officiating. Burial will follow at Harris Creek Cemetery, Bradford. His family will receive friends from 12:00-1:30 p.m.

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

ANN LOUISE CLARK TROY — Ann Louise Clark, 74, of Troy, died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at Genesis Healthcare, Troy Center.

She was born Dec. 20, 1938, in Bradford, to the late Carl Looker and Naomi (McKibben) Wilhite.

She was a graduate of Covington High School, Class of 1956, worked as a secretary for the City of Piqua Health Department, retired from Extra Help in Piqua with 10 years of service, attended Grace United Methodist Church in Piqua, a member of Piqua Eagles, and was an avid card player.

She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Lisa Marie Wendel; and step-mother, Nita Looker Faulke.

Ann is survived by six children and their spouses, Michael and Toni Wendel of Piqua, Mark and Tammy Wendel of Piqua, William and Cristela Wendel of Covington, Marcia and Michael Scherer of Piqua, Scott Wendel of Covington, and Matthew

and Jan Wendel of Troy; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two brothers and sistersin-law, Roger and Carol Looker of Bradford and Jim and Karen Looker of Indiana; half-brother, John and his wife, Kathy Looker of Mason; four half sisters and their husbands, Edith and Donald Marchal of Newport, Betty Blue of Sidney, Carol and Tom Stiver of Sidney, and Vicky and Tim Belt of Anna; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m.

Monday, at Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Bradford with Pastor Johnathan Newman officiating.

Interment of cremains at Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Covington.

The family will receive friends Sunday, 2-5 p.m. at the funeral home.

If desired, contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County.

Condolences may be left for the family at www. stockerfraley.com.

PIQUA — LuAnn Presser of the Dorothy L ove Re t i re m e n t Center and an Ohio Senior Health Information- certified presenter will present a Medicare update program at the YWCA Piqua on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 10-11:30 a.m.

Presser will present a general review

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TROY — Nathan David Wintrow, 20, of Troy, passed away Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

He was born June 18, 1993, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to David Wintrow of Piqua and Tresa Russell McKinney of Troy, and both survive.

Nathan also is survived by his soulmate, Saddie Barker of Troy; his son, Braxton Wintrow of Troy; step father, Todd McKinney of Troy; two brothers and sister-in-law, Clinton Wintrow of Troy and Chad and Amber Kelley of Pleasant Hill; two stepbrothers, Lucas McKinney of Memphis, Tenn. and Logan McKinney of Troy; grandparents, Jeanne Fabiano of Piqua, Linda Wintrow of Indian Lake,

of Medicare and the changes for 2014.

She will answer questions individuals have about t ra d i t i o n a l Medicare, Medicare Advantage (HMOs, PPOs and PFFSs) along with Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Part D) before the beginning of the insurance enrollment time.

“This is an excellent opportunity for those about to turn 65 or those already enrolled in Medicare to get questions answered,” said Lynn Marroletti, YWCA program director.

“We are pleased that LuAnn will be with us for this very informative program.”

The program is free

and open to the public. YWCA membership is not required.

Those interested in attending are asked to call the YWCA at 773-6626 to register.

For more information, stop at the YWCA at 418 N. Wayne St. or e-mail info@ywcapiqua.com. The YWCA is handicapped-accessible.

see all of this increase though because owners of farmland can have their parcels taxed according to their values in agriculture rather than full market value.

“We’re hoping to at least bring in the same amount maybe a little bit more,” Forsythe said.

The fo re c a s t assumes that the upcoming income tax renewal levy will pass.

This is a 1.25 percent income tax that will be up for renewal in November 2014.

expected to be one librarian, one custodian, half a secretarial position and the administrative assistant. Larson assured everyone that the reductions will come from attrition. The superintendent added that he sees one of the secretaries taking on the EMIS Coordinator role which explains the loss of a half secretarial position. He added that when the new building is ready one of the principals plans to retire.

He does see the need for three principals though as he hopes to have one of them take over an area such as curriculum or athletics. Miller will return to a principal role.

the district is looking closely at technology and the possibility of digital textbooks.

“Eventually the days of students carrying five or six big, heavy textbooks are going to be no more,” he said.

He added that the district is looking into how they could make digital textbooks available to every student.

“It’s become a real challenge for districts.

We hope to have a game plan by the end of this year and a budget by the end of this year for digital textbooks,” Larson said. He added that in the near future Ohio Achievement Assessments will be given online.

Board From page 1 that,” Forsythe said.

Following the forecast’s passage, Larson and Forsythe briefed the Finance Advisory Committee on information from the document.

“It’s very different than a year ago. We ended up better than we thought,” Larson said.

State Foundation

This positive outcome is in large part due to the governor’s biennial budget.

Through the budget, Covington saw a little more than a 6 percent increase in State Foundation funding.

Larson added that many districts are unhappy with the budget and are encouraging changes. He said because of this, “We can’t assume that we’re going to see 6 percent every year and we can’t spend like that either.” The five year forecast has the little more than 6 percent increase per year for FY (fiscal year)14 and FY15. FY 16 and FY17 assume a 2 percent increase each year in per pupil funding. And, FY18 has a 1 percent increase in per pupil funding.

The forecast also includes an estimated $40,000 a year in Casino Revenue.

Real Estate and Income Taxes

The Miami County Auditor is re - evaluating all properties in the county.

Residential property values are expected to decline by 7.5 percent; however, agricultural values are expected to increase by 35 percent. Schools will not

Personnel Services

FY14 has a 2.5 percent salary increase for employees. A part time teacher and a full time administrative assistant are also included in FY14.

People are already working in these positions. Larson assured that the administrative assistant position is temporary and is needed while the building project is happening.

“Financially, we could do this. If this would’ve put us in the red, we wouldn’t have done it,” he said regarding moving high school Principal Ken Miller to the Administrative Assistant position.

FY15 through FY18 includes a 1 percent salary increase. These years have not been negotiated and the 1 percent simply serves as a place holder.

The fo re c a s t includes seven teacher retirements through the years. And, FY17 has the move into the new building which will bring staff reductions. These are

Retirement/ Insurance Benefits

FY14 and FY15 have medical insurance premiums increasing 6.5 percent. Ten percent is projected for FY16, and 8 percent for FY17 and FY18.

Purchased Services

Capital Outlay

The purchase of two new buses has been included in the forecast with one in FY15 and one in FY17.

Currently, the district has six buses in route and three spares.

“We need to start a plan to replace and retire some buses,” Larson said.

Debt Services

A 2 percent increase is included for each year of the forecast.

Thirty thousand dollars is budgeted in FY15 and FY16 to purchase texts to align with the Common Core Standards. Larson said

During the summer and fall of 2011, the district used House Bill 264 to upgrade various items such as lighting in an effort to make the schools more energy efficient.

This area of the forecast ref lects loan repayments to make these upgrades. The repayments will be made over five years with the savings from the reduced energy consumption.

For more information The district’s five year forecast can be found on their Website at www.covington.k12. oh.us.

mance gaps between groups of students on the local school report card.

Springcreek’s AMO for 2012-13 received an A, indicating that all students are succeeding in math and reading. Both Favorite Hill and High Street received a B.

“ The consistency between all three buildings is the ability to close the achievement gap for kids that have economic disadvantages or other factors against them,” Anderson said. “When you look at all three of us, we were able to achieve that.”

never know is whether or not their furnace has a cracked heat exchange,” Rindler said. “The furnace may appear to be working normally, but they may be filling their house with carbon monoxide. The only way to tell is to get a carbon monoxide detector.”

Rindler said homeowners should also get their furnaces checked if it’s been a few years since maintenance has been performed.

“We have had a pretty mild fall and a lot of people have not turned their furnaces on,”

Rindler said. “We have had a few (fire) runs where furnaces were not maintained … so now is the time to test your furnace and make sure they are well-maintained.”

Though furnace checks may cost about $100, Rindler said that money could help prevent a furnace fire and may even make a furnace operate more efficiently.

“I fully expect there will be some furnace fires this fall and it is that time of year,” the fire chief said. “We see it every year.”

There’s a 5 percent increase each year for these purchases. FY17 includes a reduction of curriculum services purchased from the Miami County Educational Services Center.

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Promise From page 1 able to work with them.

We rely on the families and include them as an integral part of learning.”

Schools of Promise must have a 75 percent or better average proficiency rate on the Ohio Achievement Assessments and (for high schools) the Ohio

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Louise McKinney of Hamilton; and several aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Oscar Russell; grandmother, Carol Jeanette Russell-Kauffman; his grandfather, Clinton Wintrow; and step grandfather, Vern Kauffman.

Nathan was a construction worker and his hobbies included working on cars and being with his family and friends.

A funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy. Visitation will be Sunday from 2-5 p.m. at the funeral home.

Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery, Troy.

Condolences may be left for the family at www. fisher-cheneyfuneralhome. com.

Graduation Tests for the 2012-13 school year. Other criteria include requiring the schools to serve at least 40 percent economically disadvantaged students and to have an A or B grade for their annual measurable objective (AMO) for narrowing perfor-

Clocks From page 1 each type of detector is made by a different manufacturer and each one is different.

“We get calls from people saying their (carbon monoxide) detector is beeping and they don’t know what it means,” Rindler said.

Rindler said smoke detectors older than a decade should be replaced and one should be located on each floor of a house and one in each bedroom.

Just as important, Rindler said, are carbon monoxide detectors.

“One thing people

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Bradford council discusses issues Heather Canan

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BRADFORD — The Bradford Village Council recently held its second monthly meeting.

In new business, Robert Smith, son-in-law to a handicapped couple on North Miami Avenue, addressed the council asking if it was possible to dedicate a parking space to handicapped drivers near 145 N. Miami Ave. Smith’s in-laws have both received doctor’s notes stating that they are both handicap. With winter coming and getting around seems to be getting more difficult for the couple, Smith hopes that the town will allow the new designation of a parking spot. As of now these parking spots are marked for two-hour parking. Smith said he has talked with area businesses and owners are fine with the idea.

Council members said that they

have allowed handicap designated spots in the past based on individual cases. After discussion of why and if there were alternative parking choices for the couple, John Lavey made a motion to allow a designated handicap parking spot on North Miami Avenue. Smith was told that removal of the vehicle was a must during snow laden times due to snow removal procedures. The village will supply the handicap sign. Galen Balmert seconded the motion. The motion was passed and carried.

Brice Schmitmeyer, PE, of Fanning-Howey updated the council with how things were coming along on the Waste Water Plant.

Right now networking and the controls are to be finished. He felt that they would meet their goal by finishing the project by the end of the year. The roads will be prepared as best as they can for the winter.

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Partly sunny, breezy

Jeff Wirrig reminisced about how he was around for the start of the old plant.

Curb crews are due in this week Conditions improve today with slightly cooler temand hoping to pour concrete for peratures. curbs, sidewalks and driveways.

High 60, Low 50 The streets will not be completely finished until spring and will be considered a separate project from what is going on now.

William Favorite asked council if anything is going on with the Stitcher Street Project. As of now, the council will seek estimates.

Current project backups caused the Chance Mostly Stitcher Street Project to be postor rain sunny poned and moved over to a new project plan.

Village council meetings are held the second and fourth Thursday of HIGH: 53 LOW: 42 HIGH: 49 LOW: 33 each month. Meetings are scheduled for 7 p.m. and are held in the Council Room located on the second floor of the city building at 115 N. Miami Ave., Bradford.

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Kids will gobble up new class at YWCA

Kiwanian of the Year named

PIQUA — Kids in grades K-4 will love making holiday decorative centerpieces for Thanksgiving from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at the YWCA Piqua.

Instructors Lorna and Stacy Kitchen will help them make a turkey out of fall mums, along with other festive decorations perfect for your holiday table.

“This will be a really fun class for the kids and they will be so proud of their finished product,” said Lynn Marroletti, YWCA program director. “Stacy and Lorna are very creative and will help participants create beautiful decorations that will really add to the festivities of the holiday.”

For more information on class fees or to register, stop at the YWCA at 418 N. Wayne St., call 773-6626 or e-mail info@ywcapiqua.com.

Huff to be guest speaker at YWCA luncheon

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John Leese, right, immediate past president of the Piqua Kiwanis Club, was named Kiwanian of the Year by Tony Sherry, Kiwanis president. Leese served as grand marshal for the annual Kiwanis Halloween Parade on Wednesday.

PIQUA — Gary Huff, city manager of Piqua, will be the guest speaker for the YWCA Monthly Luncheon Series on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The 11 a.m. program is free and open to the public. A noon luncheon follows.

Huff’s program will focus on the programs and projects that the city has underway. He also will discuss some of the highlights during his Huff tenure as Piqua’s city manager.

Reservations for the program are requested by Monday, Nov. 11.

For more information or to make a reservation, stop at the YWCA at 418 N. Wayne St., call 773-6626 or e-mail info@ywcapiqua.com. The YWCA is handicap accessible.

Ohio AG unveils mobile academy training facility C O LU M BU S — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today unveiled three new mobile training facilities now available to law enforcement agencies across the state.

The new Portable Tra i n i n g Fa c i l i t y (P TF) units are designed to train officers on techniques for responding to active shooter incidents.

The P TFs are designed primarily for use by patrol officers.

“Ohio’s patrol offi-

cers are the street officers who will arrive to an active shooting scene well before a SWAT team has time to mobilize,” DeWine said. “It is important that our patrol officers get the chance to practice and sharpen their skills in responding to these types of emergencies.”

The facilities can also be used to train officers on responding to unknown disturbances and on conducting a building

search.

The PTFs are composed of collapsible wall panels that can be assembled to mimic the interior structure of a building or home.

“We are excited to offer these PTFs because many law enforcement agencies don’t have access to empty buildings that will allow them to conduct this type of training,” DeWine said. “Plus, a vacant building only has a single interior struc-

ture, while these facilities can be reassembled into several different layouts that give officers a unique training experience.”

The facilities are part of the Ohio Peace Officer Tra i n i n g Academy’s (OPOTA) Mobile Academy program that was launched by DeWine in 2012.

OPOTA’s Mobile Academy revolutionizes the approach to law enforcement training by bringing the

training tools to the officers, instead of requiring officers to travel to an OPOTA campus.

In addition to the P T Fs , O P O TA’s Mobile Academy also gives officers access to driving and firearm simulators which contain hundreds of realistic scenarios.

OPOTA also employs expert instructors to conduct the training, most of which is available at no cost to local agencies.

The PTFs and simulators are funded by taxes from Ohio’s casinos.

Two - p e rc e n t of Ohio’s casino taxes are deposited into the Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Training Fund.

Law enforcement a ge n c i e s wishing to bring a Mobile Academy t ra i n ing facility to their department should email askOPOTA@ ohioattorneygeneral. gov.

Police Reports Criminal damage: Police responded to Mulligan’s Pub, 110 W. High St., after the front window of the new business was broken out sometime overnight.

No entry was gained. Police are reviewing surveillance footage. The investigation continues.

Menacing: Police responded to the 1100 block of Echo Lake after two roommates got into a fight. One of the roommates made threats against the other roommate with a knife.

Sex offense: Members of the Piqua Police Department assisted local,

state and federal authorities with conducting sex offender registration checks in and throughout the Piqua area.

Burglary: Police responded to the 400 block of South Main Street after a homeowner left his home and returned 45 minutes later to find a video game system and a power cord gone.

Police found no retrievable prints. There are no suspects at this time.

Theft: Police responded to the Colonial Terrace Apartments, 1901 Covington Ave., after an apartment was burglarized.

The resident said the crime took place three weeks ago

and stated electronic equipment was stolen.

Disturbance: Police responded to the 2200 block of Deerfield Crossing after a live-in boyfriend and his girlfriend got into an argument about a kitten that died. There was no physical violence reported.

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Assist citizen: Police responded to the 600 block of West North Street after a woman said she watched her neighbors kids and was never paid for babysitting them. Police told the woman it was a civil matter.

Menacing: Po l i c e

responded to the Upper Valley Family Care facility, 200 Kienle Drive, after a female was “acting erratically” and causing a disturbance at the building.

The subject was warned for trespassing.

Theft: Police responded to the 500 block of West High Street after a woman was at the dentist and asked her boyfriend to watch the purse. He let someone he didn’t know watch the purse and that person stole $4. The suspect gave the money back. No charges were filed.

Theft: Police responded to the intersection of West Water and Walker streets

after a resident reported that a vehicle was stolen in the last couple of days. The victim said he was out of town for a funeral and came back to find the vehicle gone.

Animal complaint: Police responded to the 500 block of North Downing Street after a resident reported that a neighbor’s dog keeps coming “into his yard to defecate.” The dog owner was advised of the appropriate city ordinances.

Assault: Police responded to the 1000 block of Park Avenue after a suspect kicked and punched a male who was at the residence to help his sister move out.

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Who needs a treadmill?

Almost a year ago my no other course of action brother and sister-in-law — it was already dark, gifted me with a Fit Bit, the girls were knee deep a clip-on digital pedom- in their own activities eter about the size of my in the house, I’ve yet to thumb that has become move the treadmill from quite a partner in crime my mom’s house to the in terms of calculating new digs — what option how many did I have? steps I may Jogging in take through place. any given day.

Yep, I Now, accordstarted joging to various ging in place, health articles watching the and journals, Fit Bit slowly an individual creep up from should take its miserable no less than 1,000 steps 10,000 steps bethany j. royer to 2,500, a day, or the followed by Columnist equivalent of 3,200 and 5 miles. For an individ- after seemingly forever ual such as myself who breaking 5,000 which spends a horrendous still wasn’t enough. So amount of time at a desk I continued jogging behind a computer, get- in place, then moved ting 1,000 to 3,000 steps around the living room, is an average, which isn’t in and out between furnigood, it’s not healthy. So ture, made a couple runs the Fit Bit has been quite up the staircase and back an eye-opener as to my down, more jogging in activity levels and I had place with the cat and been doing pretty good dog watching me in upon first receipt. I’ve confusion. The munchbeen making it a routine kins shouting from their to walk every chance I rooms about all the comget, however, as time has motion. progressed, especially The interesting over the fall, I’ve noticed thing about the Fit Bit, my routine has taken though, after this forced a turn for the worse. jogging in place is that Especially after I decid- I found the calculations ed to tie the daily results to be imprecise. For through an application instance, having forgot to my Twitter account it for an entire day, the where I could keep track pedometer mysteriously in the most simplified of read two dozen plus manners … now there’s a steps even after a midHalloween horror story night self-reset. How is in the making. this possible? Is the Fit Just so you know, it Bit walking about on has been recently deter- its own? Perhaps it was mined that sitting is the calculating the jostling new smoking —it’s a from yesterday’s pants killer. While I’m always to today? Which isn’t a wanton to make the good sign as that would minimum 10,000 steps mean readings in general per day (You are reading are always off. Course, a column by a wanton there were the few occaAppalachian Trail Thrusions where I’ve slipped hiker, after all) it doesn’t happen on a regular the Fit Bit into a pajama basis as much as I would pocket and wake up the like, not even close. It following morning with seems I’m tied to a chair a ridiculous hundred far more than I would plus steps. Do I toss that like, even though the trip much or am I sleep walkto Gatlinburg last month ing?

Then there was the did give me the first-ever 20,000 step badge and time I left the Fit Bit clipped to a pair of pants then some. that was then thrown Go me!

Anyway, I enjoy the into the wash machine Fit Bit and what it tells followed by the dryer. me in terms of my activ- The pedometer not only ity, or lack thereof, but survived the excursion sometimes having the but the cycle of wash and information easily acces- dry is equivalent to some sible can get a little out of 500 odd steps. Which hand. For instance, as 8 means, who needs a p.m. some weekday drew treadmill? near I found I’d taken Bethany J. Royer is the mother of two something of a miser- munchkins and third-year psycholable 1,000 or so pathetic ogy student. She can be reached at steps. Appalled, but with broyer@civitasmedia.com.

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Commentary

Reversing the GOP ‘Death spiral’ When Ronald Reagan won the a single vote, but it would put us White House in 1980, the electorate on the playing field where we can was 88 percent white. Last year, only compete.”

Republicans can compete. Many 72 percent of the voters casting ballots for president were white, and by immigrants are Catholics with con2016, that number will plunge again. servative social views; they are often This trend poses an enormous small business people who identify problem for Republicans. As Sen. with the Republican message of lower Lindsey Graham of South Carolina taxes and less regulation. George W. said on NBC earlier this year, “we’re Bush made outreach to Latinos a in a demographic death spiral as a major element of his campaigns and won 44 percent of the group in 2004, party.”

But instead of recognizing that far above Mitt Romney’s 27 percent eight years later. demographic reality, instead Years ago, Cokie covered of appealing to new vota naturalization ceremony ers, many Republicans are in California, and both parfollowing a very different ties had set up registration strategy: Stop them from tables outside the event. voting.

The GOP table was crowdThis strategy of exclusion ed by new citizens who has two elements. One is explained, “I came here to to oppose any path to citimake it. The Republicans zenship for the 11 million Cokie Roberts are the party of winners and undocumented immigrants the Democrats are the party already in this country. The Columnist of losers.” other is to make it more But that advantage has difficult for marginalized citizens — the poor, the elderly, been squandered by the party’s the uneducated — to exercise their relentless hostility on immigration; the new laws making it harder to rights to vote.

Both options might produce short- vote in many states are blemishing term benefits. If those newcomers the Republican reputation as well. As don’t gain citizenship, they can’t in the immigration debate, supportvote. And a slew of new state laws — ers of restrictive laws say they are requiring photo IDs to vote, shorten- merely upholding a legal principle. ing poll hours, hindering registration They are necessary to root out voter drives — would clearly decrease the fraud. But voter fraud is a myth. The real reason is maximizing political Democratic base.

But in the long run, demography advantage. A federal appeals court is destiny. Smart Republicans like judge, Richard Posner, wrote the Graham know that and are back- majority opinion in a 2-to-1 ruling ing another option: inclusion, not on an Indiana case that upheld ID exclusion. Welcome those new voters laws; his decision was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 2008 and instead of driving them away.

Start with immigration. Republican is often cited by Republicans as the opponents of reform usually cast legal justification for their legislative their position as a legal principle. proposals.

Posner recently recanted his deciLaws must be upheld. Violators must be punished. Citizenship is “amnes- sion, however, and said of the dissenting judge, “I think he was right.” ty.”

But the underlying motive is poli- That judge, the late Terence Evans, tics, not principal, and Rep. Raul had directly pinpointed the real reaLabrador of Idaho made that clear son for the Indiana law, which had during a recent speech at the Heritage passed on a straight party-line vote: Foundation. “It would be crazy” for “Let’s not beat around the bush: The Republicans to negotiate with the Indiana voter photo ID law is a notpresident over an immigration bill, too-thinly veiled attempt to discourhe warned, because “he’s trying to age election day turnout by folks destroy the Republican Party” by believed to skew Democratic.”

Let’s not beat around the bush, enfranchising more Democratic voteither. Graham is right, the “demoers.

Exactly the opposite is true. The graphic death spiral” will eventually “crazy” course for Republicans is squeeze the life out of the Republican denying reality and opposing an Party if they don’t take steps to immigration bill. As Graham says, “If reverse it. But on two key issues, we don’t pass immigration reform, immigration and voter ID laws, the if we don’t get it off the table in a GOP is working against its own longreasonable practical way, it doesn’t term interests. It’s alienating the matter who you run in 2016.” Sen. very people it will need to win elecJohn McCain of Arizona made a simi- tions in the future. lar point during the Senate debate over immigration earlier this year: Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at steve“Passing this bill would not give us cokie@gmail.com.

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Public officials can be contacted through the following addresses and telephone numbers: n Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, warD5comm@piquaoh.org, 773-7929 (home) n John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 937-570-4063 n William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner, ward2comm@piquaoh.org, 773-8217 n Joe Wilson, 3rd Ward Commissioner, ward3comm@piquaoh. org, 778-0390 n Judy Terry, 4th Ward Commissioner, ward4comm@piquaoh. org, 773-3189 n City Manager Gary Huff, ghuff@piquaoh.org, 778-2051

n Miami County Commissioners: John “Bud” O’Brien, Jack Evans and Richard Cultice, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373 440-5910; commissioners@co-miami.oh.us n John R. Kasich, Ohio governor, Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 644-0813, Fax: (614) 466-9354 n State Sen. Bill Beagle, 5th District, Ohio Senate, First Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-6247; e-mail: SD05@sen. state.oh.us n State Rep. Richard Adams, 79th District, House of Representatives, The Riffe Center, 77 High St. 13th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 466-8114, Fax: (614) 719-3979; district79@ohr.state.oh.us n Jon Husted, Secretary of State, 180 E. Broad St. 15th floor, Columbus, OH 53266-0418 (877) 767-6446, (614) 466-2655

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To the Editor: I was asked why I would ever want the job of Piqua city commissioner and I answered by saying that it’s a tough job but could be very rewarding.

It’s a chance to put a citizen’s perspective into how to mold a city.

Some people say I come off as having a negative attitude, it probably comes off from the work that I do, I start with a destroyed/damaged vehicle and when I’m done it’s back to pre-accident condition.

So I always look for what is wrong first or what is not needed to see what can be fixed.

As for Piqua, my opponent says Piqua is a better place in his last four years as being a commissioner, really?

How many corrections to the charter have we had since its review? Yep, he was on the charter review. And some was major items that would of shut down the ability to run our city.

He continues to OK projects that we have very little ability to take care of just because it is pretty.

Look at in front of the Post Office, when it rains you better have hip waters on to walk in the crosswalk from all the puddles, then watch people trying to park in that design.

Yep, he OKed that, and ask him about it, don’t want to even talk about it. How abut fixing it, or better yet rip it out of there?

How about the streets?

When was the last time your street was paved?

Do they have a plan to address this? Oh they are working on this, we should have been on this years ago.

This is one of the most important things the people say that concerns them.

How about making this a business friendly city.

How about revising the sign code, building code, zoning code and city policies.

Oh, they say it is brutal and we don’t want to go there.

How long are we going to sit back and watch our neighboring cities run circles around us?

I can’t say what I need in 400 words or less but if you think it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get hardcore on moving Piqua forward then I ask for your vote on Nov. 5 it is a city wide vote.

Thanks, James Cruse 3rd Ward Piqua city candidate

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5 Entertainment ‘Pit Bulls and Parolees’ season premiere Saturday Exorcism of 1949 continues to fascinate St. Louis Friday, November 1, 2013

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Stacey Plaisance Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pit bull is trapped at the bottom of a pumping station near a New Orleans levee. Rescuers joined by a Louisiana prison inmate out on work release are frantically seeking to pull the dog to safety. This is real-life drama and the television cameras are rolling.

Tia Maria Torres, star of Animal Planet’s “Pit Bulls and Parolees,” has moved her long-running reality TV series from southern California to New Orleans, where hurricanes and overbreeding have left many pit bulls abandoned or abused. Not to mention, she will have to contend with the blood sport of dogfighting, a scourge in Louisiana and illegal in every state.

Torres, the tattoo-sporting founder and owner of the nation’s largest pit bull rescue center, has long paired abused and abandoned dogs with the parolees who care for them.

She launched the Villalobos Rescue Center more than 20 years ago in greater Los Angeles and last year relocated to south Louisiana.

The show’s fifth season premieres Saturday at 10 p.m. (ET/ PT) and joins a growing list of Louisiana-based reality TV shows, among them the popular A&E series, “Duck Dynasty,” and the just-premiered A&E series, “The Governor’s Wife,” which follows the flashy former Louisiana governor, Edwin Edwards, and his much younger third wife.

For the first time, “Pit bulls and Parolees” will include an employee who is an inmate on a special work release program who is nearing the end of a 10-year sentence for drug and firearm possession.

Matt Eldridge, an inmate from a correctional center in Jackson, La., has 15 months to go on his sentence.

“How fantastic that they offer that,” said Torres, who has never done jail time and doesn’t drink, smoke or do drugs, but feels mis-

judged — much like the people and dogs she works so hard to help.

Torres said she moved to Louisiana because she knew there was a need.

“Everybody said there are a lot of leftovers from Katrina, a lot of stray dogs, a lot of dogs that need help,” she said. “I’ll be the first to admit. I said, ‘Hey, I’m from Los Angeles. I can handle it.’ And I did not see this coming.”

Hurricanes quickly proved a challenge to Torres and her parolees.

Last year, the cameras were running as Torres worked to rescue her own dogs from her suburban New Orleans home, which flooded during Hurricane Isaac. In 2005, thousands of dogs were abandoned during Hurricane Katrina, and once flood-ravaged neighborhoods became breeding grounds for generations of strays loosed on city streets.

“We’ve basically become the dog pound,” Torres said. “We’ve never had so many dogs, ever.”

The center’s main shelter, a 50,000-square-foot warehouse, is home to more than 200 dogs.

Dozens of others are kept at six so-called satellite locations in houses in the metro-New Orleans area. There’s no longer a Villalobos Rescue Center in California. Torres moved the entire operation, including the dogs she wasn’t able to find homes for, to New Orleans.

Taking in so many dogs has come with a price. Her bills for rent, utilities, payroll and veterinary expenses have more than doubled, from roughly $20,000 a month in California to well over $40,000 a month in Louisiana.

The lack of resources in Louisiana, including low-cost spay and neuter programs, was a shock, Torres added.

“In Los Angeles, we were spoiled,” she said. “We had so many animal shelters. We had state-of-the-art animal shelters. We had lots of foundations that would donate for spaying and neutering, for medical costs, a lot more rescue

groups. But here, we feel alone.”

At the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, one of only a handful of animal rescue agencies in New Orleans, more than half the dogs there are pit bulls or pit bull mixes.

The stigma associated with the breed is the most challenging issue when it comes to adoption, said the LSPCA’s director, Ana Zorrilla.

She said the solution is spaying and neutering the dogs and providing proper training and socializing.

“They’re great companions to families when trained well and socialized well,” Zorrilla said.

“Tia’s program has brought a national spotlight on the challenges of pit bulls across the country, not only in New Orleans. I think any attention that helps the larger community see them as valuable dogs, as dogs that have great potential for companionship, of being part of a family, I think that’s wonderful.”

As in past seasons, Torres said, upcoming episodes will include heart-rending rescues, adoptions and the struggles associated with the center’s daily operations.

“It’s going to make you cry, and it’s going to make you smile all at the same time,” she said. “The adoptions, there’s going to be some that, I’m going to warn you now get out your box of Kleenex, and there are going to be some that are going to make you stand up and cheer.”

Viewers can also expect to see more of the parolees, including Earl Moffett. After serving two 11-year prison sentences for robbery convictions, Moffett now gives tours of the center to fans of the show and visitors looking to adopt a dog. After a recent tour, he posed for pictures with some fans from Alabama.

“Never in a million years I thought I would be a part of something like this, but I’m loving it,” he said. “After serving 22 years in prison, that’s like a whole ‘nother life right there, so this is very much a new beginning for me.”

Alan Scher Zagier Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Saint Louis University junior Zach Grummer-Strawn has never seen “The Exorcist,” the 1973 horror film considered one of the finest examples of unadulterated cinematic terror. He’s only vaguely familiar with the monthlong 1949 demon-purging ritual at his school on which the film and William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel were based.

But just in time for Halloween, Jesuit scholars have joined a whole new generation of horror buffs in St. Louis to recount the supernatural incident. The university hosted a panel discussion Tuesday on the exorcism, which involved the treatment of an unidentified suburban Washington, D.C., boy.

About 500 people crammed into Pius XII Library, with some spilling into the library aisles, leaning against pillars or sitting on desks.

“I’d like to believe it’s the real thing,” said Grummer-Strawn, a theology and sociology student from Atlanta. “But you just can’t know. That’s part of why we’re here. It’s the pursuit of truth. And it’s such a great story.”

The university scholars and guest speaker Thomas Allen, author of a 1993 account of the events at the school’s former Alexian Brothers Hospital, emphasized that definitive proof that the boy known only as “Robbie” was possessed by malevolent spirits is unattainable.

Maybe he instead suffered from mental illness or sexual abuse — or fabricated the entire experience.

Like most of religion’s basic tenets, it ultimately comes down to faith.

“If the devil can convince us he does not exist, then half the battle is won,” said the Rev. Paul Stark, vice president for mission

and ministry at the 195-year-old Catholic school. He opened the discussion with a prayer from the church’s exorcism handbook, imploring God to “fill your servants with courage to fight that reprobate dragon.”

Some of the non-students in the audience spoke of personal connections to an episode that has enthralled generations of St. Louis residents.

One man described living near the suburban St. Louis home where the 13-year-old boy arrived in the winter of 1949 (his Lutheran mother was a St. Louis native who married a Catholic). Another said she was a distant cousin of Father William Bowdern, who led the exorcism ritual after consulting with the archbishop of St. Louis but remained publicly silent about his experiences — though he did tell Allen it was “the real thing.”

Bowdern died in 1983.

Bowdern was assisted by the Rev. Walter Halloran, who unlike his colleague spoke openly with Allen and expressed his skepticism about potential paranormal events before his death a decade ago.

“He talked more about the boy, and how much he suffered, and less about the rite,” Allen said.

“Here was a scared, confused boy caught up in something he didn’t understand.

“He told me, ‘I simply don’t know,’ and that is where I leave it,” the author added. “I just don’t know.”

Allen zealously protects the anonymity of “Robbie,” despite others’ efforts to track him down to this day.

Gary Mackey, a 59-year-old accountant who left work early to attend the campus event, said he also is unsure whether “The Exorcist” was a work of fiction or instead a riveting real-life account of barely comprehensible forces.

Mom in tug-of-war between son and boyfriend DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced five years and have five children, ranging in age from 23 to 8. When I was having trouble with my middle son, “Logan,” I found help from his godfather, “Carl.”

I hadn’t seen Carl in years.

He was my ex’s best friend when Logan was born.

Long story short, Carl and I have been in a committed relationship for two years now. He has been more a part of our lives than my ex has. Four of my kids love Carl, and he is very involved in their lives. Logan, however, hates him and throws a fit if his name is mentioned.

I have tried to explain that I didn’t intend this to happen, but Logan feels I “took away his godfather from him.” Carl is still there for him, but Logan

will have none of it and refuses to listen.

Carl and I mainly spend time together on the weekends we don’t have our kids, or meet for lunch or breakfast. I’m at a loss. Logan is now 17. I don’t want to lose Carl. He’s a great man and wants what’s best for me and the kids. What should I do? — PULLED IN TWO DIRECTIONS IN CANADA DEAR PULLED: Logan may be 17, but he is acting like a child. Do not let his behavior discourage you from having a life. In another year he will be 18 — and either concentrating on finishing his education or finding a job. Logan needs to realize that he hasn’t “lost” a godfather, and that everyone may eventually be

gaining a stepdad. He also needs to understand that if he can’t accept it, he will find himself odd man out in an otherwise healthy, happy and functional family.

keeps saying he will, but I don’t know how much longer I want to wait. I know it’s unfair to expect to change someone, but I would not be comfortable getting engaged or DEAR ABBY: My married to Todd boyfriend of five if he’s still getting years, “Todd,” is a stoned. I love him. daily pot smoker.

Should I give it We met during our more time or move senior year of col- Dear Abby on? — PATIENT lege, and I knew Abigail Van GIRLFRIEND IN he smoked. I don’t SAN DIEGO Buren use drugs, and I D E A R assumed that after col- GIRLFRIEND: You have lege he would grow up. been patient enough. If However, it seems unlike- Todd had any intention ly that he will quit, and of quitting, it would have frankly, I’m sick of it. happened already. Four I have asked Todd for years of procrastination the last four years to please are enough. Because you stop, but he hasn’t. He feel so strongly about

this, it’s time to move on because your boyfriend is not going to change.

DEAR ABBY: I would like to share a Thanksgiving tradition our family has enjoyed for years. We realized that after a big holiday dinner we weren’t ready to eat a lot of dessert, so we started having “Pie Night” the evening before Thanksgiving. After a light meal we could enjoy the various pies or cakes family members brought.

It became one of our favorite traditions.

My father suggested it as a social event/fundraiser to the pastor of our local church, and it was one of their best-attended

events. Our family is scattered across the country now, but those times were some of my favorites, and I thought some of your readers might like to incorporate it into their holiday celebrations, too.

— GOOD TIMES IN ARIZONA DEAR GOOD TIMES: They might, indeed, especially if they are trying to spread those extra calories over a longer period. (And it would be a good idea to exercise the day after they indulge.)

Thanks for the suggestion.

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

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Obeying: In their best interest One of the most problematic words in America’s post-1960s parenting language is “cooperate.”

“I want my children to cooperate,” a parent tells me. She tells me this in the midst of complaining that her kids rarely do what she asks them to do. That’s another problematic word: ask. Those two problematic words go hand-in-hand, in fact. Parents who want cooperation tend to ask as opposed to tell. Asking is nice. Telling isn’t. And today ’s parents are trying their best to be nice.

Which, by the way, is why they often suffer total cerebral meltdowns during which they get red in the face and begin screaming like lunatics. Their children have no appreciation for their niceness; they simply take full advantage of it.

I tell the above Mom that the reason her kids don’t obey her is she wants cooperation. That necessitates

a peer-to -peer relation- not feel comfortable with ship. Neighbors cooperate. authority. They are tryFriends cooperate. Spouses ing to avoid being seen by c o o p e rat e .

C owo rke rs their children as authority cooperate. But the CEO of figures. So, when they communicate expecthe company, t at i o n s and when he tells instructions two cooperatthey use pering coworkers suasive speech what he wants, as opposed to he’s not lookauthoritative ing for cooperaspeech.

The tion. He wants symptom of this them to obey. is the ubiquity Two Army priof “okay?” at vates assigned Living With Children the end of a parto the same ent’s persuasive task will coopJohn Rosemond sentence, as in erate with one another. But the officer “Will you please hang your who assigned them to the jacket up in the closet, task is not seeking their okay?”

Second, they want to be cooperation. He expects liked by their kids. They them to obey.

When the relationship act, therefore, as if the is not between equals, the parent- child relationship proper word is obedience. is peer-to-peer. When they The fact that so many of speak to their children, today ’s parents talk in they bend down, grab their terms of wanting their kids knees (i.e., getting down to to “cooperate” reflects two their kids’ level, which is what some magazine artithings: First, these parents do cle told them to do), and

ask their kids for cooperation…ending with “okay?”

They look and even sound like their asking the king for a favor. In effect, the superior in the relationship is the child.

Why do parents act in this absurd, counterpro ductive fashion? Because they believe capital letters mean something. People with capital letters after their names—mental health professionals, mostly—injected toxic theory into parenting in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and it lives on.

Take, for example, Swedish psychologist Kajsa Loenn-Rhodin, one of the authors of a Swedish parenting course called “All Children in the Centre.”

Says Loenn-Rhodin, “If you want a child to cooperate, the best way is to have a close relationship so the child will want to cooperate with you.”

As do most child mental health “experts,” Loenn-

Rhodin proposes that relationship leads to coop eration. Maybe between c owo rke rs , n e i g h b o rs , spouses, and Army privates it does, but not between General and private, CEO and employee, or parent and child. Parents should expect nothing less than obedience and reflect the expectation in their body language (relaxed, not threatening) and speech (straightforward, brief, and lacking “okay?”). Parents who expect less than obedience will get less than obedience.

Why should children obey? Because it’s in their best interest, that’s why.

This is about the welfare of children, not parents. The best research into parenting outcomes finds, and conclusively so, that the more obedient the child, the happier the child.

But then, one doesn’t need research to know that.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: www. johnrosemond.com

Big Bird, Elmo to encourage kids to eat produce Darlene Superville Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A trip down the grocery store produce aisle could soon feel like a stroll down “Sesame Street.”

Under an agree ment being announced Wednesday by Michelle Obama, the nonprofit organization behind the popular children’s educational program will allow the produce industry to use Elmo, Big Bird and Sesame Street’s other furry characters free of charge to help market fruits and veggies to kids.

The goal is to boost consumption of fruits and vegetables among children who often turn up their noses at them.

Sesame Workshop is waiving its licensing fee for two years under an arrangement with the Produce Marketing Association and the Partnership for a Healthier America, a nonprofit organization that supports the first lady’s nationwide “Let’s Move” campaign to reduce childhood obesity in the U.S. Starting as early as next spring, eggplant could be brought to you by Elmo, Big Bird could be pushing the beets and the Cookie Monster could become the Celery Monster.

The produce asso ciation will develop guidelines for how members should use the characters.

Shoppers and, any children who accompany them, can expect

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First Lady Michelle Obama with PBS Sesame Street’s characters Elmo, left, and Rosita, right, as they help promote fresh fruit and vegetable consumption to kids in an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013.

to see their favorite Sesame Street characters on bagged, boxed and individual pieces of produce.

“Just imagine what will happen when we take our kids to the grocery store, and they see Elmo and Rosita and the other Sesame Street Muppets they love up and down the produce aisle,” Mrs. Obama was to say.

“Imagine what it will be like to have our kids begging us to buy them fruits and vegetables instead of cookies, candy and chips.”

The c o l l a b o ra tion between Sesame Workshop and the produce association will show kids that “fruits and vegetables don’t just make us feel good, they taste good, too,” she said.

Sam Kass, the executive director of “Let’s Move,” applauded Sesame Workshop for agreeing to waive its licensing fee, which is a major source of income.

“For them to step in and do this is a really big thing,” said Kass, who also is an assis-

tant White House chef.

Sherrie We s t i n , executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Sesame Workshop, said it was too early to say how much revenue would be lost.

Westin said waiving the licensing fee is not normal practice, but that the deal gives the company another outlet to push the healthier- eating messages that appear on its program.

“It would be a shame not to use them to that end,” she said of the

Sesame Street characters.

Larry Soler, president and chief executive of the partnership, said kids younger than 5 don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables, and that it gets worse as children get older.

He said the agreement hopefully will “drive excitement” and interest in fruits and vegetables that might not otherwise be there.

The announcement will be the first since a White House summit on food marketing to children that

Mrs. Obama convened last month, where she urged a broad range of companies to do more to promote healthier foods to youngsters.

Sesame Street characters Elmo and Rosita were joining her for the announcement.

Afterward, the first lady was taking them to her produce garden on the South Lawn for the annual fall harvest.

They were to be helped by children who attend schools in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.

Making the grade at parent-teacher conferences It’s almost Parent-Teacher Conference time again, and while the conference you attend may only be 15 minutes long, that time is vital in the development of a parentteacher partnership. Here are a few suggestions for parents to help make the conference experience a productive one.

1. Contact the teacher immediately for any changes in your appointment.

The teacher needs to meet with 20 to 25 sets of parents. It’s usually possible to reschedule, but the earlier you do it, the better.

2. Be on time. Take advantage of every scheduled minute by being punctual. This also helps the teacher to stay on schedule which is a courtesy to other parents.

3. Contact the teacher in advance if you want to discuss a specific concern about your child. This allows

the teacher to prepare and organize of the classroom. materials to address your particular 6. It’s okay to be frustrated. Calmly issue. explain your feelings to the teacher 4. Realize that you may have to and work together to find solutions return for a follow-up meeting. The to the problems that your child faces. situation of your child Come in with an open may require another mind and be ready to appointment to further hear suggestions. the discussion. Or, if a 7. Teachers are great plan for improvement is re s o u rc e s .

T h e y ’re put into place, it will be experts in their fields, necessary to have other and they’ll be glad to meetings to report on share their knowledge of progress. standardized test scores 5. Remember that or any educational topic. teachers and parents 8. Frequently check Keeping It Real are all on the same side. your child’s grades Approach this relationonline. Online grade Holly McElwee ship as a partnership. books are an excellent Everyone’s goal is the educational tool for monitoring educational progsuccess of your child. Teachers love ress. If you’ve been a regular visitor it when parents work alongside them to the online grade book, you won’t to support the educational endeavors have any surprises when you attend

the conference.

9. If the teacher uses technology to communicate, such as e-mails or websites, be a frequent user of these tools. Not only will it give you vital information about the class, but you’ll get a feeling for who the teacher is. You’ll walk into the conference with a greater understanding of classroom expectations.

10. Both parents should attend the conference, if possible. This gives the teacher a chance to meet and interact with both parents.

When teachers and parents work together, everyone wins. View the parent-teacher conference as an opportunity for you to help your child be as educationally successful as possible. The teacher is your greatest ally in this endeavor.

Visit www.travelingteacheronline.com to read more.

Information Call ROB KISER sports editor, at 773-2721, ext. 209 from 8 p.m. to midnight weekdays.

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In brief n Pep rally set for tonight

If the Piqua football team beats Troy tonight, there will be a pep rally at the Gazebo at 9:30 p.m.

Kickoff for the game is 7 p.m.

n PressPros to air Troy game

PressProsMagazine.com will air the Piqua at Troy football game tonight.

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 Loramie game

ScoresBroadcast.com will air the Riverside at Fort Loramie football game.

Air time is 6:35 p.m.

On Saturday, they will air the D-IV volleyball regional championship game.

Air time is 1:40 p.m.

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) 339-4383.

n Piqua hoops fundraiser

The Piqua boys basketball program will hold an “All You Can Eat” pancake breakfast made by Chris Cakes of Ohio on Nov. 16 from 8-11 a.m. in the Piqua High School commons.

Tickets will be $7 and can be purchased in the Piqua High School office.

Lehman falls to Loramie in four games Rob Kiser

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TIPP CITY — The Lehman volleyball team didn’t go down without a fight Thursday night, but eventually Fort Loramie was just too tall and too much for the Lady Cavaliers in a D-IV regional volleyball semifinal at Tippecanoe High School.

Loramie won 20-25, 25-16, 25-11, 25-22 to advance to play Marion Local in the regional final Saturday.

“We were undersized and Loramie is a really tall team,” Lehman coach Greg Snipes said. “We knew that coming in.

I thought we came out playing great defense and passing the ball well and that’s what you have to do against a team like Loramie.”

After getting in an early 8-3 deficit in the opening game, the Lady Cavaliers caught fire.

Erica Paulus and Olivia Slagle both had big games and Lehman outscored the Redskins 22-12 the rest of the game, finishing it off with an Ava Schmitz ace.

“The first game, we had three options at the net (for the setter),” Snipes said. “We were doing a great job passing the ball.”

The second and third games were a complete reversal.

After Lehman went up 6-3 in the second game, Loramie outscored the Lady Cavaliers 22-10 the rest of that game and dominated the third game.

“They passed the ball and we didn’t pass the ball as well,” Snipes said. “Olivia (Slagle) is a big part of what we do and when we can’t get her involved that makes it tough.”

With a kill and block by Paulus, a Slagle block and Michelle Duritsch kill, Lehman jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the fourth game.

Just as quickly, Loramie scored eighth straight points to go up 10-8.

The Lady Redskins widened the lead to 22-14 before one more Lehman comeback.

After a sideout, Paulus served seven straight points.

She had an ace during the run, Sidney Chapman and Duritsch

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Lehman’s Ava Schmitz, 4, looks for a dig.

had kills and Marianne Hissong finished the run with a block to get Lehman within 22-21.

Loramie was able to finish the match with a 3-1 run from there.

“After the second and third games, we needed to get out to a good start and we did,” Snipes said. “Then, they had that run and took the lead back. But, I was really proud of the heart we showed at the end.”

Ellie Cain dished out 23 assists.

Olivia Slagle had seven kills and four blocks, while Paulus had 12 kills and 23 digs; while Ava Schmitz had four digs.

One thing was certain at the end Thursday night.

The Lady Cavaliers, who finished 17-9, made amazing progress from the start of the season.

“That’s what we talked to the girls about after the match,” Snipes said.

And it continued to the very end.

n Coaches needed at Houston

Michelle Duritsch, 10, taps the ball over the net for Lehman.

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Houston Schools have openings for sevent grade boys basketball, varsity girls track and assistant girls track coaching positions.

Anyone interested should contact John Willoughby at Houston High School — 295-3010 ext 2028.

Stumper team Q: What is the two-

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time defending NBA champion?

Above: Lehman’s Ellie Cain, 22, battles at the net against Fort Loramie’s Renae Meyer, 14.

Right: Olivia Slagle, 14, looks for a kill shot.

Mote guides Indians track to 1926 County title Tennis, golf offered for first time at Piqua A:

Miami

Quoted “This is for you, Boston. You guys deserve it.”

— David Ortiz after the Red Sox beat the Cardinals to win the World Series

DUANE BACHMAN History of Piqua Athletics A Journal Spring, 1926

Although baseball and track will garner most of the attention, there will be a surprise or two on the athletic front at Piqua High School.

The baseball opener was against Sidney and reported in a unique way by the Call.

“Eddie Collins, the two-gun man from Sidney (no relation to the famous two-gun man from Chicago who bosses the White Sox) suffered one bad inning

and the chap who followed him on the slab, one Salty Saitmarsh had an inning that was even worse in the Opening Game of the season here on Saturday afternoon, which were undoubtedly two of the very important reasons for Piqua winning the fray, 13-0.

Of course, ‘Nig’ Comer, who toiled on the mound for Coach Wertz and blanked the invaders after allowing them

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only two hits, and his mates, who socked the ball for an even dozen bangs, may have had something to do with it, but we still maintain that Collins and Saltmarsh were in a way responsible. The band was out in full dress and helped liven things up before the game time, but they weren’t heard – worse luck – after the clash got under way.”

Dayton Roosevelt was

the next opponent. “After watching the young men of Piqua high school doing their stuff yesterday afternoon against Dayton Roosevelt down at the Gem City, fans immediately became convinced that this was Courtesy Week. Being the hosts, the Roosevelts offered the game to Piqua. Just to prove that they were as courteous See 1926 | Page 8

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Gordon happy to stay in Cleveland Working hard to become elite receiver BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Josh Gordon emerged from the other side of the trading deadline exactly where he wanted.

After all the talk, all the rumors, all the “noise,” Cleveland is still his NFL home.

And now that he’s staying with the Browns, Gordon is determined to become an elite wide receiver.

He may be one already.

“I plan on playing like that and practicing like that until I can’t do it anymore,” Gordon said Wednesday. “ That’s what I’m striving for, to be one of the best.”

Those words were surely soothing to the Browns’ front office, which listened to trade offers for the talented 22-year-old with a troubling track record up until Tuesday’s deadline.

Cleveland, though, never got a deal suitable enough to deal Gordon, who for weeks seemed destined for somewhere else.

Gordon never wanted to leave, and he’s thrilled that he’s not going anywhere. “ I ’m definitely relieved,” he said before practice. “I wanted to stay here. I didn’t feel like uprooting myself and moving and starting all over again. I feel as though we have a lot to prove out here and a lot to build on in this offensive program, and I want to say I can at least be one of the

guys that helps get it started.”

Gordon hasn’t needed long to become arguably Cleveland’s best player. He’s among the league leaders in several offensive categories, averaging 97 yards receiving per game and 18.2 yards per catch.

In five games — he was suspended for the first two for failing the NFL’s substance-abuse policy — he has 32 catches for 582 yards and three touchdowns.

All eight of his career TDs have been at least 20 yards long.

Gordon is on a path to superstardom, and it would be hard to imagine the Browns’ offense without him. No wonder Rob Chudzinski smiled when asked if he, too, was relieved Gordon was still around.

“I’m excited Josh is part of our team,” Chudzinski said. “He’s here. I like the progress he’s made as a player and the strides that he’s made and looking forward to continued improvement on his part. We want him here — and he’s here.”

Gordon said he doesn’t hold any resentment toward the Browns for considering a trade. He understands the business side of football and he’s savvy enough to know that no player is untouchable.

Gordon also realizes his off-the-field problems have marked him. His missteps at

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon (12) is happy to still be with the team.

Baylor and Utah were followed by a failed drug test earlier this year. Gordon flunked because he said he was taking a cough syrup containing codeine, which is on the league’s banned list. Gordon’s said it’s his understanding that another slipup will result in a minimum one-year ban.

So to ensure he stays straight, Gordon said he’s changed some offfield habits.

“I tend to just stay to myself a lot more because there are a lot more people out there that recognize who I am now than before,” he said. “So, I might not do as much. I feel more relaxed that I can

stay at home a lot longer now and stay to myself.”

Still, he hasn’t given up occasionally driving around Cleveland in a camouf laged- designed Porsche, an attentiongrabbing vehicle the Browns probably prefer that he park permanently.

He’s still a kid, but quarterback Jason Campbell has noticed all-around growth in Gordon.

“I see him maturing,” Campbell said. “I think a lot of things that happened to him in the past have caused him to really take a hard look in the mirror and see the things that he can really become and

not let those things get him in trouble and keep him from being the player he can be.”

Chudzinski, too, has seen a change in Gordon.

“He’s grown a lot, and not just as a player but as a person and understanding and maturing on and off the field.

He’s not perfect. None of us are but I see progress. I see him going in the right direction in all areas and I’m excited about his future and I’m excited about him being here.”

Gordon grasps that he may never escape scrutiny. Every move will be analyzed, and there may be as many people hoping to see

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him fail as those pulling for him.

That’s who he is. That may never change.

“My actions will always have a consequence of what I’m doing, positive or negative,” he said. “I’ve always known that. But it definitely matures you. There’s a lot of stuff going on right now — considering the fact you might be traded, and people might feel a certain way about it and think that it’s due to something else, due to off-the-field issues or whatever, but it really doesn’t faze me.

“As long as I do my job and keep my head level and stay out of the way, I’ll be fine.”

Buckeyes don’t underestimate Hyde’s value Jim Naveau Civitas Media

COLUMBUS – Ohio State running back Carlos Hyde thinks that his 230-pound frame sometimes makes people underestimate his speed.

But one thing that is not underappreciated is Hyde’s value to the Buckeyes. Inside and outside the football program, that is recognized.

“He can throw us over his shoulder and carry us to victory,” wide receiver Corey Brown said earlier this week. “Nobody wants to tackle him in space – a 240-pound run-

ning back who is probably the fourth or fifthfastest guy on the team.”

Hyde has 590 yards rushing in five games and has gone for 147 yards, 149 yards and 168 yards in OSU’s last three games. Over the last two seasons in the 12 games in which he has started and been healthy, he is averaging 120 yards a game.

Hyde has carried the ball 88 times this season and has not been tackled for a loss yet. Going back to last season, Hyde has rushed 116 times in a row without being tackled in the backfield.

That comes from a combination of Hyde and the offensive line, a fact he is quick to point out.

He said he can see defenses being worn down by that combination. “We like to call it ‘No mas,’ ” he said, referring to what Roberto Duran said when he quit during a fight against Sugar Ray Leonard in the 1980s.

“It’s pretty easy to tell when guys don’t want any more. They don’t want to tackle you anymore. Our offensive line is just blowing guys off the ball,” he said.

Hyde’s season didn’t

get off to a good start when he was suspended for the first three games after an incident in a Columbus night club. A woman who said Hyde had struck her later refused to press charges.

“I feel kind of fresh, I had those three games off,” Hyde said. “I feel like I’m just starting to get going. These past few games I’ve played big. I feel like this is a start.”

Hyde says this season feels like a throwback to his senior season of football in high school in Naples, Fla. He gained 1,653 yards that season. Last year

as a junior, he rushed for 970 yards, a number he said was identical to his rushing numbers as a junior in high school.

“Right now kind of reminds me of when I was a senior in high school. My senior year I just came out on another level. I kind of feel like it’s all happening again.

It’s pretty cool to see it happening at another level,” he said.

He needs to average only 68 yards a game the rest of the season to become the first running back to be a 1,000-yard rusher for OSU coach Urban Meyer.

While Hyde has a reputation for punishing contact, he says he doesn’t go looking for it.

“I don’t mind the contact but I definitely like to out-sprint somebody to the end zone. People probably underestimate my speed. They think I don’t have it because they see me just running between the tackles. I’m waiting for that one big run, 70 yards maybe, to show it off,” Hyde said.

“I think I’m doing a good job of showing scouts who come to our games that I can be a good back for another level,” he said.

ber of timely hits, the Steele high school baseball team of Dayton tied a three run lead held

by Coach Wertz’s reorganized squad in the sixth frame and later added two more tallies to take a hard fought contest from the locals by a score of 6 to 4 at Roosevelt Park yesterday afternoon.

Only a small handful of spectators braved the boiling sun to witness the game.”

It was time to play at Troy. “The Albright Assassins, of Troy, played the villain role in a comedy of wild pegs, muffed pop-ups and booted grounders staged yesterday afternoon at Troy Athletic Park, and acted like, for a curtain call or two, they might succeed in winning the hand of Miss Ball Game, but the Wertzman, as the hero, entered in the third act, and the villain was forced to do a quick get-away.

Which is another way of telling you that the Wertz team whipped the Trojans yesterday by a 10-4 score. By all the rules of drama, the hero shouldn’t have entered until the last act. The Wertzman came too soon. But it was a punk play anyhow and that

may be overlooked.”

Urbana was the next baseball foe. “Ed Lines, who denies he is the high school sheik, took the hill for the Wertzman yesterday in their game with Urbana and for six innings he was a real nice pitcher.

He lost both his stuff and his confidence in the seventh and the enemy climbed onto him and made it exceptionally interesting for a while.

But his mates came to the rescue and so Piqua won, 15 -10. The game was one of those hectic affairs in which every man who comes to the bat swings from the handle and attempts to biff the ball out of the lot. All the players in the game here yesterday tried that and a few of them succeeded.”

The season finale found the Troy Trojans visiting Piqua. “That high school team from Troy, the Albright Assassins, gave the Wertzman a game here yesterday afternoon.

Figure it any way you will, but it was a gift.

The Trojans biffed ‘Nig’ Comer, premier chalk tosser of Piqua, all over the lot, but the mass of wobbles they committed would have prevented

them from winning even if they had knocked over all the fences. So the Wertz team won their last game of the year, 9-4. It was surprising the way they clouted Comer and his brand of stuff. In the last game he worked against them they collected only four hits and they were well separated. But it was different yesterday. They hit hard and managed to get a few of them together, but their errors had killed their hopes before they started scoring.”

‘In track, Mr. Mote had one of his best teams for several years, winning the Miami County event and coming second in the Western Ohio Track Meet at Miami. They also won fourth place in the annual District Track and Field Meet at Miami.

Tennis was one of two new sports added to the offerings at Piqua High School. “One big reason for the increased athletic activity is the fact that tennis will be played here this year as a real high school sport, that several real matches will be played, and that honestto-goodness competition can be expected. In previous years the racquet game was only partially

popular and few real matches with opposing high school schools were booked. They say that all that will be changed this year, however, and that the net pastime may finally become one of the reigning sports here.”

Golf was also added in 1926. “The Piqua High School golf team made its debut last Saturday morning when it met and defeated the Steele High School golf team.

The Piqua team gives every promise of developing some real stars in the old Scotch game.

The scores were as follows: Howard Edsell 2 and Spahr 1; George Rundle 3 and Brennan 0; McKee Freshour 3 and Eickman 0; Daniel Stickler 0 and White 2.

Piqua 8; Steele 3.”

One interesting football note found the sports page of the Call on June 12. “Wertz will remain at Piqua High school as big chief of football, but baseball and basketball has not yet been announced.

Coach Wertz left yesterday at noon for his home in Tiffin, where he will probably spend a great deal of the summer vacation. He expects to spend a part of the time at a coaches’ training

school. He has previously studied under Knute Rockne and Alonzo Stagg, nationally known mentors.”

The 1925 football financial report was also published. “Piqua high school football games played during last fall were a paying proposition, it was revealed at a meeting of the Piqua Board of Education last night. Amount of money received during the year was $3,045.83. The previous year’s season had left a balance of $172.13.

Total expenditures last season were $2,147.68.

This makes a balance of $1,034.78 in the treasury at this time. It will be noted that the balance of last fall is considerably greater than that of the preceding year, although a great part of that amount may be expended for equipment. Expenses for the past season were itemized as follows: Traveling - $197.25; Visiting Teams - $274.20; Park Equipment - $390.54; Police - $60.00; Officials - $258.35; Medical Aid - $24.75; Laundry - $63.83; Advertising - $20.59; Equipment $761.62; Miscellaneous - $96.90 – Totals $2147.68”

1926 From page 7 as the Daytonians, the Piquads turned around and offered the fray to the enemy. When Dayton again refused to win, the Piqua gang just naturally grabbed the opposition by their parched necks and stuffed the game down their esophagus.

So Dayton won, 5 -2, although it was certainly a gift.”

Miamisburg then visited Piqua. “A pitching corps that was disastrously shattered by sore arms and charley horses in the various hurlers elbows, tried, with a hopeless effort, to stem the attack of Miamisburg high school batters yesterday and failed, which is the story of the Big Red loss to the Burgers, 7 – 1. One of the big jokes of the melee was Cole’s sleepy act on first base in the fourth. He got down there on an error. Cartwright, the first baseman, pulled the hidden ball trick on him and Keifer, who was coaching at that base. The comedy was in watching the two of them hang the blame on to each other.”

Piqua then entertained Dayton Steele.

“Taking advantage of several costly errors, coupled with a like num-

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You don't want to postpone self-gratification for duties and obligations.

Quite the opposite. You want to play and have fun! You want to do what you want to do.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Increased chaos and activity on the home front require your attention.

Perhaps this is due to visiting guests, residential moves or renovations. Roll up your sleeves and dig in.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) All your communication with others will be direct, persuasive and to the point because fiery Mars is affecting your style of talking. (This is why everyone is agreeing with you.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You're ready to work hard to earn money now, in part because you're also spending it. You feel confident about being more in control of your scene. (This is good.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) With Mars in your sign now, you are pumped and raring to go. Get extra physical exercise to blow off some of this pent-up steam and energy. ("It's my way or the highway!")

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Some of you are involved in secret love affairs or behind-the-scenes activities. You prefer to work alone or do things privately right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Expect competition with others, especially in sports, group activities and professional gatherings. You intend to win. (And you probably will.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Your ambition is aroused now, which gives you the energy, focus and follow-through to achieve what you want to get done. When somebody knows where they're going, others get out of their way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Make plans to travel or expand your world through higher education. You want more out of life, and you want to feel stimulated, not bored.

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You will win these encounters because you know what you want and you know where to draw the line.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Because Mars is opposite your sign, you feel impatient with others. Naturally, to you, these people are annoying. And perhaps they are.

Patience is your best ally.

YOU BORN TODAY You are influential to the people around you as well as to any situation in which you find yourself immersed. You seem to be a catalyst for change. Naturally, in your own life, change and transformation are a major theme. This year something you've been involved with for nine years will diminish or end in order to make room for something new.

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Kasich says his administration followed the rules and wasn’t thwarting the General Assembly when it put the proposal before the state Controlling Board.

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Child/Elderly Care The hearing for Republican Pete Beck of Mason was set for Thursday but was pushed back to Dec. 18 so Seeking motivated individual director of non-profit child defense attorneys have more time to review more than for care training and referral 60,000 pages of information from the prosecution. It’s agency. 25 hrs per week. Early childhood education experithe second time the hearing was delayed.

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LEGALS SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-017 Unity National Bank vs.

Paul Ault, Jr., et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 4, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-020600 Also known as: 909 West High Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Three Thousand and 00/100 ($63,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Dale G. Davis, Attorney 11/01, 11/08, 11/15-2013 40516307

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-060 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs.

Ralph L. McGillvary, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on November 20, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Fletcher, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: B05-005060 Also known as: 100 East 5th Street, Fletcher, Ohio 45326 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Seventy Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($78,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Brian Duffy, Attorney 10/18, 10/25, 11/01-2013 40509546

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-421 Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs.

Jeanne Fritts, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 4, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Newberry, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: H17-036950 Also known as: 8615 West US Route 36, Covington, Ohio 45318 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Eighty Thousand and 00/100 ($180,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Angela D. Kirk, Attorney 11/01, 11/08, 11/15-2013 40516313

LEGALS SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-745 Unity National Bank vs.

Deborah C. Millhouse, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 4, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Fletcher, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: B05-000630 Also known as: 11 West Main Street, Fletcher, Ohio 45326 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Twenty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($29,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Dale G. Davis, Attorney 11/01, 11/08, 11/15-2013 40516293

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-042 JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA vs.

Terry A. Cotrell, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 4, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-035530 Also known as: 534 McKinley, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kevin L. Williams, Attorney 11/01, 11/08, 11/15-2013

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 13-288 Unity National Bank vs.

Cathy L. Browning, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on November 20, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Cit of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-049940 Also known as: 209 Drexel Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($69,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Dale G. Davis, Attorney 10/18, 10/25, 11/01-2013 40509457

LEGALS SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-482 Bank of America, NA vs.

Keoka Barnes-Anthony, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on November 20, 2013 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, and in the State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-040630 Prior Deed Reference: Instrument No. 2009OR - 11880 Also known as: 815 Clark Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Ryan F. Hemmerle, Attorney 10/18, 10/25, 11/01-2013 40509566

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In geopolitics, just as on the playground, even best friends don’t tell each other everything. And everybody’s dying to know what the other guy knows.

Revelations that the U.S. has been monitoring the cellphone calls of up to 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have brought into high relief the open-yetoften-unspoken secret that even close allies keep things from one another — and work every angle to find out what’s being held back.

So it is that the Israelis recruited American naval analyst Jonathan Pollard to pass along U.S. secrets including satellite photos and data on Soviet weaponry in the 1980s. And the British were accused of spying on U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan in the lead-up to the Iraq War. And the French, Germans, Japanese, Israelis and South Koreans have been accused of engaging in economic espionage against the United States.

But now the technology revealed by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden has underscored the incredible new-millennium reach of the U.S. spy agency. And it is raising the question for some allies: Is this still OK? National Intelligence Director James Clapper, for his part, testified this week that it is a “basic tenet” of the intelligence business to find out whether the public statements of world leaders jibe with what’s being said behind closed doors.

What might the Americans have wanted to know from Merkel’s private conversations, for example? Ripe topics could well include her thinking on European economic strategy and Germany’s plans for talks with world powers about Iran’s nuclear program.

There is both motive and opportunity driving the trust-but-verify dynamic in friend-on-friend espionage: Allies often have diverging interests, and the explosion of digital and wireless communication keeps creating new avenues for spying on one another.

Further, shifting alliances mean that today’s good friends may be on the outs sometime soon.

“It was not all that many years ago when we were bombing German citizens and dropping the atomic bomb on the Japanese,” says Peter Earnest, a 35-year veteran of the CIA and now executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington.

News that the U.S. has tapped foreign leaders’ phones was an eye-opener to many — the White House claims that even President Barack Obama wasn’t aware of the extent

of the surveillance — and has prompted loud complaints from German, French and Spanish officials, among others.

It’s all possible because “an explosion in different kinds of digital information tools makes it possible for intelligence agencies to vacuum up a vast quantity of data,” says Charles Kupchan, a former Clinton administration official and now a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. “When you add together the Internet, wireless communications, cellphones, satellites, drones and human intelligence, you have many, many sources of acquiring intelligence.”

“The magnitude of the eavesdropping is what shocked us,” former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a radio interview. “Let’s be honest, we eavesdrop, too. Everyone is listening to everyone else. But we don’t have the same means as the United States, which makes us jealous.”

Protests aside, diplomats the world around know the gist of the game.

“I am persuaded that everyone knew everything or suspected everything,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said of the reports of U.S. monitoring.

And while prime ministers and lawmakers across Europe and Asia say they are outraged, Clapper told Congress that other countries’ own spy agencies helped the NSA collect data on millions of phone calls as part of cooperative counterterror agreements.

Robert Eatinger, the CIA’s senior deputy general counsel, told an American Bar Association conference on Thursday that European spy services have stayed quiet throughout the recent controversy because they also spy on the U.S. “The services have an understanding,” Eatinger said. “That’s why there wasn’t the hue and cry from them.”

And another intelligence counsel says the White House can reasonably deny it knows everything about the U.S. spying that’s going on.

“We don’t reveal to the president or the intelligence committees all of the human sources we are recruiting. … They understand what the programs are, and the president and chairs of the intelligence committees both knew we were seeking information about leadership intentions,” said Robert Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

“They both saw reporting indicating what we were getting if not indicating the source.”

Still, Claude Moraes, a British Labor Party politician and member of the European Union del-

egation that traveled to Washington this week for talks about U.S. surveillance, was troubled by the broad net being cast by U.S. intelligence.

“Friend-upon-friend spying is not something that is easily tolerable if it doesn’t have a clear purpose,” he said. “There needs to be some kind of justification. … There is also a question of proportionality and scale.”

Obama has promised a review of U.S. intelligence efforts in other countries, an idea that has attracted bipartisan support in Congress.

The United States already has a written intelligence-sharing agreement with Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand known as “Five Eyes,” and France and Germany might be interested in a similar arrangement.

Paul Pillar, a professor at Georgetown University and former CIA official, worries that a backlash “runs the risk of restrictions leaving the United States more blind than it otherwise would have been” to overseas developments.

The effort to strike the right balance between surveillance and privacy is hardly new.

University of Notre Dame political science professor Michael Desch, an expert on international security and American foreign and defense policies, says the ambivalence is epitomized by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson’s famous line, “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” Stimson, who served under President Herbert Hoover, shut down the State Department’s cryptanalytic office in 1929.

“Leaks about NSA surveillance of even friendly countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and now France make clear that we no longer share Stimson’s reticence on this score,” Desch said. “While such revelations are a public relations embarrassment, they also reflect the reality that in this day in age, gentlemen do read each other’s mail all of the time, even when they are allies.”

In fact, a database maintained by the Defense Personnel Security Research Center covering Americans who committed espionage against the U.S. includes activity on behalf of a wide swath of neutral or allied countries since the late 1940s. U.S. citizens have been arrested for conducting espionage on behalf of South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Israel, the Netherlands, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Ghana, Liberia, South Africa, El Salvador and Ecuador, according to the database.

Associated Press Writers Deb Riechmann and Kimberly Dozier contributed to this report.

Candy shop specializes in vintage sweets Kevin Joy

The Columbus Dispatch

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Her candy shop isn’t the modern sort: Mary Rodgers sells no Hershey bars, no 3 Musketeers.

“But you can get a Zagnut or a Clark,” said Rodgers, who for the past three years has managed Moxie’s, a store in the Clintonville neighborhood that emphasizes throwback — They still make those? — sweets.

Also part of her stash: Sky Bars, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bonomo Turkish Taffy and Black Cow and Slo Poke caramels — with the last two available only since 2011 after a 25-year hiatus.

Not to be forgotten are candy cigarettes (known as politically correct “candy sticks”).

Rodgers, a retired strategic planner, conceived the shop at 3468 N. High St. in the mold of her bygone after-school Columbus haunts, including Jimmie’s Drugs and Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour.

“If they’re making it,” said Rodgers, 52, “we will find it.”

Such a pursuit can prove sticky, though.

The shuttering of mom-and-pop stores and regional confectioners — as well as advances in shipping and refrigeration — has soured the independent American candy landscape.

“There was lots more freaky stuff in the ’70s and even the ’80s,” said Steve Almond, author of the 2004 best-selling book “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.”

“Overall, the racks have become more homogenized.”

The change stems in part from the domination of three global candy titans: Hershey, Mars and Nestle. Plus, big-box stores want to stock only brands that sell well.

Finding a less-familiar childhood favorite can be a pleasant surprise — joy often delivered by Don Bridge, who runs www. oldtimecandy.com with his wife, Karen, in LaGrange, Ohio, about 20 miles south of Lorain. Their online-only business offers more than 700 varieties.

“We’re selling memories,” said Bridge, 68.

Business has been so strong during the past 12 years that the couple moved their home operation to an 8,400-square-foot warehouse.

The Bridges sort their stock by decades (a 1930s spread features Boston Baked Beans, Choward’s Violet mints and Valomilk marshmallow cups, for example); by holiday or occasion; and, perhaps most interesting,

by region.

A Los Angeles transplant, then, might relive the Massachusetts-made Necco Wafers of his youth.

Or a Northerner originally from the South could chomp on a Goo Goo Cluster, the chocolate-and-peanut-coated disc of caramel and marshmallow from Nashville, Tenn.

Palates do vary by regions, Bridge said.

“You’ve got to be from Texas to like Peanut Patties — this round hockey-puck thing with solid sugar and peanuts,” he said.

“I don’t know why they exist.”

Bridge and other merchants are happy to stock the rarities.

“Wal-mart doesn’t get it all; we get everything,” said Johanne Tritsch, whose fatherin-law founded Columbus Candy & Tobacco 67 years ago.

“And a lot of people come here to get it.”

The West Side wholesaler carries items such as creamy Cow Tales caramels and the nougat-filled Charleston Chew.

So, too, does Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory, a Colorado franchise with locations at Easton Town Center and the Mall at Tuttle Crossing.

The checkout counter at a Short North retro toy store, Big Fun, houses dozens of individually wrapped candies, ranging from Atomic FireBall cinnamon jawbreakers to Abba-Zaba taffy bars. Most cost 25 cents apiece.

Dublin caterer MJ’s Candy & Events has obliged client requests for bubble-gum cigars, Teaberry gum and the sugar- encrusted jellies known as Chuckles, co-owner Jeff Shaffer said.

Perhaps most detailed, each “general store” inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant — as with the four central Ohio outlets — peddles oodles of vintage goodies.

“Just because it’s not a (manufacturer’s) No. 1 or 2 item doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work here,” Kristie Stein, the Tennessee chain’s candy buyer, recently told the trade journal Candy Industry. “We really want that sense of wonder.”

Which also explains why Moxie’s patron Michelle Coleman took only a glimpse at the colorful merchandise in glass jars before grabbing several handfuls of peanut-butterand-coconut Chick-O-Sticks, Swedish Fish and several candy bracelets.

“It overwhelms me,” said Coleman, a 53-year-old West Side native who fondly recalled the penny-candy peddlers of her youth.

“But it brings me back.”

Murder From page 1 the girlfriend of the victim, cried for help, stating two men wearing masks broke in to the back door of the duplex the couple shared with their 2-yearold child. The child was home during the time of the home invasion, Long said.

A gun was recovered near the scene of the crime and another gun was recovered by investigators. The assailants fled south on foot and were picked up by a car.

Officers located two of the suspects in the car close to the scene. Officials later made another arrest of a suspect at home on West Main Street.

“He’s bleeding! He’s bleeding! There’s blood everywhere!” screamed Barker to 911 dispatchers after Wintrow was shot.

“Someone shot a gun and he’s bleeding everywhere!

My son is here and everything. Someone please help us!”

Barker said Wintrow

Mike Ullery | Daily Call

Paramedics from the Troy Fire Department prepare to remove a gunshot victim from a duplex at 218 East Canal St. in Troy on Wednesday night. The victim, Nathan Wintrow, 20, was shot in the head during a home invasion and later died from his wounds.

was lying on his side as she waited for first responders as blood poured from the head wound.

Barker told dispatchers two men who had long brown hair were wearing masks and broke through the back door, shot Wintrow and fled out the back door on foot.

Long said detectives are still investigating

the incident. Marijuana was found inside of the duplex at the scene of the incident, Long said.

The state Bureau of Investigation assisted at the crime scene, Long said.

Wintrow’s death is the first homicide in Troy in 2013.

Piqua Daily Call Chief Photographer Mike Ullery contributed to this report.

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