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Piqua police chief takes pro-active approach to school shooting threats Will E Sanders

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PIQUA — Ever since the Sandy Hook school shooting, Piqua Police Chief Bruce Jamison has taken an aggressive and pro-active approach to the issue — and now he’s taking that message to the schools and the community.

As early as January, Jamison met with school officials and began discussions about presenting active shooter scenar-

ios to schools in Piqua, in addition to delivering his message to the Piqua school board.

“The feedback I started getting almost immediately was, ‘Yeah, we’re glad you’re doing this,’” Jamison said.

On Friday, Jamison took that message to the Upper Valley Career Center where administrators and staff used a waiver day to take part in the comprehensive plan presented by the police department regarding active shooter scenarios

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Piqua police chief Bruce Jamison instructs staff members at the Upper Valley Career Center during an Active Shooter training class on Friday.

or other violent threats.

Over the course of the day staff members at the career center attended various work sessions where they learned about school threats and how to respond to them, from classroom barricading to communication to selfdefense and take-down tactic The last portion of the day involved police performing a shooting demonstration that allowed them to hear what a gunshot sounds like inside of the building, some-

thing Jamison said many might not be familiar with. Police simulated a gunshot throughout the school during the exercise.

“A lot of the staff has never even heard a gunshot at all before (or what one) sounds like in the building,” Jamison said.

“We hear in debriefings from people who have been through this that they were surprised by the sound or weren’t sure what the sound was.”

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Free community dinner offered Melody Vallieu

Staff Writer vallieu@tdnpublishing.com

TROY — In a continued effort to bring the community together for the holidays, El Sombrero restaurants in Troy and Piqua again will offer a free Thanksgiving feast to the public.

Continuing to fulfill a promise he made to his mother to help his community, Ruben Pelayo, owner of both restaurants, will offer the 17th annual community Thanksgiving dinner from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 28 — or until the last visitor is served.

“It’s not just me. Yes,

we started (the meal), but the community has kept it going,” said Pelayo, who has been honored by several organizations for his work in the community.

The free meal, a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner with all the trimmings, will be offered for dine in only again this year. There will be no carry-out or deliveries.

Both Pelayo, and his business manager and “American mom” Judy Rose, stress that the meal indeed is for anyone who wish to have a good dinner or socialize with others, not just those in need.

A traditional Thanksgiving meal will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 28 at both El Sombrero locations. The Troy restaurant is located at 1700 N. County Road 25-A and the Piqua restaurant is located at 1274 E. Ash St.

Commission to review 2014 budget Bethany J. Royer Staff Writer broyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — A third and final reading will be given to an ordinance in regards to vacating a public rightof-way at Tuesday’s commission meeting.

The vacated area is located within the boundaries of what will be the future location of the new water treatment plant between Hardin Road and State Route 66.

New business will consist of two separate ordinances beginning with a repeal of schedule A-1 of chapter 33 in the Piqua Code related to minimum wage municipal employees. As the state of

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Ohio has increased the minimum wage from $7.85 per hour to $7.95 per hour. The second ordinance will give a first reading of the 2014 annual budget that must be presented and passed before the end of the year.

Three resolutions will round out the meeting with a request to authorize into an agreement with O.R. Colan Associates for services related to the County Road 25-A Phase III reconstruction project. A second resolution for purchase orders to Chemical Services Inc., Huron Lime Inc., F2 Industries and Univar USA Inc. for various water treatment chemicals. Followed by a final resolution that will seek to purchase excess liability insurance.

As presented in the meeting agenda, this coverage has been provided by Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Limited or AEGIS for more than 20 years.

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

The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

For information on meetings, work sessions, and more visit piquaoh.org.

“We have families that have made it their tradition to be here for Thanksgiving,” Rose said. “This is for the community. We want everybody to come and let us serve them.”

Employees begin cooking the some 125 turkeys the week prior to Thanksgiving in order to have them all ready for the dinner.

“I find it fun to come in the week before and smell turkeys cooking instead of Mexican food,” Rose said.

Rose said a core group of about 12 people help to plan the dinner each year, however, about 50 more volunteers help in the two restaurants on Thanksgiving Day. Employees, many from Mexico, are paid, and see the holiday as just another day of work, Rose said, as Thanksgiving is not recognized in their country.

The meal again will be

a sit-down dinner, with each visitor being personally served.

“It’s like when you have people come to your home. You sit them down and wait on them,” said Rose, who said they see a lot of doctors and nurses on shift at UVMC come in for a quick meal.

“Older people especially appreciate it.”

In recent years, the restaurant has received help from the public and vendors to offset the cost of the dinner. However, Rose said in all, the dinner will cost an estimated $14,000-$16,000, to serve the thousands of area residents that will visit the two locations. Rose said Gordon Food Services this year has donated turkeys, while Pepsi donates the soft drinks for the meal.

Community members also drop off turkeys they Staff File Photo/ANTHONY WEBER either have purchased or El Sombrero owner Ruben Pelayo transfers juice from several received from their jobs. turkeys into another container prior to the 2012 meal at the Troy location. El Sombrero has offered a free Thanksgiving Day meal

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4-H Camp fire destroys mobile homes

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Firefighters from Pleasant Hill and Covington responded to a structure fire at the Indian Hills 4-H Camp on Lauver Road around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Firefighters arrived to find a pair of mobile homes engulfed in flames. An additional engine and manpower was supplied by Ludlow Falls Fire Department. No injuries have been reported. High winds hampered efforts to bring the blaze under control. Pleasant Hill fire authorities declared the fire as “under control” at 4:08 p.m. but advised that they would be on the scene for “the next hour or so.” No damage estimate or cause has been reported.

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Obits NANCY (MACY) LAWRENCE WINTER HAVEN, Mrs. Lawrence was preFla. — Nancy (Macy) ceded in death by an Lawrence, 85, of Winter infant brother.

Haven, Fla. and formerMrs. Lawrence was a ly of Troy, passed away 1947 graduate of Staunton Thursday, Oct. High School and a 17, 2013, after an graduate of Miamiextended illness.

Jacobs Business She was born College in Dayton.

Feb. 19, 1928, in She worked at Troy to the late Sunshade, J.C. Ralph and Mabel Penney Company (Freeze) Macy. in Troy, Stouder She married Memorial Hospital Erwin E. “Woody” and for Dr. Walter Lawrence on May Meeker before 8, 1949, and he preceded retiring and moving withher in death on Nov. 4, er husband to Florida in 1998.

1983. She was an active She is survived by her member of the First daughter, Cathy (Brad) Church of the Nazarene in Baden of Troy; son, Kent Winter Haven, Fla. until (Debby) Lawrence of her illness.

Winter Haven, Fla.; five A memorial service grandchildren, Jared, will be held at 2 p.m.

Joel and John Baden Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, and Brandon and Halle at the Riverside Cemetery Lawrence; and two sis- Chapel, Troy. Burial will ters, Louise McKinney take place at Riverside of Hamilton and Sharon Cemetery. Friends may (Marvin) Buchanan of express condolences to Troy. In addition other the family through www. parents and husband, bairdfuneralhome.com.

JERI L. WEIKLE TIPP CITY — Jeri Lou Weikle, 60, of Tipp City, entered Heaven Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton.

She passed peacefully accepting God’s will, leaving this life just as she lived it during her courageous 22-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis.

She was born Feb. 28, 1953, in Troy, to the late Frank A. Jr. and Oleta F. (Wolfe) Cawley.

On July 10, 1976, Jeri married John S. Weikle, who survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Jean (Matt) Mitchell of Westerville, Jane (Tim) Borchers of Versailles, a son, Joel of Lansing, Mich., five grandchildren, Mackenzie, Madison, and Graham Mitchell, Jack and Kacey Borchers, and a sixth grandchild to be born in January 2014. Additionally Jeri is survived by three sisters, Jill (Terry) Garman of Covington, Jackie (James) Hewatt of Lilburn, Ga., Sherry Moore of Covington, a brother, Ted Cawley of Troy, numerous sistersin-law, brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews.

She was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church of Tipp City, where she was a part of the church prayer circle.

Jeri was a 1971 graduate of Troy High School and a 1973 graduate of the Miami Valley Hospital School of Radiologic Technology.

For 18 years, she was a radiologic technologist at the former Stouder Hospital and later at the Hyatt Center in Tipp City.

Jeri’s commitment to

bettering her community began at an early age.

While in high school, she was a candy striper at the former Dettmer Hospital. Later efforts included serving as a Brownie troop leader, volunteering at The Wellness Center in Troy as an aerobics instructor, being a founding member of the Tipp-Bethel Food Co-op, and working with the Dayton MS Society.

Jeri enjoyed cooking, crocheting, music, riding horses, reading, and the Cincinnati Reds.

However, it was spending time with family, her grandchildren, her sister Sherry, who cared for her in so many ways, and good friends Tom & Lucy Wolfe, that brought her the greatest joy.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 753 S. Hyatt St., Tipp City, with the Rev. Fr. R. Marc Sherlock as Celebrant. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at St. John the Baptist Church, with additional visitation 10-11 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Equestrian Therapy Riding Program at The Riding Centre, 1117 E. Hyde Road, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.

Arrangements are being handled through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.

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

MILLIE NEWMAN RICHMOND, Ind. — Millie Newman, 91, passed away Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, at Rosebud Village, Richmond, Ind. Millie was born in Washington County, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1922, to Leroy David and Laura Blanche Whittington Ulmer.

She had three siblings: two sisters, Ruth Maybelle and Margaret Frances, and one brother, Paul W. Ulmer.

She attended elementary school through the 8th grade in a one-room school building at Gravel Bank. Millie graduated from Marietta (Ohio) High School in 1938. She furthered her education at Ohio University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Education and graduated 1942. After graduating from college, she moved to Dayton and began her teaching career at Webster School, retiring from Hickory Dale School after teaching 30-plus years. After retiring from teaching, she worked at Edison State College.

Millie was a member of the Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ.

She married Kenneth Newman on Aug. 16, 1960, and acquired six stepchildren: three sons

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and daughters-in-law, Gene and June Newman of Tipp City; Jim and Lola Newman of Cadiz; David and Lynn Newman of Chocowenity N.C.; Ruth Bowman of Troy; Naomi and Norman Brown of Troy; and Janice Newman of Richmond Ind. She had 15 step-grandchildren, several great-stepgrandchildren and several great-great-step-children and nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Kenneth Newman, brother and two sisters, two step-grandsons, Tommy Newman and David Unger.

Celebration of Life services will be held 1 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, at Jackson-Sarver Funeral Home, 1 S. Main St., Pleasant Hill. Ray Ulmer will officiate with interment following at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ and State of the Heart Hospice, 1237 W. Dotaw, Portland, IN 47371. Online memories may be left for the family at www.jackson-sarver. com.

WILLIAM M. GANGER PIQUA — William Marion Ganger, 95, of Piqua, died at 11:55 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, at the Piqua Manor Nursing Home.

He was born July 30, 1918, in Sidney, to the late Lewis Calvin and Sophia Jane (Snow) Ganger.

He married Bertha I. Watkins on June 18, 1945 in Sidney; she survives.

Other survivors include six children, Pauline Ganger (late husband James Dudley), Robert (Brenda) Ganger of Sidney, Brenda (Michael) Ward of Piqua, Steven Ganger of Ft. Loramie, Gregory (Tamara) Ganger of Houston, and Shirley (Scott) Cantrell of Panama City Beach, Fla.; 10 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Carol Ganger; two brothers, Henry and Homer Ganger; and four sisters, Mabel Blanchard, Mary Ganger, Helen Jones, and Martha McKinley.

Mr. Ganger attended Houston Schools, worked as a farmer in Shelby County for over 32 years

and was a driver for the Farmer’s Elevator Co. of Houston for 16 years.

Following retirement, he enjoyed his family, assisting with the elderly by mowing their yards, working outdoors in his gardens, and watching television and the Cincinnati Reds. He was a member of the Houston Congregational Christian Church and will be deeply missed by his many family and friends.

A service to honor his life will begin at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with the Rev. Greg Morrow officiating. Burial will follow at Houston Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Houston Congregational Christian Church, 4883 RussiaHouston Road, Houston, OH 45333.

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

GREENVILLE — Dorothy Jean Shroyer, age 85, of Greenville, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, at 5:42 p.m. at the Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville. She was born on Nov. 20, 1927, in Darke County to the late Robert R. and Mildred E. (Deeter) Klipstine.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Judy Voiles of Greenville, Janie and Butch Clark of Bradford, Joann and Bob Nelson of Greenville and Janet and Jim Hunt of Greenville; son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Sue Shroyer of Greenville; grandchildren: Matt and Melissa Voiles, Mandy and Chad Garrett, Rob and Joan Clark, Angie and Matt Kolb, Mark and Dusti Toman, Jason Toman, Jamie Looker, Amy and Justin Schoen, Julie and Kevin Stringer, Heather Hunt, Ashley Beatty, Melissa Shroyer, Nicki and Jared Glilespie and Danielle Larson; 26 great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Connie and Robert Hill of Englewood, Larry Shaw of Fairview

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were told to go into a lock-down in the event of an active shooter, but Jamison said that’s not always the best way to respond. He said in many cases lock-downs allowed active shooters to increase the body count.

This is why the RunHide-Fight Protect Plan was given at the career center, and a number of others schools in Piqua, from public and parochial schools.

“That’s the general concept of how to handle an active shooter scenario, even beyond schools, and it’s run, hide, fight,” Jamison said. “After Sandy Hook, a lot more people started thinking the same way.”

Jamison said the concept of lock-downs could oftentimes work against the efforts of preserving life in an active shooter scenario.

“They knew what to expect from everybody, they knew where they would be and knew there would be no counter measures,” Jamison explained. “Now we are saying it’s OK to run away to save your life or to use counter measures to save your life. We are putting more of these decisions in the hands of the staff Curl TROY — Dwight A. Curl, 57, of Troy, passed away and now we’re working on Nov. 14, 2013, at his residence. Services will be held on giving them the tools at a later date. Baird Funeral Home, Troy, is assisting to do that and to make the family with arrangements.

Force GETTYSBURG — Joseph R. “Joe” Force, age 68, of Gettysburg, died Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at his home.

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those decisions and carry them out.”

UVCC Superintendent Dr. Nancy Luce said it is the school’s goal to be prepared in the event of a potential tragedy.

“Our goal is to be prepared for any emergency scenario,” Luce said. “The demonstrations and break-out sessions provided by Chief Bruce Jamison and the Piqua Police Department will help us evaluate and improve our existing policies and provide direction for ongoing staff development.”

Jamison said one of the most important messages he wanted to get to school officials during the training was how important of a function threat assessment teams are in such situations. Such teams are comprised of members of the police, schools, courts and the mental health fields who form a multi-disciplinary team to assess each situation.

At the end of the day Jamison said there is one important message he wants to get across about the training and education.

“I want them to feel empowered to make the right decision based on what the circumstances are and provide the tools they need to be able to do that,” Jamison said.

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Craft fired rounds at several locations inside the school in order that staff members would have an idea about the sound of actual gunfire within the walls of the school.

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Heights, Evelyn Klipstine of Greenville and Nancy Klipstine of West Milton; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband Robert “Bob” Shroyer, whom she married on Nov. 27, 1948; brothers, Robert and Richard Klipstine; son-inlaw, Tom Voiles.

Dorothy was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Greenville.

She loved gardening and working with flowers, playing the organ and was an avid Reds fan.

There will be a service held on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Zechar Bailey Funeral Home, Greenville, with Pastor Peter Menke officiating. Burial will follow in the Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg.

Family will receive friends on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

It is the wishes of the family that memorial contribution be given to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Condolences for the family may be expressed through www.zecharbailey.com.

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Volunteers make meal possible

By Melody Vallieu Staff Writer vallieu@tdnpublishing.com

TROY — If it weren’t for volunteers, the El Sombrero Thanksgiving Day dinner wouldn’t be possible.

So, when volunteers return year after year, owner Ruben Pelayo and his “American mom” Judy Rose couldn’t be more thankful.

As is the case with longtime volunteers Dennis and Sharon Becker who first met Rose and Pelayo prior to the opening of the first restaurant — and they all became fast friends.

“We both like Mexican

food and used to go to Dayton to get it. When they opened in the hotel on West Main Street, we could tell from the decorations that it was going to be Mexican food,” Dennis Becker said. “We walked in the day before it opened and sat down and talked to Judy for about an hour and we’ve been friends with them every since.”

The Beckers missed the first Thanksgiving offering, but have volunteered ever since.

“It’s one of those events that just makes you feel good to be a part of,” said Dennis Becker, who helps get drinks for the volun-

teer servers. “You just see how appreciative so many of the people are that come. Some are needy, some are just lonely.”

Sharon Becker, who greets and seats diners, agrees.

“It’s kind of an awakening,” said Sharon Becker, who makes handmade items to sell to raise money for the dinner, along with Rose and Evelyn Sheafter. “Some days you feel sorry for yourself, but you see that you have it a lot better than others.”

Sheafer also met Rose and Pelayo at their first restaurant in the Troy hotel and helped them

purchase their home in the county. When the hotel burned down — the restaurant also was a complete loss — and there was no place to serve the community dinner, Sheafer helped coordinate the dinner at her church, First United Methodist Church. The cooking was done at the church, while the serving took place at the Moose, now First Place.

“It’s a community service that really gives hope to people because it’s done with no expectation of anything in return,” Sheafer said. “It’s truly a community service.”

For many years,

Sheafer — who also has helped the event become the fine-tuned event it is — would go to the Troy restaurant and cut all the pies prior to returning to her home to host Thanksgiving for up to 30 people, including her out-of-state son.

“It’s a way of giving back to the community,” said Sheafer, who said she then hosts Christmas at her home the day after Thanksgiving. “It seems like the more you give, you get much more back.”

Dennis Becker said his parents, both in their 90s, usually make the trip out to the Troy restaurant to share the holiday.

“It makes it very easy for our family, because they know where we are.

We try and get them to come out in the middle of the afternoon when it’s not so busy and we take and break and eat,” he said.

Rose jokes that longtime volunteers, which also includes Murphy and Michelle Howe, have to give 25 years notice before they stop helping with the free dinner. The Beckers, who would be 94 and 95 at that point, said they better give their notice this year.

“We’ll be there as long as we can,” Sharon Becker said.

Southview group to meet Thursday Friends of the Library to host Holiday Cabaret

PIQUA — The Southview Neighborhood Association will have a general membership meeting at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Mote Park Community Building. Anyone who lives, works, or has a business in the Southview area is welcome to attend.

The special speaker for the evening will be Lorna Swisher. Swisher is the executive director of Mainstreet

Piqua. She will speak on the various projects sponsored by Mainstreet and upcoming events downtown.

Also on the agenda will be a discussion of Southview’s 2014 projects and election of 2014 officers.

Members of the community at-large are also welcome to attend.

For more information, contact Jim Vetter, president, at 778-1696.

Ohio’s boys letter comforted JFK taps bugler VANESSA McCRAY The (Toledo) Blade

TOLEDO (AP) — Army bugler Keith Clark waited for hours on that cold day in 1963 to play one last time for the president — his president.

This somber duty, the sounding of taps at military ceremonies and funerals, was a familiar responsibility for the principal trumpet player in the U.S. Army Band.

Just two weeks before, Sgt. Clark played at Arlington National Cemetery during a Veterans Day ceremony. That day — which to a grieving nation must have felt as if it belonged to a different, distant past — he stood near John F. Kennedy as the president stared straight ahead, shoulders squared, feet precisely placed.

On Nov. 25, 1963, the bugler returned to Arlington, awaiting President Kennedy’s funeral procession.

His assassination three days earlier shocked a nation, which was still in disbelief.

After deafening volleys of rifle fire, the camera and the eyes of the country turned to Sgt. Clark, tasked with summing up the mournful occasion with a melody played not just for a nation but a widow.

He pointed the bell of his bugle to Jacqueline Kennedy and began.

On the sixth note of taps — a catch, a warble, one slight crack.

The missed note would reverberate through history, encapsulating a nation’s pain.

“Most Americans have the sense that he didn’t do it on purpose,” said Sgt. Clark’s oldest daughter Nancy McColley, 64, who watched the funeral procession and her father on a television set in the family’s Arlington, Va., recreation room. “But it seemed to fit the feeling and the dynamic of the day. We were heartbroken as a nation.”

Sitting in another house several states

away, fifth-grader Ed Hunter watched on a black-and-white TV in Plymouth, Ohio.

Like so many children, Hunter, now 60 and living just outside Toledo in Sylvania Township, learned about the president’s death at school. His principal came to the door and broke the news to his teacher.

The class clustered around a transistor radio.

School was canceled the day of the funeral. Watching at home, young Eddie Hunter, who had a month before started trumpet lessons and playing in the school band, paid close attention to the historic ceremony at Arlington.

“The playing of taps was kind of interesting to me … on the sixth note he didn’t quite hit it cleanly,” Hunter recalled. “He sort of cracked a little bit and, being a budding trumpet player, I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, he must feel awful.’ “ He wanted to console his fellow musician and took to his sister’s typewriter to punch out a letter addressed simply to the bugler at the president’s funeral in Washington.

“Anybody is bound to make a tiny mistake in front of millions opon millions of people. At first I did not notice it, at first untile they reran the picture. YOU SHOULD HERE SOME OF THE THINGS I PLAY,” wrote little Eddie.

Back in Arlington, Sgt. Clark received numerous letters, all positive, about his rendition of taps. The imperfect note touched listeners.

Letter writers told him he expressed the sorrow of a nation, and urged him not to feel badly about the mistake.

One particular letter provided Sgt. Clark some cheer. A short note, poorly spelled in spots, from a young Ohio boy.

“My mom said he got quite a chuckle out of that. (It) added a little bit of levity to a really uncomfortable position

he was in. It lightened the mood,” McColley said.

She now has the original copy of Eddie’s letter. Like the others, it will be passed down to future generations.

“When you are growing up and your dad makes a mistake on national TV, that is not your shining moment,” she said. “We realize now that dad has this very special place in history.”

Hunter hadn’t thought much about the letter he wrote 50 years ago, though he kept photographs and a handwritten reply from Sgt. Clark, who hoped the boy was “practicing hard on your trumpet.” The young player wrote the bugler once more and reported he was trying “to be a fine musician like you.”

Taps historian Jari Villanueva, a Baltimore bugler who retired from the Air Force Band, discovered the letters between the bugler and the boy while doing research.

He corresponded with Sgt. Clark before his death, and knew he had received letters after the president’s funeral.

Recently, Villanueva spent time with his family in Port Charlotte, Fla., where McColley lives, and saw some of those letters.

The child’s note struck Villanueva, who tracked down Hunter using Internet search tools.

Hunter played the trumpet through high school and his first year of college at Eastern Kentucky University.

As a child he wrote letters to other notables, including astronauts.

He’s still moved by the story that has reverberated 50 years later.

“This is not about a guy making a mistake. I mean, he did an otherwise flawless job,” Hunter said. “He served his country well, and I think that’s what the ceremony, you know, is … the fact that he did what he did, and it touched so many people in so many ways.”

PIQUA — The Friends of the Piqua Public Library will host its second annual Holiday Cabaret, scheduled for 7 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8 in the Fort Piqua Plaza’s Grand Ballroom.

This year’s event will feature David Broerman, Lisa Clark, Summer Littlejohn, Sam Roth, Tom Westfall, and Bill Zimmerman. These featured artists are all familiar names in our community for their involvement in the music departments and musical programs at

Piqua High School and Lehman Catholic High School.

Tickets will go on sale to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, in the main lobby of the library.

Tickets are $10 each with a maximum of four tickets for each purchaser. There is limited seating with no reserved seating available. The doors will open at 6:15 p.m. the evening of the performance. A cash bar and savory snacks will be available during the evening.

Wreaths on sale for military graves PIQUA — Melcher Sowers Funeral Home, 646 W. High St., Piqua, will participate in Wreaths across America by selling wreaths and conducting a commemorative ceremony in December.

Wreaths across America is a project whose goal is to have wreaths on the graves of

every deceased serviceman and woman in the country. Dec. 14 has been declared Wreaths across America Day. The funeral home will mark the day with an event at the Piqua military memorial.

Until Nov. 25, people can order wreaths from the funeral home to be placed on graves in any area cemetary. The

wreaths cost $15 each.

They will be available for pick-up in Piqua Dec. 11.

For information, call 937773-1647.

The funeral home also collects used cell phones, which it exchanges for phone cards for active servicemembers, and used flags, which it gathers for proper disposal.

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“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”

(Psalms 118:8 AKJV)

Fulfilling experience serving others It is 2 a.m. on a was the first time I Sunday morning and had ever experienced I am outside on a an environment like windswept parking this one in rural Pearl lot in November and River, Louisiana. The it is cold, very cold. yards on these back There are many other roads are filled with places I really want to abandoned vehicles be, most notably, back and rustic trailers, in bed. Slowly and many of which are still the homes of surely, other the storm’s vehicles pull survivors. up, guys gets Looking out and start deeper, it putting their can be even duffle bags more alarmand luggage ing as these in the back run down of a trailer. properties At this point, are right it starts getBill lutz next door ting real, the with beautimission trip Guest columnist fully rebuilt is about to start. The couple of homes with manicured dozen guys in atten- lawns; the contrast is dance circleup and sharp. We pulled into say a prayer, “And a driveway down a finally Lord, make our long dirt path and saw bumpy roads smooth our assignment. A and our curvy roads huge two story house straight. Amen”. In built on cinder block the dead of the night, stilts. This house we all climb into vans obviously had a new and get ready for the roof and was wrapped fourteen hour trip in Tyvek. It was ready to New Orleans. For for siding. Entering Ginghamsburg Church the house, we were in Tipp City, this is welcomed with the the 81st such trip that site of studs, not a has taken place to wall was to be seen.

Fortunately, the help rebuild America’s Gulf Coast from the house had been wired tragedy of the 2005 and the mechanical Atlantic hurricane systems were all in season, which includ- place. It was clear ed Hurricane Rita and that this home was Hurricane Katrina. ready for drywall.

For myself, this was One thing that I did immediately my second trip to the not Gulf Coast. My first notice was the wildtrip was two years life that was living in ago and I found that the house. A family of I came back a wholly wasps, approximately different person. Even 2” long, lived in the though this group was windows along with a a bit smaller, I was whole array of lizards still expecting the ful- and other amphibifilling experience a ous animals. Our week of serving others group wasn’t in the house for more than can bring.

The c a r a - ten minutes before van arrived at we were greeted by AldersgateMethodist the home’s owner, Church in Slidell, Cathy and her pack of Louisiana in early six dachshunds. The S u n d ay n i g h t . positive attitude that Aldersgate Methodist Cathy had was amazChurch is a beautiful ing, especially conchurch home to the sidering all that she Epworth Project. The went through. Katrina crew that traveled all nearly destroyed her day piled out of our home, all that was vans and made our left was a 10 foot by one week home away 30 foot fishing shack, from home inside the as she described it. surprisingly comfort- After the storm her able dormitories, even husband worked to though the beds were make that shack their built from two by fours new home by adding and plywood and the on to the structure. mattress was basically For many years, he a big piece of foam. worked to make the The Epworth Project home bigger by addwas established in ing a second floor.

2005 to help coordi- Cathy told us that one nate disaster relief evening he was workin the Gulf Coast by ing on the house when helping rebuild homes a nasty thunderstorm for those that are in came through and great need. Since the he never came back beginning of 2006, the into the trailer. Cathy Epworth Project has called the local sheriff hosted over 54,234 and spent four hours volunteers from near- looking for him; they ly 3,000 teams. These finally found him in volunteers have pro- the pitch dark, twenty vided over $40 mil- feet from the trailer. lion in in-kind labor Officials determined and have repaired he had passed away over 1,300 homes. For from natural causes. one week, our team of Nex t Story: twenty-three men had Working on the house the chance to work on and experiencing one of these homes.

New Orleans.

Monday morning we were given our assign- For more information on ment, work on a home Ginghamsburg Church, check out approximately twelve www.ginghamsburg.org. For more miles away along a information on the Epworth Project, tributary of the Pearl check out www.epworthproject.

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The way we were I can hear in my mind’s Theodore Roosevelt proear Barbra Streisand’s posed the first national beautifully haunting song health care system: “We “The Way We Were.” It pledge ourselves to work was a nostalgic, wist- unceasingly in State and ful song in a movie of Nation for … the protecthe same name. But tion of home life against sometimes, like now, it the hazards of sickness … reminds me of how far through the adoption of a system of social insurwe’ve come. ance adapted I can also to American see, almost as use.” Health clearly as a percare reform sonal memory, and the expanMatt Damon in sion of existing his role as Rudy coverage has Baylor in “The been on the R a i n m a k e r. ” agenda of every ( Wa r n i n g : American presSpoilers ahead!) ident since Rudy, the workFDR. What ing class son Donna Brazile Harry Truman, of an abusive R i c h a r d alcoholic, has Columnist Nixon, John freed himself and become a lawyer, and F. Kennedy, Lyndon is just starting his career Johnson and Bill Clinton as the movie begins. The could not achieve — a only case he can get is national system of health that of insurance bad insurance — Barack Obama did. faith.

And Obama’s expanDotty and Buddy Black come to Damon to sion of Medicare and seek justice from Great Medicaid builds on legBenefit, an insurance islation supported by company that refuses to Presidents George W. pay for a covered bone Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Experts consider the marrow transplant for their son, Donny Ray. It’s Affordable Care Act, irontoo late now, Donny is ically based on a model dying; but he wants jus- Mitt Romney introduced tice and he wants to leave to Massachusetts, to his parents the money be moderate and rather American in approach. he’s entitled to.

Donny dies, but not More importantly, as before giving a video Alan S. Binder writes in deposition. In the end, The Wall Street Journal: after many devious “The three central elemoves by big firm law- ments of ObamaCare are yers, Rudy wins the case. insurance reform, getting But the insurance compa- (most of) the uninsured ny declares bankruptcy, covered, and containgiving Donny Ray’s par- ing the upward spiral in ents only the satisfaction medical-care costs. Each of a ruling of wrongdo- remains in place.” This ing by “Great Benefit.” despite the botched rollThe heartbreaking case out.

We all have horror causes Rudy to decide to quit practicing law and to stories about friends or teach legal ethics instead. family members betrayed The history of health by their health insurcare, and health insur- ers, or denied coverage, ance, is complicated. As or charged escalating, the economy has changed, b a n k r u p t c y - i n d u c i n g technology has advanced premiums, resulting in and national responsibili- diseases undiagnosed, illties have become more nesses allowed to debilicomplex, we’ve moved tate, treatable conditions through various mod- left untreated. And worse els of how to pay for — death. That is the way health care. We now have we were.

A few years ago, Cokie a hodgepodge of fee-forservice, pre-paid, employ- Roberts said on ABC’s er benefit and good-luck- “This Week”: “We already you’re-on-your-own. And have national health God knows, I have been insurance. It’s called the emergency room, and through all of the above.

And for decades, the it’s the most expensive health insurance indus- kind we can have.” Why? try, intent on maximizing Because, as Business profits for shareholders, Insider’s Henry Blodget has often desecrated the wrote, “wildly profitmission of insurance: able hospitals” fold the Instead of providing ER bills of the uninsured medical care at a time of into everyone else’s. And need, insurance compa- taxpayers often help foot nies have denied claims the bill.

Obama made a rhetoriand refused coverage.

A hundred years ago, cal slip when he said,

“if you like your policy, you can keep it.” Though true for about 97.5 percent of the insured population, Obama probably should have added a Jon Stewart-like qualification: You can keep your health plan, unless it no longer meets the minimum requirements, or your insurance company stops offering it — because it was bad to begin with.

But Republican leaders are not looking to fix any flaws in the ACA — they want to dismantle it. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., has introduced a “fix” to canceled insurance policies — with the newspeak name “Keep Your Plan.”

It’s a gift to the insurance industry, exempting millions from the protections of Obamacare. One person compared it to offering to fix a leaky roof by stripping it off completely.

The media, and Republicans, distorted (as usual) the import of former President Clinton’s comment that the government should keep its pledge. First, he wasn’t urging a reluctant Obama to act. He was agreeing with Obama, who had already said he would do that.

Second, the comment was just 31 words out of a 335 statement that emphasized, “The big lesson is we’re better off with this program than we are without it.” During October, the first month, 106,185 Americans enrolled in the health insurance marketplaces (not counting those added to Medicaid).

While that’s lower than hoped for, it’s 863 times more than Romney’s plan enrolled in the same time period: a total of 123. Further, 26 million people have made individual shopping tours of the Obamacare website.

As with “Romneycare,” the majority are expected to enroll later, rather than early.

President Obama understands why people are frustrated. And now he must take the lead to fix it. And yes, keep his promise and work harder to ensure his policies work to help Americans grow, prosper and stay healthy in the process.

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

The First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging into a broader policy role, Michelle Obama is joining President Barack Obama’s efforts to get the United States on track to have the highest percentage of college graduates by 2020.

Mrs. Obama spoke to students Tuesday at Bell Multicultural High School just a few miles from the White House. Officials say the event is part of what will be a broader focus for the first lady on getting students — especially those in underserved communities — on track to attend college.

The first lady told students that meeting the 2020 goal is important, but their personal success is just as significant.

“No matter what the president does, no matter what your teachers and principals do, or whatever is going on in your home or neighborhood, the person with the biggest impact on your education is you,” Mrs. Obama said. “It’s going to take young people like all of you across the country stepping up and taking control of your education.”

Mrs. Obama also drew from her own experience as she encouraged students at the high school with a large immigrant population to attend college.

She said neither of her parents went to college, but they had an “unwavering belief in the power of education.”

The first lady said she attended one of the best high schools in Chicago across town that required her to wake up at 6 a.m. and travel at least an hour on the bus. Mrs. Obama, who grew up in a working class family, went on to Princeton University and Harvard Law School. But not before facing discouragement as she applied to Princeton, an Ivy League university.

“Some of my teachers straight up told me that I was setting my sights too high. They told me I was never going to get into a school like Princeton,” Mrs. Obama said to a hushed crowd of 10th graders. “It was clear to me that nobody was going to take my hand and lead me to where I needed to go; instead it was going to be up to me to reach my goals.”

Officials said Mrs. Obama is coordinating with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has been overseeing the president’s efforts to boost the nation’s college graduation rate.

The president has cited statistics showing that the U.S. ranks 12th globally in the proportion of people who hold college degrees.

This new endeavor marks a slight but noticeable shift in emphasis for Mrs. Obama.

While she frequently touts the value of education while speaking to students, she rarely connects those general comments with specific policy goals promoted by her husband.

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Piqua author to speak at Bradford Library Who else is having a marriage. hard time realSomething to izing the holido: days are here?

L a r r y I’m not sure if Hamilton of its the weather Piqua, is a native that has me of Loveland, thrown off or and a retired if I am just in Piqua High denial. Time School teacher of seems to be at African American hyper speed History, World Heather Canan these days.

Studies and T h a n ks g i v i n g Current Events.

Columnist is around the Hamilton has corner and authored three Christmas too close books with the assisbehind. I’m trying to not tance of writer, Christina let it me stress me out.

DeLaet. The three books Things have been quiet form a trilogy. The first for this column. I want one being Lucy’s Story: to invite you to share Right Choices But Wrongs your good news with me. Still Left and ending with Its always great to hear Refuge from the Deluge: about another’s good for- On Being Railroaded. tune and tis the season! The story of Lucy is part I do know of a couple of of family history stoweddings coming up and ries that have been told would like to wish these throughout the years and couples a long and happy time-tested through Mr.

Hamilton’s genealogy diggings. The last book actually entails the AfricanAmericans who worked on the railroad from Piqua to Bradford.

This presentation is sponsored by the Bradford Public Library, the Bradford Historical Society and the Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum.

They are very pleased to host Hamilton as our featured speaker at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19. He will be sharing a Powerpoint on his authored works.

Light refreshments will be served. For additional information, contact Bradford Public Library at (937)448-2612.

If you do have something to share or brag about, please send me an email at callingbradford@yahoo.com or call and leave me a message at (937) 417-4317.

Committee recommends to move forward with Hobart Arena study The $75,000 study will move forward to city council for approval

By Melanie Yingst Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia. com TROY — Members of the parks and recreation committee approved to proceed with funding a feasibility study of Hobart Arena and recommended emergency action at the next city council meeting today.

Robin Oda, Alan Clark and Doug Tremblay recommended to fund the feasibility study costs not to exceed $75,000 from Crossroads Consulting Services of Tampa, Fla., the firm chosen to conduct the study.

Patrick Titterington, city of Troy public safety and service director, said the $75,000 study is part of 2014 budget for Hobart Arena. Titterington said the study will provide the city officials a detail analysis of the Hobart Arena’s physical infrastructure and layout and recommend how to modernize the arena to continue to serve the community as a multi-use facility.

Titterington said the arena, built in 1950, was renovated in mid-1990s.

Titterington noted that for Hobart Arena to “continue to the next level” the study was needed to see what renovation would be needed to be done. Titterington said Crossroads Consulting Services was the “best fit for us” to conduct the study.

“The end result is we (will) get a cost benefit to make the best use of the facility,” Titterington said, noting that the report from the company would take up to five months if approved by council.

Titterington also said the study would be marked as an “emergency” on the agenda in for future planning for the arena’s budget and if bond funds would need to be secured in the future as well to fund a possible renovation project.

Titterington said as of now, “bond return rates are historically low.”

The feasibility study’s “Scope of Work” includes: a tour of the arena in detail and condition assessment, facility condition assessment with a comprehensive evaluation of the existing state

of Hobart Arena with a professional review and evaluation; an on-site facility condition assessment field work when an event is being held at Hobart Arena to obtain first-hand experience regarding facility operations and functionality; compare physical attributes of Hobart to three recently designed similar venues; guest experience review on guest amenities including seating, parking, staff and ticketing options.

Crossroads will provide an analysis of Hobart Arena’s strengths and weaknesses from both a physical and competitive market perspective and include future opportunities and threats to the arena. The study will include an economic impact analysis and cost/ benefit analysis as well.

No detailed architectural or design serves will be perform as part of this study.

Chairwoman Robin Oda asked why the feasibility study included travel expenses for the study and why no other firm was selected closer to the city.

Titterington said travel expenses were “typical expenses” for consultant firms like Crossroads, which is based in Tampa, Fla. Oda, along with Clark, both said they were happy with the Hobart Arena’s continued momentum to bring more people to the Troy area.

“I’m very pleased about Hobart’s direction that it is taking,” Clark said.

Clark said he was pleased the study was “multi-faceted” and included an economic impact analysis.

Ken Siler, director of the Hobart Arena, along with President of the Recreation board, Marty Hobart, attended the meeting. Siler said the study would help compare the arena to similar venues and help decide what could be done to improve the facility and offer better hospitality services to its visitors.

Clark praised Siler for his work at the arena and said Siler and the recreation board were “judicious” with the use of the community’s tax dollars.

Siler said the feasibility

study will serve as a “map of the future” for Hobart Arena to keep the arena competitive in the entertainment and recreation markets.

Siler said Hobart Arena is a “hybrid of recreation/ events facility” and has multiple uses for community events from ice skating competitions, gymnastic and cheer leading tournaments and concerts.

Siler said Hobart Arena is similar in size to the outdoor amphitheater of Fraze Pavilion, which hosts summer events. A new outdoor amphitheater will be built soon in Huber Heights and also will hosts summer events.

Marty Hobart also noted a new ice rink was built recently in the city of Springfield.

“Hobart Arena has a positive economic impact for the city,” Hobart said.

“People come here, spend the day shopping, see other amenities Troy has to offer while they are here.”

Siler said the arena is limited in the concession areas, hospitality area and backstage corridor for large-scale events.

More notable, Siler said the arena’s restroom facility is “not even close” to being enough for large events.

“Hobart Arena has been kept in remarkable shape when you see the age that it is,” Siler said.

“People come to Hobart Arena and can’t believe what great shape it is in when we tell them how old it is,” Marty Hobart said. ”That’s a testament to staff over the years and the community willing to keep up the arena’s condition over the years.”

The committee unanimously recommended to be in favor of the study with emergency designation at the next city council meeting.

In other news, the personnel committee of Alan Clark, Lynne Snee and Bobby Phillips (who was absent, but had read the material) approved to recommend a mandatory state 10 cent per hour increase to entry level step for temporary and seasonal employees. The wage increase beings Jan. 1, and was budgeted for in the 2014 city budget.

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Starbucks opens in Sidney

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SIDNEY — Starbucks, the national coffee chain, opened in the Sidney Kroger store Oct. 21 and has been doing a blockbuster business.

“Business has been phenomenal,” said Rachael Betzler, the public affairs manager for Kroger’s corporate office in Cincinnati. “This Starbucks location is one of our top volume stores in the Cincinnati/Dayton division.” The division comprises 35 outlets.

The steady stream of customers purchasing lattes, espressos, cappuccinos and bags of coffee doesn’t surprise Betzler.

“The Starbucks brand is so strong,” she told the Sidney Daily News.

Kroger and Starbucks have a partnership that has put the coffee vendors into the supermarkets in many locations.

The Starbucks in Sidney replaced a Seattle’s Best cafe in Kroger.

“Seattle’s Best is owned by Starbucks,” Betzler said.

The

greatly increased traffic illustrates how well the Starbucks brand is known.

“It is the new hottest place for teens after school,” she noted.

“There’s a big increase in teens (visiting the shop) between 3:30 and 6 (p.m.), buying coffee and hanging out.”

The biggest seller across all age groups is the caramel macchiato frappuccino, an iced coffee drink. The second biggest seller is a salted caramel frappuccino.

Pike Place coffee is the most popular hot drink, Betzler said.

Starbucks is staffed by Kroger employees.

Bloodmobiles set next week SIDNEY — Kathy Pleiman, Shelby and Logan County representative for the Community Blood Center, has announced local bloodmobiles to be held this week.

Today, the Community Blood Center will be at Only Believe Ministries Christian Center, 13815 Botkins Road, Botkins, from 3-7 p.m.

On Wednesday, the

Community Blood Center will be at Senior Center of Sidney Shelby County, 304 S West Ave., from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The CBC will celebrate state pride, home-team heroics and helping save lives with a “Buckeye Strong ” blood drives. Everyone who registers to donate will receive a customdesigned “Buckeye Strong - Blood Donor”

T-shirt. Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment online at www.DonorTime.com.

The “Buckeye Strong - Blood Donor” T-shirt is grey with scarlet lettering and incorporates the CBC blood-drop logo. The shirt is free to everyone who registers to donate through Dec. 14 at any CBC donor center and most CBC mobile blood drives.

Hometown Holiday event coming to Troy TROY — Troy Main Street Inc. is seeking local artists, artisans, and craftsmen to participate as vendors in the Kris Kringle Market, which will have handmade Christmas gifts for children to purchase for family, friends and teachers at prices ranging from $1 up to $20.

The Hometown Holiday event is scheduled for Nov. 29 in

downtown Troy on the square and will include a parade, the Grand Illumination of the town Christmas tree, live music, visits with Santa Claus, carriage rides, phone calls to the North Pole, kiddie rides and more.

Interested vendors can contact Niall Foster at niall@clanfoster.com or call (937) 212-6450 for an application form.

Organizers also are seeking parade participants such as floats and marching units. Parade applications are available through Troy Main Street, and there is no cost to participate. The application deadline is Nov. 23.

For more information, call Troy Main Street at 339-5455 or visit www.

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From page 1 A table with homemade items, many made by Rose herself, also is set up in the Troy restaurant. And, any money made from the items is put directly into the fund for the annual meal. Rose said items already have raised $1,600, and she is abour ready to put some handmade Minion hats, which depict characters from the movie “Despicable Me.” “Even in this economy, you just thank everybody,” said Rose, tears welling up in her eyes. “After Thanksgiving, the goodwill from the community is overwhelming. They show up in hoards for the holiday season for dinner and parties.”

Pelayo said he plans to continue the annual outreach to the community for as long as he can.

“He thinks it’s the least he can do for a community that has supported him,” said Rose, who said they have never had to lay an employee off, and have been able to maintain without raising their

By the pound Between the Troy and Piqua locations, the following amount of food has been ordered to feed guests at El Sombrero’s 16th annual community Thanksgiving dinner: • 125 turkeys • 150 gallons of green beans • 75 gallons of gravy

prices for the past five years.

Any leftover food from the meal is immediately donated to the Bethany Center in Piqua and St. Patrick Soup Kitchen in Troy, according to Pelayo.

So much so that Rose said she couldn’t manage enough turkey two years ago to have a sandwich the day after.

“Whatever cases, they go to the soup kitchens,” said Pelayo, who also supports both with monthly meat donations. “It serves the same purpose, feeding those who need it.”

Preparations for the next Thanksgiving event start the minute they close the doors on this year’s Thanksgiving Day dinner, Rose said. She said as soon as the restaurant is cleaned up, she and Pelayo sit down with the group of core volunteers and discuss what went well and any problems that came up. She said they then take notes and work on solving the problems for the next year.

• 750 pounds of mashed potatoes • 500 pounds of sweet potatoes • 100 gallons of dressing • 50 gallons of cranberry sauce • 300 dozen dinner rolls • 600 pumpkin pies, with whipped cream for topping

HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — For the debut Bartlett’s anthology of black quotations, editor Retha Powers wanted to capture the personal, the political and the artistic.

“When you think about black history, you think about touch points like slavery, colonialism, apartheid,” Powers says.

“Those are heavy and difficult topics. But there also lives being led and poetry being created and plays being written.

I wanted to be able to show all of that, the will to create a culture and a life.”

“Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations,” which has just been published, has the most comprehensive of subtitles: “5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World.” It reaches back to ancient times and oral cultures and continues right up to rap, Malcolm Gladwell and President Barack Obama.

In a foreword for the new book, the author and critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. notes that compilations of black quotations date back to the 19th century and that the “field has proliferated with a marvelous

array of titles.” But, he adds, none of the reference works compares with “the scope of Retha Powers’ collection.”

The 764-page book includes lyrics by Robert Johnson, Smokey Robinson and Jay Z; the humor of Richard Pryor, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy; the oratory of the Revs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson; and prose and poetry from Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou.

Gates himself gets a few citations.

Powers says the idea for the new Bartlett’s began about seven years ago. She was executive editor of the Quality Paperback Book Club and was having lunch with Little, Brown and Co. editor Deborah Baker (who has since left the company). They were discussing upcoming books when Baker mentioned that a volume of black quotations was planned and wondered if Powers had suggestions for who could put it together.

“I wanted to say ‘Me!’ but felt it wasn’t quite appropriate to put myself forward,” Powers explains. “Some days later she called me and said, ‘I know I asked if you knew anyone, but would you want to do

it?’ And I jumped at the chance.”

Obama’s section cover 10 pages and features excerpts from his memoir “Dreams from My Father”; his campaign slogan “Yes, we can!”; his celebrated keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention; and highlights from his two inaugural addresses. Powers includes problematic moments, too, whether the “God damn America” sermon by Obama’s longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or Obama’s observation during a fundraiser speech that some people struggling economically “cling to guns or religion.”

“I definitely wanted to stay in the Bartlett’s tradition of capturing what has been the most impactful, and sometimes there are those warts everybody has,” Powers says.

Not all of the entries originate with blacks.

The anthology features 40 pages of Biblical passages, which Powers says were important to include because they “were a really important tool toward imagining a life outside of slavery.”

The Bartlett’s book also honors the tradition of improvisation, such as lyrics Otis Redding added for his 1966

cover of “Try a Little Tenderness,” written in the 1930s by a trio of British/Tin Pan Alley composers — Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods.

“It was a signature song for Redding. He didn’t write it, but we wanted to include his riff on it,” Powers explained, noting that she included the “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” tagline worked in by Aretha Franklin for her cover of Redding’s “Respect.”

The new Bartlett’s compiles statesmen (Nelson Mandela) and tyrants (Idi Amin), radicals (Malcolm X) and conservatives (Clarence Thomas), scholars (John Hope Franklin) and slaves (Nat Turner). There are boasts (Muhammad Ali’s catchphrase “I am the greatest”), protests (Tracy Chapman: “Why are the missiles called peacekeepers?”), jokes (Dave Chappelle: “Every black is bilingual. We speak street vernacular and job interview”) and pleas (Rodney King: “Can we all get along?”).

“It was extremely important to me to capture a range of experiences and emotions,” Powers says. “We look to quotations to distill life as it exists in total and that includes what it was and how it feels.”

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President Barack Obama is trying to make it possible for Americans to keep their health insurance coverage if they like it. But his now infamous promise may not be realistic.

Obama said Thursday that insurers should be allowed to continue selling individual coverage plans that would be deemed substandard under the health care overhaul to existing customers. The decision came after millions of people received cancellation notices alerting them that their plans would not have complied with overhaul coverage requirements set to begin next year.

A day later, the House of Representatives voted to let insurers sell those existing plans to new as well as existing customers. That bill now goes to an uncertain fate in the Senate.

Insurance experts say there are a number of obstacles that could keep insurers from letting customers renew old policies that the companies had planned to scrap for 2014.

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Several companies said shortly after Obama’s announcement that they were still trying to understand the implications behind it. Obama planned to meet with health insurance CEOs on Friday.

Aetna Inc., the nation’s third largest health insurer, plans to extend some of its cancelled policies, but it hasn’t elaborated on that. The Hartford, Conn., insurer covers more than 22 million people, but only a small slice of that is individual insurance.

Robert Laszewski, a health care industry consultant, said he expects other insurers to make a decision over the next couple days on whether to let customers renew policies that they had decided to scrap.

CAN’T INSURERS JUST CONTINUE THE COVERAGE THEY HAD IN PLACE? The decision is far more complex.

For starters, insurers would need to figure out how much to charge since they haven’t set premiums, or the price of coverage, for plans they expected to scrap. They

have to consider how the coverage will be used and how prices have risen before settling on what they need to collect to cover future claims.

They also have to send letters to customers with cancelled policies, telling them that the coverage can now be renewed.

They also have to inform customers who want to keep canceled plans about any protections that are now required by the overhaul but that are not included under the old plans.

Insurers then have to wait for customers to decide whether to keep the coverage and respond.

Then they must finalize their rates, change their billing for the different rates and reissue the policies.

All this adds up several months of work. But insurers would have to do all this in about 30 days in order to have coverage ready to start on Jan. 1.

ARE THERE OTHER REASONS AN INSURER CAN’T KEEP MY PLAN? Yes. State insurance regulators have to decide whether to allow insurers to do this. Many haven’t made that call yet. Washington regulators have already said they will not allow

insurers to extend their policies.

Aetna spokeswoman Susan Millerick said the company needs help from state regulators “to remove barriers that would make it difficult to make this change in such a short period of time.”

WHAT CAN I DO IF I DON’T GET TO RENEW MY COVERAGE? Customers still have until Dec. 15 to use the overhaul’s insurance exchanges to sign up for health insurance coverage that starts in January. The premiums they find may be higher because the law requires more extensive coverage than what some plans currently offer. But customers also may be eligible for income-based tax credits to help them foot the bill.

Many insurers also are letting policyholders renew their coverage early, which would let them keep their plans through most of 2014.

Customers who do not qualify for a subsidy also should look beyond the overhaul’s exchanges.

They only show plans for which subsidies can be used, and an insurer may make other options available in the policyholder’s state.

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Buccs drop playoff heartbreaker to Flyers Josh Brown Juli Accurso

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MADISON, Wisc. — Former Miami East state champion and former Russia state champion Katie Borchers both qualified for the NCAA D-I national championships at Friday’s regional in Madison, Wisc.

Accurso, running for Ohio University, won the regional title for the second straight year, winning the 6k race in a school record 20:00 to earn her third straight trip to nationals.

Borchers, running for Ohio State, earner her first berth to nationals by finishing 12th in 20:37.

n Ohio State blasts Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Carlos Hyde ran for 246 yards and four touchdowns and Braxton Miller had another 184 yards rushing and two scores Saturday to push No. 3 Ohio State past Illinois 60-35.

But even with Hyde’s offensive explosion, the Buckeyes (10-0, 6-0 Big Ten) needed a third-quarter defensive stop and safety to secure the win.

After trailing 28-0 in the second quarter, Illinois (3-7, 0-6) closed to 35-21 in the third on two Nathan Scheelhaase touchdown passes.

Illinois had the momentum when the Buckeyes’ Ryan Shazier sacked backup quarterback Reilly O’Toole in the end zone. Illinois recovered his fumble but the safety gave the Buckeyes a 37-21 edge and the ball.

Minutes later, a Hyde touchdown put them up 44-21.

n OSU stops Marquette MILWAUKEE (AP) — Shannon Scott scored 13 points and sparked a decisive second-half run, and No. 10 Ohio State pulled away over cold-shooting No. 17 Marquette for a 52-35 win Saturday.

Sam Thompson also scored 13, while Aaron Craft added 10 for the Buckeyes (3-0), who ended the Golden Eagles’ 27-game home winning streak, second-longest in the nation.

Stumper

Q: What Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher won four straight Cy Young awards, beginning in 1999?

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Randy Johnson

Quoted “Eventually, it’s got to go in the basket.”

— Ohio State basketball coach Thad Matta’s halftime message to his team against Marquette

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PIQUA — As the clock wound down on Covington’s season, it wasn’t the lost perfect record that Buccaneer coach Dave Miller was thinking about.

Or league championships.

Or state title shots.

“I just can’t say goodbye to them. I don’t want to have to say goodbye,” Miller said.

“I love my kids, and I wanted 15 weeks with them. I wanted us to go all the way so I could be with them for three more weeks. That’s what I’m going to miss.”

But Marion Local — the No. 1 ranked team in the state in the final Division VII poll — converted a fourth-and-10

Covington’s A.J. Ouellette breaks free on a long run.

from its own 49 with 1:20 left to play in a tie game, and Adam Bertke hit Troy Homan on a 4-yard touchdown pass with 29 seconds on the clock to lift the Flyers

(12-0) to a 35-28 D-VII, Region 26 semifinal victory after a titanic battle Saturday at Piqua High School.

No one gave Covington (11-1) much of a chance

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coming into the game — the Buccaneers entered the night 0-8 against the Flyers in postseason play.

But, as they have all season, the Buccs — led

by senior A.J. Ouellette, who finished with 231 yards on 24 carries in the game — didn’t listen to any of the chatter surrounding them and bought into the coaches’ gameplan.

And that plan worked early on.

Ouellette shocked the Flyers out of the gate with a 38-yard kickoff return, and then he took a pitch on the Buccs’ third play from scrimmage untouched around the left side 41 yards to put Covington up 7-0 with 9:51 left in the first quarter.

Marion Local’s first drive was efficient, also, as quarterback Adam Bertke was 3-for6 passing and added 15 yards on the ground.

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Lehman loses hard-fought game to Triad Cavaliers exceed expectations with 10-2 mark

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WAPAKONETA — Had anybody told Lehman football coach Richard Roll his team — and the Lehman fans — the team would not only win 10 games this year, but have a 10-game winning streak, they all would have been ecstatic.

But, that didn’t make having the season — and the winning streak — end with a hard-fought 14-7 loss to Triad at Harmon Field Saturday night any easier to accept.

“We exceeded expectations,” Roll said. “I told the kids that this week.

But, you still want to win the game.”

And the fact that in the end, several critical mistakes and not cashing on opportunities was the difference made it a tough pill for the Cavaliers to swallow.

“It wasn’t just one or two plays,” Roll said.

“We were our own worst enemies the whole game.

But, you have to give Triad credit. They took advantage of opportunities the whole game. So, you have to give them credit.”

Neither team could dent the scoreboard until Lehman put together a 16-play drive that took almost five minutes off the clock midway through the third quarter.

On a night with less

than ideal conditions for two passing teams, Lehman ran the ball 13 times on the drive.

The Cavaliers converted two fourth downs on the drive.

On fourth-and-four from the Triad 36, Greg Spearman ran four yards for the first down.

On on fourth-andthree from the Cardinals 25, quarterback Nick Rourke kept the ball and made the first down by inches.

That led to a 2-yard touchdown run by Lane Monnin on second-andgoal. Ian Smith’s PAT kick put Lehman up 7-0 with 4:12 remaining in the third quarter.

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Lehman’s (17) hauls in a pass for the Cavs.

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No overtime needed this week Despite struggling offense, Bengals beat Browns CINCINNATI (AP) — No overtime this time. The Bengals brushed aside their intrastate rival with one record-setting quarter.

Andy Dalton threw two touchdown passes and Cincinnati returned a blocked punt and a fumble for touchdowns during a 31-point second quarter that set a Bengals record and swept the AFC North leaders to a 41-20 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

The Bengals (7-4) head into their bye week with their division lead intact and two rough weeks washed away by 15 minutes of domination. They’d lost their last two games in overtime, tying the NFL record and allowing the Browns (4-6) to draw close.

No NFL team has ever played three straight overtime games.

By halftime, the Bengals had this one in hand. It ended as the most lopsided game in the intrastate series since Cincinnati’s 30-0 win in Cleveland in 2006.

Dalton had a horrid start that helped Cleveland get a promising early lead. He threw two passes that were picked off by Joe Haden, who ran one of them back 29 yards for a touchdown and a 13-0 lead in the first quarter.

When the quarter ended,

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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton (14) had another tough day Sunday

Cleveland fell apart.

Dalton threw touchdown passes of 25 yards to Jermaine Gresham and 6 yards to Mohamed Sanu, emerging from his recent funk.

He has thrown eight interceptions in his last three games, a major factor in the two overtime losses.

The Bengals were just getting started on the highest-scoring quarter in their history.

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One minute and 50 seconds later, linebacker Vontaze Burfict forced Chris Ogbonnaya to fumble after a catch and ran the ball back 13 yards for another touchdown.

Mike Nugent’s 41-yard field goal capped off the quarter and made it 31-13.

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it since they gave up 31 in the second quarter at Houston on Dec. 9, 1990. The club record is 35 points allowed in the first quarter of a 35-7 loss at Green Bay in 1967.

Dalton threw another touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, giving him three overall. He was 13 of 27 for only 93 yards.

Jason Campbell threw a 74-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to Josh Gordon, who got a step on Dre Kirkpatrick, but had an otherwise disappointing showing. Campbell hadn’t thrown an interception in 90 attempts this season, but was picked off three times. He set a career high with 56 pass attempts and completed 27 for 248 yards.

The Bengals went conservative to run down the clock in the second half, when heavy rain moved in. Cincinnati avoided the nasty weather that caused a delay in Chicago’s game.

Haden had his first two-interception game while shutting down A.J. Green. He stepped in front of a sideline throw to Green for his interception and touchdown. Haden held the 2012 AllPro receiver to two catches for 7 yards, ending his club-record streak of five straight games with at least 100 yards.

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Miller From page 7 and-5 from the Covington 17-yard line, and an incomplete pass that likely could have been pass interference cut the drive short and gave the ball back to the Buccs.

And they refused to let it go.

Covington drove 83 yards on an astounding 20 plays, chewing up more than 11 minutes in the process. The Buccs converted two third downs and two fourth downs along the way, including sophomore quarterback Jared Williams’ 2-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-goal that put Covington up 14-0.

Ouellette had 11 carries on the drive for 49 yards on the epic march.

With its back to the wall, Marion Local fought back.

The Flyers converted a pair of fourth downs to keep the ensuing drive alive, but on first down from the Covington 45, James Grilliot appeared to legally tip the ball to Ouellette for a Covington interception. But the officials ruled that play pass interference to allow the Flyers to keep the ball, and four plays later Bertke scampered in on a 3-yard touchdown to cut the Covington lead to

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Covington’s Justin Williams plows ahead for yardage.

14-7 at the half.

Ouellette had 105 yards on 16 carries in the first half, while the entire Marion Local offense totaled just 107.

The Flyers wasted no time tying the score on the opening possession of the second half, though, as Bertke hit Hunter Wilker in stride on a 55-yard bomb to make it a 14-14 game with less than a minute gone in the third. And after the Flyer defense held, Marion Local marched right back down the field, with Aaron Nietfeld scoring on a 19-yard run to give the Flyers their first lead with 4:42 left in the quarter.

“They’re a big play team, and we knew that coming in,” Miller said.

“That’s why they’re the two-time — and likely three-time — defending state champ.”

But even with momentum clearly swinging away from them, Ouellette and the Buccs refused to give up.

On third-and-5 from the Buccs’ own 25, Ouellette got the edge on a toss and broke a 66-yard run, weaving in and out of both defenders and his own blockers along the sideline to take it all the way to the Flyer 9.

Three plays later, Bobby Alexander broke the plane on a 2-yard burst up the middle, and the score was tied at 21-21.

Marion Local then took advantage of a short field

despite having to work for it, going 45 yards on 11 plays — twice having to convert on fourth down — until Bertke hit Homan on a 7-yard out route to make it 28-21 Flyers with 8:14 to play.

Ouellette again had the answer, though, breaking a 51-yard touchdown run on a counter up the middle and going untouched to tie the score with 6:18 to go.

“He’s a special kid, and he’s got a bunch of buddies with him,” Miller said. “I’ve never been around a group like this.

He exemplifies everything that we talk about all the time. All these kids do.”

The Covington defense held, giving the Buccs a shot to take the lead. A 12-yard Justin Williams run gave the Buccs a first down on the Marion Local 39, but a pair of nogains and a holding call moved the ball back to the Covington side of the field, and the Buccs were Ben Robinson/GoBuccs.com forced to punt, giving the Bobby Alexander takes a handoff from Jared Williams Saturday Flyers the ball on their night. own 24 with 2:34 left.

Marion Local moved to put the Flyers on top three weeks early, that was the farthest thing the ball to midfield, but for good.

Bertke finished the from Miller’s mind as he the Bucc ‘D’ stiffened up again and forced fourth- game 16-for-27 for 211 hugged his players goodand-10 from the Flyer 49 yards to help Marion bye.

“That’s a great football with 1:10 on the clock. Local move on to face But Bertke — was was Triad — a 14-7 win- team we lost to, so we’re 7-for-8 for 71 yards on ner over Lehman in the not ashamed. It just the final drive — hit other semifinal — next hurts,” Miller said. “I wouldn’t have even cared Austin Albers for 15 week.

And while Covington if we lost the last game. yards over the middle to keep the drive alive, and finished the season 11-1 I just wanted three more three plays later he found after what could prove weeks with my kids. I Homan from 4 yards out to be the state title game hate to say goodbye.”

had a touchdown. We just weren’t able to execute from there.”

On Triad’s next possession, Skylar Brown tackled Triad punter Scottie Instine in the backfield at midfield with 4:55 left, but again Lehman could not take advantage.

The Cavaliers could move the ball only oneyard on four plays, turning it over on downs and Triad ran out the clock from there.

“You have to give Triad credit,” Roll said. “They made the plays when they needed to.”

On a windy night that made throwing the ball difficult, neither team moved the ball in the first half, with a total of just nine first downs between them.

Ironically, a Lehman created the Cavaliers best

opportunity to score.

After a diving interception by Kris Lee of a deflected pass, Lehman had to punt from the Cardinals 45.

Triad roughed Rourke on the punt and added to that penalty with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty arguing the call.

The two personal fouls gave Lehman a first down at the Triad 15.

But, the Cavaliers could move the ball only four yards on four plays, turning it over on downs.

“You have to be able to take advantage of that and we couldn’t do it,” Roll said.

Late in the half, Triad put its best drive of the game to that point together.

Starting at its own 32, Lowe hit Andrew Zirkle on

Lehman From page 7 “Our offense has struggled the last four or five games,” Roll said. “But, we were able to put a drive together.”

Triad would immediately answer with an 8-play, 65-yard drive.

Doug Lowe hooked up with Steven Feasel and Ryan Boyd for completions of 22 and 19 yards on the drive, before connecting with Feasel on a 14-yard TD pass on thirdand-eight.

Luke Donohoe’s PAT kick tied it at 7-7 with :35 remaining in quarter.

And from there, that’s one things went all wrong for the Cavaliers.

With 9:46 remaining in the game, Lehman had a first-and-10 at its own 46.

Damian Boldman stepped in front of a Cavalier pass at the Triad

45 for his second interception of the game and went 55 yard untouched for what would be the winning score. Donohoe’s kick made it 14-7 with 9:33 remaining.

Just three plays after the kickoff, it appeared Lehman would tie the game.

On third-and-five from the Lehman 46, Rourke scramble and broke loose down the right sideline for what appeared to be a 54-yard TD run.

But, Lehman was called for a block in the back at the 22. That moved the ball back to the Triad 32 and the drive stalled from there.

“We still had a first down at the 32,” Roll said. “That block probably sprung the play, so I don’t know that you can say we

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a 25-yard pass and found Zach McConnell two plays later for 33 yards to the Lehman 10.

The Cavaliers defense was up to the challenge again — with Stephan Monnin intercepting a pass inside the 5-yard line with less than a minute on the clock — and Lehman took a knee to complete a scoreless half.

That led to one final half — and a fourth quarter where Lehman was its own worst enemy.

Spearman led the Lehman offense with 64 yards on 13 carries, while Rourke had 48 on 13 carries.

The Cavaliers had just 80 yards passing on 26 attempts, completing 13 with two interceptions.

Triad had just 55 yards rushing in the game, but

Lowe completed 14 of 31 passes for 195 yards with two interceptions.

Feasel had eight catches for 82 yards, while McConnell had two catches for 60 yards.

The Cavaliers closed the season at 10-2, with 10 straight victories in between bookend losses.

“At the start of the year, we thought our punting game would be an Achilles heel and we thought our defense would be terrible,” Roll said. “They both ended being pretty good.

We know we exceeded our expectations this year.”

And while the positives far outweighed the negatives — which is something the Cavaliers can draw on — it didn’t make it any easier to accept the painful moments of the season ending.

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Lehman quarterback Nick Rourke (10) looks to throw against Triad Lehman’s Grg Spearman looks to break a tackle by Triad’s Tim Lehman’s Lane Monnin fights his way into the end zone as Triad’s LeVan Harrison attempts to make a tackle.

Marsalis.

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Lehman’s Lane Monnin (33) and John Husa (40) defend a pass Lehman’s Nick Rourke follows the blocking of Lane Monnin (33) Lehman’s Kris Lee (77) makes a diving interception as Stephen intended for Steven Feasel. and Joe Skelton (50).

Monnin (12) looks on.

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By The Numbers YARDSTICK LC 11 131 80 13-26-2 3-0 4-31 5-29.8

THS First Downs 12 Rushing Yards 55 Passing Yards 195 Comp.-Att.-Int 14-31-2 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 Penalties 4-40 Punts-Avg 7-29.9 Score By Quarters Lehman 0 0 7 0 — 7 Triad 0 0 7 7 — 14 Scoring Summary Third Quarter 1.Lehman — Lane Monnin, 2-yard run (Ian Smith kick).

2.Triad — Steven Feasel, 14-yard pass from Doug Lowe (Luke Donohoe kick).

Fourth Quarter 3.Triad — Damian Boldman, 55-yard interception return (Luke Donohoe kick).

Individual Statistics Rushing — Lehman: Greg Spearman 13-64, Nick Rourke 13-48, Lane Monnin 9-16, John Husa 6-7, Stephen Monnin 2-(-4). Triad: Jacob Thompson 11-40, Zach McConnell 1-15, Doug Lowe 15-9, Scottie Instine 1-(-9).

Passing — Lehman: Nick Rourke 12-21-2 68, Stephen Monnin 1-3-0 12, Mitch Slater 0-1-0 0, Greg Spearman 0-1-0 0. Triad: Doug Lowe 14-31-2 195.

Receiving — Lehman: Greg Spearman 3-25, Drew Westerheide 3-19, Max Schutt 2-12, Lane Monnin 2-10, John Husa 2-7, Clay Selsor 1-7. Triad: Steven Feasel 882, Zach McConnell 2-60, Andrew Zirkle 1-25, Ryan Boyd 1-19, Tim Marsalis 2-9.

Covington-Marion Local

By The Numbers YARDSTICK ML 18 130 211 16-27-0 0-0 0-0 1-37.0

CHS First Downs 13 Rushing Yards 310 Passing Yards 0 Comp.-Att.-Int 0-4-0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 Penalties 5-65 Punts-Avg 2-25.5 Score By Quarters Marion Local 0 7 14 14 — 35 Covington 7 7 7 7 — 28 Scoring Summary First Quarter 1.Covington — A.J. Ouellette, 41-yard run (A.J. Ouellette kick).

Second Quarter 2.Covington — Jared Williams, 2-yard run (A.J. Ouellette kick).

3.Marion Local — Adam Bertke, 2-yard run (Peyton Kramer kick).

Third Quarter 4.Marion Local — Hunter Wilker, 55-yard pass from Adam Bertke (Peyton Kramer kick).

5.Marion Local — Aaron Niefeld, 19-yard run (Peyton Kramer kick).

6.Covington — Bobby Alexander, 2-yard run (A.J. Ouellette kick).

Fourth Quarter 7.Marion Local — Troy Homan, 7-yard pass from Adam Bertke (Peyton Kramer kick).

8.Covington — A.J. Ouellette, 51-yard run (A.J. Ouellette kick).

9.Marion Local — Troy Homan, 4-yard pass from Adam Bertke (Peyton Kramer kick).

Individual Statistics Rushing — Covington: A.J. Ouellette 24-231, Bobby Alexander 14-37, Justin Williams 3-35, Jared Williams 57. Marion Local: Adam Bertke 13-51, Aaron Niefeld 643, Jacy Goettemoeller 8-31, Hunter Wilker 2-5.

Passing — Covington: Jared Williams 0-4-0 0. Marion Local: Adam Bertke 16-27-0 211.

Receiving — Marion Local: Hunter Wilker 5-93, Troy Homan 7-77, Jacy Goettemoeller 2-26, Austin Albers 215.

Miami East-Mechanicsburg

By The Numbers YARDSTICK MHS 12 326 69 2-4-0 3-3 3-15 2-42.0

ME First Downs 12 Rushing Yards 99 Passing Yards 148 Comp.-Att.-Int 14-25-2 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 Penalties 2-20 Punts-Avg 5-51.4 Score By Quarters Mechanicsburg 7 7 7 10 — 31 Miami East 7 7 0 0 — 14 Scoring Summary First Quarter 1.Miami East — Michael Fellers, 37-yard pass from Conner Hellyer (Michael Fellers kick).

2.Mechanicsburg — Brandon Purk, 48-yard pass from Kaleb Romero (Brandon Purk kick).

Second Quarter 3.Mechanicsburg — Aeryton Erwin, 1-yard run (Brandon Purk kick).

4.Miami East — Alex Brewer, 2-yard run (Michael Fellers kick).

Third Quarter 5.Mechanicsburg — Aeryton Erwin, 1-yard run (Brandon Purk kick).

Fourth Quarter 6.Mechanicsburg — Brandon Purk, 66-yard interception return (Brandon Purk kick).

7.Mechanicsburg — Brandon Purk, 24-yard field goal.

Individual Statistics Rushing — Miami East: Colton McKinney 9-35, Kurt Brower 7-31, Michael Fellers 7-21, Alex Brewer 10-15, Conner Hellyer 1-(-3). Mechanicsburg: Aeryton Erwin 28-256, Kaleb Romero 12-68, Joe Ziegler 1-2.

Passing — Miami East: Conner Hellyer 14-25-2 148.

Mechanicsburg: Kaleb Romero 2-3-0 69. Aeryton Erwin 0-1-0 0.

Receiving — Miami East: Michael Fellers 6-74, Franco Villella 3-26, Braxton Donaldson 1-21, Dalton Allen 2-17, Colton McKinney 1-7, Alex Brewer 1-3. Mechanicsburg: Brandon Purk 2-69.

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Ford Eco Boost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup-Ford EcoBoost 400 Results Sunday At Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Fla. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (5) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267 laps, 130 rating, 47 points.

2. (1) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 267, 139.9, 44.

3. (21) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 267, 122.5, 42.

4. (8) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267, 104.8, 40.

5. (25) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 267, 96.5, 39.

6. (4) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267, 110.4, 39.

7. (11) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267, 109.2, 37.

8. (3) Joey Logano, Ford, 267, 98.7, 36.

9. (7) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267, 109.1, 35.

10. (6) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 267, 91.7, 35.

11. (26) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 267, 102.4, 33.

12. (18) Carl Edwards, Ford, 267, 87.5, 32.

13. (13) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 267, 88.1, 31.

14. (10) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 267, 74.8, 0.

15. (20) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 267, 77, 0.

16. (19) Aric Almirola, Ford, 267, 78.4, 28.

17. (15) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 267, 78.1, 27.

18. (27) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 267, 65.6, 26.

19. (22) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 267, 79.3, 25.

20. (24) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 267, 61.4, 24.

21. (2) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 267, 74.1, 24.

22. (9) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 267, 66.7, 22.

23. (14) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 267, 65.9, 21.

24. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 267, 70.7, 20.

25. (30) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 267, 55.7, 0.

26. (23) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 267, 57, 18.

27. (31) David Gilliland, Ford, 266, 48, 17.

28. (40) Casey Mears, Ford, 266, 49.4, 16.

29. (29) David Ragan, Ford, 266, 48.8, 16.

30. (28) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 265, 51.4, 14.

31. (32) David Reutimann, Toyota, 265, 38.5, 13.

32. (37) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 264, 40.5, 12.

33. (39) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 264, 39.7, 0.

34. (41) Ken Schrader, Ford, 263, 34.6, 10.

35. (42) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 263, 31.9, 0.

36. (36) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 257, 48.9, 8.

37. (33) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 248, 27.9, 7.

38. (38) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 242, 36.5, 6.

39. (12) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, accident, 229, 76.8, 5.

40. (17) Trevor Bayne, Ford, engine, 223, 53.8, 0.

41. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, rear gear, 119, 31.2, 0.

42. (43) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, vibration, 104, 26.9, 0.

43. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, brakes, 63, 27.8, 1.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 130.693 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 3 minutes, 52 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.799 seconds.

Caution Flags: 8 for 37 laps.

Lead Changes: 22 among 8 drivers.

Top 13 in Points: 1. J.Johnson, 2,419; 2. M.Kenseth, 2,400; 3. K.Harvick, 2,385; 4. Ky.Busch, 2,364; 5. D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,363; 6. J.Gordon, 2,337; 7. C.Bowyer, 2,336; 8.

J.Logano, 2,323; 9. G.Biffle, 2,321; 10. Ku.Busch, 2,309; 11. R.Newman, 2,286; 12. K.Kahne, 2,283; 13. C.Edwards, 2,282.

Football

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AP Top 25 Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 16, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (55) 10-0 1,495 1 2. Florida St. (5) 10-0 1,445 2 3. Baylor 9-0 1,351 4 4. Ohio St. 10-0 1,343 3 5. Oregon 9-1 1,210 6 6. Auburn 10-1 1,205 7 7. Clemson 9-1 1,115 8 8. Missouri 9-1 1,067 9 10 9. Texas A&M 8-2 956 10. Stanford 8-2 899 5 11. Oklahoma St. 9-1 889 12 12. South Carolina 8-2 870 11 13. Michigan St. 9-1 749 14 14. UCLA 8-2 710 13 15. Fresno St. 9-0 572 16 16. Wisconsin 8-2 559 17 17. UCF 8-1 535 15 18. LSU 7-3 439 18 19. Arizona St. 8-2 430 21 20. N. Illinois 10-0 426 20 21. Louisville 9-1 412 19 22. Oklahoma 8-2 318 22 23. Southern Cal 8-3 187 NR 24. Mississippi 7-3 119 NR 25. Duke 8-2 94 NR Others receiving votes: Minnesota 77, Notre Dame 11, Texas 10, Georgia 5, Cincinnati 1, Nebraska 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll

NFL Standings East

BCS Standings List Team Total 1. Alabama .9914 2. Florida St. .9661 3. Ohio St. .8869 4. Baylor .8856 5. Oregon .7917 6. Auburn .7860 7. Clemson .7681 8. Missouri .7231 9. Stanford .6238 10. Oklahoma St. .5890 11. South Carolina .5883 12. Texas A&M10 .5394 13. Michigan St. .4646 14. UCLA .4615 15. Fresno St. .4134 16. N. Illinois .3729 17. Arizona St. .3414 18. UCF .3033 19. Wisconsin .2907 20. Oklahoma .2760 21. Louisville .2664 22. LSU .2645 23. Southern Cal .1070 24. Mississippi .1048 25. Minnesota .0604

National Football League All Times EST AMERICAN CONFERENCE W 7 5 5 4

L 2 5 5 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .778 .500 .500 .364

PF 234 183 213 236

PA 175 268 225 273

W 7 4 2 1

L 3 6 8 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .700 .400 .200 .100

PF 252 227 193 129

PA 220 226 276 318

W 7 4 4 4

L 4 6 6 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .636 .400 .400 .400

PF 275 216 208 192

PA 206 245 212 238

W L T Pct PF 9 0 0 1.000 215 8 1 0 .889 371 .400 194 4 6 0 4 6 0 .400 228 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

PA 111 238 246 222

W 6 5 4 3

L 5 5 6 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .545 .500 .400 .300

PF 276 274 192 246

PA 260 258 256 311

W 8 6 2 2

L 2 3 8 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .800 .667 .200 .200

PF 288 214 187 214

PA 183 115 237 292

W 6 6 5 2

L 4 4 5 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .600 .600 .500 .200

PF 265 282 258 240

PA 253 267 239 320

W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 10 1 0 .909 306 179 San Francisco 6 4 0 .600 247 178 Arizona 6 4 0 .600 214 212 4 6 0 .400 224 234 St. Louis Thursday's Game Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27 Sunday's Games Chicago 23, Baltimore 20, OT Oakland 28, Houston 23 Buffalo 37, N.Y. Jets 14 Tampa Bay 41, Atlanta 28 Pittsburgh 37, Detroit 27 Philadelphia 24, Washington 16 Cincinnati 41, Cleveland 20 Arizona 27, Jacksonville 14 Miami 20, San Diego 16 Seattle 41, Minnesota 20 New Orleans 23, San Francisco 20 N.Y. Giants 27, Green Bay 13 Kansas City at Denver Open: Dallas, St. Louis Monday's Game New England at Carolina, 8:40 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21 New Orleans at Atlanta, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 24 Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Miami, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Indianapolis at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at New England, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Seattle Monday, Nov. 25 San Francisco at Washington, 8:40 p.m.

Browns-Bengals Stats Browns-Bengals Stats Cleveland 13 0 7 0—20 Cincinnati 0 31 0 10—41 First Quarter Cle—FG Cundiff 20, 4:10.

Cle—FG Cundiff 28, 3:04.

Cle—Haden 29 interception return (Cundiff kick), 2:19.

Second Quarter Cin—Gresham 25 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 14:52.

Cin—Sanu 6 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 11:49.

Cin—Dye 24 blocked punt return (Nugent kick), 4:35.

Cin—Burfict 13 fumble return (Nugent kick), 2:45.

Cin—FG Nugent 41, :01.

Third Quarter Cle—Gordon 74 pass from Campbell (Cundiff kick), 9:29.

Fourth Quarter Cin—Al.Smith 2 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 11:50.

Cin—FG Nugent 38, 8:04.

A—63,856.

Cle Cin First downs 15 10 Total Net Yards 330 224 Rushes-yards 19-102 31-106 Passing 228 118 Punt Returns 3-25 3-39 Kickoff Returns 3-42 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 2-44 3-16 Comp-Att-Int 27-56-3 14-28-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-20 0-0 Punts 7-33.0 9-45.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 5-40 8-64 Time of Possession 32:24 27:36 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cleveland, Ogbonnaya 8-69, Whittaker 420, McGahee 6-13, Edwards 1-0. Cincinnati, Green-Ellis 16-62, Bernard 10-45, Dalton 4-0, M.Jones 1-(minus 1).

PASSING—Cleveland, Campbell 27-56-3-248. Cincinnati, Dalton 13-27-2-93, Sanu 1-1-0-25.

RECEIVING—Cleveland, Ogbonnaya 6-30, Cameron 629, Gordon 5-125, Whittaker 5-41, McGahee 2-4, Barnidge 1-12, Little 1-4, Bess 1-3. Cincinnati, Bernard 441, Gresham 2-27, Sanu 2-11, Green 2-7, Eifert 1-15, M.Jones 1-9, Hawkins 1-6, Al.Smith 1-2.

The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 17, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (56) 10-0 1,544 1 2. Florida State (6) 10-0 1,487 2 3. Ohio State 10-0 1,404 3 4. Baylor 9-0 1,386 4 5. Oregon 9-1 1,231 7 6. Clemson 9-1 1,217 6 7. Auburn 10-1 1,145 9 8. Missouri 9-1 1,129 8 9. Oklahoma State 9-1 1,030 10 928 11 10. Texas A&M 8-2 11. South Carolina 8-2 882 12 12. Stanford 8-2 865 5 13. Michigan State 9-1 729 16 14. UCLA 8-2 700 15 15. Louisville 9-1 627 13 16. Fresno State 9-0 622 14 17. Wisconsin 8-2 511 20 18. Oklahoma 8-2 502 17 19. LSU 7-3 478 18 20. Central Florida 8-1 446 19 21. Northern Illinois 10-0 418 21 22. Arizona State 8-2 352 22 23. Minnesota 8-2 173 25 24. Duke 8-2 131 NR 25. Southern Cal 8-3 115 NR Others receiving votes: Mississippi 35; Cincinnati 23; Michigan 14; Texas 7; Louisiana-Lafayette 6; Miami (Fla.) 5; Ball State 4; East Carolina 1; Georgia 1; Nebraska 1; Toledo 1.

Major Scores College Football Major Scores EAST Akron 14, UMass 13 Boston College 38, NC State 21 Bucknell 17, Georgetown 7 Cincinnati 52, Rutgers 17 Cornell 24, Columbia 9 Dartmouth 24, Brown 20 Duquesne 24, CCSU 21 Harvard 38, Penn 30 Lafayette 27, Fordham 14 Lehigh 31, Colgate 14 Maine 41, Rhode Island 0 Marist 33, Mercer 7 Monmouth (NJ) 21, Bryant 18 Navy 42, South Alabama 14 New Hampshire 37, Albany (NY) 20 North Carolina 34, Pittsburgh 27 Penn St. 45, Purdue 21 Princeton 59, Yale 23 Richmond 46, Delaware 43 Sacred Heart 42, Robert Morris 25 UCF 39, Temple 36 Wagner 10, St. Francis (Pa.) 7 SOUTH Alabama 20, Mississippi St. 7 Alabama A&M 50, Ark.-Pine Bluff 42 Alabama St. 19, MVSU 7 Alcorn St. 48, Jackson St. 33 Appalachian St. 33, Wofford 21 Auburn 43, Georgia 38 Bethune-Cookman 42, Hampton 12 Butler 58, Morehead St. 27 Cent. Arkansas 17, Nicholls St. 10 Coastal Carolina 46, Presbyterian 13 Delaware St. 29, Florida A&M 21 Duke 48, Miami 30 East Carolina 63, UAB 14 FAU 41, Southern Miss. 7 Florida St. 59, Syracuse 3 Furman 32, W. Carolina 20 Gardner-Webb 27, Charleston Southern 10 Georgia Southern 38, Elon 20 Jacksonville 45, Stetson 24 Liberty 59, Brevard 21 Louisiana-Lafayette 35, Georgia St. 21 Louisville 20, Houston 13 Maryland 27, Virginia Tech 24, OT McNeese St. 43, Northwestern St. 17 Memphis 23, South Florida 10 Mississippi 51, Troy 21 NC A&T 41, Savannah St. 14 NC Central 24, Norfolk St. 13 Old Dominion 42, Campbell 14 SE Louisiana 34, Sam Houston St. 21 SE Missouri 36, Austin Peay 34 Samford 17, Chattanooga 14, OT South Carolina 19, Florida 14 Southern U. 53, Clark Atlanta 0 Stony Brook 41, James Madison 38 Tennessee St. 17, Murray St. 10 The Citadel 31, VMI 10 Towson 15, William & Mary 9 UT-Martin 16, E. Kentucky 7 Vanderbilt 22, Kentucky 6 MIDWEST Cent. Michigan 27, W. Michigan 22 Dayton 45, Valparaiso 20 E. Illinois 52, Jacksonville St. 14 Kansas 31, West Virginia 19 Kansas St. 33, TCU 31 Michigan 27, Northwestern 19, 3OT Michigan St. 41, Nebraska 28 N. Dakota St. 35, Youngstown St. 17 N. Iowa 17, Missouri St. 10 Ohio St. 60, Illinois 35 S. Dakota St. 27, South Dakota 12 S. Illinois 24, Illinois St. 17 W. Illinois 21, Indiana St. 14 Wisconsin 51, Indiana 3 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 65, Prairie View 45 Arkansas St. 38, Texas St. 21 Baylor 63, Texas Tech 34 Howard 40, Texas Southern 6 Lamar 46, Stephen F. Austin 45 Oklahoma 48, Iowa St. 10 Oklahoma St. 38, Texas 13 Rice 52, Louisiana Tech 14 SMU 38, UConn 21 UTEP 33, FIU 10 FAR WEST Arizona St. 30, Oregon St. 17 BYU 59, Idaho St. 13 Boise St. 48, Wyoming 7 Colorado 41, California 24 Colorado St. 66, New Mexico 42 E. Washington 35, Cal Poly 22 Montana 42, Weber St. 6 N. Arizona 24, N. Colorado 7 Nevada 38, San Jose St. 16 Oregon 44, Utah 21

S. Utah 22, Montana St. 14 Sacramento St. 43, Portland St. 42 San Diego 23, Drake 13 San Diego St. 28, Hawaii 21, OT Southern Cal 20, Stanford 17 UC Davis 34, North Dakota 18 Washington St. 24, Arizona 17

Prep Playoffs DIVISION I Regional Semifinals Games at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Region 1 1 Lakewood St. Edward (10-1) vs. 4 Austintown Fitch (12-0) at University of Akron InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field 2 Mentor (11-1) vs. 11 Cle. St. Ignatius (8-4) at Parma Byers Field Region 2 1 Hilliard Davidson (12-0) vs. 5 Huber Heights Wayne (11-1) at Upper Arlington Marv Moorehead Stadium 2 Cin. Archbishop Moeller (11-1) vs. 6 Cin. Colerain (12-0) at Mason Dwire Field at Atrium Stadium DIVISION II Regional Finals Games at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 Region 3 1 Cle. Glenville (11-1) vs. 6 Madison (10-2) at Mentor Jerome T. Osborne Sr. Stadium Region 4 1 Medina Highland (12-0) vs. 2 Avon (12-0) at Brunswick Judy Kirsch Field Region 5 1 New Albany (11-1) vs. 3 Zanesville (12-0) at Columbus St. Francis DeSales Alumni Stadium Region 6 1 Loveland (12-0) vs. 2 Cin. Mount Healthy (11-1) at Lockland Roettger Field DIVISION III Regional Finals Games at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 Region 7 1 Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary (12-0) vs. 2 Hubbard (120) at Ravenna Gilcrest Field Region 8 1 Toledo Central Catholic (12-0) vs. 2 Clyde (11-1) at Bowling Green State University Doyt Perry Stadium Region 9 1 The Plains Athens (12-0) vs. 2 Cols. Marion-Franklin (11-1) at Logan Chieftain Stadium Region 10 1 Tipp City Tippecanoe (12-0) vs. 7 Trotwood-Madison (9-2) at Piqua Alexander Stadium – Purk Field DIVISION IV Regional Finals Games at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 Region 11 5 Cle. Benedictine (9-3) vs. 3 Youngstown Cardinal Mooney (8-4) at Solon Stewart Field Region 12 5 Bryan (12-0) vs. 2 Kenton (12-0) at Findlay Donnell Stadium Region 13 8 Steubenville (8-4) vs. 2 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley (10-2) at Dover Crater Stadium Region 14 1 Kettering Archbishop Alter (11-1) vs. 2 Clarksville Clinton-Massie (11-1) at Dayton Welcome Stadium DIVISION V Regional Finals Games at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Region 15 1 Akron Manchester (10-2) vs. 2 Columbiana Crestview (11-1) at Minerva Dr. Robert H. Hines Stadium Region 16 5 Coldwater (10-2) vs. 7 Huron (9-3) at Findlay Donnell Stadium Region 17 1 Cols. Bishop Hartley (11-1) vs. 3 Wheelersburg (111) at Nelsonville Boston Field Region 18 1 West Jefferson (11-1) vs. 3 Hamilton Badin (10-2) at Clayton Northmont Good Samaritan Stadium, Matt Dudon Memorial Field DIVISION VI Regional Finals Games at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 Region 19 1 Kirtland (12-0) vs. 3 Mogadore (11-1) at Twinsburg Tiger Stadium Region 20 5 Haviland Wayne Trace (11-1) vs. 7 Ada (9-3) at Lima Stadium Region 21 4 Newark Catholic (11-1) vs. 2 Cols. Bishop Ready (111) at Gahanna Lincoln Stadium Region 22 4 Mechanicsburg (10-2) vs. 6 West Liberty-Salem (102) at Wapakoneta Harmon Field DIVISION VII Regional Finals Games at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 Region 23 1 Berlin Center Western Reserve (12-0) vs. 2 Norwalk St. Paul (11-1) at Medina Ken Dukes Stadium Region 24 8 Delphos St. John’s (8-4) vs. 6 Arlington (9-3) at Lima Stadium Region 25 1 Glouster Trimble (12-0) vs. 2 Shadyside (12-0) at Zanesville Sulsberger Stadium Region 26 1 North Lewisburg Triad (12-0) vs. 3 Maria Stein Marion Local (12-0) at Piqua Alexander Stadium – Purk Field SATURDAY’S SCORES DIVISION I

Region 1 Austintown Fitch 40, Westerville Cent. 24 Cle. St. Ignatius 28, Hudson 17 Lakewood St. Edward 42, Cle. Hts. 7 Mentor 43, Stow-Munroe Falls 0 Region 2 Cin. Colerain 38, Pickerington Cent. 20 Cin. Moeller 24, Cin. Elder 0 Hilliard Davidson 20, Pickerington N. 7 Huber Hts. Wayne 31, Dublin Coffman 10 DIVISION V Region 15 Akr. Manchester 35, Navarre Fairless 7 Columbiana Crestview 27, Gates Mills Gilmour 26 Region 16 Coldwater 49, Doylestown Chippewa 21 Huron 17, Loudonville 13 Region 17 Cols. Hartley 14, Baltimore Liberty Union 7 Wheelersburg 45, Martins Ferry 0 Region 18 Hamilton Badin 31, Cin. Hills Christian Academy 17 W. Jefferson 37, Richwood N. Union 20 DIVISION VII Region 23 Berlin Center Western Reserve 31, Danville 26 Norwalk St. Paul 24, Wellsville 0 Region 24 Arlington 54, Hicksville 14 Delphos St. John's 42, Tiffin Calvert 10 Region 25 Glouster Trimble 27, Steubenville Cath. Cent. 22 Shadyside 30, Caldwell 6 Region 26 Maria Stein Marion Local 35, Covington 28 N. Lewisburg Triad 14, Lehman Catholic 7 FRIDAY’S SCORES DIVISION II Region 3 Cle. Glenville 26, Bedford 12 Madison 22, Brecksville-Broadview Heights 21 Region 4 Medina Highland 17, Massillon Washington 14 Avon 24, Perrysburg 21 Region 5 New Albany 26, Mansfield Senior 22 Zanesville 36, Worthington Kilbourne 0 Region 6 Loveland 45, Cin. Northwest 14 Cin. Mount Healthy 13, Cin. Winton Woods 10 DIVISION III Region 7 Akron SVSM 35, Poland Seminary 7 Hubbard 49, Aurora 19 Region 8 Toledo Central Catholic 42, Tiffin Columbian 13 Clyde 19, Sandusky Perkins 6 Region 9 The Plains Athens 55, Dresden Tri-Valley 52, OT Marion-Franklin 20, Col. Brookhaven 19, Region 10 Tippecanoe 30, Thurgood Marshall 13 Trotwood-Madison 44, Springfield Shawnee 7 DIVISION IV Region 11 Cle. Benedictine 45, Chagrin Falls 21 Youngstown Cardinal Mooney 42, Struthers 14 Region 12 Bryan 49, Caledonia River Valley 19 Kenton 46, Wooster Triway 6 Region 13 Steubenville 22, Zanesville Maysville 20 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 7, Philo 3 Region 14 Alter 28, Valley View 0 Clinton-Massie 52, Cin. McNicholas 14 DIVISION VI Region 19 Kirtland 49, Louisville St. Thomas Aquinas 21 Mogadore 35, Canfield South Range 28 Region 20 Haviland Wayne Trace 40, Defiance Tinora 7 Ada 35, Convoy Crestview 0 Region 21 Newark Catholic 35, Lucasville Valley 21 Col. Ready 45, Woodsfield Monroe Central 14 Region 22 Mechanicsburg 31, Miami East 14 W. Liberty-Salem 21, Summit Country Day 13

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Alcoholics and Their Enablers Dear Annie: My brother his disease if we don’t step up “Nathan” moved into an apartand intervene. How can I get ment with my other brother, my family to deal with this? -- C. “Steven,” who lives with his girlDear C.: The problem with friend and her son. Nathan has addicts, whether it’s drugs, alcohol an alcohol problem that already or anything else, is that they are caused him to lose his job and is often in denial about the extent now creating problems between of the problem and unwilling to Steven and his girlfriend. Steven Annie’s be helped. Without their coophas forbidden my parents to speak Mailbox eration, there is little you can do. with Nathan about his alcoholism People also use drugs and alcohol for fear of betraying his brother’s Kathy Mitchell to self-medicate -- most often for trust and embarrassing him. I & Marcy Sugar depression -- and those symptoms believe Steven is an enabler. can be hidden because the focus is My parents recently visited my on the addiction. It does Nathan no good brothers and didn’t bring up the sub- for his family to pretend the problem ject. I feel as if I’m living in a family doesn’t exist. You and your parents can of ostriches burying their heads in the contact Al-Anon (al-anon.alateen.org) for sand, hoping the problem will go away. information and support.

But I’m worried that Nathan will die of Dear Annie: In your reply to

“Sleepyhead’s Mother-In-Law-To-Be,” you missed an opportunity to educate the public about delayed sleep-phase disorder. DSPD is a circadian rhythm disorder that prevents sufferers from falling asleep until some hours after midnight. Consequently, we find it difficult to wake in the morning.

DSPD doesn’t respond well to medication, therapy or sleep hygiene (relaxation techniques, avoiding caffeine, adequate light exposure during the day, etc.) because it is not insomnia. But the most difficult aspect may be the social censure from people who are convinced we are lazy and self-indulgent. Future son-in-law is lucky to have found a job and a girlfriend who is understanding about his disability. -- No Early Bird in California

Horoscope HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Nov. 18, 2013: This year you often might stray off topic and find that you are mentally distracted. Learn to eliminate distractions by handling the issue at hand. Many interesting and creative ideas emerge from your daydreaming; be sure to write them down. If you are single, romance remains a high priority. You are likely to see potential suitors only through rose-colored shades. If you are attached, use care with children, as they can be evasive at times.

Your relationship benefits from sharing more with your sweetie. Develop a mutual hobby. GEMINI can be verbal, distracting and charming all at the same time.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-Soso; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You will state your case or pursue a desire with intention. Those around you could be a little confused by your words and actions.

You might see doubt in their expressions, so try to understand where they are coming from. Tonight: Make calls and catch up on a friend’s news.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You might feel a bit selfindulgent and go overboard.

Listen to your instincts in a meeting or perhaps at a get-together with a friend.

You will gain unexpected insights that could stop you in your tracks. Digest this

perspective first, then act.

Tonight: Run some errands.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You smile, and the world smiles with you.

You have unusual insight into a friendship and its meaning. You can count on the unpredictability of this person, but you still will enjoy and value this bond.

Tension builds around a responsibility. Tonight: It is your call.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might want to head in a more appealing direction. Do some testing first, and consider that you might not know the whole story. You also might not have a grasp on what could happen if you decide to follow an untried path.

Tonight: Read between the lines with a boss.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Meetings will bring good results. A partner could be in disagreement, as he or she might not have heard all the details. Know that you can’t change this person’s mind. Detach and see what happens. You will learn a lot about him or her if you do.

Tonight: Surf the Web. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Pressure builds and creates a lot of nervous energy. You might wonder what to do about a situation that demands your attention.

Others do not realize how much you do, and they will continue to be unclear until you walk away. An offer comes your way. Tonight: Busy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Detach. You might

wonder which way to go with an important relationship.

You and this person have wanted to plan a trip for a while, so get the ball rolling.

The true reason for the trip might not be what you say or think. Be honest with yourself. Tonight: Make some calls.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Deal with others directly if you want to get a reasonable response. Stop wondering what might be best to do. Ask for feedback, encourage a brainstorming situation and move forward only when you have enough information to make a sound decision. Tonight: Visit over dinner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21) HHHH Defer to others, especially if you are not as sure of yourself as you normally are. Allow someone else who is more confident to take the lead, at least about the issue at hand. A child could be provocative yet endearing. You need to maintain a strong stance.

Tonight: Say “yes.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might be more focused on an idea than you realize. Someone could drop a heavy book right by you, and you would not even hear it hit the floor. Try to be present in the moment, at least some of the time. Take a walk to center yourself.

Tonight: The unexpected occurs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Allow your creativity to emerge. Whether you decide

to share some of your ideas will be up to you. Know that your intuition might be off about money. Avoid making agreements right now. An unusual phone call heads your way. Tonight: Act as if there is no tomorrow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Your intuition comes through regarding what you should do. You could feel as if some element of your life is out of control. You will make a strong presentation, but you might worry a lot about how you come off and the impression you make.

Tonight: Head home.

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In this Jan. 10, 2013 photo, parents play with their children at a kid’s play area in a shopping mall in Beijing. China will loosen its decades-old one-child policy and abolish a much-criticized labor camp system, its ruling Communist Party said Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. The official Xinhua News Agency said the party announced the changes in a policy document following a key, four-day meeting of party leaders that ended Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Beijing.

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B E I J I NG (AP) — China’s leaders announced Friday the first significant easing of its one-child policy in nearly 30 years and moved to abolish its labor camp system — addressing deeply unpopular programs at a time when the Communist Party feels increasingly alienated from the public.

Beijing also pledged to open state-dominated industries wider to private competition and ease limits on foreign investment in e-commerce and other businesses in a sweeping reform plan aimed at rejuvenating a slowing economy.

The extent of the longdebated changes to the family planning rules and the labor camp system surprised some analysts.

They were contained in a policy document issued after a four-day meeting of party leaders one year after Xi Jinping took the country’s helm.

“It shows the extent to which Xi is leading the agenda. It shows this generation of leaders is able to make decisions,” said Dali Yang, a China expert at the University of Chicago. “This is someone who’s much more decisive, who has the power, and who has been able to maneuver to make the decisions.”

Far from sweeping away all family planning rules, the party is now providing a new, limited exemption: It said families in which at least one parent was an only child would be allowed to have a second child.

Previously, both parents had to be an only child to qualify for this exemption. Rural couples also are allowed two children if their first-born child is a girl, an exemption allowed in 1984 as part of the last substantive changes to the policy.

Beijing says the policy, which was introduced in 1980 and is widely disliked, has helped China by slowing population growth and easing the strain on water and other limited resources. But the

abrupt fall in the birth rate is pushing up average age of the population of 1.3 billion people.

Demographers have argued that this has created a looming crisis by limiting the size of the young labor pool that must support the large baby boom generation as it retires.

“It’s great. Finally the Chinese government is officially acknowledging the demographic challenges it is facing,” said Cai Yong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“Although this is, relatively speaking, a small step, I think it’s a positive step in the right direction and hope that this will be a transition to a more relaxed policy and eventual return of reproductive freedom to the Chinese people,” Cai said.

The government credits the one-child policy introduced in 1980 with preventing hundreds of millions of births and helping lift countless families out of poverty.

But the strict limits have led to forced abortions and sterilizations by local officials, even though such measures are illegal.

Couples who flout the rules face hefty fines, seizure of their property and loss of their jobs.

The update on birth limits was one sentence long, with details on implementation left to the country’s family planning commission. It was unclear what might happen to children born in violation of rules, whose existence have been concealed and thus lack access to services.

Cai said some experts estimate the policy change might result in 1 million to 2 million extra births in the first few years. But he said the figure might be significantly lower because of growing acceptance of small families.

Last year, a government think tank urged China’s leaders to start phasing out the policy and allow two children for every family by 2015, saying the country had paid a “huge political and social cost.”

The China Development Research Foundation said the policy had resulted in social conflict and high administrative costs, and led indirectly to a longterm gender imbalance because of illegal abortions of female fetuses and the infanticide of baby girls by parents who cling to a traditional preference for a son.

The party also announced it would abolish a labor camp system that allowed police to lock up government critics and other defendants for up to four years without trial. It confirmed a development that had been reportedly announced by the top law enforcement official earlier this year but was later retracted.

Also known as “re-education through labor,” the system was established to punish early critics of the Communist Party but has been used by local officials to deal with people challenging their authority on issues including land rights and corruption.

Pu Zhiqiang, a prominent Beijing lawyer who has represented several former labor camp detainees in seeking compensation, welcomed the abolition of the extra-legal system.

“There have been many methods used recently by this government that are against the rule of law, and do not respect human rights, or freedom of speech,” Pu said. “But by abolishing the labor camps … it makes it much harder for the police to put these people they clamp down on into labor camps.”

“This is progress,” Pu said.

Earlier this year, state broadcaster CCTV said China has 310 labor camps holding about 310,000 prisoners and employing 100,000 staff, although some estimates range higher.

The party report also promised to improve the judicial system and help farmers become city residents. It also elaborated on the party’s previous announcement that it would set up a national security commission.

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RUNN YMEDE, England (AP) — There is a quiet and somber feel to this small piece of America on an English hillside, near where the Magna Carta was signed eight centuries ago.

Only a trickle of visitors come to the John F. Kennedy Memorial, located on about a halfhectare (an acre) of land given to the people of the United States by Queen Elizabeth II in an unprecedented act of British affection for the fallen president.

Here, near the Thames River meadow where the founding charter of civil liberties was signed in 1215, the queen came to dedicate the austere monument to a president killed 1½ years previously.

Accompanied by Kennedy’s widow, his two children and two surviving brothers, the queen spoke of “the unprecedented intensity of that

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She spoke for the multitudes. Much of the world learned of Kennedy’s death within minutes, and 50 years later it still feels the loss. ___ Across six continents, in sports grounds, statues, scholarships, streets, hospitals, bridges, parks and schools, the name of John F. Kennedy is preserved in perpetuity, nowhere more keenly than in the hearts and minds of the Irish.

There he is widely recognized as the nation’s most famous son, whose great-grandfather Patrick emigrated to Boston in 1848 from a 14-hectare (35-acre) farm near the River Barrow in Dunganstown, County Wexford.

That farm in Ireland’s southeast corner has become a focal point for tens of thousands of

JFK pilgrims annually since June 1963, when Kennedy visited his ancestral homeland. His four-day tour inspired unparalleled excitement in a then-impoverished land that had never before seen an American president.

In the nearby town of New Ross, a bronze podium bearing microphones and the presidential seal marks the riverside spot where Kennedy spoke.

A flame taken from his burial plot in Arlington Cemetery burns at the center of a globe-shaped sculpture dedicated to Ireland’s emigrants.

Carmel Delaney, a New Ross native, was 11, singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with a crowd of Catholic schoolgirls when JFK’s helicopter landed.

“We wouldn’t have seen a helicopter before. That was something fabulous altogether,” she said. “We knew he was somebody extremely important. We knew he was a god.”

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In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Manuel Rodriguez, 73, holds an article published by the Granma newspaper in 2010 about U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Havana, Cuba. The newspaper reads in Spanish, “Kennedy and the October crisis: Shining and sad days.” In October 1962, Rodriguez was a member of the military reserve when he was sent to the municipality of Cotorro to help defend Cuba against a possible U.S. invasion, during the Cuban Missile Crisis and one year after the Bay of Pigs invasion.

a national day of mourning. Tens of thousands queued to sign the U.S. Embassy’s condolence book, and businesses closed so employees could attend Masses in JFK’s memory.

Jacqueline Kennedy gave the president’s Irish relatives the rosary he had in his jacket when he died. It is on display at the Kennedy Homestead.

At the homestead, JFK’s closest living relative in Ireland, fourth cousin Patrick Grennan, says the family is planning no special occasion for the 50th anniversary.

“We Kennedys choose to commemorate life, not death,” Grennan, 38, said while showing a visitor around the homestead.

“We celebrate the triumph of his visit to Ireland, his inspirational words. We try not to dwell on the horror of what happened later.” __ “I put on the radio, and just at that moment there was a chilling report informing us that the president had been assassinated in Dallas,” Fidel Castro wrote in a recent newspaper column. The usually voluble former president of Cuba recalled being struck dumb. “For all intents and purposes there was nothing that we could talk about.”

In Cuba, Kennedy was reviled for authorizing the Bay of Pigs invasion and perceived as bellicose during the missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

“Every Cuban felt like that president was attacking us. You couldn’t have the slightest good will for him,” said Manuel Rodriguez, a 74-year-old former bank employee and militia member who was mobilized during the Bay of Pigs attack and the missile crisis.

He remembers that Kennedy’s assassination shocked Cuba and provoked fears that new tensions would roil the island. Once again he was called up for military duty.

His view of Kennedy has softened somewhat over the years; today Rodriguez believes the hostile U.S. policy toward Cuba was set

by Kennedy’s predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, and that Kennedy had to “keep up the pace.” ___ In Bogota, Colombia, Maria Cristina Reyes remembers exactly what she was doing when

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This Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows the front pages of seven British national daily newspapers in London headlining the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of his death.

Kennedy was shot.

He had touched her life.

Reyes was 16 and newly married when JFK pulled up in a black limousine with his wife and Colombia’s president on Dec. 17, 1961. She and her husband were among people building simple one-story red brick houses financed by Kennedy’s “Alliance for Progress” initiative.

One of the homes would be the Reyes family’s, in a district which would be named Barrio Kennedy.

“We felt great joy to see someone who was not from our country come and give something to people who were really in need,” said Reyes.

Neighbor Martha Garay, now 77, remembers Kennedy’s impact: “He was dashing, attractive, impeccable, and so was his wife.”

JFK lingered, visiting a lot of the houses, “and spoke some Spanish though it wasn’t anything that was very understandable,” Garay said, chuckling.

Reyes said she was housecleaning when word of the assassination reached her. “We turned on the radio when they announced the terrible news.”

Today, having lived through Bogota’s violent decades, she sounds fatalistic when she thinks back to Kennedy’s murder.

“When a person like President Kennedy comes around and tries to help, they always cut him

down,” she said. ___ The day after the assassination, the performance of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” ran as scheduled in London’s Old Vic theater.

When the play ended, Sir Laurence Olivier stepped forward, raised his hands, and said that instead of applause the actors would rather stand with the audience for two minutes of remembrance. The great actor and director arranged for the silence to be broken by the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Since his death, the legacy of JFK has touched lives the world over.

David Miliband, a Briton, is typical. He studied in the U.S. on a scholarship from the Kennedy Memorial Trust, and went on to serve as his country’s foreign secretary. “ Today Kennedy remains a repository of hope not because he was assassinated but because the things he said and did created hope,” Miliband says. “There is a huge sense of promise unfulfilled. His vision was utterly inspiring.”

At Runnymede, carved on a rock, is a sentence from JFK’s 1961 inauguration address that still resonates around the globe: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

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