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Man shot during questioning Killed during probe about ties to Boston Marathon bomber ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

Ibragim Todashev, a 27-yearold mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down by authorities at his Orlando home during a

meeting with the agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, authorities said. The agent was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The FBI gave no details on why it was interested in Todashev except to say that he was being questioned as part of the Boston investigation.

But some of his former roommates who were questioned as

well said that Todashev knew one of the bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, from mixed martial arts fighting in Boston and that the FBI was asking about him.

Public records show Todashev lived in Watertown, Mass., just outside Boston, last year.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an aspiring boxer, was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings. His younger brother,

Dzhokhar, survived and is charged with carrying out the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

Investigators have been trying to establish the scope of the plot.

In addition, authorities in Massachusetts said they would investigate whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to

Holiday events slated

BY BELINDA M. PASCHAL Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Piqua and surrounding communities See Shot/Page 2 will hold a variety of Memorial Day services on Sunday and Monday.

Beginning at 8 a.m.

Monday, line-up for the parade sponsored by the Piqua Veterans Association will begin at Ash and College streets. Parade chairman Bruce Hogston said anyone with antique cars or hot rods is welcome to participate by showing up between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. The parade begins at 9 a.m. and will proceed north on College Street and end at the Veterans Memorial at 1701 Washington Ave. A memorial service will begin upon completion of the parade, with James Garrity, past commander of American Legion Post 184 as master of ceremonies. The service will include musical selections by the Piqua High School band, an assembly by the MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO Veterans Elite Tribute

PHS B AC C A L AU R E AT E PIQUA — Piqua City offices will be closed on Monday to allow city employees to observe Memorial Day. Garbage, refuse and recycling collections will not be made on Monday.

Monday through Friday collections will be one day late, with pick-up on Saturday, June 1, for Friday’s collection.

The city urges all customers to place their containers at their usual collection points the evening before early pick-ups the following day.

The Piqua High School Choir performs at Piqua Baptist Church on Sunday during the Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2013.

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Jodi Boldenow speaks to members of the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce during a tour of the recently-opened Industrial Spring Company on Country Club Road on Monday. Boldenow, along with her brother Jeremy Sizer, are co-owners of the Minnesota-based business that manufacturers springs for garage doors.

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PIQUA —Industrial Spring Company is set to open their doors after ambassadors with the Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce and business officials held a ceremonial ribbon cutting at their new location on Monday.

The company, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., also known as Industrial Door Company, expects to hire 40 employees and expects to generate nearly $900,000 a year in annual payroll from opening the new location in Piqua.

The plant will operate out of a 48,600 square feet facility located at 9200 Country Club Road.

Industrial Spring manufactures garage door

springs for, among other businesses, Clopay in Troy and at big box hardware stores like Home Depot and Menards.

According to the company’s website, since 1974 Industrial Spring Company has manufactured the “highest quality garage door springs for garage door manufacturers, garage door wholesalers and garage door distributors throughout the Midwest.”

Earlier this year the company was one of 11 across the state that received financial assistance from Ohio Gov. John Kasich as a part of the Ohio Tax Credit Authority, which reviews economic development proposals.

The tax credit authority approved a 45 percent, five-year Job Creation Tax Credit for the business.

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@citivasmedia.com TROY — Three people jumped out of a secondstory window to escape the flames and smoke from a Wednesday morning fire in an apartment complex on 32 Foss Way, Troy.

According to City of Troy Fire Department Chief Chris Boehringer, fire stations responded within four minutes of the initial 9-1-1 call at 2:59 a.m., which stated seven people were trapped on the second story of the apartment building.

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Students honored at Academic Signing Day

BY WILL E SANDERS Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Fifty-six students were recognized Wednesday at Piqua High School for the educational aspirations they have after they leave the hallways of the high school during a special ceremony celebrating their academic intent to higher learning.

The fourth Academic Signing Day took place inside the high school’s auditorium, an event that

first began after school officials visiting other school districts in the state learned of similar ceremonies where the academic pursuits of graduating students were recognized similar to athletic signing days.

Principal Tony Lyons said the Academic Signing Day is a good way for the school to show support for students who have acquired financial assistance or scholarships to See Students/Page 2

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Rachel Harker, right, hugs her father, Joe, as her mom, Julie, looks on during Academic Signing Day in the auditorium on Wednesday. Harker, who plans to attend Bowling Green State University, was one of nearly 60 seniors who signed letters of intent to attend the college of their choice.

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Squad, which also will perform the firing of the salute and “Taps” at the end of the service. Pastor Kyle Kirchner of Good Shepherd United Presbyterian Church will give the invocation and benediction.

The guest speaker at the memorial service will be Lt. Col. (Retired) Philip C. Lootens, who also will be the parade’s grand marshal. Lootens served two combat tours, including a tour in Vietnam, after which he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees before accepting a teaching position at Edison Community College.

In 2007, Lootens retired from Edison as vice president of education. He and his wife, Mary, have lived in Piqua for 35 years.

Several services will take place in Covington,

beginning at 9 a.m. in Bloomer Cemetery, followed by another at 10:30 a.m. in Miami Memorial Cemetery. The highlight of the services comes at 1 p.m., when a parade will proceed from Walnut Street north to Highland Cemetery for a third service.

More than 30 units will participate in the parade, and in lieu of the traditional grand marshal, the parade marshal will be in memory of late U.S. Air Force veteran Jim DeMoss, whose family will accept a plaque in his honor during the services at Highland Cemetery.

In addition to paying tribute to veterans, this service will feature selections by the Covington High School band and other musical performances, a reading of The Gettysburg Address, and an invocation and bene-

two of the three adults were then transported to Miami Valley Hospital, one by CareFlight and the other by ambulance.

The other four people trapped were rescued by the city fire department’s ladder truck and were able to walk down to safety.

“In this particular case, there was one egress stairway and it was

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diction by Pastor Stephen Nierman of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Covington. Following the service in Highland Cemetery, services will be held at the Stillwater River to honor those buried at sea.

The Memorial Day services in Covington are being presented by several groups: Veterans of Foreign Wars Covington Post No. 4235, Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans Miami Valley Camp No. 161, Veterans of World War I Miami County Barracks No. 568, American Legion A.B. Cole Post No. 80 and American Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam Covington Post 66.

Memorial Day services for Bradford will be held on Sunday. Lineup fo the parade will begin at 1 p.m. in the First Baptist

Church parking lot, with the parade beginning half an hour later. The parade will proceed up Miami Avenue and end at the Harris Creek Cemetery for a 2 p.m. service. Pastor Daryl Peeples, assisted by other pastors, will conduct the service. The event is sponsored by the Bradford Area Association of Churches.

In Christiansburg, the Fire Company will hold its 32nd annual Memorial Day services in Smith Cemetery following the 11:30 a.m. parade. The guest speaker will be Champaign County prosecutor Kevin S. Tabeli. The parade will include the Graham High School marching band, local fire departments and antique cars. Anyone wishing to participate in the parade is welcome to join the lineup at 11 a.m.

blocked by active fire and they couldn’t get down,” Boehringer said.

Boehringer said the state fire marshal was investigating the scene of the fire on Wednesday.

Boehringer said the fire is believed to have started on the front porch of the apartment building.

Boehringer also said smoke detectors in several of the buildings were inspected. One was found without a battery, one had

a battery but did not work and another was working but was too far away from the fire to respond to the smoke.

Boehringer reminded the public to check smoke detectors often to allow adequate time to evacuate in case of a fire.

Casstown Volunteer Fire Department, Elizabeth Township Fire Department and Tipp City medics provided mutual aid as well as assistance

SIDNEY — Marion A. Swiss, Jr., 90, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 6:04 p.m. at the OSU Medical Center in Columbus. Funeral services will be held from both the Troy Police Saturday at Cromes Funeral Home, Sidney, with Department and Miami the Rev. Randy Locker officiating.

County Sheriff’s Office at the scene on Wednesday morning.

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have some who took advantage of dual enrollment options and some of them have already earned significant college credits, which will give them more chances to have better success at college.”

He added: “Obviously, I couldn’t be more proud of them as an entire group. … I’m certainly very proud of them.”

The names of the 56 students, followed by their college choice, were: Bryce Albert, Bowling Green; Heather Anderson Bowling Green; William Anderson, Urbana University; Bailey Anspach,

Sullivan; Taylor Bachman, Edison; Ben Beck, Norwich University; Tyler Billet, Bowling Green; Megan Booher, Urbana University; Courtney Bowman, Mount Vernon Nazarene; Madisyn Boze, Bowling Green; Nathan Burkholder, Bowling Green; Jennifer Clark, Morehead State University; Gabrielle Collins, Bluffton University; Cody Combs, Bowling Green; Allison Comstock, Ohio University; Cody Congdon, Bowling Green; Alexandrea Cox, Urbana University; Benjamin Crawford, Ohio State Uni-

versity; Brandon Devaudreuil, Bowling Green; Haley Dotson, Muskingum College; Brittany Dyas, Wright State University; Andrea Ferree, Ohio State University; Annemarie Finfrock, Wright State University; Zachary Fitzner, Mount Vernon Nazarene; Mikayla Gao, Miami University; Ashley Gerlach, Ohio State University; Brandi Good, Edison; Danielle Good, Ohio State Christy University; Graves, Wright State University; Rachel Harker, Bowling Green; Brenna Heinle, Wright State Uni-

versity; Eion Hogston, Ohio Valley State; Victoria Hostetter, Ohio State University; Sierra Iddings, Ohio Northern University; Steven Jenkins, Wright State University; Megan Jones, University of Cincinnati; Macy Lambert, Wright State University; Cara Long, Sinclair; Kaitlynn McCawley, University of Dayton; Alyssa McKinney, Ohio Wesleyan University; Megan Miller, Ohio University; Hannah Mowery, University of NeKyle braska-Lincoln; Nichols, University of Cincinnati; Logan Peepels, Bowling Green; James

Rhynard, University of Cincinnati; Nathan Bellarmine; Runge, Thomas Schneider, Ohio Lauren University; Seman, Edison; Cayley Silverthorn, Johnson and Wales; Mitchell Stevens, Bowling Gree; Katie Stewart, Bowling Green; Alex Tamplin Indiana Wesleyan; Austin Tamplin, Ohio State UniversityNewark; Natalie Thobe, Wilmington College; Paige Underwood, University of Cincinnati; and Justice Young, Bowling Green.

lando more recently, friends said.

“He’s a regular guy, nothing wrong,” Saeed Dunkaev said.

Muslin Chapkhanov, another former roommate, said Todashev knew the older Tsarnaev brother. Todashev “was living in Boston and I think he trained with him,” Chapkhanov said.

Former roommate Khusen Taramov said the FBI was asking

questions about a conversation Todashev had with the elder bombing suspect a month before the Boston Marathon attack.

The Tsarnaev brothers have roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists.

Investigators have said the brothers carried out the Boston bombing in

retaliation for the U.S. wars in Muslim Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details of the investigation, said Todashev came at the FBI agent with a knife before he was shot.

An FBI team was dispatched from Washington to review the shooting, standard pro-

cedure in such cases.

Todashev was arrested earlier this month on a charge of aggravated battery after getting into a fight over a parking spot with two men a father and son at an Orlando shopping mall. The son was hospitalized with a split lip and several teeth knocked out, according to a sheriff ’s report. Todashev claimed self-defense.

“Also by his own admission Todashev was recently a former mixed martial arts fighter,” the arresting deputy said in his report. “This skill puts his fighting ability way above that of a normal person.”

Todashev was released on $3,500 bail after his May 4 arrest. His attorney, Alain Rivas, didn’t immediately respond to a call for comment Wednesday.

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TROY — Frederick Douglas Hayes, 71, of Troy, passed away at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Upper Valley Medical Center, Troy. He was born on Nov. 20, 1941, in Lee County, Va., to the late Thomas William and Elsie (Taylor) Mary Hayes. His wife of 51 years, Edna Faye (Fairchild) Hayes, survives.

He is also survived by his daughter and son-inlaw, Karen and Jason Medders of Russia; son, Luke Hayes of Troy; brother, Howard Hayes of Springfield; three sisters, Eve Bledsoe of South Carolina, Joyce Stienberger of New Mexico, and Louise Fairchild of New Carlisle; four grandchildren: Ryan Perkins, Taylor Binkley, Logan Perkins, and Jacob

Medders; and one greatgrandchild, Isaac Binkley.

In addition to his parents, Doug was preceded in death by one son, Mark; three brothers, Ed, Jim, and John Ray Hayes; and one sister, Mary Wilma Hayes.

He was a member of Alcony Grace Church, and retired from Simpson Industries.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with Pastor Stephen Marcum officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens, Vandalia. Friends may call from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

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Students Continued from page 1 the colleges of their choice in order to further their education.

“First and foremost, it’s about recognizing those students who have worked hard their entire school career,” Lyons said.

“To these students, it represents that education is a priority in their life.”

Lyons said he was proud of every student that took part in the ceremony.

“Collectively speaking, we have kids who have taken every AP class, we

Shot Continued from page 1 an unsolved 2011 slaying in the Boston suburb of Waltham, where three men were found dead in an apartment, their throats slit and marijuana sprinkled over their bodies. One of the victims was a boxer and a friend of Tsarnaev’s.

Todashev had lived on and off with other Chechens in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee and had moved to Or-

Senate Democrats offer changes to state budget

BY ANN SANNER Associated Press COLUMBUS (AP) — Democrats in the Ohio Senate suggested Wednesday that budget writers take millions of dollars from a proposed income tax cut for higher wage earners and direct it to schools instead, as work intensified on the state’s spending plan.

The idea is among roughly 200 amendments that Democratic senators are offering to Ohio’s $61.5 billion, two-year budget. The Senate’s version of the plan is expected to be released next week. The budget must be completed by June 30.

The House-passed version of the budget contains a 7 percent permanent income tax cut, though Senate Democrats want to see changes to the $1.5 billion

income tax reduction over two years.

State Sen. Nina Turner of Cleveland offered the education amendment.

She said it would eliminate the income tax cut for Ohioans making more than $106,150, while keeping the reduction for those in lower income brackets. That would free up $508 million for schools to use in the classroom and for transportation.

The proposal is designed to steer the money to schools that need it the most, Turner said.

Schools would get the extra dollars based on the percentage of the district’s students that are economically disadvantaged, the district’s average success rate on the first round of graduation tests, and the average score on reading readiness tests for students entering kinder-

garten.

“There comes a point where we have to make a decision as a state on whether or not we are going to do what it takes to invest the money in a way that benefits this state and this nation for generation to come,” Turner told reporters at a news conference.

Republicans overwhelmingly control the Senate, and any changes would need their support.

Democratic amendments are often sidelined by GOP leadership.

John McClelland, a spokesman for the Senate Republican caucus, said GOP leaders would comment on them when the updated bill is unveiled next week. He said all amendments, including those from Republicans, continue to be reviewed.

The Senate’s budgetwriting committee met

later Wednesday to hear reports from its subpanels on education, Medicaid and general government.

Other Democratic amendments were focused on expanding the Medicaid program to provide for more low-income Ohioans under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

State Sen. Capri Cafaro, of Hubbard, said a general theme emerged in committee hearings on Medicaid: There would be “a pervasive, negative impact” on health care delivery, health costs, and the physical and behavioral health of potential enrollees should the Legislature fail to act.

Republican Gov. John Kasich proposed the Medicaid expansion in his state budget plan, but GOP leaders in the Ohio House dropped it from the spending blueprint last

month before sending it to the Senate.

Republican Senate President Keith Faber has said his chamber’s version of the budget won’t include expansion, but he says the idea of changing Medicaid is not dead.

Roughly 366,000 lowincome residents would be eligible for Medicaid coverage beginning in 2014, should the state decide to expand the program under the federal law.

Ohio would get $13 billion from the federal government to cover program costs over the next seven years, according to the Kasich administration.

Democratic senators also want to remove a House-added provision that Cafaro said would keep the state from covering those who could be newly eligible for health coverage under the federal law.

Other amendments would: • Boost money for local governments by $396 million over the two years.

• Give an additional $2.5 million per year to the state’s food banks.

• Bring the state’s laws in line with federal laws on the illegal dumping of oil and gas drilling waste.

• Delete a provision that sends Planned Parenthood to the back of the line for public family planning money.

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PHS Continued from page 7 they are graduating, they will not progress as much as they would if they continued to push themselves and follow their dreams.

He briefly mentioned that Jesus would help them and would always be there for them even when times were hard.

The message delivered was inspirational and motivating to many of the seniors. The service was

concluded in prayer again, and the seniors of the Piqua High School concert choir performed the Alma Mater.

After the service was concluded, the seniors were each given a small, pocket new testament to carry with them on their endeavors. Parents and graduates were offered cookies and punch after the service as well. They were quite tasty.

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• Wilder Intermediate sixth graders will be walking to French Oil Mill Machinery Company on Friday, May 24 to learn about the importance of “soft skills” from Mr. Dan French, President. During the tour of the facility, students will come to understand the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to a successful international business based here in Piqua.

• Bennett Intermediate finished fourth in the Miami County Sumdog Contest.

Student Ca’ron Coleman finished fourth highest individual with a score of 962 out of 1000. Congratulations!

• Wilder Intermediate students will be recognized for their academic and behavioral achievements for the fourth quarter at an awards assembly on Thursday May 30 The Principal’s Award will also be presented to a sixth grade student who has demonstrated outstanding citizenship and academic effort throughout their years at Wilder. Sixth grade students will be recognized with a traditional clap-out on Thursday, May 30 on the front lawn of Wilder beginning at 1:00 p.m.

• Congratulations to the following Piqua students for being recognized as Achievers at the Upper Valley Career Center 25th Annual Achievers Program on May 9.

• James Black Christian Bowman Taylor Bryant Jasmine Davis Kaleb Etherington Wesley Everett Kristina Frey Ashley Gilmore Andy Howk Michael Howk Steven Jenkins Mason Lear Sarah

Lewis Christin Libbee Emily Mikolajewski Megan Miller Lakota Mills Tyler Overla Jessica Pearce Justin Ramon Alex Shinall Amber Shira Oliver Walters Jonathan Wirt A reminder to parents of incoming seventhgrade students for the 201314 school year: It is required by the state of Ohio, Ohio Revised Code (ORC) 3313.67 and 3313.671, that your son/daughter receive a booster immunization (Tdap) before starting seventh grade. Parents of sixth grade students are acquired to have their children vaccinated with the Tdap booster before starting in the seventh grade at the junior high. Please schedule an appointment with your family doctor, the Miami County Health Department or the Piqua Health Department Immunization Clinic, to have your child vaccinated before the start of the 2013-14 school year! If your child has already received this vaccine, please send documentation to the school nurse.

• Registration for the 2013-14 school year is now in progress. Forms are available online at www.piqua.org. Contact the Board of Education Office at 773-4321, extension 0501 if you have any questions regarding this process. If you would like a copy of the “NewsBrief” sent directly to your home or office, you may register at www.piqua.org or email hardmans@piqua.org.

For more information regarding the Piqua City School District, visit our website at www.piqua.org.

Actions Parents Can Take to Promote School Success: Have Your Children Teach You What They Are Learning In School

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COVINGTON — It’s time for the Covington Community Vacation Bible School. This year’s theme will be “SonWest Roundup” for all cowboys and cowgirls. Come saddle up and explore exciting stories of Moses while discovering God’s ultimate power.

There will be great music, fun games, daily crafts, yummy snacks and a daily skit with Miss Lilly and her gang of cow pokes. This year’s dates will be June 17-21 from 9 a.m.-noon, with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. June 17 in Covington Church of the Brethren lower level.

There will be a closing program Friday evening June 21 starting with a furnished picnic meal at 5:30 p.m. for all parents and children in the church basement, followed with a program of music with all children performing at 6:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome for a fun-packed week and a great Friday evening program. Pre-registration is encouraged.

For more information, contact Covington Church of the Brethren at (937) 473-2415 or e-mail covingtoncob@gmail.com.

Brukner to offer summer day camps in June

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In Brief Zumba punch card discount at YWCA Piqua

TROY — Brukner Nature Center is offering a summer day camp, “Good Grub, Slimy yet Satisfying” for Grades K-3 from June 17-21 and for grades 4-6 from June 24-28. The camps run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. each day.

Grubs, mice and dandelions may not sound too appetizing, but many creatures survive on these and other foods we would never consider eating!

Join the adventure and discover how carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and scavengers have adapted to finding, hunting for and eating their meals.

Registration for the programs is open. The cost is $125 per child for Brukner members and $150 for non-members. For half-days (9 a.m.-noon), the price is $75 for members and $100 for non-members.

Prices are on a per-week basis.

For more information about the day camps, call (937) 698-6493.

PIQUA — On Tuesday, May 28, through Thursday, May 30, from 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. interested women 15 years old and up will be able to get a discount on a 10 class YWCA Zumba punch card. The punch card is good for three months from the date of purchase.

Zumba classes, led by Andrea Hoover, meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.

The last 15 minutes of class will incorporate light strength training and toning. Classes are ongoing so be sure to try out this one hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements set to Latin Music.

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

Lehman Catholic School Briefs SIDNEY — The following activities and programs are taking place in Lehman High School: • The Lehman Catholic High School Music Department held its annual awards banquet recently at the Knights of St. John Hall in Piqua. Trays of ham and roast beef were provided by the Piqua Knights of St. John, something that the Knights of Saint John have annually done since the school was formed. Each family brought a covered dish. Receiving the Unverferth Music Boosters Scholarship was senior Emily Wildenhaus, daughter of Donna Wildenhaus and John Wildenhaus, both of Piqua. This scholarship recognizes a student for whom music has made a significant difference in his or her life. It is intended to inspire that student to continue to be involved in music after high school. The scholarship award is named in memory of the grandmother and uncle of Lehman band director Elaine Schweller-Snyder who were both active musicians. Wildenhaus plans to attend The University of North Carolina and major in Music Education.

• Outstanding Musicianship Awards were presented to students in each class.

Chosen Outstanding Senior Musician was Ethan Jock, son of Dan and Melissa Jock of Maplewood. Outstanding Junior Musician was Gabe Berning, son of Les and Karen Berning of Sidney.

Chosen Outstanding Sophomore Musician was John Schmiesing,son of Kevin and Anne Schmiesing of Sidney.

The Outstanding Freshman Musician was Nick Neumeier, son of Sam and Mary Neumeier of Troy. Receiving the Knights of St. John Outstanding Bandsman Award was senior Samantha Neumeier,daugh-

ter of Sam and Mary Neumeier of Troy. Chosen Outstanding Lehman Limelighter was MaKenna Cabe, daughter of Del and Darla Cabe of Sidney. The Outstanding Cavalier Choir Member was John Copella, son of Kevin and Kathy Copella of Sidney.

• Seniors receiving plaques for at least two years in participation in music activities, choral or instrumental or both, were Sarah Cabe, John Copella, Louis Gaier, Michael Jacob, Ethan Jock, Brad Kaeck, Dylan Long, Samantha Neumeier, Riley Pickrel, Tori Tullis, Abbigail Vogann, Emily Wildenhaus, and Bonnie Zimmerman.

Senior Nick Cummons received a certificate for one year of playing with Combo.

Underclassmen in Cavalier Choir received certificates.

These students included Katie Adams, Sophia Dunn, Micayla Hanover, Rob Heckman, Erik Rodenburgh, and Olivia Gorman.

• Underclassmen involved in Show Choir also received certificates. Those singerdancers recognized were Gabe Berning, Patrick Blenman, MaKenna Cabe, Millie Cartwright, Claudia Fatone, Julia Harrelson, Katie Heckman, Cassidy Hemm, Grace Jackson, Abigail Kramer, Kassie Lee, Kristopher Lee, Abby O’Connell,Emily Reinhart, Erik Rodenburgh, Meghan Safreed, John Schmiesing, Adrianna Sehlhorst, Olivia Sehlhorst, Dylan Sherman,Elaina Snyder, and Jake Watkins. Nick Neumeier, Emily Hoersten, Lauren Vanderhorst, Rob Heckman, Jack Monnin, and Emma Simpson were recognized for Combo and Jared Seger was recognized for Crew.

First year band members receiving pins were Kendal Eck, Claudia Fatone, Janelle Gravunder,John Meyer,Nick Neumeier, Emily Reinhart,

Emma Simpson, C.J.Trahey, AdamVanderhorst,andAlex Wiseman. Michael Largent received a certificate for one semester of concert band.

Sophomore band members received their numerals.

These students were Samantha Comer, Kaitlin Gillman, Erik Jackson,Teddy Jackson, Katie Karr, Jennifer Kaeck, Jack Monnin, John Schmiesing,Jared Seger,and Jake Watkins. Derek Gaier received a certificate for one semester of marching band.

• Junior band members receiving letters were Gabe Berning, MaKenna Cabe, Sarah Gravunder, Micayla Hanover, Emily Hoersten, Grace Jackson, Adam Link, Michael Reinhart, Erik Rodenburgh, Meghan Safreed, Elaina Snyder, Lauren Vanderhorst, and Alia Whitney.

Alexis Sowers, Marla Schroeder, and Jordi Emrick received certificates for band

auxiliaries.Patrick Blenman, Millie Cartwright, Grace Frantz, Rob Heckman, and Nick Elsner received certificates for one semester of band. Certificates were also awarded to those students who received superior (I) or excellent (II) ratings at the Ohio Music Education Association Solo and Ensemble Adjudicated Event held in February. Also recognized were Katie Heckman and Elaina Snyder who received “Best Performer” awards at show choir competitions, and MaKenna Cabe who was voted “Best Female Soloist” in a separate solo competition at the Harrison/Hamilton Show Choir Invitational.

The awards were presented

by Music Department Chair Elaine Schweller-Snyder, who also teaches instrumental music.Vocal awards were presented by vocal music teacher Jacque Jenkinson.

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BY ALAN FRAM AND STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press

Defending ‘The Dog Whisperer’ “What mighty contests,” wrote 18th-century satirist Alexander Pope, “rise from trivial things.” The poet had sex in mind, although something similar could be said about Americans and their pets. If you think people get worked up about politics, say something “controversial” about dogs or cats. Then prepare for action.

Since many dog-lovers imagine their pets as humans in fur coats, realistic observations can evoke outrage. Consider the hubbub over my favorite TV program, “The Dog Whisperer.” Cesar Millan is a Mexican immigrant whose uncanny way with problem dogs has made him a star on the National Geographic channel.

Every week, Cesar visits some of the most feckless Southern California suburbanites in captivity and liberates them from the tyranny of everything from 120-pound Rottweilers to killer Chihuahuas.

It’s always instructive, often funny. Cesar’s gift is what the military calls GENE LYONS “command presence.” A compact man who moves Columnist like a professional athlete, he gains instant respect from all but the most incorrigible animals simply by entering the room. Fortunately, all dogs “read” human body language better than many humans grasp theirs. People who have no clue what dogs are communicating never cease to amaze. I recently got screamed at by a woman terrified at the bumbling approach of a basset hound intent upon a belly rub. That’s like being afraid of a geranium.

It’s common to see pet owners -- mostly women, in my experience -- convert dogs into fear-biters by inadvertently teaching them to cower from everybody they meet. Alas, making similar observations has landed Cesar in trouble.A recent New York Times column by Mark Derr, a self-described dog historian,criticized“The DogWhisperer”for sexism, and worse “a simplistic conception of the dog’s ‘natural’ pack,controlled by a dominant alpha animal (usually male).”

Derr calls Cesar “a charming, one-man wrecking ball directed at 40 years of progress in understanding and shaping dog behavior and in developing nonpunitive, reward-based training programs, which have led to seeing each dog as an individual, to understand what motivates it.”

Once it was the Whole Child; now it’s the Whole Dog. Color my neck red, but I doubt that after eons of humandog symbiosis, we’re seeing exciting breakthroughs in canine psychology. At best, animal behaviorists may be rediscovering things guys like Cesar have always known.

I recently read another Times article explaining that academic psychologists now question the long-orthodox view that dogs feel no emotions. I called my veterinarian pal Randy Bob. “Doctor,” I asked, “does it strike you as newsworthy than a dog has emotions?”

“Doctor,” he answered,“a bleeping dog is emotions with a nose.”

Exactly.But they’re not intellectuals or even children,and you can’t reason with them.Cesar doesn’t brutalize dogs.I’ve never seen him hit, hurt or shout at one. But he does let them know who’s boss, even if it takes physical interaction.

He introduces particularly aggressive specimens to his “pack” of 40-odd large dogs. Even the most belligerent realize they can’t fight everybody, and calm down fast.

Maybe it’s simplistic, as Derr charges, to think that most dogs are dominance-obsessed, but it does have the virtue of being true. Supposedly, studies of wild wolf packs show that “dominance contests with other wolves are rare.” That’s because canids are more realistic than people.

My wife once rescued a rambunctious 85-pound male golden retriever from the highway.Almost immediately, Big Red attempted a coup by charging the mellow but very powerful German shepherd-Great Dane mix that handled security at our place. Taken by surprise, Corliss was knocked to the ground. A brief scuffle ensued, during which the retriever found himself lifted clean off his feet by the scruff of his neck.

You could see him changing his mind in midair: “OK, I can be No. 2.Two’s good. Less pressure.” Corliss and Big Red lived to a companionable old age together without renegotiating the issue.

Here’s “The Dog Whisperer” in a nutshell: Somebody’s going to be in charge, you or your dog. If it’s the dog, you’ve both got problems. (It helps Cesar’s ratings that Los Angeles is chock full of attractive women who don’t get it.) He doesn’t teach dogs to navigate obstacle courses or compose sonatas.He instructs their owners how to prevent them from attacking children,eating furniture and charging city buses.

Another solution would be basset hounds for all. Bassets show little interest in dominance. They’re one of two breeds (along with beagles) never involved in a fatal human attack.

They’re also stubbornly untrainable. I defy Cesar to prove otherwise.

After reading that actress Candice Bergen treats her basset to“foaming mousse”baths and“tree oil aromatherapy”at a Beverly Hills spa, I took mine walking in the country.They bathed in the river. For aromatherapy, they selected dead fish and fresh horse manure. Sweet, harmless, loving, but definitely not human.

ArkansasTimes columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000).You can email Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.

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Why Obama is silent on killed babies A

four former employees of fter reading ghastly delivering live fetuses durheadlines about reing third-trimester aborcently convicted tions and killing them by Philadelphia abortion doceither snipping their spinal tor Kermit Gosnell, such as cord (the Gosnell method), “Gosnell Jury Hears About stabbing a surgical instruBaby Surviving Abortion in ment into their heads or Toilet” (Steven Ertelt, life‘twisting their heads off news.com, May 9), there NAT HENTOFF their necks with his own was this sudden message: bare hands’” (“Second “White House: No ComColumnist ‘house of horrors’ abortion ment on Gosnell ‘Beheading’ Babies in Abortions” (Steven Ertelt, clinic where doctor ‘twisted heads off fetus’ necks with his bare hands’ is inLifeNews.com, April 15).

Why was Barack Obama silent about vestigated in Texas,” May 16).

Pow, citing anti-abortion group Life this “house of horrors”? Maybe because, as I’ve previously reported, he didn’t Dynamics’ video interview with one of want it known that as a state senator in the doctor’s former employees, writes Illinois, he had persistently opposed a that in these latter murders, the fetus bill, the Born-Alive Infant Protection coming completely out “was still alive Act, which would have provided medical because it was still moving and you care for babies who survive botched could see the stomach breathing.”

The Texas Department of State abortions.

He had voted “No” on the bill in March Health Services is investigating.

As for Gosnell’s “house of horrors,” we 2001 and “Present” later that same month. Explaining Obama’s vote, World- now know that his “abortion center was NetDaily reports, “in the Illinois senate, inspected only after a federal drug raid voting ‘Present’ is the equivalent of vot- in 2010. It was the first time the facility ing ‘No,’ because a bill must have a ma- had been inspected in 17 years because jority counting only ‘Yes’ votes to pass” state officials ignored complaints and (“Gosnell Conviction a Setback for failed to visit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society for years” (“Kermit Gosnell Jury Obama,” May 13).

Jill Stanek, an Illinois nurse and pro- Hung on Two Counts, Doesn’t Say Which life advocate whom I had previously in- Ones,” Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com, terviewed, testified in 2003 before the May 13).

While some states didn’t need Gosnell Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee on the Born-Alive Infant to be awakened to the need for strenuProtection Act. She told of a colleague ous oversight of abortions, what about who “accidentally threw a live aborted the many others that do? As WorldNetbaby in the garbage who had been left on Daily senior correspondent and author the counter of the Soiled Utility Room Jerome Corsi insists: “After the Gosnell conviction, no state wrapped in a disposable towel.

“When the associate realized what she health official can rest comfortably that had done, she started going through the abortion doctors are acting responsibly, trash to find the baby, and the baby fell unless the state has a history of rigorous health standards applied by abortion out of the towel and on to the floor.”

As president, Obama has steadfastly clinics operating in the state.”

This includes, he adds, making sure supported late-term abortions. But he doesn’t need to worry about the public restrictions on late-term abortions are being reminded of his rejection of the actually being followed.

Because I am among the many pro-life Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. That’s because of the unyielding media atten- and pro-choice Americans mourning tion that’s been concentrated on his Jus- those babies who were assassinated by tice Department’s invasions of the Dr. Kermit Gosnell, I will end with this: Notorious late-term abortionist LeRoy Associated Press’ First Amendment freedoms, as well as the Internal Revenue Carhart “was awarded the 2009 William Service’s questioning of citizens’ politi- K. Rashbaum, M.D., Abortion Provider cal groups, focusing, for example, on Award by Physicians for Reproductive those with “patriot” and “tea party” in Health ... NARAL Pro-Choice America their names. The IRS was also curious to (which no longer stands for National know if any of these groups had publicly Abortion Rights Action League, given opposed specific policies, like Oba- that some people might think that name icky) gave him its Hero Award that same macare.

Of what country does Obama think year” (“Kermit Gosnell Is Not an Outlier,” Shannen W. Coffin, nationalrehe’s president?

As for Dr. Kermit Gosnell, his case is view.com, April 12).

Coffin contiues: “There’s very little difdone. In the May 15 Wall Street Journal, Peter Loftus reports that he has been ference between what Carhart does on a sentenced “to spend the rest of his life in regular basis and what Kermit Gosnell prison for the murders of babies who (stood) on trial for.”

When is NARAL Pro-Choice America were born alive at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, avoiding a potential death going to demand the return of that Hero penalty in a deal with city prosecutors.” Award?

I’m a pro-lifer who agrees with Jerome But the horrifying details of his case have startlingly educated many Ameri- Corsi: “Now that murder charges have cans, including this one, about the ex- been found to apply to abortion practices tent of other “houses of horror” in Pennsylvania, no state should assume a health department trying to be politithroughout this nation.

The Washington Times’ Jeanneane cally correct can be assumed in the fuMaxon writes: “Gosnell’s clinic is not the ture to be free of criminal liabilities.”

Including murder. only ‘house of horrors’ in our nation. In recent years, 15 states have investigated Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned substandard conditions and providers” (“Why Big Abortion shares Gosnell’s authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the guilt,” May 15).

For one of many examples, Helen Pow Reporters Committee for Freedom of the reveals in the Daily Mail that “Houston Press, and the Cato Institute, where he is doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by a senior fellow.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions.

In one of the most electric moments since the IRS controversy erupted nearly two weeks ago, Lois Lerner defended herself during a brief appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Government Committee. The committee is investigating the agency’s improper targeting of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, and Lerner oversees the IRS office that processes applications for that status.

“I have done nothing wrong,” said a stern-looking Lerner, sitting next to three other witnesses and reading from a written statement. “I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.”

Lerner then said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right to avoid incriminating herself. Nine minutes after she began speaking, committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., excused her and Lerner left the hearing room through a rear door, escorted by her lawyer and several other men.

The men quickly whisked Lerner into an elevator, where several of the men physically pushed back television camera operators who were trying to film them.

Lerner’s refusal to answer questions was not a surprise. Her attorney, William W. Taylor III, wrote a letter to the committee this week saying she would do so.

Lerner revealed the agency’s targeting two weeks ago and apologized for the actions.

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Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break

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This Monday photo shows Amy’s Baking Company in Scottsdale, Ariz. After a particularly ugly TV experience, Amy’s is fighting back and trying to raise awareness for cyber-bullying. They are doing this after they cursed out critics of their TV experience on their Facebook page. The restaurant temporarily closed down their Scottsdale restaurant after the “Kitchen Nightmares” episode aired.

BY CRISTINA SILVA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.

An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant laced with salty language and angry, uppercase letters that quickly went viral last week, to the delight of people who love a good Internet meltdown.

“I AM NOT STUPID ALL OF YOU ARE,” read the posting on the Facebook wall of Amy’s Baking Co. in suburban Phoenix. “YOU JUST DO NOT KNOW GOOD FOOD.” It was, to put it kindly, not a best business practice. Add to that an appearance earlier this month on the Fox reality TV show “Kitchen Nightmares” — where celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay gave up on trying to save the restaurant after he was insulted — and you have a recipe for disaster.

“That’s probably the worst thing that can happen,” said Sujan Patel, founder and CEO of Single Grain, a digital marketing agency in San Francisco.

In the evolving world of online marketing, where the power of word of mouth has been wildly amplified by the whims and first impressions of anonymous reviewers posting on dozens of social media websites, online comments, both good and bad, and the reactions they trigger from managers, can make all the difference between higher revenues and empty storefronts.

Hotels, restaurants and other businesses that depend on good customer service reviews have all grappled in recent years with how to respond to online feedback on sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp, Facebook and Instagram, where comments can often be more vitriol than in-person reviews because of the anonymous shield many social media websites provide.

No matter how ugly the reviews get, businesses need to be willing to admit mistakes and offer discounts to lure unhappy customers back, digital marketing experts said.

“In the past, people just sent bad soup back. Well, now they are getting on social media and telling all their friends and friends of friends how bad the soup was and why they should find other places to get soup in the future, so it takes the customer experience to another level,” said Tom Garrity of the Garrity Group, a public relations firm in New Mexico.

“The challenge becomes — how do you respond when someone doesn’t think your food or product is as great as you think it is?”

In Amy and Samy Bouzaglo’s case, the bad reviews were compounded by their horrible reality TV experience. The couple said during a recent episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” that they needed professional guidance after years of battling terrible online reviews. They opened the pizzeria in an upscale Scottsdale neighborhood about six years ago.

“Kitchen Nightmares” follows Ramsay as he helps rebuild struggling restaurants.

After one bite, he quickly deemed Amy’s Baking Co. a disaster and chided the Bouzaglos for growing increasingly irate over his constructive feedback. Among his many critiques: The store-bought ravioli smelled “weird,” a salmon burger was overcooked and a fig pizza was too sweet and arrived on raw dough.

“You need thick skin in this business,” Ramsay said before walking out. It was the first time he wasn’t able to reform a business, according to the show.

Amy’s Baking Co. temporarily closed last week after the episode aired. A Bouzaglo spokesman said the couple wasn’t available for an interview Monday. The restaurant’s answering machine was full. Emails and

Facebook messages were not returned.

A wall post published last week claimed the restaurant’s Facebook, Yelp and Twitter accounts had been hacked, but hundreds of commenters expressed doubt. Social media sites show someone posting as a member of the Bouzaglo family had been insulting customers over negative reviews since at least 2010.

The story bounced across the Internet, generating thousands of comments on Facebook, Yelp and Twitter, and prompting nearly 36,000 people to sign a petition on Change.org that asks the Department of Labor to look into the Bouzaglo’s practice of pocketing their servers’ tips.

While many corporations hire communications experts to respond to every tweet, Facebook message and online review, the wave of digital feedback can be especially challenging for small businesses with small staffs, digital consultants said.

For one thing, there is so much online content to wade through. Roughly 60 percent of all adults get information about local businesses from search engines and entertainment websites such as Yelp or TripAdvisor, according to a 2011 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

“Customer service is a spectator sport now,” said Jay Baer, president of Convince & Convert, a social media marketing consultancy in Indiana. “It’s not about making that customer happy on Yelp.

That’s the big misunderstanding of Yelp. It’s about the hundreds of thousands of people who are looking on to see how you handle it. It’s those ripples that make social media so important.”

In their “Kitchen Nightmares” episode, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo are seen yelling and cursing at customers inquiring about undercooked food or long delays.

They blame online bullies.

“We stand up to them,” Amy Bouzaglo tells the camera at one point. “They come

and they try to attack us and say horrible things that are not true.”

That’s exactly how businesses shouldn’t respond, the digital experts said.

“If your policy is to berate the customer online, that doesn’t create good public relations,” Garrity said.

Baer said he tells clients to create a response matrix representing different potential complaints that staff can refer to whenever bad feedback arises. Creating the comment chart before the bad publicity hits helps ensure businesses aren’t responding to angry or disappointed customers with their own anger or disappointment, Baer said.

A 2011 Harvard study found Yelp’s 40 million reviews disproportionately affect small businesses. The research found a one-star increase in Yelp’s five-star rating system resulted in a revenue jump of up to 9 percent for some restaurants, while chains with sizable advertising budgets were unaffected.

“You have to respond 100 percent of the time, whether you like it or not,” Baer said.

“Businesses need to assign someone to stay on top of it.”

In Arizona, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo had planned a grand reopening ceremony and news conference for Tuesday, but the news conference was canceled late Monday after legal threats from Fox. Fewer than a dozen people were waiting when the restaurant reopened Tuesday. Four guards blocked the door and turned reporters away. Inside, a smiling Samy Bouzaglo posed for pictures and told customers that the tension captured in the episode was staged. That was a disappointment for some.

“I wanted it to be dramatic and people yelling,” said Ricky Potts, a 29-year-old blogger who ate at the restaurant for the first time Tuesday only to declare the food good and the service routine. “Basically, I wanted it to be the circus that the TV episode was.”

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Money spent to keep kids from smoking no bribe DEAR ABBY: I was surprised to see you equate a concerned grandmother’s creative solution to smoking with bribery in your Feb. 14 column. The word “bribe” has a negative connotation. What the grandmother did was offer an incentive, NOT a bribe, that will benefit her grandchildren in the long run. I think the woman should be congratulated.

Now for a disclaimer: When my daughter was 14, I came up with the same idea in the form of a wager. I bet her that if she could resist peer pressure and not become a smoker by the time she was 21, I would buy her the dress of her dreams. To my delight, she won the bet. By then she was studying to become a marine biologist, so instead of a dress, the money went toward a wetsuit. At 43, she’s still a nonsmoker and she has now made that same bet with her children. It’s the best money I ever spent.

— RETIRED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Advice DEAR ABBY: I disagree with your answer!

What that grandmother did was REWARD her grandchildren, not bribe them. A lot of pressure is put on teens, and it takes considerable willpower and maturity to avoid some of these temptations.

At 16 or 17, it is hard for them to imagine being over 30, and none of them can imagine being 60 or 70 with lung disease.

Hooray for grandparents who can help them avoid adopting a life-threatening habit in any way they can!

— GRANDMOTHER IN IOWA

DEAR ABBY: I told my son I would give him $1,000 at the age of 21 if he didn’t smoke. It wasn’t bribery. It was a great tool to combat peer pressure.

Whenever he was offered a cigarette, he could simply say he had a better offer. Not only did it work, the other kids were enviDEAR ABBY: In my ous. many years as a school — MICHIGAN MOM psychologist, I have counseled hundreds of parents DEAR ABBY: My preand teachers about dealteen daughter was devasing with behavioral issues tated when her maternal in children. I often make grandfather died from the the distinction between a effects of emphysema. In “bribe” and a “reward” by spite of it, she took up describing a bribe as smoking in her teens. We something you give somethreatened her, grounded one to do something dis- her, took away privileges, honest, while a reward is even tried guilt trips. given for doing something Nothing worked. Her commendable. What she choice to smoke was infludid was reward their good enced by her peer group. I choice in not developing a would have mortgaged our potentially fatal habit. home, sold our possessions — OLD-SCHOOL and borrowed money from PSYCHOLOGIST the bank if I thought I

DEAR R.C.S.W.: Oh me, oh my, did I get clobbered for my response to that letter. Out of the hundreds of letters and emails received, only ONE person agreed with me. The rest were smokin’ mad. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: When you give someone money for something that has already been completed, it’s a paycheck and not a bribe. It was pointed out to me that few of us would continue to go to work if we weren’t paid for it, and those grandchildren were being paid for “work” that was already completed.

It’s an important distinction that may be helpful for parents and other adults to understand.

— FORMER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

could have altered her choice by bribing her. By the way, she has been diagnosed with pre-cancerous cells, but even this hasn’t been enough to cause her to quit.

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

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

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■ Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

When to abandon the percentages the deuce of diamonds, hoping his partner had the queen and that declarer would misguess which card to play from dummy. But South played dummy’s king, which won the trick.

Then, without bothering to enter his hand for a finesse, declarer simply played the ace of trumps, caught East’s singleton king and so made the contract with an overtrick. Had he taken a trump finesse,he would have gone down one.

Declarer’s decision to reject the percentage play was based on the fact that West couldn’t have the king of spades after his first three plays revealed he had the AK of hearts and ace of diamonds. It was inconceivable

that he would have passed originally had he held the king of spades also.

Since East was thus marked with the king of spades, South’s only hope was to find the monarch unguarded.

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Most books on the play of the hand contain one or more chapters on the mathematics of bridge. Among other things,they list how suits can be expected to divide and the proper way to handle a large variety of card combinations.

One subject sure to be covered is the question of whether or not to finesse

when you have 10 cards of a suit missing the K-x-x,which was declarer’s problem in the spade suit in today’s hand.

Mathematically, the percentage play is to finesse rather than try to drop the singleton king behind the ace. What this means is that if you experimented hundreds of times with this combination, the finesse would succeed far more often than the play for the drop.

South was fully familiar with the proper percentage play, but when the moment of truth arrived, he played dummy’s ace and felled East’s king! However, he had ample reason for rejecting the finesse.

West began by cashing the K-A of hearts and shifted to

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a wellknown exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.

The case concerns a 43year-old husband and father who traveled to Rome from Mexico to attend Francis’ Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square. At the end of the Mass, Francis blessed several wheelchair-bound faithful as he always does, including a man possessed by the devil, according to the priest who brought him, the Rev. Juan Rivas.

Francis laid his hands on the man’s head and recited a prayer. The man heaved deeply a halfdozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair.

The images, broadcast worldwide, prompted the television station of the Italian bishops’ conference to declare that according to several L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO, FILE/AP PHOTO exorcists, there was “no In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper doubt” that Francis either L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis frees a dove performed an exorcism or during his weekly general audience in St. Peter a simpler prayer to free Square at the Vatican on May 15. the man from the devil.

The Vatican was more sessed girl in the 1973 a surge in things like cautious. In a statement cult classic “The Exor- drug use, pornography Tuesday, it said Francis cist”? and superstition. “didn’t intend to perform In his very first homily In recent years, Rome’s any exorcism. But as he as pope on March 14, pontifical universities often does for the sick or Francis warned cardinals have hosted several suffering, he simply in- gathered in the Sistine courses for would-be exortended to pray for some- Chapel the day after he cists on the rite, updated one who was suffering was elected that “he who in 1998 and contained in who was presented to doesn’t pray to the Lord a little red leather-bound him.” prays to the devil.” booklet. The rite is relaThe Rev. Gabriele He has since mentioned tively brief, consisting of Amorth, a leading exor- the devil on a handful of blessings with holy water, cist for the diocese of occasions, most recently prayers and an interrogaRome, said he performed in a May 4 homily when tion of the devil in which a lengthy exorcism of his in his morning Mass in the exorcist demands to own on the man Tuesday the Vatican hotel chapel know the devil’s name, morning and ascertained he spoke of the need for how many are present he was possessed by four dialogue — except with and when they will leave separate the victim. demons. The Only a case was repriest authorlated to the by a ized legalization bishop can of abortion in perform an exMexico City, orcism, and he said. canon law Amorth specifies that told RAI state the exorcist radio that must be “eneven a short dowed with prayer, withpiety, knowlout the full edge, prudence rite of exorand integrity cism being of life.” performed, is While belief in itself a in the devil is APTN/AP PHOTO type of exor- In this image made from video provided by APTN, c o n s i s t e n t cism.

Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young with church “That was man on Sunday after celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s teaching, the a true exor- Square.The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen Holy See does cism,” he said times,convulsed and shook,and then slumped in his urge prudence, of Francis’ wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.The television particularly to prayer. “Exor- station of the Italian bishops’ conference said it had ensure that cisms aren’t surveyed exorcists, who agreed Francis either per- the victim isn’t just done ac- formed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from merely psychocording to the the devil.TheVatican was more cautiousTuesday,say- logically ill. rules of the ing Francis “didn’t intend to perform any exorcism.

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“When you witness something like that — for me it was shocking — I could feel the power of prayer,” he said in a phone interview, speaking of his own previous experiences.

Vatican The spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, sought to temper speculation that what occurred was a fullfledged exorcism. While he didn’t deny it outright — he said Francis hadn’t “intended” to perform one — he stressed that the intention of the person praying is quite important.

Late Tuesday, the director of TV2000, the television of the Italian bishops’ conference, went on the air to apologize for the earlier report.

“I don’t want to attribute to him a gesture that he didn’t intend to perform,” said the director, Dino Boffo.

That said, Francis’ actions and attitude toward the devil are not new: As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio frequently spoke about the devil in our midst.

In the book “Heaven and Earth,” Bergoglio devoted the second chapter to “The Devil” and said in no uncertain terms that he believes in the devil and that Satan’s fruits are “destruction, division, hatred and calumny.”

“Perhaps its greatest success in these times has been to make us think that it doesn’t exist, that everything can be traced to a purely human plan,” he wrote.

Italian newspapers noted that the late Pope John Paul II performed an exorcism in 1982 — near the same spot where Francis prayed over the young disabled man Sunday.

Mark your calendar Recovery meeting slated SIDNEY — The Sidney First Church of the Nazarene will host a Celebrate Recovery (CR) meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays. CR is a recovery program to help people deal with hurt, habit or hang-up, including from divorce, rejection or betrayal. Habits may include gambling, drugs, pornography or alcohol. Hang-ups may include depression, negativity or anger.

The program is open to anyone age 18 and above and is offered free of charge.

The CR program focuses on the future, not the past.

Participants are encouraged to accept responsibility for their actions. Growth in the context of small groups is emphasized.

At CR meetings, music and messages all dealing with the various issues of recovery. The leaders of CR have numerous years experience in song leading and public speaking.

Those interested in more information on CR, may go crsidney.com or email questions to crsidney@yahoo.com.

Memorial Day luncheon slated CASSTOWN — The United Casstown Methodist Church 54th Annual Memorial Day Luncheon will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, May 27.

The church is located at 102 Center St., at the corner of Center and Washington streets. A variety of sandwiches will include

barbecued pork, shredded chicken, ham and hot dogs.

Assorted salads and desserts will be offered, as will beverages. All items will be sold a la carte. The church is handicap accessible. Carry-out will be available.

Church to host Memorial Day lunch FLETCHER — The Mission Committee at Fletcher United Methodist Church will once again be serving a Memorial Day Lunch at the church from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, May 27.

The money raised will help to support mission projects throughout the year. This year’s menu includes homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, assorted sandwiches, salads, desserts, strawberry shortcake, and drinks.

Coffee social hour begins COVINGTON — For the past 12 years, beginning Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Covington conducted their Sunday service at 9 a.m.

Sunday School classes were not held during the summer months.

Recently, church council agreed to have a year-round Sunday service time of 10 a.m. with a weekly children’s service.

Beginning Sunday, May 26, through Sunday, Sept. 1, there will be a coffee social hour starting at 9 a.m. until 9:45 a.m.

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Seniors must serve community

BY ROBBY BLOOM Staff Writer Every year seniors must have at least six hours of community service although not everyone is aware of the requirements or reasoning behind having them.

First of all, the purpose of senior service hours is to pro-

vide the student and community a shared experience, greater awareness of community harmony, and humanitarian service.

Seniors must have four hours of volunteer work,they get one hour for graduation practice, and one hour for attending Baccalaureate. Sen-

iors have to have at least six service hours or they will need to make them up after graduation practice on Wednesday, May 29.

Failure to show up will result in the diploma being held until the Monday following graduation. Senior service hours have been a

tradition at Piqua High School for at least 15 years, and maybe longer.

“Everybody should do them,” said Carolyn Pearson, school secretary in charge of service hours. If any organization needs senior volunteers, please contact Pearson here at Piqua High School.

PHS holds Academic Signing Day

BY MAKYLIE KILLIAN Staff Writer On Wednesday, May 22, Piqua High School students were honored for their academic scholarships. Parents and students from the intermediate schools, the Jr. high, and high school were invited to attend this prestigious event.

“We wanted to have the opportunity to celebrate student accomplishments and earned recognition for financial support from a specific college,” said Assistant Principal Darrell Hite. The concept of academic signing day is derived from the national letter of intent day where

athletes show commitment to education to the university that accepted that athlete.

“We want to be able to say we are proud and honored to have such high and achieving students this year, and this further proves of academic achievement here at PHS. Go Piqua seniors,” said Principal Tony Lyons.

“I feel wonderful to be recognized as one of the few students in our class that received a scholarship from my college, Sinclair. The scholarship is for $1,500 for the year, and it’s called the Student Leadership Grant. I was very happy that I was the person to receive the

award. I was anxious to get up on the stage and sign the paper, but also looked forward to getting the t-shirt to prove that I am an academic signing recipient,”said senior Cara Cheyenne Long.

Those who attended academic signing day were Bryce Albert, Heather Anderson, William Anderson, Bailey Anspach, Ben Beck, Tyler Billet, Megan Booher, Madisyn Boze, Nathan Burkholder, Jennifer Clark, Gabrielle Collins, Cody Combs, Allison Comstock, Cody Congdon, Alexandrea Cox, Benjamin Crawford, Brandon Devaudreuil,Haley Dotson, Brittany Dyas, An-

drea Ferree,Annemarie Finfrock, Zachary Fitzner, Mikayla Gao, Ashley Gerlach, Brandi Good, Danielle Good,Christy Graves,Rachel Harker, Brenna Heinle, Eion Hogston, Victoria Hostetter, Sierra Iddings, Stevie Jenkins, Megan Jones, Macy Lambert, Cara Long, Kaitlynn McCawley,Alyssa Mckinney, Megan Miller,Hannah Mowery, Kyle Nichols,Logan Peeples, James Rhynard, Nathan Runge, Thomas Schneider, Lauren Seman, Cayley Silverthorn, Mitchell Stevens, Katie Stewart, Alex Tamplin, Austin Tamplin, Natalie Thobe, Paige Underwood, and Justice Young.

PHS students participate in Baccalaureate

BY MEGAN JONES Staff Writer On Sunday, May 19, Piqua Baptist church held its annual Baccalaureate for the graduating seniors. The class of 2013, dressed in their Jostens graduation gowns, met at Piqua Baptist Church at 6:30 p.m. for rehearsal and instruction. Graduates, parents, families of the graduates, the board of education members, Beth Rosenkranz (senior guidance counselor), Tony Lyons (Principal of Piqua High School), Darrell Hite and Chad

Haemmerle (Vice-Principals of Piqua High School), various church members, and Piqua High School’s concert choir all were members of the audience for Baccalaureate.

The service started at 7 P.M. with the seniors walking down the church’s isles to their reserved seats. After being seated, Piqua High School’s concert choir performed for the parents and graduating class. The choir was directed

by Tom Westfall.

After the choir sang, everybody joined together to sing various hymns. One of the hymns was the

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classic, “Amazing Grace.” Following the singing, the group of seniors bowed their heads in prayer in hopes of a bright future.

Pastor Donald Wells lead the message after prayer and touched on points of how life was not always fair, but if the seniors worked hard, then their hard work would pay off in the long run. He noted that although the seniors are graduating, they should not consider themselves “free” quite yet.

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McDonald’s Students of the Week

SUMMER LITTLEJOHN AND HANNAH MOWREY

BY ERIC CRAFT Staff Writer This week for the final student of the week, we are honoring two students, both seniors.Students of the week for the week of May the 20 are Hannah Mowrey and Summer LittleJohn.

Mowrey was nominated

by Dustin Hornbeck who said,“Hannah is a great rolemodel and has a great attitude. She is always willing to help and gives her all in class. She is destined for great things.”

Hornbeck also said that she demonstrated the characteristics of honesty, caring and courage. Hannah plans on going to the University of Nebraska to study Athletic Training.She is involved in a variety of activities such as soccer, basketball, DARE, Link Crew, concert choir, and

National Honor Society. Littlejohn was nominated by Tom Westfall who said, “She has been a rock star for me for the past four years!

She was amazing in the musical as the leading character Aida. She has a solo in the show choir competition show, she is also active in newspaper and she is a great role model for young singers.

Littlejohn’s parents are Michelle and David LittleJohn. She hopes to be attending the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Her try-out is on Dec. 1.

Over the summer she will be preparing for it by taking lessons for voice, acting and dancing. Summer is heavily involved with the Show Choir and Newspaper and is also a part of the Chinese club. Congrats to the final two Students of the Week for the 2012-13 school year.

PIQUA HIGH SCHOOL BRIEFS

PIQUA —The following activities and programs are taking place in Piqua City Schools: • Graduation for the Class of 2013 will take place at 8 p.m., Friday, May 31, at Alexander Stadium. Congratulations to Valedictorian, AnneMarie Finfrock and Salutatorian, Benjamin Crawford.

• The Last Day for StuSee PHS/Page 3 dents is Thursday, May

30. There will be a two hour early dismissal. The Piqua High School Drama Department invites everyone to attend the play “Thirteen Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview” on May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Piqua High School.

Tickets are $3 and are available at Piqua High See Briefs/Page 3

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Issue #33 - May 23, 2013

The best of the best BY: ALLY BERGMAN Throughout the four years of high school, every class has those few students who compete for the two top slots in their grade. Valedictorian and salutatorian are two titles that can only be achieved through hard work. The class of 2013’s top student has been identified as Samantha Neumeier with Jacob Haller closely behind as number two.

It may come as no shock that these two have managed to secure the top two spots in this year’s graduating class. The schools and programs they will be entering next year alone shows their supreme intellectual ability.

Valedictorian Samantha Neumeier will be attending Youngstown for two years and then Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) for four. This will allow her to secure her Bachelors and her MD in six years.

Salutatorian Jacob Haller has chosen Purdue to spend his next couple years of school. He plans to study and major in chemical engineering.

When asked how it felt to be at the top of their class, both gave modest answers.

“It’s a great accomplishment,” said Haller.

Neumeier agreed, adding, “I’m really happy. It makes me feel like my hard work has paid off.” Paid off literally: Neumeier’s college will be giving her an extra $2,000 a year for achieving her valedictorian status.

At every graduation, the valedictorian and salutatorian are required to give speeches addressing their class, faculty, and parents. Neumeier said, “I’m a little nervous but my goal is to not sound repetitive. I just want to make sure I thank everyone who has helped me get here.” Haller added, “I’m not really nervous, I’m just not looking forward to trying to write it.”

Being at the top of your class is an impressive feat and we couldn’t be happier to see these two fulfill the spots. They both prove that studying hard and maintaining good grades really pays off.

Another year of outstanding art and artists BY: STEPHANY MCELDOWNEY In May of each school year, art students get busy putting the finishing touches on their art projects for the Annual Art Show. All art classes are represented — Art Fundamentals, Drawing and Painting, Studio Art, and Ceramics. First, second and third ribbons are awarded in drawing, painting, and ceramics. There are also first, second, and third place winners in each grade — freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior.

There are also speciality awards that are voted on by the school and members of the administration — Teachers’ Choice, Students’ Choice, President’s Choice, Principal’s Choice, Assistant Principal’s Choice, and Business Manager’s Choice.

Top photo: First place Painting: “Reflections” by junior Erick Collier Left photo: First place Ceramics: “Box with Lid” by sophomore Maria Pannapara Right photo: First place Drawing: “Self-Portrait” by senior Nick Cummons

Burning summer fun BY: JOHN HUSA With summer only being a few weeks away, everybody is catching summer fever, getting ready for warm sunny days. Despite the heavy anticipation, there is one thing that dampens some people’s plans, and that is a summer job.

Not everybody hates his or her job, as some students enjoy it or find it relaxing. Many of the students need a summer job to pay for gas, sport camps, or college, or simply want some extra cash.

Junior Erick Collier works as a janitor for Holy Angels, and says that he enjoys it as he makes good pay and it is a relaxing job for him. Sophomore Travis Thornton works for his dad at Tom’s Lawn and Landscape, so he can save money to go towards his Euro trip to London and Paris.

Junior Madilyn Brown is not only working one job this summer, she is doing three! She is lifeguarding at the Sidney pool, teaching gymnastics at the YMCA in Piqua, and working at the B.K. Root Beer Stand in Sidney. Brown says, “I am doing three jobs because I like to stay busy, and want to save up for college. It is also nice to have some extra cash for the summer.”

Sophomore Olivia Slagle also has more than one job, as she is a lifeguard at the Piqua Country Club and works at Smoke’n Jo’s in Sidney. Slagle says, “I like my jobs since Smoke’n Jo’s works well with my schedule, and I can be outside and get a nice tan lifeguarding.”

Students from Lehman clearly stay busy with their work in the summer, and are involved in a variety of jobs.

It would be no surprise to see many of these student’s faces around the community this summer. Whether the students are ready or not work, at least they know summer will come along with it.

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INSIDE ■ Ball doesn’t bounce East’s way, page 9.

■ Davidson has ‘blast’ for Tigers, page 10.

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D-III athletes earn regional berths

IN BRIEF ■ Track & Field

Two to run in NCAA regional Two former state champions will be among the competitors in the NCAA women’s track East Regional beginning tonight.

Former Miami East standout Julia Accurso will represent Ohio University, competing in both the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs.

She is coming off winning the MAC title in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:36.65 and has set the school record in both events this season.

Accurso was scheduled to run in the 10,000 tonight at 9 p.m.

The 5,000 will be run Saturday at 8:05 p.m.

Former Russia standout Katie Borchers will represent Ohio State, competing in the 800.

She is coming off a 12th-place finish in the 800 at the Big Ten Championships and has set the school record in the event earlier this spring.

Borchers will run tonight at 8:10 p.m.

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Trent Yeomans qualified for the finals of the 100-meter dash Wednesday.

SOFTBALL FRIDAY BROOKVILLE D-IV DISTRICT FINALS Newton vs. Cincinnati Country Day, 5 p.m.

SATURDAY TIPPECANOE D-III DISTRICT FINALS Miami East vs. Middletown Madison, 11 a.m.

BROOKVILLE D-IV DISTRICT FINALS Covington vs. Franklin Monroe, 11 a.m.

TENNIS TODAY D-II DISTRICT DOUBLES AT KINGS ISLAND Pierce Bennett/Mitchell Shroyer, Lehman, 9 a.m.

DISTRICT TRACK & FIELD PIQUA D-I DISTRICT FRIDAY Piqua GRAHAM D-II DISTRICT TODAY/SATURDAY Versailles (boys only)

Bosway shuts down Riverside baseball

■ Disc Golf

Lehman wins sectional title

WEST MILTON D-III DISTRICT SATURDAY Bradford, Covington, Houston, Lehman Catholic, Miami East, Newton, Russia, Versailles (girls only).

BOTKINS — Lehman freshman pitcher Nate Bosway allowed Riverside just three hits and one unearned run in the first inUpper Valley Disc Golf ning to lead the Lehman Club's Tuesday Night Dou- Cavaliers to their fifth bles league had 11 players this week which gave theman odd man out.

The single person team of Jason Anderson took first place with a score of 11 under par.

This gave him two throws for every attempt.

The team of Adam and Holly Williams took second place with a score of nine under par.

The closest to the pin winner was Brent Everman.

sectional title in the past six years, 3-1 in Division IV baseball action at Botkins.

The Cavaliers are now LUKE GRONNEBERG/CIVITAS MEDIA PHOTO

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Lehman catcher Max Schutt comes down on Dallas Daniels as he tags him.

Evening score Third time charm for Russia baseball

BY ROB KISER Sports Editor rkiser@dailycall.com

STUMPER

It was a matchup of two traditional SCL baseball powers in Russia and Fort Loramie.

And two of the most successful coaches in the area in Rick Gold (Russia) and Bill Sturwald (Fort Loramie).

But, it was still Russia and Fort Loramie — and the rivals were playing for a Division IV sectional title at Hardman Field Wednesday.

So, Russia pitcher Treg Francis, who prefers to let his play do the talking, couldn’t help but break into a smile after the Raiders avenged two regular season losses with an 8-4 victory. Russia will play Cincinnati Country Dayat 5 p.m. Friday at Centerville High School.

“Of course, after they beat us twice (Russia owed them one),” Francis, who blanked Loramie through five innings and combined

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BASEBALL FRIDAY SPRINGBORO D-III DISTRICT FINAL Versailles vs. Cincinnati Hills-Roger Bacon winner, 5 p.m.

NEWTON D-IV DISTRICT FINAL Lehman vs. Arcanum-Southeastern winner, 5 p.m.

CENTERVILLE D-IV DISTRICT FINAL Russia vs. Cin. Country Day-Fayetteville winner, 5 p.m.

Sandy Finkes was low gross with 39 in the Ladies League Tuesday at Echo Hills.

Kathie Isenhouer was second with 45.

Renie Huffman was low net with 32 and Amie Rinaldi was second with 33.

Karen Nickol was low putts with 14 and Delma Grissom was second with 15.

Anderson wins disc doubles

In Division I district track prelims at Piqua High School Wednesday, the Indians had a number of runners advance on to Friday’s finals.

On the boys side, two indivuals and a relay team advanced.

Trent Yeomans had the seventh fastest time in the 100, 11.46; while Tate Honecutt had the seventh fastest time in the 200, 24.96.

The 800 relay (Al Nees, Honeycutt, Troy Iddings, Yeomans), had the

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Russia rightfielder Bryan Drees dives for the ball in rightfield Wednesday. Drees caught the ball.

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Things are going Cincinnati’s way Strange double helps Reds sweep Mets NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Phillips and the Cincinnati Reds are getting the good bounces right now. Ike Davis and the New York Mets certainly are not.

Phillips sent a strange double spinning over first base to break a ninth-inning tie and the Reds completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Mets with a 7-4 victory Wednesday.

Joey Votto homered and Zack Cozart had a careerhigh four hits, all off Matt Harvey, in a game that featured a little bit of everything — including a testy exchange in the dugout between Cincinnati starter Mat Latos and teammate Jay Bruce.

"It was just an issue between the team and it's going to stay that way," Bruce said. "The only reason anyone knows about it is because the TVs caught it, but stuff happens all the time. It's over. We're a team, we're a family.

Things like that happen, so everything's good and it's a non-issue."

After their spat, the Reds regrouped and won for the 10th time in 12 games. They finished a 7-2 trip against the bottom three teams in the NL East, moving a seasonbest 11 games over .500 at

29-18.

"We closed it out strong.

We won the last three innings even though they made it tough and they had the winning run on second a couple times," manager Dusty Baker said. "We were kind of flirting with danger quite a few times, but our defense saved us." appeared Harvey headed for his first loss of the season before the Mets rallied.

Rick Ankiel had three extra-base hits and two RBIs for New York, including a tying triple with two outs in the seventh.

Daniel Murphy added three hits and drove in two runs from the leadoff spot.

With the score tied at 4 in the ninth, Shin-Soo Choo legged out a leadoff double against Bobby Parnell (4-1) and reached third on a groundout.

Votto was intentionally walked before Phillips hit a cue shot toward first base.

The ball hit the baseline and bounced over Davis' glove in front of the bag.

Determining he had no chance to throw out Choo at the plate or start an inning-ending double play, Davis shied away from touching the ball — thinking it would go foul. But it

bounded over the bag and was called fair by umpire Phil Cuzzi.

"Instinct told me not to catch the ball," Davis said, adding he still wasn't sure if it was fair or foul even after watching replays. "It just wasn't the right play, I guess."

Choo scored the tiebreaking run and Davis was left shaking his head as Mets manager Terry Collins came out to argue.

"Anytime you lose a game it's not fun — especially on a play like that," Davis said. "Everything that can go wrong right now for me is going wrong."

Pinch-hitter Todd Frazier fisted a two-run single into center to make it 7-4.

Alfredo Simon (4-1) worked around Cozart's throwing error in the eighth, and Aroldis Chapman got his 10th save in 12 tries.

New York fell to 2-11 in its past 13 home games.

"I made all my pitches, hit all my spots," Parnell said. "Broken bats and little flairs. What can you do?"

In a matchup of unbeaten young right-handers, Harvey and Latos took a 2-all duel into the seventh, when Cozart sparked a Reds rally.

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Urlacher Ball doesn’t bounce East’s way to retire Miami Vikings fall to Triad in D-III final CHICAGO (AP) — Brian Urlacher wasn't sure how dominant he could be any longer, so he's calling it a career after 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.

And what a career it was: —Eight Pro Bowl seasons; —Defensive Player of the Year in 2005 —A trip to the Super Bowl as 2006 NFC champion.

And now, it's over.

The eight-time Pro Bowler announced his retirement through social media accounts Wednesday.

"After spending a lot of time this spring thinking about my NFL future, I have made a decision to retire," Urlacher said in a statement. "Although I could continue playing, I'm not sure I would bring a level of performance or passion that's up to my standards. When considering this, along with the fact that I could retire after a 13-year career wearing only one jersey for such a storied franchise, my decision became pretty clear.

"I want to thank all of the people in my life that have helped me along the way. I will miss my teammates, my coaches and the great Bears fans.”

Track Continued from page 8 eighth fastest time, 1:34.08.

On the girls side, three individuals and two relay teams advanced.

Hannah Went had the sixth fastest time in the 100 hurdles, 17.0; while Bree Cheatam had the fourth fastest time in the 300 hurdles, 49.75.

Courtney Besman advanced in the 800 with the 13th fastest time, 2:36.42.

The foursome of Went, Cheatam, Danajha Clemons and Amy Burt had the fifth fastest time in the 400 relay, 50.92; and 800 relay, 1:47.40.

WEST MILTON D-III Another of local athletes qualified for regionals in field event and 3,200 relay finals held Wednesday at West Milton.

Covington’s Trent ToMIKE ULLERY/CALL PHOTOS bias led a tri of advancers Piqua’s Hannah Went goes over a hurdle Wednesday in the 100 hurdles. in the boys pole vault.

Tobias was second, clearing 13-0. Mack Rose of Miami East cleared 126 to finish third, while Josh Hoelscher of Bradford cleared 12-0 to finish fourth.

Lehman’s Brad Montgomery advanced in the discus, finishing third with a throw of 151-9.

Covington’s 3,200 relay (Dustin Fickert, Matt Carder, Nathan Dunn, Alex Schilling) moved on with a fourth-place finish in 8:41.81.

The Russia foursome Lauren Francis, Claire Sherman, Emily Borchers and Lauren Heaton won the girls 3,200 relay in 9:45.65; while Covington (Tara Snipes, Carly Shell, Julianna Yingst, Hannah Retz) advanced with a third-place finish, 9:57.80.

Miami East’s Leah Dunivan was a double qualifer, winning the high jump at 5-2 and taking third in the shot put with a distance of 39-7 1-4.

Three other local athletes advanced in the high jump.

Bethany York of Russia was second at 5-2, while Versailles Amanda Winner and Bradford Shay LaFollette finished third and fourth, both clearing 5-0.

Danajha Clemons crosses the finish line in a relay Wednesday.

BY JOSH BROWN Civitas Media URBANA — Neither team could get the big, clutch hit.

But Triad made due with an “oops” checkswing single, a grazed-bya-pitch … and a whole lot of patience.

The top-seeded Cardinals scraped together a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on a bases-loaded walk and an RBI groundout, and Doug Lowe outdueled Miami East’s Garrett Mitchell in a 2-0 Vikings loss in the Division III sectional championship game Wednesday in Urbana.

“When you get this far, it takes breaks,” Miami East coach Barry Coomes said. “We couldn’t get that one big hit, and we didn’t get any breaks.”

And even though Lowe had some trouble spots, giving up five walks and three hits in the game, he worked his way out of three potentially bad innings.

The first time came in the second, when a pair of walks turned into runners on second and third with two out — but he got a strikeout to end that threat. But the biggest one came in the third.

Evan Bowling drew a oneout walk, then Brandon Kirk chopped a single over the third baseman’s head.

A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third, but Lowe forced a pop to short for the second out.

The Cardinals then walked Michael Fellers intentionally to load the bases and set up a leftyagainst-lefty matchup against Alex Brewer.

Brewer hit a slow-rolling grounder up the middle that looked like it’d make it through, but Triad second baseman Trent McIntyre was able to cut it off and hurl the ball sidearm to first from his knees.

Brewer and the ball got to first at the same time and he and the first baseman tumbled over each other after a collision, but he was called out by a step.

“I thought we had it on that ball up the middle, but they made a nice play and we didn’t get the break,” Coomes said.

All told, the Vikings left eight runners on — but Mitchell matched Lowe throughout the game, leaving six Cardinals stranded. Mitchell gave up two hits in the game, walked three and hit a pair of batters.

But those walks proved costly in the bottom of the fifth.

Jacob Watkins led off with a check-swing single that found its way into right, and he was bunted to second. An inside slider grazed the jersey of the No. 9 hitter to put two on, and McIntyre drew a walk to load the bases. Austin Sanford then took a pitch on the outside corner on a 3-1 count, and it was called ball four, bringing in the game’s first run and drawing an angry reaction from the Viking faithful.

The next batter, Colton Young, hit a grounder up the middle that Mitchell slowed down enough for second baseman Brandon Force to make a play and get the out at first on, but the second run still came home.

“A flare here, a check swing there. Both teams hit the ball about the same. Some of the calls in that inning were borderline, but you can’t blame anyone for that. We had some borderline calls go our way, too. They just got the break in that inning.”

And that was the only break to be had.

Still, even though the Vikings fell in the their third straight sectional title game, they also have plenty to be pleased about — like a third straight Cross County Conference title. And the game was also a solid way to say goodbye to their two seniors, Mitchell and Bryant Miller.

“We were 1-2 in our first three games this year, gave up 22 runs — six of them earned. I was worried,” Coomes said. “But the kids decided that they wanted to play some ball this year, and they came out and played some great baseball. The best thing was to see the way they all pulled together for each other.

“And we’ve got almost everyone back next year, too. This is a very tightknit group. We’ve got a lot to look forward to.”

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Davidson blast gives Versailles sectional Tigers get past WLS by 4-3 score KYLE SHANER Civitas Media TIPP CITY — Versailles' Mike Davidson hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth inning Wednesday, breaking a 33 tie and giving Versailles a 4-3 win against West Liberty-Salem in the Ohio High School Athletic Association tournament.

The ball flew down the left field line off Davidson's bat and over the outfield fence. Some people in attendance thought the ball went foul, but the umpire ruled that it just stayed fair, giving Versailles what amounted to be a sectional championship-winning home run.

“That probably went 75 feet over the wall,” Versailles baseball coach Mitch Hoying said. “It probably was fair when it went over the pole, but when it went that far and landed that far foul, it looked bad. But I do believe it was fair.”

Davidson's home run regained the lead for Ver-

sailles, who had built a 30 advantage in the first inning before West Liberty-Salem mounted a comeback in the top half of the sixth inning.

“We had chances to let that one get away from us, but it's a testament to our kids and the way they play the game that they just kept competing, battling,” West Liberty-Salem coach Toby Smith said.

“We hit the ball hard early on, and they just made plays.”

After West LibertySalem's Max Bailey got on base off an error to lead off the top half of the first inning, Versailles' Kyle Niekamp struck out the side to strand Bailey.

In the bottom half of the first inning, Versailles' Mike Rutschilling led off with a single and stole second. Mitch Gigandet then hit a hard grounder to short that took a bad hop, giving Versailles runners on the corners.

After Gigandet took second base on an uncontested steal, Damien Richard delivered a single to score Rutschilling and put Versailles up 1-0.

Then after Richard took second on an uncontested steal, Niekamp hit a tworun double to put Versailles up 3-0 with no outs.

Versailles ended up getting one more single in the inning, but West LibertySalem limited the damage and stranded two runners and the end of the inning.

“He settled in,” Smith said of Grant Burden's pitching performance for West Liberty-Salem. “Not that he was pitching poorly there at the beginning; I think they were just hitting the ball well, and it was in places that we weren't.”

Over the course of the next four innings, both teams' pitchers took control of the game.

Versailles' Niekamp allowed just one hit and two walks in the second through fourth innings while West LibertySalem's Burden only gave up one hit and one walk in that span.

“The credit should probably go to the pitcher from West Liberty,” Hoying said. “They've won 22, 23 games, and he's been their best guy. So there's reason

he doesn't let you barrel it up too much. But, luckily, we got just enough.”

In the sixth inning, West Liberty-Salem finally started to get the hits to fall.

Kyle Crawford started West Liberty-Salem's rally as he reached base on a one-out error. After Cole Wilson hit into a fielder's choice for the second out of the inning, David Branham singled up the middle.

“We kept saying, 'they're gonna start to drop, they're gonna start to drop,' and sure enough they did,” Smith said.

Spencer Whitcraft then put West Liberty-Salem on the scoreboard with a single to left field to score Wilson, making it 3-1 and prompting Versailles to replace Niekamp with Craig Langenkamp on the mound.

“He wasn't as sharp as he was against Anna (in the tournament opener a week ago), but we made some plays to support him,” Hoying said of Niekamp's pitching. “And eventually they started finding some holes; they

got a couple pitches up just a touch. But, hey, he gives us a chance to win.

Our M.O. has been to get it to the bullpen all year, we did, a little timely hitting, got the win.”

After the pitching change, Matt Ulmer and Jake Rutan got back-toback singles, both of which drove in a run, to tie the game at 3-3 before Versailles got out of the inning.

“That's baseball,” Smith said. “You keep plugging and plugging and plugging, and there's no time limit in this game. We talk about that all the time how they still got to record the 21 outs that they have to record, so it doesn't matter how many runs you're down because they still got to get the same number of outs. So we knew that we still had a chance and if we get playing defense and getting good pitching we'd stay in the game, and we did.”

Having just lost a 3-0 lead, Versailles came up to bat in the bottom of the sixth with Davidson leading off, and he drilled the ball into left field for the

game-winning home run.

“Mike has a penchant for looking bad in one atbat and then really squaring up,” Hoying said. “And that's not the first time that's happened. He leads our team in home runs.

He's capable of that. It doesn't surprise me in the least.”

West Liberty-Salem set down the next three Versailles batters in order, but the damage was done.

“At the end of the day we still had to score anyway, and there's no guarantees that if we don't score in the top half that they don't get one in the bottom half,” Smith said.

“That' baseball, and you're not going to complain about one call changing the outcome of a game.”

West Liberty-Salem got a pair of two-out singles from Crawford and Wilson in the bottom of the seventh but stranded both runners as Versailles hung on for the 4-3 win.

“Just didn't get enough big-time hits when we needed them,” Smith said.

Versailles had six hits and two errors in the game.

Riverside scored its only run in the first when Dustin Proffitt reached on an error, stole second and scored on Landon Kelsey’s double.

It looked like that might be enough because Daniels was holding the Cavaliers scoreless through the first four.

But then the Pirate defense let down and the Cavaliers pounced.

Greg Spearman reached on an error and stole second, then AJ

Hemmelgarn’s fly ball to left-center was dropped when the outfielders collided, putting runners on second and third.

Proffitt then Cole rapped a two-run single to put the Cavs on top.

The Cavs got a break when catcher’s interference was called with Andrew Gilardi batting with two out. Austin Arnold then singled to center to score pinch-runner Stephen Blenman with the third run.

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Trevor Sherman scores the first run as Seth Guillozet reaches for the ball.

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20-7 and will face either Arcanum or Southeastern Friday at 5 p.m. at Newton in the district championship game.

“It was an excellentplayed game by two good teams,” said Lehman head coach Dave King. “I thought (Dallas) Daniels did a great job for Riverside, and what can you say about Nate (Bosway)? To hold a team of that calibre to three hits and one unearned run is really doing the job.”

with Nolan Francis on a three-hitter, said. “I have been thinking about this game since our last tournament win.”

And you can bet Gold was as well — knowing the Raiders would be facing Russia kryptonite in Seth Guillozet.

“You know, he has stuck it to us three times,” Gold said. “Once last year and twice this year. He is a great pitcher and they are a very good team.”

But, Russia was able to take advantage of 10 Fort Loramie walks and one hit batter to lead 5-0 going to the fifth, before everything changed.

“That was the difference this time,” Gold said.

“In the past we have gotten behind, but this time it was us out in front. That was big.”

But, Loramie wasn’t about to go away.

The Redskins, who didn’t have their first hit off Francis until Tanner Rittenhouse’s double in the fifth, scored three runs in the top of the sixth on just one hit, a Aaron Boerger single.

Russia walked one run in and two scored on errors — on what would have been very tough plays for Russia third baseman Austin Gariety to make.

“We had the tying run on second,” Sturwald said.

“We just couldn’t get the big hit. We almost came all the way back. But (Treg) Francis threw a great game. We are a young team. (Seth) Guillozet didn’t have his best stuff today, but he has had a great career for us. And Russia is a good team. You don’t win 20 games with pitching without being a good team.”

And after leaving 13 runners on in the first five innings, Russia suddenly found itself with a 5-3 lead with two outs and Fort Loramie having the bases loaded. Nolan Francis

came in to pitch and as fate would have it, Loramie would hit a third straight ball to Gariety.

He showed his toughness, making the play to end the threat.

“That (leaving runners on base) has been our bugaboo all season,” Gold said. “We are probably averaging nine runners left on a game. That last ball to Austin (Gariety) was another slow roller and tough play and he was able to make it.”

Then, the Raiders left no doubt in the home sixth.

After pinch-hitter Andrew Daniel, Gariety followed with a RBI double, his second of the game.

“I knew I had made my mistakes (on defense),” Gariety said. “But, you have to put that behind you. I just had to be focused at the plate.”

Bailey Francis had a RBI double, Russia’s third two-bagger of the inning, as the Raiders opened an 8-3 lead and Nolan Francis limited Loramie to one run in the seventh, with Boerger picking up his second hit of the game.

“We are pretty good in the clutch, but I don’t think we have answered like that,” Gold said.

“Austin (Gariety) had a big hit to open the lead back up and Nolan (Francis) came in an threw well.”

Russia had scored in four of the first five innings.

In the first, Trevor Sherman singled and scored on a wild pitch, while Bryan Drees had a bunt single and would score on a wild pitch.

“That (smallball) is kind of the way everyone plays in Shelby County,” Gold said. “So, you have to be able to do that.”

In the third, hitting out of the nine hole, Gariety drilled a two-run double as Russia took advantage of four walks from Devin

Braun in the inning.

“I was just looking to help the team and was able to drill it down the line,” Gariety said.

That made it 4-0.

“Austin (Gariety) had a huge day at the plate for us,” Gold said.

Russia added a single run in the fifth on a basesloaded walk to Brad McMaken, before things got interesting in the sixth.

“It just feels great to get a win over them (Fort Loramie) after the two losses,” Gariety said. “We want to go a long way in the tournament.”

At the same time, Russia was making every play in the field. Drees had a diving catch, Bailey Francis had a long running catch in left and when Loramie tried to score on a double steal in the third, shortstop Cole McEldowney cut off the throw in front of second and threw to Sherman at the plate to get Rittenhouse out.

The Francis’ combined to strike out two, walk five and hit a batter.

“Treg (Francis) did a great job on the mound,” Gold said. “Bailey Francis gets fooled on a curveball in the seventh and ends up hitting a double down the line. When those kind of things happen, you are probably going to win.”

Gold had a comfortable feeling all game — returning to a diamond where he led Piqua to two Division I district titles and Piqua Post 184 to numerous American Legion state tournaments —for the first time.

“It feels good to be back at Hardman Field,” Gold said with a smile.

Especially, when a big win comes with it.

LINESCORE Fort Loramie 000 003 1 — 4 3 0 Russia 112 013 x — 8 8 2 Guillozet, Braun (3), Guillozet (3), Olberdinger (5) and Rosengarten, Gephart (5). T. Francis, N. Francis (6) and Sherman.

WP-T. Francis. LP-Guillozet. 2B-Fort Loramie: Rittenhouse. Russia: Gariety (2), Daniel, B. Francis. Records: Fort Loramie 12-16, Russia 21-7.

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Piqua High School Class of 2013 AnneMarie Finfrock is Piqua High School’s 2013 valedictorian.

The daughter of Bryan Finfrock and Julie Katz, she served in numerous leadership positions including class president and vice president of 4H Club all four years of high school,student council president and Junior High Science Olympiad coach for two years, and 2009 Sheep Princess, among others. Finfrock is a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club, Link Crew, Model United Nations, Piqua Teen Leaders and show choir. Outside of school, she has played coed soccer through the PiquaYouth SoccerAssociation and shown market lambs through Clark County 4H.Finfrock has won awards including Top 100 for four years, Premier Exhibitor and 4H Star Member. She plans to attend Wright State University to study biomedical engineering and premed and hopes to eventually go to medical school to study orthopedics.

Salutatorian Benjamin Crawford is the son of David and Mimi Crawford. His extracurricular activities include National Honor Society, Piqua Teen Leadership, varsity track and field, varsity football, men’s chorus and the Discovery Education Student Advisory Board. A three-year letterman in football, Crawford has amassed awards including Top 100 for four years, the Great American Rivalry Series Student-Athlete Award, the Honda-OSU Math Medal and the ZimmermanAward for personality, character, conduct, contributions and school spirit. He also has made the honor roll for four years. Crawford is headed to Ohio State University in the fall to major in neuroscience as a pre-med student.

His goal is to go on to medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon.

Piqua High School will conduct graduation services at 8 p.m. Friday, May 31, in the Alexander Stadium. The Class of 2013 includes:

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Gage Allen Abbott, Lacey R. Achor,Bryce J.Albert,Tevin LeeAlbert, Daniel LeeAllmann,HaileyA. Amburgey, Bailey M. Anspach, Heather Rachel Anderson, W. Bradley Anderson, Kendra Rene Arnett, Cody N. Ashford, Taylor Nicole Bachman, Brandi N. Baker, Elizabeth Ann Banks, Alison Josephine Barhorst, Kenna Marie Barton-Rose,Brandon R.Baumeister, Benjamin Jean Beck,Tara Ann Belcher, Tyler Michael Billet, Cory T. Bissett, James M. Black, Emily M.Blanton,RobertAllen Bloom Jr., Breana Alison Boettiger.

Megan Alyssa Booher, Jonathon Ryan Bostick, Courtney Marie Bowman, Megan Nicole Boyd, Madisyn Davis Boze, Dallas J. Bramlette, Xavier Colton Brown, Taylor Canelle Bryant, Kambren David Eugene Burch, Saxxon D. Burdiss, Nathan Lee Burkholder, David Aaron Burton, Soloman Samuel Carnes, Abigail Ann Carter,Christina Marie Sue Carter, Tyler E. Chambers, Tyler G. Cisco, William R. Cissner, Jennifer Lynn Clark, Eric Blaine Clay Jr., Allison Ann Cole, Gabrielle Lacy Collins, Thomas Dakota Combs.

Michael Dean Compton, Allison Jean Comstock, Cody David Congdon, Jessie Marie Cooke, Kaci Kay Cotrell, Austin Lee Covault, Alexandrea Gabrielle Cox, Eric M. Craft,Maylana S.Craun,Benjamin

D. Crawford, Victoria Jean Cromley, Amanda Elizabeth Cruse, Jazmyn R. Crusoe-Price, Clark Russell Davis, Jasmine Victoria Ann Davis, Brandon B. deVaudreuil, Shae Justice Doll, Haley Marie Dotson, Cara Ann Dunn, Drew M. Durand, Brittany Suzanne Dyas,Casey Evan Dziech, Stephen L. Elliott.

Samantha Marie Elsass, MareenaAnn Emrick,Kaleb D.Etherington, Wesley Everett, Sarah Elizabeth Felver,Andrea M.Ferree, AnneMarie May Finfrock, Jake Ellis Fisher, Zachary Paul Fitzner, Ashley M. Ford, Rachel Elizabeth Fornara, Janova Ann Forsythe, Nicholas l. Foster, Kristina Victoria Frey, Ashley Tyler Fry, Heather Kathleen Gant, Mikayla Nicole Ming Gao, Austin Shane Garber, Timothy Joseph Gariety II, Derek Matthew Gayhart, Ashley Morgan Gerlach, Ashley Elaine Gilmore, Kristen Nicole Glagola.

Monica Dean Godfrey, Brandi Lynn Good, Danielle Marie Good, Christy Anne Graves, Samantha Faye Greene, Desmine L. Griffis, John L. Grunkemeyer III, Christine Marie Gutierrez, Ashley Ann Hall, Kyleigh Sue Hall, Michael Dean Haney, Rachel Lee Harker, Nicholas R.Harshman,Buddy Ray Hayes,Brenna C.Heinle,Elenni M. Henggeler, Ryan Paul Henson,Alicia M. Hill, Eion Zachary Hogston,

Joshua David Holfinger, Kyler Jordan Holland, Alexis Maxine Holleran, Victoria Christine Hostetter,George Russell Hovey IV. Michael Anthony Howk, Joye Hsiang, Charmaine Nicole Huey, Abigail Delilah Hughes, Ryan James Hughes, Kayla Renee Hunley,Bobby Jo Hunt,Tyler James Iacovelli, Sierra Dawn Iddings, Steven Marcco Jenkins, Austin Douglas Johnston, Holly Erin Jones,Megan Diane Jones,Richard A, Jones II, Lucas Travis Karn, Colten E. Kidder, Emily J. Kiefer, Makaylie Celeste Killian, Matthew A. King, Mason Kale Kirkland, Chancelor Preston Kloecker, Macy Marie Lambert, Sara Marie Landsiedel, Carrie Grace Latham.

Colin B. Lavey, Cody Allen Lawson, James Deuane Lawson, Chasen D. Lee, Trae D. Lee, Jaicey Marie Lindsey, Summer Elizabeth Samphors Littlejohn,Casey Duane Livesay, Cara Cheyenne Long, Christina Annemarie Loyd, Cody Todd Lumpkin,Thomas Eric Luna, Donald Chance Luther, Brian Steven Marsh, Hayley Lynn Martin, Paige Marie Martin, Zachery Allen Martin, Eric D. Maxon, Morgan Michelle Mayberry, Taylor Anne Mayberry, Kaitlynn Diane McCawley, Jacob Taft McClelland, Alyssa Kaye McKinney.

Lexie K. McKinney, Timothy Joseph Meiring, Adam Joseph Meyer, Emily Morgan Mikolajewski, Alyssa Marie Miller, Brandon E. Miller, Brittney Nicole Miller, Megan M. Miller, Nolan Ryan Miller, Lakota D. Mills, Mindy Ann Moffitt, Scout Marie Mott, Hannah Christine Mowery, Logan Rachelle Neves, Kyle L. Nichols, Stephen L. Orndorff, Tyler Raslaj Overla, Austin David Palmer, Elijah Alexander Parker, Nathan Cooper Patrizio, Shelbi Leean Peake, Jessica Anne Marie Pearce, Logan Robert Peepels, Benjamin James Paul Pellman.

Bethany Rochelle Pendergraft, Richard Brayden Peters, Justin

Rey Peyton, Kenneth Morris Philabaum, Denny E. Poling Jr., Marissa Nicole Powell, Trey Edward Pruitt, Joshua David Purk, Jorge H. Ramon, Thea L. Reas, Jenna Larissa Reed, James Matthew Rhynard, Dillon Michael Lewis Rogers, Shelby D. Rogers, Alexandria Nicole Rohrbaugh,Tanner B. Roustio, Ashley Coleen Rue, Nathan A. Runge, Hannah Cecilia Ryan, Joseph E. Schmidt, Natalie Marie Schmitz, Thomas Luke Schneider, Ayrie Rochelle Schwartzengraber.

Logan Thomas Scott, Allison Kaylea Seiter, Lauren Elizabeth Seman, Paula Joann Sheridan, Joseph Jeffery Sherman, Alex J. Shinall,Cayley Jessica Silverthorn, Ashley Lynn Smith, Austin Michael Smith, Cedric Z.R. Smith, Ryan A. Smith, Skyler J. Smith, Trenton Michael Smitley, Nicole Lynn Snell, Tyreese K.C. Spann, Jarrret Andrew Spoltman, Mersadis Lynn Spradlin,Nicholas B.St. Myers, Briana Marie Staley, Joshua Bryant Steele, Colby Michael Stephenson, Mitchell Patrick Stevens,April Marie Stewart, Katie Eliza Stewart, Jarrod Blaze Stover, Hannah Arlene Strevell, Ellen Catherine Strunk.

Jessica Nicole Studebaker, Justin L. Sturgeon, Benjamin Alan Tabler, Alex Kenneth Tamplin, Austin Arlen Tamplin, Sir Michael Taylor, Takeesha N. Taylor, Natalie Elizabeth Thobe, Alexis Gabrielle Tilton, Austin Christopher Tilton, Haley G. Tilton, Travis A. Tubb, Paige Yvonne Underwood, Joshua HarrisonVanSkoyck,Shelby Renee Vogler, Oliver B. Walters, Shane D. Ward,Jessica L.Weymer,Darien E. Ramon Wilkerson, Brandon Carl Wilson, Adam Paul Windle, Ashley Ann Wintrow, Nathan David Wise, Jerame Douglas Wright, Stacey Marie Wright, Cody Allen Young, Justice C. Young, Zachary Douglas Zimpher.

Troy High School Class of 2013 Fiona Foster is the 2013 Troy High School valedictorian. She is the daughter of Niall and Karen Foster. A National Merit finalist and an AP scholar with honor, Foster has competed in the Troy Tones, had roles in three musicals and stage-managed two plays. She also participated in quiz team, National Honor Society, Reading Buddies and thespians. Last spring, she organized the T.A.S.T.Y. fundraiser for the local family abuse shelter. Outside of school, Foster is involved in competitive horseback riding at the national level and plays the piano. She plans to attend the University of Kentucky as a Patterson Scholar studying mathematics.

Angela Dennison is the 2013 Troy High School salutatorian.

The daughter of Steve and Geneva Dennison, she was a member of National Honor Society, junior and senior cabinets, and student government, for which she served as president during her senior year.

Dennison also competed on the swimming and cross-country teams. She volunteers regularly at St. Patrick’s church, where she is a senior youth leader and she plays piano annually with the National Federation of Music Clubs. She will attend Ohio State University in the fall, majoring in engineering.

Sheena Scott, the daughter of Stacey and Nancy Scott, is the recipient of the Troy High School Upper Valley Career Center Honor Student award. She has completed the UV Career Center medical technologies program and was involved with student senate, S.A.D.D. and Skills U.S.A. Scott also volunteered at Say Love consignment shop. She plans to study nursing at Edison Community College, then continue her education by pursuing a bachelor’s degree to become a registered nurse.

Troy High School’s graduation ceremony will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 25, at Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St., Troy. The Class of 2013 includes: Alyson Kenedi Adams, Trevior Todd Adams, Desiree Renee Adkins, Sarah Margaret Adkins, Steven Patrick Ahearn, Malik Asiddeg Al-Jarani, Esmeralda Almonte, Iesha Monique Alspaugh, Roger Lee Anders, Cameron Scott Anderson, Jodie Marie Anderson, Shannon Renee Andrews,William Thomas Armstrong, Christopher Jay Atkins, Kennedy Taylor Atkins, Dean Randall Baker, Kaitlin Ann Baker, Audrey Grace Banning, Andrew David Baptist, Alexander James Barber, Zachary Stewart Barker, Raymond

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Ellsworth Barnhart Jr., Keiona Jenee Basil, Brandon Lee Beaty, Madyson Haley Bender, Joshua Ryan Berry, Austin Jacob Bigelow, James Samuel Biller, Devin Michael Blakely, Jessica Je’lie Blakes, Amanda Noel Blakley, Tyler Jay Blevins, Brittany Diane Blier,Taylor Adelle Kay Bond, Jessica Anne Bornhorst, Leah Marie Bornhorst, Raymond Boyd II, Dustin Matthew Boyer, Jason Dillon Bramlette, Alexander Douglas Brand, Allison Marie Brown, Jerrod Allen Browning, Madison Lee Burchfield, Benjamin Robert Burgei, Derek Edward Burghardt, Devin Issac Burns,Ashley Brianne Burton, Cody James Burton, DeVante’ Michael Bush, Sarah Frances Butler.

Courtney Renee Caldwell, Blake Alexander Cales, Arika Braun Campbell, Daniel Cole Carey, Dylan Paul Cascaden, Gabrielle Marie Castaldo, Phillip Alexander Centliver, Jade Christine Chavis, Joshua Joseph Clark, Elizabeth Darien Clouser, Kirsten Rose Coleman, Kasey Rene Copas, Tara Jasmine Corfield, Colby Shane Cottom, Nicholas Shaughn Cottom, Alexandra Jean Covault, Erianna Marie Covington, Earnest Roger Crabtree, Stephen Matthew Crabtree, Donovan Jai Creager, Jr., Tempesst Marie Creech, Kyle Neal Croft, Blake Louis Curtis, Brandon Scott Daum, Zachary Edward Dawson, Austin David Deaton, Devyn Michael Lynn Debar, Katelyn Anne Delwiche, David Michael DeMeo, Brett Dominick DeMore, Angela Rossetti Dennison, Christian Alexander Detrick, Skylar Christine Detrick, Clarissa Elaine Dickey, Kacee Marie Dingle, Rachel Nicole Dippold, Lauren Nicole Dunfee, Jacob Lyle Eldridge, Joshua Christopher Elswick, Beau Arlen Emerick, Shai Reanne Emerick, Cynthia Nichole England, Austin C. Erisman, Brooke Logan Evans, Reianna Marie Evans, Corey Cedric Fales,

Ashley Katherine Marie Ferris, Kelly Elizabeth Fischer,Alexander Scott Flamm.

Tyler Andrew Flannery, Deck Fornell, Fiona Katharine Foster, Kimberlyn Nicole Frazier, Cody Matthew Fuller, Eric Tyler Ganger, Zackary Norman Garrison, Lindsay Parker Gates, Lauren Dawnyelle Gau, Katlyn Louise Gearheardt, Lara Ann Gillespie, Emily Amanda Grapes, Joseph James Griffin, Scott David Grigsby, Jason Alexander Guillozet, Alec Jeffrey Gunter-Huffmon, Ashley Elizabeth Hagon, Darian Kenneth Hammond, Taneisha Marie Hanselman, Jacquelynn Rae Harkema,Allen Ray Harlow, Lindsey Danielle Harmon, Christopher Samuel Harrison, Benjamin Russell Harlan Hawkins, Kaitlyn Fay Hayworth, Maeghan D’Layne Heckman, Craig Robert Heidenreich Jr., Benjamin Ryan Heilman, Sarah Carol Helke, Logan Bryce Hensley, Sharice Lashawn Hibbler, Amanda Leigh Hinders, Kristin Nicole Hoglund, Matthew Joseph Hokky, John Glenn Honeyman II, Zechariah Antonius Hoover, Tia Marie Hopkins, Kaitlin Elizabeth Houck, Cameron Thomas Hughes, Christopher Daniel Huizar, Brittani Cherina Humphrey, Michaela Cheyenne Humphrey, Samantha Jo Hunter, Eric Allen Hyer, Sierra Nichol Jackson, Thomas Allen Jackson, Blake Edward Jarvis, Tyler Eugene Jaynes.

Khelsea Sue Jenkinson, Austin Daniel Johnson, Kurtis Stephen Johnson, Priest Dapree Johnson, Bailey Sharon Sue Justice, Madeline Ann Kaup, Olga Lily Kelly, Kassandra May Kessler, Melanie Dawn Kincer, Alison Jane Kolber , McKenna Nicole Kotwica, Jaclyn Leigh Kranenburg, Brittany Michelle Krimm, Stefan Nathaniel Kuntz, Caitlynn Jo Lackey, Shelby Lynn Larck, Shawn Austin Larger, DeJanae Shawnté Lawrence, Valerie Anne Leanza, Shelby Nicole Lechner, Albert Anthony Lewis,

SCOTT Daniel Wesley Lewis, Micayla Leigh Lewis, Brooke Ann Littlejohn, Hunter Damian Loper, Jonathan Michael Andrew Lucas, Shawna Lee Alta MacGillivray, Trung Thanh Mai, Tarek Amar Malki, Miranda Allison Manning, Austin Connor Martin, James Makoto Mayberry, Andrew Charles McAllister, Catharine Ensley McCall, Anthony Dylan McCloy, James Michael McCloy, Conor James McCormick, Jennette Lynn McCrossin, Tabitha Kalynn McKitrick, Caitlyn Marie McMinn, Thomas Michael McQueary, Justin Tyler Menke, DeVanté LeShawn Michael, Leah Rosanna Michael, Dylan Shane Miller, Tyler Charles Miller, Alexis Rae Mills, Richard Joseph Mitchell, Jennifer Jane Monnier.

David Kyle Moore, Kara Michelle Moore, Luke Christopher Mote, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Lee Mowery, Marisa Blakeley Mowery, Chase Lawrence Mumford, Courtney Michele Murphy, Ian Matthew Nadolny, Jalen Michael Nelson, Kyle Douglas Nelson, Cierra Michelle Neves, Kendra Nicole Newman, Kayla Shane Nickels, Tonisha Brittany Norman, Toddanisha Shaquinta Norris, Philip Alexander November, Mayu Ohtsuka, Hitomi Okada, Meredith Lynn Orozco, Jonathan Garrett Osman, Jacob Scott Ostendorf, Christopher Donald Pailen, Brandon Alan Alexander Parsons, Parth Dinesh Patel, Emma René Pence, Seth Jonathan Perdziola, Abagail Tabitha Perkins, Daniel Logan Keith Perkins, Blake Wilken Peters, Zachary Ian Peugh, Brooke Ashley-Dawn Poling, Kailey Danielle Pour, Matthew Alan Powell,Adam Richard Priest, Brittany Nichole Ramey, Meagan Breanna Rawers, Brandon Willis Ray, Ashley Hope Rector, Cassandra Ann Rice, Mackenzie Rose Rice, Brandon Michael Rieger, Taylor Danielle Ries, Holly Renae Riley, Thomas Leigh Riley II, Tyler

Daniel Roby, Zachary Aaron Roetter, Tanner Leigh Roop, Kaylee Brook Rose, Devin Hunter Routson, Emily Kay Royer.

Thomas Joseph Rozsnaki, Kyle Robert Russo, Dustin Taylor Sabins, Mariah Belle Sano, Jordyn Maria Savage, William James Scarborough, Miranda Rae Schaeffer, Nicole Marie Schipper, Logan Phillip Schlosser, Catelyn Marie Schmiedebusch, Christopher Adam Schmitt, Rahney Elizabeth Schmitz, Nikolas Paul Schultz, Mackenzie Leigh Schulz, Sheena Renee Scott, Jenna Elizabeth Selby, Zackary Rian Sharits, McKenzie Danielle Sharp, Cara Renee Shelley, Ashley Lynn Shipes, Jeremy Douglas Sierra, Ryan Webb Simon, Benjamin Jon Sims, Dalton Grant Sizemore, Hannah Katherine Smiley,Amber Nicole Smith, Cori Michelle Smith, Gage Tyler Smith, Ivy Miranda Smith, Kelsey Marie Smith, Jamie Lynn Snay, Emily Marie Snyder, Nicholas James Snyder, Cory Dean Sowers, Evan Jacob Spahr, Amethyst Anne Spenelli, Justice David Speraw, Lauren MacKenzie Spiers, Shelby Danae Spiers, Kassandra Alice-Marie Spitler, Marty Lee Stanaford Jr., Andrew Peter Stang, Bradley David Stapleton, Michael Ray Starcher, Brandon Charles Stradling, Bryce William Sullivan, Cierra Lyn Sutherland, James McLellan Swigard, Azjhon Jaleel Taylor, Morgan Dane Taylor, Brendon Austin Terrel.

Joshua Dyln Thompson, Logan Alex Tiderington, Rachael Ann Tilton, Brianne Nicole Tope, Nhan Ngoc Tu, Destiny Marie Turner, Riley Grandon Turner, Isha Tyagi, Kalen Anaya Ulmes, Katelyn Marie Usserman, Jocelyne Valverde, Ashley Kaylynn Vanchure,Alex Mitchell VanHoose, Maximilian Louis Vernau, Sabrina Paige VerStraten, Jordan Brittany Vest,Ammon Daniel Walker, Cortney Marie Walker, Taylor Linden Walker, Michael Ray Walter II, Lauren Dawn Walters, Mark Brian Warner II, Natasha LaRae Washington, Camden Archer Weaver, Lauren Michelle Wendel, Jenteal Rayn West, Allison Rae Wheeler, Fredrick Lamont Lee Whitson, Elizabeth Grace Wilkinson, Blake Alan Williams, Cassie Marie Williams, Carly Geene Willis, Zachary James Willis, Duncan Joseph Wills, Andrew Robert Wingert, Gideon Jacob Winter, Sierra Leann Wintrow, Natalie Nicole Wion, Thomas Anthony Wolaver, Kristen Nicole Wood, Jalen Michael Young, Cody Charles Zeller, Nicholas Glenn Zimmer.

BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Emily Artz is a 2013 co-valedictorian for Bethel High School. She is the daughter of Joseph Artz and Marjorie Markopoulous. Artz participated in band, soccer, volleyball, academic team, and student council, for which she served as president. She also is the recipient of awards including the AcExcellence 1 ademic scholarship, the Arts and Sciences Achievement scholarship, the Burger King scholarship, and an academic enhancement grant from West Virginia University, where she will attend in the fall. Artz’s goal is to become a psychiatrist.

Emily Braisted is a 2013 covaledictorian for Bethel High School. Her parents are William and Karen Braisted. She was a member of student council and the National Honor Society, and served as junior and senior class treasurer. Braisted also has danced with the Miami Valley Dance Center for 11 years. Her awards include the Honda-OSU math medal and the president’s merit scholarship from the Uni-

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versity of Dayton, where she plans to major in mathematics with plans to enter the bioengineering field.

Derek Longshore is the 2013 salutatorian for Bethel High School. The son of Richard and Brenda Longshore, he participated in band, jazz band, soccer, basketball, baseball, student council and the school newspaper. In addition, he was a member of the National Honor Society and a senior class representative. Longshore received

the Provost scholarship from Ohio State University, where he will attend as an engineering/pre-med major.

Bethel’s commencement ceremony will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25, in the gymnasium at the high school, located at 7490 State Route 201, Tipp City.

Members of the Class of 2013 include: Emily Nicole Artz, Jenna Kay Barney, Brandon Jay Bowman, Emily Nicole Braisted, Matthew Aaron Bush, Sydney Nicole Compton,

Zachary Scott Danner, Brady Edwin Davis, Trey Alan Davis, Derrick Michael Diddle, Cody Allen Dillon, Arrithaya Ditwong, Ariaunna Alexus Jesheta Donald, Sara Marie Dungan, Samantha Sierra Fink, Dustin Lee Fleming, Brandon Scott Garlough, Taylor James Gifford, Caitlin Elizabeth Graves, Bryant James Gray, Michael Stephen Green.

Thomas Edward Haire, Nicaela Lyn Howell, Andrew Scott Hurst, Brandon Michael

James, Alyssa Marie Jones, Victoria Marie Jones, Tyler Chase Juday, Magdalene Patricia Kendall, Brianna Marie Kilcrease, Kylie Kapuaakalania’Omaile Llanos, Derek Ryan Longshore, Troy Edward Malin, Kayleigh Brooke Marshall, Shelby Rebecca McMahan, Ashley Nicole Miller, Zachary David Miller, Stephanie Elizabeth Myers, Lukas Shane North, Allison Nicole Reece.

Jacob Alexander Schroeder, Matthew August Schwieterman, Hannah Kristine Sexton, Katlyn Ruth Shoup, Kelsey Sue Shoup, Mitchell Benjamin Siler, Kaleb Daniel Siney, Adam Ryan Smith, Warren Alexander Thome Snyder, Evan Douglas Stagge, Mariah Kaydes Stouch, Ryan Russell Terrian, David John Tolle, Luke Harry Veldman, Madison Ann Waitzman, Andrew Louis Watson, Danielle Nicole White, Johnny Clifford Wills III, Anthony Douglas Wood, Hui Yang, Lin Xi Yang, Cortney Marie Young

BRADFORD HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Chelsea Dross is the 2013 valedictorian of Bradford High School. She is the daughter of Mike and Tammi Dross. She served as class president and treasurer, a teacher’s aide, prom queen, captain of the cross country team, and an altar server at Immaculate Conception Church. Her other activities included basketball, track, National Honor Society, Muse Machine, B Crew, Varsity B Club, Math Club, Urbana University Dual Enrollment Program. Dross, who won the DAR Good Citizen award, plans to attend Wright State University and major in computer science.

Logan Houser, the 2013 Bradford High School salutatorian, is

Leaders of America (FCCLA), junior church, peer leadership and Adopt a Highway. Houser was a member and treasurer of the National Honor Society, earned awards in English, math and Spanish, and received recognition for FCCLA statelevel STAR events recognition.

He also volunteered at flower sales, blood drives, the food pantry, and with bulk mailing.

Houser plans to attend Liberty Benton University in the fall to pursue a bachelor’s degree in business management informaDROSS HOUSER tion systems.

Bradford High School’s comthe son of William and Lori team, PTK-Post-Secondary En- mencement ceremony will be at Houser. He participated in the rollment Options Program, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25, in Good News Club, academic Family, Career and Community the high school gymnasium. The

class of 2013 includes: Bryce Arnett, Brett Arnett, Addison Bashore, Randy Campbell, James, Canan, Dallas Cassel, Adam Chalmers, Jacob Cline, William Deemer, Megan Drieling, Chelsea Dross, Steven Gayhart, Jessica Gaynor, Makayla Getz, Shane Gill, Anthony Gunter, Lukas Hafer, Jacob Herron, Breeana Hicks, Joshua Hoelscher, Logan Houser, Tyler Huggins, Megan Hunt, Kelley Jeffers, Benjamin Karnehm, Austin Lear, Spencer Lear, Derek Miranda, Corey Rench, Lindsey Rose, Brittany Ross, Cody Slomba, Eric Swabb, Brandon Wirrig, Matthew Wolf, Aaron Yohey, Corey Yohey

COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Bryant Allen Hicks is a 2013 co-valedictorian for Covington High School. He is the son of Tonja and Scott Travers and Harry Hicks III. His activities include National Honor Society, Key club, Spanish club, PLUS Overnighter Youth Staff, crosscountry and track. Hicks plans to major in computer engineering at Ohio University.

Michael James Wilson, the son of James and Agnes Wilson, is a 2013 co-valedictorian for Covington High School. Wilson’s high school activities include National Honor Society, for which he served as vice president in his junior year and president in his senior year, as well as marching band, symphonic band, jazz band, pep band, drama club, Spanish club, Key club and the PLUS Overnighter Youth Staff. He will be attending Miami University and is undecided on his major.

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Covington’s graduation exercises will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 26, at Hobart Arena in Troy. The Class of 2013 includes: Cody James Adams, Ashley Jo Albright, Taylor Marie Angle, Timothy Austin Angle, Kiersten Nicole Atkinson, Alexander Scott Baskerville, Alexander

Cole Bitner, Katie Elizabeth Blair, Jordan Alyssa Blanton, Ryan Scott Boehringer, Kyrstyn Lynn Boyer, Thomas Londale Brant III, Audrey Ellen Brinkman, Macy Cheyenne Broughman, Garren Andrew Buroker, Isaac Neil Canan, Rachel Lynn Carder, Kayleigh Sharon Cecil, Madison Evans

Clark, Caitlin Nicole Copeland, Ryan Lee Craft, Troy Robert Cron, Jamie Marie Crowell, Kyler Lewis Deeter, Logan James Eshelman.

Dustin Russell Fickert, Brittanie Sage Flora, Lindsey Lee Frantz, Danielle Renee Hatcher, Bryant Allen Hicks, Matthew Bradley Hubbard, Cassandra Nicole Ingle, Emily Lauren Katafiasz, Megan Richelle Kendell, Tyler James Lane, Matthew Elliot Larger, Bryton Scott Lear, John Richard Longenecker, Gage Christopher Looker, Jamie Michelle Martin, Tyler Scott McDavid, Justin Daniel Millhouse, Gabriel Joseph Mohler, Olivia Noelle Moody, Zachary Quinn Nicely, Brian John Olson Jr. , Kyle Aaron Otte, Coleton Lee Owens, Dylan Todd Owens, Bryan Robert Phillis, Treg Everett Pleasant.

Anthony William Rader, Shel-

don Thomas Rank, Chase Matthew Reck, Matthew Allan Reck, Zoe JaRee Reck, Bethany Brooke Richards, Jennifer Francis Rindler, Colton Russel Risner, Shelby Marie Ross, Connor Elizabeth Schaffer, Donald Norbert Seger Jr. , Brooke Salene Selanders, Benjamin Corbin Sherman, Jessica Anne Shilt, Samantha Ann Slusher, Samuel Edwin Slusher, Brock Antony Smith, Haley Brooke Smith, Dustin Edward Snell, Heidi Marie Snipes, Tara Marie Snipes, Anna Christine Snyder, Jacob Ryan Sowers, Kaitlin Marie Thompson, Trent David Tobias.

Shelby Taylor Waag, Austin Michael Walters-Tracy, Michaela Danielle Webster, Michael James Wilson, Tres Matthew Wirt, Jacob Steven Wright, Casey Lee Yingst, Tristan Patrick Yingst, John Addison Zeitz.

LEHMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Samantha Neumeier is the 2013 Lehman Catholic High School valedictorian. She is the daughter of Sam and Mary Neumeier. She was involved in National Honor Society, TEAMS engineering, musical, science fair, Science Olympiad, Substance Abuse Advisory Committee, Pro-Lifeguards, the Ohio Energy Project, Interact, music ministry and the band, of which she was president. She also served as a sacristan and Eucharistic minister for school Masses. Neumeier is a member of St. Patrick Church in Troy and plans to major in natural science at Youngstown State University, then attend medical school at Northeast Ohio Med-

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ical University.

Jacob Haller is the 2013 Lehman Catholic High School salutatorian. The son of Cameron and Teresa Haller, he

participated in National Honor Society, football, science fair, Science Olympiad, TEAMS engineering, Substance Abuse Advisory Committee, Academia,

Stock Club, Big Buddies and Columbian Squires. Haller also is a member of Holy Angels Church in Sidney. He plans to attend Purdue University to major in chemical engineering.

Lehman Catholic High School’s graduation exercises will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 26, in the Schlater Family Gymnasium on the Lehman campus, 2400 St. Mary’s Ave., Sidney.

Admission to graduation is by ticket only. Members of the Class of 2013 include: Andrew Adams, Bishop Arnold, Hayley Baker, Pierce Bennett, Allison Bergman, Mitchell Bosse, Lauren Bosway, Sarah Cabe, Emilie Cavinder, Keaton Cole, John Copella,

Nicholas Cummons, Ryan Edelen, Louis Gaier, Sloane Glover, Andrew Gilardi, Tharon Goins, Jacob Haller, Nick Haussman, Michael Jacob, Ethan Jock, Bradley Kaeck, Daniel Davis, Dylan Long, Quinton Malone, Alyx Meyers, Stephany McEldowney, Kennedy McIver, Samantha Neumeier, Brian Bach-Nguyen, Riley Pickrel, Emilee Proffitt, Connor Richard, Katie Rossman, Alexandra Steineman, Zachary Taylor, Andrea Thobe, Sarah Titterington, Victoria Tullis, Stephanie Ulbrich, Abbigail Vogann, Mary Ellen Waldsmith, Emily Wildenhaus, and Bonnie Zimmerman.

MIAMI EAST HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Dakota Wesley Eugene Potts is the 2013 valedictorian for Miami East High School for the 2012-13 year. The son of Eric Potts and Spring Cutlip, he has competed in academic, track and swim teams while participating in National Honor Society, student council, class officers, art club, music, Muse Machine and Pride in M.E. He also lifeguards at the Piqua YMCA. Potts will be attending Miami University’s Honor Program in the fall to study Architecture and French.

Montana Rose Woolley is the 2013 salutatorian for Miami East. She is the daughter of Jason and Heather Woolley. Her activities in high school include track, volleyball, musical, National Honor Society, FFA, Pride in M.E., choir, Muse Machine and academic team. Her community involvement includes organizing semi-annual blood

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drives, participating in charity runs and volunteering at the annual Child Care Choices Benefit, the annual senior citizens’ dinner and for the Miami County Animal Shelter. Woolley also works at Tim Horton’s and The Filling Station. She plans to attend Wright State University

in the fall.

Miami East’s commencement ceremony will be at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 24, at Hobart Arena in Troy.

Members of the Class of 2013 include: Jessie Blankenship, Logan Blankenship, Kayla Bombin,

Christine Bowling, Ellie Bowman, Lindsay Brookhart, Kayla Broughton, Kylie Brown, Tucker Carrigan, Abigail Cash, Colt Cavanaugh, Leigha Cremeens, Christopher Cron, Hannah Davisson, Rachel Davisson, Leah Dunivan, Megan England, Abby Everett, Breanna Foland, Amber Francis, Cole Fuston, Blake Garrett, Molly Green, Jaksen Gustin, Montana Hahn, Colden Hale, Robert Hamilton, Michael Harmon, Kaitlin Hatton, Dalton Haywood, Ray Henderson, Sean Horton, Aaron Hubbard.

Kevin Jackson, Taylor Jacquemin, Kimberly Jay, Morgan Jess, Emily Johnson, Paige Kiesewetter, Allison Kindell, Zachary Liddy, Madison Linn, Shelby Long, Courtney Magoto, Zackary Martinez, Katelyn Matlock, Corrine Melvin, Bryant Miller, Allison Millhouse, Jesse Minton, Garrett

Mitchell, Cory Monnin, Stephen Morrow, Paige Mullen, Hunter Murphy, Joshua Niswonger, Victoria Nuss, Daniel O’Malley, Sarah O’Neal, Nicholas Ording, Carilla Parker, Brooklyn Pearson, Seth Pemberton, HaiLee Phyillaier, Dakota Potts, Sarah Pyers.

Dylan Rader, Branden Ramey, Linda Rowley, Gabrielle Ryman, Kaitlyn Schellhouse, Austin Schulz, Chad Seagraves, Kaylena Shaw, Jenifer Slone, Kirsten Smallenbarger, Jennifer Smith, Ross Snodgrass, Anna Snyder, Katrina Sutherly, Abigail Tamplin, Sara Thompson, Kere Utz, Michael Warling, Brandon Wellman, Meredith Wesco, Montana Woolley, Jacob Yager, Rebekah Zellers

MILTON-UNION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Milton-Union High School has four valedictorians this year.

Valedictorian Noah Barth is the son of Jeff and Jodi Barth. He was dance captain of Milton-Union’s award-winning show choir, captain of the cross-country team, secretary of the National Honor Society, president of the Gay/Straight Alliance and editor of the yearbook. Barth will be moving to Chicago in September to attend DePaul University, where he has received scholarships. He will major in American studies with a minor in community service.

Valedictorian Clay Hill,the son of Brian and Tina Hill, has a passion for the outdoors, wildlife and learning about nature. He is an avid hunter and is involved in 4-H Club,for which he serves as a camp counselor. He also raises pigs and rabbits to show at the fair. In addition, Hill was involved in student government and National Honor Society, serving as treasurer and vice president respectively. He plans to attendWright State University to study environmental sciences.

BARTH The son of John and Michaelle Lightcap, valedictorian Logan Lightcap has been active in school, church and the community. His church activities include the Sunrise Breakfast to feed the homeless in Dayton and the 30-hour Famine to raise money for starving children in Africa. He has worked as a summer farm hand and since 2002,has worked for his family’s car wash business.In addition to being in all three school musicals, Lightcap’s school achievements include taking all honors courses, including Post-Secondary Enrollment Options math courses during his junior and senior years. He has won

HILL math awards, including the Provost scholarship to Ohio State University, where he will study actuarial science.

Active in sports and other activities, valedictorian Kole Wallace is the son of Dave and Kathy Wallace. In addition to playing tennis,football and baseball, he was a member of the quiz team, student government and National Honor Society. He also has been involved with Habitat for Humanity, Junior Teen Institute, Clubhouse and Interact. In the fall, he will begin the six-year Doctor of Pharmacy program at Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy.

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LIGHTCAP School’s commencement is Friday, May 24, 7:30 p.m. at the high school’s Memorial Stadium. Members of the Class of 2013 include: Dakota Albaugh, Coty Alderman, KyleArquilla,Wyatt Noah Barth, Banner, Michaela Bates, Victoria Berrey,Mika’la Berry,Wesley Biser, Christopher Boggs, Joshua Booher, Thomas Bowling, Samuel Brady, Anthony Brown, Brooke Brown, Daniel Brown,Dillon Bruner, Joshua Bryan, Kaitlyn Cantrell, Dallas Christman, Brittany Compton, Jackson Conley, Tyler Cottrell, Destiny Davis, Gustavo de Oliveira Murari, Jonathon Deeter, Rebecca Deeter,

WALLACE Shondra Deeter,Austin Dickison, Zackary Ditmer Dillon, Dustin Downey, Brandon Downey, Travis Dunn, Stephanie Fetters, Nicholas Fields, Kathlene Fisher, Cole Freeders.

Adrian Gauvey, Jacob Gearhart, Emily Gentry, Kayetlyn Hall,Kasandra Haworth, Erin Helser, Damian Hicks,Clay Hill,Craig Hollis, Kyle Holloway, Blake Ingle, Kasey Jackson,Trevor Johnson, David Karns, Alexander King, Trevor Klosterman, Austin Knepper, Corin Knight, Corey Layman, Amber Leet,Logan Lightcap, Connor Lunsford, Jacob Lyons, Haley Martens, Gage Martin, Farrah Mason, Kali

McGlinch, Daniel McKinley, Elizabeth Metzger, Christopher Miller, Wade Neal, Katelin Nealeigh, Whitney Netzley, Joshua Newman, Collin Newport, Samuel Niswonger, Jessica Ogden, Kodi Paulus,Jesse Pirrung,Karrie Powers, Kaitlynn Preston, Mallory Pumphrey, Katherine Purtee, Dallas Quickle.

Caroline Richardson, Brandon Ridenour, Brittany Ridenour, Cheyenne Sass, Margaret, Saum, Jason Siler, Kyle Sills, Jesse Simpson, Nicholas Simpson, Tyler Skaggs, Chelsea Smith, Dylan Smith, Joey Smith, Kayla Smith, Dalton Sochacki, Stacey Spitler, Nolan Staas, Shelby Stasiak, Breana Steele, April Stine, Brandon Stone, Shannon Stonerock, Mikalah Stumpff, Joseph Thoele, Sarah Trubee, Rosa Tweed, Troy Tyree, Anna Vagedes, Michael Voorhees, HaleyVore,CharityWagoner, Christopher Walkup, Kacy Wallace, Kole Wallace, Megan Ward, Kasey Wheelock, Dezirae Williams, HunterWiltshire,JamesWitten, Elysse Wood, Michael Workman, Brian Yost, Gabriel Zellers.

NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Kirsten Nicole Houtz Burden is a 2013 Newton High School co-valedictorian. The daughter of Billy and Marlene Burden,she was a member of the National Honor Society, student council,Leo club,FFA,Spanish club, Colorguard, choir, band and Science club. Burden also played soccer, softball and basketball. Her community service includes river cleanup and working in a soup kitchen. She plans to attend Ohio Northern University and major in nursing.

Marissa Morgan Kleman is a 2013 Newton High School co-valedictorian. She is the daughter of Kevin and Carol Kleman. Kleman belonged to the National Honor Society and student council, as well as the Leo, Spanish, science and art clubs.She was a cheerleader,played soccer and basketball, and did community service at St. Patrick’s food pantry and tutoring elementary school students.Kleman plans to attend Bowling Green University

BURDEN with a major in early childhood education and a minor in art education.

Trista Kay Lavy is the 2013 Newton High School salutatorian.She is the daughter of Lonnie and Tiffany Lavy. A member of the National Honor Society, Lavy also participated in FFA,FCCLA,Spanish and science clubs, basketball, soccer and Miami Valley Hawks AAA basket-

KLEMAN ball. Her other activities include the Newton Blue Ribbon 4-H Club, the Miami County Jr. Fair Board and the Calvary R.O.C.K. Youth Group.

Lavy plans to attend Wilmington College, majoring in agricultural business with a minor in animal science.

Newton High School will hold its graduation ceremony at 2 p.m.Sunday, May 26, in the gymnasium of

LAVY the high school at 201 N. Long Street, Pleasant Hill. Members of the Class of 2013 include: Cole Dalton Adams, Gavin Russell Alexander, Wesley Scott Angle, Jennifer Eileen Beacom, David William Brauer, Cortney Nichole Conley, Brandon Edward Kim Delcamp, Joel Tyler Deutsch, Austin Michael Flanary, Robert James Gerodimos,Destiny Shea Hanshaw,

Celina Michella Hildebrand, Casey Marie Hixon, Kirsten Nicole Houtz Burden, Mitchell Brian Hussong, Tiara Brook Jackson, Madison Lee Keiser, Benjamin Rex Keith, Marissa Morgan Kleman, Kara Dawn Kuder, Holly Anne Landis, Trista Kay Lavy, Tod Henry Long, Benjamin Jacob Meyer, Joseph Christopher Neff.

Aaron Robert Oaks, Levi Brendon Robbins, Rodney Emmitt Salyer,Anne-MarieAndrea Sanogo, Sydney Jordan Schauer, Braden Alan Schindel, Christiana Katlyn Smith, Jacob Henry Studebaker, Cheyenne Cassidy Supinger, Kasey Nicole Thompson, Alisha Denice Todd, Michael Glenn Unser, Daniel RichardVance,BrandenAlbertWalters, Austin Christopher Webb, Richard Warren Webb, Deryk Denver Wehrley, Jessica Randi Whalen, Ashley Nicole Whiting, Jacob Shawn Williams, Kara LeAnnWise

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LEHMKUHL bible school team leader.

Lehmkuhl plans to attend Ohio State University and major in information systems.

Jonathan Lin is the 2013 salutatorian for Tippecanoe High School. He is the son of Chih Min Lin and Chih Hui Lin. He is a member of the National Honor Society, a National Merit Commended Scholar and a Honda-OSU Math Medal winner. Lin also was a member of the marching and symphonic winds bands, and the varsity tennis team. When not participating in school activities, Lin volunteers at the Tipp City Public Library and the Widow’s Home of Dayton.

He plans to attend the Ohio State University Honors Program, where he will major in engineering.

Tippecanoe High School’s graduation exercises will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 2, in the gynasium at the high school, located at 615 E. Kessler-Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. Members of Class of 2013 are: Alexandra Elizabeth Abboud, Bethany Ann Adams, Zachary Matthew Allen, Bradley Victor Howell Anderson, Abby Elizabeth Andrews, Richard John Andrews, Samantha Grace Arndts, Taryn E. Asbury, Emily Lauren Ash, Sarah Nicole Ashburn, Devin Kyle Baerlin, Logan Thomas Banks, Jack W. Bauder, Hannah Eileen Beck, Bryan Michael Bernhold, Zachary Duncan Berning, Brandon Thomas Bessler, Brett Aston Black, Todd Harry Bloomer,

LIN Samuel Edward Bollinger, Nicholas Clark Breneman, Meggan Amanda Bridgett, William Morris Brockman III,Allison Joan Brown, Jordan Marie Jill Brown, Megan Rose Bruening.

Meredith Alene Budding, Steven Paul Calhoun, Kayla Marie Carpenter, Jordan Mitchell Chaney, Erica Lynn Comer, Katherine Elizabeth Cook, Erik Carl Cooper, Chace A. Conley, James Jacob Cox, Samantha Ashley Cox, Katelyn Elizabeth Crisp, Bryant Lee Crouch, Trevor Lee Curtis, Ian C. Davis,Andrew Payton Davison, Mark Joseph Dobson, Michael Zachary Donahey, Hunter Drake, Claire Margaret Dynes, Katelin Anne Dynes, Kellie Rebecca Eagan, Geoffrey Alan Early, Mason Leland Elrod, Jared Steven Ervin, Emma Elizabeth Etchison, Maria Rae Jude Fairbanks, Quintin A. Joseph Faler, Sydney Elizabeth Fay, Nicholas David Fischer.

Wiley Jack Flohr III, James Everett Forman, Rachel A. Furlong, J ohn Harlan Gaskins, Andrew Michael Gatchell, Stephen Christian Gimmey, Madison Nicole Gioiello, Sergio Alberto Gonzalez, Bradley Nicholas Gould, Alexander Nicholas Graham, Justin Allan Green, Victoria Lynn Grieshop,Austin Hugh Hadden, Rhyanna Lyn Hallauer , Alec James Hare, Matthew Allen Hartman, Briana Faith Heilman, Jessica Lee Helman, Aaron Michael Hieber, Wesley Steven

Kathryn Victoria Snyder, Adam Gregory Southers, Blake Russell Sowry, Ryan Lee Starcher, Alexander Michael Stearns, Victoria Ashlyn Stearn, Mary Kathleen Stenger, Kelly Ann Stillwagon, Morgan Nicole Stith, Jessica Shayne Stocker, David Charles Stockler, Shelby Lynn Stout, Kailee Riana Tateman.

Alexis Kathryn Taylor, Seth Lawrence Taylor, Rachel Corinne Thomas, Sydney Allyn Timmer, Kaitlin Claire Timmons, Davis Joseph Trask, Alex Raymond Turzynski, Kayla Marie Vath, Lucas Alexander Vinski, Zachary Tyler Vinski, Abigail Rose Vore, Carissa Marie Walek, Nathaniel Vincent Wallace, Madeline Christine Watkins, Ashton Elizabeth Weethee, Kathleen Jane Weiler, Samuel Tyler Wharton, Liam Connor Whitworth, Daniel Charles Wilcher Hunter Andrew Wilks, Jessica Marie Williams, Riley Marie Williams, Kylie Michelle Wilson, Sarah Kaye Wilson,Taylor Marie Wilson, Kyle Joseph Winblad, Jessica Leigh Wise, Maxwell Jacob Witeof, Megan Christine Elizabeth Wolfe, Kristen Mary Wolters, Nicholas Daniel Zeedyk

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Lydia Schneider, the daughter of John and Lynne Schneider, is a 2013 co-valedictorian for Tippecanoe High School. A member of the National Honor Society, Octagon Service Club and Student Senate, Schneider served as class president during her junior and senior years. She also competed on the swim team during her junior year and played on the junior varsity, varsity and club volleyball teams.

Schneider is this year’s Miami County recipient of the Franklin B. Walter AllScholastic Award, which is given in recognition of academic achievements, community service and leadership. When not in school, Schneider gives volleyball lessons, tutors students and is part of the Pink Ribbons Girls Breast Cancer Organization. She plans to attend Miami University in the fall as a pre-med major.

Douglas Lehmkuhl is a 2013 co-valedictorian for Tippecanoe High School. He is the son of Steven and Jacqui Lehmkuhl. During his four years at Tippecanoe, Lehmkuhl has been a member of marching band, concert band, symphonic winds band and pep band. He also served as president of the marching band. Lehmkuhl belongs to the National Honor Society, for which he served as treasurer during his senior year. He also maintained perfect attendance throughout high school. His athletic activities include the varsity tennis team and playing recreational basketball in the Tipp City Community League. Lehmkuhl’s extensive work in the community include mission trips to Boston, Chicago and San Antonio through Young Neighbors in Action, volunteering for Alternate Spring Break, Special Olympics, St. Vincent de Paul’s Women’s Homeless Shelter and the St. Patrick’s soup kitchen.

He also is an altar server at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, as well as a vacation

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TROY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2013 Sam Justice is the 2013 Troy Christian High School valedictorian. He is the son of Steve and Sue Justice. Justice participated in band, technology crew, student council and National Honor Society.

He also was a student leader on the New York mission trip. Justice plans to attend Lee University with a focus on ministry.

Shelby Renicker is the 2013Troy Christian High School salutatorian.

She is the daughter of Wade and Jill Renicker. Renicker served as president of the National Honor Society and was active in volleyball and cross-fit. She also participated JUSTICE

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in mission trips to the Bahamas, Jamaica and Nicaragua. In addition, Renicker worked as a server at Bob Evans restaurant in Troy.

She plans to attend Wright State University as a pre-med major.

Troy Christian High School will hold its graduation exercises at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 25, at the school, located at 700 S. Dorset Road inTroy.Members of the Class of 2013 include: Jason Bamford, Amanda Benjamin, Jasmine Beverly, Robert Bretland,Semayat Campbell,Kaitlyn Chaney, Matthew Coots, Mark Dillahunt,Haley Farr,Zane Fulton,

Jonny Gakwaya, Branden Garman, Luke Gaskell, Hannah Godfrey, Sarah Grady, Sydney Hefferon, Craig Helman, Sam Justice, Emily Kindell, Nate Kirkpatrick, DJ Latimer, Justin Lewis, Daniel Markley, Jordan Marshall, Ben Morrow, Alec Patterson, Greg Peterson, Katie Poteet, Courtney Price, Eric Purvis, Morgan Rench, Shelby Renicker, Alex Rivera-Helstad, Rachel Ruland, Christian Salazar, Scotty Scott, Sarah Scott, Ty Shinall, Amanda Slone, Patrick Smith, Brenton Sundlie, Christopher Swink, BJ Toal, Caleb Ward, Chris Wharton, Josh Williams.

UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER CLASS OF 2013 The 2013 Upper Valley Career Center Top Scholar is Ashley Gilmore, an interactive media student from Piqua High School. She is the daughter of Gary Gilmore and Barbara Mullin of Piqua.

Through PHS, Gilmore has participated in FCCLA, the art club and the National Honor Society. At Upper Valley CC, she was involved in Business Professionals of America and served as interactive media president for the group during her senior and junior years. She was Student Senate historian during her junior year and acting Senate president for 20122013. Gilmore also is a member of Students Against Destructive Decisions (S.A.D.D.) and works part-time at Dairy Queen Grill & Chill. Earlier this year, she was honored by the Piqua Chamber of Commerce as a four-year recipient of Piqua’s Top 100 Scholars award.

As Upper Valley CC’s Top Scholar, Gilmore will address her classmates during the graduation ceremony at 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 23, at Hobart Arena in Troy.

The Class of 2013’s graduates from Miami County include:

GILMORE Bradford High School: Brett Arnett, Richard Bashore, Randy Campbell, Dallas Cassel, Adam Chalmers, Jacob Cline, William Deemer, Megan Drieling, Jessica Dye, Michael Fletcher, Jessica Gaynor, Anthony Gunter, Lukas Hafer, Jacob Herron, Hicks, Joshua BreeAna Hoelscher, Megan Hunt, Kelley Jeffers, Austin Lear, Spencer Lear, Derek Miranda, Ashley Mullins, Lindsey Rose, Cody Kaitlin Withrow, Slomba, Matthew Wolf, Corey Yohey.

Covington High School: Cody Adams, Garren Buroker, Caitlin Copeland, Ryan Craft, Tyler Lane, Matthew Larger, Jamie

Martin, Tyler McDavid, Justin Millhouse, Zachary Nicely, Kyle Otte, Anthony Rader, Chase Reck, Shelby Ross, Donald Seger, Brooke Selanders, Haley Smith, Dustin Snell, Austin Walters-Tracy, Tres Wirt, Jacob Wright.

Miami East High School: Amber Francis, Robert Hamilton.

Newton High School: Destiny Hanshaw, Tod Long, Joseph Neff, Aaron Oaks, Braden Schindel, Alisha Todd, Branden Walters, Austin Webb, Richard Webb, Jacob Williams.

Piqua High School: Gage Abbott, Tevin Albert, Bailey Anspach, Kenna Barton-Rose, Tara Belcher, James Black, Emily Blanton, Megan Boyd, Taylor Bryant, Abigail Carter, Christina Carter, Eric Clay, Maylana Craun, Amanda Cruse, Jasmine Davis, Cara Dunn, Drew Durand, Stephen Elliott, Samantha Elsass, Kaleb Etherington, Sarah Felver, Janova Forsythe, Kristina Frey, Ashley Gilmore, John Grunkemeyer, Kyleigh Hall, Rachel Harker, Alicia Hill, Alexis Holleran, Michael (Tony) Howk, Ryan Hughes, Steven Jenkins, Colten Kidder, Chance Kloecker,

Colin Lavey, James Lawson, Trae Lee, Donald Luther, Hayley Martin, Jacob McClelland, Lexie McKinney, Timothy Meiring, Emily Mikolajewski, Megan Miller, Lakota Mills, Scout Mott, Logan Neves, Tyler Overla, Elijah Parker, Jessica Pearce, Richard Peters, Justin Peyton, Kenneth Philabaum, Thea Reas, Hannah Ryan, Paula Sheridan, Alex Shinall, Cayley Silverthorn, Briana Staley, Joshua Steele, Benjamin Tabler, Austin Tilton, Paige Underwood, Joshua Van Skoyck, Oliver Walters, Shane Ward.

Russia High School: Dakota Ashford, Brandon Barlage, Ethan Paulus, Bradley Schafer.

Tippecanoe High School: Damien Kettering, Riley Minor, Mary Rafferty.

Troy High School: Desiree Adkins, Roger Anders, Alex Barber, Raymond Barnhart, Dustin Boyer, Jerrod Browning, Blake Cales, Phillip Centliver, Stephen Crabtree, Donovan Creager, Tempesst Creech, Skylar Detrick, Scott Dircksen, Beau Emerick, Reianna Evans, Kimberlyn Frazier, Brandi Frees, Zackary Garrison, Emily Ashley Hagon, Grapes, Taneisha Hanselman, Bre’anna

Harrison-Lee, Benjamin Hawkins, Logan Hensley, Sharice Hibbler, Amanda Hinders, Zechariah Hoover, Kaitlin Houck, Tyler Jaynes, Khelsea Jenkinson, Austin Johnson, Priest Johnson, Bailey Justice, Caitlynn Lackey, Shelby Larck, Shelby Lechner, Jonathan Lucas, Kyle Maynard, Jennette McCrossin, Tabitha McKitrick, Devante Michael, Dylan Miller, David Moore, Chase Mumford, Courtney Murphy, Kendra Newman, Kayla Nickels, Philip November, Taylor Ries, Thomas Riley, Tyler Roby, Dustin Sabins, Miranda Schaeffer, Sheena Scott, Zackary Sharits, Ashley Shipes, Benjamin Sims, Dalton Sizemore, Gage Smith, Jamie Snay, Emily Snyder, Amethyst Spenelli, Justice Speraw, Lauren Spiers, Joshua Thompson, Kalen Ulmes, Jocelyne Valverde, Alex Van Hoose, Ashley Vanchure, Ammon Walker, Cortney Walker, Mark Warner, Blake Williams, Gideon Winter, Sierra Wintrow.

Ohio Virtual Academy: Ulrich Reed.

Piqua Christian: Kailey Garringer, Brooklyn Stafford.

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We are so proud of you!

Love, Mom & Dad

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Richard (Ricky) A. Jones II

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We are proud of you and love you very much!

Congratulations! We are so proud of you!

Best wishes as you graduate... may God bless your future!

We are proud of you!

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Troy High School

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, May 24, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Be careful, because today's Full Moon can create an accident-prone energy for your sign. Therefore, pay attention to everything you say and do today. Be mindful.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The Full Moon's energy could create financial problems for you today. Make sure you know what's happening with your bank account and your finances in general. Just do it.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) The only Full Moon directly opposite your sign all year is taking place today.

This is why relations with others, especially partners and close friends, might be tense. Patience.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Because the Moon is your ruler, of course you will feel the tension of today's Full Moon. In particular, it could create problems with co-workers.

Cut others some slack.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Tension with others, especially in group situations, is likely because of today's Full Moon. Just use your charm and diplomacy to keep a lid on things. (You're a pro.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This particular Full Moon puts you at odds, juggling the demands of home and family versus the demands of your career and your job. Right now, you can't ignore your job.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be careful, because this is a mildly accident-prone day for you. Avoid controversial subjects, especially politics, religion and racial issues. Keep it light.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Disputes about financial matters and the ownership of something could arise today. Wait a few days, and the dust will settle -- guaranteed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) The only Full Moon in your sign all year is taking place today, which makes you more emotional than usual.

Demonstrate grace under pressure when dealing with close friends and partners.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Be tolerant at work with customers and co-workers, because everybody can feel the tension of today's Full Moon, especially you. But hey, this happens every month, and we all survive, right?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Be patient with your children or the kids you work with. The Full Moon today can stir up everybody's emotions — even the family dog's.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Stay focused on home, family and domestic issues, even though you feel torn by the demands of your external world. You cannot ignore what's going on at home right now.

YOU BORN TODAY You have a strong social conscience, which is why you want to make the world a better place.

You're skilled at using words, especially in a philosophical way. Because of this, you often influence others. Privately, you are quite reserved. Good news for you: Your year ahead might be one of the most powerful years of your life. Dream big!

Birthdate of: Bob Dylan, singer; Kristen Scott Thomas, actress; Joseph Brodsky, poet/Nobel Laureate. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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FBI identifies Benghazi suspects, no arrests yet

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER President Barack Obama’s re-election.

Since Associated Press then, Republicans in ConWASHINGTON (AP) — gress have condemned the The U.S. has identified administration’s handling five men who might be re- of the situation, criticizing sponsible for the attack on the level of embassy secuthe diplomatic mission in rity, questioning the talkBenghazi, Libya, last year, ing points provided to and has enough evidence U.N. Ambassador Susan to justify seizing them by Rice for her public appearmilitary force as sus- ances to explain the atpected terrorists, officials tack and suggesting the say. But there isn’t enough White House tried to play proof to try them in a U.S. down the incident to mincivilian court as the imize its effect on the Obama administration president’s campaign. prefers.

The FBI released phoThe men remain at tos of three of the five suslarge while the FBI gath- pects earlier this month, ers evidence. But the in- asking the public to provestigation has been vide more information on slowed by the reduced U.S. the men pictured. The imintelligence presence in ages were captured by sethe region since the Sept. curity cameras at the U.S. 11, 2012, attacks, and by diplomatic post during the the limited ability to as- attack, but it took weeks sist by Libya’s post-revo- for the FBI to see and lutionary law enforcement study them. It took the and intelligence agencies, agency three weeks to get which are still in their in- to Libya because of secufancy since the overthrow rity problems, so Libyan of dictator Col. Moammar officials had to get the Gadhafi. cameras and send them to The decision not to seize U.S. officials in Tripoli, the the men militarily under- capital. scores the White House The FBI and other U.S. aim to move away from intelligence agencies idenhunting terrorists as tified the men through enemy combatants and contacts in Libya and by holding them at the mili- monitoring their commutary prison in Guan- nications.

They are tanamo Bay, Cuba. The thought to be members of preference is toward a Ansar al-Shariah, the process in which most are Libyan militia group apprehended and tried by whose fighters were seen the countries where they near the U.S. diplomatic are living or arrested by facility prior to the viothe U.S. with the host lence. country’s cooperation and Republican lawmakers tried in the U.S. criminal continue to call for the justice system. Using mil- Obama administration to itary force to detain the provide more information men might also harm about the attack. The fledgling relations with White House released 99 Libya and other post- pages of emails about the Arab-Spring governments talking points drafted by with whom the U.S. is try- the intelligence commuing to build partnerships nity that Rice used to deto hunt al-Qaida as the or- scribe the attack, initially ganization expands suggesting they were part throughout the region. of a series of regional A senior administration protests about an anti-Isofficial said the FBI has lamic film. In those identified a number of in- emails, administration ofdividuals that it believes ficials agreed to remove have information or may from the talking points all have been involved, and is mentions of terror groups considering options to such as Ansar al-Shariah bring those responsible to or al-Qaida, because the justice. But taking action intelligence pointing to in remote eastern Libya those groups’ involvement would be difficult. Amer- was still unclear and beica’s relationship with cause some officials didn’t Libya would be weighed want to give Congress amas part of those options, munition to criticize the the official said, speaking administration. only on condition of U.S. officials say the anonymity because the of- FBI has proof that the five ficial was not authorized men were either at the to discuss the effort pub- scene of the first attack or licly. somehow involved beThe Libyan Embassy cause of intercepts of at did not respond to multi- least one of them bragging ple requests for comment. about taking part. Some of Waiting to prosecute the men have also been in suspects instead of grab- contact with a network of bing them now could add well-known regional Jito the political weight the hadists, including alBenghazi case already Qaida in the Islamic carries. The attack on the Maghreb.

U.S. diplomatic mission The U.S. has decided killed Ambassador Chris that the evidence it has Stevens and three other now would be enough for a Americans weeks before military operation to seize

the men for questioning, but not enough for a civilian arrest or a drone strike against them, the officials said. The U.S. has kept them under surveillance, mostly by electronic means. There was a worry that the men could get spooked and hide, but so far, not even the FBI’s release of surveillance video stills has done that.

FBI investigators are hoping for more evidence, such as other video of the attack that might show the suspects in the act of setting the fires that ultimately killed the ambasand his sador communications specialist, or firing the mortars hours later at the CIA base where the surviving diplomats took shelter or a Libyan witness willing to testify against the suspects in a U.S. courtroom.

But Rep. Howard P. “Buck� McKeon, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he is concerned the Obama administration is treating terrorism as criminal actions instead of acts of war that would elicit a much harsher response from the United States. “The war on terror, I think, is a war and at times I get the feeling that the administration wants to treat it as a crime,�

McKeon said Tuesday.

Administration officials have indicated recently that the FBI is zeroing in. “Regardless of what happened previously, we have made very, very, very substantial progress in that investigation,� Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers last week.

That echoed comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry to lawmakers last month. “They do have people ID’d,� Kerry said of the FBI-led investigation. “They have made some progress. They have a number of suspects who are persons of interest that they are pursuing in this and building cases on.�

But options for dealing with the men are few and difficult, U.S. officials said, describing high level strategy debates among White House, FBI and other counterterror officials. Those confidential discussions were described on condition of anonymity by four senior U.S. officials briefed on the investigation into the attack.

The U.S. could ask Libya to arrest the suspects, hoping that Americans would be given access to question them and that the Libyans gather enough evidence to hold the men under their own justice system. Another option is to ask the

Libyans to extradite the men to the U.S., but that would require the U.S. to gather enough solid evidence linking the suspects to the crime to ask for such an action.

Asking other countries to detain suspects hasn’t produced much thus far.

In this case, the Egyptian government detained Egyptian Islamic Jihad member Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad for possible links to the attack, but it remains unclear if U.S. intelligence officers were ever allowed to question him.

Tunisia allowed the U.S. to question Tunisian suspect Ali Harzi, 28, who was arrested in Turkey last October because of suspected links to the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack, but a judge released him in January for lack of evidence.

Finally, the U.S. could send a military team to grab the men, and take them to an offsite location such as a U.S. naval ship the same way al-Qaida suspect Ahmed Warsame was seized by special operations personnel in 2011 in Somalia. He was then held and questioned for two months on a U.S. ship before being read his Miranda rights, transferred to the custody of the FBI and taken for trial in a New York court. Warsame pleaded guilty earlier this year and agreed to tell the FBI what he knew about terror threats and, if necessary, testify for the government.

The U.S. has made preparations for raids to grab the Benghazi suspects for interrogation in case the administration decides that’s the best option, officials said. Such raids could be legally justified under the U.S. law passed just after the 9/11 terror attacks that authorizes the use of military force against al-Qaida, officials said.

The reach of the law has been expanded to include groups working with alQaida.

The option most likely off the table would be taking suspects seized by the military to Guantanamo Bay, the facility in Cuba that Obama has said he wants to close. “Just as the administration is trying to find the exit ramp for Guantanamo is not the time to be adding to it,â€? said Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for GuantĂĄnamo.

Beyond being politically uncomfortable, it’s less effective, he said. “There’ve been a total of seven cases completed since 2001,� with six of them landing in appeals court over issues with the legitimacy of the charges.

Teens migrating to Twitter

BY JENNIFER C. KERR parents and just simply less complexity,� said Associated Press Amanda Lenhart of the WASHINGTON (AP) Pew Research Center, Twitter is booming as a one of the study’s ausocial media destination thors. “They still have for teenagers who com- their Facebook profiles, plain about too many but they spend less time adults and too much on them and move to drama on Facebook, ac- places like Twitter, Incording to a new study stagram and Tumblr.� published Tuesday In the poll, 94 percent about online behavior. It of teens who are social said teens are sharing media users have a promore personal informa- file on Facebook flat tion about themselves from the previous year. even as they try to pro- Twenty-six percent of tect their online reputa- teen social media users tions. were on Twitter. That’s Teens told researchers more than double the there were too many figure in 2011 of 12 peradults on Facebook and cent. too much sharing of “Facebook just really teenage angst and inane seems to have more details like what a drama,� said 16-year-old friend ate for dinner.

Jaime Esquivel, a junior “The key is that there at C.D. Hylton High are fewer adults, fewer School in Woodbridge,

Va., in an interview.

Esquivel said he still checks his Facebook account daily but isn’t using it as regularly as in the past. He sees teens complaining on Twitter, too, so Esquivel has been using the photo-sharing service Instagram more often, posting a couple of pictures each day and communicating with friends.

Facebook purchased Instagram last year.

In what may be a concern to parents, more than 60 percent of the teens with Twitter accounts said their tweets were public, meaning anyone on Twitter friend, foe or stranger can see what they write and publish. About onequarter of kids said their tweets were pri-

vate and 12 percent said they did not know whether their tweets were public or private.

Teens are also sharing much more than in the past.

More than 90 percent of teen social media users said they have posted a picture of themselves up from 79 percent in 2006, the poll said. Seven in ten disclose the city or town where they live, up from about 60 percent over the same time period.

And 20 percent disclose their cell phone number up sharply from a mere two percent in 2006.

Even so, Parry Aftab, an attorney and online child safety advocate, says kids seem to be exercising more caution about their posts.

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1 BEDROOM, utilities paid, stove & refrigerator furnished, $560 month, $400 deposit, 333 Home Street, Piqua, (937)7731668.

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1968 FORD Ranger, new transmission, tires & more!

Runs good, $3000 OBO. Call (937)538-0457.

2006 DODGE Caravan SXT, one owner, loaded, all power, DVD, great condition, 132k miles, $5500, (937)498-1219

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PIQUA, 431 W ash, 1 bedroom, downstairs, stove, refrigerator, washer/ dryer hookup, $400, no pets, credit check required, (937)418-8912 TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, no dogs, $500. (937)339-6776.

TROY TOWNHOUSE, 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. Bunkerhill $495 monthly, (937)216-4233

JUKEBOXES, slightly used, newer ones just have CDs, some have CDs and 45s in them, some have just 45s (937)606-0248

THEATER-STYLE SEATS, 60 blue for sale. Call for more information (937)418-8585.

PIQUA, 309 1/2 S. Wayne, Small 1 bedroom, stove refrigerator, $385, no pets, credit check required, (937)418-8912

PIQUA, 322 South Main, 1 bedroom, stove, $400 Monthly, no pets, credit check required, (937)418-8912

JOHN DEERE LA115 lawn tractor and dump cart, 5 years old, serviced by dealer, very good condition, $1100 (859)285-8069

POOL DECK, Aluminum above ground pool deck in good condition was used on 24' round pool, asking $100, (937)7788816

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PIQUA, 313 Broadway, 2 bedroom, stove, no pets, $400 monthly, credit check required, (937)418-8912

BABY ITEMS, toddler bed, changing table, crib, walker, blankets. HANDICAP ITEMS, regular and seated walkers, commode, shower chairs, more! (937)339-4233

BLUE SPRUCE Trees, 3 available, 4 foot tall, free for the digging, (937)773-1445

3 Bedroom, 1 bath, Double, $675

73K Miles, Fully loaded, automatic, with navigation, blue exterior, black leather interior, asking $16800 obo, call (937)473-2596 evenings Auto Classic /Antiques 1957 Chevy Post, 4 door, Complete solid car, does not run, $3450, (937)335-9353 weekdays

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Collectibles: 3 dinner bells, Bertha Moist “Owl” (1982), Royal Copely ducks, Jenner’s duck plates, egg scales, gas adv., roadmaps, syrups, cast aluminum sign “Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail” sign w/ paperworks (1930s), CVA Derringer (kit), 8x10 B/W train photos, thermometers and calendars (North Star Cafe and Greeting Funeral home P.H.), tin wind-up tractor, battery operated electromobile (Japan), and V.W. early W. Germany jointed dolls, few other toys and diecasts, wildlife prints (1970s Dormisch), horsehead hitches, pair wooden shoes, U.S. plate block album - Volume A (1901-1955 w/ numerous blocks), Christmas ornaments (mushrooms - Germany), miniature oil lamp (Czech), Kitchenaide coffee grinder, carbide miner’s light, peacock bedspread, costume jewelry (some Mason’s), plus more.

Furniture: Writer’s desk, porcelain top kitchen cabinet, white wrought iron patio furniture (nice), Ethan Allen Kitchen dropleaf table and hutch, 2 bedroom suites, (1 queen, 1 single), misc. upholstered furniture, coffee and end tables, lamps, pressed back high chair, sofa table, etc.

Misc: New Invacare wheel chair, walker w/ seat, Repro C.I. toys and banks, community flatware (South Seas), misc. household items and garage items including hand power tools, organizers, grinder, vise, etc.

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LEGALS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS City of Piqua – Power Plant Waterfront Redevelopment Project Sealed Bids for the City of Piqua Power Plant Waterfront Redevelopment Project will be received by the Piqua Power System, 201 Hemm Avenue, Piqua, Ohio, until 2 p.m. Local Time on Friday June 14, 2013 at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

In general, the Work consists of the following changes: The project includes the demolition of equipment and structures located between the east wall of the City of Piqua power plant and the Great Miami River and redevelopment of this area. Demolition includes removal and proper disposal of numerous items including, but not limited to, asbestos containing materials, three (3) baghouses, one (1) ash storage silo, three (3) bucket elevators, concrete structures, steel structures, tanks, foundations various pieces of equipment, piping, conduit, flues, total demolition of two (2) pump houses, partial demolition of one (1) pump house, and removal of a concrete wall. Redevelopment includes but is not limited to, modifications to the power plant roof drains and floor drain system, sealing of various water intakes and discharges, removal and replacement of all asphalt material between the power plant and the river bank, removal of all concrete structures to two feet below grade, installation of a scenic overlook, clearing of the river bank, placement of rip rap along the river bank, cleaning and repair to a set of concrete steps cleaning and repair of a stormwater discharge structure, and removal and replacement of a stone wall.

The Bidding Documents, which include Reference Drawings and Specifications, may be examined and obtained from the City of Piqua website at http://www.piquaoh.org/bid.htm.

A non-mandatory pre bid meeting will be held on Friday May 24th commencing at 10 am at Piqua Power System, 201 Hemm Avenue, Piqua, Ohio. Hard hats and flashlights are required.

Bids must be signed and submitted on the separate bidding forms included in the Bidding Documents, and shall be accompanied by either a Bid Guaranty Bond, certified check, cashier·s check, or letter of credit on a solvent bank in the amount of not less than 5 percent of the amount of the Bid, subject to conditions provided in the Instructions to Bidders. The successful BIDDER will be required to furnish a satisfactory Performance Bond in the amount of 100 percent of the Bid. Each Bid must contain the full name of the party or parties submitting the Bid and all persons interested therein. Each BIDDER must submit evidence of its experiences on projects of similar size and complexity. The Owner intends and requires that this project be completed per the Schedule in the Bid Documents.

All Contractors and Subcontractors involved with the project will to the extent practicable, use Ohio products, materials, services and labor in the implementation of their project. Additionally Contractor compliance with the Equal Employment Opportunity requirements of Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 123, the Governor·s Executive Order of 1972, and Governor·s Executive Order 84-9 shall be required.

BIDDER must comply with the prevailing wage rates on Public Improvements in Miami County and the City of Piqua, Ohio as determined by the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Wage and Hour Division, (614) 644-2239.

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

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

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