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Supreme Court judge visits French Oil

BY WILL E SANDERS Staff Writer wsanders@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — As a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, Justice Judith French believes it is important to get out of the courtroom and reconnect with business leaders and the issues they face as a way of gaining important insight.

On Wednesday, that mission is what brought the recently appointed state supreme court justice to one of the most well-known businesses in the city of Piqua: The French Oil Mill Machinery Co. Justice French met with the company’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Daniel French, and went on a tour of the manufacturing facility, which is located at

1035 W. Greene St. Her visit to Piqua was the 55th Ohio county the judge has visited this year and she said she intends to visit all 88 counties.

“I find plant tours are fun and interesting and gives good insight into what is happening in Ohio. Ultimately that helps me be a better justice … to know what the issues are and what they (business leaders and workers) face every day,” she said. “I thought this would be a great introduction to Miami County and Piqua. Everywhere I go I get to see the diversity of the state.”

The justice became the 155th justice on the state supreme court in January after she was appointed

by Gov. John Kasich the previous month. She had previously served as an

appeals court judge at the Tenth District Court of Appeals and also served as the chief legal counsel to former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft.

Employing approximately 80 employees, French Oil was established in 1900 and has customers in 80 countries worldwide. The company manufactures preparation equipment and mechanical screw presses for the oilseed industry with extended applications for the rubber and polymer industries, according to their website.

Justice French said it has been great to see the innovation at each place she travels to, and she added she loves meeting MIKE ULLERY/STAFF PHOTO the people.

“One thing that has Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith French tours French Oil Mill Machinery Company accompanied by Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Dan French during a visit to Piqua on Wednesday.

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PCS receives state grant for reading program ISAAC HALE/STAFF PHOTO

Milton-Union teacher Lara Limbert (left) discusses an exercise with Favorite Hill teacher Pam Winne (right) while Danielle Poag (center), instructor from the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education, smiles as she observes their discussion during a training session Tuesday at the Miami Valley Centre Mall.

BY BELINDA M. PASCHAL Staff Writer bpaschal@civitasmedia.com PIQUA — During the next school year, a $250,000 state grant will help make sure early elementary students’ reading

skills are on-track.

The Ohio Department of Education awarded the funds to Piqua City Schools for the Third Grade Guarantee, an early literacy program to identify kindergarten through third grade students who are behind

in reading. The district is part of a consortium that includes Miami East Local Schools, the Milton-Union School District and Piqua Catholic Schools.

In the letter confirming the award, the ODE congratulated the consortium for developing a

high-quality proposal that showed “an innovated and replicable initiative to improve the early literacy and reading readiness in students.”

“We are extremely excited because ours was the only grant that was approved for the Miami County area,” said district superintendent Richard A. Hanes.

Hanes heaped high praise on Curriculum Director Dwayne Thompson for the training teachers have been undergoing to prepare for the program in

the 2013-2014 school year. “Several teachers have commented that it’s the best training they’ve ever received in reading,” he said.

Thompson said the program will be implemented immediately in the fall, when students will undergo diagnostic assessments.

“We’ll be using strategies to assess whether they’re beginning readers or if they are readers who might be missing some foundational skills,” he said. “This allows us to isolate which skills students might be having trouble with so that we can help them overcome deficiencies and become proficient and on-track with their reading.”

Thompson added the curriculum will be based on the OrtonGillingham approach to reading, in which the basics of word formation are taught before associating their whole meanings. Through visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning, students learn to start putting sounds together in order to comprehend words.

Exciting new programs and plans for Johnston Farm

BY ALYSSA RECK Staff Writer pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Johnston Farm and Indian Agency has an exciting year of

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new programs and plans.

Following an agreement reached on April 1 between the Johnston Farm Friends Council and the Ohio Historical Society, day-to-day operations were transferred to the Friends Board.

Many things will remain as they are, including the familiar faces that provide quality programming that visitors experience each time they come to Johnston Farm.

The quality Johnston Farm provides continues with the building of an Education Center, the completion of a new GeoHistory walk and two new exhibits.

A new project beginning in early November 2013 will be the renovation of

the Historic Indian and Canal Museum, which has had no physical updates since it opened 40 years ago.

The Friends Council, partnered with the Ohio Historical Society, will be fund-raising to co-fund the creation of an Education Center.

The project will transform the patio overlooking the Miami and Erie Canal to a state of the art classroom, exhibit area, and community meeting venue. Johnston Farm hopes the renovations will be completed around April 2014.

Originally, the cost started at $167,000, but with the help of the Ohio Historical Society, the Duke Foundation and

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A tomahawk lies in a display case among other new items to the Pickawillany exhibit inside the Johnston Farm museum Wednesday. This Saturday Johnston’s Farm will also open up a Civil War exhibit in the main house of the grounds. other donations, the amount left to raise is $100,000.

For further information

regarding the project or Local Eagle Scout Quinhow to participate/donate: ton Malone of Troop 344 call Johnston Farm at completed his Eagle 773-2522.

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PIQUA — Piqua Arts Council will sponsor Sousa Tunes in June, a special Flag Day celebration from 68 p.m. Friday. This patriotic affair will take place at the Gazebo at McCulloch Square in downtown Piqua.

As part of the free Art Walk series, Piqua Arts Council, in partnership with Mainstreet Piqua and Piqua Public Library, will provide entertainment by Kettering Banjo Society, Piqua High School Alumni Sam Roth and Sierra Iddings and a special presentation on the flags flown over Piqua.

For more information on upcoming Piqua Arts Council activities visit the Arts Council’s website, www.PiquaArtsCouncil.org. For volunteer opportunities, call 773-9630 or email jordan@PiquaArtsCouncil.org.

really struck me are all the people you meet,” she said. “With every community there are different people and different businesses, but so much is the same. The same in terms of the feeling of the community and wanting to live where they live. It’s been very positive.”

Daniel French agreed, saying that he first met the justice while recently attending an Ohio Manufacturers Association board meeting where the judge was giving a presentation.

“We’re very pleased to have an opportunity to host an Ohio Supreme Court justice, it’s not diana and Ohio. The something you get to do storms could hit Chicago every day,” he said. “To around rush hour, Schnei- have a chance to talk der said. Wednesday night's White Sox game against the Toronto Blue Jays was postponed in anticipation of bad weather. Continued from page 1 The weather service is- Project at Johnston Farm sued tornado warnings in last year, providing visiseveral counties in Iowa, tors with a unique highIllinois and Wisconsin. tech experience.

All told, the area the This hand-held GPS weather service considers Geo-History Walk takes to be under heightened visitors through the risk of dangerous weather twelve points of the Boy includes 74.7 million peo- Scout Law and outlines ple in 19 states.

Johnston Farm History.

Tornadoes and a dereVisitors can stop in the cho can happen at the museum and obtain insame time, but at any structions that will lead given place the straight- them around the site. line winds are probably On Saturday, Johnston more likely. Straight-line Farm will be opening two winds lack the rotation new exhibits. that twisters have, but The first exhibit, openthey can still cause con- ing at 12 p.m., are objects siderable damage as they from the Pickawillany Vilblow down trees and lage site that was excaother objects. vated during field schools "Be prepared to move conducted by Hocking away from windows," College students and Ohio Schneider said. Listen for Historical Society archaeweather warnings and go ologists. into a basement, if possiThis exhibit also will ble, and get underneath a include an artifact on loan study object like a table, from the family that had he said, if a tornado the former Lockington warning is issued. "You frontier museum. want to know where your Then, visitors can venfamily's at so everyone ture to the canal for a can get to safety success- mule-drawn canal ride, fully." before going to the second

Big storms to hit midwestern area

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds Wednesday could affect more than one in five Americans as it rolls from Iowa to Maryland. were Meteorologists even warning about the possibility of a weather event called a derecho (deh-RAY'-choh), which is a storm of strong straightline winds spanning at least 240 miles. The storms are also likely to generate tornadoes and cause power outages that will be followed by oppressive heat, said Russell Schneider, director of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.

"We're becoming increasingly concerned that a major severe weather event will unfold," Schneider said. "The main thing is for folks to monitor conditions and have a plan for what to do if threatening weather approaches."

For the first time this year, the center was using its highest alert level for parts of Iowa, Illinois, In-

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges, and the defense hinted at avoiding a trial with a plea deal if the death penalty were ruled out.

The death penalty is in play because among the accusations facing Ariel Castro, 52, is that he forced a miscarriage by one of the women, which is considered a killing under Ohio law. That charge doesn't include a possible death penalty, but a prosecutor has said that's under review.

The women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each said they had accepted a ride from Castro, who remained friends with the family of one girl and even attended vigils over the years marking her disappearance.

Castro, dressed Wednesday in an orange jail outfit with his hands and ankles shackled and a full dark beard grown in jail, kept his chin tucked on his chest through a brief court appearance.

He didn't speak or glance at his two attorneys standing by his side.

Attorney Craig Weintraub acknowledged afterward that "certain charges in the indictment cannot be disputed" and said the defense was working to avoid an "unnecessary trial" with a possible death penalty sentence.

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Obituaries about problems and issues that a guy trying to make an honest living in Piqua, Ohio, faces is great.”

He also noted that he and other employees with the business were “excited” to have the opportunity to show the justice the plant and what they manufacture there.

Justice French, no relation to Daniel French, said she was just as “excited,” too.

“I hope to see what they do here and learn more about it, but also to see the people that work here” she said before taking the tour. “This facility is a part of the community, that really tells me something about how ingrained this company is, it’s physically a part of this community.”

Johnston

exhibit opening at 1:30 p.m.

The second exhibit highlights the Civil War experiences of the grandsons of John Johnston.

These were made available by the Patterson Memorial Center in Dayton, Wright State University and through funding from the Ohio Humanities Council.

Another reason to attend the annual Family Day event, will be the opportunity to see two descendants of Julia Johnston Patterson who will be attending this special occasion.

“It will be a good time to meet and talk with these two great-greatgreat granddaughters,” Andy Hite, site manager, said.

The Family Day event also includes games and other activities that would have been a part of the Johnston Family lives.

Also, fathers and grandfathers will be admitted free when accompanying their families.

Castro pleads not guilty in kidnap case

BY THOMAS J. SHEERAN Associated Press

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Kenneth J. Hemm PIQUA — Kenneth J. Hemm, 83, of Piqua, died at 7:05 p . m .

Tuesd a y , June 1 1 , 2013, at the Friends C a r e Community HEMM of Yellow Springs. He was born July 7, 1929, in Piqua, to the late John A. and Eda (Frigge) Hemm. He married Marilyn A. Jenkins on Sept. 24, 1960, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Piqua; she preceded him in death April 11, 2003.

Survivors include three daughters, Catherine (Dennis) McCullough of Medina, Tenn., Carol (Joseph) Zakrajsek of Ann Arbor, Mich. and Cindy (Vincent) Michael of Fairborn; six grandchildren, Mike McCullough, Melisse McCullough, Lauren Zakrajsek, Joey Zakrajsek, Brittany (Michael) Ramirez, and Jordan Michael; a greatgranddaughter, Dalia Ramirez; and a sister, Ann Lewis of Piqua.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Marguerite Quatman, Helen Kolter, and four brothers, Frederick X. Hemm, R.C. “Chuck” Hemm, John Joseph Hemm, and Edward “Dick” Hemm.

Mr. Hemm was a 1948 graduate of Piqua Central

H i g h School and the University of Wisconsin School of Banking and retired in 1985, as a vice president of the former Piqua National Bank. He was a United States Air Force veteran having served during the Korean War. He was an active member of St. Mary Catholic Church, V.F.W. Post 4874, and the Archbishop McNicholas Council of the Knights of Columbus 3344, where he also served as manager. In addition to his family, he enjoyed bowling and woodworking.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, at St. Mary Catholic Church with the Rev. Fr. Thomas L. Bolte as the Celebrant.

Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery where full military honors will be provided by the Veterans Elite Tribute Squad.

Visitation will be from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, where a prayer service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary Catholic Church, 528 Broadway, Piqua, OH 45356.

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

Craig Alan Hughes LAKEVIEW — Craig Alan Hughes, 58, of Lakeview, passed away Saturday, June 8, 2013, at the Mary Rutan Hospital Emergency Room.

Craig was born March 26, 1955, in Piqua, to the late Walter Hughes and Beverly Heffner Baker.

He was also preceded in death by his daughter, Tracy Lynn Hughes; a brother, Brian “Dusty” Hughes; and a granddaughter, Allison Leeann Hughes.

Craig is survived by five grandchildren, JeMichael Paul, remy Courtney Nicole Paul, Tyler Eugene Paul, Madyson Ann Paul, and Myranda Leah Paul; his sister, Lori (Mark) Davi-

son of Tipp City; and his close friends on Turkeyfoot.

Craig was a graduate of Urbana High School. He was a United States Air Force veteran. He enjoyed watching NASCAR, hunting and fishing.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Inurnment will be in Dayton National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contribution may be given to his family.

Arrangements are in the care of Shoffstall Funeral Home, Lakeview.

Condolences may be expressed at shoffstallfuneralhome.com.

Stella Bodnaruk COVINGTON — Stella A funeral service will be Bodnaruk, 103, of Coving- held 11 a.m. Friday, at ton, passed away 6:45 Fisher-Cheney Funeral a.m. Wednesday, June 12, Home, Troy with Pastor 2013, at Covington Care Richard A. Workman offiCenter in Covington. She ciating. Interment will be was born on March 4, in Casstown Cemetery in 1910, in Buffalo, NY. Casstown. Visitation will Stella is survived by her be held one hour prior to brother, Joseph Bodnaruk the service from 10-11 AP PHOTO of Cleveland; and very a.m. Friday at the funeral Ariel Castro stands before a judge during his arraignment Wednesday in Cleveclose friends, Jody Rexrod home. Condolences may land. Castro, 52, is accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland of Bradford and Melissa be left for the family at home for about a decade pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges, including Maynard of Boynton www.fisher-cheneyfunerrape and kidnapping.

Beach, FL. alhome.com.

"Mr. Castro currently counts of aggravated murA death penalty case faces hundreds of years in der related to one act, say- against Castro "would Death notice prison with the current ing he purposely caused raise serious legal quescharges," Weintraub said. the unlawful termination tions about whether a VANWERT — Linda J. Meadows, 66, of VanWert, "It is our hope that we can of one of the pregnancies murder has occurred and passed away Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at VanWert continue to work toward a of one of the women. whether such a death sen- Manor. resolution to avoid having Michelle Knight, now tence complies" with the Adams Funeral Home, Sidney, is in charge of an unnecessary trial 32, has told investigators Supreme Court ruling, ac- arrangements. about aggravated murder Castro punched her in the cording to Richard Dieter, and the death penalty." abdomen and starved her executive director of the The prosecutor's office to force five miscarriages, Washington, D.C.-based will look at the defense re- according to police re- Death Penalty Informamarks but had no imme- ports. tion Center, which opPolicy: Please send obituary notices by e-mail to editorial@dailycall.com or by fax to (937) 773-4225. diate comment, said Joe Ohio enacted a fetal poses capital punishment.

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Frolik, spokesman for homicide law in 1996, Weintraub, the defense Sunday and Tuesday-Friday, and by 4 p.m. on Monday Cuyahoga County Prose- making it illegal to kill or attorney, said he expects a for Tuesday’s online edition. cutor Tim McGinty. injure a viable fetus. That decision from prosecutors Questions: Please call Editor Susan Hartley at The 329-count indict- law and similar ones in 37 on the death penalty (937) 773-2721, ext. 207 if you have questions about ment returned Friday cov- other states have been might hinge on medical obituaries. ered only the period from used mainly to win con- and forensic evidence, August 2002, when the victions in car crashes in such as any fetal tissue first of the women disap- which pregnant women that may have been found a vacuum cord around her peared, to February 2007. died or in cases involving at the home. Investiga- neck.

A statement issued on More charges could be attacks on expectant tions haven't detailed filed. mothers. what evidence was found. behalf of the women said Castro was indicted on In 2008, the U.S. The indictment alleges days like the arraignment 139 counts of rape, 177 Supreme Court banned Castro repeatedly re- "are not easy" and added: counts of kidnapping, the death penalty for strained the women, "We are hopeful for a just * Your 1 choice for complete Home Medical Equipment seven counts of gross sex- child rapes in which no sometimes chaining them and prompt resolution. ual imposition, three death occurred, spelling to a pole in a basement, to We have great faith in the Lift Chairs counts of felonious assault out that a killing is the a bedroom heater or in- prosecutor's office and the 1990 W. Stanfield, Troy, OH and one count of posses- only crime eligible for the side a van. It says one of court."

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LOCAL Fundraiser to benefit Sidney child PIQUA DAILY CALL • WWW.DAILYCALL.COM

PIQUA — Gover Harley-Davidson will be the site of a fundraiser set for Saturday and sponsored by Cruizers for Christ, a not-for-profit, non-denominational organization seeking to help a family in need. The car show and all of the proceeds benefit four-yearold, Aiden Myers of Sidney, who was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex, a genetic disorder caused by a gene mutation that causes tumors to form in various organs.

In addition to the car show, additional fundraising efforts include a craft sale, bake sale, drivers’ pot and a silent auction. There will be an autographed Tshirt from the Counting Cars crew and an autographed picture from the staff at Paul Jr. Designs as part of the silent auction.

One hundred percent of the profit will go to the Myers family. Registration for the car show is $10 and starts at 10:00 a.m. The car show runs from 12-5 p.m. and there will also be games for kids. For more

information about the car show, call Rose Ann at 937-492-3203 or Julie at 937-638-9162.

While the community, families and friends join together to fundraise for Aiden, Gover HarleyDavidson will be celebrating the men in our life over Father’s Day weekend, but especially those Big Boys that like Big Toys from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The public can experience all of the toys that boys (and girls) love.

Dave Arbogast will have toy haulers and boats on

port specialist speaking on Hospital Trains and then David Burns a board member of All Aboard Ohio speaking at 2 p.m. on the progress the passenger rail association is making to bring daily train service to Cincinnati.

There will be telegraph school and communication between the tower and the depot provided by Jim Gumbert and Mark Ward. There also will be a small garden train ride for the children and also a play area with Thomas

the Train.

Children also will have a chance for to participate in a coal shoveling contest with artificial coal so they won’t go home covered in cinders and soot. Train vendor Jim Jaihnen selling O-gauge and 0-27 gauge items and Plasticville Structures and Harry Noble of Xenia selling his book and O-Track cleaners will be available.

There will be a cake auction at 3 p.m. with train-decorated cakes, if you want to make one it needs to be covered and at

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the museum by 9:30 a.m. for display. Also, there will be a raffle of N-scale, HoScale and O-Scale box cars.

Admission for the event is $5. Children will get in free with a paying adult.

Members of course are admitted at no charge. Also Saturday, will be the Bradford Rummage Sale and hotdogs and beverages for purchase will be provided by Joanna Pittenger. All proceeds from the day’s activities go toward the operation of the museum.

In Brief God’s Table lunch to be served Saturday

your own poles. There will be prizes for all children who participate, along with children’s games and free hotPIQUA — God’s Table, a commu- dogs and refreshments for the kids. nity-wide free lunch, will be served For more information, contact the from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Piqua Fish and Game at 773-9549.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 325 W. Ash St., Piqua.

The lunch will be ham, variety of VFW Ladies Auxiliary salads, pineapple and dessert. The to host Father’s Day public is welcome to attend.

breakfast

Father’s Day Fishing Derby on Sunday PIQUA — The annual Father’s Day Fishing Derby will be held Sunday at the Piqua Fish and Game, located at 9344 North Spiker Rd., Piqua. Children ages 1 to 16 are eligible to compete in the derby. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and will end at 10:45 a.m. The derby starts at 11 a.m. Bait will be provided, bring

PIQUA — The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 4874, Piqua (N. County Road 25-A) will be sponsoring a Father’s Day Breakfast at 8-11 a.m.

Sunday. Fathers will receive 50 percent off breakfast prices. Come and enjoy Father’s Day with us.

Park district to hold dog social

County Park District will have its monthly “Dog Olympics” Dog Social from 1-3 p.m. June 16 at Stillwater Prairie Reserve, 9750 State Route 185 in Covington.

If your dog is nice and plays well with others, bring them to the park to take part in the “Dog Olympics.”

Compete in popular dog games such as water trials, high jump, broad jump, catch the ball and many more.

Your dog could even take home the gold medal.

Remember owners are responsible for their dogs. Be prepared to clean up after your pet. Meet at the entrance next to the parking lot.

Register for the program online at miamicountyparks, e-mail to register@miamicountyparks.com or call 335-6273, ext. 104.

COVINGTON — The Miami

Illness stalls Mumford & Sons ‘Gentlemen’ tour TROY — Mumford & Sons band member Ted Dwane underwent emergency surgery Tuesday for a blood clot found in his brain, according to the band’s official website. The band had to cancel three U.S. concerts, including Tuesday’s performance in Dallas, Texas, yesterday’s concert in Woodland, Texas and today’s performance in New Orleans as part of its Summer Stampede tour.

According to Troy Main Street’s executive director Karin Manovich, the cancellation of the shows has not affected the “Gentlemen of the Road” tour scheduled for Troy on Aug. 30 and 31.

“We haven’t heard any official news,” Manovich said Tuesday. Manovich said members of the tour’s production team, Jam Productions, were in Troy Tuesday continuing to prepare for the stopover on Labor Day as planned.

Mumford & Sons’ website stated: “We have no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances along this current tour.”

Regarding Dwane’s health, the website stated: “Our friend and bandmate Ted has been feeling unwell for a few days, and yesterday he was taken to a hospital to receive emergency treatment. The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation.

Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery.

“Sadly we have to post-

pone three upcoming headline shows planned for this week in Dallas on Tuesday 6/11, Woodlands on Wednesday 6/12, and New Orleans on Thursday 6/13. All dates will be rescheduled and will be announced as soon as we can; all tickets for this week’s events will be honoured at their rescheduled dates. We have no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances along this current tour.”

Manovich said Troy’s “Gentlemen of the Road” tour is “full speed ahead.”

“We didn’t have any official information on its impact here,” Manovich said. “Everything is in the planning stage.”

At Monday’s board of education meeting, the Troy City Schools’ Board of Education also adopted a resolution regarding the district’s policy for alcohol use on school property.

The resolution reads: “That notwithstanding the foregoing policy, this board may by resolution make an exception to the prohibition of the passion or use of alcoholic beverages on school property upon the written request from the sponsor of a community event, which meets all the of the following criteria: A. The community event for which the waiver is sought will provide a significant economic benefit to the Troy community. B. A written proposal is presented to the board which addresses in detail the means and manner in which the possession and use of alcoholic beverages on school property

will be monitored and controlled. C. The sponsor of the event provides assurances which are satisfactory to this board that allowing the possession and use of alcoholic beverages on school property will not adversely affect the overall educational mission of this school district.”

The school district purchased Troy Memorial Stadium from the city of Troy three years ago, and will be the site for the Labor Day weekend music festival featuring Mumford & Sons on Aug. 30 and 31. It is the first time in the history of the site for alcohol sales on the property.

The event is being hosted by the Troy Main Street organization.

Board member Joyce Reives asked if there were any other significant events on the horizon which would need to use the resolution.

Superintendent Eric Herman said if there were another event to be held which would seek permission to sell alcohol, it would most likely be for the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center.

“We’ll be able to review each proposal on a case-by-case basis,” Herman said.

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site and Koenig Equipment will be on site with some John Deere. Several quarter-midgets and a Chance of thunderstorms as a cold front heads our sprint car, as well as mon- way. Those storms could produce widespread damagster truck rides will be of- ing winds and large hail. by Mclain fered High: 77 Low: 70.

Motorsports. The event also will feature military equipment from the 1487th Iron Camels and much more.

SATURDAY FRIDAY Gover Harley-Davidson is located a half-mile east on Ash Street, Route 36 in Piqua. For more informaMOSTLY PARTLY tion about Saturday’s SUNNY CLOUDY events, call 773-8733 or email dani@goverhd.com.

Railroad Festival chugs into Bradford BRADFORD — The 2013 Bradford Railroad Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Bradford Railroad Museum.

The BF Tower will be open during these hours for tours as well as the museum. Lectures start at 11 am with Jim Palsgrove a former railroader and Korean War Veteran.

Bill Haines a former BF Tower Operator and photographer and historian will follow at 12 p.m., Murdock Moore at 1 p.m., a former Air Force Trans-

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Johnston Farm to host Family Day PIQUA — On Saturday, Johnston Farm will be offering Family Day, opening two new exhibits and hosting two decendants of Julia Johnston Patterson.

The first exhibit, opening at 12 p.m., are objects from the Pickawillany Village site that was excavated during field schools conducted by Hocking College students and Ohio Historical Society archaeologists.

This exhibit also will include an artifact on loan from the family that had the former Lockington frontier museum.

Then, visitors can venture to the canal for a mule-drawn canal ride,

before going to the second exhibit opening at 1:30 p.m.

The second exhibit highlights the Civil War experiences of the grandsons of John Johnston.

These were made available by the Patterson Memorial Center in Dayton, Wright State University and through funding from the Ohio Humanities Council.

The Family Day event also includes games and other activities that would have been a part of the Johnston Family lives.

Also, fathers and grandfathers will admitted free, when accompanying their families.

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Pryor should thank Bloomberg n the unlikely event that Mark Pryor wins re-election as Arkansas’ senior U.S. senator in 2014, he should send New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg a thank-you gift.

Something like a sugary 44-ounce Big Gulp or a case of Dr. Pepper. Offering His Honor a 30.06 deer rifle would be churlish.

Unlike liberal groups who scared up a primary opponent for former Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln in 2010, predictably helping her lose to a cookie-cutter GOP conservative, Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns has given the beleaguered Democrat, well, a target to shoot at.

Angered with Pryor’s Senate vote against broadening background checks for gun sales — one of four Democrats to do so — Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been running TV ads in Arkansas citing the murder of state Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney by a deranged gunman in 2008.

Narrated by former Democratic Party official Angela Bradford-Barnes, the commercial expresses the disgust of just about every Arkansas Democrat I know with what they saw as Pryor’s cowardly vote. “The Caspar Milquetoast of Arkansas politics,” one acerbic columnist dubbed him.

“When my dear innocent friend was shot to death, I didn’t blame guns,” Bradford-Barnes says,“I blamed a system that makes it so terribly easy for criminals or the dangerous mentally ill to buy guns.”

Pryor has said that he found the politicizing of his friend’s murder “disgusting.” Maybe he did.

Tactically speaking, the problem with the Bloomberg ad is that just about every Democrat I know lives either in HillGENE LYONS crest, basically the Columnist Upper West Side of Lit-

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Take Obama at his word?

— which one and when? do to defend the press freen a somersault of a speech, doms they claim to value? ...

President Barack Obama, Thwarting government atsounding like he did when tacks like these ... requires a he first ran for the Oval Office, real adversary posture, rerecently declared that “a free nouncing their subservience to press is also essential for our government interests and fear democracy.That’s who we are” of alienating official sources. (“Obama, in Nod to Press, Or“It remains to be seen ders Review of Inquiries,” The NAT HENTOFF whether any of that will hapNew York Times, May 24). pen” (“Will journalists take He subsequently ordered a Columnist any steps to defend against atreview of his Justice Department’s subpoena of the phone records of As- tacks on press freedom?” Greenwald, sociated Press reporters and editors during guardian.co.uk, May 29).

Greenwald goes on to question the future an investigation of national security leaks.

This, of course, affects any of us who care of a fundamentally free press:“If journalists aren’t willing to defend these freedoms, who about a free press.

“I am troubled by the possibility that leak do they think will?”

He then explains how the Founders made investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government account- sure that our freedoms of belief and action would survive in an increasingly heterogeable,” the president orated.

It seems there are at least two Obamas -- neous society: “The design of theAmerican founding was one who is wary of press disclosures of any leaks from the White House, and another that abuses of power would be prevented only by various factions fighting for their who supports freedom of the press.

Even those Americans who still trust the prerogatives and against encroachment by president must have been jarred by his other power factions.

“When it comes to attacks on press freechoice of who would conduct this review:Attorney General Eric Holder, who oversaw doms, it’s the responsibility of journalists, the Justice Department’s undermining of first and foremost, to fight against those attacks.” press freedom.

According to The Huffington Post’s media The New York Post’s Michael A.Walsh reminds us of what my First Amendment reporter Michael Calderone, whom Greenhero, Justice Hugo Black, once said: “Only a wald cites in his commentary, some journalfree and unrestrained press can effectively ists don’t appear to be putting up much of a expose deception in government” (“The fight: “Several veteran reporters told The ‘Criminal’ Press,” Walsh, New York Post, Huffington Post that it’s unlikely the press corps would band together in any collective May 23).

Even more jarring to continuing admirers action, such as walking out of the briefing of Obama, as well as his rising number of room, to protest the administration’s treatunbelievers, were the ground rules laid out ment of the press” (“White House Reporters for those representatives of major news out- Unlikely to Stage Press Freedom Protest,” lets who were invited to privately discuss the Calderone, huffingtonpost.com, May 22).

“It would be unprofessional,” CBS News proceedings with the attorney general.

Dig this:The meetings, concerning the ad- radio correspondent Mark Knoller told ministration’s government violations of the Calderone.

As Ann Compton, the ABC News White FirstAmendment,were to be“off the record.”

In other words, you citizens are not enti- House correspondent, explained: “White tled to know what was said. How could a House briefings are not advocacy sessions,” journalist, a member of what constitutional- later adding that the “strongest voices in ists used to call “The Fourth Estate,” attend journalism for protecting press freedoms resuch a gathering, only to be utterly silenced? main the collective Washington bureau Refusing to attend the meetings out of chiefs” and “independent reporters’ organiself-respect were the AP (of course), CBS zations, which do lobby for such issues as News, Fox News, CNN,The New York Times shield laws (protections for journalists who refuse to identify confidential sources withand the New York Post.

So what are some of the news organiza- out firm due process before a court of law).”

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of tions that went, thereby agreeing to classify their reactions in accordance with the very the Press, whose Steering Committee I belong to, works to do just that, representing government they were investigating?

The Washington Post, The Wall Street 51 media organizations in this crisis. But the Journal and ABC News, which, in an ironic federal shield law compromise it supports bow to the First Amendment, “would press still provides openings for any administrafor the meeting to be held on the record” tion to do what Obama and Holder have tri(“Fox News, other media outlets refuse off- umphantly done in controlling the press.

We need a shield law with teeth! record meeting with Holder,” foxnews.com, Reporters and editors also must organize May 31).

But what if Attorney General Holder to use the First Amendment for what the threw that demand back inABC News’ face? Framers intended: to prevent the governWould its journalists still agree to gag their ment from protecting itself at the expense of First Amendment rights at the investiga- keeping We The People ignorant and powerless. The United States is supposed to act in tion?

What all of this comes down to, as it may our name.

We freed ourselves from King George III, affect future administrations as well as generations of Americans, has been precisely and we must insist on a free press so that we underlined by Glenn Greenwald, an incisive can be free again. And we must make sure journalist who would have given James candidates for every office agree to protect Madison hope for the First Amendment’s fu- and represent the right that constitutes the very essence of who we are as Americans: ture.

Writing about how “media outlets and freedom of speech. journalists have finally awakened to the seNat Hentoff is a nationally renowned aurious threat posed by the Obama administration to press freedoms, whistle blowing thority on the First Amendment and the Bill and transparency,” the question now, Green- of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the wald demands, is: “What, if anything, will they (journalists) Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

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tle Rock, or in the college town of Fayetteville -- completely atypical of Arkansas voters generally. They can be as disgusted as they like. But they have exactly nowhere to go.

Blanche Lincoln carried Hillcrest handily against Rep. John Boozman in 2010. She lost statewide 58 to 37 percent.

President Obama also carried Pulaski County (Little Rock) in 2010; Mitt Romney won Arkansas by 24 points.

So you can see Pryor’s dilemma. Meanwhile, the billionaire-coddling Club for Growth (or “Club for Greed,” as former Gov. Mike Huckabee once called it) has also been hammering the Arkansas Democrat with TV ads blaming him for President Obama’s supposedly runaway spending.

But more about that to come.

Do I think Pryor’s vote against background checks was cowardly? I did then. However, Democrats like The Daily Beast’s Mike Tomasky, who cite polls showing strong majorities of Arkansans favoring universal background checks, may be overlooking the difference between a mild preference expressed to a telephone pollster and a conviction strong enough to hold against a barrage of paranoid NRA propaganda.

Can a majority of Arkansans be convinced that bogeyman Obama is coming to confiscate their guns? I wouldn’t bet against it in Arkansas or any state it borders upon — Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee or even Missouri.

Simply put, fear and loathing of President Obama has reached cult-like proportions across the region, and there’s little Mark Pryor can do about it before November 2014.

Almost everywhere you go — dentists’ offices, auto dealers, fitness centers, airports — the waiting room TV is tuned to Fox News, and people are swallowing it whole.

So more than a year early, Sen. Pryor has come out swinging against his dream opponent: Michael Bloomberg.

Even though no Republican rival has yet declared, he’s begun airing a 30-second TV spot complaining that, “The mayor of New York City is running ads against me because I opposed President Obama’s gun control legislation.”

The commercial ends with the Senator striking a belligerent pose: “No one from New York or Washington tells me what to do,” he growls. “I listen to Arkansas.”

Take that, limousine liberals! As much as the vote, it was the impression of weakness that may have been Pryor’s greatest liability. Months of unanswered Club for Growth ads also didn’t help.

Now the question is whether he can carry the fight to his presumptive, albeit undeclared, GOP opponent Rep. Tom Cotton, the favored candidate of the aforementioned Club for Greed. Also of GOP kingmaker Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, whose greatest hits as a political prognosticator include the Iraq War and Sarah Palin.

The hand-picked selection, that is, of another passel of New York/Washington elitists. A superficially appealing candidate with impressive credentials, Cotton also appears to be a stone right-wing zealot who not only voted against federal disaster aid for storm victims, but recently proposed a law punishing relatives of lawbreakers — parents, siblings, aunts and uncles — for their transgressions. In a word, a crackpot.

Basically, Pryor’s got to portray himself as an advocate of the Arkansas Way — a moderate Democrat like his father, former Sen. David Pryor; like Dale Bumpers, and Bill ClinWhere ton -- a just-folks pragmatist beset by condescending out- Public officials can be contacted through siders, and one who’ll fight for you as hard as he fights for the following addresses and telephone himself. numbers: A long shot? Definitely. But it’s been done before.

■ Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, ward5comm@piquaoh.org, Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National 773-7929 (home) Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of ■ John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, the President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). You can email ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 773-2778 Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com. (home) ■ William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner,

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To the Editor, Every consumer of eggs should ask themselves, “am I really that hungry?” for over 90 percent of eggs in the U.S. come from hens confined in small, crowded, metal cages.

There is not enough room to spread their wings and no nesting materials to lie on.

Not only is the stressful environment harmful for the chickens, but eggs produced under these conditions have been shown to contain higher amounts of cholesterol. In a spirit of cooperation the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg last year Producers crafted a bipartisan bill, H.R. 1731 known as the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013.

The bill will create more room and provide for more comfortable nesting for the hens, among other things. These improvements, which will be phased in, will also create a more level playing field for farmers by making the bill’s provisions consistent throughout the 50 states.

As a Christian I find the current treatment and housing of these hens unacceptable and inconsistent with the principles of Christian stewardship.

Rep. Boehner has yet to issue a statement regarding the bill — so here is a chance to put our faith to work by urging Rep. Boehner to support this positive effort.

— Larry Brown Tipp City

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sign of elder Review: ‘Reasons to Be Learn abuse to prevent it Happy’ is intense, funny from happening DEAR ABBY: Thank you for all you do to keep our seniors safe. Saturday, June 15, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. On that day, communities in the USA and all over the world will sponsor events to highlight the growing tragic issue of elder abuse.

Your readers -- young and old -- should know that the U.S. Administration on Aging estimates that as many as 5 million seniors are abused or neglected each year in the United States.

Elder abuse can be physical, emotional, financial and sexual. It also includes people who are neglected. Elders who are abused are twice as likely to be hospitalized, four times as likely to go into nursing homes and three times as likely to die.

Elder abuse can be prevented if everyone would learn the warning signs and report it to Adult Protective Services or the police if they suspect it is happening.

O&M CO., JOAN MARCUS/AP PHOTO — MARY TWOMEY, This theater image released by O&M Co. shows Josh Hamilton, left, and Jenna Fischer in a scene from Neil MSW, UNIVERSITY OF LaBute’s new play, “Reasons to Be Happy,” currently performing off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre CALIFORNIA-IRVINE in New York.

BY JENNIFER FARRAR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actual happiness isn’t especially prevalent in Neil Labute’s new play, “Reasons To Be Happy.” But then, LaBute can send his plots in surprising directions, so be prepared for an avalanche of emotions to tumble out onstage.

LaBute directs his intense, funny and touching play, which is a sequel to his favorably reviewed 2008 play “reasons to be pretty.” That look at an unraveling relationship also had a brief run on Broadway, receiving three 2009 Tony Award nominations, including best play.

In “Reasons To Be Happy,” which opened Tuesday night at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the prolific writer behind “Fat Pig,” ‘’In the Company of Men” and “Your Friends & Neighbors,” explores the tangled relationships and emotions between the same four characters from “reasons to be pretty.” This time there’s a new cast, and the characters are paired in different ways.

So after the opening scene that begins in mid-fight between Greg and Steph, it’s back to the factory with the abrasively interruptive

foghorn where all four formerly worked. Greg (Josh Hamilton) and his ex-girlfriend Steph (Jenna Fischer) have an explosive reunion three years after their contentious breakup. Seems Greg, now a schoolteacher has been secretly dating Steph’s close friend Carly (Leslie Bibb) and although Steph is married to somebody else now, she’s furious with both her friend and her ex.

Fischer is excellent at delivering Steph’s profanity-laden tirades and then showing her character’s vulnerability and hopefulness. Hamilton’s subtle performance and air of nebbishy decency render Greg immediately sympathetic.

Although “reasons to be pretty” was about Greg learning to face the consequences of his own actions, he seems to have slid back into fencesitting again, becoming hopelessly indecisive as he and Steph realize they still have feelings for one another.

Bibb gives a wrenching, mature performance as single-mom Carly, who unexpectedly finds herself teetering on the losing end of yet another relationship. Meanwhile, Carly’s volatile, inarticulate ex-husband Kent (a comically overheated,

very effective Fred Weller) is struggling with his temper and emotions following his failed marriage.

Kent’s budding anger management skills are sorely tested when he finally discovers that Greg is dating his ex-wife. Needless to say, the F-bomb is hurled dozens of times throughout the dialogue, most often by Kent. Weller also gets the maximum humor out of Kent’s oblivion to logic, with his earnest delivery of lines like, “even if you do something stupid... you’re still doing something.”

In various scenes, Greg asks each of the others if they’re happy, a subject nobody is certain about except Carly. She believes she’s finally happy but the audience already knows she’s bound for disappointment. Eventually Greg tells Steph in bewilderment, “I want us all to be happy but I don’t even know what that word means anymore!”

In following up with the lives of his earlier characters, LaBute presents another compassionate examination of the ways people struggle to connect and try to find happiness.

Possibly even together. Or not.

Maybe the next chapter can be called “Reasons to Be Confused.”

Snark over pregnant and dating

BY LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They aren’t looking for sex and they’re not in need of baby daddies. It’s those two things that landed the single ladies of “Pregnant & Dating” on reality TV to begin with.

Five in all, the growing and glowing women in WE tv’s latest lineup play minigolf, lace up bowling shoes and enjoy romantic non-alcoholic outings, but the mere idea of dating while pregnant has earned them a bit of snark.

“I see (at)WEtv has a show called (hash)pregnan-

tanddating. You straight people really are something else,” tweeted gay comedian Dave Rubin.

While some of the on-air dates know about the pregnancies, most of the men have at least one awkward deer-in-the-camera-lights moment when the subject comes up. And then there’s the subject of sex, which the show’s moms-to-be are happy to mull on air. It’s also the subject that generated a gross-out factor among some on social media.

But is dating while pregnant really all that wacky?

In a recent Associated Press-WE tv poll, 23 percent

of men said they would consider starting a relationship with a woman who is pregnant. Among online dating options are a few sites promoting pregnant sex, hookups and even one offering “pregnant naughty chat.”

Dating wasn’t about sex for Melissa Meister, a modelturned-stylist in Los Angeles. Divorced, she attempted to have a baby on her own through a donor when she and her boyfriend of three years began trying together, and voila!

“About two months into my pregnancy I noticed that he posted he was in a rela-

tionship with somebody else on Facebook,” she said in a recent telephone interview.

Dating, she said, was “about getting to know people and really finding out who they are, and for the first time in my life being confident to know my boundaries and what it is that that person would need to deliver in order to be in my life.”

Among her dates was an aspiring actor, Eric Joseph.

The two were introduced by a mutual friend and Joseph knew she was pregnant. He was new to Hollywood at the time of filming several months ago.

■ Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

A signal achievement

Over time, the suitpreference signal has taken on a much wider range of applications than it had in its original form, which in essence was to tell partner what suit to return after he had trumped a trick. Nowadays, the suit-preference signal can be used in a host of situations that do

not necessarily involve a ruff by either defender.

Consider this case from a team contest. Both North-South pairs reached four spades as shown, and both Wests led the heart ace.

At the first table, East played the heart four on the first trick, presumably to discourage another heart lead. West then tried the A-9 of diamonds, covered by the ten and jack.

East had no way of knowing who had the missing four of diamonds (or that West had a club void), so he tried to cash the diamond king. South ruffed, drew trumps and claimed.

At the other table, East got the defense started in

the right direction by playing the ten of hearts on West’s ace at trick one.

Since East had supported hearts during the bidding, the ten could hardly be a singleton or top of a doubleton, so West construed it as suit-preference indicating the desire for a diamond lead. West therefore placed East with the diamond king.

West did not mechanically play the A-9 of diamonds, however. He appreciated that his partner couldn’t know he was void in clubs, nor would East be able to tell whether West had a third diamond. So at trick two, West led the four of diamonds!

Declarer played dummy’s ten, and when the jack held the trick, East stopped to ask himself why West had underled the diamond ace.

There could be only one answer: West had a club void and did not want to run the risk of East misreading the diamond position. So East returned a club, ruffed by West, and a second diamond to the king allowed West to ruff another club for down two and an 11-IMP pickup on the deal.

Tomorrow: quiz.

Bidding

ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

Advice NEW JERSEY DEAR “MARILYN”: You could be introduced as “Dad’s widow,” “my late father’s wife” or simply by your name.

DEAR ABBY: Some friends are in the process of adopting two children internationally. Early on, they had a garage sale with the proceeds going toward the adoption. I was excited for them and wanted to help. However, this was soon followed by more requests -- for yard sale donations, two more garage sales, the “opportunity” to buy expensive coffee online, a fundraising dinner, and then a solicitation for me and others to provide a “virtual shower” of plane ticket money.

Each time I am notified about another fundraiser, I feel less and less charitable. I have never been asked for money for the same thing in so many different ways in such a short time. While I’m thrilled with their desire to adopt, I am increasingly disgusted and put off by their continued pleas for money. Am I wrong to be so upset about this?

— A LITTLE TICKED OFF

DEAR READERS: I was dismayed to learn that 90 percent of elder abuse happens at the hands of a family member or a caregiver. The descriptions of the kinds of treatment these elderly adults experience are frightening, and frankly, not suitable for readers of all ages. That is why I am urging readers to get more information on this important subject by visiting www.ncea.aoa.gov.

We can all stop this scourge if we know what to look for and are willing to speak up when we see DEAR TICKED the warning signs. There, but for the grace of God, go OFF: It appears your “friends” are taking adyou and I. vantage of your generosDEAR ABBY: I was ity. It will continue for married to a wonderful only as long as you permit man, “Ted,” who was 20 it. Because the requests years my senior. In social for help are continuous, situations his adult chil- are you absolutely sure dren would introduce me this couple is really in the as “Dad’s wife” or “Ted’s middle of the adoption wife.” Sadly, my husband process and not using the passed away, and his chil- money for some other purdren no longer know how pose? Before donating anything else, you should to refer to me socially.

I was recently asked by find out.

Ted’s children how I Dear Abby is written by wished to be introduced, Abigail Van Buren, also but I’m not sure. I don’t think “stepmother” is ap- known as Jeanne Phillips, propriate because I’m only and was founded by her four to seven years older mother, Pauline Phillips. than they are. Do you Write Dear Abby at or have any ideas as to what www.DearAbby.com P.O. Box 69440, Los Angemight be appropriate?

— “MARILYN” IN les, CA 90069.

Soledad joins Real Sports NEW YORK (AP) — Soledad O’Brien is joining her former “Today” show colleague Bryant Gumbel at HBO’s “Real Sports.”

HBO said Wednesday that O’Brien will be a reporter on the monthly magazine show. Her first story, due later this month, is about war veterans who use martial arts to help them cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

O’Brien most recently was a morning show host on CNN, but the news network has given the program an overhaul that will debut next week.

HBO also agreed to a deal with O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group.

O’Brien played college rugby, but her experience covering sports is limited.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

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.

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 Sun-

day 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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BY DIAA HADID Associated Press BARTAA, Israel (AP) — When Israeli Arabs search for a spouse, they don’t just worry about looks, job prospects or future in-laws.

They must think about whether their partner will be allowed to live with them.

The problem is — many Israeli Arabs, who are ethnically Palestinians, want to marry Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza Strip.

But relations between the Palestinian territories and Israel are testy at best and violent at worst, resulting in limits that even love can’t overcome.

For the past decade, Israel has largely restricted Palestinians from joining their spouses inside the Jewish state,citing security concerns like Palestinian militants using entry permits gained through marriage to carry out attacks in Israel.

Critics charge that the restrictions are discriminatory and that their real aim to try to safeguard Israel’s Jewish majority.

For ordinary people, the restrictions have undone countless romances, created stressful living arrangements and frayed family ties.

About 1.6 million Arabs are Israeli citizens.About 4.4 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and Gaza.

They are linked by ethnic and family ties, but the lines between Israel and Palestinian areas divide them.

There are no official statistics, but thousands of Palestinians are believed to be living illegally with their Israeli Arab spouses inside Israel, threatened with deportation.

Israel’s Interior Ministry did not say how many have actually been deported, if any, and no one volunteered stories of relatives or acquaintances who had been arrested or expelled.

Still, the perceived threat hanging over them compels the Palestinians in Israel to stay near their homes.

“I’m living on my nerves,” said Sahar Kabaha, a 33year-old Palestinian woman.

After her Israeli Arab husband died last year, she was denied permission to remain in the country, even though her four children are Israeli

citizens. She now lives without legal papers in the Israeli Arab town of Bartaa. She does not take her children to a doctor,fearing arrest if she’s discovered.

“All I want is permission to be with my children. They don’t have anybody else to care for them,” Kabaha said.

Critics argue the restrictions discriminate against Israel’s Arab citizens. Israeli Jews marrying fellow Jews living in West Bank settlements do not face such restrictions. Critics say it also discriminates against Palestinians, since foreign spouses of Israelis are eligible for citizenship.

The difference is the security aspect.

Israel “sees Palestinians and Arabs as forming a threat to Israel’s security without an individual check, or any ability to prove his or her innocence,” said attorney Sawsan Zaher of Adalah, a legal organization fighting the restrictions.

According to official Israeli figures, some 130,000 Palestinians acquired Israeli citizenship in the decade before the restrictions took effect.Of them, five were imprisoned for security-related crimes.

In 2002, a Palestinian spouse of an Israeli killed 15 people in a suicide bombing in the Israeli city of Haifa. In another case, a Palestinian spouse drove a suicide bomber who killed seven people riding a Jerusalem bus.

Israel’s Interior Ministry introduced the restrictions in 2003, saying they were a temporary measure to combat the violent Palestinian uprising against Israel in progress at the time.

Israel’s parliament has renewed the restrictions each year since. The Supreme Court upheld the measure in 2006 and 2012.

The restrictions have been eased in stages, allowing Palestinian men over 35 and women over 25 from the West Bank to apply for temporary permits to live and work in Israel. Even so, they may not drive, access health care, welfare or apply for citizenship.

Palestinians from Gaza, ruled by the Islamic militant Hamas, are banned from living in Israel.

The Interior Ministry said

8,000 Palestinian spouses hold temporary permits. It wouldn’t say how many others applied or estimate how many Palestinian spouses are living illegally in Israel.

Those challenging the restrictions say violence was quelled years ago, and the number of Palestinian spouses involved in militant attacks is small. They claim the real aim is preventing Palestinians from obtaining citizenship in a country obsessed with maintaining its Jewish majority.

“The security argument and the term ‘temporary measure’ are merely a deception aimed at ‘koshering’ discriminatory legislation for demographic reasons,” wrote Amos Shocken, publisher of liberal Israeli daily Haaretz, in an April editorial.

Government spokesman Mark Regev insisted security was the only reason. “It’s too dangerous,” he said. “The idea that you could have enemy nationals having blanket residency is a bridge too far.”

Few Israeli Arabs want to join spouses in the Palestinian areas, where unemployment is rampant. Israeli law bars its citizens, including Arabs, from living there.

Israeli Arabs continue to bring their spouses home,because many have family relations with Palestinians that predate the Jewish state, particularly in towns like Bartaa that straddle the line with the West Bank.

Even so, such marriages are dropping off because of the difficulties involved, residents said.

A Jerusalem taxi driver meets his Palestinian wife from Gaza in neighboring Egypt every few weeks. The couple, both previously divorced, met when the woman came to Jerusalem with an Israeli permit for medical care for her daughter in 2010.They married before she returned to Gaza.

Nightly Skype sessions bind their long-distance marriage.

An Israeli Arab woman lives illegally in the West Bank city of Ramallah with her 32-year-old husband and daughter.Her husband is too young to apply for a permit to live in Israel, and she risks losing social welfare benefits if Israel discovers she’s living in a Palestinian city.

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Church, 517 McKinley Ave., Piqua, will have vacation Bible school from 6:30Kids event 8:15 p.m. June 24-28, for ages 5-12 yrs. old. The theme is Tell It on the MounKingdom Rock tain, we’ll learn about our mighty God PIQUA — A summer kids’ event and Jesus our Savior through five called Kingdom Rock will be hosted at mountaintop Bible stories, meet new the Caserta Center next to St. Boniface friends, do fun activities, sing great Church, 218 South Downing St., Piqua, songs, make crafts, play games, eat from July 8-12. At Kingdom Rock, kids snacks, and more. Bring a can good item participate in memorable Bible-learning for the Bethany Center. Contact 778activities, sing catchy songs, play team1430, 615-9769, or 335-1768. work-building games, make and dig into yummy treats, experience epic Bible adventures, collect Bible Memory Buddies Three Blitz events slated to remind them to stand strong, and test TIPP CITY — This summer, Gingout Sciency-Fun Gizmos they’ll take hamsburg Church hosts three Blitz home and play with all summer long.

Plus, kids will learn to look for evi- events for kids in grade 3-5 from 6:30-9 dence of God all around them through p.m. Friday, June 21, July 19 and Ausomething called God Sightings. Each gust 16 in the Tipp City Campus Ave., day concludes with Fanfare Finale — a 6759 S. County Road 25-A. Kids play incelebration that gets everyone involved side on giant inflatables, dance, play in living what they’ve learned. Family basketball and hang out with friends in members and friends are encouraged to a safe, chaperoned space. Cost is $5 per join in daily for this special time at 8 child and includes snacks and all activp.m. ities. Candy is available for separate Kingdom Rock is for kids from purchase, and a parent or responsible Kindergarten through Grade 5 and will adult must check in and pick up each run from 6:-8:30 p.m. each day. Cost is child. For more information, please con$5 per child, with a maximum of $20 per tact Emilee Hermon, Children’s Minfamily. istry Coordinator at (937) 667-1069 ext.

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SIDNEY — Hardin United Methodist Church will be holding vacation Bible school from 6:30-8 p.m. June 24-28. Register now by calling the church at 937492-4595 or by e-mailing the church at HardinUMC@centurylink.net. The Celebrate the 4th with us Church is located at 6073 Hardin WaENGLEWOOD — Enjoy an all free pakoneta Rd., event at the Englewood Kleptz YMCA. Sidney. The theme this year is “Go tell Fun activities for kids, including free it on the Mountain.” face painting. Great music featuring contemporary Christian band … More Hay Day at St. John’s Than A show. Free hotdogs, popcorn and drinks. Bring a blanket and/or lawn Lutheran chairs for your family and see the CenPIQUA — Kids will be up their el- tennial Park fireworks at 10 p.m. Fun bows in farmin’ fun with Hay Day at St event for the whole family. The event is John’s Lutheran one-day vacation Bible being sponsored by Stillwater Church. school on Saturday. The VBS will be For more information, contact Marie held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with lunch in- Flora at marie.flora@stillwaterumc.org cluded. The free event is for youth age 3 or (937) 454-9405 ext. 105.

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Bless the bike PIQUA — St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church of Piqua will be hosting a Bike Blessing at 2 p.m. June 23, at Hance Pavillion in Fountain Park located on Forest Avenue in Piqua.

The Rev. Dr. Keith Gebhart will be conducting the nondenominational service followed by the blessing. Special music will be provided by the band Inside Out from Shelby County and St. Paul’s Praise Team Vertical.

The Bike Blessing is open to all riders of bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.

Neighbor-to-neighbor FLETCHER — Fletcher United Methodist Church will hold its Neighbor to Neighbor Community Free Meal on the same date as their Unity Sunday service, June 30. On this Unity Sunday there will be a joint worship service at 9:30 a.m. The meal, which includes ham salad sandwiches, chicken salad sandwiches, and assorted salads/desserts, will be served Sunday evening from 5:30-7 p.m.

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Father’s Day: a well-established tradition Even though Father’s Day is a more recent innovation, it is now celebrated with as much pride and love as Mother’s Day. Of course, there’s nothing really surprising about the significance of this celebration in today’s society, as fathers are playing an increasingly important role within the family in every imaginable way.

day) or Herrentag (gentlemen’s day), during which men leave on a hiking tour, pulling small wagons filled with alcohol and food in order to make merry.

However Father’s Day is celebrated, the principal remains the same: it is a time to thank all dads for the love they show their families.

The idea of celebrating fatherhood originated in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century, before President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father’s Day in 1924.

Then, in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day. Fathers are now honoured on every continent around the world, but the date of the celebrations can differ from one place to another. Some countries, such as Italy, Portugal, and Spain, celebrate the event on March 19, which is also when the Catholic church celebrates St-Joseph’s feast day.

The type of festivities also varies from country to country. Here in North America it is celebrated like a birthday, with Dad often being given little treats by Mum and the children in a private, family setting. In Germany some regions celebrate Männertag (men’s

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Father’s Day will soon be here, and there’s no doubt in anyone’s there’s no need to make anything elaborate, the goal is simply to demmind that this is an occasion well worth celebrating. But how can onstrate that you’re thinking of him. we spoil the man of the household on his very own special day?

Spending a fortune on gifts isn’t necessary either. There’s nothing Here are a few ideas. more heartwarming for a parent than to see the children getting inToday’s fathers certainly deserve to be celebrated. The days volved in the celebration. So a handmade card, craft, or a small, meanare long gone when they left home in the morning to go to ingful gift will always be appreciated. work, returning in the evening to be served an already prepared meal and to sit comfortably in their armchairs while What’s especially important is to spend some quality time together as mums looked after children and dishes. The involvement of a family, participating in various activities that everyone will enjoy. fathers in family life and daily chores has become the norm, A good meal in the evening, with Dad’s favourite foods on the menu, is a great way to end the day. After all, sharing happiness is what will and they take their new role very seriously! make this day a success!

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, June 14, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a fun-loving day once again.

Enjoy good times with others. However, guard against making important decisions. Just keep things light.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Socialize at home and enjoy lighthearted company with family members. Do not make important decisions about your home or family today. Just coast.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is an upbeat, optimistic day. Get out and enjoy yourself. Choose social situations with lighthearted conversation, especially with neighbors and siblings. (It's a poor day to sign contracts or make important decisions.)

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be careful in all financial matters today. Don't spend money on anything other than food. This is not a good day to start work or initiate any kind of money deal.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a fun-loving, social day. You are very much in touch with your creative energy and artistic talents. Find ways to express these; however, don't spend money today except on food.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You will enjoy solitude in beautiful surroundings if you have a chance to find it today, because you will prefer to withdraw from the busyness of everything around you. It's a good day for some peace and quiet.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) A confidential discussion with a female acquaintance could be important for you today. (People are open and frank.)

Nevertheless, don't agree to anything important -- not until tomorrow.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) People notice you today, and they might know information about your financial arrangements or something you share or own with someone else.

This is a poor day to make important decisions. Be cool.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Do what you can to delight in a sense of adventure. You'll love to learn something new, because your imagination is heightened. Talk to people from other countries and different backgrounds.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Others are prepared to help you today; nevertheless, avoid important agreements, and do not promise anything.

Postpone important decisions until tomorrow.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a fun-loving, social day! Get out and have some fun. Enjoy sports and playful activities with children. Romance can flourish.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Although your focus is on home and family now, you are concerned about issues at work today. Don't make important decisions. Just attend to business as usual.

YOU BORN TODAY You are bold and gutsy, sometimes to the point of being rebellious. You value your freedom. You excel at managing intricate or involved situations. You do things your way, and once you know what you want, you will not be dissuaded. Good news! Your year ahead might be one of the most powerful years of your life. Dream big!

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IN BRIEF ■ Basketball A person with knowledge of the details says the Brooklyn Nets’ coaching decision is down to Jason Kidd and Brian Shaw.

Kidd met with general manager Billy King on Monday and Shaw is expected to meet with the team Wednesday. The person tells The Associated Press that the team has just those two candidates.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the coaching search are not being made public by the Nets.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is giving old friend Patrick Ewing another shot to continue his NBA coaching career.

The Bobcats have reached an agreement in principle with the Hall of Famer to become their new associate head coach, said a person familiar with the situation.

The person spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the hire has not yet been made official.

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Belichick not judging Tebow after 1 practice

BY HOWARD ULMAN AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick isn’t ready to give his impressions of Tim Tebow after one practice.

Belichick says he’s not getting into a “minute-byminute” evaluation of his new backup quarterback.

Tebow practiced for the first time with the Patriots on Tuesday after signing with the team. The Patriots are holding their three-day minicamp that runs through Thursday.

Belichick said Wednesday he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to evaluate players on a couple of plays, especially at this time of year. The Patriots plan to start their training camp in late July. He says he’ll wait until he and his staff have more information before evaluating players.

He also says any time a player is on the field for the first day it’s a learning experience.

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In this Dec. 17, 2012, file photo, then-New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow warms up before an NFL football game in Nashville, Tenn. Tim Tebow is joining the New England Patriots, according to a report by ESPN on Monday, June 10, 2013. The high-profile quarterback who spent one season mostly on the sidelines with the New York Jets is expected to attend the start of the Patriots three-day minicamp on Tuesday.

Garcia tries to move on after gaffe with Woods

BY DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Sergio Garcia already has drawn the ire of Tiger Woods.

The Philly crowd could be on him next.

Garcia could feel the wrath — and hear those familiar boos — from fans who have largely embraced Woods following his two-year run in suburban Philadelphia with the AT&T National.

Garcia’s “fried chicken” comment about Woods and other incidents of boorish behavior, notably, a run-in with the gallery at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, might make him as welcome at Merion Golf Cub for this year’s Open as a Dallas Cowboy.

Garcia tried to downplay the possibility of the crowd turning on him once play starts today.

“I feel like I had a great relationship with the crowds for pretty much my whole career,” he said.

“Obviously, a couple incidents here and there, but other than that, I feel very fortunate. I feel like they love me. I love them too. I respect them very much.

Obviously, you can’t please everyone, but I couldn’t be unhappy about the way I feel about the crowds.”

That’s about as awkward an attempt at diffusing the situation as

Eighteen Division I teams will miss the postseason, and another 18 in men’s basketball and nine other college sports will trade practice time for remedial classroom sessions under NCAA academic progress reports released Tuesday.

Poor Academic Progress Rate scores mean postseason bans in the 2013-14 academic year for teams from 10 schools: Alabama State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Florida A&M, Florida International, Grambling State, Mississippi Valley State, New Orleans, Norfolk State, Savannah State and Southern. For Southern, its track team is ineligible for the postseason.

That compares to 15 teams ineligible for the 2012-13 postseason.

Most of the penalized schools have significantly more limited resources than top NCAA programs, including 11 historically black schools. Four of those banned are men’s basketball squads from the 10-team Southwestern Athletic Conference. BY TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Columnist

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Tiger Woods, right, tees off on the eighth hole as Lee Westwood, of England, watches during practice for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Merion Golf Club on Tuesday in Ardmore, Pa. leaving a note in a locker, just like he did with Woods on Tuesday.

Unable to arrange a private meeting, Garcia left Woods a note with hopes of moving on from his racially charged comment and getting back to playing golf.

“I did leave him a note — a handwritten note,” Garcia said. “And hopefully, he can take a look at it. It’s a big week and I understand that it’s difficult to meet up and stuff. So

hopefully, I’ll be able to do it. If not, at least he has read the note and he’s happy with that.”

The note presumably was an apology — Garcia said it would be up to Woods to share the contents.

With Garcia on the defensive, Woods came out as if he were about to apply for Philadelphia’s chamber of commerce.

Area golf fans who hadn’t seen important golf in Philly for decades flocked

to Woods in 2010 and 2011 at Aronimink and made him feel as loved as Julius Erving or Bob Clarke.

With fans shrieking at the sight of Woods during practice, he returned the love at Merion.

“This is one of the great sporting towns in the country,” he said. “They’re passionate about all sports. We had our event at Aronimink and it was unbelievable. It was electric. I think this week will be the same thing.”

Score one for Tiger.

Woods has a more pressing task on his plate than making peace with Garcia. He’s hoping to end his five-year drought without winning a major.

Woods won four majors on courses he had never played — Medinah for the 1999 PGA Championship, Valhalla for the PGA Championship the following year, Bethpage Black in the 2002 U.S. Open and Royal Liverpool for the 2006 British Open.

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■ Tennis HALLE, Germany (AP) — Gael Monfils defeated fifth-seeded Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open.

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QUOTED “It died. It’s been 42 years ago. No snakes live 42 years.”

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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — A handshake on the driving range. A handwritten note left quietly in his locker.

About the only thing Sergio Garcia hasn’t done this week is send Tiger Woods a box of chocolates.

There’s still time, of course, since the two erstwhile rivals don’t tee off until today in the U.S. Open at muddy Merion Golf Club.

On second thought, maybe a nice bouquet of flowers tucked inside one of those wicker baskets they use for flags here might work better.

C’mon. What’s a fellow got to do to prove he’s sorry?

“You know, it’s a big week and I understand that it’s difficult to meet up and stuff,” Garcia said.

Can’t be that hard. Woods himself mentioned he had dinner plans Wednesday night with his niece, Cheyenne. Maybe Garcia could at least get in a few words over dessert.

Or maybe he should just forget the whole thing and do what Woods himself said he had done — consider the matter closed.

Whether Woods actually

meant that will be debated in the locker room as much as what Garcia meant last month when he said he would have Woods over for dinner during the Open and serve him fried chicken every night.

Woods let Fuzzy Zoeller twist in the wind for years after he made a similar comment at the Masters.

No reason to think Garcia will fare any better.

That’s probably why the Spaniard looked like someone had stolen his favorite putter when he met with the media Tuesday , knowing that most of the questions would have nothing to do with historic Merion or Garcia’s chances of finally winning a major in this Open.

He talked about moving forward and being forgiven.

Said he made dumb mistakes but was trying to learn from them. Talked even more about moving forward and being forgiven.

If it weren’t for somebody asking about Ben Hogan and the great 1-iron he hit to the 18th green here at the 1950 U.S. Open, he’d still be talking about moving forward and being forgiven.

“I wish I could go back in

time and take back what I said, but unfortunately, I said it,” Garcia said. “You know, the only thing I can do is show you my respect from here moving forward.”

Unfortunately for Garcia, Woods doesn’t forget easily.

He tends to forgive even less.

After 14 years of chasing after Woods on the golf course, Garcia must chase him just to offer an apology.

He seems to have about as much chance of success as he does winning a major of his own.

“It’s already done,” Woods said, dismissing Garcia as easily as he does most autograph seekers. “We’ve already gone through it all.

It’s time for the U.S. Open and we tee it up in two days.”

On a day when spectators sloshed through the mud to watch practice rounds and players fretted about mud balls deciding this Open, the lingering effects of the Woods-Garcia dustup did do one thing. It drew some of the spotlight from the decision by the U.S. Golf Association to return the Open to Merion, an old and short course that could be easy pickings for the best players in the world.

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Heavy rains over the last few days have softened the course so much that it will change how it plays, and not for the better. The course where Bobby Jones completed his Grand Slam in 1930 and Hogan won 20 years later had to play fast to challenge today’s players, who will now be able to take dead aim at the quaint basket-pins and make lots of birdies.

It’s also the same course where Lee Trevino threw a rubber snake at Jack Nicklaus before their 1971 playoff, so there is some history of player confrontations, even if that one was in jest.

Asked Tuesday what happened to the snake, Trevino said: “It died. It’s been 42 years ago. No snakes live 42 years.”

Garcia wants desperately for this to die, too, before his sponsors desert him and his game does the same. This had shaped up as a promising year for Garcia to rebound from several years of poor play until he imploded while battling Woods for the title at The Players Championship a month ago.

Garcia implied in a TV interview that Woods made the crowd cheer during his

backswing, and later upped the ante with more criticism of Woods.

“He called me a whiner.

That’s probably right,” Garcia said then. “It’s also probably the first thing he’s told you guys that’s true in 15 years.”

It was all good stuff, if not good fun. But then Garcia crossed the line with a comment in London about fried chicken that reminded everyone that golf still struggles with issues of race and class.

The line was about as flip as it was dumb; as insensitive as it was unfunny. Garcia said he immediately felt sick to his stomach and wasted little time in issuing a public apology to Woods.

He’s still at it, getting as far as a handshake on the range Monday before deciding it wasn’t the proper place to make amends. He followed with a note left in Woods’ locker Tuesday, and repeated his mea culpa for the better part of a half hour before the media.

He’s not going to win this Open and may never win an Open.

For now, though, he’s the undisputed clubhouse leader in attempted apologies.

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impressed by Reds Paul, Votto hit HRs to help Garza power display in 13-2 loss Reds rout Cubs, 12-2

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Cincinnati Reds’ Shin-Soo Choo (17), Jack Hannahan (9) high five Zack Cozart after his three-run home run against the Chicago Cubs during the eighth inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Chicago. have a really good shot,” said Frazier. “For some reason, we do like playing here in Chicago, but we’re happy go lucky. It’s pretty fun, it gets us back on the winning track.

We got two more to go, we’re trying to get that sweep.”

Garza (1-1) was tagged for a career-high nine runs and nine hits in five-plus innings. He was lifted in the sixth after allowing six runs without retiring a batter.

“Its keeping the ball down and fastball command, I don’t think he really had his slider today, he wasn’t throwing much, but it’s still keeping the ball down, keeping the ball down and away and obviously pitching in, but you’ve got to have fastball command down in the strike zone,” said Cubs manager Dale Sveum.

Garza dropped to 0-2 against the Reds this season, allowing 13 runs in nine innings. The three homers he gave up were the most since last July 5 at Atlanta.

Cody Ransom hit a solo home run for the Cubs, who have lost seven of their last nine games. The third baseman committed three of Chicago’s four errors as the Cubs suffered their worst defeat of the season.

With two outs in the second, Frazier connected on a 1-2 pitch that wound up in the center-field basket for his seventh home run of the season. It was his first homer on the road this year and first one since April 24th.

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to help the team. Do I want to hit home runs? Yes,. But at the same time I’m trying to get my average up, we’re trying to win. Am I conscious (about it). Yeah, it’s there, but I know at the end of the year I’m going to have the numbers I am going to have. I am trying to reach my goals and I still think I have a shot,” said Frazier.

An inning later, Votto tagged Garza for a two-run shot. It was Votto’s 11th of the season. Votto is 16 for 30 with seven doubles, one home run and eight RBIs during a nine-game hitting streak at Wrigley.

The Reds added six runs for Cingrani in the sixth. Jay Bruce lined a double down the left-field line to drive in two runs. After Garza hit Frazier with a pitch, Paul followed with a three-run homer to right.

After chasing Garza, Cozart added an RBI single to give the Reds a 91 lead.

Bruce was 3 for 5 with two RBIs as Cincinnati finished with 17 hits.

Ransom scored on Alfonso Soriano’s sacrifice fly in the fourth. Ransom hit his seventh homer of the season in the sixth.

Cozart cleared the bases on a three-run homer in the eighth inning off Cubs reliever Zach Putnam.

Putnam left with an apparent injury after giving up the home run.

“He’s got a bone spur that he battled over a year now, he said it was just on fire, so I think well get an MRI on that tomorrow,” said Sveum.

thrown. That was payback Cutchen and Russell Martin for Kennedy hitting Puig. had two hits each.

The Associated Press The ball deflected off his shoulder and struck Puig on CARDINALS 9, LOSANGELES (AP) — In the nose.

METS 2 a game highlighted by a heated brawl in the seventh PIRATES 8, inning that involved both NEW YORK (AP) — players and coaches, Tim Giants 2 Michael Wacha recovered Federowicz hit a go-ahead from a wild start to earn his three-run double in the eighth PITTSBURGH (AP) — first major league win and inning to help the LosAngeles Gerrit Cole took a shutout Allen Craig hit a three-run Dodgers rally for 5-3 victory into the seventh inning of his homer for the Cardinals in a over the Arizona Diamond- major league debut and hit a victory over the staggering backs on Tuesday night. two-run single in his first at- Mets.

Arizona starter Ian bat, leading the Pirates to a Matt Holliday had three Kennedy,manager Kirk Gib- victory over the Giants in hits and the NL Central son and coach Turner Ward, front of a festive crowd. leaders took full advantage of along with Dodgers star The top pick in the 2011 a crucial error by new Mets rookie Yasiel Puig and hit- draft, Cole allowed two runs first baseman Daniel Murting coach Mark McGwire and seven hits in 6 1-3 in- phy, who was shifted over were ejected after the pro- nings after being called up from second after slumping longed bench-clearing scuffle. from Triple-A Indianapolis Ike Davis got demoted to the Kennedy hit Los Angeles earlier in the day. He began minors Sunday.

David Freese extended his starter Zack Greinke with a his highly touted career with pitch, a retaliation throw a three-pitch strikeout — all career-high hitting streak to that triggered the fracas that 96-mph fastballs — of Gre- 20 games, longest in the Nanearly spilled into the stands. gor Blanco and struck out tional League this season, An inning earlier, Greinke two overall. He did not walk and Wacha even knocked in a run with a groundout for hit Diamondbacks catcher a batter.

Miguel Montero in the back Pedro Alvarez went 3 for 3 his first RBI. Omar Quintanilla homeand both teams came charg- with a home run to back red for the Mets,who gave up ing onto the field but it broke Cole. Starling Marte also seven unearned runs and homered and Andrew Mcup quickly with no punches lost for the seventh time in eight games.

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MARLINS 5, BREWERS 4

MIAMI (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton hit his first homer since coming off the disabled list, a two-run drive with two outs in the eighth inning that lifted the Marlins to a victory over the Brewers.

With Juan Pierre on first, Stanton connected on the first pitch from Jim Henderson (2-2), sending a drive over the wall in left-center. It was his fourth home run this year. He was activated from the DL on Monday.

Chad Qualls (2-0) pitched a perfect eighth and Steve Cishek a scoreless ninth for his seventh save.

Derek Dietrich had a tworun homer for Miami, which has won three of four.

The Brewers took a 4-3 lead in the seventh when Yuniesky Betancourt tripled in a run to tie it before scoring the go-ahead run on pinchhitter Scooter Gennett’s suicide squeeze.

REDS 12, CUBS 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Xavier Paul hit a three-run home run, Joey Votto added a tworun shot and the Reds roughed up Matt Garza and the Cubs.

Tony Cingrani (3-0),filling

DENVER (AP) — Jhoulys Chacin won for the first time since April, Tyler Colvin homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Rockies beat the Nationals.

Carlos Gonzalez also hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in Colorado’s five-run fifth inning.

Chacin (4-3) allowed two runs on seven hits in five innings to end a string of four straight no decisions and three consecutive losses since

PADRES 3, BRAVES 2 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew Cashner outdueledTim Hudson, Chase Headley homered and the Padres beat the Braves for the second straight game.

Cashner (5-3) pitched a career high eight innings, allowing two runs on six hits, striking out five and walking one.At one point Cashner retired 10 straight batters after giving up one run and three hits in the first inning.

Joe Thatcher struck out Freddie Freeman and Brian McCann to start the ninth and Luke Gregerson came on to strike out Dan Uggla for his third save in five opportunities.

Hudson (4-6) pitched 7 1-3 innings for the Braves,allowing three runs on five hits.

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Zack Cozart also added a three-run shot in the eighth and Todd Frazier hit a solo home run in the second inning for the Reds.

Garza (1-1) was tagged for a career-high nine runs and nine hits in five-plus innings.

He was lifted in the sixth after allowing six runs without retiring a batter.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Dusty Baker doesn’t follow the records. He is keeping count as the Reds keep piling up wins at Wrigley Field.

Xavier Paul hit a three-run home run, Joey Votto added a two-run shot and the Cincinnati Reds roughed up Matt Garza and the Chicago Cubs 12-2 on Tuesday night.

Tony Cingrani (3-0), filling in for the injured Johnny Cueto, pitched seven strong innings as Cincinnati extended its franchise-best winning streak at Wrigley Field to 11 games.

The former Cubs manager was surprised to hear that 11 games is the most consecutive wins by an opponent at Wrigley.

“Really? I’ll tell you, I am not an accountant. But I do know how many. It’s a nice count,” Baker said with a sly smile.

Cingrani, from Chicago’s South Suburbs, allowed two runs and four hits, while striking out five and allowing one walk.

Zack Cozart also added a threerun shot in the eighth and Todd Frazier hit a solo home run in the second inning for the Reds.

Baker also passed Ralph Houk for 16th place on the all-time win list for a manager with 1,620 victories.

The Reds have won 18 of its last 21 against the Cubs.

“It’s pretty cool. We’re comfortable here. Our pitching has been doing what they have always been doing and we feel really relax here and we know coming in we will

CHICAGO (AP) — Even Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza was impressed by the Cincinnati Reds’ display of power.

Xavier Paul hit a three-run home run, Joey Votto added a two-run shot and the Cincinnati Reds roughed up Garza and the Chicago Cubs 12-2 on Tuesday night.

“It’s one of those days, you just tip your cap,” Garza said. “The ball Votto hit out, I was really impressed.

You can’t really say anything about it. It was a fastball that I got in there. You just tip your cap and keep going.”

Garza (1-1) was tagged for a career-high nine runs and nine hits in five-plus innings. He was lifted in the sixth after allowing six runs without retiring a batter.

Garza dropped to 0-2 against the Reds this season, allowing 13 runs in nine innings. The three homers he gave up were the most since last July 5 at Atlanta.

Garza said he’s trying to grow more comfortable throwing to catcher Welington Castillo. Garza was making his fifth start after beginning the season on the disabled list for a left lat strain.

“That’s what we’re trying to do right now, just feel each other out,” Garza said.

The last time Garza faced the Reds on May 26, he criticized starter Johnny Cueto for throwing a pitch that sailed over David DeJesus’ head, saying Cueto needed to “grow up.”

“That was over the day I left (Cincinnati),” Garza said. “Today was go out there and try to pitch the best I can and give my team a chance to win and that definitely didn’t happen.”

Tony Cingrani (3-0), filling in for the injured Cueto, pitched seven strong innings as Cincinnati extended its franchise-best winning streak at Wrigley Field to 11 games. Cingrani, from Chicago’s South Suburbs, allowed two runs and four hits, while striking out five and allowing one walk.

“Cingrani was outstanding tonight,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “He showed his improvement of what he went down to work on. He threw some quality breaking balls and some good changeups.”

Zack Cozart also added a three-run shot in the eighth and Todd Frazier hit a solo home run in the second inning for the Reds.

Cody Ransom hit a solo home run for the Cubs, who have lost seven of their last nine games. The third baseman committed three of Chicago’s four errors as the Cubs suffered their worst defeat of the season.

With two outs in the second, Frazier connected on a 1-2 pitch that wound up in the center-field basket for his seventh home run of the season. It was his first homer on the road this year and first one since April 24th.

An inning later, Votto tagged Garza for a two-run shot. It was Votto’s 11th of the season. Votto is 16 for 30 with seven doubles, one home run and eight RBIs during a nine-game hitting streak at Wrigley.

“It’s keeping the ball down and fastball command,” Cubs manager Dale Sveum said of Garza. “I don’t think he really had his slider today.”

The Reds added six runs for Cingrani in the sixth.

Jay Bruce lined a double down the left-field line to drive in two runs. After Garza hit Frazier with a pitch, Paul followed with a three-run homer to right. After chasing Garza, Cozart added an RBI single to give the Reds a 9-1 lead.

Bruce was 3 for 5 with two RBIs as Cincinnati finished with 17 hits.

Ransom scored on Alfonso Soriano’s sacrifice fly in the fourth. Ransom hit his seventh homer of the season in the sixth.

Cozart cleared the bases on a three-run homer in the eighth inning off Cubs reliever Zach Putnam. Putnam left with an elbow injury after giving up the home run.

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By The Associated Press June 13 1905 — Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his second no-hit game, beating the Chicago Cubs and Mordecai Brown 10. Mathewson and Brown matched no-hitters for eight innings. The Giants got two hits in the ninth for the win.

1912 — Christy Mathewson recorded his 300th career victory with a 3-2 triumph over the Chicago Cubs.

1921 — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees pitched the first five innings and hit two home runs in an 11-8 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

1948 — Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium drew 49,641 fans who saw Ruth’s No. 3 retired and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-3.

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Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel flashes a thumbs up at people gathered to watch her begin her swim to Florida from Havana, Cuba on Wednesday. The Australian endurance athlete is hoping to become the first person to swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage. McCardel says she expects to spend about 60 hours in the sea before reaching the Florida Keys, a little more than 100 miles to the northeast.

BY PETER ORSI Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel jumped feet-first into calm, balmy waters off Cuba on Wednesday and began stroking steadily out to sea in a bid to make a record swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage.

A smiling, upbeat McCardel arrived in the morning at a rocky jetty in Havana’s Hemingway Marina in a pink 1950s Chevy convertible. She carefully adjusted her black swim cap and goggles while her husband applied grease around the edges of her suit to prevent chafing.

“As confident as I can be. I think it’s all going to work out well,” the 28-year-old said. “It’ll be tough, though. It’s not going to be an easy ride, but we’ll get through it as a team.”

McCardel expects to take about 60 hours to get to the Florida Keys, a little more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the northeast, braving sharks and jellyfish along the way.

The current weather report for that window is clear. The sea off Havana was flat and glassy Wednesday, precisely the ideal conditions that McCardel’s science team had forecast.

The Florida Strait has been busy the last three summers, with fellow marathon swimmers Diana Nyad and Penny Palfrey making four failed attempts at the crossing between them since 2011. Australian Susie

Maroney successfully made the swim in 1997, though she did it with the benefit of a shark cage.

“It is the hardest swim in the world today,” McCardel said earlier at a news conference in the Cuban capital. “No one has been able to achieve this. It’s possibly harder than winning the World Cup or getting a gold medal.”

The challenge also outstrips by far, at least in terms of distance, anything she’s done before. McCardel, who has twice made a double crossing of the English Channel, said the most time she’s spent in the water continuously is 25 hours.

She is swimming under English Channel Marathon rules, which means she cannot touch her support boat or hold onto anything. Nor can she wear a full-body wetsuit, which would help protect against exposure and jellyfish stings, or use a shark cage.

A piece of equipment called a Shark Shield creates an electromagnetic field around her in the water, discouraging the predators from getting too close.

McCardel plans to stop every half-hour or so to sip an energy drink, preferring that to solid foods.

She and her team have spent the last nine and a half months planning the trip and studying others’ attempts to try to figure out why they were unable to complete the swim.

They picked June for their bid in a bit of a tradeoff: While seas are warmer later in the summer, this month typically sees

lower concentrations of box jellyfish, whose dangerous stings have scuttled past attempts.

They even took the lunar cycle into account. Moonlight attracts jellyfish to the surface, and that should be less of a problem as she sets off under a new moon.

McCardel said she believes she can succeed where others fell short because she has assembled an unprecedented team that includes scientists on land who are experts on the Gulf Stream current that flows through the straits.

They will be crunching data in real time and feeding information to her support boat, a 44-foot catamaran dubbed the “Sunluver,” so the mission can dodge things such as powerful eddies that have swept others off course.

“The advantage that this gives us is that we can foresee 10, 20, 30 kilometers ahead,” she said. “So if we can slightly change our course to avoid things in the future, we’re less likely to get picked up by an eddy off the Gulf Stream and pushed in the wrong direction.”

Still, she acknowledged there’s no way to guarantee nature’s cooperation.

“The Gulf Stream ... it’s like a wild animal,” McCardel said. “You cannot predict it that much in advance, so you cannot take historical data from Penny Palfrey or Diana Nyad’s swim and say, well, this is what happened to them, therefore if we don’t do exactly the same then we’ll have a better outcome.”

WCup a year away, Brazil vows to be ready

BY TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer

lieve that all requirements were executed in accordance with expectations and that we will have a Confederations Cup that will be held as expected.”

FIFA has made clear that Brazil will have to do a better job for the World Cup, when the expectations will be much

livery of the remaining six stadiums being built for the World Cup. “This first delivery was actually the hardest deadline to meet,” Rebelo said on a conference call this week. “The evolution of the construction work of these stadiums ... indicates that,

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil arrived at the one-year mark to the World Cup on Wednesday admitting to mistakes in its preparations but vowing to be ready in time.

After facing difficulties getting its stadiums open for the Confederations Cup, the eightnation warmup tournament that begins in Brasilia on Sat- US beats Panama 2-0 in World Cup qualifying urday, Brazil is promising that SEATTLE (AP) — The United States and Honduras both things will be different ahead of took strides toward World Cup qualification with victories on the 32-team World Cup. FIFA said it won’t accept it Tuesday while Mexico’s ambitions remain in the balance after any other way, and Brazilian being held by Costa Rica.

The U.S. won 2-0 at home against Panama to move to the top authorities and local organizers of CONCACAF standings with 10 points from five games. say delays that plagued conCosta Rica (from five games) and Mexico (from six) are both struction work before the Confederations Cup won’t be an on eight points to be second and third in the standings, after their 0-0 draw in Mexico City. issue next year.

The top three qualify directly for Brazil 2014 while the Brazil just barely got six stadiums prepared for the Confed- fourth-placed team goes into a further intercontinental playoff erations Cup. Only two were against New Zealand.

Honduras moved up to fourth by winning 2-0 at home completed by the original deadagainst Jamaica, and now sits only a point behind Mexico with line in December, and in some a game in hand. cases there was time for only The United States got goals from Jozy Altidore in the 36th one test event before the venues minute and Eddie Johnson in the 53rd to overcome Panama, were to host official matches in which is in fifth, a point behind Honduras. the tournament for continental The Americans have a 22-2-0 home record in World Cup champions. qualifiers dating back to 2001.

That was what happened in Honduras’ goals against Jamaica came from Oscar Garcia in Brasilia and in Rio de Janeiro, the 10th minute and Roger Rojas in the 88th. home of the final at the renoCONCACAF qualifiers continue on Tuesday when the U.S. vated Maracana Stadium on hosts Honduras, while Costa Rica is at home against Panama.

June 30.

“I do believe we could have delivered them sooner to allow for the realization of more test events, which could have anticipated some of the problems that higher and the number of visi- yes, they can and will be delivered in December. We have been arose during those test events,” tors will increase.

The Brazilians said FIFA in close contact with the reBrazil Sports Minister Aldo Reshould not worry about the desponsible parties for these stabelo said. “Apart from that, I be-

diums to make sure that those deadlines are fulfilled.”

The government said infrastructure projects not ready in time for the Confederations Cup will also be finalized by the World Cup. “We have been monitoring transportation and urban mobility on a daily basis,” Rebelo said. “These works will be delivered in time, together with the next six stadiums. Airport, security, telecommunications and urban mobility will be ready and compatible with the expectations held by the country and by the world.”

But not everybody is celebrating in Brazil as the World Cup approaches. There have been complaints because of the high costs of the stadiums and of the government’s decision to suspend laws to abide by FIFA requirements.

And on Saturday, the day Brazil opens the Confederations Cup against Japan, Rio residents evicted because of World Cup and projects for the 2016 Rio Olympics will stage what they call a “People’s Cup,” calling attention to what they say are human rights violations.

Local organizers and government officials have said all evictions have happened according to law.

Later Wednesday, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke and World Cup ambassador Pele were to participate at an event at Copacabana Beach marking one year to the World Cup.

1957 — Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs and drove in five runs in a 9-3 victory over the Indians as Cleveland Williams became the first AL player to have two threehomer games in a season.

1973 — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ infield of Steve Garvey (first base), Davey Lopes (second base), Ron Cey (third base) and Bill Russell (shortstop) played together for the first time in a 16-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The quartet would set a major league record for longevity by playing 8 1/2 years in the same infield.

2001 — Texas’ Ruben Sierra homered from both sides of the plate for the sixth time in his career, but the Rangers lost 5-3 to the Dodgers.

2003 — Roger Clemens reached 300 wins and became the third pitcher with 4,000 strikeouts, leading the New York Yankees over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2.

Clemens, the 21st pitcher to make it to 300, allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings and struck out 10, raising his total to 4,006. Clemens joined Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Steve Carlton (4,136) in the 4,000strikeout club.

2008 — Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell hit consecutive home runs in the first inning of Philadelphia’s 20-2 rout of St. Louis.

2009 — Torii Hunter of the Angels hit three consecutive solo homers in Los Angeles’ 91 win over San Diego.

2012 — Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and first for San Francisco, striking out a career-high 14 batters and getting help from two running catches to beat the Houston Astros 10-0. Cain’s 125-pitch masterpiece featured a pair of great plays by his corner outfielders. Left fielder Melky Cabrera chased down Chris Snyder’s one-out flyball in the sixth, scurrying back to make a leaping catch on the warning track. Right fielder Gregor Blanco ran into right-center to make a diving catch on the warning track and rob Jordan Schafer for the first out of the seventh.

2012 — R.A. Dickey allowed only an infield single during his second career onehitter and broke the New York Mets’ record for consecutive scoreless innings in a 91 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Dickey (10-1) became the first 10-game winner in the major leagues and ran his career-best shutout streak to 32 2-3 innings before yielding an unearned run in the ninth.

Today’s birthdays: Drew Smyly 24; Jonathan Lucroy 27; Pedro Strop 28.

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BY ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there’s a good chance the legislation can be signed into law “by the end of the year.”

Ahead of Tuesday afternoon’s procedural votes to officially allow debate to move forward, senators were readying amendments on contentious issues including border security, back taxes and health care coverage.

Some Republicans said they were seeking to strengthen enforcement provisions so that they could be comfortable voting for the bill.

Other GOP measures were already being dismissed by Democrats as attempts to kill the bill by striking at the fragile compromises at its core.

Boehner said in a nationally broadcast interview he still has concerns about aspects of the bill pertaining to border security. But the Ohio Republican also said he has sought to create an environment in the House where both parties can work together on the measure, which could eventually lead to full citizenship for millions of people currently living in the United States illegally.

“I think, no question, by the end of the year we could have a bill. No question,” the speaker said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

In the Senate, the bill’s supporters were working to determine which measures they could accept to lock down more “yes” votes from the GOP side without losing Democratic backing. They are aiming for a resounding show of support from the Democratic-led Senate that could pressure the Republican-led House to act.

President Barack Obama, who’s made overhauling immigration laws a top second-term priority, was to speak at a midmorning event with advo-

cates at the White House to praise the Senate’s efforts and renew his calls for reform.

The two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon were on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching bill. Both votes were expected to succeed by comfortable margins, because even some senators with deep misgivings about the immigration bill said the issue deserved a Senate debate.

The real fights will come in the following days and weeks as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., aims to push the bill to final Senate passage before July 4.

Even if that happens, the outlook in the House unsettled. remains Boehner indicated earlier that he’d like to see a bill through his chamber before August.

The Senate bill would stiffen border security and require all employers to check their workers’ legal status, as well as initiate new or expanded visa programs for high-skilled and lower-skilled workers and the agriculture sector. At its core is its most contentious element, a 13year path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants now here illegally.

“Given the impact the broken system has on our economy and our families, we cannot afford delay,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Monday on the Senate floor. “This is a measure the Senate should come together to consider and pass.”

“Unfortunately the bill before us repeats our past mistakes,” said the Judiciary Committee’s top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. “Nobody disputes this is a bill that legalizes first and enforces later.”

Heated debate is anticipated on the border security elements of the bill.

The bill sets up a system wherein immigrants may only begin taking steps toward citizenship once certain border security requirements are met. But

opponents say those “triggers” aren’t strong enough, and one of the bill’s authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has argued that the border security elements of the bill must be strengthened if it’s to make it through Congress.

An amendment announced by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas., would require 100 percent monitoring of the entire U.S.Mexico border and 90 percent of would-be crossers to be stopped or turned back before anyone can get a permanent resident green card. The Senate bill, authored by a bipartisan group of eight senators, also sets those figures as goals, but doesn’t make the path to citizenship directly contingent on them.

“It’s time for us to adopt real triggers,” Cornyn said Monday. He said his measure was “essential to accomplishing the goal of bipartisan immigration reform.”

But in an interview over the weekend with Univision, Reid dismissed Cornyn’s amendment as a “poison pill.”

“If people have suggestions like they did in the Judiciary Committee to change the bill a little bit, I’ll be happy to take a look at that,” Reid said. “But we’re not going to have big changes in this legislation.”

It’s not likely to be Cornyn’s, but supporters of the bill were looking for a border security measure they could support. It could be an amendment pushed by Rubio, who’s talked about giving Congress a more direct role in developing a border security plan that the bill now leaves to the Homeland Security Department.

Other disputes will surround amendments being pushed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to strengthen requirements for payment of back taxes in the bill and require previously illegal immigrants who get green cards under the bill to wait five years before beginning to access benefits under the nation’s new health care law.

Officials land summer jobs for their relatives

BY MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least a dozen children or other relatives of Energy Department officials have received summer jobs at the department in apparent violation of federal nepotism rules, an agency watchdog said Monday.

Inspector General Gregory Friedman said in a report that one senior Energy Department official was actively involved in securing summer jobs for his three college-aged children, including two who ended up getting jobs in the division where the official works.

The official, who was not named, is a senior staff member in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The report says the Energy Department is considering “appropriate corrective action” but offers no specifics.

“Nepotism or even its appearance can have a decidedly negative impact on morale within an organization,” Friedman wrote in a 19-page report.

Providing inappropriate advantages for relatives of federal employees “damages the integrity of the competitive process and erodes public trust in the federal hiring process,” Friedman added.

“The impact is likely se-

vere, especially when considering the intense competition for (summer) intern positions within the department.”

Despite those strong words, Friedman’s own office was not immune from the problem. Among those who got summer jobs was the child of an employee in the inspector general’s office, which Friedman called a “serious” matter.

The employee has been reprimanded.

Friedman’s report, released Monday, says that each case involving employment of relatives has been referred to the Energy Department’s personnel office and general counsel. The counsel serves as the department’s ethics officer.

The report says the official in the renewable energy office contacted 12 Energy Department officials from seven different programs about summer jobs for his children. All three children were hired last year, including two who worked in the renewable energy division.

Bill Gibbons, a spokesman for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, said the department takes the allegations in the inspector general’s report “very seriously,” adding: “The Energy Department is committed to fair, open and transparent hiring processes that ensure

every candidate is evaluated equally.”

The personnel office and general counsel are reviewing the report and the circumstances surrounding the summer hires, Gibbons said, and the department will “take appropriate action based on those findings.” The department also will provide additional training to senior employees and hiring managers on personnel rules and procedures to ensure a fair and open competitive process, Gibbons said.

The senior official in the renewable energy division told investigators that he did not believe he had done anything wrong, the report said. The official indicated that, “based on his personal observations, the practice of employees providing resumes and/or inquiring about employment for a (summer) position on behalf of relatives was common,” the report said.

Two officials who hired the senior employee’s children told investigators they did not feel pressured by the official. The officials also indicated that it was “a common practice for individuals to provide resumes or to inquire with various program offices in an effort to secure (summer) employment opportunities for relatives,” the report said.

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NY woman helps track suspect in dad’s 1986 killing

BY JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An aspiring actress has helped police track down a suspect in her father’s 1986 slaying.

Periodically, over the last few years, Joselyn Martinez would try to find information about the man accused of shooting and killing her father outside his restaurant on Nov. 22, 1986, when she was 9 years old.

Beginning in 2006, she trolled Myspace and Facebook for information. In 2011, she wrote a letter to “America’s Most Wanted.”

Through it all, she spent her own money, dishing out payments of $69.99 to various online search programs that turn up potential addresses and phone numbers for people.

And on Friday, her efforts were vindicated when police arrested Justo Santos on charges he murdered her father, Jose Martinez, outside his Dominican restaurant in the city’s Washington Heights neighborhood 27 years ago.

“It’s amazing,” Martinez, 36, said Tuesday. “I didn’t plan for this. It’s been surreal.”

Police said Santos, whose arrest in Miami was first reported by the Daily News, has made statements implicating himself in the killing. On Tuesday, Santos agreed to let police return him to New York later. He was in police custody Tuesday and wasn’t available for comment, and there was no information on whether he had an attorney. He has a Miami court date later this month.

Witnesses to the 1986 killing said they had seen Santos, and he was quickly named by detec-

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In this Nov. 19, 2011 publicity headshot provided

by Franklyn Espinal shows singer/actress Joselyn Martinez. With perseverance, and $280, Martinez tracked down the man the man accused of murdering her father in 1986. After Martinez contacted New York City detectives with the killer’s Miami address, police arrested Justo Santos on Thursday.

tives as a suspect, but he fled to the Dominican Republic shortly after.

Martinez, who has appeared in Spanish-language music videos, radio commercials and a video game and wants to be in TV shows and movies, said there was “no plan” in her search efforts over the years.

“It was totally, absolutely in my eyes, totally random,” said Martinez, who has appeared on the Dominican TV show “Divertido con Jochy,” or “Fun with Jochy.”

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters on Tuesday that Santos, 43, had been jailed in the Dominican Republic in an unrelated case about two years after the Martinez killing but

served just more than a year before he was released. Kelly said Martinez’s case was closed upon news of Santos’ incarceration in the Dominican Republic — something that should never have happened.

“They should not have closed the case,” Kelly said.

Unlike today, the New York Police Department did not have liaisons in the Dominican Republican at that time.

But Joselyn Martinez continued her own search, saving her search results to a folder on her laptop dedicated to solving her father’s killing.

“I didn’t suddenly find him. This took years of putting away efforts,” she said. “It just took many years, and I felt like I was

doing something. I didn’t tell anybody. I didn’t want people to think I was crazy.”

Martinez said in February she met with detectives from a cold-case squad to turn over all the

information she’d uncovered, including a search result with Santos’ name, address and phone number in Miami. She said detectives from the cold-case squad used her information and traveled

to Miami, where they made the arrest without incident.

“I just feel like I had to do it for my father,” she said, “and it’s up to New York state to decide what happens next.”

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