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up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

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Piqua Fire Department paramedics work to remove the driver of a vehicle that crashed head-on into a bridge support on the southbound entrance ramp to I-75 off County Road 25-A north of Piqua at about 10:45 a.m. Thursday. The driver, identified as Linda Martin, 68, of Loveland, was transported up Upper Valley Medical Center for treatment and evaluation. She was listed as a patient, but a condition could not be obtained. A dog that was in the vehicle is believed to have died in the crash.

Piqua police are investigating the crash.

TROY — Back in October, numerous representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio Department of Health, along with many Troy city officials, watershed groups and residents congregated at Van Cleve Elementary to discuss a chemical pollution or plume beneath sections of the city.

Officials report plans are continuing to monitor the affected area.

The meeting was held to update the general public in regards to 36 homes in a 25 block radius that were to be tested for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are present in the groundwater that can lead to vapor intrusions from foundation cracks that can then contaminate indoor air.

The area of investigation is bounded to the north by the See Pollution/Page 8

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PIQUA — Piqua basketball fans are guaranteed of one thing when they attend a varsity boys or girls basketball game this winter.

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with that kind of exdress) announcing perience,” Piqua atharound. letic director David Between them, Palmer said. “As a John Hauer (boys) game manager, that and Duane Bachis one less thing you man (girls) have Do you have an idea for a Local Front story? have to worry about. manned the mike for Let Susan Hartley know at They both have their more 70 years — and 773-2721 ext. 14 or e-mail to own styles and I you don’t have to be shartley@dailycall.com think having two at a game long to unguys of that caliber derstand why.

They have broadcast games at definitely adds to the atmosphere the highest levels — and their of the game.”

Hauer said it comes natural. voices are on par with the compe“I started out teaching English tition on the floor.

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same,” Hauer said with a smile.

Hauer is probably best known as the voice of Vandalia-Butler basketball — he did boys games from the mid 1980s to 2008 and the girls games from the late 1990s to 2008.

“I blame that on Ray Zawadzki,” Hauer said with a laugh about the legendary VandaliaButler boys basketball coach.

Hauer started out as a floater at Vandalia games in the 1970s at the “Pit” — he would work See PA announcers/Page 2

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Local shooting victim continues recovery Suspect being sought by police STAFF REPORT PIQUA — The city man shot repeatedly Monday evening while sitting in a parked automobile in the 1300 block of BUTTS Fo r e s t Avenue n e a r Fount a i n Park remains hospitalized, but is imp r o v - TUBBS i n g , family members said.

Michael Butts, 22, was struck four times by the gunfire. He was shot in the chin, the right chest, the

right abdomen and right arm, family members said.

Butts was removed from the intensive care unit at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton on Wednesday evening and is continuing in his recovery.

Meanwhile, police are still searching for shooting suspect Aaron Tubbs, 22, at large. Tubbs is known to frequently travel between Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Piqua, in a black Cadillac with Indiana plates, JS9923.

Authorities have filed a warrant against Tubbs and have charged him with felonious assault, a second-degree felony.

Police are not releasing other details at this time, including a possible motive.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Tubbs is urged to contact the Piqua Police Department at 778-2027, or through the anonymous Crime Stoppers tips line at 615-TIPS.

Gunman Continued from page 1 the lessons learned during the last tragedy, locking down the campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty members to stay indoors.

“In light of the turmoil and trauma and the tragedy suffered by this campus by guns, I can only say words don’t describe our feelings and they’re elusive at this point in time,” university president Charles Steger said. “Our hearts are broken again for the family of our police officer.”

The officer was killed after pulling a driver over in a traffic stop. The gunman who was not involved in the traffic stop walked into the parking lot and ambushed the officer. Police did not know what the motive was.

A law enforcement official who spoke on the con-

dition of anonymity confirmed the gunman was dead, but wouldn’t say how he died.

While authorities wouldn’t confirm specific details about the gunman, they released a timeline of events.

At about 12:15 p.m., the officer called in the traffic stop. After a few minutes passed without hearing from the officer, dispatch tried to get in touch with him, but didn’t get a response. About 15 minutes later, police received the first call from a witness who said an officer had been shot at the Cassell Coliseum parking lot and the gunman had fled on foot.

Local, state and federal officials responded immediately. At 1 p.m., an officer saw a suspicious man in a parking lot known as The Cage. The man had a gunshot wound and a gun was nearby.

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Lucile Weber Smith OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Lucile Weber Smith, 96, died at 11:10 a.m.

Wednesd a y , Aug. 31, 2011, at a hospital in Oceans i d e , Calif., a f t e r suffering a SMITH fall at her residence.

A resident of Oceanside, Calif. since 1991, she was born in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 17, 1915, to the late Frank H. Weber and Grace R. Weber, both of Pettisville. She married Joseph E. Smith in Pettisville on Aug. 20, 1938.

He preceded her in death on Jan. 13, 2011. Her younger brothers, John and Lawrence also preceded her in death.

She is survived by her son Doug, of Los Angeles; her daughter, Marian Couchot and her husband, Ron, both of Oceanside; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Mrs. Smith graduated

in 1933, from Wauseon High School, Wauseon, and she earned her bachelor of science in education at Ohio Northern University in 1937.

Moving to Miami County with her husband after his graduation from Ohio Northern, they began a lifelong partnership that lasted more than 72 years.

An active member of Greene Street Methodist Church, she worked in the church office, assisted and led many of the church choirs and youth activities. She also was business secretary at the Piqua YWCA. After “snow-birding” between Piqua and Southern California for several years, she and Joe moved to Oceanside in 1991, where they had resided since that time.

A memorial celebration of her life was held Sept.

22, 2011, at Eternal Hills of Oceanside, Calif.

Memorial contributions may be made to Greene Street Methodist Church or to the Piqua Education Foundation, 719 E. Ash St., Piqua, OH 45356.

Forest Glen ‘Frosty’Young TROY — Forest Glen “Frosty” Young, 89, of Troy, passed away at his home Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, with his special friend and beloved pup; “Diamond” by his side.

Mr. Young was born Nov. 13, 1922, in Harrison Township, Montgomery County.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Iva Young; wives, Mary Alice, Nellie, Fran and Mary.

He is survived by his loving children, Roger D. “Wayne” Young and his wife Christine of Troy, Virginia A. Campbell of New Carlisle, Michael L. Young and his wife Candice of Covington, Freda R. Bodiker of Strawberry Pt., Iowa, Homer Baldwin and his wife Sheila of

New Carlisle, Beulah F. Gee of Tipp City, and Loris Jean Weaver of Balsam, N.C.; as well as nugrandchildren merous and great-grandchildren.

Forest had been a foreman for Tip Top Canning Company, Tipp City. He was a member of the Tipp City Lions Club and the Eagles Lodge 2201.

Funeral services will be conducted at 6 p.m.

Monday at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St. Tipp City. Visitation will be from 3-6 p.m., prior to the service, at the funeral home. Entombment will take place in Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, Fort Myers, Fla. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.fringsandbaylifff.com.

a successful second career announcing games for WPTW — and has continued to do PA at different times for Piqua over the last 30 years.

“When Dean Hecker retired, Ed Purk asked me to do a football game,” Bachman said. “I am not really sure why.”

Bachman has been a natural ever since, even having a sports talk show on WPTW at one point.

But, he also understood the clear difference between when he is doing PA and when is broadcasting on the radio.

“I think the PA guy is not there to do play by play,” Bachman said.

“When you are doing PA, you have to make sure you are not giving them too much information.”

Bachman has also done various sports and has no trouble pinpointing the most difficult for him.

“Soccer,” he said. “There are so many players going in and out. That is tough one.”

And you really can’t talk about Piqua athletics without talking about Bachman, who also does a number of games at Flying To The Hoop.

“When I first started, one of the reason was I was doing sports where I had kids playing,” he said.

“After that, it became a way to stay involved with sports at Piqua.”

One of the reasons Bachman is so popular is the work he puts into it.

“First, I think a PA announcer needs to make things interesting,” Bachman said. ” I don’t think a

monotone voice is good.

Whenever someone comes into a game, I will announce them, not the person they are replacing.

You don’t ever want to embarrass anyone.”

And he uses the same philosophy when announcing the score of the game.

“Normally, I will announce the score at the end of each quarter,” he said. “But, if it is a lopsided game, I won’t. I don’t want to embarrass the team that is losing. And I believe you need to prepare if you are going to do PA. Find out the pronunciations of the players on other team before the game. Especially the tough ones. Nothing will get you attention faster than mispronouncing a name.”

Hauer said there is only one problem with announcing.

“I have spoiled myself,” he said. “I can’t just sit and watch a game, even at home — I always have to be doing something.”

Just like Bachman and Hauer are spoiling local basketball fans with their PA work — as they have been doing for years.

PA announcers Continued from page 1 wherever they need him, whether it be taking tickets, running the scoreboard or doing in the PA. “The first time (the PA guy wasn’t there), the scoreboard operator did the PA and I ran the scoreboard — that was a lot of fun,” Hauer said.

“Then, I made the mistake of doing the PA one game.

Ray (Zawadzki) said he didn’t want us switching.

He wanted the same guy doing the same things every night.”

Thus, a legendary announcing career was launched.

Along with being an English teacher and guidance counselor at Vandalia, Hauer worked numerous sports including basketball, wrestling (more than 30 years), Butler track (25 years), along with working the Flying To the Hoop and numerous district, regional and state tournaments.

“When the Flying To The Hoop started, it was at Vandalia,” Hauer said.

“So I ended up working the first game at the Flying To The Hoop.”

He has been the voice of GMWA wrestling tournament for 14 years and is the voice of the GWOC track meet.

“That is interesting because you are at a different place with a different sound system ever year,” Hauer said.

When the Student Activity Center opened at Vandalia, it meant a lot of work for Hauer.

“We had 35 to 45 tour-

nament games a year,” Hauer said. “Things really took off then. It was like a regular job.”

In 1997, he worked 73 tournament games in a five and a half week period.

He has manned the mike at the state volleyball tournament for the last 17 years and has worked all over the Miami Valley at stadiums — he even did one inning of baseball at Fifth-Third Field.

But, probably his most memorable moment was doing the final high school boys state basketball tournament at St. John Arena in 1998.

“It is (something he will always remember),” he said. “They have breaks between the games.

Everybody would leave to get something to eat and I would sit there and stare at all the history.”

After retiring, Hauer came to Piqua as a guidance counselor and is working the boys basketball games full time this season.

“I enjoy it (being around the kids),” Hauer said.

“When my son and daughter were playing, I was getting paid to watch my kids play. That was great.

And like Tuesday night (Piqua’s win over Tippecanoe). That was exciting when you have a game like that.”

Bachman is no stranger to the Piqua community.

It was near the end of his career as superintendent that he first made his presence felt on a microphone — he then went to

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Patricia (Fahnestock Piquignot) Vaughn SIDNEY — Patricia A. (Fahnestock Pequign o t ) Vaughn, 77, of 1 0 5 3 Riverb e n d Blvd., S i d n e y, passed VAUGHN away at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, at Dorothy Love Retirement Center surrounded by her loving family.

She was born Feb. 3, 1934, in Sidney, the daughter of the late Jacob and Blanche (Cable) Fahnestock.

Patricia was married to Ronald D. Vaughn and he survives.

Also surviving are children, Rebecca (Jerry) Thomas of Seattle, Wash., Kathleen (Doug) Spain of Troy, Andrew (Sarah) Pequignot of Barry, Texas, John Anthony (Vicki) Pequignot of Aurora, Ill., Julie (Todd) Deeter of Versailles, Rhonda Hickman of Houston; stepsons, David Vaughn of Sidney,

Tony (Tammy) Vaughn of Sidney, Shane Vaughn of Indiana; 20 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandShe was children. preceded in death by six brothers; three sisters; and one daughter, Theresa Pequignot.

Patricia was retired from Copeland Corporation. She loved playing cards and the organ and spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She will be greatly missed by all of her family and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Adams Funeral Home, 1401 Fair Road, Sidney, with the Rev. Philip Chilcote officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Point Cemetery, Pasco.

Friends and family may call from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Donations may be made to Wilson Memorial Hospice, 1081 Fairington Drive, Sidney, OH 45365 in Patricia’s memory.

Online memories may be expressed to the family at www.theadamsfuneralhome.com.

Susie ‘Sue’ Carolyn (Lees) Borton BRADFORD — Susie “Sue” Carolyn (Lees) Borton, 70, of Bradford, passed away in her home Tuesday morning, Dec. 6, 2011, after her courageous eight month battle with lung cancer.

She was born in West Milton on Dec. 20, 1940, to the late Robert and Florence (Cloyd) Lees.

She was preceded in death by brother, Robert Cloyd Lees; and nephew, Robert Eugene Lees.

She is survived by her husband of 22 years, Richard Borton; siblings, Judy (Richard) Buetler of Greenville and Samuel (Julie) Lees of New Carlisle; children, Jeffrey Todd of Lake Worth, Fla., Tonya Todd of Arlington, Va. and Pamela (Eric) Edwards of Alexandria, Va.; stepchildren, Todd Borton of Centerville, Karen Brumbaugh of West Milton and Kelly Borton of Florida, her beloved grandchildren, John McComas, Bryan Edwards and Alex Edwards, nine step-grandchildren, (one deceased); nephews, Sammy and Todd Lees; and nieces, Kimberly Martin and Kimberley Lees.

Sue graduated from Milton-Union High School in 1958. and began work-

ing at Hobart Manufacturing in Troy. Later she was an Avon Representative while staying at home to raise her children. She settled into employment again at the former Hills Department Store and then at the Industry Products Co., both in Piqua.

She was a member of and married at the Nashville United Church of Christ in West Milton and loved music (especially Elvis), visiting with friends from high school, camping, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.

The family will receive friends at the StockerFraley Funeral Home, 131 W. Oakwood St., Bradford, from 3-5 Sunday, and again from 10-11 a.m.

Monday. Pastor John Shelton will lead the memorial service immediately following. Afterward, a graveside service and interment will be held at Harris Creek Cemetery in Bradford followed by a reception at the Bradford Church of the Brethren, 120 W. Oakwood St. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Condolences may be made to the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

Death notices PIQUA — Roosevelt Grant, 52, of Piqua, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.

Arrangements are pending with Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy.

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Correction The Get Up and Go column in Wednesday’s iN75 contained an error. The Elvis Aaron Presley Jr. show at the Rockford Belle in Rockford is on Saturday at 7 p.m., not Sunday as the paper stated. The Daily Call regrets the error.

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Lots of sun in weekend forecast A weak cold front passes through the Miami Valley today. There's a chance of snow showers especially north of Dayton this morning and then all over the area during the day. Accumulations will be light in the Dayton metro area but areas north of Dayton may see a half an inch. High pressure heads this way for the weekend. This means lots of sunshine but cold temperatures at night. High: 37 Low: 27.

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This year’s Jan Mulder Citizenship Award winners were announced at the Piqua City Commission meeting Tuesday evening and recipients were honored for their actions during the vicious Sept. 11 dog mauling of Sandra Getzendiner, who also received the award, but was not present at the meeting. From left to right are, Vicki Schneider; James McMaken; Brittanie Evans; Nancy Mulder, the widow of the late Jan Mulder; Caleb Hunter and Richard Richmond.

Community-improvement group holds meeting ers to step up and speak out in support of the levy, and circulated many emails in favor of the levy’s passage. Stacy Scott reported that Piqua City Schools Superintendent Rick Hanes was very appreciative of PPP’s efforts, sending along after the election “a huge thank you to PPP for your belief in our community and the support you provided our bond issue.”

The citizens committee also discussed the encouraging results from PPP’s participation in the Piqua Chamber’s Regional Business Showcase, held on Oct. 13 at Piqua High School. PPP leaders Alissa Blankenship and Stacy Scott led PPP’s participation in the project, including the design of its booth for the event. Scott reported that a number of people from PPP’s Steering Committee and Citizens Committee attended and assisted with the Showcase booth. She noted that PPP’s participation in the Showcase “allowed us to feature our people — some of the outstanding citizens from across Piqua who have stepped forward to help our community be the best it can be. We discussed with showcase visitors what PPP is, how it works, and what it is doing to help improve and promote the Piqua community. We also provided a variety of literature and information, detailing the makeup, beliefs and current projects of Positively Promoting Piqua. All in all, we were very pleased with the support we received and heard at the Show-

Piqua Leisure Club to meet PIQUA — The Piqua Leisure Club will meet at noon Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the Eagle’s Lodge in Covington, located on U.S Route 36. Please use the east side entrance.

Following lunch, the group will enjoy holiday musical entertainment provided by Mary Knapke of Simple Harmony.

Newcomers are welcome.

For information on Leisure club activities, call 778-0762.

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case, from both active PPP supporters and others in the community.”

Several of the citizen committee’s subcommittees had great news to share at the Nov. 14 meeting. Jim Vetter, speaking on behalf of the Great Neighborhoods Subcommittee, reported the completion of the Mote Park Shelter. Vetter noted that the shelter “was completed after months of planning, generous donations and four weekends of hard work by a tireless group of diverse community volunteers, including representatives from the Southview Neighborhood Association, PPP and P.O.I.N.T.” He noted that a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the shelter will be held sometime before the end of the year.

Earl Slater, speaking on behalf of the city to the citizens subcommittee, had a number of things to share with the what is happening in the city. Among other items, he announced that the city would have four new business expansions representing approximately $4.5 million of new investment in the Piqua community. He also reported that the demolition of the old hospital buildings at the corner of Park and Nicklin avenues will begin in early 2012, and reminded everyone of the use to which this site will be put with the new school building to be erected as a result of the school levy’s passage.

Slater also reported that the South Main Street Project has begun and noted that there is a very good probability of new

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The citizens committee meeting concluded with a reminder that Positively Promoting Piqua is participating in the Holiday Parade and the Festival of Trees to be held in downtown Piqua in early December.

Those interested in learning more about PPP can visit its web site at positivepiqua.org or find Positively Promoting Piqua on Facebook.

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PIQUA — The community-improvement group Positively Promoting Piqua’s Citizens Committee met Nov. 14 at Hartzell Propeller in Piqua.

PPP Steering Committee Chairman Dan French kicked off the meeting by announcing that Craig Barhorst, of 298 Linden Avenue in Piqua, had agreed to serve as chairman of the citizens committee and that Wayde Davis, of 1005 Colleen Drive, had stepped up to serve as vice chairman.

Barhorst is employed by Hartzell Propeller and Davis by Koverman-Dickerson Insurance Agency.

French stated that PPP’s Steering Committee has “every confidence that Craig and Wayde will work well together and lead the Citizens Committee in many great projects for our city. Both of these men have a clear vision of the mission of PPP and the positive impact we can make as a group of dedicated citizens.”

During the meeting, citizens committee members discussed the positive results from local election issues that appeared on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Positively Promoting Piqua took an active role in supporting the Piqua City Schools School bond levy and the five city of Piqua charter amendments — all of which were approved by Piqua voters.

For the school levy, PPP supporters distributed positive yard signs and buttons, posted daily information about the levy on PPP’s Facebook page, encouraged PPP support-

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The Village Idiot

Deer know when it’s time to skedaddle D

eer-hunting season has started. I know, because of the complete and total absence of deer. The herd of seven that have been snacking on my saplings, my garden and my lawn every morning and evening for the last 11 months have disappeared to who knows where.

For every tree and bush I cage,there are three that go missing. I don’t care what people say — there is nothing that deer won’t eat.

“Rhododendrons! The leaves are poisonous, and the deer won’t touch them.” They touched mine right down to the ground. It also seemed to increase their fertility.

“Human hair. Ask your barber for all the hair he clips and hang it in nylon bags around your property.”The deer ate the hair and the bags.

“Kitty litter. Spread it around your garden.” I think it attracts them.My herd grew by three.

For 11 months, I yell at deer from my back porch. No more than 30 feet away, they ignore me. “Oh, it’s him again. Just keep eating,” they tell one anJIM MULLEN other.

Now they are gone, not to be Columnist seen again until hunting season ends. Then they will make up for lost time, stripping the bark from my trees and munching every living, expensive thing that is not indoors.

I know it’s hunting season because of the random and uncomfortably close bangs and pops I hear while working in the yard. Some days I feel as if I’m living next door to a Civil War re-enactment — not a skirmish, but a huge battle, a Shiloh, a Gettysburg. I wonder what all the shooting is about, because the only deer still here must be the very few that are deaf.All the others have gone south for the winter.

I could understand hearing one shot every now and then.

You have sighted your prey, you have waited patiently, you have brought down your prize with a single shot. What puzzles me are the other 16 shots. OK, you missed the first time and the deer bolted. It is no longer standing still. So what are you shooting at? A running, jumping deer in the middle of a forest? Good luck with that; you’ll need it.

There’s yet another reason I know that it’s hunting season: the list of gun-related “accidents” in the paper.

“What a terrible accident. If only he hadn’t drunk a sixpack for breakfast.” If only the shotgun hadn’t been loaded when he pulled it out of the trunk,barrel first.If only she hadn’t been outside hanging clothes on the line on opening day. If only they hadn’t let the black standard poodle out to do its business. If only their cows had been painted safety orange. If only he hadn’t dressed in deerskin and antlers. The list goes on and on and on. But the results are all pretty predictable.

Calling them “accidents” is like saying the new baby was “unplanned.” Really? Think hard — was there nothing that could have been done to prevent that?

I also know it is deer season from all the strange cars going down my road at 6 mph. They are looking for a spot to hunt.

The local guys already know where to hunt.These clowns are from out of state or from the city. The polite ones will stop by the house and say:“Is Bob here? He’s a friend of mine, and he always lets me hunt down on the flats.” Bob hasn’t lived in this house for 15 years. You’d think his friends would know that.

I know it’s deer season because I saw a car at the gas station today with a big buck strapped to the roof, headed off to the cut-up place and the taxidermist.I asked the guy,who was pumping gas still wearing camo and a safety orange vest, where he bagged it. He pointed to the front of his car, all smashed and dented. It looked like he’d been doing about 45 when he hit it.

Commentary

When will U.S. be post-racial society?

“Such (black) job losses remember when the civil have … undermined the rights movement was stability of neighborhoods cresting in the late 1950s where there are now fewer — not only in the South — black professionals who own sitting at jazz concerts and homes or who get up every other public events, linking morning to go to work.” hands with blacks and This made me remember whites in the same row, a conversation I had with some of whom I didn’t know, Duke Ellington in the 1950s. as we were singing “We NAT HENTOFF The already internationally Shall Overcome.”

Columnist known composer and orWe haven’t overcome. I chestra leader, whose music was a friend of Dr. Kenneth was often about his people’s Clark, a psychologist and professor whose research contributed continuing history here, said to me: “There are blacks working in the post significantly to the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Edu- offices who could have been Ph.D.s — if cation decision that racial segregation in the way there was possible for them. But the public schools was unconstitutional. most importantly now, they do have Clark was jubilant that day. Young these jobs.”

Williams quotes Robert H. Zieger, blacks, he told me, could “now be proud emeritus professor of history at the Unithat they are Americans.”

The high court, however, kept weak- versity of Florida and a scholar on race ening the impact of that ruling until and labor: “The reliance on these (government) Clark, a strong integrationist, said to me toward the end of his life: “I feel my life jobs has provided African-Americans a path upward. But it is also a vulnerabilhas been wasted.”

Here we are, entering a presidential ity.”

In the past, a Dec. 4 New York Times election year, when Sam Dillon reports (“Districts Pay Less in Poor Schools, Re- editorial (“Pain in the Public Sector”) emport Says,” The New York Times, Nov. 30): phasizes, “millions of African-Americans “Tens of thousands of schools serving — one in five who are employed — have (mostly black and Hispanic) low-income entered the middle class through govstudents are being shortchanged because ernment employment.”

Further illustrating this vulnerability districts (due to lawful residential segregation) spend fewer state and local dol- that Zieger describes is the rising numlars on teacher salaries in those schools ber of government workers around the than on salaries in schools serving country, including blacks, who are being dismissed as local, state and federal govhigher-income students.”

In most big cities, the public schools ernments strive to reduce their deficits.

Williams puts a human face on how are very markedly racially segregated — including where I live, New York City, blacks are hit hard by disappearing pubwhose self-anointed “education mayor,” lic sector jobs: “Pamela Sparks, 49, a 25Michael Bloomberg, has said nary a word year Postal Service veteran in Baltimore, about this segregation that results in an has a brother who is a letter carrier and increasing deep racial gap in students’ a sister who is a sales associate at the Postal Service. Her father is a retired achievements.

All too obviously, along with education, station manager.”

“With our whole family working for future prospects are dark — not only for black citizens but also for so many oth- the Post Office,” she tells the Times, “it ers with grimly limited means and would be hard to help each other out bepainfully few present and foreseeable re- cause we’d all be out of work” in view of the acute financial crisis affecting the sources.

Blacks lead the list of Americans feel- Postal Service.

And Don Buckley, the Times reports, is ing at a dead end. Reports the Nov. 28 New York Times: “Jobless rates among an unemployed Chicago Transit Authorblacks have consistently been about dou- ity bus driver who now lives in his ble those of whites. In October, the black mother’s basement and “his mother, a unemployment rate was 15.1 percent, Postal Service employee, (has) grown Jim Mullen’s new book,“Now in Paperback,” is now in pacompared with 8 percent for whites. Last tired of him ‘eating up all her food. She’s perback. You can reach him at jimmullenbooks.com. summer, the black unemployment rate ready for me to get up out of here.’”

When he was earning $23.76 an hour, hit 16.7 percent, its highest level since says Buckley, “I was living the American 1984.”

In the same Nov. 28 report, “As Public dream. … Then it crumbled.”

On Sept. 12, on blackvoicenews.com, Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest,” Timothy Williams focuses on a sub- Marjorie Valbrun reports bitingly: “Restantial reason for black unemployment cent public opinion polls show that more that I have not been aware of. The New whites than African-Americans believe York Times should have put this hard- that the United States has entered a edged news on the front page that con- ‘post-racial’ era in which racial bias doescerns “tens of thousands of once solidly n’t exist.”

I haven’t heard anyone sing “We Shall middle-class African-American government workers — bus drivers in Chicago, Overcome” for a long time.

How will our next president end the police officers and firefighters in Cleveland, nurses and doctors in Florida — crumbling of the American dream for who have been laid off since the recession members of all of our races? ended in June 2009.”

Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned For millions of Americans of various classes, including, for another example, authority on the First Amendment and government post office workers, the fes- the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the tering recession has not ended. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the largely overlooked point that Williams Press, and the Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow. makes is:

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

Excerpts of recent editorials of interest from Ohio newspapers: The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Dec. 2 It says something about the global consensus on climate change that experts and diplomats are now at work at their 17th annual conference since a 1992 U.N. pact was signed. The meeting began this week in South Africa, and concludes next Friday.

More than 190 nations are involved in these joint efforts to understand the scope, dangers, challenges and most effective ways to slow human-caused planetary warming. …

The need is evident.

What’s lacking is even a shard of agreement on who will do what, when or how costs can be managed in a rocky global economy. …

The Kyoto Protocol that held most older industrialized nations to emissions limits although not the United States, which refused to sign because China, India, Brazil and other emerging economic powers weren’t restricted will expire next year with no clear template for what comes next.

But doing nothing is not an option. Given the long time spans required to rebalance greenhouse gases, all emitting nations need to accept responsibility for reducing their share of emissions while helping the most vulnerable impoverished populations around the world cope with climate-change-related disruptions.

————— Steubenville Herald Star Ohio State took a giant step toward polishing its tarnished image recently when it hired Urban Meyer as its next football coach. …

The team has been reeling since it was discovered that former coach Jim Tressel knew that some of his players received cash and free or discounted tattoos from a man who was the subject of a federal drugtrafficking investigation.

Meyer brings solid credentials to his new job. …

His career has included head coaching jobs at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. Meyer’s teams have a combined record of 104-23 and a record of 7-1 in bowl games. …

That track record means there is reason for optimism. There are, unfortunately, some pending questions and hurdles that seem to lie directly ahead.

Ohio State is still facing NCAA sanctions in addition to its self-imposed two years of NCAA probation and the loss of five scholarships during the next three years. …

Then there are legitimate questions about his health and a desire to spend more time with his family that led him to walk away from the Florida job twice.

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‘Fear Factor’ comes crawling back to TV DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer POMONA, Calif. — There’s a problem on the set of “Fear Factor.”

The squirming leeches that are supposed to stick to a pair of production assistants who are testing a gross-out challenge keep falling off their nearly nude bodies before the wormy critters can be chewed up and swallowed. Inside a controlroom truck parked outside a barn on the site of the L.A. County Fair, the show’s producers scramble to save the slimy stunt.

Instead of couples taking turns dipping into a chilly tub filled with the blood suckers, the producers quickly decide that only the bikiniclad female halves of the teams will be submerged in the leech-infested water, and their male counterparts will be tasked with yanking the creatures off their teammates’ skin with only their mouths before the pair gorge on leeches.

When the actual contestants tackle the slimy gag, it moves swiftly and without issue, well, any issue that would concern someone responsible for the likes of “Fear Factor.” The bloodcurdling screams, violent vomiting and emotional breakdowns that ensue during the leech sucking-andeating exercise delight the admittedly twisted producers inside the control room.

“When we do a stunt like today, I feel it’s as good, if not better, than the gross stunts that we did in the past,” executive producer Matt Kunitz said unapologetically during a break from filming earlier this year. “We made the right call because the girls were all freaking out. If the guys were in the tub, they would’ve been stoic about it, and it would’ve been boring.”

It’s been five years since Kunitz and his team last worried about ways to freak out reality TV contestants, and time doesn’t seem to have hindered their mission for tension-building sadism on the over-the-top NBC contest. (Kunitz and most of his colleagues have been working on the splashy ABC obstacle course competition “Wipeout” for the past three years.)

“Fear Factor” debuted in 2001 and promptly became a popular guilty pleasure, long before such trashtastic fare as “Jersey Shore” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Ratings eventually dwindled though, and after a series of gimmicky installments, includ-

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In this image released by NBC, contestants are whisked to safety by a helicopter after completing a task in the “Heli Truck TNT Crash” stunt in the premiere episode of “Fear Factor,” airing Monday on NBC. ing Miss USA and military editions, “Fear Factor” slithered away from NBC after six seasons in 2006.

Network executives approached Kunitz about resurrecting the show last year when “Fear Factor” reruns airing on the horror-themed cable network Chiller, which is owned by NBC Universal, kept sucking in viewers. The revived “Fear Factor,” which begins Monday on NBC at 8 p.m. EST, will be broadcast in high definition but will feel familiar to viewers — same logo, format and host.

“Fear Factor” ringmaster Joe Rogan likened coming back to the show to waking up from a coma. In the five years since “Fear Factor” left the airwaves, the in-your-face actor-comedian and Ultimate Fighting Championship color commentator married his longtime girlfriend, became a father of two daughters, covered his arms in tattoos and joined Twitter.

“If it was a good show and it paid good money, but the environment sucked and it wasn’t fun, I probably wouldn’t have returned, but it’s such a fun crew,” said Rogan. “It’s like 80 percent of the same crew from before. Also, I think I’d probably be sick if I was watching it at home and someone else was doing it.”

Outside the barn in a nearby parking lot, stunt coordinator Pat Romano and his team are busy constructing the next challenge, which will feature the contestants strapped to the front of a cement mixer as it barrels down the road, plowing through breakable walls, stacks of boxes and feather-filled

crates, while contestants grab flags off the obstacles.

Romano, who worked on “Fear Factor” the first time around, said he tests and tweaks such challenges with his crew months before arriving on location. He noted that technological advancements over the past five years have allowed his team to construct bigger stunts that are safe enough for the average person to attempt without being killed.

“Everything is more computerized now,” said Romano. “Our limit to pull someone through the air used to be 100 feet and to drop them was like 10 feet, but yesterday we pulled someone 600 feet through the air and dropped them 150 feet. There was no way that we could’ve done that six years ago. It basically means we’re just always trying to top ourselves now.”

The series’ eight new episodes don’t tinker with the established “Fear Factor” format: four pairs of contestants will take on such stunts as searching for flags through a flaming tower, driving a car sideways through a semi-truck and devouring varmint-filled burritos. The team who best completes the final challenge will win the show’s $50,000 grand prize.

“It’s a challenge,” said Kunitz.

“The audience should be able to tune in and feel like they haven’t seen this before, but it’s still ‘Fear Factor.’ Ultimately, if we’re having a good time on set, and Joe is having a good time, then the audience is going to have a good time when they’re watching at home. If we’re bored, we’re not doing something right.”

Baldwin apologizes to passengers, not airline SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Alec Baldwin issued an apology Wednesday to fellow passengers on an American Airlines flight that was delayed by his refusal to stop playing a cellphone game — but stopped short of apologizing to the airline or the flight attendant he later mocked on Twitter.

The “30 Rock” actor's note, posted to the Huffing-

ton Post, instead lamented the state of modern air travel. Baldwin noted the financial struggles of airlines, saying the result is that air travel has devolved into an inelegant experience, akin to riding a Greyhound bus.

Baldwin said the level of service on U.S. carriers has deteriorated.

“Filthy planes, barely edible meals, cuts in jet service to less-traveled locations,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin writes that in-

with the airline taking to social media Wednesday to maintain it was following federal regulations when it booted an “extremely vocal customer” from a flight for refusing to shut off his cellphone.

The airline, which earlier cited passenger privacy in declining to discuss the matter, said on its Facebook page it decided “to provide the actual facts of the matter” after Baldwin stated publicly he had gotten kicked off the flight.

creased security on commercial airplanes post-9/11 has resulted in a “paramilitary” aura around air travel.

“September 11th was a horrific day in the airline industry, yet in the wake of that event, I believe carriers and airports have used that as an excuse to make the air travel experience as inelegant as possible,” Baldwin writes.

Baldwin's letter is the latest volley in a dustup with American Airlines,

DEAR ABBY: I recently met a man I love dearly, but I don’t agree with the toys he buys for his 10-year-old son, “Dale.” The boy plays violent video games and is obsessed with guns to the point that we can’t leave the house without him bringing a toy gun along.

The video games he plays (unsupervised) are violent and gory and rated M (17 and over).

Dale is not mature for his age. In fact, he often whines when he doesn’t get his way. He’s allowed on the Internet without supervision, and I have walked in and caught him surfing naughty pictures.

When I told his dad, he laughed and said, “Boys will be boys!”

Abby, I’m afraid for my 6-year-old daughter. A few weeks ago, Dale decided he wanted to play “good guys/bad guys” with her. When he grabbed my daughter in a choke hold and held a toy gun to her head, she became hysterical. I have since had nightmares that Dale will find a real gun, think it’s one of his play guns and shoot my daughter.

I think Dale’s obsession is unhealthy, and I don’t think it’s healthy for my daughter to be around him. How do I handle this with my boyfriend? I love him and would like to spend the rest of my life with him, but I cannot marry him at the expense of my daughter.

— PARANOID AND PERPLEXED DEAR PARANOID AND PERPLEXED: How did your boyfriend handle the “good guys/bad guys” incident when you brought it to his attention? The answer to that question will provide you with insight into his ability to parent his son, and what your and your daughter’s future will be like if you marry him. If his reaction wasn’t to your satisfaction, then you must place your child’s safety above your heart’s desire, and you have assessed the situation correctly.

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced, childless, independent and financially secure woman. I live hap-

trumps and cash the ace of diamonds. If both opponents follow suit, the slam can be assured by leading another diamond and playing low from dummy! This guards against a 4-1 diamond division and guarantees 12 tricks.

If you play the queen on the second round of diamonds and the suit divides 4-1, you’ll have to fall back

DEAR ABBY: My 22year-old son told me he had a fight with his girlfriend. Am I allowed to ask him what it was about, or if they have resolved the problem?

— CURIOUS MOM IN MONTANA DEAR CURIOUS MOM: When your son mentioned the spat, that would have been the logical time to ask what it was about. If you start probing now — after the fact — it could be construed as nosiness. If he’s still seeing the girlfriend, it’s safe to assume the problem was resolved — so keep your mouth shut, your eyes open and let him solve his relationship issues without involving yourself in them.

Complete the grid so every row, column and 3 x 3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

on a spade finesse. It would be wrong to subject yourself to that risk when conceding a diamond trick gives you a sure thing.

True, this will cost you 20 points more often than not, but that is a very tiny premium to pay for ensuring the slam.

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Your only real chance, therefore, is that South has the J-10-x or J-10-x-x of hearts, in which case your low heart play will draw North’s ace without wasting your king or queen. To play an honor on South’s four would be tantamount to conceding defeat without attempting to avoid it.

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iPads become child’s play JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer NEW YORK — Make room in the toy box for the iPad. Crayola allows tots to doodle on the iPad using its iMarker just as they would a crayon on a coloring book. Tweens are able to belt out their favorite Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez tunes on a Disney microphone that turns the tablet into a karaoke machine. And technology accessories company Griffin enables teens to fly its toy helicopter by using the iPhone as a remote control.

This holiday season, toy makers have turned Apple Inc.’s pricey tablet and smartphone into playthings for kids. They figure in this weak economy, parents will be willing to splurge on toys for their children that utilize devices they already have — or want — themselves.

Tiffany Fessler of Gainsville, Ga., certainly was willing to do that even though when she initially bought her $829 iPad she never imagined she’d be sharing it with her 20-month-old son. But whenever she sat down to check emails on the iPad, he’d climb into her lap wanting to use it.

So, Fessler decided to get him the $29.99 Crayola iMarker, which transforms the iPad into a digital coloring book using a Crayola’s free ColorStudio HD application that parents can download.

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This undated product photo provided by Crayola, shows the Crayola Color Studio and iMarker. Children can doodle on the tablet using Crayola’s iMarker just as they would a coloring book.

Kids can draw and color using the iMarker, which has a soft tip so it doesn’t scratch the tablet’s glass screen.

“When you have a screaming toddler in a restaurant or any public area, you want to have something to calm him down with,” says Fessler, 39. “This is just another way to keep him entertained.”

That the iPad and iPhone have infiltrated the $22 billion toy market this season is no surprise.

Smartphones and tablets — particularly Apple products — are more popular than ever with people of all ages. This year, Apple is expected to double the number of iPhones sold to 90.6 million worldwide, according to research firm Gartner, while the number of iPads sold

is expected to triple to 46.7 million.

And Apple products have a certain “cool factor” with kids that toy companies, which can make up to half of their revenue during the holidays, are hoping to tap into. In fact, the iPad and iPhone are among the most coveted electronics this holiday season among kids. About 44 percent of 6- to 12-yearolds want the iPad this year, according to a survey by research firm Nielsen.

The iPod touch came in the No. 2 spot with 30 percent, followed by the iPhone at 27 percent.

Not to mention, anyone who’s a parent knows all too well that babies and older kids alike love to fiddle with or drool all over mommy’s iPad. Nearly 40 percent of 2-to 4-year-olds have used a smartphone,

iPad or video iPod, according to a survey by nonprofit group Common Sense Media. That number rises to 52 percent for 5- to- 8 year olds. And even 10 percent of infants have used one of the devices before their first birthday.

“It’s mostly something for kids to use in the car or at the doctor’s office,” says Chris Baynes, a toy analyst. “It’s a way to get the kid to be quiet.”

With that in mind, Crayola teamed up with Nashville, Tenn.-based Griffin Technology, which is mostly known for selling iPhone and iPad cases and car chargers, to make the iMarker and the ColorStudio HD app for kids.

The iMarker, which is like a stylus that resembles a Crayola marker, is targeted at children ages three and up.

“Regardless of who they buy it for, once it is in the household, we know that kids use it,” says Vicky Lozano, vice president of marketing at Crayola, which makes the iMarker.

Other toy makers also have gotten into the game: — Griffin’s $49.99 remote-controlled toy helicopter is aimed at teens over 14. Called the “HELO TC,” it flies using a device that plugs into an iPhone, iPad or iPod. A free app turns the touchscreen of the devices into a cockpit that controls the helicopter.

— Mattel Inc.’s FisherPrice unit is selling “The Laugh and Learn Apptivity Case” aimed at babies for $15. The case locks the iPhone into a colorful, easy to grab case that looks like a big round rattle. The case stops babies from making unwanted calls and protects the iPhone from something else: drool. Parents can open up three free apps that play music, read words aloud and count numbers. The company plans to release an iPad version of the case this spring.

— Disney has three offerings. The “Disney Spotlight” microphone, which is $69.99 or $99.99 for a wireless version, plugs into the iPad and allows kids to sing along to Disney songs from shows such as “Hannah Montana” — or to their own music — and record their own music video. Disney’s

$79.99 AppClix digital camera enables kids to upload their pictures to an iPad and a free app allows them add Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck into the photos. And Disney teamed up with Canadian toy maker Spin Master to create “Appmates,” a toy car based on the characters from the company’s “Car’s 2” animated movie. One car sells for $12.99 while a two-pack goes for $19.99.

Using a free app, kids can “drive” on different courses by moving the car across the iPad screen.

— Spin Master, which makes toys such as Air Hogs and Bakugan, started a new line this year of toys for the iPad and iPhone called “AppFininity.” Its first toy in the line is the $19.99 AppBlaster, a plastic gun for kids over age eight.

After slipping an iPhone or iPad touch on top of the AppBlaster, kids can shoot at aliens that pop up on the screen.

Analysts say these toys are just the beginning of a new niche for toy makers.

Indeed, most of the companies say they plan to roll out more products for smartphones and tablets — including some that use Google Inc.’s Android software— next year.

“I think it’s going to be a growing segment,” says Jim Silver, editor-in-chief at toy review website T i m e To P l a y m a g. c o m .

“Next year, there will be even more (products) than you can possibly imagine.”

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are much higher. In some rural counties in northeast Washington, for example, vaccination exemption rates in recent years have been above 20 percent and even as high as 50 percent.

“Vaccine refusers tend to cluster,” said Saad Omer, an Emory University epidemiologist who has done extensive research on the issue.

Parents who let their kids skip some vaccines put others at risk, health officials say. Because no vaccine is completely effective, if an outbreak begins in an unvaccinated group of children, a vaccinated child may still be at some risk of getting sick.

Studies have found that measles has suddenly reemerged in some communities with higher exemption rates. Vaccinated kids are sometimes among the cases, or children too young to be vaccinated.

And measles isn’t the only risk. Last year, California had more than 2,100 whooping cough cases, and 10 infants died.

Only one had received a first dose of vaccine.

“Your child’s risk of getting disease depends on what your neighbors do,” Omer said.

While it seems unlikely that diseases like polio and diphtheria could make a comeback in the U.S., immunization expert Dr. Lance Rodewald says it’s not impossible.

“Polio can come back.

China was polio-free for two decades, and just this year, they were infected

from Pakistan. And there is a big outbreak of polio in China now.

(OOTC:CINW) The same could happen here,” Rodewald, of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an email.

He cited outbreaks of Hib, a disease that can lead to meningitis, among the Amish who don’t consistently vaccinate their children. Russia had a huge diphtheria outbreak in the early to mid-1990s, he said, because vaccine coverage declined.

For its review, the AP asked state health departments for kindergarten exemption rates for 200607 and 2010-11. The AP also looked at data states had previously reported to the federal government.

(Most states do not have data for the current 201112 school year.)

Alaska had the highest exemption rate in 201011, at nearly 9 percent.

Colorado’s rate was 7 percent, Minnesota 6.5 percent, Vermont and Washington 6 percent, and Oregon, Michigan and Illinois were close behind.

Mississippi was lowest, at essentially 0 percent.

The AP found 10 states had exemption rate increases over the five years of about 1.5 percentage points or more, a range health officials say is troubling.

Those states, too, were in the West and Midwest Alaska, Kansas, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. Arizona saw an in-

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Exemption seekers are often middle-class, collegeeducated white people, but there are often a mix of views and philosophies.

Exemption hot spots like Sedona, Ariz., and rural northeast Washington have concentrations of parents who prefer alternative medicine, as well as libertarians who fear giving government too much authority.

Opposition to vaccines “is putting people together that normally would not be together,” observed Elizabeth Jacobs, a University of Arizona epidemiologist looking at that state’s rising exemption rates.

A national survey of roughly 750 parents, published last month in the

journal Pediatrics, found that more than 1 in 10 parents said they refused or delayed shots mainly because of safety concerns.

Many exemption-seeking parents conclude that the dangers posed by vaccine-preventable diseases are less important than the possible harm from vaccines.

“We are being told this by every government official, teacher, doctor that we need vaccines to keep us safe from these diseases. I simply don’t believe that to be true. I believe all the diseases in question were up to 90 percent in decline before mass vaccines ever were given,” said Sabrina Paulick of Ashland. She’s a part-time caregiver for elderly people and mother of a 4-year-old daughter.

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Sitting in her home in Ashland, Ore., Jennifer Margulis shows off empty vials of vaccine that she saves in case one of her children has a bad reaction. An author of books on parenting who has written about childhood vaccines, Margulis is one of a growing number of parents questioning the government’s schedule of mandatory vaccinations for children.

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have been stuck with a needle about two dozen times with many of those shots given in infancy. The cumulative effect of all those shots has not been studied enough, some parents say.

“Many of the vaccines are unnecessary, and public health officials don’t honestly know” the effects of giving so many vaccines to such small children, said Jennifer Margulis, a mother of four and parenting book author in Ashland, Ore., a small liberal community that has unusually high vaccination exemption rates.

But few serious problems have turned up over years of vaccinations, and several studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism, a theory from the 1990s that has been widely discredited.

To be sure, childhood vaccination rates remain high overall, at 90 percent or better for several vaccines, including those for polio, measles, hepatitis B and chickenpox. In many states, exemptions are filed for fewer than 1 percent of children entering school for the first time.

Health officials have not identified an exemption threshold that would likely lead to outbreaks.

But they worry when some states have exemption rates climbing beyond 5 percent. The average state exemption rate has been estimated at less than half that.

Even more troubling are pockets in some states where exemption rates

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ATLANTA (AP) A rising number of parents in more than half of states are opting out of school shots for their kids. And in eight states, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners do not get all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found.

That has health officials worried about possible new outbreaks of diseases that were all but stamped out.

The AP analysis found more than half of states have seen at least a slight rise in the rate of exemptions over the past five years. States with the highest exemption rates are in the West and Upper Midwest.

It’s “really gotten much worse,” said Mary Selecky, secretary of health for Washington state, where 6 percent of public school parents have opted out.

Rules for exemptions vary by state and can include medical, religious or in some states philosophical reasons.

Parents’ reasons for skipping the shots vary.

Some doubt that vaccines are essential. Others fear that vaccines carry their own risks. And some find it easier to check a box opting out than to get the shots and required paperwork.

Still others are ambivalent, believing in older vaccines but questioning newer shots against, say, chickenpox.

The number of shots is also giving some parents pause. By the time most children are 6, they will

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Raising awareness of rare disease Troy woman speaks to Ohio Senate on pain syndrome bill

BY KATHY ORDING Ohio Community Media kording@tdnpublishing.com TROY — Katie Lantis’ world changed in a single moment.

Five years ago, seven months pregnant and at a local hospital, her obstetrician prescribed medication for the nausea she was experiencing. When she was given a shot in her buttock, the needle pierced her sciatic nerve.

“I screamed terribly, and I lost my whole leg in an instant,” Lantis recalls. “I walked in, and I was wheelchaired out.

“It took me a year to learn to walk again,” she said, as she describes the trauma to her left leg. “I have permanent nerve damage. I can’t move any of my toes.

Complicating the damage to her sciatic nerve is the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, or RSD, that developed, which continues to cause her chronic and debilitating pain that limits her daily life.

“I deal with constant pain. It doesn’t stop,” she said, and described the pain sensation in her left leg as “very cold. It’s freezing inside, like zero degrees.

“When winter hits, like now, you’re not going to see me outside, because it literally feels like my bones are just going to crack in my leg when I walk,” she said. “It’s constantly pulsating. It feels like somebody is taking a hammer and just banging me over and over and over again. I can’t stop it.”

“The more I do, the worse it gets,” she added. “The pain can get so bad that I’m just on the ground screaming, and I won’t walk for three days, because I don’t want to move.”

The 28-year-old has tried treatment after treatment to manage her pain, but nothing has brought relief from her RSD, a condition also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS. There are two types of the disease, Type 1 and Type 2, the first the result of something as simple as a twisted ankle or insect bite, and the second the result of nerve damage.

Those with Type 1 often go into remission, but Lantis, who has Type 2, has no chance of that happening.

“She’s one of the 5 percent (of RSD patients) that does not respond to any type of treatment,” Lantis’ mother, Kimberly Van Kirk, said.

Ohio slips to 36th in health ranking COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio has fallen to 36th in an annual health ranking of the states.

The United Health Foundation says Ohio slipped three places from its No. 33 spot in 2010 as smoking and the percentage of children in poverty increased.

The study says the state’s challenges include high levels of air pollution and relatively low spending on public health programs. Ohio’s strengths are said to include widespread immunizations, a low rate of deaths on the job and a moderate level of students completing high school.

Vermont topped the list as the healthiest state for the third straight year.

For the 10th year in a row, Mississippi ranked as the least healthy state.

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Katie Lantis and her daughter, Mae, 5, play a game together at the Westbrook home of Lantis’ parents, Kimberly and Ralph Van Kirk. The pair must stay with her parents each evening so Lantis can help with her daughter while her husband sleeps and goes to work.

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Senate Bill 40, also known as “I’ve had people go, ‘Oh, if she the Complex Regional Pain just has a positive attitude, Syndrome Education Act. she’ll be fine, it will go away,’ or, She put a face to the disease ‘If she just exercises,’ or ‘If she for senators, as she told them goes to physical therapy,’ or the story of what she has been ‘She’s faking it.’ through.

“It’s kind of like any person She was accompanied by who goes through pain, they family members, who didn’t must be lying,” said Lantis, who know beforehand just what she is married to husband Chad, was going to say. and whose daughter, Mae, is 5 “She blew me away,” Van years old.

Kirk said. “My son (Seth) is not “It’s really hard for me,” she easily impressed. He sat behind said. “It’s my disease. It’s my me, secretly videotaping while tragedy. How can somebody she was speaking, with tears very healthy go around talking running down his face.” about my disease and how I “Yeah, my husband cried too, should act and shouldn’t act, so it was hard,” Lantis said. “He and how I should be and doesn’t cry.” shouldn’t be, where I should go “She was quite the talk of the and where I shouldn’t go? It Senate, with her story,” her doesn’t make sense.” mother added, “mainly because “People just don’t have a clue she didn’t try to get up there what she lives with every day. and convince anyone. She just They don’t have a clue,” Van went up as Katie and said ‘this Kirk said. is me, look at my leg.’”

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word that the Ohio Senate had passed the bill that day, and it now goes to the Ohio House for consideration.

She will return to Columbus to testify again, if it seems necessary, but she said the expectation is that the House also will approve the measure, sometime after the first of the year.

What Senate Bill 40 does is recognize the month of November as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month in the state of Ohio, and directs the Ohio Department of Health to include information about the syndrome on its website.

The hope is that such recognition will bring about increased awareness of the disease and more funding for RSD research.

As for Lantis, she also is pursuing another avenue to spread the word about RSD. She is writing a book detailing her journey with the condition and its effects on her life and the lives of those around her.

That includes her parents, Kimberly and Ralph, at whose Westbrook home she and Mae spend each evening while her husband sleeps at their east Troy home, prior to his thirdshift job at Goodrich. She needs constant help with her daughter, and that means relying on mom and dad.

“I don’t like being with my parents all the time,” she said.

“We don’t like her being here all the time, either,” her mother countered, the two obviously

joking with each other but still pinpointing another limitation imposed on Lantis by her disease — a loss of independence.

The course her disease will take in the future is unpredictable.

“What will happen to me is, eventually it just may kill everything,” Lantis said. “It can spread all over my body. Right now, it’s just from my knee down, and it’s killing my calf muscle. It can eventually go into the thigh.

“But right now, with the foot turning in, it’s knocking my knee out of place, my hip out of place, and I’m starting to get arthritis in the back.

“Eventually, I’ll be in a wheelchair,” she concedes, and notes the disease already has spread to her eyes.

“They burn constantly like fire,” she said. “There’s nothing they can do for that.”

But many of Lantis’ fears revolve around her daughter.

“I can look back and go, ‘God, I had such a great childhood,’ and I don’t want my daughter looking back on her childhood and being, like, ‘my mom was sick,’” she said, choking up as she talks about Mae. “I already go through that now. Since she’s in school, it’s hard because I couldn’t do the first field trip because it was hiking, and I couldn’t take her trick or treating.”

Lantis did take her child along to Columbus when she testified in the Senate.

“I took her to Congress, I had her sit in Congress. My parents were like, “You’re bringing her?’ and I said, ‘It’s something I want her to see.’ Then when she grows up, she can stand up for anything and everything that she believes in, not be afraid of it. She can look back and be proud of me,” Lantis said.

Her daughter is one reason she will continue to fight her disease and use her voice to raise RSD awareness.

“It’s a fight I’m going to just keep doing,” Lantis said. “I have my hard times, I have days where I hate the world, and I don’t understand why, and I don’t like certain people, and they are really bad days.

“I shield my daughter from it, and I’ll continue to shield my daughter from it,” she added, and promised, “I’m going to keep fighting, and you’re going to hear my name everywhere.”

• For more information about complex regional pain syndrome, visit the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association’s website at www.rsds.org.

Ohio’s quake-brine link to be monitored Equipment set up to study process used in gas drilling YOUNGSTOWN (AP) — New monitoring equipment will help determine whether earthquakes in the northeast part of the state are resulting from the disposal of brine used in natural gas drilling, a state official said.

Four new seismographs have been set up in the Youngstown area of Mahoning County, which has experienced eight minor earthquakes this year,

said Andy Ware, deputy director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The latest was a magnitude-2.1 quake, generally too small to be felt by people, on Nov. 25 a few blocks from a brine injection well, The Vindicator newspaper reported.

“ODNR is very closely monitoring and will continue to monitor the seismic events in the Youngstown well area,” Ware told the Youngstown newspaper. “This equipment will be able to provide us with immediate reporting and accurate

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County dedicates new bike trail section Bikeway named in memory of Paul Duke

BY MELANIE YINGST Ohio Community Media myingst@tdnpublishing.com MIAMI COUNTY — With an informal and unplanned fly-over Thursday, bald eagles gave their blessing to the new addition to their neighborhood as the Miami County Park District dedicated one of the last phases of the Great Miami River Recreational Trail in honor of the Duke Foundation.

“This is a great tribute to my father and my brother,” said Pat Robinson, president of the Paul G. Duke Foundation.

The recognition area for the “Paul G. Duke Memorial Bikeway,” which will extend from Lytle Road to Eldean Road. This section of bikeway was funded by The Paul G. Duke Foundation and named in Duke’s honor.

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Scott Myers, deputy director of the Miami County Park District, thanks Pat Robinson, daughter of Paul G. Duke and president of the Duke Foundation at a dedication ceremony Thursday.The recognition area for the “Paul G. Duke Memorial Bikeway” extends from Lytle Road south to Eldean Road. This section of bikeway was funded by The Paul G. Duke Foundation and named in Duke’s honor.

The Duke Foundation, which was established in 1983 by Paul G. Duke, founder of Chem-Lawn, has been providing philanthropic support for non profit organizations in

Miami County and beyond for nearly 30 years.

“This will be fun and the eagles gave us an informal fly-over — so that’s great,” Robinson joked.

The 1.6-mile portion of

the bike path was dedicated with a brief and brisk ceremony at the site of the former Duke Nursery, now the Apostolic Church of Christ, 1624 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

Robinson said she’s most proud of how the Duke Foundation has continued to give and share with the community.

“Dad loved nature and he would have loved this,”

she said.

According to Scott Myers, deputy director of the Miami County Park District, the portion of the bike path will include park benches for bikers and trail enthusiasts to stop and rest and enjoy the views. The park also plans to include four plaques outlining the history of the Dukes’ entrepreneurial endeavors through the ChemLawn Corp.

The dedicated bike path will be completed in the spring, Myers said.

“It’s fitting where the shop (former Duke Nursery) was, there will be benches, the four signs and trees for a rest area,” said Bob Shook, chairman of the Miami County Trails Task Force. “The signs will have the history of the Duke Nursery and the start of ChemLawn.

“We’re grateful for all the recognition and it’s fun to give back,” Robinson said.

For more information about the Miami County Park District, visit www.miamicountyparks.com.

Bradford Library to host Cookie Exchange Ohio The BRADFORD — Bradford Public Library is hosting its annual Cookie Exchange from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Each participant is asked to bring two to three dozen homemade cookies of your choice to the Cookie Exchange. If

participants would like to share the recipe, library staff can assist. At the event, each person will leave with a variety of cookies for the winter holidays. For further information, contact the library at 448-2612.

The library also is an-

nouncing its winter break hours. The library will be closed on the following dates: Saturday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 26 and Saturday, Dec. 31. The library will be open for its regular and expanded winter break hours from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27

and Thursday, Dec. 29 and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30 and will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 2. Watch the library website and newspapers for a brand new, every Saturday event beginning sometime in January.

Pollution Continued from page 1 Miami River, south by Race Drive, west by Market Street, with Williams Street finishing the square to the east.

How Troy’s water health affects Piqua revolves around current research on whether to build a new water treatment plant solely for the city of Piqua or connect with Troy’s current, 40year-old treatment plant that would leave Piqua using Troy’s water.

U.S. EPA Community Involvement Coordinator Don de Blasio and U.S. EPA Remedial Project Manager Shari Kolak were hosts of the fall meeting as part of EPA Region 5 that serves Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio.

Blasio and Kolak stressed the meeting was not meant to be alarmist in nature and that the area’s finished drinking water was not affected as they went on to explain Troy’s primary contaminant PCE (Tetrachloroethylene) was found in groundwater and soil gas, along with TCE (Trichloroethylene).

Both TCE and PCE are man-made chemicals, with PCE widely used for dry cleaning and metaldegreasing.

As a nonflammable liquid, PCE evaporates easily in the air and has a sweet odor, while TCE is a colorless liquid with a somewhat sweet chloroform-like odor and sweet burning taste. Likewise, TCE has been used for degreasing of metal parts and widely used in automotive and metal-fabricating industries from the 1950s to 1970s.

According to (HAS) Health Assessment Section of the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) single exposure of PCE in high enough concentrations may cause dizziness, headaches, sleepiness, confusion, nausea, difficulty in speaking and walking, unconsciousness and death. With the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifying it as a Group 2A carcinogen meaning it is “probably” carcinogenic to humans.

IARC also classifies TCE as a Group 2A carcinogen, while the U.S. EPA had classified it as a B2 carcinogen - a probable human cancer-causing agent. However, a classification update this fall from the EPA to the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database, “characterizes the chemical as carcinogenic to humans and as a human noncancer health hazard.”

Because the plume of contamination was found to be migrating towards the well fields of the city, the U.S. EPA proposed the Troy site (East Troy Contaminated Aquifer Superfund Site) to the National Priorities list.

Troy is not alone in terms of ground water pollution in the Miami Valley as TCE and other VOCs were found beneath BehrDayton Thermal, a manufacturer of heating and air conditioning automotive parts about two miles north of downtown Dayton.

The Dayton VOC plume involved 76 residential and commercial properties with Van Cleve Elementary, some 1,600 feet south of Behr, going so far as to relocate after indoor air samples tested above HAS screening levels in 2007.

Like Dayton’s plume it is unknown how long the contamination has been present in the impacted Troy neighborhoods or whether residents were being exposed in the past.

Between July 2006 and April 2007, the U.S. EPA collected sub-slab and indoor air samples from 85 locations: 78 residences, two churches, four schools and the Troy Police Station.

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dences and one school.

Vapor abatement units were installed that summer with confirmation sampling showing the system was working according to a health consultation report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from July 29, 2008.

As posed by the HAS report in 2008, “less than 15 percent of the homes in the area of concern have been sampled and it is likely that other homes in this area could be above the screening levels as well.”

As noted in both reports and the fall meeting in Troy, until the source of the plume can be identified, and thus removed, contamination poses a potential public health hazard for residents living in the area both presently and for the future.

“We haven’t done any of the sampling, so no information to report,” said Kolak in a message last week when asked about any updates on testing in the affected area.

Right now the group is shooting for testing this month once they’ve secured a lab.

For more information visit: www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/troyvoc.

Stay tuned to a future Daily Call for more information.

nursing homes report job cutbacks Action follows cuts in funding

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio nursing homes have slashed thousands of jobs amid recent cuts in federal and state government funding, according to industry surveys. Advocates warn that patient care will worsen as there are fewer workers to tend to them, but the state says more patients are moving to homebased care, an area where jobs are opening up.

Member nursing homes surveyed by the Ohio Health Care Association reported that some 2,800 jobs were eliminated since July 1, mainly nurses and nursing assistants, the trade group’s executive director, Peter Van Runkle, said.

Another group, LeadingAge Ohio, said its nonprofit nursing home members have cut more than 300 jobs in recent weeks.

The reductions have come against a backdrop of government cutbacks. The federal government an-

nounced in July that it would cut Medicare payments to nursing homes by 11 percent to correct an unintended spike in payments this year because of a glitch in a formula.

Meanwhile, the state has trimmed Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes by an average 5.8 percent per patient, the Dayton Daily News reported.

The government programs cover 70 percent of the costs of nursing-home care.

“Nursing homes were expecting the state cuts … but were caught by surprise when the federal government cut Medicare payments,” Van Runkle said. “That hit (nursing homes) hard.”

The quality of care and nursing home employment will be hurt over the long haul by the more limited funding, said John Alfano, president and CEO of LeadingAge Ohio.

Bill would avoid dual primaries COLUMBUS (AP) — A leading Republican in the Ohio House has introduced a plan to avoid holding two primaries in the key presidential battleground state.

State Rep. Matt Huffman said Thursday his bill would move all of next year’s local, state and federal primaries to May 8.

The GOP-controlled Legislature voted in October to shift the state’s

presidential and U.S. House primaries to June while keeping state, local and U.S. Senate primary contests in March.

It would cost taxpayers an estimated $15 million to hold a second primary election.

A dispute over Republican-drawn congressional lines led lawmakers to create separate dates for the state’s nominating contests.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Effective allies can sometimes be difficult to find, so when dealing with matters of extreme importance, it might be best to rely solely on your own assets.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Many persons might be able to be led, but not driven or pushed into submission. So if you need to get certain people working on your team, keep this in mind.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Taking a big risk might be okay when you know the odds are tilted in your favor, but when things are not that certain, it would be far better to avoid taking chances.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — If you take the position that you are absolutely right and your mate is totally wrong, all you’ll do is prolong the argument. Regardless of what you think, it is best to give an inch or two.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If you’re given some unfamiliar tools to work with, find somebody who is experienced in using them to teach you, and follow their instructions to the letter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A lack of discipline could quickly sow the seeds for spender’s remorse. You had better get a handle on your funds right off the bat or risk being broke by day’s end.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — In situations where it’s okay to be a bit assertive, you should take care not to go overboard and become pushy. To protect yourself, use charm not force to get what you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — When you dig in it can be difficult for you to forgive and forget, and when this happens it usually works against you. Let go and get on with living your life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You won’t have any problems being generous with others of your own volition. However, if someone requests it of you, you’re not likely to be too magnanimous in your treatment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Manipulative moves could jeopardize your relationships with others, so try to enjoy friends for what they are instead of what they have to offer. That would only work against you.

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100 - Announcement

PLACE YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK 877-844-8385 OR ON THE WEB AT WWW.DAILYCALL.COM • PIQUA DAILY CALL

235 General

235 General

HOLIDAY BAZAAR & CRAFT FAIR: Saturday, December 10, 2011.

9am-3pm. FREE ADMISSION. Second Baptist Church, 232 South Wayne Street, Piqua, OH Info.: (937)773-0619 Crafts, gifts, food, face painting, music.

PIANO LESSONS, Register NOW! Professional and private piano lesson for beginners of all ages.

30 years experience. Gift certificates now available.

Great Christmas gift. Call: (937)418-8903

125 Lost and Found LOST: Beagle mix, female, 1 year old, black, white and brown, vicinity Holfinger Rd., west Piqua.

Answers to Heidi.

(937)473-3304 LOST: cat, black male, 3 legged, in need of medical attention, vicinity of Linden and Manier Ave. (937)773-7893, (937)418-9385 LOST: diamond ring, keepsake, vicinity of Krogers.

Reward.

(937)773-3382 LOST/STOLEN: Prada wallet, pink. $25 reward.

(937)778-8577

200 - Employment

Five Bay Shop, Four Mobile Trucks and office located in East Liberty, OH Mobile trucks also in St. Paris, OH and Russell’s Point, OH We run a nearly 24/7 repair and maintenance operation.

Star Leasing specializes in leasing and maintenance of semitrailers. Previous experience working on semi-trailers is a PLUS.

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GREENVILLE

CNC Machinist CNC Programmer Program Analyst Maint. Technicians Machine Operator Production Assemblers CDL Class-A Warehouse Fabricators Welders HR Associates CALL TODAY!

(937)778-8563 This position requires the candidate to have basic knowledge of computers, pass a background check and drug screen, lift at least 50 lbs. and work in cold and hot weather.

Please fax the completed application and resume to 937-644-2858.

Star Leasing is an equal opportunity employer.

SECURITY OFFICER Full, part time. Requirements: 18 years old, HS diploma/ GED, clean background check, pass drug test, basic computer skills.

Call (937)454-9035 between 9am - 3pm, Monday - Friday, to schedule appointment. All calls outside these hours will not be considered.

Please visit our website at www.starleasing.com for an application.

WE ARE RECRUITING FOR ALL SHIFTS $7.50 to $11.25/ hour

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Miami County 235 General

HIRING EVENT

CNC OPERATORS MANAGER TRAINEE QUALITY INSPECTOR ASSEMBLERS PLASTIC INJECTION Must pass drug screen and background check.

Email resume to: tyounce@ iforceservices.com or call:

(937)499-4685

9th,

9am-

Miami County Job & Family Services 2040 N. Co. Rd. 25A TROY Bring (2) forms of ID and resume to apply.

Questions? Call Denise: (937)233-5500 IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Mig Welders/ Fabricators, CNC Operator, Manufacturing Engineer, Assemblers, Construction. Valid DL & HSD/ GED required, pass background check.

BarryStaff (937)726-6909 or (937)381-0058 EOE

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1 BEDROOM with Garage Starting at $595 Off Dorset in Troy (937)313-2153

EVERS REALTY TROY, 2 bedroom townhomes, 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, ca, w/d hook up, all appliances, $685 (937)216-5806 EversRealty.net

Our local established manufacturing company is seeking a foundry supervisor with 3-5 years foundry and supervisory experience.

Qualified candidates will have good understanding of operational tasks and equipment to improve operating efficiency, process materials in accordance with manufacturing specification and quality standards, provide safe work environment and develop/ coach employees within department.

1&2 BEDROOM apartments, stove & refrigerator furnished. Deposit & no pets. (937)773-9498.

2 BEDROOM in Troy, Stove, refrigerator, W/D, A/C, very clean, cats ok. $525. (937)573-7908 2 BEDROOM unfurnished apartment in Covington, $460 month plus utilities, (937)216-3488.

2&3 BEDROOM TOWNHOMES, Piqua, all appliances including washer/ dryer, 1.5 & 2.5 bath.

(937)335-7176 www.1troy.com

Competitive benefits/ compensation package.

Interested candidates forward resume to: Piqua Daily Call Dept. 870 310 Spring St. Piqua, OH 45356

250 Office/Clerical

HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1ST MONTH FREE

Apply online at: www.Staffmark.com 1600 W. Main St. TROY (937)335-0118

EOE M/F/D/V

240 Healthcare

Troy Crossing Apartments (937)313-2153 $99 SPECIAL 1 & 2 BEDROOM CALL FOR DETAILS

• Close to 75 • Toddler Playground • Updated Swimming

ARROWHEAD VILLAGE APARTMENTS 807 Arrowhead, Apt.F Sidney, Ohio (937)492-5006 ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ●✦ CLEAN, QUIET, safe 1 bedroom.

Senior approved. No pets. $450 (937)778-0524 HOLIDAY SPECIAL Every new move in on or before December 30th, 2011 will receive $50 gift card

TERRACE RIDGE APARTMENTS Troy Now accepting applications. Senior/ Disabled/ Handicapped Independent Living. Studios, 1 & 2 bedrooms. Amenities include stove, refrigerator, A/C. Deposit and rent based on income.

Call (937)335-6950 TTY (216)472-1884 EHO

MCGOVERN RENTALS TROY 2 BR duplexes & 2 BR townhouses. 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, fireplace, Great Location! Starting at $625-$675.

(937)335-1443

CHURCH OFFICE SECRETARY

Only $475 2 Bedroom 1.5 Bath Now Available

Pool

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• Pet Friendly

280 Transportation

PIQUA, 2 bedroom carpeted, in Parkridge, A/C, stove, fridge, $400 month, $400 deposit. NO PETS! Call (937)418-6056.

PIQUA, 313 Broadway, 2 bedroom, downstairs, includes stove & refrigerator, no pets, $400, (937)418-8912.

PIQUA, 414 S Main, large 2 bedroom, stove refrigerator $400 monthly, (937)418-8912 PIQUA NORTHEND, 2 bedroom, 2 months rent free to qualified applicants! Downstairs with appliances and w/d hookup, new kitchen windows & bath, non-smoking or pets, deposit, required.

Available now! Included heat, $470 month, (937)773-2938 PIQUA upstairs, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, stove & refrigerator furnished (937)773-3285 after 5pm.

TROY, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 & $525 month. $200 Deposit Special!

(937)673-1821

Now leasing to 62 & older!

PIQUA, LARGE 1 bedroom, upstairs, applianc es, utilities included, no pets, off street parking.

(937)339-0969.

TROY, 2 bedroom townhouse, 845 N. Dorset.

1.5 baths, carport, appliances, washer/ dryer hookup, water, $585.

(937)239-0320 www.miamicounty properties.com

280 Transportation

280 Transportation

WE’RE GROWING

Part Time Position 25 hours per week Computer Experience Required e-mail resumes to: St. Paul's Church stpaulspiqua@sbcglobal.net

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DELIVER PHONE BOOKS Work Your Own Hours, Have Insured Vehicle.

Must be at least 18 years old, Valid DL. No Experience Necessary!

Degree in Design Engineering with 5+ years hands on experience in HVAC (Industrial Blowers & Fans) and Mechanical design with experience on CAD System and 3D Solid Edge Modeling. Primary duties consist of design and manufacturing of new products and the revision of the existing engineering database to reflect manufacturing and design improvements and cost reduction.

Send resume to: rbwilde @yahoo.com

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1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts.

SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

ENGINEER ▲ ❖ ▼❖ ▲

HELP WANTED SEMI-TRAILER MECHANICS FOR SHOP & MOBILE TRUCKS ALL SHIFTS

December noon

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DESIGN

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105 Announcements

245 Manufacturing/Trade

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280 Transportation Drivers $1000 Sign on Bonus, Safety incentives, Benefits Package, Vacation Package After six months. OTR CDL-A 1 yr 888-560-9644

DRIVERS - start the new year with a great new job! Our drivers enjoy the following benefits:

• $.40/mile with annual increases • Ability to earn $.02/mile bonuses • 4 weeks vacation/year • Home most weekends • Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance • Dependable Equipment • Direct Deposit Must have CDLA and 1 yr recent OTR experience.

Call Continental Express 800/497-2100 or apply at www.ceioh.com

300 - Real Estate

RN/LPN (800)518-1333

Miami County Board of DD

Must have experience/ training in Evidencebased Early Intervention Practices.

Preferred: LSW, Teaching License or RN. Specialized teaching for developmentally delayed or at risk children ages birth to two.

See website www.riversidedd.org for further qualifications needed.

Please no phone inquiries.

FULL-TIME GENERAL LABORER Steel machining shop in need of full-time general laborer for first shift.

Hours are MondayFriday 7:30am - 4pm Please send resume/ application with references to: Dayton Superior Products 1370 Lytle Road Troy, OH 45373

Integrity Ambulance Service is Hiring EMT's: Basic's, Intermediates Paramedics; and Driver's.

Must be 21, have high school diploma or GED and pass: Criminal Background, Physical and Drug/Alcohol screen.

Call Mr. Oiler at (937)316-6100

MANAGERS Small drive thru chain hiring managers, Must have at least 2 years retail management experience.

Please submit resume to: 608 Weber Street Piqua, Oh 45356

Premium pay and benefits available!

Residence Inn by Marriott-Troy Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott-Troy Apply within at the Residence Inn at: 87 Troy Town Drive, Troy

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For Rent

305 Apartment 1 BEDROOM, downstairs, 431 W. Ash, stove, refrigerator, no pets, $350 monthly (937)418-8912

205 Business Opportunities

CNC MACHINISTS Crane Pumps & Systems has multiple openings for CNC Machinists on 2nd shift.

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REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 3+ years experience operating and set up of CNC mills and lathes Proficient with CNC Lathes/ Mills, Fanuc/ Okuma controls.

Ability to edit and troubleshoot programs Ability to read blueprints and familiar with GD & T

NOTICE Investigate in full before sending money as an advance fee. For further information, call or write:

Better Business Bureau 15 West Fourth St. Suite 300 Dayton, OH 45402 www.dayton.bbb.org 937.222.5825 This notice is provided as a public service by A newspaper group of Ohio Community Media 2239270

Competitive wage and benefit package including 401(k).

NOW HIRING!

If these words describe you, we may have a position for you! We are looking for FRONT DESK full and part-time, must be available to work all 3 shifts.

245 Manufacturing/Trade

EMT's must have certification.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

✩ FUN ✩ ✩ FRIENDLY ✩ ✩ ENERGETIC ✩

Resumes can be dropped off at 530 Crescent Drive, Troy 8-5 Mon-Thurs

TRANSPORTATION SPECIALISTS NEEDED Seeking part-time driver for Miami County and one part-time driver for Darke County to transport individuals with mental health needs to and from our Piqua and Greenville sites. Morning and afternoon routes, approximate 5-10 hours per week.

Must be safety-minded, friendly, patient and caring.

Send resume and cover letter to: SafeHaven Inc. 633 N. Wayne St. Piqua, OH 45356 by: December 16, 2011

Send resume including salary history to: Crane Pumps & Systems, Inc. Attn: Ashley Overman 420 Third Street Piqua, OH 45356 FAX: (937)615-3561 EMAIL: aoverman@ cranepumps.com EOE/M/F/D/V

JOURNEY MEN ELECTRICIAN Meyer Electric is now accepting applications Send resumes to: P.O. Box 521, Sidney or stop in at: 837 St. Marys Avenue for applications

CAUTION Whether posting or responding to an advertisement, watch out for offers to pay more than the advertised price for the item. Scammers will send a check and ask the seller to wire the excess through Western Union (possibly for courier fees).

The scammer's check is fake and eventually bounces and the seller loses the wired amount.

While banks and Western Union branches are trained at spotting fake checks, these types of scams are growing increasingly sophisticated and fake checks often aren't caught for weeks.

Funds wired through Western Union or MoneyGram are irretrievable and virtually untraceable.

If you have questions regarding scams like these or others, please contact the Ohio Attorney General’s office at (800)282-0515.

2242556

Early Intervention Developmental Specialist

Early Childhood Services Coordinator

Parttime

2231137

Ext. 224 www.deliver thephonebook.com

The Council on Rural Services is seeking an experienced, highly motivated, dynamic leader who is committed to the early childhood profession to oversee, operate, and grow their Kids Learning Place location in Piqua in Miami County. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 2 years direct supervisory experience, management in childcare operations, and a working knowledge of childcare licensing regulations in a Step Up to Quality accredited child care center. This position is responsible for the overall management of the center, including staff supervision, team development, effective parent relationships, and administration of daily operations. In addition, must possess excellent communication and business development skills and be willing to work with the local community to sustain continued growth. A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business, Marketing, Early Childhood Education or related) is required. The Kids Learning Place in Piqua provides full-day, year round, quality early care and education to over 220 children ages birth through school age. Our goal is to prepare children for success in school and in life by giving them a great start toward a bright future. Minimum starting salary is $39,748.

To apply please visit our website at www.councilonruralservices.org or send cover letter and resume to wmoorman@councilonruralservices.org

Compliance and Data Manager The Council on Rural Services is seeking a highly-skilled, experienced Compliance and Data Manager to report on client progress and outcomes for participants enrolled in all Council on Rural Services programs as well as facilitate and manage agency wide data and processes that analyze department specific achievement indicators. Selected candidate will support the education focus and operations of the Agency by developing a working knowledge of State and Federal program performance standards. The ideal candidate must be energetic, hard-working, motivated, and reflect the leadership traits that support excellence throughout the programs. Must be skilled in the use of computer software for spreadsheets and statistical analysis and the ability to access, analyze and present gathered information in visually compelling formats.

Qualified candidates must have a Master’s Degree in Statistical Computing, Data Analysis, Business Administration or related field as well as thorough knowledge of data collection and analysis. Applied experience in assessment, statistics, and research methodology and supervisory experience is also highly desired.

Along with our excellent benefit package, we offer a minimum starting salary of $45,489 To apply please visit our website at www.councilonruralservices.org or send cover letter and resume to wmoorman@councilonruralservices.org

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PIQUA DAILY CALL • PLACE YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK 877-844-8385 OR ON THE WEB AT WWW.DAILYCALL.COM

Service&Business DIRECTORY

To advertise in the Classifieds That Work Service & Business Directory please call: 877-844-8385

Too much stuff?

655 Home Repair & Remodel

655 Home Repair & Remodel

WE KILL BED BUGS! 00 starting at $ 159 !!

(See Us For Do-It-Yourself Products)

that work .com

For 75 Years

Since 1936

KIDZ TOWN

2464 Peters Road, Troy, Ohio 45373

945476

625 Construction

2236560

“A CUT ABOVE THE REST”

(937)339-7333

2239920

SNOW BLOWER tune up special at Cy’s Lawn Equipment Repair. Tune up includes oil, spark plug, air filter, carburetor degummed and belts if needed.

Starting at $19.99 to $54.99, price does not include pickup up, hockcy@yahoo.com (937)974-8012.

(937) 339-1902 or (937) 238-HOME Free Estimates • Fully Insured • 17 Years of Home Excellence

Continental Contractors

CALL TODAY! (937)418-4712 or (937)710-5277 1144 Fisher Dr., Piqua, OH 45356

665 Lawn, Garden, Landscaping

• Pruning • Cabling & • Stump Bracing Removal • Lot Cleaning • Trimming • Storm Damage • Dead Wooding FREE Estimates • Fully Insured

Small #Basements #Siding #Doors #Barns

Ask about our Friends & Neighbors discounts

• 1st, 2nd and 3rd shift • Tax Claimable • Price Negotiable for more than one child • Meals and snacks provided • Close to Nicklin & Wilder School District • Mornings, before and after school

Roofing • Siding • Windows

2240000

670 Miscellaneous

Gutters • Doors • Remodel

635 Farm Services

Voted #1 Pole BarnsErected Prices:

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260-410-6454

Handyman Services

until December 31, 2011 with this coupon

Sparkle Clean

937-773-4552

Cleaning Service

Decks, Drywall, Cement, Paint, Fences, Repairs, Cleanup, Hauling, Roofing, Siding, Etc. Insured/References

2239931

Flea Market 1684 Michigan Ave. in the Sidney Plaza next to Save-A-Lot

Tammy Welty (937)857-4222

VENDORS WELCOME

Hours: Fri. 9-8 Sat. & Sun. 9-5 2238095

675 Pet Care

640 Financial

Bankruptcy Attorney

937-573-4737 www.buckeyehomeservices.com

Emily Greer

• Roofing • Windows • Kitchens • Sunrooms

937-620-4579

(937) 473-2847 Pat Kaiser (937) 216-9332

630 Entertainment

• Specializing in Chapter 7 • Affordable rates • Free Initial Consultation

• Spouting • Metal Roofing • Siding • Doors

• Baths • Awnings • Concrete • Additions

CALL TODAY FOR FREE ESTIMATE

I am a debt relief agency. I help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code. 2239628

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2227451

2233922

• New Roof & Roof Repair • Painting • Concrete • Hauling • Windows & Doors • New Rubber Roofs

Amy E. Walker, D.V.M. 937-418-5992 Mobile Veterinary Service Treating Dogs, Cats & Exotics

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Since 1977

655 Home Repair & Remodel

700 Painting

CURTIS PAINTING & HOME REPAIR

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BBB Accredted

Booking now for 2011 and 2012

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HALL(S) FOR RENT! scchallrental@midohio.twcbc.com

(937)454-6970

LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED

CERAMIC TILE AND HOME REPAIRS RON PIATT Owner/Installer

Call for a free damage inspection.

We will work with your insurance.

937-489-9749 In Memory Of Morgan Ashley Piatt

Call Walt for a FREE Estimate Today

OFFICE 937-773-3669

320 Houses for Rent

320 Houses for Rent

TROY, 535 Stonyridge, 2 bedroom, stove, refrigerator, NO PETS. $450 month, $450 deposit.

(937)418-8912.

319 GLENWOOD, Beautiful 3 Bedroom, stainless steel refrigerator, stove and dishwasher, washer/ dryer hook-up. 2 Car garage, CA, 20 x 20 family room, fenced yard. $725 plus utilities.

(937)520-4290

PIQUA, 1825 Wilshire, 3 bedroom ranch, natural gas, $800 plus deposit.

No pets.

Call (937)773-4493

VERY NICE large 2 bedroom, 1.5 baths, refrigerator, stove, washer/dryer hookup, off street parking, (937)308-9709.

919 BROADWAY, Piqua. half double home, Newly updated, $397, (937)573-6917 COVINGTON, 24 N. Ludlow, 2 Bedroom, 1 car garage, fenced yard, all appliances, no pets, $450 (937)418-8912

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PIQUA, 2935 Delaware Circle, 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, all appliances, No pets, $880 monthly, 1 year lease, (937)778-0524

Get it

4 UNIT Apartment Building on Wayne Street, Troy. Single bedroom, non-smoking, no pets. 5 car detached garage.

Clearing 8% plus priced to sell.

(937)603-7529, 8am-5pm

500 - Merchandise with

315 Condos for Rent LOVELY TROY, 2 bedroom condo, private parking, washer/ dryer hookup. Appliances. $575.

Month FREE! (937)335-5440

IN BRADFORD, nice 1 bedroom house, nice yard, $350, (937)773-2829 after 2pm.

NEWLY RENOVATED, master suite, hardwood flooring, fireplace, modern kitchen, partial basement, appliances, 2 car detached garage, fenced yard. 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, two story, brick. $970. orrfelt@orrfelt.com.

(937)371-9142.

PIQUA, 520 Miami Street, small 2 bedroom, 1 car garage, central air, $550, (937)418-8912.

325 Mobile Homes for Rent NEAR BRADFORD in country 3 bedroom trailer, $350. Also 2 bedroom trailer, washer/dryer hookup. $375. (937)417-7111, (937)448-2974

510 Appliances WASHER and DRYER, Whirlpool Gold series. 3 Years old, like new, excellent condition! Paid $1600 selling set for $500.

(937)552-7786 WASHER, Maytag Centenial, three years old, like new condition. Asking $150. (937)778-8816

535 Farm Supplies/Equipment GAS TANK, approx 300 gal round, pump and nozzle, $150 (937)368-5009

545 Firewood/Fuel

that work .com WEST MILTON Townhouse. 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. $475 month, Lease by 12-15, FREE GIFTCARD, (937)216-4233.

937-335-4425 937-287-0517

I’M SOLD

SELL IT

FIND IT

305 Apartment

TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, No dogs $475. (937)339-6776.

Interior/Exterior Painting Commercial/Residential Svc. Vinyl Siding & Soffet Drywall/ Plaster Repair Carpentry, and Basement Remodeling Services Available Fully Insured 21 Years Experience

DO YOU HAVE MISSING SHINGLES OR STORM DAMAGE?

Licensed & Insured

LEGAL NOTICE DIRECTORY SHERIFF’S SALE SHELBY COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-207 Mutual Federal Savings Bank vs.

David A. Zimmerman, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-078162 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 763, page 359 Also known as: 2216 Navajo Trail, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100 ($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Michael A. Staudt, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011

Sidney

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Commercial / Residential

GREAT condition. 80,000 miles- mostly highway, recently detailed inside and out. Non-smoker and no accidents. All scheduled maintenance performed, $12,500.

Call (937)773-2694 ask for Jennie

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Residential Commercial New Construction Bonded & Insured

Complete Projects or Helper

660 Home Services

$10 OFF Service Call

660 Home Services

(937) 339-7222

Horseback Riding Lessons Holiday Special Buy 4 lessons & GET 1 FREE • No experience required.

• Adults & Children ages 5 & up • Gift Certificates Available • Major Credit Cards Accepted Flexible Schedule Nights & Weekends 937-778-1660 www.sullenbergerstables.com

AK Construction

All Types of Interior/Exterior Construction & Maintenance

CHORE BUSTER

•Refrigerators •Stoves •Washers & Dryers •Dishwashers • Repair & Install Air Conditioning

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Will do roofing, siding, windows, doors, dry walling, painting, porches, decks, new homes, garages, room additions.

30 Years experience Amos Schwartz (260)273-6223

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AMISH CREW

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Any type of Construction: Roofing, remodeling, siding, add-ons, interior remodeling and cabintets, re-do old barns, new home construction, etc.

(419) 203-9409

937-492-5150

We do...

Pole Barns • New Homes Roofs • Garages • Add Ons Cement Work • Remodeling Etc.

•30x40x12 with 2 doors, $9,900 •40x64x14 with 2 doors, $16,000 ANY SIZE AVAILABLE!

APPLIANCE REPAIR 2239987

AMISH CREW A&E Construction

TERRY’S

in Shelby County

by Sidney Daily News Readers

FREE ES AT T ES IM

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Amish Crew

2008 FORD ESCAPE XLT

“All Our Patients Die”

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#Repairs Large and #Room Additions #Kitchens/Baths #Windows #Garages

K I D S P L AC E CHILDREN 2 YRS AND UP 40 HOURS $70 WEEK 25 HOURS AND LESS $30 WEEK

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937-335-6080

1st and 2nd shifts weeks 12 ayears We•Provide care for children 6 weeks• to6 12 years andtooffer Super • Preschool andprogram Pre-K 3’s, and 4/5’s preschool andprograms a Pre-K and Kindergarten • Before and after school care program. We offer before and after school care, •Enrichment Transportation to Troy schools Kindergarten and school age transportation to Troy schools.

INFANTS 0-2 YEARS 40 HOURS $70 WEEK 25 HOURS AND LESS $30 WEEK

Free Inspections

Roofing, Windows, Siding, Fire & Water Restoration

LEARNING CENTER

Center hours 6am 11:55pm Center hoursnow 6 a.m. to 6top.m.

773-4200

937-492-ROOF

CALL TODAY!335-5452 CALL 335-5452

To advertise in the Classifieds That Work Picture it Sold please call: 877-844-8385

KNOCKDOWN SERVICES

Sell it in the

620 Childcare

Picture it Sold

660 Home Services

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510 Appliances REFRIGERATOR, Samsung RF265AA (25.8 cu. ft.), bottom freezer, French door, like new. All white, very clean, adjustable glass shelves.

French style doors are great and freezer is huge!

Must sell. $450 kristinegrangaard@yahoo.com.

(408)483-9539.

FIREWOOD, $125 a core pick up, $150 a core delivered, $175 a core delivered and stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237 FIREWOOD, $50 Truckload, delivered, split, seasoned hardwood, (937)596-6544 FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, (937)844-3756.

SHERIFF’S SALE SHELBY COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-207 Mutual Federal Savings Bank vs.

David A. Zimmerman, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-077850 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 799, page 499 Also known as: 2005 Navajo Trail, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100 ($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Michael A. Staudt, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011 2241441

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-415 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Janet M. Verhage, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-092680 Prior Deed Reference: 737, page 495 Also known as: 1611 South Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Two Thousand and 00/100 ($102,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Maria T. Williams, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011 2241425

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-380 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs.

James R. Polhamus, Jr., et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-002690 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 752, page 780 Also known as: 233 East North Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

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

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

Christopher M. Schweiterman, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011 2241432

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Friday, December 9, 2011

545 Firewood/Fuel

890 Trucks

SEASONED FIREWOOD $165 per cord. Stacking extra, $135 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047

2000 CHEVY S10 Extreme.

Black, 130k miles.

Fair condition. $3000 OBO. (937)538-0714

560 Home Furnishings ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, with Lighted bookcases, excellent condition, dark oak color, will deliver within Sidney, asking $1,000.

Call (937)492-0494 SLEEPER SOFA, mauve and blue floral, 7 foot.

Good condition. $250.

Oak double door TV cabinet, lots of storage, DVD player shelf. $150.

(937)638-5591 TELEVISION, 36" Toshiba, picture in picture. Includes stand. $200.

(937)778-0906

577 Miscellaneous CRIB, cradle, changing table, Pack-N-Play, basinet, Porta-Crib, saucer, playpen, car seat, blankets, clothes, gate, potty, tub, bears, more.

(937)339-4233 HOSPITAL BED, invacare, electric foot and head, with mattress, 450 lbs. capacity, good condition. $325 (937)335-4276 HOSPITAL TABLE on wheels, formica top table 30x48, maple stand two drawer, dog cage 24 inch, walker, $20 choice.

(937)339-4233 JUKE BOXES, three, Seaburg, Model SCD1, Rowe Ami, Model R93, Rowe Ami, Model R83, Cherry Master video game. (937)606-0248 METAL. Wanting anything that contains metal.

Will haul away for FREE. Call (937)451-1566 or (937)214-0861.

TREK BICYCLE, 26 inch, Sole Ride 200 M/F frame, 3 speed as new. $200 Cash (937)339-1394 WALKER, hospital table, tub/shower benches, commode chair, toilet riser, glider rocker, tub grabbers, end table, microwave & toaster ovens, more. (937)339-4233

583 Pets and Supplies AQUARIUM, 29 gallon, oak trim. Includes 30" oak trim deluxe hood, 29 gallon deluxe oak stand. All for $100. (937)552-7786 BERNICE & Black Lab puppies, ready to go, just in time for Christmas, $50.

(937)448-0522 JACK RUSSELL mix, 11 years old. Free to good home. Elderly owner no longer able to care for her. (937)526-4166 KITTENS, gorgeous! 3 months old. Tabbies, long haired and short haired.

Charcoal and silver stripes. Friendly and litter trained, $10 each.

(937)473-2122 MALTESE 6 months to 3 years, males and females $200 with papers also Golden Yorkshire Terriers $200 males young adults.

Morkie $50, male 4 months.

Cash only.

(937)332-1370 PIT BULLS. 3 blue nose Pit puppies. 2 grey females. 1 fawn (light tan male), blue eyes, 9 weeks old. UKC registered parents, shots, $300 OBO. (937)938-1724 moneyace99@yahoo.com

592 Wanted to Buy CASH, top dollar paid for junk cars/trucks, running or non-running. I will pick up.

Thanks for calling (937)719-3088 or (937)451-1019 COSTUME JEWELRY, old, one piece or full jewelry box. Clean out mom's or grandma's. Paying top dollar. (937)773-5653

800 - Transportation

805 Auto 2004 BUICK Le Sabre Ltd. 20,200 miles, white, navy blue cloth top. Loaded, front wheel drive, Leather interior, Immaculate. Florida car! $13,000 OBO. (937)492-1308 2007 HONDA CRV, low mileage only 53,034 , moon roof, AWD. Would make a great Christmas present. Asking $14,000 below book value.

(937)751-8381

850 Motorcycles/Mopeds MOTORCYCLES, 1982 Kawasaki KZ44-D, runs good, approx.

36,000 miles, $500. 1978 Suzuki GS750EC, parts only $100. (937)368-5009

899 Wanted to Buy Wanted junk cars and trucks!

Cash paid! www.wantedjunkers.com Get the most for your junker call (937)732-5424.

PLACE YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK 877-844-8385 OR ON THE WEB AT WWW.DAILYCALL.COM • PIQUA DAILY CALL

LEGAL NOTICE DIRECTORY

925 Legal Notices SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-513 The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWALT 2005-01CB vs.

Judith Lamoreaux aka Judith Ann Williams aka Judith Wood aka Judy Lamoreaux aka Judith A. Lamoreaux. et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-027880 Prior Deed Reference: Instrument No. 0416895 Also known as: 1512 Madison Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Carrie L. Rouse, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-503 JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association vs.

Seth I. McKinney, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-054340 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 758, page 527 Also known as: 1706 Nicklin Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

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

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

Maria T. Williams, Attorney 12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-222 U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Mortgage Pass Through Certificated, Series 2007-1 vs.

Benjamin D. Davis, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-033140 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 716, page 561 Also known as: 519 Wilson Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Thousand and 00/100 ($60,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Christopher J. Mantica, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-422 PHH Mortgage Corporation fka Cendant Mortgage Corporation vs.

Sharon Dawson aka Sharon K. Dawson, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-026870 Prior Deed Reference: Vol. 725, page 881 Also known as: 1212 Lindsey Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

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

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

Christopher M. Schweiterman, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-517 JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. vs.

Phyllis I. Fitzwater, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-018410 & N44-018390 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 770, page 516 Also known as: 500 Riverside Drive, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

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

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

S. Scott Martin, Attorney 12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-262 The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders CWABS, Inc., Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-24 vs.

Justin Doggett aka Justin Lane Doggett, et aal Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-049450 Prior Deed Reference: Book 778, page 701 Also known as: 515 Cherry Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($99,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Ashley R. Carnes, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-563 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs.

Mary C. Swartz, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-027840 Prior Deed Reference: Vol. 767, page 267 Also known as: 704 Cherry Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100 ($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Elizabeth A. Carullo, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-646 Fifth Third Mortgage Company vs.

Clifford D. Shefbuch, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-095560 & N44-095480 Also known as: 1409 Broadway Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Five Thousand and 00/100 ($105,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

George J. Annos, Attorney 12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-557 United States of America, acting through the Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture vs.

Perfecto Valverde, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Covington, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: H19-011740 Also known as: 319 Adams Street, Covington, Ohio 45318 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Six Thousand and 00/100 ($66,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Stephen D. Miles, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

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2239134

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SHERIFF’S SALE SHELBY COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-207 Mutual Federal Savings Bank vs.

David A. Zimmerman, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-077306 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 794, page 284 Also known as: 1024-1030 Eleanor Drive, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($198,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Michael A. Staudt, Attorney 12/9, 12/16, 12/23-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-486 PNC Bank, National Association, successor by merger to National City Bank, successor by merger to National City Mortgage Co. vs.

Karolyn Dee Wills, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-046290 Prior Deed Reference: Book 717, page 642 Also known as: 1022 Caldwell Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100 ($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

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

Elizabeth A. Carullo, Attorney 12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-539 Bank of America, NA successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Deborah K. Clark, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-030830 Prior Deed Reference: Volume no. 756, page 394 Also known as: 349 Young Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Six Thousand and 00/100 ($36,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

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

Bethany L. Suttinger, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-578 CitiMortgage, Inc. vs.

Timothy W. Fortner, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on January 4, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Newberry, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: H17-022470 Prior Deed Reference: Book 795, page 921 Also known as: 7900 West Miami Shelby Road, Covington, Ohio 45318 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($168,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

S. Scott Martin, Attorney 12/2, 12/9, 12/16-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-209 PNC Mortgage, a Division of PNC Bank, National Association successor by merger to National City Mortgage, a Division of National City Bank vs.

Barry M. Davis, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Piqua, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: N44-067380 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 789, page 572 Also known as: 1343 Stratford Drive, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($159,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Jennifer N. Heller, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-588 Unity National Bank, a Division of The Park National Bank vs.

Bobby J. Young aka Bob J. Young Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Newberry, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: H16-009170 Also known as: 11411 West US Route 36, Piqua, Ohio 45356 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Twenty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($129,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

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

Kyle E. Timken, Attorney 11/25, 12/2, 12/9-2011

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

SPORTS

Piqua Daily Call • www.dailycall.com

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011

IN BRIEF ■ Basketball

Holiday tickets are on sale HOMER Tickets for the Buckeye Insurance Group Holiday Classic basketball tournament Dec. 29-30 are on sale in the Piqua High School athletic office.

Pre-sale tickets are $4 for students and $6 for adults.

All tickets at the door will be $6.

Ticket sales are cash only.

Tickets sales will end at PHS on Dec. 12.

Joe Thoma’s Jewelers will sell tickets from Dec. 21-29 at 4 p.m.

DOLL

Piqua drops matches Lady Indians split tri-match

The Piqua bowling teams will be back in action today.

The Piqua boys lost their tri-match to Fairmont and Miamisburg Wednesday at Woodman Lanes. The final scores were Fairmont 2,583, Miamisbur 2,254, Piqua TROY — The Piqua jun- 2,114.

The boys were led in ior high boys basketball team went on the road and game one by freshman Josh Homer with a 241 got an impressive 32-20 and Lee Small with a 200. win over Troy Tuesday.

In game two the boys Nathan Monnin had a bowled better than the double-double with 19 points and 13 rebonds as first game total with Josh Homer leading again with Piqua improved to 2-0.

Hunter Hawk scored 10 a 220 game and Jonathan Wirt with a 203 game. points and Gage Smith In the baker games the pulled down eight reboys were red hot at the bounds.

PIQUA SCORING start with a 231 game, in Hawk 10, Monnin 19, Smith 3. game two the boys struggled with a 147.

BEN ROBINSON/GOBUCCS.COM PHOTOS “The boys bowled terrific tonight,” Piqua coach Hannah Pond battles for a losse ball against Mississinawa Valley Thursday night.

Eric Wagner said. “Just a few bad breaks or it could ScoresBroadcast.com been a different have has the following games story against Miamison its upcoming broadcast burg.” schedule: The girls split the triFriday: Fairlawn boys match. at Jackson Center, 7:10 Team scores were Fairp.m. mont 2,207, Piqua, 1,847, Saturday: Russia girls at Fort Loramie, 2:10 p.m.; Miamisburg 1,720.

Shae Doll led the girls Minster boys at Russia, COVINGTON — Covington coach Chris with 377(188-189), fol7:40 p.m.

Besecker knew his team was in for a tussle by Michaelia Baker lowed Monday: Tippecanoe against Mississinawa Valley due to the fact with 334 (174-160). girls at Anna, 7:10 p.m. that the visiting Blackhawks returned all Other scores were Haybut two players from a team that handed the ley Ryan 317 (157-160), Lady Buccs two defeats a year ago.

■ Baseball Haley Huebner 133, Kaili "I knew this would be a tight game and it Ingle 127, Emily Wenrick was," said Besecker after his team gutted out 126, and Natalie Thobe a 50-37 win. "They beat us by two twice last 125. year and they have some quality kids back."

The girls had Baker Covington had a 13-0 run in the fourth games scores of 171 and quarter to take a 50-34 lead and put the game DALLAS (AP) — Albert 137. away.

“The girls bowled well Pujols could have been a Julianna Simon lead all players with a tonight as a team, but wealthy Cardinal for life. game-high 23 points, 12 of them coming on again spares are going to Instead, exactly six four huge treys. be "key" to the success of weeks after leading the Shelby Kihm came off the bench to score 13 Cardinals to a second title our program and we did points, while freshman Cassidy Cain scored not do very well in our in one of the most thrilling seven points. second Baker game with World Series ever, he deThe victory improves Covington's record to six open frames,” Piqua cided to accept the sec3-2 overall and 2-0 in the CCC, while Miscoach Craig Miller said. ond-highest contract in sissinawa Valley drops to 1-2 on the season The teams will be back baseball history for a new and 1-1 in the league. in action on Friday night future in southern CaliforCovington has a week to work on its game at Poelking South lanes nia with the Los Angeles before traveling to rival Newton Thursday in against Springboro and Angels.

Covington’s Cassidy Cain dribbles the ball Thursday, another CCC showdown.

Centerville.

The three-time NL MVP agreed Thursday to a $254 million, 10-year contract with the Angels, leaving behind a heartbroken fan base by jilting one of the sport's traditional teams.

Piqua JH boys get big victory

Scores to air hoop games

Lady Buccs gut out win Simon nets 23 in ‘W’

Pujols signs with Angels

Season of change for Piqua football Bailey replaces Hager as coach for 1909 gridiron squad

STUMPER

How many Q: times was Albert Pujols voted the National League MVP?

A:

Three

QUOTED "I think we've got a good club. Obviously, we'd be a lot better with Albert.”

—Bill DeWitt Jr. on Albert Pujols goiing to the Angels

The 1909 football season was one of ‘change.’

Leroy Hager was replaced as Head Coach by Otto Bailey and after a five year absence Troy returned to the schedule.

Interestingly, the last two games of the season were with Troy, with the finale on Thanksgiving Day, a tradition that lasted for many years.

Two games with Lima and two games with Sidney, after a hiatus of 2 years, along with a new opponent, Middletown, made up the nine game schedule.

A preview of the season exuded enthusiasm.

“Yesterday afternoon Capt. Chamberlin took his squad of twelve football warriors over to the gridiron at Athletic Field. Arriving there he soon started the ball rolling in

the way of hard work.

Munger was last year’s star center, and was again placed in his old position.

Geyer was placed at right half, Hunt at left.

“Geyer is having trouble with the faculty about playing this year. ‘Peanut’ Hunt is light but fast and will make opposing ends and tackles look sick trying to pull him down.

“Friday afternoon a dozen or more men will don their uniforms and report with the men of yesterday’s workout.

“Fenton Ratcliff, a veteran of last year’s team, will then report for practice. Last season he seemed to have something besides football on his mind.

“When Thanksgiving arrived he certainly awoke to the fact that he was playing foot ball and

DUANE BACHMAN The History of Piqua Athletics A Journal Fall 1909

not ping pong. Mercer, Hunter, Meeker, Kiser, McMaken, Summer, Young and Prince, all of last year’s team will not report for practice.

“Prince, McMaken, and Meeker graduated, while Hunter and Kiser decided to go to Chautauqua for their education, Mercer , Young and Summer are working.”

The 1909 opener was against Sidney.

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ing of rooters from Sidney and local rooters witnessed the game yesterday between Piqua Hi and Sidney Hi. “The day was an ideal one for spectators but it was a little warm for the pigskin warriors.

“The two teams played two different styles of foot ball yesterday afternoon with the result that P.H.S. came out the victor with four touchdowns and one kick goal from touchdowns to its credit.

“The final score was twenty one to nothing.

Piqua High has a mascot.

It is Romulus.

“Romulus is a dog and a big one at that. Some of the high school boys decorated him with the schools colors, red and blue” Traditional rival Dayton Steele was next on the schedule.

“Steele fulfilled the fondest hopes of her following yesterday by defeating Piqua high, 23 to 0.

“Both teams played clean, hard football, but Steele’s superior training gave the game. The game was marred by only one accident.

“Mercer was laid out with a sprained ankle near the end of the second half.

The game was watched by a large crowd, composed almost entirely of students.”

The next week Piqua hosted Lima. “Lima High met defeat yesterday at the local athletic park at the hands of the local football artists by the score of twelve to nothing.

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Newton girls handle Bees East cruises to win PLEASANT HILL — Newton’s girls took turns getting hot.

Bethel’s took the chance to get a little bit better than their last game.

In the end, though, three Indians scored in double figures and the Newton defense made it tough for the Bees to score — despite plenty of Bethel success on the offensive glass — in a 43-25 Newton victory Thursday night at Newton.

Andee Welbaum led all scorers with 13 points, Fawn King scored 11 and Marina Snipes added 10 to power the Indians to a 4-1 record — including a 2-0 start in Cross County Conference play.

“The 4-1 part is nice, too,” Newton coach Ken Ford said with a laugh about the unbeaten conference start. “Conference games are always tough, and we’ve still got a bunch of tough ones left.”

Bethel, meanwhile, has yet to win a game at 0-5, 0-2 in the CCC. But for the Bees, it’s all about learning and using those lessons the next time out — while picking up new tricks all the time.

The Indians’ defense forced 31 turnovers in the game — 11 in the first quarter — and King knocked down four jumpers in the first eight minutes for eight points to help Newton edge ahead 10-4.

Things remained tight at the half with Newton leading 18-12 — before Welbaum caught fire.

She hit three shots in the first two minutes of the third quarter, giving the Indians a 10-point lead at 24-14.

“We’ve had balanced scoring throughout the season,” Ford said. “We don’t really depend on any one player. Whoever is hot at the time kind of carries us.”

Snipes scored six in the fourth quarter, and Newton went 10 for 13 from the free throw line in the frame to ice the game.

Aryn Doseck led Newton in rebounds with eight and added two points, and point guard Trista Lavy, despite scoring only one point, distributed the ball well with six assists.

“Trista does a good job at the point. It really helps to have a good point guard,” Ford said. “We didn’t box out nearly as well as we needed to tonight, but our defense kept us in the game until we finally started making some shots.”

Newton travels to Dixie Saturday.

East rolls to win CASSTOWN — Miami East played as close to a complete game as a team can Thursday night.

Angie Mack was solid from the field, the post trio of Ashley and Trina Current and Leah Dunivan controlled the boards and Madison Linn did a bit of everything in a 68-24 Cross County Conference victory over Franklin Monroe.

Mack scored 19 points, going 8

for 14 from the field — including 3 for 4 from 3-point range. Trina Current had a double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds, while Ashley Current added six points and seven rebounds, and Linn had nine points, five assists, five steals and three rebounds.

The Vikings (3-0, 1-0) built a 20-2 lead after the first quarter and never looked back.

"We just started out blazing and led 20-2 after one," Miami East coach Preston Elifritz said.

"Angie Mack shot the lights out, and Trina and Ashley and Leah all rebounded real well. And with our young backcourt, we only had seven turnovers in the game — that's good for us at this point in the season."

"We played pretty even in the second quarter — a couple of their girls got hot, and they hit three of their four 3s in that quarter — so we talked at the half about finding their shooters.

We made a couple of tweaks defensively and held them to 10 points in the second half."

Miami East faces Greenon on Monday.

Lady Raiders win RUSSIA — Russia edged Botkins in a Shelby County League thriller Thursday, 36-34.

The win puts the Lady Raiders at 1-1 in the County and 4-1 overall.

Botkins is now 1-2 and 2-2.

Russia led 11-5 after a quarter but Botkins stormed back to take a 17-14 lead at the half. It stayed close the rest of the way.

Kylie Wilson led Russia with 11 points and Ashley Borchers added nine.

Logan Pitts was tops for Botkins with nine.

JC stuns Wildcats HOUSTON — Jackson Center senior Brooke Richard put on a show Thursday night at Houston, pouring in 40 points to lead the Lady Tigers to a 72-53 upset win over Houston in SCL girls basketball action.

Jackson Center entered the game at 1-2 compared to 4-1 for the Lady Wildcats, but Houston could not withstand the barrage of points put up by the Lady Tigers in the second quarter.

Jackson Center led 16-11 after one period, then outscored Houston 27-4 in the second quarter for a 43-15 halftime lead.

Richard was the catalyst, hitting three 3-pointers and scoring 18 of her 40 points in that period alone.

“She did a good job of taking it to the basket,” said Houston coach Greg Ward of Richard. “We didn’t rotate over, and didn’t stop her drives. And even when we did, she just stroked it.

“Jackson deserves a lot of credit,” he added. “They were ready to play, and defensively, they totally took us out of our offense.”

Kristi Elliott got 20 to lead Houston and Bethany Reister added 14.

within scoring distance of the goal by straight football or trick plays.

“The weather conditions were very poor for a football contest for both players and spectators.

“The ground was wet and the air was damp and chilly.

At times a slight drizzle fell and this caused the lookers much discomfort.

“However, the game was full of exciting plays made to the local boys and they helped to keep the blood circulating.

The game was still being played, but it was getting dark and the plays were hard to follow. The game ended in darkness.

“The crowd was fairly good and the rooting was greatly improved over that of two weeks ago. The only thing that marred the game besides the weather was the wrangling that was carried on between players and officials.

“Several times the game was delayed for some time until the chewing the tag match was over. The swearing was not so greatly noticed on the local team as on the Lima boys side.

“However, it was on only one fellow and he will know better the next time. Doctor Crawford and Doctor Swan were fair and that is all two officials need to gain a good reputation.”

Piqua traveled to Sidney the next week.

“Sidney was defeated by Piqua by the score of 5 to 0.

The game was very scrappy.

Piqua was kept busy trying to get the pigskin over the goal line and on the last play of the game, it was a trick play that caused the downfall of the Shelby County boys.”

A group of graduates made up the roster for the next game.

“Before a good size crowd of admirers the P.H.S. football team and the alumni trotted out upon the gridiron yesterday at the athletic field for the purpose of playing what turned out to be one of the greatest games played here in the last two seasons. P.H.S. won by the score of 6 to 0.

“The halves were twenty and fifteen minutes and from the time the whistle blew to start the game until time was called the spectators were kept excited and warm by the fierce and hard bucking of the alumni backs and the holes that were made for them.

“The day was an ideal one for the lookerson but was a little warm for the players. However, the teams played so fast and furious that the heat was not noticed by the warriors.”

The following week Piqua traveled to Lima.

“Lima High won its first decisive victory in eight years against the Piqua eleven yesterday on the College campus at Lima.

“The Piquads have always been considered terrors by Lima High, and in former years have been glad to hold them down to a small score, but this year Coach Swan demanded something better to represent Lima High school and after many weeks he got it in a bunch which drubbed Piqua to the tune of 14 to 6.

“The game was called on account of darkness, crowning Lima High with victory in one of the nerviest battles ever played on a local gridiron.”

A preview of the next opponent, Middletown, appeared in the Call.

“Friday afternoon P.H.S. will have the pleasure of seeing a team of gridiron warriors from Middletown do battle with the local lads at the Athletic Park.

“This is the first time Middletown and Piqua have ever met in any kind of an athletic contest, and it is the sincere wish of many that the two schools will get upon such good terms that athletic relations will always remain close.

“Tomorrow afternoon a stranger first arriving in our city will, if he is near Ash and Main streets, about three o’clock, think that there is a fire over in the eastern part of

the city.

“The reason of the stranger forming such an opinion will be caused by the fact that so many people will cross the Ash street bridge on their way to the football field.

“It is expected by the local school management that over fifteen hundred people will turn out to see Middletown and Piqua High’s meet on the gridiron for what is expected to be the greatest game of the season.”

“Piqua High scored 23 points while Middletown managed to grab a touchdown and then kick a goal for a point this making six points for the boys from near Cincy.

“When the two teams lined up for the kick off yesterday afternoon the combination reminded many of a Yale-Harvard game as far as the makeups were concerned.

P.H.S. football warriors wore the crimson jerseys while Middletown wore the blue.

“The result was that it was very easy to follow the plays of each team without getting the players mixed up in one’s mind.

“The crowd as far as number was concerned was very small and the local High school management is now in the hole good and proper as to money matters.

“However, the Thanksgiving game with Troy will be played here and that means some coin on the right side of the ledger for Piqua, so don’t worry Mr. Dougan.

“Before the game started the two captains and Doctor Crawford and Mr. Blakely got together and decided on what should be the rules governing the two team’s play.

When the game ended the members of each team got their lungs a working and cheered long and loud for each other, the right kind of spirit.”

Since Piqua and Troy had not met each other on the gridiron for five years, the pregame hype of the media was expected.

“Are you going to Troy with the boys tomorrow afternoon?

What for and what boys?

Well, tomorrow is the day that Piqua High sends its squad to Troy for the purpose of meeting the Troy warriors on their gridiron for what is going to be the greatest game of the season except the Thanksgiving game to be played here between the two teams, Troy and Piqua.

“That certainly is news for me. I thought Piqua and Troy had decided to play only baseball with each other.

“Is not there such a bad feeling between the two schools?

No! Piqua and Troy students always were the best of friends.

“The persons causing the trouble of several years standing are outsiders who only desired to have trouble between the two schools.

“However, it is likely that those persons have found out their mistake and that they are now willing to help the two schools return once more to that standing of good fellowship and good athletic relations.

“Now are you sure the two teams will play tomorrow?

Well, I guess yes. “All right I am going. What time does the team leave? At one o’clock.

Come on and let us go with the bunch. That’s a go. Good bye and don’t forget the time.”

The first of the two final games with Troy did not go well for Piqua.

“Last evening when the D. and T. car pulled into this city from Troy about six o’clock a bunch of youngsters were standing in front of the station watching the passengers alight. Finally one small urchin spied the person he was looking for and ran up to him and asked, ‘What’s the score?’

“Of course the party knew what score the youngster referred to and answered, ’17 to 5 in favor of Troy.’ The only sentence that escaped the lips of the disappointed boy was ‘Gee.’ The other youngster just said, ‘Let’s go home.’

“Well, that is the way every true blue Piquad thought when he heard the score, ‘Let’s go home.’ The score is rather one-sided and it does not tell of the game struggle our boys made. Troy is the winner and all credit is due that great little team but it comes down to a question which team is the better.

“It is no boasting for us to say the Piqua has a team that will defeat Troy on Thanksgiving day.”

The final game of the year against the Trojans was not without concern.

“Last evening the athletic committee of the Board of Education and Superintendent Dietrich and Principal Ellabarger met for a discussion of the coming football game between Troy and Piqua.

“It was decided to have Mr. Doyle of Springfield to officiate and also to have plenty of protection and for keeping people off of the gridiron while the teams are in action.

“No person will be allowed upon the field but officials, representatives of the press and substitutes.”

The Call offered this preview.

“What is tomorrow? Tomorrow is the last Thursday in November and is also Thanksgiving day and besides that it will bring two of the best High school teams of this section of the state together upon the gridiron – Piqua High and Troy.

“Every lover of the strenuous sport interested in P.H.S. knows of Troy’s victory over the local lads last Friday at Troy by the score of the 17 to 5.

“The writer, if he may have permission to express his thoughts, is not ashamed of this score as he has many a time helped team mates to down the Trojans and has once in a while, not so often, helped his mates to swallow the bitter pill of defeat given to us by Troy.

“When we did swallow we always were willing to have Troy try it once more and the result was that the Trojan players took the dose in the same way that we did –like gentlemen.”

“Piqua wins and Troy loses and that is what all true blue and loyal Piquads had longed and hoped for.

“The 5 to 0 victory was cleanly and fairly won, but it required the very best efforts on the part of the best squad to put it over the next best in the Miami Valley.

“The game was scheduled to start at two thirty but it was almost three o’clock before official Doyle called the two teams upon the gridiron.

“Before the game started the entrances to the athletic park were crowded with men, women, girls and boys, all intent upon getting upon the field so that they could see the game.

“The colors of both schools were to be seen upon every hand, pennant and streamers of ribbon were carried and worn by the admirers of the schools.

“Upon the west side of the field, Piqua High rooters gathered while Troy, over two hundred strong, sent its friends over to the east side of the gridiron.

“When the timekeepers announced that time was out and the game was over, the Piquads gathered together and gave their opponents a rousing cheer while the Troy boys responded.

“Then the great crowd got busy and people in the southern part of town were able to hear the mighty cheers that were given for the greatest bunch in the state.”

Editor’s Note: Duane Bachman is a retired superintendent of Piqua City Schools and personality for WPTW Radio.

His column will appear every other Friday. Much of the information in these columns came from The Piqua Daily Call and Piqua Leader Dispatch.

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OSU hopes to have Sullinger Saturday Buckeyes travel to Kansas in first road game COLUMBUS (AP) — Jared Sullinger missed No. 2 Ohio State's last game with back spasms.

His teammates think he'll make it back for Saturday's game at No. 13 Kansas.

"Jared looks kind of tough, but he's a big teddy bear," point guard Aaron Craft said of the 6-foot-9 sophomore All-American.

"He was walking around really gingerly about four or five days ago but now he's looking a lot better.

Now he's got the bounce back in his step."

Sullinger has not practiced with the Buckeyes yet this week and coach Thad Matta said it will be Sullinger's decision whether he plays at Allen Fieldhouse.

But Sullinger did sound a note of optimism when he spoke with Matta on Thursday afternoon.

"He just told me he feels great. That was three minutes or five minutes ago," Matta said. "He said he woke up and was dancing this morning — but I don't know what that entails."

The Buckeyes (8-0) need Sullinger — who is averaging 19.1 points and 10.3 rebounds a game — against a tall-andtalented Kansas (6-2) team that features 6-10 Thomas Robinson and 7-0 Jeff Withey on the front line. The Jayhawks are

outrebounding their opponents by nine per game.

Kansas coach Bill Self is counting on Sullinger taking the floor.

"If I were a betting man, I'd say Thad's not a very good poker player, because I think that he'll probably play," he said.

If Sullinger is not able to play, his roommate will take his place in the starting lineup. Junior transfer Evan Ravenel took over for the absent Sullinger in the Buckeyes' 64-35 win over Texas-Pan American last Saturday and had a career-high 11 points and tied a personal best with seven rebounds.

He was asked to shed some light on how the happy-go-lucky Sullinger has handled the past week's back pain.

"Since he hasn't had practice, he's been pretty energetic," he said with a laugh. "He's been laying around but he's still the same fun guy to be around. When we don't have school, we play Xbox a lot more."

Ravenel called Sullinger perhaps the best rebounder he's ever seen, but he didn't rate his video-game ability that highly.

"Jared's terrible on Xbox," he said. "Wow. He's terrible."

The Buckeyes will be hitting the road for the

first time this season.

They'll also be making Ohio State's first trip to Allen Fieldhouse since 1999.

Matta was asked if he had to prepare two game plans, one if Sullinger plays and one if he doesn't.

"Do you think he makes that big of a difference?" he said with a grin. "We do and we don't. We've had some time this week to put some things in that we've been talking about doing anyway. But to reinvent the wheel, we're not going to do that.

“But I like the progress we've made this week with some of the things that we've added."

Craft played on an AAU team with Sullinger and has seen him when he's rundown or injured.

"He would go throughout the weekend and maybe not feel the greatest and then come out and have 40 points and 20 rebounds," Craft said. "It's hard to get a read on a guy like Jared."

Matta said he had consulted with team doctors and Sullinger's father.

Whether Sullinger plays will come down to how much discomfort or pain he can tolerate.

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NBA ratifies labor agreement Paul could be headed to LA

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Adam Silver and David Stern smile after the NBA labor deal was ratified. leaves intact the soft salary cap system that the players fought hard to maintain.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver announced the deal during a press conference, putting an end to nearly two years of difficult negotiations that resulted in the second shortened season in NBA history. A 66-game schedule will begin on Christmas and run through April 26, forcing every team to play on three straight nights at least once.

Owners approved the deal, which allows either side to opt out after six years, by a 25-5 vote. The players' association said 86 percent of the more than 200 players who voted electronically approved the deal.

Union executive director Billy Hunter did not attend the press conference and no union officials were quoted in their press release, issued just as Stern began speaking.

Owners also agreed to an expanded revenue sharing plan, and Stern called both agreements "a watershed moment" for the league. The plan, which will begin in 201314, more than quadruples the revenue currently shared by teams, with Stern saying they could now receive in excess of $20 million and at least six teams could pay $50 million into the plan.

Stern said the current net transfer among teams of about $40 million annually would exceed $160 million. But that's of little help now to a team such

as the NBA-owned Hornets, the latest small-market club to watch one of its stars leave to create a superteam.

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After locking out players on July 1, the two sides reached a tentative deal around 3 a.m. Nov. 26, heading off the potential disaster of a canceled season and avoiding a possibly costly and lengthy court battle had players proceeded with an antitrust lawsuit.

The remaining issues finally were agreed to late Thursday morning, after players already had begun voting electronically.

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Meanwhile, a blockbuster trade sending Chris Paul from New Orleans to the Lakers was proving that for now, it's still the status quo.

No, small-market teams won't yet get the help they crave, but in time, Stern said the "tortured journey" of this 161-day lockout will have been worth it.

"We think it's a very good deal, and it's going to withstand the test of time," he said of the new collective bargaining agreement owners and players ratified Thursday.

Thus ends the lockout, with training camps and free agency to open Friday.

Together with an expanded revenue sharing program, Stern said teams and fans will see an improved league in coming years.

"It's a new beginning in a way," he said. "It's going to take a couple of years to work its way out, but we're very excited about its prospects."

The 10-year deal promises owners savings of perhaps a quarter billion dollars a year in player compensation, but largely

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Yet Stern said the new labor deal can't be judged by that, or anything else that may happen right away.

"I believe in free agency," he said. "We have a deal where a player who has completed his time at a team under a contract has a right to go someplace else. And then there are potential judgments to be made by teams about whether there's a time when they want to consider getting something more for that player in the event he will leave than if he stays. So nothing has changed about that. That dynamic is the same. But, yes, this is going to be a more competitive league over time."

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NFL Standings National Football League All Times EST AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W 9 7 5 4

L 3 5 7 8

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PF 362 290 278 246

PA 247 260 304 220

W 9 7 3 0

L 3 5 9 12

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PF 310 249 152 174

PA 189 229 238 358

W 9 9 7 4

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PF 296 268 266 175

PA 192 195 250 240

L T Pct PF W 7 5 0 .583 256 Denver 7 5 0 .583 274 Oakland 7 0 .417 163 Kansas City 5 5 7 0 .417 287 San Diego NATIONAL CONFERENCE East L T Pct PF W 7 5 0 .583 283 Dallas 6 6 0 .500 287 N.Y. Giants 8 0 .333 271 Philadelphia 4 8 0 .333 202 Washington 4 South L T Pct PF W 3 0 .750 393 New Orleans 9 7 5 0 .583 269 Atlanta 4 8 0 .333 290 Carolina 4 8 0 .333 218 Tampa Bay North L T Pct PF W 0 0 1.000 420 x-Green Bay 12 7 5 0 .583 291 Chicago 7 5 0 .583 333 Detroit 2 10 0 .167 246 Minnesota West L T Pct PF W 2 0 .833 288 x-S. Francisco 10 5 7 0 .417 216 Seattle 5 7 0 .417 232 Arizona 2 10 0 .167 140 St. Louis x-clinched division Thursday, Dec. 8 Cleveland at Pittsburgh Sunday, Dec. 11 New Orleans at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Houston at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 1 p.m.

New England at Washington, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago at Denver, 4:05 p.m.

Buffalo at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.

Oakland at Green Bay, 4:15 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 12 St. Louis at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 15 Jacksonville at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17 Dallas at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 18 New Orleans at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Houston, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

New England at Denver, 4:15 p.m.

Cleveland at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.

Baltimore at San Diego, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 19 Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 8:30 p.m.

PA 292 308 268 289

New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami South Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis North Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland West

College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple (8-4), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State (7-5) vs. Ohio (9-4), 5:30 p.m.

(ESPN) New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego State (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 8 p.m.

(ESPN)

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Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (11-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

PA 269 244 324 329

Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5), 5 p.m.

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PA 262 242 277 330 PA 161 246 269 296

Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4), 4:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 6:40 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5), 10 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), Noon (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), 1 p.m.

(ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (10-3), 1 p.m.

(ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), 1 p.m.

(ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 5 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 8 p.m.

(FOX) Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (103), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 8:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, TBA, (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 2 p.m. (CBSSN)

Basketball

USA Today Top 25 The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 8-0 763 1 1. Kentucky (19) 2. Ohio State (11) 8-0 754 2 3. Syracuse (1) 8-0 713 3 7-0 654 6 4. Louisville 5. Duke 7-1 611 4 6. North Carolina 6-2 594 5 7-0 582 8 7. Baylor

NBA

Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (47) 8-0 1,606 1 8-0 1,575 2 2. Ohio St. (18) 3. Syracuse 8-0 1,491 4 4. North Carolina 6-2 1,328 5 7-0 1,325 6 5. Louisville 6. Baylor 7-0 1,283 7 7. Duke 7-1 1,264 3 6-0 1,133 11 8. Xavier 9. UConn 7-1 1,120 8 10. Missouri 7-0 1,009 13 7-0 982 16 11. Marquette 12. Florida 5-2 923 10 13. Kansas 5-2 833 15 6-2 665 9 14. Wisconsin 15. Pittsburgh 7-1 660 17 16. Alabama 7-1 635 12 8-1 493 21 17. Mississippi St. 18. Georgetown 7-1 491 — 19. Creighton 7-0 352 — 6-2 312 14 20. Michigan 21. Memphis 4-2 216 22 22. Texas A&M 6-1 199 25 5-1 197 19 23. Gonzaga 24. Illinois 8-0 193 — 25. Harvard 8-0 191 — Others receiving votes: UNLV 188, Vanderbilt 141, Michigan St. 135, San Diego St. 50, Virginia 26, Saint Louis 25, Stanford 23, Purdue 12, California 11, Cleveland St. 9, Florida St. 7, Kansas St. 6, Arizona 5, Indiana 4, Murray St. 2, N. Iowa 2, Oregon St. 2, UC Santa Barbara 1.

Women’s Top 25 The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 4, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv 8-0 975 1 1. Baylor (39) 2. UConn 7-0 928 2 3. Notre Dame 7-1 895 3 6-1 855 5 4. Stanford 5. Maryland 9-0 792 6 6. Duke 6-1 750 7 4-2 729 8 7. Tennessee 8. Texas A&M 6-1 698 4 9. Miami 6-1 671 9 8-0 597 12 10. Kentucky 11. Rutgers 8-0 595 11 12. Purdue 7-1 554 13 7-0 449 17 13. Ohio St. 14. Georgia 7-1 430 15 15. Louisville 7-2 428 10 7-0 395 19 16. Texas Tech 17. Penn St. 6-2 324 16 18. North Carolina 5-1 287 14 7-2 267 20 19. Georgetown 20. DePaul 6-1 211 22 21. Green Bay 7-0 194 23 6-0 156 24 22. Delaware 23. Vanderbilt 9-0 155 25 24. Oklahoma 3-2 154 18 5-2 87 21 25. Texas Others receiving votes: Michigan 17, Nebraska

14, Southern Cal 13, LSU 12, Florida St. 9, Virginia 9, California 8, Arkansas 5, Arizona St. 3, Tulane 3, Georgia Tech 2, Gonzaga 2, Northwestern 2.

Women’s ESPN Poll The top 25 teams in the USA Today-ESPN women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 5, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Baylor (29) 8-0 773 1 7-0 745 2 2. Connecticut (2) 3. Notre Dame 7-1 711 3 4. Stanford 6-1 681 5 6-1 630 6 5. Duke 6. Maryland 9-0 602 7 7. Texas A&M 6-1 578 4 4-2 567 8 8. Tennessee 9. Miami 7-1 539 9 10. Kentucky 8-0 520 10 8-1 421 12 11. Rutgers 12. Georgia 7-1 418 14 13. Louisville 7-2 367 11 7-1 366 16 14. Purdue 15. Ohio State 7-0 313 t18 16. Green Bay 7-0 292 17 272 13 17. North Carolina 5-1 18. Penn State 6-2 257 15 19. Vanderbilt 9-0 198 t22 7-2 196 20 20. Georgetown 21. DePaul 6-1 182 21 22. Texas Tech 7-0 136 25 3-2 128 t18 23. Oklahoma 24. Texas 5-2 69 t22 25. Delaware 7-0 59 — Others receiving votes: Michigan 16, Gonzaga 15, Georgia Tech 12, Kansas 3, Nebraska 3, California 2, Florida 2, Princeton 1, Syracuse 1.

Transactions Thursday's Sports Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW JERSEY NETS—Named P.J. Carlesimo and Mario Elie assistant coaches and Jeremy Bettle strength and conditioning coach.

UTAH JAZZ—Named Michael Sanders player development coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS—Placed K Rian Lindell on injured reserve.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Signed DL Steven Friday.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL—Suspended Edmonton D Andy Sutton indefinitely for his hit on Carolina F Alexei Ponikarovsky in a game on Dec. 7. Suspended Colorado F Kevin Porter for four games for kneeing Vancouver F David Booth in a game on Dec. 6.

BOSTON BRUINS—Signed D Dougie Hamilton to a three-year contract.

MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled F Jeff Taffe from Houston (AHL). Placed F Devin Setoguchi on injured reserve.

OTTAWA SENATORS—Recalled D Matt Carkner from Binghamton (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES—Activated D Michal Rozsival from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Recalled F Blair Jones from Norfolk (AHL).

Bowling

Brel-Aire Scores Club 523 200 games (Men) — D. Selsor 205, F. Mertz 219-209, M. Maxwell 214, E. Wagner 218-222, M. Cool 205-203-227, B. Wright 207, D. Cantrell 216214, D. Morris 231, D. Divens 203, G. Schwieterman 200, R.Shirk 204-211-208, E. Lavey 202, B. Lavey 210-236-202.

600 series (Men) — F. Mertz 600, E. Wagner 632, M. Cool 635, D. Cantrell 601, R. Shirk 623, B. Lavey 648.

STANDINGS Maxwell 60-28 Joe Thoma Jewelers 52-36 48-40 Morris Htg. & Cooling Trent Karns 46-42 Norm & Larry & Tom 42-46 41-47 Divens Sidney Tool & Die 34-54 We Hate Bowling 29-59

Coach Nolan is retiring after 28 YEARS at

Continued from page 15 up during most of the old deal when the Lakers, Celtics and Mavericks claimed the last four championships.

Stern knows the owners, particularly in the small markets, didn't get everything they wanted, but he said "this is going to be a more competitive league over time."

"While it's not perfect, the deal addresses signifi-

8. Xavier 6-0 538 11 9. Connecticut 7-1 533 10 7-0 511 13 10. Missouri 11. Marquette 7-0 468 16 12. Florida 5-2 419 9 5-2 385 14 13. Kansas 14. Pittsburgh 7-1 359 17 15. Alabama 7-1 326 12 6-2 306 7 16. Wisconsin 17. Creighton 7-0 222 22 18. Mississippi State 8-1 208 24 6-2 164 15 19. Michigan 20. Memphis 4-2 154 21 21. Georgetown 7-1 136 — 8-0 96 — 22. Illinois 22. Gonzaga 5-1 96 18 24. Harvard 8-0 95 — 6-1 79 — 25. Texas A&M Others receiving votes: UNLV 62, Vanderbilt 61, California 32, San Diego State 30, Michigan State 29, Indiana 23, Saint Louis 18, Murray State 8, Northwestern 8, Stanford 7, Kansas State 4, Purdue 4, Saint Mary's 4, Virginia 4, Cincinnati 3, Cleveland State 3, Washington 3, Arizona 2, Tulane 2, George Mason 1, Northern Iowa 1.

cant issues on both sides in a very productive way, we believe," he added.

Player salaries were reduced by 12 percent, and Stern emphasized new provisions will allow teams to more easily escape difficult contracts and become competitive more quickly.

But with the revenue split and system issues taking so much time,

there was little opportunity to change the noneconomic issues.

The draft age limit will remain 19 years at least through the 2012 draft — the league would have liked to go to 20, the players would like to abolish it entirely — and blood testing for human growth hormone won't be implemented this season.

Troy High School.

We will be printing a tabloid section dedicated to him and his career on December 22, 2011.

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