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January 2, 2012

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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3A today: • Matthew Sweat Jr. • Lillian Yvonne Sims • Pamela Carr-Kyke • Marie P. Orlik

INDEX Agriculture .............................9 County record .......................2 Classified .......................12-13 Comics................................10 Hints from Heloise.................6 Horoscope ............................8 Localife ..............................6-7 Nation/World.........................5 Obituaries..............................3 Sports............................16-18 State news ............................4 ’Tween 12 and 20 .................8 Weather/Sudoku/Abby/Out of the Past/Dr. Donohue ....11

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TODAY’S THOUGHT “Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden — it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.” — Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish author (1888-1957) For more on today in history, turn to Page 10.

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New year dedication Ethan Moore, of McCartyville, dives into the frigid waters of Lake Loramie Sunday to “Prayfully dedicate the new year to Mary, the mother of God. I plunge out of love for my

mother.” While Moore didn’t have to deal with ice on the lake this year, the water was still cold.

Medicare debate is all about baby boomers WASHINGTON (AP) — Baby boomers take note: Medicare as your parents have known it is headed for big changes no matter who wins the White House in 2012. You may not like it, but you might have to accept it. Dial down the partisan rhetoric and surprising similarities emerge from competing policy prescriptions by President Barack Obama and leading Republicans such as Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Limit the overall growth of Medicare spending? It’s in both approaches. Squeeze more money from upper-income retirees and some in the middle-class? Ditto. Raise the eligibility age? That too, if the deal is right.

With more than 1.5 million baby boomers a year signing up for Medicare, the program’s future is one of the most important economic issues for anyone now 50 or older. Health care costs are the most unpredictable part of retirement, and Medicare remains an exceptional deal for retirees, who can reap benefits worth far more than the payroll taxes they paid in during their careers. “People would like to have what they used to have. What they don’t seem to understand is that it’s already changed,” said Gail Wilensky, a former Medicare administrator and adviser to Republicans. “Medicare as we have known it is not part of our future.” Two sets of numbers un-

derscore that point. First, Medicare’s giant trust fund for inpatient care is projected to run out of money in 2024. At that point, the program will collect only enough payroll taxes to pay 90 percent of benefits. Second, researchers estimate that 20 to 30 percent of the more than $500 billion that Medicare now spends annually is wasted on treatments and procedures of little or no benefit to patients. Taken together, that means policymakers can’t let Medicare keep running on autopilot and they’ll look for cuts before any payroll tax increases. Privatization is the biggest divide between Democrats and Republicans.

Currently about 75 percent of Medicare recipients are in the traditional governmentrun, fee-for-service program and 25 percent are in private insurance plans known as Medicare Advantage. Ryan’s original approach, part of a budget plan the House passed in the spring, would have put 100 percent of future retirees into private insurance. His latest plan, developed with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., would keep traditional Medicare as an option, competing with private plans. Older people would get a fixed payment they could use for private health insurance or traditional Medicare. Proponents call it “premium support.” To foes, it’s a voucher. See MEDICARE/Page 3

World rings in 2012, bids adieu to 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012. From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year Sunday and hoped for a better future, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil that many would rather forget. In New York, hundreds of thousands gathered at the crossroads of the world to witness a crystal ball with more than 30,000 lights that descended at midnight. Lady Gaga and Mayor Michael Bloomberg led the crowd in the final-minute countdown of the famed crystal-paneled ball For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg drop. BALLOONS AND confetti come down during the Buffalo Wild Wings’ New Year’s Eve party at Matheus Campos, a law stuthe stroke of midnight Saturday. See WORLD/Page 5

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YMCA ASSOCIATE Executive Director Sam Casalano greets guests during the annual YMCA Member Thanksgiving Dinner.

YMCA spreads holiday cheer The fifth annual YMCA Thanksgiving dinner was celebrated by 30 attendees recently. Sam Casalano, associate executive director, offered welcoming remarks followed by the invocation. For those without family near, this evening is extra meaningful and provides an environment to come to-

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gether, enjoy a meal and reflect on another year, Casalano said. The evening’s menu featured a traditional turkey, as well as a variety of items brought by members of the community who participated. After enjoying the mal, attendees shared what they were grateful for, or blessings from the previ-

ous year. Most attendees noted their thankfulness for the second family thay have found at the YMCA, and others also noted their appreciation for the financial assistance the YMCA offers that allows many in the community to enjoy the YMCA experience. “This is a very special time of year to be able to gather together and give thanks, as we celebrate our blessings, even in these challenging economic times,” Casalano to 610 E. Pike St. in the said. “We are so grateful village on a report some- to be able to spend this one was kicking in a time with our YMCA door. family.”

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Sheriff’s log SUNDAY -11:46: tree down. Deputies responded to the Greenville/ Patterson-Halpin Road intersection on a report a tree was down across the road. -10:40 a.m.: tree down. A tree was reported down across the roadway in the 20000 block of Herring Road. -4:57 a.m.: assault. Deputies were dispatched to 7705 HardinWapakoneta Road to investigate an assault. SATURDAY -2:11 p.m.: larceny. A deputy responded to a call from 7891 HardinWapakoneta Road to investigate unauthorized use of a credit card. -1:47 a.m.: accident. Deputies responded to a property damage accident on Fort Loramie- Swanders Road. No details were available. FRIDAY -8:49 p.m.: burglary. Deputies and Jackson Center Police responded

Fire, rescue SUNDAY 6:34 a.m.: medical. Houston Rescue was dispatched to the 5500 block of Houston Road for an elderly man with shortness of breath. SATURDAY -8:59 p.m.: medical. Anna Rescue responded to the 10100 block of Thompson-Schiff Road for a woman with a possible heart attack. -2:56 p.m.: fire alarm. Anna firefighters were dispatched to 101 Cherry Lane on a report of a gas leak. FRIDAY -10:24 p.m.: medical. Anna Rescue responded to the 1500 block of West Mason Road for a man who had fallen. -3:45 p.m.: medical. Houston Rescue was dispatched to the 3400 block of Redmond Road for a probable stroke victim.

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Museum exhibit to include ’50s house COLUMBUS (AP) — For an upcoming exhibit, the state’s history museum will recreate an entire 1950s prefab home that has an Ohio connection, and the public is being asked to help furnish it. “What we’re looking for are hands-on objects, knickknacks, things from everyday life, anything that would have been in your house,” said Cameron Wood, history curator at the Ohio Historical Center. The kinds of things the museum is looking for include comic books, toys and games, household appliances, furniture and clothes, Wood told The Columbus Dispatch. The donated stuff, which won’t be returned, will be part of an interactive exhibit set to open in the fall inside a reconstructed Lustron porcelain and steel home. It will be rebuilt inside the historical center in Columbus. “Our hope is that people that go through this will get a real sense of what it’s like to live in the 1950s,” said Mark Holbrook, marketing manager for the Ohio Historical Society. The society will dust off some 1950s artifacts in its own collection for use in the exhibit, including oddball items such as emptied metal

tubes of shampoo, hair tonic, toothpaste and other household products. Also on display will be museum prizes from the era, such as a Cleveland Indians baseball pennant picturing and autographed by outfielder Larry Doby. He broke a color barrier in 1947 by becoming the first black player in the American League The exhibit will mark a homecoming for the Lustron house, which has been on display for three years at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The prefabricated, modular home was one of many turned out by a Columbus factory from 1948 to 1950 and advertised during the post-World War II housing boom as “The House America’s Been Waiting For.” The Lustron company fizzled quickly. It filed for bankruptcy and was liquidated in 1951.

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PIQUA — Matthew Sweat Jr., 65, of Bauxite, Ark., formerly of Piqua, died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, at Baptist Hospital, Little Rock, Ark. Funeral services will be held Jan. 6 at Victory Baptist Church, Piqua. Arrangements are under the direction of Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Pamela Carr-Fyke, of Nashville, formerly of Sidney, passed away Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at 8:20 a.m. arrangeFuneral ments are pending at Cromes Funeral Home, Sidney.

Lillian Yvonne Sims Lillian Yvonne Sims, 87, of Sidney, passed away Sunday, Jan. 1, 2011, at 3:55 a.m. Funeral arrangements are pending at Cromes Funeral Home, Sidney.

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Fr a n c e s Catherine Wagner, 92, died at Dorothy Love Retirement Community in Sidney Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at 2:45 a.m. She was born Aug. 20, 1919, in Fort Loramie, the daughter of the late Anthony B. and Josephine (DeBrosse) Barhorst. On Feb, 14, 1942, she married Edwin W. Wagner and he died in 1998. Surviving are two daughters, Cindy Wagner and husband Tony, of Sidney and Lisa Steinke and husband Roger, of New Bremen; two sons, Gary Wagner and wife Mary, of Centerville and Dennis Wagner and wife Jane, of Toledo; 10 grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren; and one brother, Virgil E. Barhorst, of Fort Loramie. Three brothers, Irenus, Robert and Raymond Barhorst, three sisters, Ann Maltinsky, Agnes Behr and Margaret Monnin and one granddaughter, Karen Wagner, preceded her in death. A 1937 graduate of

Minster High School, she was a homemaker and loved children, playing bridge and baking good pies. She was a member of Holy Angels Catholic Church and was a member of the Altar Rosary Society, also serving as a eucharistic minister for the sick at the hospital. Mass of Christian Burial will be celeWednesday, brated Jan. 4, 2012, at Holy Angels Catholic Church by the Rev. Daniel Hess. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery, Sidney. Friends may call at Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, from 4 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Holy Angels Tuition Assistance Program, 324 S. Ohio Ave., Sidney, OH 45365. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. Condolences may be expressed to the Wagner family at the funeral home’s website, www.salm-mcgillandtangemanfh.com.

Marie P. Orlik Marie P. Orlik, 94, of 155 Landover Place, Longwood, Fla., formerly of Sidney, passed away Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, at 7:25 a.m. at the Island Lake Center in Longwood, Fla. She was born Oct. 15, 1917, in Cleveland, the daughter of the late Joseph and Lottie (Bloch) Wisniewski. On Feb. 14, 1942, she married Henry J. Orlik and he preceded her in death May 21, 1995. She is survived by three children, Henry J. Orlik and wife Linda, of Chicago, Ill., Donald W. Orlik and wife Susan, of Sidney and Mrs. Daniel (Sharon) Sweigart, of Lake Mary, Fla.; five grandchildren, Denise Osiecki, Lauren Jazwiec, Beau Sweigart, Derrick Orlik, and Colt Sweigart; and seven great-grandchildren. Other survivors include two sisters, Agnes and husband Richard Arcipowski and Betty

and husband Walter Wolski, both of Cleveland. Preceding her in death were three sisters, Lottie (Stanley) Pudelski, Sophie (George) Zeman, and Eleanor (Frank) Pudelski; and five brothers, Richard, Chester, Harry, Edward, and Joseph Wisniewski. Marie was a member of Holy Angels Catholic Church in Sidney and Women of the Moose. She was a homemaker. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Angels Catholic Church by the Rev. Daniel Hess. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery in Sidney. Friends may call Wednesday from 4to 8 p.m. at the Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave., Sidney. Condolences may be expressed to the Orlik family at the funeral home’s website, www.cromesfh.com.

MEDICARE Under both of Ryan’s versions, people now 55 or older would not have to make any changes. GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich praise his latest plan. How would it work? Would it save taxpayers money? Would it shift costs to retirees as Ryan’s earlier plan did? Would Congress later phase out traditional Medicare? Those and other questions must still be answered. “I’m not sure anybody has come up with a formula on this that makes people comfortable,” said health economist Marilyn Moon, who formerly served as a trustee helping to oversee Medicare finances. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the Wyden-Ryan plan “would end Medicare as we know it for millions of seniors,” causing the traditional program to “wither on the vine.” But what administration officials don’t say is that Obama’s health care law already puts in place

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one of Ryan’s main goals by limiting future increases in Medicare spending. Ryan would do it with a fixed payment for health insurance, adjusted to allow some growth. In theory that compels consumers and medical providers to be more cost-conscious. Obama does it with a powerful board that can force Medicare cuts to service providers if costs rise beyond certain levels and Congress fails to act. Like several elements of Obama’s health care overhaul, the Independent Payment Advisory Board is in limbo for now, but it is on the books. If the board survives Republican repeal attempts, it could become one of the government’s most important domestic agencies. The White House wants to keep the existing structure of Medicare while “twisting the dials” to control spending, said a current Medicare trustee, economist Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute think tank.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball lottery organizers are betting that bigger jackpots will entice more people to play, but gamblers are going to have to dig deeper into their wallets to try their luck. Tickets for the multistate game are doubling in price to $2 beginning Jan 15. While the odds of winning one of the game’s giant jackpots also are improving, those in charge of the lottery are gambling that people are willing to pay more for the hope of becoming a millionaire in a down economy. “With the price of everything else going up, there’s not much you can get for a dollar anymore,” said 28-year-old Ryan Raker, of Des Moines, Iowa, who buys a ticket once a month. He says he’ll probably play less frequently now. Lotteries have long sold regular people on the hope of becoming rich quick by simply picking a lucky combination of numbers. Some play loved ones’ birthdays or anniversaries in the hope that fate may point them in the direction of a jackpot. Selling that hope is easy; less so is predicting consumers’ to price sensitivity changes. Powerball’s move follows the model of scratch ticket games, which once were all $1 but now are offered at higher prices with the chance for bigger prizes. The evolution of scratch tickets and the creation of families of games that offer tickets at different prices has proven successful across the country, said Rebecca Hargrove, president of the Tennessee Lottery. Scratch games like Win for Life in Illinois, Jumbo Bucks in Tennessee and the Crosswords game in Iowa have all been successful, Hargrove said. “The more choices you gave players the higher the sales were,” Har-

grove said. “A family of games at multiple price points created the most excitement. Once those kinds of games were introduced we saw a dramatic increase in sales.” For example, in Iowa, scratch ticket sales increased from $125 million in 2007 to $165.3 million in 2011, state lottery officials said. Lottery officials believe increasing the price of the game will make it more attractive to players, said Terry Rich, spokesman for the West Des Moines-based Multistate Lottery Association, which runs Powerball. “People like variety,” Rich said. “We’re repackaging and freshening up the product and enriching the product.” Powerball is the big fish of the various lottery games states offer, and typically has some of the biggest payouts. There are nine ways to win the game, from a $3 prize for matching the Power Ball number to various payouts for different combinations of winning numbers. Odds of winning are improving because of changes the game is making in the numbers players can choose. The number of Power Ball numbers to choose from will decrease from 39 to 35. That will raise the odds of winning from 1 in 192 million to 1 in 175 million. Picking the right numbers will have a bigger payoff: The starting jackpot is rising from $20 to $40 million. The amount won for matching all five numbers but not the Power Ball will increase from $200,000 to $1 million. The move is a strategy to differentiate the game from Mega Millions, the other big money, multistate lottery game that is sold for $1 a ticket. Both games are sold in 42 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington D.C. Each game has drawings twice a week.

Lake Erie ports to host tall ships CINCINNATI (AP) — Ports along Lake Erie in northern Ohio, Michigan and Canada are hoping to be selected as hosts for tall ships traveling to the lake in 2013 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie. At least 10 ports already have applied to host the sailing vessels during the two-week bicentennial celebration beginning Labor Day weekend in 2013. The event is expected to draw thousands of people to Lake Erie, said David Zavagno, chairman of the bicentennial committee for the volunteer, nonprofit Perry Group, which is organizing the event. The celebration will commemorate the Sept. 10, 1813, battle in which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led more than 500 sailors to a victory over the British Royal Navy. That victory secured U.S. control of the Great Lakes in the War of 1812 and helped establish the current border with Canada. “If the outcome had been different, it would have significantly altered

the geography of the United States and western expansion,” Zavagno said. “This celebration is an opportunity to share that history with children and adults and remember the courageous sailors who fought in the battle.” The committee hopes at least 15 tall ships will participate in the battle re-enactment near South Bass Island on Sept. 2, 2013. The ships will stay at host ports prior to the reenactment. And organizers have visited potential places to assess water depth and docking capabilities. They will announce their selections this spring after determining which ships will participate. The ports, which hope to benefit economically from the expected tourism, will have to pay fees required by the ship or ships they host. Charges by the independently-owned vessels can range from roughly $10,000 to $40,000, depending on the ship, Zavagno said. Host ports also must hold a festival featuring tours of the ships and other activities.

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OHP: Fewer traffic deaths in 2011

Exotic animals part of to-do list for lawmakers

COLUMBUS (AP) — Preliminary data indicates the number of people killed on Ohio roadways decreased slightly in 2011 compared with the previous year, the State Highway Patrol said Sunday. The patrol reported 970 confirmed fatalities and 49 unconfirmed deaths, which includes those still under investigation or that may not be ruled a traffic fatality and those for which officials don’t yet have a report, patrol spokeswoman Lt. Anne Ralston said. That makes the possible total 1019 fatalities for the year. That’s down from 1,080 traffic fatalities in 2010 and 1,022 in 2009, the lowest total since record-keeping began in 1936. The patrol sees a link between the decrease in deaths and its stepped-up enforcement targeting impaired drivers, said its superintendent, Col. John Born. Troopers made more than 23,000 arrests in 2011 for drivers operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That’s at least 1,500 more OVI arrests than in 2010. “While the increase in OVI arrests troopers made helped us reverse the spike from last year and likely achieve the safest year on our roads, we have a long way to go,” Born said. “Too many deaths remain very preventable.” Advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving praise the data as a step in the right direction.

COLUMBUS (AP) — With a nearly $56 billion, two-year state budget already in place, Ohio lawmakers head into a new year with their workloads a little lighter. Next up: an agenda that’s likely less controversial than 2011. The year was marked with protests on the Statehouse lawn, packed hearing rooms and heated debate over collective bargaining restrictions for unionized public workers. Voters overwhelming rejected the new limitations in November. Cracking down on the ownership of exotic animals and spurring development of the state’s oil and natural gas industry are expected to be among the top issues before the Legislature in 2012. Ohio has some of the nation’s weakest restrictions on exotic pets. And efforts to strengthen the state’s law took on new urgency in October when police were forced to kill 48 wild animals, including endangered Bengal tigers, after their owner freed them from his Zanesville farm and then committed suicide. Gov. John Kasich, a first-term Republican, has said he wants regulations in place quickly. A study committee and state agencies have proposed a framework for new regulations that would ban casual ownership of bears, lions, monkeys, venomous snakes and other wildlife. Zoo, circuses and research facilities would be exempt. The legislative framework suggests the ban

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New Year’s Day dip Ken Takats and wife Carol Takats emerge from the Maumee River during the annual polar dip, Sunday in Waterville. Temperatures in Waterville reached the upper 30’s with gusts of wind anywhere from 20 to 50 mph as revelers participated in the dip.

No state funding to Quit Line callers. Others can use it if their insurance has smoking cessation coverage. Since July 1, service has been limited to three groups — pregnant women, Medicaid recipients and those who are uninsured. Health officials had requested $2 million an-

Mininum wage is now $7.70 per hour COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohioans who earn minimum wage will see a boost in their hourly pay beginning Sunday. The state’s minimum wage has increased 30 cents to $7.70 per hour. The increase is part of a constitutional amendment voters approved in 2006, which says minimum wage will increase each year at the rate of inflation. The $7.70 rate applies to workers 16

and older who don’t get tips. The wage for tipped employees will be $3.85, up 15 cents, but their total pay cannot be less than $7.70 hourly. The wage will be required from employers who gross more than $283,000 annually, up from the current $271,000. For smaller companies, and for 14and 15-year-old workers, the minimum wage matches the federal rate, currently $7.25 per hour.

Tiny town a shadow of its former active scene RIX MILLS (AP) — Contemporaries of painter Paul Patton felt that his work may have exaggerated the idyllic setting of his hometown a bit, but there’s no doubt that Rix Mills is a shadow of its former self. Time has moved on and, in the case of some of this tiny Appalachian community, has run off with pieces of it. Long gone are the general store/gas station, schoolhouse, blacksmith’s shop, many houses, and even some of the treelined roads that dotted Rix Mills in Patton’s memories of the first half of the 20th century that he re-created on canvas decades later. Some fell to decay as the size of the Muskingum County community near Zanesville dwindled and businesses closed. Other buildings were sold and razed when much of the Rich Hill Township surroundings were strip-mined. “There were houses that my mom has tried to describe to me that I just don’t understand because there aren’t roads,” said Joy Watson Johnson, whose late grandmother, Margaret Tom West, used to own that long-ago store with her husband. She was immortalized by Patton in one of his paintings and played the organ at his funeral in 1999. A framed picture of her can be found on top of the organ she played at the quaint white Rix Mills Presbyterian Church. The church walls are adorned with Patton paintings that attempted to recap-

nually to keep the line open to everyone. A spokeswoman for Ohio’s health department says the state has grant money from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support the Quit Line through April 30. The line’s number is (800) 784-8669.

ture the Rix Mills of his memories. “Where my mom went to school, the road is completely gone,” Johnson said. “You can’t even picture where it would be to get there. The strip mining just changed the landscaping of it altogether. That’s why there are just 13 houses and the church.” Johnson lives with her husband, Nick, and daughter Felicity in a Rix Mills house that dates to the late 19th century, next door to her mother. She takes pride in the town and its resiliency but wishes she could have seen the Rix Mills familiar to her grandmother, Patton and even her mother. “When my grandmother was a little girl, Rix Mills was a hub of activity.,” she said. “They only went to Zanesville one time a year and that was to go to the county fair . Rix Mills was where they lived, so everything was here. If they needed anything, it was here.” Today, the church steeple that was the center of the town, as well as the center of several of Patton’s paintings, still stands, and the church has about 75 parishioners. The only businesses to speak of along that stretch of Rix Mills Road are the far more modern McDaniel’s Greenhouse, which draws traffic in the spring and summer, and the nearby Terra Cotta Vineyards. The hill in the forefront of Patton’s Hallmark-like acrylic snowscape, the 1988 Win-

ter Party, over which children skied and sledded has been overtaken by woods, blocking the view of Rix Mills that he once enjoyed. Johnson said her mother maintains that the size of the hill in that painting was one of Patton’s embellishments. Patton’s boyhood home is still there. Its owner was the only person along Shepherd Road who refused to sell out to the strip mine operation. Most of the surrounding vacant property filled with scrubby underbrush is owned by American Electric Power. (NYSE:AEP) Although she said she doesn’t blame those who sold their homes to the strip-mining operation, Johnson said she fears that history could repeat itself as a new era of “fracking” dawns in Ohio. The hydraulic fracturing practice uses fluids and chemicals at high pressure to fracture shale to release the natural gas or oil trapped within. Gov. John Kasich is counting on building a new industry and creating jobs around such operations, and the primary target is the southeast corner of the state. He’s insisted that the industry will be properly regulated. “They’ve already approached my aunt,” Johnson said. “She lives out Green Valley Road, and they have approached the people on Green Valley Road. I’m worried that they’re going to ruin our water, and we’ll all have to move.

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start on Jan. 1, 2014. Owners would have to meet new temporary safety standards before then and register their animals with the state within 60 days of the law’s effective date. Ohio lawmakers will no doubt want to leave their own mark on the any new restrictions. State Sen. Troy Balderson, a Zanesville native, has said he intends to pursue legislation on exotic animals, though he told Ohio Public Radio in an interview in November that a complete ban could keep some of the best private owners from having wildlife. The Senate’s next voting session is scheduled for Jan. 10, while the House is not slated to hold votes until Jan. 24. Some lawmakers have been working with the Kasich administration on new legislation aimed at aligning the state’s goals with those of the Great Lakes Compact. This summer, Kasich vetoed a bill that would have allowed Ohio factories to pull more water out of Lake Erie. Several former Ohio governors and governors from other Great Lakes states had expressed concern about the measure. The eight states and two Canadian provinces adjoining the lakes negotiated the compact to prevent the region’s water from being shipped or piped to arid regions. Adopted in 2008, the pact outlaws such diversions with rare exceptions. Lawmakers have until December 2013 to implement a deal.

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Park ranger killed MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was fatally shot following a New Year’s Day traffic stop, and the 368-squaremile park in Washington state was closed as dozens of officers searched for the gunman over armed snowy and rugged terrain. Pierce County Sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer said late Sunday afternoon Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old believed to have military experience and survivalist skills, was a “strong person of interest” in the slaying of Margaret Anderson. recovered Authorities Barnes’ vehicle, which had weapons and body armor inside, Troyer said. Authorities believed the gunman was still in the woods with an assault rifle.

NASA probe joins twin at the moon LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA says its twin spacecraft are now circling the moon on a mission to measure lunar gravity. The latest probe slipped into orbit on New Year’s Day, joining its twin, which arrived a day earlier. The Grail spacecraft — short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — will spend the next two months spiraling closer to the surface. In March, they will begin mapping the moon’s uneven gravity field from orbit to understand its interior down to the core. The probes were launched in September and took a roundabout trip to the moon.

Candidates seek votes DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With time running short, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and other Republican presidential contenders argued Sunday that they could beat President Barack Obama as they worked to persuade undecided Iowa Republicans aching to win the White House to choose them over chief rival Mitt Romney. “I’m the candidate that actually was able to win in states, as a conservative, in getting Democrats and independents to vote for us,” Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who is surging in the race and is a favorite among cultural conservatives, said in an interview on CNN. “Mitt Romney has no track history of doing that.”

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Fireworks scare birds to death BEEBE, Ark. (AP) — Authorities in a central Arkansas town say about 100 blackbirds died on New Year’s Eve after being spooked by fireworks, far less than the thousands that perished there a year ago. Beebe police Lt. Brian Duke said Sunday that officials asked people to stop setting off fireworks after blackbirds again started flying into objects and each other. Residents were celebrating the year’s end with fireworks in their neighborhoods. Duke says police are gathering information and may have more details Monday.

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Bright spots, dark clouds —Obama seeks right tone WASHINGTON (AP) — Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work. His Republican rivals, in the face of late-arriving economic good news, are making slight adjustments themselves, arguing that Obama’s policies have been a drag on a recovery that could have taken hold sooner. The competing rhetoric reflects the positive indicators in areas ranging from retail sales and housing to unemployment and falling gas prices. All this has pushed up consumer confidence, a poten-

tial barometer of political attitudes. Even Congress and Obama managed to agree on a two-month payroll tax cut extension before leaving Washington for the holidays. But the economic signs could prove fleeting, as they were in the early spring when economist also detected upticks in activity only to watch them tumble. These new indicators may hold more promise. But a looming European debt crisis is casting a pall. No one is more aware of that risk than Obama. “We’ve got an economy that is showing some positive signs; we’ve seen many consecutive months of private

sector job growth,” Obama said last week before departing for Christmas in Hawaii. “But it’s not happening as fast as it needs to.” For Obama, the danger is in promoting an economy that while, slowly recovering, has yet to reflect reality for millions of Americans, or in highlighting positive signs only to see them falter in 2012. For David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s top political adviser, visions of a European financial meltdown are what keep him awake at night. “I think the American economy is gaining strength, I don’t think many would argue that point,” he said. “The im-

ponderable is not about that, it’s really about these externalities and particularly Europe. Especially now that we’ve passed this threshold on the payroll tax cut and assuming that the Republicans in Congress don’t want to rerun that battle, the one big thing on the horizon is Europe.” Indeed, as the year ends on an up note, leading economists surveyed by The AssociPress expect the ated economy will grow slightly faster in 2012 — about 2.4 percent compared with the less than 2 percent annual growth that the economy is expected to register by the end of this year.

Sunnis leave mixed neighborhoods BAGHDAD (AP) — The question was disturbing: Why do you live here? Ahmed al-Azami, a Sunni Muslim, has owned a house in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Shaab since 1999. But when Shiite residents recently began questioning why he, a Sunni, was living among them, he decided it was time to leave. His story and similar tales by other Sunnis suggest Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive SunniShiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. The numbers so far are small and not easy to track with precision, but anecdotal accounts and a rise in business at real estate agencies in Sunni neighborhoods reveal a Sunni community contemplating the worse-case scenario and acting before it’s too late. Baghdad and the rest of Iraq are already highly segregated places. Running from bombs, death squads and their own neighbors at the height of violence in 2006 and 2007, Sunnis

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IN THIS photo taken Friday, people gather in front of their shops at the primarily Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in north Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive Sunni-Shiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. and Shiites fled neighborhoods that were once mixed. That violence and the resulting migrations slowed in 2008, but tensions are again swirling as a power struggle worsens between Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni politicians who have been largely sidelined since the

overthrow of Saddam Hussein. And many fear increased violence could result. “People started to question my origins. Why don’t you live in Azamiyah?” said al-Azami, referring to the Sunni-dominated enclave in northern Baghdad where he has a shop. He felt so nervous and unwel-

WORLD dent from Brazil, threw both arms in the air as the new year began in Times Square. “It’s awesome,” he said. Revelers in Australia, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which jumped across the international dateline to be first to celebrate, welcomed 2012 with booming pyrotechnic displays. Fireworks soared and sparked over Moscow’s Red Square, crowds on Paris’ Champs-Elyses boulevard popped Champagne corks at midnight. But many approached the new year with more relief than joy, as people battered by weather disasters, joblessness and economic uncertainty hoped the stroke of midnight would change their fortunes. “It was a pretty tough year, but God was looking after us and I know 2012 has got to be better,” said Kyralee Scott, 16, of Jackson, N.J., whose father spent most of the year out of work. Some New York revelers, wearing party hats and “2012” glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, even as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights. The crowds cheered as workers lit the crystal-paneled ball that drops at midnight Saturday and put it through a test run, 400 feet above the street. The sphere, now decorated with 3,000 Waterford crystal triangles, has been dropping to mark the new year since 1907, long before television made it a U.S. tradition. In Times Square, hundreds of thousands people crammed into spectator pens ringed by barricades, enjoying surprisingly warm weather for the Northeast. The National Weather Service said it was about 49 degrees in nearby Central Park — about 10 degrees warmer than the normal high temperature. As the country prepared for the celebration, glum wasn’t on the agenda for many, even those who had a sour year. “We’re hoping the next year will be better,” said Becky Martin, a former elementary school teacher who drove from Rockford, Ill., to Times Square after spending a fruitless year trying to find a job. “We’re starting off optimistic and hoping it lasts.” Many expressed cautious hope that bet-

come that he began looking for a house in Azamiyah a few weeks ago. Once he moves, he’ll either rent out or sell his Shaab house. “I will always be a stranger to them,” he said, referring to his Shiite neighbors. In a sign that he is not alone, rental prices in Azamiyah have risen by about $200 a month, said real estate agent Abu Abdullah al-Obeidi. Other Sunni neighborhoods of the capital like Adel and Khadra have also seen rent increases, he said. “The people who are coming to Azamiyah to rent or buy are afraid that they will be killed during any possible sectarian war if they stay in the mixed areas,” al-Obeidi said. Iraq’s worst political crisis in years blew up just as the last American troops were rolling across the border into Kuwait on Dec. 18. Al-Maliki’s government issued an arrest warrant for the country’s highest-ranking Sunni politician, Vice President Tariq alHashemi, on charges he ran a hit squad that assassinated government officials five years ago.

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CHILDREN WALK past Pope Benedict XVI during a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday. The Pontiff in his New Year's homily Sunday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called “shadows on the horizon of today’s world.” In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, with ambassadors to the Holy See from dozens of countries seated in the front rows, Benedict XVI, wearing white vestments with gold-colored trimmings, celebrated Mass on a day the Vatican dedicates to world peace. ter times were ahead after a year in which Japan was ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami, hurricanes wreaked havoc across the country and a debt crisis devastated Europe’s economy. “Everybody’s suffering. That’s why it’s so beautiful to be here celebrating something with everybody,” said Lisa Nicol, 47, of Melbourne, Australia. For all of the holiday’s bittersweet potential, New York City always treats it like a big party — albeit one that now takes place under the watchful eye of a massive security force, including more than 1,500 police officers. Dick Clark, who suffered a stroke in 2004, put in a few brief appearances mentioning that he has hosted his namesake New Year’s Eve celebration for years, but said “tonight, it’s better than ever.” Clark, looking cheerful but struggling with his speech, introduced a performance by Lady Gaga and also assisted in the countdown.

The show, hosted by Ryan Seacrest also featured a performance by Justin Bieber. The first worldwide celebrations started in the island nation of Samoa, which hopped across the international date line at midnight on Thursday, skipping Friday and moving instantly to Saturday. Samoa and the neighboring nation of Tokelau lie near the dateline that zigzags vertically through the Pacific Ocean; both sets of islands decided to realign themselves this year from the Americas side of the line to the Asia side to be more in tune with key trading partners. In Sydney, more than 1.5 million people watched the shimmering pyrotechnic display designed around the theme “Time to Dream.” In London, some 250,000 people gathered to listen to Big Ben chime at the stroke of midnight. World leaders evoked 2011’s struggles in their New Year’s messages with some ambivalence.

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This Evening • Minster Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Minster Historical Society Museum, 112 Fourth St., Minster. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Christian Center, 340 W. Russell Road. • Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meets at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main St., Bellefontaine. • Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new members are welcome. For more information, call Tom Frantz at 492-7075. • TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7 p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road, New Bremen. • Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Russell Road. • Anna Civic Association meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Anna Library. New members with new ideas always are welcome.

Tuesday Afternoon • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St.

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Harmonious results The Jackson Center High School choir sings during a holiday concert produced by the school recently. The school bands also performed for a packed house.

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Tuesday Evening • Head, Neck and Oral Cancer Support Group for patients and caregivers meets at St. Rita’s Regional Cancer Center in the Garden Conference Room from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (419) 227-3361. • PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meets at 6 p.m. in the second floor board room of the Public Service Building on the OSU/Rhodes campus, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima. For more information, call (419) 581-6065, email pflag_lima@yahoo.com. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Temple, 210 Pomroy Ave. • Asthma Awareness educational classes will be held at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Registration is not required and the class is free. For more information, call Stacy Hilgefort at (419) 394-3335, ext. 2004. • Minster Veterans of Foreign Wars meets for lunch at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on South Cleveland Street, Minster. A meeting will follow the meal. • The Colon Cancer Support Group meets from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Troy Christian Church, 1440 E. State Route 55, Troy. For more information, contact the UVMC Cancer Care Center at (937) 440-4820. • The Tri-County Computer Users Group meets at 7 p.m. at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community Amos Center Library and computer area. The meeting is open to anyone using computers and there is no charge. For more information, call Jerry or Dorris Tangeman at 492-8790. • Pleaides Chapter 298 Order of the Eastern Star meets at the Masonic Temple at the corner of Miami Avenue and Poplar Street at 7:30 p.m. • The Miami-Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Greene Street UMC, 415 W. Greene St. at Caldwell Street. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors are always welcome. For more information, call (937) 778-1586 or visit www.melodymenchorus.org. • The Al-Anon Sidney Group, for friends and relatives of alcoholics, meets from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on the corner of North Street and Miami Avenue. All are welcome.

Dear Readcling hints using ers: Do you 2-liter plastic know what bottles: washing soda • Cut off the is? Is it the bottom and use same as bakas a small ing soda? planter. Nope, it is not! • Cut and use Washing soda the top as a funHints (or sodium carnel. from bonate, soda • Use to freeze ash or sodium water for a cooler. Heloise crystals) is • Use the botgenerally used Heloise Cruse tom as a water or as a laundry food bowl when booster and a strong traveling with pets. household cleaner. Here — Heloise are some other ways to use washing soda: PACKAGE MAILING Dissolve soap scum on Dear Heloise: I have tubs, sinks and tile by children and grandchilmixing a solution of 1/2 dren living in another cup of washing soda and state, so I often mail a gallon of warm water. packages to them. ReScrub the entire area cently, I discovered a and rinse. (Not safe on neat trick for packing fiberglass.) fragile items: Remove grease from 1. Partially fill a plasstove tops, and espe- tic shopping bag with cially a dirty, grimy ex- the contents of a shredhaust fan, by using the der. washing-soda solution 2. Tie the bag, pressmentioned above. Al- ing the air out of it. ways be sure to wear 3. Now the bag easily gloves when working can be crammed around, with washing soda. in and under the item Washing soda usually (use as many bags as can be found near the necessary to fill the box laundry detergent. If you completely). are unable to find it, try 4. When the recipient asking a store associate opens the box, the confor help. — Heloise fetti is contained and makes no mess. FAST FACTS NOTE: The key is to Wednesday Morning Dear Readers: Recy- not fill the bags more • The Downtown Business Association meets at 8 a.m. at TWT Shirts, 115 E. North St. • The Sidney Kiwanis Club meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Moose Lodge. Lunch is held until noon, followed by a club meeting and program.

Wednesday Afternoon • Jackson Center Senior Citizens meets at 1 p.m. at the Jackson Center Family Life Center.

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St. John’s Thrift Shop credit card to buy tickets will have a mid-winter to three Pittsburgh-area bag sale from Tuesday amusement parks may be eligible for free tickets through Jan. 14. Clothing items only under a class-action lawwill be sold at $4 for the suit settlement. The settlement was first bag and $1 for the prompted by a federal second bag. lawsuit filed in August Outerwear, coats and against Palace Enterall non-clothing items tainment Holdings LLC will be sold at a 50 perby a man who says his cent discount. credit card receipt at Lydia’s Vintage items Idlewild & Soak Zone will not be included in park near Ligonier conthe sale. tained his credit card’s The shop is at 319 S. expiration date. Palace Ohio St. Entertainment, which Thursday Afternoon Opening hours are • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Monday through Friday also owns Kennywood, Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. an amusement park, and Church, 120 W. Water St. and Saturday from 10 Sandcastle, a water park, both just east of • Shelby County Toastmasters meets at noon at a.m. to 1 p.m. the Sidney-Shelby County YMCA. Guests are welcome. For more information, contact Ed Trudeau at 498-3433 or edward.trudeau@emerson.com or visit the website at shelby.freetoasthost.ws. • The Amos Memorial Public Library offers Homework Help from 3:30 to 5 p.m.Thursday Evening • Recovery International, a self help mental health group for adults of any age, meets from 6 to 7:45 p.m. at the Troy Miami County Public Library, 419 W. Main St., Troy. People dealing with fear, anger, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, bi-polar Miami Valley Centre Mall, Piqua disorder or other types of mental or emotional difMonday-Saturday 10-9, Sunday 12-6 937-773-0950 ficulties are welcome. • The Sidney Altrusa Club meets at 5:30 p.m. at CJ’s HighMarks. Altrusa members network to provide community service with a focus on the promotion of literacy and goodwill. For more information or to become a member, contact Bev Mintchell at 498-9431. • The MS Support Group meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in St. Rita’s Rehab Outpatient Conference Room, in the basement of the 830 Medical Office building on West North Street, Lima. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Labor of Love, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 320 E. Russell Road. • Stokes Lodge 305, Free and Accepted Masons, meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Port Jefferson Lodge, Port Jefferson. All Master Masons are welcome.

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Rachel Remencus, Grace Winhoven and Grace Jackson (l-r), all of Greenville, accompany the student choir at a recent Mass at Lehman Catholic High School.

Music enhances Lehman Masses At the height of the 1980s, most Catholic institutions had very active folk music ministry groups. Lehman Catholic High School’s folk music ministry was headed by then Lehman parent Marianne Dunson. Since that time, students have come and gone and tastes have changed. Lehman’s music ministry in recent years has consisted of congregational singing accompanied by piano and led by student cantors. The school’s music ministry is taking another turn this year. A student-led group of vocalists has formed a choir that sings at the school’s weekly Masses. The choir will be accompanied by some musical instrumentation as well. Senior Emily Pax and junior Ethan Jock are the force behind the enhancement of the music for Lehman liturgies. Pax has played piano for school Masses since her freshman year. She has also been involved in music ministry at her parish, St. Mary Church in Piqua. Jock is involved in the youth choir at Holy Angels Church in Sidney and also cantors at Masses at the church.

While still encouraging all the students to join in the singing during school Masses, Jock is directing a student choir to help lead the singing. The choir will also sing a meditative hymn after communion. Jock continues to act as cantor although other students will be joining Jock in cantoring for liturgical celebrations in the future. “I wanted to form a choir so that we might better praise the Lord with song,” said Jock. “Since Jesus is truly present at Mass through the Eucharist, it is my hope that we can get people involved in the liturgical celebration and can be even more prayerful as a school community.” Most of the choir members are active in the Lehman Music Department either as members of the Lehman Limelighters Show Choir or the Cavalier Choir, but the group is open to any student. The students practice each week in the school’s choral music room. In addition to Jock, current choir members include William Duritsch, Dan Davis, Kris Lee, Natalie Davis, Dana Jenkins, Olivia

Sehlhorst, Mille Wildenhaus, Samantha MaKenna Neumeier, Cabe, Tori Tullis, Micayla Hanover, Grace Jackson, Abbie Vogann, Elaina Snyder, Sarah Cabe, Katie Rossman and Julia Harrelson. The First Communion meditation, an arrangement of “Ave Maria,” featured the choir and three violinists along with piano. Sophomores Grace Winhoven and Grace Jackson and freshman Rachel Remencus started on violin while students at DeColores Montessori School in Greenville. Winhoven and Jackson are currently members of the Dayton Philharmonic Junior Orchestra’s Strings. “The violin adds so much to our musical accompaniment,” Jock noted. “The classical sound produced by the instrument really adds to the solemn nature of the Mass.” Students and faculty attend Mass at least once a week. Liturgies are usually celebrated on Fridays except on weeks when holy days of obligation occur. Mass is then celebrated on the holy day.

NEW YORK (AP) — You might say that Lady Gaga’s year really began in an egg. That’s how she arrived at the Grammys in February, encased in a large, translucent pod carried by scantily clad she dancers. When “hatched” onstage, she effectively gave birth to “Born This Way,” performing the eponymous lead single of her second studio album and anthem to self-acceptance. In 2011, the album would carry her around the world, where she rarely went unnoticed. After a year of extravagant globe-trotting and relentless advocacy of tolerance, Lady Gaga has been voted Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press. There were 135 ballots submitted by U.S. news organizations that make up the AP’s membership. Editors and broadcasters were asked to cast their ballots for who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2011. “I am humbled and honored to be named ‘Entertainer of The Year’ The Associated by Press,” Lady Gaga said in a statement Monday signed “Mother Moster.” “My deepest gratitude to the broadcasters and journalists who’ve supported me over the years, and in turn, are now supporting the loves of my life: my fans. Thank you for believing in ‘Born This Way.’ May you continue to brave the dreams of Showbiz.” Lady Gaga narrowly edged out the late Apple founder Steve Jobs by three votes. Many others received numerous votes, including Taylor Swift, Charlie Sheen, Adele and the cast of “Harry Potter.” Previous winners of the AP Entertainer of the Year include Betty White, Swift, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert. But it was Lady Gaga whose eminence in 2011 stood out most to voters.

While accepting the best pop vocal album Grammy for her previous disc, “The Fame Monster,” earlier this year, she said stardom was an adjustment for her. “When I wrote ‘Born This Way,’ I imagined (Whitney Houston) was singing it because I wasn’t secure enough in myself to imagine I was a superstar,” she said. When the album was released in May, 1.1 million copies sold in the first week, partly aided by a dramatic discount from Amazon, which sold it for 99 cents. But it was an industry-shattering moment because an extraordinary 60 percent of sales in the first week were digital downloads. Altogether, it outsold the next 42 albums on the Billboard chart combined. As of October, worldwide sales had surpassed 8 million copies. “One of my greatest artworks is the art of fame,” the 25-year-old told “60 Minutes” earlier this year. “I’m a master of the art of fame.” Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, is prepping for a “Born This Way” tour. Her “Monster Ball Tour” was still going strong earlier this year, which went a long way toward making her, according to Forbes, the highest grossing female musician in 2011. The magazine, which compiled pretax income earned from May 2010 to May 2011, said Lady Gaga earned $90 million.

Paul Pronovost, editor of the Cape Cod Times, called Lady Gaga’s “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving” — a bizarre ABC holiday special hosted by the singer — “a brilliant reach to mainstream America.” “Transcendent performers like Lady Gaga come around as often as Halley’s Comet,” says Pronovost. “She has that rare gift of sophisticated self-promotion, so outlandish at times you just can’t look away” and the talent to back it up. “This is Madonna 4.0.” The concerts spawned an HBO special, which was nominated for five Emmys Awards and won one. Lady Gaga was a regular presence at award shows throughout the year. She won three Grammys in February, including best female pop vocal performance. She won two MTV Video Music Awards. She was recently nominated for three Grammys for next year’s awards, including best album. This summer, her infamous meat dress — made of layers of Argentinian beef — was put on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She visited the White House and appeared as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.” She performed at former President Bill Clinton’s 65th-birthday bash with an ode to Marilyn Monroe. She remained the person most followed on Twitter, with more than 17 million Little Monsters.

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Grain Farmers Symposium held WILMINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The third annual Ohio Grain Farmers Symposium (OGFS), an annual event for Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corn, soy and wheat growers, was Dec. 15 at the Roberts Centre and Holiday Inn in Wilmington. Featuring a trade show of 25 companies that service the agricultural industry and a variety of expert speakers, the symposium offered grain farmers throughout the state the opportunity to learn about the latest agricultural issues impacting their operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This annual event is a great opportunity for Ohio farmers to learn about and discuss issues that affect their farming business,â&#x20AC;? said Bret Davis, president, Ohio Soybean Association (OSA). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to include the most current topics in our sessions and bring in speakers that are leaders of their industry.â&#x20AC;? Topics discussed during the OGFS included a Washington outlook, an overview of water-quality issues and consumer perceptions of farming. Attendees had a variety of breakout sessions to choose from with topics such as shale gas issues in Ohio, planning for the 2012 markets and preparing for water-quality regulations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event was a great success,â&#x20AC;? said Mark Wachtman, president, Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association (OCWGA). â&#x20AC;&#x153;With each year of the OGFS, we are encouraged that Ohio farmers appreciate the opportunity to come together and discuss the issues affecting them and learn from industry experts.â&#x20AC;? The OGFS concluded with annual meetings of the OCWGA and the Ohio Soybean Association (OSA). The OCGWA represents the interests of tens of thousands of corn and wheat growers throughout the state. OCWGA works in Washington, D.C., and at the Ohio statehouse to ensure that government participation in legislation is beneficial to advancing the profitability of Ohio grains. For more information, visit www.ohiocornandwheat.org.

Wool/unshorn lamb pelts deadline noted Producers of payment (22 wool and unpercent) will be lambs shorn authorized for (pelts) during the 2012 2011 are reDCP/ACRE prominded to file for gram. Loan Deficiency The sign-up Payment (LDP) or enrollment by Jan. 31. Mowill be by office hair is no longer FSA news a p p o i n t m e n t . eligible for LDP Roger Lentz Any change of benefits. farm operator, producers land owner, farm shares Eligible must have beneficial in- (cash rent/share agreeterest in the pelts, owned ment/etc.) or entity (indithe lamb for at least 30 vidual, partnership, calendar days before the corporation, LLC, etc.) date of slaughter and sell should be reported to the the unshorn lamb for im- county office prior to promediate slaughter. Pro- gram enrollment. All ducers must also comply farm reconstitution (diwith wetland conserva- viding/addition of tion and highly erodible land/combination of land conservation provi- farms) requests should sions on all lands they op- also be promptly submiterate or have an interest ted. in to qualify for LDP. For Reconstitution additional details contact Requests for a farm rethe Shelby County FSA constitution (combining Office. and/or dividing) effective DCP/ACRE for the 2012 program year Enrollment for the may be submitted to the 2012 Direct Countercycli- county office at anytime. cal Payment (DCP) or Av- Authorization to combine erage Crop Revenue farms with smaller base Election (ACRE) Program acres (10 acres or less and will commence on Jan. 23. with owner approval) Producers are also ad- could be approved by vised that no advance USDA. Producers are re-

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TODAY IN HISTORY CROSSWORD HOROSCOPE Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 Monday, 2, InToday order toisenhance your Jan. material in the year you must be basesecond the dayahead, of 2012. There hardworking, are 364 daysprudent left inand thepractical year. over long periods of time. Conditions Today’s Highlight in willin general favor you when you’reHistory: ing to do your part, but there’s no wastefulness. room Jan. 2, 1942, the PhilipOnfor CAPRICORN 22-Jan. 19)was — pine capital(Dec. of Manila Anyone who is only interested in him captured by Japanese forces or herself will annoy you far more during World than usual. SteerWar clear II. of just such a On this date: so that you don’t fly off the person, handle look bad. 1788, Georgia became ■ Inand AQUARIUS 20-Feb. 19) — the The the fourth (Jan. state to ratify best way to ruin the family’s tranquilU.S. ity isConstitution. to introduce a topic that is emo■ Incharged 1811,and Sen. sure Timothy to cause a tionally kerfuffle. Keep piquant little obPickering, a your Federalist from servations to yourself.became the Massachusetts, PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Before first member of the U.S. Senate you jump in and support someone who tolooks be like censured afterbehe’d imthe underdog, sure that properly the contents you know revealed what the situation is all There’s a chance that you could ofabout. an executive document. back ■ an Inunworthy 1900, candidate. Secretary of ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Be your State John Hay announced instead of risking your efown person the Door on Policy” to faforts“Open and resources what another thinks you should do. No one knows cilitate trade with China. your betterreligious than you do,servso fol■ affairs In 1921, low your own thinking. ices were broadcast on radio TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Before for the or first time as KDKA in judging condemning another for his Pittsburgh aired the regular or her faults, you should be mindful of your own. service If you’re tolerant their Sunday of the ofcity’s imperfections, they’ll overlook yours. Calvary Episcopal Church. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You ■ In 1935, Bruno Hauptwould do well to keep bystanders out mann trial in Flemof your went privateon battles. Without realizing it, they could on turn charges a merely abraington, N.J., of sive situation into something far more kidnapping and murdering destructive and volatile. the 20-month-old son of CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Even if Charles Anne Lindbergh. you have and to spend a little time with (Hauptmann was found someone who rubs you the wrong way, make the most out of doing so. If you guilty, and executed.) keep you’ll the walk away un■ your In cool, 1959, Soviet damaged. Union launched its space LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be particuprobe Luna 1, the first manlarly careful about your conduct when around object someone to whose immade flyrespect pastisthe portant its to you. Being too intended blunt or ermoon, apparent ratic could severely impair your target. image. ■ In(Aug. 1960, Sen. John F. VIRGO 23-Sept. 22) — In order Kennedy of Massachusetts to get your points across to an individual who has your ideas in launched hisrejected successful bid thethe past,presidency. you need to know your subfor ject well and be extremely prepared to ■ In 1971, 66 people were make a presentation. killed in a 23-Oct. pileup spectaLIBRA (Sept. 23)of — Make certain leaving that thoseatosoccer whom you delegate tors match at an important assignment have the Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, ability to successfully carry things off Scotland. as needed. The wrong choice could set ■back. In 1974, President you Richard Nixon signed legSCORPIOM. (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Normally you have little problem working islation requiring states to in conjunction with another. limit highway speedsHowever, to 55 it might be wise to avoid any type of miles an hour. (Federal speed entanglements at this juncture. Play limits it safe andwere operate abolished on your own. in 1995). SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — That may be lit■ row Inyou intend 1981,to hoe police in tered with far more rocks and potSheffield, England, arrested sherds than you anticipate. Unless Peter Sutcliffe, who confessed you clean things up first, your path tocould being thetreacherous. “Yorkshire Ripbe quite per,” the serial killer Feature of 13 COPYRIGHT 2012 United Syndicate, Inc. women.

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Cloudy with 50% chance of snow showers Low: 15 to 20°

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Artic winds bring cold temperatures

Partly cloudy High: 42° Low: 32°

A strong cold front swept through the Miami Valley Sunday morning bringing the area increasing w i n d s and much colder Sunrise/sunset weather Tuesday sunset .........................5:23 p.m. Tonight’s sunset........................ 5:22 p.m. over the next few days. Wednesday sunrise........................8 a.m. Tuesday sunrise .............................8 a.m. Colder Arctic air will sweep into the area over the next Temperatures and precipitation for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday will appear few days and will drop temin Wednesday’s edition of The Sidney Daily News. For regularly updated weather infor- peratures into the teens by mation, see The Sidney Daily News Web site on the Internet, www.sidneydailynews.com. Tuesday morning.

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Pain relief from herniated back disk DEAR DR. can put you DONOHUE: I through back exspent 20 years in ercises that might the Navy, and for relax your musmany years I sufcles and end your fered from two pain. herniated disks in Have you ever my lower back. I heard of the was given drugs Alexander techfor pain relief. To your nique of postural Since I retired, I exercises? The ingood have tried chirostructor teaches practic care, health you how to hold steroid shots and Dr. Paul G. yourself properly various other to ease back pain. Donohue remedies, all to no This isn’t accomavail. Oxycodone and hy- plished in one or two drocodone have been pre- days; it takes time. You scribed. Both have given can find instructors some pain relief, but they trained in this method on cause tremendous insom- the Internet. nia. Hydrocodone gives Tylenol might ease me a hangover effect. I do your pain if you go on a not want surgery. Is there regular regimen of it. a drug that will relieve How about the nonsthe pain, allow me to teroidal anti-inflammasleep and not give me a tory drugs, like Aleve, hangover? — W.H. Advil and Indocin? The liANSWER: Let’s start docaine skin patch is anwith treatments other other way to block pain, than pain relievers. Have and most users do not you tried physical ther- suffer side effects. apy? A trained therapist Opioids like Ultram

(tramadol), Nucynta (tapentadol) and codeine silence pain for many. Dose adjustments of these drugs allow use without grogginess, headaches or insomnia. Opioids carry a potential for addiction, but when used under a doctor’s care, the risk is worth a trial to obtain release from more than 20 years of pain. The fentanyl patch is another opioid. It’s worn on the skin for long duration of action. Newer surgical techniques like microdiskectomy can remove herniated disks through small incisions and with quicker recovery. And the spinal stimulator is another option you might want to consider. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Will you talk about the spinal stimulator for back pain? I have had this problem for 13 years. Without pain medicines, the pain level is nine out

of 10. — Anon ANSWER: The spinal cord stimulator was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1989 for pain control of back problems. The device consists of a generator that delivers electric current to the spinal cord through soft, thin wires that have been introduced into the back. The current blocks pain signals from traveling to the brain. After a trial week with an external generator, if the process works, another generator is implanted under the abdominal skin or the skin of the upper buttock. It’s much like a heart pacemaker. It doesn’t work for everyone, but the trial period ought to eliminate those people from consideration. The material you sent from your doctors is excellent. You have conscientious doctors. You’re in good hands.

Jan. 2, 1912 At a meeting of the Sidney Board of Education held last evening in the office of the superintendent in the Central School building, the organization was completed for the coming year with the election of the following officers: Dr. J.F. Richeson, president; Dr. J.D. Geyer, vice president, and M.F. Hussey, clerk. The other members of the board are; Dr. A.W. Reddish, T.M. Miller, and R.O. Bingham. ——— John Kiser, a son of E.D Kiser, county treasurer, has purchased and taken charge of the Sidney Meat Market on East Court Street. Mr. Kiser has been practically raised in the meat business and will no doubt enjoy a large patronage from his many friends and acquaintances.

75 Years Jan. 2, 1937 Three new officials, named at the November election, entered officially upon their terms of office in the court house this morning. Truman Pitts succeeded Cliff A. Gearhart as sheriff; Sam Hetzler was succeeded by Leo Winget as prosecuting attorney, while Frank Cowan took over duties as a county commissioner, succeeding Felix Francis, Henry J. Simon succeeded himself as county commissioner. ——— Acting with unanimity the Ohio House today named Fred P. Elsass as its clerk. He served in the same capacity in the previous assembly. Rep. Robert F. Kaser placed his name in nomination. At the organization of the State Senate, P.L. Stafford, of Sidney, was selected as first assistant sergeant at arms. Dwight Machette, of Greenville, was again selected as clerk of the Senate.

ganized for the year by electing Roger Elsass, newest member, as chairman. Elsass will succeed Francis DeLoye in the post which traditionally is rotated among the three members of the commission. He was nominated for the chairmanship by DeLoye with Commissioner Russell Borland, seconding. ——— Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Woodruff, daughter, Jacqueline, and Miss Connie Puthoff, have returned home after spending Christmas holidays with their son Ray Woodruff, who is a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The Sidney visitors attended dances, receptions and parties, including the formal dance December 23. They were present at the Christmas services at Cadet Chapel on Sunday.

25 Years

Jan. 2, 1987 John Steenrod will close the door today at 114 S. Main Ave., as a Nationwide Insurance agent, ending a career that has included farming and school teaching as well. Steenrod concludes 28 1/2 years in the insurance business, 7 1/2 of those years as an agent in Jackson Center. He came to Sidney in June 1965. ——— Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Daniel P. Hubler of Sidney has been selected 1986 Trooper of the Year at the Piqua Post. The selection of Hubler, 33, is 50 Years in recognition of outJan. 2, 1962 Shelby County com- standing service during missioners today re-or- 1986 at Piqua.

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Office birthday celebration is no party for guest of honor DEAR ABBY: that sacrifices I have a problem had been made that happens for my “big day,” once a year — my which always birthday at work. ended up with There’s a huge me guilt-ridden potluck with and in tears. cake, banners, As an adult, I gifts and a card celebrate my that has been cirbirthday with my Dear culating around husband and son. Abby the office for a We keep it lowAbigail week. I cringe at key and I’m surthe attention. Van Buren rounded by the Everyone means unconditional well, but these celebra- love I craved as a child. tions are pure torture for I have tried bowing me. out and asked that gifts I’m a 7-year-old all be made to charity inover again, trying my stead, but I am told, “Oh, best to keep the anxiety come on! We ALL have to and waterworks in go through this.” I went check. so far as to confide to the It goes back to my party planners why I’m childhood. Growing up, so uncomfortable. To my we were very poor, and horror, a few of them my parents made it clear began complaining about

how hard they worked pulling everything together or how late they stayed up baking the cake, etc. It was like hearing my parents all over again. Am I being too sensitive? I’d appreciate your opinion. — SPARE ME IN MICHIGAN DEAR SPARE ME: Because you have tried talking to your co-workers about the special circumstances surrounding your reason for not wanting an office celebration, it’s time to talk to your supervisor or someone in human resources. I see no reason why you should have to suffer emotional stress so that everyone can have a party on your birthday. And no, you are not

being too sensitive. The party-planners have been insensitive. DEAR ABBY: My mother never liked my paternal grandmother. Grandma “Jane” was tolerated, but often treated as an object of ridicule or contempt. My sister unquestioningly absorbed my mother’s prejudice against her and is blatantly rude to her. Over the years I have grown close to Grandma Jane. My husband and I visit her regularly. Dad knows, but says it’s better if Mom doesn’t know. Grandma has asked me several times if I know why Mom dislikes her. She’s in her 90s, isolated from her family and desperately searching for answers. I can

only imagine it stems from some disagreement dating back to before I was born. I am also sad that Dad won’t visit his mother because Mom won’t go with him. I can’t believe Grandma Jane has done anything to deserve being forced to die alone, and it hurts knowing my mother would be so vindictive out of spite. Grandma’s good health can’t last forever. I worry what will happen when she can no longer live independently. I believe in reconciliation, tolerance and a little maturity, but I know I am in the minority. What can I possibly do? — LOYAL DAUGHTER, CARING GRANDDAUGHTER DEAR LOYAL AND

CARING: Not knowing the details of what caused the rift, I’m advising you to do as your father has suggested. If he were stronger, he would have insisted decades ago that his mother be treated with respect. That he would allow her to be ridiculed or treated rudely in his presence while he remained silent is shameful. While you can’t heal the breach, you can remain caring and supportive of your grandmother. When she can no longer live independently, she will need someone to help her or to move her to assisted living. The ideal person to watch over her then would be you.

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Winter Storm Safety Tips BEFORE A WINTER STORM: Have a disaster plan and prepare a disaster supplies kit for your home and car. Include a first aid kit, canned food and a can opener, bottled water, battery-operated radio, flashlight, protective clothing, and blankets. Don't forget, be aware of changing weather. DURING A WINTER STORM: Stay indoors and dress warmly. Eat regularly, because food provides the body with energy for producing its own heat. Also, drink lots of water. If you must go outside, wear layered clothing, mittens and a hat. Watch for signs of hypothermia and frostbite.

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• Have you ever heard that no two snowflakes have the same shape? If you have, have you ever wondered how that can be with the billions of snowflakes that fall each year? Well, there have been 2 snowflakes found that were identical. If someone says that phrase again, you can tell them the truth! • Snowflakes start as ice crystals that are the size of a speck of dust. When the crystals fall they join up with other crystals to form a snowflake. The size of the snowflake depends on how many crystals hook together. Snowflakes usually have six sides. Here are the different kinds of snowflake shapes. • Guess what, it can get cold enough that it doesn't snow! Because snow is frozen water, if there are not enough water droplets in the air it can't snow. • You probably know that it snows when water is lifted into the sky from rivers, lakes, and oceans as water vapor. You can not see water vapor but it is there. There is enough in the air to cover the earth with 3 feet of water. The warmer the air the more water vapor there is. • You can make your own cloud by breathing in cold weather. Or, try breathing on a mirror; there will be a clear gray cloud on it! • For it to snow the tops of the clouds must be below 0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. • Snow can come from any cloud that is layered. • Sometimes the snow can be feet deep in one place while it is bare in another because the wind has blown all the snow off that spot. • As snow falls snowflakes connect to make bigger snowflakes. • Snow at the North and South Pole reflect heat into space. That happens because the ice acts like a mirror with the heat of the sun, and the heat bounces off the ice and into space.

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Did You Know? KNOW THE LINGO WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES — Issued for accumulations of snow, freezing rain, freezing drizzle, and sleet, which will cause significant inconveniences and, if caution is not exercised, could lead to life-threatening situations.

Snow How do winter storms form? Winter storms derive their energy from the clash of two air masses of different temperatures and moisture levels. Winter storms usually form when an air mass of cold, dry, Canadian air moves south and interacts with a warm, moist air mass moving north from the Gulf of Mexico. The point where these two air masses meet is called a front. If cold air advances and pushes away the warm air, it forms a cold front. When warm air advances, it rides up over the denser, cold air mass to form a warm front. If neither air mass advances, it forms a stationary front. How is snow formed? Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition, which is when water vapor changes directly to ice without first becoming a liquid, high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 32°F and then falls to the ground. How do blizzards form? A blizzard is a long-lasting snowstorm with very strong winds and intense snowfall. You need three things to have a bliz-

zard; cold air at the surface, lots of moisture, and lift. Warm air must rise over cold air. Blizzards can strand cars on highways for hours or even days. When you are traveling during the winter months, be sure to have emergency kits in the vehicle with you. What are snowflakes? Snowflakes are made of ice crystals. Each snowflake is sixsided and made of as many as 200 ice crystals. Snowflakes form in clouds where the temperature

WINTER STORM WATCH — Alerts the public to the possibility of a blizzard, heavy snow, heavy freezing rain, or heavy sleet. Winter Storm Watches are usually issued 12 to 48 hours before the beginning of a winter storm. WINTER STORM WARNING — Issued when hazardous winter weather in the form of heavy snow, heavy freezing rain, or heavy sleet is occurring. Winter Storm Warnings are usually issued 12 to 24 hours before the event is expected. BLIZZARD WARNING — Issued for sustained or gusty winds of 35 mph or more, and falling or blowing snow creating visibilities at or below 1/4 mile. These conditions should persist for 3 hours. is below freezing. The ice crystals form around tiny bits of dirt that has been carried up into the atmosphere by the wind. As the snow crystals grow, they become heavier and fall toward the ground.

WHY IS SNOW WHITE? Bright snow blinds us with its gleaming white color because it reflects beams of white light. Instead of absorbing light, snow's complex structure prevents the light from shining through its lattice formation. A beam of white sunlight entering a snow bank is so quickly scattered by a zillion ice crystals and air pockets that most of the light comes bouncing right back out of the snow bank. What little sunlight is absorbed by snow is absorbed equally over the wavelengths of visible light thus giving snow its white appearance. So while many natural objects get their blue, red, and yellow colors from absorbing light, snow is stuck with its white color because it reflects light.

FROST/FREEZE WARNING — Issued when below freezing temperatures are expected. LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY — Issued when accumulation of lake effect snow will cause significant inconvenience. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING — Issued when heavy lake effect snow is occurring. WIND CHILL ADVISORY — Issued when the wind chill temperature is forecast to be between -15°F to 24°F. WIND CHILL WARNING — Issued when the wind chill temperature is forecast to be -25°F or lower.

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25 years ago January 2, 1987 Bel-Mar Lanes held its annual Christmas Tournament for junior boys and girls. In the boys tournament, Mike Sloan and Mike Wilson combined to win the doubles championship with 1,388 while David Wilson won the singles title with 787. In the girls competition, Shanda Grieves and Shannon Baker combined to win the doubles with 1,320 and Baker also won the singles title with 687. She also bowled 97 pins over her average in the doubles competition and 78 over her average to take the singles title.

CALENDAR TONIGHT Girls basketball Minster at Kalida —— TUESDAY Bowling Springfield at Sidney Girls basketball Fairlawn at Mississinawa Anna at Graham Lehman at Bethel Boys basketball Franklin-Monroe at Lehman Jackson Center at Fort Loramie Houston at Botkins —— WEDNESDAY Girls basketball Sidney at Trotwood Swimming Botkins at Lima quad

ON THE AIR High school basketball On the Internet, radio (Times approximate) TUESDAY Scores broadcast.comScoresbroadcast.com — Boys basketball, Jackson Center at Fort Loramie. Air time 7:15. THURSDAY Scoresbroadcats.com — Girls basketball, Lehman at Fort Loramie. Air time 7:15. FRIDAY Scoresbroadcast.com — Boys basketball, Fort Loramie at Botkins. Air time 7:40 SATURDAY Scoresbroadcast.com — Girls basketball, Houston at Russia. Air time 2:10 Boys basketball, Lehman at Houston. Air time 7:40

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Joe never sits around and complains about what’s happened to him. We’re sitting there on his birthday and he said, ‘Look, I’ve got 17 healthy grandkids, I’ve got give five healthy kids’ ... Joe’s always a guy who looks at the bright side (of) everything.” —Jay Paterno on his father Joe, the legendary former Penn State football coach

ON THIS DATE IN 1966 — Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung gain 201 yards on four inches of snow at Lambeau Field to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 23-12 victory over the Cleveland Browns and their third championship in five years.

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Trying to avoid losing record Bucks face Florida today in Gator Bowl matchup of 6-6 teams JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Ohio State and Florida have been two of college football’s most consistent programs in recent years. Conference championships, big-time bowl games, national titles, the Buckeyes and Gators have experienced it all. This year proved much different for two of the country’s power programs. New coaches, personnel issues and losing streaks left Ohio State and Florida with their worst seasons in decades and landed them in the Gator Bowl. One of the two will end up with another low: a losing season. The Buckeyes (6-6) and Gators (6-6) will try to avoid carrying that baggage into the offseason by winning Monday’s game. It’s the most significant storyline in the matchup that has been hyped as Urban Meyer’s former team vs. his future team. “It’s disappointing obviously,” first-year Florida coach

Will Muschamp said. “It’s not something we want to have happen. I certainly know that these players and our staff don’t want to be saddled with that. Is that a motivating factor? Certainly should be.” Ohio State hasn’t endured a losing season since 1988, when the Buckeyes finished 4-6-1 under first-year coach John Cooper. Florida hasn’t finished below .500 since 1979, when the Gators went 0-10-1 in Charley Pell’s first season. “It’s two programs that aren’t used to being in this spot,” Buckeyes center Mike Brewster said. “It’s really just for pride at this point.” Ohio State and Florida have played once before — in the 2007 Bowl Championship Series national title game in Glendale, Ariz. Meyer’s Gators won 41-14, making the coach the most popular person in Gainesville. He’s not nearly as beloved these days. Meyer left Florida after the 2010 season, and spent most of the year working as an

ESPN analyst before taking the head coaching job at Ohio State. He stayed away from the Gator Bowl and his former and future teams this week, instead concentrating on his first recruiting class. Meyer will officially take over next week, tasked with leading the Buckeyes through NCAA probation. The NCAA hit Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and additional penalties last month for violations stemming from players who exchanged jerseys, rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia for cash and tattoos. The violations cost coach Jim Tressel his job, and the Buckeyes turned things over to interim coach Luke Fickell. “It was a growing process for all of us,” said Fickell, one of several assistants who will remain at OSU under Meyer. AP Photo “We’ve talked about it; we’ve STATE quarterback OHIO said it a million times: change is inevitable; growth is op- Braxton Miller works out during practice Thursday in tional.” See BUCKS/Page 18 Jacksonville, Fla., for the Gator Bowl today.

Bengals back into postseason Lose finale to Ravens, but still make it to the playoffs JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — The Ravens clinched a title and headed home, which is the only place they want to be at this time of the season. Ray Rice had a pair of long touchdown runs on Sunday night, leading Baltimore to a 24-16 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that gave the Ravens their third AFC North title and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs. Baltimore (12-4) will get a first-round bye followed by a playoff game at home, where the Ravens are 8-0 this season. Despite the loss, the Bengals (9-7) also got into the playoffs, securing the final wild card as the Jets and Broncos also lost. It’s Cincinnati’s third playoff appearance in the last 21 years. With Paul Brown Stadium packed with Bengals fans for the first time all season, Rice made the biggest plays on a blustery afternoon that made it tough to throw. He had a career-best 70-yard touchdown run on the fourth play. Rice also broke a 51-yard touchdown run on a thirdand-1 play with 5:41 to go, essentially finishing off Cincinnati’s chances of yet another big comeback. Rice finished with 191 yards on 24 carries and set a club record with his 15th touchdown of the season. Baltimore’s defense had a big hand in it, too. Linebacker Terrell Suggs hit tight end Jermaine Gresham after a catch, jarring the ball loose. Three plays later, Rice went 51 yards to put the Ravens on the verge of a title. Suggs sacked Andy Dalton, forcing the Bengals to settle for a field goal on their next possession. Cincinnati got the ball back at its 20 with 1:05 to go and no timeouts left. The game ended with Dalton’s desperation pass into the end zone. During that final, futile drive, the Broncos’ score was shown on the videoboard, drawing a loud cheer from the crowd of 63,439. The Bengals sold out their stadium by offering two-for-one ticket deals. Bengals players received congratulatory hand slaps from fans as they left the field after

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CINCINNATI BENGALS quarterback Andy Dalton (14) is hit by Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs (55) in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday in Cincinnati. AP Photo/Tony Tribble the loss. Ravens players raised their helmets in triumph as they ran off the field after Dalton’s final pass. They made homefield advantage for the playoffs an overriding goal after having to play on the road each of their last three years in the postseason. Wind gusts of over 30 mph toyed with long passes and kicks, forcing teams to go conservative. The Ravens got the better of it behind their multifaceted running back. Rice found a huge hole behind Marshal Yanda’s block

and outran Cincinnati’s secondary only 2 minutes into the game. Cincinnati’s defense got sloppy and helped the Ravens drive for a touchdown and a 17-3 lead at the half. Penalties for holding, illegal contact and a high hit moved the ball to the Cincinnati 9-yard line with 19 seconds left. The Ravens used their final timeout to set up Joe Flacco’s touchdown pass to Dennis Pitta in the far corner of the end zone. Flacco went 15 of 19 for 130 yards without an interception.

The Bengals stayed in playoff contention by pulling off comebacks, overcoming double-digit deficits in the second half three times. They put themselves in position for another one when Bernard Scott broke a 25-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter. Mike Nugent’s 46-yard field goal cut it to 17-13 early in the fourth quarter, but that was all they managed. The Bengals reached the playoffs despite losing all seven of their games against playoff contenders this season.

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Steelers Foul-prone edge Browns CLEVELAND (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t get the help they needed elsewhere. They barely helped themselves. Isaac Redman replaced injured starting running back Rashard Mendenhall and scored a touchdown as Pittsburgh limped into the AFC playoffs with a wind-whipped 13-9 win Sunday over Cleveland, the Steelers’ 16th victory in 17 games against the Browns. Redman scored on a 7-yard run in the third quarter for the Steelers (12-4), who finished tied with Baltimore for first in the AFC North but lost the tiebreaker because the Ravens beat them twice. Pittsburgh needed to win and hope Cincinnati could knock off the Ravens, who beat the Bengals 24-16. The Steelers survived two fumbles by Redman in the second half and then held their breath on the final play when Browns quarterback Seneca Wallace floated a pass into a crowd in the back of the end zone. But Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu came over the top and got his hand on the ball before rookie wide receiver Greg Little could grab it, allowing the Steelers to escape. The Browns (4-12) lost their last six games and nine of 10 under first-year coach Pat Shurmur. With quarterback Ben Roethlisberger already hobbled by a severely sprained ankle, the Steelers lost Mendenhall with an injured right knee in the first quarter. Mendenhall’s status for the postseason is unknown. Redman rushed for 92 yards on 19 carries. Roethlisberger, barely able to move around in the pocket, went just 23 of 40 for 221 yards but made enough big throws to help him improve to 14-1 in his career against the Browns. Shaun Suisham made two field goals for the Steelers, who won 12 games for the second year in a row, something they haven’t done since 1978-79. They won the Super Bowl both those years. Phil Dawson kicked three field goals that accounted for all of Cleveland points. Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward had five catches and became the eighth player in NFL history to reach 1,000 career catches. Ward grabbed a shovel pass in the fourth quarter, and although it lost three yards, it got him to the milestone. Ward and Hall of Famer Jerry Rice are the only players with 1,000 receptions and more than one Super Bowl win. Ward was embraced by his teammates when he came to the sideline after his catch, but it was one of the few things worth celebrating on a sloppy day for the Steelers, who dominated the stat sheet but couldn’t put the Browns away. Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison was well-behaved. Harrison, who was suspended for one game for his helmet-tohelmet hit on Browns quarterback Colt McCoy on Dec. 8, had little impact on the game. He was credited with three tackles.

B L O O M I N G T O N, Ind. (AP) — No. 2 Ohio State had too many fouls, too many turnovers and not enough stops Saturday night. It was a devastating combination. Victor Oladipo scored the go-ahead basket with 36 seconds to go, leading No. 13 Indiana to a 74-70 victory, snapping the Buckeyes’ school record six-game winning streak over the Hoosiers. “We’ve got to learn to play through that,” Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. “It’s one of those things you’ve got to learn, to play with the foul trouble.” The Buckeyes (13-2, 1-1 Big Ten) learned their lesson the hard way. Despite having a better field-goal percentage, more rebounds and as

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OHIO STATE'S Amir Williams (23) dunks against Indiana's Victor Oladipo, left, during the first half Saturday in Bloomington, Ind. many misses from the free throw line (seven) as Indiana, Ohio State still wound up with its second loss of the season.

They had won five straight since losing to Kansas three weeks ago in another 2 vs. 13 matchup. But the Buckeyes never got in sync, largely because of foul trouble that stuck with them throughout the game. “It makes you secondguess some plays you think you can make on the floor,” said Aaron Craft, the Buckeyes’ top scorer with 16 points. “Sometimes you got to back off because you know you can’t get a foul and you know they’re calling it tight. It goes both ways.” “They (the players) just kept giving us (coaches) confidence,” Indiana coach Tom Crean said. “They came to every timeout, they were totally locked in and at the 7:38 mark, you could just see it in their eyes

they were so locked in. They matched the Ohio State toughness and energy.” The Hoosiers (13-1, 11) were far from perfect. They shot 45.8 percent from the field, about 5 percentage points below their season average. They got outrebounded 35-28. Foul trouble limited freshman center Cody Zeller, the engineer of Indiana’s turnaround, to only 21 minutes, and he fouled out with 2:24 to go. Indiana was still good enough. The Hoosiers forced 17 turnovers and even with Zeller sitting out, somehow managed to outscore the bigger Buckeyes 38-34 in the paint. “They’ve been punking us the past couple years and we realized that,” Oladipo said after

scoring 15 points. “This year we had to go toe-totoe with them.” Jared Sullinger had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Buckeyes, and William Buford finished with 12 points but missed a possible goahead 3-pointer with about 5 seconds to play. But it was foul trouble that made Ohio State look like something other than itself. Sullinger, Buford and Deshaun Thomas combined to play only 29 minutes in the first half after each picked up their second fouls. Buford picked up two more in the first 3:32 of the second half, and Thomas picked up his third with 17:21 left in the game. That forced coach Matta to mix-and-match his rotations in hopes of keeping a five-game winning streak alive.

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FORT LORAMIE’S Kylie Drees tries to drive on Rachel Kremer of Versailles in girls basketball ac-

tion Saturday at Versailles. Loramie lost to the Lady Tigers 55-47.

A moral victory for Loramie BY MATT ZIRCHER VERSAILLES — Coaches don’t often believe in moral victories, but, given the circumstances of the past two weeks, Carla Siegel’s Fort Loramie squad recorded one here Saturday afternoon. Playing without three starters due to injury, the Lady Redskins rallied from a 13-point deficit to tie the game early in the fourth quarter and trailed by only two with 2:55 to play before Versailles scored 10 of the final 14 points to pull out a 55-47 win. The Lady Tigers improve to 7-2 with their sixth straight win. Loramie is now 5-4. A Megan Imwalle jumper gave Loramie a 65 lead with three minutes remaining in the first quarter before Versailles closed out the period by scoring the final six points, including back-toback Katie Heckman layups, to go up 11-6.

The margin grew to 16-8 on a Kayla McEldowney three two minutes into the second quarter, but it was all Redskins from there as an 11-2 run, all but two coming from the foul line, gave Loramie a 1918 halftime lead. “That stretch was crucial for us,” said Siegel. “It told my girls that we have a chance to win this game. Our zone defense was very good in shutting them down.” “Their press and defense really affected us in that second quarter,” said Versailles coach Jacki Stonebraker. “It’s a different style and it’s so hard to simulate in practice.” Baskets by Amanda Winner, Heckman and McEldowney broke a 20all tie and after three three-pointers in a twominute span, two from McEldowney, the Tiger lead grew to 37-24 at the 2:25 mark of the third quarter. A Macy Turner three

and an Amanda Holdheide three-point play started Loramie on its comeback and after Turner connected on two more threes from the right wing to start the final period, Paige Ordean hit Reggi Brandewie with a backdoor pass for a layup to tie the game at 38 with 5:41 to play. McEldowney put Versailles back in front with a three and four foul shots extended the Tiger lead back up to seven, only to see the Redskins answer with five free throws of their own to make it 4543 at the 2:55 mark. Brooke Pothast gave Versailles a five-point lead with a foul shot and a jumper with 1:21 remaining, but Holdheide hit a pair at the stripe to make it a one-possession game at the 47.5-second mark. Loramie, though, would get no closer. “I was very impressed with the tenacity of my players today,” said Siegel. “We were down big in the third quarter,

but we rallied to tie and never gave up.” The Redskins were without starters Julie Hoying, who suffered an ACL injury at Houston on Dec. 22, along with Darian Rose and Renae Meyer, who collided during practice on Thursday. Meyer ended up with a concussion while Rose had stitches and a broken nose. Brandewie paced all scorers with 18 points for Loramie while Turner had 10. McEldowney led the Tigers with 17 points. Fort Loramie (47) Turner 3-1-10; Westerheide 0-3-3; Drees 0-3-3; Holdheide 3-3-9; Brandewie 5-8-18; Imwalle 1-0-2; Ordean 1-0-2. Totals: 13-18-47. Versailles (55) Warvel 0-2-2; Winner 3-0-6; Grieshop 1-0-2; McEldowney 60-17; Pothast 2-6-10; Kremer 31-8; Heckman 4-2-10. Totals: 19-11-55. Score by quarters: Loramie.............. 6 19 30 47 Versailles ...........11 18 38 55 Three pointers: Loramie 3 (Turner); Versailles 6 (McEldowney 5, Kremer). Records: Fort Loramie 5-4, Versailles 7-2. Reserve score: Fort Loramie 35, Versailles 32.

MIAMI (AP) — First came a squabble in the huddle. Then, Santonio Holmes found himself on the bench. The New York Jets’ receiver and captain was yanked as his team tried to rally in the fourth quarter Sunday and avoid elimination from the playoff race. To compound the soap opera, coach Rex Ryan said he thought Holmes took himself out of the game. The Jets lost 19-17 to the Miami Dolphins. Following a spat with teammates, Holmes was replaced by Patrick Turner. “It was a coach’s call,” Holmes said. “Patrick came in and tapped me on the shoulder and told me to come out.” The decision may have come from an assistant coach aware that Holmes had argued with teammates. Running back LaDainian Tomlinson said they were unhappy about Holmes’ effort, demeanor and body language. “It’s tough for guys to follow a captain that kind of behaves in that manner,” Tomlinson said. “You’ve got to lead by example, and you’ve got to play your tail off until the last play.” Holmes was held without a catch for the first time in his 88-game career. Holmes was targeted only once. He went to the bench with the Jets trailing 19-10 and driving in the final two minutes. “I looked out there and was wondering why he wasn’t out there,” Ryan said. “So, I did not bench Santonio.” Turner caught a 10yard touchdown pass, but Miami then ran out the clock, ending New York’s season. When asked if the Jets gave sufficient effort, cornerback Antonio Cromartie said: “Uh, maybe on one side of the ball.” It’s not the first time Holmes has been the focus of controversy this season. He twice called out the offensive line for not giving quarterback Mark Sanchez enough time to throw. At the time, right guard Brandon Moore said Holmes’ comments “can have a fracturing effect” in the locker room. Moore also was disappointed Holmes made his negative opinions public since “that’s not something a captain does.”

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Calvert 5th in Confident Cavs host F-M Tuesday Two rescheduled County games also on tap holiday event FAIRBORN — Sidney High’s wrestling team placed 36th out of 53 teams in the annual holiday tournament Thursday and Friday at the Nutter Center. “Most of the GWOC schools were there and we were in the lower half of those schools,” said Sidney coach Jim McCracken. “I was disappointed. We lost at least seven or eight matches we were capable of winning, and we have to improve on winning those. Mason Calvert at 145 pounds wrestled well and was Sidney’s only placer, in fifth. He lost his first match to the top seed, then won five in a row, including three pins and two major decisions. “I was impressed with

BUCKS Fickell seemed to have Ohio State on track after consecutive wins against Illinois and Wisconsin in October. But the Buckeyes dropped their last three games against Purdue, Penn State and Michigan. Braxton Miller was a bright spot in the losing streak. The freshman quarterback had 248 yards rushing and 450 yards passing in the three tight games. “The Braxton I have under center now opposed to the Braxton I had at the beginning of the season is night and day,” Brewster said. “He’s grown so much and he’s so much more confident now. He’s really just a different player. With bowl practice, I’m anx-

Fresh off an impressive championship performance in the Piqua Tournament, Holiday the Lehman Cavaliers return home Tuesday night to play a team, 5-2 Franklin-Monroe, they owe payback to. The Cavs bounced back from losses to Minster and Versailles to rout Piqua and Covington in

the holiday tournament and claim the crown. And while head coach Isaiah Williams was pleased with the effort, he’s a little concerned about Tuesday’s game. “It’s a trap game,” he said. “We’re coming off a great weekend, and we need to be focused. I’m hoping that we have motivation by playing

his intensity throughout the tournament. He always goes hard, but he took it to another level,” said the coach. Cody Davis at 126 fell one bout short of placing. He won three matches and lost two. “In the consolations, he brought it with a 12-4 decision over Pittman of Vandalia,” said McCracken. “It was very impressive. Jacob Sharp won two and lost two for the Browns-Steelers Jackets, and McCracken FOOTBALL Steelers-Browns Stats said the surprise of the Pittsburgh ...............0 3 10 0—13 tournament was fresh- Bengals-Ravens Cleveland.................0 6 3 0— 9 Ravens-Bengals Stats Second Quarter man Jared Tangeman, Baltimore.................10 7 0 7—24 Cle_FG Dawson 26, 6:03. who pinned his first two Cincinnati..................3 0 7 6—16 Cle_FG Dawson 45, 1:06. Quarter First opponents. Pit_FG Suisham 19, :00. Bal_Rice 70 run (Cundiff kick), Third Quarter Garrick Ginter at 160, 12:58. Pit_FG Suisham 29, 9:43. another freshman, was Bal_FG Cundiff 42, 6:45. Pit_Redman 7 run (Suisham Nugent 46, 3:02. Cin_FG also 2-2 in the tournakick), 5:27. Second Quarter Cle_FG Dawson 49, 1:59. ment. Bal_Pitta 9 pass from Flacco A_68,266. Sidney is at Beaver- (Cundiff kick), :11. —— Third Quarter Cle Pit creek Saturday. Cin_Scott 25 run (Nugent kick),

Franklin-Monroe, because they beat us twice last season. “We’re confident after winning the tournament,” he added. “We’re playing much better than we were and getting contributions from guys we know we need them from. We’re playing more like a team.” Meanwhile, there are

two County boys games on tap Tuesday, both of them rescheduled. Houston tries again to play at Botkins. The last time the two met there, the game was never played because of a faulty school alarm system. In addition, Jackson Center puts its perfect record (6-0) on the line at Fort Loramie.

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From Page 16 ious to see how much more he’s grown and how things go. “He just has a much better grasp on the big picture. He’s come such a long ways this season, and I think that’s pretty impressive.” The Gators have shown little improvement under Muschamp. The offense sputtered under coordinator Charlie Weis, who left last month to take the head coaching job at Kansas, and the defense was pushed around by the Southeastern Conference’s top teams. Put those together and Florida lost six of its last eight games and needed to rally to beat lower-division Furman.

3:26. Fourth Quarter Cin_FG Nugent 46, 12:35. Bal_Rice 51 run (Cundiff kick), 5:41. Cin_FG Nugent 23, 2:39. A_63,439. —— Cin Bal First downs . . . . . . . . 15 19 336 Total Net Yards . . . . 347 Rushes-yards . . . 32-221 24-105 Passing . . . . . . . . . . . 126 231 4-45 Punt Returns . . . . . 1-11 3-72 Kickoff Returns . . . 2-22 0-0 Interceptions Ret.. . . 0-0 Comp-Att-Int . . . 15-19-0 22-44-0 Sacked-Yards Lost . . 1-4 1-1 Punts . . . . . . . . . . 7-46.7 4-53.5 1-1 Fumbles-Lost . . . . . . 0-0 Penalties-Yards. . . . 7-59 4-35 Time of Possession 29:26 30:34 —— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Baltimore, Rice 24191, R.Williams 6-28, Flacco 1-1, Leach 1-1. Cincinnati, Benson 1351, Scott 6-34, Dalton 4-17, Hawkins 1-3. PASSING_Baltimore, Flacco 15-19-0-130. Cincinnati, Dalton 2244-0-232. RECEIVING_Baltimore, Pitta 6-62, T.Smith 5-33, Rice 2-8, Dickson 1-20, Leach 1-7. Cincinnati, Gresham 5-72, Simpson 5-54, Hawkins 3-34, Green 2-26, Leonard 2-19, Benson 2-10, Lee 2-9, Scott 18. FIELD MISSED GOALS_Cincinnati, Nugent 36 (WR).

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