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Life is a precious gift Heart attack survivor tells his story BY FRED HERRON For Sidney resident Bill Wolfe, manager of the Speedway station on Russell Road, life is a precious gift. On May 30, 2009, at age 45, Wolfe suffered a massive heart attack. It came on him out of the blue. “I feel really lucky; God was
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looking out for me,” he said. “The only reason I survived was because I was in great shape. My wife and I walked a lot, three to four miles a day.” While exercise is typically a great way to combat heart disease, Wolfe had another strike against him — a history of heart disease on both sides of
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deaths per day. These conditions are also leading causes of disability, preventing people from working and enjoying family activities. Cardiovascular disease is also very expensive — in 2010 it cost $444 billion in health care expenses and lost productivity. See HEART/Page 12
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“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.” — Sam Levenson, American humorist (1911-1980) For more on today in history, turn to Page 8.
Tom Barnett, then news editor of the Piqua Daily Call, was in his car, driving home from work on Nov. 22, 1963, when he heard radio reports that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. “I knew not even to go home,” he told a colleague 15 years later. “I just turned around and went back to the paper.”
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It was one of the more memorable days in Barnett’s 68-year career as a newsman. Once that printer’s ink gets into your blood, it’s said, you can never stop being a journalist. Barnett will try. He hung up his press pass Thursday when he retired from the Sidney Daily News, where he had been on the reporting staff since 2001. He stopped pounding the beats — and the keys — after working through all or
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Lifesaving second opinion Heart pump gives Sidney man hope for future BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@ civitasmedia.com
work that was needed that wasn’t being done,” Ahmed said. Within four days, Steven was back in Ahmed’s office and the doctor determined that Steven was in such advanced stages of congestive heart failure that he could be a candidate for a heart transplant. Ahmed called the Cleveland Clinic and Steven was transported there by helicopter immediately. “It looked like his heart was failing,” Ahmed said. Steven was hospitalized in Cleveland for six weeks. There, surgeons implanted a defibrillator and a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
When it comes to health, never underestimate the value of a second opinion. That’s the first thing Steven Petrocelli, of Sidney, and his wife, Teresa, will say when asked for advice about heart issues. Steven’s heart has been the focus of attention by a lot of health professionals in recent weeks. The second opinion probably saved his life. The 44-year-old thinks his problems started in October 2011 when he contracted Transplantation pneumonia and suffered The LVAD is often from it for three months. used as a bridge to ‘Looked bad’ transplantation. It “It wasn’t treated ag- pumps blood through gressively enough, and I the body when the heart think that’s what did is too weak to do so. In something to my heart,” Steven’s case, doctors he told the Sidney Daily believe that his heart, if News. “I could feel some- given a rest, may heal itthing in my breathing in self. mid-September. I work “The pump is giving at Honda. After the my heart a vacation,” Christmas shutdown, Steven said. “A group of the guys forced me to go cardiologists told me I to medical. They said I might be one of the 2 to looked really bad.” 3 percent that this pump His family doctor in can come out and I can Dayton told Steven to go with my own heart.” wait until his lungs The Petrocellis becleared to have an lieve Steve is the only echocardiogram. person in Shelby County “I work at (Wilson who has such a device. Hospital),” According to the website Memorial Teresa said. “They got of the pump’s developer, him in right away. Then Thoratec Corp., about our family doctor sent him to a cardiologist at Good Samaritan (Hospital in Dayton). The cardiologist said he had congestive heart failure.” The Petrocellis were told that with medications, Steven would make a good recovery. That was not true. “But I didn’t have any of the symptoms (of a failed heart),” Steven said. “Not high cholesterol, not clogged arteries.” Doctors thought the pneumonia had attacked his heart. He was on the prescribed medication for nine months. “Every time I would have a flare-up, I would stop work, sit for 15 minutes, and then go back to work. Sometimes in the morning, my blood pressure would be down, and my heart rate would be up and I wouldn’t go to work. We’d call the cardiac clinic at Good Sam. The nurses there would help me,” he said.
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Train staff In the meantime, technicians from Thoratec will soon visit Shelby County to train EMS staff and people at Wilson Memorial in how to treat Steven if he has an emergency need for them before he can return to the Cleveland Clinic. “I don’t have an expertise in (the LVAD),” Ahmed said. “There are only a couple people in the state that do this.
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Teresa took Steven to Good Samaritan Hospital five or six times during that nine-month period. But the Petrocellis weren’t getting the information they wanted from the cardiologist, whom they did not name in discussions with the Daily News. They said that following Steven’s stress tests in October 2012, they had to phone the doctor to get the results and his response was “very vague.” “So we decided to switch cardiologists,” Teresa said. By that time, they had also switched family doctors and were seeing someone closer to home, Dr. Eric Prenger. Prenger recommended Dr. Rehan Ahmed at Sidney Cardiology. “Let’s get a second opinion,” Teresa said. Ahmed, a doctor of osteopathy, took one look at Steven and saw red flags. “I saw a lot more
10,000 have been distributed worldwide since 2005. The pump looks like a small jet turbine. It floats freely. Steven sets its RPMs on a unit worn on his belt. The unit is connected to the pump by a cord that goes through his skin in the middle of his body. The opening must be kept sterile. “The Cleveland Clinic people trained me in how to do a sterile procedure on the dressing,” Teresa said. When Steven is at home, he stays connected to a unit on the wall. He has a portable battery pack to use when he leaves the house. He carries extra batteries and an extra monitor with him at all times. In a year, doctors will re-evaluate his situation and make a decision about his candidacy for a transplant.
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To eat for health, individuals are advised to choose fruits, vegetables and whole grains while reducing sodium and limiting fat to no more than 30 percent of daily calories. Reducing saturated fats and cholesterol also lowers the risk of coronary artery disease. High blood pressure also places individuals at a greater risk. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not smoking and taking medication can all help manage blood pressure and keep the heart healthy. Another major factor for heart disease is smoking, which more than doubles the risk for cardiovascular problems. Secondhand smoke is harmful for the heart as well. Doctors may perform a cardiac disease risk assessment
TROY — The focus of February may be heartfelt gifts for Valentine’s Day, but it’s also time to pay attention to the beating of your own heart. February is national Heart Health Month. More than 950,000 people die of heart disease every year — the No. 1 cause of death for American adults, according to a press release from Upper Valley Medical Center. While some people are more at risk due to hereditary and age, risks can be reduced by making some lifestyle changes. Exercise, stress management and a healthy diet are all sound means to keeping cardiovascular disease at bay.
to discern an individual’s personal risk, and in turn offer health tests and treatment options for lessening the risk. Knowing the warning signs of cardiac disease is vitally important. Symptoms include chest pain or discomfort; shortness of breath; pain in the arm, shoulder, back or jaw; lightheartedness; fatigue; or abdominal pain. Individuals are urged to get regular screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes, as all are major factors for heart disease. UVMC will be hosting free screenings at the Heart Month Health Fair from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 16. ApFile photo pointments are required and IN THIS file photo, lung transplant patient Joe Martin benefits may be made by calling Carefrom cardiopulmonary rehab at Upper Valley Medical Center. Finders at (866) 608-3468.
Associations launch Together to End Stroke national initiative death and a leading cause of long-term, severe disability. Even more telling is that about half of Americans know someone who has had a stroke. When it comes to knowing the stroke warning signs, only about two out of three Americans can correctly identify at least one
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Overheated electrical MUNICIPAL COURT circuit causes fire BY TOM BARNETT tbarnett@ civitasmedia. com Responding to 725 S. Main Ave. at 7:24 a.m. Thursday for a structure fire alarm with possible victims, Sidney firefighters found the three occupants had left the structure after being alerted by neighbors. On arrival, firefighters discovered fire in the attic and were able to confine the fire. The home did not have a working smoke detector in the attic. A box alarm was dispatched to recall all offduty personnel and mutual aid was provided by Perry Port Salem EMS and Anna Fire Department personnel. The home’s attic and roof sustained heavy damage from the fire and the residence received water damage throughout from firefighters’ fire suppression efforts. Assistant Sidney Fire Chief Cameron Haller said loss to the structure and its contents will exceed $35,000. The fire was caused, he said,
In Sidney Municipal Court Wednesday afternoon, assigned Judge Donald Luce fined Marc Dilworth, 43, of Troy, $100 and costs and sentenced him to five days in jail on a theft charge that was amended to attempted theft. If fines and costs are paid in full, jail may be reconsidered. A contempt of court citation was dismissed by the court. • James L. Neer, 63, 502 E. Pike St., Jackson Center, was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to five days in jail on a domestic violence charge that was amended to disorderly conduct. On a drug paraphernalia possession charge, also amended to disorderly conduct, he was also fined $50 and sentenced to five days in jail. The jail sentences may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full and he completes a mental health assessment while following all recommendations of For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg probation • Jacob R. Cummins, SIDNEY FIREFIGHTERS cleanup after extinguising an attic fire at 725 S. Main Ave. Thursday at 8:30 a.m. by an overheated electrical circuit. The Northern Miami Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross is assisting the home’s occupants, Doug Jackson,
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-8:38 a.m.: medical. Anna Rescue was dispatched to a medical call in the 18000 block of Ohio 65 in Jackson Township. -8:06 a.m.: medical. Houston Rescue responded to the 900 block of Patterson Road for a medical call. -6:34 a.m.: accident. Fort Loramie Rescue and fire department units responded to an accident in the 7000 block of Dawson Road in Cynthian Township. WEDNESDAY -10:25 p.m.: medical. Anna Rescue was dispatched to a medical call in the 1700 block of Heiland-Kies Road. -9:37 p.m.: medical. Perry Port Salem Rescue responded to the 5800 block of Ohio 29 for a medical call. -4:07 p.m.: medical. Houston Rescue was dispatched to the 10600 block of Schenk Road in Washington Township for a medical call.
THURSDAY -5:27 a.m.: lines down. Deputies responded to the 17000 block of Mason Road in Salem Township where a low hanging wire was creating a traffic hazard. WEDNESDAY -2:02 p.m.: larceny. A deputy responded to 9101 Tawawa-Maplewood Ohio officials have Road in Salem Township to investigate been weighing the long- the theft of electric power. term impact and potential costs of expanding Medicaid against the possible savings. THURSDAY The state stands to -10:56 a.m.: medical. Houston Resgain $1.4 billion during the next decade with the cue responded to the 5900 block of Cecil expansion, according to Road in Cynthian Township for a medthe study from the Health ical call. Policy Institute of Ohio, a nonpartisan policy organization. But most of that revenue would come during the first years of an Sidney paramedics were expanded Medicaid prodispatched to the 700 gram and eventually level block of South Ohio AvWEDNESDAY off as the state’s share of enue for a medical call. -7:36 p.m.: domestic. the costs increase. WEDNESDAY Ohio would save Franklin E. Ball, 319 S. -9:51 p.m.: medical. money in 2014 because Walnut Ave., told police a Paramedics responded to the federal government subject had threatened a medical call in the 2500 would pay a much higher him. Police charged a 16- block of North Kuther share of Medicaid costs year-old male with do- Road. for newly eligible adults, mestic violence. -5:35 p.m.: medical. the analysis said. The -2:58 p.m.: criminal Medics responded to the state also would see an in- damaging. Jason M. 600 block of Grunland crease in sales and health Hufford, 212 Piper St., Place for a medical call. insurance tax revenues told police a window of his -5:18 p.m.: medical. on managed care pre- residence had been bro- Paramedics were dismium payments. ken by unknown persons. patched to a medical call About 456,000 uninin the 200 block of South sured Ohioans would gain Main Street. health care coverage by -5:03 p.m.: medical. 2022 under the expanMedics responded to the THURSDAY sion, 200 block of West Court -2:55 a.m.: medical. Street for a medical call “I don’t view this as Obamacare at all,” Kasich said Thursday during a legislative preview session for journalists organized by The Associated Press. “Obamacare, you know, involving an individual mandate, I don’t MINSTER — Minster transportation alternasupport. … But this is a Local Schools have been tive, thereby encouraging different issue. This is participating in a joint ef- a healthy and active about people who are at fort with the village of lifestyle from an early the lower economic end.” Minster to encourage age. Kasich said a top con- children, including those The school’s travel cern for him in weighing with disabilities, to walk plan can be found on the a possible Medicaid ex- and bicycle to school. school website (www.minpansion is whether the Schools officials have ster.k12.oh.us) or in the state can trust the federal completed a school travel elementary school office. government to continue plan with the goal of The school is accepting picking up the bulk of being to make bicycling public input on the plan program costs. and walking to school a now until Feb. 15. People Aside from the gover- safer and more appealing are asked to review the nor, AP’s forum also featured other statewide elected officials and legislative leaders of both political parties to discuss COLUMBUS (AP) — consequence of a strugissues in the year ahead. Lawyers for a con- gle for a gun while he Ohio Treasurer Josh demned man who fa- was high. Mandel told reporters he tally shot an adult The request Frederwould back making Ohio bookstore security ick Treesh comes a little a right-to-work state to guard at the end of a more than a month help it compete with multistate crime spree ahead of his scheduled neighboring states that asked Ohio’s parole March 6 execution. have banned require- board Thursday to recProsecutors say ments that nonunion em- ommend mercy, saying Treesh, 48, and a co-deployees pay unions for he accepts responsibility fendant robbed banks negotiating contracts and for the killing but that it and businesses, commitother services. was an unintentional ted sexual assaults,
Kasich drops hints about Medicaid expansion in Ohio COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich dropped hints Thursday about whether he’ll push to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law to cover more poor people in the state. While the Republican governor would not reveal his plans, he did say that he views the expansion decision separately from President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law and its mandate for almost everyone to obtain health insurance. Kasich is expected to decide soon whether Ohio should opt for Medicaid expansion under the law, the signature legislation of the Democratic Obama administration. The governor plans to make the decision known when he unveils his two-year state budget proposal on Monday. Speculation around the Statehouse is that Kasich is leaning to-
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-4:59 p.m.: fire. Firefighters were dispatched to 226 Columbia Boulevard for a stove fire. The fire was caused by cooking oil left on a stove. Damage to the residence and contents was estimated at $1,000.No one was injured. -3:51 p.m.: medical. Paramedics responded to a medical call in the 2300 block of Schenk Road. -1:11 p.m.: injury. Medics were dispatched to the 2200 block of Michigan Street for an injury. -10:40 a.m.: medical. Paramedics responded to a medical call in the 1100 block of Morris Avenue.
School to hold meeting about walking safely to school plan and send any comments or concerns to Brenda.boeke@minster.k 12.oh.us. Also, a public meeting will be held Thursday 7 at 7 p.m. in the village administration building, 5 W. Fourth St. Safe Routes to School and Ohio Department of Transportation officials will be on hand to discuss the plan and to listen to input.
Condemned killer asks for mercy stole cars, committed carjackings and shot someone to death in a Michigan robbery in crimes across Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He was sentenced to die in Ohio for killing Henry Dupree during a 1994 robbery in the town of Eastlake on the shore of Lake Erie.
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Mary M. Oakley Dye, 84, Sidney, of passed away at 12:15 p.m. on W e d n e s d a y, Jan. 30, 2013, at Fair Haven Shelby County Home in Sidney. She was born in Marion County, on Feb. 11, 1928, to the late Roy and Ollie Wheeler Simpkins. On Oct. 21, 1947, she married Willard Wilson Oakley and he preceded her in death on Dec. 3, 1983. She later married Robert Dye and he preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 2010. She is survived three daughters, Dawon (Tom) Harford, of Lakeview, Dinah (Stephen) Sanders, of DeGraff, and Denise Steed, of Sidney; three sons, Douglas (Marilyn) Oakley, of Jackson Center, Dennis (Michelle) Oakley, of Lakeview and Dan Oakley, of Wapakoneta; a daughter-in-law, Jane Oakley, of Santa Fe; 13 seven grandchildren; great-grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in
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JACKSON CENTER — The Jackson Center Spoons N’ Spools 4-H banquet was held on Jan. 21 at Wenger School House on Amsterdam Road in Anna. All club members would like to thank Bill Elsass for letting us use the beautiful and historic school house. The meal was catered by Fazoli’s; spaghetti, fettuccini Alfredo, salad, and breadsticks were served. Deserts were provided by club members. During the banquet awards were given to club members for years of participation and special recognition. All members received a Spoons N’ Spools designed tee-shirt as a gift for the past 4-H year. The members elected officers for the 2013 4-H year they are Tiffany president; Bayhan, Courtney Gasson and Parker Morris co-vice presidents; Katrina McGowin, secretary; KerGasson, stin corresponding secretary; Riley Jackson, treasurer; Kennedy Jackson news reporter; Riley Morris historian; Katie Clark and Katelyn Bayhan, safety and health officers. Signup sheets were passed around to club members attending to sign up for snack/drink schedule, community service, demonstration day and project review day. There will be a 4-H Scholarship Pancake Breakfast on March 3 at the Jackson Center School. Club members will have tickets for sale or contact our club advisor, Kristi Bayhan at 596-0525 or 638-9577 for tickets. The clubs next meeting is Feb. 11 at 7p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church. Snacks and drinks will be provided by Riley and Kennedy Jackson. New members are always welcome.
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Lotz elected UVCC president PIQUA — The Upper Valley Career Center board held its reorganizational meeting and the regular board meeting Monday evening, including approving several donations for the school. The board approved the certification of appointed board members during the reorganizational part of the meeting. Board members who were reappointed for 2013 were Maria Brewer, Bradford Schools; Andy Hite, Piqua City Schools; Robert Luby, Piqua City Schools; Joyce Reives, Troy City Schools; and Douglas Trostle, Troy City Schools. The 2013 board officers were elected and they are Ty Lotz, of the Shelby County Educational Service Center (ESC), president; Hite, vice president; and Darrell Spangler, Sidney City Schools, legislative liaison. The board passed several resolutions including authorizing tax advance requests, authorizing investment of funds and investment of interest proration. The board also approved a bond for the board president, authorized Superintendent Nancy Luce to employ Upper Valley Career Center personnel based on appropriate salary schedules, approved allowing Luce to accept resignations and to suspend employees without pay when it is considered appropriate by Luce. The board also authorized Luce to sign and file federal, state and local proposals and applications with operation contingent on the board’s approval. The board also authorized insurance for board members during the reorganizational meeting. During the regular meeting, board members approved donations including $100, Alphas Delta Kappa; $50, Area Energy and Electric; $50, Buscher Electric; 5,700 pounds of miscellaneous steel, Crown Equipment; $2,000 for technology purchase, Miami County Foundation; M11 sterilizer, Midmark Corp.; numerous end mills, Minster Machine; planter, agricultural implement; moldboard plow, shovel plow and Carey plow, Ohio Historical Society; $50, Pioneer and $50, Wells Brothers. Luce gave a report to board members and asked for their feedback on the electronic distribution of board packets. Luce reviewed changes to the teacher evaluation regulation that resulted from the passage of House Bill 555. During the report, Luce noted the donation of $2,000 from the Miami County Foundation for instructional technology and several pieces of equipment from the Johnston Farm/Ohio Historical Society for the Garbry Museum. Luce told board mem-
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bers about an open house scheduled for April 13 from 1 to 4 p.m. at UVCC. Luce discussed the possibility of sharing an adult director with the Greene County Career Center. In other action, the board approved district membership in the Ohio School Boards Association and approved a revision to the board’s policy on evaluation of certificated staff. The board approved advancement of their second HSA contribution to an eligible employee on a case-by-case basis due to a documented hardship. Pat Gibson was approved by the board as a designee to review documented hardship requests and make recommendations to the board. Board members approved out of state travel including a trip to the Carrier Engineering Plant in Indianapolis, Ind., for Scott Naill, Tony Trapp and the HVAC/R students on April 11. The trip is sponsored by the Habegger Corp., which will cover all of the expenses. The tour will give students an opportunity to experience new technologies in the HVAC industry. The board approved out of state travel for Naill and Trapp, who are HVAC instructors, to attend the AHRI Instructors HVAC Workshop in Colorado Springs, Colo., March 10-14 for a cost not to exceed $3,200 for food, registration and miscellaneous expenses. An Emerson Grant will cover 50 percent of the costs. The instructors have been asked to present at the workshop by the AHRI Director of Education. The board took personnel action including approving hiring Jeff Bertke, Class 2, Step 10, effective Jan. 1-Aug. 31 for a certificated contract for Electrical Trades with the salary prorated through the end of the school year. He will continue to receive 120 hours of extended time for the 2012-13 school year. The remaining amount will be at the new rate. In the Adult Education division, the board approved hiring the following: • Jason Bennett, Machine Trades instructor, $22 per hour, Jan.14June 30. • Mark Curtner, Multi Skilled Maintenance instructor, $22 per hour, Jan. 14-June 30. • Brent McKinney, Multi Skilled Maintenance instructor, $22 per hour, effective Jan. 14June 30. The board accepted the resignation of Teresa Bollinger, office technology coordinator for the adult division, effective Jan. 11. The next meeting of the board will be held on Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Adams Board Room in the main instructional building of the UVCC.
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Marquette University MARIA STEIN — Kayla Schwieterman, of Maria Stein, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. Schwieterman is pursuing a Bachelor of
Science in Nursing. Marquette University is a Catholic, Jesuit university that draws its more than 11,500 students from all 50 states and more than 75 different countries.
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OHIO GOV. John R. Kasich speaks at a special meeting of the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Thursday in Columbus. This was one of three open press events on Thursday to discuss his new school reform and funding plan. Seated (lr) are Barbara Mattei-Smith, assistant policy director for Education, Dr. Richard Ross, director of 21st Century Education and Ohio Budget Director Tim Keen.
Kasich unveils plan to boost struggling schools COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich unveiled a school-funding overhaul on Thursday aimed at helping students in poor districts compete by narrowing tax-base disparities, while rewarding innovation and expanding access to vouchers. The Republican governor proposed spending $15.1 billion on K-12 education over the next two years, boosting funds to districts that are lagging behind in property values and household incomes. Kasich touted the plan at events throughout the day, saying he is confident it is constitutional. “There is no politics in this plan,” he said in one forum. “We are attempting in this plan to make sure that every student in Ohio, regardless of the kind of a district they come from based on wealth, has an opportunity to compete with a child in a district that has greater wealth. We think that’s really important.” No school gets a funding cut next year under the current formula, to allow them time to adjust. But the administration warned that current funding guarantees will eventually be phased out. The plan sends $1.2 billion more to districts over the biennium than in the last budget, including a nearly 6 percent increase in fiscal year 2014, and 3.2 percent more the next year. That follows a period of financial difficulties for schools brought on by lost stimulus money and other economic factors. Kasich also proposed a $300 million “Straight A” fund that will deliver grants to districts for innovation and efficiency measures. The plan, dubbed “Achievement Everywhere,” proposes bringing all schools up to the tax base level of a district with $250,000 in property value per student — the 96th percentile of districts statewide — to ease wide disparities in millage revenues from local levies. The guarantee of no funding cuts doesn’t extend beyond the next two years, so the exact repercussions of the plan remain unclear — particularly for districts that may have to wean themselves off state funding that will move elsewhere. “I think the devil is in the details, and we haven’t seen all the details yet,” said Senate Education Chairwoman Peggy Lehner, a Kettering Republican. “From the broad concepts I’ve seen, I think it’s very innovative and dynamic.” Once all districts are brought to the 96th percentile level, they’ll get added money in key
areas: for special-needs and disabled students, for gifted and talented education, to teach English speaking, and to reward high school students who take college courses. Throughout the day, Kasich made little mention of the voucher expansion and said the program he proposes is similar to what’s currently available. Thursday’s plan allows parents to move children from low-performing schools to private ones. Ohio Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney, a Cincinnati Democrat, said he was “a little bit amazed” that Kasich hadn’t reached out to his party in crafting the plan. He said the voucher expansion was worrisome. “I have a fundamental problem with the governor’s approach; that is, the lack of bipartisanship,” he said. Kasich proposes funding help for districts with high levels of poverty where students don’t have access to preschool programs. Other aid would help them reach Ohio’s new third-grade reading proficiency target. The proposal also includes steps to increase transparency on school efficiency and performance, and to encourage districts to learn from the successes of comparable districts. During an online Town Hall, Kasich said he hopes the plan will be transformative. “I am very, very hopeful that this is not just going to enter a new era for our school-funding and educating our children, but I’m hopeful this will allow a lot of people who have engaged in these education wars over these last couple decades to come together.” The plan calls for remove some state education regulations in order to free building principals to direct more state dollars into classrooms. The long-awaited plan’s introduction kicks off months of expected debate over Ohio’s educational direction. School funding decisions for Ohio’s 613 school districts and 353 charter schools are likely to affect many tax bills, home values and the quality of the education children receive.
at the Daily News Thursday afternoon. Among the well-wishers were Barhorst, Shelby County Commissioners Bob Guillozet and Julie Ehemann, Sidney City Councilmen Tom Miller and Steve Wagner, Sidney City Manager Mark Cundiff, Sidney City Finance Director Ginger Adams and Civitas Media Regional Publisher Frank Beeson. The management and staff of the newspaper presented him with a recliner as a retirement gift. And he received from commendations the Associated Press of Ohio and the Ohio Newspaper Association. Barnett said he had no definite plans for retirement. “We hope he’ll start blogging,” said his daughters, Michelle Barand nett-Underwood Toni Thompson, both of Piqua. No one would have recognized the word, “blog,” when Barnett first started tapping the keys of a manual typewriter to pound out a report on a high school football game. It was 1945 and he was still a student at Piqua Central High School. World War II had not yet ended and Barnett had been hired by the Piqua Daily Call as a sports stringer, a part-time writer. “I always knew how to write a story,” Barnett said. It was natural that he would gravitate to journalism. In 1946, after high school graduation, he joined the Call’s sports staff full time. Over the next 30 years, he served as sportswriter, sports editor, assistant news editor, news editor and managing editor of the daily paper. It wasn’t always an easy job. Barnett-Underwood remembers a particularly gruesome story her dad covered when she was still a little girl. “A car had been in an accident and then caught fire,” she said. “My dad was there, the emergency people came, but the people burned to death in the car before they could get them out. And my dad watched it happen. That affected him for a long time. As exciting as going to these things is, that one really got him in the gut. For days, my mom would say, ‘Leave your dad alone. He’s not feeling very well.’” Barnett said the worst thing he ever had to cover was another accident, this one a 50-car pile-up on Interstate 75 near Tipp City which killed seven people. He had a police scanner in his home and a “cheat sheet” of code numbers. “If something bad happened, he’d go,” Barnett-Underwood said. It was the feature stories that were the fun ones to write, Barnett noted. His daughters remember his writing stories on a typewriter on the kitchen table. “He still types with just four fingers,” Thompson said. Those four fingers have effected some important changes in the communities served by
the newspapers Barnett led. When he took over the New Carlisle Sun in 1978, Jack Bowling, the publisher, gave him a challenge to meet immediately. “The city was a mess,” said. “The Barnett schools were unable to pass levy issues and the city was being run by a bunch of firemen who were all on the city council. Jack Bowling told me my mission as editor was to get the schools back to health and get a decent city council elected.” That would have been a tall order even for a daily newspaper, and the Sun was a weekly! That, however, didn’t deter Barnett. Working with the school administrator and the city manager, he used the bully pulpit of his editorial columns to influence and educate the paper’s readers. And their efforts were successful. A school levy passed and a new city council was elected following Barnett’s journalistic push. “He is a true journalist,” said Marshall Gorby, of New Carlisle, now director of photography for the Dayton Daily News and a protege of Barnett. They worked together at the Sun and later at the Tipp City Herald, when Barnett took the reins there in 1986. “I was lucky to work with someone with his experience. He’s one of a kind. He kept (the newspapers) very professional. He ran them like a big daily paper, even though they were weeklies. He made the New Carlisle Sun and the Tipp City Herald great papers,” Gorby said. Jeff Billiel, executive editor of the Sidney Daily News, also appreciated Barnett’s background. “When Tom came to Sidney, the newspaper had just been sold. At that time, several reporters left the paper and we were glad to get Tom. He was a tested and experienced reporter,” Billiel said. Sol Smith is another journalist who benefitted from Barnett’s wisdom. Smith retired in 2007 as manager of marketing publications for Cox Ohio Publishing after 25 years in Dayton and now lives in Indian River, Mich. In the 1980s, he was editor of the Englewood Independent, a sister paper to the Sun, both published by the BowlingMoorman chain. “(Barnett) was a mentor to all the BowlingMoormen editors,” Smith said by phone recently. “We all learned a lot from Tom — mainly not to take everything too seriously.” Barnett’s own mentor was Paul “Jack” Murray, a long-time editor of the Piqua Daily Call who himself had started as a sportswriter. Barnett learned the lessons well and was able later to teach high schoolers and college students the finer points of journalism. He led classes of Piqua Central and Piqua Catholic journalism students and was a guest speaker several times at the University of Dayton.
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SIDNEY DAILY News reporter Tom Barnett stands with his retirement cake at his retirement party Thursday. “I remember how proud he was when I was at U.D. majoring in communications,” Thompson said. “At some point, my professor learned that my dad was a newspaper editor. And he had heard of my dad. ‘I would love to have him be one of my speakers,’ he said.” Barnett obliged and U.D. students joined all the others who benefitted from his wisdom and experience. U.D. faculty had considered making Barnett an adjunct instructor but he didn’t have a degree. His colleagues around the state gave the veteran reporter a higher academic title, however. “He is considered the dean of Ohio newswriters,” Beeson said. Barnett grew up in Piqua, the only child of B.K. and Madonna Barnett. “They didn’t spoil me. I had to work for everything I got,” he said. He married his high school sweetheart, Regina, in 1950. They had a son, Michael, who died in infancy, and then BarnettUnderwood, another son, Tom Dale, and Thompson. Now, there are eight grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, too. His daughters have fond memories of their dad’s going home for lunch each day from the Call and helping them with schoolwork. “In high school, I was in accelerated English,” Barnett-Underwood said. “I struggled with the classics. He very patiently sat down with me in my bedroom at my desk and he went through them line by line. He has such an enriched vocabulary.” That comes from his avid reading. He especially likes local history, presidential politics and books by other newsmen, his daughters said. The one-time sportswriter still enjoys attending sporting events. Baseball is his favorite spectator sport. He also loves to fish and collects antique fishing lures. He’s
Investigators trace alcohol in DUI crash ATHENS (AP) — The State Highway Patrol has charged the driver in a one-vehicle crash in southeast Ohio and the man accused of buying alcohol for her. The patrol says its investigation tracing
the alcohol source was the first resulting in charges since the Ohio Investigative Unit and the patrol integrated operations. Authorities say 19year-old driver Shelby Vore of Glouster was charged with aggra-
vated vehicular assault, driving under the influence and failure to control her vehicle. The patrol says 23year-old Joshua Sutton of Glouster was charged with buying beer for a person under 21. The patrol says Vore
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received minor injuries after driving off the road in Athens County on Wednesday and striking a tree, while a 22-year-old passenger was hospitalized. A message was left for Vore. Sutton’s number wasn’t listed.
been known to make his own, in the past using hair from the family’s pet dog, Booze. These days, his pets are three cats, Miss Priss, Pippi and Shad. They are his only housemates now. “Gina and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2000. We had 58 years of marriage,” Barnett said sadly. “I lost her and my son in 2008. That was a lousy year and I still worked through it all (at the Sidney Daily News). But that was the beginning of the end. The balloon just burst then.” Weathering those deaths was much harder than weathering all the changes he’d seen in the newsroom through the years, he said. From hot type to cold type to computer pagination for newspaper composition and from manual typewriter to electric typeto desktop writer computer to laptop for filing a story, technology advances challenged Barnett but didn’t defeat him. Even after 68 years, he said he was not looking forward to retirement and wondered what will fill his time after he relaxes a bit from the relentless deadlines he’s spent his long working life meeting. “He loves what he does,” Gorby said. “You’re a lucky person when you can love to do what you do.” That love is responsible for the legacy Barnett left behind him. “I’m a better journalist for knowing Tom Barnett,” Gorby said. “You meet certain people in your life who elevate you and Tom elevated me.” Countless people who were his co-workers, his employees, the subjects of his stories and his readers would say the same thing. They’re glad he let the printer’s ink course through his veins.
CORRECTION: It was incorrectly stated that the VFW was having Trivia on Friday night. NO TRIVIA after the Chicken Fry on Friday night, Feb 1.
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NATION/WORLD TODAY IN HISTORY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Friday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2013. There are 333 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members. On this date: • In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.) • In 1861, Texas voted to leave the Union at a Secession Convention in Austin. • In 1862, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly. • In 1922, in one of Hollywood’s most enduring mysteries, movie director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home; the killing has never been solved. • In 1942, the Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London. • In 1943, one of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized. • In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations. • In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service. • In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. Richard M. Nixon announced his bid for the Represidential publican nomination. • In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
OUT OF THE BLUE
Smelly stuff may spell fortune LONDON (AP) — One very smelly sperm whale secretion may soon make one lucky British beachcomber a very happy man. Ken Wilman told British broadcasters that he had been walking along Morecambe beach in northern England when his dog, Madge, discovered a hard, soccer ball-sized piece of smelly rock. “She wouldn’t leave it alone. I picked it up and it smelt horrible so I knocked it with my walking stick and a small lump came off,” he told Sky News television in comments broadcast Thursday. “I put both pieces back on the beach but something in the back of my mind told me it might be something unusual.” One Google search later and Wilman realized that Madge had found ambergris, a waxy byproduct of sperm whale digestion that has traditionally been used in perfumes, spices, and medicines — and can fetch large sums of money. He said he immediately drove back to the beach to find the ambergris. He said he has been offered 50,000 ($68,000) for the musky material.
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Republicans hammer Hagel WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators hammered former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearing Thursday on issues ranging from Israel and Iran to his support for a group that advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons. But with most Democrats in his corner, an unflustered Hagel seems headed for approval as defense secretary. Hagel, a former two-term senator from Nebraska, described his views as mainstream and closely aligned with those of President Barack Obama, the Democrat who nominated him. But several GOP members of the Armed Services Committee sought to portray him as radical and unsteady. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., called his ideas “extreme” and “far to the
left” of Obama. Hagel said he believes America “must engage — not retreat — in the world,” and insisted that his record is consistent on that point. He pointed to Iran and its nuclear ambitions as an example of an urgent national security threat that should be addressed first by attempting to establish dialogue with Iranian rulers, although he said he would not rule out using military force. “I think we’re always on higher ground in every way — international law, domestic law, people of the world, people of the region to be with us on this — if we have … gone through every possibility to resolve this in a responsible, peaceful
way, rather than going to war,” he said. He pushed back on the notion — first raised by one of his harshest Republican critics, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma — that he favors a policy of appeasement. “I think engagement is clearly in our interest,” Hagel told Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who denounced the idea of negotiating with a “terrorist state.” “That’s not negotiation,” Hagel said. “Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.” After the daylong hearing, committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the panel could vote as early as next Thursday if Hagel quickly provides additional material requested by some members.
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FRENCH SOLDIERS are watched by local people, as they drive through the city streets of Timbuktu, Mali, Thursday. Many things have changed in Timbuktu since the Islamic militants ceased to enforce their law and relinquished power to French special forces who parachuted in several days ago, liberating this storied city, and now there is a growing sense of freedom.
Freedom returns to Timbuktu TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — On the morning French commandos parachuted onto the sand just north of this storied city and ended 10 months of Islamic rule, Hawi Traore folded up her veil. On the next day, she wore heels. On the day after, she put on her sparkly earrings, got her hair braided and tried her mother’s perfume. Finally on Thursday, the 12-year-old girl dared to dance in the streets, celebrating freedom from the draconian rules that were imposed by the al-Qaida-linked militants on this desert capital for much of the past year. Four days since French special forces liberated Timbuktu, there is a growing sense of freedom — particularly among women. The speed with which women have claimed back their freedom underscores one of the advantages the French hold against an elusive enemy on unforgiving terrain: The population here has long practiced a moderate Islam rather than the extremism of the militants. Although Timbuktu has long been a code word for the ends of the earth, until recently its women led a relatively modern existence, where they were not required to be covered and could socialize with men. That changed
abruptly last year, when radical Islamists seized control of the northern half of Mali in the chaos after a coup in the distant capital. When they first arrived, Hawi, a tall, fast-talking, sassy preteen girl, was just learning how to put on makeup. She learned the hard way to wear the toungou, the word for veil in the Songhai language. Her slender arm still bears the scar left by the whip of the Islamic police, her punishment for not properly covering up. Her once-free life became increasingly restricted, as did that of her sisters and friends. The Islamists showed no mercy, beating everyone from pregnant women to grandmothers to 9-year-old girls who weren’t fully covered. Even talking to a brother on the front stoop of a woman’s own home could get her in trouble. Smoking, drinking and music were banned. So was playing soccer. The worst punishment was reserved for love outside the rules, and an unmarried couple who had two children out of wedlock was stoned to death in one northern Malian town. Fatouma Traore lives on Street No. 415 in Timbuktu, the road that runs directly in front of the building where the Islamic Tribunal operated
in what was once a luxury, boutique hotel. A leaflet left in the dirt in the courtyard set out eight rules for how women should wear the veil. Rule No. 1 is that the fabric should cover the entire body. Rule No. 2 is that it can’t be transparent. Rule No. 3 is that it needs to be colorless. And finally, Rule No. 8 states that a woman should not perfume herself after putting it on. “We even bought a veil for this baby,” said the 21-yearold Traore, picking up her 1year-old niece and hoisting her on one hip. “Even if you are wearing the veil and it happens to slip off and you are trying to put it back on, they hit you.” The French military launched an intervention to oust the Islamists from power in northern Mali on Jan. 11, and rapidly forced their retreat from the major cities in less than three weeks. The French arrived here before midnight on Monday in a platoon of 600 soldiers, accompanied by 200 Malian troops. They included paratroopers flown in from a base in Corsica, who landed in the north under the cover of darkness, as well as a convoy of 150 armored vehicles which simultaneously reached the town’s western perimeter, according to a French military spokeswoman.
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Speaking into a 4-inchwide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day. The man identified by multiple neighbors and witnesses as 65-year-old retired truck driver Jimmy Lee Dykes was accused of pulling the boy from a school bus on Tuesday and killing the driver. The pair was holed up in a small room on his property that authorities compared to tornado shelters common in the area. James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, said the shelter was about 4 feet underground, with about 6-by-8 feet of floor space and a PVC pipe that newere speaking gotiators through. There were signs that the standoff could continue for some time: A state legislator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV. The police chief said the captor has been sleeping and told negotiators that he has spent long periods in the shelter before. “He will have to give up sooner or later because (authorities) are not leaving,” Arrington said. “It’s pretty small, but he’s been known to stay in there eight days.” Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has been briefed by law enforcement and visited with the boy’s parents. “He’s crying for his parents,” he said. “They are holding up good. They are praying and asking all of us to pray with them.” Republican Rep. Steve Clouse, who represents the Midland City area, said he visited the boy’s mother Thursday and that she is “hanging on by a thread.” “Everybody is praying with her for the boy,” he said. Clouse said the mother told him that the boy has Asperger’s syndrome, an autismlike disorder, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.
Gasoline prices get early start on spring surge NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline prices are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher. The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over the past two weeks to $3.42 per gallon, and within a few days it will likely set a record for this time of year. The culprits: Rising crude oil prices, slowing output at refineries that are undergoing maintenance, and low supplies of gasoline. These are the kinds of things that push gasoline prices higher every spring after what is normally a lull in
gasoline prices in the late fall and early winter. But a heavy schedule of January maintenance at West Coast refineries has led to sharply higher prices there. Meanwhile, low inventories have pushed prices higher on the East Coast. And rising crude oil prices have pushed prices higher throughout the country. “I’m not surprised at what I’m seeing, but I am surprised it’s coming early,” said Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. Hopes of stronger economic growth in the U.S. and abroad
helped push the U.S. stock market to a five-year high in January and sent crude prices up. When economies expand, more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are consumed by shippers and travelers. Crude oil has risen 14 percent since mid-December, to $97.49 on Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark used to price oil that most U.S. refineries use to make gasoline, is up 9 percent since then to $115.55 But gasoline wholesale prices are rising even faster. That’s the price distributors and service stations pay to buy
the gasoline that they then sell to drivers. Wholesale prices in California are up 56 cents — a 20 percent jump — to $3.32 per gallon, in just two weeks, according to Kloza. Many California drivers will soon see $4 a gallon at local stations. Smaller but still substantial jumps are being seen throughout the country. Retail gasoline prices have risen for 14 days straight, according to AAA. The average price for the month of January was $3.32, the second highest January average ever, although a nickel cheaper than last year’s record.
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HONOR
Bowser wins spelling bee
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Houston High School HOUSTON — The Houston High School honor roll for the second quarter has been announced. Seventh grade Highest honors (4.0) Lauren Brubaker, Hanna Cassel, Angelina DiLullo, Dexter Ingle, Caleb Sluss and Bradley Wiggins. High honors (3.5-3.99) Rosalena Bryant, Lauren DiLullo, Allison Langenkamp, Sarah Monnier, Rebekah New, Reece Pitchford, Kaeden Reier and Dylan Wintrow. Honors (3.0-3.49) Parker Cox, Daniel DiLullo, James DiLullo, John DiLullo, Morgan Ely, Bryan Funk, Kristen Gillem, Jack Gilson, Tyler Goings, Sierra Harrison, Hunter Herrick, Chareasa Jeffries, Zachary Kitchen, Gannon Miller, Rayaunna Partin, Tristen Paul, Noah Shoemaker, Tyler Swiger, Tayler Taylor, Cameron Via and Harmoni Wissman.
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Eighth Grade Highest honors (4.0) Kaitlyn Ellison, Caitlyn Falls and Anthony Thomas. High honors (3.5-3.99) Dylan Hensley, Jenna Jarrett, Jadelyn Lorton, Kara Maier, Emma Mertz, Bryce Norris, Devyn Ostrander, Celeste Stewart and Brittany Timmerman. Honors (3.0-3.49) Anderson, Mason Logan Ayers, Patrick Curl, Hope Epley, Amber Evans, Megan Grilliot, Jenna Green, Sierra Hecht, Laura Henry, Audrey Kittel, Brittany Schemmel, Seth Stoodt, Allison Voisard and Ashtyn York. Freshmen Highest honors (4.0) Deion Booher, Alena Davis, Zachariah McKee, Cody Meyer, Kayla New, Troy Riley, Mark Schaffer, Andrew Sluss, Rachel Wells and Jenna Winner. High honors (3.5-3.99) Emily Cozad, Taylor Dean, Katherine
Everett, Zachary Freytag, Sophia Gilson, Abigail Grilliot, Micalah Hensley, Azen Reier, Nicholas Shoemaker, Kyler Spears, Macey Stang, Ryan Swob, Maya Wills and Malachi Wissman. Honors (3.0-3.49) Aaron Anderson, Anthony Eberle, Cara Kellerman, Michaela Kelly, Derrek Mayse, Brayden Murray, Gracyn Schaffner, Alexis Turner and Stephanie Wilson. Sophomores Highest honors (4.0) Brubaker, Kage Drake Cassel, Devon Jester, Nicole Maier, Alina Maksimov, RubyTuesday Morrison, Thomas Reister, Trisha Schulze, Sierra Smith, Carly St. Myers, Sierra Stammen, Hannah Trent, Fox Weidner, Sophie White and Madison Young. High honors (3.5-3.99) Taylor Block, Jessica Carpenter, Joshua Haring Kaye, Isaac Langenkamp, Laura Larger, Amber Meyer and Taylor Woods. Honors (3.0-3.49) Justin Bertsch, Emily Creech, Morgan Ferryman, Cody Hecht, Chrystl Moore, Ashley Peepels, Quinten Pence, Overbey, Moiryah Lindsy Rader and RUSSIA — The village of Russia has filed the Rachel Zimmerman. cash basis annual financial report for the calendar Juniors year ending Dec. 31, 2012. Highest honors (4.0) This report is available at the village office. Monique Booher, Eliz-
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abeth Douglas, Mitchell Everett, Luke Flaute, Brianna Garber, Maximillian Gilson, Austin Jenkins, Cynthia Larger, Rachel Slater and Linsey Smith. High honors (3.5-3.99) Sara Bergman, Jacob Braun, Heidi Cox, Lauren Gillem, Hallie Heil, Kaitlin Huffman, Kayla Kemp, Amy McKee, Maxwell Kayode Mitchell, Momon, Sonya Peltier, Abbigail Pickering and Caitlin Ryan. Honors (3.0-3.49) Angel Barton, Brittany Bigelow, Cody Cagle, Cheyenne Coffey, Sabrina Greve, Tiffani Harris, Avery Kellerman, Gary Kiser, Madison Paulus, Jesse Phlipot, Jamie Riffell, Kara Smith and Alyssa Via. Seniors Highest honors (4.0) Nicolette Holthaus, Jenna Hooks, Annie Niswonger, Kortney Phipps, Rehfus and Brice Bradley Wells. High honors (3.5-3.99) Seth Clark, Angela Gilkeson, Ashlan Jester, Thomas Martin, Shay Miller, Samantha Runkle, Kiaya Shellenberg, Alyssa Stang, Alex Vondenhuevel and Taylor Willoughby. Honors (3.0-3.49) Raven Bolden, Thomas McCoy, Andrew Roberts and Bryan Walker.
HOUSTON — The Hardin-Houston School District conducted its 2012-13 spelling bee recently in the school auxiliary gym. The winner was sixthgrader Olivia Bowser, daughter of Jason and Amy Bowser. The contest consisted of 45 students in fourth to eighth grades. Brent New served as the pronouncer, and teachers serving as judges were Connie Walker, Julie Kies, Carrie Larger and Kim Vestal. The first runner-up
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was Hannah Hollinger, a fifth-grader and daughter of Chad and Beth Hollinger. The second runner-up was fourthgrader Macy Duhaime, daughter of Rob Duhaime and Julania Stephens. The third runner-up went to Houston seventh-grader Lauren Brubaker, daughter of Mike and Teresa Brubaker. Bowser, Hollinger and Duhaime will move on to the County Spelling Bee, which will be held Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at Botkins Local School junior high gym.
PERMITS
The building/electrical division of the Shelby County Building Department, a division of Sidney-Shelby County Health Department, recently issued the following residential building permits: • Louis Butt, 10955 Comanche Drive, Noll Fisher, 200-amp electrical change, value not given. • Kent Van Fossen, 10901 Thompson Schiff Road, By Design, deck, value not given. • David Waesch, 6543 Dawson Road, Tom & Jerry’s, generator and geothermal, value not given. • Vickie Stephens,
2600 Fair Road, Logan Service, replace air conditioner and air handler, $3,000. • Shawn Stangel, 10325 Stangel Road, owner, shed without electric, $5,500. • Rick Good, 102 Village Parkway, Jackson Center, Gem Builders, industrialized unit, $105,000. Niekamp, • Tim 12522 Maplegrove Road, Minster, Weigandt Development, detached garage, $30,000. • Randall and Shelly Seger, 2659 Russia Versailles Road, Marion Grilliot Construction, storage building, $28,000.
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This Evening • Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12-step programs to confront destructive habits and behaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E. 4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (937) 548-9006. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St. • Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12-step programs to confront destructive habits and behaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E. 4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (937) 548-9006. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St.
Saturday Morning • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Port Jefferson, 9 to 11 a.m. • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Maplewood, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Saturday Evening • Lumber Company Baseball hosts fundraising bingo to support the children on the teams. Doors open at 4 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. $20 to play all night. For information, call (937) 543-9959. • The Sidney-Shelby County Chess Club “Checkmates” meets at 7 p.m. at the library at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community. All skill levels are welcome. For more information, call 497-7326. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Saturday Night Live, meets at 8 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St.
Sunday Afternoon • Shelby County Deer Hunters holds its monthly Sunday Rifle Shoot at 7988 Johnston-Slagle Road beginning at 1 p.m. Program one round at five different targets, pays three places. Points awarded to members for end-of-the-year trophy. Open to the public.
Sunday Evening • Lumber Company Baseball hosts fundraising bingo to support the children on the teams. Doors open at 4 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. $20 to play all night. For information, call (937) 543-9959. • The Catholic Adult Singles Club meets for a benediction in Maria Stein at 6 p.m. and later for supper at Bud’s in Minster. For information, call (419) 678-8691. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 320 E. Russell Road. • The Shelby County Junior Leaders Club, for youth 13-18, meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Shelby County Extension Office on Fair Road. For information, call 295-2665.
Monday Afternoon • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon at the Sidney Moose Lodge. For more information on activities or becoming a member, contact Deb Barga at 492-3167. • The New Bremen Public Library Tween Book Club for children in fourth-sixth grades meets at 3:30 p.m. Advance registration appreciated.
Monday Evening • Minster Historical Society meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Minster Historical Society Museum, 112 Fourth St., Minster. • Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Russell Road. • A cancer support group meets at 7 p.m. in the Sidney First United Methodist Church library. Park in the lot across North Street from the public library and use the door off the lot. Cancer patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome. Call 4921325 for information. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Church, 340 W. Russell Road. • 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. • Anna Civic Association meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Anna Library. New members with new ideas always are welcome.
Tuesday Morning • The Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster offers storytime for children 3-5 from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
Tuesday Afternoon • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St.
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. • 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 information, call Stacy Hilgefort at (419) 394-3335, ext. 2004. To access the Community Calendar online, visit www.sidneydailynews.com, click on “Living” and then on “Calendar.”
Contact Localife Editor Patricia Ann Speelman with story ideas, club news wedding, anniversary, engagements and birth announcements by phone at (937) 498-5965; email, pspeelman@civitasmedia.com; or by fax, (937) 498-5991.
Susan writes the column wanted to color Hi, I am when they saw Susan. I decided me writing. to write for It has been a Mom this week. very cold week My 17th birthso far. I don’t day is tomorrow, drive the ponies the 24th, so my when it is this treat to Mom is cold. I have two to write the colAmish more ponies umn for her. here to train. I made monCook Sunny belongs ster cookies yesterday. I wanted Lovina Eicher to my boyfriend, Mose’s, sister’s to have some to treat everyone for my family. They want me to birthday. I am here at train her for their little my babysitting job. I boys. He is a miniature brought some cookies for pony and is doing well them, too. The children with the training so far. The other pony is really like the cookies. I think monster cookies named Roxy, and she is are a treat for the chil- mine now. Mose’s dad dren, especially since gave her to me. She did they have M & Ms in have some training before but is still really them. Today I have only the rowdy. I need to keep twins here. They are 2 working with her but and the girl’s name is she makes me laugh at McKenzie and the boy’s how stubborn she can name is Cole. On Mon- get. This is Friday morndays and Fridays, I also have their 4-year-old ing and I had a very nice brother, Hunter, to birthday, yesterday. Dad babysit for. Hunter and Mom went to the fumakes me laugh. When neral of dad’s cousin’s nap time comes, he can wife. She lost her battle really talk, thinking I to cancer. How sad for will forget about his nap. the family. I stayed home They keep me busy but and folded laundry, are a joy to be around. washed dishes, and cleaned up the house. They are all very cute. Around 2:30, Mose McKenzie and Cole are coloring in their came and took me along books while I am writ- to town. He had me pick ing. They think I am col- out what I wanted for oring too because they my birthday. I picked out
a nice office chair, which I will have in my bedroom by my desk. I will use it a lot. I also picked out an “around the house tool kit.” Now I’ll have my own set of small tools if I need to fix or hang something up. Mose bought me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake and brought pizza home for the whole family for supper. Mom and Dad had returned from the funeral by then. It was a treat for everyone. Since we didn’t have to make supper, we had time to finish the 750piece puzzle which we started on Sunday afternoon. It is oval shaped and has deer on it. We got the puzzle from a reader last Christmas. It was fun to put it together. Mom wants to do it together because my brothers want it hung in their bedroom. Mose has two new nieces that were born five days apart. Last Friday evening, I went with Mose and his family to meet his sister, Polly’s, new baby girl, named Delilah Louise. She is so sweet. Tonight I am planning to go with Mose to see his sister, Hannah’s, baby girl, named Alissa Fern. Mose has 21 nieces
and nephews; he has six brothers and six sisters. I will share the recipe I used for the monster cookies. MONSTER COOKIES 2 sticks butter 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon corn syrup (clear) 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 cups peanut butter 4 1/2 cups oatmeal 2 cups chocolate chips 2 cups M&Ms plain Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and (white and sugars brown), add eggs, one at a time, vanilla, corn syrup, baking soda, and peanut butter; mix well until smooth. Add oatmeal, mix well; scrape side of bowl, add chocolate chips, mix; add M&Ms, mix. Drop batter on ungreased cookie sheets by tablespoonsful. Baking time is 10-12 minutes. Edges should be golden brown. Let cool on cookie sheets about 3 minutes before removing to cooling racks. Makes 4 1/2 dozen plus.
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Eisenhut, Chalk wed SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Deborah Mitchell West Chalk, of Chimney Rock, N.C., and Howard Eugene Eisenhut, of Summerville, S.C., were united in marriage Dec. 22, 2012, in a private chapel service in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The bridegroom is the son of the late Ralph F. Eisenhut and Kathryn O. Bell. After the wedding, the holidays were spent with the bridegroom’s family and friends, including a visit to his home town of Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhut Sidney. The couple honeymooned in Sanibel Island, Fla., and reside in Summerville, S.C., and Chimney Rock, N.C. The bride is a graduate of Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo. She attended Albany State University in Albany, Ga. She owns and manages seasonal rental property in Chimney Rock and writes for a bi-monthly publication in western North Carolina, The Mountain Breeze. The bridegroom graduated from Sidney High School and is a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. He attended Hillsdale College, the University of Wisconsin and Miami University and has a degree in instrument engineering. He is employed by General Dynamics Land Systems at its Force Protection plant in Ladson, S.C., as facilities director.
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them in, and they form a great seal. Works perfectly, and with the fact that they are less than $2, it was a cheap fix. — M.E. in Ohio ONE MORE COMMAND Dear Heloise: I saw that you gave certain commands for PC users on how to cut, paste, copy, etc. You forgot a very important one, which I use all the time: Ctrl + Z is to undo an action. It’s very important to someone who may have accidentally deleted something. I’ve done it before and was mad because I didn’t know the command. — Edward, via email QUICK HINT Dear Readers: Here is a quick hint when buttoning up a shirt: Start at the bottom, and you are sure to match up the buttons every time. — Heloise Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 782795000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column.
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Couple announce plans HILLIARD — Jennifer D. Brackman and Brian J. Dapore, both of Hilliard, have announced their engagement and plans to marry May 18, 2013, in Celina. The bride-to-be is the daughter of David and Diana Brackman, of Celina. She graduated from Celina High School in 2006 and from the University of Toledo in 2010. She is employed by Mount Carmel West Hospital in Columbus. Her fiance is the son of Frank and Ruth DaBrackman/Dapore pore, of Versailles. He is a 2005 Versailles High School graduate and a 2009 University of Toledo graduate. He is employed by Moyno in Springfield.
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“Fun Size,” at 5:30 p.m., starring Chelsea Handler, Johnny Knoxville and Victoria Justice, rated PG-13, 86 minutes; and Feb. 26: “Dark Knight Rises,” at 5 p.m., starring Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway, rated PG-13, 165 minutes. Movies rated PG13 are for mature audiences 13 and over unless accompanied by a parent. All movies will be presented in the art gallery. Admission is free and popcorn will be served.
The Board of s o n n e l /C r e d e n Trustees of t i a l i n g ; Compassionate Schroeder and Care of Shelby Dan Bensman to County (CCSC) Finance/Audit; elected officers Steve Brabbin and voted to and Eric Newchange its reguman to Praclar meeting tice/Quality date during a Assurance and Mascho meeting Jan. Brabbin, Eric 28. Ditmer and Jeff Officers for 2013 are Van Treese to FaciliSteve Mascho, chair- ties. man; Debbie Wolfinger, The board approved vice chairwoman; the following people for Laura Barley, secre- practicing privileges at tary; and Joan Compassionate Care: Schroeder, treasurer. Abbey L. Bensman, Meetings have been RDL; Krista M. Triselscheduled for the fourth Thursday of ONE MEDIUM PIZZA each month at 7 a.m. The Way You Like It. In other business, the board named the following members to With coupon Expires 3/31/13 committees: Wolfinger, Limit 5 pizzas per Offer coupon. Limit 5 toppings per pizza. cheese excluded. Price excludes delivery charge. Schroeder and Barley Double Additional ingredients available at additional ingredient Not available with other discounts or specials. to Fundraising/Market- prices. Dine-In, Carryout or Delivery. Valid at Sidney location only. ing; Lisa Alvetro, Mascho, Sue TWO EXTRA LARGE Hulsmeyer and Anne One Topping Pizzas. Eiting-Klamar to Per-
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SCHROEDER JACKSON CENTER — Curtis and Alisha Schroeder, of Jackson Center, have announced the birth of a son, Brody William Schroeder, born Jan. 14, 2013, in the Copeland-Emerson Family Birth Center at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Sidney. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long. He was welcomed home by his sister, Mya Renae, 2. His maternal grandparents are Greg and Tammy Ganger, of Houston. His paternal grandparents are Bill and Fran Schroeder, of Shelby. His great-grandparents are Sharon Bowman, of Piqua, and Bill and Bertha Ganger, of Piqua. His mother is the former Alisha Ganger, of Houston.
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McKnight, RDH; Yvette N. Wooten, CMA; Barbara A. Keith, CMA; and Jaoy Trent, DA. Director Teresa Ditmer reported that the total number of visits for 2012 was 4,181, with 375 new patients added during the year. Dental visits totaled 427. Prescriptions filled totaled 2,205. Volunteer hours logged were 7,791 for the year. She reported that CCSC is in the process of implementing an electronic medical reporting system.
The Wilson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary has announced the names of its 2012 scholarship recipients. Three area residents received $500 each to pursue degrees in various medical fields. In reviewing the selection process, scholarship committee chairperson, Marianne Helmlinger said, “As always, the final choices were difficult to make.” This year’s recipients are Abigail Eppley and Paxton McDonald, both of Sidney, and Zachary Ranly, of Fort Loramie. Eppley attends Ohio
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in tractor pulls, winning trophies for his efforts. Since the onset of his symptoms, he has been seen by numerous doctors trying to determine a diagnosis for him. However, his health continues to decline; he is now able to walk only short distances with a cane; and he is too weak to return to work. The benefit includes a full meal with two kinds of meat, potato, green beans, corn,
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WAGNER SYLVANIA — Amy and Wesley Wagner, of Sylvania, have announced the birth of a daughter, Lauren Avery, born Jan. 9, 2013, at 12:50 p.m. in Toledo Hospital in Toledo. She weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 18 inches long. She was welcomed home by her brother, Lucas, 2. Her maternal grandparents are Mike and Deb Christman, of Anna. Her paternal grandparents are Lee Wagner, of Oregon, and the late George WagFor photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Patricia Ann Speelman ner. Her great-grandmother is RoseMary Christman, GERRY WHITE (right), of Columbus, director of Americanism and Youth Acof Anna. tivities for the American Legion of Ohio, talks with Ryan Stallings (center) and Her mother is the former Amy Christman, of his grandmother, Ellen Lehman, of Sidney, about Stallings’s upcoming trip to Anna. Washington, D.C. Looking on are Gary Allen and Chuck Craynon of the Sidney American Legion. field, lay a wreath at of Americanism and keep the community asthe Tomb of the Un- Youth Activities for the pect strong,” White said. JACKSON CENTER Kids to offer safety eduknown Soldiers, and American Legion of “The fact that SHS visit the State Depart- Ohio personally con- has produced so many – The Progressive Live- cation for youth. Farm ment, where they will gratulated Stallings on winners of this test stock 4-H club will learn Safety For Just Kids was receive a special brief- his accomplishment and throughout the years is about farm safety at 7 founded 25 years ago by ing. They will also visit invited him on the trip. extraordinary! This is a pm Feb. 10 at the Grace an Iowa farm wife after the White House, the “The American Le- true testament to the Lutheran Church in the death of her son in a gravity flow grain wagon Kennedy Center for the gion, especially in Sid- strength of our out- Jackson Center. Meghan Bennett, accident. The organizaPerforming Arts, Wash- ney, is a cornerstone for standing social studies ington Cathedral and community in schools. If program and the quality Cargill outreach coordi- tion promotes a safe HMX-1, the Marine the community facet is of teachers leading the nator, will teach kids farm environment to prehelicopter missing from the way,” said SHS Princi- about various hazards in vent injuries and death Corps squadron responsible schools, the schools suf- pal Jon Geuy. “We wish rural areas, including by educating our youth. For information, visit for transporting the fer. Sidney is lucky to Ryan all the best on his livestock safety. Bennett partners with w w w. f a r m s a f e t y f o rpresident. have such a strong and trip and look forward to Farm Safety For Just justkids.org. Gerry White, director enthusiastic post to hearing all about it!”
Library sets movie schedule February Movies at the Amos Memorial Public Library, 230 E. North St., begin on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. with the presentation of “Here Comes the Boom,” starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. It is rated PG and runs 105 minutes. Other presentations are on Feb. 12: “Hope Springs,” at 5:30 p.m., starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell, rated PG13, 100 minutes; Feb. 19:
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Sidney American Legion Post 217 has announced that Ryan Stallings, a sophomore at Sidney High School, is a winner in the Ohio American Legion Americanism and Government testing program. The son of Aaron and Lori Stallings, he will receive an all-expensepaid trip to Gettysburg, Pa., and Washington, D.C. Americanism Chairman Chuck Craynon, of Post 217, said this is the 23rd state-level winner the post has sponsored since the program began and 19 of those winners were from Sidney High School. The test was administered throughout Ohio in November to approximately 65,000 high school sophomore, junior and senior students. It comprised 50 questions covering federal, state and local government as well as the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the American flag code. Stallings is one of six students of his grade level who were selected as winners at the Department of Ohio, after competing at the post, county and district levels. He and the other state winners will tour the Gettysburg battle-
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ATTENDING THE State of the Villages Breakfast in New Knoxville Thursday are (l-r) New Bremen Mayor Jeff Pape, Minster Mayor Dennis Kitzmiller and New Knoxville Mayor Keith Leffel.
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SPEEDWAY STORE Manager Bill Wolfe, of Sidney, works Thursday at his gas station on North Main Avenue and Russell Road. Wolfe once suffered a massive heart attack.
HEART “I always tell people to get checked, even if you feel great,” Wolfe said. “A lot of people have mild pains, or don’t feel right, and they ignore it — and that’s when it hits them. A lot of people don’t feel good and they go lay down (which is a mistake in the case of having a heart attack). I ask why I survived and others didn’t? Maybe to get the message out.” Wolfe said that after his attack, he had some friends who died of heart attacks. He said it was because they ignored the warning signs. Wolfe had a symptom the day before attack, which returned the next day. He had eaten a big meal with his wife, Lynesa, at a local restaurant. Wolfe said that if you’re at risk, one of the ways to trigger a heart attack is by eating a big meal. After dinner, the couple went shopping , and while there he wasn’t feeling too well and they decided to leave. Then, while out in the parking lot, he suffered the attack and Lynesa rushed him to the hospital. Wolfe said both his
From Page 1 arms went numb, and that he felt numb from the waist up. As fate would have it, two heart doctors were working that day at Wilson Memorial Hospital and were quick to make lifesaving decisions. They had him taken by CareFlight to Dayton where two stents were implanted in his arteries to correct the problem. “I was 100 percent blocked,” Wolfe said. “And 80 percent blocked behind that.” Wolfe’s 100 percent blockage was at the location called the “widow maker,” the “Y” shaped valve above the heart. So how has life been for Wolfe since this unexpected event? “You watch your diet,” he said. “Fruit and vegetables are a good thing. I don’t smoke. Make sure you get enough sleep and exercise. Diet is a big part. You can still have things, just in moderation. If you have a family history, you should get checked out at an early age.” The heart attack also affected Wolfe’s family. “It made us a lot
closer,” he said. “You realize that life is short and you should make the best of it. Enjoy each day you’re here. Things that you thought were important before aren’t that important.” After his heart attack, Wolfe change jobs. He had worked in insurance, but now is manager at the Speedway at Russell Road and Main Avenue. He said the benefits are better, considering his condition. “My days are a lot longer,” Wolfe said. “It takes a toll on me as far as my energy is concerned. It keeps me pretty active, too, which is probably a benefit. I don’t let things bother me too awful much. I find the good in things.” And no doubt, in addition to his wife, Lynesa; son, Spencer, 20, and daughter, Kaitlyn, 18, are very thankful to have their dad with them. And because of the family history, Spencer has had a medical checkup and plans to keep an eye on his heart health. This could be a lesson to everyone during this time of heart health awareness.
He’s a jerk and a 100 percent loser and pulled one DR. WALout and asked LACE: The guy me if I had ever I’m dating is a seen one before. nice guy, and He said I had we have had better get used great fun, but to seeing them lately he has because we become sexuwere going to ally aggressive — so much so ’Tween start a “beautiful sexual adthat I have to I threaten to call 12 & 20 venture.” Dr. Robert couldn’t believe my dad on my Wallace what I was seecell phone to ing and hearhave him pick me up and take me ing. On our next date, home. When we first he said he had enough started dating, he told money to pay for a me that he only wanted motel room so we could to date a virgin (I told start our “adventure.” I him that I had never told him that I wasn’t been sexually involved) going to have sex with and that his wife had to him, so he got angry be a virgin. Since I did- and took me home. A day later he called n’t plan to have sex, I was happy that he had and apologized for his aggressive behavior this philosophy. After about a month and said that he of being an “honorable” wanted to continue seeguy, he started doing ing me again. But now and saying things that I’m not sure that I can had sexual overtones. trust him to behave First he started telling himself. I like the guy, me sexually oriented but I’m not in love with jokes. Then we went to him. What should I do? sexually oriented —Nameless, Atlantic movies. Then one night City, N.J. NAMELESS: If he when on a date with me, he went into a meant what he said drugstore and bought a when he first started package of condoms. He going with you, he was then opened the box going to dump you after
To aid future business growth, Pape cited the establishment of the West Central Ohio Workforce Development Council, and he said the village is “trying to open an area on Washington Street to small business” for those who would like to work from their home while establishing a business, without affecting the aesthetics of the area. Pape pointed to achievements in the village in the past year, including stormwater system repairs, the opening of Sunshine Park, completion of electrical department upgrades, street resurfacing, and being named a Tree City USA for the 18th year in a row. The mayor also recognized village Police Chief Doug Harrod, who is retiring after 31 years. Upcoming projects include towpath improvements and water well exploration. Kitzmiller said Minster also had record income tax revenue for the year, topping $3 million for the first time. Projects completed in the past year include the $4.2 million renovation of Fourth Street, which brought about the “total transformation of our downtown.” Also, a new parking area was completed by the library, the multi-year canal renovation project was finished and the $7.6 million wastewater treatment plant has been completed. Kitzmiller noted the new 12-acre business park, which is “shovelready” for new businesses. The village has made multiple technology up-
dates through the year, as well. Upcoming projects include water well field development, Bowler Lane reconstruction and continuous upgrades to electrical substations. Leffel said “planning was very strong” in New Knoxville, helping to bring it through the recent difficult economic times. Knowing of the funding cuts to local governments on the state level, he said village staff and council worked together to tighten their belts. Among cost saving measures was the implementation of an auxiliary police program, to help control hours while giving more coverage. Recovery is coming from the local side, with New Knoxville also seeing a rise in income tax of almost 14 percent last year. Leffel said the village has completed some regular maintenance, but there were no big projects and nothing major on the horizon either. He did note the Auglaize County Farm Bureau has relocated to New Knoxville, and there is a new barber shop in town. He also recognized the 100th anniversary of the village’s electrical department. Leffel said the school is the heart of the community and congratulated Superintendent Kim Waterman on the school’s rating of Excellent with Distinction. In addition to the three village mayors, state and federal officials were invited to share a few words to the gathering. State Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, 12th District,
From Page 1 highlighted Ohio’s economic recovery over the past two years. “The real challenge we took on two years ago was to transform the way Ohio does business,” Faber said. He offered a teaser of what could be expected from the state budget announcement Monday. “I am highly confident that the local government fund won’t be cut any more,” he said. He also hinted that the schools would be happier with their allotment. State Rep. Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, 84th District, shared some of his history as a business man and legislator. “I’ve had the privilege of working for five governors,” Buchy said. “By far and away, Kasich is the best.” He added, “Our main objective is to grow the economy.” Wes Fahrbach represented the office of U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, ROhio. He spoke of Portman’s fight for funding for military plants in Ohio as well as his efforts to slow EPA regulations on coal-powered energy plants. He said Portman is currently promoting two bills: the Career Act, promoting work training, and the Dollar-for-Dollar Budget Reduction bill, which would require cutting one dollar from the budget for each dollar borrowed. U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, 4th District, spoke on the need to reduce spending at the federal level, saying the focus of his partners in Congress is to “balance the books” in the next 10 years.
Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters rallied U.S. troops
he was finished using you. Don’t give him the opportunity. The guy is a jerk, and you can’t trust him. Don’t go out with him again. He is a LOS ANGELES (AP) 100 percent loser! — Patty Andrews never served in the military, but DR. WALLACE: I’m she and her singing sisforced to take physical ters certainly supported education, and I hate it the troops. because I’m not coordiDuring World War II, nated and I’m terrible they hawked war bonds, in sports. Why are we entertained soldiers overrequired to take PE? I seas and boosted morale think I’d be better off if on the home-front with I took a math or science tunes like “Boogie Woogie class instead. That Bugle Boy of Company B” would help me a lot and “I Can Dream, Can’t more than running I?” around in shorts lookAndrews, the last suring stupid. - Barry, New viving member of the York, N.Y. singing Andrews Sisters BARRY: The idea of trio, died Wednesday at physical fitness as one 94 of natural causes at part of overall well- her home in the Los Anbeing dates at least to geles suburb of Norththe ancient Greeks and ridge, said family Romans. The Latin ex- spokesman Alan Eichler pression, “mens sana in in a statement. corpore sano” means “a “When I was a kid, I strong mind in a strong only had two records and body.” PE is part of a one of them was the Anwell-rounded educa- drews Sisters. They were tion. It teaches stu- remarkable. Their sound, dents the importance of so pure,” said Bette Mikeeping their bodies dler, who had a hit cover physically fit. You don’t of “Bugle Boy” in 1973. have to have aspira- “Everything they did for tions to be an athlete to our nation was more than value learning how to we could have asked for. care for your body. This is the last of the trio,
and I hope the trumpets ushering (Patty) into heaven with her sisters are playing ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.’” Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home. She could also deliver sentimental ballads like “I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time” with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep. From the late 1930s through the 1940s, the Andrews Sisters produced one hit record after another, beginning with “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” in 1937 and continuing with “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar,” ”Rum and Coca-Cola” and more. They recorded more than 400 songs and sold over 80 million records. Other sisters, notably the Boswells, had become famous as singing acts, but mostly they huddled before a microphone in
close harmony. The Andrews Sisters — LaVerne, Maxene and Patty — added a new dimension. During breaks in their singing, they cavorted about the stage in rhythm to the music. Their voices combined with perfect synergy. As Patty remarked in 1971: “There were just three girls in the family. LaVerne had a very low voice. Maxene’s was kind of high, and I was between. It was like God had given us voices to fit our parts.” Kathy Daris of the singing Lennon Sisters recalled on Facebook late Wednesday that the Andrews Sisters “were the first singing sister act that we tried to copy. We loved their rendition of songs, their high spirit, their fabulous harmony.” The Andrews Sisters’ rise coincided with the advent of swing music, and their style fit perfectly into the new craze. They aimed at reproducing the sound of three harmonizing trumpets.
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HOROSCOPE BY FRANCES DRAKE For Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) It’s Groundhog Day! Enjoy schmoozing with others, because your popularity rating is strong now. Younger, artistic people definitely will appeal to you. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) People in authority will notice you now because the Sun is shining on you, as it were. Make the most of this, because this light is flattering. (This is why offers are coming your way.) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Get away from your daily routine, and do something different. By all means, travel if you can. Perhaps you can expand your horizons by learning something new or taking a course. You’re curious! CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Romantic relationships are quite passionate now, and definitely affectionate. This is also a good time to benefit from the wealth and resources of others. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Remember to get more sleep, because the Sun is as far away from you as it gets all year, and the Sun is your source of energy. Respect your need for more rest. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Do whatever you can to get better organized, because you’re strongly motivated to do so now. In other words, capitalize on this urge. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) A playful time! Enjoy sports events, the theater, movies, parties, fun times with children and opportunities to socialize with others. You want to have fun! SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Home, family and your domestic world are your primary focus now. In fact, many of you are enjoying redecorating or fixing up your digs. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Short trips and fun times with siblings and relatives will make your day. This is also an excellent time for those of you who write, teach, act or sell, because your words are like gold! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Opportunities to earn more money or make money on the side are all around you now. Keep your eyes open. Naturally, opportunities to buy beautiful things also surround you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) It’s easy to be charming and diplomatic with others now, so enjoy good times and increased popularity. This is your hour! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Because your birthday is approaching, your personal year is ending. Set aside some time to think about how you want your new year to be different or better in some way. YOU BORN TODAY You are talented and make your skills look easy and natural. Many of you are sophisticated and represent the epitome of your society. Many of you know how to develop an impressive technique. Once you find your line of work, you become totally absorbed in it. You’re capable of great originality. Your year ahead is the beginning of a fresh, exciting new cycle. Open any door! Birthdate of: Christie Brinkley, supermodel; Jennifer Westfeldt, actress/screenwriter; Garth Brooks, singer. (c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Coccydynia is pain in the rear DR. DEAR DR. DEAR ROACH: With reROACH: I have gard to West Nile pain in my tailvirus: If I am one bone area and of the majority of have had a people who fight it colonoscopy and off with no more two pelvic CT symptoms than a scans, but nothing cold, have I built was found. Is there a specialist I To your up antibodies that prevent me from can see, and do good contracting it you have any suggestions? — J.B. health again? — P.I. ANSWER: ANSWER: It Dr. Keith West Nile virus is sounds as though Roach a new illness in you may have coccydynia, which simply this country. It is spread means “pain” (dynia) in by mosquitos. Most peothe “tailbone” (coccyx). It’s ple, about 80 percent, usually associated with have no symptoms at all, abnormal movement of and 20 percent will have the coccyx on the spine. symptoms resembling flu, This is generally treated including fever, headache, by an orthopedic surgeon body aches, nausea and or pain-management spe- vomiting. About 1 person cialist. Treatment in- in 150 will develop severe cludes not sitting on hard illness, including coma, surfaces, using a special- convulsions, muscle weakized orthopedic cushion ness and vision loss. and the use of anti-in- Sometimes the neurologic flammatories. Very severe effects are permanent. Becases may require sur- cause this disease can be serious, especially among gery.
the elderly, prevention is key. Insect repellant, long sleeves and pants (especially if outside at dawn or dusk), and draining standing water where mosquitos can breed are all effective. It is believed that immunity to West Nile virus is lifelong, but like all diseases, immunity may wane after many years. Also, most people can’t be sure they have had West Nile virus, so it just makes sense to continue to try to avoid mosquito bites. DEAR DR. ROACH: My daughter has soreness and clicking in her jaw. She said it locked up. She says she can’t chew food normally anymore. The dentist referred her to an oral surgeon, but he wants $5,000 to treat her (including physical therapy and an appliance). What should I do? — R.C. ANSWER: It sounds like your daughter has a
moderately severe case of TMJ syndrome. TMJ stands for “temporomandibular joint,” which is the source of the pain and other problems. Common causes of TMJ pain include tooth grinding at night, which is very common; arthritis in the TMJ; dental problems, which cause the person to overuse the non-affected side; and stress, which may cause clenching of the facial and jaw muscles. Treatment appropriate for everybody with TMJ pain includes application of an ice pack followed by a warm compress, eating softer foods, careful chewing with up-and-down and not side-to-side movement, and avoiding chewing gum. Anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen also may be helpful. A visit to the dentist is essential to make sure there are no dental issues that need to be corrected.
Feb. 1, 1913 A. and C. Streit, who recently purchased the stock of goods of C. A. Hetzler on the southeast corner of the square, reopened their store for business today after it having been closed all week while completely remodeling the store room. Mr. Streit expects to make a specialty of 5 and 10 cents goods, and when the stock is complete, the store will be one of the fine up-to-date stores of Sidney. ––––– Elmer D. Kiser, county treasurer, has appointed his son, John Kiser, as deputy treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R.D. Curtner. John Kiser has been conducting the Kiser Meat Market on East Court street. He will retire from the meat market the first of next week to assume his new position. Leo Kelley, who has been conducting a meat market on Michigan street, has leased the Kiser Meat Market and will have charge of it.
75 years Feb. 1, 1938 Taking of testimony was concluded at noon today in the civil service commission’s hearing in the case of John Drury and William Sherman who claim they were unjustly dismissed as nightwatchmen and janitors at the local state highway garage and office building. The hearing was held in the common pleas court room, before Carl W. Smith and Ralph W. Emmons of the state commission. Final decision in the matter is expected in a few days. ––––– The home of Mrs. J.E. Wells, 701 South Main avenue was entered recently and completely ramsacked by the intruder, but police officials are at a loss to know what was taken as Mrs. Wells is in Pitsfield, Mass, and a checkup will have to be made upon her return. Mail carrier Homer Stang noticed the front door of the home open and called police. The thief had even enjoyed a meal while there by opening some of the canned goods on hand.
50 years Feb. 1, 1963 Dr. and Mrs. Clayton Kiracofe, Marylin and Elaine, moved Wednesday to their new home on Burkewood drive. They formerly resided at 868 Crescent drive, where Dr. and Mrs. John Beigel and family will make their new home in the near future. Dr. Beigel is associated with Dr. Kiracofe in his op-
tometry practice. ––––– First Lieutenant and Mrs. James Linker will be leaving Monday to return to their home in Waco, Texas where the former is stationed at the James Connally Air Force Base. They have been house guests here since before the holidays with Linker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Linker, Russell street.
25 years Feb. 1, 1988 Members of Cub Scout Pack 188 in Sidney received awards at a meeting Wednesday. Cub Scout awards were presented to Jerry Corruthers, Travis Wyen, Jeremy Weber, Matt Hussman, Ben Hickerson, Jason Staley, Scott Strayer, and Robert Shoe. Webloes receving awards were Raymond Osborn, Ryan Chitwood, Steve George, Jim Wendel, Brandon Livington, Ben Musser, Michael Sloan, Mike Strayer, and Eric Swiger. ––––– Long-time area educator Mary Agnes Brandewie of Sidney, 85, has been selected as the winner of awards from the National Catholic Education Association, the Cincinnati Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, and Holy Angels Elementary School in Sidney. Mrs. Brandewie has been chosen as a national winner in an NCEA competition for distinguished teaching. She is to travel to New York City in April to receive the award. She was nominated by Lehman High School Principal Michael Barhorst. ––––– Although it came a night later than Coach Jerry Harmon would have liked, none of the luster was tarnished on the Jackson Center mentor’s 200th career victory as the Tigers got past a good Riverside Pirate team 99-88 Saturday night in one of the three non-league contests involving Shelby County teams. ––––– These news items from past issues of the Sidney Daily News are compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society (498-1653) as a public service to the community. Local history on the Internet! www.shelbycountyhistory.org
Romantic’s heart bruised by end of relationship DEAR TRYDEAR ABBY: ING: I’m sorry for A great man once your loss and said, “A life withheartache. But out love is no life unless your lover at all.” So many was wrenched people find love in from you by so many ways, eideath, you should ther through do what people of arranged marboth sexes must riages or at social Dear when a romance events, school or Abby ends — ask yourcollege. Abigail self why and what I have always been a hopeless Van Buren you have learned from it. romantic, but The failure of a rosince the end of my eightyear relationship, my mance doesn’t mean that heart no longer feels the love will never happen same. I feel as though love again. You will know you have found love when you will never find me. I know people say meet someone who makes when it happens you will you feel strong instead of know, but my question is: dependent, who appreciHow do you really ates you for the person KNOW? And when that you are and isn’t threattime does ever come, how ened by your successes, do you prepare your heart who supports you when for love after a tragic loss? you’re down, takes pride in your accomplishments, — TRYING TO GO ON
and will hug you even after a difficult day. And it shouldn’t take “preparation,” just a willingness to risk putting yourself out there and a little good luck. DEAR ABBY: My husband and I live more than 1,000 miles away from our family. When our relatives fly out to visit us, should we feel obligated to let them use one of our cars to travel/tour while they are here? (Money is not an issue.) In most cases, they may be on the other side of the state for several days, leaving my husband and me to share a car. It is an inconvenience because my husband and I leave for work at different times. However, this isn’t my only concern. Will insurance cover our car if they
have an accident in it? When we visit them, we drive their car within city limits only, and when it’s convenient for them. Please reply ASAP because they’re coming here soon. — STRESSED OUT IN COLORADO DEAR STRESSED OUT: Because money is not an issue, I assume that your relatives can afford to rent a car during their visit. The same rules should apply to them that apply to you in a similar situation. Your car should be for your own convenience, since you and your husband need transportation to work. As to the insurance liability should someone have an accident while driving your vehicle, the person to ask is your insurance broker.
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FIREARMS FOR SALE, Marlin model 336W Rifle, .30-30 lever action, Capacity 6+1, like new, with camo soft case, 20 rounds of ammo, my cost $475 asking $425, Walther, PPK/S, 380 Pistol, stainless steel, upgraded walnut handle, 150 round ammo, like new in case, my cost $740 asking $700, Walther P22 Pistol with laser, well cared for, great first gun, my cost $350 asking $300. Call or text (937)418-5329.
GUNS & AMMO, Rifle, Winchester, Model 94-32W.S. Cal. 32 Winchester Special, over 70 years old, very nice 1 box of ammo, $625, Shotgun, 12ga pump, Lightweight, 30 inch barrel, full choke, Marlin nice gun, perfect for home protection or hunting $225, Pistol- Wall hanger for man cave, shoots but not recommended, Hopkins & Allen 38 short, top brake, folding hammer, pat. Jan 5Oct 6, 1886, real cool old pistol, $100, Ammo, Point .223, 7.62x39, 30-30, .45, 3 0 0 6 , 22LR-22mag-22-250, .308, 7.62x54, Call for prices, (937)698-6362 Chuck LIFT CHAIR Only used 2 months. Like new condition. Blue. Asking $500. (937)418-3162
SNOW BLOWER 5hp, Self propelled, 20" cut. Briggs and Stratton engine. Runs great. $325. (937)498-9147 BOXER PUPPIES, 2 males 3 females ready now. Call, text or email for more details, $150, kmiller043@roadrunner.com. (937)621-1172. SPAY and NEUTER special during the month of January at Woodland View Equine Service. Call for details. (937)492-2451 WESTIE PUPPIES, 2 males, 16 weeks old, shots and wormed. $175. Call or text (937)658-4267
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PUBLIC NOTICE 1/30/2013 Issuance of Draft Air Pollution Permit-To-Install Honda of America Mfg., Inc. Anna Engine Plant 12500 Meranda Road, Anna, OH 45302-9699 Shelby County FACILITY DESC.: Gasoline Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing PERMIT #: P0112557 PERMIT TYPE: Initial Installation PERMIT DESC: New installation of L013 CVT Parts Washer #2, Washer & Ancillary Equipment, P138 Carburizing Furnace #4, Pre-Heater, Furnace, Endo Generator, Quench & Misc., P139 Carburizing Furnace #5, Pre-Heater, Furnace, Endo Generator, Quench & Misc., and P140 Carburizing Furnace #6, Pre-Heater, Furnace, Endo Generator, Quench & Misc. The Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued the draft permit above. The permit and complete instructions for requesting information or submitting comments may be obtained at: http://epa.ohio.gov/dapc/permitsonline.aspx by entering the permit # or: Craig Osborne, Ohio EPA DAPC, Southwest District Office, 401 East Fifth Street, Dayton, OH 45402. Ph: (937)285-6357 Feb. 1 2362820
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LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL – WIA Youth Services The Darke, Miami, Preble and Shelby County Workforce Investment Policy Board and Four County Youth Council are seeking proposals for the delivery of Workforce Investment Act youth programming in Darke, Miami, Preble and Shelby Counties for the period of July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014. Request for Proposal documents are available from Nick Finch of the Shelby County Department of Job and Family Services and may be requested at (937) 498-4981. A Conference for Prospective Bidders is scheduled on February 12th, 2013 at 10:00 AM at the Shelby County Department of Job and Family Services at 227 South Ohio Avenue; Sidney, OH 45365. Completed proposals must be submitted to the above address by 3:00 PM March 8th, 2013 to be considered. Feb. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 2361593
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Glass top bamboo base dinning room table, with 4 chairs, very nice; lamp with glass base; clock; three piece tan sectional living room suite with two chairs, as new condition; mirrors; grandfather clock, Westminster chimes; dinning room suite (hardwood), 4 chairs, matching hutch; silverware, serving for 12 in wood box; four tall very modern bar stools; pots, pans and various kitchen items; various table lamps; Broyhill computer desk, very nice; Medion tower computer system, complete system, flat screen monitor; HP deskjet printer; Porsche metal car, circa 60’s; various wrist watches; 3 pc bedroom suite, circa 40’s in very nice condition; night stand; book case with glass door; three shelf book case; framed sheet music; hand carved trunk; various barbells and weights; 19 inch RCA TV with remote; writing desk; large framed picture; EA rocker; Magnavox stero system; Singer sewing machine in nice wood cabinet; lamp stands; floor lamp; glass top coffee table; glass front cabinet; round lamp stand; modern wall clock; electric space heater; old computer games in boxes; two large boxes of 33 records circa 50-60’s; Studio Nova set of china, service for 12; etched glass basket; depression glass; various pc’s of pressed glass; hand panted German china; various kitchen items; elec. Wok; mouton fur jacket; rabbit fur coat; mink cape; electric grinder; electric buffer with attachments; oil lamp; table top drill press; ½ inch hammer drill; saber saw; orbit sander; B&D skill saw; elec hedge trimmer; hardware organizer; hand vac; B&D polisher; Homelite gas blower (new in the box); Coleman portable air compressor; elec pressure washer; Crosman model 760B BB gun, as new in original box; come-along; numerous drill bits; body work tools; torgue wrench; many small hand tools; play station two, compete set in original boxes; deep sockets; clamps; tap & die set; various books; GE food processor with attachments; lawn tools; JD gas weed eater; lots of hardware items; upright vacuum sweeper; Huffy ladies bike; wheel barrow; live trap; and numerous other small items. TERMS: Cash or approved check. No out of state checks accepted. No goods removed until settled for. Everything is sold “as is”. Not responsible for accidents. Buyer number system will be used, positive ID required.
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Lady Cavs play well at Troy Christian TROY — The Lehman Lady the only player in double figCavs went on the road and ures with 11. Russia (30) gave a strong Troy Christian Monnin 1-1-3; Borches 2-3-7; Wilall it could handle in a 53-42 son 4-3-11; Sherman 1-0-2; Meyer 1loss in high school girls bas- 2-4; York 1-1-3. Totals: 10-10-30. ketball action here Thursday. Houston (26) Phipps 1-0-2; Maier 1-2-5; GilkeLehman, now 5-14, trailed by only six at one point in the son 1-0-2; A. Stang 3-0-6; Cox 1-0-2; Booher 2-0-4; M. Stang 1-3-5. Totals: final period. 10-5-26. Troy Christian is now 16-3. Score by quarters: “We played very well,” said Russia ..............................1 9 25 30 Lehman coach Kim Miller. Houston............................7 10 18 26 Russia 0, Hous“We had some good spurts tonThree-pointers: 1 (Maier). with our defense, created Records: Russia 13-7, Houston 8some turnovers.” 11. Reserve score: Russia 45, HousAva Schmitz had 13 to lead Lehman and Julia Harrelson ton 23. —— added 12.
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RUSSIA’S LAUREN Heaton tries to drive around Nicole Maier of Houston in action at Houston Thursday.
Lehman (42) Harrelson 3-5-12; Emrick 1-1-3; Schmitz 5-1-13; Kronenberger 1-0-2; Lee 3-1-7; Hall 2-0-5. Totals: 15-8-42. Troy Christian (53) Campbell 2-0-4; Habbab 2-1-5; Demmitt 7-7-21; Darvel 1-0-3; Lybarger 1-0-2; Slone 2-0-4; Benjamin 45-14. Totals: 19-13-53. Score by quarters: Lehman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 15 30 42 TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 24 38 53 Three-pointers: Lehman 4 (Schmitz 2, Harrelson, Hall); TC 2 (Darvel, Benjamin). Records: Lehman 5-14, TC 16-3.
—— Lady Rockets whip Tipp City TIPP CITY — Two of Anna’s top three scorers, Natalie Billing and Erica Huber, were held to just seven points and only two field goals Thursday night, but the Lady Rockets got big contributions elsewhere in whipping Tipp City 49-39 in non-league girls basketball action. The win puts Anna at 15-4. Huber was in foul trouble most of the night and eventually fouled out, but despite her and Billing being held in check, Anna still had three in double figures. Cayla Bensman had 13, Kayla Blankenship added 11 and Sydney Rioch finished with 10. Anna fell behind 9-6 at the start, but scored 18 of the next 20 points. The lead reached 16 twice in the final period. SDN Photo/Todd B. Acker
SIDNEY’S CHRIS Cantrell has the edge at this point in the match against Shane Love of Troy in State Dual Tournament action Wednesday night at Sidney. Cantrell lost a close match, 65, at 106 pounds.
Sidney High wrestlers shoot for GWOC North Longtime Sidney head wrestling coach Jim McCracken has seen enough league meets in his career to be a dependable prognosticator. And he says this weekend’s Greater Western Ohio Conference meet will come down to his team and host Vandalia for the North Division crown. This year’s meet will be held at Vandalia Butler High School on Friday and Saturday. The meet is contested over three separate sessions: Friday evening at 5:30 p.m., Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and Saturday afternoon at the conclusion of the morning session. The Saturday afternoon session will feature the meet finals. Admission will be required to each individual session. Admission for the event will be $6 for adults and $4 for students. McCracken said Vandalia has five quality wrestlers and he thinks four will make it to the finals. “That’s a lot of points,” he said. “We’re shooting to get 10 or 11 GWOC placers. Nine of our kids, if they perform, can place for sure. That should be enough to overcome the su-
Sidney wrestling statistics T 106 Kyle Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 113 Jacb Sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 120 Alex Willman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 126 Jared Tangeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 132 Rhett Rosengarten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 138 Mason Calvert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 145 Logan Calvert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 152 Ryan Penley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 160 Garrick Ginter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 170 Jordan Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 195 Jacob Lochard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 220 Noah Straman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 285 Maurice Ickes24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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perstars in five weight classes for Vandalia. “It may honestly come down to extra bonus points by pins,” said McCracken. “We have been a pinning squad all year long and we hope that continues. Every pin recorded in the tournament adds two points to our total, so if there are 15 pins, that’s 30 additional team points.” He said the GWOC will be “a war.” All 18 schools will compete in the meet, and McCracken said winning a North title has been a goal all season. “Winning the GWOC has been a team goal since day one,” he said. “This is the only weekend of the year that matters for the GWOC title. I believe our kids are up to the
challenge. We have worked hard throughout the year, and now is the time to collect the benefits of that hard work.” Going into the tournament, Kyle Pierce is seeded third at 106, Jacob Sharp sixth at 113, Alex Willman fourth at 120, Rhett Rosengarten fifth at 132, Mason Calvert second at 138, Logan Calvert second at 145, Ryan Penley fourth at 152, Garrick Ginter third at 160, and Maurice Ickes fifth at 285. NOTE: Oregon Clay defeated Perrysburg in the State Dual Tournament, so Sidney will travel to Clay next Wednesday in the regional championship. The match will begin at 7 p.m.
Botkins downs Fairlawn 53-37
Botkins pulled away in the final two periods to take a 5337 victory over Fairlawn in County girls basketball Thursday. The Lady Trojans were led by Logan Pitts, who poured in 26 points. “She was the difference,” said Fairlawn coach Randy Tyler. “We had no answer for her. Her physicalness wore on us at both ends of the court.” Pitts also had 10 rebounds. Olivia Cummings had 17 to lead Fairlawn. Botkins goes to 5-6 in the league and 10-10 overall. Fairlawn drops to 0-11 and 2-17. Botkins (53) Koch 2-2-8; McCullough 2-1-7; Kremer 1-2-4; Bergman 2-1-6; Schneider 1-0-2; Pitts 12-1-26. Totals: 20-753. Fairlawn (37) Slonkosky 1-1-4; Oates 1-2-4; Roe 2-2-6; Driskell 1-0-2; Tyler 1-0-3; Dudgeon 0-1-1; Cummings 6-3-17. Totals: 12-9-37. Score by quarters: Botkins .........................16 30 47 53 Fairlawn .......................10 21 29 37 Three-pointers: Fairlawn 4 (Cummings 2, Tyler, Slonkosky); Botkins 6 (Koch 2, McCullough 2, Bergman, Pittsd). Records: Botkins 10-10, Fairlawn 2-17. Reserve score: Botkins 38, Fairlawn 21.
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FORT LORAMIE — Fort Loramie cruised to victory over visiting Jackson Center Thursday to up its County record to 10-1 and set up the game of the year next Thursday in high school girls basketball. The Lady Redskins, 18-2, have just one league game left, at Anna, which is 10-0 in the County going into a game at Russia Tuesday. Jackson is 1-10 and 3-16. —— Loramie stunned the Lady Russia overcomes Tigers with a 26-5 second slow start to win quarter, making it 37-13 at HOUSTON — Houston held the half. Russia to just a free throw in Darian Rose had 19 to lead the opening quarter to lead 7-1, Loramie. Fogt had 11 for JC. but the Lady Raiders overcame Jackson Center (26) P. Meyer 1-0-2; Thomas 1-0-2; the slow start to win a low-scoring County girls matchup Esser 1-0-2; Fogt 4-0-11; Zimpfer 2-26; Metz 1-1-3. Totals: 10-3-26. Thursday 30-26. Fort Loramie (61) Russia goes to 8-3 in the Hoying 2-0-5; Imwalle 1-0-3; Beleague and 13-7 overall. Hous- nanzer 2-0-5; Westerheide 3-0-6; Meyer 2-1-5; Rose 8-3-19; Boerger 1ton is 4-7 and 8-11. Russia held Houston to just 1-3; Holdheide 2-0-4; Brandewie 2-15; Ordean 2-0-4. Totals: 26-6-61. three points in the second Score by quarters: quarter but still trailed 10-9 JC ....................................8 13 20 26 at the half. But the Lady Loramie .........................11 37 52 61 Three-pointers: JC 3 (Fogt 3); Raiders outscored Houston 3 (Hoying, Imwalle, Be21-16 in the second half to Loramie nanzer). pull out the win. Records: JC 3-16, Loramie 18-2. Kylie Wilson of Russia was Reserve score: FL 59, JC 13.
Anna (49) A. Bensman 2-4-8; Huber 0-2-2; Blankenship 5-0-11; Billing 2-1-5; C. Bensman 5-2-13; Rioch 4-2-10. Totals: 16-11-49. Tipp City (37) Comer 3-4-10; Clodfelter 3-0-6; Clawson 3-0-6; Logan 1-0-2; Printz 53-13. Totals: 15-7-37. Score by quarters: Anna.............................14 28 39 49 Tipp ..............................11 19 25 39 Three-pointers: Anna 2 (Blankenship, C. Bensman); tipp 0. Records: Anna 15-4, Tipp 11-9. Reserve score: Anna 40, Tipp 23.
Russia, FL to play for title ANNA — The semifinals of the County 8th grade girls basketball tournament were held Thursday at Anna, and it will be Russia against Fort Loramie in the championship game Monday. Russia got there by beating Jackson Center 32-24. Maria Herron had nine and Maddie Borchers eight for the winners. Cassie Meyer had eight for Jackson. Fort Loramie beat Anna 3230 in a thriller to advance to
the championship game with an 11-5 record. Caleigh Barhorst had 16 to lead Fort Loramie and Sarah Stang added eight. Kelsey Meyer had 10 and Kennedy Glover eight for Anna. Anna finishes 6-9. Russia and Fort Loramie will meet for the championship on Monday at 7:15 at Anna. The 7th grade championship will precede the game at 6 p.m.
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SHS team records fall 33rd annual JC freshman tourney in SW District Classic starts Monday The Sidney High s w i m teams recently competed in the Classic Trotat w o o d , which is Homan the largest swim invitational in the country. The meet includes nine sites in the Southwest District and 3,000 swimmers and divers compete. Scoring includes the top 16 places, and Sidney was able to score in almost all events. And several Jacket swimmers set new school records. Madeline Homan won the 400 individual medley and broke the team record by two minutes with a personal-best time of 5:35.94. She went on to place third in the 200 breaststroke in 2:48.42, breaking a record by eight seconds that had stood since 2000. Allison Neu broke the 50-breaststroke record that had stood since 1994 by five seconds with a personal-best time of 34.27. For the boys, Wagner broke his Huskey brother’s record in the 400 IM set two years ago at the same meet. Wagner’s time was 5:22.62 to break the record by six seconds and set a personal record in the event.
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Many of the boys had their personal best times and scored points for Sidney. Newell Voress was sixth in the 200 free in personal-best time, Austin Oder had personal bests in both the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, finishing 10th and fifth, respectively. And Eric Barnes had a personal record in placing seventh in the 100backstroke, dropping five seconds in that event. “Overall, the Sidney teams had a good meet,” said head coach Mary Jannides. “They had a good look at what is to come in the league championships and sectionals. This was a rare time when the girls were able to break any team records.” Botkins also competed in the meet, and the top finish for the Trojans came from Keirstyn Rogers, who was fifth in the 50-butterfly with a time of 34.29. Sophomore Bailey Schnipple had an outstanding meet, being the top Botkins finisher in three events, including 13th in the 200 IM in personal best time of
3:09.74. She was also the team’s top finisher in the 50-back (15th) and the 200-free (22nd). Taylor Weatherhead had two personal bests, in the 50 and 100 backstroke, and Amber Buehler was 13th in the 50-breaststroke in personal-best time of 1:31.76, good enough for 17th. Freshman CJ Cathcart had personal bests in all three of her events, the 50-free in 38.81, the 50-back in 55.67 and the 100-back in 1:34.84. Adam Buehler led the boys with a ninth-place finish in the 100 fly. He also swam a personalbest time of 1:02.85 in the 100 free. Cody Buehler swam his best time in the 100back of 1:30.88, and Andy Egbert was 13th in the 200 IM in a personal-best time of 2:49.67. Lucas Buehler had four personal bests, in the 200-breaststroke in 3:20.2, the 100 IM in 1:28.84, the 50 free in 34.15 and the 100 free in 1:25.39. Dillon Underwood had a personal best in the 50 free of 36.5. • The Sidney High boys swim team recently won its own invitational by defeating teams from Vandalia, Greenville and Piqua. The boys placed in each event and the team had 1-2-3 finishes in two events. In the 50 free, Ian Stephens was first, Eric
Barnes second and Dave Young third. In the 100 free, Stephens and Barnes were 1-2 again and Newell Voress third. Voress won the 200 free with his best time of the year, 2:11.42, and Harvey was second in the 100 breaststroke, also with his best time of the year, 1:14.51. The 400 free relay team of Barnes, Austin Oder, Wagner Huskey and Stephens was first, followed by the Sidney team of Conner Bowers, David Young, Andrew Jensen and Voress. The same foursome that won the 400 relay also won the 200 free relay. “We really dominated all the events by scoring in all of them, especially the relays, where points are doubled,” said coach Mary Jannides. The Sidney girls were fourth. Vandalia won by a large margin, but runner-up Piqua, thirdplace Greenville and fourth-place Sidney were separated by just three points. The Sidney girls were led by Madeline Homan, who was first in the 500 free and first in the 200 individual medley, in personal best times of 6:10.48 and 2:35.32. Allison Neu was first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:18.2 and second in the 50 free. Homan, Neu, Ardy Li and Gro Marthinussen placed second in the 400 free relay.
Reds agree to deals with Heisey, Simon CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds have agreed to one-year contracts with outfielder Chris Heisey and righthander Alfredo Simon, avoiding arbitration. Heisey will make $1,325,000 and Simon
will earn $890,000. The deals were announced by the Reds on Thursday. The 28-year-old Heisey batted .265 with seven homers and 31 RBIs in 120 games for the Reds last season. It was a considerable drop-
off for Heisey: In 2011, his second year in the majors, he also appeared in 120 games but hit 18 homers in 68 fewer atbats. Simon, 31, went 3-2 with a 2.66 ERA in 36 relief appearances in his
first year with the Reds after parts of four seasons in Baltimore. Cincinnati still has four players in arbitration: pitchers Homer Bailey, Mat Latos, Mike Leake and outfielder Shin-Soo Choo.
Tickets to Ohio State games will cost more COLUMBUS (AP) — Tickets to Ohio State’s home football games will cost more — more than twice as much for certain “premium” games — after the school’s board of trustees approved an in-
crease at its meeting on Thursday. Most home game tickets will rise in price from $70 to $79, with the board also voting to permit the athletic department to designate two premier games per sea-
son when tickets will cost at least $110 and as much as $175. The only game to be designated as a premium game this fall is Wisconsin, which will have a maximum cost of $110. Ohio State
hosts archrival Michigan in even-numbered years. The athletic department asked for the increases so it could support 36 varsity sports — the most of any college in the country.
JACKSON CENTER — The 33rd annual Jackson Center Freshman Boys Basketball Tournament is set to get underway with eight teams on Monday at Jackson. There will be four games on Monday starting at 4:30. Anna will play Fairlawn first, followed by Houston against Fort Loramie, Botkins against Jackson Center and Lehman against Russia. The semifinals will be next Saturday (Feb. 9) and the championship
will be Feb. 11 at 6:45. Following are the pairings: Monday 4:30 — Anna vs. Fairlawn 5:45 — Houston vs. Fort Loramie 7:00 — Botkins vs. Jackson Center 8:15 — Lehman vs. Russia Semifinals Feb. 9 9 a.m. — Anna-Fairlawn winner vs. HoustonLoramie winner 10:15 — Botkins-JC winner vs. Lehman-Russia winner Championship — Feb. 11, 6:45.
Russia baseball camp to be held Feb. 10, 17 RUSSIA — The Russia Raider Extra Innings Baseball Camp will be held Feb. 10 and 17 at Russia High School from 12:30 to 4 p.m. The camp is for youth in grades 2-to-9 and provides the opportunity to receive seven hours of organized instruction in hitting, pitching, catching and infield play from top baseball players in college and the pros. Instructors will include Russia coach Rick Gold, Jared Hoying of Fort Loramie and the Texas Rangers, Jordan Goldschmidt of Fort Loramie and Butler University, Chad Lavender of Ashland University, Chris Peters of the
Toronto Blue Jays, Cale Marker of Sinclair Community College, Ty Welker of Troy High School, Jason Weaver of the University of Georgia, Jason Holmberg, Matt Steinke, AJ Bush and Brad Koopman of Wittenberg University, and Doug Borchers of Russia and the University of Dayton, Dan Hoying of Dayton, and Connor Graham from Miami University. The cost is $50, or $90 for two. A T-shirt will be included if registered by Monday. Walk-up registration will be $50. Make checks payable to Rick Gold, Camp Director, 991 E. Peterson Road, Piqua, 45356.
Longtime Troy coach named new coach at Troy Christian TROY — Troy Christian High School announced Thursday that former longtime Troy High School football coach Steve Nolan has been named the new head coach of the Eagles. Nolan retired a year ago after 28 seasons as Troy High School coach, and he took with him an overall record of 202-95. His teams won eight league championships and appeared in the playoffs 11 times.
He has a building task to perform at the school. Troy Christian canceled their 2012 football season because of a lack of numbers, a year after the team finished 1-9. “I enjoyed some of my time off,” Nolan told the Troy Daily News. “It was good to reflect on some things, but I still enjoy the sport, it does great things for the kids involved in it — and I just missed it. “I’m looking forward to the next challenge.”
SCOREBOARD CALENDAR High school High school spoprts TONIGHT Boys basketball Vandalia at Sidney Parkway at New Knoxville Fort Loramie at Botkins Coldwater at Versailles Miami Valley Saints at Chr. Aca. Lehman at Troy Christian Fairlawn at Russia New Bremen at St. Henry Fort Recovery at Minster Anna at Jackson Center Girls basketball Miami Valley Saints at Chr. Aca. Wrestling Sidney at GWOC (Vandalia) Bowling Trotwood at Sidney —— SATURDAY Girls basketball Bradford at Fairlawn Lima Perry at Jackson Center Houston at Riverside Miami East at Versailles Franklin-Monroe at Russia Lehman at New Knoxville Vandalia at Sidney Christian Aca. at Spring Valley Boys basketball Waynesfield at Fairlawn West Liberty-Salem at Anna Botkins at New Bremen Franklin-Monroe at Versailles Jackson Center at Minster New Knoxville at Lima Temple Christian Aca. at Spring Valley Swimming Versailles, Minster at Coldwater Inv. Celina at Sidney Wrestling Sidney at GWOC (Vandalia) Versailles at Delphos St. John’s —— SUNDAY Swimming/diving Lehman at Wright State tri —— MONDAY
Girls basketball Sidney at Botkins Kalida at Minster Fairlawn at Waynesfield —— TUESDAY Girls basketball Anna at Botkins New Knoxville at Houston Spencerville at New Bremen —— MONDAY Girls basketball Sidney at Botkins Fairlawn at Waynesfield
of league year. March 12 — Before 4 p.m. EDT, clubs must exercise options for 2013 on all players who have option clauses in their 2012 contracts; clubs must submit qualifying offers to their restricted free agents with expiring contracts and to whom they desire to retain a right of first refusal/compensation; clubs must submit a minimum salary offer to retain exclusive negotiating rights to players with expiring 2012 contracts and who have fewer than three seasons of free agency credit; all 2012 player contracts expire. All clubs must be under the salary cap. The 2013 league year, free agency and trading period begins at 4 p.m. EDT. March 17-20 — Annual league meeting, Phoenix April 25-27 — NFL draft, New York May 20-22 — NFL spring league Meeting, Boston Sept. 5, 8-9 — 2013 NFL season begins.
renew contracts of unsigned players. March 2-19 — World Baseball Classic. March 13 — Last day to place a player on unconditional release waivers and pay 30 days termination pay instead of 45 days. March 27 — Last day to request unconditional release waivers on a player without having to pay his full 2013 salary. March 31 — Opening day, Texas at Houston. Active rosters reduced to 25 players. June 6 — Amateur draft. July 12 — Deadline for amaOOTBALL teur draft picks to sign. July 16 — All-Star game, Citi NFL playoffs Field, New York. NFL Playoff Glance July 28 — Hall of Fame inducThe Associated Press tion, Cooperstown, N.Y. All Times EST July 31 — Last day to trade a Wild-card Playoffs player without securing waivers. Saturday, Jan. 5 Sept. 1 — Active rosters exHouston 19, Cincinnati 13 pand to 40 players. Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10 Oct. 23 — World Series begins. Sunday, Jan. 6 November TBA — Deadline Baltimore 24, Indianapolis 9 for teams to make qualifying offers Seattle 24, Washington 14 to their eligible former players who ASEBALL Divisional Playoffs became free agents, fifth day after Saturday, Jan. 12 World Series. MLB calendar Baltimore 38, Denver 35, 2OT November TBA — Deadline San Francisco 45, Green Bay 31 Baseball Calendar for free agents to accept qualifying Sunday, Jan. 13 By Associated Press offers, 12th day after World Series. Atlanta 30, Seattle 28 Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to Feb. 4-21 — Salary arbitration New England 41, Houston 28 offer 2014 contracts to unsigned hearings, Phoenix. Conference Championships Feb. 12 — Mandatory report- players. Sunday, Jan. 20 Dec. 9-12 — Winter meetings, ing date for players participating in San Francisco 28, Atlanta 24 the World Baseball Classic in Asia. Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Baltimore 28, New England 13 2014 Mandatory reporting date for all Super Bowl July 15 — All-Star game, Minother pitchers and catchers particiSunday, Feb. 3 pating in the WBC. Voluntary re- neapolis. At New Orleans July 18 — Deadline for amaporting date for pitchers and Baltimore vs. San Francisco, catchers not participating in the teur draft picks to sign. 6:30 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 8-11 — Winter meetings, WBC. Feb. 15 — Mandatory report- San Diego. NFL calendar ing date for WBC players not participating in Asia. Voluntary NFL Calendar reporting date for position players By Associated Press Feb. 3 — Super Bowl, Super- not participating in the WBC. For Home Delivery Call Feb. 20 — Mandatory reportdome, New OrleansMarch 9-11 — Clubs may enter negotiations with ing date for players not participatcertified agents of players who will ing in the WBC. March 2-11 — Teams may be unrestricted free agents at end
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TRANSACTIONS Thursday Thursday's Sports Transactions The Associated Press BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX_Promoted Pam Kenn to senior director of pub-
lic affairs. Named Kevin Gregg director of media relations. CLEVELAND INDIANS_ Signed RHP Matt Capps to a minor league contract. LOS ANGELES ANGELS_Agreed to terms with INF Bill Hall on a minor league contract. Named Omar Vizquel roving infield instructor. NEW YORK YANKEES_Signed OF Matt Diaz, INF Dan Johnson, OF Thomas Neal, OF Juan Rivera and C Bobby Wilson to minor league contracts. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS_Agreed to terms with INF/OF Martin Pradoon a fouryear contract through 2016. CINCINNATI REDS_Agreed to terms with OF Chris Heisey and RHP Alfredo Simon On one-year contracts. NEW YORK METS_Signed RHP LaTroy Hawkins to a minor league contract.
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SUPER SUNDAY IS IT THE HAR-BOWL OR THE LEWIS BOWL? The idea was for Lewis to get healthy enough for the stretch AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER run, and to have his presence in the lineup inspire a team that merica’s sports fans love firsts — and lasts. made the postseason the last This year’s Super Bowl four years without advancing to the Super Bowl. has delivered storylines both The Ravens not only got that original and conclusive. boost of passion, they got the Consider, if you will, the 37-year-old Lewis playing like Har-bowl: Never have brothhe was in his prime; he has 44 ers been the head coaches of teams in the same Super Bowl. tackles in three playoff games. “You could say we’re playing On Sunday, John Harbaugh leads his Baltimore Ravens into for Ray,’’ defensive end Paul the Superdome to face young- Kruger said. “But what that means to us er sibling (by 15 months) Jim Harbaugh and his San Francis- is that nobody wants to be the guy who lets him down.” co 49ers. Lewis loves what he terms This NFL championship will “chess matches’’ with opposing be the first played in New Orquarterbacks, and he just won leans since Hurricane Katrina two of those, against Peyton hit in 2005. As the city was reManning and Tom Brady. Pretty built and the Superdome reimpressive. vamped, the league kept its But this matchup has a bit of promise to return the Super extra spice to it because 49ers Bowl to the Big Easy. QB Colin Kaepernick brings a And it will be the final game different dynamic to the Super of a brilliant career for Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who an- Bowl. Kaepernick is inexperienced. nounced his retirement just beHe barely played for 1½ seafore the playoffs. Then he became the emotional engine for sons before Jim Harbaugh elevated him to starter in NovemBaltimore’s run to its second ber when incumbent Super Bowl. Alex Smith was inAs if the Super ‘Every jured. Bowl doesn’t normoment The coach stuck mally have enough that you’re with the youngster plots and subtalking about whose athleticism plots ... myself or and creativity has Both Harbaughs provided big-play cahad a chance John, that’s to reach the big less time that pability for San Francisco’s offense. game last year, the players The mind games but their teams are going Lewis and the lost in conferto be talked Ravens’ ultraphysicence champional defense like to ships. This time, about’ play with opposing the 49ers rallied quarterbacks could from a 17-0 hole to win at Atlanta, and the Ravens hit a roadblock because they can’t be sure what to expect avenged the previous year’s from Kaepernick. defeat at New England. As he attempts to keep San “Well, I think it’s a blessing Francisco’s Super Bowl recand a curse,” Jim Harbaugh ord spotless — 5-0, and hoping said. to tie Pittsburgh’s record of six “A blessing because that titles — Kaepernick also seeks is my brother’s team. And, to join Hall of Famers Joe Monalso, personally I played for tana and Steve Young in leadthe Ravens. ... The curse part ing the 49ers to the top. would be the talk of two brothKaepernick’s rise to Super ers playing in the Super Bowl Bowl quarterback has come and what that takes away much quicker than did Joe from the players that are in Flacco’s. the game. Every moment that Baltimore’s Flacco is the you’re talking about myself or only QB to win a playoff game John, that’s less time that the in each of his first five pro seaplayers are going to be talked sons, and he has six postsabout.” eason road victories, an NFL Perhaps except for Lewis. record. With very few exceptions, He’s been superb this winter, rarely does any player but a throwing eight touchdowns and quarterback own the spotlight no interceptions in the playoffs. during Super Bowl week. Now he faces a defense Ray Lewis owns this spoteven stingier than Baltimore’s, light. Lewis missed 10 weeks this and just as hard-hitting, with season with a torn right triceps, just as many playmakers. Yet another intriguing scenbut Baltimore kept him on the ario for this Super Bowl. roster.
SUPER BOWL XLVII WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 3 HISTORY: The Super Bowl was played in the TIME: 6:30 p.m. ET Superdome in 1978, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1997 and WHERE: Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans 2002. In 1990, San Francisco beat Denver 55-10.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
BALTIMORE RAVENS
BY BARRY WILNER
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THIS CENTURY’S SUPER BOWL MVPS 2012 Eli Manning, QB, Giants 2011 Aaron Rodgers, QB, Packers 2010 Drew Brees, QB, Saints 2009 Santonio Holmes, WR, Steelers 2008 Eli Manning, QB, Giants 2007 Peyton Manning, QB, Colts
2006 Hines Ward, WR, Steelers 2005 Deion Branch, WR, Patriots 2004 Tom Brady, QB, Patriots 2003 Dexter Jackson, S, Buccaneers 2002 Tom Brady, QB, Patriots 2001 Ray Lewis, LB, Ravens 2000 Kurt Warner, QB, Rams
AP PHOTOS/MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ
San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick saw little action before replacing injured starter Alex Smith but the young quarterback has excelled in the starting role.
AP PHOTOS/ORLIN WAGNER
Joe Flacco of Baltimore has won six postseason road victories in his five pro seasons, but can he lift his team over the top on Super Bowl Sunday.
HOW THE TEAMS MATCH UP BASED ON REGULAR SEASON GAMES
OFFENSE WON-LOST- TIED FIR ST DOW NS FIR ST DOW NS RUSH ING FIR ST DOW NS PASS ING TH IRD-D OW N ATT EMP TS TH IRD-D OW N CONVER SIONS RED Z ONE TDS RED Z ONE FIELD GOALS FIR ST- DOW N BY P ENALTY TOTA L YDS GAINED (S EASON) AVER AGE YA RDS PER GAME RUSH ING (N ET) AVG RUSH Y DS PER GAME RUSH ES (S EASON) AVG YARDS PER RUSH PASS ING (N ET) AVG PASS Y DS PER GAME PASS ATT EMP TS (S EASON) COMPLE TED PASS ES PASS ES CO MPLE TED% YARDS GAINED SACKS A LLOWED YARDS LOST BY SA CKS INTERCEP TI ONS TH ROW N YARDS OPP R ETURN OPP TDS ON INT FUMBLES FUMBLES LOST POSS . TIME (A VG) RUSH ING TOU CHDOW NS PASS ING TOU CHDOW NS RETURN T DS POINTS SCORED
DEFENSE
49ERS
RAVENS
11-4-1 322 128 172 194 68 28 20 22 5,789 361.8 2,491 155.7 492 5.1 3,298 206.1 436 289 66.3 3,551 41 253 8 70 0 26 8 31:46 17 23 4 397
10-6 314 98 182 217 80 28 15 34 5,640 352.5 1,901 118.8 444 4.3 3,739 233.7 560 334 59.6 3,900 38 257 11 231 3 14 5 32:25 17 22 5 398
SPECIAL TEAMS
49ERS PUNTS PUNTS AVG YARDS PUNT RE TURNS AVG R ETURN YA RDS RETURNED FOR TD KIC KOFF RE TURNS AVG R ETURN YA RDS RETURNED FOR TD OPP P UNT RE TURNS AVG YA RDS RE TURN OPP KIC KOFF RE T AVG YA RDS RE TURN OPP R ETURN T DS (PUNTS, KOS) PAT ATT EMP TED PAT MADE 2-P T CONVER SIONS ATT 2-P T CONVER SIONS MADE FIELD GOALS ATT FIELD GOALS MADE
67 48.1 36 10.5 0 49 24.8 0 36 6.9 48 26.9 3 44 44 0 0 42 29
RAVENS 83 47.1 43 9.4 1 60 27.3 2 49 7.8 37 23.2 3 42 42 2 1 33 30
STATISTICS FROM AP; PAGE DESIGNED AND BUILT BY POSTMEDIA EDITORIAL SERVICES
POINTS ALLOWED OPP FIR ST DOW NS AVG RUSH ING Y DS A LLOWED AVG PASS ING Y DS A LLOWED PENALTIES OPP YARDS GAINED AVG PER GAME OPP R USH ING (N ET) AVG RUSH YA RDS PER GAME OPP RUSH ES AVG YARDS PER RUSH OPP P ASS ING (N ET) AVG PASS YA RDS PER GAME PASS ES ATT COMPLE TED PASS ES CO MPLE TED% SACKS YARDS LOST BY SA CKS INTERCEP TI ONS YARDS R ETURNED RETURNED FOR TD OPP TOUCHDOW NS RUSH ING TOU CHDOW NS PASS ING TOU CHDOW NS
49ERS
RAVENS
273 284 72 178 34 4,710 294.4 1,507 94.2 407 3.7 3,203 200.2 567 337 59.4 38 270 14 216 2 29 7 19
344 326 105 187 34 5,615 350.9 1,965 122.8 492 4.0 3,650 228.1 557 335 60.1 37 250 13 196 2 33 15 15
TWO ROADS TO THE SUPER BOWL
SAN FRANCISCO OPPONENT
DATE
BALTIMORE
SCORE
NFC Championship W Jan. 20 28-24 Falcons Division Playoff Jan. 12 45-31 Packers W Regular Season Cardinals W Dec. 30 Dec. 23 Seahawks L Patriots W Dec. 16 Dolphins W Dec. 9 Rams L Dec. 2 Saints W Nov. 25 Bears W Nov. 19 Rams T Nov. 11 Cardinals W Oct. 29 Seahawks W Oct. 18 Giants L Oct. 14 W Oct. 7 Bills W Sept. 30 Jets L Sept. 23 Vikings W Sept. 16 Lions Sept. 9 Packers W
27-13 42-13 41-34 27-13 16-13 31-21 32-7 24-24 24-3 13-6 26-3 45-3 34-0 24-13 27-19 30-22
OPPONENT
DATE
SCORE
AFC Championship Patriots W Jan. 20 28-13 Division Playoff 38-35 Broncos W Jan. 12 AFC Wild Card W Jan. 6 24-9 Colts Regular Season L Dec. 30 23-17 Bengals W Dec. 23 33-14 Giants L Dec. 16 34-17 Broncos 31-28 Redskins L Dec. 9 L Dec. 2 20-23 Steelers Chargers W Nov. 25 16-13 Steelers W Nov. 18 13-10 W Nov. 11 55-20 Raiders W Nov. 4 25-15 Browns L Oct. 21 43-13 Texans Cowboys W Oct. 14 31-29 Chiefs W Oct. 7 9-6 Browns W Sept. 27 23-16 Patriots W Sept. 23 31-30 Eagles L Sept. 16 24-23 Bengals W Sept. 10 44-13
PLAYOFF TEAM LEADERS
SAN FRANCISCO Quarterback: Colin Kaepernick — 33/52; 3 TDs; 1 Ints; 105.9 Rating. Rushing: Frank Gore — 44 Rushes; 4.8 Avg Yds; 3 TDs. Receiving: Michael Crabtree — 176 Yds; 11.7 Avg Yds; 2 TDs. Interceptions: Tarell Brown and Chris Culliver — Tied 1 each. Sacks: I. Sopoaga, P. Willis tied.
BALTIMORE
Quarterback: Joe Flacco — 51/93; 8 TDs; 0 Ints; 114.7 Rating. Rushing: Ray Rice — 64 Rushes; 3.9 Avg Yds; 2 TDs. Receiving: Anquan Boldin — 276 Yds; 17.3 Avg Yds; 3 TDs. Interceptions: Corey Graham — 2; 39 Yds; 1 TD. Sacks: Paul Kruger — 2.5.
Athletes, stars lend hands in Super Bowl host city NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some athletes and celebrities headed to New Orleans for Super Bowl weekend are picking up hammers and packaging food for the homeless in the big game’s host city. The downtown area where most Super Bowl festivities will take place has arguably never looked better, with a renovated Superdome and resurfaced streets and sidewalks. But a closer look reveals homelessness, crime and outer-lying neighborhoods that still bear the scars of 2005, when levees collapsed during Hurricane Katrina and inundated more than 80 percent of the city with floodwater. One of the city’s biggest
areas of need is housing. In some areas, flood-damaged houses remain untouched, gutted homes have been abandoned, and many lots are overgrown with weeds where houses once stood. While in town, some athletes and celebrities are working with Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together to help the city’s rebuilding effort. Others are working with the Make-AWish Foundation and Second Harvest, a New Orleansbased nonprofit community food bank. “Every ounce of support helps,” said Jon Luther, vice president of the Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans, which has been working with the
NFL Players Association for months to build homes in the city’s Lower 9th Ward neighborhood, which saw some of the worst flooding after Katrina. “For them to show such interest and generosity of their time to our city, we are so grateful,” Luther said. Through the NFL’s Touchdown for Homes program, three homes have been built not far from actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right houses. A ribbon-cutting will be held Friday. This week, more NFL players are getting to work on homes in other parts of the city. Some are working Thursday with Habitat for Humanity to build a new home for a New Orleans resident in the
Central City area. On Friday, they’ll work on another home in the same area for a local family. But not all the goodwill is labor intensive. On Friday, country music star Garth Brooks will join Saints players Mark Ingram, Darren Sproles, Curtis Lofton and Deuce McAllister to help the Starkey Hearing Foundation fit more than two dozen local children with hearing aids. On Saturday, NFL players Larry Fitzgerald, Tommie Harris, Chris Doleman, Craig Stevens, Greg Jennings, Kyle Rudolph and Brian de la Puente will help the Starkey foundation provide about 100 hearing aids to residents,
including 12 local musicians. “Because music is the heart of New Orleans’ vibrant culture, and hearing is so vital to music, I can’t think of a more perfect setting,” said Brady Forseth, the foundation’s executive director. This is the fourth year in a row Starkey has conducted a mission in the Super Bowl host city. The group will fit residents at the Musicians Village, a rebuilding effort in the city’s Upper 9th Ward headed by New Orleans native jazz musicians Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis. Portions of proceeds from some of the big Super Bowl weekend concerts also will benefit locals.
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