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North Korea hit by new UN sanctions after test BY HYUNG-JIN KIM The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council responded swiftly to North Korea’s latest nuclear test by punishing the reclusive regime Thursday with tough, new sanctions targeting its economy and leadership, despite Pyongyang’s threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States.
The penalties came in a unanimous resolution drafted by the U.S. along with China, which is North Korea’s main benefactor. Beijing said the focus now should be to “defuse the tensions” by restarting negotiations. The resolution sent a powerful message to North Korea’s new young leader, Kim Jong Un, that the international community condemns his defiance of
Security Council bans on nuclear and ballistic tests and is prepared to take even tougher action if he continues flouting international obligations. “Taken together, these sanctions will bite, and bite hard,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said. “They increase North Korea’s isolation and raise the cost to North Korea’s leaders of defying the international community.”
DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3 today: • Gregor L. Prenger
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A Sidney man who owns a business in Fort Loramie has been indicted by the Shelby County grand jury on charges of rape and kidnapping in connection with an alleged incident that Bower occurred Feb. 23 in Fort Loramie. Robert Edward Bower, 63, 1933 Riverside Drive, was arraigned Wednesday on the two charges, both first degree felonies, in Shelby County Common Pleas Court. He was released from jail after posting a 10 percent surety bond See INDICTED/Page 3
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BY BELINDA M. PASCHAL Civitas Media bpaschal@civitasmedia.com PIQUA — When guitarist Scott Ridenour took the stage with his former bandmate Penny Nimety, the fit was as comfortable as an old shoe. It had been five years since Nimety left the band once known as Penny and the Loafers, but her return to the microphone last year melted those years away. The group now played under a different name — The Drive — but the chemistry hadn’t changed. “Penny decided to come back when our lead singer Bob Comstock suffered several strokes in August of last year,” Ridenour said. “She stepped in for him and decided she wanted to sing again.” A Jan. 26 benefit for Comstock marked the unofficial reunion of Penny and the Loafers
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PENNY AND the Loafers have reunited. A special reunion gig is planned for March 16 at Z’s Food & Spirits, 319 N. Wayne St., Piqua. and drew more than 850 people to the Covington Eagles hall. “The turnout was incredible. We were very well-received,” Ridenour said. “Everyone kept saying we should change our
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Ride ’em cowgirl! Seven-week-old Alexis Burton, daughter of Kelly and Dustin Burton, of Sidney, experienced her first snow Wednesday. Daddy Dustin created a snow pony to commemorate the event.
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Police log WEDNNESDAY -1:37 p.m.: arrest. Officers arrested Glory Pierce, 40, no address given, for disorderly conduct at the intersection of Miami Avenue and Port Jefferson Road. FEB. 20 -9:35 a.m.: disorderly. Police investigated a report of a disorderly 16-year-old male involved in an incident at Sidney High School, 1215 Campbell Road. No other informa-
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RECORD section of County Road -11 a.m.: theft. 25A and Ohio 274. Deputies responded to Houston High School, 5300 Houston Road, Houston, to investigate a theft incident. THURSDAY WEDNESDAY -11:36 a.m.: bur-7:38 p.m.: mail glary. Lynn Nicode- damaged. J. Monmus, 1845 sauret, 5975 WrightDingman-Slagle Road, Puthoff Road, advised reported someone deputies that mail had kicked in a door and been soaked in gasostole a television. line.
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Kathy Lindsey, the new director of New Choices, introduced herself to Shelby County Commissioners on Tuesday. She also requested commissioners release the semiannual appropriations for the agency. Commissioners authorized the release of $6,341,34. At the request of the petitioners, the Colby Ditch petition was canceled. Pam Steinke, commission clerk. said the landowners in the area of the southwest Shelby County ditch, have already made made the necessary improvements to the ditch without the full petition process. The petition had been filed in July 2010.
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Sidney City Council heard a presentation at Monday’s work session on proposed changes in the health, safety and sanitation code aimed at clarifying what constitutes a violation and streamline the enforcement process. Kirby King, city code enforcement officer, said city staff has spent the past year investigating issues involving code enforcement relating to littering and deposit of rubbish, garbage and junk. King said the goals of the study are: • Provide a more clear definition of a violation • Eliminate junk in the right-ofway in a timely manner • Reduce the overall time to remedy violations • Provide a plan for handling repeat offenders. King said under the current procedures, when a violation is determined, notification is sent by regular mail to residents and by certified mail to nonresidents giving them three days to comply in the case of litter and 15 days for junk. If the owner doesn’t comply, King said, the city’s contractor corrects the violation and an invoice for the work (hourly rate, disposal fees and 20 percent administration fee) is mailed to the property owner. King explained that the proposed definitions of junk, rubbish and garbage more clearly pinpoint what constitutes a violation. Under the proposed notification
process, a notice of a violation would be posted on the property and sent regular mail. Compliance would be required in a minimum of two days if it is in a public area and a minimum of five days on private property. King said another step would be included in the procedures to provide for the possible pursuing of criminal charges. Council member Mardie Milligan suggested posting photos of violations on the city website. “Once they clean it up, you could take it off,” Milligan said. She also suggested putting an email address on the posting placed on properties determined to be violating city ordinances. “This is good,” said council member Steve Wagner. “I think it’s going to be more cost-effective.” Council also agreed to accept a bequest from the Betty Zorn Bennett Trust Flower Fund. The city will receive $5,000 to pay for placing artificial flowers at 10 gravesites at Graceland Cemetery. It was reported that under the trust arrangement, Perry Township will receive $15,000 for placing artificial flowers on two gravesites at Cedar Point Cemetery. The artificial flowers would be placed on the graves at Easter and Christmas each year until the funds are exhausted. It was noted that similar arrangements have been in place at Graceland Cemetery for many years. Council went into executive session to discuss pending or imminent court action. City Manager Mark Cundiff said no action was taken following the executive session. He said he could not comment on the nature of the possible legal action.
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From Page 1 of $15,000 ($1,500). According to the grand jury indictment, Bower allegedly held a woman without her consent and forced her to engage in sexual conduct. The Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office investigated the alleged incident, which occurred at 17 N. Main St., Fort Loramie, the location of Bower’s business, Main Street Pizza & More. Officials report the alleged incident did not occur during business hours.
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MARIA STEIN — Gregor L. Prenger, 86, of 7465 State Route 119, Maria Stein, died at 1:30 a.m. Thursday, March 7, 2013, at the Cleveland Clinic. He was born March 24, 1926, in Maria Stein, to the late Frank and (Mescher) Regina Prenger. He married Luella M. Bohman on May 13, 1950 in Egypt. She survives in Maria Stein. He is also survived by children, Kathy and Paul Wilcox, of Beavercreek, Ohio, Pat and Harry Pohlman, of Carlisle, Pa., Ken and Karen Prenger, of Coldwater, and Tom and Carol Prenger, of Celina; 11 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters; Annella Franzer, of Coldwater, Don and Mary Prenger, of Maria Stein, Hilda and Ben Schwieterman, of Fort Recovery, Art and Rosemary Prenger, of Chickasaw;
and sister-in-law, Edna Prenger, of Versailles. He was preceded in death by brothers and sisters, Leo, Alvin, Laurina Poeppelman and Helen Buening. He was a member of St. Rose Catholic Church and a member of the Men’s Sodality. He retired from Surge Dairy Farm Equipment with more than 30 years of service. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013, at St. Rose Catholic Church with the Rev. Gene Schnipke celebrant. Burial will take place in St. Rose Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster, from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday 10 and from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday. Condolences may be made at the funeral home’s website, www.hogenkampfh.com.
Penny and the Loafers’ official reunion gig will be at 9 p.m. March 16 at Z’s Food & Spirits, 319 N. Wayne St. Like The Drive, Penny and the Loafers is a cover band specializing in classic rock and 80’s hits. “We hope to incorporate some originals eventually, but we primarily do covers and we target festivals, corporate events, parties and weddings, along with standard bar and club gigs,” Ridenour said. The Drive is known for its renditions of songs including The Temptations’ “My Girl,” “What I Like About You” by The Romantics and Journey’s “Only the Young,” which showcased Comstock’s soaring voice. Though Comstock’s absence is felt, Nimety’s return will broaden the band’s repertoire to include artists like Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks and Etta James. “We really do miss Bob. He had such a great voice and good range,” Ridenour said. “The changeover won’t be too drastic. We do a lot of the
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same songs we did as The Drive, but now we’re able to do more female artists and blues-based songs.” In addition to praising Nimety’s vocal prowess, Ridenour remarked that her finesse as a frontwoman brings a certain pizazz to the band’s performances. “Penny certainly has a stage presence and an energy. She has a spark. People just gravitate toward her,” he said. “She has a rapport with people that frankly, we didn’t have as The Drive. There’s an art to that and she possesses it.” Besides Ridenour and Nimety, Penny and the Loafers’ lineup includes original member Jim Cook on drums, and newcomers Jeff Davis (keyboards, vocals) and John Stockstill (bass, vocals). Penny and the Loafers can be booked to play corporate and private events by calling Ridenour at (937) 773-9277. The band is still using The Drive’s website at www.thedrivelive.com.
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lican senators in what the White House said was an effort to find common ground with rank-andfile lawmakers. Few were willing to guarantee that the engagement would yield results. Previous presidents have tried to develop relationships with members of Congress with varying degrees of success, though some of the biggest pieces of legislation, such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a Social Security deal in 1983 required cross-party efforts by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan. “We’re not naive about the challenges that we still face; they exist,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. “And there are differences.” Obama has negotiated directly in the past with House Speaker John Boehner in hopes of finding a large deficit reduction deal, but those efforts have faltered as the president pursued deals with tax increases that Republicans oppose. Most recently, neither side worked hard to avoid $85 billion in automatic spending cuts and instead devolved into partisan finger-pointing over which side was more to blame. Boehner said Obama’s new approach represented a 180-degree turn. “He is going to, after being in office now over four years, he is actually going to sit down and
talk to members,” Boehner said. “I think it is a sign, a hopeful sign, and I’m hopeful that something will come out of it. But if the president continues to insist on tax hikes, I don’t think we’re going to get very far.” Carney argued that Obama’s new talks with congressional Republicans did not signal a shift as much as an attempt to seize an opportunity after automatic spending cuts kicked in last Saturday but months before another fiscal deadline looms. But in briefing reporters Thursday, Carney noticeably dialed back his criticism of Republicans and emphasized the “common ground” that existed between the parties. “The fact is, this should have been happening all along,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., one of the dozen Republicans who joined Obama for dinner Wednesday night at a hotel a few blocks from the White House. Sen. Lamar Alexander, RTenn., a veteran of Washington politics who got an ice-breaking call from Obama over the weekend, said he appreciated his talk with Obama but said that type of engagement should have occurred much sooner. “He’s the first president in my experience, and I’ve known or worked with eight, who’s had almost no personal relationships here in the Senate, on either side
as far as I can tell,” Alexander said.ms Obama may be attempting his charm blitz later than most presidents do. Some presidents have found common ground with opponents sooner, others have not. Former Republican Senate leader Trent Lott, speaking at the 2009 ceremony unveiling his majority leader’s portrait in the Senate, said he and President Bill Clinton maintained a friendly relationship even though they quarreled bitterly in public. “Even if I did or said something stupid — or vice versa, excuse me, Mr. President — the main thing about it is that quite often we’d call one or the other and we’d laugh about it,” Lott said as Clinton smiled and nodded at his side. Senate Historian Donald Ritchie said that Reagan, during his first year in office, called every member of Congress. “His congressional liaison found that that worked against him in the long run because members of Congress expected the president to call them on every issue,” Ritchie said. Indeed, Ritchie said, no matter what the relationship is between a president and Congress, lawmakers inevitably complain that presidential outreach is not enough and presidents regularly argue that members of Congress demand too much.
KOREA North Korea kept up its warlike rhetoric Friday after the U.N. vote, issuing a statement saying it was canceling a hotline and a nonaggression pact with rival South Korea. North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the country’s arm for dealing with cross-border affairs with Seoul, said it will retaliate with “crushing strikes” if enemies intrude into its territory “even an inch and fire even a single shell.” It also said it was voiding past nuclear disarmament agreements between North and South Korea. South and North Korea agreed in a 1992 joint declaration not to produce, test or use nuclear weapons. North Korea has since conducted three nuclear tests. The resolution also targets North Korea’s ruling elite by banning all nations from exporting expensive jewelry, yachts, luxury automobiles and race cars to the North. It also imposes new travel sanctions that would require countries to expel agents working for sanctioned
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the vote. In the capital of Pyongyang, Army Gen. Kang Pyo Yong told a crowd of tens of thousands that North Korea is ready to fire longrange nuclear-armed missiles at Washington, which “will be engulfed in a sea of fire.” White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is “fully capable” of defending itself against a North Korea ballistic missile attack. Experts doubt that the North has mastered how to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile capable of reaching the mainland United States. The North Korean statement appeared to be the most specific open threat of a nuclear strike by any country against another. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the threat “absurd” and suicidal. North Korea also has threatened to scrap the cease-fire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War. It has a formidable array of artillery near enough to the Demilitarized Zone to strike South Korean
and American forces with little warning. The top U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies, cautioned Pyongyang not to miscalculate, saying the U.S. will take necessary steps to defend itself and its allies, including South Korea, where it bases more than 30,000 U.S. forces. “We take all North Korean threats seriously enough to ensure that we have the correct defense posture to deal with any contingencies that might arise,” Davies told reporters. Rice said “the entire world stands united in our commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and in our demand that North Korea comply with its international obligations.” China’s U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong said the resolution reflects the determination of the international community to prevent nuclear proliferation, but he stressed that its adoption “is not enough.” “The top priority now is to defuse the tensions, bring down heat … bring the situation back on the track of diplomacy, on negotiations,” Li said.
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Judge blocks use of traffic cameras CINCINNATI (AP) — A southwest Ohio judge on Thursday ordered a halt to a speeding ticket blitz in a village that installed traffic cameras, saying it’s “a scam” against motorists. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Ruehlman Robert blasted the cameras and the thousands of $105 citations that resulted. He ruled that they violate motorists’ constitutional rights to due process and said the village’s enforcement was stacked against drivers. “Elmwood Place is engaged in nothing more than a high-tech game of 3-Card Monty,” Ruehlman wrote, referring to a card game used by con artists. “It is a scam that motorists can’t win.” The village began using the cameras in September, resulting in some 6,600 speeding citations in the first month, triple the number of village residents. Revenues that are shared with the company that operates the cameras quickly topped $1 million. Such cameras are used in municipalities around the country, and have been upheld in other courts. But business owners and motorists charged in their lawsuit here against the village that the cameras were hurting Elmwood Place’s image and businesses, and said they were put into use without following Ohio law for public notice on new ordinances. They also said it’s unconstitutionally difficult to challenge the citations, and Ruehlman agreed in granting a permanent injunction against enforcement of the village ordinance that created an “automated speed enforcement program.” Village Police Chief William Peskin said Elmwood Place will appeal the ruling. But in the meantime, it is halting use of the cameras. “We will shut ‘em off,” he said. “It’s a minor setback. We will be back in appeals court.” Police say up to 18,000 vehicles a day drive through the village, which links some big employers with Interstate 75. Peskin said there were four cameras total, although only two were in use at a time. One was at village limits where speed drops from 35 mph to 25 mph; another was in a school zone.
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IN THIS Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, file photo, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, left, looks on as Lester Mullet, center, and his brother Johnny Mullet, right, review papers during an extradition hearing at Jefferson County Common Pleas court during in Steubenville. Sixteen Amish men and women convicted in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio will soon begin serving federal prison sentences.
Amish face unfamiliar life in federal prison CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women who have lived rural, self-sufficient lives surrounded by extended family and with little outside contact are facing regimented routines in a federal prison system where almost half of inmates are behind bars for drug offenses and modern conveniences, such as television, will be a constant temptation. Prison rules will allow the 10 men convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in eastern Ohio to keep their religiously important beards, but they must wear standard prison khaki or green work uniforms instead of the dark outfits they favor. Jumper dresses will be an option for the six Amish women, who will be barred from wearing their typical long, dark dresses and bonnets. It’s unclear where the Amish will serve their sentences, but some of the nearest options include men’s prisons in Elkton, a 90-minute drive southeast of Cleveland, and in Loretto, Pa., and women’s prisons in Lexington, Ky., and Alderson, W.Va. Some of the initial prison assignments include locations in Texas and Louisiana, according to a letter circulating among defense attorneys, and other assignments could come any day. Visits from family members might be diffi-
cult since they don’t drive modern vehicles. During the trial, relatives hired van drivers to take them more than 100 miles to the trial in Cleveland, where they often filled most courtroom seats. “Amish people grow up with very strong communal connections and large extended families and participating in community activities, so being suddenly severed from that and isolated would certainly be a major change,” said Donald Kraybill, a longtime Amish researcher and professor at Elizabethtown College in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country. The defendants, all members of the same Amish sect, were convicted in September of hate crimes in 2011 attacks meant to shame fellow Amish they believed were straying from the strict religious interpretations espoused by the sect’s leader. Fifteen of them received sentences ranging from one to seven years; the ringleader, Samuel Mullet Sr., got 15 years. They all rejected plea deals that offered leniency, with some young mothers turning down possible chances for probation. Amish communities have a highly insular, modest lifestyle, are deeply religious and believe in following the Bible, which they believe instructs women to let their hair grow long and
Parkers can now pay by smartphone TOLEDO (AP) — Put the quarters away. People parking at downtown Toledo meters can now pay by making a phone call or scanning a code with their smartphones. The 955 downtown parking meters in the city will now display a sticker with a phone number and a code to connect with a contractor handling pay-byphone transactions. Users will also be able to scan a QR code on the meters that will open to a website to take credit-
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card payments. The Blade newspaper (http://bit.ly/16acKaj) reports that city officials expect it will benefit people whose downtown business or errands last longer than their parking time and want to avoid $10 parking tickets. There is a 35-cent fee for the phone transactions, on top of the parking charges. ——— Information from: The Blade, http://www.toledoblade.com/
men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry. Prosecutors say the 16 defendants targeted hair because it carries spiritual significance, hence the hate crime prosecution. The defendants had argued that the Amish are bound by different rules guided by their religion and that the government had no place getting involved in what amounted to a family or church dispute. Most of the men were locked up, often in less strict local jails, after their arrests and will have some idea of what to expect in prison. The women remained free during the trial, and several have asked to stay out of prison during their appeals. The judge rejected three such requests Wednesday.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Tensions grew Thursday over access to the private financial books of JobsOhio, a nonprofit entity created by Gov. John Kasich to lure jobs to Ohio. State Auditor Dave Yost, a fellow Republican, says he has the right to audit both the public and private funds flowing through the year-old public-private partnership, but the administration isn’t so sure. Yost has given JobsOhio Chief Financial Officer Kevin Giangola until noon on March 19 to produce the records after JobsOhio declined to volunteer the documents, in a development first reported by The Columbus Dispatch. The subpoena, issued Wednesday, seeks financial statements, spending and revenue ledgers, salary and benefits payments and other documents — or an explanation for withholding the materials. spokesJobsOhio woman Laura Jones said it was not immediately clear what Giangola’s plans were with regard to the subpoena. Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said the Ohio Development Services Agency, the state’s public development arm, has turned over all JobsOhio documents related to public dollars. “The auditor has clear authority to audit public funds, and if there’s any confusion about that authority, then it needs to be clarified in law,” Nichols said in an email. “DSA is requesting that the auditor audit the public funds it has provided to JobsOhio and the administration looks forward to working with him on that effort.” Jones issued a nearly identical statement. Yost said there’s no
confusion over his authority to audit JobsOhio, including both its public and private funds. The entity recently went to market with a $1.5 billion bond offering backed by proceeds from its rights to the state’s liquor business for the next 25 years. “The governor and I have the same goal: to make sure JobsOhio’s money is working for the people of Ohio — creating jobs and growing this economy for our families,” Yost said in a statement. “It’s important to look at the total picture. The private bond proceeds trace directly back to the public money.” Development Services wants Yost to complete the public-funds audit as soon as possible, as it seeks to close out its grant relationships with JobsOhio and JobsOhio Beverage System, or JOBS, which is the renamed Ohio Business Development Coalition and issuer of the bonds. The JobsOhio grant was $1 million, the coalition grant was about $5 million. In a letter dated Tuesday, state development director Christine Schmenk asked Yost to audit the public funds. “I understand this review would be within the authority of your office because, although JobsOhio is not a ‘public office’ subject to your general audits, these grant funds are ‘public money’ and your office is therefore entitled to examine their use,” Schmenk wrote. Democrats on the budget-writing House Finance Committee on Thursday asked JobsOhio to appear before the development subcommittee to answer questions about the entity’s finances and financial records.
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NATION/WORLD TODAY IN HISTORY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Friday, March 8, the 67th day of 2013. There are 298 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 8, 1917, Russia’s “February Revolution” (so called because of the Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd; the result was the abdication of the Russian monarchy in favor of a provisional government. On this date: • In 1702, England’s Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III. • In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese. • In 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va. • In 1874, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74. • In 1917, the U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. • In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72. • In 1942, Imperial Japanese forces occupied Yangon in Burma during World War II. • In 1963, a military coup in Syria brought the Baath Party to power. • In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines were brought in to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. • In 1971, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by decision in what was billed as “The Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden in New York. Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 77. • In 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals convention in Orlando, Fla., President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” • In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Ky., collided in mid-flight.
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Skulls are gift wrapped RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are baffled by a macabre puzzle: someone has been leaving gift-wrapped human skulls around town. Investigator Paul Henry Bozon Verduraz described the case to the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper in a story published Thursday. The first skull in cherry-red wrapping was found on February 20 in a planter near a residential building downtown. Since then, seven others have been found near Mormon temples or consulates, including those for Russia, the Czech Republic and South Africa. The skulls are old, with traces of dirt. Verduraz says security cameras captured images of a woman in an anklelength skirt leaving the skulls, which seem old, with traces of dirt. He thinks this may be part of some sort of ritual.
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Senate panel casts Lion kills votes on gun curbs woman WASHINGTON (AP) — In Congress’ first gun votes since the Newtown, Conn., nightmare, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to toughen federal penalties against illegal firearms purchases, even as senators signaled that a deep partisan divide remained over gun curbs. The Democratic-led panel voted 11-7 to impose penalties of up to 25 years for people who legally buy firearms but give them to someone else for use in a crime or to people legally barred from acquiring weapons. The panel’s top Republican, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, cast the only GOP vote for the measure. President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to vote on gun curbs, including the bill
approved Thursday, which lawmakers named for Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teenager who was fatally shot days after performing at Obama’s inauguration. Congress should consider those bills “because we need to stop the flow of illegal guns to criminals, and because Hadiya’s family and too many other families really do deserve a vote,” he said at an Interior Department ceremony. The parties’ differences were underscored when senators debated a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, DCalif., to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Democrats have noted that such firearms have been used in many recent mass shootings. “The time has come, Amer-
ica, to step up and ban these weapons,” said Feinstein, a lead sponsor of a 1994 assault weapons ban that expired a decade later. She added, “How could I stand by and see this carnage go on?” The response from Republicans was that banning such weapons was unconstitutional, would take firearms from law-abiding citizens, and would have little impact because only a small percentage of crimes involve assault weapons or magazines carrying many rounds of ammunition. “Are we really going to pass another law that will have zero effect, then pat ourselves on the back for doing something wonderful?” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican.
U.S. court charges spokesman WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden’s inner circle was charged Thursday with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as the terror network’s top propagandist who lauded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — and warned there would be more. Officials said Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was born in Kuwait and was bin Laden’s sonin-law, was captured in Jordan over the last week. He will appear Friday in U.S. federal court in New York, according to a Justice Department statement and indictment outlining the accusations against Abu Ghaith. “No amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring America’s enemies to justice,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in the statement. “To violent extremists who threaten the American people and seek to undermine
our way of life, this arrest sends an unmistakable message: There is no corner of the world where you can escape from justice because we will do everything in our power to hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” The case marks a legal victory for the Obama administration, which has long sought to charge senior al-Qaida suspects in American federal courts instead of holding them at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But it immediately sparked an outcry from Republicans in Congress who do not want high-threat terror suspects brought into the United States. “If this man, the spokesman of 9/11, isn’t an enemy combatant, who is?” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters. Abu Ghaith “should be going to Gitmo. He should be kept there and questioned.”
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Blown away Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast in Scituate, Mass., Thursday. A nor’easter is bringing wind-whipped, wet snow to Massachusetts, and coastal flooding is expected in communities still recovering from February’s blizzard.
DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — A lion that killed a woman at a privately owned Central California zoo escaped from a feeding cage and attacked while she was cleaning his enclosure, authorities said Thursday. Fresno County Coroner David Hadden said Dianna Hanson, a 24-year-old intern described by her father as a “fearless” lover of big cats, died instantly when the 5-year-old lion broke her neck. Hanson had been working for two months as an intern at Cat Haven, a 100-acre exotic zoo east of Fresno. The large enclosure where Hanson was killed includes a smaller cage where animals can be confined for feeding or when the large space is being cleaned. The lion known as Cous Cous somehow managed to open the gate, said Hadden, who was briefed by investigators. “The lion had been fed, the young woman was cleaning the large enclosure, and the lion was in the small cage. The gate of the cage was partially open, which allowed the lion to lift it up with his paw,” said Hadden. “He ran at the young lady.” Hanson’s father said his daughter’s goal was to work with big cats at an accredited zoo and that she died doing what she loves. Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, described her as a “fearless” lover of big cats. That love was apparent on her Facebook page, which is plastered with photos of her petting tigers and other big cats. She told her father she was frustrated that Cat Haven did not allow direct contact with animals. “She was disappointed because she said they wouldn’t let her into the cages with the lion and tiger there,” Paul Hanson said. The owner of the zoo said Thursday that safety protocols were in place but he would not discuss them because they are a part of the law enforcement investigation. Dale Anderson said that he’s the only person allowed in the enclosure when lions are present. “We want to assure the community that we have followed all safety protocols,” Anderson said. “We have been incident-free since 1998 when we opened.” Friends of Dianna Hanson recalled her passion for cat conservation. “She was lovely, energetic, athletic. She did everything she could to help our conservation efforts,” said Kat Combes of the Soysambu Conservancy in Kenya, where Hanson recently had volunteered to work in the Cheetah Research Center.
Suspect charged NEW YORK (AP) — A man arrested in connection with a car crash that killed a rabbinical college student, his pregnant wife and their baby faced a charge of vehicular manslaughter Thursday, police said. Julio Acevedo was to appear in front of a judge Thursday night in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn. He had arrived in New York earlier Thursday after agreeing to be returned from Pennsylvania, where he had surrendered to police in the parking lot of a Bethlehem convenience store a day earlier. Acevedo was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident but had been expected to face more serious charges. The New York Police Department said the charges would include three counts each of criminally negligent homicide of leaving the scene of an accident. Acevedo was accused of barreling down a Brooklyn street at 60 mph early Sunday
and crashing into a hired car carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber, who were on their way to a hospital. The Glaubers, both 21, died Sunday. Their son, delivered by cesarean section, died Monday of extreme prematurity due to blunt-force injuries to his mother, who was seven months pregnant and was thrown from the hired car, the city medical examiner’s office said. The hired car that had been carrying them had a stop sign, though it’s unclear whether the driver stopped. The driver was knocked unconscious. At an appearance in Pennsylvania, Acevedo, 44, told Judge Kelly Banach that he had finished the 11th grade, was unemployed and lives in Brooklyn with his mother. He wore an orange jumpsuit and was shackled at the ankles and wrists. His surrender was brokered by a friend who had been in touch with police earlier Wednesday.
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JULIO ACEVEDO is escorted from a hearing at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa., Thursday. Acevedo waived extradition Thursday and will be taken back to New York, where he is a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband on their way to a hospital. Their premature baby, delivered after the crash, later died. Acevedo was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a friend arranged his surrender.
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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.
Saturday Morning • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Botkins, 9 to 11 a.m. • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Anna, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon • Women Walking in the Word meets at 1 p.m. at the Mount Zion House of Prayer, 324 Grove St. Use the rear entrance. • The Piqua Public Library, 116 W. High St., host the Lego Club from 2 to 4 p.m. Advance registration is necessary by calling (937) 773-6753.
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. • Shelby County Deer Hunters holds its monthly Saturday Night Trap Shoot at 7988 Johnston-Slagle Road beginning at 6:30 p.m., 10 birds. Program starts at 8 p.m., 50 birds, long run, handicapped and Lewis class. Open to the public. • 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 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 Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 320 E. Russell Road.
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.
Monday Evening • Shelby County Girl Scout Leaders Service Unit 37 meets at 6:30 p.m. at the VFW. • The American Legion Auxiliary meets at 7 p.m. at the Post Home on Fourth Avenue. • 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. • Diabetic support group meets at 7 p.m. in conference room one of the Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys. • Shelby County Woodcarvers meets at 7 p.m. at the Senior Center of Sidney-Shelby County. Beginners to master carvers 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. • Rainbow Gardeners meets at noon at the American Legion. • The Tween Book Club meets at the Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster at 3:30 p.m. 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. (419) 227-3361. • The New Bremen Public Library hosts story time at 6:30 p.m. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Temple, 210 Pomeroy Ave. To access the Community Calendar online, visit www.sidneydailynews.com, click on “Living” and then on “Calendar.”
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Editor wants Amish TV show “Oh you that have beshouldn’t have come wildly popdone that.” ular like “Why not?” I Discovery Chanasked quizzinel’s “Amish cally. Mafia” and “Because I’ll TLC’s “Breaking move here and Amish.” Televitake this piece sion has stumAmish and then this bled upon what one,” the Amish so many wouldCook man said with be novelists have Kevin Williams a hearty laugh, discovered: put a eyes twinkling bonnet or beard and prominent white on it and it sells. As beard casting a shadow someone who has over the well-worn worked in relative obboard. It was the check- scurity over the past two ers equivalent of check- decades to provide a balmate. “Here, I’ll let you anced picture of Plain take that move back and life, I’m excited that start over,” he said char- there is so much interest itably. I should have in the Amish. I think known better than to there’s a lot we can learn challenge a champion from this fascinating rechecker player to a ligion and culture. I’m match. He creamed me not sure, however, if such in three straight games, shows are the way to go before we headed out about it. Not that TV into the beautiful and the Amish, if done Holmes County, Ohio, right, are totally incomcountryside for a great patible. There have been lunch and conversation. a handful of wonderfully “You’ll find someone informative programs for your show, I’m sure of about the Amish. it,” the 70-year-old So it was with a real Amish man said when sense of intrigue that I we parted ways. “And listened to several proyou’re welcome to stay duction companies that here any time.” approached me last sumIt was a similar re- mer about developing a frain I heard from Amish TV series based on my friends across the coun- Amish experiences. It try over the past six was a time in my life months. when I was – and still “This show really isn’t am – searching for a way a bad idea. It’s probably to infuse all of my Amish not right for our family, friendships and travels but you’ll find someone. I with deeper meaning. I know you will, you just wanted to do everything have to keep looking,” my college philosophy said one Amish minister degree didn’t teach me: in Ohio, his brown beard hauling manure, baling neatly trimmed and hay, chopping wood, and gold-rimmed spectacles milking cows. I wanted gleaming. to learn to drive a buggy And so I did keep and immerse myself in looking. I looked among the deep spirituality of the incredibly kind their ways. I’ve been Amish of Manton, Mich.; writing about the Amish I parleyed with an my whole adult life, but Amish bishop in Virginia I wanted – at least for a at his mountaintop lair, I month or two – to live explored the warren of like the Amish. Not to roads which honeycomb become Amish – that Holmes County and I ship has sailed – but to stood on the wind-swept live like them for awhile prairies of Kansas, all and then go back to my the while meeting and day job, hopefully prospending time with foundly and spiritually amazingly accommodat- refreshed by the experiing and open-minded ence. I’d become a better Amish families. I wanted husband and future fayou all to meet the ther from it. It would be Amish I’ve met, to see the most difficult thing them as I’ve seen them. I I’d ever do, but in the still want that and if you end, I’d come out better want that too, I could use for it. your help. I have many Amish Television lately has friends who would take had an itch for the me in, but me and a TV Amish. So they’ve crew? That was the chalscratched it with shows lenge.
One Amish man startled me by suggesting, “Why don’t you and your wife just rent out our farmhouse, dress like us and pretend to be Amish. No one would ever know.” Most outsiders erroneously assume that all Amish have a theological objection to photography, but that isn’t the case. Some have theological objections, others sociological qualms, and others none at all. I knew finding a family wouldn’t be easy, but I thought offering a wholesome, insightful show to counter the current crop of TV fiction while deepening my Amish experience was a noble goal. So I undertook a monthslong journey, which I made at the production company’s behest and my own expense. It was a journey that took me on a grueling, sometimes harrowing search from the upper thumb of Michigan to a bishop’s mountaintop lair in the hulking hills of western Virginia. Along the way I learned a lot about myself and even more about the Amish. In the end, I did find some Amish families willing to take me in and open their homes to TV crews. None of us were doing it for the pay (reality TV pay is paltry unless your name is Snookie), although I will admit the exposure this would give my work would put “The Amish Cook” column on sound ground forever and that was appealing. Hollywood, however, wants big, loud personalities and in the end and my Amish friends and I were told we didn’t fit the bill. Big and loud may well work for shows about repo-men, gator wrestlers, animal psychics, pawn shop owners, and cake decorators. But after 20 years of being “The Amish Cook’s” editor, I think people are drawn to the Amish for precisely the opposite reason such aforementioned shows are popular. The Amish represent a step back, a deep breath, a connection to a time when tablets, smart phones, and wifi didn’t rule our lives. People don’t want Honey Boo Boo in a bonnet. They want quietude, serenity
and honesty. I don’t think a program about the Amish need be a staid, somber, boring documentary, but it doesn’t have to fit the shout-filled, cookie-cutter, reality-show mold either. In a career littered with the debris of missed opportunities, I’m not sure this one’s over yet. I have a hunch that there’s a tremendous appetite out there for a more cerebral, sensible show about the Amish, one that is fun but also respectful, educational and entertaining. Why don’t you decide by watching the clip yourself? If enough readers view and support the effort, it can become a real reality. Watch a free clip by visiting www.theamishcookonline.com/amishreality. Meanwhile, checkers anyone? Try this recipe from the Amish Cook Recipe Project archives: MOLASSES CUPCAKES 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 egg whites, slightly beaten 2/3 cup molasses 2/3 cup water 6 tablespoons cooking oil Powdered sugar, sifted (optional) Line 16, 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with paper bake cups; set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. In a small mixing bowl, stir together the egg whites, molasses, water, and oil. Stir molasses mixture into flour mixture just till blended. Spoon into prepared muffin cups. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until cupcakes spring back when pressed lightly in center. If desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve warm or cool. Lovina’s column will return its regular format next week.
Trustees plan annual fish fry The Shelby County Trustees and Fiscal Officers Association will host its annual fish fry on March 15 at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Activity Building. The all-you-can-eat event will be from 5 to 8 p.m. and is open to the public. Prices will be $6 for adults and $3 for children 10 and younger. In the past, donations
from the proceeds were disbursed to the Ohio State University Extension, Red Cross, Alpha Community Center, Wilson Memorial Hospice and West Ohio Development Council. The association, which comprises all 14
county townships’ trustees and fiscal officers and 56 associate members, has numerous meetings throughout the year. Officers of the association are Rob Seigel, president, Chad DeLaet,
vice president, Joan Buehler, secretary/treasurer and Ronnie Platfoot, executive committee. Tickets are available from any trustee or fiscal officer, by phone at 6933093 and at the door.
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE Ralph Thomas “Tommy” Callahan Saturday, March 9 at 4:00pm Jehovah Witness Hall
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Delusions of grandeur A turkey vulture sits on the roof at 779 Foraker Ave., Sidney, Wednesday, adopting the same position as an eagle ornament on the wall directly below him. Neighbors reported that the live bird had been walking on the ground, its wings coated with ice, when, with some effort, it flew to the roof.
The Kiwanis Club of Sidney gave a rare standing ovation to its guest speaker during its meeting Feb. 20. Officer Brian Snider, of the Jackson Center Police Department, shared the story of his career. Police Chief Joe Cotterman was also introduced. Snider said he wanted to be a cop from the time he was a little boy. He majored in criminology at Ohio State University and minored in psychology. During college, he worked for the OSU Police Department and the Ohio attorney general’s office. After college, he worked as a civilian with the Allen County Sheriff’s Department. After taking additional training classes, he because a fulltime deputy. “I was living my dream,” Snider told the group. Then, at 4:20 in the afternoon on Dec. 16, 2003, the unthinkable happened, he said. Snider, 29, was struck by a tractor-trailer which ran a red light and turned in front of him, hitting him headon. It took 45 minutes to extricate him from his patrol car and, even though he never lost consciousness, his injuries were worse than he realized. After first being taken to Lima Memorial Hospi-
Swing Era Band to perform Sidney/Shelby Senior Center, 304 S. West Ave., will present the Swing Era Band in free concert, open to the public, Sunday at 3 p.m. The performance will feature Will Wallis on bass. Wallis is a senior at Sidney High School and is an electric bass student of Andy Woodson, professor of jazz studies at Ohio State University. Wallis plays trombone in the high school band under the direction of Chris Adams and plays bass with the Sidney First Methodist Church’s JAM band under the leadership of Darren Hawkins. He is the son of Frank and Pamela Wallis, of Sidney. The concert will also feature vocalist Mary Knapke and soloists Stewart King on clarinet and alto sax, J.R. Price
on tenor sax and Mike Dilbone and John Slonaker on trumpet, among others. Sherri Heidemann, Knapke and Tod Huston, comprising the Simple Harmony Vocal Trio, will also perform. Swing Era Big Band has been entertaining swing music fans and throughout dancers western and central Ohio for most of the past four decades. Created in 1975 by Andrew “Bud” of Sidney, Ledwith Swing Era has specialized in keeping the sounds of the golden age of swing music alive. This 16-piece band features some of the finest musicians in western Ohio. The band performs a variety of big band and jazz arrangements of noted musical composers including Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Tommy
He was also inspired by everyone in the community. Even a convicted drug felon who had been arrested by Snider stopped by the hospital to thank him and wished him well. By June 2004, Snider was back to work at the Sheriff’s Department, albeit in a wheel chair. In all, Snider had 50 operations at a total cost of $3.9 million. Snider concluded his remarks by stating, “Disability is not a physical condition but a state of mind.” He said that we live in an imperfect world, but encouraged his audience: “Don’t complain. Do something about it. Nothing is impossible. Live every second of your life like it is your last.” He said he believes that heroes and angels exist. “I have been in the Sidney Kiwanis for 35 years and it is the first time I can recall that a speaker received a standing ovation,” said John Coffield. President Phil Warnecke called the meeting to order and Ralph Bornhorst gave the invocation. The group was led in song by Bornhorst and Don Tangeman. DiAnne Karas gave the Lenten devotional. Ed Ball auctioned a gift package to benefit The Eliminate Project.
Recipe of the Day A delicious treat that was submitted for competition in the 2012 Shelby County Fair. RHUBARB PIE
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WILL WALLIS will solo with the Swing Era Band during a performance at the Senior Center Sunday. and Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, as well as big band arrangements of popular songs from the 1930s to the 1970s. The free public concert series is sponsored by the City of Sidney, Peoples Federal Savings & Loan, Bensar Develop-
Inside-out packaging Dear Heloise: sites you have I have an idea visited) can be that may help useful by speedpeople when ing up the mailing packprocess when reages. The great visiting a webboxes you get site. The site through purloads faster, and chases (cofyou don’t need to Hints feepots, etc.) are re-enter your infrom free and relaformation, but it tively easy to Heloise also can slow turn inside out. down your comIf glued, use a Heloise Cruse puter. Here is knife and carehow to delete fully open the seam. If put those temporary files if together by tabs and no you want: glue, just reassemble Open an Internet winusing packing tape. The dow. On your upper task inside of the boxes are bar, there will be an option blank, so there are no ad- for “Tools.” Click on it, vertisements or UPCs to then select “Internet Opblock out. Just address tions.” and mail. No wrapping A window should pop necessary. Hope this idea up with an option to saves the purchase of delete temporary files, mailing boxes. — Joan in cookies, etc. Some systems Niles, Ohio have an option to “Delete It will save money as Browsing History” on the well as help the environ- Tools menu. Just rememment with one or more ber, when you delete these uses before going into the cookies, it will delete your recycle bin. — Heloise saved login and password DELETING information from these COOKIES sites, so you will have to Dear Readers: Are you re-enter them the next aware that your computer time. — Heloise stores information, small TRAVEL HINT text files called “cookies,” Dear Readers: Travelfrom websites you visit? ing with kids can be a These cookies can be help- struggle, but coloring kits ful or can be bothersome. can keep most kids occuCookies and the browser pied for a while. Paper, cache (the history of web- pencils and crayons are
tal, Snider was taken by helicopter to Medical College of Ohio Hospitals in Toledo in extremely serious condition. He was not expected to survive. After the 18-minute flight to Toledo, Snider was given the last rites. His left arm was partially severed. He lost his right heel and ankle, suffered numerous broken bones and both kneecaps were broken. After the initial surgery, Snider slept for 72 hours. When he awoke, not remembering what happened, he was horrified to learn that he could only move his head and right arm. He spent three months in the Toledo hospital before being transferred back to Lima and spending an additional three months there. Prior to the accident, Snider was 6 feet, 2 inches, and weighed 180 pounds. After the accident, he was 5 feet, 11 inches, tall and weighed a mere 89 pounds. He had many surgeries, was missing an ankle and heel, both knees were held together by wire and one leg was two inches shorter than the other. A lot of emotions went through his mind during these days in the hospital, he said, but he still had the motivation to be a cop.
simple and fun; however, it’s no fun when a stray marker or pen slips between the seats. How about making a coloring kit that the kids can’t lose pieces of? You’ll need: • A small cookie sheet • Markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc. (whichever you prefer) • A notebook or coloring book • Magnetic tape (you can find this at most home-improvement or craft stores) • Instant glue • Scissors Cut a few pieces of magnetic tape, and glue one to each crayon or marker. Cut a few larger strips to glue to the back of the notebook/coloring book. Attach to your cookie sheet, and voila! No matter how the kids set them in the tray, they will stay attached! — Heloise CARRY THE COUPONS Dear Heloise: I have a plastic zippered bag full of restaurant coupons that I keep in my purse. If my family decides to stop for lunch or dinner, I have them with me. No more saying “Oh, I forget it at home.” You also could leave the bag in your car if you don’t carry a purse. — Ashley in Illinois
ments Co., Mutual Federal Savings Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Vance Stewart, Gateway Arts Council, Freytag & Associates Inc., Sidney Community Insurance Group, Air Handling Equipment Inc., Dorothy Love Retirement Community, and Douglas Milhoff.
1 1/4 cups sugar 1/3 cup flour 4 cups rhubarb Toss these ingredients to coat rhubarb and let stand 15 minutes. Fill pie crust. Dot with butter Topping 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup flour 1/4 cup butter Dash of cinnamon Cut butter into sugar and flour until cumbly. Sprinkle on top of rhubarb. Bake about 50 minutes at 375 degrees. Crust 1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 10 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter cut into small pieces 1/4 cup ice water Combine flour, sugar and salt in food processor. Pulse off and on for 2 minutes. Add butter and pulse processor until mixture resembles coarse meal. With machine running, trickly ice water in until dough gathers together. Divide into halves. Flatten to form thick disk. Wrap them in plastic and chill for at least 1 hour.
RECENT BIRTH HOYING ANNA — Tony and Jorgi Hoying, of Anna, have announced the birth of a daughter, Sunni Josephine, born Feb. 4, 2013, at 4:26 p.m. in the Copeland-Emerson Family Birth Center at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Sidney. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and was 21 1/2 inches long. She was welcomed home by her brothers, Max, 10, Calvin, 8, Roger, 7, and Ray, 5, and her sister, Caroline, 1. Her maternal grandparents are John and Marie Eilerman, of Fort Loramie. Her paternal grandparents are Dave and Helen Hoying, of Anna. Her mother is the former Jorgi Eilerman, of Fort Loramie.
QUICK READ School sets chicken dinner BOTKINS — The Botkins High School Music Boosters have planned a fundraising chicken dinner at the school March 16. Dine in from 4 to 7 p.m. Carry out from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Advance sale tickets are $7. At the door, tickets are $7.50. Call 693-4241.
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United Way board approves grants, welcomes members Members of the Shelby County United Way Board of Trustees approved the allocation amount for 2013 during their meeting Feb. 20. In other action, the board: • Welcomed new members Gary Reed, Cindy Ohlsen and David Chivington. • Approved the awarding of special project grants totaling $3,970 to the Shelby County Libraries to
support the purchase of Optimal Resume and to the Shelby County Educational Service Center to support sponsorship of the Leon Bates “Keys to Success” concert series in Shelby County and Sidney City schools. • Approved a plan to place banners around the courtsquare to promote the annual campaign. • Heard reports for committee members.
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mandate. This is espeBy now, every cuscially grotesque when it tomer of the Sidney utilioccurs during a time of ties has received a bill the nation’s worst ecoreflecting the increases Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of enacted by City Council nomic crisis. religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridg- on Dec. 10, 2012. Even for For some months, I ing the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the those of us who were exhave participated with a people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the governnumber of other Ohio pecting the increases, our ment for a redress of grievances. mayors in lengthy conferbills were likely higher ence calls in an attempt than we anticipated. City Guest find an alternate soluCouncil was painfully column to tion to simply throwing aware of the burden these Michael sewer fees out the winincreases placed on our Barhorst dow. Lima Mayor Dave residents and businesses. Sidney Mayor Berger, working with Sen. The driving force for the increased rates is attributed to Sherrod Brown, organized the efunfunded mandates from the Ohio fort. It has been the goal of the Environmental Protection Agency mayors to work to convince the “I believe I’ll ing a distillery.” (OEPA). Although the OEPA man- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt an Integrated dates have been deliberated by write some “Isn’t that Planning Approach that would Celtic music,” kinda depress- Sidney City Council for over two said Dud one ing, Dud?” Doc years, I would like to provide you a allow the OEPA greater flexibility in “working with cities to achieve synopsis of what has occurred. morning at the asked. clean water goals.” Thus far, this Compliance schedule world dilemma “Of course. approach has not provided any reIn 2011, the Ohio EPA issued Home think tank That’s the lief for Sidney. the city of Sidney a compliance down at the cofCountry whole point. Frustration fee shop. “I’ve Then she wails schedule as part of the discharge Slim Randles that Mr. Wonpermit for its wastewater treatSimilarly, meetings with Conbeen studying ment plant. The most burdensome gressman Jim Jordan, state Sen. it.” derful became an outrequirement contained in the Keith Faber and state Rep. John “I didn’t know you law and wandered schedule is the elimination of sec- Adams have produced little more were Celtic,” Steve said. freely, thinking only of than frustration. In fact, it was “I’m not, but I do get her until he was either ondary treatment bypasses (bypassing the biological process). not until Botkins Village Adminisoccasional bouts of deshot by some English pression and that quali- guy or inflicted on Aus- During periods of heavy rain, all of trator Jesse Kent expressed conthe clean water intrusion into the cern about Sidney’s situation at a fies me. I’ve thought tralia. And that’s why, sanitary sewers is conveyed to the public meeting prior to the Noabout it a lot. Maybe as soon as she finishes they sing that way bethis little ditty, she’s off wastewater plant. During a high- vember election that Sen. Faber flow event, the plant can provide promised to facilitate a meeting cause they don’t have to drown herself in a full treatment of up to 13.5 million between OEPA Director Scott sunsets like we do, or loch.” gallons per day (MGD). The reNally and myself. because the horses run The gang shook their maining flow over 13.5 MGD reAfter Sen. Faber and I made around the racetrack heads. “There is some ceives partial treatment, numerous scheduling attempts to the wrong direction. All variety, though,” Dud bypassing the secondary treattalk to the OEPA director, we fiI know is, after two said. “Sometimes she’s ment (biological) part of the plant nally had a chance to talk about hours of Celtic music, expecting twins. Someis blended with the fully and issues. In a telephone call Sidney’s circus clowns would times her beau is attreated flows. with Director Nally that eventulook at each other and tacked by sheep. Other requirements include im- ally took place, we were told that say, ‘Why bother?’ Sometimes he sails provements to the treatment there was no relief and that the “But writing Celtic away to darkest Cleveprocess for ammonia and bacteria state of Ohio was going to enforce music should be fairly land to escape her (E. coli) reductions as well as exthe provisions of the Clean Water easy. To start with, just singing. tensive rehabilitation of the city’s Act even though the USEPA gave find a girl who has a But in this depressewer system. the states some flexibility on the voice like a mouse sion there is at least a bypass issue. I was promised “talkBypass events caught in an echo cham- key to the entire culing points” so that I could better Even with the bypass events ocber or empty septic ture.” explain to my constituents why curring, the wastewater plant tank, then you add in “How do you have fully meets the National Pollutant the residents of Sidney will have some stringed instruthat figured?” said to fund $35 million worth of imDischarge Elimination System ments and a flute Steve. provements to the wastewater (NPDES) permit limits and the played by someone “It’s obvious,” Dud treatment plant (WWTP) when OEPA recognizes that the bywhose dog just died. You said, grinning. “The apthe plant has never violated our passes have not negatively imstart out by having the plication of single-malt pacted the Great Miami River. The discharge permit and the water singer say how much whisky is to kill the we return to the river is much end product of the city’s wasteshe loves the guy depain, and they raise cleaner than that which we take water treatment plant is cleaner spite her condition, and sheep so they can stick than the river itself. These manout of the river to process for we know what condition wool in their ears.” drinking water. The teleconference dated requirements are being rethat is, right? Those with the director of the Ohio EPA quired even though the OEPA Celts are trying to outThe writer is a vetwas not fruitful. acknowledges that the Great number the sheep eran newspaperman Miami River is in full attainment Clean water intrusion again. and outdoorsman who of water quality standards and is We are working to eliminate “Then she wails that is a registered outfitter classified as Exceptional Warm the clean water intrusion into the her father was deand guide. He has writ- Water Habitat (one of the highest sewer system called inflow and inpressed one day and ran ten novels and nonficratings). filtration (I&I). If the OEPA would the young man off. He tion books based on In order to comply with OEPA grant us an extension of up to 10 was told not to return rural living and he has mandates, the city would need to years, we would know whether the until he either had also been an awardexpand the wastewater treatment elimination of this clean water more sheep than the old winning columnist for plant to treat flows up to 36 MGD. would solve the problem identified man or had done some- the largest daily newsThe city of Sidney believes that it by OEPA, and not force us to drathing worthwhile, like papers in Alaska and is more prudent to spend its funds matically overbuild the WWTP. whittling down the New Mexico. He lives in in the sewer system to eliminate Without a doubt, we would be House of Lords or start- Albuquerque. clean water intrusion than exmuch better served taking a great panding the treatment plant. Sid- deal of that money and assisting ney is not alone with this issue. residents and businesses in recities across both the ducing the amount of rainfall that ETTER TO THE EDITOR Numerous state and the nation have been enters the system — rainfall that saddled with the same unfunded we will now have to treat as Frank Beeson/Regional Group Publisher Jeffrey J. Billiel/Editor and Publisher
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McCracken should be in hall of fame
To the editor: I’m an ’86 graduate of Sidney High and a ’90 graduate of Ohio Northern University. My coach (and he will always be my coach) is Jim McCracken. This year he accomplished what few will accomplish — 300 dual-meet victories. In addition, he had a state qualifier/placer this year. I really don’t think the Sidney School District nor the Sidney community realize what they have in Coach McCracken. He has been humble in his tenure as Sidney’s wrestling coach. Humble, yet competitive. He, along with Coach Hosack, taught me how to win. They taught me life lessons! Coach Jim McCracken should be inducted into the Sidney Athletic Hall of Fame! Coach McCracken is a great role model and I’m proud to have had him as my coach and a positive influence in my life. John A. Counts 5827 Crimson Oak Court Harrisburg, N.C.
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though it were raw sewage. Such expenditure would also make sense, as it would eventually save all of us money. This has been a two-year struggle on my part in attempting to change the regulations at the state and national level. I, along with other Ohio mayors, have exhausted every effort to no avail. We have even suggested that if nothing else, the mandates be postponed until the economic recovery gains strength. I provide this detail so that you understand we have not been sitting on our hands, although quite frankly, the result would not have been much different.
Sidney forced Sidney is being forced to make millions of dollars’ worth of improvements to the wastewater plant and its sewer system and the end result will not improve the quality of water in the Great Miami River. As a reminder, this is an unfunded mandate — there are no funds available from those who are telling us we have to make these “improvements” to the plant. Thus, as consumers, we are all going to be paying higher prices for our utilities — forever! Don’t misunderstand, there are some improvements to the WWTP that make good sense. Reducing the amount of ammonia that goes into the river makes sense. Eliminating the possibility that E. coli bacteria is released into the river also makes sense. However, making just those improvements would increase your bill a fraction of what you are being charged.
Exceed $98 million City staff has been negotiating the amount and extent of improvements with the Ohio EPA. If the Ohio EPA forced the city to make all of the improvements, then the costs would exceed $98 million. However, staff has been able to negotiate the extent of the improvements and reduce our costs down to $35 million. This is still an enormous amount of money for little to no benefit. Additionally, City Council has also decided that the city should assume control of the portion of the sewer laterals under the street, thus defraying the most expensive part of repair or replacement in the future. Council has also decided to extend the period of time that homeowners will have to make repairs to their laterals (the portion of the sewer that connects each property to the city sewer) if repairs are necessary or illegal connections are found (i.e., basement sump pumps that are connected to the sewer system). Council has not ceased fighting on your behalf. I will tell you that this has been one of the more frustrating things I have ever done. It is probably good that I have a bit of German stubbornness, or I might have given up a long time ago. In fact, I have to wonder if OEPA Director Nally was hoping that I might do just that!
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Do your homework about wind turbines To the editor: To any landowner considering signing a lease agreement with a wind power company to host wind turbines on your land, do you really know what you’re getting yourself into? Instead of listening to promises by salesmen, look at the mess in Lee County, Ill., for a glimpse of the reality that may be heading your way. I’m a farmer, township trustee and participating landowner in the Shady Oaks Wind Farm where I have four turbines on my land within a half mile of my home. When I signed up, corn was a third of today’s price, and there are other things I wish I would’ve known before signing.
First, the company’s business strategy is to name and sell the idea of a wind development to a specific county, then sell the development to another company for construction once it’s approved. After securing acreage for Shady Oaks, they sold the project to a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer and partner of theirs. The original company disappeared after the project changed hands, and the number of turbines grew from 30 to 72. Now nine months after construction, the township is still waiting for $800,000 to fix the roads. Second, they destroyed crops and roads with no regard to landowners. They used
nonparticipating farm fields as driveways, tile was crushed, and no one would listen to our complaints. There’s still damage to roads that trucks weren’t supposed to use but did anyway. To avoid road repair costs, roads were made through fields to transport heavy equipment. They blacktopped over a concrete bridge and later removed the blacktop but created big grooves in the concrete, leaving spaces for ice to enter. Residents resorted to calling the county sheriff’s office to report some of the issues, but that’s not good use of taxpayers’ money. As for my farm, I now have a considerable amount of land permanently taken out of pro-
duction, and the few aerial applicators that are willing to spray among turbines charge significantly more. Finally, the noise is awful and we currently have shadow flicker from east and west. There is nothing serene left to this area with the noise, moving blades, flashing lights, and bickering neighbors. The extra income is not worth the problems they produce. By now in Shelby County, chances are that the wind power company’s promises have secured the support of some community leaders and schools. Do your homework. Don’t be fooled. Wesley Englehart 577 Zimmerman Road Compton, Ill.
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Relay for Life Ladies Council reviews study of electric system Night Out planned JACKSON CENTER — Four years ago, four sisters — three diagnosed with breast cancer — decided to share their experiences battling the disease that affects so many women around the world. Thus was born the ASAP (All Survivors Are Precious) team, which has hosted the Relay for Life Ladies Night Out. This year’s event will be held March 22 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Jackson Center American Legion Hall, 627 E. College St. Everyone attending must be 21 years of age or older. “We want to educate women of the area to know their bodies, so if something changes, they will be aware of it,” said Kathy Klopfenstein, one of the sisters who won her battle with breast cancer. Klopfenstein’s sister, Dr. Cheryl Mann, was the one to give the cancer diagnosis to her three sisters — Klopfenstein, Darlene Woolley and Diane Lotz. This year, there will only be three sisters continuing the fight against breast cancer. Lotz died in October. “We know that Diane is looking down on us
and smiling,” said Klopfenstein. “This event was something she believed in and we want to continue it in her honor.” said Klopfenstein Lotz’s daughter, Abby, and daughter-in-law, Alanna, have stepped up “and taken charge while filling in for Diane.” This year’s event has a music theme of “Beat Cancer.” There will be a time to socialize during the evening, said Klopfenstein. There will also be hor d’oeuvres and drinks, which is included in the price of admission. There will also be games to be played. Various vendors with purses, jewelry, candles and kitchen and cooking items will be on hand for the guests to go shopping. Door prizes will also be given away. Many raffle items will be available, said Klopfenstein. Some of the items include a Hocking Hills two-night stay at the Cougar Cabin; Country Concert tickets for the July 13 performances; overnight hotel package at the Cincinnati Marriott North in West Chester and $50 restaurant gift
certificate; one-night stay at the Cincinnatian Hotel in downtown Cincinnati and two Reds Pandora tickets; Bracelet with charms; Kindle Fire with case; gift certificate tree with approximately 15 gift cards; Vera Bradley sunglasses, thirty-One tote miscellaneous and items; custom cornhole boards; permanent eye makeup by Deb Elliot; handcrafted cutting board with Curly’s gift certificate and knife set; and four hours of handyman work by John Janssen and Toolbox. Tickets for the event are $25 per person, which includes two raffle tickets. Additional raffle tickets can be purchased. They are one for $1; six for $5; 12 for $10; and 25 for $20. Anyone bringing a music CD for an exchange will receive two extra raffle tickets. Tickets may be purchased at Allenbaugh Insurance Agency, Lotz Insurance Agency and Mann Family Care in Jackson Center. Tickets will also be available at the door. For more information, call Abby, 726-7187; Darlene, 596-6231; or Kathy, 658-3724.
The better she knows him, the better she’ll like him DR. WALHe also says he LACE: My has learned a boyfriend is the lot from his type of guy family’s misevery girl would takes. love. He is handMy mother is some, intellivery upset that gent, sensitive, I’m dating Jorkind and very dan because “he honest. He also ’Tween is a part of a has a great very unstable 12 & 20 home.” sense of humor. Mom is Dr. Robert Jordan and I are very statusWallace both high school minded and is seniors and we always worryhave been going together ing about what her for more than two friends will say. I don’t months. At school we’re plan to lose Jordan for considered the perfect any reason. But things couple. I’m the happiest would be a lot easier if girl in Florida when I’m my mom would look at with Jordan, and I love Jordan for who he is and him very much. not see him only in light Jordan comes from a of his family’s problems. troubled home. His parAny tips to help ents are divorced, and he change Mom’s mind will lives with an older sister be appreciated. She feels and his mother. His that a child learns from older sister is not mar- his family and that Jorried and never has been, dan has learned the but she has two children. wrong things from his. His father is an alcoholic — Nameless, Naples, and can’t seem to keep a Fla. job. P.S. My dad likes him Jordan and I have dis- because he is a good bascussed his home life. He ketball player. loves his family, but he NAMELESS: Preknows he is not respon- judging is a common sible for their lifestyles. human flaw, and the
only known antidote for it is truth. Arguing with Mom won’t change her mind. She’ll only alter her assessment of Jordan by getting to know him. The more she sees him in action, the better she will be able to judge him for his true character. Invite Jordan to spend time at your house and invite Mom and Dad to go to one of his basketball games and out for a snack afterwards. It may take time, but eventually she’ll realize that Jordan is a winner and her daughter is fortunate to have him for a boyfriend. Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To find out more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
JACKSON CENTER — With no resolutions or ordinances on the agenda, Jackson Center Village Council members discussed the ongoing electric system study and other issues at their recent meeting. Sawvel and Associates of Findlay is conducting an electric cost-of-service study for the village. Village officials report the consultants are using 2013 as a test year. During a teleconference with the consultants recently, several ideas were discussed for avoiding a rate increase. The last rate increase was in 2001. It was noted that the cost the village pays for electric power fluctuates and the village has debt service on the system. The village will be seeing increases in the power costs over the next four years. Sawvel officials report the village system looks good and a rate increase may not be needed until 2016. The rate study is expected to continue through this year. The village’s application for Safe Routes to School grant funds has been submitted. If approved, the funds would be use to make improvements to make it safer for students walking and biking to school. Village Administrator Bruce Metz has been working with the city of Wapakoneta and American Municipal Power, along with Sawvel and Associates, to develop a business incentive package. It was noted that Choice One has completed a survey of the Ohio and North streets underground utility line. The utility policy is ready for a final review before going to the Utility Committee. A quote is expected to be received soon for the installation of a fuel tank at the wastewater treatment plant. Council member Leisha Elchert pre-
Council tables ordinance JACKSON CENTER — Jackson Center Village Council voted Monday night to table action on an ordinance establishing classifications and wage rates for village employees. The ordinance would update the salary of a beginning police officer. The village is in the process of hiring a new officer to fill a vacancy on the police force. Council members agreed not to seek a hearing on the proposed transfer of a liquor license to Brews Perfectville Pizza, 213 E. Pike St., Jackson Center. An increase of from $250 to $500 for police uniform allowance was approved. Council members also received an update from Village Administrator Bruce Metz on village activities. sented the Safety Committee report, which included information from Fire Chief Jerry Davis’ 2012 annual report. Davis reported there were 53 fires last year, down from the previous year. Fiscal Officer Beverly Wren presented members with an electronic copy of the new personnel policy and procedure manual, as well as a job-description plan. It was reported that a village employee has been trained on how to post announcements on the village sign, instead of having the procedure done offsite. Residents and businesses will be asked to submit requests for announcements to the village office between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Scholarship application Play planned JACKSON CENTER deadline March 21 — The Drama Club at JACKSON CENTER — The Robert E. Grubbs Foundation will award two $500 scholarships to Jackson Center seniors this spring. Scholarship selection will be based upon financial need, academic ability, school and community service, and recommendations. Students graduating from Jackson Center High School who will pursue a certification or degree from an accredited adult education program, trade school, college or university may apply. The scholarship was established by Judy Grubbs in memory of her husband and it is administered by The Community Foundation of Shelby County. Interested students may apply through the Community Foundation’s website at www.commfoun.com. On the home page, click “Scholarships” and select the application for Jackson Center students from the dropdown menu. Section eight of the form lists the Jackson Center and countywide scholarships available to applicants. The application must be completed by March 21.
Jackson Center High School will present “Big Bucks,” a comedy about a family going through a financial disaster, March 23 at 7 p.m. and March 24 at 2 p.m. Directors are John Bucklew and Melanie Yocum. In the cast are Dalton Faulder as Buck Fever, Arielle Haynes as Mama Fever, Seth Regula as Myron Fever, Halee Lyme as Hillary Keith, Madison Reese as Nancy Fever, Katie Braun as Hildegarde, Clay Wagner as Marvin Kreshler, and Brooke Davidson as Gramma Fever.
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Sex offenders registered in county The federal government passed a law in 1994 requiring the state officials to create a system of sex offender registration. Since that time, some changes have been made to refine the categories and improve victim notification. Currently, three classes of offenders are required to register upon release from prison: • Sexually oriented offender (offender convicted of a sexually oriented offense) — required to register for 10 years, verify address with local sheriff annually and not subject to community notification provisions; • Habitual sex offender (offender with a current and one or more previous convictions for sexually oriented offense) — receives classification by the sentencing judge, required to register for 20 years, required to verify address with sheriff annually, and sentencing judge determines need for community notification; and • Sex predator (offender convicted of a sexually oriented offense who is found by the court to be likely to commit another sex offense in the future) — receives classification by sentencing judge, required to register for life, required to verify address quarterly, and community notification is required. Since Ohio’s response to the Adam Walsh Act become effective Jan. 1, 2008, Ohio offenders are classified by a threetiered system: • Tier I — 15 years registration for adults, 10 years registration for juveniles, in-person verification required annually. • Tier II — 25 years for adults, 20 years for juveniles, verification every 180 days. • Tier III — lifetime registration for both adults and juveniles, verification every 90 days. The following are registered as sex offenders with the Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office, according to the public database information (as of Feb. 27): • David Del Archbold, 59, 5 feet 7 inches, 180 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 807 Brooklyn Ave., Apt.
3. Work: 821 Brooklyn Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition victim under 13 (sexual predator). • Nathaniel Lewis Bateman, 26, 6 feet 2 inches, 259 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 408 E. Russell Road. Work: 1400 W. State Route 55, Troy. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor; importuning (sexually oriented offender). • Anthony “Tony” William Bauer, 42, 6 feet 3 inches, 210 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 3434 State Route 66, Houston. Work: 2021 W. Ave. D, Lovington, N.M. • James “Jimmy” Dean Beckman Jr., 34, 5 feet 7 inches, 125 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 107 1/2 N. Wilkinson Ave., Apt. C. Work: 1936 Covington Ave., Piqua. Offense: gross sexual imposition; failure to verify address (sexually oriented offender). • Carl Bingham Jr., 37, 5 feet 9 inches, 284 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 828 Broadway Ave. Work: 1600 Riverside Drive. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Marc Robert Bishop, 38, 6 feet, 190 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 802 Dingman St. Work: 2349 Industrial Drive. Offense: gross sexual imposition victim under 13 (sexually oriented offender). • Joseph “Baby Boy” “Joey” Earl Blackford Jr., 30, 5 feet 9 inches, 165 pounds, white, blond hair, blue eyes. Home: 617 N. Main Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Connie Elizabeth Sherea Bontrager, female, 41, 4 feet 10 inches, 147 pounds, white, red hair, blue eyes. Home: 524 Oak Ave. Offense: lewd conduct with a child under 16, Idaho (sexual predator). • Charles Swartz Bowman, 32, 5 feet 10 inches, 225 pounds, white, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 617 East St. Offense: gross sexual imposition, attempted; attempt (sexually oriented offender). • Jerry Lee Branscum, 59, 5 feet 10 inches, 200 pounds, white, red hair, blue
eyes. Home: 2498 S. Vandemark Road. Offense: other state’s charge code, Kentucky (Tier III sex offender with notification). • David Lawrence Broering, 47, 6 feet, 170 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 1531 Beck Drive. Work: 18015 State Route 65, Jackson Center. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Ronald Edward Brown, 42, 6 feet 1 inch, 210 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 17384 Lock Two Road, Botkins. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor; unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (Tier I sex offender). • Paul Curtis Butler, 23, 6 feet 3 inches, 249 pounds, white, black hair, blue eyes. Home: 516 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor; failure to register (sexually oriented offender). • Michael Franklin Case, 44, 5 feet 8 inches, 160 pounds, white, sandy hair, brown eyes. Home: 15603 Morris Rose Road, Jackson Center. Work: 815 Oak Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Randy Lee Cathcart, 49, 5 feet 11 inches, 240 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 333 N. West Ave. Offense: sexual battery (sexually oriented offender). • Thomas Lewis Ceyler, 42, 5 feet 9 inches, 200 pounds, white, blond hair, green eyes. Home: 10552 State Route 119, Anna. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor; pandering obscenity involving a minor; unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Samuel Ray Colley, 54, 5 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds, white, bald, brown eyes. Home 9581 Pasco Montra Road. Work: 1600 Riverside Drive. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, attempted; importuning (sexually oriented offender). • Jeremy Lee Cook, 33, 5 feet 11 inches, 185 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 307 Jefferson St. Offense: corruption of a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Allen Michael
Copeland, 31, 5 feet 9 inches, 160 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 1334 Logan Court. Work: 3136 W. Mason Road. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor; attempt (sexually oriented offender). • Eugene M. Cotterman, 54, 6 feet 1 inch, 245 pounds, white, red hair, blue eyes. Home: 425 Shie Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition victim under 13 (Tier II sex offender). • Thomas Christopher Cotterman, 41, 5 feet 7 inches, 135 pounds, white, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 314 1/2 Forest St. Work: 815 Oak Ave. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (habitual sexual offender with notification). • Marty Lon Cox, 57, 5 feet 11 inches, 165 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 3576 Wapakoneta Ave., Room 1. Work: 2228 E. Third St., Dayton. Offense: rape; aggravated burglary (sexual predator). • Matthew James Cox, 38, 5 feet 10 inches, 205 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 1148 Hazel Nut Lane. Work: 601 N. Stolle Ave. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, more than four years older than victim, prior conviction (sexually oriented offender). • Johnny Lee Creekmore, 30, 5 feet 8 inches, 250 pounds, white, red hair, hazel eyes. Home: 18620 State Route 47. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, more than four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • Eddie Allen Cupp, 67, 5 feet 7 inches, 165 pounds, white, gray hair, blue eyes. Home: 408 1/2 N. Walnut Ave. Offense: rape; gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Benjamin “Ben” Malcolm Current, 34, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 501 1/2 N. West Ave. Work: 414 W. Mulberry St., Springfield. Offense: corruption of a minor; probation violation; probation violation (Tier II sex offender). • Leroy “Lee” Emerson Divens Jr., 60, 5 feet 7 inches, 182 pounds, white, gray hair, blue eyes. Home: 12221
Meranda Road, Anna. Offense: gross sexual imposition, victim under 13 (Tier I sex offender). • Steven Lee Doak, 59, 5 feet 11 inches, 250 pounds, white, brown (gray) hair, hazel eyes. Home: 829 Fielding Road. Work: Ross Casting and Innovations, 402 S. Kuther Road. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Ronald “Cowboy” Edward Dorsey, 49, 5 feet 10 inches, 150 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 423 N. Main Ave. Offense: sexual battery; failure to change address (sexual predator). • John William Dunn II, 50, 5 feet, 185 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home 516 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: rape (sexually oriented offender). • Harold “Joe” Joseph Engley III, 35, 5 feet 10 inches, 185 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 112 Royan Ave., Apt. A. Offense: domestic violence; failure to register; gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Jason Allen Fahnestock, 38, 5 feet 8 inches, 200 pounds, white, red hair, blue eyes. Home: 515 S. Highland Ave. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor; illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance (Tier II sex offender). • Whitfield John Farley, 46, 5 feet 10 inches, 175 pounds, white, blond hair, blue eyes. Home and work: 624 W. Main St. Offense: sexual battery. • Chad Richard Francis, 38, 5 feet 5 inches, 135 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 510 N. Main Ave. Work: 433 E. Court St. and 110 W. Poplar St. Offense: gross sexual imposition (Tier I sex offender). • Harry A. Frey, 49, 6 feet, 185 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 5296 State Route 29 E. Offense: sexual battery; abduction (sexually oriented offender). • Joshua Daniel Giles, 32, 6 feet 1 inch, 180 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home 21777 Dingman-Slagle Road. Work: 2745 U.S. Route 68, Bellefontaine. Offense: corruption of a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Seth Matthias Glazier, 29, 6 feet, 150
pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home and work: 3720 Loramie Washington Road, Houston. Offense: sexual imposition (Tier I sex offender). • Carl Elmer Grube, 69, 6 feet, 190 pounds, white, gray hair, brown eyes. Home: 310 N. Ohio St., Jackson Center. Work: 9381 Snapptown Road, Quincy. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Darryl “Outlaw” Lee Harris, 51, 5 feet 8 inches, 200 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 326 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Louis “Shaggy” Bruce Hauff, 35, 6 feet 1 inch, 140 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 4200 Stoker Road, Houston. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and aggravated assault. • Anthony “Tony” Heitmeyer, 35, 6 feet 2 inches, 215 pounds, white, sandy hair, hazel eyes. Home: 223 Meadowlane Drive. Work: 801 Vandemark Road. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (Tier II sex offender). • Harold “Butch” Lee Henery III, 59, 6 feet 3 inches, 228 pounds, white, gray hair, hazel eyes. Home: 100 Brooklyn Ave. Offense: rape; attempt (sexually oriented offender). • Todd Lowell Hines, 30, 5 feet 9 inches, 260 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 513 Franklin Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition with a minor, victim under 13. • Gregory Hockaday, 49, 5 feet 10 inches, 155 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 207 Fairview Drive, Anna. Work: 2000 Schlater Drive. Offense: illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material. • Jay Anthony Holliday, 32, 5 feet 11 inches, 147 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home and work: 821 Arrowhead Village, Apt. F. Offense: rape (sexual predator). • James Steele Huffman, 26, 6 feet, 260 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 115 Roth St., Botkins. Work: 1521 Michigan St. • Keith Wayne Huggins, 52, 5 feet 10 inches, 145 pounds, white, SeeOFFENDERS/Page 11
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OFFENDERS brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 645 N. Ohio Ave. Volunteer address: 326 N. West Ave. Offense: other state’s charge code, Florida (Tier III sex offender with notification). • Robert Ray Hull, 28, 5 feet 11 inches, 280 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 811 N. Miami Ave. Work: 1030 Wapakoneta Ave. Offense: importuning (sexually oriented offender). • Curtis Arnold Johnson, 49, 5 feet 10 inches, 160 pounds, white, sandy hair, brown eyes. Home: 377 Towpath Trail, Piqua (Lockington). Offense: rape (sexually oriented offender). • Jason Curtis Johnson, 27, 5 feet 5 inches, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 217 E. North St. Offense: attempt; failure to provide change of address (Tier I sex offender). • Travis Lee Johnson, 24, 5 feet 10 inches, 160 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 331 Jefferson St. Offense: importuning (Tier I sex offender). • Jessie Ray Jones, 25, 5 feet 11 inches, 150 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 736 Tacoma Trail, Piqua (Lockington). Offense: gross sexual imposition, victim under 13 (Tier II sex offender). •Nathan “Q-Tip” Lee Jordan, 55, 5 feet 11 inches, 165 pounds, white, white hair, blue eyes. Home: 516 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: indecency with child sexual contact (sexual predator). • George Howard Kattleman, 52, 6 feet, 254 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 8158 Hardin-Wapakoneta Road. Work: 1675 Campbell Road. Offense: sexual battery; sexual battery; attempt; rape (sexual predator). • Jason Keith Kessler, 33, 6 feet 2 inches, 224 pounds, black, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 715 Clinton St. Offense: corruption of a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Christopher Gerald Kindle, 43, 5 feet 6 inches, 170 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 9668 State Route 36, Bradford. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (Tier II sex offender). • Jeffrey Leroy Kissling, 40, 5 feet 9 inches, 145 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 314 N. Ohio
Ave., Apt. 5. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor; illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material; failure to verify current address (sexual predator). • Marvin Dean Kossel, 43, 5 feet 11 inches, 160 inches, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home and work: 806 Arrowhead Drive. Offense: corruption of a minor (sexual predator). • Scott Douglas Kurey, 42, 6 feet 3 inches, 280 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 19411 Pence Road, Maplewood. Work: 3680 Michigan St. Offense: other state’s charge code, Massachusetts (sexually oriented offender). • Brandon Edward Locker, 32, 5 feet 11 inches, 180 pounds, white, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 2617 Terryhawk Drive. Work: 310 N. Main Ave. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Ricky Lee Mackall Jr., 29, 6 feet 2 inches, 215 pounds, black, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 516 S. Miami Ave. Work: 601 Stolle Drive. Offense: out of state crime/conviction. • Brian Christopher Mader, 29, 29, 5 feet 9 inches, 160 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 6690 State Route 66, Fort Loramie. Work: 600 Enterprise Drive. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor; forgery; failure to provide a change of address; forgery (sexually oriented offender). • Jerry Francis Magoto, 53, 5 feet 9 inches, 240 pounds, white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 17933 State Route 29, New Knoxville. Offense: gross sexual imposition; attempt (Tier II sex offender). • Joshua Kurtis Medley, 31, 5 feet 11 inches, 260 pounds, black, black hair, hazel eyes. Home: 206 Maple St. Work: 3651 Bulle Road. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Walter Lee Medley, 52, 6 feet 3 inches, 300 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 516 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: rape (sexual predator). • Chad Duane Miller, 40, 6 feet 1 inch, 195 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home:
From Page 10 416 Oak Ave. Work: 815 Oak Ave. Offense: corruption of a minor (Tier II sex offender). • Sue A. Miller, 29, 5 feet 7 inches, 200 pounds, female, white, red hair, brown eyes. Home: 912 Broadway Ave. Offense: rape (sexually oriented offender). • Dennis James Mills, 45, 6 feet 3 inches, 195 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 1825 Cheryl Place. Offense: abduction; sexual battery (sexual predator). • Gregory Joseph Monnin, 60, 5 feet 9 inches, 185 pounds, white, gray hair, brown eyes. Home: 251 Rangeline Road, Russia. Offense: gross sexual imposition; gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Robert Steven Monnin, 35, 5 feet 10 inches, 190 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 4555 Simon Road, Russia. Offense: rape (sexually oriented offender). • Tiffany Ash Murphy, 29, 5 feet 1 inch, 150 pounds, female, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 826 1/2 N. Oak Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition; gross sexual imposition; complicity (sexually oriented offender). • Paul Edward Nichols, 52, 5 feet 5 inches, 184 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 202 S. Main St., Botkins. Work: 601 N. Stolle Ave. Offense: pandering obscenity, computer; pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, computer. • Cornelio Fidel Nunez, 38, 5 feet 6 inches, 180 pounds, hispanic, black hair, brown eyes. Home 119 1/2 Shelby St. Work: 300 White Mountain Drive, New Bremen. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, attempted; attempt (Tier I sex offender). • Kevin “KO” Lee Oen, 32, 5 feet 10 inches, 212 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 3197 Frazier Guy Road. Work: 400 Canal St. Offense: corruption of a minor (sexually oriented offender). • John Gregory Posada, 41, 5 feet 9 inches, 268 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 128 1/2 N. Pomeroy Ave. Offense: possession of child sex-
ual abusive material, Michigan (possession of child porn). • Jennifer Dawn (Jones) Pritchett, 38, 5 feet 6 inches, 220 pounds, female, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 12219 Lee Drive, Minster. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Nicole “Cole” Marie (Welch) Rakhimov, 28, 6 feet, 195 pounds, female, white, black hair, green eyes. Home: 402 W. State St., Apt. B, Botkins. Offense: gross sexual imposition; unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • James “Jamie” Alan Rench, 39, 6 feet, 238 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 1359 1/2 S. Main Ave. Work: 829 S. Vandemark Road. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Ralph Emerson Riddle, 80, 5 feet 4 inches, 139 pounds, white, gray hair, brown eyes. Home: 516 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition; gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Kenneth Ray Riggs, 56, 5 feet 9 inches, 195 pounds, white, gray hair, blue eyes. Home: 8600 Greenville Road. Offense: rape, attempted; domestic violence (sexual predator). • Adam L. Roderick, 24, 5 feet 1 inch, 180 pounds, white, blond hair, hazel eyes. Home: 13490 Pasco-Montra Road, Maplewood. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim. • Sarah Joy Rotenberry, 27, 5 feet 6 inches, 185 pounds, white, sandy hair, blue eyes. Home: 706 N. Ohio Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Michael Allen Roth, 31, 5 feet 11 inches, 140 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 15001 Wones Road, Jackson Center. School address: 5100 Cornerstone Drive, Delaware. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • Aaron Richard Schafer, 35, 5 feet 11 inches, 160 pounds,
white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home 5707 Lock 2 Road, New Bremen. Work: 1400 McKinley Road, St. Marys. Offense: sexual battery (sexual predator). • Jonathan “Jon” Ray Schaffner, 36, 5 feet 9 inches, 165 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home 119 1/2 N. Wilkinson Ave. Offense: sexual battery (sexual predator). • John Anthony Schutte, 37, 6 feet 3 inches, 320 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 331 N. West Ave. Work: 18163 Snider Road, Jackson Center. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Billy Joe Sellers, 26, 5 feet 10 inches, 180 pounds, white, black hair, blue eyes. Home: 610 Park St. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor (Tier II sex offender). • Charles Benjamin Sellner, 35, 5 feet 6 inches,s 170 pounds, white, red hair, hazel eyes. Home: 1200 W. Russell Road. Offense: sex offenses (sexual predator). • Jesse D. Shaffer, 34, 6 feet 5 inches, 222 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home 1025 Buckeye Ave. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexual predator). • Bradley “Dizzy” Allen Simonds, 26, 5 feet 11 inches, 155 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 403 Michigan St. Work: 10877 Kirkwood Road. Offense: Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, attempted (Tier I sex offender). • Carl Mitchel Sloan, 76, 5 feet 9 inches, 190 pounds, white, gray hair, blue eyes. Home 807 Brooklyn Ave., Apt. 2. Offense: pandering obscenity (sexual predator). • Christopher “Chris” Randall Snider, 40, 5 feet 10 inches, 120 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 142 S. Vandemark Road. Offense: importuning (sexually oriented offender). • William “Bill” Stegeman, 56, 6 feet 4 inches, 230 pounds, white, gray hair, blue eyes. Home: 6521 Palestine St., Pemberton. Work: 1910 Fair Road. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Darrick Scott Steward, 30, 5 feet 10 inches, 253 pounds, black, black
hair, brown eyes. Home: 2601 S. Vandemark Road. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Rickey “Slick” “Rick” Lee Stewart, 35, 5 feet 11 inches, 220 pounds, black, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 511 N. Main Ave. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim; unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • Richard “Rick” Lee Swartz, 58, 5 feet 8 inches, 178 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 1305 Consititution Ave. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexual predator). • Lamar “Mar-Mar” Raphael Taborn, 22, 6 feet 6 inches, 2215 pounds, black, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 106 N. Wilkinson Ave. Work: 402 S. Kuther Road. Offense: importuning (Tier I sex offender). • Amie Jo (Baker) Teets, 32, 5 feet 8 inches, 180 pounds, female, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 600 N. Main St. Offense: importuning (Tier I sex offender). • Bill Russell Thacker II, 55, 6 feet 4 inches, 230 pounds, white, gray hair, brown eyes. Home: 121 Oldham Ave. Offense: child enticement with sexual motivation; importuning; compelling prostitution; child enticement with sexual motivation (sexually oriented offender). • Justin Ray Thomas, 27, 6 feet, 170 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 16281 Kirkwood Road. Work: 1101 N. Vandemark Ave. Offense: sexual battery, Florida (Tier III offender). • Brian Patrick Wagner, 29, 6 feet, 175 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home 5677 S. Knoop-Johnston Road. Work: 8510 Industrial Drive, Piqua. Offense: other state’s charge code (sexually oriented offender). • Harry Walker Jr., 51, 5 feet 7 inches, 199 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 17845 State Route 706. • Brian Andrew Wehrman, 29, 5 feet 8 inches, 195 pounds, See SEX/Page 12
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SEX white, brown hair, green eyes. Home: 10180 H a r d i n - Wa p a k o n e t a Road. Offense: gross sexual imposition, victim under 13 (sexual predator). • Thomas Richard West, 48, 5 feet 8 inches, 170 pounds, white, brown hair, blue eyes. Home: 2704 Andrew Court. Work: 3540 S. County Road 25A, Troy. Offense: gross sexual imposition (sexually oriented offender). • Jerry Lee Wheat, 53, 6 feet 2 inches, 220 pounds, white, brown hair, hazel eyes. Home: 432 E. Hoewischer Road, Apt. B1. Work: 815 Oak Ave. Offense: pandering obscenity involving a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Jamie Lynn Wick, 27, 4 feet 8 inches, 200 pounds, female, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 21701 Maplewood Road. Offense: gross sexual imposition, victim under 13 (sexually oriented offender). • Dustin Lee Williams, 26, 5 feet 9 inches, 200 pounds, white, sandy hair, hazel eyes. Home: 316 S. Highland Ave. Work: 306 N. Main St., Lima. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • Robert “Mark” Demarcus Williams, 33, 6 feet 3 inches, 250 pounds, black, black hair, brown eyes. Home: 132
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Pike St. Offense: parole violation; parole violation; unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). • Jesse Allan Wriston, 25, 5 feet 11 inches, 178 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 891 Merri Lane. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • Brandon Matthew Yantis, 26, 6 feet 3 inches, 170 pounds, white, red hair, blue eyes. Home: 1620 Cypress Place. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (Tier I sex offender). • Joseph “Joey” Lowell Yelton, 27, 6 feet 1 inch, 200 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Home: 204 1/2 Forest St. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, non-consensual, more than four years older than victim (sexually oriented offender). • James Edward Zerkle, 42, 6 feet 2 inches, 220 pounds, white, brown hair, brown eyes. Work: 900 Falls Creek, Vandalia. Offense: unlawful sexual conduct with a minor (sexually oriented offender). For current information on sex offenders registered in Shelby County, visit the Sheriff ’s Office website at www.shelbycountysheriff.com and click on the “Sex Offenders” link.
Village looks at ways to catch speeders LOCKINGTON — A proposal to install an automated system that would take photos of speeders in the village was given a second reading at a recent Lockington Village Council meeting. Village Clerk Vanessa Petty said Optotraffic, which is based in Lanham, Md., has proposed setting up a camera on Piqua-Lockington Road to take photos of speeders in the area. Police Chief Mike Myers would then review the photos and violators would be cited, Petty said A company representative from the Lebanon area met recently with council. Optotraffic would set up the system at no charge to the village and would keep a portion of speeding fines, Petty said. Final action on the ordinance is expected at the March 18 meeting. Council granted a request by the Lone Wolf Jeepers to use the village park on April 27, for the group’s annual rally. The annual Easter egg hunt will be held at 1 p.m. March 23 at the village park. Anyone who wants to donate to cover the costs of the egg hunt may contact Mayor Jerry Keener at 778-0701.
BY LINDA MOODY Civitas Media lmoody@civitasmedia.com VERSAILLES — The Versailles Board of Education, at its recent meeting, discussed background checks. Superintendent Aaron Moran will be bringing a proposal to the board to have background checks done on all volunteers, which will be at no cost to the volunteer. The board also discussed the 2015-16 school calendar proposals from the VEA that were distributed. The board wants to ensure that the Darke County Fair is before the start of school. Ken Moorman, facilities director, and Moran have been working with the Darke County Sheriff ’s Department, Darke County Emergency Management Agency, Versailles Fire, and Versailles Police to update the district’s crisis plan. They also received input from teachers on school safety. Moran was to host a meeting on Thursday with the Versailles police chief to get community input on school safety. It was also reported that recently, the school received a bleacher inspection report. The current venue is that the bleachers at Hole Field and the track are out of code and compliance. Moran will put a bid package together. The proposed state budget for next year will be increasing funding for all-day kindergarten, according to the report. Once the budget is definitely known, more information on needs of students and all-day kindergarten will need to be presented. In other action items, the board approved: • Samantha Bollheimer, Kari Lemon, Sarah Mendenhall, Angela Pankratz, Lindsay Sherman and Emily Williams as substitute teachers for the 2012-13 school year • Amy Carman and Samantha Stens as tutors for the 201213 school year • Sandy Mangen as a substitute custodian and Dawn Fritscher, Lori Potter and Kori York as substitute teacher aides/attendants for the 201213 school year
• To grant supplemental contracts to Sandy Mangen (assistant girls track coach), Adam Miller (junior high girls track coach), Kylee Schlater (junior high girls track coach), Brian Shappie (assistant baseball coach), Mark Voisard (assistant girls softball coach), Matt Harman (assistant boys track coach), Doug Giere (assistant boys and junior high boys track coach), Renee Hemmelgarn (junior high boys track coach) and Jessica Schulte (junior high boys track coach) in the positions noted for the 2012-13 school year • Ted Barlage (track), Josh (baseball), Angie Bruns Cromwell (track), Rob Klamar (track), Lee Knore (softball), Josh Langston (baseball), Troy Luebke (baseball), Lenny Mayer Schwartz (softball), Adam (track) and Amber Whittaker (softball) as volunteer coaches for the sports noted for the 2012-13 school year • To hire Sarah Mendenhall as a part-time morning kindergarten teacher at Versailles EVSD for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year • Hire Deb Didier as a cafeteria worker at Versailles for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year • To change the index for Mechelle Heitkamp as head girls softball coach from .146, which was originally approved at the Jan. 15 board meeting, to an index of .111 • To change the school year for Mitch Hoying as head boys baseball coach from 2011-12, which was originally approved at the Jan. 15 board meeting, to the school year of 2012-13 • That board policy JEBA (Early Entrance to Kindergarten) receive its third and final reading and become approved board policy • That board policy JECBBR (Admission of Interdistrict Transfer Students) receive its first and second reading • Advanced Placement Calculus and Project Lead the Way Introductory Course as new courses of study for students at Versailles High School beginning with the 2013-14 school year • To renew its annual membership in the Ohio School
Boards Association ($3,727) and retain subscriptions to the Briefcase ($130) and School Management News ($190) totaling $4,047 for the year 2013 • Listened as Board President Gwenn Barga shared her experience at a board president workshop she recently attended. Superintendent Moran extended commendations to: • James McClure for winning the Darke County Spelling Bee Contest • The high school wrestling team for winning the State Dual Meet Regional Quarterfinals and advancing to the state final four at the OHSAA team wrestling tournament • FFA members Maddy Buschur, Tyler Clack and Courtney Rose for placing first at the District 5 FFA Ag Communications Contest • The following FFA members for placing first at the FFA County Public Speaking Contest and advancing to the District Public Speaking Contest: Rachel Hedrick (Advanced Prepared Public Speaking), Lexi Fliehman (Creed Speaking), Courtney Rose (Public Speaking), and Maddy Buschur (Extemporaneous Public Speaking) • Allyson Grilliot, Katey Wendel and Jordan Phillips for being selected to perform in the Bowling Green State University Honors Band • The boys and girls swim teams for winning the unofficial MAC titles and breaking 13 meet records • The boys swim team for being sectional champions with Cole Albers, Andrew Kramer, Cole Poeppelman, Sam Prakel, Mitchell Stover and Sam Subler advancing to districts • The girls swim team for placing third at sectionals with Bailey Marshal, Lexi Fliehman, Hannah Marshal, Amber Seibert, Abbey Marshal, Ashlyn Cordonnier, Rachel Subler, Murphy Grow and Hannah Wenig advancing to districts • The girls basketball team for being MAC champions • The girls bowling team for winning the WOHSBC and for being sectional champions The next regular board meeting will be March 19 at 7 p.m. at the board office.
MUNICIPAL COURT In Sidney Municipal Court on Tuesday, Judge Duane Goettemoeller sentenced Angelann E. Myers, 37, 634 S. Miami Ave., to 30 days jail and fined her $100 and $138 court costs on a disorderly conduct charge, which was amended from domestic violence. Nineteen days of the jail term were suspended and she was given credit for one day in jail. • Josiah R. Hampton, 32, 300 Clay St., Jackson Center, fined $75 and $111 court costs on a charge of failure to display proof of operator’s license, which was amended from driving under suspension. • Sean A. Cantrell, 12046 State Route 362, Lot 22, Minster, a charge of felonious assault was dismissed because he has been indicted by the Shelby County grand jury. • Cory F. Bennion, 20, 509 Montrose St., fined $25 and $105 costs on a reasonable control violation. • Dora Bingham, 67, 232 S. Highland Ave., fined $25 and $111 costs on a stop/yield sign violation. • Leann D. Quick, 61, 2400 Wapakoneta Ave., Lot 51, fined $25 and $111 costs on an expired license plates violation. • Brooke M. Cross, 18, 5880 State Route 29, Lot 43, fined $70 and $111 costs on a speeding violation. • Corey D. Graham, 21, 2780 Miami River
Road, fined $20 and $92 costs on a seatbelt violation. Civil cases dismissed Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio, Lima v. Shane Thomas, 1623 Catalpa Place, $239.76. Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, Calif. v. Diana Copeland, 14244 Wells Road, Anna, $5,258.56. Bridgett N. Bryan, 615 Michigan St. v. Ethel Kessler, 116 N. Highland Ave., $15,000. Asset Acceptance LLC, Warren, Mich. v. Jaime Coca, P.O. Box 87, Jackson Center, $2,920.53. Dickinson Financial LLC, Columbus v. Marion D. Inman Jr., 1088 S. Kuther Road, $6,973.51. GE Capital Retail Bank, Columbus v. Mandy Propps, 1515 Fair Oaks Drive, $1,821.09. Dickinson Financial LLC, Columbus v. Nicole R. Harris, 719 S. Miami Ave., $1,436.67. Portfolio Recovery Associates, Norfolk, Va. v. Toni K. and Lynn S. Paul, 303 W. State St., Botkins, $4,902.60. Provider Services Inc., North Olmsted v. Sherman Davis, 436 Elm St., $1,545. LVNV Funding LLC v. Frank Bleigh aka Frank E. Bleigh II, 2240 Broadway Ave., $5,817.50. Wilson Care Inc., 915 Michigan St. v. Donnie H. and Tina Selvidge, 500 N. Vandemark Road, Apt. 42, $220.24. Wilson Care Inc. v. Megan N. and Jason D. Martin, 609 Ann Place, $319.
Lima Radiological Asssociates, Lima v. Stacy R. Keith, 9760 Pasco-Montra Road, $434.10. Lima Radiological Associates, Lima v. Nathaniel and Kambra Heffner, 515 Karen Ave., $430.82. Wilson Memorial v. Kimberly R. Centers, 1947 Fair Oaks Drive, $694.25. Joint Township Memorial Hospital, St. Marys v. Tracy L. Clark, 1819 Robert Place, $4,809.91. Wilson Memorial v. Jill Barbour, 122 Shelby St., $905.66. Wilson Memorial v. Tracey Glover, 201 N. Pike St., Apt. C, $2,448.50. Wilson Care Inc., v. Chris and Amber L. Regula, P.O. Box 871, Jackson Center, $872.10. Joint Township Memorial Hospital, St. Marys v. Eric K. and Elizabeth Noble, 406 Mill St., Anna, $232. Wilson Memorial v. Darla A. Engle, 725 ½ Buckeye Ave., $500.91. Unifund CCR Partners, Cincinnati v. Frances E. Palmisano, 840 S. Main Ave., $3,877.22 Grocers Supply Co., Indianapolis, Ind., v. Jeff Cummons, C/O Phil’s Cardinal Market and Cummons Industry Inc., 101 S. Main St., Jackson Center, $713.26. Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, Calif. v. Amy Hubbard, 713 Kathy Ave., $2,195.67. LVNV Funding LLC, Greenville, S.C. v. Thomas
Borkowski aka Thomas Borkowski Jr., 823 E. Court St., $735.02. Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, Calif. v. Chris D. Lesley, 6841 W. MiamiShelby Road, Piqua, $1,006.72. Nelius and Ruth Spradlin, 4433 HardinWapak Road v. Derrick J. King, 1011 N. Kuther Road, and Amanda Anderson, P.O. Box 253, $3,000. Village of Jackson Center v. Josh L. and Lacie A. Smith, Urbana, $1,759.19. Capital One Bank, Columbus v. Tabitha N. Werling, 760 Countryside Lane, Apt. 12, $1,260.13. Kerri L. Watercutter, Columbus and State Farm Fire and Casualty v. Maykel Chahwan, Marietta, Ga.,$1,910.55. Wilson Memorial v. James E. Smith, 10098 Schenk Road, $895.97. Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Va. v. Herbert McBee, 22 Greenback Road, Fort Loramie, $1,607.34. Wilson Memorial v. Bridgett E. Brown, 21741 Herring Road, Maplewood and Timmy Brown, Piqua, $103.48. Village of Jackson Center v. David and Misty Shields, 106 Parkview Drive, Jackson Center, $1,221.50. Asset Acceptance LLC, Warren, Mich. v. Curtis S. Sarver, 635 Highland Ave., $12,729.97. Elizabeth Polston, 6188 Jackson Road v. Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart, replevin.
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Tigers Loramie survives in semis get by Stivers BY KEN BARHORST kbarhorst@civitasmedia.com
BY ROB KISER Civitas Media DAYTON — A scrappy and tenacious Stivers boys basketball team gave Versailles all it wanted in a D-III district final Thursday night at U.D. Arena. But the Darke County Tigers were able to pull away in the closing minutes for a 65-54 win to advance on to the D-III regional semifinals. Versailles will play the Worthington ChristianColumbus Ready winner at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Trent Arena in Kettering. With Kyle Ahrens burying two quick threes, the Tigers had taken a quick 8-0 lead. But, starters Ahrens, Chad Winner and Nick Campbell all picked up two fouls each in the first six minutes and Stivers went on a a 19-4 run to go in front 19-12 and the Montgomery County Tigers, coached by former Piqua and Newton player Jay Hall, led by as many as nine (25-16) in the opening half. With Versailles trailing 2516, Ahrens scored on a putback, hit two free throws, then brought the crowd to its feet with a 3-point shot from beyond the PNC logo on the arena floor. The 40-foot shot found nothing but net and Versailles was within 27-26 at the break, with Ahrens scoring 13 points in just nine minutes on the floor. Stivers quickly opened a seven-point lead with the first six points of the second half. Winner broke the Versailles ice with a three at the 5:15 mark of the third quarter. Ahrens gave the Tiger their first lead of the season half with two free throws with 2:06 remaining in the third quarter. Two free throws by Jace Barga and a basket by Ahrens put Versailles up 42-39 going to the fourth quarter. Winner and Evan Phlipot scored on assists by Ahrens to make it 46-39 and Versailles never trailed again. Five points by Robert Caldwell got the S-Tigers with 4644 with 5:44 remaining and Roderick Caldwell hit a three to make it 48-47 at the 4:00 mark. Phlipot hit two free throws and Ahrens, Damien Richard and Winner added one each to make it 53-47 with 1:29 remaining. Roderick Caldwell hit a three, but six straight free throws by Winner, two by Richard and and athletic 3point play by Campbell allowed the V-Tigers to put the game away. Ahrens finished with 25 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and two blocks; while Winner added 18 points and five rebounds. Richard added 15 boards and four assists, while Phlipot pulled down six boards. Roderick Caldwell had 19 points for the S-Tigers, while Robert Caldwell added 15. Dwight McKinney, who scored 11 points in the first half, finished with 14 points and seven rebounds. Stivers (54) Caldwell 5-4-15, Caldwell 7-2-19, Gula 1-2-4, McKinney 6-2-14 Allen 10-2. Totals: 20-10-54. Versailles (65) Campbell 3-1-7, Richard 0-5-5, Winner 5-7-18, Ahrens 6-10-25, Barga 1-2-4, Phlipot 2-2-6. Totals: 17-27-65. Score by quarters: Stivers ...........................11 27 39 54 Versailles.......................10 26 42 65 Three-pointers: Stivers: Robert Caldwell, Roderick Caldwell (3). Versailles: Winner, Ahrens (3). Records: Stivers 17-9, Versailles 20-5. Next game: Wednesday, 5:30, Trent Arena in Kettering, regional semifinals.
TIPP CITY — It had all the makings of a rout, but suddenly turned into a thriller here Thursday night in the Division IV Girls Regional basketball semifinals. Fort Loramie took a 54-32 lead into the final period, only to have Marion Local come storming back. When it was over, the Lady Redskins had survived Marion’s 34-point fourth quarter to claim a 71-66 victory and a spot in the regional championship game Saturday. They will take on Tri-Village in the finals, with the winner going to the state tournament. And if you don’t think it’s a good bet that Fort Loramie will be playing next week, keep this in mind: TriVillage beat Mechanicsburg by three in the other regional semifinal at Tipp City. Fort Loramie beat Mechanicsburg 76-44 during the regular season — at Mechanicsburg. The two will tip it off at 7:30 Saturday at Tipp City, and Fort Loramie will take a 24-3 mark into the contest after its second win this season over Marion. Highlighting the win for Fort Loramie was Darian Rose becoming the first junior in school history to reach 1,000 points in her career. She did it on a three-pointer with 4:00 left in the second quarter that staked the Lady Redskins to a 30-15 lead. Loramie settled for a 36-23 lead at the half, then held Marion to just nine points in the third period. That resulted in the Lady Redskins taking a 54-32 bulge into the final quarter. But things suddenly turned around, with the Lady Flyers finding their offense. They wound up with two more points in the final period than they had in the first three quarters combined. “Marion Local can put five phenomenal players on the
make it 64-62. Marion got the ball back but turned it over, and Boerger was left open for an easy bucket and a 66-62 lead. After Megan Kuether hit two free throws to make it 6664, Marion stole the inbounds and appeared to have a clear shot at the basket. But Boerger got her hand on the ball as the shooter went up and knocked it free. Rose took it the other way, made a tough off-balance shot in the lane, and converted a free throw to make it 69-64 with just :29 remaining. Rose finished with 29 points to lead the Lady Redskins and was 9-for-10 from the free throw line. Boerger chipped in 16 for Loramie and Megan Imwalle added nine. For Marion, four players were in double figures. Chelsea Winner had 21, Brooke Winner and Megan Kuether had 13 apiece and Allie Thobe added 10. Marion Local closes the season at 18-8.
Tickets Fort Loramie is selling tickets today for Saturday’s regional championship game at 7:30 at Tipp City. The tickets will be sold during school hours today in the high school office, until 10:30 this morning in the elemenSDN Photo/David Pence tary ofice, at Wagner’s IGA in FORT LORAMIE’S Darian Rose goes up against Megan Fort Loramie today during Kuether of Marion Local in Division IV Regional semifinal ac- store hours, and again Saturtion at Tipp City Thursday. Fort Loramie won 71-66 to advance day until 1:30. Prices are $6 and all tickets to the regional championship Saturday. at the door will be $8. floor, and there is no quit in scored five straight to make it Marion Local (66) Jacobs 3-2-9; Thobe 4-2-10; them,” said Fort Loramie 60-56 with still 1:39 remainKuether 3-7-13; B. Winner 6-1-13; C. coach Carla Siegel. “We got a ing. Winner 10-1-21. Totals: 26-13-66. little complacent and we didRenae Meyer hit two big Fort Loramie (71) Westerheide 3-0-6; Rose 9-9-29; n’t take care of the ball. Boy, free throws for Loramie, but Boerger 6-2-16; Meyer 1-2-4; Ordean that clock didn’t run fast she then committed her fifth 2-3-7; Imwalle 3-1-9. Totals: 23-16enough for me.” foul, and Allie Thobe con- 71. Score by quarters: Loramie still led 58-49 with verted on both to make it 62- Marion ..........................10 23 32 66 just 2:47 remaining in the 58 withh 2:22 left. Loramie ........................20 36 54 71 Three-pointers: Marion 1 (Jagame, but points started toRose hit two free throws to cobs); Loramie 5 (Imwalle 2, Rose 2, come in a hurry then. make it a six-point game Boerger). Cadence Jacobs scored to again, but Brooke Winner Records: Loramie 24-3, Marion cut the lead to 58-51, and scored and was fouled, missed 18-8. Next game: Saturday, 7:30 at after two free throws from the free throw, then followed Tipp City, regional championship vs. Jessica Boerger, Marion her miss with a stickback to Tri-Village.
Anna handles East in D-III semis BY JOSH BROWN Civitasmedia.com SPRINGFIELD — Even without a 19-0 deficit, the Miami East Vikings still found themselves playing from behind. And against a team like perennial powerhouse Anna, that’s not a good place to be. The Rockets took control with a seven-point run to start the second quarter in Thursday night’s Division III regional semifinal at Springfield High School, and though the Vikings fought hard, they couldn’t regain the edge in a 62-52 loss. Anna (23-4) moves on to face Madison, a 67-58 winner over Fayetteville-Perry in the other semifinal. Miami East’s season ends at 25-2 — with both of those losses coming at the hands of the Lady Rockets. In fact, the Lady Vikings’ last three losses have all been to Anna. The Lady Rockets knocked the Vikings off in a rout in last year’s regional championship game — and both of the previous losses started out with the Rockets leading 19-0 early in the first quarter. That’s not how things went this time, though. The Vikings got the first points of the game and led 8-5 after a drive-and-foul by Angie Mack. A bucket by Abby Cash gave the Vikings a 12-10 lead, but that would be the last time Miami East had the advantage. Still, the game was tied 16-16 after one. Rachel Noffsinger hit a three to start the second quarter, and Erica Huber stole the ball, drove and dished to Cayla Bensman to give the
Trina Current blocked a shot, got the ball to Mack who hit Cash for a layup, then Mack stole the ball and passed to Cash, who dropped a mid-air catch-and-toss pass to Trina Current for a layup to close the gap to four points. But Cash came up limping after the landing, forcing an injury timeout. Without the Southwest District Player of the Year on the floor, Anna found Billing on a backdoor cut to stifle the momentum, and East never challenged again. Bensman led Anna with 18 points and 12 rebounds, hitting three 3s – all of which seemed to come at key moments. Billing added a teamhigh 19 points. Ashley Current finished with 21 points and five rebounds, Cash added 10 points and Mack scored eight.
Tickets Anna is selling tickets for Saturday’s 1:30 regional final game at Springfield. The tickets are being sold during school hours today at the high school, from 5-to-6 p.m. today, and from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday. Tony Weber/Civitas Media Prices are $6 in advance ANNA’S KAYLA Blankenship comes up with the ball as team- and $8 at the door. Miami East (52) mate Natalie Billing heads up the floor in Division III regional Mack 2-4-8, Linn 1-2-5, Ashley semifinal action Thursday in Springfield. Anna beat Miami Current 9-3-21, Current 2-0-4, Cash East to advance to the regional finals. 5-0-10, Dunivan 2-0-4. Totals: 21-952.
Rockets a five-point lead. Another Viking turnover led to a Bensman drive, a seven-point Anna lead and a Viking timeout. The game stayed relatively close until late in the third when a Bensman three gave Anna a 46-35 lead, and that lead grew to as many as 12. But that’s when the Vikings finally found their an-
swer — Ashley Current. Current scored 13 of her game-high 21 points in the second half, including nine straight for the Vikings during one stretch in the fourth quarter to get East within 5348. The Lady Rockets managed to keep pace, though, getting a three-point play from Natalie Billing to make it 56-48.
Anna (62) Bensman 1-0-2, Huber 2-1-6, Blankenship 1-0-2, Billing 7-5-19, Bensman 9-3-18, Rioch 1-0-2, Noffsinger 3-0-7. Totals: 24-9-62. Score by quarters: ME ................................16 27 37 52 Anna ............................16 33 46 62 3-point goals: Miami East – Linn. Anna – Huber, C. Bensman 3. Records: Miami East 25-2. Anna 23-4. Next game: Saturday, regional championship at Springfield, 1:30 vs. Middletown Madison.
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Bird’s-eye view This bald eagle was photographed as it perched on the branch of a tree in Tawawa Park recently. It was one of two bald eagles spotted in the park that day. There was also a bald eagle sighting in Berger Park at the south end of Sidney.
Bassmasters Thursday tourneys start April 18 The Shelby County Bassmasters will kick off their Thursday night tournament season on April 18 at Lake Loramie. The tournaments are open to the public and will once again be held at the west end state ramp. The tournaments will be held every Thursday night throughout the summer, ending with the last Thursday in September. “Blast off” will be at 5 p.m. each week, with the weigh-in at 9 p.m. The Thursday night tournaments at Lake Loramie have been an annual tradition for the Shelby County Bassmasters for over 30 years. The tournaments have regularly drawn anglers from Dayton, Lima, Covington, Troy, the Indian Lake area, and the Grand Lake St
Mary’s area. Stressed are conservation values of the club, fair play, promoting good and safe boating practices, sharing new fishing techniques, and giving back to the community. There is a $10 donation per angler, with a maximum two anglers per boat, and 80 percent of the entry fee is paid back to the first place, second place and big bass winners. Big Bass is based on the largest bass alive over three pounds. The remaining 20 percent of the donations is used to support club activities. These include improvements to the Lake Loramie lake fishing habitat and support of local youth activities. Such youth activities include the annual youth fishing day with the
Shelby County Big Brothers Big Sisters along with other Shelby County youth. It helps to educate and introduce them to the sport of fishing. For some of the children it allows them a first-time experience infishing. All fishing participants on that day receive a free fishing pole to keep along with a cook out, trophies, plaques, and picture taking. Children as young as 5 have been introduced to fishing for the first time at this event – and are “hooked” for life. Last year there were approximately 70 children who took part in the Fishing Derby and the festivities. For more information on the Shelby County Bassmasters Thursday Night Fishing Tournaments contact the Chairman, Rick R. Driskell.
KETTERING — The Jackson Center Tigers are headed back to the Division IV Boys Regional Basketball Tournament, after taking care of CincinMeyer nati Christian in district championship action Wednesday night at Trent Arena here. Senior Alex Meyer put on a clinic at both ends of the floor in leading the Tigers to a 64-53 victory over the Courgars. The victory upped Jackson’s record on the year to 22-4 and they now await the winner of tonight’s district final game between Delphos St. John’s and St. Henry, which will be played at the Elida Fieldhouse. “They had 18 wins so that right there made them a dangerous team,” said Jackson Center coach Scott Elchert. “So we knew we had our work cut out for us.” But Elchert stuck Meyer on Southwest District Player of the Year Ryan Arrington, who came into the game averaging 24 points. He finished with 17, but that’s very misleading because he had only four going into the final period. “Alex did a great job on him,” said Elchert. “And the reason Alex is such a good defender is because he loves a challenge, and that’s the type of athlete you look for. He got in foul trouble so he had to back off Arrington in the fourth quarter, and so did the other kids we put on him.” Offensively, Meyer finished with 28 points and was a perfect 17-for17 from the free throw line, including 12-for-12 in the final period alone. As a team, Jackson shot 42 free throws and made 30 of them. The Tigers started off well, with Trey Elchert draining a three to open
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JACKSON CENTER’S Gavin Wildermuth grabs a rebound in district final action in Kettering Wednesday against Cincinnati Christian. the scoring, then following with another bucket. Meyer scored to make it 7-0, but Cincinnati Christian got the next eight points. However, the Tigers came back to lead 15-13 after one. “We finished the first quarter well and had a very solid second quarter,” Elchert said. “We were a little sluggish to begin the third quarter but then we got it going.” The Tigers led 42-29 going to the final period and upped the lead to 17 at one point before Christian got back in the game. Elchert added 11 points for the Tigers, who also outrebounded Christian 42-28. Cincinnati Christian, which was playing in the district finals for the first time in school history, finished the season 18-7.
Tickets Jackson Center will sell tickets for Tuesday
night’s regional semifinal beginning on Monday. Jackson Center will play the first game Tuesday, starting at 5:30. Tickets will be sold Monday and Tuesday at the school during normal school hours, and also Monday from 5-to-7 p.m. Prices are $6 in advance and $8 at the door, and the school keeps a percentage of the presale money. CC (53) Hubbard 2-3-7; Arrington 5-7-17; Mann 2-1-6; Begley 3-17; Logan 0-1-1; Jeffries 5-1-12; Arnstead 1-0-3. Totals: 18-4-53. JC (65) Meyer 5-17-28; Elchert 3-311; Wildermuth 2-3-8; Wahrer 0-2-2; Winner 2-3-7; Ryder 3-28. Totals: 15-30-64. Score by quarters: Cin. Christian ...13 21 29 53 JC.......................15 30 42 64 Three-pointers: CC 3 (Mann, Jeffries, Arnstead); JC (Elchert 2, Meyer, Wildermuth). Records: JC 22-4, CC 18-7. Next game: Tuesday, regional semifinals at Trent Arena in Kettering vs. St. HenryDelphos St. John’s winner, 5:30
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Ducks Unlimited banquet to be held April 27 at Lehman The Shelby County Ducks Unlimited Chapter’s annual banquet will be “Sportsman’s Night Out” and is set for April 27 at Lehman High School. Cocktails will be served starting at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7. The cost is $60 per single and $85 per couple and includes dinner,
drinks and a tax deductible membership to DU. There will be various raffle tables, a deer hunter raffle table, fishing raffle table, ladies raffle table, waterfowl raffle table, booze canoe, tailgater’s raffle, guns, and live and silent auctions. Tickets must be pur-
chased before April 20. There will not be tickets sold at the door. Anyone with questions can contact committee members, including chairman Tim Rourke at 498-1938, VP Gary Cromes at 937726-1605, secretary Jon Ingle at 937-418-0938 or treasurer Zach Bosslet at 937-726-3487.
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JACKSON CENTER’S Trey Elchert is on the move in D-IV District final action at Trent Arena in Ketttering Wedneday night. The Tigers won to advance to the regional.
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Shelby County Sharpspurs chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation held its banquet recently at the Sidney Post 217 American Legion hall. Here, Steve Heuker of Anna (left) talks with Pierce Bennet, 18, of Houston. Bennett was the recipient of a $250 scholarship at the banquet. Bennett is the son of Jim and Melissa Bennett, and is now eligible for an $11,250 scholarship from the NWTF. The objects on the left were items that were up for bid at the auction.
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Council OKs bids for Ohio 185 project BY LINDA MOODY Civitas Media lmoody@civitasmedia.com
modifying and correcting Resolution No. 13-5, by changing the amount of the grant. • Administered the first reading of VERSAILLES — Activity on the a resolution adopting revisions and Ohio 185 relocation project had Ver- updates to an Emerald Ash Borer sailles Village Council approving a (EAB) Management Plan for the vilcouple of issues at its recent council lage. meeting. • Awarded Hupman Lawn Care Village Administrator Rodd Hale and Landscaping the bid for maintesaid council accepted a proposal from nance services, to include mowing and ADR & Associates, Ltd. for construc- spraying, at Greenlawn Cemetery for tion engineering and administrative this year at a cost of $17,250, inspection services for the relocation • Approved the annual premium project at a cost of $159,009. renewal concerning the village’s propFor photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg He also reported that a bid was erty and general liability insurance. then awarded to Tumbusch Construc• Decided to schedule a public tion, who submitted a bid of hearing for the presentation of revi$1,340,087.16, for construction. sions and updates to the village’s five In other business, council: year capital improvements plan for Sidney Vespa Quarterback Club Vice President David Riley, of Sidney, looks • Administered the second reading 7:15 p.m. Wednesday prior to the reg- over items that will be auctioned off at his club’s Night at the Races. The of an ordinance granting consent to ular council meeting, and a public event will support Sidney Yellow Jacket Football and will be held at the the Ohio Department of Transporta- hearing for the presentation of revi- I.U.E. Union Hall on South 25A. Admission is $10 per person. A dinner will tion, director of transportation, to sions and updates to the village’s zon- begin at 6 p.m., with race time starting at 7 p.m. No one under 21 will be adcomplete Project DAR US 127/185 ing ordinance as recommended by the mitted. Tickets will be available at the door or by calling Riley at 492-0469. 0.76/5.29, resurfacing Ohio 185 within planning commission for 7 p.m. April the village. 10, prior to that council meeting. • Heard the second reading of a • Discussed representatives from resolution authorizing the fiscal offi- Hometown Cable Wireless wanting to cer o advertise for bids for the 2013 have antennas put on the village’s street maintenance project. wire towers, but nothing was decided. • Passed an emergency resolution However, they want to invite them to authorizing the fiscal officer to re-ad- an upcoming council meeting. vertise for new bids for the East Water • Decided to have an upcoming faPiqua —Upper Valley ployee performance and Upper Valley Career Street substation 4kV upgrades proj- cilities committee meeting to discuss Career Center Adult Di- preserve business repu- Center ATC. The cost of ect. establishing a policy of organizations vision is offering a food tations. Upon successful the training is $175 and • Passed an emergency resolution using village buildings. safety training program completion participants is due at the time of regthat certifies staff and will receive a certifica- istration. Class registraprovides an overview of tion accredited by the tions will be accepted basic sanitation proce- American National through March 21. Call dures from receiving Standards Institute Annette Paulus at (800) food at the loading dock Conference for Food Pro- 589-6963 or email JACKSON CENTER child’s immunization County Board of Develto serving customers. tection. p a u l u s a @ u p p e r v a l l— Jackson Center Local record, copy of child’s So- opmental Disabilities by This training can help The two-day class will eycc.org to register or for Schools will conduct reg- cial Security card, certi- including a Shelby Hills you protect customer be held on April 4-5 from more information. Class istration for kinder- fied copy of child’s birth satellite classroom. The health, improve em- 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the size is limited. garten, prekindergarten certificate and copy of Shelby Hills classroom and preschool programs custody decree papers (if will work in cooperation from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on applicable). Papers with the school’s own March 26 and 27 at the should be dropped off at pre-K program and will school. the school or mailed by serve 3- and 4-year-olds. Minimum age re- Monday. The program will serve quirements are: A registration form 32 students, 16 in the • Kindergarten, 5 can be obtained at the morning and 16 in the years old by Aug. 1, school website, afternoon. Each class 2013. w w w . j a c k s o n - will serve children with • Pre-K, 4 years old center.k12.oh.us, at the special needs. by Aug. 1, 2013. school, or by calling the If interested in the • Preschool, 3 years school office at 596- Shelby Hills program, old by Aug. 1, 2013. 6053. circle Shelby Hills at the Required paperwork Center top of the completed regJackson to register for screening Schools will be working istration form. Shelby includes completed reg- for the third year in con- Hills will only be screenistration form, copy of junction with the Shelby ing on March 26.
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Students to compete in regionals For the first time ever, SMS students participated in the National History Bee completion. Brothers Andrew and Anthony Mitchell join NourEddine Hijazi and Nick Fleming in advancing to the regional finals of the National History Bee, taking place on April 10 near Detroit. The National History Bee is an individual academic competition for elementary and middle school students that tests knowledge of a wide range of historical topics. The competition is divided into three distinct stages. Stage 1 is a manda-
tory Online Regional Qualifying Exam which students take under supervision at their school. During Stage 2, the top students from the Online Regional Qualifying Exam compete against each other in a buzzer competition coordinated by the National History Bee at one of 35 sites across the United States called the Regional Finals. The top finishers from the 35 Regional Finals are eligible to advance to the National Championships, Stage 3, and compete for the title of National History Bee Champion.
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What causes nightmares? DR. paDEAR situations: ROACH: My wife tients experiencis plagued by tering side effects rible nightmares. from medications, She is 69 years those with sleep and old. Each night, disorders she has horrible those suffering dreams that from psychologimake her moan cal issues. Medout loud. I wake To your i c a t i o n s , her, but she goes especially those good back to the same prescribed for detype of dreams. health pression and high She has done this blood pressure, Dr. Keith for years. It really can cause this Roach affects the quality side effect. If she of her sleep, and mine. takes any medication, She is exhausted during read the literature on it to the daytime. Her father see if it might be causing and aunt had the same her nightmares. symptom. — C.F. Sleep disorders — obANSWER: The only structive sleep apnea times in my career that I particularly, but also have heard this complaint restless leg syndrome — have been in the following can be associated with
sleep disturbances. Finally, anxiety disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), may frequently include nightmares. However, the family history suggests a distinct disorder, nightmare disorder, which tends to run in families. In nightmare disorder, there are no other known causes. Exercise, such as yoga, is recommended for this. The most effective treatment, as far as I am able to tell, seems to be a form of cognitive behavioral therapy. Psychologists or other mental health professionals would be most likely to do this, but you need to find someone in your area with this expertise.
ROACH DR. NOTES: Back in January, I published a column about a gentleman with hair loss on the front and outside of his legs. I suggested a few uncommon medical diagnoses, but several readers with a good deal of common sense suggested another possibility: The fabric of his trousers might be simply rubbing off the hair. A trial of looser-fitting pants, or shorts if one is lucky enough to be able to do so, might answer the question and solve the problem. I appreciate the readers who take the time to share their own experiences and suggestions, either to my email address or by U.S. mail.
Son in jail struggles with dad’s cancer diagnosis DEAR ABBY: come to terms I am in a county with my father’s jail for parole vioillness. lation. I am an Although I addict, which is know what is why I’m in this eventually to not-so-welcoming come, I have yet environment. I to feel any emoaccept full retion, good or bad. sponsibility for I’m not sure if I’m Dear being here beblocking it or if Abby cause ultimately I’m being the Abigail it was my actions strong-willed Van Buren adult I was raised that guaranteed me confinement in jail. I to be by my father and read your column every best friend. I was never day and find hope within raised with the “men it. don’t cry” or “be strong for I have been struck your mother” concept. Am with some not-so-good I repressing my emonews while here. On a re- tions? And if so, is there cent visit with my parents anything I can do to start I learned my mother, who dealing with this? — suffers from a variety of JUST ANOTHER INhealth problems, can no MATE IN PENNSYLVAlonger work. My father, NIA who must work to cover DEAR JUST: All peothe cost of her medical ple do not react to bad care, has been diagnosed news in the same way — with liver cancer. crying, screaming or lashThis is very difficult for ing out. Some go numb for me. My father is my ab- a period of time, until solute best friend. I have they are ready to process to be strong for my their emotions. Part of mother. I want to scream your problem may be that and cry and sometimes because you’re incarcerlash out, but my inner ated, you feel helpless. adult (I’m 26) tells me Not knowing whether that psychological counseling would be immature. is available for prisoners I don’t feel like I have in your jail — or how ef-
fective it is if it’s offered at all — I’m recommending you discuss this with a chaplain. It would be a safe way to air some of the emotions you are struggling with. You have my sympathy. DEAR ABBY: I am the mother of a “yours, mine and ours” family. Between us, my husband and I have six children. I have been “Mom” for his three children since the oldest was 6. Fifteen years have passed, and I raised all of them as my own. Because the stress of such a large family has taken its toll at times, I have said I couldn’t wait until everyone was 18 and out of the house. Three of the children are on their own now and three remain. The youngest is 14. I recently took my 18-year-old son to the Air Force recruiter to take his entrance test and as I watched him walk into the building, I started to cry. I realized I don’t really want them to go away. I have been a parent since I was 17, and now — at 40 — I’m having a hard
March 8, 1913 The time for receiving the bids for the new street paving in this city will be up tomorrow and it is expected that a large number of bids will be received by Service Director Warner for the work. Many paving men, all in the city, are anxious to get the work or at least a part of it. In addition to the actual street paving, bids will also include curb and gutter on many of the streets. ——— The Ivy Club of this city has placed in the Sidney Public Library Ferrero’s “Greatness and Decline of Rome,” a splendid work in five octavo volumes, as a memorial to Judge E.L. Hoskins, who was for many years one of the most valued members of this city. ——— Rolla Ward, employed at Piper’s Dry Goods Store, accidentally broke one of the big show windows of the store this morning. He was working in the window and accidentally knocked one of the wax dummies over against the glass.
time imagining life without them. I’m afraid of having only my husband to keep me occupied. There has never been a time without kids around. I’m afraid it’ll be like starting our relationship all over again, and he may not like what he sees. How can I get past the fear of not being needed or wanted anymore? — ALMOST EMPTYNESTED IN VERMONT DEAR ALMOST EMPTY-NESTED: Instead of allowing fear or anxiety to drag you down, look at the bright side. Your nest will be full for four more years — and if there is something about yourself that you see that YOU don’t like, there is plenty of time to do something about it. You are more than “just” a mother. Because your responsibilities as a parent have lightened, use the time to broaden your horizons and develop some mutual interests with your husband that you couldn’t before. Sometimes we can be our own harshest critics — so be a little kinder to yourself and consider what I have said. It is heartfelt.
March 8, 1938 Nearly 100 members of the Pomona and various granges of Shelby County were present at the first annual grange boosters’ banquet held last evening in the K of P Hall. Guest speaker for the occasion was Rev. R. Wobus, with short talks being given by Walter master of Widney, Pomona Grange; Carl Tunks, county deputy for Shelby County; Dan Hartman, county deputy for Miami County and Mrs. Dan Hartman. ——— There will be an important meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Shelby County in their rooms in the K of C building tomorrow evening. A report of the committee named at the previous meeting to make arrangements for the proposed party will be discussed. Members of this committee are: Roy Frantz, Paul Potter, Dillon Howell, Hugh Bertsch, Willis Wildermuth and Reginald Mummaw. ——— Miss Jayne Hawvermale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Hawvermale and Miss Marijeanne McLean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.A. McLean, sophomores this year at Miami University, Oxford, were initiated into the Miami Chapter of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority at the recent formal initiatory ceremony conducted there. ——— The county commissioners have ordered the purchase of a tractor for pulling a drag in road maintenance work in the county. W.E. Baumgardner is to furnish a tractor and demonstrate it for one day before the final decision is made regarding its purchase at the agreed price of $12,154.
50 years March 8, 1963 A new group of instructors has been added to those already certified as teachers of first aid training available to groups in Shelby County. A four man group of Sidney residents completed the Red Cross first aid instruction course Friday night in Piqua. They included Sidney municipal firemen, Wilbur R. Lindsey, Carl Cooper Jr. and Edward J. Sullenberger, and Darrel Vorhees, an employee of the Dayton Power and Light Co. ——— Arthur Billing ended 24 years of service as Shelby County Auditor today with a pledge to be even more interested in the community’s future than he had been in its past. During the mornin’, 10 of the elected officials visited him in his office and presented him with expressions of good will and a $25 gift certificate. Commissioner Chairman Francis DeLoye presided at the ceremony; which has become a courthouse tradition. DeLoye told Billing that his “friendliness and willingness to get along with people and to help wherever he could will be missed and long remembered.” Present at the farewell ceremony were Common Pleas Judge Huber A. Beery, Probate Judge Lieudell Bauer, County Commissioners DeLoye, Roger Elsass and William Sandham, County Clerk Thaleon Blake, County Recorder Fred Linker, County Treasurer Wilda Pepper and County Engineer Edward H. Maurer. In another presentation, the deputies who worked with Billing in the auditor’s office gave him a set of matched luggage as a “going away” gift.
25 years March 8, 1988 An exciting new product line is coming to town. Although a stereo product has been available for some years in radios, the same cannot be said until now. Larry Zedeker of Zedeker’s TVs reported that he now has a stereo television for sale. He is exciting about the possibility of an increase in sales. ——— The Fort Loramie boys basketball team is hitting its stride at the right time. The Redskins over powered the Anna Rockets 69-30 in sectional semi-final play. The key once again for the team is the play of Tom Brandewie. Paul Albers also had a strong game.
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