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Going to the voters Historical museums levy to be on special election

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@sdnccg.com A special election at which Shelby County voters will be asked to consider a tax levy that would support area historical museums was approved by local legislators Tuesday.

The Shelby County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution authorizing an election to take place Aug. 7. The levy would be at a rate of 0.25 mills for five years and monies raised would be for the maintenance and operation of free public museums of history.

“It would generate about

$248,000 per year,” said Commissioner Jack Toomey Wednesday.

“The historical museums formed an alliance,” he added.

“But their not being a political subdivision, they could not put out a levy themselves. They had to come through (the board of commissioners).”

The cost of the special election can’t yet be tabulated, according to Dawn Billing, director of the Board of Elections.

“Nothing has been officially filed yet,” she said Wednesday morning. “There are a lot of unknowns. My understanding See LEVY/Page 3A

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BY JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the fence no longer, President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, a historic announcement that gave the polarizing social issue a

more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House.

The announcement was the first by a sitting president, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney swiftly disagreed with it. “I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,” he said while campaigning in Oklahoma.

rights advocates Gay cheered Obama’s declaration, which they had long urged him to make. Beyond the words, one man who married his gay partner in Washington, D.C., was stirred to send a $25 contribution to the president’s campaign. “Making a contribution is the best way to

say thank you,” said Stuart Kopperman.

Obama revealed his decision after a series of events that made clear the political ground was shifting. He once opposed gay marriage but more recently had said his views were “evolving.”

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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3A today: • Jeanette E. Thomas • Abdiel J. Creager Jr. • Albert “Gene” Gooder

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Poll: Afghan war support drops to new low

BY ANNE GEARAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Support for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, a bad sign for President Barack Obama as he argues that to end the war responsibly the United States must remain in Afghanistan another two years.

Only 27 percent of Americans say they back the war effort, and 66 percent oppose the war, according to an APGfK poll released Wednesday.

A November 1971 Harris poll showed a record-high 65 percent of Americans said that continued fighting in Vietnam was “morally wrong.”

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The 11-year Afghan war has not been highly popular among Americans for many years, but support has dropped off steeply. A year ago, 37 percent favored the war, and in the spring of 2010, support was at 46 percent.

The AP poll does not spell out why people have changed their minds. But the drop-off in support parallels rising casualties, increased attacks on

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Americans by the Afghan soldiers they are mentoring and inconclusive battlefield gains that have increased security in many areas of the country but have failed to break the Taliban-led insurgency.

About half of those who oppose the war said the continued presence of American troops in Afghanistan is doing more harm than good.

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OBAMA In an interview with ABC in which he blended the personal and the presidential, Obama said “it wouldn’t dawn” on his daughters, Sasha and Malia, that some of their friends’ parents would be treated differently than others. He said he also thought of aides “who are in incredibly committed monogamous same-sex relationships who are raising kids together.”

Obama added that he thought about “those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf, and yet feel constrained even though now that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is gone because they’re not able to commit themselves in a marriage.”

The president said he was taking a personal position. Aides said the president’s shift would have no impact on current policies and he continues to believe that marriage is an issue best decided by states.

“I have hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought that civil unions would be sufficient,” Obama said in the interview. He added, “I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people the word ‘marriage’ was something that evokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth.”

Now, he said, “it is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

He spoke on the heels of a pair of events that underscored the sensitivity of an issue that has long divided the nation.

Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview on Sunday that he is completely comfortable with gays marrying, a pronouncement that instantly raised the profile of the issue. White House

From Page 1 aides insisted the vice president hadn’t said anything particularly newsworthy, but gay groups cited rights Biden’s comments in urging the president to announce his support.

On Tuesday, voters in North Carolina — a potential battleground in the fall election — approved an amendment to the state constitution affirming that marriage may only be a union of a man and a woman.

Additionally, several of the president’s biggest financial backers are gay, and some have prodded him publicly to declare his support for same-sex marriage.

Senior administration officials said Obama came to the conclusion that gay couples should have the right to legally marry earlier this year and had planned to make his views known publicly before the Democratic National Convention in early September. They conceded that Biden’s comments accelerated the timeline, but said the vice president’s remarks were impromptu and not part of a coordinated effort to soften the ground for a shift by the president. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.

As recently as eight years ago, conservatives in several states maneuvered successfully to place questions relating to gay marriage on the election day ballot as a way of boosting turnout for President George W. Bush’s re-election.

Now, nationwide polling suggests increasing acceptance of gay marriage. In a national survey released earlier this month, Gallup reported 50 percent of those polled said it should be legal, and 48 percent were opposed.

Democrats favored by a

margin of roughly 2-1, while Republicans opposed it by an even bigger margin. Among independents, 57 percent expressed support, and 40 percent were opposed.

Whatever the polls, the political crosscurrents are tricky, and administration officials conceded as much.

Some top aides argued that gay marriage is toxic at the ballot box in competitive states like North Carolina and said the vote there this week shows that opposition to the issue is a rallying point for Republicans.

Shifting his emphasis, even briefly, could open Obama up to Republican criticism that he is taking his eye off the economy, voters’ No. 1 issue.

Yet some prominent gay donors have said publicly they wanted Obama to announce his support for gay marriage.

Other Democratic supporters claim Obama’s decision could energize huge swaths of the party, including young people.

He also could appeal to independent voters.

By day’s end Wednesday, the Obama campaign had emailed a clip of the interview and a personal statement from the president to its vast list of supporters, drawing attention to his stance.

The decision also creates an area of clear contrast between Obama and his Republican rival as he argues that he’s delivered on the change he promised four years ago.

Obama said he sometimes talks with college Republicans on his visits to campuses, and while they oppose his policies on the economy and foreign policy, “when it comes to same sex equality, or, you know, sexual orientation, that they believe in equality. They are more comfortable with it.”

Maggie Gallagher, cofounder of the National Organization for Marriage and a leading supof the porter constitutional amendment approved in North Carolina on Tuesday, said she welcomed Obama’s announcement at the same time she disagreed with it.

“Politically, we welcome this,” she said. “We think it’s a huge mistake.

President Obama is choosing the money over the voters the day after 61 percent of North Carolinians in a key swing state demonstrated they oppose gay marriage.”

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi instantly sought political gain from the president’s The announcement.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued an email in her name that asked recipients to “stand with President Obama.” Such requests are often followed by a solicitation for campaign donations.

Obama said first lady Michelle Obama also was involved in his decision and joins him in supporting gay marriage.

“In the end, the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people,” he said.

Acknowledging that his support for same-sex marriage may rankle religious conservatives, Obama said he thinks about his faith in part through the prism of the Golden Rule — treating others the way you would want to be treated.

“That’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president,” Obama said.

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Man charged with attempted murder GREENVILLE — Bond was set at $1 million during a video arraignment in D a r k e County for a N o r t h Star man Thomas accused of attempted murder.

Darke County Judge Jonathan Hein entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Justin Douglas Thomas and appointed a public attorney to defend him. The $1 million bond was recommended by Darke County Prosecutor R. Kelly Ormsby III. Thomas, 33, is scheduled to be back in court for a preliminary hearing on May 16.

Thomas was arrested following a physical dispute with his wife that included gunfire at 13394 U.S. 127. According to officials at the Darke County Sheriff ’s Office, a woman called the county 911 center at

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TUESDAY -7:44 a.m.: criminal damaging. Sidney police responded to a report of the vandalism of several mailboxes. Mailboxes were damaged at Adams Funeral Home, 1401 Fair Road, Wilson Care, 1075 Fairington Drive, Wilson Care, 1079 Fairington Drive, Irene Sherman Nurses, 1081 Fairington Drive, Wilson Hospice, 1083 Fairington Drive, and SMS Group, 1085 Fairington Drive.

-1:32 a.m.: arrest.

Police arrested Angela M. Earls, 22, 1129 Hill have not yet been re- Top Ave., Apt. F, for a leased. The accidents re- probation violation out main under of Sidney Municipal Court. investigation.

Rain plays role in two accidents BOTKINS — Rain played a role in two accidents on Interstate 75 early Tuesday morning.

A tractor-trailer was traveling northbound on I-75 near the 102-mile marker at 2:52 a.m., when it was reportedly struck by a vehicle, lost control, crossed the me-

dian into the southbound lanes and ended up in a ditch.

At 2:31 a.m., there was another accident on southbound I-75 involving two other vehicles.

Four people were injured from both accidents.

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Southbound I-75 was closed for a short period of time. At least one lane was re-opened around 6:30. The names of those involved in the accidents

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about 4:10 p.m. on Monday to report that her husband had slapped her during a domestic dispute, threatened her and announced that he was going to get his gun.

As deputies were headed to the scene, it was discovered that Thomas had already fired a shot at his wife that missed. According to a preliminary investigation there were reportedly other family members close by, including children. No one was injured.

Thomas was arrested at the residence.

Police said Thomas was out on bond stemming from an incident in 2011 in September which Thomas was allegedly observed holding a revolver up to the head of his grandfather during an argument over money. That incident resulted in a charge of aggravated robbery and abduction, which also involved a gun. Trial on those charges is set for May 30.

WEDNESDAY -8:48 a.m.: medical.

Sidney paramedics responded to the 300 block of Jefferson Street on a medical call.

TUESDAY -9:10 p.m.: medical.

Medics were dispatched to the 700 block of Marilyn Drive on a medical call.

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Medics responded to a medical call on the 1000 block of South Fourth Avenue.

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Medics responded to a medical call on the 400 block of Jefferson Street.

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Medics were dispatched to the 800 block of Merri Lane on a medical call.

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is that it would be a county-wide election, which would mean all 35 precincts would be open.

That would probably cost $25,000 to $30,000.”

Whatever the cost, it will be paid by the coalition of historical societies and museums from throughout the county who would benefit from the levy’s passage, according to Tilda Phlipot, director of the Shelby County Historical Society. Those include the Shelby County, Botkins, Jackson Center and Anna District historical societies and the Fort Loramie Historical Association.

“They had anonymous donors who put up the money for the levy,” Toomey said. “They advanced $26,710. The county does not pay for this.”

In other action, the commissioners awarded a bid for the HardinWapak Road-widening project to VTF Excavating, of Celina. The $167,471.55 project is

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They awarded a bid in amount of the $180,062.50 for Miami Conservancy Road rehabilitation to Sturm Construction, of Sidney. That project is also due to be completed no later than Aug. 20.

Commissioners opened five bids for a County Road 25A bridge replacement. The bids were forwarded to the county engineer for review.

They also attended a meeting comprising the commissioners of Shelby, Allen and Auglaize counties to discuss an Auglaize River streamenhancement project.

The effort will involve 157,000 acres that drain into the Auglaize River, 412 of which are in Shelby County. The commissioners met to discuss what information should be included in a letter to residents who will be affected by the project. The letters will be sent in advance of public hearings.

Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices open WASHINGTON (AP) — Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday backed off a plan to close thousands of rural post offices after May 15 and proposed keeping them open, but with shorter operating hours.

The move to halt the shuttering of 3,700 lowrevenue post offices followed months of dissent from rural states and their lawmakers, who said the cost-cutting would hurt their communities the most. In recent weeks, rising opposition had led Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to visit some rural areas in a bid to ease fears about cuts that could slow delivery of prescription drugs, newspapers and other services.

In an election year, the angst over postal closings also extended to nearly half the senators, who in letters last week urged Donahoe to postpone closing any mail facility until Congress approves final postal overhaul legislation. The Senate last month passed a bill that would halt many of the closings; the House remains stalled over a separate bill allowing for aggressive cuts.

“I could live with this plan, and I think the majority of people could,” said June Nygren, who runs the Jersey Lilly Saloon & Eatery in the tiny Montana town of Ingomar. Donahoe visited the rural town of about 80 people last month, which welcomed him with a spread of home-made baked goods and a packed school gymnasium as people pleaded for their post office to stay open.

“I felt he really paid attention, and apparently he did,” Nygren said.

At a news briefing, Donahoe said he hoped the latest plan will help allay much of rural America’s concern about postal cutbacks.

He prodded Congress to act quickly on legislation that will allow the agency to move ahead with its broader multibillion dollar cost-cutting effort and return to profitability by 2015.

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pendent from FuquayVarina, N.C., is among the respondents who strongly oppose the war.

He said the military mission has reached the limits of its ability to help Afghans or make Americans any safer, and he would close down the war immediately if he could.

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Gene enjoyed his grandchildren, hunting, fishing, golfing, and was an avid fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes.

He was a loyal employee of and retired from Baumfolder. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sidney.

A private graveside service will be held Saturday at Graceland Cemetery for the immediate family with the Rev. Jonathan Schriber officiating.

There will be no calling hours.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, OH, Attention: Development Office, One Children’s Plaza, Dayton, OH, 45404-1815.

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PIQUA — Abdiel J. Creager Jr., 84, of 9785 N. Spiker Road, Piqua died at 12:34 p.m., Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

A service to honor his life will be held on Saturday at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.

A l b e r t “Gene” Gooder, 80, of Sidney, passed away peacefully, on W e d n e s d a y, May 9, 2012, at 4:01 a.m., at the Kettering Medical Center.

Gene was born July 27, 1931, in Sidney, the son of the late Leslie and Lorene (Thompson) Gooder, and stepmother, Vivian Gooder.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, LeRue (Engelhaupt) Gooder, of Sidney, whom he married on Dec. 23, 1951; two children, Kevin Gooder and wife Janet, of Vienna, Va., and Karen Gariety and husband Edward, of Sidney; six grandchildren, Lindsay (Zach) Geuy and Nicholas Gariety, of Sidney, Ginnis, Valerie, and Lillian Mason Gooder, of Vienna, Va.; and one sister-in-law, Betsey Gooder, of Franklin, N.C. He was preceded in death by one brother, Gary Gooder.

Gene was a 1949 graduate of Sidney High School. He was a U. S. Army veteran serving during the Korean Conflict, a member of the American Legion Post

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them loud and clear — they want to keep their post office open,” he said.

“We believe today’s announcement will serve our customers’ needs and allow us to achieve real savings to help the Postal Service return to long-term financial stability.”

While no post office would be closed, more than 13,000 rural mail facilities could see reduced operations of between two hours and six hours a day, but only after a review process that is expected to take several months. An additional 4,000 rural post offices would keep their full-time hours.

The agency also will announce new changes next week involving its proposal to close up to 252 mail processing centers.

After the Postal Service gets regulatory approval and hears public input sometime this fall, the new strategy would go into place over two years and be completed in September 2014, saving $500 million a year by reducing full-time staff.

Under the plan, communities would get the option of keeping their area post offices open, but with reduced hours.

Another option would be to close a post office in one area while keeping a nearby one open full time. Communities could opt to create a Village Post Office, one set up in a library, government office or store such as Walmart, Walgreens or Office Depot.

“At the end of the day, we will not close rural post offices until we receive community input,” said Megan Brennan, the Postal Service’s chief operating officer.

The latest move comes as the Postal Service is pushing Congress to pass cost-saving postal legislation that includes an end to Saturday mail delivery.

The Senate-passed bill would give the Postal Service an $11 billion cash infusion but also impose a one-year freeze on shuttering rural post offices. It would reduce by half the planned closings of mail processing centers, give affected communities new avenues to appeal closing decisions and bar cuts to Saturday delivery for at least two

From Page 1 downfall of a Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson, and forced his Republican successor, Richard Nixon, to scale back the war and ultimately end it without a U.S. victory.

The context is very different now, without a military draft that fueled the Vietnam War’s unpopularity and with a comparatively tiny force of 88,000 now deployed in Afghanistan. At the height of the war in 1968, more than 530,000 U.S. forces were serving in Vietnam.

Obama has promised to keep fighting forces in Afghanistan until sometime in 2014, despite the declining popular support. The effort to hand off primary responsibility for fighting the war to Afghan soldiers will be the main focus of a gathering of NATO leaders that Obama will host later this month in Chicago.

That shift away from

front-line combat is expected to come next year, largely in response to growing opposition to the war in the United States and among NATO allies.

The shift makes some military commanders uneasy, as does any suggestion that the U.S. fighting force be cut rapidly next year. Obama has promised a steady drawdown.

Obama acknowledged the rising frustration during a surprise visit to Afghanistan last week.

He signed a 10-year security pact with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and congratulated U.S. troops on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs. He told troops that he is ending the war but that more of their friends will die before it is over.

“I recognize that many Americans are tired of war,” he said then. “I will not keep

Americans in harm’s way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security.

But we must finish the job we started in Afghanistan and end this war responsibly.”

As of Tuesday, at least 1,834 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

Obama has argued that his persistence in hunting down bin Laden is one reason to re-elect him, and his on-time handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is another.

Obama closed down the Iraq war on the timetable set when he took office and expanded the Afghan fight that had been neglected in favor of Iraq. He is now scaling back in Afghanistan, bringing troops home by the tens of thousands.

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Toxic algae growing earlier at western Ohio lake

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THE REMAINS of a Korean War soldier Cpl. Clyde E. Anderson, of Hamilton are returned at the Dayton International Airport on Wednesday. Anderson went missing in action in late November 1950 and his remains took nearly 20 years to be identified, after being returned from North Korea. He is scheduled to be buried with full military honors on Saturday in Blanchester.

6 decades later — Ohio soldier’s remains identified HAMILTON (AP) — The remains of a southwest Ohio soldier who went missing during the Korean War have been identified more than 60 years later and will be buried this week with full military honors.

Army Cpl. Clyde E. Anderson, of Hamilton, is scheduled to be buried Saturday in Blanchester, about 30 miles northeast of Cincinnati, The JournalNews in Hamilton reported.

DNA tests by military forensic scientists helped confirm that Anderson’s remains were among those mixed together in more than 200 boxes of remains returned to the United States by North Korea in the early 1990s.

As many as 400 individual remains were believed to be in the boxes.

Scientists used circum-

stantial evidence, dental records, radiography comparisons and DNA, which matched that of Anderson’s niece and nephew and niece, in identifying his remains, military officials said.

Anderson’s niece, Carol Snider, said she and her brother provided blood samples in 2002 for DNA analysis to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command’s Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Snider, of Bowersville, said she was amazed when she received word about a month ago that the Army could positively identify her uncle’s remains.

“After 62 years, I wasn’t expecting anything,” she said. “We’re going to lay him to rest next to my mother. And the next day is Mother’s Day.”

Anderson was assigned to the medical company of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, the newspaper reported.

The then 24-year-old private first-class was last seen on or about Nov. 28, 1950, when a witness recalled seeing him driving a Jeep in a convoy near Chosin Reservoir. The convoy was ambushed by Chinese forces about seven miles north of the town of Hagaru-ri, according to the Defense Department.

Anderson was reported missing in action on Nov. 29, 1950 and promoted to the rank of corporal before the military listed him as presumed dead in 1953.

More than 7,900 Americans who fought in the Korean War remain unaccounted for, according to the Defense Department.

COLUMBUS (AP) — Tests indicate the bluegreen algae growth that has hampered tourism near the state’s largest inland lake appeared about two months earlier this year than last, possibly because of unwarm seasonably weather.

The algae blooms, which produce a nerve toxin that can sicken people, have led to previous closures of Grand Lake St. Marys and swimming advisories at the lake in western Ohio.

The algae didn’t show up last year until late May, but tests show it may have started growing in early March this year, The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday.

Milt Miller, a cofounder of the Grand Lake St. Marys Restoration Commission, blames unusually warm weather.

Daily high temperatures reported by the National Weather Service were at least 11 degrees above normal from March 12-25 and exceeded 80 degrees on March 20-22.

“Typically we don’t see those warm temperatures until May or June,” Miller said.

Blue-green algae feed on phosphorus from manure, fertilizers and sewage running into nearby streams. The

toxic algae that have shown up in many of Ohio’s lakes, including Lake Erie, were so thick in Grand Lake in 2010 that state officials warned people not to touch the water and said it likely caused seven people to get sick.

The latest test in April detected a concentration of the algae-produced liver toxin that was seven times higher than the level the state uses to advise older visitors, young children and people with weakened immune systems not to wade or swim.

State officials say warning signs will go up at the 13,000-acre lake and state park in a few days, in time for the Memorial Day weekend.

Lake temperatures have been too cold for water-skiing or swimming, said Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

State officials treated 5,000 acres of the lake last year with alum, a chemical that starves algae by bonding with phosphorus, and the lake was able to stay open all summer.

Miller is hopeful that a similar treatment completed Monday will help kill off this year’s algae before the start of the summer tourist season. Area tourism has suffered since the algae

outbreak that led to the 2010 advisory not to touch the water.

An economic impact assessment in 2009 showed that sales, wages and taxes generated approximately $193 million in Auglaize and Mercer counties, where the lake is located. A Small Business Administration disaster declaration survey showed average business revenue was down 35 percent to 40 percent in 2010 — about $77 million across the region.

The lake’s boosters say tourism improved last year amid the aggressive efforts to control the algae and the use of television and other media to spread the word that the lake was improving.

Hotel visitation was up 10 percent last year in Mercer County, where most of the lake is located, compared with being down 23 percent the previous two years, said Donna Grube, executive director of the Auglaize and Mercer Counties Convention and Visitors Bureau.

“We’re confident the alum will be effective again this year,” she said.

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Honda wins appeal LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented that her hybrid Civic could get 50 miles per gallon, according to a ruling released Wednesday.

Superior Court Judge Dudley W. Gray II ruled Tuesday on Honda’s appeal of a court commissioner’s award of $9,867 to Heather Peters.

Gray’s ruling found, among other things, that Peters had standing to bring the case in state court, but it’s actually federal regulations that govern fuel economy ratings and related advertising claims.

‘Dignified death’ law approved

Sidney Daily News,Thursday, May 10, 2012

Europe at the crossroads: splinter or unite BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union, a hope for peace that rose from the fires of World War II, paused Wednesday to honor its past and ponder its future — and how it can ensure it still has one in light of the anti-austerity anger expressed this week by voters in France and Greece.

May 9 is Europe Day, a commemoration of a key event that led to the creation of the modern EU. It was on this day in 1950 that French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman issued a declaration calling for an integrated Europe.

Tens of millions of Europeans had perished in twin cataclysms of World Wars I and II. At root, Schuman’s dream was simple: He wanted an economic union, a sharing of strategic resources in Europe that would “make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.”

By that measure the proj-

ect has been a resounding success. The EU has grown to 27 members and the economic union has grown ever deeper, including a common market and, for 17 countries, a shared currency. The interlocking interests have helped to shield the bloc from any possibility of war.

But on Sunday voters in France and Greece voted in droves against the strategy of harsh budget cuts leaders contend is necessary to preserve the economic union that is at the heart of the European Union.

The question then arises: Is the European dream in danger? Could it all come unstuck?

“The current situation is extremely fragile and extremely dangerous,” said Zsolt Darvas, a research fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank.

Greece’s two major parties, both of which backed a drastic package of budget cuts in

order to secure a desperately needed bailout loan, were so thumped by voters that even put together they would not command a majority in Parliament.

That’s alarming because it raises the prospect of protracted political paralysis, in which market panic could trigger a Greek financial meltdown and possibly force the country out of the currency union. That would endanger the viability of the entire European project.

And what of the FrancoGerman cooperation that was key to the EU during its inception, and more recently inin charting strumental Europe’s course through its crisis?

French voters ousted Nicolas Sarkozy as president on Sunday and replaced him with the Socialist Francois Hollande, a leader not at all committed to swallowing more doses of the EU’s bitter austerity.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a “dignified death” law giving terminally ill patients and their families more power to make end-of-life decisions.

The law passed by a vote of 55 to zero, with 17 senators declaring themselves absent. It passed the lower house last year.

Now Argentine families won’t have to struggle to find judges to order doctors to end life-support for people who are dying or in a permanent vegetative state. Getting such approval can be very difficult in many countries, particularly in Latin America, where opposition from the Roman Catholic church still runs strong.

OUT OF THE BLUE

Don’t take that call!

DUBLIN (AP) — Letting your telephone ring in a courtroom is rarely a good idea. Taking the call is worse.

A Northern Ireland man received a brief jail sentence Wednesday after his phone rang, the judge told him to turn it off, but instead he took the call and had a brief chat.

The judge ordered 36year-old Paddy Sweeney behind bars for two hours, then fined him 200 pounds ($322) for willfully interrupting the court in Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s second-largest city. Sweeney had been watching a civil trial at the time.

That raises questions about the continent’s key alliance, since German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the staunchest champion of Europe’s strategy of belt-tightening.

However, some see the unraveling of the MerkelSarkozy pairing as possibly a good thing.

The two were so close they were collectively dubbed “Merkozy.” They met before each EU summit to make decisions that, critics say, the other EU heads of government were simply expected to endorse.

Europeans increasingly saw a democracy deficit in which the top players were bullying weaker members into submission.

“That was not the right thing to do for Europe,” said Paul De Grauwe, an economist with the London School of Economics. “This is the reason the union might break up.”

Or one of the reasons.

Sassoon dead at 84

Pilot dies CHICAGO (AP) — Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help.

Inside, he found three men desperately trying to keep the giant plane in the air after losing all hydraulic power needed to control direction and altitude. Fitch took a seat in the only space available — the floor — and helped operate some of the only equipment still working — the wing engines — to try to land the aircraft carrying nearly 300 people.

Fitch, who died Monday at 69, used everything he knew about flying to confront an emergency that engineers never imagined could happen to a modern jetliner.

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JASE PEEPLES watches a television broadcast of President Obama declaring his support of same-sex marriage Wednesday at The Mix bar in San Francisco. President Obama Wednesday announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.

Peeples, who has lived with his partner for nine years, welcomed the news.

Gay-marriage rivals see gains from Obama remarks NEW YORK (AP) — From the left and the right, rival sides in the gay-marriage debate claimed they would reap Election Day benefits from President Barack Obama’s long-awaited declaration that he supports same-sex couples’ right to wed.

For some gays, however, the politics were secondary to an emotional embrace of what they viewed as history in the making.

“Wow — that was wow,” said Rodney Mondor of Portland, Maine, after hearing the news. He has lived with his partner for 13 years and is raising a 12-year-old son in a state that will be voting in November on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.

Gay-marriage supporters said Obama’s pronouncement on Wednesday would galvanize legions of progressive voters who had grown impatient with the president’s selfdescribed “evolving” on one of the nation’s most divisive social issues.

“There are, no doubt, some places where it will hurt him, and it may change his Electoral College strategy,” said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights. “But ultimately it’s a big plus for him — it highlights his willingness to tackle tough issues in a thoughtful but ultimately decisive way.”

Opponents of gay marriage depicted Obama as bowing to gay-rights pressure, and pre-

dicted his new stance on marriage would jeopardize his reelection chances.

“President Obama has now made the definition of marriage a defining issue in the presidential contest, especially in swing states like Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Nevada,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.

While six states have legalized gay marriage, and three more could do so this year, 30 states — including North Carolina on Tuesday — have passed constitutional amendments limiting marriage to unions of a man and a woman.

In Ohio, the head of a conservative group that approved such an amendment in 2004, predicted a backlash that would hurt Obama.

“He’s going to lose Ohio and he’s going to lose all the states that are huge on this issue,” said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values. He advised Obama’s presumptive Republican rival, Mitt Romney, to seize on the issue and campaign hard against gay marriage.

Chris Seelbach, elected last year as Cincinnati’s first openly gay city councilman, suggested that Obama might lose some votes with his declaration, but will gain others.

“It will energize some of the people who have been waiting a long time for this and have been disappointed,” he said.

“Some of us are extremely

proud today and ready to do whatever we can, do 120 percent, to get him re-elected.”

In addition to Maine, gay marriage may be on the Nov. 6 ballot in three other states.

Minnesota voters will be asked to decide on a ban-gaymarriage amendment similar to those in other states. In Maryland and Washington state, opponents of same-sex marriage are circulating petitions on behalf of proposed ballot measures that would overturn laws passed earlier this year to legalize same-sex marriage.

Zach Silk of Washington United for Marriage, a coalition that supports the gay marriage law, said Obama’s remarks were “an enormous boost for us.”

“It changes the way that the conversation will take place in the state,” Silk said.

“We expect voters in Washington will have a similar sort of evolution and similar sort of journey.”

But a leader of the rival campaign said Obama’s comments will boost efforts to overturn the gay-marriage law.

“This will galvanize and energize our folks,” said Joseph Backholm, executive director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. “This will help us make the case that national forces, including the president, are getting behind this effort to redefine marriage in Washington state.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care.

When he came on the scene in the 1950s, hair was high and heavy — typically curled, teased, piled and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s, and Sassoon’s creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women’s liberation movement.

Sassoon died Wednesday at age 84 at his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, pospokesman Kevin lice Maiberger said.

Officers were summoned to the home at about 10:30 a.m. and found Sassoon dead, Maiberger said. His family was with him. Officers determined Sassoon died of natural causes, and there will be no further police investigation.

“My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous,” Sassoon said in 1993 in the Los Angeles Times, which first reported his death. “Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn’t have time to sit under the dryer anymore.”

Al-Qaida leader: Avenge Afghan Quran burning CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida’s leader has urged Muslims to take revenge for the February burning of Quran Muslim holy books at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan.

Ayman al-Zawahri posted an audio on a militant website on Wednesday.

He called on Muslims to avenge the burning by fighting “those aggressors who occupied your countries, stole your wealth and violated your sanctities.”

The recording was released

by Al-Sahab, al-Qaida’s media arm, and reported by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant messages.

The U.S. apologized, saying the Islamic texts were mistakenly sent to a garbage burn pit. Deadly protests raged in Afghanistan for six days afterward.

Al-Zawahri said the Americans and their allies commit crimes and then pretend to be sorry. He called that a “silly farce.”

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This Evening • The Narcotics Anonymous group, All in the Family, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 Poplar St. • Shelby County Coin Club meets at 7:15 p.m. at First Church of God on Campbell Road. Meetings are open to anyone interested in coin collecting.

There is a business session, program, awarding of attendance prizes for members, refreshments and a coin auction.

• The Fort Rowdy Gathering committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the covington City Building, 1 S. High St., Covington. The public is welcome.

Friday Morning • A.J. Wise Library in Fort Loramie hosts storytime for children 3 1/2 and older at 10:30 a.m. To register, call 295-3155.

Friday Afternoon • Sidney Gateway Hi 12 Club No. 482, meets at noon at the Sidney American Legion on Fourth Avenue. All Master Masons are invited.

• Parkinson’s support group meets at 3:30 p.m. at the Brethren’s Home, 750 Chestnut St., Greenville. For information, call (937) 548-3188.

Friday 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. • Maplewood Grange will sponsor a euchre card party at Maplewood Grange Hall at 7 p.m. The public is welcome, and refreshments will be served.

Saturday Morning • The Lockington New Beginnings Church offers a sausage and pancake breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at the church, 10288 Museum Trail, Lockington. $4 donation. Discount for seniors and children.

• 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.

Saturday Evening • 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. • The Catholic Adult Singles Club meets for Mass, supper and bowling in Coldwater. For information, call (419) 678-8691.

Sunday Evening • 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. For more information on activities or becoming a member, contact Scott Barhorst at 492-0823.

Monday Evening • Shelby County Girl Scout Leaders Service Unit 37 meets at 6:30 p.m. at the VFW. • The New Knoxville Community Library Friends of the Library meets from 7 to 8 p.m.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Church, 340 W. Russell Road.

• Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meets at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main St., Bellefontaine.

• Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new members are welcome. For more information, call Tom Frantz at 492-7075.

• TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7 p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road, New Bremen.

• The American Legion Auxiliary meets at 7 p.m. at the Post Home on Fourth Avenue.

• 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 Afternoon

St. John’s shop leader retires

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@sdnccg.com St. John’s Lutheran Thrift Shop, 319 S. Ohio Ave., celebrated its 30th anniversary and the retirement of its third director recently.

The business is a ministry of St. John’s Lutheran Church. The directorship is a paid position, but it is staffed by volunteers, 65 of whom attended the celebratory luncheon at the end of April.

Lynn Kearns, of Sidney, has been director for four years. She followed Phyllis Seving, also of Sidney, who held the post for 25 years.

The shop was begun by Opal Kelly.

“The shop opened April 26, 1982,” Seving said. “At first, we were with Lutheran Social Services (LSS) from Dayton. The profits went to Dayton, but they paid all the expenses of the business. In 1992, we separated from LSS. We were known as the Once Around Shop.”

Kearns had retired as a customer service representative of Scotts Company in Marysville when she got “a calling from the Lord,” she said.

A member of the St. John’s congregation, she had helped on mission trips.

“I had thought about serving. I knew I wanted to be involved with something,” she said. As director, she oversaw the thrift shop’s operations, managed its volunteers, got to know its customers.

About 23 people volunteer per week, from a pool of about 50. In addition to accepting, sorting and stocking donated items, they help customers who come to make purchases and to ask for financial assistance and they prepare

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PHYLLIS SEVING (left), former director of St. John’s Lutheran Thrift Shop, and Lynn Kearns, retiring director, both of Sidney, arrange items in the shop Monday. goods to be recycled as necessary.

Clothing that doesn’t sell gets donated to the Bethany Charity Fund; shoes, to Well of Hope.

Unsaleable clothing goes to the Salvation Army, which turns it into rags for industrial purchase.

“When an appliance comes in, we test it to see if it works,” Kearns said. “If it works, it goes on the shelf for sale. If it doesn’t work, we cut the cord off, throw the appliance into our dumpster and strip the cord. The wire gets sent to the Salvation Army. We try to recycle everything that has value.”

Both women acknowledged that the demographic of the buying customer at the shop has changed through the years.

In 1982, the shop was a ministry to provide clothing and household items at reasonable prices for people in need.

It still meets that ministry.

But now, it also attracts customers who are better off financially who love to thrift shop.

“It’s not that they have to shop here. It’s that they love to shop here. They love to find that bargain,” Kearns said. The business is self-sustaining. It’s profits are returned to the community through small gifts of financial assistance to individuals.

Barbie Covault and Lynn Pitchford, both of Sidney and St. John’s church members, have been hired to serve as directors. Kearns is now training them.

During her tenure, she created a vintage section of the store and she moved popular toy and coat distributions out of the shop building and into the church. As a result, the church decided to offer a free lunch at the same time as the give-aways.

In 2011, the church coat give-away and free lunch served more than 200 people. Since January, the church has offered a free lunch every last Saturday of the month.

Kearns said that what she liked most

about being director was the people she saw every day. The most difficult part of the job was “having to say, ‘no,’ to people at times,” she said. Seving agreed.

“Knowing whom not to serve, not having enough money at times,” was hard to do, Seving added.

Kearns looks forward to spending time with her family and for quilting, a hobby she recently took up.

“I want to work in my garden — and volunteer here,” she said. “We count on people to continue to donate and come in and shop and volunteer.”

To mark the anniversary in the shop, Kearns had weekly drawings for prizes of donated items.

Winners included Charles Herring, Shelia Newcombe and Dora Bingham.

The grand prize was won by Kristen Frost.

All are of Sidney.

St. John’s Lutheran Thrift Shop is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran QUICK READS Church, 120 W. Water St. • The Springfield Regional Cancer Center in Spring Bling Springfield hosts a support and education group for cancer patients and their families from noon to 1:30 set p.m. The groups are free and open to anyone who The Cargill Relay for has a need for cancer education and support. For Life team will host a more information, call (937) 325-5001.

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TODAY • Mad River Farm Market hosts a local producer market for local growers from 3 to 7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The market is at 7530 N. U.S. 68, West Liberty.

FRIDAY • A bus tour of area Civil War sites, sponsored by the Shelby County Historical Society, leaves from the Logan County Museum, 521 E. Columbus Ave., Bellefontaine, at 9 a.m.

The tour will visit sites in Logan, Shelby and Clark counties and conclude at 5 p.m. $25 per person. 498-1653.

• The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra perform’s Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 2,” the “Resurrection Symphony,” today and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Schuster Center in downtown Dayton. Tickets: $9-$59. (888) 2283630.

SATURDAY • Darke County Singles host its monthly dance from 8:30 p.m. to midnight at the VFW Hall, 219 N. Ohio St., Greenville. Music by Country Classic. The dance is open to all singles 21 and older. Admission: $5. (937) 968-5007.

• Muleskinner Band will perform at the Roller Mill Theater, 225 E. Main St., Tipp City at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for students K-12 and under.

(937) 667-3696.

• The St. Jacob Hugs Relay for Life team hosts its annual fundraiser at Bel-Mar Lanes at 7 p.m.

Scotch doubles, raffles, door prizes, snacks. Tickets: 492-0588. Proceeds benefit Relay for Life.

• A spaghetti dinner to benefit Special Olympics will be from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Stokes Masonic Lodge, 213 W. Main St., Port Jefferson.

The public is welcome.

• The Anna High School Jazz Band will perform Jazz in the Park at Anna Park at 3 p.m.

The rain location is Anna High School.

• Mad River Farm Market, 7530 N. U.S. 68, West Liberty, hosts a wine tasting from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

• The Dayton Audubon Society hosts a field trip to Caesar Creek Gorge. Participants should meet leaders at 8 a.m. in the parking lot below the dam. For information, call Scott Balk at (937) 866-0092.

MONDAY • Tri-Moraine Audubon Society hosts Big Birding Day at Lake Erie’s birding locations.

A car pool will depart from Lima’s Eastgate Mall parking lot behind Wendy’s on Ohio 309 at 6:30 a.m. for the all-day event. Call (419) 9991987 for information.

• The New Bremen Public Library offers the opportunity to make a May flower craft at 3:30 p.m.

• Brukner Nature Center presents a Wild Journeys program, “Panama’s Birds,” at 7 p.m. at the center, 5995 Horseshoe Bend Road, Troy. Free for center members, $2 for nonmembers.

WEDNESDAY • The Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster will screen a classic movie at 1 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

Auxiliary reports recent meeting FORT LORAMIE — Members of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 355, in Fort Loramie, welcomed a returning memHilda Siegel, ber, approved the payment of routine invoices and discussed the District 2 summer convention during their meeting recently.

Siegel had been unable to attend meetings since October due to illness.

It was announced that dues will increase to $20

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Members were invited to visit the poppy shop in Sandusky, where veterans construct the paper poppies they sell as a fundraiser.

Dorothy Quinlin presided over the meeting.

The colors were presented by Freda Anders and Doris Gigandet. Sergeant-at-arms was Eileen Barhorst. Margie Iiams set the POW table and explained its meaning.

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‘Snow White’ auditions set CONOVER — The Community Adult and Student Theatre at the A.B. Graham Center, 8025 E. U.S. 36, east of Fletcher, has announced auditions for “Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs,” a musical adapted from the Brothers Grimm.

The auditions will be Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.

Attendees should take an accompaniment CD and a student photo. For information, call (937) 622-1010.

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HEADLINER COMEDIAN Jay Snyder entertains during the New Choices fundraiser at the Palazzo in Botkins Saturday.

New Choices auction a success The New Choices fundraising auction Saturday was a great success, according to Director Kathy Lindsey.

About 180 people attended and $29,000 was raised, she said.

“Everyone had a great time. The speaker did a great job,” she added.

Crystal Teets, of the Sidney area, spoke about her experiences as a client of New Choices.

Jay Snyder, a comedian with the Funny Bone, provided entertainment.

Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart served as master of ceremonies.

“He did a wonderful job for us,” Lindsey said.

She plans to engage local people who are funny to provide next year’s entertainment.

“In late fall, I’ll be trolling for comedians,” she said.

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ST. MARYS — The Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP), the state’s official source for free and unbiased Medicare information and counseling, will hold a “Welcome to Medicare” event in Auglaize County at the Auglaize County Council on Aging today at 6 p.m. to help new and soon-to-be beneficiaries understand the basics of Medicare, Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced.

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“Our staff is visiting every region of the state to personally help Ohioans new to Medicare understand how their new health insurance will work,” Taylor said of OSHIIP, a program of the Ohio Department of Insurance. into “Transitioning Medicare can sometimes be a complicated change and we want to help put Ohioans at ease by addressing any questions or concerns they may

WUEBKER MCCARTYVILLE — Craig and Heather Wuebker, of McCartyville, have announced the birth of a daughter, Emma Lynn, born April 24, 2012, at 1:18 p.m. in

Miami Valley Hospital, in Dayton.

She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 21 inches long.

She was welcomed home by her brother, Alex, 2.

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At the Welcome to Medicare event, people can also learn the benefits Medicare provides and important deadlines they have to meet. Information will also be shared about Medicare Advantage plans, prescription drug coverage and supplemental health insurance coverage.

People should take their prescription drug information, including name, dosage, frequency and preferred pharmacy to the event.

There will also be information about financial assistance programs which help pay for Medicare’s Part B premium ($99.90 per month in 2012) and out-ofpocket expenses associated with prescription drug costs.

For information about this event and Medicare, call OSHIIP at (800) of visit 686-1578 www.insurance.ohio.gov or follow the department on twitter @OHInsurance and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Ohio DepartmentofInsurance.

Her maternal grandparents are Gary and Molly Buehler, of McCartyville.

Her paternal grandparents are Carl and Velma Wuebker, of McCartyville.

Her great-grandparents are Roman and Dorothy Buehler, of McCartyville.

Her mother is the former Heather Buehler, of McCartyville.

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Information is available at the Veterans Services office in downtown Sidney.

Others will be sold the immunizations at the following rates: For dogs: Combination shot against parvo, canine distemper, hepatitis, and other diseases, $15; rabies, $10; worming, $5.

For cats: Rabies, $10; combination shot against feline distemper and four other diseases, $15.

“This is something we’ve done a couple times a year for a number of years,” said Dr. Ken Gloyeske, of TriCounty Veterinary Service. “It’s an effort to provide preventive vaccinations to pets of families that have financial constraints. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Gloyeske said that several of the diseases the vaccinations protect against are highly contagious.

Some can even infect people when their pets contract them. And most are usually fatal for the pets.

For information, call 497-PETS (7387).

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Qualifications are based on income and number of family members.

The shots will be given at Tri-County Veterinary Service, 301 N. Kuther Road from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Qualification forms are available at Jack’s Pets, at Tri-County Veterinary Service in Sidney and at 16200 County Road 25A in Anna, and online at hits1055.com.

Forms can be submitted in advance at the humane society office, 614 N. Miami Ave., or taken to the clinic Saturday.

Proof of income, such as a food stamp card, will be required.

Veterans who have a disability as determined by the Veterans Administration and family members of military currently serving overseas are eligible for free pet inoculations.

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Military mottos remind Benefit dinner to pastor of mother’s lessons aid Price family will keep. If I As I have should die bebeen in prayer fore I wake, I concerning pray thee Lord what it is the my soul to Holy Spirit take.” She was most wants me teaching me to to share with “always be preyou, I passed pared” for “no through one of Your one knows those “oh, my pastor when his hour goodness” moments. speaks will come.” (Ecclesiastes 9:12) Last week I Many times was privileged The Rev. Jane E. Madden during my to pray for our years school armed forces at our community Na- and beyond my mother tional Day of Prayer challenged me to “aim service. In preparation high” and “be all that I for that service the, mot- could be.” She taught tos of our military me that the skills and branches kept coming to talents that I had were my mind. I’ll admit I a gift to me from God. only knew two of them The Bible speaks often but they so intrigued me of how each of us is crethat I went on the hunt ated in the image of to discover the other God. An example of this three. My “aha!” came truth is found in Isaiah when I realized how bib- 64:8 where the text lical these mottos are states: “Yet, O Lord, you and how the values they are our Father, We are express collectively are the clay, you are the potthe very core of the ter, we are all the work teachings I received of your hand.” In order for me to demonstrate from my mother.

As a young child I re- that I “Love the Lord member kneeling by my your God with all your bed with my mother as heart and with all your she taught me, “Now I soul and with all your lay me down to sleep, I mind” (Matthew 22:37), pray the Lord, my soul it is my duty to use

those attributes to the very best of my ability.

She taught me that there would be times when I would fail but that I must learn from those errors, created by my poor choices, and that I must strive to honor God in all that I do. (“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:2324) Over and over I observed my mother demonstrate the commandment to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:38) and the teachings of Jesus that are found in Matthew 25:35-36 as she called upon the sick (with food in hand), provided a home for the homeless, made clothes for needy children, drove people to the store and doctor’s appointments, provided others with vegetables from her garden in the summer and canned goods in the winter, visited with and prayed for those who were in any

type of need imaginable.

I don’t recall her ever actually going to the jail, but I do recall overhearing conversations and prayers for those who were incarcerated.

She was teaching me to stand in the gap for others.

When she died on a Good Friday, I knew that her Easter forever would be the glorious day that she had taught me about long ago as we attended sunrise services. I knew that she had indeed heard the words “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

(Matthew 25:21) I also knew that she was teaching me another lesson to be internalized and I’ve always thought that this was the most important one of all. Always be faithful to God for “The Lord is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made.” (Psalm 145:13) “His love endures forever!” (Psalm 136) The writer is the associate pastor of care and nurture at Sidney First Methodist United Church.

Bishop Binzer to preside at Rural-Urban Mass June 21 ST. MARYS — A longtime St. Marys farm family will welcome Bishop Joseph Binzer of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, as well as Catholics from the St. Marys and Sidney seaneries, to this year’s Rural-Urban Mass.

Binzer will preside at the Mass June 21 at 7 p.m. at Ron and Deb Wilkers’ farm, 10675 TriTownship Road. The hosting parish is Holy Rosary at St. Marys.

This will be Binzer’s first Rural-Urban Mass in the St. Marys and Sidney deaneries.

Married in 1982, the Wilkers bought their farm in 1987. They farm 250 acres and raise 65,000 laying hens. Their six children are Isaac (Heather ) who lives in Florence, Ky., with three

children; Matthew (Kelly) who lives in New Bremen with two children; Jennifer (Kevin), in Morgantown, W.V.; Anthony in St. Marys; Eric at Manchester College; and Angela at the University of Cincinnati.

Ron still works off the farm as a mechanical detailer and Deb is a substitute bus driver.

“Farming has been very good to us and for us,” Ron said.

“It has taught our children many life lessons,” Deb added. “We couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”

Mass will be celebrated in a tool building at the Wilkers’ farm.

Seating has been arranged for 300 people.

Those coming to Mass are asked to bring soil to be

blessed.

A chicken dinner will follow Mass. The Knights of Columbus will fry chicken. People attending the Mass are asked to bring salads, side dishes or desserts.

Reservations are requested and can be made to the Catholic Social Action Office by calling (937) 224-3026.

The Rural-Urban Mass is an annual tradition of the Catholic Rural Life Conference of the two deaneries.

The Catholic Rural Life Conference of the St. Marys and Sidney deaneries plans the Rural-Urban Mass, alternating it between planting and harvesting seasons and between the two deaneries, said Vern Seger, chair of the local Catholic

Rural Life Conference.

The Catholic Rural Life Conference serves Catholics who directly work in agriculture or live in communities supported by agriculture.

The Catholic Rural Life Conference of the St. Marys and Sidney deaneries also has offered Rural Plunges to university and junior high school students in addition to the Rural-Urban Mass.

The local conference meets in January, March, May, September and November on the second Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Charles Senior Living Community, 2860 U.S. 127, Celina. A meeting is sometimes planned for the second Monday in July.

A benefit dinner for Chuck, Arlene and Jeremy Price will be held Wednesday from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at Sidney First Methodist United Church.

The Prices have recently incurred several unexpected medical expenses for all three of them. Chuck and Arlene are affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ. Chuck is currently serving as the special representative

for Strategic Partnerships/Call 2 all/Call to Business for Campus Crusade and has been traveling around the world.

The dinner will include soup, sandwiches and dessert and a freewill donation will be requested.

Organizers suggested that people come before their choir practice or other church activities that evening and avoid cooking dinner.

National Christian music group to perform ROSEWOOD — Rosewood United Methodist Church will bring national Christian music group Page CXVI to Champaign County.

Page CXVI focuses on performing and recording the timeless hymns in a contemporary style.

They want to preserve hymns and make them accessible to current and future generations, event organizers said.

The concert will be held at Rosewood United Methodist on May 17 at 7 p.m. and will be free of charge.

Interested persons

may visit the group’s at website www.pagecxvi.com and download some of their recorded hymns for free.

Church to sponsor cornhole tournament The Trinity Church of the Brethren will sponsor a cornhole tournament June 2 at the church, 2220 N. Main St. Registration opens at 10 a.m. and games will begin at 11 a.m. There is a $30-per-team entry fee.

Sixty percent of the registration fees will be

paid out as prizes: the first-place team gets 30 percent; the second-place team wins 20 percent and the third-place team wins 10 percent.

Boards and bags will be provided. Registration forms are available at the church. For information, call 498-2184.

Revival planned Beulah Land Full Gospel Church, 1069 Fairington Drive, will host a revival with Pastor Shane Jackson from Sidney Church of God today through Sunday.

Services start nightly at 7 p.m. except Sunday,

when the service begins at 6 p.m.

Pastor Herstle Griffis and members of Beulah Land invite all to come to the revival.

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Chavez’s voice cracked with emotion as he bade farewell to aides and supporters in Caracas on April 30 before leaving for what he said would be his final round of cancer treatment in Cuba.

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“I’m sure our Christ will do it again, continuing making the miracle,” Chavez said as he raised his cross to his lips and kissed it, prompting applause from an audience of aides.

If Chavez survives cancer, political analysts say his increasing religiosity could pay election-year dividends in a country where Catholicism remains influential.

“Given that he cannot hide the illness, but he can hide its characteristics and danger, he’s de-

cided to take as much advantage of it as he can, and one advantage is the symbolic and religious issue,” said Luis Vicente Leon, a Venezuelan pollster and analyst.

“He’ll present himself as the chosen one, the man who has been cured and healed by the Lord to continue governing the country.”

The president has alternated between emotional fragility and optimism in public, mentioning God and Jesus nearly every time he shows up on TV.

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Chavez shed tears last month during a televised Mass with relatives in Venezuela, when he prayed aloud to Jesus to “give me life.”

In a later appearance in Cuba, Chavez held up the same crucifix that he said helped deliver him from one of his darkest moments, a 2002 coup that briefly deposed him.

He returned to the presidency within two days.

“I have great faith in what we’re doing, in this intense undertaking against the illness that ambushed me last year,

and I have faith, I repeat, in God,” said Chavez, who looked pale and bloated.

“It’s like a pact with God, with Christ my Lord,” Chavez said. “I’m sure he will lay on a hand so that this treatment, which we’re rigorously following, will have supreme success.”

Chavez’s religiosity contrasts with the resolute secularism of his political father figure, Castro, and other leaders who have followed the socialist path Chavez lauds.

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Moms are celebrated around the world

The perpetuation of this tradition in North America goes back to an American, Anna Jarvis, who lost her mother on the second Sunday of May, 1906. She convinced the authorities in her small Virginian town to mark Mother’s Day with a religious ceremony the following year. The idea was so popular that the entire state of Virginia began an official celebration for mothers in 1907. A few years later, in 1914, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson officially designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

Strangely enough, Mother’s Day is celebrated on a wide range of dates around the world. It’s celebrated as early as February in Norway and as late as December in Panama and Indonesia. Between these two extremes, hardly a month goes by without some country honouring their mothers with a special day. One thing is certain though, no matter the place or the date, mothers deserve to be celebrated!

Since then, many countries including Canada, Brazil, Italy, Japan, and Belgium have followed

Mother’s Day is celebrated on different dates around the world.

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Why not make your cherished mother’s greatest wish come true for Mother’s Day? If you and your sibling haven’t been on speaking terms for months, if you’re annoyed with a family member over a trifle, why not bury the hatchet, turn the page, and try to get along for your mother’s sake. A family reconciliation might very well be the most wonderful gift she could receive.

Perhaps you don’t demonstrate the love you feel for your mother on a regular

basis. Mother’s Day is the ideal moment to express this love, with heartfelt wishes, gifts, or gestures that will go straight to her heart. If you have a limited budget, offer her some quality time, spent together doing an activity she particularly loves. Or help her out with some chores she finds difficult. At the very least, a pretty card in which you express your wholehearted love for her will surely bring her joy.

Another great idea is to develop the habit of expressing your gratitude to your mother and spoiling her every chance you get. It will allow you to build a closer relationship with her, something that might feel great for both of you.

Why wait for Mother’s Day to show your affection to the one who gave you life and to tell her how much you love her?

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If you love your mother but forget to tell her on a regular basis, now is the perfect time to tell her how you feel.

by dip in a thermal spa is just the thing. A box of different herbal teas or coffees would also be well received, as would bath products or a pair of ultracomfortable slippers.

Here are some personality-based gift ideas that are sure to please your mother no matter what her style, interests, or age.

FOODIE MOMS Why not an apron embroidered with her first name, a gourmet box of chocolates, or a fancy high-quality kitchen gadget? If your budget is more ample, she would surely love a gastronomic weekend away, with meals featuring local products and a couple of nights in a cozy inn.

Let her know how grateful you are Mothers give so much of themselves to their children, from the time they’re babies, through childhood and beyond the trials of adolescence.

That’s half a lifetime spent caring for their children! Honoured since antiquity, motherhood represents the source of life and nurturing.

Personalized gifts for mothers

TENDER-HEARTED MOMS Opt for a heart-shaped locket, a jewellery box engraved with a loving message, or a digital photograph frame filled with family photos. Or how about a personalized novel in which she plays the heroine and recounts her experiences as a young woman or as a mother.

ACTIVE MOMS If she loves being active but is hesitant to treat herself, offer her some sports equipment that she wouldn’t splurge for herself. Or make a gift of a short- or long-term membership at the nearest gym or a few sessions with a personal trainer.

Short on gift ideas for Mother’s Day? Let your mother’s personality inspire you!

CURIOUS MOMS How about a subscription to a newspaper or magazine, a tablet computer, or books about different travel destinations? You could also offer a daytrip to a museum or art gallery in a neighbouring town or city.

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MUNICIPAL COURT conduct, amended from drug abuse and drug paraphernalia.

• Killian L. Roddy, 1509 Fair Oaks Drive, was fined $150 plus costs and sentenced to 20 days in jail with seven days suspended and three days credit on charges of ciminal damaging and theft.

• John D. Russelburg, 507 S. Main Ave., was fined $25 plus costs on a charge of overtaking/passing to the right.

• Heather N. Lloyd, Port Jefferson 909 Road, was fined $30 plus costs for a seatbelt violation.

• Jody Geuy, Sidney, was fined $25 plus costs for a right of way/private drive/alley traffic violation.

Monday in Sidney Municipal Court, Geottemoeller fined Megan N. Frederick, 307 N. Walnut Ave., a total of $50 plus costs for charges of operating a motor vehicle with a temporary permit and improper starting and backing of vehicles.

• Natalie Westfall, 620 Michigan St., was fined $70 plus costs for speeding.

• William J. Powers, 106 N. Pomeroy Ave., was fined $75 plus costs for driving under suspension.

• Megan E. Bryan, 1223 Apple Blossom Lane, was fined a total of $100 plus costs for expired operator’s license and reasonable control.

• Dominic S. Durr, 101 W. North St., Anna, was fined, a total of $300 plus costs, sentenced to 20 hours community service and given one year of probation for DUS and expired operator’s license. Community service may be reconsidered if fines are paid in six months.

• Randy L. Stout, 3576 Wapakoneta Ave., was fined $250 plus costs, sentenced to 80 hours community service and was given one year probation for failure to display and a seatbelt violation. Forty hours may be reconsidered if fines are paid in six months.

• Dillion J. Bundy, 305 Arrowhead Drive, Apt. D, was fined $75 plus costs for DUS. • Justin Perry, 1334 Logan Court, was ordered to serve three days in jail previously ordered (credit for two days served), for driving under the influence (first offense), failure to reinstate license, driving on the right side of roadway and seatbelt.

• Casey E. Idle, Piqua, was fined $150 plus costs, sentenced to five days in jail and placed on probation for one year for criminal damaging.

• Amanda Erb, 12636 Kirkwood Road, was fined $25 plus costs for confinement/restraint of a dog.

• George M. Willis, Piqua, was fined $75 plus costs for no fishing license.

• Vicki L. Willis, Piqua, was fined $75

plus costs for no fishing license.

• Carolyn Maynard, 5911 State Route 29 East, was fined $25 plus costs for confinement/restraint of a dog.

• Amanda Erb, 12636 Kirkwood Road, was fined $25 plus costs for confinement/restraint of a dog.

• Cory J. Jarvis, Ypsilanti, Mich., was bound over to Common Pleas Court on charges of drug abuse and possessing criminal tools.

• Justin C. Cromes, 517 Fair Road, was bound over to Common Pleas Court on three counts of having weapons under disability.

• Peter Alaious D. Stokes, at large, was bound over to Common Pleas Court on a charge of rape.

Civil cases Roger L. and Freda Schroer, 15800 Sharp Road, v. Elvin Stooksbury, 1068 Cinnamon Ridge Lane, lot 32, $1,925.

Kosciusko Community Hospital, Cincinnati, v. Doug Creekmore, 18620 State Route, $1,385.30.

Everest Acquisitions LLC, Cincinnati, v. Elizabeth A. Jones, 621 Foxcross Drive, $881.03.

Midland Funding LLC, San Diego, Calif., v.

Michael A. Chambers, 1643 Dorsey Hageman Road, $2,840.08, dismissed with prejudice.

Lima Pathology Association, Lima, v. Brian and Ashley R. Holthaus, 10033 Hoying Road, Anna, $120, dismissed without prejudice.

Citibank NA, Sioux Falls, S.D., v. Pamela Sue Graves (Backscheider), 2477 Frazier Guy Road, $5,022.60, judgment satisfied.

United Ohio Insurance Co., Bucyrus, and Vernon J. Ahrns, 7783 Galley Road, Fort Loramie, v. Matthew A. Cotterman, 320 Mulberry Place, C. Eron Nation, c/o London Correctional Institute, London, and Christopher A. Brown, Cincinnati, $2,197.20 Springleaf Financial Services, Piqua, v.

Thomas Alexander, 737 St. Marys Ave., $8,417.98.

Groundskeeper Lawn Care and Land, 2324 Stanley Ave., Dayton, v.

Sidney Village, 999 Buckeye Ave., and RLJ Management Co. Inc., same address, $1,707.65, dismissed with prejudice.

Wilson Memorial Hospital v. Matthew Freeman, 223 Pike St., $454.32, judgment satisfied.

Wilson Memorial Hos-

pital v. Jayson V. and Wendy Barker, 2511 N. Main Ave., $470.20, judgment satisfied.

Alliance Credit Services Inc., 770 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Danville, Calif. v. Heather Kies, 18562 Herring Road, $4,204.68.

LVNV, LLC Assignee of Credit One Bank NA, S. Main St., 15 Greenville, S.C., v.

Thomas J. Borkowski Jr., 823 E. Court St., $735.02.

Wilson Memorial Hospital v. Tony and Lisa D. 112 N. Dibisceglie, Pomeroy Ave., $1,580.54.

Progressive Specialty Insurance, P.O. Box 512929, Los Angeles, Calif., v. Derek L. Grieselding, 115 Foxhill Lane, Perrysburg, $7,173.87.

Midland Funding DE LLC, 8875 Aero Drive, Suite 200, San Diego, Calif., v. Robert Stewart, 725 Lynn St., $1,975.02, judgment paid in full.

Capital One Bank, 15000 Capital One Drive, Richmond, Va., v.

Rachel L. Wells, P.O. Box 327, Botkins, $1,099.94, judgment paid in full.

Cavalry SPV I LLC, 4645 Executive Drive, Columbus, v. Dennis J. Hale, 111 Fessler Buxton Road, Russia, $2,482.17.

Waivers Ulysee Robinson, 329 Maple St., failure to register a dog, $130.

Crystal Hurley, 21600 Meranda Road, Jackson Center, confinement restraint dog, $130.

Crystal Powers, 1203 Constitution Ave., confinement restraint dog, $130.

Josette Zeilah, Laurel, Md., speed, $255.

Sarah L. Zimmerman, Toledo, speed, $205.

India K. Mial, Memphis, Tenn., speed, $205.

Brian A. McIntyre, 11571 Wenger Road, Anna, speed, $135.

Glenn Holbrooks, 37 W. Ward St., Apt. 1, Versailles, speed, $135.

Heidi S. Hittepole, 10000 Botkins Road, Botkins, speed, $135.

Tiffany A. Hunt, Lima, speed, $135.

Trisha E. Lamb, Kettering, speed, $135.

Robert J. Hoel, Wapakoneta, seatbelt, $116.

Steven Brooks, Springfield, seatbelt, $116.

Keyiara M. Sallie, Marietta, Ga., speed, $135.

Jason G. Miller, 505 E. State St., Botkins, speed, $205.

David L. Bennett, Waynesville, failure to display plate, $130.

Katira E. Richardson, 205 E. South St., Botkins, speed, $135.

Betty J. Knutson, 15610 State Route 119, Anna, speed, $135.

Yvonne M. Lane, 11533 Tawawa Maplewood Road, Maplewood, speed, $175.

Marcus J. Loree, Centerville, speed, $135.

Tyler K. Shroyer, 1021 Juniper Way, speed, $135.

Jonathan J. Pankiw, Columbus, $135.

Sean Andrew Osting, Delphos, speed, $135.

Tomeka L. Cooley Pettus, Dayton, speed, $135.

Jerry W. Beaver, 115 N. Highland Ave., Apt. 2A, speed, $125.

Tyler S. Freeman, Cumming, Ga., seatbelt, $116.

Jessica L.Rinderle, St. Henry, speed, $135.

John O. Dysinger, Piqua, speed, $135.

Erika D. Butler, 2517 Oakmont Court, speed, $175.

Patricia Marie Grand Schoenborn, Rapids, Mich., speed, $135.

Luis Enrique Zevallos De La Torre, Cincinnati, speed, $135.

Justin T. Watkins, Campton, Ky., speed, $135.

Brandon C. Eckstein, Lima, driving left side of roadway, $136.

Brian R. Bailey, Dexter, Mich., axle overload, $371.

Joshua J. Berger, Milan, Ind., speed, $135.

Linda J. Brown, Wapakoneta, speed, $135.

Tyler W. Day, 2553 Apache Drive, speed, $135.

Andrew C. Yenser, 107 North St., Botkins, speed, $135.

L. Bush, Aaron Springfield, speed, $135.

Kiley A. Swiger, 734 N. Main Ave., speed, $135.

A. Wells, Craig Tazewell, Tenn., speed, $135.

Brian M. McNally, Fort Wayne, Ind., speed, $135.

Carla A. Stone, 200 E. German St., New Knoxville, speed, $135.

Christopher C. Brunswick, 12993 Versailles Yorkshire Road, Versailles, speed, $135.

Devon A. Weinstock, 405 Tamala Ave., Anna, seatbelt.

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Patricia F. Hoying, 12387 Luthman Road, Minster, speed, $135.

Jeffrey J. Beyke, 8595 Irwin St., Maria Stein, speed, $135.

Justin W. Brooks, 12471 State Route 274, Anna, right of way/private drive/alley, $136.

Kathy Lynn Wiers, Grandville, Mich., speed, $175.

Eric J. Warren, Somerset, Ky., $175.

Luke R. Grieshop, Coldwater, speed, $135.

Ryan L. Will, Fort Recovery, speed, $135.

Jayson J. Quinones, Centerville, speed, $135.

Michael D. Carter, 109 E. Walnut St., Botkins, speed, $135.

Joel D. Iverson, Madison Heights, Mich., speed, $135.

Logan M. Kiracofe, Lima, speed, $175.

Adam L. Daniel, 113 N. Highland Ave., Apt. 3B, expired license plates, $136.

Mitchell R. Thompson, Ridgeway, speed, $135.

Vicki L. Predmore, Lewistown, speed, $135.

Jeremiah R. Selby, Columbus, speed, $135.

Anthony P. Drees, 2370 Riverside Drive, speed, $135.

Kendra M. Riethman, 2651 W. Millcreek Road, assured clear distance, $130.

Kelly M. Obringer, Coldwater, speed, $135.

Ashley L. McCune, 205 S. Piper St., obedience to traffic control device, $136.

Kevin J. HemmelMiamisburg, garn, speed, $175.

Cynthia L. Goubeaux, 120 North St., Russia, speed, $135.

Cindy M. Byrd, Cridersville, display of plates/sticker, $130.

Christopher M. Wilt, 530 Urban Ave., right of way at intersection, $136.

Elaine Wrightman, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, speed, $135.

Bonds Corey Lee Pratt, Jacksonville, Fla., speed, $175.50.

Regis D.J. Motley Jr., Dayton, speed, $135.

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Wednesday morning in Sidney Municipal Court, Judge Duane Goettemoeller sentenced Angela M. Earls, 1129 Hilltop Ave., Apt. F, to five days in jail with credit for one day served for probation violation, amended from misconduct at an emergency.

• Sandra J. Reier, 10959 Comanche Drive, was fined $200 plus costs, sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on probation for one year for attempted theft, amended from theft.

Reier may complete mental health counseling in lieu of $100 of the fine.

• Matthew J. Hamilton, at large, was fined $75 plus costs, and must participate in Alternative Service Program for payment, on a charge of disorderly conduct, amended from passing bad checks.

• Devin L. Wilson, 9980 Sawgrass Lane, Piqua, was fined $150 plus costs, sentenced to a total of 27 days in jail with credit for four days served and 10 days suspended, and placed on probation for one year on charge of driving under suspension and contempt. Ten days of jail may be reconsidered if fines are paid in six months.

• Jeremy R. Gervais, Columbus, was fined $375 plus costs, sentenced to a total of 35 days in jail with credit for eight days served, and placed on probation for one year on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and contempt, amended from two DUI counts and one DUS count. His driver’s license also was suspended for 180 days with credit for pretrial suspension, and limited driving privileges may be reinstated after 15 days with proof of insurance and work.

• Richard E. Hahn, 6390 State Route 66, Fort Loramie, was fined a total of $400 plus costs and sentenced to five days in jail on charges of reckless operation, amended from DUI, and one way traffic. He also was placed on probation for one year.

• Beth C. Berning, 8210 Beuning, Fort Loramie, was fined $1,000 plus costs with $850 suspended, sentenced to 40 days in jail and placed on probation for one year on a charge of drug abuse. She may complete counseling as recommended in lieu of 30 days in jail.

Tuesday, Judge Goettemoeller fined William M. Molitor Jr., 2178 State Route 47, Houston, $175 plus costs on charges of DUS/restrictions and use of unauthorized plates.

• Brittany A. McKee, 134 W. Clay St., was sentenced to 180 days in jail on a charge of receiving stolen property.

• Cara L. Hynes, 440 Jefferson St., fined $100 plus costs and given five days in jail on two charges of disorderly

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Cookie money helps Jeff McAtee (left), food pantry coordinator at Agape Distribution, receives $500 in Kroger gift cards from Abigail Ragan, 8, of Sidney. Abigail’s Girl Scout troop voted to donate part of its cookie sale proceeds to help the hungry. Abigail is a member of Girl Scout Troop No. 20690 in Sidney. She is the daughter of Kerry Keiser, of Sidney, and Donald Ragan, of Tipp City.

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BY FRANCIS DRAKE want to work alone to enjoy some peace of What kind of day will mind. tomorrow be? To find out SCORPIO what the stars say, read (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) the forecast given for Competition with a your birth sign. friend or a group is strong right now. You can For Friday, best use this energy to May 11, 2012 lead others to achieve a collective goal.

ARIES SAGITTARIUS (March 21 to April 19) (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Your ability to work Because your ambihard is unusual. You’re tion is aroused as never on a roll, so make the before, no one can stop most of it. Many of you you from achieving your are working to improve goals. You’re working your health now as well. hard to attain something TAURUS that is important to you.

(April 20 to May 20) CAPRICORN Vacations, parties, (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) sports, love affairs and Travel opportunities romance all strongly ap- are so appealing! This is peal to you now. Hope- why many of you have fully, you can book lots of been traveling so much time for fun, and grab a that when you get home, holiday as well. you barely have time to GEMINI unpack and repack your (May 21 to June 20) bags.

Do whatever you can AQUARIUS to keep the peace at (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) home, because arguQuarrels about inherments and family squab- itances and shared propbles have been par for the erty might take place course. This will test your now. Alternatively, you patience. might learn how to CANCER smoothly share some(June 21 to July 22) thing with someone else.

Now and in future It’s your choice. months, you’ll find yourPISCES self unusually convinc- (Feb. 19 to March 20) ing. Those of you in sales Difficulties with partand marketing or those ners will arise now and who teach, write and act in the future months, bewill be unusually produc- cause Mars is opposite tive and successful. your sign for so long. It’s LEO hard to be patient with (July 23 to Aug. 22) others, isn’t it? (Try it.)

You’ve been spending YOU BORN TODAY money, and you’re going You’re so creative and to continue to spend imaginative that you money. That’s because often are viewed as ecMars is activating your centric. At times, you are House of Earnings. Be even dismissed or not aware of this. taken seriously. NeverVIRGO theless, you have great (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) talent and a wonderful In a celestial fluke, the gift of fantasy. Fortuplanet Mars is in your nately, many of you know sign for months. This is how to use this sense of why you’re so pumped fantasy in your profeswith aggression and sion. Personally, you are ready to do anything or fun-loving and playful. In defend anyone. (Wow.) the year ahead, an imLIBRA portant decision will rise.

(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Choose wisely.

Behind-the-scenes acBirthdate of: Natasha tivities are taking place Richardson, actress; for many of you, and this Martha Graham, dancer; could include secret love Salvador Dali, surrealist affairs. Others simply artist/sculptor.

DR. WALimportance of LACE: I’m 16 making wise deand have been cisions.

You an avid reader have played a of your teen colhuge part in umn for over 3 helping us deyears, and I velop our posiwant to thank tive philosophy you for your for life. Once strong stand ’Tween again, I thank against teens — Name12 & 20 you. getting involved less, Crown Dr. Robert in pre-marital Point, Ind. Wallace My sex.

N A M E boyfriend and I LESS: Thanks have been together for for your kind words. I’m 15 months. Things can thrilled to have played a change, but we both be- part in your decision not lieve we will become to have sex before marhusband and wife. We, riage. You are a very like most teens, have dis- wise young lady and cussed becoming sexu- your future will surely ally active, but we have reflect your wisdom and agreed to remain virgins your self-respect. as long as we stay toDR. WALLACE: I’m gether. I know many of 20, married and just reyour teen readers will cently found out that my disagree with our views, husband and I will bebut when it comes to re- come parents in about maining a virgin or be- six months. We are recoming sexually active, ally excited. Both of us the decision is a very are “only” children, so we personal one. That is want to have a large why my boyfriend and I family. I don’t drink alcohave made a list of pros hol of any kind, but I do and cons about teens smoke. I talked to my having pre-marital sex. doctor about smoking Our aim is to reach those while pregnant and the teens who have never dangers it could cause had sex but are thinking the unborn child. All he about it because “every- said was that it would be one is doing it” or so they better for my health to think. In reality, they re- stop smoking, but there ally are not. Here is our is no definitive proof list: that smoking could hurt PROS: Nothing we the baby. can think of.

Is this true? I’d really CONS: 1. We could like to continue smoking lose respect for our- because I’m really adselves. dicted to tobacco, and I 2. We could disregard truly believe that smokeverything that our par- ing helps calm my ents have taught us. nerves. Do you have any 3. I’m 16 and he is 17; information to challenge however, having sex be- what my personal physifore you are married is cian told me? — Jillian, wrong, no matter what Philadelphia, Pa. the age.

JILLIAN: There 4. We would both lose must be some sort of our virginity. miscommunication be5. Since we go to a pri- tween your doctor and vate Christian school, if you. It’s difficult for me it was found out that we to believe that a medical were having sex, we doctor would not believe would be asked to leave. that a pregnant mother 6. If I were to become who smokes should stop pregnant, we would both smoking immediately to lose any sort of “social” protect the health of the life. mother and the unborn 7. Our parents would child. be extremely disapadvocates Health pointed and we would have launched a cameach face some ex- paign aimed at getting tremely difficult deci- pregnant women to kick sions affecting the rest of the habit. our lives.

According to Ameri8. Most likely, we can Legacy Foundation, would lose each other a public health group, and lose respect for each about 13 percent of pregother. nant women admit they 9. Sexually-transmit- smoke and that percentted diseases are always a age needs to drop bepossibility. cause smoking during I know our relation- pregnancy carries signifship will become icant health risks and is stronger in the future linked to 1 in 10 infant because we both see the deaths.

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June 16 in Bremenfest Park.

“The equipment has been assembled, footers and curbing are poured but we’re not quite ready for live play yet,” said NB-NK Rotary Club President Kristin Hough. “There is a critical time coming up where the rubber and epoxy will be applied to create the safety flooring all throughout the playground. It’s hard to believe, but the special rubber flooring cost more than $90,000 and is tricky to install. It is very important that no one enters the playground site during or immediately following the installation of that rubber. The special rubber layer rubber could easily be damaged or ruined.”

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The primary concern now is that children attempting to play on the equipment could fall and hurt themselves on the hard base layer of stone and sand, she said. Fencing and signage are installed around the playground to remind people to keep children away from the site and off the equipment until after the June 16th ribbon cutting.

“Kids are definitely tempted to play on that beautiful equipment,” said Hough. “But, we still have to finish the construction process which includes tightening everything down, infencing, stalling installing landscaping and a good thorough cleaning. It would be great if parents could please remind their kids not to enter the playground area and stay off the equipment until after the ribbon cutting.

We really don’t want anyone to fall and get hurt, or have an accident.”

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Billing heads to U.D. BOTKINS — is the valedictoHailey Billing, a rian of her class. senior at Botkins Her high High School, has school activities been accepted by have been track, State Wright basketball, swim University in team, academic Dayton, where team, FCCLA, Billing she plans to National Honor study accountSociety, Future ing.

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Individuals with untreated hearing loss are more likely to experience feelings of social isolation, anxiety, depression, and dependence than those that choose to seek treatment for their hearing impairment. Untreated hearing loss will not only endanger your safety, but also isolate you from your friends and family.

Not only is a hearing loss frustrating but it can also be dangerous! It can cause missed doorbells, alarms, directions and warnings. Hearing can even lead to other problems like loneliness, depression, social isolation, and even Dementia. The John Hopkins Institute published a study from the February Archives of Neurology, which focused on people whose hearing and cognitive abilities were tested for four year. While about a quarter of the volunteers had some hearing loss at the start of the study, none had Dementia. Those volunteers were then closely followed with repeat examination every two years. By 2008, fifty-eight of them had developed Dementia. Therefore, not treating hearing loss will not only lead to physical concerns for you and your family but it leads to emotional turmoil as well.

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REPLAY 50 years ago May 10, 1962 Sidney High School’s thinclads got off to a good start as they easily defeated Bellefontaine in a dual track meet at Julia Lamb stadium Monday afternoon. Doug Hill was the only double winner for Sidney as he won the low hurdles with a time of 23.5 seconds and then he tied with Joe Stump in the high hurdles as both boys hit the tape in 18.4 seconds.

25 years ago May 10, 1987 Russia came back from an 11-2 deficit and tied the game up in the seventh inning, but Fort Loramie pushed a run across in the bottom of the inning on Dan Wehrman’s single to take a 12-11 thriller over the Raiders in Class A district tournament action at Custenborder Field. Loramie was led by Wehrman, who also cracked a three-run homer in the fourth. For Russia, Dale McEldowney had a single, a double, two stolen bases and scored four times.

Contact Sports Editor Ken Barhorst with story ideas, sports scores and game stats by phone at (937) 498-5960; e-mail, kbarhorst@sdnccg.com; or by fax, (937) 498-5991.

Reds get Baker 1500th win MILWAUKEE (AP) — Johnny Cueto showed he could hold his own in a duel with one of baseball’s toughest pitchers at home, Zack Greinke.

Joey Votto and the Cincinnati Reds then found a way to give Dusty Baker a milestone victory.

Votto’s RBI double off John Axford broke a scoreless tie in the ninth, and the Reds edged the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Wednesday.

“Zack is always a handful,” Votto said. “John Axford is a very good pitcher in his own right, and then we stole one from him. I don’t want to use the word surprising, but it’s great whenever you can sneak out a win against those two pitchers.”

The Reds won two of three against the struggling Brewers, leaving Baker with 1,500

victories as a major league manager.

“Every time you win something, it means something,” Baker said. “They came and told me that I won my 1,400th here. Now my 1,500th here.

Who knows? Maybe I’ll win my 2,000th here. If I’m around that long.”

Drew Stubbs singled off Axford with two outs, and Votto lined a ball over the glove of second baseman Rickie Weeks to score Stubbs from first.

“Drew always has a chance to score,” Votto said. “He’s such a good runner. He’s probably one of the game’s best runners.”

Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said he didn’t have a clear view of the play as it developed, but he wasn’t happy with the result.

“I don’t think a guy should be able to score from first

base,” Roenicke said.

Brandon Phillips then hit a bloop single, driving in Votto for a 2-0 lead.

Ryan Braun connected against Sean Marshall in the bottom of the ninth, trimming the Reds’ lead to one with his 10th homer. Marshall nearly gave up another homer on a long fly ball by Corey Hart that was caught at the wall in center, then allowed a pair of two-out singles to Jonathan Lucroy and Norichika Aoki.

Baker then decided to replace Marshall with Logan Ondrusek.

“Aoki blooped one in there and at that point and time, I figured that was enough,” Baker said. “You hate to take your closer out, but we needed that ballgame.”

Ondrusek walked George Kottaras to load the bases but

got Travis Ishikawa to pop out, earning his first save.

“As a manager, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” Baker said. “No, I had no reservations about that.”

Axford (0-2) took the loss.

“I made a good pitch to Votto, but he put a better swing on it, got his hands in there and it was literally like an inch away from Rickie catching it,” Axford said. “The ball after that, it was just kind of, throw the bat out there and hope you make contact and it dropped in. It’s just the way baseball goes sometimes.”

The ninth-inning offense came after impressive outings from Greinke and Cueto.

Greinke pitched eight dominant innings before being lifted for a pinch hitter. He gave up two hits with no walks and had a season-high 11 strikeouts.

CALENDAR High school sports Today’s schedule Softball Sidney D-IV Sectional All games at 5 p.m.

Riverside at Fort Loramie Ansonia at Houston Triad-Fairlawn winner vs.

Mississinawa at Triad Lehman at Russia Baseball Regular season Fairlawn at Russia Spencerville at New Bremen New Knoxville at Delphos Jefferson Jackson Center at Anna Botkins at Fort Loramie

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“He’s a baseball player. When you’re a baseball player, you can be 15 or you can be 50. If you know how to play the game you can play.”

— Jayson Werth of the Washington Nationals on his 19-year-old teammate Bryce Harper.”

NUMBERS GAME .106 — “Winning” percentage of the Charlotte Bobcats, which set an NBA record for futility. The Bobcats’ record of 759 erases the mark set by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1972-73 when they finished 9-73 (.110).

9 — SEC players drafted in the first 18 selections of the 2012 NFL Draft.

ON THIS DATE IN 1969 — The plans for the NFL-AFL merger are completed.

The NFL will consist of two conferences of 13 teams, the AFC and NFC. The NFL will move three franchises, Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to the AFC. 2008 — Greg Maddux of the San Diego Padres becomes the ninth pitcher in big league history to win 350 games, allowing an unearned over six innings in a 32 victory over the Colorado Rockies.

SIDNEY’S JASMINE Glover makes an attempt in the high jump Wednesday in the Greater Western Ohio Conference

Glover wins two events in GWOC PIQUA — Sidney is seventh overall and third among Greater Western Ohio Conference North teams after finals held in 12 events on the first day of the GWOC track meet in Piqua Wednesday.

The divisional portion of the meet was completed Wednesday night. The top two qualifiers in each event from each division, plus the two best additional competitors advance to the league championships Friday night.

The meet concludes with the running event finals Friday.

Highlighting the competition for Sidney was Jasmine Glover, who won the high jump by clearing 5-5. That was four inches better than the runner-up in the North.

She won the North 100 hurdles in 15.47 and was second in the 100 and 200.

In the pole vault, Lauren Boyd at 8-6 and Tina Echemann at 8-feet were sixth and seventh.

In the boys shot put, Andre Spillers was second in the North with a distance of 440.25, and in the girls hot put, Bria Foy was third with a distance of 32-0.25.

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SIDNEY’S JAKE Selanders competes in the 110 hurdles during the conference meet Wednesday at Piqua. He finished second in the North Division. fifth in the discus at 118-2, and in the girls discus, Morgan White was sixth at 79-3.

In the girls long jump, Brandi Johnson took fourth in the North with a 16-5 leap.

In the girls 3200 relay, Sidney’s Stevie Shepherd, Peyton Jones, Miranda Roark and Kenleigh Immel took fifth in 11:35.2. The boys team of Blake Steenrod, John Clinard,

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GWOC Track Meet At Piqua North finals Sidney placers (Results incomplete) Girls pole vault — 6. Lauren Boyd 8-6; 7. Tina Echemann 8-0.

Boys shot put — 2. Andrea Spillers 44-0.25 Girls shot put — 3. Bria Foy

32-0.25 Boys discus — 5. Patrick Shropshire 118-2 Girls discus — 6. Morgan White 79-3 Girls long jump — 4. Brandi Johnson 16-5 Girls high jump — 1. Jasmine Glover 5-5; 4. Kristin Beigel 4-6 Boys 3200 relay — Sidney 4th, 8:46.56 Girls 3200 relay — Sidney 5th 11:35.2 Girls 100 hurdles — 1. Jasmine Glover 15.47 Boys 100 hurdles — 2. Jake Selanders 16.17 Girls 100 — 2. Jasmine Glover 12.73 Boys 100 — 5. Kaleb Martin 11.51; 6. Zane Lewis 11.64 Girls 800 relay — Sidney 3rd 1:50.8 Boys 800 relay — Sidney 3rd 1:31.74 Girls 400 relay — Sidney 3rd 52.3 Boys 400 relay — Sidney 3rd 44.45 Girls 400 dash — 5. Morgan Knasel 1:03.79; 6. Aaliyah Wise 1:05.46.

Boys pole vault — 3. Travis West, 13-6 Girls 1600 relay — Sidney 4th 4:27.65 Boys 1600 relay — Sidney 5th 3:43.32 Girls 200 dash — 2. Jasmine Glover 26.51 Boys 200 dash — 2. Kaleb Martin 23.06

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Revisiting Sidney’s conference affiliation opted for the In these Miami Central pages last week, Conference, folSidney Superinof lowed in 1982 tendent by the Greater Schools John Miami Valley Scheu thorConference, oughly examwhich eventuined the school merged ally district's membership in the Dave Ross with the Western Ohio Greater Western Guest League to form Ohio Confercolumnist the current ence.

I echo every point he GWOC in 2001.

The GWOC began made and also reached the same conclusion that with 14 schools in two the GWOC is where we divisions and now inbelong for now. I will cludes 18 in three.

Since 1927 Sidney take that a step further later in this column. and Piqua have been toLet's start by laying gether every step of the way while Troy and some groundwork.

Sidney's athletic pro- Greenville both lapsed gram began with high along the way before reschool football in 1896. turning to reunite the faA few years later saw miliar foursome. Troy the first venture into a pulled out in 1968 and league/conference with came back in 1982. the short lived Interur- Greenville withdrew in ban Athletic League that 1972 and also returned included Sidney, Piqua, in 1982 before bolting Troy, Greenville, Belle- again in 2005, and fully returning here in 2012. fontaine, and Urbana.

History shows us that There was no affiliation from 1905 until the Sidney, Piqua, Troy, and formation of the Miami Greenville have basiValley League in 1927. cally been together and The MVL lasted until belong together as the 1974. In 1975 Sidney nucleus of a conference.

A solid conference contains schools with similar enrollments and demographics, good facilities, favorable geographic proximity, and the ability to draw large crowds in key sports to pay the bills.

The geographic factor is amplified in an era of high travel expenses like today. Over time the schools should be competitive with one another in a variety of sports, which is the case with this foursome. All will experience peaks and valleys for various reasons, and Sidney currently resides in a valley in some of the most visible activities. This is cyclical and does change.

Only three years ago, Sidney dominated Piqua and beat a good Troy team to help conclude a solid 5-5 football campaign.

Sidney, Piqua, Troy, and Greenville currently reside in the GWOC's North Division. If you add Vandalia from that same grouping, you have the nucleus to form a new conference of at

least six schools that governs itself and doesn't involve much larger schools among a huge overall membership.

The Aviators have been with us since 1975 and are a nice fit for the cited criteria.

Who would be the sixth school? As I mentioned here last fall in an “Extra Points” column, it's Tipp City, which has continually grown closer in size to the aforementioned five and meets the other criteria. The question becomes, “Is Tipp ready to consider itself as a larger district that belongs in such a grouping?”

They should be and I hope they are. This is a critical piece to the puzzle.

If these six will get on board, can you stop there and form a new six-school conference? Maybe.

The former Miami Valley League enjoyed some solid years with this number.

The biggest problem with six members is putting together a varsity football schedule in a sport

where teams don't traditionally play each other more than once per season. Non-league laterin-the-season football opponents were much easier to find 40 years ago than they are today.

If this issue could be successfully addressed, a huge barrier would be removed. Football is big revenue and merits this consideration.

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Bowling camps set at Bel-Mar

LEHMAN FIRST baseman DJ Hemm waits for the throw as Springfield Catholic’s Ryan Fain dives

back to the bag in Division IV Sectional Tournament play Wednesday at Lehman. The Cavs won 9-0.

Smith fans 12, Cavaliers advance to sectional finals Lehman ace Alex Smith pitched a four-hitter and struck out 12, and the Cavs rolled into the Division IV Sectional finals with a 9-0 whitewashing of Springfield Catholic in high school baseball action at Lehman Wednesday.

Lehman takes a 20-5 record into the finals Wednesday at Piqua against Riverside at 5 p.m. Riverside beat Russia Wednesday.

“It took us a while to get going, but once we did we were all right,” said Lehman coach Dave King.

The game was scoreless after two innings and there were two out and nobody on in the bottom of the third for Lehman.

But Greg Spearman singled and stole second, and DJ Hemm walked ahead of a two-run double by Ben Weber. Weber then scored on an RBI single by Andrew Gilardi.

That opened the flood gates as the Cavs scored twice in each of the next three innings — more than enough for Smith.

“Ben’s double really got us going,” said King.

“Alex battled and the defense was nice behind him.

John Copella played a great game at second and Cole Proffit was solid behind the plate.”

Gilardi had two hits and two RBIs for the Cavs.

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Spr. Cath.......000 000 0_0 4 1 Lehman.........003 222 x_9 7 0 Dimitroff (LP), Sowards (6) and Horner; Smith and Proffitt.

Records: Lehman 20-5.

Next game: Wednesday vs.

Riverside in sectional finals, 5 p.m. at Piqua

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Loramie moves to sectional finals FORT LORAMIE — Fort Loramie breezed into the sectional finals with a 12-1 run-rule verdict over visiting Fairlawn Wednesday.

The Redskins, 17-8, will play Wednesday at Sidney High School at 5 p.m. against Covington, which upset top-seeded Bethel Wednesday 5-3.

Loramie scored three in the first and broke it open with an eight-run fourth.

Joel Hilgefort and Kyle Bollheimer both singled and homered for the Redskins. Zach Brandewie and Seth Guillozet both doubled and Kyle Miracle had two hits.

The linescore: RHE Fairlawn ..........001 00_ 1 2 2 Loramie............301 8x_12 9 1 WP: Guillozet; LP: Caudill Records: Fort Loramie 178, Fairlawn 7-13 Next game: Wednesday vs.

Covington in sectional finals, 5 p.m. at Sidney.

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Triad pitcher overpowers Anna NORTH LEWISBURG — Anna’s bats were no match for the pitching of Triad’s Lowe in Division III Sectional Tournament action at Triad Wednesday.

Anna managed just two hits, and Lowe struck out 16 in an 8-0 shutout that ended the Rockets’ tourney run.

The game was scoreless after three innings but Triad scored a run in the fourth and added four in the fifth and three in the sixth.

Wes Wolters had both of Anna’s hits.

The Rockets are 11-9 overall and have two games remaining in County play.

The linescore: RHE Anna ............000 000 0_0 8 1 Triad ............000 143 x_8 11 0 Robinson (LP) and Maurer; Lowe and McIntyre Records: Anna 11-9, Triad 20-5.

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Versailles rolls into finals VERSAILLES — Versailles needed only five innings to whip Northridge 11-1 and advance to the Division III Sectional finals.

The Tigers, now 21-6, scored seven times in the first two innings and coasted to the win Wednesday at home.

They will be back in tournament action Wednesday at Tipp City at 5 against Miami East.

The Tigers outhit the Polar Bears 11-6, with Mike Rutschilling, Ethan Bruns and Mitch Gigandet getting two hits apiece.

Bruns, Zach Niekamp, Dominic Richard and William Borchers all had two RBIs. Six of the Tiger hits were doubles, by Rutschilling, Bruns, Niekamp, Richard, Gigandet and Jake Wenning.

The linescore: RHE Northridge ......000 10_ 1 6 2 Versailles ........340 4x_11 10 1 WP: Niekamp Records: Versailles 20-6 Next game: Wednesday vs.

Miami East in sectional finals, 5 p.m. at Tipp City

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would like to roll a hook/curve ball.

If you are uncertain as to which camp to enroll your child in, feel free to email or call coach Mentges at mentga@sidney.k12.oh.u s or at 498-8085 to discuss it.

The cost is $25 per camper, and that includes a camp souvenir.

Registrations received after May 31 are not guaranteed a camp souvenir. Registration forms are available at Bel-Mar, at local schools or by contacting Mentges.

The camps are open to anyone from any school district.

Checks should be made payable to Angie Mentges and registration can be turned in at any school in Sidney, at Bel-Mar Lanes, or mailed to Mentges at Northwood School, 1152 St. Marys Ave., Sidney, 45365.

Legion baseball tryouts set Sidney Post 217 American Legion baseball tryouts are scheduled for May 17, 18 and 20 at Custenborder Field.

The tryouts will be at 5:30 on the 17th and 18th and at 2 p.m. on the 20th.

All players interested in playing Legion base-

ball and are still active with their high school team are welcome to show up, but because of Ohio High School Athletic Association rules, they will not be able to practice.

Any player turning 19 after Jan. 1, 2012 is eligible for the 2012 season.

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There will be three camps, all to be held from June 4-to-8.

The Jackets Camp will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and is for approximate age group Pre-K through second grade, with a skill level of beginner.

The Black Camp will be from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m., and is for grades 3to-6. Skill level is bowlers that can roll an 8-pound ball or heavier using a one-arm swing.

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HOUSTON’S BRANDON Ike has the bar cleared and concentrates on pushing the pole away from it on this attempt in the pole vault Tuesday at the

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County Track Meet Tuesday at Anna Finals BOYS Pole vault — Ike, Houston, 14-0; Scheer, Loramie, 12-6; Davis, Houston, 12-6; 4. Assani, Anna, 10-0; Gephart, Anna, 96; Simons, Russia, 9-6; Meyer, Loramie, 9-6.

Long jump — Bensman, Anna, 21-9; Everett, Fairlawn, 19-10.5; Bruce, Anna, 19-1.5; Winner, Houston, 18-7; Cummings, Fairlawn, 18-4.5; Thornton, Loramie, 18-3.25; Braun, Houston, 17-4; O’Reiley, Russia, 17-2.75.

3200 relay — Anna (Christman, Berning, Larger, Kiser) 8:25.2; Russia 8:39.7; Fort Loramie 8:46.8; Jackson Center 9:04.5; Houston 9:09.7.

Discus — Long, Anna, 1471; Spicer, Anna, 143-9; M. Yingst, Houston, 133-11; Cummings, Fairlawn, 133-0; J. Yingst, Houston, 127-2; Poling, Russia, 121-0; Colby, Russia, 112-5; Barlage, Loramie, 10210.

GIRLS High jump — York, Russia, 5-0; Borchers, Russia, 5-0; Billing, Botkins, 4-10; Turner, Loramie, 4-10; Altstaetter, Anna, 4-8; Albers, Anna, 4-4; Booher, Houston and Turner, Loramie, 4-8; Brown, Botkins, 4-4.

3200 relay — Fort Loramie (Luebke, Drees, Waters, Westerheide) 9:51.7 (new meet record); Botkins 10:10.4; Russia 10:18.3; Houston 10:37.8; Anna 10:53.3.

Shot put — Cummings, Fairlawn, 43-7.5 (new meet record); Underwood, Botkins, 34-0.25; Huffman, Houston, 334.5; Greve, Botkins, 32-3; Eilerman, Anna, 31-3; Drees, Russia, 28-10.5; Luthman, Loramie, 27-7; Hamberg, Anna, 27-6.

Junior high GIRLS Shot put — Taylor Doseck, Botkins, 33-2.5 High jump — Nicole

Smith, Anna, 4-10 BOYS Long jump — Drew Sherman, Russia, 17-0.75 Discus — Ian Douglass, Anna, 154-9 (new meet record) Pole vault — Weston Lavy, Russia, 10-6 (new meet record) —— Midwest Athletic Conference Tuesday at New Bremen Finals BOYS 3200 relay — Versailles (Prakel, Winner, Wenig, Subler) 8:04.86; Minster 8:11.0; St. Henry 8:12.77; Coldwater 8:23.66; Marion Local 8:41.16; Parkway 8:49.42; Delphos St. John’s 9:02.5; New Bremen 9:19.49.

Long jump — Collins, Minster, 21-0; Knapke, SH, 195; Barga, V, 19-3.75; Dippold, Cold, 19-3.25; Bergman, Cold, 19-1.75; Youngpeter, DSJ, 188.5; Schoenlein, ML, 18-6.5; Brunswick, ML, 18-4.75.

Shot put — Will, Min, 532.5; Kramer,Cold, 50-2.5; Hegemann, Min, 48-0.5; Didier,Ver, 44-9.5; Brunswick, ML, 41-0; Rios, Cold, 40-6; Hippley, Park, 40-3; Yang, NB,39-2.5.

Discus — Winner, Min, 164-4; Will, Min, 146-8; Meyer, NB, 139-9; Schroeder, DSJ, 129-9; Yang, NB, 128-8; Beyke, SH, 128-2; Kramer, Cold, 1273; Rio, Cold, 123-8.

GIRLS 3200 relay — Versailles (Warvel, Frantz, Grillot, Berger) 9:33.38; Minster 9:47.49; Coldwater 9:49.16; Fort Recovery 10:37.10; St. Henry 10:48.20; DSJ 11:06.9; Marion Local 11:11.63; New Bremen 11:19.76.

High jump — King, Park, 5-2; Faurot, DSJ, 5-2; Winner, Ver, 4-10; Rammel, Cold, 4-10; Speck, SH, and McGowan, Min, 4-10; Fiely, FR, 4-8; Francis, Ver, 4-6.

Pole vault — Wuebker, Min, 12-0; Hemmelgarn, ML, 10-6; Barlage, Ver, 10-0; Hartings, ML, 10-0; Kunk, Cold, 96; Niekamp, SH, and Honigford, Cold, 9-0; Wuebker,

BASEBALL Riverside beats Russia DEGRAFF — Fourthseeded Riverside ended fifth-seeded Russia’s tournament run, beating the Raiders 6-3 in D-IV sectional action here Wednesday.

The Pirates, now 18-8, plays in the sectional finals Wednesday at Piqua against Lehman.

Prior to that, they will take on Covington tonight at 5th-3rd Field in Dayton in regular-season play. Covington is also in the sectional finals next week after upsetting top-seeded Bethel.

Russia trailed 3-1 before getting three in the sixth to tie it up. Eric Magoto had the big hit with a two-run double.

But Riverside came right back in the bottom

There will be a meeting of the Shelby County Horseshoe Club at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Monday at 7 p.m.

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ANNA’S JEREMY Bensman takes off in the long jump during the County Meet at Anna Tuesday.

Bensman won the event with a distance of 21-feet, 9-inches.

Min, 8-6.

Long jump — King, Park, 17-5; Thobe, ML, 17-4.5; Suchland, NB, 17-3; Rindler, Cold, 16-7.75; Horstman, NK, 165.75; Jutte, Min, 16-0; Schlater, Ver, 15-11.5; McGowan, Min, 15-9.75.

Shot put — Kahlig, FR, 3611; Bruns, Ver, 36-9.5; Eiting, Min, 36-3; Buchanan, Park, 35-

9.5; Schmitz, Cold, 32-9.5; Lawrence, Ver, 32-3.5; Delzeith, SH, 31-8.5; Moorman, Cold, 312.

Discus — Bruns, Ver, 1162; Schmitz, Cold, 113-5; Delzeith, SH, 110-10; Chrisman, ML, 109-10; Westgerdes, FR, 104-7; Maurfer, NB, 104-2; Kreeger, DSJ, 99-0; Reed, Ver, 93-10.

within a four-year span.

The Wave then joined the GMVC in 1982 as Sidney, Piqua, Troy, and Greenville were again reunited, and eventually all followed to the GWOC. Early in the new millenium the Darke Countians again shopped for another arrangement in search of more victories.

In 2005 Greenville completed its move to the League, Mid-Miami which was also heading to the scrap heap by that time. They immediately sought to re-enter the GWOC but met resistance and had to go it alone as an independent for several difficult years. This fall they will finally again be a full GWOC member when they play a full football schedule. I hope they’ve learned their lesson and that Sidney has been paying attention, which I believe is the case.

If the Sidney sports programs were all current winners, I’d still propose what I’ve just We need a written. league that looks like us and governs itself, absent the multiple divisions of the current setup. The roots of that solution are already in our current conference. Regardless what happens, solidarity must be maintained among Sidney, Piqua, Troy, and Greenville.

A few months back the SHS wrestling team finished fifth in the GWOC tourney but they actually finished first among the North Division entries.

All 18 schools, including the six largest that comprise the central division, were lumped together at one meet. Only four teams finished ahead of the Yellow Jackets, all from the central.

I’d rather see us have a chance to win an outright league championship among six or eight schools that actually fit together. We’re missing that right now.

I’m hoping there’s a remedy that reminds us of the Interurban Athletic League and the Miami Valley League. ——

Dave Ross is a 1972 Sidney graduate and has followed SHS athletics for 50 years while researching its entire duration.

He’s a regular contributor to the Sidney Daily News.

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of the sixth with three runs, with Drew Harford’s single putting the Pirates back in front to stay.

For the Pirates, Dalton Bollinger had two doubles and an RBI, Jake Herron plated a run with a suicide squeeze, and Tanner Lane had two hits and an RBI. For Russia, Treg Francis was 2-for-4.

Russia is now 15-5 and is at Fairlawn Thursday and hosts Fort Loramie Saturday.

The linescore: RHE Russia ...........000 003 0_3 6 3 Riverside.......101 013 x_6 8 2 Sherman, Counts (5) (LP) and McEldowney; Shreve (WP), Hurley (7) and Bollinger.

Records: Russia 15-5, Riverside 18-8.

Next tourney game: Riverside vs. Lehman, Wednesday, 5 p.m. at Piqua

Horseshoe meeting Monday

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County Track Meet’s opening night in Anna. Ike cleared 14 feet for first place and was just an inch shy of a new County meet record.

If it’s decided that a new conference should have the more traditional number of eight members, solid candidates would be hard to find. Wapakoneta, St. Marys, and Celina would deserve consideration except for three continuous decades of solidarity among all ten members of their Western BuckNobody eye League. from that league is going anywhere.

How about Bellefontaine and Urbana?

They have some positives but that regional duo seems comfortable in the Central Buckeye Conference, including the metro-Springfield area and beyond. Tipp City is also currently in the CBC but went there when options were few. candidates Other could include Trotwood (current GWOC North), Fairborn (GWOC South), Tecumseh (CBC), West Carrollton (GWOC South), and Miamisburg (GWOC South) but I have major reservations about all five after seeing them in various leagues with Sidney over the years.

Too bad Milton-Union (Southwestern Buckeye League) isn’t a larger school district. It’s obvious that getting a solid grouping of eight would be difficult. Perhaps the best choices for the final two slots would be Bellefontaine and Urbana but the rest of the core might not agree, and those two may not be interested.

In the meantime we need to remember that Sidney’s total sports programs have historically competed adequately overall with the GWOC North, and that those schools make up the huge majority of our current league schedules.

We must also remember the example of Greenville as to what can happen when a quick reaction results in a regrettable departure.

Back in 1970 the Wave decided to leave the MVL for the SWBL effective in 1972 because of a poor won/lost record. In the interim, they got their act together and had a solid athletic year in 1971-72, including an undefeated football squad.

Too late for both the Wave and the MVL, which was on its way out of business after losing both Troy and Greenville

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BLUE DODGES GO BY Brad Ke1 99selowski’s win in the Aaron’s 499 was his sixth Cup win in his first 99 career starts. That is on par with Dale Earnhardt Jr., who also had six and more than Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin’s four. For additional perspective, Tony Stewart notched 12 wins in his first 99 Cup starts, while Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson recorded 10 each.

A New Way to Victory Brad Keselowski uses drafting, stategy, to win at Talladega.

HEY, IT’S SOMETHING Dale Earn2 hardt Jr.’s winless skid may be up to 139 races, but his ninth-place run at Talladega marked his sixth consecutive top-10 finish — a first for Earnhardt in his 13 full season at the Cup level. His No. 88 team has yet to finish outside of the top 15 through 10 races this season, averaging a 7.5place showing. He also leads all drivers in NASCAR’s premier series with eight top 10s in 2012.

CONSISTENCY IS STILL KING Tony Stewart’s five wins in the 2011 Chase may have been the key to his third championship, but thus far in 2012, it’s not about the “W.” Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. — top 3 in the point standings — have combined for two wins. Meanwhile, Denny Hamlin (two wins) is fourth, while Stewart (two) sits seventh and Brad Keselowski (two) is 12th.

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FIRST SHALL BE ... NOT FIRST 4 THE It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Aaron’s 499 pole-sitter, Jeff Gordon, did not win the event. Not since April 2007 has the fastest qualifier won at Talladega, when — you guessed it — Gordon won from the pole, a span of 11 races in Alabama.

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Brad Keselowski leads Kyle Busch to the white flag in Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway.

By MATT TALIAFERRO Athlon Sports Racing Editor

Every five or six visits to NASCAR’s ultimate spectacle at Talladega Superspeedway, someone figures out a new way to conquer the beast. The freight train, the lead-theconga-line, the tri-oval slingshot — all have taken their turns as last-lap moves du jour at the 2.66-mile behemoth in Alabama. In Sunday’s Aaron’s 499, Brad Keselowski introduced a new move.

As yet unnamed, Keselowski’s Turn 3 move — “Shake ’n’ Bake” need not apply — to stave off Kyle Busch with the checkered flag in the air was, according to the race winner, one of cool calculation.

“Those are the kind of moves, similar to the move made here in ’09, that you get one chance to make, that nobody wises up on,” Keseloski said. “From there, everybody knows how to make it work.

I’m sure everybody will wise up on it from here and they’ll make their moves earlier, which will change the racing again.

“It’s just evolution. You get one shot to be that guy that helps to evolve it. We had the opportunity to do that today and that’s part of what

helped us win the race.”

A green-white-checker restart — caused when Keselowski spun Kurt Busch’s No. 51 Chevy — precipitated his two-lap dash to his second career Talladega win.

The ensuing lap 185 restart played witness to a nine-car pile up in Turn 1 that marked the end of the day for Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick and Michael Waltrip, among others.

When the field next took the green flag, Matt Kenseth — who led a race-high 73 laps — led the pack, with teammate Greg Biffle immediately in arrears. Keselowski and Kyle Busch lined up along side.

Kenseth’s stout Ford pulled away immediately, but when he and Biffle briefly separated, their draft was broken, opening the door for the Keselowski/Busch freight train.

The latter pairing roared to the lead as the white flag was displayed and jumped out to an insurmountable lead. Recent history proved that running second was the preferred position on the final lap, as the runner-up had made a last-lap pass for the win in the previous four Talladega races.

However, with Busch hooked to his rear bumper, Keselowski dove from the high groove in Turn 3 to the

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following the Aaron’s 499 will not draw a fine or Nationwide Standings penalty from NASCAR. Stewart, who was involved in a late crash and finished 24th, DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND railed against the racing at Talladega in a satirical tone for nearly 1. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2) 325 — 2. Elliott Sadler (2) 320 -5 five minutes as the media peppered him with questions.

3. Austin Dillon 290 -35 On overheating issues: “It’s fun to be able to race and have to 4. Sam Hornish Jr. 265 -60 watch the gauges at the same time. It makes us as drivers have 5. Cole Whitt 248 -77 to do so much more. Being able to make yourself run on the 6. Michael Annett 241 -84 apron and everything else to try to get clean air, it makes it fun.”

7. Justin Allgaier 228 -97 On the amount of torn-up racecars: “I’m upset that we didn't 8. Taylor Malsam 202 -123 crash more cars. I feel like that is what we are here for. I feel 9. Mike Bliss 201 -124 10. Joe Nemechek 189 -136 bad if I don’t spend at least $150,000 in torn-up race cars going

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low side of the track exiting Turn 4.

The brief separation doomed Busch, who could not get close enough to execute a pass in the tri-oval.

“I just needed to make the move, (and I ) made it in (Turn) three,” Keselowski explained. “That disconnected us. That was the key right there. Once we got that air bubble in between the two cars, it was going to take two or three laps for him to pop that.”

For his part, Busch wasn’t immediately sure how Keselowski broke the draft.

“Unfortunately, I must have screwed something up, because we got to Turn 3 and come unhooked,” Busch said. “Just gave the win away over there. Not sure exactly what happened — we definitely need to go back and figure out what it was.”

Keselowski’s win was his second of the 2012 season, putting him in position for a Wild Card entry into the Chase for the Championship if he is not in the top 10 in points at the Richmond cutoff race in September.

Kenseth held on for a third-place run and sits second to Biffle (fifth at Talladega) in the standings. Kasey Kahne was fourth, while Clint Bowyer, David Ragan, Trevor Bayne, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Burton rounded out the top 10.

back to the shop. We definitely have to do a better job with that.”

And the kicker: “I think we ought to make it a figure-eight. I mean if we could make it a figure-eight it would be perfect. That is going to be my vote next week, is that we make it a figureeight and/or we can stop at the halfway, make a break and turn around and go backwards the rest of the way. Then with 10 to go we split the field in half, and half go the regular direction and half of them go backwards.”

According to the Associated Press, though, a NASCAR spokesman stated that, “In NASCAR’s opinion, these comments were made by a driver who clearly was not pleased with how his day finished. They were not disparaging given the context in which he delivered them nor were they a direct shot at the sport.”

SPRINT CUP SERIES Track: Darlington Raceway Race: Bojangles’ Southern 500 Location: Darlington, S.C. When: Saturday, May 12 TV: FOX (6:30 p.m. EST) Layout: 1.366-mile oval Banking/Turns: 25 and 23 degrees Banking/Frontstretch: 3 degrees Banking/Backstretch: 2 degrees 2011 Winner: Regan Smith Crew Chief’s Take: “Probably the most unique track we run at, being very different at each end. Turns 1 and 2 are much faster, and it’s very tricky exiting Turn 2.

New pavement three years ago greatly reduced tire wear and changed the way the race runs, but not the line on the track.

The line tends to move towards the wall through the race, and that creates lots of opportunity for right-side damage. Darlington is a very nostalgic track for NASCAR and a favorite for a lot of drivers and crew.”

NATIONWIDE SERIES Track: Darlington Raceway Race: VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 When: Friday, May 11 TV: ESPN2 (6:30 p.m. EST) 2011 Winner: Kyle Busch CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway Race: N.C. Education Lottery 200 When: Friday, May 18 TV: SPEED (7:30 p.m. EST) 2011 Winner: Kyle Busch

Classic Moments Darlington Raceway The race that kicked off a 54-year Labor Day weekend tradition — the 1950 Southern 500 from Darlington Raceway — looked quite a bit different than what we’re used to today (aside from the fact that it’s not even on Labor Day weekend, of course).

Led by Curtis Turner, 75 cars took the green on a muggy Monday afternoon. Turner, Gober Sosebee and Cotton Owens swapped the lead over the first 49 laps, but Johnny Mantz — who, legend has it, barely made it back from Myrtle Beach after a “night on the town” — assumed command. Using more durable truck tires, Mantz ran the full 500 miles on one set, while others were forced to change so often that they ran out — and subsequently “borrowed” tires from spectators’ cars in the parking lot.

Mantz won by nine laps to score his lone NASCAR victory.

Athlon Fantasy Stall Looking at Checkers: In his six Cup starts, Denny Hamlin has yet to finish worse than 13th at Darlington. His 6.5-place average finish is tops on the circuit.

Pretty Solid Pick: Brad Keselowski only has three starts at Darlington, but he’s knocking on the door of a win already.

Good Sleeper Pick: Jeff Burton’s season hasn’t been pretty, but Dalrington is his kind of track, as his two wins suggest.

Runs on Seven Cylinders: Plenty of drivers, including AJ Allmendinger, Paul Menard, Clint Bowyer and Marcos Ambrose.

Insider Tip: Tires are no longer an issue.

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DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND Timothy Peters 163 — James Buescher (1) 159 -4 Justin Lofton 152 -11 Ty Dillon 149 -14 Nelson Piquet Jr. 140 -23 Parker Kligerman 137 -26 Ron Hornaday 129 -34 John King (1) 124 -39 Jason White 120 -43 Matt Crafton 115 -48

1. Greg Biffle 2. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 3. Matt Kenseth 4. Denny Hamlin 5. Brad Keselowski 6. Tony Stewart

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BRAD KESELOWSKI The Michigan native may have locked in his Chase spot with his second victory of 2012 at Talladega. After three wins and a top3 points finish last season, Keselowski is well on his way to surpassing those numbers.

7. Jimmie Johnson 8. Kyle Busch 9. Kasey Kahne 10. Carl Edwards

JEFF GORDON Gordon’s season continues to spiral, with finishes of 21st, 23rd and 33rd in the last three races. He sits 23rd in the point standings with two top 10s.

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11. Kevin Harvick 12. Martin Truex Jr. 13. Clint Bowyer 14. Mark Martin 15. Paul Menard ASP, Inc. Just off the lead pack:

Found himself in roughly the same position at Talladega as he was in at Daytona ... which isn’t bad when you’re clicking off top 5s like it’s the ARCA Series.

Doesn’t seem able to finish outside of the top 10 if he tries, but this is Dale Earnhardt Jr. we’re talking about, so only a win will keep the critics at bay.

Kenseth has roared to within five points of Biffle’s lead in the standings on the strength of four top 5s in the last five races.

Hamlin was running in the top 5 at Talladega when he was the victim of a block-gone-bad. It’s hard to factor the resulting 23rd-place finish into these standings, so I will not.

He may not have the most consistent team on the circuit, but it’s one that has proven capable of winning on any given weekend. Bristol and Talladega are proof of that.

Like Hamlin, it’s hard to fault Stewart for a mid-20s finish at Talladega. Unlike Hamlin, Stewart was in position to win despite running out of fuel twice and battling overheating issues throughout the day.

The roll-of-the-dice tracks at Daytona and Talladega are the only ones that can consistently keep Johnson from a top-10 finish. Take plate racing as the anomaly it is and move on.

Consecutive runs of first (Richmond) and second (Talladega) find Rowdy’s stock on the rise. Could this be the beginning of a scorching summer run?

A fourth at Talladega made it four runs in a row of eighth or better for Kahne and the No. 5 team. It would come as no surprise if they — not the 24, 48 or 88 teams — earned Hendrick’s 200th win.

Cousin Carl’s streak of five finishes of 11th or better came to a grinding (and wreck-induced) halt at Talladega. Expect big things in Darlington and Charlotte.

He’s been notably quiet this season — in the sense that he may be about to break out.

May deserve to be ranked higher, but honestly, the track records of those listed previously factored.

Didn’t lead any laps at Talladega, but snuck in a solid sixth — with clean sheet metal.

If you got to pick and choose your starts you’d be smart to take a pass on Talladega, too.

Bet you didn’t realize that Menard is holding steady at 14th in the standings, just on the cusp.

AJ Allmendinger, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Jamie McMurray, Juan Pablo Montoya

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Botkins Local School BOTKINS — Botkins Local School district recently announced the names of students on the honor roll for the third nine weeks of the 201112 school year.

Grade 7 4.00 — Madeline Okuley 3.99 to 3.5 — Micah Smock, Kayla Kohler, Garrett Williams, Damian Metz, Drake Woodruff, Joshua Miller and Madison Steinke.

3.49 to 3.0 — Rachel Creps, Crystal Altstaetter, Alexis Jones, Xavier Pax, Paige Oakley, Alex Bergman, Logan Fisher, Konnor Burmeister, Ali’sia Hoskins and Joshua Aldrich.

Grade 8 4.0 — Andrew Ewry, Ryan Egbert, Amber Buehler, Nathan Platfoot, Jared Goubeaux and Erik Greve.

3.99 to 3.5 — Blake Maurer, Jacob Roberts, Kyle Maurer, Nolan Greve and Natalie Ambos.

3.49 to 3.0 — Aaron Fullenkamp, Sarah Knoop, Sierra Butcher, Abbey Johnson, Katherine Liesner, Chad Bergman, Taylor Doseck, Kaitlynn Skinner and Austin Adams.

9th Grade 4.0 — Tayler Mackenzie Woodruff, Brown, Kaitlyn Barhorst, Mitchell Goubeaux, Whitney Bornhorst, Victoria Maurer, Jocelyn Counts, Brooke Bornhorst and Corinne Woodruff.

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Shawnee State University ANNA — David Todt, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs at Shawnee State University, has released the dean’s list for the fall semester 2011. To be named on the list, students must be full time and achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or better.

Christine Berning, of Anna,an Intervention Spec K-12 major at SSU, was named to the dean’s list.

Shawnee State University is a student-focused university offering a highly personalized, affordable and accessible education dedicated to the exploration of emerging technologies and emerging ideas.

SSU offers more than 80 bachelor’s and associate degree programs and three master’s degree programs.

Shawnee State is both academically challenging and affordable. The university offers modern apartment-style residences and small class sizes with dedicated faculty.

Located in Portsmouth, SSU features 21 buildings including the Advanced Technology Center that houses one of only 50 Digistar II planetariums in the world; the James A. Rhodes Athletic Center ; and the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts featuring a 1,139-seat Main Theater, a black box theater, art gallery, and fine arts classrooms. Nearly 4,700 students are enrolled at SSU this year, including 35 international students.

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3.99 to 3.5 — Phillip Greve, Lucas Buehler, Kaitlyn Schmerge, JohnMichael Haught, Austin Jones, Reid Manger, Christian Hoskins and Allison Guckes.

3.49 to 3.0 — Lakota Running Hawk, Eric Egbert, Bailey Schnippel, Malia Prout, Samuel McCafferty, Caleb Oren, Alex Adams, Trevor Ott, Layla Bogart, Josephine Steinke and Hannah Wagner.

10th Grade 4.0 — Erin Place, Rachelle Maurer, Bethany Christman, Schneider, Lindsey Gavirelle Woodruff, Vicki Grillot and Denise Schwartz.

3.99 to 3.5 — Michaela Dietz, Nicholas Okuley, Rebeccah Knoop, Rachel Cooper, CJ Steinke, Courtney Kohler, Aaron Schipper, Andrea Goettemoeller, Derek Shaffer, Emily Brown, Zachary Greve, Michaela Kramer, Brock Fullenkamp and Selena Cross.

3.49 to 3.0 — Carly Harshbarger, Shelby Boyd, Mikaila Lawrence, Alex Roberts, Josie Weatherhead, Preston Running Hawk, Spencer Stutsman, Roger Miller, Haley Dietz and Elizabeth Morris.

11th Grade 4.0 — Jessica Dietz, Claire McCullough, Joshua Schwartz, Colleen Maurer and Caitlin Lane.

3.99 to 3.5 — Faye

Kennedy, Heather Brown, Logan Pitts, Colleen Greve, Adam Buehler, Heath Geyer, Jillian Schneider, Abigail Russell, Cody Buehler and Lisa Market.

3.49 to 3.0 — Rebekah McName, Gabriel Lawrence, Alexandra Hanby, Dustin Kohler, Seth Hoying, Riley Luthman, Derek Snider, Connor Bornhorst, Felicia Geib, Lindsay Place, Zachary Egbert, Logan Russell, Hannah Koch, Evan Dietz, Dylan Gerstner and Nathaniel Cisco.

12th Grade 4.0 — Amy Grillot, Maria Goettemoeller, Jenna Christman, Hailey Billing, Renee Buehler and Tyler Egbert.

3.99 to 3.5 — Erin George, Paige Cooper, Christine Johnson, Kelly Feasel, Kaitlyn Underwood, Hayden Fisher, Elleah Cooper, Elizabeth Knoop, Alex McCullough, Dakota Wyan, Seth Aufderhaar, Natalie Brown, Ethan Zimpfer, Trevor Barhorst and Brittany Bailey.

3.49 to 3.0 — Kara Bertsch, Robert Handshoe, Kathryn Schneider, Jacob VanGundy, Amber Russell, Adam Bornhorst, Kyle Bird, Logan Baurer, Jacquelyn Smith, Jordan Fledderjohann, Caitlin Stauffer, Jennifer Rupersburg, Jordan Marx, Joshua Kimmel and Miranda Oellerman.

Quarter auction set for Saturday BOTKINS — The St. Lawrence/Immaculate Conception Comprehensive Youth Ministry (SLIC CYM) program will be holding a quarter auction and ladies night out on Saturday.

The event is being held at the Palazzo and doors will open at 5 p.m. with a meal served at 6 p.m. Auction items are valued up to $100 each and $30 to $40 in quarters will enable guests to bid on all items. Donating vendors include Thirty-one, Pink Zebra, Mary Kay, C & R De-

signs, Avon, Lia Sophia, Embroidery by Marie, Nelly Packs plus many dining gift cards. There will also be multiple door prizes drawn hourly.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door with proceeds to benefit the SLIC CYM youth program. Tickets are available at the St. Lawrence/Immaculate Conception CCD or parish office, through Beth Klopfenstein at 658-0608 or 693-3535 or through Angie Woodruff at 693-7622.

Contact Botkins reporter Jennifer Bumgarner, (937) 498-5967; email, jbumgarner@sdnccg.com; or Anna reporter Kathy Leese, (937) 489-3711; email, newswriter777@yahoo.com, or by fax, (937) 498-5991, with story ideas and news releases.

Bellefontaine Rotary honors Anna man BELLEFONTAINE — An Anna man was honored recently by the Bellefontaine Rotary Club.

Keith Pettit was one of three people given Excellence in Teaching Awards by the service organization. He teaches fourth grade at Western Intermediate School in Bellefontaine. A 12-year teaching veteran, Pettit lives with his wife, Leslie, and their children, Ava, 6, and Reece, 4. He is the son of Carlene Pettit, of Sidney, and the late Ron Pettit.

Pettit graduated from Houston High School, Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor of Education and Marygrove College with a Master of Education.

As reported in the Bellefontaine Examiner, he dedicated his award to his late father.

“He showed me what it’s like to be a man and to be a good, strong person,” Pettit said.

According to the Examiner, “Mr. Pettit’s student nominators, Tristen Orahood and Kelsey Roberts, each stood confidently in front of the

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KEITH PETTIT, of Anna, speaks to members of the Bellefontaine Rotary Club after receiving the club's Excellence in Teaching Award in April. crowd while their principal, Lynda Holycross, read aloud excerpts of their essays about their instructor. “‘He made sure everyone wasn’t getting bullied, everyone had friends, and everyone knew what we were learning,’ Kelsey wrote

in her essay. ‘Mr. Pettit made learning fun.’ “‘He is my idol, I look up to him,’ Tristen wrote. ‘He has inspired me to do things I have never done, like this (writing an essay about his teacher). I could have never done this without him.’”

Park events announced ANNA —The Anna Park Committee recently released the 2012 Anna Park events.

On Saturday, the Anna High School Jazz Band under the direction of Robert Davis will perform “Jazz in the Park” at 3 p.m. at the Anna Park. In case of inclement weather it will be held at the Anna High School auditorium.

Other events planned at the park this year: • “Dancing in the Park” will take place from June 11 to 15. The

dance class will be taught by Hayley Richard from 1 to 3 p.m. with a recital on June 15 at 7:30 p.m.

• Youth Band “Maybe Someday” will perform on July 7 at 7:30 p.m.

• The Anna Park turns 40 on Aug. 4 and a birthday bash will be held from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. There will be a cornhole tournament at 4 p.m., the Anna High School Band will perform at 7 p.m. and “Spittin Image” will perform at 8:30 p.m.

• This year’s “Movie in the Park” will be shown on Sept. 1 at dusk. This year’s movie will be “E.T” • “Scarecrows in the Park” will take place on Oct. 14. Area organizations and groups are ento make couraged scarecrows and display them at the park.

The winning scarecrow will be decided by the number of canned goods placed at each.

The canned goods will then go to a local food pantry.

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Prom royalty Botkins High School held its junior and senior prom Saturday and elected king and queen Bryce Steinke, son of Keith and Paula Steinke, and Hailey Billing, daughter of David Billing and Lisa Schubert.

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Lehman’s prom theme is out of this world!

BY: ABBY CIRIEGIO Lehman High School has had its fair share of unique dance themes over the past couple of years.

Themes have ranged anywhere from Candyland and Hollywood to Masquerade and Nascar. It seems the possibilities are endless. This year’s prom theme, however, is way off the charts, you might even say it’s out of this world!

The junior class decided to put a spin on the classic formal, and announced that the 2012 prom theme is Coruscant Night, better known as Star Wars. Just how do the juniors plan on turning the Shelby Oaks Club (this years’ prom location) into a galaxy far, far away?

Prom coordinator and Lehman English Department Chair Liz Maxson gives us the inside scoop. “The theme colors are red, blue and green to represent the colors of light sabers,” said Maxson. “I would say that the decorations are definitely fun meets elegant. We wanted to still provide the prom atmosphere, but add an entertainment value.”

Unfortunately, Mrs. Maxson could not give all of the decoration details away in hopes of keeping some things a surprise. One thing’s for certain, however, with an unforgettable theme such as Star Wars, this year’s prom is bound to be “far out”!

Mary’s month

Admire and get inspired

BY: MARIA YANNUCCI The month of May is special to Catholics across the world. It is the month of the Queen and dedicated to prayer to the Mother of Jesus, Mary.

The most recognizable gesture of this reverence is the May Crowning cereColleen Kinninger mony. A statue of Mary is crowned with a crown of crowns the Blessed flowers. This symbolizes Mother statue that she is the most perfect follower of Jesus, the ultimate “crown” of creation.

Many Catholic schools across the world celebrate by having their own May Crowning ceremonies. Lehman has had this tradition since the 1980’s.

Three young ladies from the senior class were chosen by their classmates. Colleen Kinninger did the actual crowning; Emily Pax and Amelia Schultz were her attendants. These women embody Mary and follow her Christ-like example. It is an extreme honor to be chosen.

The May Crowning ceremony is a great expression of faith and celebration of our Mother. As the month of May continues, we will continue to pray to Mary and ask her help in our daily struggles.

Running for office BY: KENNEDY MCIVER Attending Lehman you become involved in sports, clubs and academics, but what if the administration gave you some power?

Student Council elections are held every year and students jump at the chance for a little authority as a student council or class officer. Amy Watercutter, president of this year’s senior class, said, “My experience was good. I had the opportunity of planning homecoming, the Baccalaureate Mass, and meetings. If you are interested, like to get involved and are prepared to do that work, I would definitely consider running.”

Louis Gaier, vice president for the junior class, said, “I had a lot of fun this year. I got to plan prom and I was also involved with the homecoming banner, but be prepared to do the work because it doesn’t come easy.”

John Husa, sophomore class treasurer, said, “It was a good experience being part of Student Council. I kept the money balanced and helped with the homecoming banner. I think people should run because it is a good way to be a part of the school.”

Freshman secretary Kyle Caulfield said, “My experience was really cool and I can see myself running again next year. I took notes at the meetings and helped with the homecoming banner. If you want to get involved and have some power, I think you should run.”

No matter what position you want to take, you will always be busy and feel more a part of your school.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Fastest two minutes in sports

BY TROY ROSENGARTEN

At Churchill Downs on Saturday, there was a huge horse race suppose to go down. The Kentucky Derby was about to take place. This race is the most famous horse race of the year. It is known as the fastest two minutes in sports. I'll Have Another, the horse trained

by Doug F. O'Neill, owned by Reddam Racing LLC, and rode by jockey Mario Gutierrez. I'll Have Another's odds were 15-1.

I'll Have Another came around the last turn with speed and tried to catch 4-1 favorite, Bodemeister. Bodemeister had a huge lead going into the last 300 yards on the back stretch of the race, but out of no where, I'll Have Another came flying through all of the other horses and didn't slow down and pasted a tired Bodemeister with about 100 yards to go. I'll Have Another won by a full length, in a time of 2 minutes and 2 seconds.

I'll Have Another was the first horse in Derby history to win when starting at the number 19 starting gate. Now there is only spot on the 20 spot wide gate that they use for the Kentucky Derby to win is the number 17 spot. This dates back to 1875. I'll Have Another was the 138th winner of the Kentucky Derby and will now go on to try to get the triple crown. The next race that I'll Have Another will be in is the Preakness.

New Teacher: Mrs. Ogg BY: TIARA BRANSCUM

Sidney High School has welcomed a new teacher into its staff, Mrs. Ogg. She teaches Healthy Living, Healthy Food, Managing Transition, and Child Development. Ogg is a 1969 graduate from New Albany High School. She attended The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, and Wright State University. She has her B.S. for Home Economics, Teachers License to teach elementary and high school, and a Masters in education. Besides Sidney High, she has taught at UVCC, WCCC, North Baltimore Public Schools, and Edison Community College. She has taught for 37 years this year. I asked her what her favorite part of SHS was and she replied, “The students!”

Outside of school she likes to bake and eat. She owns a baking company called “Sister’s Cookies and Cakes!” She also enjoys spending time with her family. I asked her what she is looking forward to and she replied,” Traveling to Maine to see the whales.”

She is also wanting to go to the Civil War battle fields for the 150th anniversary.

BY: EMILY BENSMAN The annual Lehman Art Show gives students the opportunity to express themselves through their work and puts it all on display for others to see.

The show was set up in time for judging on Monday, May 7, and will be on display all week for students, staff, and members of the community to view. Many parents were able to see the display while attending the Undergraduate Awards Banquet on May 9.

Art teacher Mrs. Grant said, “It is important to display projects that students have worked on all year; that’s what art is.”

Students from all four art classes have work in the show. Ceramics students each have a display of their pottery work. Studio Art students are showing off their work on easels.

Art Fundamentals students have a variety of projects. Painting and Drawing students each Art teacher Connie Grant have several works on display. Before the helps Mitchell Bosse pick a work for the display show was ready, Ceramics student Joe Fuller said, “I can’t wait to see all the projects on display together. I am also excited to see who the award winners will be.”

This year’s judge was former Lehman art teacher Marcia Maas. Many ribbons were awarded and these include favorite picks of the principal, assistant principal, president, and treasurer. Teachers’ choice and students’ choice are also awarded. Then there are first, second, and third place ribbons in each medium - drawing, painting, and ceramics. There are also winners chosen in each grade level - freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. The top award winner receives the title “Best in Show.”

Students did a lot of last minute work. Mrs. Grant said, “Students scrambled to finish works in time for the show. Although it got chaotic, I couldn’t wait to see the final display.”

The annual Art Show is not only an opportunity for the artists to show their stuff, but also for others to admire the talents of these young artists and get inspired to create art of their own.

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FCCLA holds banquet

BY JACOB LONGMIRE

Last Tuesday May 1st, Sidney High School's FCCLA Chapter held it's annual banquet. Awards weregiven to those who went above and beyond in Sidney's FCCLA Chapter this year. The people that received the awards were Katie Corner, Tyler Gibson, Katie Hinkle, Justin Subler, and Ashlee Weaver. Mr. Harmon also spoke the and asked them “Why do you like being apart of the FCCLA?" "It gave me leadership skills", responded Justin Subler, who is a senior. "Because it makes you feel good to help others,” explained SHS junior, Leah Crim, and Katie Hinkle, a freshman at SHS said, " It's fun!".

Katie Corner and Ashlee Weaver were awarded the Focus on Children Silver Rating Award. Tyler Gibson, Justin Subler, and Katie Hinkle were awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award, and Katie Hinkle was also Awarded Outstanding Member Award and the Power of One Award. A slideshow was shown after the awards, and Mr. Harmon then closed his remarks by telling the FCCLA Chapter that they had done a good job and that it had been a good year with good projects!

Third and final SHS blood drive

BY TIARA BRANSCUM

Want to help save three lives? Well, your opportunity is here! Our third blood drive will be held on May 11th from 8AM to 1PM. This event will be held in the small gym. You must pick up a form from Mr.Bickle and sign up online at www.donortime.com. You will always get a free t-shirt for donating. If you give blood three times or more, you will be able to wear red cords with their caps and gown at graduation. Make sure you eat a good breakfast and drink plenty of water before donating. The top blood giver for the class of 2011 was Steven Jones, who donated 11 times and donated over a gallon of blood.

Interesting facts about donating blood

• Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.

•More than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day.

•Donating blood is a safe process. A sterile needle is used only once for each donor and then discarded.

•One donation can help save the lives of up to three people.

•Blood cannot be manufactured – it can only come from generous donors.

•The average adult has about 10 pints of blood in his body. Roughly 1 pint is given during a donation. *From the American Red Cross

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100 Years May 10, 1912 Ex-President Roosevelt will spend next week in Ohio. His exact schedule over the state Monday Tuesday Today Tonight Friday Saturday Sunday LOCAL OUTLOOK has not been entirely mapped out but will be announced later. He will speak in Sidney for at least a half-hour accordMostly Mostly Mostly Partly Mostly Cloudy Mostly ing to arrangements at clear with clear with sunny cloudy cloudy High: 70° cloudy north east with High: 75° with 30% High: 70° Low: 52° the present time. He will winds 5 to winds southwest chance of Low: 55° Low: 52° also make short stops at 10 mph around 5 winds 5 showers, High pressure dominates Anna and Botkins. A big High: 65° mph mph t-storms our weather pattern bringing Roosevelt meeting will Low: 42° High: 72° High: 68° dry conditions be held at the armory Low: 48° Low: 52° through one evening next week, the end of when one of Roosevelt’s the week. personal friends of naNights will tional reputation will be cool speak. w i t h Temperature Precipitation Sunrise/Sunset pleasant ——— High Tuesday.........................72 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. .none Thursday’s sunset ......8:41 p.m. readings Hon. A.P. Sandles, Low Tuesday..........................48 Month to date .....................2.04 Friday’s sunrise ..........6:24 a.m. d u r i n g secretary of the state Year to date ......................10.91 Friday’s sunset ...........8:42 p.m. the day. board of agriculture, will speak at the assembly Source: The Sidney Wastewater Treatment Plant, official weather reporting station for room of the court house Shelby County, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. For current daytime conditions, low/high next Monday to the temperatures, go to AccuWeather.com. farmer boys of Shelby county. Every farmer and farmer boy in the National forecast county should attend City/Region Forecast highs for Thursday, May 10 Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy High | Low temps this meeting.

The Forecast for Thursday, May 10 speaker will give valuMICH. able information along Cleveland the line of agriculture Toledo 59° | 43° and especially dwell 61° | 42° upon the matter of corn Youngstown raising, as well as out61° | 42° line plans for the cornMansfield PA. 63° | 43° raising contest.

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Dealing with swollen ankles DEAR DR. the varicose veins DONOHUE: By that are deep in the end of the day, the tissues, buried my feet are so from view. Blood swollen that I pools in those can’t keep my veins, and the shoes on. My anfluid part of blood kles are swollen, is forced out. too. In the mornHeart failure is ing, they are back To your a more serious down to normal. cause of edema. good What’s causing Here a feeble this? What can I health heart pumps only do for it? — N.W. Dr. Paul G. a little blood out ANSWER: with each heartDonohue That swelling beat. Blood backs goes by the name up in the circulation. “edema.” It’s fluid that has Pressure within the blood leaked out of blood ves- vessels rises, and once sels. The greatest leakage again fluid seeps out into occurs in the vessels of the the tissues. Fluid seeps lower leg and feet. into the lungs, too. It Causes? There are makes it hard for people many. Varicose veins are to get enough oxygen one cause. Not the vari- when they’re active. They cose veins that you can become short of breath on see beneath the skin, but slight exertion.

Peripheral artery disease is another edema cause. Here obstruction in the leg arteries encourages fluid to escape from them.

If only one leg swells, a likely cause is a blood clot in the veins of that leg.

Obstructed lymphatics are another cause of single-leg swelling. Normally, some fluid escapes from the circulation to feed cells. That escaped fluid finds its way back into the circulation through lymphatic channels. If they’re blocked, tissues swell.

The only one who can identify the cause of your edema is your family doctor. While you’re waiting to see the doctor, do some things that can help control swelling. Elevate your

legs many times during the day. By elevate, I mean that your legs have to be higher than your heart. You can do that only by lying down with your legs propped up on pillows. Go easy on salt use. These aren’t cures.

Eliminating the cause will affect a cure.

The booklet on edema and lymphedema provides information on the causes of foot and ankle swelling. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue — No. 106, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

Son deserves dressing-down for opening bedroom drawers DEAR ABBY: husband if My husband’s son — this upset I’ll call him Duncan him, too, and — came to visit with his reply was his family. He lived that he was with us for about six upset that I months on and off let it bother when he was me. I underyounger. During that stand that time, he twice went Duncan is his Dear through my dresser only son, but Abby drawers without my I’m hurt that Abigail permission. The first he’s taking Van Buren Duncan’s side. time, we discovered a photo of me in a Help!

— negligee he had found NERVOUS IN NEVADA and hidden. The second DEAR NERVOUS: It time, he said he had been does appear that Duncan looking for a key. I was has an unhealthy fixafurious and felt violated. tion on your underwear During his recent drawer, or he may be a visit, it happened a third cross-dresser. Because time. I discovered my un- your husband refuses to derwear drawer was discuss this with his son, slightly ajar and knew the next time Duncan Duncan had used the announces that he’s combathroom in our bed- ing for a visit, offer to room. When I told my buy him lingerie in his husband, he asked me size, or install a sturdy not to let it ruin the rest lock on your bedroom of their visit. I felt vio- door. lated again!

After Duncan and his DEAR ABBY: I have family left, I asked my been having an affair

with “Ginger” for several years. She’s married and has three kids. Ginger told me she and her husband had stopped being intimate just before we started our relationship.

Her husband caught on about a year ago. By this time Ginger and I had developed deep feelings for each other, but we agreed to stop because he had given her an ultimatum — either break it off or get out. We stopped seeing each other for a few weeks, then she called saying she had been pregnant but had gotten an abortion, and we started up again.

This time we had to carefully plan our limited time together. We continued our relationship for another eight months before it finally ended. What I’m having a problem with is Ginger ended it with no phone call — nothing. I haven’t heard from her

in more than a month, and she won’t return my calls or texts. Don’t you think I deserved a better goodbye? — SITTING BY THE PHONE IN OHIO DEAR SITTING BY THE PHONE: Not really. While closure might have made this less frustrating for you, Ginger tried to say goodbye to you before and it didn’t work. What probably happened is her husband found out the affair was ongoing and is monitoring her closely. You’ll feel better once you accept that Ginger has chosen him and the kids and moved on.

Dear Abby is written

by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

May 10, 1937 The formal opening of Riverside Inn, operated

by Mrs. Mary Kean, will be held sometime next week, according to an announcement made public today. The new inn is located in the building on South Brooklyn avenue which has been known as the White building. It has been completely remodeled and redecorated.

——— Sidney High School’s stellar track squad added another victim to its long list yesterday afternoon, when the Yellow Jackets swamped Piqua Central High at Piqua by the score of 91 to 33. Sidney took first place in 12 of the 16 events.

——— An attempt was made to burglarize the office of Sidney Farmers Exchange grain elevator on West Poplar street at an early hour this morning.

The attempted burglary was discovered by special night officer, “Jock” Carter as he was making his rounds about 2:30 a.m. It is believed the parties were frightened away before they got into the office.

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are either dead or unaccounted for today and 64 others miraculously escaped death in the mysterious fire and explosion that wrecked the giant zeppelin “Hindenburg” as she nosed in for a mooring at Lakehurst, N. J. last evening.

50 Years May 10, 1962 A mobile first-aid unit was gradually shaping up today for the Shelby Count Civil Defense Corps with the receipt of a monetary gift from Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority on Tuesday evening.

Presented by Mrs. Thomas Jackson and Mrs. James Lewis, members of the ways and means committee of the local sorority, the $190.35 donation is intended for the purchase of first-aid equipment for the new unit.

——— Mrs. Thurman (Marge) Chiles displayed a 5-pound, 11-ounce big mouth which she took on a Mentges spinner at Acheson’s on Indian Lake the other day. Her catch placed the local resident high among feminine competitors in the race for fishing prizes at Acheson’s and third on the overall list.

The bass measured 20 1/2 inches long with a 13-inch girth.

25 Years May 10, 1987 Services in the Sidney City Schools will be maintained as a result of passage of the 3.9-mill, five-year operating levy by voters during Tuesday’s special election, said School Superintendent Eugene Emter.

The levy was approved by 584-vote margin, with 1,920 ballots (58.6 percent) cast in favor of the measure and 1,336 (48.8 percent) votes cast against it.

The machine tool industry is not likely to benefit this year from the weakening of the dollar, Monarch Machine Tool Co. shareholders were told Tuesday.

——— Kermit Kuck, chairman and chief executive officer, said the reason is that foreign competitors, instead of raising their prices in line with the currency depreciation, have maintained or reduced prices and have built large inventories of unsold machines in the United States.

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In Loving Memory We remember those who have passed away and are especially dear to us. On Monday, May 28, 2012 we will publish a special section devoted to those who are gone, but not forgotten.

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Name of Deceased:____________________ There is not a day, dear Mother/Father, that we do not think of you.

Date of Birth:_________________________ Thank you for loving and sharing, Date of Passing:_______________________ for giving and for caring.

God bless you and keep you, Number of verse selected :______________ until we meet again.

Or write your own (20 words or less):______ Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. ____________________________________ You are loved beyond words ____________________________________ and missed beyond measure.

Those we love we never lose, ____________________________________ for always they will be, Closing Message: (Example: Always in our loved remembered, treasured, always in our memory. hearts, Sue & Family):__________________ It broke our hearts to lose you, ____________________________________ but you did not go alone.

For part of us went with you, Name of person submitting form:__________ the day God called you home. ____________________________________ My heart still aches in sadness, my silent tears still flow.

Phone Number:________________________ For what it meant to lose you, Address:_____________________________ no one will ever know.

Memory is a lovely lane, City, State and Zip Code:________________ where hearts are ever true. ____________________________________ A lane I so often travel down, because it leads to you.

Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Am. Ex. Number: Oh how we wish he/she was here today, ____________________________________ to see all the blessings we have.

Expiration Date:_______________________ Yet somehow you know that he/she is guiding us on our paths.

Signature:____________________________ Tenderly we treasure the past with memories that will always last.

Remembering you on this day, comforted by so many memories.

In the hearts of those who loved you, you will always be there.

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever. .

Loved always, sadly missed.

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by Barthauers Auction Service As we are selling our home, we will sell the following at 622 East College St. Jackson Center, Ohio (1st St. North and parallel with 274 on east end) Watch For Signs.

Modern Furniture-Collectibles-Household-Appliances Shopsmith Wood Working Tools & More!! LARGE CLEAN AUCTION

Saturday, May 12th, Located indoors at Vandemark Farms 2401 South Vandemark Rd., Sidney, OH 9:30A.M. WOODWORKING EQUIP. & GARAGE ITEMS: SHOPSMITH wood working tools including Mark V Home workshop complete system with all manuals and attachments, 11” Bandsaw model # 505641, 6” Belt Sander model # 505642, 4” Jointer model # 505681-B, 12” Thickness Planer model # 505980, and 18” Jigsaw model # 505644. All units in great condition. Delta 8” table top drill press model 11-900, Very nice freestanding Buck Stove with blowers, Craftsman Radio charger/CD player, Many small electric and hand tools, Small stack rolling tool box, extension cords, organizers, Plastic storage cabinets, large amount of sandpaper, Cordless Black and Decker weed trimmer, 6’ workbench with 4” vise, tap and die sets, drill bits, rack full of garden tools in new condition, NIB Broan ventilation fan, Honda HRS21 self propelled push mower, Simplicity Single Stage Snowthrower, Hague Maximizer model 94 on demand water softener system, folding saw horses, two wheel dolly, misc hardware and organizers.

FURNITURE: Cherry Willett 3 Piece dining room suite with four chairs, glass hutch/buffet and small book case, to sell as a set, Antique ash Harvest table with several leaves, 4 piece and 3 piece full size bedroom suites, and twin iron bed no mattresses, Very Old Cobblers bench, pair of matching faux leather recliners, leather sitting chair w/foot stool, (2) Rose back cane bottom chairs, Ethan Allen china cabinet,Aluminum patio furniture with glider, cast iron porch bench, end tables, child's furniture, Sofa and upholstered chairs, reclining wingback chair w/Queen Anne Legs, 4 leg sewing cabinet, small chest of drawers, glass lighted curio cabinet, set of 4 iron ice cream parlor chairs, sofa and end tables, 40” hand hammered copper Aztec sun face and more.

HOUSEHOLD & APPLIANCES: Whirlpool modern Washer and Dryer white, Whirlpool 30” electric range in Almond, Edenpure infrared heater, electric registers, house fans, Krups toaster, many small kitchen appliances, everyday dishes and flatware, wall clocks, decorations, mirrors, many table and base lamps, 13” and 19” color T.V.’s, many Throw and area rugs all very clean, luggage, lawn chairs, large amount of linens, blankets and towels, RCA 5 disc stereo, Canister sets, pictures, books, Assorted box lots, COLLECTIBLES: Grebe Syncrophase radio receiver model # FMKB with round speaker, Orthophone Type F171, (2) Cunningham CX-112-A and (4) CX-301-A Amplifier tubes NIB, RCA model UX-200-A Radiotron Detector Tube,Adams column sided mantle clock, Union Electric Company Oak crank wall phone marked 1937, Coffee Grinder, Weick 7 lb Scale, Earthenware bowls, Cast Iron door stops, vintage door knockers, Sidney Dairy Milk Bottles, Assorted paperweights, Tray of Costume Jewelry, Cast Iron Alligator paper weights and nut

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 - 9:00 AM

cracker, 1963 Yellow Jacket year book, Lanamar by Karastan wool “Kirkman” rug pattern 5542, Vintage CI baby bed, many retro plant stands, porcelain top canning table, square steamer trunk, small medicine bottles, 15+ Oriental fans, statuettes, Hummel Festival Tokens from 1979, 82 and 86, Amber hen on nest, Silver plate, (4) Sterling Spoons, Holmes and Edwards 60 piece flatware set in box, Holmes and Edwards 26 pc.

Flatware in sleeve, Community 64+- pc set of Flatware in box, Onyx Bull, brass pull scales, German Guardian Angel picture # 919, MAGNALITE & VINTAGE COOKWARE: 14 Pcs. Of Magnalite including, 4681-82M,84-M,4683-M, 4672-P sauce pans w/lids, Magnalite/Wagner 4052 Bun Warmer, 4565 & 4506 Skillets, 4248-M Dutch Oven, Wagner 266 chicken Roaster, 6-71/2 quart Stock Pots, Wagner Ash Trays, Griswold Square Ash Tray, Griswold # 1 Patty Mold Set, handles and a few extra lids, Mirror Pressure Cooker, Kenwood Batter Bowl, Pyrex, Fire King, Aluminum cake saver, aluminum baking pans, GLASSWARE AND CHINA: Complete Service for 8 Lennox Tuxedo-S China with serving bowls, Pepper Mill Set, water pitcher and more, Partial set of Blue Ridge hand painted China 60+ pcs., Partial Set of Federal China 50+ pcs, 4 Imperial Jingdezhen Porcelain plates in boxes, Norman Rockwell Plates and Childers Series bell set w/rack, Fenton Bird, Cruet Sets in red and Blue, several sets of stemware, Green Depression candlesticks, Pink loop glass, red coin glass, tumblers, SLOT MACHINE White Diamonds Electric Token Slot Machine model 001510.

Auctioneers Note: Nice auction of quality merchandise to be held inside the climate controlled Van Demark Farms Activity center. Many more items than listed here.

We will be updating the website at www.remaxoneauctions.com with photos and descriptions as more items are unpacked. Lunch will be provided. Prepare for 2 auction rings part of the day. More information visit the website or call 937-538-6231 Directions: I-75 to Exit 90 West on State Route Fair Rd to South on Vandemark.

Payment Terms of Auction: Major Credit Cards, Cash or good check. 3% service fee for credit cards.

Auctioneers: Justin Vondenhuevel CES, CAGA, AARE, Tom Roll, David Shields

www.remaxoneauctions.com

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RUTH VOISARD ESTATE

Public Auction

Sale will be conducted at the 4308 NEWPORT ROAD, NEWPORT, OHIO.

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012 - 9:00 AM DIXON MOWER – ANTIQUES - COMPUTER SYSTEM - HOUSEHOLD Dixon lawn mower, ZTR428, Serial DM4235881, 12HP, very clean; Kenmore refrigerator, double door, ice & water in the door, recent purchase; Kenmore electric stove, glass top, like new; nice refrigerator for the garage or basement; Frigidaire chest type deep freeze, large; Kenmore Heavy Duty large capacity washer; Whirlpool Heavy Duty large capacity electric dryer; Dell tower computer, Windows7 operating system; computer table; 4 pc bedroom suite, nice; oak high-boy double bed, beautiful; oak wardrobe; oak dresser, marble insert, beveled mirror; cedar chest; Daisy model 840/841 BB/.177 cal gun; Winchester model 67, .22 cal rifle; antique crib bed; last supper tapestry; old comforters & afghans; oak wicker rocker; oak wood rocker; kneehole writing desk; older sewing machine in wooden cabinet; portable sewing machine; round spindle lamp stand; Early American dinning room table with six chairs; old dining room hutch, very nice; Emerson flat screen 19” TV, Sanyo 27 inch color TV; Radio Shack programmable scanner, model PRO-2049; Sony stereo system; corner cupboard; lift chair, nice, clean; two EA recliners; couch; drum tables; end tables; lamps; green depression creamer & sugar; pink depression cake plate; hand painted German cream & sugar; Laughlin bowls, Virginia rose pattern; set of RC dishes, serving for 8 with extra pieces, bridal gold pattern; Eggshell Nautilus set of dishes for 8; extra pc’s; Trousseau 53 piece set of silverware in wooden box; various pc’s of Wagnerware and Griswold; Enterprise #10 grinder; large wooden kraut cutter; meat saws; steels; WM Beatty & Son cast steel large meat clever; oil lamp; wooden shoes many bread baking pans; large metal mixing bowl; pots & pans; old camera’s; box full of old sewing patterns; advertising items from Tony’s, Vogelsang’s and Bruckens in Fort Loramie, Marshall’s Restaurant in Houston, Ohio; Rose’s Chicken Inn in Piqua, Frenchies in Versailles; Billy Beer beer can; vintage kitchen items; old Ross aluminum ice cream and large spoons; all the ordinary items you find in the kitchen; copper wash boiler; large and small crocks; antique baby stroller; various hand tools; bench grinder; aluminum step ladder; wood step ladder; 2 man crosscut saw; old painted high chair; bottle cappers; quilting frame; granite coffee boiler; hand garden plow; old ice tongs; wheel barrow; airtoner exercise bike; gas hand trimmer; lawn furniture; and many other items to numerous to mention.

OWNER: RUTH VOISARD ESTATE, RICK VOISARD AND MARY JANE JONES CO-EXECUTORS. SHELBY COUNTY PROBATE COURT CASE NUMBER 2012EST011 ATTORNEY: Richard Wallace, Sidney, Ohio 937-492-6191 TERMS: Cash or approved check. No out of state checks accepted. No goods removed until settled for. Everything is sold “as is”. Not responsible for accidents.

Buyer number system will be used, positive ID required.

AUCTIONEERS: DICK BARHORST, NEWPORT, OHIO 937-726-5499, MIKE BARTHAUER (937-585-5447) – PAUL GEARHARDT AUCTIONEERS NOTE: This is a nice and very clean sale. As a standard feature to all our sellers and buyers, we advertise your auction on the Internet. Check this auction and many associated pictures at WWW.AUCTIONZIP.COM. Food available on site.

Dick Barhorst, Auctioneer An Associate of Emerson Wagner Realty, Co., Inc. Newport, Ohio • 937-726-5499 “WE SELL THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING ON IT!” 2276489

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Antiques & Collectables; China cabinet with bow front center & 2 side doors; white clad lowless hardware co. marked cabinet; mirror backed hall tree with umbrella box; marble top table; clover leaf drop leaf table; 3 pc. bedroom suite with full size bed; 5 drawer hi boy dresser & dresser with what not mirror and hankie box; 2 pc. Bedroom suite with double bed and marble top dresser with swing beveled mirror; ladies drop front writing desk; cane bottom chair; 2 pcs. Prussia (red dot); Hall; Germany; Nippon; Bavaria; Alfred Meakin; Carnival pieces; Household Goods; Several very nice pieces including dining room table and chairs; lamps; washer/dryer; wall mirrors; utility cabinets; shelves; file cabinets and much more.

Garage Items; Lawn and Garden Tools Auctioneers Note: This only a very small list of what is a very clean and top quality offering. For more information and pictures, Go to Auction Zip.Com #3505 for complete listing.

Terms: Cash or Check with ID Morris Shields - Owner Linda Myers and Norma Jones - POA

Auctioneers: Mike Barthauer and Dick Barhorst DBA Barthauers Auction Service 937-585-5447 or 937-826-1861 Lunch By Fat Boys Porta-A-Jon NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS

Weigandt Real Estate LTD Lentz Auction and Appraisal Service, LLC

Selling real estate at Public Auction for the past 60 years.

Jeff Lentz 937-538-0601

Are you considering selling your farm, farmland or residential property at Public Auction?

With over 60 years of experience selling real estate at Public Auction, let us show you how to receive the highest return possible for your investment. Our experience, enthusiasm and knowledge of selling real estate at Public Auction will ensure a successful and profitable auction.

We also specialize in selling farm machinery, construction equipment as well as conducting estate sales.

Call today for a no-obligation and free consultation.

Richard Weigandt- Broker Todd Weigandt –Broker Jeff Lentz – Auctioneer - Broker Jeff Lentz is now residing in Shelby County - Sidney, OH

L Auction & Appraisal Service, LLC

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DINETTE TABLE, Thomasville, 2 boards. 6 chairs. All pads included.

Lighted hutch. Like new.

(419)678-4539

The building consists of approximately 25,500 sq. ft. The main building consists of 3-stories with a shingled pitched roof; the newer part is partially below ground and consists of 2 stories with a flat roof. The newer part housed the café/gymnasium.

Terms: The property will be sold to the highest bidder submitting a positive bid. Earnest money equating to 10% of the purchase price, or $1,000 minimum, will be required from the successful bidder in the form of cash or bankable check and will be returned to the buyer upon closing of the property. The property will be selling in as is where is condition with no warranties of any type. Your bidding is not conditional upon financing. So please have your financing pre-arranged or be prepared to close in cash.

To view the property call Tom Roll 937-638-7847

TERMS OF THE SALE ARE THIS: CASH. NO PERSONAL CHECKS NO CREDIT CARDS. NO CHILDREN. PLEASE CALL WITH QUESTIONS. ALL VEHICLES SOLD 100% AS IS. BANKRUPTCY UNITS HAVE SEPERATE TERMS. AGAIN, PLEASE CALL WITH QUESTIONS BEFORE THE AUCTION. WE ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SELLING UNITS, WE CANNOT ANSWER VERIFY OR GUARANTEE ANY CONDITION OF ANY UNIT IN AUCTION. ALL UNITS INCLUDING BOATS, SKIS, TRAILERS, VEHICLES ANYTHING SOLD IS 100% AS IS.

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FARM PUBLIC SALE Bids will be received for the sale and purchase of 166 acres, more or less, located at the corner of Miller Road and Fessler-Buxton Road, Section 22, Loramie Township, Shelby County, Ohio. The property is subject to a cash rent lease through December 31, 2013. The successful bidder will receive all rents payable after the date of sale.

A copy of the lease will be enclosed with the bid package referred to below.

All bids shall be sealed. Bid opening shall occur on Friday, June 15, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. For a legal description of the property, bid forms, and bidding instructions, contact Ralph F. Keister, of Faulkner, Garmhausen, Keister & Shenk, Courtview Center – Suite 300, 100 South Main Avenue, Sidney, Ohio 45365; telephone: 937-492-1271 or fax: 937-498-1306, or e-mail: rkeister@fgks-law.com.

MICROWAVE oven, $79, black, (937)935-1472

BURTON FINANCE COMPANY 2002 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY VAN 2002 DODGE DAKOTA SPORT 2000 SATURN LW1

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2 BEDROOM, Botkins, next to school. $375.

Metro accepted.

(937)394-2221

2 BEDROOM home, 610 Park Street, $500 month, no pets or Metro. Call Tom, Emerson Wagner Realty, (937)498-2348.

1998 DODGE CARAVAN 2000 DODGE INTREPID 2006 CHEV MALIBU

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2 BEDROOM, 2 full bath, Russia. Attached garage.

Great neighborhood!

MOVE-IN SPECIAL! MUST SEE! (937)417-4910.

(937)498-4747 www.1troy.com

MID OHIO ACCEPTANCE 2000 BUICK REGAL 1999 PONTIAC GR PRIX 2001 OLDS INTRIGUE 2000 CHEV CAVALIER 2000 OLDS SILHOUETTE 2003 DODGE CARAVAN

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(937)498-4747 Carriage Hill Apts. www.1troy.com

PRIVATE SETTING 2 bedroom townhouse.

No one above or below!

Appliances, washer & dryer, fireplace, garage, water & trash included.

AIR CONDITIONER, window style, works good, $75 (937)418-4639.

June 2, 2012 - 9:00 AM

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3170 W Ziegler Rd Piqua

MYSTIC APARTMENTS

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(937)606-1115

PUBLIC AUCTION Central School-102 North Miami, Sidney, Ohio

415 SOUTH STREET, PIQUA, OHIO UPPER MIAMI VALLEY STORAGE 9:00 A.M. SHARP

SECOND NATIONAL 2005 JEEP LIBERTY 2006 CHEV MALIBU MAXX 2001 FORD F150 2007 CHEV MALIBU 1993 MERCURY COUGAR 2005 CHRYSLER 300 2008 SUZUKI GSX-R1000 CAR AND CREDIT 2000 CHEV IMPALA 2002 FORD WINDSTAR 2000 CHEV MALIBU 1998 FORD RANGER UNITY NATIONAL BANK 2002 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER

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Hauling steel and Flatbed experience needed.

Home on weekends.

Water, Trash, Sewage Paid, Grounds Kept, Laundry Facilities on Premises, Appliances Furnished, Rent Subsidized by HUD

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Huff Trucking Drivers Needed

1,2 OR 3 BEDROOM UNITS

SATURDAY MAY 12, 2012 4 BEDROOM, 2 1/2 car garage, AC and vinyl siding, newer paint, carpet, windows, and roof, 811 Clinton Ave. For sale, or short term rent to own.

Call (937)526-3264

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ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

3 BEDROOM ranch, 1 bath. Covered deck, large garage. Quiet street. Excellent condition. $89,900 (614)937-2821

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621 ST. MARYS, 3 Bedroom, 1 bath. NO PETS! $450/ month, deposit.

(937)498-8000

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DAYCARE OPENINGS in my home. Monday-Friday, any age. Anna school district. (937)726-2232 Ask for Jessie

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90N. Main St. •Minster, OH 45865 www.lentzauctions.com www.weigandtrealestate.com

Residence: 1174 Marvin Gene Ct • Sidney, OH

Jeff Lentz cell: 937-538-0601 toll free: 800-803-8213 jeff@lentzauctions.com

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“EUGENE MYERS AUCTION SERVICE, LLC” “THE PROFESSIONALS”

Due to my health I will be selling at Public Auction my many, many year collection of antiques and collectibles at the 4-H Building on the grounds of the Auglaize County Fair Wapakoneta, Ohio on:

DATE: TUESDAY MAY 15, 2012 TIME: 10:00 A.M.

CONSISTING OF: Holiday Collectible including Christmas, Halloween, Easter; Toys including metal trucks, candy containers, children’s dishes, bears, and others; Area memorabilia including St. Marys, New Bremen, Spencerville, Sidney, etc; Primitives including baskets, butter molds, etc; Wapakoneta items including granite butter churn, bent wood butter churn, vegetable slicer, Turner toy; Large toy fire truck; Tonka; Tractors; Doll wicker baby buggy; Many nice frames, oils, prints & watercolors; Paper including advertising & post cards; Goodman motion lamp; Fancy handle umbrellas; Pottery including Weller, Roseville, McCoy, Hull, jardinières’; Blue and white stoneware; Glassware including Fostoria, Carnival, Fenton, Fiesta; Royal Doulton Figurines; Mesh & beaded purses; Indian blankets; Linens, quilts, tablecloths, etc; Woven rugs including Karastan; White Victorian clothing; Perfume bottles; Large amount of costume & vintage jewelry; Iron door stops & book ends; Fishing lures, some with boxes; 50’ of early iron fence; Furniture including Bremen painted cupboard, (2) spool cabinets (4 & 5 drawer), wicker, chairs, metal diner stools, multicolor 50’s vinyl chairs; Iron bench; Floor & table lamps, mixed metal, some signed; Tools including router & table; and many other items. NOTE: We have posted a slide show of a number of the representative items on our web page at www.myersauction.com.

Come spend the day with us. We know you will be pleased.

PAT YAHL: OWNER

EUGENE MYERS AUCTION SERVICE, LLC STEVE, JERRY, GREGORY SMITH: AUCTIONEERS LICENSED AND BONDED IN FAVOR OF THE STATE OF OHIO TERMS: CASH OR CHECK WITH PROPER ID LUNCH: MJM CATERING 2281095

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FURNITURE, Sleeper sofa, Norwalk, beige plaid, $100, Oak Pedestal table and 6 chairs, $250, Must sell, (937)489-4806

SWING, 6 ft. with cushion $50. 5 piece patio set $75, (937)344-0392.

Sidney Daily News, Thursday, May 10, 2012

FISH TANK, 30 gallon, includes everything (saltwater), $50.

Call (937)492-3079.

2001 NISSAN Quest, mini van, 74,000 miles, $5,800, Kelly Blue Book Value, $7,300.

(937)658-2421

MINIATURE DACHSHUNDS, papered, vet checked, 1st shots, parents on premises, 1 black/tan male, 1 chocolate male, 1 chocolate long haired female, $300.

Will be ready 5/22, (937)441-7885.

2003 PONTIAC Sunfire, Silver, new brakes, rotors, front struts, Good on gas, 2.2 liter, 103,000 miles, $6000 firm, after 4pm (937)622-1300

PULLETS. 10 weeks old, Healthy & vaccinated, $4.00 each, (937)492-7943

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DIRECTORY

To advertise in the Garage Sale Directory Please call: 877-844-8385

2006 CADILLAC DTS, Black, 79,311 miles. V8, automatic, many amenities including leather heated seats. Very clean and well taken care of. Don’t miss this one!

(937)596-6550

SIDNEY 1608 Westlake Drive. Saturday May 12th 9-3. Baby and toddler clothes, size 0-2T, Grandmother's clock, TV stand, miscellaneous items.

BASKETS for sale, $3.

(937)492-7206 EARRINGS, .63 of a carat and 7/10 carat diamond earrings (selling together) $4500, replacement value $11,060.

Call (937)541-1004.

MACHINISTS TOOLS, large selection. Toolboxes, surface plate, height stand, mics, indicators, too much too list. Will separate. (937)726-5761 PERENNIAL PLANTS from my garden. See beautiful iris' in bloom.

Take home many varieties of potted perennials. $1-$4. Stop by 10900 Scott Road, Friday & Saturday or call (937)497-9373.

PUNCH BOWL SET, large silver, bowl is 15" round, 11" on a pedestal.

Tray is 20" round. Comes with 12 silver cups, $50, (937)498-1589.

At last!!

Website is up, Find us at: garwcksthepetpeople.com

Then come see our nice selection of puppies (419)795-5711 ◆◆▲◆◆▲◆◆▲◆◆ CAT, declawed, litter box trained, house cat. Very loveable. Black and white male. Free to good home.

(937)492-8736 CHIHUAHUA AKC, male, 7 Years old good stud dog $50.00 Short Haired Tan. Call (937)448-0522.

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the federal fair housing act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference limitation or discrimination.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

1931 FORD model A, 2 door sedan, Good glass, top is good, good interior, runs good, Just needs painted, $6500, (937)658-1946 1993 CHEVY van, blue, runs great! $1500. obo call (937)875-2021

350 CHEVY truck Motor, completely rebuilt, 1989 5.7 from intake to pan (937)597-6028

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GARAGE SALE MAPS LEGAL NOTICE FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY vs.

WILLIAM D. WALKER, II et al.

William D. Walker, II, Address Unknown and Unknown Spouse, if any, of William D. Walker, II, Address Unknown whose last place of residence is unknown and whose present place of residence is unknown, will take notice that on January 27, 2012, FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY filed its Complaint in Case No. 12CV000026 in the Court of Common Please of Shelby County Clerk of Courts P.O. Box 809 Sidney, OH 45365, seeking foreclosure and alleging that the Defendants William D. Walker, II, Address Unknown and Unknown Spouse, if any, of William D. Walker, II, Address Unknown have or claim to have an interest in the real estate described below: SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SIDNEY, COUNTY OF SHELBY AND STATE OF OHIO: BEING THE SOUTH HALF OF INLOT NUMBER THREE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE (343) IN THE SAID CITY OF SIDNEY. PARCEL NUMBER: 01-1836259.026 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 433 S. MAIN AVE., SIDNEY, OH 45365 PRIOR DEED REFERENCE: BOOK 1689, PAGE 682 PROPERTY OWNER: WILLIAM D. WALKER, II & CARRIE E. WALKER CASE NUMBER: 12CV000026 Permanent Parcel Number: 01-1836259.026 Property Address: 433 S. Main Avenue, Sidney, OH 45365 The Defendant(s) named above are required to answer on or before the 14 day of June, 2012.

FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY BY: FELTY & LEMBRIGHT, CO., LPA Erin O’Malley, Attorney at Lawn Attorney for Plaintiff-Petitioner 1500 West Third Street, Suite 400 Cleveland, OH 44113 Phone: (216) 588-1500 May 3, 10, 17 2280879

OHIO DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING According to records on file with the Ohio Department of Insurance, each of the individuals listed below currently holds an insurance agent’s license in the state of Ohio and each has failed to meet the continuing education requirements of Section 3905.481 of the Revised Code for the 2008/2009 compliance period.

Pursuant to Section 3905.482 and Chapter 119 of the Revised Code, each individual listed below is hereby notified that the Superintendent intends to revoke his or her insurance licenses. He or she may request a hearing pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 119. The request must be made on or before June 16, 2012. Such request should be addressed to: Sharon Green, Hearing Administrator, Ohio Department of Insurance, 50 W. Town St., 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Columbus, OH 43215.

RIETHMAN, BRIAN THOMAS DOB: 06/25/1982 9120 AMSTERDAM RD ANNA, OH 45302 TAYLOR, DAVID H. DOB: 02/18/1964 1330 TULLY SIDNEY, OH 45365 At the hearing, the individual may appear in person, by his or her attorney, or by such other representative as is permitted to practice before the agency, or the individual may present his or her position, arguments or contentions in writing and, at the hearing, he or she may present evidence and examine witnesses appearing for and against him or her.

available at

www.SidneyDailyNews.com to locate garage sales along with a complete listing for each garage sale 2279193 BOTKINS, 105 East State Street, Friday & Saturday, 8am-? Van with bins and ladder rack, motorcycle, tools (drill, sawzalls and hole hawg drill), new plumbing: HVAC & electric items (sinks, shower base, fixtures, registers, breakers).

HOUSTON/PIQUA, 5555 Fessler-Buxton Road (Route 66 North of Piqua, approximately 5 miles, turn left), Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 9am-4pm. John Deere teeter totter, light fixtures, ceiling fans, household and seasonal decorations, garage items and lots of miscellaneous.

BOTKINS, 105 East State Street, Friday, Saturday, 8am-?, In the Rear!, accordion, Christmas train and decorations, new items, 6 drawer bed frame, children's clothing 4-11, bicycle, stroller, car seat, collectable's, blue jeans, Precious Moments, Webkins, flower boxes, wall decor, miscellaneous!

NEW BREMEN, 17055 Roettger Road, Thursday & Friday, 8am-3pm, Saturday, 8am-Noon. Moving sale! Everything must go!!

3 year old refrigerator, riding lawn mower, China, antiques.

BOTKINS, 206 Meadow Drive, (1/2 mile South of Botkins off 25A) Friday 5pm-8pm, Saturday 8am-3pm, Tons of Childrens clothes/ name brands, Boys Newborn to 5-6, Girls newborn to 4t, 4 aquariums/ supplies, Lots of miscellaneous BOTKINS, 304 Lynn Street, Friday, Saturday, 8am-?, Furniture, Name brand clothing! adult and girls infant to 2T, boys infant to adult, Gap, Gymbroee, Children's Place, Abercrombie, Britax carseat, Baby Gear, toys, household items, many miscellaneous!

BOTKINS. 401 Street Main Street, May 10, 10am-5pm, May 11, 9am-5pm & May 12, 8am-3pm. Women's & men's clothing, Tupperware, baking pans, Red hats, ice cream table with 2 chairs, wind chimes, books, food saver, pictures & lots of other items.

SIDNEY 1241 & 1245 Turner Drive, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 9am-5pm Six family's, dog grooming table, snow blower, Wagner ware, screen door, filing cabinets, over range microwave, golf clubs, bedding, luggage, baby, adult clothes, lots miscellaneous!

SIDNEY, 1290 North Kuther Road (between Russell & Route 47), Friday 9:30am-6pm, Saturday, 9am-3pm, Antiques, furniture, chrome dinette, bicycle, wheelbarrow, Inversion table, Urban rebounder, cookie jars, lamps PS2 games, karaoke, Much more, No early sales!

SIDNEY, 1306 Pine Tree Court (off Spruce), Thursday & Friday, 8:30am-3pm, Saturday, 8:30am-Noon.

Moving sale! Antiques, furniture, craft items, washer & dryer, namebrand kids clothes. Everything priced to sell!

If an individual does not timely request a hearing, no hearing will be held and an order revoking his or her insurance license shall be issued.

Darcy Moulin Staff Counsel May 3, 7, 10

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BOTKINS Community Garage Sales, Saturday, May 12th, 8am-3pm.

Concession stand and garage sale maps will be available at the Immaculate Conception Church, North Main Street FT LORAMIE 7540 Short Rd. Friday 8-4, Saturday 8-2. KIDS SALE!!! Lots of clothes- boys and girls newborn to size 8. Girls twin bedding sets, bikes, toys, Power Wheels 4-wheeler, car seats, miscellaneous items.

1997 FORD COACHMAN CATALINA RV New Price, 460 gas engine, slide-out, 34 feet, dual air, generator, 26K original miles, newer tires.

(937)773-9526

2001 FORD XLS V6 EXPLORER automatic, Carfax, 4 door, AC, power steering, brakes, windows, locks, tilt, cruise, garaged, no rust, AM/FM, $5,700 OBO (248)694-1242

1999 CHEVY TAHOE LT 2-tone grey body, great shape, must see. Rebuilt tranny, new parts (have receipts). Can email pics.

(402)340-0509

2002 HONDA 1800 GOLDWING Illusion blue, 31,000 miles, Has CB radio, intercom, cruise control, etc., too many extras to list, $11,000. Call Steve.

(937)726-7998

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2003 BUICK LESABRE CUSTOM Very well maintained, excellent condition runs and drives great, $4995 Please call: (937)726-5605

2010 KAWASAKI NINJA 250R SPECIAL EDITION New condition, only 1700 mi. New Yoshimura exhaust, great gas mile, purchased at Rehmert's. A great graduation gift! $3000 OBO. (937)489-3560

SIDNEY, 1221 St. Marys Avenue, Thursday and Friday 8am-4pm, File cabinets, old wood telephone, comic books, marbles, matchbook covers, duck plates, kids clothes, carpet scrubber, silver certificates, antique rod iron table and chairs, miscellaneous.

SIDNEY, 1359 East Hoewischer Road, Friday 8am-5pm, Saturday 8am-3pm, toys! clothes (baby- adult), Highchair, luggage, baby swing, car seats/ bases, travel system stroller, freezer, mini fridge, Precious Moments, patio furniture, entertainment center, xl Dog cage, firepit, grill, grease trap, AC, kerosene & Infrared heaters, power washer, flooring, cash only!

SIDNEY, 14279 Charm Hill Drive, (Across from the Airport) Friday 9am-4pm Saturday 9am-3pm. LARGE SALE! Something for everyone!

SIDNEY, 1591 and 1573 Westlake Drive, Saturday 8-2. Desk chairs, Stiefel lamp, computer desk, metal desk, 2 hutch, lamps, mirrors, vanity, side tables, area rugs, roller blades, childrens toys, girls 18-24 mos clothes, miscellaneous household items and clothes. Something for all!

SIDNEY, 1629 Timberidge (Directions: Fair to Westwood, Westwood to Timberidge).

Thursday, May 10 and Friday, May 11, 8:30am-5pm. Nice multi-family sale! Home furnishings, furniture, antique items and furniture, collectibles, clothes, old books and lots of miscellaneous items.

SIDNEY 210 Piper Street.

Saturday only! 8am-4pm.

Table saw, Bissell carpet cleaner, Precious Moments, hot sauces, books, clothes, sports memorabilia, Lots of miscellaneous items SIDNEY, 223 S Walnut.

(Behind old PK Lumber) Thursday May 10th & Tuesday May 15th.

9AM-12pm & 3pm-7pm.

FLEA MARKET/ INSIDE SALE! Lots of NEW items! Table top arcade games. Large selection hand tools, electrical & plumbing items, and lots more!

SIDNEY, 224 E. Lyndhurst.

Saturday only!

9am-6pm. Designer Purses and shoes, clothes, furniture, books, household items SIDNEY, 225 East Parkwood (across from YMCA), Friday & Saturday, 8am-4pm. Lots of nice clean things: 3 piece full bedroom set & mattress, sofa bed couch, TV cabinet, table & chairs, love seat, desk, women's business clothes size 12-14, miscellaneous glassware, canister set, silverware, lamps, bedspreads, toys, girl teen clothes, purses and various decorator items.

SIDNEY, 2410 Broadway.

Thursday & Friday 9am-4pm. Antiques- bed, tables, chairs, mirrors, pictures, crocks, Putnam Dye cabinet, butter churn, enamel spice set, Stewart iron gates, quilts, porch rockers, kitchen, seasonal decorations, & many more items SIDNEY 324 E Pinehurst.

Friday and Saturday 9am? Old glassware, collectibles, dog sled, model trains, 2 man tent, ski's, dorm furniture, spurs, lawn mower, and beer steins. Items being added right up to opening.

SIDNEY, 401 Oakleaf Court, Friday & Saturday 9am-?, Microwave, small fridge, puzzles, pictures, candles, knick knacks, jeans, throws, Much more!

SIDNEY, 414 Karen Ave. (Across from High School) Saturday only, 8am-2pm.

Large assortment of decorative items, housewares, men's and women's clothing, paperbacks, jewelry, craft and ceramic items Kirby and Rainbow sweepers, many new items. Lots of miscellaneous. Rain or shine.

SIDNEY, 420 Brookburn, Thursday & Friday 9am-3pm, Saturday 8am?, Clothes of all sizes kids and adult, bed frame, dressers, end tables, book shelves, lots of toys, lawnmowers, bikes, Lots of miscellaneous, Something for everyone!

SIDNEY 710 Marilyn Dr. Saturday only 8-? BABY SALE!!!! Mostly girls newborn-5T clothes, toys and accessories. Some boys items too. Mens and womens clothing, home decor, and more!

SIDNEY, 4433 Hardin Wapak, Friday-Saturday, 10am-6pm. Huge 5 family yard sale! 3 riding lawn mowers, guns, deep freezer, Case knives, furniture, TVs, clothes, a lot of movies, king headboard, dog cage, jewelry. lots of miscellaneous.

SIDNEY 856 S Miami.

Saturday 8-4. Wooden outdoor swing with aframe, recliner, swivel chair, bookcase, TV stand, plant stand, Queen comforter with dust ruffle & shams, ladies clothing, jewelry, wine rack, puzzles, lots of miscellaneous.

TROY, 91 South Dorset, Saturday, May 12th 8am-3pm. Honeywell floor air cleaner, new George Foreman roaster, Lyre Back 1940's chair, Sunshade patio table, political items, linens, lamps, furniture, ladies & men's clothing small to 3X, pots & pans, handbags, electric grill, bikes, Garmin GPS, Western saddle and Western books, dog ramp, kerosene heater, trash compactor, wheelbarrow, Bunn coffee maker, Army jackets, jewelry, above ground pool cleaner and floats, DVD's and CD's, plus much more

TROY, 1015 Hillcrest Drive, Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-1pm. 22 FAMILIES! Cash only, very nice children's, teen, lady's, and men's clothes, lots of designer purses, 3 sofas, chairs, ping pong table, 2 battery powered four wheelers, bikes, tricycles, lots of toys, books, basket ball hoop and stand (like new), pictures, and ducks unlimited prints, bed spreads, electric guitar/ amplifier, oriental rugs, bar stools, upright Spinet piano, piano benches, many more items!!

TROY, 527 Miami Street, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 8am-5pm.

4 toddler to 10 girls - Gymboree, Levis, Hello Kitty, Bonnie Gean, 3 toddler to 7 boys - Tony Hawk, Champs, Gymboree, carters, Osh Kosh, outside umbrella, hobby horse, highchair, toys, books, puzzles, baskets and household items.

TROY, Kensington subdivision, Thursday May 10th, Friday May 11th and Saturday May 12th, 8am-4pm. Maps will be available at the State Route 55 entrance - Kenton Way and the Nashville Road entrance - Huntington Drive. This large subdivision will have 35-40 sales on all three days with new ones opening on Friday and Saturday.

Lots of children clothing all sizes, toys, children's movies, video games, adult clothing, pictures, knick knacks, jewelry, baskets, craft items, housewares, seasonal decor, pet items, furniture, tv's, entertainment centers, sports equipment, books, cd's, dvd's, vhs tapes, motorcycles, cars, tools, computer equipment, and lots of miscellaneous.

Sidney Daily News, Thursday, May 10, 2012

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