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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Pages 3A, 5A today: • Dr. D. LaMar Keiser • The Rev. Linphord L. “Chip” Hall Jr. • Kimberly Rose Peters • Ruth Ann Frey • The Rev. Charles B. Rohrkemper • Irma L. Feldman

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The Minster High School baseball team celebrates winning its Also in today’s newspaper, Houston High School’s graduation second state championship in a row Saturday after defeating is on Page 10A and Jackson Center Community Days is on Cuyahoga Heights 5-4. For more on the game, see Page 13A. Page 12A

Going, going gone Central School sold for $18,000

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TODAY’S THOUGHT “If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.” — Carl Sandburg, American writer (1878-1967) For more on today in history, turn to Page 2B.

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BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER jbumgarner@sdnccg.com Central Elementary School went to the highest bidder for $18,000 during an auction on Saturday. Sidney resident Darrell Nichols stood and watched as his wife, Charlene, won the school in the auction with the highest bid. With the sale finalized, Charlene joked it was “the first school I’ve ever bought.” Darrell also joked that he “didn’t have anything to do with it. She’s the one who bid.” The Nichols family doesn’t have any immediate plans for the building. “It depends on what the city will let me do,” said Darrell. “Right now I have no idea what we’re going to do with it. I just didn’t want to see the building go for nothing.” The final date for closing is July 2. The former school was For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg appraised at $50,000. The AUCTIONEER TOM Roll, of Sidney, auctions off fams from Central School as fellow auction- auction was conducted by Tom eer Justin Vondenhuevel, of Maplewood, grabs one that was sold during the auction Satur- Roll of Realty 2000 Group and day. See AUCTION/Page 2A

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DAVE STUEFEN, of Brookville, sits next to some old lockers while taking a break from bidding on items from Central School Saturday. The school itself was also auctioned off.

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the school was sold in as is condition with no warranties. The three-story, 25,000 square foot building is known to contain asbestos which will have to be addressed by the new owner if the property is used as a school or public service building. Desks, computers and school supplies, along with kitchen and athletic equipment, also went up for sale by the Sidney City School Board of Education. Last month, workers removed the large bronze bell from atop the old school building. it will soon spend the rest of its days in a prominent place somewhere between Sidney High School and school board offices on Fourth Avenue. Central Elementary was open Saturday for people to take one last look around the building which some former teachers chose to take advantage of. Velma Lindsey retired from teaching 25 years ago and spent part of her career at Central Elementary.

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“I think I started working at Central in 1961 and taught there for two years,” said Lindsey. “I then went to teach at Orange and also Emerson.” Lindsey attended the auction to take one last look at her former classroom and to get a chance to walk around the rest of the building. She spent more than 30 years in education starting in a small mining town in Kentucky before moving to the Sidney area. As Lindsey toured around the school another teacher left his mark on the building. Teacher Aaron Berning taught at Central Elementary the last four years the building was open. As a tribute to the staff, Berning went from room to room, writing each teacher’s name on their former chalkboards. “I wanted to leave our mark on the building,” said Berning. “I wanted to come and walk through it one last time.”

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A house fire on Saturday morning sent one Sidney teenager to the hospital. Sidney firefighters were dispatched to the fire at 423 Fifth Ave. at 10:27 a.m. Firefighters entered the structure for search and fire attack operations and found and removed an unconscious 16-year-old male from the first floor. The victim was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital and later transferred by CareFlight to Miami Valley Hospital. Immediate family members were notified and were with the victim at the hospital. The name of the victim and his condition have not yet been released. A thorough search of the house was completed by firefighters and there were no other victims. There were reportedly no working smoke detectors in the home. The home is occupied by the Eichelberger James family. Assistant Chief Cam Haller was the incident commander on the scene. A box alarm was dispatched to recall all

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OBITUARIES Dr. D. LaMar Keiser one son, Gordy, his wife, Kirstin, and their son, Henry; and adopted nephew, Lucian. A celebration of life service will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Danville Centenary Methodist Christian Life Center, Danville, Ky., by Dr. Quentin Scholtz and the Rev. Walter Brown Sizemore. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Floro, Roger Gamertsfelder, Jerry Kelble, Jerry Plunkett, John Robinette, Tom Skinner, Jim Duncan, Mike Floro, Mitchell Frisby, Mark Newton, John Tumey, Clay Warren, and members of the Kentucky Bass Club, past and present. Memorial Contributions are suggested to Wilderness Trace Child Development Center in Danville. A guestbook is available for signing at www.wlpruitt.com. are Arrangements under the direction of the W.L. Pruitt Funeral Home, Hustonville, Ky.

Additional obituaries appear on Page 5A ‘Housewives’ actress Kathryn Joosten dies LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kathryn Joosten, a character actress b e s t known as t h e crotchety, yet lovea b l e , K a r e n M c Cluskey Joosten on “Desperate Housewives” and the president’s secretary on “The West Wing,” has died. She was 72. Joosten, who had battled lung cancer for 11 years, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles, her publicist Nadine Jolson said. Joosten “was surrounded by love and humor ‘til the end,” her family said in a statement. “We are laughing

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The Rev. Linphord L. “Chip” Hall Jr., 65, 301 E. Robinwood St., passed away Friday, June 1, 2012, at 2:37 a.m., at Lima Memorial Hospital in Lima. He was born on Dec. 29, 1946, in Toledo, the son of the late Linphord and Violet (Staler) Hall Sr. On Aug. 17, 1964, he married Sandra Kay (Frost) Linphord who is living. He is also survived by four children, Patrick and wife Jen Hall, of Willshire, Christina Kessler, of Waynesfield, Randolf Hall, of Sidney, and Stephen Hall, of Sidney; eight grandchildren, Courtney Greene, Taylor Hall, Baylee Hall, Alicia Kessler, Raquel Kessler, Stephen Hall II, Kaylee Hall and Leah Kessler; one brother, Donald of LamChandler, bertville, Mich.; and one sister, Rosetta Garver, of Toledo. Preceding him death were four brothers and one sister. The Rev. Hall graduated from Ashland University in Ashland, with a bacholor’s degree. He

then went on to Ashland Theological Semiand nary graduated with a Master’s Degree in Psychology, and a Master’s Degree in Theology. The Rev. Hall then went on to pastor several United Methodist Churches. First the Ai Church in Swanton, then Leipsic and Bethal U.M.C. in Leipsic, the Grover Hill U.M.C. in Grover Hill, the Memorial United Methodist Church in Sidney, and last at the Westminster U.M.C. in Harrod. Chip, as he is fondly known, will be greatly missed by all his family and friends. Memorial services will be held on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Westminster United Methodist Church in Harrod with Pastor David Burkhart officiating. All arangements are in the care of Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave. Condolences may be expressed to the Hall family at the funeral home’s website, www.cromesfh.com.

The Rev. Charles B. Rohrkemper CARTHAGENA — The Rev. Charles B. Rohrkemper died Thursday, May 31, 2012, at St. Charles in Center Carthagena. Born in Dayton, a graduate of Chaminade High School, the Rev. Rohrkemper completed seminary studies at St. Gregory and Mount St. Mary, and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati by Archbishop John T. McNicholas in 1943. Following ordination, the Rev. Rohrkemper was named assistant at St. William Parish, Cincinnati, with teaching duties at Elder High School. In 1948, he was assigned to St. Augustine Parish on Bank Street, Cincinnati, while continuing to teach at Elder. A 1951, transfer to St. Vivian’s Parish, Cincinnati, as assistant pastor and faculty member at Julienne High School. In 1956, he was named chaplain to the Sisters of Notre Dame at Villa Julienne, Dayton and continued teaching at the high school. In 1961, the Rev. Rohrkemper received his first pastorate, St. John Fisher, in Newtown, Cincinnati, with mission at St. Ann, Williamsburg. Four years later, he was appointed pastor of St. Francis de Sales, Lebanon. In 1968, he received the call to be pastor of St. Boniface, Piqua. There he remained until 1976, when he was asked to assume the pastorate of St. Mary Parish, Greenville. Two years later, in 1978, the Rev. Rohrkemper was called to be pastor at Sacred Heart Parish, McCartyville, where he served until his retirement in 1987. Active in retirement, the Rev. Rohrkemper

continued to serve the Archdiocese, offering Mass and administering the Sacraments on a regular basis at Patrick St. Parish in Troy, and in other parishes where his services were welcomed. The Rev. Rohrkemper regularly offered Mass at several local nursing homes. At Lehman High School he also occasional presided at Masses for the students. He was preceded in death by his parents Albert and Helen Rohrkemper; and by his three sisters, Mary Shultz, Sister Alberta Rohrkemper and Cecelia Benezra. He is survived by seven nieces and nephews, Helen and Robert Alig, Cecelia and Robert Grewe, David and Tina Benezra, Michael Benezra, Mary Ann Messing, Katherine and Michael Jenkins, and Elizabeth and Ronald Warnock; and a number of great nieces and nephews. Reception of the body will take place at St. Patrick Church, Troy, from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. on Friday with a Mass of Christian Burial following at 10:30 a.m. with Archbishop Dennis Schnurr celebrant. Burial will take place at Calvary Cemetery, Dayton. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Charles Nursing Center, Carthagena. Also a special thank you to the staff at St. Charles Nursing Center for taking wonderful care of the Rev. Rohrkemper. Arrangements are being handled by Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster. Condolences may be made at www.hogenkampfh.com.

of 816 Clinton Ave., passed away Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. at the Kettering Medical Center. She was born on Aug. 19, 1967, in Winchester, Ky., the daughter of Rozella Fee, of Winchester, Ky., and the late Roy Daniels Jr. She is survived by four children, Ronnie Daniels, David Rawlins and wife Chelsea, and Justin Rawlins, all of Winchester, Ky., and Misty Fuller, of Sidney; one brother, Gordon Daniels and wife Lisa; one sister, Becky Amos and husband Johnny, both of Winchester, Ky.; five grandchildren; and companion, Shawn. She was preceded in death by one sister,

was employed t h r o u g h Staffmark for NKP in Sidney as an inspector. She enjoyed her life spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren, who will miss her greatly. In keeping with Ms. Peters’ wishes, her body will be cremated. A memorial gathering in celebration of Kimberly’s life will be held at a later date at the convenience of her family. Arrangements are in the care of Cromes Funeral Home and Crematory, 302 S. Main Ave. Condolences may be expressed to the Peters family at the funeral home’swebsite, www.cromesfh.com.

Ruth Ann Frey WA PA K O N E T A — Ruth Ann Frey, 72, of Wapakoneta, died at 6:57 p.m., on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at the Van Wert Hospice Center. She was born May 19, 1940, in Richmond, Ind., the daughter of Harold and Mildred (Layman) Laine, who preceded her in death. On March 4, 1972, she married Richard D. “Dick” Frey, and he survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Andrea Clarke, of Hartford, Ala.; three stepsons, Harry A. Frey, of Lima, Warner Wolfe, of Sidney, and Richard (Martha) Wolfe, of Fort Loramie; two step grandchildren; two brothers, Jim (Willie) Laine, of Bradford, and Jack Laine, of Conover; and three sisters, Pat Pritchard, of Bradford, Linda (Harold) Simons, of Union City, and Janet (Jim) Miller, Covington. She was preceded in death by a son, Perry

Jones; and a sister, Diana Laine. A homemaker, Ruth had worked at Clark Gas Station, Certified Gas Station, Troy Sunshade, and Walmart, Wapakoneta. She enjoyed riding motorcycles and shopping. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Wapakoneta Community Worship Center, Pastor Dan Holbrook officiating. Burial will follow in the Pearl Cemetery, Swanders. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home, Ohio 501, Wapakoneta, and one hour prior to the service, Tuesday at the church. Memorial contributions may be directed to the Wapakoneta Community Worship Center. Condolences may be expressed at www.bayliffandeleyfh.com.

Irma L. Feldman MINSTER — Irma L. Feldman, 100, 31 W. Fifth St., died at 3:05 a.m., on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Hospice of Dayton Inpatient Unit. She was born Feb. 6, 1912, in Fort Loramie, to the late Christopher and Caroline (Stueve) Boerger. She married Russell Woehrmyer in 1937, and he preceded her in death in 1944. She married her second husband Henry Feldman in 1948, and he preceded her in death in 1983. She is survived by children, Robert Woehrmyer, of Dayton, Carol Ragalie, of Sharonville, John Feldman, of West Chester, and Mary and Tom Swett, of Ridgefield, Conn.; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; both her husbands; her daughter-in-law, Carole Woehrmyer; and broth-

ers and sisters, Henry Boerger, Irene Coleman, Luella Blair, Marie Fischer, Leona Schlusher, Robert Olding, Viola Forrester, Elmer Olding. She was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church, Minster, and the CL of C of the church. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Minster with the Rev. Rick Nieberding celebrant. Burial will be in St. Augustine Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and from 9 to 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The family requests donations be made to the St. Augustine Building Fund. Condolences may be made at the funeral home’s website at www.hogenkampfh.com.

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AARON COWAN, director of the Reed Gallery at the University of Cincinnati DAAP, displays several drawings done by Orville Simpson, Friday in Cincinnati. Simpson, 89, who never finished high school and had no formal training as an architect donated thousands of drawings done over his life of his “Victory City” to the university’s architecture and design college.

Ohio design school uses self-taught designer’s plans CINCINNATI (AP) — When an 89-year-old, self-taught architectural designer approached the University of Cincinnati’s design school about donating his plans for a city of the future, officials didn’t just politely accept the six decades worth of work — they jumped at the opportunity. Using the work of someone who not only is self-taught but who never even finished high school is not typical for top research schools, but officials with the university’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning say Orville Simpson’s work is far

from typical. They were so impressed with the Cincinnati man’s intricate drawings and plans that they were eager to use them as tools for inspiring innovation among students, faculty and researchers. “When I saw his work, I thought he was a genius,” said college dean Robert Probst. “His work is just amazing and far ahead of its time.” Simpson started thinking about ways to solve urban sprawl problems such as pollution and dwindling resources when he was a child riding with his family through rural areas

under development. In 1936, at the age of 13, he made a rough drawing of a model city housed in a single building, but says he didn’t show it to anyone “because I thought they would laugh.” A dream about an ideal city became so vivid a few years later that he had to put it down on paper. Simpson has since produced a mountain of paper including everything from rough scribbled sketches to intricate drawings with finely worked-out specifications. “I would draw whenever I had another idea,” he said.

Teen dies hours before graduation ELYRIA (AP) — A car carrying five teenagers went airborne as it sped over railroad tracks in northeast Ohio early Sunday and crashed, killing the 18-year-old driver hours before his high school graduation and two of his passengers, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The other two passengers, one of them also an impending graduate, were hospitalized. Less than 13 hours after the crash, Brunswick High School students left empty seats covered with flowers at their graduation ceremony to remember driver Jeffrey Chaya and Kevin Fox, who was critically injured. “It was very sad,” Su-

perintendent Michael Mayell said after the commencement ceremony at the University of Akron. “There were a lot of tears.” The 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier was traveling at a high speed just after midnight when Chaya lost control in Columbia Township, troopers at the Elyria post said. The car went airborne and off the right side of the roadway, then swerved across the left side of the road, hit a ditch and tree, then flipped over, according to the troopers’ report. Chaya, a senior football player, and two passengers, 17-year-old Blake Bartchak and 16year-old Lexi Poerner, were killed, the patrol said.

Fox, a back-seat passenger, was thrown from the car into a ditch, troopers said. He was flown to Cleveland Metro Health Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition. Fox, 18, also was scheduled to graduate Sunday. The fifth person in the car, identified by troopers as 17-year-old Julia Romito, was taken to Southwest General Hospital, which wouldn’t release information on her. Fox and Chaya were called during the commencement, which included a moment of silence and comments about the tragic accident, Mayell said. More than 600 students graduated Sunday.

COLUMBUS (AP) — When John Blaine realized 11-year-old Matt Woodrum was struggling through his 400-meter race at school in central Ohio, the physical education teacher felt compelled to walk over and check on the boy. “Matt, you’re not going to stop, are you?” he encouragingly asked Woodrum, who has cerebral palsy. “No way,” said the panting, yet determined, fifth-grader. Almost spontaneously, dozens of Woodrum’s classmates — many who had participated earlier in the school’s field day — converged alongside him, running and cheering on Woodrum as he completed his final lap under the hot sun. The race on May 16, captured on video by Woodrum’s mother, is now capturing the attention of strangers on the Internet, many who call the boy and his classmates an inspiration to be more compassionate toward each other. A nearly fiveminute YouTube video posted this week by the boy’s uncle has received more than 680,000 views. Woodrum, who has spastic cerebral palsy that greatly affects his muscle movement, said he had a few moments where he struggled. “I knew I would finish it,” said the soft-spoken Woodrum, who attends Colonial Hills Elementary School in suburban Worthington. “But there were a couple of parts of the race where I really felt like giving up.” It was his fourth race

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THIS IMAGE made Saturday from a video posted on YouTube on May 27, 11-year-old Matt Woodrum (third from left) is joined by physical education teacher John Blaine (fourth from left) and other students during a 400-meter race at Colonial Hills Elementary School in Worthington. The May 16 race captured on video by Woodrum’s mother, is now capturing the attention of strangers on the Internet, many who call the boy and his classmates an inspiration to be more compassionate toward each other. of the day, and one he did- students pass him on n’t have to run. Only a their second lap around handful of students opted the grassy course, Blaine to give it a try, said Anne walks over to make sure Curran, Woodrum’s Woodrum is OK. mother. She said her son “The kids will tell you doesn’t exclude himself that Matt never gives up from anything, playing on anything that he sets football and baseball with out to do,” said Blaine, friends and his two broth- who has been Woodrum’s ers. teacher since kinder“He pushes through garten. “They knew he everything. He pushes would cross that finish through the pain, and he line, and they wanted to pushes through however be a part of that.” long it may take to comDuring his second lap plete a task,” she said. “He and with Blaine by his wants to go big or go side, Woodrum is sudhome.” denly joined by classThe sometimes shaky mates encouraging him to footage shows Woodrum keep going. Clapping and beginning the race on a running by his side, the steady pace with his group begins to yell in classmates, though he unison, “Let’s go, Matt! quickly lags. As several Let’s go!”

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CHARDON HIGH School students (front row l-r) Carita Haverlock, Halle Herringshaw, John Martillotta, Ann O’Brien and Anna Parker recite the Pledge of Allegiance during their commencement ceremony at the Mentor Schools Fine Arts Center in Mentor on Saturday. Chardon High School was the subject of a school shooting on Feb. 27 in which 17-year-old T.J. Lane admitted firing at students sitting at a cafeteria table killing three and seriously wounding two, authorities say.

Grads reflect on school shooting CHARDON (AP) — Graduating seniors at an Ohio high school have celebrated how their class pulled together in the aftermath of a shooting that killed three students and wounded two others earlier this year. Graduates and teachers wore special red and black ribbons as a sign of unity and remembrance

as 265 Chardon High School students received their diplomas Saturday. Sixteen-year-old Daniel Parmentor, 16year-old Demetrius Hewlin and 17-year-old Russell King Jr. were killed and two others were seriously wounded in the Feb. 27 shooting. Seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane, who attended a

nearby alternative school, has been charged. Senior class officer Kelsey Crowley says the students became closer in the aftermath of the shooting, and they “tried to turn tragedy into something beautiful.” Principal Andy Fetchik says the seniors “have helped us all to heal.”

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Zimmerman back in jail MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police Sunday and was booked into a central Florida jail two days after his bond was revoked. Zimmerman’s legal team said in a tweet Sunday afternoon that he was in police custody. Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman’s bond on Friday, saying the defendant and his wife had lied to the court in April about their finances so he could obtain a lower bond. About 40 minutes before the 2:30 p.m. Sunday deadline to surrender, the Seminole County jail website listed Zimmerman as an inmate. He was being held without bail and had $500 in his jail account, the website showed.

Paramedics murdered MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Police in Mexico have found the tortured bodies of three young paramedics and a salesman with gunshot wounds along a highway in the western state of Michoacan. State prosecutor’s spokesman Jonathan Arredondo says the men were last seen by their relatives two days before they were discovered Saturday near the town of La Angostura. Arredondo said Sunday the motives for the killings are not clear. The men were aged 18 to 23 and came from the neighboring state of Jalisco.

Crackdown defended BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government’s crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient. In his first speech since January, Assad appeared unmoved by scathing international criticism of his ferocious response to the 15-month-old revolt against his rule, which has killed up to 13,000 people, according to activist groups. He also denied responsibility for last week’s Houla massacre of more than 100 people, saying not even “monsters” would carry out such an ugly crime.

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Round and round LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a record-breaking 25 hours on a Ferris Wheel, Los Angeles police Detective Gus Martinez likely knows better than anyone that what goes around comes around. Martinez climbed aboard the 130-foot-tall wheel at Santa Monica Pier's Pacific Park at 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Except for hourly fiveminute breaks, he didn't stop riding it until 8:30 a.m. Friday. Several hours into his run, he didn't even bother to take some of the allotted breaks. “He finished quite solidly,” said Guinness World Records adjudicator Philip Robertson, who traveled from London to the park to verify that an official Guinness record was being set. The previous mark, 24 hours and 30 minutes, was set by a woman in Dublin, Ireland, last year.

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Plane crash kills 153 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft. Authorities could not control the crowd of thousands gathered around to see the crash site, with some crawling over the plane’s broken wings and standing on a still-smoldering landing gear. Harold Demuren, the director-general of Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority, said all on board the flight were killed in the crash. Lagos state government said in a statement that 153 people were on the flight traveling from Nigeria’s central capital of Abuja to Lagos in the nation’s southwest. The flight’s pilots radioed to the Lagos control tower just before the crash, saying the plane had engine trouble, a military official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists. Rescue officials feared many others were killed or injured on the ground, but no casualty fig-

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RESCUE WORKERS search for survivals after a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble. ures were immediately available. Firefighters and local residents were seen carrying the corpse of a man from one building, its walls still crumbling and flames shooting from its roof more than an hour after the crash. President Goodluck Jonathan later declared three days of national mourning in

Africa’s most populous nation. Jonathan “prays that God Almighty will grant the families of the victims of the plane crash the courage and fortitude to bear their irreparable loss,” a statement from his office read. The aircraft appeared to have landed on its belly into the dense neighborhood that

sits along the typical approach path taken by aircraft heading into Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The plane tore through roofs, sheared a mango tree and rammed into a woodworking studio, a printing press and at least two large apartment buildings in the neighborhood before stopping.

Mubarak receives life sentence CAIRO (AP) — Former President Hosni Mubarak has received a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters during Egypt’s uprising. But he and his sons have been cleared of corruption charges, setting off protests for greater accountability for 30 years of abuses under the old regime. By nightfall on Saturday, a large crowd of up to 10,000 was back in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising, to vent anger over the acquittals. Similar protests went on in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and Suez on the Red Sea. “Justice was not served,” said Ramadan Ahmed, whose son was killed on Jan. 28, the bloodiest day of last year’s uprising. “This is a sham,” he said outside the courthouse. Protesters chanted: “A farce, a farce, this trial is a farce” and “The people want execution of

the murderer.” The case against Mubarak, his sons, and top aides was very limited in scope, focusing only on the uprising’s first few days and two narrow corruption cases. It was never going to provide a full accountability of wrongdoing under Mubarak’s three decades of authoritarian rule enforced by a brutal police force and a coterie of businessmen linked to the regime who amassed wealth while nearly half of Egypt’s estimated 85 million people lived in poverty. Mubarak, 84, and his ex-security chief Habib el-Adly were both convicted of complicity in the killings of some 900 protesters and received life sentences. Six top police commanders were acquitted of the same charge with chief Judge Ahmed Rifaat saying there was a lack of concrete evidence.

That absolved the only representatives of other Mubarak’s hated security forces aside from el-Adly. It was a stark reminder that though the head has been removed, the body of the reviled security apparatus is largely untouched by genuine reform or purges since Mubarak was ousted 15 months ago. Many of the senior security officials in charge during the uprising and the Mubarak regime continue to go to work every day at their old jobs. In many ways, the old system remains in place and the clearest example of that is a key regime figure — Mubarak’s longtime friend and last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq — is one of two candidates going to the presidential runoff set for June 16-17. On Saturday, Shafiq’s campaign headquarters in the cities of Fayyoum and Hurghada were attacked and damaged.

The generals who took over from Mubarak have not shown a will for vigorously prosecuting the old regime. That is something that neither Shafiq and challenger Mohammed Morsi may have the political will or the muscle to change when one is elected president. Shafiq last week declared himself an admirer of the uprising, calling it a “religious revolution” and pledged there would be no turning of the clock while he is at the helm. On Saturday, he said the verdict showed that no on was above the law in today’s Egypt. Morsi of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood quickly tried to capitalize on the anger over the acquittals, vowing in a news conference that, if elected, he would retry Mubarak along with former regime officials suspected of involvement in killing protesters.

‘Family Feud’ host Richard Dawson dies NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Dawson brought a saucy, unabashedly touchyfeely style to TV game shows as host of “Family Feud.” The British-born entertainer, who died Saturday at age 79 from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, earlier had made his mark in the unlikely 1960s sitcom hit “Hogan’s Heroes,” which mined laughs from a Nazi POW camp whose prisoners hoodwink their captors and run the place themselves. But it is as the kissing, wisecracking quizmaster of “Feud” that he will be remembered. The show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted a pair of families against each other as they tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as “What do people give up when they go on a diet?” Dawson made his hearty, soaring pronouncement of the phrase “Survey says…” a national catchphrase among the show’s fans. He won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best game show host. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him “the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried

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IN THIS June 25, 1980 file photo, as host Richard Dawson (center) watches, Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett (right) grimaces and Cowboys cheerleader Suzette ScholzDerrick waves happily after Suzette beat Dorsett with a correct answer during taping of the “Family Feud” game show at ABC television studios in Los Angeles. on ‘You Bet Your Life.’” The show was so popular it was released as both daytime and syndicated evening versions. And it was quickly validated by “Saturday Night Live,” with Bill Murray in a satirical homage to Dawson as a leering, nasty figure who even slapped one contestant (John Belushi) for getting too fresh. Not that everyone approved.

In his classic 1981 cultural analysis “Within the Context of No Context,” George W.S. Trow identified “the important moment in the history of television” as the moment when Dawson asked his contestants “to guess what a poll of 100 people had guessed would be the height of the average American woman. “Guess what they’ve guessed,” sniffed Trow, harping on the meaninglessness of

such an enterprise. “Guess what they’ve guessed the AVERAGE is.” Obviously, “Feud” fans would have feuded with Trow’s dismissive attitude. For one thing, Dawson played the show, and his duties presiding over it, for laughs. On one episode, he posed this question to a contestant: “During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?” She blurted out “September,” then, too late, realized this was a ridiculous response. All the better for Dawson, who couldn’t stop laughing — or milking the moment for continued laughs from the audience. His swaggering, randy manner (and working-bloke’s British accent) set him apart from other TV quizmasters, who, more often than not, tempered any boisterous inclinations with defiant smoothness. Not Dawson, who was overtly physical, prone to invading his contestants’ personal space — and especially the women, each of whom he kissed without exception. At the time the show bowed out in 1985, executive producer Howard Felsher estimated that Dawson had kissed “somewhere in the vicinity of 20,000.”

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Three veteran teachers 90th birthday celebration set retire from Holy Angels Three teachers from Holy Angels Catholic School have taught their final lesson plans and have retired after a combined 94 years of service and dedication to the school. Ginny Lauber, Jill O’Leary and Cindy Wagner said goodbye to students for the last time when the school year ended recently. Lauber has been a teacher for 39 years, all of them at Holy Angels. Originally from Botkins and now living in Sidney, Lauber remembered her first-grade teacher inspiring her at an early age. She attended Botkins High School and went on to get her degree in music education from the College of Mount St. Joseph. Lauber then received a degree in elementary education from Wright State University and her master’s degree from the University of Dayton. She originally taught music and math at Holy Angels, but later transitioned to teaching second grade which she taught for 34 years.

‘Sparkle’ “I love seeing the sparkle in my students’ eyes, that light bulb that goes on when they catch on,” said Lauber. “That is absolutely the best.” One of Lauber’s favorite things about being a second-grade teacher at Holy Angels is preparing her students for First Communion. “Over the years, I have helped prepare close to 1,000 students for their First Communion. This will remain very special to me,” she said. “I am not retiring. I am finally graduating from second grade!” She is looking forward to gardening, golfing and traveling with her husband, Steve, during her retirement. She is also excited to have more

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time to sew and quilt. Lauber is the mother of two children who went to Holy Angels and Lehman Catholic High School. O’Leary taught at Holy Angels for 20 years and had been an educator since 1969. She retired from teaching third grade but had taught other grades while at Holy Angels. O’Leary previously taught at Lehman Catholic High School and Piqua Catholic School. Born and raised in Sidney, O’Leary attended both elementary and high school at Holy Angels. She received her degree in elementary education from the College of Mount St. Joseph.

‘Loved children’ “I have always loved children and knew I wanted to be a teacher after baby-sitting and being a Girl Scout counselor,” O’Leary said. Her favorite thing to do with her students was to visit the church. She loved being a teacher at a Catholic school because, she said. “It allows me the freedom to share faith in any subject at any time. That is a joy.” All six of O’Leary’s children attended Holy Angels and then went to Lehman Catholic High School. She has four of her grandchildren attending Holy Angels. O’Leary is excited that her retirement will allow her to spend more time with her 15 grandchildren, she said. Her husband, Jim, is also a

retired Catholic e d u c a t o r. They plan to travel to Europe this summer to see their son ordained Wagner as a deac o n . O’Leary said she will not miss grading papers and will instead use her time to read, work crossword puzzles and play cards. Wagner has retired from Holy Angels after 35 years. Wagner also attended Holy Angels for both elementary and high school. Holy Angels High School transitioned into Lehman Catholic High School during her senior year, making Wagner a member of the first graduating class of Lehman. She went on to receive both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in elementary education from the University of Dayton.

‘Become teacher’ “I knew I wanted to become a teacher when I was 8 years old and in the second grade,” Wagner said. She spent 31 years as kindergarten the teacher. She came to Holy Angels after three years at St. Albert the Great in Kettering. Wagner was a third-grade teacher during her first four years at Holy Angels. She accepted the kindergarten position after another teacher, Gail Frantz, urged her to do so. Wagner enjoyed seeing things from her students’ perspective. “I love the way they see the world,” she said. Wagner will help her daughter, who is pursuing a certified registered nurse anesthetist degree. Wagner will be taking care of her 1-year-old granddaughter while her daughter completes

clinical internships. She and her husband, Tony, will also stay busy cheering on their other two grandchildren at sporting events. “I look forward to having the freedom to enjoy my family,” Wagner said. She and Tony, who is retired from education as well, have three daughters and three grandchildren. All three of their daughters attended both Holy Angels Catholic School and Lehman Catholic High School. Lauber, O’Leary and agree that Wagner teaching at Holy Angels Catholic School was a privilege.

‘Life lessons’ “It’s a total student education,” Lauber said. “We are able to bring in life lessons of being a good Christian at any time during the day.” Kevin Behr, a former Holy Angels student and Lehman graduate, has two daughters at Holy Angels. His daughters have had some of the same teachers he had when he was a student there. “Teachers staying so long at Holy Angels is a testament to the mission of Catholic education. Holy Angels students are so blessed to have such great role models,” he said. “We are so thankful for the years of hard work these teachers have given our school,” said Kara Sollmann, school board vice president.

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67 graduate from Houston High School HOUSTON — Houston High School held its graduation ceremony Sunday afternoon in the school’s athletic annex with 67 graduates receiving diplomas. The invocation was given by Pastor Don Trumbell of the Lockington United Methodist Church. The class valedictorians — Heather Brubaker, Austin Ditmer, Kristi Elliot, Bethany Reister and Allison Roeth — and salutatorian Jill Walker — then addressed the audience. The Class of 2012 selected camouflage as the class color, and the class flower is the dandelion. The class motto is “Life’s a garden. Dig it.” The class song is “Tattoos on this Town” by Jason Aldean. The ceremony featured a senior slide show. Seniors Heather Brubaker, Gary Phipps, Allison Roeth and Jill Walker worked with teacher Glenn Brown to create and produce the slide show. Those receiving a Diploma with Honors John Bickel, were Heather Brubaker, Austin Ditmer, Adam Mullen and Allison Roeth. receiving Students the Award of Merit were Mallorie Bell, Noah Clark, Josh Dulaney, Brandon Ike, David LoJohn Bickel, raine, Heather Brubaker, Kristi Elliot, Alisha Huffman, Ashley Jacobs, Adam Mullen, Megan Phyllaier, Bethany Reister, Allison Roeth, Jill Walker and Luke Winner. The Top Ten Scholars are Bethany Reister, 4.0; Austin Ditmer, 4.0, Allison Roeth, 4.0; Heather Brubaker, 4.0; Kristi Elliot, 4.0; Jill Walker, 3.9795; Alisha Huffman, 3.9777; Adam Mullen, 3.9564; Luke Winner, 3.8559; and John Bickel, 3.844. Scholarships recipients include Gary Phipps, $500, Scott Ayers

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BY FRANCIS DRAKE What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth sign. For Tuesday, June 5, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a tricky day because it’s a fun-loving day, yet it’s also an accident-prone day for your sign. Be careful. Think before you speak or do anything. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a good day for business and commerce, because you feel confident about financial matters. You’ll also enjoy shopping. (Travel plans might change.) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Everyone enjoy being in your company today. Nevertheless, keep an eye on your bank account and anything having to do with shared property to avoid surprises. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Even though you are happy to be behind the scenes today, something unexpected will occur with partners and close friends. You’ll have to deal with this; you have no choice. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Your relationships with others are warm and friendly today.

BY FRANCIS DRAKE What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth sign. For Wednesday, June 6, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Because you have lots of energy to work today, you will make a good impression on bosses, parents and VIPs. Nevertheless, relations with partners and close friends might be strained. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Plans to travel or study something interesting energize you today. Don’t let someone older (especially at work) discourage you, which might very likely happen. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Today you can make a lot of changes to improve things at home or within your family. Nevertheless, difficulties with romantic partners and increased responsibilities with children are likely. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You’re unusually forceful in all your communications with others today. This is a good day for those of you who sell, market, teach or drive for a living. Don’t be discouraged by criticisms from an older family member.

Enjoy good times. Canceled meetings, computer crashes and staff shortages are likely at work. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You might be attracted to someone in a position of authority today. Meanwhile, others will seek your creative advice. Parent should be extra vigilant about their kids today, because this is an accident-prone day for them. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Travel anywhere will delight you today, because you feel adventurous! You want to learn new things. Pay attention to matters at home, because minor accidents are possible. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a passionate day for romantic partners. It’s also a good day for financial negotiations or dividing something like an inheritance. (Guard against accidents today.) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Relations with partners and close friends are especially warm and friendly today. Nevertheless, expect a few financial surprises. Guard your possessions against loss or theft. Keep your receipts. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Things will go smoothly at

work today because co-workers are friendly and supportive. Despite this assistance, something will catch you off guard. Expect surprise detours to your day. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is a fun-loving, flirtatious day! Enjoy the arts, sports, romance and playful times with children. However, be on guard for hidden surprises, because they are there! PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Home and family are warm and fuzzy today. Relations with family members, especially parents, are good. This is also an excellent day for real-estate negotiations. (But a friend might surprise you.) YOU BORN TODAY You are so modern and original in your take on things, others frequently do not understand you. You have an excellent sense of humor and a quick mind. You’re an organized, systematic thinker. People are attracted to the enthusiasm you have for your ideas and projects. In the year ahead, you begin an entirely new nine-year cycle. Open any door! Birthdate of: Bill Moyers, journalist/TV host; Amanda Crew, actress; Mark Wahlberg, actor.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) It’s a popular day for you! Everyone wants to see your face. Be patient with co-workers who might not agree. (Oh, dear.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an energetic day to socialize, do business or both. However, keep an eye on your finances. Make friends with your bank account. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Today you have the energy to make positive changes at home. (You are always affected by the appearance of things.) Probably, an older family member wants things to stay the same. (It was ever thus.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a mildly accident-prone day for your sign, so be careful. Slow down and take it easy. Allow extra wiggle room for everything. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is an interesting day for your finances and cash flow. In one way, it’s positive, because you’re ambitious to boost your earnings. However, something unexpected could create a setback. Be careful. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’re quite emotional today,

because the Moon is in your sign, lined up with fiery Mars. Just do your thing. Don’t let bosses or someone older rain on your parade. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Behind-the-scenes research could yield the answers you need. Be careful that you don’t step on any toes, especially legally speaking. Be smart. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Social situations, especially with groups, will be positive and upbeat today. The only downside is that there might not be enough goodies for everyone. Be aware of this. YOU BORN TODAY You are artistic, original and creative. You have a vision that inspires you. Because of this vision, you’re extremely goal-oriented. If possible, you like to enlighten others around you. Sometimes you are viewed as eccentric or bizarre because you insist on being true to yourself. In the year ahead, you’ll have a strong focus on partnerships and close friendships. Birthdate of: Robert Englund, actor; Emilie-Claire Barlow, jazz singer; Bjorn Borg, tennis player.

Health council holds annual meeting annual Health Department Report from Health Commissioner Steven Tostrick. According to reports, the department is operating on reduced budgets and is preparing for a 30 percent budget decrease over the next three years. Margie Eilerman, director of nursing, discussed the Help Me Grow Program, Well Child Clinic, Immunization Programs and Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps, Communicable Disease Control, Newborn Visit Program, School Health Program, Health Promotion Program, Women

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Infants and Children Program and the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program. Kent Topp, director of Environmental Health, discussed the Food Program, Plumbing Program, Swimming Pools and Spas, Waste Disposal, Smoke Free Work Place, Sewage Treatment Systems, Housing/Nuisance Conditions (bed bugs) Private Water Systems and the Building Inspection Program. Topp also advised that new rules for private water systems and also public swimming pools went into effect in 2011 and were being handled by the department. He

also advised that the Ohio Department of Health is supposed to come out with new rules and regulations for private sewage systems in 2013; however, he has not seen or heard anything about them at this time. Plaques were presented to departing board members Tom Finkenbine and Bruce Metz for their service to Shelby County and the Health Department.

Time is a universal healer DR. WALnever had a LACE: Two baby sitter bemonths ago my cause my ex-boyfriend mother helped and a friend us when we were killed in a lucky were terrible car accienough to get a dent. Their car night out alone. veered off the About a road and both of ’Tween month ago, my them died inand dad 12 & 20 mom stantly when had to move to Dr. Robert the car rolled Sacramento beWallace over and down cause of his job. an embankWe will now ment. When I heard have a 16-year-old neighabout it, I went into total bor girl be our regular shock, and I couldn’t sitter whenever we go even bear to attend the out. She has a baby-sitfuneral and see him in ting certificate from the the casket. Red Cross; she is dependWe had broken up able; and she has babyfour months ago and had sat for other neighbors, been discussing the pos- so I feel comfortable with sibility of getting back to- her. This is very imporgether again. I thought I tant for me, and I need to loved him, but I wasn’t ask your advice. Should quite sure. But now, I re- we set the hourly rate or alize that I really did ask the young lady what love him, and I keep her rate is? Also, are we thinking about him expected to supply every waking moment. snacks and if so, what The last words that I kind? I really appreciate heard him say to me on your help. — Mother, San my cellphone were, Jose, Calif. “Honey, I love you.” And MOTHER: It’s not abnow I will never hear solutely mandatory, but him say those words the great majority of paragain. ents supply snacks for I’m a high school sen- baby sitters. As you know, ior, and I will be attend- teens have insatiable aping college in the fall, so I petites. You should conam trying to keep up tact the sitter and ask her with my studies, but I about her hourly rate (it have trouble concentrat- usually increases after ing in class. I feel so help- midnight). While chatting less and depressed, but I with her, find out what don’t know what to do to her favorite snacks are ease my pain. Please tell and then make them me what I can do to get available. You should alback on track. — Name- ways leave written inless, Somewhere in Fla. structions for the sitter, a NAMELESS: They list of emergency numsay that “time” is the uni- bers, and your cellphone versal healer of all number or the number of wounds, both physical the place where you will and emotional. Your de- be. Also, leave the numpression and sadness ber of another adult famwill eventually fade and ily member or close friend memories of happier in the event you cannot times will remain. You be reached right away. will never forget this An experienced and tragic event and the loss reliable sitter is worth of your close friend, but every penny she is paid. as you begin the new You are indeed fortunate chapter of your life, you to have an excellent subwill be busy creating new stitute for your mom! friendships and memories to add to the happy Dr. Robert Wallace welones of the past. comes questions from If your depression con- readers. Although he is tinues and you feel you unable to reply to all of are incapable of over- them individually, he will coming the loss of your answer as many as possifriend, please seek pro- ble in this column. Email fessional counseling. him at rwallace@galesContact me in a few burg.net. To find out more weeks and let me know about Dr. Robert Wallace of your healing process. and read features by other Creators Syndicate DR. WALLACE: My writers and cartoonists, husband and I are both visit the Creators Syndi20, and we have a 2-year- cate website at www.creold daughter. We have ators.com.

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Crowds enjoy Community Days festivities BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER jbumgarner@sdnccg.com JACKSON CENTER — Cooler temperatures welcomed people to the Jackson Center Community Days over the weekend. The festival started on Thursday night with the Queen and Little Miss Jackson Center contests. Grace Prenger, 6, daughter of John and Sue Prenger was named Little Miss Jackson Center and Madilyn Himmeger, 17, daughter of Matt and Larissa Himmeger was crowned the Queen. On Friday, many venues began operating at 5 p.m. Temperatures on Friday didn’t rise above 61 degrees which Jackson Center Village Administrator Bruce Metz believes kept some people home. “The crowd was down on Friday night but we figure the cool weather had a big part in that,” said Metz. “Had an excellent Saturday crowd all day and had a few showers in the early evening but it did not seem to effect the crowd.” The Hoop Shoot was held on Friday night in the high school gym. There were boys and girls competitions by ages 8-9, 10-11, and 1213. For girls in the 8-9 age group, Morgan Kip-

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SARAH SWIGER, 6, of Jackson Center, grabs candy thrown during the Jackson Center Community Days parade Sunday. Sarah is the daughter of Travis and Tina Swiger.

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TYLER ROGERS, 15, of Jackson Center, plays drums as he marches in the Jackson Center Community Days parade Sunday. Rogers is the son of Vince and Melanie Rogers. ker placed first and Garrett Prenger placed Kennedy Jackson placed first and Christopher second; for the 10-11 age Elchert placed second. group, Katelyn Sosby Elchert won in a shoot placed first and Chloe off with Calvin Winner. Reese placed second; and For boys in the 12-13 age for the 12-13 age group, group, Brady WilderCassie Meyer placed muth placed first and first and Nicole Fogt Bryce Sosby placed secplaced second. For boys, ond. in the 8-9 age group, On Saturday morning, Aidan Reichert placed runners hit the pavefirst and Trevor Sosby ment for the 1-mile fun placed second. Sosby run and the Tiger Trot won in a shoot off with 5K Tiger Challenge. Carsen Regula. For boys Aaron Bauer took first in the 10-11 age group, place in the Tiger Trot

with a time of 16:20.3 and Kyle Minnich placed second with a time of 17:39.0. In the 1 mile fun run, Christopher Elchert won with a time of 6:38.5 and Kyler Carnes took second place with a time of 7:07.8. Children’s tractor races were also held on Saturday morning. The races were sponsored by the FCCLA and FFA. In the first class, the winner was Tristan Woolley and the runner up was Carson Davis. For the second class, Sierra DeWeese won and Preston Seer was runner up. Third class winner was Moran Kipker and the runner up was Bryson Roberts.

A dodge ball tournament was held on Saturday afternoon. The winners in the 13 and older division were Alex Meyer, Trey Elchert, Andy Hoying, Troy Opperman, Nathan Wahrer and Jonathan Forsythe. The winners in the 12 and under division were Connor Pipke, Olivia Clark, Haley Rogers, Parker Morris, Braden Heitkamp and Allan Nash. The Backroom Executives Bike Club hosted the 14th Annual Community Days Car, Bike and Truck Show early Saturday evening. The event was sponsored by the Growth Association. There were reportedly

103 entries in the show. The Community Days parade was held on Sunday afternoon. There were more than 50 entries and according to Metz it was a “great turnout.” This year’s theme was “Celebrating Jackson Center.” The following awards were presented to parade participants: Rolling Stock Award — Lone Wolf Jeepers. Civic Award — Faith Community Ministries. Masters Award — Shelby County Dairy Boosters. Senior Award — Jackson Center United Methodist Church. Queen Award — Little Miss.

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THE JACKSON Center Thunder Cat mascot holds the U.S. flag during the playing of the national anthem before the Tiger Trot 5K Saturday. Wearing the Thunder Cat outfit is Steven Dearwester, 18, of Jackson Center. Riding with Dearwester are (l-r) Bryson Roberts, 7, son of Dan and Shannon Roberts, and Preston Serr, 4, son of Garrett and Meghan Serr, both of Jackson Center.

LAUREN HUGHES, (left) 7, of Lewis Center, daughter of Eric and Lisa Hughes, twirls around with Landon Reese, 7, of Jackson Center, son of Jeff and Misty Reese, on a carnival ride Sunday.

PERFORMING AN accurate imitation of a duet with singer “Meat Loaf” in the entertainment ten Sunday are Candee Esser (left) and Matt Kohler, both of Jackson Center.

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NATHAN WAHRER, 17, of Jackson Center, competes in the Jackson Center Community Days dodgeball tournament Saturday. Wahrer is the son of Bryan and Lori Wahrer. Behind Wahrer is Andy Hoying, 18, of Jackson Center, son of Doug and Carol Hoying. Their team, which also included Alex Meyer, Trey Elchert, Troy Opperman and Jonathan Forsythe, won the 13 and older competition.

ERIC SHAFFER, of Jackson Center, (top photo) looks at a 1948 Chevrolet Master Sedan owned by Tom Woodruff, of Jackson Center, that was on display as part of the car show Saturday. Corinne York, 4, (left photo) of Jackson Center, is all smiles as she competes in the tractor pull competition Saturday. Corinne is the daughter of Allen and Melanie York.

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BACK-TO-BACK Minster repeats as D-IV state champs Poeppelman’s two-out hit in 7th wins 5-4 BY KEN BARHORST kbarhorst@sdnccg.com COLUMBUS — The only time all night they got his name right was when they called him up to get his medal. But Devon Poeppelman didn’t care, especially at that particular time, just a few moments after his two-out single to left scored Jay Eilerman with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Minster Wildcats a 5-4 victory over Cuyahoga Heights and back-to-back Division IV state baseball championships. It was a dramatic finish to a game that Minster dominated for the first six innings, taking a 4-0 lead into the top of the seventh against a Redskin team that could not muster much offense. But it appeared the baseball gods had other ideas, as a couple of bad-hop singles and a walk got things going, and Cuyahoga stunned the Wildcats with a four-run rally that knotted the score. But Austin Knapke, who was touched up for those four runs, got the final big out with the go-ahead run aboard to preserve the tie, and with Minster having the top of the order up in the bottom of the seventh, the Wildcats were still in command.

Leadoff man aboard Leadoff hitter Jay Eilerman got the job done, stroking a two-strike pitch to left to put the leadoff man aboard. Head coach Mike Wiss went by the book when he had Knapke sacrificing, and the bunt was a beauty, putting Eilerman at second. Minster’s leading hitter, Adam Niemeyer, then popped out to shortstop for the second out, but Poeppelman came through with a base hit to left. The ball was bobbled by the leftfielder, taking away what appeared would be a close play at the plate. When Eilerman crossed the dish, the Minster bench emptied and caught up with Poeppelman between first and second. He was mobbed. “Two in a row is just awesome,” Poeppelman said as he was surrounded by reporters following the game. “I was sitting fastball. I knew he was going to give me something decent and not walk me. The guy at third was pretty tall and I was just looking to get it over top of him.” Poeppelman, who was called “Doug” over the public address system every time he came to the plate, said he didn’t realize the game was over on his hit until he turned and saw his teammates charging at him from the dugout. “I was thinking we’d have to go back out and play defense,” he said. “It didn’t really click until I got tackled.”

Another gem Minster starter Doug Huber, who also started the semifinal game, turned in another gem for the Wildcats. Through five innings, Heights had just one hit and only three balls that left the infield. But after Huber pitched five innings on Friday, he couldn’t go anymore in the championship. “Doug, five innings yesterday and five innings today,

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THE MINSTER baseball team gets together to hoist the Division IV state championship trophy after a thrilling 5-4 victory and what, one hit?” Wiss said. “He says, why’d you have to take me out coach? I said I want to make sure if we win this we don’t forfeit. Doug is one of those guys where his arm doesn’t get tired, or at least doesn’t tell the coach he is.” Wiss said he expected his squad to have its hands full in the championship game. “I told their coach, I’ve seen you play twice and I have a lot of respect for what you do,” said Wiss. “He responded that a lot of people have respect for what we do. We have kids that had a second medal hung around their necks. Why’s that happen to us? I don’t know. But I can tell you that we pitch pretty good, play good defense, and have timely hitting. You know, I don’t want to make baseball hard. I’m not one of those kind of guys.” Wiss said the one thing he wasn’t going to let happen was allowing Austin Lane of Heights to beat his squad. He was the tall third baseman Poeppelman spoke of.

Loud outs “We weren’t going to let Austin Lane beat us,” Wiss said. “Last night (Friday) he was 4-4 with two home runs and five RBIs. That was the main thing we came into the game thinking. I figured we’d see the lefty (Heights starter Alex Zander) and I was happy with the first inning. We haven’t seen many lefties this season, but we got a run and a couple of loud outs.” Minster got a run in the bottom of the first after the first two hitters struck out against a hard-throwing Zander. Niemeyer coaxed a walk and Poeppelman and Huber folowed with singles. The Wildcats then added three more in the bottom of the fifth and at that time, it appeared it would be more than enough. Drew Elson drew a four-pitch walk and was sacrificed to second. Knapke then followed with an RBI double. Niemeyer then singled to put runners on the corners, and after Poeppelman fanned, Knapke came home on a wild pitch and Huber singled in the third run of the inning to make it 4-0. Knapke breezed through the top of the sixth, but ran

over Cuyahoga Heights Saturday night at Huntington Park in Columbus. It was Minster’s second state title in a row.

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MINSTER’S JAY Eilerman is run down by Cuyahoga Heights’ pitcher Alex Zander after he purposely let himself get caught in a rundown in an attempt to get a runner in from third. The run did not score on the play. into problems in the seventh, giving up a walk and three singles, although two of the hits came courtesy of bad hops at third and second. The tying run came in on a groundout.

Rejuvenated Heights was rejuvenated, but still had to face the top of the Minster order. And Wiss was confident. “Got a little tense when Adam popped up with two out,” said Wiss. “Then Devon in the four hole. We moved Devon from one to two to four over the course of this year because we needed someone to hit behind Adam. And Devon has done that very well.” Poeppelman, Eilerman and Huber all had two hits apiece for the Wildcats. Huber allowed jujst one hit and noe runs, with three strikeouts and two walks in his five innings of work. Knapke got the win to finish the season with a 9-2 record. Minster, with only five seniors on the squad, finish the year 26-6. The linescore: R H E Cuyahoga Hts. ......000 000 4_4 5 2 Minster ..................100 030 1_5 10 1 Huber, Knapke (6) and Wolf; Zander, Browning (5) and Tesler. Records: Minster 26-6, Cuyahoga Heights 25-5

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MINSTER’S AUSTIN Knapke goes into his slide as Cuyahoga Heights pitcher Zach Browning waits for the ball after he uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Knapke to score from third base in the state championship Saturday.

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County athletes do well in state track competition Sidney’s Glover takes second in D-I high jump COLUMBUS — Sidney High standout Jasmine Glover cleared 5-feet, 8-inches Saturday, and that was good enough for second place in the Division I state high jump competition in Columbus. It was her third consecutive appearance in the state high jump. Two years ago, she placed 13th, then improved to ninth last year with a height of 5-4. It was one of the highlights of the weekend for County and area athletes. Leading the way were the Versailles girls, who captured the Division III state championship after finishing second last year (see page 15). Russia sophomore hurdler Jackie Siefring followed a seventh-place finish in the 100 hurdles, with a third-place finish in the 300 hurdles. “There are so many great runners over here,” Siefring said. “To be SDN Photo/Dean Stewart third is great.” FORT LORAMIE’S Meg Westerheide nears the finSiefring looked more ish of the 800 run in the Division III State Track like herself in the 300 Meet Saturday. She finished fourth in both the 800 hurdles — running a and 1600 runs. 45.95 — after running a 47.13 in prelims Friday. The only problem was it left her in lane eight for the final — running State Track Meet Barlage) 50.54 out in front of everyone. Division I 300 hurdles — Jackie “I hate being in lane High jump — 2. Jasmine Siefring Russia, 45.95 Glover, Sidney, 5-8. 800 run — 3. Tammy eight,” she said. “You Division IV Berger, Versailles, 2:15.15; 4. can’t see anyone. I could Boys Meg Westerheide, Fort Lo- kind of see a couple of 110 hurdles — 3. Ben ramie, 2:15.18; 6. Brittany Bai- people out of the corner Chaney, New Bremen, 15.14 ley, Botkins, 2:18.98. of my eye — but it all 800 relay — 6. Anna (Kyle 200 dash — 8. Allie worked out.” Dersham, Brady Cates, Nate Thobe, Marion Local, 26.32 Fort Loramie’s Meg Bollheimer, Cole Furgason) 3200 run — Allison Roeth, 1:31.57 Houston, 11:12.4; 8. Emily Westerheide had an out1600 run — 7. Francis Francis, Russia, 11:25.97; 13. standing meet, finishing Slonkosky, Minster, 4:18.97 Natalie Grillot, Versailles, with two fourths in the 400 relay — 7. Anna (Je- 11:51.15. remy Bensman, Brady Cates, 1600 relay — 2. Minster 800 and 1600 runs. She Nate Bollheimer, Cole Furga- (Gabrielle Barga, Olivia En- nearly placed in three son) 43.96 neking, Natalie Fausey, events, but the Lady 400 dash — 7. Justin Samantha Hoelscher) 3:57.9; Redskins 3200 relay Stewart, Lehman, 50.17 3. Versailles (Taylor Winner, 1600 relay — 1. Minster Tammy Berger, Jacquie Moor- team finished ninth. Houston’s Allison )Troy Kauffman, Paul Dues, man, Amanda Winner) Korey Schultz, Derek Collins) 3:59.42 Roeth and Russia’s Lau3:21.3 Division II ren Francis couldn’t Girls Boys have been happier with 100 hurdles — 7. Jackie 3200 relay — 2. Versailles Siefring, Russia, 16.07 (Chad Winner, Sam Subler, the way their seasons 800 relay — 2. Versailles Michael Wenig, Samuel ended in the 3200. (Lauren Bohman, Abby Bar- Prakel) 7:56.21 Roeth, a senior, ran in lage, Taylor Winner, Amanda 1600 run — 1. Samual the top five the entire Winner) 1:46.19 Prakel, Versailles, 4:10.33 1600 run — 2. Tammy 3200 run — 1. Samuel race, finishing fourth in 11:12.40. Berger, Versailles, 5:01.21; 4. Prakel, Versailles, 9:16.14 Meg Westerheide, Fort Lo1600 relay — 6. Versailles “I am really happy,” ramie, 5:07.42; 10. Emily (Mitchell Campbell, Darren she said. “I went out Borchers, Russia, 5:15.85 Subler, Craig Pothast, Chad faster than I normally 400 relay — 6. Versailles Winner) 3:25.53 (Lauren Bohman, GwenKiehl, High jump — 6. Craig would. I had to if I was Megan Hemmelgarn, Abby Pothast, Versailles, 6-4. going to stay with those girls up front. I decided I was going to stay with them no matter what.” Roeth, who will run for Ohio University next year, was shooting for the podium. “I got higher on the podium than I thought I would,” she said. “I am excited about next year.” Francis’, a junior who was coming off a stress fracture, was thrilled to

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JEREMY BENSMAN (right) of Anna hands the baton to Brady Cates in the finals of the Division III 400 relay at the State Track Meet in Columbus. Anna finished seventh in 43.96, the other two runners being Nate Bolllheimer and Cole Furgason. Bollheimer, Furgason, Cates and Kyle Dersham also finished sixth in the 800 relay in 1:31.57.

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NEW BREMEN senior Ben Chaney put a nice finishing touch on his track career by placing seventh in the Division III 110 hurdles at the State Track Meet. finish eighth in 11:25.97 team of Gabrielle Barga, Furgason was seventh in and make it on the Olivia Enneking, Natalie 43.96, and the 800 team Fausey and Samantha of Kyle Dersham, Cates, podium. “I lost track at the Hoelscher took second in Bollheimer and Furgason was sixth in 1:31.57. end,” Francis said. “I 3:57.9. Lehman’s Justin In the D-IV boys, thought the girl in front of me was eighth and I highlighting the day was Stewart also placed, fincouldn’t quite get her. I the first-place finish of ishing seventh in the had to do a lot of swim- the Minster 1600 relay 400 in 50.17. Stewart, a sophomore, ming and other things team, which won in 3:21.3 with the team of was disappointed with just to get back.” Senior Brittany Bai- Troy Kauffman, Paul his seventh-place finish ley of Botkins also Dues, Korey Schultz and in 50.17 — after finishing third at state year reached the podium, cap- Derek Collins. In addition, Francis ago. ping off her career by “I never put the traintaking sixth in the 800. Slonkosky took seventh ing in like I did last year It gave this area three of in the 1600. Anna had two relay to get my times down. It the top eight finishers in the event, with Tammy teams competing and is definitely going to moBerger of Versailles both placed. The 400 tivate me next year,” he third and Westerheide team of Jeremy Bens- said. man, Brady Cates, Nate fourth. See STATE/Page 15 Minster’s 1600 relay Bollheimer and Cole

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Versailles girls win D-III state track title BY ROB KISER Ohio Community Media COLUMBUS — The Versailles girls track and field team left Jesse Owens Stadium Saturday with the big prize. And provided a fitting end to the careers of seniors Abby Barlage, Tammy Berger, Natalie Grillot and Jacquie Moorman. “Words really couldn’t describe it,” Barlage said as she led the Lady Tigers on a victory lap with the Division III state championship trophy in her clutches. “It is an amazing feeling. This is just so cool.” It came down to the last event, the 1,600 relay, for Versailles to outlast the WaynesfieldGoshen sister duo of Ivy and Megan Horn. Between them, they combined for 34 points in the seven events they competed in. “You have to give them a lot of credit,” Versailles coach Mike Goubeaux said of the sisSDN Photo/Dean Stewart ters. “They were a twoTAMMY BERGER of Versailles runs in the 1600 dur- girl wrecking crew all ing the Division III State Track Meet in Columbus weekend.” Versailles had 33 Saturday. She helped the Lady Tigers bring home points going to the 1,600 the state championship.

STATE In the D-III boys, Samuel Prakel of Versailles put on quite a show. Prakel erased any doubts that few can parallel him as a high school distance runner in Ohio. After winning the Division III state cross country title in the fall, he doubled Saturday by winning the 1,600 and 3,200 — after anchoring the Tiger boys to a second-place finish in the 3,200 relay on Friday. And if that was not

From Page 14 enough — he not only ran PRs in both races — he defeated the defending 1,600 state champion Steve Weaver in the 3,200 for good measure. “I am in disbelief that I was able to do that,” Prakel said after winning both distance races with about an hour break in-between. “I didn’t really expect to be able to do that. And to run PRs in both races, I am very happy with what I was able to do today.”

relay, and while the foursome of Taylor Winner, Berger, Moorman and Amanda Winner had the fastest qualifying time and needed just a seventh-place finish to secure the team title, Goubeaux was taking nothing for granted. “There were so many strange things that had happened in this meet,” Goubeaux said. “Like the girl falling down in the 800 relay and moving us up from third to second. I told the girls, ‘Don’t drop the baton, don’t run out of your lane, don’t run over anyone.” And freshman Taylor Winner admitted she fought some negative thoughts before the race started. “I was thinking about false starting,” she said. “I just had to block that out and run my race.” She put the Lady Tigers in third place and they held that position the rest of the race. “It is completely different from my freshman and sophomore years, when I was an alternate at state,” Moorman said. “To be a part of it and scoring points, it is pretty special. This

was a unified team. We were all so close.” And Amanda Winner had no negative thoughts on the final lap. “I don’t really think that way,” the sophomore anchor said. “It is pretty neat to score the winning points. I saw a lot of our girls smiling as I was coming to the finish line. It was a great team effort.” And for Berger — someone who has always been so focused on the team — it was a fitting end to an amazing career. After being on the 3,200 relay team (with Grillot, Chloe Warvel and Hannah Wenig) that finished second Friday, Berger was second in the 1,600 (5:01.21), third in the 800 (2:15.15) and on the 1,600 relay team that was third. “Tammy didn’t win any state championships like she has the last couple years,” Goubeaux said. “But, look at what she did — she had a second, a third, a second and a third. She was huge. Without a doubt, we couldn’t have won this without her.”

Berger’s second in the 1,600 came only because of a career race by West Liberty-Salem junior, Meghan Vogel. “I mean, she broke five minutes (4:58.31),” Berger, who seems to bring out the best in other runners, said. “She gave me a big hug afterwards and told me she couldn’t have done it without me. I guess I don’t realize what a big inspiration I am to other runners at times. “I would have really liked to have won the 1,600, because I hadn’t won it before. But, Meghan ran a great race. I knew the points were important, and at Versailles, it is all about the team.” The 800 relay (Lauren Bohman, Barlage, Taylor Winner, Amanda Winner) was second in 1:46.19; while the 400 relay (Bohman, Gwen Keihl, Megan Hemmelgarn, Barlage) was sixth in 50.54, after barely making it to state at regionals. “It’s just amazing,” Barlage said. “This just made all the hard work pay off. I never expected to accomplish this.”

Tiger rallies to win Memorial DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Tiger Woods was at his best Sunday at the Memorial. He hit nearly every shot just the way he wanted, worked the gallery into a frenzy with one last charge over the final hour and left everyone buzzing — especially Jack Nicklaus — with a shot they will talk about for years. Better yet was the timing of his 73rd win. Woods tied Nicklaus for career PGA Tour victories at the tournament that Jack built. And the 14-time major champion suddenly looks equipped to resume his chase of another Nicklaus mark that is more significant — 18 major championships. The U.S. Open starts in 11 days. With a chip-in that

even Woods called one of the toughest shots he ever made, he birdied three of his last four holes to close with a 5under 67 and turn a twoshot deficit into a two-shot victory over Rory Sabbatini and fastclosing Andres Romero. Coming off a two-putt birdie on the 15th, Woods hit 8-iron over the green at the par-3 16th and into an impossible lie. It was buried in deep rough, the pin 50 feet away along a ridge. Woods hit a full flop shot, hopeful to give himself a reasonable putt for par. Far more likely was the ball going short and down a slope away from the pin, or coming out too strong and rolling into the water. No one was thinking

birdie, not even Woods, until he took two steps and delivered an uppercut when the ball fell in the right side of the cup. Nicklaus was gushing from the broadcast booth. “The most unbelievable, gutsy shot I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Under the circumstances — the circumstances being Tiger has been struggling — it was either fish or cut bait,” Nicklaus said later. “He had one place to land the ball. He’s playing a shot that if he leaves it short, he’s going to leave himself again a very difficult shot. If he hits it long, he’s going to probably lose the tournament. He lands the ball exactly where it has to land. Going in the hole was a bonus. But what a shot!

“I don’t think under the circumstances I’ve ever seen a better shot.” Woods, who finished at 9-under 279, won the Memorial for the fifth time. At age 36, he is 10 years younger than Nicklaus when the Golden Bear won his 73rd tournament at the 1986 Masters. Sam Snead holds the PGA Tour record with 82 wins. It was vintage Woods at Muirfield Village, the fifth course where he has won at least five times. And it was the perfect way for him to end his worst stretch as a pro. After winning at Bay Hill in March, he tied for 40th in the Masters, missed the cut at Quail Hollow and tied for 40th at The Players Championship.

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BRTTANY BAILEY of Botkins runs to a sixth-place finish in the 800 meters at the Division III State Track Meet Saturday in Columbus.

Johnson wins at Dover DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson was the mane man at Dover. Wearing an afro clown wig — tufts of green, red, yellow and blue could be spotted from the stands — Johnson had to admit it was hard to take him seriously while he played the role of race jester. Some guys just have

all the fun. That especially includes on this track. Johnson romped again at Dover International Speedway, racing his way into the track's history books on Sunday with his seventh win on the concrete, matching the mark held by Hall of Fame drivers Richard Petty and Bobby Allison.

HOUSTON (AP) — Cincinnati Reds starter Bronson Arroyo entered Sunday’s game looking to get his first win in nearly a month. Instead, the last pitch he threw was hit by Houston pinch-hitter Justin Maxwell for a two-run home run that helped the Astros to a 53 win. “Those are the chessmatch battles that go wrong sometimes,” Arroyo said. “It was a battle, but we just got beat.” The first six innings looked a lot like many of Arroyo’s starts this season. He held the opponent close but didn’t get much run support. Despite entering the game with a 3.59 ERA, Arroyo (2-4) gave up a seasonhigh five earned runs to remain winless since May 7. It was Arroyo’s fourth consecutive start where the Reds failed to score four runs. “I’ll take 15 next time out,” Arroyo joked. “Right now, it’s been tough to score two or three when I’ve been in the ballgame.”

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Garden grew through efforts of many BY CAROL STRAYER Others already have described the natural beauty of the Shelby County Master Gardener’s Memorial Garden located in the Ag Center/OSU Extension Office courtyard. To fully appreciate this garden, however, one needs to understand its genesis and evolution through the historic lens provided by a little-noticed bronze plaque located on a brick wall in the courtyard that honors a “History of Firsts” in Shelby County agriculture. This Shelby County Historical Society plaque tells of Shelby County agricultural firsts, including milestones in the establishment of agriculture-focused organizations that have benefited

the residents of Shelby County in a variety of ways. Some of these “firsts” involve the Farm Bureau, Farm Aid, Pioneer Rural Electrification, and Extension. And the Shelby County Master Gardener program had its beginnings under the OSU Extension program in 1996. In the best tradition of agricultural groups bringing county residents together to support one another, at a 2001 Shelby County

Master Gardener (SCMG) meeting, members decided to plant a tree as a memorial after the death of the previous year’s club president, Kay Roth. This set off a series of events that led to the creation of the memorial garden. Next, donations were collected to buy a small ornamental tree, a Sargent crabapple. What was needed then was a place to plant it. Roger Bender, OSU Extension ag agent at the time, said: “The Shelby County Historical Society had recently put up a plaque honoring agriculture on the wall in the Ag/Extension complex. Since the plaque was some distance from the sidewalk, what was needed was a way to direct people to go up closer to read the plaque.”

SCMG members agreed that they could build a walkway up to the plaque and by the way they could also plant some perennials to make the space look nicer. This area could also be a place to plant Kay Roth’s memorial tree. Around this same time, John Gutman, a member of the SCMG, said his mother-in-law had recently died. In her memory, John wanted to donate to the memorial fund that would be used to start the memorial garden. John would also contribute later to the garden by building a bench and two arbors. A memorial garden committee was formed and a design plan formulated. Memorial donations were collected, and along with the

Shelby County Commission’s support, the memorial garden became a reality. A stepping-stone walkway was built, many perennial flowers and a wild flower area were planted, hardscape items were built, including the bench, arbors, a bird feeder, and a concrete bird bath and a few landscaping rocks were added. The memorial garden has evolved over the years. Each year something new has been added, such as another perennial area, more hardscape in the form of old wagon wheels and a water feature. A few annuals also are included in the mix each year. SCMG members maintain this memorial garden to educate the public and beautify the Ag Center/OSU Exten-

sion offices. Most of the plants are labeled so visitors can learn plant names and to use ideas for their own gardens. The Shelby County Society’s Historical plaque honoring firsts in Shelby County agriculture provides an interesting perspective on the role of agriculture in Shelby County, and it fits well in a garden that is a practical example of the successful creations of agricultural organizations in the county. Next time you are in the area or visiting one of those offices, take a side step onto the pathway up to the plaque; you will like what you find in a “History of Firsts” for Shelby County agriculture. The writer is a Shelby County Master Gardener.

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Mosquito bites have a name DEAR DR. loss about what to DONOHUE: We do. Should tests live in the South, be run? Is he where mosquimore allergic toes are very bad, than other chileven in cool dren? Will he outweather. I have a grow this? I spray 6-year-old grandhim and his son who seems to clothes before he attract mosqui- To your goes outside. — toes. When he M. good was younger, he’d ANSWER: scratch the bites health Some people atand make sores. Dr. Paul G. tract mosquitoes. Now he rubs It’s due to the Donohue them when they amount of carbon itch. The doctor gave him dioxide those people emit, an ointment to apply to along with other chemistop itching. cals that attract mosquiThe other day he was toes. Giant mosquito bitten right by his eye bites might be a newly and on his ear. When I named syndrome called bathed him the next skeeter syndrome. I’m not night, he had bites on his kidding — there really is shoulder and lower arm. such a thing. It happens There were so swollen mostly to infants and that they formed a knot. young children. The mosThe next day the swelling quito bite gives rise to an went down, but the bite itchy, giant hive that enwas still red. I am at a larges over eight to 12

hours and takes three to 10 days to go away. It’s the mosquito’s saliva that’s responsible for this reaction. Children do outgrow it. What mosquito repellent do you spray on the boy? Ones that contain DEET are good. So are ones that have picardin. For greater protection, apply a repellent containing permethrin on his clothes. Read the labels carefully to see when they need to be reapplied. Antihistamines lessen the itch. Cetrizine, fexofenadine and loratadine are good ones. If the ointment you use works, continue. If it doesn’t, try cortisone cream or calamine lotion. I can’t give you 100 percent assurance that your grandson has this syndrome. Why not check it out with the family doc-

tor when the boy has new giant bites? DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 63 and had two different types of malaria while in Vietnam when I was 20. Now I have nerve problems in my lower back and excruciating pain in my legs and knees. I have been to many doctors, but none of the recommended treatments has made me feel any better. My question is whether my nerve and muscle issues could have any connection to the malaria I had. — B.J. ANSWER: I saw many cases of malaria when I was in Vietnam. I can assure you with reasonable certitude that the malaria you had decades ago is not responsible for your current back, leg and knee pain.

Woman searches for recourse to ex-hubby’s abuse DEAR ABBY: respond because I’m divorced with he won’t print a a young son. My rebuttal in his ex-husband and I paper. share joint cusThe abuse contody, and for the tinues despite the most part it has divorce, but now worked well. My the audience is problem is that wider. Is this ethimy ex is very bitcal journalism, Dear ter about our diand how can I put Abby vorce and the fact a stop to it? — Abigail I have moved on FRUSTRATED with my life. He Van Buren EX constantly makes DEAR FRUSderogatory comments to TRATED EX: Using a me in front of our son and newspaper column to conothers. tinue a personal vendetta It is bad enough that over a failed marriage is my son must witness this, not ethical journalism, albut my ex has taken it a though it may make for step further. He is the ed- titillating reading. You do itor of a small newspaper not have to tolerate his and is now making dis- public sniping. Take the paraging comments about offensive clippings to your me in his column. He is lawyer and ask him or trying to improve his her to write a strong letimage at my expense; ter to the publisher of the however, I am unable to newspaper — because

THAT’S who will be liable worked and were setting if there are grounds for a up new households with lawsuit. our husbands, but we felt it was a priority. We DEAR ABBY: My hus- wanted to ensure that our band and I attended a family and friends knew wedding in September of how much their thoughtlast year. We purchased fulness was appreciated. expensive crystal for the Can you please clarify bride and groom, which thank-you note etiquette? cost us nearly $600. This I am tired of wondering if was separate from the my gifts were received bridal shower gift we gave and appreciated. — DISthem in May. We have not GUSTED IN received thank-you notes DELAWARE for either of these gifts. DEAR DISGUSTED: My husband told me I have said in the past that you have said it’s ap- that a thank-you note propriate to send thank- anytime is better than you notes up to one year none at all. However, after the wedding. My good manners dictate mother taught me to send that thank-you notes them as quickly as possi- should follow within ble. three months at the latMy sister had her wed- est, and preferably ding thank-you notes out within one month — rein three weeks, and I had gardless of whether the mine out in two weeks. giver has been thanked My sister and I both verbally.

June 4, 1912 Clem and Alva C. Chambers of this city have formed a partnership and will engage in the manufacture of building materials, such as door frames, stairs, interior finish and general wood work. They have leased the old Robert smith warehouse on Jefferson Street near Second Ward School and have installed a full and complete line of the latest improved machinery. ——— The budget committee met in the county auditor’s office this afternoon and organized by electing John Duncan chairman and H.T. Ruese secretary. Prosecuting Attorney C.C. Hall is the other member of the committee. The members of the Mt. Vernon Baptist congregation, who recently purchased the Denmark property on Park Street for the purpose of building a new church, have commenced the work of putting in the foundation for the church.

came president of the Fairlawn Alumni Association when the annual reunion was held Saturday in the high school building. Other officers named to serve with him were John Sargeant, vice president; Mrs. Wayne Snavley, secretary; Marie Kies, treasurer; Mrs. Sam Fogt, assistant secretary, and Mrs. Charles lemon, assistant treasurer. ——— Completion of a 5,000-square foot addition to the Burean-Holloway Knitting Mills plant on East Pike Street has been announced by company officials. The expansion, it was said, will lead to a peak employment of ap75 Years Ago proximately 140 workJune 4, 1937 ers. At present, about Mrs. Mary J. Taylor, of 100 are on the payroll of Alliance, recently named the company. by the board of trustees 25 Years Ago as superintendent at June 4, 1987 Wilson Memorial Hospiof the 1987 Members tal, arrived in Sidney Class at Houston High today to take over her School were encouraged duties here. Mrs. Taylor had been superintend- to develop and keep a ent of nurses at the Al- sense of humor as they liance hospital for the journey through life. past five years, serving Valedictorian Conrad part of the time as act- Booher spoke about looking toward the fuing superintendent. ture. Co-salutatorian ——— McVety noted Jennifer Paul Billing, Donald that her classmates Brandt, and Orlando must open the door of Elshoff, members of the the future and walk Anna F.F.A. chapter through it. The other cohave been honored by salutatorian, Miles Meythe Ohio Association of ers, wished his fellow Future Farmers of graduates luck and said America by being nomihe hopes to see them all nated for the degree of at the class reunion. State Farmer. ——— ——— Thirty-two graduates The session of the received diplomas durFirst Presbyterian ing commencement cerchurch has called a emonies held Sunday meeting of the congrega- afternoon at Fairlawn tion of the church for High School. Hundreds June 13, for the purpose of people crowded into of the considering the re- the school gymnasium to port of a special commit- hear speeches given by tee named to make guest speaker Barbara recommendations for Jean Lundy, valedictothe improvement of the rian Erick Young and church property. salutatorian Melissa 50 Years Ago Ann Critchfield. June 4, 1962 ——— Last fall an Osgood About 300 persons area farmer fell fractur- were on hand Sunday afing both heels. The ternoon when the 23 neighbors came to the seniors at Jackson Cenrescue and picked the ter High School were corn for him. This graduated in ceremonies spring, William Brack- at the school’s athletic man, that same farmer, complex. Student adwas preparing land for dresses were delivered planting corn when the by Kimberly Davis, Valetractor ran over him dictorian, and class fracturing a leg. This Salutatorian Tammera time the neighbors came Schaub. The featured and prepared the land speaker for the graduaand the 16-year -old son tion was Donna Jordan, Donald planted the corn. Anchorwoman and re——— porter for WDTN televiWilliam Cottrel be- sion in Dayton.

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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.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SIDNEY PLANNING COMMISSION City of Sidney, Ohio Case # Z-12-03 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Monday, June 18, 2012, as part of the Planning Commission’s meeting, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Municipal Building, 201 W Poplar St, Sidney, Ohio. The Planning Commission is to make a recommendation in the matter of: THE CITY OF SIDNEY IS PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING CODE (PART 11, TITLE 1 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES) TO ADD TANNING SALONS AS A PRINCIPALLY PERMITTED USE IN THE B-2, COMMUNITY BUSINESS DISTRICT AND ELIMINATE TANNING SALONS AS A PRINCIPALLY PERMITTED USE IN THE B-5 COURT SQUARE BUSINESS DISTRICT. Any person, or persons having an interest in, or being affected by, this matter are welcome to attend the public hearing to express their concern and/or present written statements for the Commission to consider in its review of the proposal. Information concerning the matter may be reviewed in the office of Planning and Zoning, Municipal Building. Any person with a disability requiring special assistance should contact the Planning Department at 498-8131. Barbara Dulworth, AICP Community Services Director June 4 2288659

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Written by Bill Bailey Illustrated by Michelle Duckworth Chapter 10 Donnie and Felix join forces STORY SO FAR: Feeling that Jake has endangered Donnie with his space alien stunt, Holly makes her son quit his new job at The Times. Upset that Felix has not come to his aid, Donnie gets into a heated exchange with the voice of the ghost. Donnie then meets the source of the voice - a well dressed, pipe-smoking old man. Donnie thinks Jake has paid the man to impersonate Felix LaBauve. When Donnie accuses him of being a fraud, the Frenchman draws his sword and prepares to attack. He raised his sword high above me and brought the blade down fast and hard. When I opened my eyes, the sword had gone from the top of my head all the way through me to my feet. But I had felt nothing. It was like the blade was made of air. I was still alive but a little confused. "Perhaps my sword ees a bit dull, no?" he said, as if reading my mind. He began to roar with laughter, like he'd said the funniest thing ever. I was too stunned to say anything. "Please to excuse my leetle prank," he said, shoving his sword back into its scabbard. "Let us make up and be friends." He offered to shake hands. I reached out to shake, but my hand went right through his. I looked at my hand in amazement. This really tickled his funny bone. But I was beginning to realize he didn't have any bones. He erupted with the biggest belly laugh I'd ever heard. "You have been bamboozled," he said. "I think Americans these days call eet 'punked'." Even though I had believed in Felix before, seeing him in person for the first time was really freaking me out. I tried to speak. "You're... you're... you're..." "Your vocabulary ees quite limited, no?" he said, his eyes twinkling. I jabbed a shaky finger toward him. "You're the real thing. An actual ghost!" "That I am, dear fellow. I would have thought that was obvious long before now. My, but you are a slow learner." He made a deep, sweeping bow. "Felix LaBauve, at your service. Ze greatest journalist ze world has ever known." "Also, the most modest," I said, taking a chance at humor myself. "You should show me ze proper respect," he said proudly. "Though perhaps your irreverence ees not all bad. Eet shows ze fighting spirit. Eet will come in handy, no?" "You do know that I don't work for the newspaper anymore, right?" I said. "My mom made me quit," "I am quite aware of that," he said. "Still, theese nincompoop of an editor needs our help." "I thought you said Jake was a loser, and you weren't risking your freedom for him," I said. "That was before I found out a deadly leetle secret," he said. "Now I have no choice. But I will require your asseestance, because ghosts have certain restrictions. There is only so much ze great LaBauve can do alone, n'est pas?" The last time I said yes to a plan without

knowing what I was getting into, I had found myself in a space suit, fighting off an attack of killer fruits and veggies. "I wouldn't have to pretend to be a spaceman, would I?" I asked. "Definitely not," he said. "That's a relief." "But perhaps eet ees similar," he added. Even though I wasn't in my alien costume, my antenna went up. "There's no flying, is there?" "Maybe a wee bit," he said. "Forget it. No way." "Perhaps eef I show you something, eet weel change your mind," said Felix. "Come. Your despicable sheriff has called a meeting with his leetle posse for tonight." "How do you know that?" I asked. "There ees not much that happens in ze old courthouse that I do not know about," Felix said. "I visit eet often. That ees how I deescovered ze sheriff's secret meeting room. He can hear anyone climbing ze concrete stairs. So we must take another route." Going with a ghost to spy on the sheriff sounded pretty dangerous, so I took Humpty over to the gazebo and hid him under a bench. "Hey, buddy, I'm leaving you here where it's safe." "Don't try to sugar coat it," he said. "You're ditching me in favor of someone more exciting." Humpty looked so sad that I felt a little guilty. But Felix needed my help. Felix and I crept toward a tall oak tree near the French Castle courthouse. It was the same tree Jake and I had used for the space alien stunt. A light shined from a round window halfway up the clock tower. Above the window was the big clock I mentioned earlier. According to the story that was passed down, it had been stuck at 5 o'clock ever since the Matlocks killed Felix long ago, Felix pointed toward a limb that stretched toward the window. Then he threw an arm around my shoulder and gave his goatee a tug. I couldn't feel his arm, but the next thing I knew I was flying through the air up to the overhanging limb. As I gripped the tree trunk, I could hear voices coming from a room in the tower. "Look closely," Felix whispered. "A good journalist uses his powers of observation. I have noticed that yours are excellent. Now, you must use them on Sheriff Matlock." From our perch on the tree limb, I looked through the window at the sheriff. His loose jowls reminded me of a

bulldog. He chewed on a fat cigar as he glared across a desk at a man and a woman. "I saw those two with the sheriff when I was on the courthouse roof," I said. "Yes. They are fat as thieves," said Felix. "I think you mean thick as thieves," I said. "Enough of theese correcting ze Frenchman," he said. "Eet ees I who ees teaching you. Speaking of which, ze man in ze plaid leisure suit - he ees named Clint Ratchett. He ees a used car salesman and part time sheriff's deputy." I tried using my powers of observation on Mr. Ratchett. He had thick, jetblack hair that tilted to one side. "He's wearing a wig," I said. "Good eye," said Felix. "I prefer ze French word for eet - toupée. Now, let us have a leetle fun." He waved his finger in a circular motion toward the window, and a crank on the inside slowly opened it. Then he placed his palms beside his mouth and blew. A gust of wind blasted through the open window, lifting Clint's toupée off his head and onto the floor. "Eek!" screamed the dark-haired woman, leaping onto her chair. "A rat!" Felix wiggled his finger, and the hairpiece flew off the floor toward her mouth. "Bon appétit!" he said. Her eyes grew huge, thinking she was about to swallow a rat. She batted away the

black wig with such force that it slammed into the wall before it slid to the floor. Her loud shriek almost shook me from the tree. "Allow me to introduce your esteemed Justice Court Judge, Lulu Roberts," Felix said. I jammed my hand over my mouth to stifle my laughter. Judge Roberts calmed down when she saw Clint's bald head, as he bent over to pick up his toupée. "Oh my goodness," she said, fanning herself. "It's not a rat after all. It's your, uh... hair." Still a bit unsteady, she eased herself back into her chair. Clint slapped the wig onto his head. "I don't appreciate your calling my hairpiece a rat. It is finely woven, human hair, Lulu. And it cost me a small fortune." "I'm so sorry," she apologized. "It's my rat phobia. Just the thought of the nasty little beasts is terribly upsetting." "Clint, the next time that fur piece comes flying off your head, I swear - I'm gonna shoot it and cook it for dinner," the sheriff said. That did it. Trying to muffle a laugh that had been building, I finally let out a sound like a strangled hyena. The sheriff's posse all jerked their heads in our direction. "What was that?" asked Clint. They raced to the window, searching the darkness outside. The sheriff lifted a flashlight and shined a beam of light on the ground. It began to move up the tree. "Uh-oh," I said to Felix. "We're dogmeat!" "I'm afraid eet ees you who ees ze meat of ze dog," said Felix. "I am inveesible to them." "Thanks a lot!" I said, as the circle of light climbed up the tree toward me.

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All About Strawberries! STRAWBERRY HISTORY The Name Strawberry was derived from the berries that are "strewn" about on the plants, and "strewn berry" eventually became "Strawberry". They are from the Rosaceae family, and are of the Fragaria genus. They are not berries or fruit at all, but enlarged ends of the plant's stamen. Strawberry seeds are on the outer skin, instead of in the inner berry, There are about 200 seeds per berry. The berries are non-fat and low in calories, rich in vitamin C, potassium, folic acid, fiber, and vitamin B6. Over history the strawberries have been used in medicines. They have been used for sunburn, discolored teeth, digestion, and gout. As far back as the 13th century, the Strawberry was used as an anaphrodisiac. Strawberries were served at medieval state events, they symbolized prosperity, peace, and perfection. The most famous public eating of strawberries is at Wimbledon each year, when strawberries and cream are consumed between tennis matches by properly attired English. It is also known that Russian empresses also loved them. American Indians allegedly invented Strawberry shortcake, mashing berries in meal to make bread the colonists enjoyed--but they must have used wild strawberries since strawberries have been cultivated in America only since 1835. The Hoveg variety was imported into Massachusetts from France in 1834 The Fraser clan in Scotland derived its name from French immigrants named Strawberry (Fraise) who came with William the Conqueror in 1066. There are references to the strawberry as far back as ancient Rome. • The ancient Romans believed that strawberries alleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, all inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, bad breath, attacks of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen.

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• To symbolize perfection and righteousness, medieval stone masons carved strawberry designs on altars and around the tops of pillars in churches and cathedrals. In parts of Bavaria, country folk still practice the annual rite each spring of tying small baskets of wild strawberries to the horns of their cattle as an offering to elves. They believe that the elves, are passionately fond of strawberries, will help to produce healthy calves and an abundance of milk in return.

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• Madame Tallien, a prominent figure at the court of the Emperor Napoleon, was famous for bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries. She used 22 pounds per basin. Needless to say, she did not bathe daily. • Strawberries are the first fruit to ripen in the spring. • There is a museum in Belgium just for strawberries.

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Cut leaves from the tissue paper and glue to the top of the strawberry. To finish, tie a piece of cord through the hole at the top to hang your mobile.

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