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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3A today: • Roger B. Evans • Douglas A. Yaney • Mary Inez Haas • Charles J. “Jerry” Jenkins • Laconda J. “Connie” Donovan • Dorothy L. Applegett
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Assange says he’s victim BY DAVID STRINGER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange portrayed himself Sunday as a victim of an American “witch hunt” over his secretspilling website in a defiant address from the balcony of an embassy where he has holed up to avoid extradition to face sex assault allegations. Surrounded by British police who want to detain him, Assange made no mention of the sex assault case in Sweden or how long he would remain in Ecuador’s embassy in London, where he took refuge two months ago. Instead he shifted focus to the U.S., accusing the government of targeting him for revealing a trove of American diplomatic and military secrets. “I ask President Obama to do the right thing. The United States must renounce its witch hunt against WikiLeaks,” Assange said, wearing a formal blue shirt and red tie in front of the Ecuadorean flag. “The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters,” he said, referring specifically to Pfc. Bradley Manning, who awaits trial in Virginia in the scandal. The U.S. risks “dragging us all into a dark, repressive world in which journalists live under fear of prosecution,” Assange said Assange and his supporters claim the Swedish case is the first move of a Washington-orchestrated plot to make him stand trial in the U.S., which Swedish authorities dispute.
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Good, clean fun Adam Lesher, of New Bremen, dives into mud as he reaches for the ball in a game of mud volleyball at Bremenfest in New Bremen Saturday. Looking on from behind is Dillon Webster (left) and Bethany Webster, both of New Bremen. The name of their team was “Fat Andy.” For additional photos from Bremenfest and a story about the event, see Page 16A.
Social Security’s fixable; changes politically tough BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Social Security’s long-term problems, the massive retirement and disability program could be preserved for generations to come with modest but politically difficult changes to benefits or taxes, or a combination of both. Some options could affect people quickly, such as increasSee ASSANGE/Page 12A ing payroll taxes or reducing
annual cost-of-living adjustments for those who already get benefits. Others options, such as gradually raising the retirement age, wouldn’t be felt for years but would affect millions of younger workers. All of the options carry political risks because they have the potential to affect nearly every U.S. family while raising the ire of powerful interest groups. But the sooner changes are made, the more subtle they can be because they can be phased in slowly. Each year lawmakers
wait, Social Security’s financial problems loom larger and the need for bigger changes becomes greater, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. “Certainly, in the current environment, it would be very difficult to get changes made,” Social Security’s commissioner, Michael J. Astrue, said in an interview. “It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. And sometimes when you try hard things, surprising things happen.” See SOCIAL/Page 11A
Lockington Canal Festival set Saturday LOCKINGTON — Two longtime Lockington residents have been named honorary lockkeepers for the second annual Lockington Canal Festival planned for Saturday. Ava Ellis and Alice Smith will serve as lockkeepers for the parade, which begins Saturday at 6 p.m. “The Lockington Canal Festival will be held from noon to midnight Saturday,” said Tracy Johnson, president of the Lockington Citizen League. “We are a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to preserve the history of the Miami-Eric Canal and the village of Lockington through revitalization, education and development. The Lockington Canal Festival is the major fundraising event for the LCL.” Smith, said Johnson, was born and raised in Lockington and has lived there all her life. Ellis is a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the fire department. She and her late husband helped the fire
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department through the years. “Both of these women have given a lot to our community,” said Johnson. “We want to recognize their contributions by making them the honorary lockkeepers.” The day will begin with a pancake breakfast at New Beginnings Church from 8 to 11 a.m. A car show, sponsored by the Lockington Fire Department, will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the park. The Mule Skinner Band will perform from 4 to 6 p.m., while the Shelby County Line Band will take the stage from 7 to 11 p.m. “We will have various vendors at the festival,” said Johnson. “We are still looking for more vendors to participate. There is no cost for vendors to set up displays.” At this time, Nellie Cuddles, Avon, Mama and Me Bakery and various arts and crafts booths will be open during the festival.
Various games and children’s activities are also planned for the event. A trackless barrel train will be giving rides to the children. The fire department will also have a food stand, where it will be selling shredded chicken sandwiches. Also available at other stands will be shaved ice, hoagies and ice cream by Gerhlichs. The LCL will be selling beer at the festival. Lineup for the parade will begin at 5 p.m. at the northeast corner of the park. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. “We are still looking for entries in the parade, along with other food vendors,” said Johnson. Volunteers to assist with the various events are around being sought. All proceeds from the event will go to LCL. For more information, to register an entry for the parade or to set up a vendor or food booth, contact Johnson at (937) 773-8128
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Public meeting set Thursday Area man dies about sewer connections of crash injuries KETTLERSVILLE — Kettlersville Village Council members heard updates on the new sewer system and plans for a public meeting on Thursday during their recent meeting. Mayor Eric Kaminsky updated council members on the new sewer system and told them that the pumps that were needed for McCartyville and Kettlersville have arrived and are in the process of being installed. After they are installed, the system can be checked before Shelby County Engineer Bob Geuy certifies to the Shelby County Commissioners that the sewer system is ready for use. There was not a time frame available for the installation of the pumps.
Public meeting A public meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Van Buren Township building to tell residents about the processes and procedures for completing hookups to the new sewer system. Fliers are to be distributed to village residents informing them of the meeting. Kaminsky provided council members with copies of questions and responses from Choice One Engineering and Geuy regarding the sewer system. Council member Bart
Shuster asked for datestamped photos from Choice One regarding issues with work that was performed. Kaminsky was to request the photos. members Council were told there was still a resident who has not signed an easement. John Bruns, Shelby County Sewer District director, recommended that the village have the village solicitor send a letter to the resident. Council decided that the county should handle the matter because it is a county project.
Tile layout Kaminsky is to meet with Dave Heilers to obtain a map of the tile layout for the storm sewer project. He will also need to meet with county officials regarding that issue. The project must be completed by the end of the year in order to use grant funds. Council members heard that Freisthler Paving submitted an estimate of $2,750 to repair three areas in the village. Council requested that Kaminsky get an estimate for repairs for each street in the village. Council member John Shumate will contact Barrett Paving for an estimate. Council members were told that the state
Two men shot to death in Columbus in seven-hour span COLUMBUS (AP) — Police say two men have been shot to death in Ohio’s capital city in a sevenhour span. The shootings took place one mile from each other. Authorities say 51-year-old Charles P. Rogers was found outside just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He was taken to a hospital, where he died four hours later. Later Saturday night, authorities found 30-yearold Reico Taylor outside with several gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he died early Sunday. Police say they don’t yet know why the men were shot, and they don’t yet have suspects. It wasn’t immediately clear if the two shootings are related. The shooting deaths are the 64th and 65th homicides of the year for Columbus.
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of Ohio has looked at the corner of Ohio 274 and Kettlersville Road regarding possible repairs. No repairs have been made. Kaminsky will contact the Ohio Department of Transportation regarding that issue. ODOT will be making repairs. Kaminsky told council members that Shelby County has been awarded $255,000 from the Ohio Attorney General’s office to demolish condemned buildings in the county. Kaminsky has submitted a list of properties in the village that need to be demolished. The Shelby County Commissioners will make the decision regarding allocation of the funds. The deadline to submit possible properties was Aug. 1.
Grant application The village of Kettlersville has submitted an application for the Moving Ohio Forward Grant that was available through the Regional Planning Commission. The village submitted one property for consideration. Council members discussed possible repairs to the 35-mph sign in the village. Shumate stated he felt the pole could be repaired. Council members requested that Shumate contact CJ Electric to
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High weeds Council discussed village residents whose properties have unlicensed vehicles and high weeds. Letters will be sent to those residents regarding the problem. Council members discussed the former church property. They were told that complaints about the property can be filed with the Sidney-Shelby County Health Department. Kaminsky read a letter from the Shelby County Emergency Agency Management stating that the removal of limbs are not covered as a result of storms. Kaminsky will talk to a village resident about the removal of limbs on the resident’s property.
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Fire, rescue SUNDAY -8:50 a.m.: medical. Sidney paramedics responded to a medical call at Poplar Street and Franklin Avenue. SATURDAY -8:42 p.m.: medical. Paramedics were dispatched to a medical call in the 2500 block of Kuther Road. -5:40 p.m.: medical. Medics responded to a medical call in the 1000 block of Whipp Road. -4:19 p.m.: injury. Paramedics were dispatched to the 600 block of St. Marys Avenue for an injury. -3:08 p.m.: investigation. Firefighters responded to Schlater Drive for a carbon monoxide detector activation. It was a false alarm. -2:02 p.m.: medical. Paramedics were dispatched to the 800 block of Brooklyn Avenue for a medical call. -4:22 a.m.: medical. Medics responded to a
medical call in the 1500 block of East Court Street. -2:34 a.m.: medical. Paramedics responded to the 100 block of West Court Street. They were not needed. -12:38 a.m.: medical. Medics were dispatched to the 300 block of East Miami Avenue for a medical call. FRIDAY -12:05 p.m.: open burning. Firefighters responded to an openburning complaint at 617 N. Miami Avenue. It was an illegal burn and the resident was advised of the city’s ordinance. -10:55 a.m.: medical. Paramedics were dispatched to the 700 block of West Hoewisher Road for a medical call. -9:25 a.m.: medical. Medics responded to a medical call in the 1500 block of East Court Street. -7:41 a.m.: medical. Paramedics were dispatched to the 3000 block of Cisco Road for a medical call.
ST. PARIS — A St. Paris man seriously injured in a one-vehicle crash Aug. 12, died of his injuries Friday at Miami Va l l e y Hospital Persinger in Dayton. Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers said Stephen A. Persinger, 23, of St. Paris, was driving
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DEATH NOTICES Dorothy L. Applegett PIQUA — Dorothy L. Applegett, 94, formerly of 9271 N. Spiker Road, died at 4 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Funeral services will be held Thursday at Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.
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CELINA — Charles J. “Jerry” Jenkins, 69, of 2012 Mockingbird Lane in Celina, passed away at 4:25 p.m Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, at the Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert. He was born Jan. 9, 1943, in Urbana, the son of the late Carl and Ruth (Overfield) Jenkins. He married Sharon E. Hawes Aug. 11, 1963, and she died Dec. 24, 2009. Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, John and Michelle Jenkins, of Dayton; daughter and son-in-law, Julie and Cary Snyder, of Convoy; grandchildren, Zachary, Lauren, Jordan, Dustin, Troy, Micah and Max; brother and sister-in-law, Carl Jr. and Linda Jenkins; and his sister, Becky Rupert, both of Urbana. He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter Karla Jenkins, and his brother-in-law, Bill Rupert. Jerry was a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Celina, and the Celina American Legion Post
210, and the Celina Moose Lodge. He graduated from UrHigh bana School in 1961, then served his country in the U. S. Army during Vietnam the War. He was employed at Haulette Manufacturing in Celina as the general manager. F u n e r a l services will be at conducted at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, at the St. Paul’s Methodist United Church in Celina, with the Rev. Jeff Conrad officiating. Burial will follow in North Grove Cemetery with military honors by Celina American Legion Post 210 and Celina VFW Post 5713. Friends may call at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Celina from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The LehmanHogenkamp-Dzendzel Funeral Home is handling arrangements and condolences may be expressed at LHDfuneralhome.com.
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Laconda J. ‘Connie’ Donovan TIPP CITY — Laconda J. “Connie” Donovan, 76, of Tipp City, died at 4:13 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 at Hospice of Dayton. Private services for the family are being provided by Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.
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TROY — Douglas A. Yaney, 57, of Troy, died Aug. 9, 2012, following an extended illness. He was born May 10, 1955 in Piqua, the son of the late Willard and Juanita (Potts) Yaney. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Stephanie Yaney and Mike Higginbotham, of Troy; grandchildren, Bobby, Desiree, Lucas and Brea Higginbotham, and Brandon Price; brothers, Larry (Jeanne) Yaney, of Piqua, Keith (Sue) Yaney, of Sidney, and Ed (Pattie) Yaney, of Celina; sisters, Wava (Frank) Anthony, of Houston, and Pam (Jim) Bryant, of Lockington; and sister-in-law, Eileen Yaney of Covington. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Douglas Aaron Yaney; broth-
ers, Joe and Chester Yaney; and sister, Linda Yaney. atDoug tended Houston High School. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and a lifetime member of the Covington Post VFW post. Memorial service will be conducted at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 at Troy VFW Post 5436, 2220 Lefevre Road, Troy. The family will receive friends following the service. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Per Doug’s wishes, his body was donated to Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.
JACKSON CENTER — Mary Inez Haas, 95, of Jackson Center, passed away at 5:58 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, at Fair Haven Shelby County Home in Sidney. She was born Nov. 6, 1916, in Carroll County, a daughter of the late Edgar I. and Inez Mabel (Kincade) Roby. On Jan. 26, 1946 she married Howard Haas and he preceded her in death on June 4, 1994. Five brothers, Wilbur, Clyde, George, John and Charles Roby, also preceded her in death. She is survived by her son, Keith (Karla) Haas, of Jackson Center; two granddaughters, Danielle (Jeff) Davis, of Fort Loramie, and Tara (Adam) Rohr, of North Lewisburg; three greatgrandchildren, Elliott Roy Davis, Tatum Claire Davis and Olivia Ann Rohr; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mary was a homemaker and retired bookkeeper with the former Roby Studebaker Garage in DeGraff as well as the former Haas Brothers Pontiac in Jackson Center. A 1934 graduate of DeGraff High School, she enjoyed reading and spending time with her
grandchildren, great-grandkids and friends. She was a member of Jackson the Center United Methodist Church and was formerly active in the Garden Club, American Club, American Legion Auxiliary and the Jackson Center Historical Society. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, at 11a.m. at the Jackson Center United Methodist Church by Pastor Sylvia Hull. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, Aug. 21 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the SmithEichholtz Funeral Home in Jackson Center and one hour prior to the funeral at the church. Burial will follow in Glen Cemetery, Port Jefferson. Memorial contributions may be made to the Jackson Center United Methodist Church or the Jackson Center Library. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Smith-Eichholtz Funeral Home in Jackson Center. Condolences may be expressed at www.smitheichholtz.com.
Roger B. Evans DAVIDSON, Mich. — Roger B. Evans, 82, of 10100 Hunt Drive, Davison, Mich., passed away Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, at Brian’s House Hospice in Davison, Mich. He was born Nov. 16, 1929, in Piqua, the son of the late James and Dema (Ludrick) Evans. On Sept. 2, 1951, he married Mable Joyce Morrow, who survives, along with their children: Mark (Mary) Evans and Jayne (Bryan) Mahoney; grandchildren, Nichole, Sean and Molly; a great-granddaughter, Addison; and sister, Winifred Leone. Roger proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force. He was a member of Nardin Park United Methodist Church in Farmington Hills. Roger retired in 1991 as a senior
engineer for Chrysler Corp. He loved traveling reading, trains and crossword puzzles. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, at 10 a.m. in the Cedar Point Cemetery, Pasco, by the Rev. Joe F. Pumphrey. Friends may call Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Allen Funeral Home in Davison, Mich. There will be no visitation at the Cromes Funeral Home which is handling local arrangements. Military Honors will be held in the cemetery. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Condolences may be expressed to the Evans family at www.cromesfh.com.
Liquor permit reviewed MINSTER — Minster Village Council members at their recent meeting discussed a liquor permit for Speedway gas station in the village. The Liquor Control Board requested that the village hold the hearing on re-issuing the permit. The former Gas America in the village was recently purchased by Speedway. There have been no complaints regarding either Speedway or Gas America owners in regard to the sale of liquor. Council member Rick Schwartz asked if Speedway intends to keep the store open. Village Administrator Don Harrod will speak with Speedway management and find out what they intend to do with the store. Council must respond to the Ohio Liquor Control Board by a late August deadline and council will discuss the situation at its next meeting.
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Fundraising fun Jim Piatt, of Houston, drives a motorcycle while Rhonda Vaughn, of Houston, stretches to grab a tennis ball off of a construction cone at the eighth annual Charles Gillespie Memorial Poker Run and Hog Roast near Houston Saturday. Removing tennis balls from cones was one of several challenging games involving motorcycles at the fundraiser. Money from the event will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby and Darke County and Agape of Sidney.
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Silencing critics Honda rolling out new Accord BY TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Honda wants to silence its critics when it rolls out the new Accord this week. The automaker, chastened for cheapening the Civic compact earlier this year, says that won’t happen with the midsize Accord. It better not. The sedan AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero, File is up against the toughest IN THIS Aug. 22, 2007, file photo, Findlay resident Johnny Blaze (left) is res- competition it’s ever seen. New Nissan cued in a boat by Robert Evan (middle) and Dene Lynn (right) after his street It faces a new Nissan was flooded following heavy rains in Findlay. The scars from flooding that swamped this northwest Ohio town are still visible five years later. What’s Altima that leads midsize more troubling for residents and local leaders is that solutions to stop it from sedans in highway fuel economy at 38 miles per happening again are still years away. gallon, and a revamped Toyota Camry that has cemented its place as the best-selling car in America. The stylish Hyundai Sonata, the redesigned and lower-priced Volkswagen Passat, and a new, Army Corps project manager Mike more efficient Chevrolet FINDLAY (AP) — The scars from flooding that swamped this northwest Pniewski said the time spent on this Malibu also are on sale. Ohio town are still visible five years project was typical. By the end of the And then there’s the Eulater. What’s more troubling for resi- year they will be able to present flood ropean-looking Ford Fudents and local leaders is that solutions control options that are feasible and sion due out in the fall. to stop it from happening again are still cost-effective, he told The Courier ‘Battle royal’ (bit.ly/Nxtx11). years away. “It’s certainly a battle A final plan could be ready in 2015 royal in the midsize sedan Efforts to find ways to control flooding along the Blanchard River have for Congress, which has authority to al- segment,” says Sage been going on for several years, but the locate up to 65 percent of construction Marie, a Honda public reU.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it’s funding, Pniewski said. lations executive who is Officials say they understand the coordinating the Accord’s going to take three more years to finish studying the watershed, determine flood public is weary and sometimes leery of marketing launch. “And the studying and how long it’s taking to we have a lot of confisolutions and seek federal funding. Already, nearly $4 million has been complete. dence.” Pniewski said it is necessary if the respent by city and county governments Just five years ago, gion has any chance of receiving federal leading the midsize segon flood-control efforts. Five major floods in the last five years funding for construction of a project that ment wasn’t that difficult. have soaked the towns of Findlay and could cost tens of millions, or hundreds It was pretty much a twoOttawa. The worst damage came in Au- of millions, of dollars. car contest between AcIn Ottawa, officials are considering gust 2007 when flooding caused more cord and Camry, with the than $100 million in damage in Findlay reconstructing a bridge blamed for makAltima a distant third. and an estimated $12 million in damage ing flooding worse. Camry and Accord still “I think we’re getting closer to getting in Ottawa. lead, but in the past few “In our world, it’s taking way too something substantial, to where we can years, other car compalong,” said Hancock County Engineer say, ‘Yes, this is what we’ll be doing,’” Otnies have upped their Steve Wilson, who works with county tawa Community Development Director games. American, South commissioners on flood-control efforts. Jeff Loehrke said.
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Korean and German rivals are chipping away at their sales. “Honda and Toyota can no longer take it for granted that this is going to be a two-horse race,” says Jesse Toprak, vice president of market intelligence for the TrueCar.com auto pricing service. “It’s a remarkable change, how competitive the segment has become.”
glass area enlarged so the driver and passengers can see better, Marie says. The changes buck the industry trend of making doors taller and windows smaller.
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The car also will get all-new engines and transmissions, including a four-cylinder engine with direct fuel injection, a technology that uses less gas by mixing it with air in the cylinder. The new Accord also has a continuously variable transmission that doesn’t shift gears. That allows the engine to work at the optimal level regardless of speed. Honda also went against trends by giving buyers the option of a V-6 engine. Hyundai, Ford and Chevrolet offer only four-cylinders in their new midsize cars. Marie says Honda kept the V-6 because it is smooth and powerful. A new V-6 will get gas mileage that’s similar to rivals’ fourcylinder motors, he says.
The car’s look is still conservative, and in pictures, it resembles the 2012 version. But side creases give the new version a little more style. And the front and rear look more aggressive and athletic. The car is a little smaller on the outside and bigger on the inside, says Honda’s Marie. It is shorter — making it easier to handle and park — and more aerodynamic, giving it better gas mileage. The Accord’s door lines were lowered and the
Honda hasn’t released any pictures of the interior, which Marie promises will have rich materials and a high level of craftsmanship. After decades of being the most popular segment among U.S. buyers, midsize cars saw their market share start to drop in 2009 as automakers improved compacts and smaller SUVs. So far this year, though, the midsize sedan is back. Its market share is 18.6 percent, up almost two percentage points from 2011.
Athletic look The new Accord has a fresh athletic look and nicer interior. Honda says it’s aiming to beat Camry in sales to individual buyers. That excludes sales to rental car companies and other fleet buyers. The company has released only a few details about the 2013 five-seat Accord, which it will start making Monday at its factory in Marysville, Ohio. It says the Accord’s fuel economy with be competitive with the Altima. And the price will be similar to the current Accord, which starts at $21,480.
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NATION/WORLD TODAY IN HISTORY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Monday, Aug. 20, the 233rd day of 2012. There are 133 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Aug. 20, 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley to President Abraham Lincoln titled “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”; in it, Greeley called on Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free the slaves and end the South’s rebellion. On this date: ■ In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped. ■ In 1882, Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” had its premiere in Moscow. ■ In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres. ■ In 1920, pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting. ■ In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” ■ In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in antiFrench rioting in Morocco and Algeria. ■ In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization drive. ■ In 1972, the Wattstax concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. ■ In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. ■ In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself. ■ In 1992, shortly after midnight, the Republican National Convention in Houston renominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.
OUT OF THE BLUE Man survives after bar pierces skull RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday. Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital, said doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite's skull during a five-hour surgery. “He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain,” Essinger said. He said Leite was conscious when he arrived at the hospital and told him what had happened. He said Leite was lucid and showed no negative consequences after the operation.
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Don’t expect parties to get bold in platforms BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t look for many bold pronouncements when Republicans and Democrats adopt party platforms at their national conventions. Platforms are supposed to reflect the core values of the party and maybe provide some red meat to fire up the base, getting activists excited about supporting their presidential nominee. That’s what Democrats hope to do by embracing gay marriage in their platform, a position that President Barack Obama only recently has adopted. But no candidate wants to provide political fodder for opponents by including something in the platform that might turn off the sought-after undecided swing voters who could decide the election. “You don’t want a sentence or paragraph or phrase from your platform to be used against you in an ad or in a speech as a wedge issue,” said Linda P. Schacht, a veteran of many Democratic conventions who worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaigns in 1976 and 1980. That could present a challenge for Republican Mitt Romney, who will have to contend with supporters of Rep. Ron Paul at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., at month’s end. Paul’s supporters are determined to make their mark on the convention, and the Texas congress-
man has pointed to the platform as a good way to do it. “A lot of delegates who are pledged to vote for Romney are actually very strong supporters of ours and will be strongly supporting us when we want to put things into the platform to say, ‘Hey, we don’t need another war,’” Paul said in a recent broadcast interview. “The Federal Reserve? Yes, we do need to audit the Fed and we ought to really cut spending.” The GOP platform committee meets Monday and Tuesday in Tampa, ahead of the start of the convention Aug. 27. Romney will have enough delegates to win any battle over the platform. But if Paul’s supporters aren’t placated, they could become an unwanted distraction, forcing public debates over foreign policy and the fight against terrorism at a time when Romney would rather focus on the struggling economy and his efforts to defeat Obama. Many of Paul’s libertarian views dovetail nicely with mainstream Republican ideas on limited government and low taxes. But Paul breaks with much of his party when he rails against American intervention abroad, calling the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan illegal because Congress never passed a declaration of war. Paul also calls for abolishing the Federal Reserve and repealing the Patriot Act, legislation enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks to give law enforcement more tools to fight terrorism.
Don’t look for any of those positions in this year’s Republican platform. But party leaders could make some concessions, perhaps agreeing to a plank that calls for an audit of the Fed or a broad statement that calls for respecting civil liberties in the fight against terrorism. Would that be enough to appease most Paul supporters? “The delegates are individuals. They’re going to go in there, the ones we have on the platform committee, they’re going to go in there and fight for what they actually want,” said Marianne Stebbins, a delegate who coordinated Paul’s campaign in Minnesota. “I think you’re going to see — I’m hoping — quite a different platform (from 2008), where we’re talking about civil liberties a little more, whether it’s Internet privacy or warrantless wiretaps,” But, she added, “You don’t turn the barge around in a day.” Paul has a dedicated following, even though he didn’t win a single Republican presidential primary. Nevertheless, his supporters took control of several state GOP conventions where they elected delegates to the national convention. Paul has 160 delegates, compared with 1,552 for Romney, according to The Associated Press count. The Romney campaign treads lightly around Paul, careful not to offend his supporters but insistent that the national convention is Romney’s affair.
Aleppo reflects on losses during lull BY BEN HUBBARD Associated Press ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — A brief lull in fighting for a Muslim holiday Sunday allowed residents of Aleppo to take stock of their losses after three weeks of intense battles left many in Syria’s largest city strapped for cash, separated from loved ones and scared of more violence ahead. In the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad prayed at a mosque in his first appearance in public since a bomb attack killed four of his top security advisers on July 18. Thousands across the country marched against Assad in mosques and cemeteries after special dawn prayers marking the start of the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, which caps the holy month of Ramadan. The holiday — usually a joyful time to remember the dead, dress up in new clothes and visit family — followed a particularly bloody Ramadan when fighting erupted in Syria’s two largest cities, bringing large civilian populations under fire and causing a spike in the death toll. “There is no holiday,” said Mohammed Radwan, 34, standing near an apartment building in Aleppo’s Tariq alBab neighborhood, which was hit by an airstrike the day before. “The electricity comes and goes, the jets fire on us and no one has any work. All we’ll do today is clean up the
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SYRIANS LOOK for the bodies two girls thought to be under the rubble of a building hit by a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday. rocks and rubble.” The poorly armed opposition rebels — a sign of the regime’s Nearby, a group of men fighters are largely helpless loosening grip on the country. coated in gray cement dust against near-daily airstrikes by An airstrike on Wednesday searched the wreckage of the attack helicopters and fighter that killed more than 40 peostrike for the bodies of two jets, and the attacks often kill ple cast a pall over holiday young girls, aged 2 and 14. or terrify civilians. As many as prayers in the town of Azaz The fighting in Aleppo has 200,000 have fled Aleppo, ei- near the Turkish border. Only marked the first time that ther to nearby villages or to about 100 men showed up to Assad has relied heavily on air refugee camps in Turkey. pray in the Hadideen mosque power to bomb and strafe rebel But after three weeks of bat- with its salmon-colored forces who have grown adept tle, the government has still minaret bearing the scars of a at challenging ground troops. not managed to defeat the shell blast.
20 years after Ruby Ridge, there’s forgiveness BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — When Sara Weaver saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper’s bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family’s cabin on a mountaintop called Ruby Ridge. As the 16-year-old closed in, her mother, Vicki, opened the cabin door and stood behind it, holding Sara Weaver’s 10-month-old sister in her arms. Just then, a sniper’s bullet struck her mother in the head, killing her. For the next nine days, the surviving Weavers holed up in the cabin while hundreds of federal agents laid siege in a standoff that helped spark an anti-government patriot movement that grew to in-
clude the Oklahoma City bombing. Today, 20 years later, Sara Weaver has left the anger behind, finding religion — and forgiveness. “I went 10 years without understanding how to heal” until becoming a born-again Christian, she said. “All bitterness and anger had to go,” she said. “I forgave those that pulled the trigger.” These days, the Weavers live near Kalispell, Mont., a city in the northwestern part of the state that is the gateway to Glacier National Park and more than 100 east of Ruby Ridge. Patriarch Randy Weaver, 63, is a doting grandfather, his daughter said. Her two sisters, including the one who was in Vicki Weaver’s arms, are working. For a time, it seemed doubtful that any family members would survive the siege.
Randy Weaver moved his family to northern Idaho in the 1980s to escape what he saw as a corrupt world. Over time, federal agents began investigating the Army veteran for possible ties to white supremacist and anti-government groups. Weaver was eventually suspected of selling a government informant two illegal sawed-off shotguns. To avoid arrest, Weaver holed up on his land. On Aug. 21, 1992, a team of U.S. marshals scouting the forest to find suitable places to ambush and arrest Weaver came across his friend, Kevin Harris, and Weaver’s 14-yearold son Samuel in the woods. A gunfight broke out. Samuel Weaver and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed. The next day, an FBI sniper shot and wounded Randy Weaver. As Weaver,
Harris and Sara ran back toward the house, the sniper fired a second bullet, which passed through Vicki Weaver’s head and wounded Harris in the chest. During the siege, Sara Weaver crawled around her mother’s blanket-covered body to get food and water for the survivors, including the infant, until the family surrendered on Aug. 31, 1992. Harris and Randy Weaver were arrested, and Weaver’s daughters went to live with their mother’s family in Iowa. Randy Weaver was acquitted of the most serious charges and Harris was acquitted of all charges. The surviving members of the Weaver family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The federal government awarded Randy Weaver a $100,000 settlement and his three daughters $1 million each in 1995.
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Monday Afternoon • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon. For more information on activities or becoming a member, contact Scott Barhorst at 492-0823.
Monday Evening • Art Study Group meets at 6 p.m. For information, contact Starr Gephart at 295-2323. • Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Russell Road. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Church, 340 W. Russell Road. • Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meets at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main St., Bellefontaine. • Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new members are welcome. For more information, call Tom Frantz at 492-7075. • TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7 p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road, New Bremen.
Tuesday Afternoon • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St. • The Springfield Regional Cancer Center in Springfield hosts a support and education group for cancer patients and their families from noon to 1:30 p.m. The groups are free and open to anyone who has a need for cancer education and support. For more information, call the cancer center at (937) 325-5001 or the American Cancer Society at (937) 399-0809.
Tuesday Evening • Head, Neck and Oral Cancer Support Group for patients and caregivers meets at St. Rita’s Regional Cancer Center in the Garden Conference Room from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (419) 2273361. • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Temple, 210 Pomeroy Ave. • Minster Veterans of Foreign Wars meets for lunch at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on South Cleveland Street, Minster. A meeting will follow the meal. • The Brain Injury Support Group meets at 7 p.m. in conference rooms A and B at the Upper Valley Med Center, North Dixie Highway, Troy. This group meets to support the caregivers and see the progress of survivors. For more information, call Shirley Whitmer at (937) 339-0356 or Margie Luthman at (937) 394-8681. • Jackson Center Masonic Lodge meets at 7:30 p.m. at the lodge on North Main. Brethren are welcome. For more information, call Walter Hull at 5968123. • Pleaides Chapter 298 Order of the Eastern Star meets at the Masonic Temple at the corner of Miami Avenue and Poplar Street at 7:30 p.m. • The Miami-Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Greene Street UMC, 415 W. Greene St. at Caldwell Street. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors are always welcome. For more information, call (937) 778-1586 or visit www.melodymenchorus.org. • The Al-Anon Sidney Group, for friends and relatives of alcoholics, meets from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on the corner of North Street and Miami Avenue. All are welcome.
Wednesday Morning • The Sidney Kiwanis Club meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Moose Lodge. Lunch is held until noon, followed by a club meeting and program.
Thursday Morning
• A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for breastfeeding mothers is offered at Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Farmhouse located northwest of the main hospital entrance. The meetings are facilitated by the lactation department. Participants can meet other moms, share about being a new mother and learn more about breastfeeding and their babies. (937) 4404906.
Thursday Afternoon • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St. • The Amos Memorial Public Library offers Homework Help from 3:30 to 5 p.m. • The Highly Recommended Book Club will meet at the New Bremen Public Library at 1 p.m.
Thursday Evening
• The Narcotics Anonymous group, All in the Family, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 Poplar St. • Alzheimer’s Support Group meets at 7 p.m. in the Emmons Conference Room at Dorothy Love Retirement Community. For more information, call Lu Ann Presser at 497-6542.
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Summer is quickly passing, which means time for the Shelby County Applefest is almost here. And although a majority of folks do whatever they can to keep cool, there is a unique group of thread artists who have feverishly been working on something to keep them warm. What better place to view their talents than at the Applefest Quilt Show? The quilt show committee has taken a walk through time to remember the wonderful pieces that have been hung each year to display the colors craftsmanship, and history of this art form. From the first year at the Masonic Temple, several years at the fairgrounds and more permanently in the Senior Center of Sidney Shelby County, quilters have come to compete as well as admire the threaded beauties. This year will be no exception. The center will become a gallery and hundreds of people will come to be inspired. But there will be a few changes that are regrettably necessary in order to continue what the original intent for this show was and still is, to educate and pay tribute to the quilters from yesterday as well as today. The economy has hit everyone in one way or another, and so it is with the budget for the quilt show. The first-, secondand third-place winners from each category will
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A QUILT show will once again be a part of this years Shelby County Applefest. Quilts will be on display in the Senior Center of Sidney Shelby County. not be awarded monetary prizes for the first time since the show began. But the committee is confident that the show will retain the quality and quantity of quilts for all to see. There has been an award every year that has not been given enough recognition for the passion that has gone into the making. Every category which has a first-, second- and thirdplace winner has been awarded a handmade log cabin apple, which Pauline Warren, a national award-winning quilter from Sidney, has lovingly made each year. These ribbons are unique to the Applefest and were designed by Warren just for this event. The first-, second- and third-place winner of each category will still be awarded these apples.
Computer Users Group to meet The Tri-County Computer Users Group will meet Sept. 4 in the Dorothy Love Amos Center Gathering Place from 7 to 9 p.m. The instructors will be Mark Hipple and John Kuehne, assisted by Jerry and Doris Tangeman and Richard Sommer. The group will discuss smart phones and tablets. Attendees can take their phones or
tablets and share experiences with other users. There will be a time during the meeting for questions. The focus will be on the Android operating system. A social time with pop and cookies follows the meeting. Anyone with an interest in computers is invited to attend and there is no charge. For information, call 492-8790.
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And when all categories have been judged, the Best of Show HandQuilted and the Best of Show Machine-Quilted quilts will still receive prize money in addition to their ribbons. Each year there is a theme category, and this year’s theme is “Simply Charming.” What this means is, each piece of fabric must be cut and sewn back together to make the quilt top with only one template. Some of these designs include squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, apple cores pattern and any other shape that will interlock with one another to finish out as a quilt.
In early days, this method, called a charm quilt, required that each piece of fabric in the quilt be different. But in the Applefest show, fabrics can be repeated. They just all have to be cut from the same template. The Loose Threads Quilt Club has once again created a beautiful raffle quilt that will be awarded to the lucky winner on Sunday as soon as the show is over. This year’s pattern is a patriotic Ohio Star. Tickets will be available at the show or from club members prior to the show. If you have a quilt you haven’t entered yet, time’s getting close. You can log onto shelbyapplefest.com for more information or call Sharon Mohrbacher at 497-1426 or Mary Ellen Egbert at 498-1764.
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Preschool program ready for new year Board of Developmental Disabilities enrolls more than 300 children that will prepare them for success as they enter kindergarten. This fall, more than 300 children, ages 3 to 5, will be heading to these classrooms at several locations. The newest classroom added this fall is located in the Hardin-Houston building. Elementary Around the corner from the kindergarten classroom and just inside the playground door, preschoolers will begin their educational journey with classmates who may be sitting beside them when they graduate from high school. Additional preschool classrooms are located at Fort Loramie Elementary and Jackson Center Elementary. Providing preschool experiences in children’s home school
has provided a continuum of educational services that meets the needs of families and young children. At the Sidney location, Shelby Hills Early Childhood Center provides 10 classrooms with children from Shelby County attending either in the morning or afternoon. New staff members beginning this school year include preschool intervention specialist Heather Hawkins. Hawkins joins the Shelby County program from North Union Local Schools, where she taught preschool special education. The Speech Language department welcomes Lindsay Savoy from the University of Cincinnati. Savoy will begin her career as a speech language pathol-
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Fairlawn students to use iPads First day of school is Wednesday When Fairlawn Local Schools open for the 20122013 school year Wednesday, a new program will allow high school students to use iPads along with their textbooks during the school day. The new program is designed to increase collaboration between students and teachers, create individualized learning experiences and foster critical thinking skills. Fairlawn will also be incorporating mobile iPad carts for classrooms in the local grade levels. The iPads will be used in a variety of ways to engage students in the learning process. Staff development took place over the summer and will continue throughout the school year. The school web page will be updated with more information about the program, including answers to frequently asked questions. The school district has added six new employees to its faculty for 2012-13. They
are: • Kelly Boyer, athletic director. • Thomas Crookshank, high school guidance counselor. • Lindsey Riethman, elementary guidance counselor. • Dexter Tobie, Spanish teacher. • Emily Ginn, grades 4-6 language arts. • Jennifer Leighty, instructor aide. Fairlawn was recently notified that it is one of 10 Ohio schools receiving a $43,000 Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) grant for students in the middle
school grades. The program is a systemic instructional and achievement program for students in grades 4-12 and postsecondary. The college readiness system is designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges and succeed in post-secondary education and training. Money from the grant will aid in the purchase of iPads for classrooms and training for staff members on the teaching team. They are Stephanie Everett, Chad Laman, Tara Berning, Thomas Crookshank, Eric Barr and Jo DeMotte. Fairlawn has also received a $115,000 Peer Assisted Review Grant for teachers to be coaching consultants for their peers. A team of teachers will be available throughout the year to work with other teachers in implementing best practices in their classrooms. The grant also enabled all staff members to receive
iPads to conduct walkthrough observations. A $10,000 Mobile Assistive Technology grant has been awarded Fairlawn by eTech Ohio. The grant will fund the implementation of tablets, ereaders, smart phones, Braille notes and licensing of software in grades 3-8 reading, language arts and math classes. The grant was developed to extend and enhance learning opportunities for special needs learners through the use of mobile assistive technology. Fairlawn will implement mobile-assistive technologies,
including iPads, Proloquo2Go and National Reader, with supplemental professional development initiatives. The strategy, Principal Jo Demotte said, “is to implement access through iPads by aligning learning goals of grades 3 to 8 students with special needs and increasing student independence, also accessing the general education curriculum though iPad 3 and the programs downloaded onto it.” Materials developed as a result of the project will be for training and enrichment purposes.
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Stores are going all out to pull you in the door for back-to-school shopping. That’s because every retailer wants a piece of the $83.8 billion that the National Retail Federation expects Americans will spend this back-toschool season. J.C. Penney is offering kids free haircuts, Microsoft is giving out a free Xbox if you buy a computer and Abercrombie & Fitch is selling jeans for half-off their regular price. Sound tempting? Put your armor on. “They’re trying to get you in the store and keep you in there and spend more money,” said Lauren Greutman, deal expert at coupon website Savings.com and founder of savings site IAmThatLady.com. In order to actually save money, you need to focus on getting the deals and avoid getting sucked into buying stuff you don’t need. Greutman suggests putting a list of everything you need and sticking to it. If school hasn’t started yet, check the school’s website. Many schools post a supplies list early. If not, call and ask. Do some research before you head out shopping to see which retailers are offering deals. RetailMeNot, the coupon website, updates its site with back-toschool deals several times a day at retailmenot.com/backtoschool . If you have an iPhone, you can also download RetailMeNot’s free app to keep up with new deals while you’re out shopping. Experts say you can expect back-to-
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IN THIS Aug. 1 photo, Wesley Brooks, 7, of Huntsville, Ala., has his hair cut by Melinda Gilbert at the J.C. Penney styling salon in Huntsville, Ala. J.C. Penney is running a nationwide program giving kids ages 5-12 free back-to-school haircuts during the month of August. school deals to continue until the middle of September. To get you started, here is a selection of some of the better backto-school discounts big retailers are offering:
Clothing Teen retailers are cutting prices on their jeans. All of American Eagle Outfitter’s blue jeans are $29.99 for a limited time, as much as $20 below regular price. At Abercrombie & Fitch, all jeans are $39 until Aug. 21. Regular priced jeans at Abercrombie can cost between $70 and $90. Sears and many other
retailers offer discounts on clothing and shoes at stores in states that have tax holidays. ( C h e c k www.taxadmin.org/fta/r ate/sales_holiday.html to see if your state has an upcoming tax holiday.) Kmart is taking off 5 percent of purchases that are put on layaway. But keep in mind that Kmart’s layaway plan costs $5. The free haircuts at J.C. Penney are for kids during August and only at stores that have a salon. You need to book in advance. If you’re looking for
school uniforms, Gap is offering 30 percent off until Aug. 29. Kmart is (StatePoint) The start taking off 20 percent of a new school year is a until Aug. 19. great time to emphasize Supplies Wal-Mart is pricing the importance of reading 100 items, ranging from at home. Solid readers perform lunch bags to notebooks, at 88 cents throughout better in school and in the workplace, have a healthy August. Bring in an old binder self-image, and become to Staples, and the office lifelong learners. Research shows a supply store with give 45 percent of whopping you $2 off a new one. children ages 3 to 5 are Staples is also selling a not read to daily, and this discount card for $10 that will give you 15 per- lack of literature can take cent off school supplies a negative toll on school Luckily, until Sept. 15. It’s only performance. there are many things worth it if you expect to spend more than $70. parents can do to make But check the restric- kids passionate readers. “Reading stimulates tions first: You can’t use imagination children’s it on pricier items like calculators and flash and expands their understanding of the world,” drives. And every week until says actress Kate BeckinLabor Day, Office Depot sale, who is teaming with is selling a select num- “The Nestlé Share the Joy ber of products for of Reading Program” to raise awareness about the pocket change. You can importance of children’s find scissors for 8 cents literacy and support the and pocket folders for a work of Reading Is Funpenny. damental (RIF), the Electronics largest children’s literacy RadioShack is offer- nonprofit in the United ing 10 percent off to stu- States. dents on lower-priced If you’re looking to electronics like power make reading a bigger strips, batters and calcu- part of your children’s lators. The discount is lives this school year, here available at about 1,000 are some tips to get them RadioShack locations motivated: near major college cam• Start young. Reading puses. aloud to children at an When students buy a early age is the most efselect Windows desktop fective way to help them or laptop computer from attain critical language Dell, Hewlett Packard or and communication skills Samsung, they can get a and instill great habits. free Xbox 360 video • Take advantage of game system. free online tools and reStudents who buy an sources that help make Apple Mac before Sept. reading an engaging, 21 will get a $100 shared experience for pariTunes gift card to buy ents and kids. For exammusic, apps or books. ple, RIF’s “Leading to Buy an iPad and you’ll Reading” website contains get a $50 gift card. activities for children ages ___ birth to 5. Visit Joseph Pisani can be www.rif.org/kids/leadingreached at http://twit- toreading for more inforter.com/josephpisani mation. • Variety is the spice of life. Be sure your house contains plenty of books to choose from on a variety of topics. • Launch a children’s book club with other par-
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ents. Take turns hosting your children’s friends for snacks and a lively discussion on the book of the month. • Kids love getting mail. Subscribe to children’s magazines so they’ll have something fun and beneficial to look forward to each month. • Make sure children have their very own library cards and become frequent patrons at your local library. • Be it the morning paper or your favorite novel, set a great example by making reading a daily habit for yourself. • Many literacy programs supporting underserved communities are currently experiencing federal funding cutbacks, but everyone deserves a chance to read. Invest in the lives of other children who might not have the same opportunities as your kids. For example, right now, every time you enter a promotion code found inside specially marked packages of Nestlé and Wonka candy at www.Celebrat i o n C o r n e r. c o m / R I F, Nestlé will donate money to RIF, to fund purchasing books for kids. Almost a quarter of public school fourthgraders score below even the most basic levels on reading exams, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress. Don’t let your children fall behind. Take steps this school year to help your children and others to hone this basic tool for success.
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New personnel, new programs Sidney City Schools open Wednesday BY LEE JONES The Sidney City Schools will open Wednesday, except for kindergarten, which starts Thursday, and returning students will see some new teachers and administrators as well as some program changes. At Sidney High School, one of those changes may make some students happy: Certain courses will use iPads instead of traditional textbooks. The school has also hired new teachers as follows: Joseph Czupryn, math; Greg Hines, English; Amber Scott, social studies; Joel Miller, special education; Ruth Baker, science; and Megan Rinas, intervention specialist. Some former teachers have also been rehired, including math teacher Tony Wagner and physics teacher Bob Tenney. The school has also recalled art teacher Kelly Walker and transferred math teacher Megan Mummey. Sidney elementary schools have also pre-
pared for the new school year by adding staff and changing a few programs. Emerson Elementary has a new kindergarten teacher, Krystal Cox; a transferred third-grade teacher, Kay Straman; and a new physical education teacher, Tom Goffena. Longfellow Elementary has a new kindergarten teacher, Nichole Inman. Whittier Elementary has a new intervention specialist, Tiffany Goffena. Northwood Elementary has a transferred kindergarten teacher, Emily Scheu; a new kindergarten teacher, Lori Bricker; and a new second-grade teacher, Jodi Danzig. The staff has reportedly been working through the summer to roll out a new program for elementary students called the Phonics First reading program. It is a multisensory languagebased program to serve the needs of the youngsters. At the administrative level, Eric Finke was
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AT THE Sidney Middle School open house Wednesday are (l-r) Aliya Sharp, 12; Jennifer Ferree, 13; Eileen Ferree; and Sidney eighth-grade science teacher Kevin Turner, all of Sidney. Jennifer will be having Turner as her teacher this school year. Aliya is the daughter of Karen and Dean Sharp. Jennifer is the daughter of Eileen and Marc Ferree. transferred to the position of elementary school principal and Michael Epperly was hired as an elementary principal. All lunch prices have increased by 10 cents. Elementary students will have additional time this school year for increased unified arts in-
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struction, such as art, physical education and music. In order to ensure the school’s financial stability, the Sidney Education Association has agreed to reduce the salaries of Sidney Schools teachers by 5.8 percent. Pay will be
frozen at this level for three years and this was subsequently extended to all 400 employees of the district. The Sidney district is reportedly deciding what to do when the current 9.9-mill operating levy expires in 2013. According to Superintendent
John Scheu, six proposed school levies have failed in the past four years. The district is exploring the possibility of a combination permanent improvement/operating levy/income tax to replace the expired levy. No decision has yet been made, however.
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SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg LINDA CARPENTER, of Piqua, sits in her Sidney High School classroom Fri- For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com day where she will be teaching a junior and senior marketing class. The box KRYSTAL COX, of Sidney, stocks her Emerson Elementary School kindersitting in the center of the room contains a new desk waiting to be set up. garten classroom Friday. This is her first year as.
Special needs kids staying in traditional schools LOS ANGELES (AP) — The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students increasingly opt for alternatives that aren’t always readily open to those requiring special education. The issue is particularly acute in districts where enrollment has declined due to demographic changes such as low birth rates and population shifts combined with an influx of charter schools and voucher programs that have siphoned off students.
Share the cost School district officials say all schools that receive public funds should share the cost of special education. “It raises an ethical responsibility question,” said Eric Gordon, chief executive officer of Cleveland Metropolitan School District. “We welcome our students with special needs, but the most expensive programming is on public districts.” In Cleveland, the district has lost 41 percent of its students since 1996 while its proportion of students with special needs
rose from 13.4 percent to 22.9 percent last year. In Milwaukee, enrollment has dropped by nearly 19 percent over the past decade, but the percentage of students with disabilities has risen from 15.8 percent in 2002 to 19.7 percent in 2012. Los Angeles, the nation’s second largest system with 665,000 students, has seen enrollment slide by 8.5 percent since 2005-06, while its special needs population has increased from 11 percent to 13 percent.
Charter schools The U.S. Department of Education’s office of civil rights is investigating charter school practices relating to students with disabilities in five districts around the country, said Russlyn Ali, assistant secretary of civil rights. The probes, which look at admissions, curriculum and accommodation of needs, are the first of their kind, said Ali, who would not release the names of the districts. While the number of students with special needs has not increased, the rising proportion has driven up costs for cash-strapped schools. Special education, which requires speech pathologists, psychologists and trained teachers, and sometimes special facilities and
equipment, can cost four times more than general education. Federal funds only cover a fraction of the extra expense. Public Schools of Philadelphia, for example, spent $9,100 per regular education pupil in 2009, $14,560 per pupil with milder disabilities and $39,130 for more severe disabilities, according to a consultant’s report that compared special education costs. Other districts cited report similar numbers: Los Angeles Unified spent $6,900 to school a regular education student, $15,180 for a pupil with milder disabilities and $25,530 for a child with significant needs.
Budget shortfalls With budget shortfalls creating staffing crunches and federal law requiring putting children with disabilities in regular classrooms when possible to remove the stigma and encourage diversity, general education teachers now may find a number of pupils with special needs in their classes. “There used to be one or two. You’d sit them at the front of the class, but now there are 10 or 12,” said Barbara Schulman, an Orange County special education teacher who heads the California Teachers Association’s
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special education committee. “Teachers need to know what they’re doing.” Most charter, parochial and magnet schools serve children with disabilities, but they are often milder disabilities, leaving the brunt of students with significant needs in traditional district schools. Special needs enrollment in Philadelphia district schools and charters is roughly 14 percent, but about half the district’s pupils with special needs have severe disabilities compared to about a third for charters.
Charter proponents Charter proponents say schools do not turn away kids with disabilities or ask if an applicant has disabilities, which is illegal, and note that in six states — Nevada, Wyoming, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania — charters serve more pupils with special needs than local districts As districts increasingly offer other options, kids with disabilities are not enrolling in the alternatives at the same rate. Some parents may feel their child is better served with a traditional public school, said Ursula Wright, interim president and chief executive of the NaNORTH
tional Alliance of Public Charter Schools. “Charter schools give all parents opportunities for choices. Sometimes the choice is not to select a charter school,” she said. Some charters, such as Partnership to Uplift Communities, have made serving special needs their mission. The Los Angeles charter organization has special needs enrollment ranging from 9 percent to 17 percent at its 13 schools.
Lack expertise Many charters have been reluctant to tackle special education because they lack expertise, but that is starting to change, said Kaye Ragland, who heads special education for the Partnership. Districts have started to reach out to charters to collaborate more on special education. Some, like Los Angeles Unified, are training charter teachers. Denver Public Schools has gone further. Two years ago, the district requested that charter operators agree to a mission of equity in schools and included clauses in charter contracts stipulating that they must install programs for severe special needs if required.
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65 years later: All it takes is true love Kelly, Seattle, Wash. KELLY: According to the American Cancer Society, 10 percent of all young people ages 12 to 17 smoke cigarettes. Girls (11.6 percent) had a higher percentage of smokers than boys (9.3 percent). The good news is that the percentage of young smokers has decreased every year for the past 12 years. Schools, media and parents continue to stress that smoking is hazardous to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and the majority of teens are responding in a positive way. Teens, the best way to defeat the evils of smoking is to never start! Once you are addicted, it will be extremely difficult to stop. Those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smoke will live a healthier life and have more money to spend on making life a happy, healthy adventure! Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. E-mail him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To find out more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other Syndicate Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Toledo awards degrees More than 2,300 students graduated from the University of Toledo during spring 2012 commencement ceremonies. Local students receiving degrees were: Diane Aufderhaar, of Botkins, received a Bachelor of Education in early childhood Education (prek-3). Alena Barga, of Versailles, received a Bachelor of Science in bioengineering. Ryan Henderson, of Jackson Center, received a Bachelor of Business Administration in information systems. Katherine Mescher, of Versailles, received a Master of Arts in counselor
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Taking aim Maddy Freisthler, 6, of Anna, takes aim during Outdoor Youth Day put on by the Shelby County Whitetails Unlimited Saturday. Kids could do a wide range of hunting activities at the event. Maddy is the daughter of Crag Freisthler and Nikki Freisthler.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Stan Heffner celebrated his new $180,000 private sector job over $10 cocktails, escargot, and oysters at San Antonio’s swanky Tost Bistro Bar in the spring of 2011. Heffner, who was at the time Ohio’s interim schools superintendent, dined with John Oswald, vice president of Educational Testing Service, a leading national test developer, and Oswald’s wife, Rosalie. The three were toasting Heffner’s future as senior leader for K12 assessment at the company and his upcoming move to Texas. Heffner’s flight to Texas had been coordinated by his executive secretary at the Ohio Department of Education, Carolyn Jones, while she was on state time, according to a state investigative files reviewed by The Associated Press. Jones also coordinated other air travel related to his job hunt and sent paperwork using state equipment for his purchase of a Texas home, records show. Heffer gave up the new job when he
was named Ohio’s permanent superintendent last July but before that — and after he accepted the job with ETS — Heffner testified as interim superintendent on a bill before the Ohio Senate with the potential to benefit Educational Testing Service, according to a report issued by Inspector General Randall Meyer. Heffner issued a public apology and then resigned on Aug. 4 in the wake of Meyer’s findings. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien is reviewing the case for potential legal violations, and the Ohio Board of Education is likely to name an interim replacement Monday. Ohio law prohibits state employees from using state time and equipment for personal business. Heffner told Meyer’s investigators during his interview that Jones, his executive secretary, “was very gracious and — on offering to be of help.” She was not a target of the probe.
SOCIAL Social Security is ensnared in the same debate over taxes and spending that has gripped Washington for years. Liberal advocates and some Democrats say benefit cuts should be off the table. Conservative activists and some Republicans say tax increases are out of the question. Others, including a deficit commission created by President Barack Obama in 2010, have called for a combination of tax increases and cuts to future benefits, including raising the retirement age again. Janice Durflinger of Lincoln, Neb., is still working at age 76, running computer software programs for a bank. Still, she worries that a higher retirement age would be tough on people with more physically demanding jobs. “No matter how much you exercise, age takes its toll,” Durflinger said. But at 20, Jared Macher of Manalapan, N.J., worries that Social Security won’t be around for his generation without major changes. “My generation sees Social Security as a tax, not an investment,” Macher said. Social Security’s finances are being hit by a wave of demographics as millions of baby boomers reach retirement, leaving relatively fewer workers behind to pay into the system. About 56 million people get benefits today; that is projected to grow to 91 million in 2035. For nearly three decades Social Security produced big surpluses, collecting more in taxes from workers than it paid in benefits to retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children. But Social Security trustees project that the surplus, now valued at $2.7 trillion, will be gone in 2033. At that point, Social Security would only collect enough tax revenue each year to pay about 75 percent of benefits, unless Congress acts.
From Page 1 After the surplus is spent, the gap between scheduled benefits and projected tax revenue is big. Social Security uses a 75-year window to forecast its finances, so the projections cover the life expectancy of every worker paying into the system. Once Social Security’s surplus is gone, the program is scheduled to pay out $134 trillion more in benefits than it will collect in taxes over the next 75 years, according to data from the agency. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $30.5 trillion in 2012 dollars. The options for closing the gap fall into two broad categories: cutting benefits or raising taxes. There are, however, many options within each category. The AP used data from the Social Security Administration to calculate how much of the shortfall would be eliminated by various options. To illustrate how Social Security’s long-term finances have become worse in the past two years, the AP also calculated the share of the shortfall that would have been eliminated, if the options had been adopted in 2010.
years ago, it would have wiped out 99 percent. • Increase the payroll tax by 0.1 percentage point a year, until it reaches 14.4 percent in 20 years. At that point, workers making $50,000 a year would get a tax increase of $500 and employers would have to match it. This option would eliminate 53 percent of the shortfall. Two years ago, it would have wiped out 73 percent.
• Gradually raise the full retirement age to 68 in 2033. This option would eliminate 15 percent of the shortfall. Two years ago, it would have eliminated a little more than 20 percent. • Gradually raise the full retirement age to 69 in 2039 and 70 in 2063. This option would eliminate 37 percent of the shortfall. Two years ago, it would have eliminated about half.
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Workers qualify for full retirement benefits at age 66, a threshold that gradually rises to 67 for people born in 1960 or later. Workers are eligible for early retirement at 62, though monthly benefits are reduced by about 25 percent. The reductions shrink the longer you wait to apply. Options:
Taxes Social Security is financed by a 12.4 percent tax on wages. Workers pay half and their employers pay the other half. The tax is applied to the first $110,100 of a worker’s wages, a level that increases each year with inflation. For 2011 and 2012, the tax rate for employees was reduced to 4.2 percent, but is scheduled to return to 6.2 percent in January. Options: • Apply the Social Security tax to all wages, including those above $110,100. Workers making $200,000 in wages would get a tax increase of $5,574, an amount their employers would have to match. Their future benefits would increase, too. This option would eliminate 72 percent of the shortfall. Two
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ployment. Tinkering with the benefit formula can save big money, but cuts to initial benefits mean lower monthly payments for the rest of a retiree’s life. The average monthly benefit for a new retiree is $1,264. Option: Change the calculation for initial benefits, but only for people with lifetime wages above the national average, which is about $42,000 a year. Workers with higher incomes would still get a bigger monthly benefit than lower paid workers but not as big as under current law. It’s a cut they would feel throughout their entire retirement. This option would eliminate 34 percent of the shortfall. Two years ago, it would have eliminated almost half.
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Each year, if consumer prices increase, Social Security benefits go up as well. By law, the increases are pegged to an inflation index. This year, benefits went up by 3.6 percent, the first increase since 2009. Option: Adopt a new inflation index called the Chained CPI, which as-
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ASSANGE The White House declined comment Sunday, but on Saturday said Assange’s fate is an issue for Sweden, Britain and Ecuador to resolve. Assange, a 41-year-old Australian citizen, shot to international prominence in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website began publishing its huge cache of American secrets, including 250,000 U.S. Embassy cables that highlighted sometimes embarrassing backroom dealings. As he toured the globe to highlight the disclosures, two women accused him of sex offenses during a trip to Sweden. Assange has said the sex with the women was consensual and denied wrongdoing, but has fought off efforts to return him to Sweden for questioning for two years. Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa granted Assange asylum Thursday, and he remains out
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of reach of British authorities while he is inside the country’s embassy. Britain insists that if he steps outside, he will be detained and sent to Sweden. praised Assange Ecuador Sunday as “a courageous Latin American nation took a stand for justice,” in offering him sanctuary. He suggested he had won the support of a host of Latin American nations — including Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Argentina. Of those five, however, only Argentina has endorsed Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum. Assange urged the U.S. to release Manning, the U.S. soldier charged with aiding the enemy by passing the secret files to Wikileaks. A Virginia grand jury is studying evidence that might link Assange to Manning. Calling Manning “one of the world’s foremost political prisoners,” Assange said: “If Bradley
Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all.” The WikiLeaks founder give no indication of how he believes the stalemate over his future may be resolved, though he said he hoped to be “reunited soon” with his two children. “I think these allegations are just a way of getting to him,” said Laura Mattson, a 29year-old supporter from London who joined a raucous crowd outside the embassy. “Is it about the charges or is it about silencing WikiLeaks?” South America’s foreign ministers met in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Sunday at the host nation’s request to discuss the case. The ministers condemned Britain’s threat last week to forcibly enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London but did not uniformly endorse Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to Assange.
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SURROUNDED BY British police WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (center) makes a statement to the media and supporters from a window of Ecuadorian Embassy in central London Sunday. Julian Assange entered the embassy in June in an attempt to gain political asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes, which he denies. Assange called on United States President Barack Obama to “end a witch hunt" against the secret-spilling WikiLeaks organization.
Council discusses water tower painting MINSTER — Minster Village Council discussed painting the village water tower and discussed personnel matters at the Minster Police Department at its recent meeting. Council discussed the village water tower painting and noted there was $200,000 appropriated in the 2012 budget for painting the tower. The village received one bid for the project and it was rejected because it was 10 percent above the Auglaize County Engineer's estimate of $175,000. Council members approved a motion to reject the bid. The bid for the water tower was 10 percent over the estimate because the tower must be sandblasted. A revised engineering estimate will be given to council and a request for new bids will be advertised. Minster Police Chief Randy Houseworth told council members that he is recommending Adam Bergman be granted fulltime status as a Minster police officer. Bergman has completed an introductory one-year period with the department and Houseworth reported that Bergman has “demonstrated his ability to work well in the department.” Council approved hiring Bergman as a full-time employee. He was paid $14.63 per hour as an introductory officer and will receive a 3 percent pay increase to $15.07 per hour in his new position. Council accepted the resignation of Minster Auxiliary Police Officer Todd Keller. He submitted a letter of resignation to the Minster Police Department. He has been with the department since 2010. He has accepted a position with the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office. Houseworth was asked if he plans to advertise for the open auxiliary police officer position. Houseworth noted that resumes will be accepted for the next few weeks. Village Administrator Don Harrod told council members that Fourth Street was to re-open on Aug. 17 after completion of the final phase of the Fourth Street reconstruction project. Barrett Paving was scheduled to install a base coat of asphalt between Main and Garfield streets and brick layers were installing pavers in the tree lawn. Barrett Paving was awarded the 2012 minor resurfacing project and was to complete the work during August. The construction at the wastewater treatment
plant is still in progress and the plant is to be put in operation for testing purposes. The plant is operating as planned other than minor issues. Harrod reported that several poles are being replaced on Seventh Street. He said they are needed because they are starting to rot. Council member Craig Oldiges asked if anyone from the Oktoberfest Committee asked permission to use the park for Oktoberfest. The festival will be held from Oct. 5-7. This issue will be discussed at the next council meeting.
Council heard readings for three ordinances. Council: • Approved the third reading of an ordinance for a two-hour parking zone on West Fourth Street. There have been complaints filed by the owners of the Hair-itage Shoppe on West Fourth Street. The Hair-itage Salon is a hair salon and it has several older women as customers and the parking zone was needed as the result of a renter in the apartments above the salon parking in front of the business throughout the day to “antagonize” the
salon owners. Harrod noted he received a question about why the entire street is not a two-hour zone. • Approved suspending the rules for three readings and approved a change in the rate of pay for Minster swimming pool lifeguards. Council members were told that due to students returning to college and lifeguards leaving for other jobs, the pool needs additional lifeguards. Council discussed raising the pay scale to attract new lifeguards and to keep older lifeguards. The rate for lifeguards
prior to the ordinance being passed was $5.95 per hour. For each 336 hours of service, the guards receive a 20 cent pay increase. If the guard earns a Water Safety Instruction (WSI) or Life Guard Instruction (LGI) certificate, they receive an additional 50 cents per hour. That pay grade was placed in use in 2006. Council approved increasing the pay rate to the minimum wage of $7.70 per hour, although that rate is not required by state law due to the fact the pool is a seasonal employer. The lifeguards will be placed in the same
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REPLAY 50 years ago Aug. 20, 1962 Jerry Alexander reigns as a half-pint hero down Plattsville way today after leading the Green township community’s Little League combiination to the Western Ohio tournament title Saturday. The youthful Jerry southpawed Anna with a scoreless one-hit delivery to help Plattsville to a 3-0 victory. Striking out eight while yielding three walks, young Jerry sent Plattsville into the lead in the bottom of the first with a driving homer to left.
25 years ago Aug. 20, 1987 The Dinks beat Rowlins 1513, 12-15, 15-10 to capture the Sidney-Shelby County YMCA summer mixed volleyball tournament. Members of the winning team included Jenny Sutton, Carolyn Amos, Macy Ocke, Scott Ocke, Doug Barhorst and John Amos.
CALENDAR Calendar High school sports TODAY Girls soccer Tecumseh at Sidney Boys soccer New Knoxville at Fairlawn Botkins at TV South Boys golf Lehman-Botkins at Oaks New Knoxville at Versailles Riverside at Fairlawn Fort Recovery at Minster Girls tennis Beavercreek at Lehman Northridge at Sidney —— TUESDAY Cross Country County Preview at Russia Auglaize Co. Inv. Riverside at Ben Lgan Inv. Boys golf Lehman at Ridgemont Marion Local at Loramie Fort Recovery at Anna St. Henry at Russia Girls golf Marion Local at Loramie Minster at Russia Urbana at Riverside Girls tennis Elida at Lehman Sidney at West Carrollton Boys soccer Lehman at Greeneview Sidney at Beavercreek Girls soccer Lehman at Greeneview Botkins at Ben Logan Indian Lake at Anna
NUMBERS GAME 21— Medals won by former University of Florida athletes, including nine gold, six silver and six bronze. The total would have ranked the Gators 11th among nations in the overall medal standings. 7 — Consecutive preseason losses for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Reds win despite defense CINCINNATI (AP) — Xavier Paul kept the Cincinnati Reds winning in spite of themselves. Paul led off the ninth inning with a pinch-hit triple and Ryan Hanigan followed with a single Sunday as Cincinnati overcame three more errors to pull out a 5-4 win over the Chicago Cubs. Paul lined the first pitch from Shawn Camp (3-6) over first base into the right-field corner. Hanigan hit the next pitch to left-center over the drawn-in Chicago outfield. “I knew the ball was down the line and I had a chance for three,” Paul said. “I was trying to bust it out of the box. There’s a big difference between being on third with nobody out and being on second with no outs. On the first pitch, I was looking for a pitch I could drive. I went out with the mindset that, if I got a pitch I could handle, I was hacking. I got it, and luckily, I got a good swing on it.” Aroldis Chapman (5-4) struck out two in the ninth. Brett Jackson doubled with one out, but was caught trying to steal third. The NL Central-leading Reds took three out of four from the Cubs and finished a 5-2 homestand. Cincinnati
made 10 errors in those seven games, leading to seven unearned runs. The Reds went into Sunday tied for second in the NL in fielding, and the sloppy glovework left manager Dusty Baker less than giddy about the win. “Is there stink on the field?” wondered Baker, who said he spoke with his team about tightening up the defense while the Reds were in Chicago a week ago. “It was an ugly win, but a win’s a win. We’ve got to tighten up the defense. That’s one thing we pride ourselves in. We’ve just got to keep working. It’s a matter of concentration. We’ve got to go back to total concentration.” The Cubs capitalized on two errors to tie the score. Third baseman Wilson Valdez misplayed Darwin Barney’s potential double-play ball with no outs in the sixth, leading to Alfonso Soriano’s sacrifice fly and Starlin Castro’s RBI single. Jay Bruce dropped Luis Valbuena’s fly ball near the right-field warning track with one out in the eighth inning, allowing David DeJesus to go from first to third. DeJesus scored on Soriano’s groundout. The Cubs’ comeback al-
lowed Chris Volstad to avoid the loss, but his streak of consecutive starts without a win was stretched to 24, dating to July 17, 2011, when he was pitching for the Marlins. He allowed seven hits and four runs in six innings. The errors cost Mat Latos his fourth straight win. He gave up six hits and four runs — two earned — with six strikeouts in eight innings. “I was spotty here and there,” Latos said. “I didn’t have control of my fastball or command of my curveball or slider. I got by with what I had.” Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead in the first on Bruce’s two-out single. He is batting .406 (13 for 32) during an eight-game hitting streak, which started immediately after he got two days off. The Cubs tied it in the third on Scott Clevenger’s leadoff walk, Volstad’s sacrifice and DeJesus’ ground-rule double. Consecutive singles by Bruce, Todd Frazier and Valdez to lead off the fourth produced the go-ahead run. Hanigan’s sacrifice fly and Latos’ RBI single made it 4-1. Volstad was hurt as much by bad luck as anything, Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. “It started with a cueball
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Everybody has bad at-bats. Except McCutchen.” — Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson on Pittsburgh center fielder and leading MVP candidate Andrew McCutchen.
ON THIS DATE IN 1995 — Monica Seles completes a remarkable first week back in tournament tennis play, demolishing Amanda Coetzer 60, 6-1 to capture the Canadian Open. She wins in 74 games, setting a tournament record for fewest number played by a champion. 2000 — Tiger Woods wins the PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year. He's the first player to repeat as PGA champion since Denny Shute in 1937.
by Bruce and a (lunging) single that found a hole by Frazier,” Sveum said. “Then he threw a bad pitch to Valdez and got lazy with the pitcher.” Volstad agreed, especially on Latos’ hit. “There was no reason for the pitcher to get a hit there,” Volstad said. NOTES: This was the 13th sellout of the season, a singleseason record at 10-year-old Great American Ball Park. The previous record of 12 was set last season. ... The Cubs optioned LHP Brooks Raley to Triple-A Iowa, the day after he earned his first big league win. ... The Reds optioned RHP Todd Redmond to TripleA Louisville, the day after he got the loss in his major league debut. ... LHP Chris Rusin will be recalled from Iowa to start for Chicago at Milwaukee on Tuesday. It will be Rusin’s major league debut. ... The Cubs claimed LHP Alex Hinshaw off waivers from San Diego. To make room, Chicago transferred RHP Arodys Vizcaino to the 60-day disabled list. Hinshaw was 1-1 with a 4.50 ERA in 31 relief appearances. He had been out of the majors since 2009 before returning this year. The Padres designated him for assignment on Aug. 14.
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Preseason soccer action Lehman's Olivia Sehlhorst (left) and Marla Schroeder watch the ball in a preseason game at Sidney High School Saturday against Waynesville. The Lady Cavs open Tuesday at Greeneview.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Defensive linemen John Simon and Garrett Goebel, fullback Zach Boren, linebacker Etienne Sabino and running back Jordan Hall have been selected in a team vote as No. 18 Ohio State’s captains for the 2012 season. Coach Urban Meyer announced the captains at a team meeting Sunday night. The five have combined for 185 games played and 74 starts with the Buckeyes, with four playing 39 career games apiece. Boren leads the group with 27 starts, while Simon has 26. Simon becomes just the seventh two-time captain in school history and the first since James Laurinaitis was named captain in 2007 and again in 2008. The Buckeyes, who completed two-a-day practices recently, open the season on Sept. 1 against Miami (Ohio).
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GREG BIFFLE lifts his trophy while celebrating his victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pure Michigan 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway Sunday in Brooklyn, Mich. It was the 12th victory for Roush Fenway Racing at MIS, breaking a tie with the Wood Brothers for the most wins at the track. Pole sitter Mark Martin was sailing along in the lead for most for the first 65 laps before his race ended in scary fashion. Bobby Labonte went into a spin while Martin was coming up from behind, and Martin went sliding off toward pit road. His car crashed frighteningly into the end of a short, narrow barrier on the interior side of pit road. The side of Martin’s car was essentially impaled by the end of the wall, just in front of the left rear tire and dangerously close to the driver’s seat. But in the smoky scene that followed, Martin was able to get out and walk away. “I really feel that was a freak accident. I’m not
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Chase for the Sprint Cup for “regular-season” victories. The Chase starts next month. “The 48 has the most speed and the best history as far as the Chase is concerned,” Keselowski said. “We caught a lucky break that was unfortunate for Jimmie. ... He definitely deserved to win the race. Just didn’t play out that way.” It was Biffle’s second win of the year and third career victory at MIS. Keselowski, racing in his home state, settled for second place for the second straight week. “Just a great day,” Keselowski said. “I don’t know what to say other than I was this close to getting what would have been one of the biggest wins of my career. That would have been really special.” Biffle’s victory was his 18th on the Cup circuit. Earnhardt won at MIS in June, snapping a four-year losing streak. The last driver to sweep the two Cup races at MIS was Labonte in 1995. Earnhardt bounced back with a nice showing amid adversity. That was after finishing 32nd at Pocono and 28th at Watkins Glen the last two races. Stewart and Jeff Gordon both had motor problems, finishing 32nd and 28th. Gordon, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards entered the race on the outside looking in for the Chase. Those three didn’t do much to change that. Edwards finished sixth and Busch was 13th. There are three more races before the Chase starts. Right now Kahne and Ryan Newman are in line for the two wild card spots that go to the drivers between 11th and 20th in the standings with the most wins. Busch, Gordon, Ambrose and Joey Logano could edge out Newman if any of them win another race.
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CLEVELAND BROWNS running back Montario Hardesty goes through drills during NFL football training camp in Cleveland. ference: “This guy got himself healthy and in shape which tells me he’s got some intestinal fortitude. There’s some toughness there.” It’s not the first time Hardesty has had to battle back. He started just 19 games in five years at the University of Tennessee, missing time after reconstructive surgery on his right knee. He had a big senior season, averaging 103 yards with 13 touchdowns in 2009. So after all his injury hardships, Hardesty was not about to hide after fumbling against the Packers. “I hadn’t fumbled one that bad since high school,” he said. “I was ready to move to the next play. I owed the team something.” Hardesty knows the Browns have lot invested in Richardson, signed to a four-year, $20.5 million contract. He’s confident he can do the job if Richardson isn’t ready. “It’s a funny game,” he said. “You never know what is going to be thrown at you. I’m taking it all in stride because I’ve never had this opportunity here.” Notes: Middle linebacker D’Qwell Jackson practiced for the first time since Aug. 7. After getting a virtual sack on QB Brandon Weeden on blitz and breaking up a pass over the middle in two-minute drills, Jackson said he had a sore shoulder and his absence was just precautionary. ... TE Ben Watson, out since Aug. 3 with an undisclosed injury, took part in individual drills. ... PK Phil Dawson made a 62-yard field goal one day after backup Jeff Wolfert was released.
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BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson looked as if he had already finished the hardest work. After starting at the back of the pack, he had moved up quickly, and when he passed Brad Keselowski for the lead on lap 191 of 200, his No. 48 Chevrolet seemed to be the superior car. Then Johnson’s engine faltered with only six laps remaining. He lost the race — and the NASCAR Sprint Cup points lead — to Greg Biffle on Sunday. “I got it turned around and was catching him, and then his engine failed,” Biffle said. “It was going to be a great race, no matter what. I felt like I could catch him, but we’ll never know. Passing him might have been a different story.” Biffle won the race at Michigan International Speedway, taking advantage when Johnson left the track because of engine trouble. Johnson started the race from the back because of an engine change, and he couldn’t hold on at the end. He finished 27th. After Johnson’s mishap, there was a caution for oil on the track. Biffle held off Keselowski by 0.416 seconds in the green-white-checkered finish. Biffle took over the points lead, while Johnson dropped from first to fourth. Matt Kenseth moved up a spot to second despite a 17th-place showing. “I know that a lot of people don’t expect us to win the championship, and don’t expect us to compete for the title,” Biffle said. “I don’t care what they say or who they want to talk about, but we will be a factor when it comes down to Homestead. I promise you that.” Kasey Kahne finished third in the 400-mile race, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Marcos Ambrose.
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns running back Montario Hardesty was slammed down hard and got up smiling. The thud of him hitting the sunbaked turf, a 300-pound defensive lineman crashing down upon him made Hardesty a happy man Sunday. “I feel like a football player again,” he said, flashing a smile seldom seen his first two years in Cleveland. Hardesty is playing while prized rookie Trent Richardson recovers from arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Aug. 9. Coach Pat Shurmur remains hopeful that Richardson, the No. 3 overall pick, may play the season opener Sept. 9. “Trent’s getting better every day, so his progress has been outShurmur standing,” said. “He’s about where we thought he’d be, probably a little bit ahead. So he’ll be out here soon.” Regarding Hardesty, the coach said: “I haven’t at all been disappointed in his performance.” Well, except for Hardesty’s costly fumble on Cleveland’s first snap Thursday that led to a Green Bay touchdown. “We can’t have ball security issues,” Shurmur said. “He knows that. He came back after a very bad play, had some good hard runs, did a nice job on pass protection and I think he’s making progress.” Hardesty gained 45 yards on 12 carries with a 1-yard scoring run in Cleveland’s 35-10 win. The 25-year-old Hardesty is not happy that Richardson is out, but is delighted to show the Browns (No. 30 in the AP Pro32) he has recovered from even more serious surgeries on both knees. “I came in with a plan and that was to show what I can do,” Hardesty said. “Every day is fun. The last two years were no fun at all.” A second-round pick in 2010, Hardesty tore up his left knee in his first preseason game and missed the entire season. Last year, a torn right calf muscle limited him to just 266 yards on 88 carries in 10 games. “I was miserable,” Hardesty said. “I’d watch film of myself and say, ‘That’s not what I want to do.’ I’d see where I was supposed to go and saw myself go somewhere else because I couldn’t get there right. I was healthy, just not really healthy. “I feel stronger, quicker, more confident than any time since I’ve been in Cleveland.” Shurmur sees the dif-
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Federer captures 5th Cincinnati title MASON, Ohio (AP) — Roger Federer finds a lot to like about Cincinnati ‚Äî the big crowds for his matches, the quiet time away from the court, the way his game seems to come together on the fast, blue courts. Probably helps that he often takes home the trophy, too. Make it five for Federer. The world’s topranked player won a record fifth Cincinnati title Sunday, dominating second-ranked Novak Djokovic in an unprecedented way at the start of a 6-0, 7-6 (7) win for the Western & Southern Open championship. The 31-year-old Swiss AP Photo/Al Behrman star has enjoyed many of ROGER FEDERER, from Switzerland, hits a forehand against Novak Djokovic, his one-week visits. from Serbia, during the men's final at the Western & Southern Open tennis None was better than tournament on Sunday in Mason, Ohio. Federer won 6-0, 7-6 (7). the latest.
“Looking back, it’s just unbelievable,” Federer said. “This was probably the best week for me here in Cincinnati. I didn’t lose a set. This is very sweet, no doubt about it.” Federer heads to the U.S. Open feeling healthy and fine-tuned. He skipped the Rogers Cup in Toronto last week, giving himself some time to recover from the Olympics in London. He’s also regained the upper hand against one of the players who stands in his way. Djokovic had put together a run of three straight wins over Federer in tournament semifinals, starting with the U.S. Open last year. Federer turned it around by beating the Serb in the semis at Wimbledon
last month. They got together in a finals match for the seventh time in their careers Sunday. They’d split the previous six, with Federer winning the only Grand Slam championship match ‚Äî the U.S. Open in 2007. Quickly, the latest one became a bit of personal history. They’ve never had such a lopsided day together on the court. Ranked No. 1 and No. 2, perhaps, but worlds apart on this day. Federer won the first set in only 20 minutes, allowing Djokovic just 10 points. It was the first time in their 28 career matches that one of them took a set 6-0. For perspective, Federer hadn’t beaten anybody 6-0 in a tournament final since 2007.
Miami (Buehrle 10-11) at Arizona (J.Saunders 6-9), 9:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 7-12) at San Diego (Volquez 7-9), 10:05 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 137) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 11-6), 10:10 p.m. Tuesday's Games Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Houston at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. Miami at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Pittsburgh at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. —— American League East Division W L Pct GB New York . . . . . 71 49 .592 — Tampa Bay. . . . 67 54 .554 4½ Baltimore . . . . . 66 55 .545 5½ Boston . . . . . . . 59 62 .488 12½ Toronto. . . . . . . 56 65 .463 15½ Central Division — Chicago . . . . . . 65 55 .542 Detroit . . . . . . . 64 57 .529 1½ 11 Kansas City . . . 54 66 .450 Cleveland . . . . . 54 67 .446 11½ 15 Minnesota . . . . 50 70 .417 West Division Texas . . . . . . . . 70 50 .583 — 5 Oakland . . . . . . 65 55 .542 Los Angeles . . . 62 60 .508 9 13 Seattle . . . . . . . 58 64 .475 Saturday's Games Texas 2, Toronto 1 Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 3, Detroit 2 Kansas City 9, Chicago White Sox 4 Oakland 8, Cleveland 5 Tampa Bay 10, L.A. Angels 8 Seattle 3, Minnesota 2 Sunday's Games Baltimore 7, Detroit 5 Texas 11, Toronto 2 Kansas City 5, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay 8, L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 7, Cleveland 0 Seattle 5, Minnesota 1 Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 8:05
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Frank Paladino [6]; 4. 82-Chris Douglas [2]; 5. 26-Justin Long [9]; 6. 52B-Sam Bodine [1]; 7. 5K-Karl Spoores Jr [10]; 8. 52G-Stacey Gazarek [11]; 9. 36-Joe Mittlestadt [8]; 10. 7W-Mark Wooten [7]; 11. 327-Randy Crossley [3] Hard Charger: 7B-Shawn Valenti [+4] —— Tough Trucks (21 Trucks) Heat winners: Terry Klopfenstein, Mike Sawmiller, Chris Hicks. A-Main — 1. 71-Chris Hicks [2]; 2. 79-Brian Beach [7]; 3. 37-Roy Miller [1]; 4. 33-Mike Hicks [6]; 5. 1S-Mike Sawmiller [3]; 6. 25GGabe Twining [5]; 7. 1X-Jerry Butler [13]; 8. 60-Jerry Sawmiller [9]; 9. 70-Terry Klopfenstein [4]; 10. 43Dan Crowder [11]; 11. CO1-Logan Yelton [19]; 12. 7D-Devin Carl [12]; 13. 17-Ryan Dunlap [16]; 14. O1HRandy Hamp [10]; 15. O-John Sanford [21]; 16. 55-Greg Stimmel [15]; 17. 24-Joe Carl [20]; 18. MT1-Tony Miller [18]; 19. 69-Ron Tousley [17]; 20. 1J-J.J Butler [14]; 21. 18B-Bill Keeler [8] Hard Charger: CO1-Logan Yelton [+8] —— Compacts (13 Cars) Heat winners: Justin Durflinger, Dustin Mobley. A-Main — 1. 71-Dustin Mobley [3]; 2. 17-Justin Durflinger [4]; 3. 82-Harvey Yoder [7]; 4. 518-Jordan Iiams [1]; 5. 41-Ethan Pope [5]; 6. 31-Jeff Kimes [2]; 7. 27X-Robbie Tuttle [9]; 8. 11-Kip Lee [11]; 9. 5Mark Gillingham [6]; 10. 1H-JJ Butler [13]; 11. 1-Erik Wollenson [10] Hard Charger: 82-Harvey Yoder [+4] —— Mini Sprints Heat winners: Lee Underwood, Nick Daugherty. A Main — 1. 28H-Rod Henning [2]2. 24L-Lee Underwood [6]3. 12JTyler Moore [4]4. 92-Tim Ashworth [1]5. 74-Drew Rader [7]6. 1R-Nick Daugherty [5]7. 55-Rob Winks [15]8. 22B-Brad Racer [3]9. 65Chris Bounds [9]10. 7-Jimmy Gardner [18]11. 1H-Anthony Haas [10]12. 42-Ty Tilton [8]13. 50-Craig Stower [11]14. 4-Chase Dunham [12]15. 44W-Chris Whipple [16]16. K8-Kate Heitkamp [13]17. 22JRThomas McCance [14]18. IVO-Andrew Heitkamp [17]
BASEBALL Major Leagues National League The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Washington . . . 75 46 .620 — Atlanta . . . . . . . 70 51 .579 5 New York . . . . . 57 64 .471 18 19 Philadelphia . . 56 65 .463 Miami. . . . . . . . 55 67 .451 20½ Central Division — Cincinnati . . . . 74 48 .607 Pittsburgh . . . . 67 54 .554 6½ St. Louis . . . . . . 65 56 .537 8½ Milwaukee . . . . 54 66 .450 19 26 Chicago . . . . . . 47 73 .392 Houston . . . . . . 39 83 .320 35 West Division — Los Angeles . . . 67 55 .549 ½ San Francisco . 66 55 .545 Arizona. . . . . . . 62 59 .512 4½ San Diego. . . . . 53 70 .431 14½ Colorado. . . . . . 46 73 .387 19½ Saturday's Games Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 3, 1st game St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4 Arizona 12, Houston 4 N.Y. Mets 2, Washington 0 Chicago Cubs 9, Cincinnati 7, 2nd game L.A. Dodgers 6, Atlanta 2 Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 3 Miami 6, Colorado 5 San Francisco 8, San Diego 7 Sunday's Games Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 0 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Arizona 8, Houston 1 Philadelphia 8, Milwaukee 0 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 3, 19 innings Colorado 3, Miami 2 San Diego 7, San Francisco 1 Monday's Games Atlanta (T.Hudson 12-4) at Washington (Zimmermann 9-7), 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Leake 5-7) at Philadelphia (Halladay 6-7), 7:05 p.m. Colorado (White 2-6) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 15-4), 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Germano 2-2) at Milwaukee (M.Rogers 0-1), 8:10 p.m.
Monday's Games Kansas City (W.Smith 4-4) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 7-8), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 5-2) at Texas (Dempster 1-1), 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 9-9), 8:10 p.m. Minnesota (Duensing 2-8) at Oakland (McCarthy 6-4), 10:05 p.m. Cleveland (Jimenez 9-12) at Seattle (Millwood 4-10), 10:10 p.m. Tuesday's Games Toronto at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:10 L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Baltimore at Texas, 8:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Minnesota at Oakland, 10:05 Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. —— Major League linescores Sunday Cleveland. . . 000 000 000—0 7 0 Oakland . . . . 001 132 00x—7 12 0 E.Rogers (6), Masterson, C.Perez (8) and Marson; J.Parker, (9) and D.Norris. R.Cook W_J.Parker 8-7. L_Masterson 9-11. HRs_Oakland, Moss (13), Crisp (7). —— Baltimore. . . 040 300 000—7 9 1 Detroit . . . . . 500 000 000—5 9 0 W.Chen, Ayala (6), O'Day (7), Strop (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Teagarden; Fister, Putkonen (4), Villarreal (7), D.Downs (8), Benoit (9) and Laird, Avila. W_W.Chen 12-7. L_Fister 7-8. Sv_Ji.Johnson (37). HRs_Baltimore, C.Davis (20). Detroit, Infante (3), Jh.Peralta (9). —— Chicago . . . . 001 002 010—4 7 0 Cincinnati . . 100 300 001—510 3 Volstad, Bowden (7), Beliveau (8), Camp (9) and Clevenger; Latos, Chapman (9) and Hanigan. W_Chapman 5-4. L_Camp 3-6. —— Los Angeles . 000 010 013—510 0 Atlanta. . . . . 000 000 000—0 3 0 Billingsley, Belisario (8), Elbert (9) and A.Ellis; Minor, Durbin (8), Avilan (8), C.Martinez (8) and McCann. W_Billingsley 10-9. L_Minor 6-10. HRs_Los Angeles, L.Cruz (4).
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C.Edwards, 689. 201, 114.2, 41, $119,710. 4. (22) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Shady Bowl Chevrolet, 201, 96.1, 41, $116,585. Shady Bowl Speedway 5. (8) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, DeGraff 201, 95.3, 39, $122,768. Saturday’s results 6. (2) Carl Edwards, Ford, 201, Late Models 111.7, 39, $139,551. Fast Qualifier: Greg Stapleton 7. (12) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 13.398 201, 102.6, 38, $121,674. Dash Winner: Nathan Herron 8. (15) Ryan Newman, ChevroHeat Winner: Mark Parker let, 201, 84.2, 36, $130,168. Feature: 1. Greg Stapleton 2. 9. (10) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, Mark Parker 3. Josh Smith 4. Sam 201, 101.2, 36, $96,110. 10. (7) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Heckman 5. Brad Coons 6. Mathew Parsons 7. Jamie Hunt 8. Mike 201, 114.1, 35, $120,199. 11. (21) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Ward 9. Nathan Herron 10. Jim Frederick 11. Curt Frazier 12. 201, 85.4, 34, $127,001. 12. (17) Sam Hornish Jr., Shawn Stansell 13. Craig Borland 14. Russ Bobb Dodge, 201, 89.8, 0, $126,210. Modifieds 13. (23) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Fast Qualifier: Greg Stapleton 201, 76.5, 31, $127,993. 14. (24) Jamie McMurray, 13.529 Dash Winner: Joe Pequignot Chevrolet, 201, 77.1, 30, $115,293. Heat Winners: Buck Purtee 15. (30) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, and Greg Winget 201, 64.6, 29, $111,043. Feature: 1. Greg Stapleton 2. 16. (20) Kevin Harvick, ChevroBuck Purtee 3. Bill Burba 4. Brad let, 201, 78.8, 28, $128,621. 17. (4) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 201, Yelton 5. Mike Carroll 6. Joe Pequignot 7. Greg Winget 8. Gregg 106.9, 28, $127,646. 18. (36) David Gilliland, Ford, Jackson 9. Josh Sage 10. Chad Fiessinger 11. Herb Newman 12. 201, 57, 26, $98,243. 19. (32) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, Jerry Stapleton 13. Mark Parker 14. Brad Williams 15. Mike Pippin 201, 66.2, 25, $120,435. Street Stocks 20. (41) Aric Almirola, Ford, Fast Qualifier: Mike Snapp 201, 67.2, 24, $124,746. 21. (39) David Reutimann, 15.325 Dash Winner: Steve Snapp Chevrolet, 200, 49.6, 23, $80,960. Heat Winners: Chad Brand22. (28) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, berry and Andy Huffman 199, 53, 22, $103,068. Feature: 1. Ricky Young 2. 23. (37) David Ragan, Ford, 199, Buck Purtee 3. Mike Snapp 4. Rod46.9, 21, $91,968. 24. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 199, ney Roush 5. Jesse Gade 6. Steve Snapp 7. Chad Brandyberry 8. 78.2, 0, $80,010. 25. (9) Landon Cassill, Toyota, Andy Huffman 9. Scott Sullenberger 10. Richard Roush 11. Rob 198, 63.3, 20, $106,780. 26. (25) Juan Pablo Montoya, Bryant 12. Kevin Brandyberry 13. Chevrolet, 197, 55.6, 18, $109,501. Robert Roush 14. Chris Abbott 15. 27. (3) Jimmie Johnson, Roger Roush Tuners Chevrolet, engine, 195, 92, 18, Fast Qualifier: Gary Eaton $123,396. 28. (11) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 15.609 Dash Winner: Kevin Flynn engine, 167, 64.3, 16, $124,071. Heat Winner: Jim Massengill 29. (18) Regan Smith, ChevroFeature: 1. Gary Eaton 2. Matt let, 154, 63.3, 15, $96,507. 30. (26) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, Stone 3. Jim Massengill 4. Kelsey Flynn 5. Kevin Flynn 6. Carroll accident, 135, 56.2, 14, $87,885. 31. (16) Joey Logano, Toyota, Nease 7. Justin Pope 8. David Yoder 9. Jeremy Meade 10. Jordan Sage 132, 52.5, 13, $83,760. 32. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevro- 11. Ben Parsons 12. Alex Penny 13. let, engine, 109, 54.6, 12, $128,710. Jerald Fields 14. Chad Small Compacts 33. (40) T.J. Bell, Ford, transFast Qualifier: Chris Prater mission, 108, 35.6, 0, $83,585. 34. (31) David Stremme, Toyota, 17.534 Feature: 1. Chris Prater 2. Colt electrical, 72, 38.5, 10, $75,210. 35. (1) Mark Martin, Toyota, ac- Scherer 3. Matt Jackson 4. Jim Massengill 5. Darrell James 6. cident, 64, 107.5, 11, $86,860. 36. (35) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Steve Anderson rear gear, 38, 33.5, 0, $75,010. Waynesfield 37. (29) Casey Mears, Ford, viWaynesfield Raceway Park bration, 36, 38.2, 7, $74,955. Waynesfield, Ohio 38. (42) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, [#]-Starting Position vibration, 34, 36.6, 6, $74,828. Saturday’s results 39. (43) Mike Skinner, Ford, UMP Modifieds (27 Cars) electrical, 25, 35.7, 5, $72,075. Heat winners: Zach Schroed40. (34) Josh Wise, Ford, suserJerry Bowersock, Cory Seeling. pension, 21, 35.8, 4, $72,025. B-Main — 1. 20K-Bill Keeler 41. (38) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, [2]; 2. M1G-Matt Twining [1] 3. suspension, 20, 30.4, 3, $71,970. 42. (27) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 20R-Keith Ralston [7]; 4. 93-Josh overheating, 15, 30.4, 0, $71,895. Greber [4]; 5. 112-Zach Walkup [6] ; 43. (33) Jason Leffler, Ford, fuel 6. 47-Nick Rosselit [5]; 7. 17J-Karl pressure, 14, 31.5, 0, $71,465. Spoores [9]; 8. 79-Shane Unger [3]; Race Statistics 9. T5X-Doug Hewitt [8]; 10. 4JAverage Speed of Race Win- David Treon [10]; 11. 20P-Jamie ner: 144.662 mph. Phlipot [11]; 12. 3D-Dylan Greckle Time of Race: 2 hours, 46 min- [12] utes, 44 seconds. A-Main — 1. 20W-Matt WestMargin of Victory: 0.416 sec- fall [3]; 2. 10H-Brad Hess [1]; 3. onds. 21T-Tom Treon [7]; 4. 45P-Brian Caution Flags: 8 for 35 laps. Post [2]; 5. 13-Chris Ullery [9]; 6. Lead Changes: 26 among 13 21M-Donnie Miller [11]; 7. 36-Brandrivers. don Vaughan [13]; 8. 35-Tim CorLap Leaders: M.Martin 1-35; nett [10]; 9. 58P-Jim Post [14]; 10. B.Keselowski 36-38; J.Johnson 39- 10-Scott Bowersock [15]; 11. 20K42; S.Hornish Jr. 43-45; M.Martin Bill Keeler [16]; 12. 52-Weasel 46-64; M.Kenseth 65-69; M.Truex Phlipot [12]; 13. M1G-Matt Twining Jr. 70; C.Bowyer 71-89; M.Truex Jr. [17]; 14. 20R-Keith Ralston [18]; 15. 90-100; G.Biffle 101-110; S.Hornish 112-Zach Walkup [20]; 16. 93-Josh Jr. 111-112; P.Menard 113; D.Earn- Greber [19]; 17. O3-Cory Seeling hardt Jr. 114-123; J.Johnson 124- [4]; 18. 5X-Jerry Bowersock [5]; 19. 125; B.Keselowski 126-128; G.Biffle 44-Zach Schroeder [6]; 20. 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38th annual Bremenfest draws crowds NEW BREMEN — Fair skies and comfortable, cooler temperatures swelled crowds at the 38th annual Bremenfest celebration over the weekend. Events were held at Crown Pavilion, New Bremen High School, the New Bremen Bicycle Museum and the Miami & Erie Canal. Crowned Friday in ceremonies at Crown Pavilion, Haley Moeller, 18, daughter of Gary and Amy Moeller, of New Bremen, reigned over the festival and parade as 2012 Bremenfest queen. She was crowned by 2011 Queen Lexi Richter and received her crown and a $1,000 scholarship. Eleven girls participated in this year’s contest. Paige Miller, daughter of Bruce and Sharon Miller, was first runner-
up, receiving a $700 scholarship, and Emma Hall, daughter of Doug and Cathy Hall, was second runner-up, with a $500 scholarship, and was judged the sponsor promotion winner. Miranda Paulus was the contest’s talent winner for her entertaining promotion for “TopsyTurvy Toys.” She received a $150 prize. Emma Eshlemann, 5, daughter of Tony and Judy Eshleman, was crowned Little Miss Bremenfest. Dianne Komninski served as grand marshal of Sunday’s Bremenfest Parade. She was honored for her involvement with schools, Bremen-New New Knoxville Rotary and the Historical Society. The parade began at Amsterdam Center. Saturday events included a cheer competi-
tion, a fun run and 5k run/walk, 50-mile bike tour and 10- or 25-mile tours. The fifth annual Bremenfest Muscle Car and Classic car show was held Saturday afternoon on Plum Street. Music throughout the festival was provided by Karma’s Pawn, Nashville Crush, Offbeat and Shucking Bubba Deluxe. Other activities included a fishing derby, kid’s craft corner, historical tours, big-wheel races, a cornhole tour- For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg nament, as well as bingo, games of chance COMPETING IN the New Bremenfest Chili Cook-Off Saturday are (l-r) Tracy Myers, of New Bremen, and Karen and Jim Perts, of Celina. and prize drawings. Proceeds from the festival provide donations to many New Bremen organizations, including police, fire and emergency organizations, schools and the Rotary Sunshine Project.
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KIDS COMPETE in the Bremenfest Fishing Derby at the Erie Canal Saturday.
Tree Board briefed about storm damage Street Superintendent Marty Keifer briefed the Sidney Tree Board on the aftermath of the June 29 windstorm during the board’s August meeting. He said 12 trees were damaged and will be removed, two large hangars were removed and city crews responded to 15 calls from residents. Collection of debris from the storm continued until mid-July and about 60 loads were taken to the compost facility over the two-week period. The upper portion of the compost facility on Brooklyn Avenue was opened for residents who wished to dispose of debris from their properties. Keifer said damaged trees will be removed as soon as the city’s tree contractor can schedule removals. Several board members are continuing cleaning of street trees and trees in city parks. A pole saw is being purchased
for their use. The board has received a copy of a release from the Ohio Department of Agriculture concerning Asian longhorned beetle infestations. The public is being asked to be on the lookout for the insect as August is its peak time of emergence. Sightings can be reported at www.BeetleDetectives.com. If caught, beetles may be placed in jars and frozen to preserve them for identification. Jerry Kauffman asked if funds were available for use of an air spade on trees in the downtown area. Keifer suggested vertical mulching would be a better fit. In that process, holes are drilled eight feet from the tree’s trunk and filled with compost or mulch material, He said he will get a cost estimate.
Board learns about program “scrap” the truck. The S&H staff is hoping to find a used pickup truck or cargo van that is in good condition. Rick Husa, adult services director, told board members that S&H Products work has dropped a little and the staff is providing alternative activities for employees during that time. Husa reported quotes have been placed for two parts-bagging assemblies and they are hoping to be awarded the job. S&H Products was closed July 30 for an inservice. The staff heard a
presentation by Scott Osterfeld, who works for the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field. He spoke in the morning and the afternoon. The morning session was a talk about "Supporting Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Developing Self-Esteem" and the afternoon session was a talk on "Developing the Art of Teamwork." The next board meeting is scheduled for Sept. 21.
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The S&H Products Board of Trustees met Friday and heard a presentation by a participant in the Bridges Work Experience program and heard that S&H Products is in need of a pickup truck. Blaine O'Leary, a participant in the Bridges Work Experience program, gave the board a Power Point presentation he had put together about his experiences, as well as those of others who have participated in that program. The board heard that a used pickup truck owned by S&H Products is no longer running. The board was told that repairs to the suspension, electrical system and other areas would be very expensive and the staff has decided to
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Wrapping up my summer internship BY MEGHAN BENNETT
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IN AN Aug. 13 photo Jose Nava, a member of a work crew in Michigan’s Leelanau County, picks Early Gold apples at Eagle View Farm near Suttons Bay. The apple harvest is starting weeks early this year across the Great Lakes region.
Great Lakes apple harvest off to early start SUTTONS BAY, Mich. (AP) — Apple-picking, a cherished autumn tradition, is off to an early start in the Northeast and Upper Midwest as growers deal with aftershocks from wacky spring weather that hammered fruit crops. A series of below-freezing nights in April zapped buds that had sprouted during a rare summerlike stretch the previous month, decimating cherries, peaches and other tree fruits. While some apple orchards escaped relatively unscathed, many are producing only a small fraction of their normal output and some are coming up empty. Michigan was hit especially hard. A harvest of perhaps 3 million bushels is expected, down from the usual 23 million or so, said executive director Diane Smith of the Michigan Apple Committee. The prolonged drought hasn’t helped matters but isn’t a leading cause of the drop-off, because apple trees have deep roots well-suited to reaching groundwater, she said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the nationwide yield will be about 14 percent below last year’s and the smallest since 1986. A slight uptick in Washington, the top apple producer, and other Western states will help grocers compensate for the decline east of the Mississippi. Across the Great Lakes region, which includes four of the nation’s top 10 apple-growing states — New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio — fruit that survived is ripening weeks earlier than usual. It’s happening in parts of New England as well. For people who enjoy visiting
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For many teenagers finding a summer job can be a very difficult dilemma. At times there can be a conflict of schedules, lack of interest, and sometimes the dread of waking up early in the summer. In my case, I have been blessed with a job that has given me the opportunity to learn, as well as grow, in the field in which I absolutely love. For the past two summers I have served as a summer intern for the Shelby Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). While working there I have gained a great deal of experience that can be applied to my future career. My internship was directed through the Upper Miami Valley Local Government Management Internship Program. This program is offered by the Shelby Educational County Service Center, Logan County Educational Service Center, and Wit-
tenburg University. The purpose of this program is to introhigh duce school students to pot e n t i a l careers in local government administration. After filling out an application and undergoing an interview, I was offered a summer internship at Shelby SWCD. The tasks both in and out of the office varied and this gave me a very well rounded experience. Presentations were something that I personally looked forward to. I had the opportunity to be involved with the planning of our annual Conservation Day Camps, as well as being a presenter at this event in late June. I was also a presenter during the Shelby County Libraries’ Summer Reading programs, as well as recently at our teachers’ workshop, Soil to Spoon. In the office I created an annual PowerPoint
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HOROSCOPE BY FRANCES DRAKE For Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Relations with partners and close friends might be a bit cool, even depressed, today. Don’t let this get you down because it’s just a temporary thing. Be casual about it. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Work might seem to be drudgery or particularly onerous today. Oh well, we all have these days. This is a poor day to ask older or more experienced coworkers for help. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Parents might feel they have increased responsibilities with children today. Meanwhile, romantic partners might be disappointed in each other. (Fortunately, this is gone by tomorrow.) CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Discussions with a parent or an older family relative might be a downer today. Just take a serious look at your responsibilities and figure out how to best address them. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Some days the cup is half-empty instead of half-full. It’s really just a mindset, isn’t it? Ironically, tomorrow is a much happier day! Hang in there. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) You might feel discouraged about financial matters today. Join the club; we number millions. (We’ve got jackets!) LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Today the Moon is in your sign lined up with stern Saturn. This has a way of squelching enthusiasm and making you focus on duty, hard work and responsibilities. (Sigh.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is an excellent day to research anything or apply yourself to routine work you might normally avoid. You’re willing to slog it out to get the job done. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Someone older might rain on your parade today. Don’t take this seriously. (What does this person know?) Stick to your guns, because tomorrow the clouds will disappear. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a poor day to ask for permission or approval from authority figures, because they will be negative about your suggestions. However, tomorrow is quite another thing! (Fingers crossed.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Travel plans might be disappointing today. Ditto for plans regarding publishing, the media, medicine and the law. Wait until tomorrow for important decisions in these areas. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is not a good day to decide how to divide something, especially an inheritance or anything regarding shared property. People are not forthcoming or generous today; however, tomorrow is an excellent day for this. YOU BORN TODAY You are a very private individual, so if you attain any celebrity, this can pose a problem for you. You even conceal your deeper emotions among your friends. Ironically, however, you often attract interest to you! Nevertheless, you always appear dignified and composed. In the coming year, you will study or learn something valuable that matters to you in the future. Birthdate of: Kim Cattrall, actress; Carrie-Anne Moss, actress; Usain Bolt, record-holding sprinter. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Artery disease causes leg pain DR. than DEAR farther DONOHUE: usual or faster Since January, than usual. The when I made a leg muscles are New Year’s resonot getting the lution to be more amount of blood active, I have they need to supbeen walking port such exerdaily, seven days tion. a week. In the To your An easy test, past month, I done in the docgood have pushed to tor’s office, prowalk farther and health vides solid faster. I began to Dr. Paul G. evidence for the have pain in my diagnosis of PAD. Donohue right calf, so I had That test entails to slow it down again. taking blood pressure in Does this sound like the arm and comparing it arthritis to you? It runs with blood pressure in in my family. — B.R. the leg. The name of the ANSWER: It sounds test is the Ankle-Brachial more like peripheral ar- Index, dividing the ankle tery disease, PAD, a con- pressure by the arm dition that 5 percent of pressure. A number less adults over 40 and 20 than 0.9 denotes periphpercent of those over 70 eral artery disease. Takhave. Peripheral artery ing the ankle blood disease is the same pressure requires a speprocess that occurs in cial instrument, one heart arteries, an ob- that’s not available to the struction to blood flow general public. Most docdue to the buildup of cho- tors have it. lesterol and fat on the arPAD is treated much tery wall. In the heart, it like plugged heart artercauses the chest pain of ies are treated. Keep up angina when a person your walking program, engages in physical ac- and do try to increase the tivity. In the legs, it length and pace of your causes pain in the but- walk. Stop to rest if pain tocks, thighs, calves or occurs, then resume feet when a person walks walking when it leaves.
Your doctor will decide if you need a medicine like Pletal (cilostazol). For large obstructions, procedures similar to ones used to open heart arteries (balloon dilation, grafts, stents) are used for PAD. Also important is an examination of your heart’s circulation. People with PAD often also have coronary artery disease (CAD), plugged heart arteries. The booklet on peripheral artery disease provides the details of this common condition. To order a copy, write to: Dr. Donohue — No. 109, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a twin. Before school let out, I was supposed to prepare a short paper for my biology class to explain the difference between identical and nonidentical twins. I got sick and couldn’t do it. My twin refused to do
Aug. 20, 1912 About 30 of the true and loyal sons of Uncle Sam who followed his call from Sidney in 1898 met together in annual reunion of Company L on the banks of the beautiful and historic old pond Tawawa, at the residence of Harley Kah this morning. The natives of Sidney were surprised to hear the martial strains emanating from a squad of four, forming the drum corps, as they marched around the square calling the old vets to order and feed at the lake. ––––– Contracts have been signed for extensive improvements at the Big Four freight depot in this city to start about the first of September. An expenditure of about $3,000 will be made to increase the size of the freight house and to change the tracks and platforms to accommodate the ever-increasing business of the company from this city.
it for me. Would you briefly describe the difference? I want to know if I was on the right track. — O.G. ANSWER: Identical twins come from the same fertilized ovum (egg). They have the same genetic composition. Fraternal twins (nonidentical twins) come from two different fertilized eggs. They don’t have the exact same genes, as identical twins have.
Aug. 20, 1937 Miss Agnes Millette, of Anna, talented whistler, will be one of the artists appearing in a radio broadcast tomorrow afternoon over station WOWO at Fort Wayne, Ind. ––––– The mighty arm of K.Y. Williams and the powerful bat of Jack Boone carried the Sidney Prima All-Stars to the district softball championship at Lima last night. The newly-crowned champions eliminated Lima Westinghouse in the finals by the score of 1 to 0. Williams allowed but one hit and struck out 13 batters, while the lone Sidney tally came on a home run by Boone.
50 years Aug. 20, 1962 Three Sidney attorneys have been appointed to 1962-63 standing and special committees of the Ohio State Bar Associaby President tion Lawrence Burns, Coshocton. As announced today they include: Rodney R. Blake, American citizenship; Frank H. Marshall, banking and commercial law, and William W. Milligan, workmen’s and une m p l o y m e n t compensation. ––––– Larry Klinehens, of Oak Harbor, O., a June
graduate of the Ohio State University college of agriculture, has been offered the job as vocational agriculture teacher at Fairlawn High School, it was reported today by Herbert Wert, superintendent. Klinehens was selected as the successor to Arlen D. McRill, who resigned the Fairlawn post after six years of service to accept the superintendencey at Anna High School.
25 years Aug. 20, 1987 The proposed extension of Vandemark Road north to Russell Road got the Sidney Planning Commission’s OK Monday night. The road is being extended in connection with the development of a new shopping center along the west side of Vandemark on property owned by the Ralph J. Stolle Co. The Ferguson Construction Co. announced plans for the shopping center earlier this year and the developers feel that extension of the road is necessary to provide more direct access from residential areas in north Sidney to the shopping center, city officials said. ––––– The food was terrible and the weather miserable, but Fairlawn High School graduate Sara Stewart wouldn’t trade her nearly month-long trip to four European countries, where she displayed her considerable volleyball skills, for anything. Well, almost anything. Miss Stewart’ play last season for the Lady Jets earned her an invitation to play for a 37-member United States squad on a tour of England, Denmark, Western Germany and Holland. Miss Stewart earned the invitation with a phenomenal senior season, in which she led the Lady Jets to the Class A state championship game at the University of Dayton Arena.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I take five prunes daily to stay regular. It works for me. Is five prunes overdoing it? I don’t want to overdose. — L.M. ANSWER: Five isn’t too many prunes to eat daily. If they’re keeping you regular, stick with your program. Prunes prevent constipation partly due to their fiber content. Something else is involved, or prune juice wouldn’t have the laxative effect it has. Whatever happened to the campaign that wanted “dried plums” to be used for “prunes”? Sudoku puzzles also appear on the Sidney Daily News website at www.sidneydailynews.com.
Old cell phones take on new life for soldiers calling home DEAR ABBY: sics: Old cellphones are My son is a career donated and then sold to soldier, Army a recycler, and with that Rangers Airborne, money phone cards are and yes, I am proud purchased and donated of him. During his to soldiers all over the 15 years of active world. Eighty percent of duty he has been incalls home by active-duty volved in every “acsoldiers are made using tion” around the these cards. Dear world. The greatest I have never heard of Abby gift I have been such a win-win program, Abigail given started with and the biggest winner is Van Buren the family member who an idea conceived by two high school students in answers the phone and hears, Massachusetts. The program “Hi, Mom. I love you. I’m OK.” is called Cell Phones for Sol- — DR. LISA MORGAN, A diers, and these are the ba- VERY THANKFUL MOM
DEAR DR. MORGAN: Until I read your letter, I hadn’t heard of the program, either. It seems very worthwhile, and something anyone who wants to support members of our military might be interested in. Founded in 2004, Cell Phones for Soldiers is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide free communication tools for military serving overseas. There are more than 15,000 collection sites across the United States. Nearly 12,000 calling cards are mailed each
week, and since 2004, more than 150 million minutes of talk time have been provided. Anyone interested in learning more should visit cellphonesforsoldiers.com.
perts, children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old need between 10 and 11 hours of sleep each night. So count backward from the time your day is supposed to start and you’ll know what time you’re DEAR ABBY: I am 7 years supposed to be in bed (8:30 old and me and my parents p.m. seems about right to me). can never agree on my bedtime. Do you think 7:30, 8, Dear Abby is written by 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10, 11 or mid- Abigail Van Buren, also night? — BAD BEDTIME IN known as Jeanne Phillips, and BOSTON was founded by her mother, DEAR BAD BEDTIME: It Pauline Phillips. Write Dear depends on what time you’re Abby at www.DearAbby.com expected to get up the next or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angemorning. According to the ex- les, CA 90069.
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SIDNEY, nice location, 2 bedroom apartment, dishwasher with washer/ dryer hook-up, attached garage, $575, (937)638-9336.
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WEIMARANER/ LAB mix puppies, free to good homes! Will be eight weeks on 8/19. 6 males and 3 females, woods.stephanie@hotmail.com. (937)658-2991. BEAUTIFUL 2nd cutting alfalfa grass hay. No rain, 110 bales, $7 per bale. (937)295-3217
SCOOTER/ electric wheel chair, $800. 46" TV, $50. Regular wheelchair, $120. Call (419)563-5523. BOSTON TERRIER puppies, 8 weeks old. (3) Males $250 (937)726-0226
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MINIATURE DACHSHUND puppies, AKC, long haired, 8 weeks, shots, wormed, guaranteed, two chocolate, two red, two black/ tan, female $250 male $200.00 (937)667-0077
1984 PONTIAC Transam. All original matching numbers. 54,000 miles. Dr. Mitchell ( 9 3 7 ) 4 9 8 - 9 5 3 1 (937)492-2040 1994 LINCOLN Continental, Garage kept, good condition, good gas mileage, (419)628-2218
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2004 HONDA Accord LX, one owner, very nice, approx 94,800k, 4 cyl., auto, great gas mileage, PW, PL, power mirrors, keyless entry, Michelin tires, ABS brakes, black, $9675 (937) 216-0453 2008 FORD F250 super duty, diesel, air lift, bedliner, new high pressure fuel pump, $17,900 (937) 654-5505
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2008 FORD EXPLORER XLT 4 wheel drive. Leather, back-up system. Exceptional mechanical condition. 123,000 highway miles. $8500. (937)726-3333
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Word of the Week illusion — a large-scale trick done with assistants or animals
Newspaper Knowledge Circle all of the words on a page of the newspaper that have something to do with the sense of touch.
Magic Dictionary If you are confused on some of the magic terms used by magicians here is a glossary of magical terms used by magicians worldwide. APPARATUS – all equipment used in the performance, from the largest cabinet to the small of magic gimmicks DIVINATION – Discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, or the names of chosen cards, colours etc EFFECT – Another word for a trick. What the audience appear to see, as distinct from what really happens FORCE – Making a spectator choose a specific card, number, or object without them suspecting that they did not have a free choice in the first place FOULAND – A large square of silk or similar material GIMMICK – A special secret gadget not usually visual to the audience, that enables you to perform a particular trick. To “gimmick” something means to prepare an object in some secret fashion LEGERDEMAN – A French word meaning sleight of hand LEVITATION – Making an object or person float in the air with no apparent means of support LOAD - A hidden supply of items, ready for production from a box etc. “Loading” is secretly hiding the load in it’s place, eg hiding a pack of cards inside your jacket MANIPULATION – The art of using just your hands to create magic. It can include the vanish and appearance of objects such as coins, cards and balls.
History of magic with magic tricks! Magic has been around for thousands of years and has been passed on and on through the generation to current day magicians. The majority of the principles of magic have been around for hundreds of years and haven’t changed. Originally magic was used as a source of power as well as entertainment. Descriptions of early magical happening were always exaggerated from person to person. Looking back trying to work out what actually happened is almost impossible, because so many people have added their own stories to what really happened. Nowadays, most people don’t believe in magic. They appreciate the skill involved and can’t work out how you are making the magic happen but they know that it is
not real. When in previous times, people did not understand how ordinary people could perform such miracles, they thought they must be witches or wizards. They had no idea that magic was just the ability to deceive people, they actually believed the magic being performed was real. Medicine men, priests and witch doctors used to perform magic in order to demonstrate superhuman powers so normal people would always be in awe of them. Many years ago Sleight of Hand was linked with science and herbalism to create a convincing blend of mysticism. Hypnotism and autosuggestion were also a popular part of magic to be performed. The ritual of burning herbs would act as a sedative to the audience and
make them more receptive to the magician’s tricks. The earliest pictures of magic being performed were of magician Beni Hassan, which were found in a tomb between Cairo and Luxor in Egypt. The pictures depict two people performing the famous cups and balls trick. Some experts, who study Egypt and the Egyptian ways, believe that it is just a game and not a magic trick because magic was taken so seriously, that simple conjuring would not have been accepted in those days. The earliest written account of a magician is the Westcar Papyrus, which is now held in the Berlin State Museum. It was written in about 1700BC. The document tells of three magicians. The first magician – Ubaoner – who disposed of an unfaithful servant by mak-
ing a wax crocodile come alive and drag the servant to the bottom of the nearest pond. The second is Zazamonkh. The story is that some of the King’s wives were playing in a boat, when one of them dropped a pendant into the water. The King called upon a magician who folded the lake in half, drained the water and retrieved the pendant. These two stories are good examples of the Chinese Whisper style of story telling, which has been around for thousands of years, where the story becomes too unbelievable as people have added their own parts to it that they now can only be treated as myths. At the times, there was sure to be something magical happen, but not to this extent.
Famous Magicians Past and Present Harry Houdini – Harry was known as the King of Cards who turned into the most famous escapologist of all time. Houdini was great at manipulating the press and managing to get lots of media attention for his big stunts. David Blaine is becoming a modern day Houdini in the way he is creating big spectacular stunts to gain worldwide media coverage. David Copperfield – Known to many as the great large scale illusionist of all time. David Copperfield has broken records for creating some of the biggest illusions ever performed, like vanishing the Statue of Liberty! Siegfried and Roy – This duo was the highest paid magicians in the world. They performed for more than 30 years in Las Vegas. They had the most spectacular magic show ever created. They were the first magicians to use tigers in their show and even stopped the white tiger from being extinct – that's magic in itself! Ali Bongo – Was the president of the famous Magic Circle until very recently when he sadly passed away in 2009. He is very well respected in the magic community. He has written many books of his own as well as contributing to other books, and advising on television shows. Harry Blackstone – Was a famous American magician of the 20th century. He was known for his stage magic and illusions. He performed many different illusions and began to entertain during the WW II. His son Harry Blackstone Jr. also became a famous magician. Criss Angel – Criss Angel is one of the USA's most famous magicians of today. He has become famous since producing and staring in his hit television series "Mind Freak." He is known for his incredible tricks of the mind performed on normal people. The series has run for three seasons, and now Criss has just signed an eight-year contract with the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas to perform a live stage show with the incredible circus company - Cirque du
Math Magic Tricks For Kids Step By Step As an example of Fun Mathematics Tricks, we will be discussing a simple prediction method called 52 Card Prediction. This is a great trick for both beginner magicians as well as the advanced. Here is a step by step guide for the 52 Card Prediction: 1. Shuffle a deck of cards (make sure it contains all 52 cards or this trick will not work) 2. Have audience look at the card on the bottom of the deck (making sure not to look at it yourself) 3. Next take the top three cards and turn them face up in a row on the table in front of you. 4. Tell an audience member to deal the cards face down below each face up card. 5. The number of cards dealt is based upon the three initial cards turned face up. What ever card is face up, subtract it from 15 and that is how many cards you will deal. So if the first face up card is a 4, 154=11…deal 11 card for that pile. Jack=11, queen=12, king=13, Ace=1 6. Once the three piles are dealt place them face down under the deck. Make sure to leave the 3 original face up cards on the table! 7. Now ask an audience member to add up the total value of the three face up cards (ex: 4+9+queen=25) 8. Now deal out the number of cards from step 7. 9. Now tell the audience you will make their card come forth!!! Count from the top of the face down deck…one, two, three, FOUR!!! 10. Turn over the fourth card to reveal the chosen card! and say “see? i made it come fourth!”
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