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Isaac sidesteps Orleans NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on Wednesday, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages that had few defenses against the slow-moving storm that could bring days of unending rain.

Isaac arrived exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina and passed slightly to the west of New Orleans, where the city’s fortified levee system easily handled the assault.

The city’s biggest problems seemed to be downed power lines, scattered tree limbs and

minor flooding. Just one person was reported killed, compared with 1,800 deaths from Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi. And police reported few problems with looting.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew just to be sure.

But in Plaquemines Parish,

a sparsely populated area south of the city that is outside the federal levee system, dozens of people were stranded in flooded coastal areas and had to be rescued.

The storm pushed water over an 18-mile levee and put so much pressure on it that auSee ISAAC/Page 5

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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3 today: • Clarence E. Cox • Iva Mae Kuhn • Margaret Regina Gibbs • Arthur L. Morgan

INDEX Anna/Botkins ........................9 City, County records..............2 Classified .......................13-16 Comics................................11 Hints from Heloise.................6 Horoscope ..........................11 Let Yourself Go......................7 Localife ..............................6-7 Nation/World.........................5 Obituaries..............................3 Religion .................................8 Sports............................17-20 State news ............................4 ’Tween 12 and 20 .................6 Weather/Sudoku/Abby/Out of the Past/Dr. Donohue ....12

TODAY’S THOUGHT “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (1906-1945) For more on today in history, turn to Page 5.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a rare “blue moon” on Friday, a fitting wink to Neil Armstrong by the cosmic calendar.

That’s the day of a private service for Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who died last Saturday in Ohio at age 82.

A blue moon occurs when there’s a second full moon in one calendar month. It won’t happen again until July 2015. The full moon cycle is 29.5 days so a blue moon is uncommon and has come to mean something rare.

The moon actually won’t be colored blue.

Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb said the moon is far more important to lovers, literature and folklore than to science.

For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com Ohio Community Media Photo/Mike Ullery Armstrong’s family has sugARMSTRONG AIR & Space Museum board member Donna Grube, of St. Marys, places a gested paying tribute to him by photograph of Neil Armstrong in a place of honor in front of the podium prior to the “Wink looking at the moon and giving at the Moon” memorial service at the museum in Wapakoneta Wednesday. the astronaut a wink.

Working on their ‘A game’ Nightflyer to perform at Song of the Mountains

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@sdnccg.com A bluegrass band with Sidney ties will perform at the Song of the Mountains in Marion, Va., Saturday, and the performance will be featured on a PBS television show in 2013.

Nightflyer is an up-andcoming ensemble comprising lead guitarist Richard Propps, of Sidney; Rick Hayes, of Batavia, on mandolin; Tony Kakaris and Tim Jackson, both of Middletown, on bass and Dobro, respectively; and Ronnie Stewart, of Hamilton, on banjo.

The group has been performing together for just over a year.

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Police log WEDNESDAY -4:38 a.m.: theft.

John E. Liesner, 450 Riverside Drive, told Sidney police two outdoor rocking chairs and a table had been stolen from his property.

-2:07 a.m.: burglary.

Rayshawn M. Johnson, 836 St. Marys Ave., reported a sliding glass door had been damaged by someone who had burglarized the residence.

-1:45 a.m.: OVI. police charged Westley734 Whittington,22, Franklin Ave., with driving while under the influence and failure to control following a traffic accident at Park Street and Linden Avenue.

TUESDAY -4:32 p.m.: arrest.

Police issued Mary E. Lehman, 55, no address given, a summons for passing bad checks.

-9:44 a.m.: theft. Sidney Car Wash, 721 N. Vandemark Road, told police someone had stolen $1,500 in quarters from its change machines.

-9:15 a.m.: arrest.

Police charged Travis W. Pike, 33, 813 Arrowhead Drive, Apt. D, with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest following an incident at 425 Belmont St.

Accidents Police charged Pride Bruner, 52, 1605 Raymond Drive, Tipp City, with following too closely following a traffic accident Tuesday on East Court Street, shortly before 4:30 p.m.

Officers said Bruner’s vehicle struck the rear of a truck ahead driven by Alisha L. Owen, 26, of Davis, Okla., as it stopped to allow several pedestrians to cross the street. His vehicle sustained disabling damage in the crash. • Vehicles driven by Roger G. Aschenbach, 78, 744 Overland Drive, and Scott J. Bittinger, 39, 318 Ruth St., were involved in a traffic accident shortly before 1 p.m.

Monday on South Main Avenue.

Police said Aschenbach’s vehicle struck the rear of Bittinger’s car, as

he was reaching in its glove box. The crash’s inpact pushed Bittinger’s vehicle into a truck driven by Donald E. Bundenthal, 52, of Arcanum. Police charged Aschenbach with following too closely.

Fire, rescue WEDNESDAY -10:08 a.m.:: medical. Sidney paramedics responded to a medical call in the 700 block of Foraker Avenue.

-9:04 a.m.: medical.

Paramedics were dispatched to the 100 block of West Poplar Street for a medical call -5:41 a.m.: medical.

Medics responded to a medical call in the 400 block of South Miami Avenue.

-1:47 a.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to Park Street and Linden Avenue for a medical call.

-12:18 a.m.: medical.

Medics were dispatched to a medical call in the 1800 block of Daniel Place.

TUESDAY -10:55 p.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to a medical call in the 100 block of West Poplar Street.

-10:45 p.m.: medical. medics responded to the 700 block of Johnston Road for a medical call.

-9:26 p.m.: grease fire. Firefighters were dispatched to 311 N, Miami Ave. for a grease fire on a stove that was out on their arrival without extension. Smoke was removed with a fan.

-8:35 p.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to a medical call in the 700 block of Marilyn Drive.

-7:24 p.m.: fire. Firefighters were dispatched to an open burning complaint at 635 East Ave. The fire was not permitted by ordinance.

-5:47 p.m.: medical.

Medics responded to the 1200 block of West Russell Road for a medical call.

-4:38 p.m.: accident.

Medics were dispatched to the 300 block of East Court Street for an auto accident.

-9:15 a.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to 222 W. Poplar St. to medically evaluate a police department suspect.

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MUNICIPAL COURT In Sidney Municipal Court Wednesday morning, Amy L. Martin, 35, 1508 Cedarbrook Place, was fined $150 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with credit for one day served, on an assault charge. The court suspended 10 days of the sentence on condition she has no further contact with the victim and may be evaluated for drug and alcohol and mental health purposes in lieu of 14 days jail. The balance of the jail time may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full. • Franklin E. Ball Jr., 26, of Piqua, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 160 hours of community service for driving while under suspension.

Community service may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full. A speeding charge was dismissed at the request of the law director. • Boyd Crawford, 46, 433 N. Miami Ave., was fined $600 and costs, sentenced to 31 days in jail, with credit for one day served, and his driver’s license was suspended for one year for his second driving while under the influence offense within six years. He may be evaluated for drug and alcohol abuse in lieu of 10 days jail and 10 days may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full.

His vehicle was ordered immobilized and its license plates impounded.

He must report to jail for 10 days. A child endangering charge was dismissed at the request of the law director. • Michael A. Burch, 35, of Troy, was fined $150 and costs and ordered to serve 20 hours of community services on a driving while under suspension charge. Community service may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full.

In Municipal Court Tuesday, Judge Duane Goettemoeller assessed costs only and sentenced Ashley A Bowling, 26, at large, to 52 days in jail on a theft charge that was amended to attempted theft. She will receive credit for 45 days served and seven days of the sentence may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full. • Jacob D. Pressman, 28, 21 1/2 N. Main St., Fort Loramie, was sentenced to 10 days in jail previously imposed on a

contempt of court charge.

Jail may be reconsidered if he follows recommendations of the probation department and pays fines and costs in full on an earlier conviction. • Kandas N. Field, 25, of Columbus, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 60 days in jail on a soliciting charge. She will be permitted to complete 80 hours of community service in lieu of 20 days jail and be evaluated for drug and alcohol abuse and mental health purposes in lieu of another 20 days jail. Ten days may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full. She must report to jail to serve 10 days. • Jacob D. Pretsman, 28, of Greenville, was sentenced to 70 days in jail for contempt of court citations in driving while under suspension cases.

Jail may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full and he reports regularly to the probation department. • Driving while under restrictions charges against Donnie R. King, 35, 109 N. Walnut Ave., were dismissed at the request of the law director. • David Slagle, 24, 812 Park St., Apt. C, waived a preliminary hearing on felony charges of trafficking in drugs and possession of criminal tools and was ordered held for action of Shelby County Common Pleas Court.

Bond of $2,500 was continued in the case. • Jesse Fitzgerald, 29, at large, waived a preliminary hearing on four felony theft charges and was ordered held for action of Common Pleas Court. Bond of $5,000 was transferred to the county court. • Jennifer Duncum, 25, 304 W. Walnut St., Botkins, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail for failing to confine a dog. The court suspended 10 days of the sentence and if fines and costs and restitution of $85 are paid in full, the remaining 20 days may be reconsidered. • Danny A. Zimmer, 39, 3855 Mills Road, Houston, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 40 days in jail on an amended driving while under restrictions charge.

The court suspended 20 days jail on condition he violates no laws of the state for three years and if fines and costs are paid

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Court fines These people recently paid fines and costs totaling $135 (unless noted) for various violations as follows: Robert A. Bailey, 46, 24 N. Jefferson Road, Minster, seatbelt, $116.

Lindsey N. Goffena, 28, 3000 Bridlewood Drive, speeding.

Kenneth M. Davis, 27, 265 Addy Ave., speeding, $141.

Renate M. Pickering, 74, 5888 Hardin-Houston Road, Houston, speeding.

Mark W. Schwarzman, 20, 210 Winsor Parke Drive, speeding, $175.

Shari S. Schieltz, 65, 1204 Perin Road, Russia, speeding.

Civil cases Equitable Ascent Financial LLC, Buffalo Grove, Ill., v. Deborah Cottengain, 1708 Fair Oaks Drive, $6,168.65.

Asset Acceptance LLC, Warren, Mich., v. David Gasson, 6489 State Route 66, Fort Loramie, $6,820.67.

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In Municipal Court Monday, Goettemoeller dismissed a contempt of court charge in a previous obstructing official business case against Kenneth A. Henderson, 23, 315 Charles Ave., • Donald E. Hughes Jr., 68, 13100 Lochard Road, Anna, was fined $25 and costs for failing to confine a dog. • Rex A. Parker, 23, of Wapakoneta, was fined $75 and costs for driving with an expired license. • Brittany D. Creekmore, 22, 610 W. North St., was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to eight days in jail on a driving while under suspension charge that was amended to failure to display a license. Five days jail may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full and the remaining three days will be suspended if she violates no laws of the state for one year. • Joseph D. Salvo, 27, of Charleston, S.C., was fined $75 and costs for driving with an expired license and also fined $25 for a stop sign violation. • Patrick F. Vasquez, 25, 309 E. Bennett St., was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 360 hours of community service on a driving while under suspension charge that was amended to failure to display a license. If fines and costs are paid in full, 180 hours of community service may be reconsidered. A seatbelt violation was dismissed at the request of the law director. • Dustin L. Hoening, 34, of Celina, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 40 hours of community service on a driving while under suspension charge that was amended to failure to display a license. Community service may be reconsidered if fines and costs are paid in full. • Raymond S. Stewart, 47, 839 Crescent Drive,

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Iva Mae Kuhn IN MEMORIAM

PIQUA — Iva Mae Kuhn, 91, of Piqua, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2012.

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Margaret Regina Gibbs, 84, of 1508 Cedarbrook passed Place, away peacefully on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at 5:40 p.m. at her residence.

Margaret was born March 24, 1928, in St. Wendelin to the late John and Zita (King) Steinbrunner. She was the beloved wife of Marion Gibbs and he preceded her in death.

Margaret is survived by her children, Judy Rookard, of Sidney, Jerry and his wife, Rebecca Langenkamp, of Sidney, Janice Elsass, of Piqua, Janet and her husband, Gene Strohmenger, of Phoenix, Ariz., Shirley and her husband, Steve Edwards, of Sidney, and Sharon Gibbs and her special friend, Mike Lewis, both of Sidney; 18 grandchildren; 35 greatgrandchildren; four greatgreat-grandchildren; five sisters and brothers, Evelyn Moser, of Celina, Victor and his wife, Jenny Steinbrunner, Katherine Taylor, all of St. Marys, Rose Ann and her husband, Joyce Schmitley, of Geneva, Ind., John Steinbrunner Jr., of Coldwater; many great-nieces and nephews.

Margaret was also preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.

Margaret was a member of the Holy Angels Catholic Church, Sidney.

She retired from the Copeland Corp. after 41 years of dedicated service.

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cated follower of the Cincinnati Reds. She enjoyed the out-ofdoors and spent most of her time gardening.

Margaret loved her family enjoyed and spending time with her grandchildren. She was a devoted and loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a truly loving friend to many.

Margaret’s family would like to thank her caregivers at Wilson Hospice and special friend, Nichole Redinbo, for her excellent and compassionate care.

Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, at the Holy Angels Catholic Church, Sidney, with the Rev. Dan Hess as celebrant. Interment will follow in the Shelby Memorial Gardens.

Family and friends may call at the Adams Funeral Home, 1401 Fair Road, Sidney, (IR75, exit 90) on Friday, Aug. 31, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to Wilson Hospice, 10836 Fairington Drive, Sidney, OH 45365 or the Holy Angels Catholic Church in Margaret’s memory. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.

Online memories may be expressed to the family on the Adams Funeral Home’s web site at www.theadamsfuneralhome.com.

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Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette’s account contradicted in key details the account of the raid presented by administration officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the alQaida leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to only use deadly force if they deemed him a threat.

Bissonnette wrote that the SEALs spotted bin Laden at the top of a darkened hallway and shot him in the head even though they could not tell whether he was armed. Administration officials have described the SEALs shooting bin Laden only after he ducked back into a bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.

Military experts said Wednesday that if Bissonnette’s recollection is accurate, the SEALS made the right call to open fire on the terrorist mastermind who had plenty of time to reach for a weapon or explosives as they made their way up to the third level of the house where he hid.

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Arthur L. Morgan, 85, of 1511 N. Kuther Road, Sidney, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at 4:20 p.m. at his home.

He was born on Oct. 24, 1926, in Smithtown, Ky., the son of the late Jim and Ellen (Hickman) Morgan. On April 5, 1949, he married Maudie A. Davis, who survives along with eight children, Carol Phelps and husband, Joe, Nora Morgan, Freda Phelps, Joanie Chester, all of Sidney, Luella Carr and husband, Kenny, of Lakeview, Jimmy Morgan, of Lima, Martha Strunk and husband, John, of Anna, and Loretta Cook and husband, Dave, of Port Jefferson; 22 grandchildren, 37 greatgrandchildren, four g r e a t - g r e a t grandchildren; and two siblings, Chester Morgan, of Tennessee, and Mary Day, of Sidney.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Robert and George Morgan; one sister, Ida Bowman; and two

great-grandchildren.

Mr. Morgan served his country in the U.S. Army in 1954 as private first class in Company A 15th Engineers Combat Battalion in Germany. He retired in 1989 from Copeland Corp. after 33 years of service. Arthur loved fishing, hunting, gardening, and being with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. at Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave., Sidney, with the Rev. Leamon Branscum officiating.

Burial will follow at Cedar Point Cemetery in Pasco.

The family will receive friends on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m.

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In the will Hemsley signed six weeks before dying of lung cancer July 24 he named Flora Enchinton, 56, whom he called a “beloved partner,” as sole beneficiary of his estate, which is estimated in court documents to be more than $50,000.

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Pastor Clarence E. Cox P a s t o r E. Clarence Cox, 76, of 1148 Hazel Nut Lane, passed away at 2:33 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at his residence surrounded by his family.

He was born on Feb. 17, 1936, in Whitley City, Ky., the son of the late Fred and Stella (Brown) Cox. On March 31, 1956, he was married to Janice Faye Hensley, who survives him along with seven children, Alvin Cox and wife, Dawn, Dale Cox, and Matt Cox, all three of Sidney, Tammy Miller and Marc Fry, and Faith Titus and husband, Steven, both of Quincy, Wendell Cox, and Chris Cox and wife, Susie, both of Sidney; grandchildren, Jason Cox and wife, Lisa, Ashley Cantrell and husband, Douglas, both of Piqua, Jordan Wade, of Germany, Nelson Miller and Brittany, of Sidney, Chad Miller and wife, Tina, of Kentucky, Tiffany Vanhoose and husband, Matt, Dustin Cox and Amber Wiford, Jonathan Cox, Heidi Cox, all four of Sidney, Christopher Cox, of Quincy, Courtney Cox, of Sidney, Collin Cox, Caleb Cox, both of Piqua, Lil’ Matthew, of Sidney, and Dylan Cox, of Sidney; stepgrandchildren: Michael Haynes and wife, Kayla, Mark and wife, Haynes Amanda, both of Sidney; great-grandchildren: Levi Smith, Madison Cantrell, both of Piqua, Jordan Wade Jr. of Tennessee, Madison and Elzie Miller, both of Kentucky, Casey and Nelson Miller, both of Sidney, and Hunter Cox, of Sidney; step-greatgrandchildren, Aiden and Traden, and Emilee Haynes, of Sidney; brothers and sisters; Patsy Hughes and husband, Chester, of Port Jefferson, Brenda Rowe, of Sidney, Peggy Austin and husband, Tom, of Anna, Rickey Cox and wife, Debbie, Bobby Cox, and Gary Cox, all of Sidney, and his loyal companion and pet, Major.

He was preceded in death by a stepgrandson, Matthew Haynes; one brother, Donnie Cox; parents-in-law, Homer and Ruby Mae (Turner)

Hensley; brothers-in-law, Clifford Hensley and Douglas Cecil; sister-inlaw, Patty Cox, nephew, and Stanley Cecil.

Clarence was the pastor at Christian Faith Baptist Church in Sidney for 42 years. During that time, he also worked at the Miller-Meteor plant in Piqua, where they manufactured ambulances and hearses, from 1963 until they shut down in 1979. He was later employed with Pinkerton Security, and was assigned to Gilardi Foods in Sidney, where he worked until his retirement.

Clarence enjoyed spending time outdoors, humming watching birds, doing yard work and gardening. He even had a side business in gardening after retirement. He loved his family, and especially enjoyed being around his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Children were a big part of his life, and not just his own, but in his church family, as well. He was known to hold the babies and young children of his church, singing to them, “Jesus Loves Me,” for the first time. Anyone who had only just met Clarence was a friend.

He knew no strangers and was always willing to help out someone in need. He will be forever remembered for his big smile and his kind and generous spirit. He will be loved and missed by his family, friends and all who knew him.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Cromes Funeral Home, 302 S. Main Ave., with Pastor James Cox officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Point Cemetery in Pasco.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Christian Faith Baptist Church, or the family in memory of Clarence E. Cox. Condolences may be expressed to the Cox family at the funeral home’s website, www.cromesfh.com.

Isaac brings higher gas prices NEW YORK (AP) — Drivers are being hit with the biggest one-day jump in gasoline prices in 18 months just as the last heavy driving weekend of the summer approaches.

As Hurricane Isaac swamps the nation’s oil and gas hub along the Gulf Coast, it’s delivering sharply higher pump prices to storm-battered residents of Louisiana and Mississippi — and also to unsuspecting drivers up north in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

The national average price of a gallon of gas jumped almost five cents Wednesday to $3.80, the highest ever for this date.

Prices are expected to continue to climb through Labor Day weekend, the end of the summer driving season.

“The national average will keep ticking higher, and it’s going to be noticeable,” says Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at Gasbuddy.com The wide storm shut down several refineries along the Gulf Coast and

others are operating at reduced rates. In all, about 1.3 million barrels per day of refining capacity is affected. So, it’s no surprise that drivers in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida saw gas prices rise by a dime or more in the past week.

But some states in the Midwest are suffering even more dramatic spikes.

Ohio prices jumped 14 cents, Indiana prices soared 13 cents and Illinois prices jumped 10 cents on Wednesday alone according to the Oil Price Information Service. Days before Isaac is expected to douse those states with rain, the storm forced the shutdown of a pipeline that serves a number of Midwest refineries.

Drivers in the region were angry and confused. “”I saw gas in my neighborhood for $3.56 a gallon just Tuesday morning, and now I’m paying $3.95. It’s terrible,” said Mary Allen of Cincinnati as she paid $20 for just over five gallons of gas.

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Son: Hair cutting shamed Amish father “He was shaking all over,” Hershberger said.

“He was crying and crying.”

Federal prosecutors say that a dispute between the leader of a breakaway Amish group and other bishops who sought to overrule his authoritarian methods led to the hairand -beard cutting attacks that struck fear into Ohio’s normally peaceful Amish community.

Those accused of planning and taking part in the attacks targeted the hair and beards of Amish bishops because of its spiritual significance in the faith, prosecutors said.

Most Amish men do not

shave their beards after marriage, believing it signifies their devotion to God. Prosecutors say there were five different attacks last fall, orchestrated by Sam Mullet Sr., who two decades ago, established an Amish settlement outside the tiny town of Bergholz near the West Virginia panhandle. All of the defendants, who live in the settlement, could face lengthy prison terms if convicted on charges that include conspiracy and obstructing justice.

Mullet has denied ordering the hair-cutting but said he didn’t stop anyone from carrying it out.

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Kasich talks jobs recovery at convention COLUMBUS (AP) — Gov. John Kasich used his prime-time speech Tuesday to delegates at the Republican National Convention to tell the story of Ohio’s jobs comeback, while walking a fine political line when it comes to President Barack Obama’s influence on that comeback.

The first-term governor reminded the audience in a 10-minute address that Ohio had lost 400,000 jobs during the recession by the time he took office in 2011. Kasich, a former congressman, Fox News commentator and Lehman Brothers managing director, also said Ohio has $500 million in its rainy day fund compared to 89 cents after he was elected.

“Most toddlers have more than 89 cents in

their little piggy banks let alone what was in our treasury,” he said, speaking in Tampa, Fla. The state was 48th in job creation rates and had an $8 billion deficit.

Today, it’s ranked fourth in job creation nationally and first in the Midwest and erased the deficit without a statewide tax increase, Kasich said.

The state has since gained 122,000 jobs, he said.

Yet even as Kasich boasted about Ohio and its success, he said Obama administration policies were hurting the state, smothering businesses and paralyzing job creators.

“We need a new partner in Washington,” Kasich said.

“This relationship is just not working. It is holding us back.”

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CINCINNATI (AP) — A fraternity at Miami University in southern Ohio has sued the school for $10 million, arguing that university officials acted with “malice, hatred and ill will” by suspending the organization for having a fireworks battle with another fraternity house, which led police to find marijuana.

The lawsuit, filed by the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati on Tuesday, said university officials violated memconstitutional bers’ rights by suspending the fraternity without providing an appeal process and despite the fact that police had not filed charges.

University spokeswoman Claire Wagner said the school acted in the best interest of student safety and followed

written policy by suspending the fraternity, which included forcing its youngest members — all sophomores — to move back into on-campus housing.

“Any activity that so readily may cause harm to people or their homes, we have to be aware of

and do our best to protect those students,” Wagner said.

The university suspended Phi Kappa Tau and another fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, last week after police said the two fraternities shot fireworks at each other on Aug. 19.

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COLUMBUS (AP) — A computer glitch failed to deliver 66 notices earlier this year to Ohio crime victims informing them that parole hearings for offenders facing possible release had been scheduled, according to interviews and a review of state prisons agency documents.

The prisons system says a series of safeguards caught the problem after it was revealed and that victims and their family members were notified in time for the hearings. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has since changed its procedures and now has a single person assigned to tracking the status of the letters.

Karin Ho, the agency’s victims’ services coordinator, alerted parole board members and other agency officials of the problem on May 24, according to a copy of her email obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request.

“Our main concern is to determine whether or not victims received appropriate notification, which we are doing case by case at the moment,” Ho said in the email.

The investigation involved letters sent on Feb. 29 to more than 200 crime victims registered to receive updates, according to Ho’s email. The department ruled out the possibility of a Leap Year glitch and eventually determined that for some reason, the computer system mistakenly said letters had been printed when in 66 instances they had not.

The agency learned of the problem when parole board members called to ask why notices had not been sent in cases up for review.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — A hair-cutting attack on an Amish bishop left him so ashamed that he stopped preaching and refused to attend a family wedding because he didn’t want anyone to see him without his beard, his son testified Wednesday at the trial of 16 Amish men and women accused of carrying out a series of hate crimes on church leaders in Ohio.

In the minutes after the surprise encounter last fall, Andy Hershberger said he looked toward his 77-year-old father. Gray clumps of hair from the beard his father had grown since marriage covered the floor where he sat.

NATION/WORLD TODAY IN HISTORY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Thursday, Aug. 30, the 243rd day of 2012.

There are 123 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 30, 1862, Confederate forces won victories against the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va., and the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.

On this date: ■ In 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, creator of “Frankenstein,” was born in London.

■ In 1861, Union Gen. John C. Fremont instituted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (However, Fremont’s emancipation order was countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln.)

■ In 1905, Ty Cobb made his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his first at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders. (The Tigers won, 5-3.)

■ In 1941, during World War II, German forces approaching Leningrad cut off the remaining rail line out of the city.

■ In 1963, the “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

■ In 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

■ In 1983, Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger.

■ In 1986, Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American officials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York.

(Both men were later released.)

■ In 1987, a redesigned space shuttle booster, created in the wake of the Challenger disaster, roared into life in its first full-scale test-firing near Brigham City, Utah.

■ In 1991, Azerbaijan declared its independence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.

■ In 1992, the television series “Northern Exposure” won six Emmy Awards, including best drama series, while “Murphy Brown” received three Emmys, including best comedy series, in a ceremony marked by satirical jabs directed at Vice President Dan Quayle.

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Eye wasn’t on money STOCKHOLM (AP) — Were the martinis shaken, not stirred? Nobody knows, but a James Bond-themed party thrown by Sweden’s security service sure didn't adhere to this one-liner from “Casino Royale:” “I will be keeping my eye on our government’s money.”

Sweden's prime minister has urged the heads of government agencies to control their spending on staff parties after the SAPO security service admitted it held a Bond bash for 4.3 million kronor ($650,000).

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that SAPO threw the party for its 1,000 employees in June 2011, featuring roulette tables, a tuxedoclad orchestra playing Bond film music, and song, dance and comedy performances

by Swedish artists.

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Ryan: Romney won’t ‘duck tough issues’ on economy TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Seizing the Republican National Convention spotlight, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan promised Wednesday night that Mitt Romney “will not duck the tough issues” if he wins the White House this fall and their party will move forcefully to solve the nation’s economic woes.

“After four years of getting the runaround, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney,” the Wisconsin lawmaker said in remarks prepared for delivery to a convention dogged by Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm, though downgraded from a hurricane, was still inflicting misery on millions along the nearby northern Gulf Coast.

In a secondary role if only for a moment, Romney accused Democratic President Barack Obama of backing “reckless defense cuts” amounting to $1 trillion.

“There are plenty of places to cut in a federal budget that now totals over $3 trillion. But defense is not one of them,” Romney said in remarks that referred elliptically to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Romney spoke to the American Legion in Indianapolis as his aides in Florida scripted economy-and-veteransan themed program in their own convention hall and kept a wary eye on Isaac. The storm

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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with delegates after speaking at the American Legion’s national convention in Indianapolis, Wednesday. remained a threat to levees in the New Orleans area almost exactly seven years after the calamitous Hurricane Katrina.

Ryan’s vice presidential acceptance speech marked a prime-time national debut by a 42-year-old lawmaker lauded by fellow Republicans

for his understanding of the complexities of the nation’s budget.

Romney tapped Ryan earlier this month as his running mate, a selection that cheered conservatives who have doubted the presidential candidate’s own commitment to their cause.

If Ryan’s selection was designed in part to appeal to conservatives, the convention was scripted to strengthen the ticket’s appeals among women, Hispanics and others who prefer Obama over the Republicans, as well as veterans who supported John McCain in 2008.

Appearing before delegates on his 76th birthday, the Arizona senator joked that he “had hopes of addressing you under different circumstances,” a reference to the dreams he once had of speaking as the incumbent in the White House.

Without mentioning Obama by name, McCain accused the president of failing to lead — on military spending and grave international issues as well. “Sadly, for the lonely voices of dissent in Syria and Iran and elsewhere who feel forgotten in their darkness … our president is not being true to our values,” he said.

But another convention speaker, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, pointedly disagreed with Romney on defense spending.

“Republicans must acknowledge that not every dollar spent on the military is necessary or well-spent, and Democrats must admit that domestic welfare and entitlements must be reformed,” he said.

Probe deepens confusion

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CHUCK CROPP, (center) his son Piers (left) and wife Liz (right) wade through floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac Wednesday in New Orleans. As Isaac made landfall, it was expected to dump as much as 20 inches of rain in several parts of Louisiana.

ISAAC thorities planned to intentionally puncture the floodwall to relieve the strain.

“I’m getting text messages from all over asking for help,” said Joshua Brockhaus, an electrician who was rescuing neighbors in his boat. “I’m dropping my dogs off, and I’m going back out there.”

By midafternoon, Isaac had been downgraded to a tropical storm and the Louisiana National Guard wrapped up rescue operations in Plaquemines Parish, saying they felt confident they had gotten everyone out and there were no serious injuries.

“That should be everyone,” National Guard spokesman Capt. Lance Cagnolatti said.

“We’re pulling out.”

Isaac’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to 60 mph by Wednesday evening.

Even at its strongest, Isaac was far weaker than Hurricane Katrina, which crippled New Orleans in 2005. Because Isaac’s coiled bands of rain and wind were moving at only 5 mph — about the pace of a brisk walk — the threat of storm surges and flooding was

From Page 1 expected to last into a second night as the immense commashaped system crawled across Louisiana.

“We didn’t think it was going to be like that,” Brockhaus said. “The storm stayed over the top of us. For Katrina, we got 8 inches of water. Now we have 13 feet.”

In Plaquemines Parish, about two dozen people who defied evacuation orders needed to be rescued. The stranded included two police officers whose car became stuck.

“I think a lot of people were caught with their pants down,” said Jerry Larpenter, sheriff in nearby Terrebonne Parish. “This storm was never predicted right since it entered the Gulf. It was supposed to go to Florida, Panama City, Biloxi, New Orleans. We hope it loses its punch once it comes in all the way.”

The storm knocked out power to as many as 700,000 people, stripped branches off trees and flattened fields of sugar cane so completely that they looked as if a tank had driven over them.

Plaquemines Parish ordered a mandatory evacuation for the west bank of the Mississippi below Belle Chasse because of worries about a storm surge. The order affected about 3,000 people, including a nursing home with 112 residents. In Jefferson Parish, the sheriff ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

After wind-driven water spilled over the levee in Plaquemines Parish, state officials said they would cut a hole in it as soon as weather allowed and equipment could be brought to the site.

In coastal Mississippi, wildlife officers used small motorboats Wednesday to rescue at least two dozen people from a neighborhood Isaac flooded in Pearlington.

Back in New Orleans, the storm canceled remembrance ceremonies for those killed by Katrina. Since that catastrophe, the city’s levee system has been bolstered by $14 billion in federal repairs and improvements. The bigger, stronger levees were tested for the first time by Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A French murder probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat prompted an Israeli denial of responsibility on Wednesday and renewed doubts that Palestinians would stick to a halfhearted pledge to exhume Arafat’s body.

Arafat’s death eight years ago in a French hospital has remained a long-running mystery for many, driven by murky but persistent conspiracy theories that he had cancer, AIDS or was poisoned.

His successor, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, reluctantly agreed to exhume the former leader’s remains for an autopsy this summer after new evidence prompted Arafat’s widow to seek a criminal investigation. Any finding of wrongdoing would be an embarrassment to Palestinians, who were most in contact with Arafat before he fell ill.

Officials say Abbas went forward under public pressure, despite hesitation about the public spectacle of digging up the body from the massive mausoleum outside Palestinian headquarters in the West Bank. But the autopsy has been on hold while authorities seek Suha Arafat’s approval.

Arafat, who was 75, died at a French military hospital in November 2004, two weeks after he was rushed there from his West Bank headquarters with a mysterious illness. He died of a stroke, but the underlying reasons for his condition have been constantly debated.

The theory that he was poisoned by Israelis —a charge the Israelis vociferously deny — has been popular in the Arab world. The idea gained steam in July after a Swiss lab found traces of Polonium210, a rare and lethal radioactive isotope, on Arafat’s clothing.

“Israel did not have any hand in this,” Dov Weisglass, a senior Israeli official at the time of Arafat’s death, said in a radio interview Wednesday, even while calling Arafat “one

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Ceremony to mark Sept. 11

This Evening

The annual opening • The Narcotics Anonymous group, All in the ceremony for Applefest Family, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist and Sept. 11 memorial Church, 230 Poplar St. will be Sept. 8 at 9:45 Friday Morning a.m. on the Main Stage • A.J. Wise Library in Fort Loramie hosts story- on the Shelby County time for children 3 1/2 and older at 10:30 a.m. To courtsquare. register, call 295-3155.

It will be coordinated by the Rev. Phil Chilcote, Friday Afternoon of the Sidney conductor • Sidney Gateway Hi 12 Club No. 482, meets at noon at the Sidney American Legion on Fourth Av- Civic Band and vice president of the Shelby enue. All Master Masons are invited.

County Ministerial AssoFriday Evening ciation.

• Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12The program will be step programs to confront destructive habits and divided into four segbehaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, ments. The first will be a 114 E. 4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For 15-minute musical prelmore information, call (937) 548-9006. ude.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying The second segment Clean for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First will include the presenUnited Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St. tation of the colors, the Saturday Morning national anthem, the • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, pledge of allegiance, and in Port Jefferson, 9 to 11 a.m. an invocation by the Rev. • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, Jane Madden, president in Maplewood, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday Evening • The Sidney-Shelby County Chess Club “Checkmates” meets at 7 p.m. at the library at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community. All skill levels are welcome. For more information, call 4977326.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Saturday Night Live, meets at 8 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St.

Sunday Afternoon • Shelby County Deer Hunters holds its monthly Sunday Rifle Shoot at 7988 Johnston-Slagle Road beginning at 1 p.m. Program: one round at five different targets, pays three places. Points awarded to members for end-of-the-year trophy. Open to the public.

Sunday Evening • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian Church, 320 E. Russell Road.

Monday Afternoon • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon. For more information on activities or becoming a member, contact Scott Barhorst at 492-0823.

Monday Evening • 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.

• Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Russell Road.

• Anna Civic Association meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Anna Library. New members with new ideas always are welcome.

Tuesday Morning • The Ohio Music Teachers Association Middle West District will meet at the home of Karen Heath, 471 Hickory St., St. Henry, at 9:45 a.m.

Mary Lu Anthony will present a program on recital themes, awards and scheduling. An open discussion will follow. (419) 678-0113.

• The regular meeting of the Auglaize County Public Employee Retirees Inc. No. 9 will be at American Legion Post No. 330, 1108 E. Benton St., Wapakoneta. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. For information, contact Janet Ott at (419) 657-6765.

Tuesday Afternoon • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St.

Tuesday Evening • Head, Neck and Oral Cancer Support Group for patients and caregivers meets at St. Rita’s Regional Cancer Center in the Garden Conference Room from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (419) 227-3361.

of the Shelby County Ministerial Association.

Amy Pike, 2012 Applefest board chairwoman will offer a welcome message and be followed by official welcomes from the Shelby County commissioners and Sidney Mayor Mike Barhorst.

The third segment comprises tributes to those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 tragedy.

These tributes will include the bell ceremony presented by the Sidney

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DR. WALing to visit me LACE: I’m 15 when he graduand have been a ates from high pen pal with a school in two 16-year-old boy years. We have from Ontario, traded photoCanada, for the graphs and past year and a emails so we half. We write to know what the each other once ’Tween other person a week — faithlooks like, and fully. It has been 12 & 20 he did call me Dr. Robert a wonderful exon Valentine’s perience, and I Day. Wallace look forward to I admit that I receiving his emails and sort of like Nathan in a answering them the romantic sort of way, same day. Nathan lives even though we haven’t in St. Catharines, and it yet met and the thought sounds like a super place of being a girlfriend with to live. I’ve learned a lot a pen pal is intriguing. about ice-skating, ice But I still haven’t dehockey and ice fishing on cided, and that’s why I’m Lake Ontario. emailing you. I’d like I’ve also informed your opinion. — Alicia, Nathan about living in Porterville, Calif. the beautiful San ALICIA: I think that Joaquin Valley of Cali- having a pen pal is excitfornia. Lately, he has ing and educational. I been emailing that he loves me and that he would like us to be boyfriend and girlfriend, even though we have never seen each other.

He says that he is com-

can also understand the mystery of romance that can creep into a long-distance correspondence, but I see no value in being his “girlfriend.”

You are only 15 years old, so why eliminate the opportunity of dating during your high school years because you are the girlfriend of someone you have never met and wouldn’t see for at least two more years?

Wait until you both have had time to spend together before making that decision. It would be a two-year waste of time to finally meet and discover when you are face to face that while you like each other, the “magnetic” attraction is missing!

DR. WALLACE: I used to believe that girls and boys should be

treated as equals in everything, but now I’m not so sure. I am taking karate lessons, and I’m the only girl in my class.

I thought that I was doing well until I found out the boys were taking it easy on me because I was a girl. I didn’t like that, so I asked to be treated like everyone else in the class. So now they treat me as an equal, but it’s no fun and sometimes it’s painful.

Now I’m really confused.

Should I ask to be treated like a girl and win hollow victories, or should I be treated like one of the guys and suffer the consequences? — Alexandria, Zanesville, Ohio ALEXANDRIA: Hollow victories are a waste of time! Ask to be treated like all the others.

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“This year begins the second decade of years following the tragic day,” Chilcote said. “Last year of the 10th anniversary of the tragic day, there were many events. This year there is just one. I don’t want to ever lose the poignancy of the huge loss of life that day, but at the same time, there is so much to celebrate in our land, the ‘land of the free, and the home of the brave.’

That’s why the last half of the program will be all music, special selections written specifically for the Sept. 11 tragedy, marches, patriotic music.

Music does a heart good and reminds us of the wonderful freedoms that we enjoy.”

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Fire Department Honor Guard; a 21-gun salute presented by the Sidney Police Department Guard; taps Honor played by members of the Sidney Civic Band; a special band selection written as a dedication to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11; and a prayer will be offered by Pastor George Gnade for those who lost their lives and those who continue to grieve.

The final segment of the program will be a short concert presented by the Sidney Civic Band featuring patriotic selections and selections written specifically for the Sept. 11 tragedy. The program will conclude at 11 a.m.

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Beginners and advanced genealogy classes have been scheduled for Sept. 8 and Oct. 13 at a cost of $10 per class.

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TODAY • A reception and artist’s talk by Amy Sacksteder opens an exhibit, “Return: Amy Sacksteder and Ryan Feeney,” at Gallery 249, College Park Center, 1529 Brown St., Dayton, at the University of Dayton. The exhibit runs through Sept. 20. Call (927) 229-3261 for parking information.

• A reception and lecture in conjunction with the exhibit, “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible,” will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Roesch Library Gallery at the University of Dayton.

(937) 229-4094.

FRIDAY The American • Czechoslovakian Club, 922 Valley St., Dayton, offers a cabbage roll dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Cabbage rolls, mashed potatoes, vegetable, salad, desserts, coffee, beer, wine, and soda.

Button box music from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tickets: $12 adults, $6 children under 16. Public welcome. (937) 287-4275 or www.accdayton.com.

• Troy Streets Alive, a downtown festival, runs from 5 to 9 p.m. The event features artist booths, street performers, cooking and fitness demonstrations and shopping at 50 downtown businesses. A WACO flight-simulator will be available for free “rides.” (937) 339-5455.

• The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, 1100 Spaatz St., Fairborn, hosts a giant scale radio-controlled model aircraft show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Free. (937) 255-3286.

• The ArtStreet Friday Film Series in ArtStreet Studio B screening room at the University of Dayton will show the movie, “Moonrise Kingdom,” at 9 p.m. Free.

SATURDAY • The Ohio Renaissance Festival opens today and runs through Oct. 21 on Saturdays, Sundays and Labor Day at the site at 10542 E. State Route 73 in Waynesville. Costumed performances, food, shopping, arts and crafts, games, jousting.

Tickets: $8.99-$110.

(513) 897-7000 or www.renfestival.com.

• The Piqua Heritage Festival opens today and

runs through Monday at the Johnston Farm in Piqua. Activities begin at 10:30 a.m. each day and continue until dusk.

Food, historic demonstrations, canal boat rides, crafts, games, entertainment. $3 adults; children 18 and under admitted free.

• Lake Loramie State park and the Ohio Division of Wildlife host a catfish derby from 9 a.m. to noon at the beach parking lot off Ohio 362 at Lake Loramie. Children 17 and under are invited to participate.

Parents can help their children fish. Poles and a limited supply of bait will be available. 2952011.

• The St. Remy Russia Homecoming Festival opens today and runs through Sunday, offering chicken dinners and beer, rides for children. An outdoor Mass will be at the Grotto at 4:30 p.m. 526-3437.

• The movie, “E.T.” will be shown in the Anna Park at dusk.

Free.

• The Port Jefferson Fire Department will sponsor a Labor Day block party from noon to 9 p.m. at the fire house, softball field and community center.

MONDAY • The Sidney Kiwanis Club offers its annual Labor Day Chicken Barbecue at the Shelby Fairgrounds county from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

TUESDAY • The Tri-Moraine Audubon Society will host a talk by Bill and Jackie Light, “Camping and Birding in New Zealand,” at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of OSU-Lima’s Visitor and Student Services Center, 3900 Campus Drive.

Free.

• “Moved by the Spirit: Artist Interpretations of the Life of Jesus,” an art exhibit, opens today and runs through Sept. 28 at the Marian Library Gallery at the University of Dayton. (937) 229-4214.

SEPT. 6 • The Jackson Center Memorial Public Library hosts a teen gaming day for students in grades 712, from 2:45 to 4:45 p.m. Advance registration is advised to assure the use of a laptop. Pizza and pop will be served and a drawing for a gift card will be held.

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equipment … we thank them,” said McGlaughlin who stated that Brian Brookhart with the Streets and Park Department, “Is gold, he does anything we ask him to and he knows what needs done.”

Assistance also comes in the form of the city fire department’s providing the EMT for the rodeo, with other department city man-hours dedicated to bleacher set-up, fences and more.

“They probably spend every bit of three days out there.”

When asked about how many volunteers assist with the festival, McGlaughlin states, “It’s always been said the festival runs on a $100,000 budget with 2,000 volunteers, that’s what I’ve always heard.” Emphasizing the impossibility of calculating just how many contribute to the yearly success of the event such as the Chamber of Commerce having along the lines of 70 individuals helping with their own food booth.

The 30th annual Heritage Festival will offer a pre-1870s encampment, one of the largest in the country, with more than 300 mountain men, along with several new

non-profit food vendors serving everything from homemade goodies to traditional favorites.

Not to mention the dazzling array of entertainment with a number of activities for children such as a pig scramble and petting zoo.

There will also be a car show along with displays, demonstrations, a general store, arts and crafts, and much, much more.

“We’ll have the little pigs checked out and make sure the kids wash their hands,” said McGlaughlin of any concerns families may have on the recent Swine Flu outbreaks across statewide county fairs.

The festival will see the return of the climbing wall and a new 10feet by 14-feet corn-pit with some 18 inches of shelled corn that kids can, “Just get in and have a ball,” said McGlaughlin, with the high school rodeo to be slightly different this year with the addition of professional bull riders.

The rodeo, McGlaughlin stated, is not only a festival favorite but unique in that it offers points towards scholarships.

“This is a big deal

Botkins, Sidney students win Elaine Laughlin scholarhsips Elaine The She is the in an accredited Laughlin Scholardaughter college or univership Fund has o f sity for the coming awarded two, $500 Rhonda academic year. scholarships to Fogt and The scholarship support local stuRussell fund is adminisdents attending McDontered by the Comcollege. ald. m u n i t y This year’s reT h e Foundation of cipients are 2012 Elaine Shelby County.

Cooper graduates Elleah Laughlin McDonald Applications will Cooper, of Botkins, Scholarbecome available and Paxton McDonald, of ship Fund was estab- after Jan. 1 at Sidney. lished in memory of www.commfoun.com.

Cooper plans to attend Elaine Laughlin, a longBowling Green State Uni- time teacher at Houston versity to major in nurs- High School. ing. She is the daughter of The scholarship is open Michael Cooper and to Shelby County resiCharlotte Cooper. dents who are high school McDonald plans to at- seniors and have a cumutend the Ohio State Uni- lative grade point average versity to study of no less than 3.25 on a biomedical engineering. 4.0 scale and are enrolled

thing, this is actually a career for these kids,” said McGlaughlin. “It’s so neat.”

While attendees at the Festival will experience a well-oiled machine, make no mistake, it takes a lot of work and comes at a cost, from renting of land at the Farm to Port-a-Johns, there are expenditures many are unaware of.

“We’re lucky to break even every year,” said McGlaughlin who juggles two businesses with the many aspects of the festival but says, “I learned a long time ago, if you can’t fix it, don’t worry about it. If you can’t change it, if you can’t fix it, why worry about it? It is what it is.

You let it go.”

The Festival has many contributors and is funded in part by: French Oil Machinery Co. Fund, the Piqua Community Foundation, Top of Ohio RC&D Council, Paul G. Duke Foundation, Walmart, the Lungard Grant, Unity Bank, WPTW Radio, the Piqua Community Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council.

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PIQUA — While the transformation of the Johnston Farm on Hardin Road may seem like magic for the annual Piqua Heritage Festival that runs Sept.

1-3, the work behind the scenes requires a lot of sweat, money, and a cooperative mother nature.

“It’ll work,” said executive trustee/general chairman of the festival Chuck McGlaughlin on what looks to be favorable weather in comparison to last year’s suffocating heat wave.

“It was ridiculous, it was a major-loss ridiculous, the weather killed us, but its what you make of it.”

Such a positive outlook proves to work in favor McGlaughlin’s who was tackling with the sudden bad news on an integral piece of machinery used throughout the festival’s three-day weekend event over the Labor Day holiday. A tractor that is used to load and unload trailers, move everything around during setup and breakdown, was out of commission.

“That is a major downfall,” said McGlaughlin of the broken tractor, explaining how it also pulls a cart throughout the festival grounds collecting trash all day, every day.

While working on a plan B in terms of the tractor, McGlaughlin spoke on the many other preparations currently underway for the weekend that includes the city being especially involved this year.

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Meeting addresses future of Catholic schools A crowd of Lehman Catholic High School parents, alumni, trustees, teachers and administrators gathered in Lehman’s Jerry DeLong Gymnasium to attend the final regional meeting detailing the components of “Lighting the Way,” the strategic developed for plan Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

The regional meetings have been conducted by Archdiocese of Cincinnati Superintendent of Schools Dr. James Rigg.

“Lighting the Way” has been developed over the past two years with assistance from the University of Notre Dame.

In his presentation, Rigg quoted Archbishop Dennis Schnurr: “Catholic schools are a top priority for the archdiocese. Since its inception in 1821, our schools have excelled in preparing young men and women to faithfully serve Christ and one another in an increasingly troubled world. This vision represents a renewal of support, advocacy, and prayer for our Catholic schools, which have long carried a well-deserved reputation of engaging, faithbased teaching.”

Rigg reviewed the executive summary of the strategic plan or vision for Catholic schools in the archdiocese. He outlined an agenda of growth and expansion for Catholic schools, a renewal of the evangelizing mission of Catholic schools, the establishment of a need-based financial aid source for families throughout the archdiocese, a strategic, targeted approach to marketing and fundrais-

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LEHMAN FOUNDATION Secretary Dan Freytag (left) and school board Chairman Mark Vondenhuevel (center) speak with Archdiocese of Cincinnati Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jim Rigg following his presentation at Lehman recently. Freytag and Vondenhuevel are graduates of the school. ing, a leadership academy for new and aspiring school leaders, training programs for pastors and school boards, the establishment of metrics that measure achievement in religious, academic and financial vitality; and, a defined, transparent process for school openings, closings and consolidations that includes input and decision-making on all levels.

“Catholic schools are a national treasure,” Rigg told the audience.

“In the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, we are blessed with some of the finest Catholic schools in the country. Our vision for Catholic schools, entitled ‘Lighting the Way,’ provides a clear path to ensure a vibrant future for our schools. Our vision is the culmination of two years of extensive research, including the input of thousands of school stakeholders. Ul-

timately, our vision represents an agenda of growth and expansion of Catholic school education. Our vision will assure a future where faith-filled top-notch, schools are available and affordable for all families.”

At the conclusion of the evening, Rigg answered a host of questions from the audience.

The question-andanswer period lasted more than a half hour, and included questions as diverse as national standards to the timing of implementation of various components of the plan.

“As a veteran Catholic administrator, I am excited by the promise that ‘Lighting the Way’ holds for Catholic schools,” Lehman President Mike Barhorst stated. “Ensuring a vibrant, sustainable future for our schools is an essential part of the plan and certainly a goal

I have pursued for Lehman during my tenure here. I commend both Archbishop Schnurr and Superintendent Rigg for their visionary leadership and look forward to the implementation of the plan.”

Although the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is the 38th largest Catholic diocese in the country, it ranks eighth in the number of students enrolled — more than 43,000 students in 91 elementary and 23 high schools.

“Lighting the Way” marks the first time in the 189-year history of Archdiocese of the Cincinnati that a move has been made to create a unified vision and strategic plan for Catholic primary and secondary schools.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati includes 19 counties in southwestern Ohio, extending from Hamilton County to Auglaize County.

Abuse education effort begins 10th year As Catholic school students resume classes, the Partnering to Protect Children child abuse and peer abuse prevention is set to begin its 10th year of operation in Archdiocese of Cincinnati schools.

Since 2003, a total of 49,568 students, 879 parents and 777 school staff members at area Catholic schools have taken part in the schoolbased program conducted by the Council on Child Abuse under contract from the Archdiocese.

The council developed the program to help educators, parents and children in grades K-12

define and identify child abuse, peer abuse/bullying and other inappropriate behaviors, and teach strategies to address these problems in schools.

First, council staff members make presentations to school personnel and parents prior to the presentations to children. Then trained professionals use videos, interactive discussions, small group activities, role-playing and followup handouts with the children. After classroom presentations, children have an opportunity to speak individually with council staff to ask ques-

tions or share concerns.

Children’s disclosures requiring adult intervention are forwarded to the appropriate personnel or authorities for intervention and follow-up support. At the archdiocesan schools involved in the program since 2003, the council reports there have been: • 1,961 children identified as needing intervention of some sort; • 1,270 disclosures of current, previous or possible bullying; • 413 disclosures of family or other concerns; • 83 disclosures of current, previous or possible sexual abuse;

Church to host garage sale Trinity Church of the Brethren, 2220 N. Main Ave., will host its second annual community garage sale Sept.

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• 68 reports to Children’s Services; • 68 disclosures of current, previous or possible physical abuse.

“Prevention education for adults and children have proven effective in the identification, intervention and prevention of child abuse and peer abuse,” said Eve Pearl, executive director of the Council on Child Abuse of Southern Ohio. “Research has shown that these prevention programs help create safer schools where children don’t fear teasing, bullying or violence, and can be more receptive to learning.”

Before the creation of Partnering to Protect Children as an archdiocese-coordinated and funded program, the Council on Child Abuse had supplied programs to 90 archdiocesan schools on an individual basis from 1990 to 2002. Those efforts reached almost 26,000 students, almost 800 parents and 350 staff members.

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Hancock to serve in LDS position DAYTON — Robert Hancock, a Fairborn resident since 1996, has been sustained as the second counselor in the presidency of the Dayton Ohio East Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He replaces Trent Neel who served three years. Hancock will serve with Michael W. Stevens, president, and Mark Zelnick, first counselor, in administering the affairs of the church in an area that includes Beavercreek, Bellefontaine, Fairborn, Huber Heights, Piqua, Sidney, Springfield and Xenia.

Hancock is a research engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB. His wife, Joann, is a labor and delivery nurse at Kettering Medical Center, and they are the parents of nine children and have two grandchildren. One son is currently serving a mission for the church in Brazil and five children, ages 8 to 17, live at home.

Every member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is given an opportunity to offer serv-

ice in his or her local congregation, a geographically designated group called a ward or branch (based on local population).

Several wards and branches combine to form a stake (a broader geographical boundary) and an additional layer of administrative responsibility. In a church with lay leadership, the work of the individual congregations depends wholly on the volunteer efforts of the local members.

Members are invited or “called” by the leadership of the ward or stake to serve in a specific responsibility. Each call is perceived to come by inspiration of the leaders and offers the individual the right to accept or decline the service option.

Most callings or assignments are accepted, sometimes with an extra measure of faith to be able to fulfill the needs of callings that may or may not lie within one’s skills or experience. The term of service is usually indefinite; some responsibilities extend for a number of years while others last only months.

Local pastor authors book Tim Bartee, the pastor of Northtowne Church of God, has authored his second book which is titled, “Jesus, the Ultim a t e Leader.”

Bartee T h e book focuses on the leadership principles that are displayed in the life of Jesus. Bartee said, “According to the dictionary the word ‘ultimate’ means the finest or most superior quality of its kind and/or the furthest or highest in degree or order; the utmost or extreme.”

Throughout the book Bartee reinforces the unique style of Jesus’ superior and extreme leadership. Bartee writes, “All of these definitions aptly describe the leadership that Jesus demonstrated in his three and a half years of ministry that changed the direction of history.

His genius, wit and ability to handle a crisis coupled with his overall leadership skills are unparalleled. In his day and culture, his leadership style was ‘extreme’ and stretched his followers to the highest degree, and dumbfounded the religious leaders. Hindsight sees the wisdom

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and effectiveness of what skills were needed at that time, an extreme leader who brought in a new paradigm of leadership.”

The chapter titles include: The Power of Personal Development, Inside Every Faithful Follower is a Leader, Sacrifice is the Standard, The Servant’s Towel, State Your Mission, A Valiant Vision , Together We Can, and Jesus, the Ultimate Example. “Jesus, the Ultimate Leader” was published by AIM Publishing in July 2012.

The first book that Bartee authored was titled, “Samson, Living Too Close to the Edge,” and was published in 2011 by AIM Publishing.

Bartee describes it as a “detailed look at the life of Samson as found in the Old Testament book of Judges, chapters 13 through 16,” and he states that several churches have used the book as a study guide for their Sunday Morning Christian Education classes and mid-week Bible study.

Both books are available at Northtowne Church of God in Sidney, Gifts of Joy Christian Bookstore in Lima, or through email at aimcgma@gmail.com.

Tim Bartee is currently the pastor of the Northtowne Church of God in Sidney.

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Board adopts goals ANNA — The Anna Local Schools Board of Education at its recent meeting adopted goals for the new school year and heard reports on plans and activities for 2012-13.

The board approved the adoption of goals for the 2012-13 school year, including increasing the knowledge of long-term permanent improvement needs, budgets and planning; increasing the knowledge of secondary assistance education with scholarships, information and admissions; continue to participate in professional development; better recognize

the efforts of staff members; and review supplemental positions.

Treasurer Dennis Raberding presented the last five years of revenues from income tax received by the school district and said settlements have shown an increase over the last year.

He projected that the income tax will generate approximately $1.6 million in revenue for the school district.

Raberding noted that general fund expenditures have declined in salaries and benefits over the last few years.

Raberding stated that although Anna Local

Schools has received federal stimulus money over the last few years, he does not anticipate there will be any of those funds this year.

Superintendent Andy Bixler talked about the True Days Cash report, which measures the fiscal stability of the schools in the last 10 years. Bixler stated that Anna Local Schools had an increase in the cash balance for the first time in the last three years.

Board members heard reports from the elementary, middle and high school. A kindergarten open house for parents was held Aug. 14 and a

kindergarten open house for students was held Aug. 16. An open house for grades 1-12 was held Monday.

The board approved the hiring of personnel for the 2012-2013 school year. Deb Roby was hired as a custodian; Sandy Jones was hired as a cook; and Cindy Endsley was hired as the new Anna Middle School principal and special education coordinator.

The board held an executive session to discuss employment of personnel.

The next board meeting will be Sept. 10 at 6:30 p.m.

Koch selected as national finalist INDIANAPOLIS — The National FFA Organizat i o n a n nounced recently Amanda Koch, of B o t k i n s, was selected as naa Koch tional finalist for the National FFA Agricultural Proficiency Award in Nursery Operations — Entrepreneurship/Pl acement.

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Koch is one of only four FFA members nationwide chosen to compete for this award at the national finals during October’s 85th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis.

The Agricultural Proficiency Awards honor FFA members who, through their supervised agricultural experiences, have developed specialized skills that they can apply toward their future careers. The awards recognized outstanding student

achievement in agribusiness gained through establishment of a new business, working for an existing company or otherwise gaining hands-on career experience. The Nursery Operations — Entrepreneurship/Placement award is sponsored by RAM Trucks as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.

Koch, a member of the Botkins FFA Chapter, under the direction of Chad Berning, became eligible for the national

award after winning the Ohio state FFA competition earlier this year. In recognition of being a finalist, each of the four finalists will receive a plaque and $500. The national winner of the Nursery Operations — Entrepreneurship/Placement Award will receive and additional $500 during a special ceremony at the National FFA convention.

The 85th National FFA Convention & Expo is Oct. 24-27 in Indianapolis.

ESTATE TRANSFERS

The real estate transfers listed below have been recorded at the office of Shelby County Recorder Jodi L. Siegel.

Transfers listed also tax-exempt include property transfers in which no dollar amount is listed. Shelby County Auditor Denny York said the exemptions normally involve transactions within a family and therefore no public record of the dollar amount is recorded.

Anna Loren Zimpfer to Karl Ehemann and Gene Robert Ehemann, lot 59 and two parts lot 60, 4th addition, $31,900.

Andrew Barhorst to Dodds Custom Homes Inc., lot 283, Meadowview Addition Replat, $41,000.

Federal National Mortgage Association to Robert L. Rasneor and Stacy Feathers, lot 305, Meadowview Addition, $59,900.

Mary Etta and Warren T. Whitelaw to Robert and Nina Meyer, lot 603, Pebble Brook,

phase I, $168,000.

David Zimmerman, Tipp City Properties and Madison Building Systems to Alan R. Michael, Pebble Brook Subdivision Phase 2, lots 646, 648 and 649, $40,000.

David Zimmerman and Tipp City Properties to Mutual Federal Savings Bank, part lot 56, $50,900.

Botkins Donald E. and Bonnie A. Poppe, trustees, to Beth A. Elliott, lots 305 and 306, Monger Second Addition, exempt.

Jane A. Van Horn, deceased, to Steven L. Van Horn, lot 182, Rothe’s Addition, exempt.

Dinsmore Township Theresa J. Zimpfer to Tonya R. Huelskamp, section 23, south 1/2 north 1/2 southeast 1/4, except, 40 acres, exempt.

Theresa J. Zimpfer to Ted T. Zimpfer, section 24, west 1/2 southwest 1/4, except, 80 acres, exempt.

Mark E. and Lori J. Knief to Darby and Alisha Metz, section 12,

part southwest 1/4, 3.677 acres, $185,000.

Barbara A. Schoen to Frederick L. Schoen, trustee, section 30, part east 1/2 southwest 1/4, except, and southwest 1/4 southwest 1/4, except, exempt.

Darrell R. Fogt, estate, to Crystal L. Elmore, section 22, part northeast 1/4 exceptional, 12.607 acres, $50,000.

Dolores M. Ruark, Aman J. Calim and Patricia J. Calim to Ricky H. and Julie Ann Howell, parts section 16 lot 8, 0.770 acres, $70,000.

Franklin Township Marvin Gene Enterprises to Corey G. Shreves, section 1, parts southwest 1/4, 2.417 acres, and 3.489 acres, $165,000.

J. Scott Sidle to Connie Wagner, section 34, part southeast 1/4, 1.06 acres, and part east 1/2 southeast 1/4, 0.55 acres, $36,500.

Michael J. Bensmen to Michael J. and Martha M. Bensman, section 10, part north-

west 1/4 plus easement, 5.165 acres, exempt.

Choice A. Fultz, J. Edwin Fridley, Betty W. Fridley and Jodi R. Fultz to Beam Management LLC, section 33, free form, 0.24 acres, and part northwest 1/4 (Anna), 0.044 acres, exempt.

Van Buren Township Egbert Investments Ltd. to Brian D. and Terrie D. Egbert, section 36, part northwest 1/4 southwest 1/4, 40 acres, and part east 1/2 southwest 1/4 exceptional plus easement, 32 acres, exempt.

Randall G. Grewe, trustee, to Randall G. and Veronica M. Grewe, secction 10, southwest 1/4 northeast 1/4 and northwest 1/4 southeasat 1/4 exceptional; section 4, southeast 1/4 southeast 1/4, northeast 1/4 southeast 1/4; and section 3, west 1/2 northwest 1/4 southwest 1/4; exempt.

Larry and Saundra Hirschfeld to Lisa K. Manger, part section 8, 7.237 acres, exempt.

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Schemmel named wildlife officer ANNA — Mark H. Schemmel, 22, of St. Marys, formerly of Anna, has been assigned as a new O h i o s t a t e wildlife officer in A d a m s Schemmel County.

Schemmel is one of 11 new wildlife officer cadets who have been undergoing extensive training and were sworn in as commissioned state wildlife officers during recent ceremonies in Columbus. He began his new duties the following day.

Following completion of the Ohio Peace Officer Basic Training course May 4, the cadets had eight weeks of specialized training by the Division of Wildlife. In addition to wildlife law enforcement procedures and agency policies, the cadets received training in areas of wildlife and fish management, communications, ATV and

watercraft operation, hunter safety, and advanced firearms and self-defense topics.

As a state wildlife officer, Schemmel will have statewide jurisdiction to enforce wildlife regulations, investigate allegations of waterway pollution, protect state property, and make arrests. He will also conduct educational programs, perform fish and wildlife management duties, and advise landowners on dealing with wildlife. Wildlife officers serve an important role as a point of contact with law enforcement and other agencies on topics of mutual interest, providing assistance and expertise.

“I am very eager and excited to serve the sportsmen and women as well as all constituents of the state,” Schemmel said.

Schemmel is a 2009 graduate of Anna High School. In 2011, he received an associate degree in wildlife management from Hocking College, Nelsonville.

Goettemoeller gets Fultz scholarship BOTKINS — Maria Goettemoeller, 2012 Botkins High School graduate, received the $250 Chase Fultz Memorial Scholarship.

She is the daughter of Joe and Joanna Goettemoeller, of Botkins, and plans to attend Montana State University to major in animal sciences.

The Chase Fultz Memorial Scholarship fund is in memory of the late Botkins graduate. Schol-

arship recipients must have been a member of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) during their high school careers.

The fund is part of the Botkins Local Schools Foundation, which is administered by the Community Foundation of Shelby County. Applications are available from the Community Foundation’s website at w w w. c o m m f o u n . c o m after Jan. 1.

Christman honored BOTKINS — The Lahrmer Family Scholarship Fund has awarded a scholarship to Botkins High School graduate Jenna Christman. She will use her $1,000 toward a major in biology at Wright State University-Lake Campus. She is the daughter of Gerry and Linda Christman.

The Lahrmer Family Scholarship Fund is part of the Botkins Local Christman Schools Foundation and is administered by The Community Foundation of Shelby County. Applications will be available on the foundation’s website at www.commfoun.com after Jan. 1.

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and you get to play in the Niswonger Theater in Greenville, Tenn. And, yes, I would love to win it all,” Propps said. He urges all local bluegrass fans to visit the website before Sept. 14 and to place votes for Nightflyer.

Hayes and his wife, Lynn, serve as managers of the band.

“I played with the Gibson Brothers for four years,” Hayes said, “and I had come off the road.

The band (Nightflyer) started with me and another guy. But he left and we started all over again. The band really started when Richard joined.”

Nightflyer released a self-titled CD in early summer.

“We’ve got 13 songs and I love every one of Hayes said. them,” “We’ve had some really good song writers give us first crack at songs.”

Propps is quick to point out that Nightflyer is not a cover band.

“Seven or eight songs of the 13 are original,” he noted. “We have this idea that our songs are the ‘Rocky Tops’ of tomorrow.

That’s saying a lot isn’t it?” Band members are not composers. They have solicited songs from established writers and have welcomed unsolicited submissions.

“A lot of people sent us songs. We let it be known we’re looking for songs, looking for stuff that’s intriguing, lyrics that say a lot,” Propps added.

When it comes to choosing what material will be used, all five musicians have a say. And all five are adept at arranging.

“We pick out how it starts, the middle, and how it ends (as a group),” Propps said. “I’m a storyteller. I love songs that tell a story. I like songs that are all positive, gospel songs, songs that are heartfelt.”

Word has been getting out about the group.

They performed at the Georgetown Bluegrass Festival last weekend and at the Wheeling Jamboree a month ago.

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“That’s a feather in our cap,” Hayes said. The band will try for a coveted showcase spot at next year’s International Bluegrass Music Association conference. Hayes recognizes that there is something unique, something special about Nightflyer.

“We’re bringing contemporary music into it.

Richard’s delivery is special. If you have a banjo and a Dobro, you’re going to sound like a bluegrass band. But we attack it aggressively.

We bring a little more — I don’t want to say rock and roll energy, but it really is that.”

“Vocals is a strong part,” Propps added.

“When you can make people feel exactly what you’re singing and when you’re done, they’re looking at you either with tears or a great big smile, because they get what you’re singing — the energy is so big.”

Even so, Hayes said he was shocked that the

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Officer resigns COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Department of Education is losing a leader in its school accountability division as the state investigates whether districts improperly manipulated attendance and enrollment data.

Associate Superintendent William Zelei told colleagues in an Aug. 6 email that he’s resigning for a new job. The department released the message Wednesday.

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Propps has big dreams and big goals for his new band.

“Within the next five years, I would like to be a full-time bluegrass band, travelling. I want to play the Grand Ole Opry,” he said.

In the meantime, he’ll continue in his day job at NK Parts. He and his wife, Mandy, a home health aide who is also a singer, have three children, Marissa, Andrew and Adam. They became Sidney residents after they visited from Virginia to celebrate a brother-in-law’s pastorate here 15 years ago.

It looked like the small towns they’d admired in movies.

“We drove around town,” he said. “It looked like Anywhere, U.S.A. We liked it. So we moved here.”

Now he’s ready to take the Sidney name with him as Nightflyer rises higher and higher into the bluegrass cosmos of stars.

Two nurses were suspended earlier.

The hospital isn’t commenting on their roles or exactly why they’re suspended.

A local health commissioner has said a doctor who was involved told him a nurse disposed of the kidney.

None of the suspended employees has commented through the hospital.

The intended kidney recipient was released from the medical center, which couldn’t say whether she received a different kidney.

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He called at the exact time he should have called. I thought I was going to have a cancellation. It’s pretty neat the way it worked out. I said, ‘The good lord’s lookin’ after you and me, too.’”

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, Aug. 31, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Today’s Full Moon is emotional. Be careful about making promises you can’t keep, especially at work. Think before you speak.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) When it comes to romantic involvements or anything having to do with sports, show business or dealing with children, go gently. Today’s Full Moon could confuse your good judgment.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might feel torn between your responsibilities to home and family versus your responsibilities to career and job. This is classic for today’s Full Moon. Do as little as possible.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Today is such an emotional Full Moon, it could affect you so greatly that you have an accident. Naturally, this doesn’t have to happen. It’s all up to you to maintain a calm mind.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Avoid conflict about money and possessions today. People will go overboard because of today’s Full Moon.

Stay out of things for your own sake.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Your only recourse today is to be patient with partners and close friends.

This is the only day all year when the Full Moon is directly opposite you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Don’t make a big deal about problems at work today. Others might be emotional, but you can be the peacemaker or the bridge that is needed to restore sanity. (It’s what you do.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Parents should be patient with children today. Everyone feels the energy of the Full Moon, because it makes people too emotional. Be kind and tolerant.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Avoid domestic squabbles today, because they won’t solve anything. It will just be words and noise. Instead, relax with others over a cup of coffee. Be friendly.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Avoid hasty words and impulsive actions today, which might burst out.

This is just Full Moon energy. Think before you speak or do anything.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Don’t be rash with your possessions, and think twice before you spend your hard-earned money today. Impulses, especially those having to do with cash flow, are confusing right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Today’s Full Moon is in your sign, lined up with your ruler, Neptune. This is like you have Vaseline on your lens obscuring your clear view. Don’t react to situations around you.

YOU BORN TODAY Although modest, you are heroic to others. You’re not afraid of public scrutiny and eagerly involve yourself in the world around you. You’re an amateur psychologist; you know what makes others tick.

(You loathe pretension and hypocrisy.)

You are always charming and attractive. Good news! Your year ahead could be one of the most powerful years of your life.

Birthdate of: Ryan Kesler, hockey player; Debbie Gibson, singer; Richard Gere, actor. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Mostly clear with south winds around 5 mph Low: 63°

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Sunday

Cloudy with a 50% chance of showers High: 81° Low: 70°

Showers likely with a 70% chance of rain High: 79° Low: 66°

Monday

Partly cloudy with 50% chance of rain High: 81° Low: 64°

August 30, 1912 Considerable attention was attracted by the big steamer at work near swing bridge this afLOCAL OUTLOOK the ternoon, when Fire Chief Hume, Engineer Sprawl and others of the firemen, were at work testing new hose just received by the fire department. About 500 feet of hose was tested under High pressure is building high pressure. The presin to the region. A warming sure of the city mains is trend sets up not high enough for this the sectest so the big steamer ond half fire engine was put to of the work. The steamer will w e e k . give a pressure of over W e ’ r e watching 200 pounds.

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Stress one cause of Graves’ disease DEAR DR. familiar with the DONOHUE: I kind of contest have a niece who your niece was participated in in. It sounds one of those strange to me, “touch the car but congratulacontinuously the tions to your conlongest” niece. tests, where you Graves’ diswin a car. She To your ease is an overwon after almost active thyroid good three days. gland, one that About a year health produces and selater, she was di- Dr. Paul G. cretes an abunagnosed with dance of thyroid Donohue Graves’ disease. hormone. It’s anShe was treated for it. other one of the autoimCould this grueling mune illnesses, those contest have precipi- diseases in which the tated the onset of immune system turns Graves’ disease? No one on its own body. In this on either side of her case, the target is the family has had Graves’. thyroid gland.

— S.D. Unique antibodies ANSWER: I’m not produced by the im-

mune system overstimulate the thyroid gland.

The effects are much what you’d expect from too much thyroid hormone. Weight loss occurs in the face of a hearty appetite. The heart at rest beats quickly. Blood pressure often rises. Affected people are intolerant of heat and feel warm when those around are cool. Tremors of the hand are common.

Bulging of the eyes is another sign.

In addition to the above symptoms, most with Graves’ disease have an enlarged gland, a goiter.

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immune system suddenly produce antibodies that threw her thyroid gland into high gear. Gender is one of those influences. For every male affected by Graves’ disease, seven females have it. Cigarette smoking is another stimulus.

Infections that somehow influence the immune system’s production of the stimulating antibodies are another possibility.

Stress is cited as a potential cause. But the stress has to be in closer time proximity to the development of an overstimulated gland than was it to your niece’s onset of Graves.

Wife can’t stop man’s habitual skirt-chasing DEAR ABBY: I D E A R am 20 years younger C H E AT E D than my husband. I ON: You can’t. am also attractive It may give and sexually availyou some comable to him. We have fort to know a great relationship that the beexcept for one thing. I havior you can’t trust him! I have dehave caught him scribed has Dear emailing women he nothing to do Abby met at work, inviting with you or Abigail our neighbor to go your level of with him on a motor- Van Buren desirability. It cycle ride and heard is COMPULmany stories about him SIVE. You were naive to asking women on dates. think if you married a seBut the worst was rial cheater that he would when I found out he was be a faithful husband to calling a woman every you. The only person who day and going to her can “make” him think difhouse when I was at ferently is him, and before work. When I confronted that can happen, he will him he said nothing sex- have to realize he needs ual happened, but he to change. moved out for a month.

DEAR ABBY: I have Why does he feel he been a single mother for has to have other women? seven years raising a I really believe some men wonderful 16-year-old are cheaters no matter daughter. She is an honor what. Oh, yeah — I’m his student, works part-time fourth wife. He cheated and is very mature. I am on the others, too. How dating an older man, can I make him want only “Gary,” who has grown me? — CHEATED ON children.

IN THE MIDWEST Gary feels my daugh-

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His house is 14 miles away. I live in a safe neighborhood, but the idea of leaving her alone makes me very uncomfortable. This is causing a rift between Gary and me.

He feels I am having a hard time “cutting the apron strings.” Is he right? — SINGLE MOM IN THE MIDWEST DEAR SINGLE MOM: Inform Gary you are not ready to “cut the apron strings” because you don’t want your relationship with your daughter to turn to shreds.

Although you say your daughter is mature, you are responsible for her safety and welfare until she turns 18. And that includes setting a good example for her.

DEAR ABBY: I’m expecting my first child in three months and I am definitely showing. I work in a retirement community, and every day one or

more of the residents makes it his or her business to tell me I’m “just getting SOOO BIG!” and then asks if I’m sure “there aren’t twins in there.” I find their comments rude.

What’s the appropriate response to people who make unwelcome comments about my size? I want to tell them that stating the obvious is unnecessary. They wouldn’t comment about someone’s size who wasn’t pregnant, so why is it acceptable in my case? — EXPECTING IN MARYLAND DEAR EXPECTING: Although you find the comments unwelcome, I’m sure the residents are only trying to be friendly and join in the excitement of another life coming into the world. They are not meant to be insulting and you shouldn’t regard them in that light. All you should do is smile, pat your tummy and say, “Not according to the sonogram!” and move on.

75 Years August 30, 1937 The Anna F.F.A. Chapter again won first premium on their educational exhibit at the Ohio State Fair. This high honor is the fourth in four consecutive years, an achievement that no other chapter can claim.

The exhibit this year portrays the manner in which the Anna Chapter practices and promotes cooperation in the chapter and community.

——— Due to the fact that several hundred Sidney fans traveled to Lima last night to see K.Y. Williams pitch the Sidney Prima Club to the state championship and were disappointed after paying their admission to the ball park, only to find that the executive board of the State Amateur Softball Association rules Williams out of the meet in a gesture “to keep the tournament clean,” free admission will prevail at Holy Angels ball park tomorrow night. Arrangements have been made to have the Dayton Sucher team here for the contest.

——— Clarence Harp has resumed his former position as department manager for the Kroger Co., grocery and meat market on the east side of the public square. Mr. Harp formerly was with the H & H Grocery on North Main Avenue.

50 Years August 30, 1962 Public auction of the plant and equipment of the Sidney Machine Tool Co., Highland Avenue, has been set for Sept. 13, according to word received here by city officials. The sale will be conducted by Samuel L. Winternitz & Co., of Chicago and Detroit, which acquired the local operation from Buhr Machine Tool Co., Ann Arbor, Mich., in April of this year.

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A lifelong member of the Sidney Salvation Army, Eva Shue, 18, will leave Sept. 3 for a twoyear training program at the Salvation Army Officers Training School, New York City. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shue, 127 West Court Street, she graduated from Sidney High School in 1961. She has been a church school teacher for the past three years.

25 Years August 30, 1987 Julie Backscheider, baton instructor for the Julie-Ettes, is pictured displaying a national award her California Girls team won recently in Milwaukee, Wis. Also shown are representatives of the three local teams which competed.

They are Wendy King, 8, California Girls; Kristen Spangler, 12, Starburst; and Jo An Bertsch, 16, Fantasia.

——— Surrounded by fellow Amos Press Inc. employees, API community recoordinator lations James P. Humphrey cut the cake at his retirement party Friday, assisted by J. Oliver Amos, chairman of the board of Amos Press. Looking on at right was Cecil Watkins, an Amos Press board member and former vice president with the firm. Humphrey has been with Amos Press for 29 years and in addition to serving as comrelations munity coordinator, he has also held posts with material control, as storekeeper, purchasing agent and in the news engraving department when API offices were located downtown. Humphrey, 66, who is also Sidney’s mayor, has opted not to seek another term as mayor.

——— Four new teachers have joined the staff at Sidney High School this fall. Brad Clendening, Industrial Arts; Rebecca Wulber, Orchestra instructor for grades five through 12; Lori Clendening, business and Shelia Smith, part-time Spanish teacher. The two Clendenings are husband and wife.

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Then, apparently, guilt set in.

Three days after Clemens allegedly held up a bank in the western North Dakota town of Williston, the 53-year-old called 911 and asked police in his hometown of Topeka, Kan., to arrest him “for making a mistake,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF A FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT (FONSI) COMBINED NOTICE Date of Publication: August 30, 2012 Mark S. Cundiff, City Manager City of Sidney 201 West Poplar Street Sidney, Ohio 45365 (937) 498-8131 To All Interested Persons, Agencies, and Groups: The City of Sidney proposes to request that the State of Ohio to release Federal funds under Section 104 (g) of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended; Section 288 of Title II of the Cranston Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA), as amended; and/or Title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; to be used for the following project(s): City of Sidney FY2012 CDBG Community Development Formula Program (A-F-12-2DR-1) Wapakoneta Avenue Storm Sewer Outlet #1 Flood & Drainage Facilities. CDBG Cost: $68,700. Installation of new storm sewer outlet near southwest quadrant of Wapakoneta Avenue and West Russell Road consisting of approx 1416 LF storm sewer, 6 manholes, and 20 LF waterline and related appurtenances. Single-year project.

City of Sidney. Estimated Total Project Cost: $120,000 The City of Sidney has determined that the project(s) will have no significant impact on the environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended is not required.

The City of Sidney has prepared an Environmental Review Record (ERR) for each of the projects listed above. The ERR(s) documents the environmental review of the project(s). The ERR(s) is (are) on file and available for the public's examination and copying, upon request, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays) at the above address. No further environmental review of the project(s) will be conducted prior to the request for release of Federal funds.

The City of Sidney plans to undertake the project(s) described above with the Federal funds cited above. Any interested person, agency, or group wishing to comment on the project or disagreeing with this Finding of No Significant Impact decision, may submit written comments for consideration to the City of Sidney at the above listed address by 4:00 p.m. on September 15, 2012, which is at least 15 days after the publication of this combined notice. A notice regarding the responsible entity’s intent to request release of funds is listed immediately below.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS (NOI/RROF) To All Interested Persons, Agencies, and Groups: On or about, but not before, September 18, 2012, the City of Sidney will submit a request to the State of Ohio for the release of Federal funds under Section 104 (g) of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended; Section 288 of Title II of the Cranston Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA), as amended; and/or Title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; to be used for the project(s) listed above.

The City of Sidney certifies to the State of Ohio that Mark S. Cundiff, in his capacity as City Manager of the City of Sidney, consents to accept the jurisdiction of Federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied.

The legal effect of the certification is that upon its approval, the City of Sidney may use the Federal funds, and the State of Ohio will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended.

The State of Ohio will accept an objection to its approval of the release of funds and acceptance of the certification only if it is on one of the following grounds: (a) the certification was not, in fact, executed by the responsible entity's Certifying Officer; (b) the responsible entity has failed to make one of the two findings pursuant to Section 58.40 or to make the written determination required by Section 58.35, 58.47, or 58.53 for the project, as applicable; (c) the responsible entity has omitted one or more of the steps set forth at Subpart E of 24 CFR Part 58 for the preparation, publication, and completion of an Environmental Assessment; (d) the responsible entity has omitted one or more of the steps set forth at Subparts F and G of 24 CFR Part 58 for the conduct, preparation, publication, and completion of an Environmental Impact Statement; (e) the recipient has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before release of funds and approval of the environmental certification by the State; or (f) another Federal agency, acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504, has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Written objections must meet the conditions and procedures set forth in Subpart H of 24 CFR Part 58, and be addressed to: State of Ohio Department of Development; Office of Community Development; Environmental Officer; P.O. Box 1001; Columbus, Ohio 43216-1001.

Objections to the Release of Funds on bases other than those stated above will not be considered by the State of Ohio. No objections received after October 5, 2012, (which is 15 days after it is anticipated that the State will receive a request for release of funds), will be considered by the State of Ohio.

The address of the certifying officer is: Mark S. Cundiff, City Manager, City of Sidney, 201 West Poplar Street, Sidney, Ohio 45365.

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Challenging and rewarding full-time opportunity at CRSI, Auglaize county managing facility for individuals with developmental disabilities. Responsible for staff scheduling, budgeting, and ensuring home-like atmosphere.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, short-term disability, company-paid long-term disability and life insurance. Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid training.

Part-time Support Specialist

CRSI also has immediate part time openings for Support Specialists assisting individuals with developmental disabilities in Auglaize county. Must be caring and responsible, 18 years or older, have a high school diploma/ GED, possess a valid driver's license and an acceptable police record.

Applications for both positions are available online at www.crsi-oh.com or at 13101 Infirmary Rd Wapakoneta, Ohio

Champaign Residential Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit provider for adults with developmental disabilities since 1976.

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Manufacturing Supervisor Sidney, Ohio

Norcold, the leader in refrigerator manufacturing for the RV, trucking and marine industries, is currently accepting resumes for 3rd Shift Manufacturing Supervisor for our Sidney, Ohio facility.

This position will direct and coordinate activities of production departments in processing materials and manufacturing products for the 3rd shift.

This includes coaching and maintaining production staff, coordinating production plans, maintaining product quality, applying LEAN principles and ensuring safety. Qualified candidates will have strong production leadership skills and 5+ years supervisory experience. Bachelor degree is a plus.

We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental, 401(K) and many others.

For confidential consideration, email resume and salary history to: recruiter@norcold.com No phone calls please

Visit our website to learn more: www.norcold.com EOE

MACHINE MAINTENANCE Springfield

Repairing Industrial Equipment, Mechanical, Electrical trouble shooting, Hydraulic/ Pneumat ic repair, (PLCs) required.

Minimum 2 years experience.

Benefits after 90 days.

Submit resume to: AMS 330 Canal Street Sidney, Ohio 45365

Email: amsohio1@earthlink.net NEEDED IMMEDIATELY! MIG WELDERS

1st Shift, Full time, with overtime available!

Benefits include Health, Dental, & Life Insurance, with Roth IRA package.

We offer Holiday, Vacation, and Attendance bonus to those who qualify. Advances based on performance and attendance.

Be prepared to take a weld test. Certifications not a requirement. Drug free workplace.

Elite Enclosure Co. 2349 Industrial Dr. Sidney, OH (937)492-3548 Ask for Doug EOE

LEGAL ASSISTANT

Faulkner, Garmhausen, Keister & Shenk, a Legal Professional Association, is seeking an administrative assistant to work in its litigation department at its Sidney, Ohio office. This individual will be responsible for assisting the firmʼs litigation attorneys with various administrative responsibilities.

Applicant must have excellent communication and administrative/typing skills and be proficient in Microsoft office software including Word, Excel and Outlook.

Qualified individuals must be detail-oriented, energetic, and self-motivated. Prior experience working with litigation attorneys and/or as a paralegal is preferred.

The position offers a competitive salary and other benefits in a positive work environment.

Interested and qualified persons should send their resume to: Thomas J. Potts at Faulkner, Garmhausen, Keister & Shenk Suite 300, 100 South Main Avenue Sidney, Ohio, 45365 or email: tpotts@fgks-law.com

To learn more about our organization, please visit our website: www.fgks-law.com

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Thieman Stamping & Metal Fabrication is seeking qualified associates for the following positions:

CNC PRESS BRAKE OPERATOR

2nd Shift 3:20PM–1:20AM Mondays-Thursdays Blue print reading capabilities a must. 3+ years experience.

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A Part time Physicians Assistant or Nurse Practitioner needed for an ENT practice.

Responsibilities would include but not limited to, provide patient examinations, order appropriate diagnostic tests, take patient history and plan, implement and evaluate results of patient care.

Requirements: Master's in Nursing or Physicians Assistant degree Graduate of Accredited Program for Nurse Practitioner in Family Practice or Acute CareOhio RN License or PARegistered in Ohio as a Nurse Practitioner or PA Please email your resume to Resumes@orlinc.com CHIROPRACTIC ASSISTANT

Busy local medical office hiring for an entry level position. Part time, Mondays & Wednesdays 3pm-7pm, Tuesdays 6:30am-2pm, every other Thursdays 6:30am-12:30pm, Saturday 6:30-11:30am. Hiring immediately! Please mail resumes to: PO Box 112 Minster OH 45865.

Tool & Die Maintenance, Full time, 1st Shift position in the Sidney area, Repairing dies for large stamping presses, Minimum of 2 years experience.

Submit resume to: AMS 330 Canal Street Sidney, Ohio 45365

Email: amsohio1@earthlink.net DENTAL HYGIENIST needed for periodontal practice in Troy, Thursdays & occasional Fridays.

Call (937)335-5050 or mail resume to 1569 McKaig Avenue Troy, OH 45373

PASTOR NEEDED part time, Houston Congregational Christian Church.

Call (937)295-3755, ask for Sandy.

SOCIAL WORKER needed for private foster care agency, LSW required. Send resume and cover letter to: kbutcher@ isaiahsplace.com or PO Box 220 Troy, OH 45373

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GROWING HOME HEALTH CARE AGENCY HAS POSITIONS OPEN IN SIDNEY!!!

2-3 LPN's 3rd Shift Contact (937)292-7871 www.interim-health.com

VISITING ANGELS seeks experienced caregivers for in-home, private duty care. Preference live-in, weekends, nights. Shelby, Miami, and southern Auglaize counties. 419-501-2323 www.visitingangels.com/midwestohio

Continental Express Inc. has immediate need for a Mechanic for day shift.

Will perform preventative maintenance and repairs on semi tractors and/or trailers. Must be mechanically inclined, dependable and have own tools. Experience on tractor trailers preferred but not required.

We offer: Competitive Pay & Benefits • Uniforms • 401k with match • Direct Deposit • Vacation and Holiday Pay

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PIQUA, Duplex, 4 bedroom, 1.5 bath, Northend, NO PETS!, $585 monthly, plus utilities, deposit, (937)606-4751 SYCAMORE CREEK APARTMENTS

2 & 3 Bedroom Apartment Homes, Playground, Off-Street Parking, Appliances, On-Site Laundry. Some utilities included.

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Across from Walmart 2451 W Michigan St. 580 Square Feet.

1-800-468-1120

-Coordinate & Dispatch truck drivers -Data entry of orders -Route & monitor shipments -Driver & customer support Requirements:

-Good communication & interpersonal skills -Ability to multi-task under pressure -Working knowledge of trucking/DOT regulations -Good computer & math skills -Ability to problem solve -Ability to work as team player Offers:

-A competitive wage & benefit package

Please send your resume and references to: 4667 US RT 127 Greenville, OH 45331

2 BEDROOM, Basement, gas heat, CA, wood floors, pets ok! 716 St. Marys, $550 plus deposit, (937)441-1220

3-4 BEDROOM, double, 210 East Grove (off St. Mary's), stove, refrigerator. $500 rent/ deposit.

(937)658-2026 833 SOUTH Walnut. 2 - 3 bedroom home, full basement, garage, quiet neighborhood, $575 monthly (937)492-4038

909 PORT Jefferson Road. 2 bedroom home, new bath, new floor, full basement. $550.

(937)492-4038

LARGE 2 car garage, 1278 North Kuther Road, appliances not included, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, ranch, brick. $650. david.wilson.bxyt@statefarm.com, (937)638-0475.

SIDNEY, 3 Bedroom, fenced yard, garage, no pets, available 9-15, $600, Deposit, 1yr lease, (937)726-0832 OFFICE OR RETAIL SPACE Across from Walmart, 2451 W Michigan St. 1000 square feet. (800)468-1120

OFFICE SPACE, 956 sq ft, located on St. Marys Avenue, Kitchenette, bathroom, most utilities paid, ample parking, $495 monthly plus deposit, (937)489-9921 7 NIGHTS on Ft Myers Beach 9-14-12 to 9-21-12.

Sleeps 6. $550 firm.

(937)492-0297

RENT TO OWN! Remodeled 3 bedroom, garage, fenced yard, 519 West Avenue, Sidney, (937)526-3264.

DOUBLE WIDE mobile home, fully furnished with new or almost new items.

Lake Placid, Florida. 55 plus mobile home court.

Pictures through email available. (937)497-9540

Labor Day Sale All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the federal fair housing act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference limitation or discrimination.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Shelby County Fairgrounds Sidney, Ohio Monday, Sept. 3, 9:30 am Large amount of furniture, Ansonia Clock Co. Clock, Harpsichord "Arnold Dolmesh" Spinet, Emmit Kelly Figurines, Washer and Dryer, Tiffany type lamps, bikes, e-wheels moped, SchmidtCassegrain Telescope 8"xLX10, Prints, Precious Moments figurines, Light house figurines, Nice Bird Cage, Kitchen Table and Chairs, Sofa, Book shelves, Desk, Dressers, 1800s organ, Television, Small chest freezer, costume jewelry, household items, Oak gas Fireplace, Gas Heater, water heater, lawn trailer, garage items, old generator, John Deere front blade, small coin collection, and much more!

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1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, appliances, fireplace, secure entry. Water & trash included, garages.

(937)498-4747 Carriage Hill Apts. www.1troy.com

1 BEDROOM, Botkins, appliances, air, laundry, patio, 1 level, no pets, $350, (937)394-7265.

1 BEDROOM, Northend Sidney, appliances, air, some utilities, laundry facility, NO PETS. $375, (937)394-7265

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Secure east side Sidney neighborhood. None nicer. $600. (937)498-9665.

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JACKSON CENTER duplex. $650 monthly, 3 Bedroom, 2 car garage, 227B Robb Street.

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JACKSON CENTER, 1/2 double, 3 bedrooms, appliances included, washer/dryer hook-up, No pets, $575, (937)726-0832.

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2 BEDROOMS, Sidney, 1 car attached garage, CA, $525. Move in special, (937)638-4468.

3-Bedroom, 2-Bath 1Car Garage, W/D, C/A., Dishwasher.

Available August 1st. 2727 Kristy Way. $700/month (937)564-1125

621 ST. MARYS, 3 Bedroom, 1 bath. NO PETS! $450/ month, deposit.

(937)498-8000

ANNA 2 bedroom downstairs, $400 monthly plus deposit. Clean carpets!

No pets. Close to park. ( 9 3 7 ) 2 9 5 - 3 6 0 7 (937)295-3720 DISCOVER PEBBLEBROOK Village of Anna. 2 & 3 Bedroom townhomes & ranches. Garages, appliances, washer & dryer.

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CAP COLLECTION 150 piece ball cap collection, $225. (937)497-9540

WASHER & DRYER, Whirlpool, in good shape. $300. (937)658-0536 COMPUTER MONITOR, Flat screen, 16 inch, Sauder Office Desk, 29x35, both in excellent condition, asking $60 for both, (937)492-7464 SEASONED FIREWOOD $160 per cord. Stacking extra, $125 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047 SECTIONAL SOFA, Brand new, dark mesa brown, dual recliners at both ends, $1,600, Dresser, full size with mirror, $350 (937)418-5756 LAWN TRACTOR, Sears, snow blade, cab, chains, weights, 42" mowing deck, $1100.

(937)368-2220 leave phone number in message.

WANTED, Someone to shear small flock of sheep, Call (937)710-9136

CEMETERY LOTS, 4 in Covington, Garden of Gospels, Miami Memorial Park, $1600.

Call (419)628-3321 if no answer leave message.

CEMETERY PLOTS (4) Covington Miami Memorial Gardens in the Garden of the Apostles.

(937)778-9352

COLLECTOR TRAIN SET, LGB German Trains, photos. Train is in bristol condition, 88' solid brass track, includes 6 scale buildings, engine and coal tender are driving engines. See the 10 car train running! Original boxes for the trains. Firm price $500, (248)694-1242 Piqua.

COPY/FAX MACHINE, computer connections. 4 drawer, copies from 8.5X11 to 11X17. Also, paper storage cabinet included. Asking $500. Machine is a Ricoh Aticio #1027. (937)214-7979 after 11am.

DRILL-DRIVER, Bosch, 10.8V Lithium Drill-Driver. $65. (937)497-9540

FREE HAULING! Refrigerators, freezers, batteries, washers, dryers, tanning beds, water heater, metal/ steel. JunkBGone. (937)538-6202.

FURNITURE, Bedroom Suite, Walnut, 7 pieces, Kitchen Hutch with formal dinnerwares, Tabletop computer ensemble, cleaned, (937)492-5339 call for appointment

SOFA BED, Black leather full size, new. $200 firm, Microwave stands $25 each, Many quilting books, $50 all (937)778-8217

WORK BENCH, 24"x46", 5 drawers, swing-out tool cabinet, $70 or bargain.

Photos/ Piqua, (248)694-1242.

SARVER'S MUSIC, 820 E. Court St. Sidney. We have all your musical needs. Band and orchestra supplies! We repair all instruments. Band and Orchestra rental and sales. Hours M-F 10a-6p, Saturday 10a-4p (937)489-1841

CHIWEENIE PUPPIES 9 weeks old, 2 females and 2 males, both females and one male have brown and tan markings and 1 male is black with brown markings, very very cute and ready to go!!! $300 (937)570-4346.

CHOCOLATE LAB puppies, AKC registered, born 7/29/2012. 3 males remaining, all healthy with first shots, $400 each.

Photos available!

(937)430-6707

FREE BEAGLE MIX to good home, 2 year female, needs fenced area for running and another dog, TLC. (937)339-5740 leave message KITTENS 2 black and 1 calico. Free to good home. (937)498-2458

GERMAN SHEPHERD puppies. 10 weeks old.

Ready for new home. $250 each. Parents on premises. (937)492-4059 (937)489-1438

KITTEN, abandoned rescue - now healthy and playful! Needs permanent indoor home, uses litter box, male grey with white, about 10 weeks old, (937)492-7478 leave message.

KITTENS, Loving home wanted for 5 month old brother & sister, Shots, litter trained, very loving & adorable, Free to approved homes (937)492-0602

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

RAT TERRIERS, Puppies, Standard size, UKC registered, vet checked, m i c r o c h i p p e d , (937)561-4493 SIBERIAN HUSKY, AKC, 10 Month old female, housebroken, Very loving, up to date on shots, $350, (937)497-1018 RIFFLES Winchester Model 94-22 magnum, lever action. Marlin Model 1894, 44 magnum, lever action. M-1-Garand, military issued, 1943, 30-06 caliber. (419)738-3313

SAWS, Delta 10" direct drive table saw & DELTA 10" radial arm saw. Excellent condition. Original paperwork. Troy area. Many extras.

(937)658-0906 and leave message.

BEAUTIFUL 2nd cutting alfalfa grass hay. No rain, 110 bales, $7 per bale.

(937)295-3217

1954 DODGE M-37 Army Truck. 3/4 ton. Tandem axle trailer with hitch and sway bars. Large tool box, 12V battery for electric hitch lift. Asking PARADE READY!! $19,000 OBO. (937)214-7979 after 11am.

1995 CHEVROLET Handicap Van. Runs great, new tire, under 100,000 miles. Call after 3pm. (937)492-1120.

1995 OLDSMOBILE, 1 owner.

95,000 miles.

Runs great! Good condition. REDUCED PRICE!!!! $2000. (937)497-7220 1999 PONTIAC MONTANA Van 113,000 miles.

Good condition.

(419)925-4544

2000 FORD Mustang, black, 145,400 miles. V6, automatic, nice clean car!

Runs great. $3500.

(937)901-1766

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2006 FORD Focus, 4 speed, good gas mileage, asking Blue book $5250, warranty transfer, (937)214-2419 2007, GMC Envoy, 65,600 miles, loaded with accessories, black leather interior, 4 wheel drive, illness forces sale, $14,500 call (937)773-7858

TRUCK TOPPER, 74" x 63", fits 2005 Chevrolet Sonoma, $200 (937) 524-1291 1988 BAYLINER, 17.5'.

Open bow, 2.3L, 120 OMC. Good shape, well maintenanced with escort trailer. AM/Fm Cassette, vimini top, bow cover, zip on back cover with curtain, spare prop, anchor, life jackets and more!

Runs great! Must see to appreciate. $3500.

(937)606-1109

1989 ASTRO Fish and Ski, 19', Mercury 150hp, Bimini top, 2 live wells, fish finder, trolling motor, trailer, $3500 (937)596-5474

JOHN BOAT 16 foot, all aluminum, Oars, anchor and trolling motor included. Used 3 times. New $1400. Asking $700 OBO. (937)214-7979 after 11am.

2009 SUKUKI Burgman scooter 400 CC, white, 968 miles, $5000 (937)667-4459

2004 HARLEY DAVIDSON 883 Sportster, black, 5,500 miles.

5 speed, very good condition, very few modifications. $3600. (937)498-0404 2009 CF Moto V5, 250 CC, automatic, like new, white, 182 miles, added large windshield, $2500 (937)667-4459

1999 POLARIS Sportsman 500, 4x4, camo green, runs very good, $3200 OBO (937)524-9069 2005 JEEP, Liberty Sports Edition, 1 owner, 74,000 miles, new battery & brakes, towing package, luggage rack, sunroof, asking $11,000, (937)492-1457 TRUCK TOPPER, 80" x 67", for Chevrolet 1500 short bed (937) 524-1291

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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Garage Sale

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COVINGTON, 6920 McMaken Road, Thursday & Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-3pm.

Large sale!!!

House plants, pictures, Kitchenaid mixer, lots of household items, working old Singer sewing machine in cabinet with attachments, scrubs L-2x, ladies clothing 16-22, saw saw, jig saw, tools, weedeater, push mower, 2 man tents, old large trunk, 4 tires with rims for Toyota Tundra, Lots of miscellaneous, Saturday half day!!!

HOUSTON, 3603 St. Rt. 66, Thursday & Friday 9am-5pm, Large garage sale!!! Lots and Lots of stuff. Too much to list!!!, Must see!!!

HOUSTON, 4949 State Route 66 (corner of St Rt 48 & 66), Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 8am-5pm. New toddler toys, Craftsman full set tools, dishes, clothes, camping, toddler clothes, collectible baseball cards. Everything must go!!!

NEWPORT GRILLIOT NEWPORT SERVICE 3205 W St Rt 47, Houston, OH. Friday August 31st, Saturday September 1st 9-4.

Business and huge garage sale! Antiques and collectibles.

NASCAR collection, vintage steamer trunk. aged automotive signs, woodburning cook stove, furniture, tools, and much more!!!

PIQUA, 10226 Little Turtle Lane, Thursday & Friday, 9am-4pm. Some furniture, good used clothing: kid's & women's, TV, TV armoire with side glass shelf, jewelry armoire, miscellaneous.

Low prices!

PIQUA, 1720 PattersonHalpin Rd., (Shelby County), Saturday and Sunday 9am-5pm. Baby items and miscellaneous items.

PIQUA, 2321 Aiken Rd. (1st road off 66, north of Miami Shelby Line) From Sidney to Patterson Halpin to Taylor to Aiken.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9-5. New bunk bed, over 300 books, ladies clothes size 12 (some never worn), jewelry, cookbooks, furniture, miscellaneous household, much more! Rain or Shine

PIQUA, 6901 Miami Shelby West (1 mile west of St Rt 66, close to Johnson Farm), Saturday, 9am-4pm, Sunday, 9am-3pm. Nice and clean sale with lots of miscellaneous. Good stuff: no junk!

PIQUA/HOUSTON 5555 Fessler Buxton Rd. Thursday and Friday 9:30-3:30.

MOVING SALE! Antique tractor (parade ready), blue stained glass light fixture, household items, Christmas and other yard and seasonal decorations.

LOW prices! Priced to sell.

SIDNEY, 320 1/2 S. Miami (in Alley). Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9amnoon, Yard sale! Whirlpool clothes dryer, womens clothes large-xlarge, shoes, purses, books, puzzles, magazines, sports cards, quilts, fishing poles, Hot Wheels, Christmas items, Leather (Hooters) golf bag, baked goods, Playstation 2 games, and lots of other stuff

SIDNEY, 1302 Westwood Drive. Thursday, Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 9am-?, Table/ chairs, doghouse, birdcage, bookcases, dishes, bandsaw, cookbooks, violins, clarinet, dresser, Junior/ Ladies plus size clothes, prom/ dance dresses, 2 pcs Carnival glass, knick knacks, playpen, cuckoo clock, free piano, Much more, Priced right!!

SIDNEY. 14250 Sharp Road, Thursday & Friday 8am-3pm. Piano, front load washer, waterbeds, bookshelf, junior to adult clothing, bicycle and miscellaneous items.

SIDNEY, 1840 North Cisco Rd. (off 29) Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8am-4pm, MOVING SALE! Couch, computers, bar stools, dressers, fishing/hunting, antiques, shelves, knick-knacks, Cat Collectibles, Interior window boxes, concrete bird bath, antique tables and chairs.

SIDNEY 1973 Fair Oaks Dr. Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9-5. Refrigerate, freezer, dressers, racing collectibles, clothes, and miscellaneous.

SIDNEY, 2647 Bridlewood Drive, Thursday 4pm-7pm & Friday 9am-4pm, Ikea barstools, Guitar for Wii, Miscellaneous home decor, bedding, rugs, pottery dishes, and more!!

SIDNEY, 2517 Oakmont, Friday 9-4, Saturday, 9-12. Baby/ toddler items!

Pumpkin seat, stroller combo with base, monitors, clothes 0-24M, glider with footrest, walkers, toys, bouncy seats, gates and more. Also lawn equipment, furniture, tools, clothes, jewelry, humidifier, dog cage, books and more!

SIDNEY, 740 Dingman Street.

August 30-31 9am-5pm. Window AC, fan's, old truck, vibrating belt, silver coins, knives, cameras, binoculars, fishing tackle, guns, Mustang wheel covers, O.S.U. stuff, tools, coffee pot, Indian head pennies, Makita drill, massage cushion.

SIDNEY, 904 Michigan Street (Rear). Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9am-5pm. Air compressor, electric drill, golf clubs (LH), TV, air purifier, creeper, walk board, kitchen items, teen clothes, roller blades, CD player, CD's, scooter, CB scanner, radio, exterior door. Other miscellaneous items.

SIDNEY 9750 Pasco Montra Rd. Friday, Saturday 9am-5pm, Estate came from Dayton, Dishes, pots & pans, soldiers figures, music figures, records, blankets, yarn, cookbooks, plus size clothes, Avon bottles, jello molds, 32in tv with stand, card table/ 4 chairs, knick knacks, too much to list!!!

SIDNEY, Bon Air Drive, Thursday, August 30 through Saturday, September 1, 8am-5pm. Multiple houses on street having garage sales! Five string bass guitar and amp, band saw, furniture, clothes (boys toddleryoung men, girl's, adult), kid's toys, books, movies, housewares, kid's bike, Christmas items, antique Singer sewing machine and much, much more!!!

TROY, 1489 Skylark Drive, Saturday through Monday, September 1-3, 9am-3pm. Multi family garage sale. Washer and dryer, Vera Bradley bags, Yankee candle sets, weight set and weight bench, boy and girl baby clothes, some adult female and male clothing and shoes, and miscellaneous household items.

TROY 700 Westlake Drive Friday and Saturday 9am-2pm Large Schonek crystal chandelier and sconces, couch, household goods, garden tools, carpet cleaner, tree trimmer, Nelson tractor sprinkler, and silver pieces

WEST MILTON 5820 West State Route 571 Thursday only 8am-5pm Multi family sale office equipment, household items, clothing, furniture, and much more. Everything must go.

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LEGAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS VIILLAGE OF JACKSON CENTER, OHIO NEW WELL NOS. 5 & 6 Sealed Bids for Village of Jackson Center, Ohio, New Well Nos. 5 & 6, will be received by the Village of Jackson Center, Ohio, at the Village Administrator’s Office, 122 East Pike Street, P.O. Box 819, Jackson Center, Ohio 45334-0819, until 12 p.m., local time, on September 6, 2012, at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

In general, the work consists of a Base and Alternate Bid. The Base Bid includes drilling and installing two 12-inch diameter wells and constructing the associated Masonry & Wood Construction well houses, with concrete foundation. Installation of approximately 1,200 LF of 6 and 8 inch water line. As well as installation of approximately 1,200 feet of underground electrical and control for service to New Wells. The Alternate Bid includes abandonment of one existing well and demolition of piping and Masonry Construction Well House. Installation of approximately 1,700 LF of stone access road.

Copies of the Bidding Documents may be examined at the above office, or at the office of Jones & Henry Engineers, Ltd., 3103 Executive Parkway, Suite 300, Toledo, Ohio 43606, without charge.

Copies of Bidding Documents and Contract Documents may be obtained from Newfax Corporation, 333 W. Woodruff Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43604, Phone 419-241-5157, FAX 419-2412018.

Technical questions regarding the project should be faxed to the Project Manager, Clifford M. Gordon, P.E., CGWP, at Jones & Henry Engineers, Ltd., (419) 473-8924.

Neither Owner nor Engineer has any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or sufficiency of any bid documents obtained from any source other than the source indicated in these documents. Obtaining these documents from any other source(s) may result in obtaining incomplete and inaccurate information. Obtaining these documents from any source other than directly from the source listed herein may also result in failure to receive any addenda, corrections, or other revisions to these documents that may be issued.

Bids must be submitted on the forms bound herein, must contain the names of every person or company interested therein, and shall be accompanied by either a Bid Guaranty and Contract Bond in the amount of 100% of the amount bid with satisfactory corporate surety, or by a certified check on a solvent bank in the amount of not less than 10% of the amount of the Bid, subject to conditions provided in the Instructions to Bidders. The successful bidder will be required to furnish satisfactory Performance Bond and Maintenance and Guarantee Bond in the amount of 100% of the Bid. The Contractor shall be required to pay not less than the prevailing wage rates established by the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Wage and Hour Division.

Any Bid may be withdrawn prior to the scheduled closing time for receipt of Bids, but no bidder shall withdraw his Bid within 90 days after the actual opening thereof.

The successful bidder will be required to complete the “Declaration Regarding Material Assistance/Non-Assistance to a Terrorist Organization” (DMA) in accordance with ORC Section 2909.32 and 2909.33.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, waive irregularities in any Bid, and to accept any Bid which is deemed most favorable to the Owner.

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REPLAY 50 years ago Aug. 27, 1962 The Kiwanis Club won the D League tournament at Custenborder Park Wednesday. The team included Jim Holthaus, Bob Coverstone, Mike Flanagan, Darrell Chiles, Mark Brown, Mark Fogt, Bob Frankenburg, Joe LeMaster, Mike Holthaus, Dale Apple, Steve Jackson, Pete Frantz and Jim Stanley.

25 years ago Aug. 39, 1987 Sidney High soccer coach Eric Harlamert recently was awarded a National Diploma for completing studies at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Coaching Academy at the University of Wisconsin. Harlamert was one of only 40 coaches from across the country accepted for the course, which lasted seven days and included 50 hours of study and six hours of testing.

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

Going for two in a row Fresh off first win since 2009, Jackets host Chieftains

BY KEN BARHORST kbarhorst@sdnccg.com Everybody in town knows the streak is over now.

But only one person really doesn’t care at this point in the week — he has other things on his mind.

Second-year head Sidney football coach Adam Doenges said it’s nice to get the losing streak out of the way so early and be able to move on. And that’s just what he’s doing — moving on.

“I guess now the trick is to see if our kids can come back from a win and get another one,” said the young coach.

“We told them Friday, we’d give them about 24 hours to enjoy it and think about it..., put their feet up and enjoy Sunday, and then be ready to

get back to work Monday.

“We had a good workout Saturday morning and we know there are definitely a lot of things we can correct, “ he added.

The Jackets play their first home game of the season Friday night when one of their top rivals, the Bellefontaine Chieftains, come to town for a renewal of the long series between the two schools.

While the Jackets will be looking to build on last week’s 10-7 overtime win over St. Marys, the Chieftains will be looking to bounce back from a lopsided loss, 49-13 to a strong Wapakoneta squad at home.

“We have a good rival coming in here in Bellefontaine, and the challenge for us now is to know how to be a winner,” said Doenges. “Hopefully,

the kids like the feeling and want to do it again.”

The win last week was one for the books. The strong leg of placekicker Andre Spillers was called on after Spillers himself recovered a St. Marys fumble on the first possession of overtime.

Sidney set up for a field goal and Spillers booted it through, only to have to do it again when the referees awarded St. Marys a timeout just before the snap. Spillers was true again, setting off bedlam on the Sidney side of the field.

“I kinda positioned myself down the line a ways because I knew the players would rush the field if it was good,” Doenges said. “I saw their coach screaming on the other side, so I saw the timeout coming.

“I went out to try to argue,

and talk about things with the official, and another one came over and said ‘coach, there are two things I could tell you and you’re not going to like either one,” Doenges added. “So I just walked away. He said ‘don’t you want to hear what they are?’ and I said ‘what’s the point.’”

Doenges said he never did find out what the “two things” were. But it didn’t matter, thanks to Spillers.

“I just patted him on the back and told him to do it again,” Doenges said. “It wasn’t just him kicking. Jacob Lochard (snapper) had to fire it back there, Troy Rosengarten (holder) had to get the ball down, and the line had to hold. So there are four aspects that all had to click.”

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2001 — Ashley Martin becomes the first woman to play in a Division I football game, kicking three extra points without a miss to help I-AA Jacksonville State hand Cumberland its 18th straight loss, 71-10.

Homers rally Reds to sweep Fastest to 80 wins since Big Red Machine in 1976 PHOENIX (AP) — Struggling through the first six innings, the Cincinnati Reds finally broke through to get a milestone win.

Chris Heisey hit two of Cincinnati’s four home runs, including the tying two-run shot in the seventh inning, and the Reds went on to a 6-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.

The win was Cincinnati’s 80th in their 132nd game of the season, the fastest a Reds team has reached the mark since 1976, when the Big Red Machine got there in 125 games.

Mat Latos (11-4) pitched seven innings, allowing two runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and three walks for the win. He also had two hits.

“We struck in a hurry. Had some guys hit some long balls ... and Latos pitched great,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “Other than that balk in the first inning, he pitched outstanding. And he hit well, too.”

Dioner Navarro’s solo shot two batters after Heisey’s first blast put Cincinnati ahead, Brandon Phillips added a two-

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“It feels good to win,” Phillips said, adding that his home run off the batter’s eye in center field was hit with all the power he could generate.

“When I hit it, I was like ‘Please get up, please get up,’ but I didn’t think it was going to be like that,” Phillips said.

“I did some pushups (Tuesday) night and I was like ‘Maybe pushups really work.’”

Latos believes he came out with a little too much adrenalin to start the game, when he gave up two hits, walked two and balked home the Diamondbacks’ first run. But he was able to settle down.

“We know that we have to continue to win ballgames. As long as we can win the series, we’ve got a good chance of going somewhere,” Latos said.

Cincinnati trailed 2-0 until the top of the seventh, shut out on two hits by Diamondbacks starter Patrick Corbin (5-6). Frazier doubled with one out and scored on Heisey’s fifth home run of the season.

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“I was sitting on a fastball, and I got it,” Heisey said .

With two out, Navarro roped his home run inside the left-field foul pole to give the Reds the lead. In the eighth, Phillips and Heisey went deep off reliever Matt Albers.

Latos got his first win since Aug. 3 against Pittsburgh and his first at Arizona since August 2010.

The balk in the first allowed Aaron Hill to score from third base with two out to give the Diamondbacks a 1-0 lead.

Jake Elmore’s two-out RBI double in the fourth put Arizona up 2-0, but Latos retire 10 of the next 12 batters he faced.

The Diamondbacks lost their sixth straight and eight of 10 on their homestand to drop three games below .500 for the first time since July 20.

Corbin allowed three runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings, striking out eight in his first career start against the Reds.

“Not a lot is going right. It’s not a good feeling,” Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. “The more you search, the tougher it gets at times.”

NOTES: Reds 1B Joey Votto, recovering from left knee surgery, was scheduled to play in his second rehab game for Class A Dayton on Wednesday.

Expected to be activated on Saturday, he went 0 for 1 with a walk in five innings in his first game for Dayton on Tuesday. ... Arizona RHP Josh Collmenter pitched four scoreless innings Tuesday in his third rehab game with the club’s rookie league team. Collmenter is on the 15-day disabled list with ulcers. ... INF Willie Bloomquist (lower back injury) got two at-bats in a rehab game Tuesday and was expected to play again Wednesday. Bloomquist will travel with Arizona to Los Angeles when the Diamondbacks start their next road trip, a sign that he might be ready to come off the disabled list in the coming days. ... Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said he’s rooting for starting pitcher Wade Miley, an All-Star this season, to win the NL Rookie of the Year award.

Miley is 14-9 with a 2.85 ERA. Two keys, Gibson said, are that Miley is aggressive in his approach to hitters and hits his spots with pitches.

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Loramie invades Breman looking to bounce back

SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg

Headed over the net Lehman’s Julia Harrelson charges the ball in her singles match against Sidney’s Marina Oba in action at Lehman Wednesday.

Sidney golfers lost to Piqua Sidney lost in high school boys golf action to Piqua 176-209 in action at Shelby Oaks Wednesday.

Sidney was led by Jalen Block and Michael Barber, each with 49.

Piqua got a 40 from Brad Anderson and a 43 from Kenton Kiser.

• Sidney also lost on

BY KEN BARHORST the way his squad kbarhorst@sdnccg.com bounced back at practice after losing 28-0 to MinFORT LORAMIE — ster in the season opener Fort Loramie is coming last week at home. off a loss this week, and “We told the kids, we that’s a rarity during were in the same boat coach Matt Burgbacher’s last year,” he said. “We tenure as head football lost the opener, then coach. won 10 games in a row.

He likes to tell his So it’s all going to be players that their next about our attitude now. game is the biggest, but We’ve had three good even he had to add a lit- practices this week and tle more to that this the kids are excited to week as the Redskins get back out there Friprepare to invade New day night.”

Bremen Friday night.

He sent a young and “This one is even big- inexperienced squad up ger because of the loss,” against a veteran Minhe said. “We’re focusing ster team with a lot of more on us this week. talented skilled people We know what to expect last week. from New Bremen, but “When we got done we need to worry about stretching and running how we execute. We need Saturday morning, we to get our assignments told the kids to sit down.” down,” Burbacher said.

He was pleased with “We asked the guys who

New Bremen has a new coach this season in former Sidney High assistant Jason McGaharan.

“Jason has done a great job over there,” said Burgbacher. “New Bremen is a good football team. Just watching the film, you can see their attitude is good.

They’re excited to be playing.

“They run the Wing-T, just a little different version,” he added. “I would compare them to Lehman. They’re going to want to establish their fullback, and they do a lot of play-action passing. And they’ve got some big kids to throw to.

“We’ve got to take advantage of our opportunities, and be more consistent.”

Rockets host 1-0 Brookville

BY KEN BARHORST way too often, I thought kbarhorst@sdnccg.com we did all right,” said Rioch. “The offensive ANNA — Other than line did a decent job but fumbling the ball, Anna’s we had trouble getting to Rockets graded out their linebackers. But pretty well in the eyes of that’s just a young and their coach, Bryan Rioch, inexperienced thing that Friday in the 14-0 win will get better. over Lehman.

“I thought Matt LindAnna fumbled the ball sey and Ben Kettler, four times and threw an even though they didn’t interception.

Fortu- carry a lot, did a good nately for the Rockets, job, and Christian Lehman fumbled the Williams carried 32 ball four times, and lost times.”

That’s right — 32 elementary from 7:45 to one more than Anna did times for Williams, and 8:15 a.m. and at the high (3-2).

“Other than putting he wasn’t even expected school from 8:15 a.m. to the ball on the ground to be the Rockets’ No. 1 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday to Botkins at the Oaks 176-212.

For Botkins, Nick Okuley shot a 40 for medalist honors, Roger Miller 44, and Cory Kies and Seth Hanna both shot 46.

Sidney’s top score was a 50, by both Tom Dunn and Jalen Block

Minster selling football tickets Minster will sell tickets for Friday’s home football game against Lehman on Friday at the

had significant playing time coming into the season to raise their hands, and there were only five. So the other kids really got their eyes opened. Maybe we weren’t better than they were Friday night, but who says we can’t be?”

He said the Redskins couldn’t get in sync Friday night on offense.

“I felt like firing the offensive coordinator,” said Burgbacher, who holds that title. “Minster had a lot to do with how we played. They’re very good. This week, we kinda went back to some of the stuff we’ve had success with in the past.

We’re not changing, just doing it out of different formations. We want to be able to dictate what we want to do.”

ball-carrier this season.

That would be his brother Chandon, who is out with an injury.

Christian rushed for 127 yards on those 32 carries.

Rioch wants his squad to play keepaway, and they certainly did that Friday. In a game that lasted just over two hours, Lehman ran just 34 plays all night, unable to get the ball back.

“Time of possession was one of our goals,” said Rioch. “We want to eat up the clock.”

The Rockets face a

new opponent this week in Brookville, 1-0 after Tri-County beating North last week in a shootout 42-35.

“I’m familiar with them from my days at Preble Shawnee,” Rioch said. “They’ve got a reputation as being good, hard-nosed kids. They’ve got a solid team with a big back like us. He’s about 210 and pretty good.

“We’ll see two tight ends and three guys in the backfield, so this will be another challenge for our defense,” he added.

Cavs travel to 1-0 Minster After a 14-0 loss to Anna Friday, a rapidlymoving game that saw the Lehman offense run just 34 plays, the Cavaliers tackle another big challenge Friday night on the road.

They will make the short trip to Minster, where the Wildcats appear headed for a big year. They started off with a 28-0 victory over Fort Loramie last week.

“We had some opportunities,” said Lehman coach Dick Roll of last week’s loss. “We just did-

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“The biggest difference is they have six or seven guys going both ways and we don’t have anybody doing that,” he added.

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“He did a nice job,” said the coach. “He’s slowly learning how to practice like a varsity player and play at varsity speed.”

be the fourth straight Midwest Athletic Conference team his Cavs will face, counting preseason and last week.

“So we’re not backing down from anybody,” he said. “Minster has some outstanding skilled people and a very good quarterback in (Adam) Niemeyer. But we feel we match up well with them up front and we’re approaching it that we can play with them. But we’re going to have to battle up front and play good defense.”

Lady Cav spikers 3-0 after beating Urbana URBANA — The Lehman volleyball team improved to 3-0 with a 25-13, 25-18, 25-16 win over Urbana Wednesday.

“Urbana has had some good teams,” Lehman coach Greg Snipes said. “We didn’t play as well as last night (a win over Marion

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These were a couple good wins heading into our tournament this Saturday. We are going to see a lot of strong teams.”

Andrea Thobe had 12 kills, 11 assists and four aces for Lehman and Ellie Cain had 14 assists

and seven digs. Olivia Slagle had seven kills, and Erica Paulus had nine digs.

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Doenges calls Bellefontaine a scary team.

“We had some coaches watch them against Fort Loramie, then we got game film from another scrimmage and I didn’t think it was the same team,” he said. “The progress they made from their first scimmage to last week was amazing.

They’re young and I kinda compare them to us, with a lot of sopho-

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n’t make some plays we have to make, and we had too much putting the ball on the ground.”

The Cavs fumbled four times against Anna and lost three of them. ”But I was pleased with their determination and their will not to quit and give up,” Roll added. “We held Anna to 14 points and really didn’t play that well defensively.

The kids continued to hustle and play hard the whole night.”

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COUNTS Denny Hamlin’s 1 WINNING win at Bristol was his third victory of

Bristol: The Beast is Back

the season, tying him with Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski and Tony Stewart for the most this season. Currently, all are in the top 10 in Sprint Cup points, meaning they would receive a three-point bonus for each trophy earned when the points are reset for the Chase in two weeks.

Hamlin wins a wild one in the Bristol Night Race

By MATT TALIAFERRO Athlon Sports Racing Editor

TIGHT IN THE TEENS Looking for wild card berths into the Chase are Kasey Kahne (two wins), Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch (1), Jeff Gordon (1), Ryan Newman (1) and Marcos Ambrose (1). The difference between 13th-place Busch and 16th-place Ambrose is a mere 28 points. Though 12th in the standings, Edwards has yet to win an event.

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Few topics in NASCAR have been as polarizing as track owner Bruton Smith’s decision to “narrow up” Bristol’s historic half-mile oval.

Once the scene of some of NASCAR’s most memorable onand off-track antics, the rough ’n’ tumble short track in East Tennessee recently played nicer, thanks to progressive banking that allowed drivers to safely run two- and three-wide into Bristol’s massive turns. Smith’s call to shave off a groove’s worth of concrete near the wall was intended to force drivers low and into a more aggressive mode.

Turns out, Smith got it wrong. But in being wrong, he got it right.

Drivers were initially forced to the low and middle grooves, but as the night progressed, the ground-down high groove took on rubber — so much rubber, in fact, that the high groove was the only place to run with meaningful speed.

A rotating door of drivers spent time leading the field (22 lead changes among 13 drivers) thanks to varying pit strategies. But in the end, the proverbial cream rose to the top.

Denny Hamlin, in the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, muscled his way past Carl Edwards with 39 laps remaining and pulled away, winning his third race of the season and first career Cup event at Bristol.

“Honestly, it’s just a different kind of racing,” Hamlin said of the track that favored one-lane, upper-groove racing. “There’s nothing (Smith is) going to do that’s going to make us run the bottom — that’s not the fastest way around the track. But it was the same thing; we were all running in the line, and just waiting on the next guy to screw up to get around.

“So that’s what you’ve got to do at the old Bristol and that’s exactly what we had to race today. The slide job was an option to pass, which, you know, that won us the race.

“I don’t think that we saw as much side-by-side racing but you didn’t

A RUN Marcos Ambrose 3 MAKING scored his third consecutive top 5 on Saturday and fourth straight top 10 with a fifth-place showing at Bristol.

With a win two weeks ago at Watkins Glen and runs of 10th, fifth and fifth since the Pocono race on Aug. 5, Ambrose has snuck into the Chase wild card battle. Ambrose has not fared especially well at Atlanta or Richmond — the sites of the final two regular season Cup races. He averages a 22ndplace finish at AMS (one top 10) and a 16.1-place run at RIR (one top 5). ... Joey Logano won Fri4 MEANWHILE day night’s Nationwide Series race at Bristol. It was Logano’s sixth victory in the series this season in 15 starts. In the Truck Series, points leader Timothy Peters earned his second win of the year with a convincing run in Wednesday evening’s race. Peters led all 204 laps to notch his fifth career CWTS triumph. His Red Horse Racing teammate, Parker Kligerman, finished second.

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SPRINT CUP SERIES Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway Location: Hampton, Ga. When: Sunday, Sept. 2 TV: ESPN (6:30 p.m. EST) Layout: 1.54-mile quad-oval Banking/Turns: 24 degrees Banking/Straightaways: 5 degrees 2011 Winner: Jeff Gordon Crew Chief’s Take: “A strong engine package is a must at Atlanta, where high RPMs take their toll over the course of 500 miles.

A worn track surface demands drivers take care of their tires and hit pit road anytime the opportunity presents itself. The track is low in grip, and any time that’s the case, the driver is going to have to be able to search for a groove that works, and he’s going to have to do that repeatedly if he’s going to win the race. A driver has plenty of options when he’s trying to pass.”

NATIONWIDE SERIES Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway Race: NRA American Warrior 300 When: Saturday, Sept. 1 TV: ESPN2 (6:30 p.m. EST) 2011 Winner: Carl Edwards CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES Track: Atlanta Motor Speedway Race: Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 200 When: Friday, Aug. 31 TV: SPEED (7:30 p.m. EST) 2011 Winner: Ron Hornaday

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Denny Hamlin celebrate in Victory Lane after winning the Bristol Night Race.

see side-by-side racing with the old Bristol. You saw a bunch of cars waiting in line to get knocked out of the way or mess up, and that’s the same thing we had today.”

Whether the grounding process was the main reason for a more intense race, the fact was the drivers were feeling friskier than normal.

Thirteen cautions punctuated the event (11 for wrecks), the most witnessed at the track since March 2007. Two incidents, in particular, brought back memories of Bristolspast.

The first involved Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart — a pair with a history — who took one another out on the frontstretch while racing for the lead on lap 334. After climbing out of his wrecked car, Stewart waited for Kenseth to exit pit road, where he fired his helmet at the No. 17 Ford in disgust, drawing cheers from the crowd.

Stewart’s unofficial teammate, Danica Patrick, had a surprisingly solid run going in her first Cup start in the bullring. While running 19th and on the lead lap, Patrick was turned into the backstretch fence by

ESPN.com reported on Tuesday that Martin Truex Jr. has signed a contract extension with Michael Waltrip Racing as driver of the No. 56 NAPA Toyota. A Friday press conference at Atlanta Motor Speedway is expected.

Truex joined MWR following the 2009 season. Although he has no wins for the organization, he currently sits fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup point standings with five top 5s and 13 top 10s.

In early August, Truex told the media that, “We’re really close (to an extension) — there’s no secrets to hide. We’re

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Regan Smith with just 64 laps remaining. In turn, she waited for Smith to pass under caution, waiving a disapproving finger in his direction.

Even the soundbites were classic Bristol, with Stewart vowing to “run over (Kenseth) every chance I get for the rest of the year,” and Patrick’s crew chief, Greg Zipadelli, threatening to strangle Smith.

In the end, fans seemed pleased with the mayhem, while drivers were split.

One five-time Bristol winner, Kyle Busch, had the most critical comments, deadpanning that the track was “terrible.” While another fivetime winner, Jeff Gordon, sang its praises: “I say grind the whole place. That was awesome. That reminded me of old-school Bristol. It was pretty exciting.”

So while tempers and soundbites were the order of the night, the true measuring stick of whether Smith’s plan was a success will be seen at the turnstiles next season.

Until then, Bristol will remain as polarizing as ever.

just finishing up the details.”

I Richard Childress Racing’s Kevin Harvick has a new crew chief. Prior to the Bristol race weekend, RCR announced that Gil Martin would replace Shane Wilson atop the No. 29 team’s pit box.

In 23 races this season with Wilson as his crew chief, Harvick recorded three top 5s and nine top 10s and was eighth in points. Martin steps into the role he served in for Harvick from 2009-2011. The duo teamed up to finish second in the point standings on two occasions in that time while winning seven races.

Classic Moments Atlanta Motor Speedway

Bill Elliott entered the penultimate race of the 1985 season looking to make up ground. The season had been magical for Elliott, who had already claimed 10 wins and the Winston Million.

However, a transmission failure at North Wilkesboro on Elliott’s No. 9 Thunderbird three weeks prior found him second in the standings to the ultra-consistent Darrell Waltrip. Suddenly, “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville” was in a 35-point championship hole.

So Elliott did what he’d done best all season: Dominate. He led 175 of 328 laps at his home track in the Atlanta Journal 500 on Nov. 3 to bag victory No. 11 over Cale Yarborough and Waltrip.

Unfortunately for Elliott, he’d have to wait until 1988 to celebrate a Cup title, as Waltrip’s third in Atlanta and seventh in the season’s final race at Riverside sealed his third championship.

Athlon Fantasy Stall Looking at Checkers: This is the time of year when Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 team is ramping up to the Chase.

Pretty Solid Pick: Tony Stewart has three wins at AMS, averaging an 11.2-place finish in 25 starts.

Good Sleeper Pick: Carl Edwards needs wins and Atlanta is his kind of track.

Runs on Seven Cylinders: Martin Truex Jr. has been solid all season, but AMS has never been kind to him.

Insider Tip: A fast car and a smart driver — to manage tire wear — is a winning combo.

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1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Brad Keselowski 3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4. Greg Biffle 5. Matt Kenseth

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BRIAN VICKERS Teams have to be looking at Vickers for a full-time seat next season after he’s recorded three top 5s in only six starts with Michael Waltrip Racing this year.

7. Kasey Kahne 8. Clint Bowyer 9. Martin Truex Jr. 10. Marcos Ambrose

TONY STEWART Has fallen from fifth to 10th in the standings after a Daytona win in July. In the last three races alone he’s averaged a paltry 26th-place finish.

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11. Jeff Gordon 12. Tony Stewart 13. Ryan Newman 14. Kyle Busch 15. Carl Edwards ASP, Inc. Just off the lead pack:

Even in a race where Johnson never seemed to have the car, he managed a runner-up finish. He also leads all active drivers in Atlanta — sight of this weekend’s race — with a 10th-place average run.

Surprisingly, Keselowski lacked the speed to make any noise at Bristol, despite starting second. A wreck later in the night ended his hopes for the first Bristol three-peat since Kurt Busch (2003-04).

Known for some boneheaded pit road mistakes, Junior and the boys have been spot-on all season.

That is, however, until Bristol, when they pitted while pit road was closed and never fully recovered.

Had his moments at BMS, where he led 41 laps and looked pretty racy at times. Despite fading to 19th by night’s end, Biffle still holds the points lead.

As if running for a championship as a lame-duck driver wasn’t difficult enough, Kenseth now has to be looking over his shoulder for Tony Stewart down the stretch.

There’s been some real ugly performances out of Hamlin and his FedEx bunch throughout the season, but they’ve also shown the ability to go to Victory Lane when things are right. That’s big.

Kahne’s ninth-place run at Bristol extended his top-15 streak to nine races. He also sits just 16 points behind Tony Stewart for 10th place in the standings.

Admitted on Sunday via Twitter that, “It’s so hard to pull the reins back when u have a car like that.

Had to TCB to make sure we in Chase!” Hmmm, that doesn’t sound right.

Is averaging an 8.6-place showing over his last nine races — with very little flare. Sounds like he’s employing the same strategy as his teammate, Bowyer.

Ambrose and his Richard Petty Motorsports team are warming up at just the right time to the tune of three consecutive top 5s. Might Ambrose completely upset the apple cart and sneak into the Chase?

Nice third-place run for Gordon, who now sits 16 points behind Kyle Busch and a Chase berth.

As fine a helmet-toss form — and accuracy — as you’ll ever see in NASCAR. Was the first of three Stewart-Haas cars to face the scrap heap on Saturday.

Has to be banking on a big weekend at Richmond, where he’s averaged a 4.7-place finish.

Communication breakdown within team relegates the 99 to a 22nd-place finish.

Kevin Harvick, Sam Hornish Jr., Joey Logano, Paul Menard, Regan Smith

Stewart not expecting any issues with Kenseth CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Tony Stewart joked Tuesday that his twohanded toss of his helmet at Matt Kenseth was “not bad for a 41year-old who doesn’t work out.”

Aside from that, Stewart said he’s not expecting any drama between the two drivers despite promising to run over Kenseth every chance he gets this season.

“You get over that stuff. It’s been part of racing for as long as I can remember and that won’t be the last time you see two drivers have a disagreement,” Stewart said, adding he’ll only run over Kenseth “if I need to. It’s not our intention to go seek him out.

“We’ve gotten along more races than we’ve disagreed.”

The three-time

NASCAR champion lost his infamous temper Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway after contact with Kenseth caused him to wreck as they were racing for the lead. Before making his mandatory trip to the care center, Stewart waited on the track for Kenseth to pass by on pit road, and he heaved his helmet directly at the front grill of

Kenseth’s car.

He was able to joke about the helmet throw during an event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He noted the throw was unorthodox but said using two hands gave him more velocity, and he may take some of his father’s old helmets into his yard to practice his technique.

“It may happen again — I’ve got a lot of hel-

mets and a lot of races,” said Stewart, who was pleased NASCAR has not fined him. “I figured I was going to get some kind of penalty for it, so it’s nice to know that’s something you can get away with. I just wish we could get a more lengthy list of what we can do and can’t do. I think we could make it a lot more entertaining if we knew what we

could do.”

Kenseth said he doesn’t plan to watch his back, but he did say during tire testing at Kansas Speedway on Tuesday that he’ll talk to Stewart the next time they see each other.

“Tony and I have raced together for a really long time,” Kenseth said. “You’re going to have problems here and there.”

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TUESDAY active streak in the majors.

Wade Miley (14-9) allowed three runs and seven hits over seven innings. He walked one and struck out five for the Diamondbacks, who have lost five straight and seven of nine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first couple of innings everything was up,â&#x20AC;? Miley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to make the adjustment, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out.â&#x20AC;?

Arizona opened a 1-0 lead in the first when Gerardo Parra doubled, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jason Kubel.

But the Reds rallied in the second and flipped the momentum with a long at-bat.

Frazier led off the inning with a single and Miley got ahead of Scott Rolen 1-2. Rolen then fouled off two pitches, took a ball, fouled off two more, took a third ball and fouled off five pitches in a row before drawing a 15-pitch walk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have rather singled on the first pitch,â&#x20AC;?

Rolen said.

Baker thought the battle affected Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rookie left-hander. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That took a whole inning out of him,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foul off a pitch,

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CINCINNATI REDS pitcher Johnny Cueto throws in the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a baseball game Tuesday in Phoenix. foul off a pitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was trying everything. That takes a lot out of a pitcher.â&#x20AC;?

Chris Heisey singled to load the bases and Frazier scored on a wild pitch before Hanigan lined a two-run single to center for a 3-1 lead.

John McDonald reached on a fielderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice and scored on a double to left by Parra in the fifth to pull the Diamondbacks to 3-2.

Frazier tripled home Brandon Phillips and Ryan Ludwick in the eighth against Matt Lindstrom, who was making his Arizona debut after being traded from Baltimore for Joe Saunders on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were just up the

spective on all the action between the lines as the Cardinals tried to close the gap between themselves and the National League Central Division leading Reds, while maintaining their grasp on one of the two NL Wild Card spots.

In addition to exclusive commentary from star players on both sides, the episode features compelling ingame audio throughout the series, highlighted

by Reds second base-

man Brandon Phillips, who wore a wireless microphone during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, in which he went 3 for 5 with a home run and 2 RBI in the Redsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 8-2 win.

The episode also features in-depth interviews with managers Dusty Baker and Mike Matheny, as well as Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright and Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo.

Off the field, a camera crew walked to the ballpark with rookie of the

year candidate Todd Frazier, while another crew tagged along for a cab ride with Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay. Caught Looking, a new collaboration between Major League Productions Baseball and NBC Sports Group will follow two different teams each week, as the final eight weeks of the season unfolds. Each original episode will be one hour in length and will air on NBC Sports Network.

Saints fly to Cincinnati to practice CINCINNATI (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Drew Brees called the Saints together before the start of practice on Tuesday, an uncharacteristic move by the quarterback to make sure that a team with so much experience in dealing with distractions was ready to handle the latest one.

The Saints practiced on the Cincinnati Bengals' grass fields downtown on a sunny, 87-degree afternoon

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while Hurricane Isaac bore down on New Orleans, finishing their preseason the way their entire offseason has gone. It's been one thing after another.

"A lot of this has been swirling around us and now all of a sudden, we're together and let's make sure we're out here with a purpose," Brees said, summing up his speech to the team.

"It's to get better, not just to run around and

run some plays.â&#x20AC;?

The Saints were forced to scramble when Isaac set course for New Orleans. They played a preseason game on Saturday night, then rearranged their plans and spent Sunday and Monday evacuating their families and preparing their homes for the storm.

Needing a place to practice for their final preseason game on Thursday in Tennessee, the Saints found enough

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one run so that little cushion was helpful,â&#x20AC;?

Frazier said.

Phillips NOTES: stole second in the eighth, his 11th stolen base in 12 attempts. ...

Miley needed 54 pitches to get through the first two innings but threw only 53 over his final five. ... Reds RHP Mat Latos (10-4) will look to bounce back from a rough outing when he pitches Wednesday against LHP Patrick Corbin (5-5). Latos allowed seven runs and nine hits Friday against St. Louis for his first loss since July 18. Corbin will be the third straight BASEBALL rookie the Diamondbacks send to the Major Leagues mound.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Caught Lookingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; episode tonight to feature Reds-Cardinals series NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Caught Looking will air tonight at 9 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network, and will feature a behind-the-scenes look at this past weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series between the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals, as both teams fight for a postseason berth.

Major League Baseball Productions embedded camera crews with both teams throughout the three-game series, providing a unique per-

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open hotel rooms in Cincinnati and received the Bengals' permission to use the visiting locker room at Paul Brown Stadium and work out on the adjacent fields.

Most of the team flew into town on Monday night. A few players arrived on Tuesday morning after evacuating their families. Brees drove his family to Birmingham, Ala., then flew to Cincinnati on Tuesday morning.

National League The Associated Press East Division W L Pct GB Washington . . . 77 51 .602 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4 Atlanta. . . . . . . 74 56 .569 Philadelphia . . 61 68 .473 16½ New York . . . . . 60 69 .465 17½ Miami. . . . . . . . 59 71 .454 19 Central Division Cincinnati . . . 80 52 .606 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; St. Louis. . . . . . 71 58 .550 7½ Pittsburgh . . . . 69 60 .535 9½ Milwaukee . . . . 61 67 .477 17 Chicago . . . . . . 49 79 .383 29 Houston . . . . . . 40 89 .310 38½ West Division San Francisco . 72 57 .558 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 3 Los Angeles . . . 70 61 .534 9 Arizona . . . . . . 64 67 .489 San Diego. . . . . 60 71 .458 13 Colorado. . . . . . 53 76 .411 19 Tuesday's Games N.Y. Mets 9, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Pittsburgh 9, St. Louis 0 Miami 9, Washington 0 Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 1 San Francisco 3, Houston 2 Colorado 8, L.A. Dodgers 4 Cincinnati 5, Arizona 2 Atlanta 2, San Diego 0 Wednesday's Games L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 8 Cincinnati 6, Arizona 2 Atlanta at San Diego, n N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, n St. Louis at Pittsburgh, n Washington at Miami, n Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, n San Francisco at Houston, n Thursday's Games N.Y. Mets (Niese 10-7) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 7-9), 1:05 Milwaukee (Marcum 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Raley 1-2), 2:20 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-5) at Washington (E.Jackson 7-9), 7:05 San Francisco (Vogelsong 11-7) at Houston (Lyles 3-10), 8:05 p.m.

Arizona (I.Kennedy 11-11) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 12-7), 10:10 Friday's Games San Fran. at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 St. Louis at Washington, 7:05 N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:35 Cincinnati at Houston, 8:05 Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 8:10 San Diego at Colorado, 8:40 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; American League East Division W L Pct GB New York . . . . . 75 55 .577 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Baltimore. . . . . 71 57 .555 3

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Tampa Bay. . . . 70 59 .543 4½ Boston . . . . . . . 62 68 .477 13 Toronto. . . . . . . 58 71 .450 16½ Central Division â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chicago . . . . . . 71 57 .555 Detroit . . . . . . . 69 59 .539 2 Kansas City . . . 57 71 .445 14 Cleveland. . . . . 55 74 .426 16½ Minnesota . . . . 52 77 .403 19½ West Division â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Texas . . . . . . . . 77 52 .597 Oakland . . . . . . 71 57 .555 5½ Los Angeles . . . 67 62 .519 10 Seattle . . . . . . . 63 67 .485 14½ Tuesday's Games Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 0 Oakland 7, Cleveland 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Toronto 1 Texas 1, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 9, Detroit 8 Seattle 5, Minnesota 2 L.A. Angels 6, Boston 5 Wednesday's Games Toronto 8, N.Y. Yankees 5 Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Thursday's Games Oakland (J.Parker 8-7) at Cleveland (Masterson 10-11), 12:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-2) at Baltimore (Britton 3-1), 12:35 p.m.

Seattle (Beavan 8-8) at Minnesota (Duensing 3-9), 1:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (M.Moore 10-7) at Toronto (Villanueva 6-4), 7:07 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 9-9) at Kansas City (Guthrie 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Lester 8-10) at L.A. Angels (Greinke 2-2), 10:05 p.m.

Friday's Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; League leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_MeCabrera, San Francisco, .346; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, .345; Posey, San Francisco, .327; YMolina, St. Louis, .325; DWright, New York, .319; CGonzalez, Colorado, .309; Holliday, St. Louis, .309.

PittsRUNS_AMcCutchen, burgh, 90; Bourn, Atlanta, 85; Braun, Milwaukee, 85; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 84; Holliday, St. Louis, 83; JUpton, Arizona, 83; CGonzalez, Colorado, 80.

RBI_Braun, Milwaukee, 90; Holliday, St. Louis, 90; Beltran, St. Louis, 85; FFreeman, Atlanta, 82; Colorado, 82; CGonzalez, HRamirez, Los Angeles, 82; Bruce, Cincinnati, 81; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 81.

PittsHITS_AMcCutchen, burgh, 164; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 159; Bourn, Atlanta, 153; Holliday, St. Louis, 151; Prado, Atlanta, 150; DWright, New York, 147; Reyes, Miami, 146.

DOUBLES_ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 43; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 36; Prado, Atlanta, 36; Votto, Cincinnati, 36; DWright, New York, 36; DanMurphy, New York, 33; Alonso, San Diego, 32; Ethier, Los Angeles, 32; Holliday, St. Louis, 32.

TRIPLES_Fowler, Colorado, 11; Bourn, Atlanta, 10; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 10; SCastro, Chicago, 9; Colvin, Colorado, 9; Pagan, San Francisco, 9; Reyes, Miami, 9.

HOME RUNS_Braun, Milwaukee, 35; Stanton, Miami, 29; Beltran, St. Louis, 28; Bruce, Cincinnati, 27; Kubel, Arizona, 26; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 25; Ludwick, Cincinnati, 25.

STOLEN BASES_Bourn, Atlanta, 37; Pierre, Philadelphia, 32; Victorino, Los Angeles, 31; Bonifacio, Miami, 30; DGordon, Los Angeles, 30; Reyes, Miami, 29; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 28.

PITCHING_Cueto, Cincinnati, 17-6; Dickey, New York, 164; GGonzalez, Washington, 16-7; AJBurnett, Pittsburgh, 15-5; Strasburg, Washington, 15-6; Lohse, St. Louis, 14-2; Hamels, Philadelphia, 14-6; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 14-8; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 14-8; Miley, Arizona, 14-9.

SAVES_Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 34; Chapman, Cincinnati, 33; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 32; Motte, St. Louis, 31; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 29; Clippard, Washington, 28; RBetancourt, Colorado, 26; Putz, Arizona, 26.

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PHOENIX (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Johnny Cueto leads the majors in wins and has his sights set even higher.

Cueto scattered four hits over seven innings for his 17th victory and the Cincinnati Reds beat the slumping Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Tuesday night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I can promise is to try and keep going because I want to win 20 games,â&#x20AC;? Cueto said through a translator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt better as the game went on. I was able to gather more strength and continue.â&#x20AC;?

Cueto (17-4) gave up two runs, struck out one and walked five for his eighth victory in nine decisions. The right-hander lowered his NL-leading ERA to 2.48. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling it every time he goes out there,â&#x20AC;?

Reds manager Dusty Baker said.

Ryan Hanigan hit a two-run single and Todd Frazier added a two-run triple for the Reds, who won for the third time in four games and stretched their lead in the NL Central to seven games over St. Louis.

Broxton Jonathan pitched the eighth and Aroldis Chapman closed it out for his 33rd save and 25th straight, tied with Texas reliever Joe Nathan for the longest

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