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BY RACHEL LLOYD rlloyd@sdnccg.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney received a warm reception on a cold evening at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Wednesday as he addressed a crowd estimated at more than 8,500 people.

Josh Romney, one of five sons, introduced his father, describing the former governor of Massachusetts as “my hero and the next president of the United States.”

As the elder Romney took the stage, the sea of people rose into a breaking wave of cell phones and cameras to capture the momentous event, chanting “four more weeks, four more weeks!” Romney told the crowd he’d been watching President Barack Obama’s rallies hearing the chants of “four more years, but said, “I’ve been looking at my calendar and I think ‘four more weeks’ is more appropriate.”

Romney, who will face the incumbent Obama at the polls in just under four weeks, appealed to his largely rural and working-class audience with his focus on jobs, health care and the estate tax. He commented several times on the size of the crowd and thanked everyone for coming out.

“The median income in this country has dropped by $4,300 per family,” Romney said of the past four years.

“And with median income around 50 thousand bucks, that’s a huge drop.”

Romney said health care premiums are up $2,500, while Obama promised they would drop by that amount.

He pointed out the increase in gasoline prices: “double since he’s been president, or more.”

“These are tough times.

The president’s answer to this is to say he’s going to save Big Bird,” Romney said to a laugh from the crowd. “My view is it’s better to have a president that’s going to save the American family and help people across this country.” The laughter turned to rousing cheers.

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MITT ROMNEY talks to an overflowing crowd at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Wednesday evening.

Speakers, entertainers warm up crowd preceding address by Mitt Romney

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@sdnccg.com Before Mitt Romney took the stage at what was termed a “victory rally” Wednesday, local and state Republican officials addressed the crowd of 8,500 people at the Shelby County Fairgrounds, urging them to vote early to put the party hopeful into the White House.

From the governor to a state senator to state representatives, to local farmers and business owners, GOP leaders exhorted the party faithful — as well as Democrats and the merely curious who were also there — by repeating Republican slogans and reiterating planks in the party platform. But the evening began with a call for tolerance and understanding.

The Rev. Phil Chilcote, of Sidney, gave an opening prayer for both and ended it SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com by singing “God Bless America.”

MITT ROMNEY wades through the crowd greeting visitors after his speech in SidLast to speak before the crowd welney Wednesday.

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FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND to a fire in a duplex at the corner of West Avenue and Pike Street Tuesday night.

TUESDAY -5:37 p.m.: assault.

Marissa M. Bontrager, 524 Oak Ave., told Sidney Police she had been assaulted by a subject at 230 Jefferson St. Police charged Brittney Zerkle, 21, 600 N. Main Ave., with assault.

-2:51 p.m.: theft.

Thomas D. Hussey, 8925 Cisco Road, told police two auto batteries, 30 gallons of diesel fuel and a fuel cap had been stolen from a Howard Street address in Sidney.

-6:18 a.m.: breaking and entering. Sidney Manufacturing, 405 N. Main Ave., told police someone had damaged a SDN Photo/Mike Seffrin door in an attempt to The cause of the fire was determined to be arson. A gain entry.

MONDAY resident has been charged with setting the fire.

-1:43 p.m.: theft.

Walmart security reported the theft of miscellaneous merchandise from the store.

Woman accused of arson in Sidney duplex fire

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Apple Blossom Lane.

TUESDAY -9:30 p.m.: assistance. Firefighters responded to 1550 Spruce Ave. for an electrical problem. Power was restored to a heater.

-6:55 p.m.: medical.

Paramedics were dispatched to a medical call in the 200 block of South Walnut Avenue.

-6:50 p.m.: fire. Firefighters were dispatched to 633-635 N. West Ave. for a working structure fire.

-5:27 p.m.: medical.

Medics responded to a medical call in the 1000 block of Hazelnut Lane.

-1:53 p.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to the 2900 block of Fair Road for a medical call.

-9:47 a.m.: medical.

Medics were dispatched to a medical call in the 300 block of East North Street.

-9:06 a.m.: medical.

Paramedics responded to a medical call in the 899 block of Countryside Lane.

-8:17 a.m.: investigation.

Firefighters were dispatched to 1130 Colonial Drive for a carbon monoxide investigation.

WEDNESDAY -2:47 a.m.: medical.

Bond was set at $5,000 for a and $25,000 to its contents. medical call that occurred during Sidney paramedics reSidney woman arraigned in SidSidney firefighters were dis- the fire. sponded to a medical call ney Municipal Court Wednesday patched to the structure at 6:50 DP&L Energy and Vectren also in the 1100 block of on an aggravated arson charge p.m. Tuesday and found heavy responded to the scene and sefiled by Sidney Police in connec- fire coming from its first-floor cured electrical power and natution with a fire at her own resi- windows on arrival. Occupants ral gas service to the building. dence. Her preliminary hearing were all accounted for outside the The American Red Cross is proon the charge has been set for duplex and a thorough search re- viding assistance to the occuOct. 27 at 9 a.m. vealed no one else inside. pants.

Walnut Avenue in SidPolice arrested Shawna PellFirefighters quickly controlled No injuries of firefighters or ney for a medical call in man, 29, 635 N. West Ave., follow- and extinguished the fire. A box the occupants were reported. mutual aid to Sidney WEDNESDAY ing a fire Tuesday evening that alarm was dispatched to recall all The same duplex was the site -7:06 a.m.: medical. EMS. heavily damaged one unit of a du- off-duty personnel and Anna and of a fire late Friday morning. The -6:50 p.m.: mutual plex structure at 633-635 N. West Port Jefferson firefighters re- Sidney/Shelby County Fire Inves- Anna Rescue responded aid.

Anna and PerryAve. Fire investigators estimated sponded in mutual aid. Port Jef- tigation Unit has been investigat- to a medical call in the Port-Salem rescue units 12500 block of Meranda loss to the structure at $80,000 ferson EMS responded to a ing the cause of that blaze. and Anna and Port JefRoad. ferson fire departments TUESDAY responded to mutual-aid -7:01 p.m.: medical.

Perry-Port-Salem Res- calls to assist the Sidney cue was dispatched to Fire Department during the 200 block of South a working fire.

Kathy Pleiman, Shelby students can contact • Oct. 31, Sidney canidonate@cbccts.org or and Logan County coordi- Brett Bickel to schedule Apostolic Temple, 3-6 call (800)388nator for the Community an appointment to donate p.m., public blood drive. GIVE(4483) Providing you better service is our goal. Call 498-5939 or 1-800-688-4820, ext. 5939 Blood Center, announces blood during their school Appointments to dolocal blood drives held day. nate are strongly ennext week.

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GIVE(4483). Walk-ins sociation serve as chair• Oct. 26, Jackson Cen- are welcome as schedpeople for the public blood ter High School, 9 a.m.-1 ules permits. drive. p.m., student and public Community Blood Oct. 19, Sidney High blood drive.

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Louis J. Steel III Louis J. Steel III, 72, of Sidney, died Oct. 8, 2012.

A memorial service will be held Oct. 13, 2012, at the Sidney First United Methodist Church.

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PIQUA — James Edward Henson, 58, of Piqua, died at 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at Heartland of Urbana, Urbana.

He was born in Piqua on June 18, 1954, to the late William H. and Edith (Dunn) Henson.

James is survived by two sisters and brothersin-law, Caryl Ann and Richard Pence, of Quincy, and Vera and Rick Hageman, of Sidney; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by one brother, William Henson, and a special friend, Marie J. Stevens.

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Heating costs to rise this winter NEW YORK (AP) — Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as they feel something they didn’t feel much of last year: cold.

Prices for natural gas, heating oil and other fuels will be relatively stable. But customers will have to use more energy to keep warm than they did a year ago, according to the annual Winter Fuels Outlook from the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration.

Last winter was the warmest on record. This year temperatures are expected to be close to normal.

Heating bills will rise 20 percent for heating oil customers, 15 percent for natural gas customers, 13 percent for propane customers and 5 percent for electricity customers, the EIA announced Wednesday.

Heating oil customers are expected to pay an average of $3.80 per gallon, the highest price ever.

That will result in record heating bills, at an average of $2,494. That’s nearly $200 more than the previous high, set in the winter of 2010-11.

Sidney resident works at orphanage in Africa Next to her senior picture in the 2010 Lehman Catholic High School yearbook, the Cavalcade, Stephanie Shoenfelt, of Sidney, chose the quote, “Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.” Her list of school activities was typical of most Lehman seniors, but for Shoenfelt, high school was only a stepping stone to a bigger world filled with many ways to fulfill that prophetic quote.

Her first journey was to The Ohio State University where she is currently studying public affairs/nonprofit management and serving as a student assistant in the Honors Collegium.

This summer, after completing two years of college, she chose to travel even farther from home to a world very unlike the one she has known all her life.

Orphanage Traveling with International Volunteer Headquarters, Shoenfelt, the daughter of Rob Shoenfelt and Jennifer Shoenfelt, of Sidney, spent the month of July working at an orphanage in Ghana, Africa.

She was placed at the Bright Futures Children’s Home in the village of Asitey, near the town of Somanya. The location is remote, two hours from Accra, the capital city of Ghana.

“We lived in a home typical of that part of Africa made of mud and clay,” said Shoenfelt. “We did not have running water and we only had electricity on rare occasions.”

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OHIO STATE University students Becky Fussner, a senior psychology major, and Stephanie Shoenfelt (right), a junior public affairs/nonprofit management major, read to Alpha, a 5-year-old orphan living at Bright Futures Orphanage in Ghana, Africa. Both students were part of a group of volunteers who traveled to Ghana with International Volunteer Headquarters this summer. Shoenfelt is a Sidney resident.

roof. This was their school. It had no walls, no floor, and slabs of chalkboard leaning against a few pieces of bamboo.”

“The children are required to carry their benches and chairs to school because they cannot be stored in the open air of the building,” she continued. “The stark contrast between America and Ghana had become clear to me. Later that day I was reading a book with two girls.

Upon finishing I asked if they would like to read another. Their response was that they only had a few other books and they were all missing.

These children were ‘47 children’ “We spent our time in thirsting for knowledge Ghana providing love, and didn’t even have care, and attention to 47 two books to read. children ranging in age ‘Thankful’ from 2-16. We woke up “I guiltily thought at 5:30 every morning to back to the bookshelves bathe the kids and get sitting abandoned in my them ready for school. basement in America We would then walk filled with children’s them to school which books from my childwas about a mile up the hood. I have never been road,” said Shoenfelt. “If more thankful for the I had to choose a mo- access I had to a strong ment when I experi- education that would enced the greatest continue into college.” culture shock it would While the children have to be the first time were at school, the volwe walked the children unteers kept busy workto school. We had no idea ing on physical where we were going so improvements to the orwe had to depend on the phanage (painting, children to lead us. We cleaning, organizing, stopped in a field and doing laundry). When the children announced the children returned, that we had arrived. there was an hour of After looking around I playtime followed by noticed a bare structure time for tutoring (mostly made of bamboo poles in reading, English lanholding up a thatched guage, and math). The

children would take baths again before dinner, prepare and eat their meal, and spend the remainder of the night playing and forming relationships. Once a week the children would attend worship in the village.

“The children were not all orphans. Many came from broken homes with situations that made it dangerous to live with their families. Some have lived at Bright Futures their entire lives; others arrived while we were staying there. The majority will never be adopted,” said Shoenfelt.

Not understand Most Americans would not understand the world that Shoenfelt saw firsthand.

“The children sleep on a cement floor with only a bamboo mat underneath them. There are no pillows or blankets,” she said. “Disease is running rampant through the children’s home. In our short time, one month, we saw various cases of malaria, staph infection and fevers. There were too many close calls where a child would be rushed to a nearby clinic in fear that the 104-degree fever wouldn’t break.

The access to medical care is present but too expensive for anyone in the village unless it is a dire situation.”

Yet Shoenfelt observed, “Despite these conditions, the people of

Ghana are some of the happiest people I have ever met. They are content with their lives and rely solely on God. Religion plays a large role in their lives.”

Shoenfelt mentioned how churches are abundant in the area and the children’s favorite song is “Jesus Loves Me.” Although their worship service is not the Catholic Mass that Shoenfelt is used to, she noticed that they use many of the same readings and teachings.

‘Faith grew’ “My faith grew exponentially while I was in Ghana,” said Shoenfelt.

“For the first time I realized what it means to truly rely on God to provide for your every need, both spiritually and physically. … The children taught me one of the greatest lessons by showing me the true meaning of having a child-like faith.”

“Being at Ohio State and being in the minority as a Catholic, I have come to appreciate the education and values that were taught to me in high school,” said Shoenfelt.

“Volunteering with orphans in Africa has been a dream of mine since I was in seventh grade at Holy Angels School but I never expected that dream to become a reality.

Apparently God had it in his plans for me all along,” concluded Shoenfelt.

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BY JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS (AP) — A state lawmaker was indicted We d n e s day on 49 charges of theft, corruption a n d money laundering after a u t h o r iLuckie ties said he skimmed nearly $130,000 in campaign funds for his personal use and failed to list campaign expenditures for six years.

Rep. Clayton Luckie, a four-term Dayton Democrat, surrendered to authorities after a warrant was issued for his arrest Wednesday.

He pleaded not guilty

Pharmacy license suspended COLUMBUS (AP) — The state has suspended the Ohio distribution license of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has sickened more than 130 people in 10 states, including one in Ohio. Twelve have died.

The New England Compounding Center in Mass., Framingham, made a steroid used in contaminated injections tied to the outbreak.

The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy’s director says the board on Tuesday suspended the license after seeing evidence that the company’s professional practice presented a danger of immediate and serious harm to others. The license was suspended pending a hearing to determine whether to permanently revoke it.

The pharmacy’s public relations firm didn’t immediately return a call.

State health officials on Wednesday revised the number of Ohio patients who received potentially contaminated injections from 430 to 424.

and his bond was set at $100,000 bond at a hearing that was postponed by a few hours after Luckie experienced an unspecified medical issue while being booked into the Franklin County jail.

At a news conference earlier in the day announcing the charges, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien and Cincinnati-based FBI agent Edward Hanko said Luckie regularly tapped into campaign funds for personal purposes, including making retail purchases, paying the mortgage and for roof repairs on his home, and visiting casinos.

Luckie faces “dozens and dozens” of years behind bars if convicted, O’Brien said.

Hanko said Luckie falsely identified his personal accountant as his

campaign treasurer and things “snowballed from there.”

“Every signature and every submission he made since 2006 was false,” Hanko said a news conference. “So, in my mind, it’s a very simple case. We all learn this as children: You don’t cheat, lie or steal.

When you’re an elected official, that goes even tenfold, and Mr. Luckie just never learned that those are some tenets in life that we all go by.”

Luckie didn’t return calls or emails to his home or legislative office Wednesday morning.

His attorney, Lloyd Pierre-Louis, declined to comment, saying his only statements in the case will come in court.

Luckie isn’t seeking re-election next month, but he has said he will finish out his term end-

ing in December.

Ohio House Speaker William Batchelder, a Republican, called on Luckie to resign, saying it was in the best interest of the Legislature and Luckie’s district.

Sarah Bender, a spokeswoman for the Ohio House Democratic Caucus, said that if Luckie doesn’t resign, House Minority Leader Armond Budish will urge him to step down. She said Democrats “will be prepared to take quick action to find a replacement” and have begun replacing Luckie on various committees.

In an investigation that began 18 months ago, the FBI found that between 2006 and this year, Luckie made nearly 170 ATM withdrawals amounting to $19,000 and made more than 800 debit

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card transactions totaling about $40,000.

The ATM withdrawals included $1,700 at casinos in Indiana, Florida and West Virginia, and debit transactions of $100 to $1,300 at businesses including Nordstrom, Best Buy, a jewelry store and a home furnishings store, according to the indictment.

Twelve of the transactions were identified as money laundering in which the transfers were “designed to hide the source of the funds in an apparent legal financial transaction or to further corrupt activity,” according to a news release announcing the charges.

One theft count stems from a $625 check made out to the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus that authorities say Luckie deposited in his personal

bank account, rather than turning it over to the group.

The indictment also accuses Luckie of failing to list four separate loans of debts of more than $1,000, including a loan of more than $4,000 for a jet ski, a more than $3,000 loan for a Dayton jewelry store and a $4,000 debt to a roofing company.

Luckie missed legislative votes in September amid the investigation.

Democrats currently hold 40 of 99 seats in the Ohio House. O’Brien is a Republican.

In an earlier statement, Luckie said the investigation wasn’t related to bribery, but to “errors on some reports that are currently being addressed.” He declined to say anything more on the matter “out of respect for the process.”

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Many voters updated addresses online COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief says more than 106,000 Ohio voters have updated their addresses online.

Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted introduced a new option on his website on Aug. 9.

The move was aimed at improving registration accuracy, saving money by reducing the workload at elections offices, and potentially reducing the number of voters casting provisional ballots. Voters are most often required to cast provisional ballots because they show up in the wrong precinct.

Husted said valid addresses make Ohio’s voter rolls more secure heading into the Nov. 6 election.

He said 13,700 voters used the system on Tuesday alone, which was the last day of registration. Before this year, voters had to use a paper form to change their address.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2012.

There are 81 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, also known as “Vatican 2.”

On this date: ■ In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga. ■ In 1811, the first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana (built by John Stevens), was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J. ■ In 1862, during the Civil War, Confederate forces led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart looted the town of Chambersburg, Pa. ■ In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C. ■ In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, Mo. ■ In 1932, the first American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in New York.

■ In 1942, the World War II Battle of Cape Esperance began in the Solomon Islands, resulting in an American victory over the Japanese.

■ In 1958, the lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.

■ In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Cunningham Walter aboard. The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.

■ In 1984, space shuttle astronaut Challenger Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

■ In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.

■ In 1992, in the first of three presidential debates, three candidates faced off against each other in St. Louis, Mo. — President George H.W. Bush, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and businessman Ross Perot.

OUT OF THE BLUE Man tries to rob bank of $1 NORTHERN CAMBRIA, Pa. (AP) — A man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby, police said.

Jeffrey McMullen, a 50year-old regular customer of an AmeriServ bank in the western Pennsylvania town of Northern Cambria, handed notes to two tellers Friday demanding a dollar, according to a police complaint reported by The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.

The tellers thought it was a joke, police said. He then spoke with a new accounts employee and repeated he was robbing the bank for a buck.

Police say McMullen apparently wanted to be prosecuted federally so he could be taken to a prison in central Pennsylvania.

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Republicans hammer State witnesses on Libya attack

BY MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Four weeks before the election, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya and assail the Obama administration’s early response to the killing of the ambassador and three other Americans there.

GOP lawmakers refused to accept the department’s explanation Wednesday that protection judged adequate for the threat was overwhelmed by an unprecedented assault in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

They also rejected Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy’s explanation that officials were relying on the best intelligence available in characterizing the attack afterward as stemming from a protest over an anti-Islam Internet video rather than a deliberate, planned act of terrorism.

A top State official acknowledged she had declined to approve more U.S. security as violence in Benghazi spiked, saying the department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate.

“I made the best decisions I could with the information I had,” said Charlene R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security.

Regardless of allegations of blame, there is no dispute over the tragic result. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three

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HOUSE OVERSIGHT Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (right) confers with the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday during the committee’s hearing to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. other Americans — including plores any intentional effort to two former Navy SEALs — denigrate the religious beliefs of were killed in what administra- others. Our commitment to retion officials now describe as an ligious tolerance goes back to act of terrorism. the very beginning of our naIn statements immediately tion. But let me be clear: There after the attack, neither Presi- is never any justification for vident Barack Obama nor Secre- olent acts of this kind.” tary of State Hillary Rodham Five days later, U.N. AmbasClinton mentioned terrorism. sador Susan Rice said her best And both gave credence to the information at the time was notion that the attack was re- that the attack stemmed from a lated to protests about the pri- protest that became violent. vately made anti-Islam video.

President Barack Obama, “Some have sought to justify asked on ABC about the changthis vicious behavior as a re- ing accounts of what instigated sponse to inflammatory mate- the attack, said the information rial posted on the Internet,” was evolving.

Clinton said on the night of the “As information came in, inattack. “The United States de- formation was put out, the in-

formation may not have always been right the first time,” he said. “These are people I know, and if there is something to be fixed, it will get fixed.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that in hindsight “there is no question that the security was not enough to prevent that tragedy from happening. There were four Americans killed.”

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tried to blame Republicans for cutting more than $300 million in diplomatic security funds worldwide.

“The fact is that, since 2011, the House has cut embassy security by hundreds of millions of dollars below the amounts requested by the president,” said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s senior Democrat.

Lamb, the official in charge of protecting U.S. embassies and consulates, told the committee, “We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11.”

Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., asked Lamb if she turned down requests for more security in Benghazi.

“Yes sir, I said personally I would not support it,” she replied. “We were training local Libyans and army men” to provide security, a policy in force at U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world.

Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., retorted there was “as much as 30 percent turnover in the people you were training.”

U.S. sends forces to Jordan as check on Syria BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States has sent troops to Jordan to bolster its military capabilities in the event Syria’s civil war escalates, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday, reflecting U.S. concerns about the conflict spilling over allies’ borders and about the security of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.

Speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers, Panetta said the U.S. has been working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordan deal with refugees pouring over the border from Syria.

About 150 U.S. troops, largely Army special operations forces, are working out of a military center near Amman, two senior defense officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the mission.

The troops have moved back and forth to the Syrian border as part of their work, which is joint planning and intelligence gathering, one official said.

The revelation of U.S. military personnel so close to the 19month-old Syrian conflict suggests an escalation in the U.S. involvement in the conflict, even as the Obama administration pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in Syria.

News of the U.S. mission to Jordan also follows several days of shelling between Turkey and Syria, an indication that the civil war could become a regional conflict. One of the U.S. defense officials said the extra planning is aimed at avoiding those kinds of clashes between Jordan and Syria.

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ABIGAIL FISHER, the Texan involved in the University of Texas affirmative action case, accompanied by her attorney Bert Rein, talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington Wednesday. The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in some college admissions. The case could produce new limits on affirmative action at universities, or roll it back entirely. The University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers is at right.

Two U.S. scientists win Court questions Texas Nobel chemistry prize affirmative action plan STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two American researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food. Such studies are key for developing better drugs.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka had made groundbreaking discoveries, mainly in the 1980s, on an important family of receptors, known as G-proteincoupled receptors.

About half of all medications act on these receptors, including beta blockers and antihistamines, so learning about them will help scientists to come up with better drugs.

The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of

cells, which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline. Some receptors are in the nose, tongue and eyes, and let us sense smells, tastes and light.

“They work as a gateway to the cell,” Lefkowitz told a news conference in Stockholm by phone. “As a result they are crucial … to regulate almost every known physiological process with humans.”

Lefkowitz, 69, is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Kobilka, 57, worked for Lefkowitz at Duke before transferring to Stanford University School of Medicine in California, where he is now a professor.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action.

The court heard arguments in a challenge to the program from a white Texan who contends she was discriminated against when the university did not offer her a spot in 2008.

The court’s conservatives cast doubt on the program that uses race as one among many factors in admitting about a quarter of the university’s incoming freshmen. The liberal justices appeared more supportive of the effort.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote could be decisive, looked skeptically on Texas’ defense of the program. “What

you’re saying is what counts is race above all,” Kennedy said.

He has never voted in favor of an affirmative action program but has voiced support for diversity in education.

Twenty-two-year-old Abigail Fisher, the rejected student who sued, was among the hundreds of spectators at the arguments. Also in attendance was retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote the majority opinion in a 2003 case that upheld the use of race in college admissions.

Changes in the court’s makeup since then, especially O’Connor’s departure, could affect the outcome of the Texas case. Justice Samuel Alito, O’Connor’s successor, has voted consistently against racial preferences since he joined the court in 2006 and appears likely to side with Fisher.

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This Evening • The New Knoxville Community Library Book Club meets at 6 p.m. to discuss “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

• Amos Memorial Public Library, 230 E. North St., hosts Babies, Books and Blocks, for children 1-3 1/2, with a parent or caregiver at 6 p.m.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, All in the Family, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 Poplar St. • Minster Garden Club meets at 7 p.m. at the Old Minster Council Chambers, Minster.

• Shelby County Coin Club meets at 7:15 p.m. at First Church of God on Campbell Road. Meetings are open to anyone interested in coin collecting. There is a business session, program, awarding of attendance prizes for members, refreshments and a coin auction.

• Temperance 73 Masonic Lodge at the corner of Miami Avenue and Poplar Street meets at 7:30 p.m.

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• Amos Memorial Public Library, 230 E. North St., CHILDREN FROM long ago gaze at the cameraman from the front of the old offers Tales for Twos, for children 2-3 1/2 and a parent Children’s Home. Are their spirits still floating through the ancient building? or caregiver at 9:15 a.m. and Preschool Storytime for Participants in the Shelby County Historical Society ghost tour will find out. chldren 3 1/2-5 with a parent or caregiver at 10:15 a.m.

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

• Jackson Center Memorial Public Library hosts Safari Adventures for children 2-6 at 11 a.m.

Ghost tour to go by bus to area sites

Friday Afternoon

The Shelby County • Sidney Gateway Hi 12 Club No. 482, meets at noon at the Sidney American Legion on Fourth Av- Historical Society will lead its fifth annual enue. All Master Masons are invited.

Historic Ghost Tour Friday Evening and Oct. 18.

Wednesday • Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12-step The tour, by bus, will programs to confront destructive habits and behavstart in Sidney and will iors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E. travel through Ding4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more inmansburg and east Sidformation, call (937) 548-9006. ney.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean The bus will make for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United stops at the Big Four Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St. Bridge, Graceland • Maplewood Grange will sponsor a euchre card Cemetery, the former party at Maplewood Grange Hall at 7 p.m. The pubHome, Children’s lic is welcome, and refreshments will be served.

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• Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Botkins, 9 to 11 a.m.

• Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Anna, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday Afternoon • Women Walking in the Word meets at 1 p.m. at the Mount Zion House of Prayer, 324 Grove St. Use the rear entrance.

Saturday Evening • The Sidney-Shelby County Chess Club “Checkmates” meets at 7 p.m. at the library at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community. All skill levels are welcome. For more information, call 497-7326.

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

Sunday Afternoon

Poultry plant, the John Wagner house, and the Masonic lodge.

Participants will hear stories about the Children’s Home and the children who grew up inside.

They’ll learn if there is really a body inside the Big Four Bridge, look for something eerie happening in Graceland Cemetery after dark, visit with Mrs. John Wagner at

Rosengarten gets scholarship Sidney High son of Mike and School graduate Kim RosenRiley Rosengarten, of Sidgarten has been ney. awarded a The CatherMoloney $1,000 Catherine ine Moloney Scholarship Nursing ScholarFund was develship to pursue a oped in 1992 in registered nursmemory of the Rosengarten late Sidney resiing degree.

Rosengarten dent who spent is enrolled at Ball State most of her 40-year caUniversity. He is the reer as a registered

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The scholarship is administered by the Community Foundation of Shelby County.

Shelby County residents interested in applying for the Catherine Moloney Nursing Scholarship may do so after Jan. 1 on the foundation’s website at www.commfoun.com.

You’ll be surprised at what recycles

• 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 difDear Readbefore putting ferent targets, pays three places. Points awarded to anything out for members for end-of-the-year trophy. Open to the pub- ers: Who doesn’t love chips? But pickup.

Call lic. did you know your provider Sunday Evening most for a list of ac• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, that “snack” bags are cepted and not Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian recyclable once accepted items, Church, 320 E. Russell Road. the treats are all or ask the repreMonday Morning gone? A major sentative about Hints • A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for manufacturer a specific item. breastfeeding mothers is offered weekly at Upper Val- states that the You may be surfrom ley Medical Center from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Farm- bags are a numat the Heloise prised house located northwest of the main hospital ber “7,” which things that can entrance. The meetings are facilitated by the lacta- means the bags Heloise Cruse be picked up and tion department. Participants can meet other moms, are recyclable! recycled right share about being a new mother and learn more If you have curbside outside your doorstep! — about breastfeeding and their babies. For more infor- recycling, check with Heloise mation, call (937) 440-4906. your city’s trash or recyGRATE STORAGE Monday Afternoon cle program (providers Dear Heloise: I had a • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon at the Sidney have specific items that pile of earrings tangled Moose Lodge. For information, call at 492-3167. they can and will accept) in the bottom of a jewelry

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the Wagner home and meet the Masons of yesteryear.

Tickets are on sale now at the Ross Historical Center, 201 N. Main Ave. Adult tickets are $10 and students, $8.

Tours will begin at 6:30 p.m. and at 8 p.m. each evening.

Because this is a bus tour, space is limited.

For information, call 498-1653.

ANNA — Anna Community Park will be full of scarecrows in all kinds of shapes and sizes Sunday and local residents are invited to make a scarecrow and come and see them.

Nancy Benroth, village administrator, and Gary Strasser, village council member and chairman of the park committee for the village of Anna, have invited the public to design scarecrows and take them to Anna Community Park Sunday, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to set it up.

Those participating can use any kind of material they want to make their scarecrows and there are no age categories, so anyone of any age or a group of individuals can create a scarecrow to enter the contest.

Each individual attending the event will be asked to vote for his favorite scarecrow with nonperishable food items The scarecrow that has the most food donated will win the competition. All of the donated food will go to a local food pantry.

Local residents will also have an opportunity to have their photos made with Mr. Scarecrow during the event in exchange for a donation of five cans of food. The Anna District Historical Society will have hot dogs, potato chips and a drink available for a donation.

The event will be open to the public from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Those wishing to build scarecrows for the contest must call (937) 394-3751 by Friday to register.

box, and I decided to put them on display. The large, four-sided cheese grater from my kitchen made a unique, spacesaving stand to hook pairs of earrings in. Each hole makes a perfect place to hang one pair of earrings. A quick coat of spray paint, or even some decorative ribbon tied on top, makes it personal. — Kara P., via email FOUND MONEY Dear Heloise: Here are a couple of hints regarding money: When I find money on the ground as I’m walking or

in a parking lot, I put it in a special container.

Twice a year, I count all the found money and sometimes add to it, and then I make a donation to some deserving organization.

Another hint: When I grocery-shop, I look at my bill and see how much I saved with coupons and store sales.

If possible, I put that much money in a special envelope and let it add up. When I go on vacation, I take along this money and put it toward meals or souvenirs. — Maryann G., Scotia, N.Y.

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LOCALIFE TODAY • The Dayton chapter of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends will host a free public lecture titled, “Healing on the Spiritual Path — The Key to Tomorrow’s Health,” at Bergamo Center, Chaminade Room, 4400 Shakertown Road, Dayton, at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY • The Towne Squares Quilt Club presents the Harvest of Quilts show at the Darke County Fairgrounds in Greenville today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission: $5. Get a $1 discount by donating a can of food.

• The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., Troy, offers a free movie, a thriller starring Bruce Willis, at 7:30 p.m. (937) 339-0457.

• Elvis Aaron Presley Jr. will perform at the Lost in the 50s Diner, 1533 Celina Road, St. Marys, in a dinner theater. Dinner and show tickets: $25. Show only tickets: $15. Reservations: (419) 394-4959.

• The Victoria Theatre in downtown Daypresents ton “Menopause — the Musical today through Sunday.

Tickets: (937) 228-3630.

SATURDAY • The band Styx will perform at Hobart Arena in Troy beginning at 8 p.m. The show is presented by Hobart Arena and the I-75 Newspapers.

• The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., Troy, hosts “Catch the Glow,” a family fun night of carving pumpkins, crafts, music and more. Carving contest begins at 6 p.m.

Event runs from 6-9 p.m.

Guitarist Keith Lykins will perform at 6:30 p.m.

Eric Loy will perform at 8 p.m. (937) 335-0457.

• The Yellow Springs Street Fair runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Yellow Springs.

Music festival, beer garden, belly dancers, street performers, food from around the world. No pets permitted. Free. destinationyellowsprings.com.

• Miami County Park District hosts its Fall Farm Fest at Lost Creek Reserve, 2385 E. State Route 41, Troy, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Trail races, 5K and 10K, are at 9 a.m. Sunday.

Old fashioned games, a corn shooter, crafts, pony rides, rope making, pumpkin painting, kiddie tractor pull, farm animal petting zoo, music, scarecrow contest, wagon rides, farm tours, demonstrations. $5 donation.

• Darke County Singles hosts a dance with music by Country Classic from 8:30 p.m. to midnight at the VFW Hall, 219 N. Ohio St.,

Greenville. Open to all singles 21 and older. $5.

(937) 968-5007. Costumes are optional.

• Gateway Arts Council presents “The Sword in the Stone,” a play for children, at 11 a.m. in the Cameo Theatre, 304 S. West Ave. Tickets: $6 adults, $4 children 12 and under. 498-2787.

• The Lima Symphony Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. in the Crouse Performance Hall of the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center in Lima.

Schnittke’s “Ritual,” Salonen’s “Gambit for OrElgar’s chestra,” “Variation IX” and Rachmaninoff ’s “Piano Concerto No. 3.” Tickets: $10-$30.

• The A.B. Graham Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route 36, Conover, offers genealogy classes today.

A beginners class will be at 10 a.m.; an advanced class will be at 11:30 a.m. $10 per class. Call (937) 368-3700 for information.

• The historic Holland Theatre in Bellefontaine presents the comedy troupe, the Second City, in performance at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 at (937) 592-9002.

SUNDAY • Brukner Nature Center, 5995 Horseshoe Bend Road, Troy, hosts the Art of Nature, a fundraiser, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Auction, quilt designs, hors d’oeuvres, wines. Tickets: $50. (937) 698-6493.

• The Garst Museum, 205 N. Broadway, Greenville, presents a talk by Randall Buchman, distinguished professor emeritus of history at Defiance College, on his book, “A Sorrowful Journey,” about the removal of Indians from Ohio in 1832. The 2 p.m. talk is free and open to the public.

• The Anna Community Park hosts Scarecrows in the Park. Area residents exhibit scarecrows. Attendees vote for their favorites by contributing cans of food for the food bank.

MONDAY • The Amos Memorial Public Library, 230 E. North St., offers a family fun night beginning at 6:30 p.m.

• The Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster hosts an antique roadshow-type program for adults from 6-8 p.m. Attendees may take two items for appraisal.

Advance registration required.

WEDNESDAY • The Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster offers an Ereader workshop. Advance registration is required. Visit the library for details.

OCT. 18 • The New Bremen Public Library offers an adult glass etching class at 1 p.m. Registration required.

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Oct. 13, 2012, at the wedding of their oldest granddaughter, Jenna, who will marry Matthew Schultz in St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, which is where Robert and Janet were married Oct. 13, 1962.

The combined wedding reception/anniversary celebration will be at the Minster Knights of Columbus hall, which is where Robert and Janet had their wedding reception.

The Hoyings are the parents of a son and daughter-in-law, Jon and Sheri Hoying; and of a daughter and son-in-law, Dan and Julie Fausey. They have 13 grandchildren, Jenna, Lauren, Natalie, Jonathan and Andrew Fausey and Jacqueline, Jacob, Janae, Jenavieve, Josie, Jillian, Julia and Jack Hoying.

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Fassett Farms. She is a Symphony Orchestra.

She is employed by member of St. Augustine Insurance Catholic Church.

Bernhold’s She is employed by MINSTER — Alexan- Agency.

Wagner’s IGA. dra Monnin, a 20123 graduate Wagner to of MinGusching to Cincinnati ster High Findlay School, MINSTER — Janie has been Wagner, a 2012 graduate MINSTER — Daniel accepted of MinGusching, a 2012 Minby the ster High ster High School graduUniverSchool, ate, has been accepted sity of has been by the University of Cincinaccepted Findlay, where he plans n a t i , Monnin the by to study biology/prew h e r e Univermed. she plans to study biosity of The son of Mark and medical engineering.

CincinLinda Gusching, of MinThe daughter of n a t i , ster, he was on the honor Bruce and Deb Monnin, Wagner w h e r e roll, a member of Naof Minster, she earned she plans tional Honor Society, highest honors and the Franklin B. Walter to study graphic design. made first team all-Ohio The daughter of in football, was named Award and won the Nancy and Wally Wagthe Division VI DefenAuglaize County Ameriner, of Minster, she resive Player of the Year canism Test.

Her high school activ- ceived the FCCLA Gold and the Muscle Milk Deities included band, Aca- Award for promoting fensive Player of the demic Team, National and publicizing FCCLA. Year. He earned an athHer high school activ- letic scholarship to the Honor Society, Book Club, FCCLA, 4-H and ities included FCCLA, University of Findlay. junior scholars, softball, His high school activiS.O.S. Club.

He participated in National Honor Society ties included football, Trinity Lutheran and marching and sym- basketball, baseball and band.

Church youth group, the phonic bands.

She took piano lesprayer shawl ministry He was a server at St. and the Grand Lake sons and volunteered at Augustine Parish.

Compassionate Care meets Members of the board of trustees of Compassionate Care of Shelby County approved audited statements and tax returns for 2011 during its recent board meeting.

In other business, director Teresa Ditmer re-

ported that year-to-date number of patients was 1,677; new patients numbered 258; dental visits numbered 272 and there were 1,391 prescriptions filled.

It was reported that the date for the 2013

banquet has been confirmed as March 10.

Debbie Wolfinger reported that 10 models and 15 champagne servers have agreed to participate in the fashion show luncheon Nov. 10.

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Proceeds benefit the proposed property reno- dates, and recently comCommunity Health Pro- vations, software up- pleted YMCA programs. fessionals’ visiting nurse WAPAKONETA — and hospice care fund.

For information, call The Community Health Professionals of Tri- Niki at (419) 738-7430.

County seeks donations in support of its 14th an- YMCA ups rates nual Festival of Trees, Members of the board scheduled for Nov. 14-18 at the Gardens of Wa- of trustees of the Sidneypakoneta, 505 Walnut Shelby County YMCA SEE approved a membership St. The event comprises rate increase and weldecorated Christmas comed new trustee Doug trees and a silent auc- Fortkamp during their BEL tion of wreaths and craft recent meeting.

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Preach the Word Cast Your Nets youth In John 14:16-17, Jesus made this promise: “And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”

Our Lord teaches us these truths about the Holy Spirit: He will never leave us; he lives with us and is in us; he teaches us; he reminds us of Jesus’ words; he guides us into truth; and he glorifies Christ Jesus.

I have heard it said, “The best sermon a believer can preach is the way he lives his life.”

The Christian life is not for the weak in spirit, the soft or the cowardly.

Yet, it is worth the cost. If you are faithful in prayer, Bible-reading, witnessing and fellowship, Jesus will work in you and equip you to serve and promote his plan of salvation to the world. Preach the Word!

rally planned Sunday Over the past four years, Cast Your Nets, the high school youth rally for teens in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, has gone through minor changes to give the teens more of what they are looking for in an event like this, organizers said.

This year, for the first time, the event will be making big changes that will give the teens more time to get to know one another, process what the speaker has to offer, let loose a little more, and dive deeper into an experience of Christ present in the Eucharist.

Featured at this newly renovated event happening on Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m. at St. Luke in Beavercreek, will be Texas A&M University campus minister and Catholic evangelist Marcel LeJeune. LeJeune has years of experience as a college campus minister and has successfully built up the Catholic Campus Ministry program at Texas A&M into a nationally known program. More information about him

Pro-Life Pumpkin Memorial set Oct. 21

MINSTER — The Pro-Life Youth Group from Minster will present its sixth annual ProLife Pumpkin Memorial on the steps of St. Augustine Church Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

This event is organized and accomplished by young people from the St. Augustine Parish.

They begin with picking at least 400 pumpkins missioning of the Way one afternoon in October.

Disciples of Outreach Group XIX contributed to the celebration.

The Way Disciple program is a ministry outreach program designed to teach volunteers a disciplined biblically lifestyle as they help others know God’s love MONTRA — Family and power. The Way Dis- Fun Night is a new outciples of Outreach Group reach project for the MonXIX was commissioned tra Lutheran Parish. at the service and was The parish is made up sent out in teams to lo- of three churches: cations in the United Emanuel Lutheran States where members Church in Montra, St will serve together for Jacob Lutheran Church the next six months. in Jackson Township, and Following the Sunday St Mark Lutheran teaching service, those in Church in Clay Townattendance were invited ship. to an anniversary recepThe parish has a steertion at The Way Interna- ing committee that has tional’s Outreach Services Center.

The writer is the pastor of the New Life Church PJBC in Port Jefferson.

The Way International celebrates 70th anniversary NEW KNOXVILLE — On Sunday, The Way International celebrated its 70th anniversary.

A special teaching service was held at The Way International Headquarters in New Knoxville. Guests from many areas in the United States and some international countries joined the Rev. Rosalie F. Rivenbark, chairman of the Board of Directors and president, as well as the other members of the Board of Directors, the other senior officers, The Way International staff, and in-residence Way Corps students for the teaching service in the Victor Paul Wierwille Prevailing Word Auditorium.

More than 1,400 cele-

brants gathered for the service, with many others listening in via telefrom conference locations in the United States and other countries.

At the anniversary service this year, two new senior officers were introduced: Vice President the Rev. Thomas E. Mullins and SecretaryTreasurer Melvin E. Privette.

The Way International begins a new ministry year at each anniversary with a teaching theme for the Sunday services planned for that year. Mullins commenced this new teaching series and theme with a presentation on “Mighty for God.” The training and com-

Evangelist Vonda Bishop will be the afternoon speaker. She is from Independence, Ky. She has been a guest on TBN’s local Praise the Lord station with her pastor, Tommy Bates, and Pastor Todd Hoskins several times.

The two morning teachers will be Sister

Sonja Dye and Pastor Karen Raddy. Both of these sisters are from Ada Full Gospel Church.

The women from Solid Rock invites the public to attend. A $10 donation will be asked and all women are invited. For more information, call Sharon Koenig at 492-0770.

McCartyville church to serve breakfast MCCARTYVILLE — A pancake and The menu will include sausage, pansausage breakfast will be held Oct. 21 cakes, applesauce and beverage. from 8 a.m. to noon in the basement of A free-will offering will be accepted.

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A week later, the kids organize an assembly line of gutting, cleaning and carving a cross in all these pumpkins. All this work is in preparation for the final event on the front steps of the church.

As the sun begins to set, a brief prayer service, along with a youth choir, precedes a silent time of reflection as the candles are being lighted in each pumpkin. At the end of

the event, families are welcomed to take a pumpkin or two home to show their respect for life.

The goal of this event has always been to have each pumpkin represent a hundred unborn babies and use this display to honor the life and remember the death of nearly 4,000 babies each day in America, organizers said.

Montra Lutheran Parish plans Family Fun Night

Church plans 10th annual women’s conference Saturday The Solid Rock Pentecostal Church of God, 2745 State Route 29 North, will hold its 10th annual women’s conference Saturday morning starting at 9 and ending at 3 p.m.

Breakfast and lunch will be served. The title if the conference is “Out of the Pits.”

available at is http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/ or his personal website: www.thecatholicevangelist.com.

Cast Your Nets is co-sponsored by the Vocation Office and the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, working alongside the youth ministers in the Dayton area to put on this event. The cost (which also includes a live band, pizza dinner, Eucharistic adoration and the opportunity for reconciliation) is $5 per person and event T-shirts will be sold at the event for $10.

To register for the event, visit www.catholiccincinnati.org/castyournets or call Jeanne Fairbanks at (937) 229-5916. Deadline for online registration is today but walk-in registrations are also welcomed and encouraged.

For more details about the event, call Wayne Topp at (513) 421-3131, ext. 2891, or email wtopp@catholiccincinnati.org.

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Regula, a member of Emanuel Church, will be calling the dancing and there will be seasoned dancers to help the novice join in the merriment.

Participants are asked to bring lawn chairs, a flashlight and sticks to roast hot dogs, and to bring family and friends to join in the fun.

For more information, call the church office at 596-6509.

Community Health Einstein letter and Wellness Fair set on God to FLETCHER — The Fletcher United Methodist Church, 205 S. Walnut St., will sponsor its annual Community Health and Wellness Fair on Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Free blood pressure, HDL, cholesterol and blood sugar screenings will be provided by Premier Community Health (no fasting required).

Kroger Pharmacy will provide flu shots for $25, and both Medicare and Medicaid will be accepted for payment.

The Miami County Health Department will offer health information and skin screening with the Dermascan. In addition, 30 other organiza-

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The October “Fun Night” will be held Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. and is to be hosted by St Mark’s Church, Clay Township, Geyer Road. The group will be roasting hot dogs at the bonfire, taking hayrides, playing games in the yard, and having a square dance to round out the evening. Zeke

tions will be represented.

Included are Christina Biedermann, who will be doing short massages; Margie DeHayes, who will be doing reflexology; and Barbara Felder who will show how hypnosis can be used for stress reduction.

Additionally, a pet therapy dog will be present along with information related to that service.

An Ohio Benefit counselor will be on the site as well as Health Partners Free Clinic.

This year a special “Look Good — Feel Good” section will be available.

Call (937) 339-4185 or the church office at (937) 368-2470 for more information.

be auctioned LONDON (AP) — A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million.

The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein’s death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling “the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

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A man had a walk with Jesus question for the and is now living pastor, “Pastor, I daily in God’s want to know if grace and servyou will accept ing in a Bible-beme here at your lieving and church for who I Bible-practicing am?” church. above The pastor The Your answered with story is a true pastor summary of a a question of his own, “Will you speaks life-changing exaccept me for perience as told Pastor Earnie by Pastor Bob who I am?”

J. Jones Confused, the Coy of Calvary asked, man Church in Fort “What do you mean?”

Lauderdale, Fla. WillingThe pastor replied, “I ness to stand with God, am a pastor and this is a to live and preach from Bible-believing and his inspired scripture in Bible-practicing church this time of growing arro... while you are welcome gance, false teaching, and here, at some point in deception is expected time I’m going to address within the Body of your lifestyle, based on Christ. what God has revealed in We cannot keep quiet his Word. So while I cer- as “wrong” is being protainly welcome and ac- moted and accepted as cept you as a guest, I being “right.” need you to consider if “Preach the word. Be you are willing to accept ready in season and out me for who I am and of season; reprove, rewhat I stand for.” buke, exhort with all The man listened and long-suffering and teachconsidered what the pas- ing. For the time will tor had said. come when they will not Several weeks later, endure sound doctrine, the man and pastor met but according to their again. By the grace of own lusts ... and they will God, the man believed, turn their ears away repented, accepted Christ from the truth, and be as Savior, and left his turned aside to fables.” worldly lifestyle at the (II Timothy 4:2-4) altar. This man began his We are not alone!

LOCAL NEWS

Sidney Daily News,Thursday, October 11, 2012

MUNICIPAL COURT In Sidney Municipal Court Wednesday morning, Judge Duane Goettemoeller ordered Brett Copeland, 21, 429 Riverside Drive, held for action of Shelby County Common Pleas Court on felony forgery charges.

Bond of $2,500 was to the transferred county court. • Harold E. Case, 37, 620 Mohican Court, was find $375 and costs, sentenced to five days in jail and his driver’s license was suspended for six months for driving while under the influence. Jail may be reconsidered if he completes an alcoholintervention program and pays fines and costs in full. On a drug abuse charge, he was fined $50 and costs. A drug paraphernalia charge was dismissed at the request of the law director. • A contempt of court citation in a domestic violence case against Tadj D. Smith, 33, 1121 Hilltop Ave. Apt. C, was dismissed. • Sylvina E. Ludwig, 50, 1004 N. Wagner Ave., was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to 90 days in jail on a domestic violence charge that was amended to attempted assault. She will receive credit for one day served and 30 days will be suspended if she follows all rules of two years probation. She will also be permitted to continue and complete counseling in lieu of 50 days jail. The balance of the jail time may be re-

considered if she pays fines and costs in full. • Ryan M. Kubichek, 33, 3417 W. Mason Road, was fined $375 and costs, sentenced to five days in jail and his driver’s license was suspended for six months for driving while under the influence. If he completes an alcohol-intervention program and pays fines and costs in full, jail may be reconsidered. • Darlene Jacobs, 55, of Castlewood, Va., was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to five days in jail on a driving while under the influence that was charge amended to being in physical control of a vehicle. Jail will be reconsidered if she completes an alcohol-intervention program and pays fines and costs in full. • Joseph Marlow, 28, 352 Park St., was fined $375 and costs, sentenced to five days in jail and his driver’s license was suspended for six months for driving while under the influence. Jail may be reconsidered if he completes an alcoholintervention program and pays fines and costs in full. • Ronald R. Berning, 42, 8550 Turtle Creek Road, Anna, was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a charge of failing to stop following an accident that was amended to reckless operation.

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Should drinking age be lowered to 18?

DR. WALolder can conLACE: I’m on sume alcohol in the debate team Ireland and I at my high was told that school and we even if you are will be having a younger, but debate with anlook like an 18other city high year-old, alcohol school in two will be served to months. The de’Tween you. None of us bate will be drunk and 12 & 20 got called, “Should none of us Dr. Robert the alcohol caused a probWallace drinking law be lem. All we did lowered to age was have a nice 18?� Our school is debat- friendly time. I’ll admit ing that it should remain some of the more “maat age 21. ture� pub patrons (most What are your of the male gender) did thoughts on lowering the sing out of tune and drinking age? Can we leave the pub with the quote you in the debate? aid of a friend’s arm; but —Ava, New York, N.Y. they did leave with a AVA: Several years smile on their faces and ago, a college student a twinkle in their eyes. and I had a friendly “deI think it’s archaic bate� in my column on that our college students lowering the drinking can’t legally enjoy the age. I’m reprinting it for same type of friendship your use in the debate. in the United States You may use all the in- until they reach that formation from the fol- magical and all-knowing lowing reprint. age of 21. I know that DR. WALLACE: I’m you will strongly disa third-year student at agree with my alcohol the University of Con- philosophy of allowing necticut. Last year I had 18-year-olds to enjoy a the pleasure of spending glass of stout, but please a year of study at Trinity print my letter to let College in Dublin, Ire- older teens know that land. I had a marvelous they should keep fighttime learning and enjoy- ing to get our elected ofing the Irish people and ficials to visit an Irish their traditions. pub so they can see that One experience I en- civilized young folk can joyed the best was after drink responsibly. classes on Friday after- Mary, Hartford, Conn. noons, we’d go to Paddy’s MARY: Don’t be Pub on O’Connell Street lulled by the idea that and have a few glasses of having a few drinks in Guiness (beer) with my an Irish pub is typical of fellow Irish students. We a wonderful example of would sing Irish folk alcohol consumption. songs (Danny Boy, My The Irish have an exWild Irish Rose, Galway tremely high percentage Bay, etc.) sip our beers of alcoholics, much to the and down a plate of fish suffering and despair of and chips (French fries). their families.

At the time, I was 19 Even with the strict years old. Teens 18 and minimum drinking age

law in the United States, alcohol is a major problem of many teens. According to Dr. S. Kenneth Schonberg, a professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the three leading causes of death among teens are accidents, homicide and suicide. He says that nearly half of the teens who die in accidents are intoxicated themselves or are in a motor vehicle driven by someone who has been drinking. This fact alone makes alcohol intoxication the leading cause of death among North American teens. In addition, nearly one-third of teen murder victims are under the influence of alcohol at the time they are killed, according to Dr. Schonberg. Add to this the fact that 20 percent of teens who commit suicide are intoxicated at the time of their death.

I allowed you to give your view of why 18year-olds should be allowed to consume alcohol and I have presented mine. Now, it’s up to our readers to decide who has won our friendly, but important, debate.

Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column.

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‘Young Eagles’ soar Jaden Swiger (left) 8, of Sidney, and Wesley Strattman, 10, of Piqua, gawk out the window of a small plane as they take part in the Sidney Municipal Airport program "Young Eagles" Saturday. Local pilots took kids up in planes in an effort to get them excited about flying. Jaden is the son of Christina Swiger and Curtis Johnson. Wesley is the son of Trish Parks.

Condemned killer asks parole board for mercy

BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS (AP) — A condemned Ohio inmate asked the state Parole Board for mercy a third time Wednesday ahead of his scheduled execution next month for stabbing an Akron woman more than 100 times, then cutting off her hands.

Brett Hartman came within about a week of execution in 2009 before federal courts allowed him to pursue an innocence claim. When that claim failed, Hartman had a new date set last year, but that was postponed because of a federal lawsuit over Ohio’s execution policy.

The parole board has twice unanimously denied Hartman’s requests for clemency, citing the brutality of the Sept. 9, 1997, slaying of 46-year-old Winda Snipes and the “overwhelming evidence” of Hartman’s guilt. Snipes was beaten, strangled with a cord, stabbed 138 times, had her throat slit and her hands cut off, according to records submitted to the parole board by Summit County prosecutors.

Hartman admitted having sex with Snipes sometime after midnight that day, going back to her apartment the following evening, finding her body and then wiping down anything he had touched, records show. He also called 911 about the body.

The county medical examiner testified that Snipes was killed late in the afternoon or early in the evening the same day, according to records.

Hartman’s attorneys base their arguments for mercy on three points.

First, they say crucial evidence from the crime scene and Snipes’ body has never been tested, raising questions about Hartman’s innocence. The evidence included fingerprints allegedly found on a clock and a mop handle.

Hartman also argues the evidence could implicate an alternate suspect.

Second, the attorneys argue that if the board does not accept Hartman’s innocence claim, it should spare him because of the effects of a “remarkably chaotic and nomadic early childhood,” including being abandoned by his mother and left with an aunt on an isolated Indian reservation.

Third, lawyers say Hartman’s behavior in prison has been exemplary and shows he is a changed man. They cite his devotion to religious studies, his development

as an artist and community service projects in prison.

“Hartman has done everything he can while incarcerated to improve his life and to improve the lives of people around him and society in general,” his attorneys, Michael Benza and David Stebbins, wrote in their clemency petition.

The state resubmitted its 2009 argument against clemency, citing the strength of the evidence and the fact that courts have repeatedly upheld Hartman’s conviction and death sentence. The state also says Hartman refuses to take responsibility and

show remorse.

Snipes’ watch was found in Hartman’s possession afterward, his bloody shirt was found hidden behind his bed, Hartman confessed to a fellow Summit County jail inmate weeks after the killing, and DNA evidence supports his conviction, argued Sherry Bevan Walsh, Summit County Prosecutor.

“Hartman has presented no justifiable reason as why his death sentence should now be commuted,” Walsh said.

The board will rule Oct. 18, with the final decision up to Gov. John Kasich.

HOUSTON — Eagle Scout candidate Kyle Patterson attended the Houston Community Association’s October meeting to inform the trustees he is ready to begin his Eagle Scout project of painting the shelter house on the association’s parking lot. He will also be putting mulch around the building.

Trustees will pay for his supplies and the mulch and agreed he could get started as soon as he wanted to.

Houston Classic Festival committee member Kathy Greve attended the meeting to inform trustees the festival needs to change the date of it event for 2013 due to the Shelby County Fair, Country Concert and other area festivals scheduled at the same time in July 2013. The 2013 festival will be held Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29. The festival is held on the association’s parking lot.

Someone is needed to chair the upcoming turkey/ham fundraiser dinner on Nov. 11. Prep work is done on Nov. 10 and the actual dinner is the 11. Anyone interested in chairing or receiving more information on the dinner may contact any of the trustees. Volunteers are needed to help prepare the dinner or serve the dinner. Contact a trustee.

The first of the winter Pizza Friday nights was held Oct. 5. Pizza nights will be held the first Friday of November, December, January and February from 5 to 10 p.m. Volunteers are needed. If in-

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Trick or treat in Houston will be held Oct. 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. The Houston Community Association will purchase candy for the Houston Fire Department to pass out at the north and south end of Ohio 66. They will have fire trucks posted at each end of the highway to help slow traffic through town on Trick or Treat night.

The association needs a treasurer.

Interested individuals may contact one of the trustees or come to the next meeting.

Trustees will be taking closed bids for the following paid positions: lawn mowing, janitor, and rental agent for 2013. People who are interested in bidding on any of these positions can obtain a bid package or find out how to pick one up from Craig Langston, Gene Greve, Barry Wolfe, Phil Cozad, John Huntzinger, Terry Pellman, Gary Vondenhueval or Jack Curl. Bids will be awarded the first Wednesday of March 2013. Trustees have the right to refuse any and all bids.

Association secretary Tana Ingle has a watch a young girl lost at the Shelby County Fair. The owner may call Ingle at 773-6686 or 497-7239 to claim her watch.

The next regular meeting is Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. Anyone interested in renting the building should call rental agent Marcella Colby at (937) 778-0427.

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BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN pspeelman@sdnccg.com The most difficult thing about attending the Mitt Romney-for-President rally at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Wednesday was attending the Mitt Romney-for-President rally.

Some 8,500 tickets had been distributed by the time the gate opened at 4 p.m. and traffic was virtually stopped on all streets leading to that entrance at the intersection of Wagner Avenue and Campbell Road at that time. With vehicles being forced to merely inch along, many drivers opted to park on neighborhood streets and walk to the event.

Fair Road, Highland Avenue and Fourth Avenue looked like big city thoroughfares at rush hour. When cars reached the intersection, there was no one there directing traffic, but Shelby County drivers showed the courtesy that defines small towns by allowing oncoming drivers from either direction to join the line snaking slowly into the field that served as a parking lot for the night.

Thanks to some quick thinking by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, attendees were able to navigate the field back to their cars later on due to rented floodlights used to illuminate the area once the sun went down.

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SUPPORTERS HOLD up signs during Mitt Romney’s speech in Sidney. The signs were handed out just before he took the stage at the Shelby County Fairgrounds.

“I thought the lighting at the field worked,” said Sheriff John Lenhart early Wednesday. “But it didn’t. We brought in portable lights.”

Between his office and that of the Sidney Police Department, Lenhart estimated that more than 30 officers and deputies were on site to handle perimeter security and assist the Secret Service

as needed.

Apparently there was a lack of communication, however, between the Secret Service and the Romney campaign office, having to do with the press corps. In mid-afternoon, press outlets ranging from the Sidney Daily News to the Times of London were notified that reporters and cameramen should enter the fair-

grounds at 4 p.m. from Highland Avenue. But when journalists converged there, local deputies told them the Secret Service had prohibited all but satellite trucks from entering.

Once people left their cars, they continued to exhibit patience as they waiting in blocks-long lines to go through metal detectors and security checks.

Inside the fairgrounds, two stages were erected: one for country singer Collin Raye’s band and the other for Romney and other speakers. The script from the Ohio Bicentennial logo was painted on a barn to serve as a backdrop for Romney’s speech. Some cameramen from the national press were concerned that since the barn and the platform were to the west of their press box, they would be shooting into the setting sun.

That might have hindered their photographing the preliminary speakers, but by the time Romney took the stage the sun had sunk below the horizon.

Chris Gibbs, chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party and the man primarily responsible for bringing Romney to Sidney, said the campaign paid to rent the fairgrounds. In addition, it covered the cost of renting portable restrooms, generators, a sound system, cranes and bike rack barriers. It also paid Raye to perform.

Apple Farms and Koenig Equipment loaned farm equipment to display on the grounds. Ferguson Construction provided a trailer for people to stand on and Maplewood Grange provided its building for magnetometers used in security checks.

“This has been a full court press by the community,” Gibbs said.

Crowd came for moment in history

BY TOM BARNETT tbarnett@sdnccg.com Thousands upon thousands of voters both young and old streamed from the Shelby County Fairgrounds race track infield and the parking lots of Emerson Elementary and Sidney Middle and High Schools Wednesday afternoon to participate in a Mitt Romney for President rally.

Many families brought their young children in order to afford them a lifelong memory of the man who could be President of the United States.

Hawkers offered Romney buttons, T-shirts and other memorabilia of the event as sheriff ’s deputies directed steady lines of vehicles past Emerson School.

As he stood in line in the first wave of people with his wife Diana, waiting to be admitted to the fairgrounds, Glen Miller of Wapakoneta told a reporter he was “very interested” in hearing Mitt Romney’s speech and that he definitely will vote Nov. 6.

And Caven Risk of Sidney, bearing a highdepth camera with tri-

pod, said he was attending with his son, Colton, “because I’d like my son to see how politics work and see the most powerful man in the world come to our small town.”

Robert Staroska of Piqua said he supports Romney because, “you don’t want your kids to have to pay for the debt that’s currently occurring at such a rapid rate.” He said he also plans to vote for the former Massachusetts governor.

Beth Bell of Russia brought her two boys, “to see our future president.”

She said she will be voting to support the Republican candidate.

“It’s a once in a lifetime experience,” Roberta Rohrbach of Sidney, a Romney supporter, said. “I’m here with my husband Jim and we’ve already voted.”

Andrea Johnson, a Memorial High School teacher in St. Marys, said she’s attending, “because I’d like to see him in person; he’s our next president.”

Young first time voter Katie Puthoff, 18, of Minster said she’s thrilled about her first vote. “I’ve got my mind made up, but came with my family

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AUDREY GILES, (left) of Quincy, and Nicole Trudell, of Conover, stand at the front of the line waiting for security to let them enter the Shelby County Fairgrounds for the start of a Mitt Romney campaign event Wednesday. Trudell was the very first on in line. Surprisingly she has already voted early for Obama and was going door to door campaigning for Obama Thursday. She came to see Romney because she “is a political junkie wether I agree with their viewpoint or not. I like to hear what have to say.” She also thinks it is a historical event and good for the county to get the national attention. to see him and hear what he has to say.”

David Edwards of Sidney said he likes Romney “even better after hearing the debate with

President Obama. I always vote and I vote on the day you are supposed to do it.”

Anne Coon of Sidney, accompanied by her sister Cathy Minser of Oakwood, attended because she wanted to see Romney “up close and personal.” They arrived early so they could get a good view of the speakers’ platform, standing next to Gov. John Kasich and Romney’s son Josh at one point. “I like him (Romney) and what he stands for,” Coon said.

“Our country’s in poor shape and I believe he can fix it.”

Ann Meyer of Minster, accompanied by her husband Ken, was on the grounds by 2 p.m. to witness what she termed “a wonderful experience and very memorable.”

She said she was thinking of her children and grandchildren and how Romney “will change the economy and make it better.” She said seeing For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg Romney in Sidney was A GIRL put one of the Romney campaign stickers being handed out on the “just as exciting as seeback of her coat during the Romney rally at the Shelby County Fairgrounds ing Bush and Reagan when they visited” and Wednesday.

noted both men went on to victory.

Bob Lammers, part of a group from Minster, said he felt the event “was very well coordinated. It was amazing how everything worked.”

He said he hopes Romney’s swing through Ohio will win over undecided voters. “I truly believe Romney when he says he will turn the country around and he is our best hope.”

Ken Taylor of Celina, who attended with is wife Violet, said he is “really concerned with the direction our country has taken in the last four years. We need change.”

He said he felt Romney did an “excellent job explaining his programs and why he feels he’s the person for the job.”

Taylor had been to a rally in Oxford for Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, and said he wanted to hear what Romney had to say. He praised the “enthusiastic crowd” at Wednesday’s rally. “It was very impressive; each speaker did a good job.”

Mom asks Romney to stop talking about her son SIDNEY (AP) — The mother of a former Navy SEAL killed in Libya has called on Mitt Romney to stop talking about her son during his political campaign.

A spokesman for the Republican presidential candidate says Romney will respect her wishes.

Romney in recent days has been telling voters of chance encounter with the former SEAL, Glen Doherty, at a Christmas party two or three years ago. Doherty was among four Americans killed in the attacks in Benghazi.

Romney told the story of his chance encounter with Doherty at least twice in the last two days as part of a larger push to show a more personal side and criticize President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Romney, like other Republicans, have repeatedly raised questions about the president’s handling of the Sept. 11 attack.

Indeed, the Benghazi terrorist strike that left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens dead was a centerpiece of Romney’s high-profile foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute earlier in the week.

On Wednesday, Doherty’s mother, Barbara Doherty, told Boston television station WHDH that she wanted Romney to stop citing her son.

“I don’t trust Romney.

He shouldn’t make my son’s death part of his political agenda. It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama,” Barbara Doherty said.

Romney spokesman Rick Gorka said: “Gov. Romney was inspired by the memory of meeting Glen Doherty and shared his story and that memory, but we respect the wishes of Mrs. Doherty.”

Romney told the Doherty story at his first stop in Ohio on Wednesday, but did not at his next two public appearances.

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GOV. JOHN Kasich speaks at the Mitt Romney rally THE BOY Scouts brought in the U.S. flag for the in Sidney Wednesday.

Pledge of Allegiance during the Mitt Romney rally.

SPEAKERS comed Romney’s son, Josh, was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican. He touted his record of change that means “Ohio is coming back…but the wind is always in our face.” We don’t need politicians, he said, but people who know how to create jobs.

He touched on the national debt, what it will mean to children, and what he called the “blizzard of regulations.”

“With Mitt Romney as president, we’ll have common-sense regulations,” he promised. “We know what we have in this man. He knows us, knows our problems. We pass our hopes and dreams for a better life on to (our children).

That’s what this election is all about.”

“Do we know how to throw a party here?” asked Shelby County Republican Party Chairman Chris Gibbs, of Maplewood. “It’s not every day that Shelby County gets to be front and center in the race to elect the next president of the United States, yet here we are! You’re the individuals who are going to remember that, on this night, you helped elect Mitt Romney.”

Denny Sollmann, of Sidney, president of Sollmann Electric, had been filmed in a controversial television commercial for the Romney campaign.

He spoke Wednesday about why he agreed to make the commercial.

“I thought about my son and my grandson.

Mitt Romney has a plan — a plan for cutting the deficit. He knows small businesses like ours are the

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COUNTRY SINGER Collin Raye enterains the crowd while the Sidney High School band waits to perform during Mitt Romney’s campaign stop Wednesday at the Shelby County Fairgrounds. lifeblood of the economy.”

Sollmann’s remarks that Romney would repeal Obamacare brought some of the loudest applause and cheers prior to the appearance of Romney himself.

State Rep. John Adams, R-Sidney, 78th District, told the assembled audience that veterans count on the commander-in-chief for support.

“I do not trust the policies of this administration to protect our military,” he said. “We can depend on Mitt Romney as a conservative.” Adams is a former Navy SEAL. He led a chant of “four more weeks,” indicating the amount of time until Republicans hope to unseat President Barak Obama in the Nov. 6 election.

“The recession officially ended in 2009,” Adams said. “Some people call this ‘the new nor-

mal.’ The left wants to redefine what normal is. If this is the new normal, we want nothing to do with it.”

State Rep. Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, 77th District, talked about how important agriculture is to this part of Ohio and listed values he said are important to farm families.

“Obama’s policies are crushing family farms,” he claimed. “We could do a lot more if we had a true partner in Washington like Mitt Romney. He will plant seeds that will grow into more jobs, more responsibility and more freedom.”

Ellen Joslin, a Shelby County farmer, said, “Agriculture is more than a business to farm families like ours. It’s a way of life. I’m proud to tell you American agriculture is vibrant, but it needs leadership. We need Mitt Romney’s leadership.”

Her comments brought

applause and cheers.

State Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, 12th District, urged voters to reject Ohio Issue 2, which will be on the November ballot and would put responsibility for redistricting into the hands of a citizen’s panel.

“It’s bad,” he said of the proposal. “It’s all about changing the rules because they couldn’t win by following the rules.”

He, too, encouraged listeners to take advantage of early voting options.

“If you vote, we’re gonna elect a new president,” he said. “If people along the golden highway of I-75 vote, we’ll elect a new president.”

At the beginning of the event, Gibbs introduced Boy Scout Troop 97, of Sidney, which led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Student musicians, comprising the Sidney and Jackson Center High School bands, played the national anthem.

The candidate said the country “can’t afford another four years like the last four years have been,” adding that reelecting Obama would mean continued rising prices and falling incomes.

Romney brought up last week’s presidential debate and said he and the president have interests in common but they differ in how they would resolve problems.

“We both care very deeply about helping the middle class of America and helping get people out of poverty and into the middle class,” Romney said. “Our process for doing that couldn’t be more different.”

Romney said the president wanted to raise taxes. “I want to lower taxes on small business,” Romney said.

The candidate said he wanted to eliminate the estate tax, which he said was an impediment in passing farms down within a family. also exRomney pressed his support for energy independence, including taking advantage of all of the nation’s resources and technology from oil to natural gas to nuclear to wind energy. He said he wanted to double the number of licenses for drilling on federal land and open up drilling in Alaska.

Romney pointed out the cuts Obama has made to military funding.

“I will not cut the military,” Romney said.

“Our military must be second to none.”

Romney also supported opening up trade to support American manufacturing, particularly in Latin America, and reducing federal spending to balance the federal budget.

Small businesses, Romney said, too often see the federal government as “the enemy,” stating that he wants a government that “champions small business,” and passes regulations that support rather than suppress a free market system. He said he also wants to get “Obamacare out of the way of creating jobs.”

Romney said the president has failed in his leadership and has failed to bring Congress together.

He shared anecdotes of the people he has met along the campaign trail and how they have inspired him, including a war widow who held no hard feelings against the protesters at her husband’s funeral.

After leaving the stage, Romney walked along the edge of the crowd, shaking hands and posing for pictures with his eager supporters. Even as he approached his motor coach, he turned and ran back to shake more hands before proceeding on his way.

Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart said of the event that everything came together smoothly.

“I can’t think of anything that fell through the cracks,” he said. He complimented Sidney’s police force and said there were no problems from anyone in the crowd.

Lenhart said the sheriff ’s office had about 15 personnel working the site, while the Sidney Police Department provided an additional 11 people. No mutual aid was called in for other county law enforcement agencies. The Sidney Fire Department provided fire and medical

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Obama supporter reacts to speech Jessica Keershaw, press secretary for the Obama for America — Ohio campaign, issued the following statement Wednesday night following Mitt Romney's address in Sidney “In Sidney tonight, Mitt Romney told a series of falsehoods about the president’s plan for rural America. Unsurprisingly, he failed to detail specific plans of his own. He said he’d cut taxes, but to pay for his $250,000 tax cuts for multimillionaires, he’d have to raise taxes on middle class families with kids by $2,000. And he complained about our exports but President Obama has a plan to double them and in Ohio our exports reached a record level in the first half of this year. The truth is that independent agree economists that Romney’s plans would do nothing to create jobs and could slow our recovery.”

support, but there were no problems.

Chris Gibbs, chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, said the event was a “huge undertaking” but was an undeniable success.

“The Romney team was meticulous in organizing, and the ability to put on a production like this in such a short amount of time is fantastic,” Gibbs said.

Attendance far surpassed the initial projection of about 1,000.

“I was initially concerned there were still folks outside when the program started,” Gibbs said. The line stretched several deep the whole length of the fairgrounds and most of the way around the racetrack as the thousands patiently moved in.

“I believe everyone got to see (Gov. John) Kasich and certainly everyone got to see Romney,” Gibbs said, adding that the last few hundred people in line were not fully screened through security and were instead directed to a site outside the fenced area enclosing those who had gone through screening.

Gibbs said he was able to spend some time with Romney before he took the stage, and found the candidate to be “very confident. He was truly impressive to me.”

Gibbs also said Romney seemed “very appreciative of what Shelby County put together.”

“The help and support from the city of Sidney, Mayor (Michael) Barhorst, the Sidney Police Department, the sheriff’s department, the fairgrounds staff and (Sidney City Schools) Superintendent (John) Scheu was far beyond the call of duty,” said Gibbs, who spearheaded the drive to bring the candidate to Shelby County.

“That shows what kind of community we have here,” Gibbs said.

“We put our shoulder to the wheel and we get things done.”

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Lincecum, Giants top Reds 8-3

BY JOE KAY The Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Facing elimination again, the San Francisco Giants came out swinging. Got a saving relief appearance from Tim Lincecum, too.

Angel Pagan led off the game with a home run, Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval connected later and the Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 on Wednesday, evening their NL division series at 2-all.

Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young winner relegated to the bullpen, also delivered. He entered in the fourth with the Giants ahead 3-2, struck out six while giving up just one run in 4 1-3 innings, and allowed his team to pull away.

“I knew he would play a huge role in this,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “And I know of other situations where starters have been in the ‘pen and really done a great job to help their team win. We knew Timmy would play a critical role in the series like he did tonight.”

The Giants can complete an unprecedented comeback on Thursday. No team has recovered from a 2-0 deficit in a bestof-five series by winning three on the road, according to STATS LLC. “Thanks to the win today, there will be a tomorrow,” Pagan said. “And we are ready for that.”

Matt Cain, who lost the series opener and has yet to beat the Reds in three tries this season, will start Game 5 against Mat Latos.

The Giants’ hitters emerged from a series-long slump and extended Cincinnati’s playoff misery. The Reds haven’t won a postseason game at home in 17 years.

One thing in the Reds’ favor — they haven’t dropped three straight at home all season.

“I’d like to think that we still have the advantage,” Reds outfielder Jay Bruce said. “We’re at home. I expect Mat to come up with a big game. I’m looking forward to it.”

The Reds were hoping to start ace Johnny Cueto, but had to drop him off the roster a few hours before Wednesday’s first pitch because he was still bothered by a strained muscle in his right side. He won’t be available if Cincinnati wins

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Fujita criticizes Goodell BEREA (AP) — Browns linebacker Scott Fujita accused Roger Goodell of abusing his power as commissioner for his handling of the New Orleans Saints’ bounty case.

Fujita also criticized the NFL’s recent record on player safety and said he plans to appeal the reduced suspension.

He expects to play Sunday when the winless Browns (05) host the Cincinnati Bengals.

Fujita, who had his threegame suspension reduced to one on Tuesday by Goodell, released a statement Wednesday in which he expressed being most angered with a letter he received from Goodell after his suspension was reduced.

Before practicing Wednesday, Fujita said in the statement that he’s pleased Goodell acknowledged he never participated in the Saints’ pay-forhits program. However, Fujita did not like the content or the tone of the letter in which the commissioner chastised him for not stepping in and stopping the program.

“For him to come out and say he was disappointed in me for not standing up to my coach,” Fujita said after practice Wednesday. “I haven’t had someone tell me they were disappointed in me since I was 12 years old, and that was my father.”

Goodell wrote to Fujita that he was “surprised and disappointed by the fact that you, a former defensive captain and a passionate advocate for player safety, ignored such a program and permitted it to continue. … . If you had spoken up, perhaps other players would have refused to participate and the consequences with which we are now dealing could have been avoided.”

A member of the NFL Players Association’s executive board, Fujita, who met with Goodell on Sept. 28 in New York, was most bothered that Goodell’s “condescending tone used in his redetermination letter was neither accurate nor productive.”

CINCINNATI REDS manager Dusty Baker (left) takes out relief pitcher Jose Arredondo (33) during the seventh inning of Game 4 of the National League division baseball series against the San Francisco Giants, Wednesday in Cincinnati. Catcher Dioner Navarro watches.

Game 5 and reaches the NL boos from the crowd of 44,375 postseason roster when San championship series.

— the third-largest at Great Francisco won the World Series The way the Giants have American Ball Park. Fans qui- in 2010, but finished the regustarted hitting, that’s now in etly settled into their seats and lar season with seven straight doubt. used their white rally towels as wins.

San Francisco managed lap warmers against the The left-hander lasted only only four runs in the first three evening chill.

2 2-3 innings, his shortest cagames of the series. The Giants The Giants normally don’t reer outing in the postseason. avoided the sweep by pulling hit many homers — only 103 On came Lincecum to save the out a 2-1 win in 10 innings on during the season, fewest in day.

Tuesday night with the help of the majors. They’re only the The Reds finished with the a passed ball and an error by seventh team since 1900 to second-best record in the mathird baseman Scott Rolen. reach the playoffs after finish- jors at 97-65, one game behind They broke out against ing last in the majors in Washington. The rotation was Mike Leake, who replaced homers. the foundation of their champiCueto and had a rough time.

While the offense went to onship season, with all five Leake threw his first career work, Lincecum bailed out the starters making it through uncomplete game in San Fran- bullpen. scathed — a franchise first. cisco on June 29 and was 3-0 Bochy didn’t hesitate to put Things changed dramaticareer against the Giants. the guys he wanted on the cally when Cueto had to leave Pagan homered on his sec- mound, using four pitchers in the first inning of the playoff ond pitch of the game. Blanco the first four innings. Lince- series opener on Saturday with hit a two-run shot in the sec- cum got the final out in the the injury. The Reds made it ond. The Giants had another fourth and kept going, allowing through that game with Latos breakthrough in the fifth, only two hits in his second re- filling in for a 5-2 victory, but FOOTBALL when back-to-back doubles by lief appearance of the series. couldn’t win without him on Friday night Joaquin Arias and Pagan Lincecum threw 42 strikes Wednesday. football schedule ended an 0-for-14 slump with out of 55 pitches and even batNOTES: The Reds honored Vandalia at Sidney runners in scoring position ted twice — just like a starter. RHP Homer Bailey on the field Anna at New Bremen during the series.

Bochy decided to go with before the game for his no-hitLehman at Upper Scioto Sandoval’s two-run shot in left-hander Barry Zito over ter in Pittsburgh on Sept. 28, the seventh made it 8-3, Lincecum for Game 4, choosing presenting him and C Ryan Valley Fort Loramie at Riverside matched the Giants’ season the better pitcher down the Hanigan with framed photo Fort Recovery at Minster high for homers and drew loud stretch. Zito was left off the montages.

26 testify against Lance Armstrong in doping case

BY EDDIE PELLS The Associated Press Lance Armstrong said he wanted to see the names of his accusers. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave him 26, including 11 ex-teammates.

The world’s most famous cyclist said he wanted to see the hard evidence that he was a doper. The agency gave him that, too: About 200 pages filled with vivid details — from the hotel rooms riders transformed into makeshift blood-transfusion centers to the way Armstrong’s ex-wife rolled cortisone pills into foil and handed them out to all the cyclists.

In all, a USADA report released Wednesday gives the most detailed, unflinching portrayal yet of Armstrong as a man who, day after day,

week after week, year after year, spared no expense — financially, emotionally or physically — to win the seven Tour de France titles that the anti-doping agency has ordered taken away.

It presents as matter-of-fact reality that winning and doping went handin-hand in cycling and that Armstrong was the focal point of a big operation, running teams that were the best at getting it done without getting caught.

Armstrong won the Tour as leader of the U.S. Postal Service team from 1999-2004 and again in 2005 with the Discovery Channel as the primary sponsor.

USADA said the path Armstrong chose to pursue his goals “ran far outside the rules.”

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USADA Chief Executive Travis Tygart said the cyclists were part of “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”

Armstrong did not fight the USADA charges, but insists he never cheated.

His attorney, Tim Herman, called the report “a one-sided hatchet job — a taxpayer funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony,

sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories.”

Aware of the criticism his agency has faced from Armstrong and his legion of followers, Tygart insisted his group handled this case under the same rules as any other. Armstrong was given the chance to take his case to arbitration and declined, choosing in August to accept the sanctions instead, he noted.

“We focused solely on finding the truth without being influenced by celebrity or non-celebrity, threats, personal attacks or political pressure because that is what clean athletes deserve and demand,” Tygart said.

The report called the evidence “as strong or stronger than any case brought in USADA’s 12 years of existence.”

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Meyer sees polls as tool, not distraction

BY JIM NAVEAU Civitas Media jnaveau@limanews.com COLUMBUS – When it was suggested to Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer that coaches always say polls and national rankings don’t mean anything, he quickly replied, “Not this coach.”

Ohio State is No. 8 in The Associated Press poll this week, up four spots from last week after beating Nebraska 63-38 last Saturday night.

It is the Buckeyes’ first appearance in the AP top 10 since 2010.

They are ineligible for the coaches poll this season because of being banned from postseason play by the NCAA. Meyer said he parts ways with most of the coaching fraternity because talking about rankings can motivate a team and because there is no point ignoring the reality of being ranked.

“The thing is they’re going to talk about it when they go home, they’re going to talk about it when they go to class.

Why not talk about, ‘Here’s where we’re at.’ We don’t talk about it in September, but once it gets going, absolutely we’ll talk about it,” he said at his

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OHIO STATE running back Carlos Hyde (left) runs into Nebraska's Daimion Stafford during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game, Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State defeated Nebraska 63-38. weekly press conference on Monday.

“We’re not shy. We have a state of the union every week with the players and they know.

We’re not hiding it.

You’re a top 10 football team and the stakes are real high.”

Florida was ranked in the top 10 three times in the final polls in Meyer’s six seasons as the Gators’ coach.

Ohio State’s players say they like that Meyer talks about rankings.

“Coach Meyer says if you don’t think statistics are important, you’re lying,” offensive lineman Corey Linsley said.

Defensive lineman John Simon said, “I think it’s important to the team to show where you are right now. You try to get as high as you can. We’re trying to get

to No. 1, if possible.”

Ohio State (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten) will play at Indiana (2-3, 0-2 Big Ten) for an 8 p.m. game on the Big Ten Network.

Buckeyes will be without senior linebacker Etienne Sabino, who suffered a broken bone in his leg early in the Nebraska game and had surgery to put a plate into it.

Meyer called losing

Sabino “a tremendous blow” and said his return is uncertain. “The best case is three weeks, the worst is longer. We hope to get him back,” he said.

Sabino ranks third on the team in tackles with 37 and has two quarterback sacks.

His injury puts a spotlight on one of the issues Ohio State faces – a lack of depth, which is multiplied by having freshmen in backup positions at several positions.

“Our last two games were physical and we lost some players. Are the backups ready? Do they want to be ready?

That’s the challenge I have, what I am really concerned about is the backups,” Meyer said.

Freshman Joshua Perry replaced Sabino against Nebraska. Indiana relies mostly on its passing game, so OSU will probably go with two linebackers, Ryan Shazier and Storm Klein, and five defensive backs for most of Saturday’s game.

The linebacker backups are all freshmen, which means their development is especially important now.

“Josh Perry has to step up. He has all the talent,” Meyer said.

“David Perkins is a guy

that’s helping us on kickoffs but should be further ahead. Jamal Marcus should be further ahead. Cameron Williams has played a little bit. They’re all good kids, they come from good families and have talent. So we’ve just got to accelerate their growth.”

Notes JONES RETURNS: Freshman redshirt Cardale quarterback Jones was not in uniform against Nebraska after saying in his Twitter account that he didn’t know why he had to go to class and Meyer confirmed that he had received a one-game suspension for that.

“Very ignorant comment, but that’s a 19year-old making an ignorant comment, which makes him one of 460 million. So we’re moving on. I’ve moved on already,” Meyer said.

“We’ve had a good chat. He’s very apologetic. He does go to class in case people want to check, and he’s actually a hell of a kid. It kind of surprised me. “ INJURY UPDATE: Running back Jordan Hall is out for a second straight week. Safety C.J. Barnett could return after missing the last three games with a high ankle sparin.

OSU offensive line makes major turnaround COLUMBUS — Ohio State’s offensive line has come a long way this season. Just listen to coach Urban Meyer if you want to know how far.

During spring practice, he called the offensive line “non-functional.” But now he’s unabashedly positive in his assessment of that group.

“The reason we’re where we’re at today, feeling good after a big win, is because of the way the offensive line played,” he said on Monday about Ohio State’s 63-38 win over Nebraska last Sat-

urday night.

“Right now, this is as good as I’ve felt about an offensive line in a while.

They’re really playing well,” he said.

One of the traditions Meyer brought with him to Ohio State from Florida is a victory dinner after each win.

Center Corey Linsley is a fan of that addition to OSU’s program.

“It doesn’t really matter what’s on the plate, it’s the fact that it’s a victory meal. The idea of it is a great motivator,” Linsley said.

“It’s a great time to enjoy the win with our teammates, to have everybody there, every-

body who contributed to the win eating the same meal. The offensive line last night, we were all laughing and joking around. The coaches are there laughing and talking about the game. It’s nice to have that latenight dinner where we can all kick back and kind of reflect on the week,” he said.

Earlier this week, Linsley reflected on how far the offensive line has come and how Meyer and line coach Ed Warinner turned them around in just a few months.

“He was a cool guy, easy to talk to, good dude when I first met him,” Linsley said about

Fairlawn closes out season on strong note The Fairlawn boys soccer team closed out the season on a strong note Tuesday, falling 1-0 at Botkins It was the second meeting of the season between the Jets and Trojans, with Botkins winning 5-1 on August 25.

“We played a really good game tonight and had Botkins on their heels,” said Fairlawn coach Dexter Tobie. “An unfortunate call led to the goal, but it was a good way for us to go into tournament against a strong team.”

Both teams open tournament play next Thursday on the road as Fairlawn goes to Dixie while Botkins heads to Lehman.

Sidney/Greenville The Sidney boys soccer team used a penalty kick goal by Dustin Lorenzo in the second half to pull out a 1-0 win over Greenville in Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division action.

“We had a lot of chances, but just could not get the ball into the goal,” said Sidney coach

Eric Harlamert. “We had a few balls go off the crossbar and their goalkeeper did an excellent job as well.”

Lorenzo’s goal came with 6:47 remaining in the second half as the Jackets improved to 8-52 and 3-2 in the GWOC North.

Sidney won the JV game 5-1 on goals by Luke Dahlinghaus, Austin Epperley, Kyle Mann, Dillon Leach and Noah Richards. Dahlinghaus also had three assists and Leach one.

Sidney/Fairmont The Sidney girls soccer team improved to 123 on the season with a 4-1 win over Fairmont Monday night.

After a slow start with the Jackets leading just 1-0 at the half on an own goal, Sidney pulled away with three goals in the second half.

Konner Harris took a ball away from a defender and her shot from about 25 yards out took a bounce in front of the Firebird goalkeeper and went in to make it 2-0.

“I think the second goal gave us a little more motivation and we

played the last 25 minutes pretty well,” said Sidney coach Stacey Goffena. “We just didn’t play like ourselves early on.”

After a Monique Hanayik goal off a corner kick by Morgan Knasel made it 3-0, Harris rounded out the scoring with her second goal of the night on Hanayik’s second assist.

The JV Jackets made it a sweep with a 3-0 win in their season finale on goals by Shelby Baker, Elizabeth Barr and Maci Homan.

Sidney closes out the regular season Saturday afternoon against Xenia.

Warinner. “Then they (Ohio State’s coaches) all kind of found out about the offensive line, not that he didn’t know coming in, but Coach Meyer really exposed our reputation as soft, lazy, not playing up to our ability, whatever, and the true Coach Warinner came out – the motivator, the screamer.

“He’s a yeller and a motivator, that’s what he is. It’s made us all better.

I guess the first impression in winter workouts was, ‘Man, this guy is getting on me.’ I wasn’t really sure if I liked him or not.”

Linsley says the source of last year’s offensive line problems might not have been what many people thought, though.

“A lot of people want to blame the coaches and it wasn’t the coaches at all.

We weren’t soft and lazy a year ago. I was, but I don’t think a lot of other guys were. It was kind of like a year of transition and that got into the heads of a lot of people, I think.

“You look at guys like Mike Adams and Mike Brewster playing in the NFL now and J.B. Shugarts, tough dude, he’s going to get picked up eventually. I wouldn’t consider any of them lazy or soft.

“I guess our production numbers didn’t equal out to the level of recruitment we had here and people want to attribute that to being lazy and soft,” he said.

While OSU’s five starting linemen – tackles

COLUMBUS (AP) — What’s brewing with the 2012 Ohio State Buckeyes …

BUCKEYES BUZZ: Not many teams which are hamstrung by NCAA probation and a bowl ban have ever made a run at winning The Associated Press national championship trophy.

One of them was coached by current Akron head coach, Terry Bowden. Another might just be the Buckeyes, who are ranked eighth and stand 60 heading into a string of four games against unranked opponents.

Bowden led the 1993 Auburn Tigers to an unbeaten season and a No. 4 ranking in the AP poll, which does not exclude NCAA-sanctioned teams from its ranking.

Bowden took a break from his Zips’ preparations for a showdown with another unbeaten team from the Buckeye state, Ohio University, to reflect on what was a magical year for Auburn.

“One thing I remember, we had gotten to 9-0 and if we won the next game against Georgia, we would have been the conference champions,” said Bowden, whose team could not win the Southeastern Conference title because of its NCAA sanctions and postseason ban. “We had beaten Florida and Alabama was behind us. I said to our players, ‘You guys would have a ring.’ I said, ‘If you win, we’ll get you a ring. We’re not allowed to say, ‘SEC Champs.’ It’s going to say, ‘Best in the SEC. On the Field.’”

So Bowden and the Tigers went to Athens, Ga., and beat the Bulldogs 42-28.

Jack Mewhort and Reid Fragel, guards Marcus Hall and Andrew Norwell and Linsley — have earned Meyer’s stamp of approval, their back-ups have not.

“Our backups are nonfunctional. If something happens, if a shoestring breaks, we’re going to call timeout. We just don’t have the depth there,” he said.

Ohio State is down to 76 scholarship players

and is feeling the effects of being nine short of the maximum of 85.

“We’re feeling the scholarship reduction.

Anytime there is a transition in the coaching staff there is a transition in players and we’re feeling that in a big way. When we lost a couple D-linemen it hurt us bad. It doesn’t show up until somebody gets a turf toe or something,” Meyer said.

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Tracks on Tap

HOW’D THAT WORK FOR YA? Title 1 contenders Brad Keselowski, Jimmie

Photo by Todd Warshaw/Getty Images for NASCAR

Johnson and Denny Hamlin executed different strategies at Talladega. Keselowski duked it out near the front of the field for the majority of the race, while Johnson and Hamlin rode near the back for much of the Good Sam 500. In the end, Keselowski pin-balled his way through the last-lap accident en route to a seventh-place finish.

Johnson was swept up in the wreck and was credited with 17th, while Hamlin came to a near stop behind the pileup and was 14th. Thus, Johnson lost nine points in the championship hunt to Keselowski, while Hamlin lost seven.

WATER ... AGAIN Kurt Busch 2 INwasHOTparked

by NASCAR in his final start in the Phoenix Racing Chevy on Sunday. After running out of fuel and being spun, Busch took his helmet off while safety workers attended to his stalled car. When he was able to start the car, he sped off leaving track workers and their equipment in his wake. Busch will begin his run in Furniture Row Racing’s No. 78 Chevy.

TIED WITH THE ROOSTER Matt 3 Kenseth’s win at Talladega was his 23rd career Cup victory. He is tied for 28th on NASCAR’s all-time wins list with Ricky Rudd. Brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch sit 26th on the list, with 24 victories each.

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FIRST-TIMER Parker Kligerman scored the first Camping World Truck Series win of his career in Saturday’s fred’s 250 at Talladega. Kligerman led his only two laps of the evening at the very end in his No. 7 Red Horse Racing Toyota. NASCAR froze the field when a caution was displayed on the final lap.

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POINTS BEHIND 2179 — 2165 -14 2156 -23 2143 -36 2139 -40 2137 -42 2133 -46 2131 -48 2130 -49 2130 -49 2128 -51 2117 -62

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Tony Stewart’s car gets upside down amid a massive pileup on the final lap of Sunday’s Good Sam 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Draft, Wreck, Repeat Matt Kenseth avoids 25-car melee, wins Good Sam 500

By MATT TALIAFERRO Athlon Sports Racing Editor

It’s a NASCAR theme that plays out as regularly as the seasons on the calendar change—in fact, it occurs seasonally, as NASCAR’s four restrictor-plate dates reside in February, May, July and October: The perils of “pack racing” at the sport’s largest venues, Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.

Quarterly, television commercials sell viewers on the promise of intense, white-knuckle, photo-finish action, complete with a majorleague version of the local Saturday night Demolition Derby.

Make no mistake, the selling points are true. Horsepower-sapping restrictor plates put a ceiling on the power each engine produces. The result is a giant pack of sleek racecars, jostling just inches from one another at nearly 200 mph.

The spectacle is undeniable; the outcome all-too-predictable. Drivers, hellbent on leading the only lap that counts—the last one—fight for every inch of real estate in the race’s final circuits. Inevitably, the paintswapping turns too aggressive and savagery commences.

Such was the case on Sunday, when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series made its fall pilgrimage to Talladega, Ala., home to the 2.66-mile behemoth superspeedway, with its lurching tri-oval and 33-degreebanked turns.

Filling in the event’s template this trip, it was Matt Kenseth who avoided the big wreck on the final lap of a green-white-checker over-

time finish, taking the win. Sunday’s version of the “Big One” was, in fact, an actual big one, as 25 cars piled into one another.

Tony Stewart accepted blame for this trip’s destruction, which occurred as the 30-car pack barreled through Turns 3 and 4. Defending the lead, his ill-timed block of Michael Waltrip’s surging machine ignited the grinding melee that saw Stewart’s car turn upside down, only to land on all four wheels. He, along with all others involved, walked away physically unharmed.

“I just screwed up,” Stewart said.

“I turned down across Michael (Waltrip) and crashed the whole field. It was my fault blocking to try to stay where I was.

“I was trying to win the race.

Michael got a great run on the bottom, a big head of steam. When I turned down, I turned down across Michael’s racecar. Just a mistake on my part that cost a lot of people.”

Kenseth, meanwhile, had the good fortune to be on the high side of the three-wide pack. As chaos ensued behind his Ford, he had clean track in the windshield and sailed through the tri-oval unchallenged to take the checkered flag.

Somehow (and there’s always a “somehow” in these wrecks) Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch skated past the mess and finished second and third.

Kenseth, as most race-winning survivors state, had little insight into what happened. After all, he was in front of the incident. The obligatory, “I’m really proud to be in Victory Lane with these guys; they worked on it hard today,” and “I don't know

how that happened,” was all the victor could muster.

However, other drivers—even those not involved—had strong words about the style of racing on NASCAR’s two largest tracks.

“At the end you know it’s going to get aggressive,” Gordon said. “It started to ramp up, so you’re pretty sure there’s going to be a caution, and then with the green-whitechecker, you know you’re not making it back to the checkered (flag).

“I remember when coming to Talladega was fun, I really do, and I haven’t experienced that in a long, long time. I don’t like coming here.

I don’t like the type of racing that I have to do.”

The most unlikely critic this time (and there’s always at least one postrace critic), was the man who once championed pack racing: Dale Earnhardt Jr. “If this is what we did every week, I wouldn’t be doing it, I will just put it to you like that,” said Earnhardt, who was swept up in the accident and finished 20th. “If this is how we raced every week, I would find another job.

“I don’t even want to go to Daytona or Talladega next year, but I ain’t got much choice.”

But return the series and its band of drivers will. Daytona testing is scheduled for January while Speedweeks at the same facility culminates with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 24.

And the same story will be written then. Just insert here the race-winner’s quote, offending-party’s name and number of cars involved in the last-lap crash.

DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND Ty Dillon (1) 679 — James Buescher (4) 678 -1 Timothy Peters (2) 653 -26 Parker Kligerman (1) 645 -34 Joey Coulter (1) 629 -50 Matt Crafton 623 -56 Justin Lofton (1) 593 -86 Nelson Piquet Jr. (2) 584 -95 Johnny Sauter (1) 542 -137 Miguel Paludo 539 -140

1. Brad Keselowski 2. Jimmie Johnson 3. Jeff Gordon t 4. Denny Hamlin 5. Clint Bowyer

Throttle Up/Throttle Down 6. Kasey Kahne

THE KENSETHS The night before father Matt won the Good Sam 500 at Talladega, 19-year-old son Ross won the prestigious All American 400 at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

7. Tony Stewart i 8. Kyle Busch

RICHARD CHILDRESS RACING Six drivers have made a total of 96 Cup Series starts for RCR this season. Combined, they have only six top-5 finishes and zero wins.

Compiled and written by Matt Taliaferro.

Follow Matt on Twitter @MattTaliaferro or email at Matt.Taliaferro@AthlonSports.com

SPRINT CUP SERIES Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway Race: Coca-Cola 600 Location: Concord, N.C. When: Saturday, Oct. 13 TV: FOX (5:30 p.m. EST) Layout: 1.5-mile quad-oval Banking/Turns: 24 degrees Banking/Straightaways: 5 degrees 2011 Winner: Kasey Kahne Crew Chief’s Take: “Varying track conditions and temperature shifts at each end of the track is significantly different from the cockpit. The challenge becomes adapting, and particularly in the case of the Coca-Cola 600, the races are really long there. The key is to survive the early stages, when the sun is out, and be in position to battle for the win at night. Horsepower is a necessity, as is engine durability when the distance puts an added strain on the equipment.”

NATIONWIDE SERIES Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway Race: Dollar General 300 When: Friday, Oct. 12 TV: ESPN (7:00 p.m. EST) May Winner: Brad Keselowski CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES Track: Martinsville Speedway Race: Kroger 200 When: Saturday, Oct. 27 TV: SPEED (1:30 p.m. EST) March Winner: Kevin Harvick

Classic Moments Charlotte Motor Speedway The first of David Pearson’s 105 wins comes in the second annual World 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in May 1961. Pearson, in his second year on the Grand National circuit, leads 225 laps in a John Masoni-owned Pontiac en route to the victory.

Pearson owns a two-lap lead on the field when he blows a tire with one lap remaining and limps around to the start/finish line.

Fireball Roberts finishes second.

Ralph Earnhardt leads 75 laps in the middle stages of the race in a car owned

by Cotton Owens, marking the most laps he leads in any single Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) event.

Tim Flock makes his 187th and final start in this race, after a Hall of Fame career during which he amasses 39 wins and 129 top 10s

Athlon Fantasy Stall Looking at Checkers: Statistically speaking, Charlotte is Kasey Kahne’s best track with four wins and nine top 10s in 17 points-paying starts.

Pretty Solid Pick: Denny Hamlin was second at Charlotte in May. Good Sleeper Pick: If Jeff Burton is going to make any noise at all this year, this will be the weekend.

Runs on Seven Cylinders: Dale Earnahrdt Jr. has yet to win a points-paying event in 26 attempts here.

Insider Tip: Hendrick Motorsports owns 17 points-paying wins at Charlotte since its first victory at the track with Darrell Waltrip in 1988 (49 races).

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Keselowski has finished worse than ninth only once in the last 14 races. Sometimes it takes a little luck to win a championship, and that’s what he got on Sunday in Talladega.

The problem with riding in the back at Talladega: At some point you have to make a run to the front— and that usually happens about the time things get crazy. He’ll settle for 17th and move on.

Gordon’s last seven results: third, second, second, 35th, third, second, second. That 35th came coure s y of a stuck throttle in the first Chase race, effectively eliminating him from title contention.

The other problem with riding in the back at Talladega: Sometimes you never get the chance to make your run to the front. Hamlin played it (too?) safe and finished 14th.

Like 24 other drivers, Bowyer was banging around in the pack with checkers in the air when it hit the fan. A shot at the win turned into a 23rd-place showing, the worst of all 12 Chasers.

All things considered, Kahne’s 12th at ’Dega wasn’t too bad. He sits 36 points behind Keselowski in the championship standings with one of his best tracks—Charlotte—on the docket.

Give him credit for taking blame for the chaos that made highlight reels from “Good Morning Amerc a ” to “NBC Nightly News.” But wasn’t Stewart the driver who spoke out against blocking in the first place?

Went from getting jilted out of a win in the short track classic All American 400 on Saturday night to sliding through the junkyard en route to a third-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.

Junior is frustrated with plate racing these days? Wasn’t he the guy that championed the “pack style” of plate racing? And if he hates it so much, why is he entered in the Nationwide race at Daytona in 2013?

Extended his top-15 streak to seven races despite being involved in the ’Dega destruction—which speaks more to the amount of cars in the wreck ... and to Harvick’s good fortune.

Kenseth’s results on the plate tracks this season: First, third, third, first. Not bad.

His regular season average finish isn’t that much different than his Chase average. Others have stepped up.

Three consecutive top 10s come to a grinding, smokey, Talladega-induced end for Logano.

One of the few drivers who advanced his position (sixth) due to the Big One.

Gordon slowly moving up in Chase standings CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — If nothing else this season, Jeff Gordon has proved to be a man of his word.

He promised to grow back the cheesy mustache he sported at the start of his career if he made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, and made good on it after squeaking past Kyle Busch to get into the 12driver field. Now, he’s promised to breakdance in Victory Lane if he wins this weekend’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

He hasn’t won at Charlotte since 2007. But don’t rule out seeing the 41-year-old Gordon bust out a windmill or the worm on Saturday night.

Gordon is on an absolute tear of late, notching six topthree finishes in the last seven races. The lone blemish is a big one, though: A stuck throttle in the Chase opener at Chicago caused a crash and a 35thplace finish.

He followed that with a third-place at New Hampshire

and runner-up finishes at Dover and Talladega. But he is still just sixth in the Chase standings and trails leader Brad Keselowski by 42 points.

Gordon admitted after Sunday’s finish at Talladega that he is frustrated at how hard it’s been to climb through the standings.

He remains confident his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team can get back in the title hunt.

“We can sit there and really

get mad about what happened in Chicago, but the reality of it is all we can do is go each and every week and keep trying to put ourselves in position to win and get top-fives,” he said. “It is certainly not over yet. So we’ll see what happens. If we keep doing this, I really think we might have a shot at it.”

Charlotte is a good track for Gordon to potentially make up some ground. He’s a five-time winner at Charlotte, the “home track” for Hendrick Motor-

sports and the place Gordon’s team owner considers a high priority.

The 1.5-mile track has been good to the four-time NASCAR champion, and was the site of his first career pole in 1993 and his first Cup victory the following year. Gordon suffered a long drought at Charlotte from 2000 to 2007, when he won the Chase race that fall to stay even with teammate Jimmie Johnson in the championship battle.

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Girls golf ‘the cool thing’ in Versailles

BY KYLE SHANER Civitas Media kshaner@dailyadvocate.com VERSAILLES — Versailles has a long history of rich athletic tradition in many sports including football, volleyball, cross country, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball and track and field.

Now, a group of girls is making golf the next big thing in the Versailles community.

“All of a sudden, girls golf is the cool thing,” junior Elizabeth White said.

This year the Versailles girls golf team has advanced to the Ohio High School Athletic Association state tournament for the first time in school history.

The Lady Tigers will leave for Columbus today and compete Friday and Saturday in the Division II state championships at The Ohio State University Gray Golf Course.

Senior Dani Cochran, junior Katie Heckman, junior Brooke Wehrkamp, White and freshman Hannah Niekamp will represent the Lady Tigers at the state meet, and junior Emily Harman is on the squad as an alternate for the meet.

The other team members — senior Tori Bulcher, sophomore Kaitlyn Middendorf, sophomore Morgan Middendorf, freshman Madison Covault and freshman Danielle Poor — also will travel with the team to Columbus but won’t compete.

“It’s going to be great just to extend our season with each other and just get to have one final long bonding moment with each other,” Heckman said.

Versailles coach Vicky Olwine said she could see the potential in this year’s group as it broke several school records throughout the season.

“We’ve been kind of melting away a lot of the records this year, probably four or five at this point,” she said.

Versailles went undefeated in Midwest Athletic Conference play and won the league tournament by shooting a 380 at Fox’s Den Golf Course in Celina.

The Lady Tigers then went on to win their sectional tournament at Stillwater Valley Golf Club in Versailles by shooting a 403, which qualified them for the district tournament.

At districts, Versailles wanted to make it to state but wasn’t sure if it was quite good enough.

“When we went to districts, we wanted to make it to state, but we thought that we weren’t going to get low enough scores to actually go,” White said.

During the district tournament at Pipestone Golf Course in Miamisburg, Versailles shot a 375 to finish third behind Chaminade Julienne and Alter to earn the last state-qualifying spot. The team found out it had advanced just minutes after Wehrkamp, who was the MAC runner up, finished her round.

“We worked very hard,” Wehrkamp said. “It’s definitely a good bonus for all the hard work we put into it. The girls are very deserving.”

During the summer the team played 18 holes a day and then continued playing nine holes a day once school began, Olwine said. On top of that, the

girls spent their own time playing and working on their game, she said.

At the beginning of the year, going to state was in the back of the players’ minds, but it wasn’t something they actually talked about.

“I don’t think we actually said, oh, I think we’re going to go to state this year,” Cochran said. “It was just kind of there.”

Instead of looking ahead to a possible trip to state, the girls focused on one match at a time.

“We didn’t want to think too far ahead and jinx ourselves,” White said.

While the players thought they at least had a chance to make it, people around them weren’t as confident, they said.

“We probably put more pressure on ourselves because no one else expects us to do good, and we just want to prove them wrong,” Wehrkamp said.

While the community didn’t expect the Lady Tigers to play so well, people have been very supportive.

“It’s surprising how many people actually know about girls golf,” Wehrkamp said.

Having made it to state, Versailles now is set to compete against the state’s best teams.

“It’s kind of scary and intimidating,” White said.

Entering the state meet, Versailles has the highest qualifying score of the 12 competing teams. However, if the team plays to its potential, the girls think they can stick with the others.

“We’re all talented golfers,” White said. “We couldn’t have gotten this far if we weren’t a talented team.”

As for the team’s goal for the

Alex Karras, former NFL lineman, actor, dies at 77

BY LARRY LAGE The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Alex Karras was one of the NFL’s most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen.

And yet, to many people he will always be the lovable dad from the 1980s sitcom “Webster” or the big cowboy who famously punched out a horse in “Blazing Saddles.”

The rugged player, who anchored the Detroit Lions’ defense and then made a successful transition to an acting career, with a stint along the way as a commentator on “Monday Night Football,” died Wednesday. He was 77.

Karras had recently suffered kidney failure and been diagnosed with dementia. The Lions also said he had suffered from heart disease and, for the last two years, stomach cancer. He died at home in Los Angeles surrounded by family members, said Craig Mitnick, Karras’ attorney.

“Perhaps no player in Lions history attained as much success and notoriety for what he did after his playing days as did Alex,” Lions president Tom Lewand said.

His death also will be tied to the NFL’s conflict with former players over concussions. Karras in April joined the more than 3,500 football veterans suing the league for not protecting them better from head injuries, immediately becoming one of the best-known names in the legal fight. Mitnick said the family had not yet decided whether to donate Karras’ brain for

weekend: “At least 11th,” Wehrkamp said as her teammates laughed. “We don’t want to get last.”

Individually, Wehrkamp hopes to shoot in the low 80s both days. White hopes to be in the high 80s or low 90s while Cochran hopes to stay in the 90s. Heckman wants to be in the 90s and hopefully set a personal best while Niekamp wants to break 100 for the first time this season.

All the girls want to do their best so they can help the team.

“We have 36 holes so if we get a little down on the first 18, we still have another whole 18 to just get us better,” Heckman said.

It won’t be easy though as the girls have to play at The Ohio State University Gray Golf Course, which is longer than other courses they have played and includes some new challenges.

“It’s definitely going to be challenging for us,” White said.

“Each level of the competition I think the courses get harder.

It’s going to be the hardest course we’ve probably played this year.”

White said the Lady Tigers hope to play well so they can set a baseline for future Versailles girls golf teams.

“It’s a big honor,” she said.

“It’s kind of a little bit of pressure, too, because we don’t want to like screw up or anything. We want to set down a good baseline for hopefully golf teams to come.”

Having made it to state, the girls said more and more of their classmates want to be a part of the program.

“A lot of girls are saying that

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THIS UNDATED photo provided by the NFL shows Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras. Karras, who gained fame in the NFL as a fearsome defensive lineman and later as an actor, has died. He was 77. Craig Mitnick, Karras' attorney, said Karras died at home in Los Angeles on Wednesday surrounded by family. study, as other families have done.

Born in Gary, Ind., Karras starred for four years at Iowa. Detroit drafted Karras with the 10th overall pick in 1958 and he was a four-time All-Pro defensive tackle over 12 seasons with the franchise.

He was the heart of the Lions’ defensive line, terrorizing quarterbacks for years. The Lions handed the powerful 1962 Green Bay Packers their only defeat that season, a 26-14 upset on Thanksgiving during which they harassed quarterback Bart Starr constantly.

Packers guard Jerry Kramer wrote in his diary of the 1967 season about his trepidation over having to play Karras.

“I’m thinking about him every minute,” Kramer wrote.

For all his prowess on the field, Karras may have gained more fame when he turned to acting in the movies and on television.

Playing a not-sobright bruiser in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles,” he not only slugged a horse but also delivered the classic line: “Mongo only pawn in game of life.”

they’re actually going to go out for golf,” Wehrkamp said.

And in addition to being proud to help build the program, the girls also are happy for coach Olwine.

“We’re really happy we could do this for Ms. Olwine,” White said. “She’s been coaching for so long, and she’s never actually taken the whole team to state before so we’re really pumped that we could achieve our goal of going to state for the first time.”

Olwine said it’s been one of her personal goals to lead a team to the state championship meet and is glad the team can add to its banner in the high school school gymnasium.

“It’s long overdue,” she said.

We’ve had good teams. Sometimes we just haven’t been able to finish as strong as we needed to.”

The girls also said they appreciate all the support they’ve received from the Versailles community.

“We appreciate everybody’s support throughout the season and rooting us on, especially like our parents who always come out to watch us,” White said.

The team will receive more community support as it departs for Columbus today with a traditional school send-off that includes all the Versailles students from kindergarten through high school as the community takes more notice of the Lady Tigers golf team.

“I think we’re just trying to keep building up the program and making it more well known,” White said. “I think that making it to state is a good way to start.”

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N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Houston, 8:20 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans Monday, Oct. 15 Denver at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

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Indiana vs. Minnesota at Fargo, ND, 8 p.m.

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Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Portland vs. L.A. Lakers at Ontario, CA, 10 p.m.

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Philadelphia at Orlando, 7 p.m.

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BOE hears of museum program Council discusses ANNA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Anna Board of Education met recently and heard about current enrollment and the new Neil Armstrong Museum program for third graders.

Anna Superintendent Andy Bixler told board members that opening day enrollment for Anna Local Schools included 1,272 students, a difference of one student from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total enrollment. That includes 575 elementary students, 330 middle school students and 367 high school students enrolled in the district for the 2012-13 school year. Last year, there were 1,273 students enrolled in Anna Local Schools.

The board members heard about a new program that is being offered by the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoneta and the Shelby County Educational Service Center (ESC) for Anna third graders. The after school

program is a 10-week program. Students learn about NASA and the history of the United States space program. The museum is sending staff members to work with the students and teach the program. Jan Jones, Shelby County ESC intervention specialist, is working with the program. At the end of the program, the students will take a field trip to Wapakoneta to tour the Neil Armstrong Museum.

Anna High School students will have several activities this year including a recycled bottle raft race and building and racing a soap box derby car.

The board members learned that Anna students are involved in a variety of other activities this year also including 164 student athletes with 29 in cross country, 71 in football, 11 in golf, 32 in soccer and 21 in volleyball. There are also

64 students participating in the Anna marching band and there are eight cheerleaders for football season.

Anna Middle School Principal Cindy Endsley told board members about plans for the Washington, D.C. trip for eighth grade students.

There was a meeting held on Sept. 17 for students, parents and chaperones who are going on the trip. The students will leave on the trip on Oct. 21 and will return on Oct. 27.

The board heard that the Anna Elementary Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special needs classroom is also busy with special needs students being included in classroom activities as much as possible with other students. It was noted that there are two kindergarten students, three third grade students, one fourth grade student, two fifth grade students and one sixth grade student in the

class. It was also noted that Anna students are doing a good job of including these students in classroom activities.

Anna School District will have the services of the Miami Valley Autism/Low Incidence Coaching Team for the special needs program this year. They met with the teacher and aides to discuss instructional, sensory support, curricular and other ideas for special needs students.

A Visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lunch Day will be held at Anna Elementary School on Friday. A lot of work goes into preparing for the event and it was noted that the help of the staff is appreciated.

It was noted that the Anna Elementary Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open house had a good attendance with 565 students having someone at the event out of 576 students. That represented 98 percent of the students at the school.

Board approves overnight trips BOTKINS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Botkins Board of Education approved overnight trips for students and approved accepting donations and the hiring of personnel during its recent meeting.

Board members approved overnight trips for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America students to attend the fall leadership meeting Oct. 15 and 16 and approved an overnight trip for the FFA to attend the National Convention Oct. 24-27.

Board members ap-

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proved several donations during their meeting which includes the following individuals or organizations and the amount of the donations: Carl and Phyllis Serr Family scholarship, $1,690; Roggenkamp Scholarship, $100; cross country fund, $200; anonymous donor for the FFA Big E trip to defray student costs, $100; in memory of Marie Behr, $550; and Gary and Anita Bornhorst, a donation of golf polos.

The board approved the hiring of the follow-

ing personnel: Gina Rogers, elementary principal and intervention coordinator, three-year contract; Corrine Metzger and Cheryl substitute Finchum, teachers; Jill Anthony, janitor, one year contract; Holly Russell, substitute aide; Haley Furrow, eighth-grade volleyball coach; Jacquelyn Russell, junior class adviser; Jonathan Fisher, substitute janitor; and Dan seventh-grade Miller, basketball coach. The following student teachers and the teacher they will

work with were approved for the 2012-2013 school year: Nicholas Baumer with teacher Chad Berning and Emma Kuch with teacher Jen Holtzapple.

The board approved the program service agreement with the Shelby County Educational Service Center effective Aug. 1. The board heard that Dave Uetrecht is working to review the building technology design. The board met in executive session to discuss employment of personnel.

sidewalk design BOTKINS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Botkins Village Council members discussed design changes for sidewalks and discussed the spraying of a water tank in the village.

Council members heard the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service committee visited the Lone Pine Estate subdivision to decide where sidewalks should be placed in the phase one area. The committee decided there is a need to have a design change to fix the problem with the location of the sidewalks.

The council members approved the request. Ashlee Zimpfer abstained from the voting.

Village Administrator Jesse Kent told council members Daryl Bowling from utility services will be at the next meeting to discuss the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s south water tank. He will discuss a list of expenses involving the tower, including spraying the inside of the tower. The cost of the spraying will be approximately $140,000. Council members discussed radio-read meters for the village, and it was noted that they are accurate and it does not require as much time to read the meters. Kent will check on the cost of the meters.

Mayor Steve Woodruff told council members that he learned during the last park committee meeting that the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 48-inch mower used in the park is in need of repair. Council members will decide at the end of the fall season what needs to be done for next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mowing.

Kent told council

members that the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subdivision regulations were outdated and Choice One Engineering have updated the regulations. The regulations were approved in April 1988. The Planning Commission approved the updates and recommended that the council members approve them. The service committee will check on the updates and when they are approved, they will ask council to hold a public hearing to approve the new regulation manual.

Kent said that the Botkins Growth Association went on a tour to Cherokee Run in Bellefontaine, which is the lowhere the cation villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trash is taken.

A thank you note was read from the Botkins Beautification Club for the donation from the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakfast held during the Botkins Carousel. The money will be used for improvements in the village. reported a Kent groundbreaking was held at the Botkins Industrial Park for Buckeye Electrical Products Inc. It was noted that Dick Platfoot is looking forward to having the building constructed and in operation. council susThe pended the readings and approved an ordinance for the amounts and rates as determined by Shelby County the Budget Commission.

An executive session was held for the discussion of the possible purchase of property. No action was taken.

$126,050.

James W. and Lorraine B. Andrews to John F. Andrews, part section 19, 34.86 acres, $75,875.

John F. Andrews to James W. Andrews, part section 19, 14.647 acres, exempt.

Rick E. Lewis to Nicholas Lewis and Joseph Lewis, part sec-

tion 23, 5.010 acres, exempt.

Orange Township Glen R. and Sally A. Kilburn to Jeffrey C. Hewitt, Runor Acres Subdivision, lot 8, $71,000.

Jay G. Pollack to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Hickory Dell Estates replat, lot 50, $120,000.

ESTATE TRANSFERS

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

Transfers listed also include tax-exempt 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 Ruth Ann Tillman to Nicholas J. Katterhenry, Meadowview Addition replat, lot 291, $87,000.

Sidney Matt B. Mazingo to Second National Bank, Park Place Subdivision, part lot 6, exempt.

Mary A. Tenney to Mary A. Tenney and Matthew J. Tenney, part lot OL30, exempt.

Betty J. Bernardi to Craig S. and Cynthia D. Clayton, Barr Replat, lot 7053, $95,000.

Charles T. and Elizabeth J. Ballard to Betty J. Bernardi, Hall Subdivision, lot 2970, $95,000.

JP Morgan Chase Bank NA to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Heritage Manor Subdivision No. 1, lot 4684, exempt.

Paolina Quafisi to Federal National Mortgage Association, Quafisi Subdivision, lot 6191, $3,350.

Ruth E. Richard, trustee, to David A. and Michele J. Brisker, part lot 411, $54,000.

Midfirst Bank to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Junior Blue Plat, lot 6250, exempt.

D&S Construction of

Western Ohio LLC to Robert and Lee Ann Boller, lot 1423, $11,500.

Sharon L. (Russell) and James A. Fitzgerald to James A. Fitzgerald, Highland Terrace Addition, lot 1762, exempt.

BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, William Johnston Addition, lot 890, exempt.

Drew A. and Shavon R. (Fink) Puckett to John R. and Marcella L. Walter, Skillen Addition, part lot 1361, $78,000.

Gail K. Eppley to Melody A. Eppley, Parkwood Subdivison, lots 90 and 91, exempt.

Roger R. Johnston to Julie C. Karg and Jay L. Johnston, River Bend Hill Subdivison section 1, lots 4082; part outlot OL042; River Bend Hill Subdivision section 3, lot 4612; lot 2320; Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3rd Subdivision, lot 2619; part lot 107; exempt.

BAC Home Loans Servicing LP, fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, part lot 1493, exempt.

George E. Coffield, deceased, to John Coffield, Anthony J. Coffield, Teresa J. Coffield and Julie A. Niekamp, lot 2577, exempt.

Robert W. Bertsch to Steven A. Bertsch, trustee, Northwood Condominiums, section 8, unit 200 plus interest common areas, exempt.

Thelma J. Smith, deceased, to D. Thomas Smith, Northwood Condominiums, section 6, unit 174 plus interest

common areas, exempt.

June P. (Cromes) Brining, deceased, to Ronald Eugene Cromes Sr., Steve Lee Cromes, Robert Wayne Cromes and Linda Sue Cromes, Belmont Heights Subdivision, lot 13, exempt.

Edward J. Rethman, deceased, to Donald Rethman, Northwood Condominiums, section 8, unit 199 plus interest common areas, exempt.

Joseph Richard and Marlene Joan Crusey to James R. and Jill A. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary, Northlawn Subdivision, lot 2714, $108,000.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Michael Doctor, part outlot OL064, exempt.

Dinsmore Township Craig L. and Doris A. Ambos to Craig L. Ambos, trustee, undivided 1/2 interest, parts section 2, 26.008 and 52.363 acres, exempt.

Craig L. and Doris A. Ambos to Doris A. Ambos, trustee, undivided 1/2 interest, parts section 2, 26.008 and 52.363 acres, exempt.

Franklin Township Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Derek D. Bailey, Henschen Subdivision No. 3, section 35, lot 146, exempt.

Green Township Christopher A. Beard and Danielle J. Beard to Flagstar Banks FSB, part section 19, 1.3 acres,

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Obama on debate with Romney: ‘I had a bad night’

BY STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press SIDNEY (AP) — President Barack Obama conceded Wednesday he did poorly in a debate last week that fueled a comeback by his rival in the race for the White House. Mitt Romney barnstormed battleground Ohio and pledged “I’m not going to raise taxes on anyone” in a new commercial.

A perennial campaign issue flared unexpectedly as Romney reaffirmed he is running as a “pro-life candidate and I’ll be a pro-life president.” He spoke one day after saying in an interview he was not aware of any abortion-related legislation that would become part of his agenda if he wins the White House.

Romney and Obama maneuvered in a race with 27 days to run as Vice President Joe Biden and Republican running mate Paul Ryan looked ahead to their only debate, set for Thursday night in Danville, Ky. Whatever the impact of the Biden-Ryan encounter, last week’s presidential debate boosted Romney in the polls nationally and in Ohio and other battleground states, to the point that Obama was still struggling to explain a performance even his aides and supporters say was subpar.

“Gov. Romney had a good night. I had a bad night. It’s not the first time I’ve had a bad night,” Obama said in an ABC interview.

Asked if it was possible he had handed the election to Romney, the president replied: “No.” “What’s important is the fundamentals of what this race is about haven’t changed,” he said. “You know, Gov. Romney went to a lot of trouble to try to

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MITT ROMNEY waves to the crowd as he arrives at the Shelby County Fairgrounds Wednesday. hide what his positions are,” he said, referring to abortion as an example.

Despite the presidential display of confidence, public opinion polls suggested the impact of last week’s debate was to wipe out most, if not all, of the gains Obama made following both parties’ national conventions and the emergence in late summer of a videotape in which Romney spoke dismissively of 47 percent of Americans whom he said pay no income taxes. They feel as if they are victims, he said, adding they don’t take personal responsibilities for their lives.

Eager to capitalize on his newfound momentum, Romney told more than 7,000 packed into a western Ohio rally: “We can’t afford four more years of Barack Obama.”

The Republican challenger made three public appearances in Ohio on Wednesday and will spend two of the next three days in the state.

“Ohio could well be the place that elects the next president

of the United States,” he said.

“I need you to do that job. We’re going to win together.”

Romney’s new television commercial was an appeal to voters’ pocketbooks — and also a rebuttal to Obama’s claim that Romney had a plan to cut taxes by $5 trillion on the wealthy that would mean higher taxes for the middle class.

“The president would prefer raising taxes,” Romney is shown saying in an exchange from last week’s debate. “I’m not going to raise taxes on anyone. … My priority is putting people back to work in America.”

Unemployment and the economy have been the dominant issues in the race for the presidency, and while Romney gained from the debate, last week’s drop in the jobless rate to 7.8 percent gave Obama a new talking point for the Democratic claim that his policies are helping the country recover, however slowly, from the worst recession in decades.

Romney also sought to lay

any abortion-related controversy to rest as he campaigned across Ohio, a battleground with 18 electoral votes and one of the places where he has gained ground since last week’s debate.

“I think I’ve said time and again that I’m a pro-life candidate and I’ll be a pro-life president,” he said, renewing his promise to cut off federal aid for Planned Parenthood and implement a ban on the use of foreign aid for abortions overseas.

But by the time he spoke, Obama’s aides had already jumped on comments from an interview with The Des Moines Register in which Romney said “there’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.”

Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, told reporters on a conference call that Romney was “cynically and dishonestly” hiding his positions on women’s issues. “We’re not saying he’s changed his mind on these issues. We’re saying he’s trying to cover up his beliefs,” she said.

For entirely different reasons, one prominent anti-abortion group agreed that he shouldn’t.

As if to remind Romney of his previous statements on the issue, the head of the antiabortion group Susan B. Anthony List distributed an article he wrote last summer vowing to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood and to support legislation that would “protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.”

“We have full confidence that as president, Gov. Romney will stand by the pro-life commitments,” said Marjorie Dan-

nenfelser, the group’s president.

Vice presidential encounters rarely make a significant difference in a White House campaign, although aides engage in the same sort of attempt to shape public expectations as when the men at the top of the ticket are ready to face off.

For Ryan’s camp, that meant whispering that the 42year-old Wisconsin congressman and House Budget Committee chairman was comfortable discussing spending issues and domestic policy, but might not be able to hold his own on foreign policy, a Biden strong suit.

The vice president’s side let it be known that Ryan is smart and wonky, a man who knows the budget better than anyone — but it’s a version that omits mention of Biden’s nearly four decades of experience in government and his role as Obama’s point man in budget negotiations with Republicans on an elusive deficit-reduction deal.

Romney’s wife, Ann, took a turn as guest host on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and spoke candidly about experiencing depression after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 14 years ago. She said horses helped her recover her mental health.

“I was very, very weak and very much worried about my life, thinking I was going to be in a wheelchair as well. Turned to horses, my life has been dramatically different,” she said.

“They gave me the energy, the passion to get out of bed when I was so sick that I didn’t think I’d ever want to get out of bed.”

Mrs. Romney is part-owner of a horse that competed this summer in the Olympic sport of dressage, the equine equivalent of ballet.

Biden likely to play Ryan prepares to take ‘hardball’ in VP debate on skilled debater Biden A strong performance lifted Republican Mitt Romney, helping him cut into Obama’s lead in key battleground states. Officials in both parties anticipate that Vice President Biden will be notably more aggressive than Obama, repeatedly taking the fight to Ryan as Democrats try to regain their footing in the closely fought election.

“Obviously, what we expect is the vice president’s going to come at me like a cannonball,” Ryan said this week.

The 42-year-old congressman must overcome a lack of foreign policy expertise and experience in national debates, although Democrats praise his encyclopedic grasp of budget details and ability to think on his feet.

“Paul Ryan is an inside Washington guy, smart and wonky. He knows the budget better than anybody,” said Granholm.

Biden is likely to press Ryan to defend Romney’s proposals on taxes, Medicare and spending — and seize any opportunity to tie Romney to a House Republican budget written by Ryan. Democ-

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NEW YORK (AP) — During the next presidential debate, the candidates will be pondering the important questions of our time. But the most controversial may be “Sausage or pepperoni?”

Pizza Hut is offering a lifetime of free pizza — one large pie a week for 30 years — or a check for $15,600 to anyone who poses the question to either President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the live Town Hall-style debate next Tuesday.

rats say the GOP budget contains severe spending cuts unacceptable to most voters.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, where Ryan is chairman, said his colleague “has a fundamental choice to make” in the debate.

“He can either come clean about the negative consequences of the Romney-Ryan budget and tax plan, or he can continue to hide the ball like Mitt Romney did the other night,” said Van Hollen, who is playing Ryan in debate preparations.

An effective performance by Biden, a former senator who essentially made a career out of debating colleagues, could help quell nervousness among some Democrats, although neither party expects undecided voters to be swayed by the vice presidential duel.

A skilled retail politician, Biden is known for going off script. Last week, he said the middle class had been “buried” during the last four years, a remark Republicans turned into an attack on Obama.

WASHINGTON (AP) — To prepare for his biggest test yet on the national stage, untested debater Paul Ryan has been hauling two thick briefing books around the country and intently studying up on Vice President Joe Biden, who has been sparring over public policy since the Wisconsin congressman was learning how to talk.

Ryan, the 42-year-old Republican vice presidential nominee, has suggested his youth will be an asset in connecting with voters at the sole vice presidential debate Thursday in Kentucky against the 69-year-old former senator. But risks abound for the GOP rising star, who hasn’t participated in a campaign debate since his first run for office 14 years ago.

The main goal for Ryan’s inner-circle: get him comfortable answering questions in broad terms that connect with voters and avoid the wonky, in-the-weeds answers more appropriate for a budget hearing than a living room.

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Ryan also is bracing for Biden to try to help Obama overcome a rough patch by staking out an aggressive tone.

“I really think that because they had such a bad debate that Joe is just going to come flying at us,” Ryan said this week.

His biggest worry: looking unprepared the way his mentor and former boss, Jack Kemp, did in the 1996 debate against Vice President Al Gore.

Ryan has spent hours huddling with advisers to polish his delivery and has been cramming with aides to sharpen his grasp of foreign policy and national security issues.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Because you feel strong today, your confidence at work is likewise stronger. This invigorated energy will help you get a lot done.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) This is a playful day! (You would rather have fun than work.) However, it can be a productive day for those of you involved in creative projects or sports or who work with children.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’ll enjoy relaxing at home today; however, if you entertain at home, you’ll enjoy this, too. It’s a laid-back, easygoing day for you.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) The mind is a powerful thing. When you’re full of positive thoughts, you’re happier. That’s what’s happening today: You’re full of happy, positive thoughts.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You’re feeling more optimistic about your financial scene, because this is where you have put some thought and energy. You like to shop, but you don’t like to be in debt.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a feel-good day for Virgos. You feel energetic, positive and up for anything. Your enthusiasm could cause you to go overboard in some way. Be careful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Because you have a sense of genuine concern for others, especially those who are less fortunate, you will put the needs of others before your own today.

(Call it a Mother Teresa thang.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Meetings, classes and casual get-togethers will be upbeat and enjoyable today. Be careful about agreeing to take on more than you might really want to do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Because you feel confident and strong today, you’re ready to impress bosses and authority figures. Nevertheless, don’t bite off more than you can chew.

Don’t give yourself unrealistic deadlines in order to impress someone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Travel plans look exciting! You are thrilled to be able to expand your world by meeting people from other cultures or by seeing new places. Do something different today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) If you are dividing or sharing something today, make sure you take care of your own best interests. Don’t give away the farm. Conversely, make sure others get their fair share!

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Relations with others are particularly warm today, because people feel effusive and expansive. Everyone wants everyone to have a good time!

YOU BORN TODAY You have excellent money savvy and also are very generous. (You are never petty.) You don’t mind the limelight, because many of you are natural performers.

You have comical wit and flamboyance.

Because of your larger-than-life qualities, others often depend on you. In the year ahead, something you’ve been involved with for nine years will diminish or end in order to make room for something new.

Birthdate of: Hugh Jackman, actor; Alice Childress, playwright/novelist; Martie Maguire, musician. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Sepsis often a deadly illness DEAR DRS. To your invaded by germs, most often bacteDONOHUE good ria, and they have AND ROACH: wideWe would like to health caused know about sep- Dr. Paul G. spread inflammation and sis. In the past Donohue destruction. The several years, we and bacteria can enter know of five or six Dr. Keith the body through people who have Roach a tiny split in the died from it. Our skin, from a boil or 20-year-old son had it and survived. from pneumonia or a uriWhere does the germ nary tract infection. They come from? Does one be- can come from the body’s come ill immediately? Do own stock of bacteria that street drugs cause a per- inhabit the colon. Inson to be more suscepti- jectable street drugs are ble? Our son understood another route sepsis the doctor to say that the takes. They gain access to germ is still in his body the blood stream and are and he could get it again. then transmitted far and Is this true? Is sepsis due wide in the body. Sepsis causes a malfunction of to a supergerm? — R.C. ANSWER: “Sepsis” many organs. When blood comes from the same word pressure drops, the situathat “septic tank” does. It tion is called septic shock. means the body has been In severe sepsis, the death

rate is 20 percent to 35 percent. In septic shock, the rate is 40 percent to 60 percent.

More than 200,000 people die yearly in the U.S. from sepsis.

Signs of sepsis are a high temperature, a rapid heartbeat, fast and shallow breathing, an increased number of white blood cells in the blood and, often, a dense clouding of mental function.

The onset of sepsis is quick. People with weak immune systems are more susceptible to sepsis, but people with healthy immune systems also can come down with it Supergerms are bacteria that are resistant to many commonly used antibiotics. They, too, can cause sepsis and make treatment even harder be-

cause of their antibiotic resistance. Ordinary germs also are responsible. I think your son misunderstood the doctor. Once sepsis is successfully treated, the involved bacterium has been eradicated.

DEAR DRS. DONOHUE AND ROACH: I’ve begun to count how many hairs I find in my brush and comb every day. It’s 85. Am I going bald? It’s OK for a man to go bald, but not a woman. — A.J. ANSWER: The average head has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs. The daily hair loss is 100 to 150. You are quite normal I don’t know who made these hair counts. Whoever it was, this person had far too much time on his or her hands.

Repeat offender ready now to try new path have a resume DEAR ABBY: My and although life has always been I have had scary. My parents dimany jobs, I vorced when I was 3. never stayed Dad always seemed very long, and to cause trouble for I have a crimiMom, who struggled nal record. — to provide for me and SERVING my older sister. She TIME IN always struggled Dear PENNSYLVAwith alcohol and Abby NIA drugs.

Abigail D E A R I have spent a portion of my life incar- Van Buren S E R V I N G TIME: I adcerated, starting when I was a teenager. mire that you have deI’m now 22 and doing cided to change your life time for selling drugs. I and walk the “straight have never been able to and narrow” from now find a decent job, al- on. A place to start would though I have my GED be to talk to the prison and tried to attend a chaplain. Some religious school for nursing, but I denominations have proscrewed it up. Selling grams in place to help inand former drugs seemed to be the mates successfully only way to make enough inmates transition back into socito support myself.

I’d like to find a decent ety.

The oldest prison/rejob with opportunity, and be able to pay my bills entry group in the counand save a little. I’m tired try is the Pennsylvania of my crazy lifestyle and Prison Society. Their webis at want to settle down. How site can I go about finding a prisonsociety.org.

If they don’t serve the job? Keep in mind, I don’t

community into which you will be released, they will know an organization that does. Their re-entry program helps former prisoners attain self-sufficiency through a four-day job readiness workshop, which teaches the skills necessary to find and keep a job. Pre-registration is recommended, and their phone number is 215-564-6005, ext. 117.

Call Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

DEAR ABBY: I had my first boyfriend when I was 16. The relationship lasted 13 years and we had a child together. Now that it’s over I don’t know what to do.

It has been nine months and it seems like my heartache is getting worse. I can’t breathe. It feels like my heart has been ripped out of my chest and stepped on. It hurts even more because he started dating immediately after the breakup.

I can’t even talk to an-

other man. I feel lost and have never been on a date with anyone but my ex.

I feel like I deprived myself of my youth. I cry every day. I can barely watch or see couples without getting depressed and breaking down. I need to see some type of light. Do you have any advice? — DEPRIVED OF MY YOUTH DEAR DEPRIVED: Nine months is a long time to cry every day. You have been hit with what I call a “double-whammy.”

You are grieving for your lost relationship, and because this was your first and only one, you never learned how to handle a broken romance.

A counselor can help you through your grieving process and, in addition, help you to build the social skills you will need to move forward. Please don’t put it off. Do this not only for yourself but also for your child so you can be the most effective parent you can be.

Oct. 11, 1912 The political pot in the ranks of the old time Republicans and the Progressive Republicans in Shelby county is boiling today. While the latter were firing their big guns at a meeting in the assembly room of the court house yesterday afternoon, the regular Republicans were meeting quietly in their headquarters in the Metcalf building where they proceeded to chop off the heads of the Roosevelt Republicans that were members of the County Central committee. The big fight will come when the board of elections selects the judges and clerks for the various precinct voting places.

––––– There will be a meeting of the Shelby County Poultry Association at the office of Logan W. Marshall tomorrow evening. All members, and those interested in fine poultry are requested to be present.

The matter of giving a Shelby county poultry exhibition in this city in the near future will be discussed.

––––– Louis Rensch, of this city, who has been cooking for the electrical gang working on the C.H. & D railroad was seriously injured yesterday when he fell from a car at Wapakoneta.

75 years Oct. 11, 1937 interest Increased was being manifested throughout the city and county in the Halloween celebration Wednesday evening, as the time for the annual affair neared.

Reports indicated that hundreds of participants will take part in the parade and vie for the various prizes to be awarded. The parade will form on East Poplar street near the Methodist church. It will move around the square and then pass the reviewing stand to be located on the north side of the public square .Judges selected for the parade are: L.E. Marrs, Mrs. William Ross, and Byron McClellan.

––––– Mr. and Mrs. Carol Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Bachman are guests this week in Pittsburgh Pa. with Mr. and Mrs.Gerald Minton, other relatives and friends.

––––– Wilson Memorial Hospital was among the 2,621 hospitals on the approved list for 1937 announced today in the Twentieth Annual Hospital Standardization Conference in Chicago.

50 years Oct. 11, 1962 It happened Shelby county’s first snow of the season, and it was 12:00 o’clock when the flakes were noticed in downtown Sidney. A few pedestrians were startled by the appearance

by the unpredicted snow this early in the season.

At the time the temperature by the Sidney Daily News thermometer had risen to 42 degrees from a low of 34 recorded at 7 a.m.

––––– A joint proclamation issued today by the Shelby County Commissioners and the acting Mayor of Sidney designates Sunday October 28th, as Sabin Oral Sunday in Sidney and Shelby County. Duplicate resolutions, signed

by Roger Elsass president of the board of county commissioners, and Miss Virginia Oldham, acting mayor of the city, calls upon all citizens of the county and city, over the age of three months to participate in the polio immunization program. With Mayor Robert Kaser out of the city on a vacation trip Miss Oldham signed the proclamation in her capacity as acting mayor.

25 years Oct. 11, 1987 Rafael Hernandez and Heather Icenogle were selected as king and queen at the Sidney High School Homecoming. They were crowned during half-time ceremonies at the football game Friday night at Julia Lamb Field. Hernandez, who resides with his aunt. and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Couchot, 618 Lynn St., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Faustino Hernandez of Mexico. Miss Icenogle is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Behr, 1441 St. Mary’s Ave. To top off the evening the Sidney Yellow Jackets won the game against Northmont 27-6.

––––– When Robert Price looks at a building he notices more than most people. Price, 36 inspects the foundation, the walls, the windows, the roof, the floors, the plumbing, the wiring, the heating system.

Nothing escapes his attention. The former local man worked as building inspector for the City of Sidney from the Spring of 1976 to October 1980.

He left Sidney in 1980 to become chief building inspector for the City of Fairborn, a position he still holds.

––––– These news items from past issues of the Sidney Daily News are compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society (498-1653) as a public service to the community. Local history on the Internet! www.shelbycountyhistory.org

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**************************** Open Interviews Friday October 12th 9am-11am Mama Rosa's 1910 Fair Road Sidney, OH **************************** Mama Rosa's in Sidney is partnering with Staffmark for project and long term positions.

Apply day of event or call Staffmark at 937-498-4131 for more information.

Please send resume to: swildermuth@mm industriescorp.com

Please submit an application at: www.minster.com

Stop by and apply or download an application off our website. Contact us at:

Food Production $9.80 / HR ALL SHIFTS

MM Industries in Troy, OH excitedly hiring for Verizon Sales Representatives.

Great opportunity with growing earning potential!

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GENERAL INFORMATION

DEADLINES/CORRECTIONS:

ENGINEERING Due to continuing growth, Pax Machine Works is looking to add a Tool Designer. This individual will be responsible for preparing design drawings and specifications for a variety of tooling applications. The successful candidate needs to have CAD experience and excellent communication skills. Preferred, but not required, is a candidate that has Tool & Die design experience using Autocad and Solidworks In addition to excellent wages, Pax offers a full range of benefits; including a 401(k) and Pension Plan. If you are looking for a new challenge with opportunities for advancement, please send your resume to employment@paxmachine.com or apply at:

Pax Machine Works, Inc. 5139 Monroe Rd. Celina, OH 45822 E.O.E. M/F www.paxmachine.com

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PIQUA 511 Harney.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10-5. Adult commode, shower chair and seat, new Tupperware, dolls, Hot Wheels, new dinnerware, country CD's, VCR tapes-$1 each, KISS dolls, furniture, cedar desk, chest, CD stand, more.

QUINCY 1085 County Road 34 South. From Sidney, East on 47 to CR 34.

Friday 9am-5pm. Saturday 9am-3pm. Comforter sets, pillows, rugs, photo box, photo coasters, pictures, floral arraignments, clocks, stainless steel trash cans, kitchenware, storage cabinet and chest, women's clothing, miscellaneous.

Sidney.

447 E. Edgewood St., Sidney. Friday 9-2 and Sat. 9-12. MAKE AN OFFER. Everything must go.

Pier One Import chair, antique items, garden items, brand name clothes and more..

SIDNEY, 1001 Broadway.

Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-3pm, Computers, glassware, jewelry, books, clothing, Avon, Christmas trees, ornaments, curtains, rugs, walkers, canes, furniture, yard tools, patio furniture, leaf blower, typewriter, VHS, DVD, Lots & Lots more!!!!

SIDNEY, 104 East Mason Road (Allison's Custom Jewelry at Shelter house), Saturday only 9am-3pm, Decorations, pictures, Lots of miscellaneous.

SIDNEY, 131 West Parkwood Street, Friday and Saturday 8-12. Photo editing software, Mary Kay, Coach and Vera Bradley purses, womens clothes and shoes, girls handmade accessories, blue tooth head set, baby clothes, recliner, television , jewelry, and more!

SIDNEY 1328 Tully. Saturday 8-3. Camping tent, tools, small household items, clothes (childrens 4-7, womens), yard decor, holiday items, and lots of miscellaneous.

Nice, clean sale!

SIDNEY, 1691 Cumberland, Saturday only!

8am-2pm, GE Side by side Refrigerator, Craftsman electric start snowblower, Boyds Bear collectibles, clothing, Miscellaneous SIDNEY 17156 Sharp Rd. Saturday October 13th from 9am-2pm. MOVING SALE...Furniture, 31 bags, clothes, holiday decorations, DVD's, books, household items and much more. EVERYTHING MUST GO!

SIDNEY, 2913 Summerfield Trail (East Howeisher, left on Bridlewood Trail left on Summerfield Trail).

Saturday 9-1. MULTIFAMILY SALE! Household items, decorations, collectibles, clothing (teen-adult sizes), boys bike, lift chair, antique chair, oil filled room heaters.

SIDNEY, 316 Doering, Friday 3pm-6pm & Saturday, 8am-2pm. 3 Family, tv & stand, microwave, bedroom dresser set, coffee tables, table with 4 stools, twin headboard, baby & adult clothing, kitchen items, miscellaneous

SIDNEY 606 Maywood Place. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9am-6pm. Baby clothes, many winter coats 12months-5t, adult clothing mens, womens size xl-xxl, maternity clothing, new cookware, large dresser, changing table, bassinet, cast iron skillets size 8,6,5,3, Miscellaneous

SIDNEY, 320 E. Russell Rd. at First Christian Church in parking lot. Saturday 9am-3pm. ANNUAL GIGANTIC yard sale!

Large variety of items, Something for everyone!!

Stop by and check it out!!

SIDNEY, 415 Third Street (in back), Saturday only!

7am-5pm, Lots of items, bakers rack, filing cabinet, clothes, toys, much more! all proceeds will go for stem cell treatment for 2 year old Caleb who was left paralyzed after an auto accident, Thanks for your support!

SIDNEY, 620 3rd. Street, Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday 9am-2pm. 3 model trains & accessories, Canopy yard swing, computer desks, electric heater, radio, Elvis, tins, Nascar, Baseball cards, LP, DVD, VHS, Cassettes, CD, PS2, craft & yarn, kitchen items, puzzles, kids items, miscellaneous, No early sales! Cash only!

SIDNEY 708 Sixth Ave. Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-?

MOVING SALE!!! Bookcases, futon, freezer, 3 dressers, weedeater, garden tools, garden decor, lawn chairs, stationery bicycle rack, yard solar lights, light house collections, lots of miscellaneous. Too much to mention.

SIDNEY, 834-882 Countryside, Friday, Saturday 9am-?

Wood carving items, antique sewing machine, small chest freezer, large doll house, clothes and miscellaneous.

Something for everyone!

LAWN & GARDEN SERVICE TECHNICIAN Koenig Equipment Tipp City OH

We have an opening for a lawn & garden service technician in our Tipp City OH facility. Applicants should have a technical background, diagnostic capabilities, and have an understanding of service department procedures.

Professional attitude, strong communication skills, and experience on John Deere equipment will be given preferential consideration.

For more information on the position or to submit a resume, visit: koenigequipment. com/contact/careers

MAINTENANCE

Hubbard Feeds (a division of Ridley USA Inc.) has an immediate opening for a second shift maintenance person at our Botkins, Ohio location.

This full time position is responsible for ensuring plant equipment is maintained according to standards, operates machinery and assists within the plant as needed to meet production demands. Key duties include performing preventive maintenance, repairing equipment, monitoring environmental needs and assisting in capital improvement projects as needed.

Computer proficiency is necessary to be successful in this position.

The preferred candidate will have prior millwright experience in a grain handling or industrial setting, along with experience in the areas of welding, fabrication, hydraulics, pneumatics, basic 3 phase electrical, gear box rebuilding, robotics, and understand OSHA requirements regarding guarding, lock out/tag out and related safety items. The preferred candidate must be able to work overtime as needed.

We provide competitive pay and benefit programs, including a choice of health plans, dental coverage, life insurance, holidays, vacations and more! Visit us at www.ridleyinc.com for more details about our competitive advantage, focus forward and management philosophy.

If you are qualified for this position, please stop in to complete an application form or mail your resume to: Hubbard Feeds 104 Oak Street P.O. Box 156 Botkins, Ohio 45306

Or submit a resume via email to: employment@ridleyinc.com

Pre-employment drug screen and physical is required.

No phone calls Please

Shelby County Libraries has a part-time opening for a Public Service Associate at the library in Sidney. We are looking for an enthusiastic, team-oriented person who enjoys working with people. Basic computing skills needed. A typical work schedule would be two daytime and one evening shift per week plus every other Saturday (about 15 hours one week and 20 the next). A willingness to substitute on occasion required. High school diploma or equivalent and a criminal background check required.

Applications accepted through October 15 at the adult service desk of the Amos Library, 230 E. North St., Sidney.Shelby County Libraries.

(937)492-8354.

RECEPTIONIST Ft. Loramie area Optometric office seeking individual for receptionist, three days a week and every other Saturday morning.

Interested individuals may send resume to 1086 Fairington Dr. Sidney, OH 45365.

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OB/GYN Billing

CRSI, a provider of services to individuals with developmental disabilities since 1976, has openings for direct care staff in Auglaize County. Responsibilities include assisting individuals with daily living skills, learning new skills and supporting active participation in their community.

You must be 18 years or older, have a high school diploma/GED, possess a valid drivers license and current vehicle insurance. CRSI has paid training and flexible schedules.

Open interviews will be held Monday, October 15th at the Church of the Nazarene 401 Court Street, Wapakoneta, 10am-12:30pm.

Applications may be obtained on-line at www.crsi-oh.com, at 13101 Infirmary Road, Wapakoneta or at the church on 10/15.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SUPERVISOR

(SALARIED POSITION)

Precision Thermoplastic Components, Inc. (PTC), an established Plastic Injection Molding, Extrusion and Assembly Company located in Lima, Ohio, has an immediate opportunity for an experienced Shift Supervisor.

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications and abilities:

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Ability to work second shift Occasional overtime and weekend hours will be required Ability to supervise employees which includes training, assigning work, directing work and monitoring employees Ability to adjust production personnel to ensure on-time completion of work Appraisal and evaluation of employees Ensure accurate recording of production data Recommend measures to improve efficiencies, production methods and quality Ensure that all employees are following appropriate safety rules and regulations Ability to recognize and deal with priorities Have organization skills and the ability to multi-task Basic computer knowledge

PTC offers competitive wages and excellent benefits and is an equal opportunity employer.

Email your resume to:

Grand Lake OB/GYN office (in St Marys) currently has a full time day shift position available.

The job entails OB/GYN inpatient and outpatient coding, billing and insurance follow up.

Previous experience/ knowledge in OB/GYN billing is strongly preferred.

Advanced computer knowledge and EMR experience is also strongly preferred.

If qualified please apply online at www.grandlakehealth.org

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Health insurance offered.

Please fax resume to: 937-339-7842 or mail to: 3130 North Dixie Highway Suite 203 Troy, OH 45373 For immediate consideration

STNA/Nurses Would you like to work in a friendly and flexible atmosphere?

We are seeking both team oriented, professional Nursing Assistants and Nurses to fit into our team.

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We can offer: Weekend and Shift Differentials • Complimentary Meals • 401K Program • Call-in Incentive Pay • Affordable Insurance • Competitive Wages • Flexible Work Schedules Come find out why so many of our staff have longevity with our company. If you are interested in these positions please stop by and drop off a resume or fill out an application.

Piqua Manor 1840 West High St. Piqua, Oh 45356 Previous applicants need not apply, we keep applications on file.

ashleyt@ptclima.com

needed for weekly part-time/PRN position.

Must be flexible.

Apply in person at: 530 Crescent Dr. Troy

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in Emergency Center JTDMH currently has an open position in our Emergency Center for a Registered Nurse, part time 7p-7a shift.

Approximately 3 shifts per 2 week pay period.

Must obtain ACLS and PALS within 1 year of hire and TNCC within 2 years of hire.

Prefer 2-4 years of medical/surgical or critical care nursing experience.

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UTC Aerospace Systems (Formerly Goodrich Corporation) is seeking Machinist Operators for our Troy, Ohio Manufacturing Facility. Positions require High School Diploma or equivalent and minimum of 1 year CNC Machining experience. Must have willingness to work 2nd, 3rd, and/or weekend shifts.

For immediate consideration, please apply online at: careers.goodrich.com Reference position number 28253 EOE D/M/F/V

Due to

retirement, Shelby County Libraries seeks a qualified, enthusiastic person for Director of Library Services for Children. This position requires a MLS/MLIS from an ALA accredited school. Responsibilities include overseeing operations of the Childrenʼs Department including programming for children 0 – 12 years of age, supervision of childrenʼs staff, and maintaining childrenʼs collections for the six locations throughout the system. This position is one of a seven member Senior Management team and reports directly to the Executive Director.

Evening and weekends are required based on the needs of the library. Position is full time and salary begins at $19.50/hour depending on experience and qualifications. For full job description, please visit our website www.shelbyco.lib.oh.us.

Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter attention Suzanne Cline, Executive Director, Shelby County Libraries, 230 E North Street Sidney, OH 45365, or email clinesu@oplin.org.

Those responding by Monday, October 15th will receive first consideration.

Shelby County Libraries. clinesu@oplin.org.

(937)492-8354.

As a reliable and stable snack food manufacturer, BGP has been in business for over 30 years. We are located in Mercer County, seeking dedicated and reliable individuals for light duty manufacturing work.

If you desire long term growth with opportunities for advancement, then we are the company for you!

We are looking to hire 50 employees for a variety of permanent positions including Production Associates, Line Supervisor Trainees, and QC Technicians.

We will be holding Open Interviews on: Wed. October 17, 2012 9:00am-12:00pm 2:00pm-6:00pm

STOP IN, FILL OUT AN APPLICATION, AND HAVE AN INTERVIEW ON THE SPOT! Positions are available for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts. Wages start at $9/hr plus shift differentials. Full benefits package including medical, dental, life, 401K, vacation, and bonus program potential to earn up to $6,000 in addition to regular earnings. Temporary and part-time positions are also available. Confidentiality fully assured. EOE BGP Inc. 300 East Vine Street Coldwater, OH 45828 419-605-9660

DISCOVER PEBBLEBROOK Village of Anna. 2 & 3 Bedroom townhomes & ranches. Garages, appliances, washer & dryer.

Close to I-75, Honda, 20 miles from Lima.

★

OTR DRIVERS

MACHINIST OPERATORS:

CDL Grads may qualify Class A CDL required

(937)498-4747 www.1troy.com

Great Pay & Benefits!

Call Jon Basye at: Piqua Transfer & Storage Co. (937)778-4535 or (800)278-0619

SYCAMORE CREEK APARTMENTS

STORAGE TRAILERS FOR RENT (800)278-0617 ★ Transportation-

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REGIONAL DRIVERS

$.40/mile 4 weeks vacation/ year $.02/mile annual bonuses Well maintained equipment 401K with company match Weekly Per Diem Health, Dental, Vision

• Close to 75 • Toddler Playground • NEW Swimming

2 BEDROOM duplex, 1868 Shawnee Drive. Appliances, air, garage, lawncare provided. No pets, $575, (937)295-3325.

2 BEDROOM half double, 1348 Logan Court, Sidney. Appliances, lawncare, no pets. Available 10/1, $600 monthly.

(937)394-7285.

2 BEDROOM, Sidney, 1.5 bath, appliances, laundry hookup, air, no pets, Trash paid, $460, (937)394-7265 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, spacious duplex, Sidney, appliances, air, laundry hookup, no pets, $530, (937)394-7265

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

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

10 MILES west of Sidney, Newport. Large 1 bedroom, appliances. $325 plus utilities.

(937)526-3264.

766 Foraker Ave. 3 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath, updated. Excellent neighborhood! No pets. Deposit/references required. $650 (937)638-5707.

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

Drivers $1000 Sign on Bonus, Safety incentives, Benefits Package, Vacation Package After six months. OTR CDL-A 1 year.

Whiteline Express 888-560-9644 We're growing....

And creating new jobs Class A CDL Driver Regional and OTR positions.

Solo and team.

Palletized. Truckload.

Vans.

2 yrs experience required.

Diesel Mechanic All shifts and experience considered.

Call us today 1-800-288-6168 www.RisingSunExpress.com

VERY NICE! 3 bedroom, 2 bath duplex. 1 car garage. No pets. $700.

(937)658-4453

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

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

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Pay tribute to those who have secured our freedom by serving in the Armed Forces with a photo tribute in our special “Scrapbook of Memories” Tabloid

To Be Published: Deadline:

Saturday, November 10th, 2012 Friday, October 12th, 2012

Veterans Day Scrapbook of Memories UNITED STATES ARMY

Samuel Yagle

CHILDCARE, Available in my North Hoewisher home, Non Smoking, Flexible, Experienced, meals provided, references, (937)710-4914

Call Lambdin Hughes Trucking (937)492-4998

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807 Arrowhead, Apt.F Sidney, Ohio (937)492-5006 ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ● ✦ ●✦

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

(937)493-0554

or visit us at:

ARROWHEAD VILLAGE APARTMENTS

CDLA & 1 yr recent OTR experience. Terminal located in Sidney, OH. Call Dave during the week at 800-497-2100 or on the weekend/evenings at 937-726-3994 or apply at www.ceioh.com

Please send all materials to 345 S. Main, New Knoxville, OH 45871, Attention: Kim Waterman

LABORER Drivers license required.

Call:

Pool

• Pet Friendly

Applications will be accepted until Friday, October 19, 2012.

CDL DRIVER No long distance trips.

Call Today for Pricing & Specials!! Metro Welcome! Pets allowed (some breed restrictions)

CALL FOR DETAILS

New Knoxville School is seeking qualified candidates with strong financial and organizational skills for the position of Treasurer.

Preferred qualities include: 1. A valid school treasurer's certificate/ license or ability to obtain one 2. A bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance or Business 3. Meet the standards established by the State Board of Education

2 & 3 Bedroom Apartment Homes

1'ST MONTHS RENT FREE

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New Knoxville Local School is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Mail your resume to:

PTC INC. HR Manager Box 1296 Lima, OH 45802

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Scrapbook of Memories PLEASE PRINT! Name of Veteran: _____________________________________________________ Rank, Unit (if Known): __________________________________________________ Your Name:__________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ City: ________________________State:____Zip: ________Phone: _____________ BRANCH OF SERVICE:

J Army J Navy J Air Force J Marines J Coast Guard

VETERAN OF: (optional) J World War I J World War II J Korea J Grenada

J Panama J Vietnam J Desert Storm J Afghanistan J Iraq

J Other ______________ DATES SERVED: ______________

J Please mail my photo back to me in the SASE provided. We cannot be responsible for photos lost in the mail.

J I will pick up my photo after November 30, 2011. We only hold pictures for 6 months after publication.

J Payment Enclosed Credit Card #: ______________________________________ J Check Exp. Date: _________________________________________ J Visa J Mastercard Your Signature:_____________________________________ J Discover * There is limited space available for wording in these ads, please choose wording carefully, we reserve the right to cut wording if necessary, ad shown actual size (1x3) above.

Fill out coupon, enclose a photo and mail to or drop off to:

Attn: Mandy Yagle • 1451 N Vandemark Rd, Sidney 45365 • (937)498-5915 2307664

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Sidney Daily News, Thursday, October 11, 2012

Village West Apts.

NORTH END, two blocks from Whittier, two story, 3-4 bedrooms, double lot, attached two car garage. $550 no pet/ $600 one pet only.

Contact Jon (937)492-9043 for application.

"Simply the Best" Special 1/2 off First months rent with 1 year lease (937)492-3450

North End Condo Sidney.

2 1/2 car garage, fireplace, all appliances, including washer & dryer.

NO PETS Deposit/References required. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, 1 story, Brick. $700.

(937)492-7338.

Classifieds that work

2 BEDROOM mobile home in country, $450 monthly plus deposit, No pets, 10448 Pasco-Montra Road, Sidney, (937)489-8927 OFFICE SPACE, 956 sq ft, located on St. Marys Avenue, Kitchenette, bathroom, most utilities paid, ample parking, $425 monthly plus deposit, (937)489-9921

2 BEDROOMS, 1.5 bath, 2 car garage, unfinished basement, Broadway across from the Moose, Whittier Schools, (937)441-6842

FREIGHT TRAIN, Lionel 1965, original boxing including platform and buildings, photos, $375 or bargain, Piqua, (248)694-1242.

SMALL REFRIGERATOR, like new condition, 25" wide and 59" high, perfect for basement or garage, $200 (937)332-1439 Preview of On-Line Estate Sale by Everything But The House, Sunday, Oct. 14 from 1:00 to 5:00 at 755 Branford Rd., Troy, 45373. Features beautiful mid-century furniture, Hitch Cock table/chairs, Fenton lamps and loads of household items. All items sold through our web site by bidding process only.

See EBTH.COM, Oct. 17, Troy, OH, on our sale calendar for complete list of items and pictures. Sale runs for 7 days and ends on the 17th starting at 8:00pm. Register to be a winning bidder today at EBTH.COM. Pick up is on Saturday 10/20/12 10:00 to 5:00 dale.iles@ebth.com.

(937)657-4960.

So Long Summer…

Get ready to

into

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FARM CHEMICALS, 28% truckloads. $335 Ton Delivered, 2-4-D Ester, Glyphosate Totes and 30's@ $11.99 gallon. Delivery Available. Jerry Hoelscher (419)236-2571 or (419)753-2321

SEED WHEAT, Wellman, Seed Consultants & Sunburst. Custom Wheat or Cover Crop Planting.

1590 JD No-till Drills For Rent. Jerry Hoelscher.

(419)753-2321 WANTED: Custom fall tillage farming. Deep tillage, vertical tillage, no till conventional and minimum till. Reasonable rates.

Tractor and tool rental available. Mark Homan and Sons. (419)733-3647 FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up, (937)726-2780 FIREWOOD, Seasoned firewood, $60 per pickup load, uhaul, call (419)305-9509, Minster

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879 FIREWOOD: half cord for $49. 5 cords available.

(937)216-8012

FIREWOOD! Hurry winter is almost here. $115 per cord. Split - great size for indoor burning.

(937)726-7801.

FIREWOOD, Seasoned firewood, stacked 3 years, 10 Cords available, $175 per Cord, more you buy the better the deal, (937)451-0794 SEASONED FIREWOOD. Hurry only 4 cord left! All hardwood. $120 if you pick up. Will deliver for $135. (937) 570-0045

SEASONED FIREWOOD $155 per cord. Stacking extra, $125 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available (937)753-1047

Through October 31 (ad must begin by this date)

ADULT MOVIES, still in factory seal, great selection, $3 each.

Call (567)356-0272.

CEMETERY SPACES (2), Shelby Memory Gardens.

Bought in 1990 for $300 each. Will sell for same. or (937)726-6462 (937)726-6276 EARRINGS, diamond, 1 stone .63carat, other stone, .70carat. Mounted in 14K gold with screwback posts, $1200 OBRO. STEREO/RECEIVER, Onyko, 65w x5, 100w RMS with 2 100w Realistic floor speakers, 3 way with 15" woofer, amplified antennae, $250, (937)773-3636. Can be seen at 806 Brook Street, Piqua.

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LAWNMOWER, LT/10 10H.P. Sears Lawnmower, 42" cut, snow blade & chains, $300, (937)394-7455

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Limit of 1 vehicle per advertisement. Valid only on private party advertising.

No coupons or other offers can apply.

AVAILABLE ONLY BY CALLING 877-844-8385 OR VISITING ONE OF OUR OFFICES IN SIDNEY, PIQUA OR TROY

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NICE FAMILY HOME FOR RENT: Fenced Yard, 2-car detached garage; no pets 4 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath, 2 story, vinyl. $525. robnstacy89@embarqmail.com. (937)638-4859.

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Residential Commercial New Construction Bonded & Insured

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Paws & Claws Retreat: Pet Boarding Sidney/Anna area facility.

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HOSPITAL BED, Invacare Semi-electric. High impact bed and end panels. New condition. 2 months old. Paid $1700, $500 OBO. (937)602-5118

Unknown heirs, the devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, and assigns of Ronald D. Tuttle, and the unknown guardians of minor and/or incompetent heirs of Ronald D. Tuttle, will take notice that on August 24, 2012, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association filed its Complaint in the Court of Common Pleas, Shelby County, Ohio, Case No. 12CV000282. The object of, and demand for relief in, the Complaint is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff's mortgage recorded upon the real estate described below and in which plaintiff alleges that the foregoing defendants have or claim to have an interest: Parcel number(s): 42-1915130.007, 42-1915130.008 Property address: 318 Canal Street, Port Jefferson, OH 45360 The defendants named above are required to answer the Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last publication of this legal notice. This legal notice will be published once a week for three successive weeks.

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PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, Oct. 13th, 2012 â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00am Shelby County Fairgrounds - Sidney, Ohio (I-75 to Exit 90 - East to Fairgrounds - follow signs) FURNITURE: Sideboard w/ mirror, entrance halltree mirror, library tables (1 - cut down for coffee table), 3 drawer mahogany nightstand, treadle sewing machine ( ram head knobs), large heavy duty chair (500 lb capacity), dresser, Sauder computer desk, leather couch, chair and ottoman, 4 bar stools, chrome/leather stack chairs, bookshelves, cane bottom chair, nice Kroelher blonde bedroom suite (50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), beautiful 3 piece queen size bedroom suite w/ marble top dresser and night stand (modern), 2 matching leather couches, 60 inch RCA HDTV, surround office desk (nice), â&#x20AC;&#x153;maxâ&#x20AC;? artwork, washer, dryer, oak kitchen table w/ contained leaves & drawer.

GLASSWARE: PR. Brush McCoy candleholders (Florastone #34 - 1 damaged), serv for 12 Johnsons Bros. (the Friendly Village), cranberry coin dot vase, pitchers and lidded compote, fluted Carnival bowl, good luck Carnival dish, Fenton including Boots & Bells, vases and paperweights, misc crystal and gold trim rocks glasses, Nancy Daum crystal bowl (signed), Ironstone, Meito dishes, saki set, art glass bowl (Iran), Satsumi tea set, 2 small Weller vases and more COLLECTIBLES: Large pieces of Neoprite jade (11 pounds - â&#x20AC;&#x153;waterfullâ&#x20AC;?), 3 Netsukes (signed), carved eskimo dog sled (bone - ivory?) galloping horse bank, glass fishing balls, 1939 German badge w/ Swastika, Epiphone Elektra guitar w/ case, 3 small French tapestries, Eisenhower dress jacket w/ patches and medals, Navy hat and gloves, 1950â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boy Scout uniforms (misc handbooks etc.), 1960 Girl Scout calendar, 1960 Mexico calendars w/ bullfight pictures, WLW mags, oriental cork art, neat early wooden box w/ brass, FFA jacket (1960â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), 3 paperweights (5th Army Div. WWII), 14K gold eagle charm, costume jewelry, set of State of Minn. scales (glass enclosed), Bausch & Lomb magnifier, Tiyoda microscope in box.

COINS: Bicentennial UNC 1 oz. silver dollar, 6-8 silver dollars (1881-1925), few misc other coins.

MISC: New massage table w/ carry bag (Bocks manuals, massagers, CDs, etc), 2 Mercury props, approx. 200 LPs and 45s, Sig model 237 sewing machine, Schwinn bikes including a 7 speed tandem (like new), pair Adirondack outdoor chairs and ottmans, cookbooks, folding bike, cycle ups trainer, approx. 50 boxes packed away still to be gone thru.

GUNS: Marlin 60ss (22 L.R. - stainless), Winchester Model 12 - 12 ga.

(Nickle 1923), Stevens model 954 (22 L.R. w/ scope), Remington 1100 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ducks unlimitedâ&#x20AC;? (12 ga. - 1973), Remington 30 Express (30 - 06 bolt action w/ peep sight 1923), Remington model 514 (22 L.R. sigle shot bolt action - 1955), Winchester model 94 (30/30 lever action 1974 w/ box), FN 1906 Browning (25 cal. semi auto), Smith & Wesson (38 special nickle 1977 w/ box), CVA black pwder w/ brass receiver, Titan (25 cal. w/ box), Cibar revolver (32 Winchester rim fire - Spain), Colt vest pocket (25 cal.

Nickle - 1920â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), 7.65 - 1914 Model Beistegui-Hermanos (Spain w/ holster), 1924 military rifle (foreign). To be sold at noon.

PAPER: Pall Mall mags 1898 and 99, Punch 1874 mag, Harper monthly 1874, several olders hardbacks (late 1800â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s - early 1900â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), misc R.R Tarriff booklets, Santa Fe ticket book 1954 inside railroads (misc other RR pcs.), 1800 Ulster Co. Gazette paper, picture of snake dancer (Gerda Christofferson), misc books & mags and additional pieces.

BALLCARDS ETC: Approx. 10,000 Fleer and Donruss Baseball, 10-15 thousand misc. football, Topps baseball, basketball, hockey etc (all sold in large lots), 4 large albums of Reds and Bengals cards, boxes of misc mags, schedules etc., misc Ohio State items, baseball gear, approx 1,000 golfball and so on.

NEW ITEMS: Larson patio door, bathroom cabinets, ceiling fans, octagon windows, rugs, nut/bolt organizers, wrenches, clocks, folding dog ramps, drill & driver set, wrench sets, Stanley outrigger power station, misc tools, puzzles, games, picture frames, large deep fryer, cookie jars, holiday decorations, 2 bar stools, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Dog Trainerâ&#x20AC;? and much more.

TOOLS & GARAGE: Craftsmen snowblower and wood chipper, Troybilt lot vacuum, 30:1 and 50:1 Tapmatics, PM 1200 HD phase converter, older 3 phase wire welder, sanding table, 240 V disconnect box, older belt driven forge, Ramsey power winch, older air floor jack, Onan 5000 watt generator w/ 6 cyl. flathead, V4 Ford motor (propane), senco 18V screw fastening system, plus wrenches, bits, few air tools, woodworking tools including drill press, disc sander, belt sanders, compound mitre saw, wood lathe and hand tools.

VEHICLES & BOAT: 19 foot Chaparral boat, 1997 Chevy Sportvan, 1988 GMC - C6000 flatbed.

NOTE: Huge auction - 2 rings most of day. Something here for everyone!

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1999 CHEVY CORVETTE

Convertible, 350/350 hp Black, 6 speed standard, power windows & seats, AM/FM CD, $17,500.

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2000 COACHMAN CATALINA 27 FOOTER Awning 1yr old, refrigerator 2yrs old, everything comes with camper: Hitch, Tote tank, Patio lights, VERY CLEAN!, $6500 obo, (937)596-6028 OR (937)726-1732

2004 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER 4x4

103,000 miles, excellent condition and runs great! Must see. Nonsmoker. $9000 OBO (937)615-0194

MOVING SALE: medium Green Egg, 1 year old ($1000 new), $700; 5 hp Snotek snow thrower, $250; lawn mower; smoker; have-a-heart trap; cat carrier; vacuums: upright, canister, handheld; turkey fryer; Christmas trees with lights; ficus trees; TV & stand; 8' X 10" rugs; Tony Little gazelle, etc.

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HUTCH, 2 pieces, $200 OBO. 5 shelve curio cabinet, $150 OBO. Chest of drawers, $50 OBO. (937)241-3956 anytime.

ROOFING SHINGLES, 50 bundles of roofing shingles, 3 tab tan, $200 for all, Piqua, (937)606-2621

2107 Wapak Ave. Sidney, Ohio

Public Auction

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leo Steinke Estateâ&#x20AC;?

Automobile: 1998 Dodge Intrepid 4 door sedan 115K miles.

Collectibles: 4X4 Porcelain Train Schedule board and telegraph items removed from the B&O railroad train depot in Sidney, (4) Adams and Westlake B&O railroad lanterns

UHG JOREHV &OHDU DQG $PEHU 2IĂ&#x20AC;FLDO JXLGH RI Railways, many train schedule and telegraph, books, train poster, mugs, and other train collectibles both new and old, Vintage Shelby County license plates, old hunting license, Schwinn â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typhoonâ&#x20AC;? bicycle, Hawthorne bicycle, Famous .H\VWRQH 6SOLW %DPERR Ă \ URG ZLWK ZRRGHQ FDVH 6LGQH\ dairy milk bottle, Potato plow, reel mower, Underwood No. 3 vintage typewriter, vintage lamps, Victrola records, some jewelry, ladies purses and hats, Dale Earnhart metal sign, Glassware: 100+ pieces of assorted clear, and pressed JODVV 6WHPZDUH VHUYLQJ WUD\V DQG SODWHV 5XIĂ HG 3XQFK Bowls, Cake Stands, Fenton satin and Carnival, , Garage Items and Mowers: John Deere Model 165 riding PRZHU Âľ 7RUR SXVK PRZHU 7RUR Âľ VQRZ EORZHU ¡ wooden extension ladder, stepladders, gas weed eater, gas leaf blower, ladder jacks and hose and reel, 2 wheel cart, lawn spreader, wheel barrow, picnic table, wooden glider, Vintage metal lawn chairs, hand and garden tools.

Household Items: Frigidaire Side by Side refrigerator, 36â&#x20AC;? electric range, Upholstered furniture, washer and dryer, 13cu.ft. upright freezer, dinette set with 4 chairs, oak rocker, kneehole desk, (2) full size 3 piece bedroom suites, Very QLFH RDN SF %HGURRP VXLWH UHFOLQHUV VRID¡V DQG PRUH dishes, small appliances, cast iron, Magnalite cookware, General household and kitchen misc.

Terms of the auction: Number system will be used with photo I.D. required for registration, all items to be paid for the day of the auction by cash or good check. All items sell to the highest bidder in as is where is condition.

Directions: Interstate 75 to Exit 94 Wapak Rd. (Co.Rd.25-A) towards Sidney to Auction.

Auctioneers: Justin Vondenhuevel, Tom Roll, David Shields

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October 20, 2012 â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00 am Shelby County Fairgrounds A Nice Large Auction with Guns, Harley Davidson Collectibles, Coins, Furniture, Tools and Much More!

2-old Lionel Train Engines, train cars and track, Craftsman tool chests, Meat grinders, Fishing poles, Garage items and tools, Jonn Deere hand saws, Kirby sweeper with shampoo attachment, Coolers, Knife set, Hand cart, power tools, Beer steins, Glassware, Granite rolling pins, Lots of handmade walnut boxes some inlaid, Jewelry boxes, Sleds, Outdoor furniture, Rigid shop vac, car ramps, garden plow, Lawn tools, Rubbermaid storage barn, porcilen top table, storage cabinets, 10'step ladder, old fishing reel, belt buckles, duck and goose call, flatware, Insulators, John Deere plates, Humbel plates, Crocks, Maple Hutch, Bar stools, plant growing stand, Bead tree, marble collection, Homemade manger scene with figurines, 2 large Bibles(1 OHIO FARMER bible), Betsy McCall Doll with clothes, puzzles and toys, Lane cedar chest, Quilt, Lenox-Noritake Eggs, Box of arrow heads, Indy 500 Pins, 2 Baby rings,Tin Pictures, War ration stamps, Hunting Knife, 35mm camera, Luggage, Beaded purse, Sales tax stamps, Coins(State quarters, Lewis and Clark, collector sets, uncirculated sets, proof sets, buffalo nickles and more), toy semi trucks, Franklin Mint Harley Davidson Motorcycle Models in Cases, Franklin Mint Harley Davidson Pocket Watches on stands and leather pouches, Biker Bobby Doll, Harley Davidson Phone, Nesting Dolls from the Ukraine, Large Tin of old wooden tinker toys, Cherry Hutch, Wooden car-fire truck-trolley, Book shelves, costume Jewelry, Mink and leather coats, Childrens books (Cherry Ames), Recliner, Bell collection, Record Album, Large Stamp collection (albums), Solid oak table and chairs with matching hutch, Grandfather clock, Gun Cabinet, stereo, Black Pyramid pinball machine, GUNS: Marlin 81TS .22cal.

Bolt Action with scope, Sheridon .177 cal. pellet gun/ needs new oring, Mossburg 320 .22 cal. short-long rifle, Marlin Model 60W .22cal semi auto, Canyon .50cal muzzel loader never fired with case, Ruger Single 6 .22 cal Revolver with magnum cylinder.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 13th. 9:30 A.M. 9:;<'=>?>@'/-+'A%*&+B8'7,%) The Estate of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leo Steinkeâ&#x20AC;?. 1998 Dodge Intrepid, John Deere Riding Lawn Mower, Furniture, Garden Tools, Original Porcelain Schedule board from the B&O railway Depot in Sidney, telegraph equipment and books, (4) B&O Railroad lanterns. Glassware and More!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20th. 10:00 A.M.

937-726-8970 troy.kies@realliving.com

BANKRUPTCY AND REPO AUTO AUCTION SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012

9CDD;'A?+&0+1'3*E'F>11)*8'7,%) 3 BR 2 BA with 2 Car Carage and 20 X 24 outbuilding Sells to the highest bidder!!!!!

SUNDAY OCTOBER 21st. 1:00 P.M.

9;G =>11+&'A$1++$'H)$@%&#8'7,%) ! #$ % %&'"#(")*+,-"./01"2007 Buick Lucerne CLX w/ 44,000 miles, J.D. Riding Mower, Collectibles, Modern Furniture, Tools and more.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25th. 5:30 P.M.

:;I'H"0,>&>&'A$1++$'!>0@#)&'J+&$+18'7,%) 3 BR 1 BA home located in the village of Jackson Center on a one way street with detached 2 car Garage.

415 SOUTH STREET, PIQUA, OHIO UPPER MIAMI VALLEY STORAGE 9:00 A.M. SHARP MID OHIO ACCEPTANCE 05 CHEV IMPALA 00 CHEV CAVALIER 03 CHEVY IMPALA 00 CHEV BLAZER 00 GMC JIMMY SECOND NATIONAL 03 FORD TAURUS 07 PONT GR PRIX 02 SATURN VUE 02 CHEV SILVERADO GREENVILLE NATIONAL BANK 05 TOYOTA SCION 10 CHEV HHR

02 PONTIAC GR AM 02 CHEVY VENTURE 02 OLDS SILHOUETTE 01 PONT GR AM

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27th. 9:30 A.M.

:II<<'K%1@L))*'3*E'A%*&+B8'7,%) 2)(324)56"244756".4859.47:6"9;8<=> 2007 John Deere model 4320 270 hours with loader, cab, and 72â&#x20AC;? mower, 5 Antique Farmall Tractors, Woodworking Equipment, Fuel Tanks, Hand and Power Tools, Furniture and much more.!

02 FORD EXPLORER 05 CHEV COBALT 04 DODGE STRATUS 01 FORD F250 2011 POLARIS ATV

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1999 CHEVROLET TAHOE

TERMS OF THE SALE ARE THIS: CASH. NO PERSONAL CHECKS NO CREDIT CARDS. NO CHILDREN. PLEASE CALL WITH QUESTIONS. ALL VEHICLES. SOLD 100% AS IS. BANKRUPTCY UNITS HAVE SEPERATE TERMS. AGAIN, PLEASE CALL WITH QUESTIONS BEFORE THE AUCTION. WE ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SELLING UNITS, WE CANNOT ANSWER VERIFY OR GUARANTEE ANY CONDITION OF ANY UNIT IN AUCTION. ALL UNITS INCLUDING BOATS, SKIS, TRAILERS, VEHICLES ANYTHING SOLD IS 100% AS IS.

BAYMAN AUCTION SERVICE TONY BAYMAN 937 606 0535

JOE HARKER 937 606 0536

Pictureit Sold Extended cab, short bed, Power stroke V-8 Turbo Diesel, 6.0 liter, 4WD, automatic, Bed liner, towing package, cloth interior, 108,000 miles, $14,500 (937)778-1665

2004 FORD MUSTANG Cobra SVT, Super charged V8, Number 859 of 1896 convertibles made (only 167 torch red made) beautiful car, only 3,100 miles, must see, $27,000 obo Call (937)658-0318

2005 KAWASAKI VULCAN MEAN STREAK 10,000 miles. Excellent condition. 1600cc, fuel injected, Vance and Hines pipes, power commander, new tires. $5300 OBO. (937)638-9070

2007 BASS TRACKER

Pro Team 170TX, powered by 2007 50hp Mercury, Trolling motor, Trail Star trailer, Custom cover, superb condition $8900.

(937)394-8531

2007 FORD TRUCK FX4WD, silver metallic clear coat with black sport cloth bucket seats, well maintained, super cab with bed liner, new brakes, rotors, and calipers, clean car fax provided, 102,644 miles, $12,900.

(937)789-8473

2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA SR5

Double cab. TRD package. 4X4. Only 27,000 miles. 5.7L V-8. New tires and well equipped. $24,900.

(937)470-5345

WHEELCHAIR, Quantum 1121, Power wheel chair, seat raises & reclines, must sell, asking $600, (937)418-2150

BOSTON TERRIER, Puppies, 8 weeks old, vet checked, 1st shots, dew claws removed, wormed, 1 male & 1 female, (937)394-8745

KITTENS, Adorable Black with white markings, free to good homes (937)492-6322

MINIATURE DACHSHUND, AKC, 6 puppies, 8 weeks, 1 shot, both sexes, various colors/ coats, will be small, adorable, $ 2 7 5 - $ 3 2 5 , (937)667-1777 PUGS, AKC MALE born August 1st. Received first shots and deworming. 5 puppies only 1 left! Asking $450.00. akcpugs.weebly.com $450 tabetha@woh.rr.com.

(937)622-1566.

SAWS, 2 Craftsman. 10" table saw & 10" radial arm saw.

Both in excellent condition. Original owners manual plus extra blades. Call and leave message, Troy area, (937)658-0906.

01 CHEV SILVERADO

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT: DENNIS STEGNER TRUSTEE: 2004 FORD EXPLORER

ROBERT BAYMAN 937 773 5702

SPA Hot Springs Sovereign Spa. 6 adults, 230W, 50AMP, 335 Gallon. Retractable cover.

Manuals, chemicals. 75% OFF NEW LIST PRICE. $2250. (937)492-2443

04 FORD FREESTAR 05 PONT MONTANA 00 DODGE DURANGO 09 CHEV MALIBU

MUTUAL FEDERAL BANK 2010 HARLEY DAVIDSON MODEL FHX FLHDOM BURTONS USED CARS

2002 CADILLAC DEVILLE

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UNITY NATIONAL BANK 2005 YAMAHA MOTORCYCLE MODEL YZFR1

:IGO'P%>Q%'J)&#+1->&0B'A%*&+B8'7,%) 2)(324)6"244756".4859.47:6"9;8<=> Massey Ferguson Model 50 W/Loader, Mowers, Disc, Welder, 3 Pt. Snow Blower, Household& More.

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CAR AND CREDIT 05 PONT GR PRIX 01 CHRYS PT CRUISER

99 PONTIAC GR PRIX 99 FORD EXPLORER

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4th. 10:30 A.M.

2004 FORD F-250 XLT

HOT TUB ThermoSpas 54-Jets, Heats to 105 degrees, 5 persons, big 6.5 HP, 2 water pumps, 1 air pump, 5 headrests, dual therapy seats, doublewide lounge cover, EZ cover lift, handrail brown synthetic, wood cabinet retired home in Florida, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzYwhAjhvM, $2000 (937)498-9309.

DOWNSIZING AUCTION

Saturday October 13th. 9:30 a.m.

AUCTIONEERS

AUCTION SERVICE

1996 TERRY 5TH WHEEL TRAILER 32.5 ft, clean, set up at Kozy Campground Grand Lake, comes with 8x8 shed, picnic bench, and other misc., or can be moved.

(937)773-6209 or (937)418-2504

Train Collectibles-J.D. Riding Mower Household-Furniture-Automobile

VONDENHUEVEL

Steve Mikolajewski, Joe Mikolajewski & Tim Mikolajewski 439 Vine Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356 (937) 773-6708 â&#x20AC;˘ (937) 773-6433 www.mikolajewskiauction.net

SHED with Skylight, 2 vented windows.

Overhead door. 16ft long, 10ft wide. Ramp included.

Bench inside with vice.

(419)628-3742

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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS SHELBY COUNTY, OHIO CASE NO. 12CV000282 LEGAL NOTICE JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff vs.

Diana L. Tuttle, et al., Defendants

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2008 LANDSCAPE TRAILER

6x10 Foot, 2 Foot side risers, excellent condition, $1100 (937)726-5761

H D TRAILER

13'3"x4'6", 2 axle with electric brake capable, 3500# per axle, $1600 (937)570-9463

1998 FORD Ranger.

Regular cab, step side, 4 cyl. 125K miles. $3500.

(937)497-8250

2001 OLDSMOBILE Silhoutte, green with tan interior, 157,000 miles.

FWD, V6, 3.4L, gas, automatic, very clean, well maintained minivan loaded with power features, leather interior. Second owner. $4600.

(937)497-0694 2002 BUICK La Sabre custom, 64K miles, navy blue/gray cloth interior, 3800 motor, $5500 firm (937)773-5245

2011 BUICK Lucerne, 18k miles, most all bells & whistles, leather interior, On Star, quick silver color, (937)570-6699

2002 HARLEY DAVIDSON ELECTRA GLIDE. Low mileage, Shriner's bike. White with black leather seat. Beautiful bike. (937)339-8833 1986 GMC, 1 ton dully, 350 cubic inch, power steering and brakes, cruise control, 410 rear end, new paint, brakes, calipers, nice truck $2500 (937)689-6910

2001 DODGE, Dakota Sport, 76k miles, V6, Automatic, A/C, power locks, tilt, cruise, extra nice, $5000 firm, (937)492-4743 or (937)726-1764

925 Public Notices LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Public Meeting will be held on October 27, 2012 at Van Buren Township Office for the purpose of Joan Buehler, Fiscal Officer, retiring effective November 30, 2012 and to be reappointed December 1, 2012. The meeting commences at 10:00 a.m.

By order of Van Buren Township Trustees, Shelby County, Ohio.

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