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BAGHDAD (AP) — Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and

lives is yet unanswered.

While many of the speeches painted a picture of victory — for both the troops and the Iraqi people now set on a path for democracy — the gnawing questions remain: Will Iraqis be able to forge their new government amid the still stubborn sectarian clashes. And will Iraq be able to defend itself and remain independent in a region

fraught with turmoil and still steeped in insurgent threats.

Stark reminders of the fragile and often violent nature of the situation in Iraq engulfed the 45-minute ceremony. It was tucked into fortified corner of the airport, ringed with concrete blast walls. And on the chairs — nearly empty of Iraqis — were tags that listed not only the name of the VIP as-

signed to the seat, but the bunker they should move to in case of an attack.

The speeches touched on the success of the mission as well as its losses: Nearly 4,500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis killed. Another 32,000 American and tens of thousands Iraqis wounded. And $800 billion from the U.S. Treasury.

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DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3A today: • Deborah M. Latimer • Pearl Louise Heath

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TODAY’S THOUGHT “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

— Sir Noel Coward, English actor, playwright, composer (born this date, 1899; died in 1973) For more on today in history, turn to Page 12.

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BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER jbumgarner@sdnccg.com The McDonald’s inside Sidney Walmart is preparing to close its doors on Jan.31.

The close will come at the end of the lease contract agreement which has been held since 1993 with Benny Scott Jr., owner and operator of the McDonald’s location “We are closing McDonald’s on Jan. 31” said Scott. “We have leased it since 1993 and

our lease is up and no agreement has been made to renegotiate the lease.”

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The Senate signed off on the bill with a 27-6 vote just an hour and a half after the House passed it 77-17. It made it out of the Republican-controlled legislature and on to Gov. John Kasich’s desk with just enough Democratic support to avoid a repeal effort like the one facing the GOP-drawn map passed in September.

“The map that is presented here may not be an accurate reflection of the political sentiments and will of the people of the state of Ohio,” said Senate Minority Leader Capri Cafaro, one of the few Democrats to vote for the measure. “But at least we have one primary. At least we’re saving money. And at least we’re putting this confusion behind us now.”

“We are pleased that the approved Congressional map will give us the opportunity to continue representing most of the same counties we currently represent,” said U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, 4th District.

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Judge to rule on sale of ‘Mash’ hot dog diner TOLEDO (AP) — The fate of a hot dog eatery made famous on TV’s “M.A.S.H.” rests with a judge who heard arguments Thursday about its potential sale, a day after the founder’s grandson was charged with stealing from the family business.

A court-appointed third party appointed to oversee Tony Packo’s Inc. urged the judge to act quickly, saying that the business was in jeopardy.

A private restaurant group won the bidding for the restaurant chain, but the deal still needs final approval.

The founder’s grandson, who currently is executive vice president of Tony Packo’s, is poised to play a major role in the new ownership company if the judge approves the sale.

But a grand jury Wednesday indicted Tony Packo III on aggravated theft charges. Prosecutors say he and another com-

pany employee stole about $170,000. His lawyer has said he hasn’t seen any details about what led to the charges that carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

An attorney representing the ownership group said the indictment against Packo III shouldn’t be a reason to hold up the sale and that it hasn’t changed his expected role to help manage the chain’s operations. “As we stand here now, he will be an employee,” said attorney David Coyle.

The charges come on top of a yearlong family battle over control of the restaurant chain whose hot dog sauce and pickles are sold in stores across the nation. Descendants of the restaurant’s namesake this summer began accusing each other of financial misdeeds and mismanagement and made their own bids to buy the company.

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formation about future plans for the site. According to Scott, this is a corporate decision.

“The lease is through corporate and not the individual store,” said Scott.

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Police log WEDNESDAY -8:13 a.m.: arrest.

Sidney police arrested Skylar Warren Williamson, 18, 302 1/2 S. Walnut Ave., on an warrant, outstanding telephone harassment and was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia.

Fire, rescue THURSDAY -6:21 a.m.: medical.

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

WEDNESDAY -11:54 p.m.: alarm.

Firefighters were dispatched to 209 to 211 Jefferson St. on a report of a smoke detector activated. The detector’s battery was dead. There was no fire.

-9:06 p.m.: fire. Firefighters were dispatched to the 500 block of North Miami Avenue on a report of a transformer fire.

-8:51 p.m.: medical.

Medics responded to the 100 block of Parkwood Street on a medical call.

-7:14 p.m.: locked in car. Firefighters responded to 251 Windsor Parke Drive on a report of a child locked in a car.

The Sidney Police Department freed the child.

-7:11 p.m.: medical.

Medics responded to the 3000 block of Cisco Road on a medical call.

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Medics responded to a medical call on the 600 block of North Main Avenue.

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Welbaum to run for Court of Appeals, 2nd Appellate judge TROY — Jeffrey M. Welbaum has announced his candidacy for judge of the Court of Appeals, 2nd Appellate District.

W e l - Welbaum b a u m served as judge of the Miami County Common Pleas Court for more than 15 years. Since 1984 Welbaum was consecutively elected three times as the Miami County prosecuting attorney and three times as judge of the Common Pleas Court. In January, Welbaum was named chief of the Criminal Justice Section of the Office of Attorney General Mike DeWine. He supervises more than 40 attorneys involved in the Capital Litigation, Special Prosecutions, Habeas Corpus and Corrections Litigation Units.

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signed by the Ohio Supreme Court as visiting common pleas judge in Montgomery, Greene, Darke, Preble, Shelby, Mercer, Clinton and Allen Counties. He was involved in the creation of the Miami County Drug Court and served as a drug court judge in Miami County for many years.

Welbaum has served as vice chairman and chairman of the Miami County Republican Central Committee, vice chairman of the Miami County Executive Committee, two terms as president of the Men’s Republican Club, and served as the Miami County campaign chairman of both national and statewide candidates.

Welbaum has practiced law for more than 34 years. In addition to his service as judge, prosecuting attorney, and assistant Ohio attorney general, Welbaum has a diverse legal background. He served as an assistant public de-

fender for three years, eight years as a general practice associate at the law firm of Miller, Schlemmer and Luring Co., L.P.A., and parttime instructor of criminal justice studies and law at Edison Community College and Kent State University. In October 1990, Welbaum was appointed special assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and was involved in prosecuting federal narcotics cases.

Welbaum is past recipient of Troy’s Distinguished Service Award, was named one of five Outstanding Young Men of Ohio by the Ohio Jaycees and was named Miami County’s Big Brother of the Year. As prosecuting attorney, Welbaum founded and served as director of the Miami County VictimWitness Program and received the Victim Rights Recognition Award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Welbaum is also a recipient of the Defiance College Alumni Achievement Award.

Welbaum has served many community activities, organizations and boards, including president of the Troy Rotary Club, the Miami County Bar Association and Troy United Fund. He resides in Troy with his wife, Peg. They have two adult children, Andy and Alex.

Welbaum said, “I believe my experience as a prosecutor, a judge and now as a section chief for Attorney General Mike DeWine uniquely qualifies me for this next step in public service at the court of appeals.”

The 2nd Appellate District Court of Appeals decides cases from Montgomery, Clark, Miami, Greene, Darke, and Champaign counties.

Welbaum graduated from Troy High School, Defiance College (cum laude) and the Ohio Northern University School of Law.

Jackson Center Council holds final meeting of year JACKSON CENTER — Jackson Center Village Council wrapped up its 2011 year’s business Monday evening.

Highlight of the meeting was setting the village’s budget for 2012. budget calls for The $370,691.73 in general fund appropriations. This includes $148,375.27 for police enforcement; $41,667.65 for firefighting, and inspection; prevention $21,963 for legislative activities; $17,069.90 for mayor and administrative offices; and $11,144 for community planning and zoning.

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Sheriff’s log THURSDAY -7:52 a.m.: livestock.

Shelby County Sheriff ’s deputies responded to a report of two cows in the roadway at Russia Houston Road and Ohio 48.

The budget also lists $820,321.23 for special revenue funds. Special revenue funds include $650,000 income tax fund; $78,356.23 total street construction; $43,415 fire engine fund ; and $30,000 permissive motor vehicle license fund.

The capital project funds total is $714, 590.55, including $443,088.45 for capital improvement, $140,651 for OPWC West reconstruction and Street $130,851.10 for general improvement.

Water operating funds for next year total $182,821.66. The village plans on spending

$262,510.37 for sewer operations. The electric operating fund is $1,813,670.10.

Other expected appropriations include $25,441.58 for swimming pool operation, $74,848.67 for refuse operating and $20,000 enterprise deposit operating.

In addition, council had the second reading of an ordinance allowing the village administrator to enter into an electric rate stabilization arrangement for the benefit of the village.

Council members decided there will be no meeting on Dec. 26. The next meeting is set for Jan. 9 at 7 p.m.

Fort Loramie BOE to meet Monday FORT LORAMIE — Fort Loramie the purchase of a school bus. The Local School Board of Education will board will also discuss personnel ismeet on Monday at 7 p.m. to discuss sues during the meeting.

Fire, rescue THURSDAY -8:02 a.m.: medical.

Jackson Center Rescue responded to a medical call on the 600 block of East College Street.

Meeting set for Monday HOUSTON — The Hardin-Houston Local School District Board of Education will meet on Monday at 7 p.m. to discuss personnel issues.

Kislig to attend Sullivan LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sullivan University has accepted Monica Kislig of Sidney for admission to the university beginning in the 2012 academic year.

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DEATH NOTICES Pearl Louise Heath QUINCY — Pearl Louise Heath, 83, of Quincy, died on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Barack Obama administration showed some love — and more importantly, some money — Thursday for Cincinnati’s streetcar project with a $10.9 million grant that will help extend its planned route to the city’s riverside sports stadiums and growing entertainment area.

Ohio was awarded more than $23 million of the $511 million in grants announced by the Department of Transportation. A $12.5 million grant is headed to Cleveland for construction of a new transit station. The Mayfield Road station will replace another station in disrepair there and provide better connections to hospitals and research centers, shopping and residential developments, the grant announcement said.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood singled out Cincinnati’s streetcar project, coming to the city to make the anat the nouncement mayor’s office. LaHood said it’s a good use of taxpayer money for an innovative system residents have supported at the ballot box.

“We love the streetcars. We love this streetcar project,” LaHood said.

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VICKIE PELTIER (left) works with students last year at Central Elementary School to harvest vegetables from the school’s garden. Peltier recently received an award for her work in conservation education. ways, as they measured, predicted and analyzed the project throughout the stages of building and growth.

“This was an amazing experience for the students,” said Peltier.

“They were amazed by the entire process and were so excited to be eating food they had grown themselves. It

was very rewarding for all of us!”

Throughout the project, each student kept a journal of their experiences with the school garden as part of the classroom activity. The garden project was recently featured in “Our Ohio” magazine for its focus on agriculture.

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Peltier was recognized with a plaque at the 65th annual meeting of the Shelby Soil and Water Conservation District, held Dec. 6, at St. Michael’s Hall in Fort Loramie.

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Vickie Peltier, an elementary teacher at Sidney City Schools, was recently awarded the 2011 Outstanding Conservation Educator Award by the Shelby Soil and Water Conservation District.

Peltier, currently a third grade teacher at Emerson Elementary School, was recognized for her ongoing support of conservation education.

Last year, Peltier worked with her students to build, grow and harvest a vegetable garden at Central Elementary School.

With financial assistance from the Farm Bureau and a grant from the Sidney Shelby Chamber of Commerce, the raised vegetable beds were built on school grounds.

Each plant was planted by students who then cultivated and cared for the plants until they were ready to be harvested.

After reaching their full growth, students harvested the plants and used them to make healthy salads which they ate for lunch. The project challenged students in a variety of

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Freshmen participate in TUGS Lehman Catholic High School freshmen had the opportunity to participate in a special program recently. The Teen Understanding and Growth Seminar (TUGS) is an annual event for Lehman freshmen. It was held at the Piqua YWCA again this year.

The day is coordinated by members of Lehman’s Substance Abuse Advisory Council (SAAC.) SAAC is composed of juniors and seniors, including Katie Williams, Sarah Davidson, Paxton Hatcher, Meghan Bennett, Emily Pax, Dan Deafenbaugh, Colleen Kinninger, Michael Jacob, Ellie Waldsmith, Sarah Cabe, Jacob Haller, Emilee Proffitt, John Copella, Katie Rossman, Mitchell Kirtley, Samantha Neumeier, Daniel Sehlhorst, Millie Wildenhaus, Kerri Josefovsky and Mitchell Bosse.

These students coordinate TUGS by leading the prayer service at the beginning of the day, introducing speakers, running team-building games and facilitating small-group sessions.

Several SAAC members gave talks about peer pressure issues that can plague high school students. One of the purposes of TUGS is helping

freshmen know how to handle such situations.

The SAAC members related personal experiences and solutions to common problems.

In addition to the small-group activities and talks by SAAC members, there were several speakers throughout the day. Piqua Police Officer Kris Lee was the first speaker and the focus of his talk was on prevention of drug and alcohol use among high school students.

The second speaker was the Rev. Dan Hess, Lehman chaplain. Hess spoke about “Prayer and Christian Life” and how having a value system can help students handle the pressures of growing up. The Rev. Martin Fox, pastor of St. Mary and St. Boniface churches in Piqua, then spoke about “Moral Decision-Making.”

The final speaker of the day was Kevin Schultze, director of youth ministry in St. Henry. Schultze captured the students’ attention with his session on chastity.

“It was such an experience to listen to the story of his life,” said senior Meghan Bennett, SAAC member. “It was inspirational to hear what true love

could be like.”

“I really enjoyed Mr. Schultze’s presentation,” said freshman Katie Karr. “Overall the day was fun and informative.”

Freshman Erik Jackson summed up the day by saying, “It was enjoyable. It really helped me to think more deeply about things and increased my awareness about issues as well.”

“I think TUGS is a great experience for the freshmen because they can really relate to the speakers,” said Colleen Kinninger, SAAC member. “In addition to the guest speakers, we also have a panel composed of seniors — the freshmen can ask questions and have the advantage of the collective experiences the panelists share with them.”

In addition to Hess, teachers Melissa Safreed and Tracy Hall also attended and participated in the day’s activities.

Hall is the SAAC adviser.

“TUGS was a special day for our freshmen students,” Hall stated. “Not only did it stress the importance of prayer and leading a Christian life, but it also provided the opportunity for the students to grow as a community of believers.”

BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University held fall commencement exercises today and Saturday.

The university’s 272nd graduation saw 994 students receive diplomas, including 180 from the graduate college.

The following local students received their degrees: • Sidney — Zachary Watson, Bachelor of Science in Education, and Allison Carter, Bachelor of Science in Education.

• Houston — Melinda Sluss, Bachelor of Science in Education.

• Jackson Center — Sarah Green, Bachelor of Science in Education.

• Minster — Anne Wendeln, Master of Education, and Scott Berger, Bachelor of Arts.

• New Bremen — Oscar Stroede, Bachelor of Arts, and Brian Schwartz, Bachelor of Science in Technology.

• New Knoxville — Jessica Davis, Bachelor of Music.

• Versailles — Ryan Hilgefort, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

• Yorkshire — Robin Pohlman,Bachelor of Science in Dietetics.

Dillehay places first, sixth ROSEWOOD — Kristen Dillehay, of Rosewood, participated in an equestrian competition on Dec. 3 and 4.

Dillehay placed first and sixth in the novice Western horsemanship class. Dillehay attends the Rocky Mountain College in Bozeman, Mont.

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Officials: Lake Erie algae is worst ever COLUMBUS (AP) — Toxic algae blooms have never been worse in Lake Erie, and the situation is threatening fish and tourism, Ohio officials said.

Analyses show numbers of walleye and yellow perch — the lake’s most-lucrative sport-fish species — drop significantly as the level of algae rises, and that affects the lake’s $10 billion annual tourism industry, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

Algae blooms are fed by phosphorous, which has been above safe levels, Roger Knight, program administrator for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said in a report presented

Wednesday to the Lake Erie Commission in Columbus.

“The trends are moving in the wrong direction no matter where on the lake you go,” Knight said.

Increased farm fertilizer runoff because of record rainfall is one reason for the higher phosphorous levels.

Knight said.

Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, are common in most Ohio lakes and grow thick in water polluted with phosphorus from fertilizer, manure and sewage washed into streams by rain. The algae can excrete liver and nerve toxins that can sicken people and threaten fish and

wildlife.

Algae warning signs were posted at public beaches in eight state parks, including along Lake Erie, this past summer.

“We saw things this summer that were unreal,” said Jack Madison, general manager of a in Ottawa marina County. “People could set beer cans on the algae. It is that thick.”

A complicating factor is that much of the phosphorus in Lake Erie dissolves in the water and is immediately available to feed algae growth.

Particulate phosphorus — phosphorus that has chemically bonded to dirt or plants — is less accessible to algae.

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MAP chamber tasked with looking at changing the way the congressional map is drawn. The task force would hold at least three public hearings, one of which would take place after any proposal to change the process is drafted.

Political scientists and redistricting experts have said that now, after a particularly ugly mapmaking cycle, the time is ripe to change the process, something echoed by lawmakers in Ohio’s Statehouse.

“Ten years from now we don’t have to keep going through a system that has more road bumps than road,” said the Senate’s second-highest ranking Republican, Sen. Keith Faber. “From that process I think we can all agree that the time to make changes in the redistricting process is when nobody knows what the outcome is going to be, and that’s 10 years from now.”

The once-per-decade process of redrawing congressional maps comes after each census to reflect changes in population. Because of slow population growth compared with other parts of the country, Ohio is losing two of its 18 U.S. House seats.

By the time a new congressional map must be drawn in 10 years, neither party knows who will be in charge of the process.

Among key revisions, the new map would unify seven counties that were previously split, reduce splits in two counties

From Page 1 from three to two and split one county that was previously whole. It also increases the black voting-age populations of urban districts in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.

Both maps would create 16 districts ” 12 favoring Republicans and four favoring Democrats. The state is losing two congressional seats due to slow population growth.

“I was also pleased that it remains a largely rural district — the same type of district I have had the privilege to represent since my days in the statehouse,” said Jordan.

“The new 4th District would expand from 11 counties to all or part of 13 counties and encompass a variety of media markets. Even though we have represented much of the district for a number of years, any campaign in such a big district is sure to be long and expensive.

“Though we’re disappointed that we won’t have the opportunity to represent all of the families we do now, we look forward to serving the new areas and are ready to get to work,” said Jordan.

The map passed by lawmakers on Wednesday was largely the same as one House Democrats blocked during a vote on Nov. 3. House Democratic Caucus spokeswoman Sarah Bender said it is an ugly map, but it came down to saving taxpayers $15 million by consolidating the primaries.

“It’s time to turn our attention to refining this

process,” she said.

Earlier Wednesday, Karla Herron of the Ohio Association of Election Officials told a House panel that her organization endorses a single primary date. One date would eliminate voter confusion, alleviate any problems with preparing voting equipment twice, and keep officials from having to recruit poll workers for a second time.

The new map does contain “substantial” changes from the congressional map that lawmakers passed in September, said Lima Republican Rep. Matt Huffman, the map’s House sponsor.

Much of the debate in both chambers referenced a report released Monday by a coalition of voter groups. The report by the Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting revealed public records that indicated, among other things, that agents of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner had a key role in shaping the map and much of the mapmaking was done in a Columbus hotel room paid for by taxpayers to a tune of $91,000.

“Should we allow someone in Washington D.C. to come and direct how our districts will be drawn?” asked Youngstown Democratic Rep. Robert Hagan. He said he worried about what voters would think of the General Assembly passing a map that differed little from the one contested by Democrats and voter advocates.

CALDWELL (AP) — A teenager accused in a deadly robbery scheme that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad can be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Thursday.

Both sides agreed that there was enough evidence for the case of 16year-old Brogan Rafferty to be transferred, and Judge John Nau of Noble County Juvenile Court signed off on it.

The decision means Rafferty, if convicted, could face life in prison without parole instead of just a few years in a juvenile detention center.

The Associated Press generally does not identify juvenile suspects, but Rafferty’s name has been widely reported by local and national media outlets.

Rafferty will be charged in adult court,

possibly this month, with charges similar to the juvenile counts, Noble County Prosecutor Clifford Sickler said. He said the counts would be “probably limited in the number,” without elaborating. charges Juvenile against Rafferty accused him of killing David Pauley of Norfolk, Va., with the assistance of 52year-old Richard Beasley, a self-styled chaplain and mentor to the boy. The charges allege Rafferty and Beasley also tried to kill Scott Davis, a South Carolina man who escaped after being shot in the arm by hiding in woods until it got dark.

Beasley is being held in Summit County Jail in Akron on unrelated drug and prostitution charges.

Rafferty’s mother declined to comment Thurs-

day, as did Rafferty’s lawyer.

Rafferty sat quietly during the brief hearing and showed no reaction when a prosecutor recounted the juvenile charges against him. He is a junior at Stow Munroe City Schools, about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, and has been held at a juvenile detention center.

Authorities say applicants who fell for the scheme answered a Craigslist ad for a job at a nonexistent cattle ranch in Noble County, 90 miles south of Akron in rural southeastern Ohio, were robbed, then killed.

The teen was questioned by the FBI and arrested in mid-November, several days after Davis said he was shot in the arm after he answered the ad.

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Pocket-dial 911 leads to arrest MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Wisconsin’s capital city barely had to try to catch a pair of unlucky suspected thieves.

Madison police say two men in their late 20s stole DVDs and computer games from a Target store Tuesday and discussed their plans to fence the goods while driving away.

Investigators say the duo didn’t realize one of them had accidentally pocket-dialed 911. A dispatcher listened in for nearly an hour as they discussed what they had stolen and where they might sell it. Police say they even described their vehicle.

Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain says the pair decided to sell their goods at a video store.

When they pulled into the store’s parking lot, officers surrounded their vehicle with guns drawn.

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Bargainers reach deal to head off gov’t shutdown WASHINGTON (AP) — negotiators Congressional reached agreement Thursday on a compromise spending bill to avert a weekend federal shutdown. They also worked toward a deal renewing the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year but prepared a shorter version as a fallback in case talks fell short.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that he was still optimistic that bipartisan talks on year-long extensions of the payroll tax cut and unemployment coverage would succeed. But as a “Plan B,” he said, they were also working on a two-month extension, which would also prevent cuts in Medicare reimbursements for doctors for that period.

“We’re still working on the long-term” bill, Reid told reporters as he exited the Capitol after a day of talks over both the payroll tax and spending measures. As for the twomonth version, he said, “We’ll

only do that if what we’re working on doesn’t work out.”

Reid’s remarks put a slight damper on a day on which for the first time, Democratic and Republican leaders expressed optimism at prospects for swift compromise on their payroll tax standoff and a spending battle that had threatened to shutter federal agencies beginning Saturday.

A deal on a $1 trillion spending bill was reached after Republicans agreed to drop language that would have blocked President Barack Obama’s liberalized rules on people who visit and send money to relatives in Cuba. But a GOP provision will stay in the bill thwarting an Obama administration rule on energy efficiency standards that critics argued would make it hard for people to purchase inexpensive incandescent light bulbs.

The House is expected to approve the spending measure Friday, and the Senate could follow suit, possibly the

same day.

Bargainers were considering the two-month version of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits bill because so far, they haven’t reached agreement on how a year-long extension would be paid for, said a Democratic aide who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks. The twomonth bill would cost $40 billion, according to the aide, and would let lawmakers revisit the measure after returning to Washington after the holiday season.

Donald Stewart, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said talks aimed at agreeing to a year-long bill will continue.

“We’re 12 hours into this debate, they just started talking,” he said. “I wouldn’t hit the panic button.”

Still another year-end bill, setting new rules for the handling of terror suspects in U.S. custody, won final congressional approval and headed to

Gallows site is museum PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Martha Mahlangu can’t bear to visit the prison where her son, an anti-apartheid guerrilla, was hanged. But she says it’s important that other South Africans see the galthe government lows opened as a monument Thursday.

The new memorial recreates the place where political prisoners like Solomon Mahlangu climbed the stairs to face their executions, never struggling and sometimes even singing anti-apartheid songs.

Martha Mahlangu, an 87-year-old former maid, hopes visitors to the gallows will contemplate her son’s sacrifice.

“Solomon only thought of freedom, to free the black man,” she said in an interview in her Pretoria home.

“He never thought of himself, only about seeing the black man free.”

Enforcement will be tough WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A driver in the next lane is moving his lips.

Is he on a hands-free cellphone? Talking to someone in the car? To himself?

Singing along to the radio?

If lawmakers follow the advice of a federal board, police officers will have to start figuring that out — somehow.

The National Transportation Safety Board said this week that drivers should not only be barred from using hand-held cellphones, as they are in several states, but also from using hands-free devices.

No more “Sorry, I’m stuck in traffic” calls, or virtually any other cellphone chatter behind the wheel.

OUT OF THE BLUE

Cable guy finds bear HOPATCONG, N.J. (AP) — A cable TV repairman got quite a surprise when he walked into the basement of a New Jersey home.

There was a 500-pound bear sound asleep on the floor.

The bear had been spotted wandering in the neighborhood in Hopatcong earlier Wednesday. It’s not clear how it got into the home.

The bear ambled out of the house before state Fish and Game officials arrived.

WNBC-TV in New York reports the officials fired a tranquilizer dart at the animal, which walked a few blocks to the Missouri Trail before it was knocked out.

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President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.

“Right now, Congress needs to make sure that 160 million working Americans don’t see their taxes go up on Jan. 1,” said Obama, referring to the tax cut extension at the core of the jobs program he outlined in a nationally televised speech three months ago.

Speaker John House Boehner of Ohio, the most powerful Republican in an era of divided government, agreed. “We can extend payroll tax relief for American workers, help create new jobs and keep the government running. And frankly, we can do it in a bipartisan way,” he said.

The long-moribund job market, too, appeared to be on the mend. Government figures showed 366,000 applications for unemployment benefits were filed last week, the lowest number since the near-collapse of the financial system in 2008 and the brutal recession that followed.

Jobless claims lowest in 3 1/2 years

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KMART STORE manager Ted Straub talks Thursday in his Omaha, Neb., store. Dozens of Kmart customers across the country have had their layaways paid off by strangers.

Anonymous donors pay off layaway accounts OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.

“She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,’” recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him.

And he just busted out in tears.”

At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts,

buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.

“She was doing it in the memory of her husband who had just died, and she said she wasn’t going to be able to spend it and wanted to make people happy with it,” Deppe said. The woman did not identify herself and only asked people to “remember Ben,” an apparent reference to her husband.

Deppe, who said she’s worked in retail for 40 years, had never seen anything like it.

“It was like an angel fell out of the sky and appeared in our store,” she said.

Most of the donors have done their giving secretly.

Dona Bremser, an Omaha nurse, was at work when a Kmart employee called to tell her that someone had paid off the $70 balance of her layaway account, which held nearly $200 in toys for her 4-year-old son.

“I was speechless,” Bremser said. “It made me believe in Christmas again.”

Dozens of other customers have received similar calls in Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Montana.

The benefactors generally ask to help families who are squirreling away items for young children. They often pay a portion of the balance, usually all but a few dollars or cents so the layaway order stays in the store’s system.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market is healthier than at any time since the end of the Great Recession.

The number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest since May 2008, a sign that the waves of corporate layoffs that have defined the past few years are all but over.

“This is unexpectedly great news,” said Ian Shepherdson, an economist at High Frequency Economics.

It will take an additional step — robust hiring, not just the end of layoffs — to bring the 8.6 percent unemployment rate down significantly. Experts say that won’t happen until businesses are more confident about customer demand. And the European debt crisis could still cause damage here.

But the report on unemployment claims Thursday was the latest to suggest that the economy, two and a half slow years after the official end of the recession, may finally be picking up momentum.

The nation added 100,000 or more jobs every month from July through November, the first five-month streak since 2006. And the economy, which was barely growing when the year started, has picked up speed each quarter.

More small businesses plan to hire than at any time in three years, a trade group said this week. And another privatesector survey found more companies are planning to add workers than at any time since 2008.

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits came in at 366,000, down from 385,000 the week before. That moves the figure closer to its pre-recession range of roughly 280,000 to 350,000.

Italian court says why it cleared Knox MILAN, Italy (AP) — The Italian appeals court that overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction in the slaying of her British roommate gave the reasons for its ruling on Thursday: the evidence that had been used by a lower court against the American and her Italian boyfriend just didn’t hold up.

Those shortcomings included no murder weapon, faulty DNA, an inaccurate time for the killing, and insufficient proof that Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were even at the location where the crime occurred. So said the Perugia appellate court in its long-awaited reasoning behind its October ruling that reversed the lower

court’s convictions.

British college student Meredith Kercher was found slain in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 2, 2007.

Knox and Sollecito, who had just begun dating at the time of the murder, were arrested several days later, then convicted in what prosecutors’ portrayed as a drug-fueled sexual assault. They were sentenced to 26 years and 25 years, respectively, in proceedings that made headlines around the world.

On Thursday, the appellate cited among the other failed elements of the prosecutors’ case DNA evidence, which was undermined during a reexamination in the appeals

trial, and the failure to conclusively identify the murder weapon. The appellate court even contradicted the lower court’s time of death, saying it happened at around 10:15 p.m., not after 11 p.m. The court said the “building blocks” used to construct the case had failed.

The appeals court also said there was no proof of the prosecutors’ claim that Knox and Sollecito had helped a third man, who was convicted separately, of sexually assault Kercher, nor was there evidence that the pair had simulated a burglary by throwing a rock through a window to remove suspicion from themselves, as prosecutors alleged.

The appeals court said the

lower court had arrived at a verdict “that was not corroborated by any objective element of evidence and in itself was not, in fact probable: the sudden choice of two young people, good and open to other people, to do evil for evil’s sake, just like that, without another reason.”

“It is not, therefore, sufficient that the probability of the prosecutors’ hypothesis is greater than the hypothesis of the defense, not even when they are notably greater in number, but it is necessary that every explanation that differs from the prosecutors’ hypothesis is, according to the criteria of reasonability, not at all plausible,” the court said.

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COMMUNITY

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This Evening • Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional “12Step” programs to confront destructive habits and behaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E. 4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (937) 548-9006.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St. Enter on Miami Street).

• Maplewood Grange will sponsor a euchre card party at Maplewood Grange Hall at 7:30 p.m. The public is welcome, and refreshments will be served.

Saturday Morning • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Russia, 9 a.m. to noon.

Saturday Afternoon • Agape Mobile Rural Food Pantry Distribution, in Fort Loramie, 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

• A support group for survivors of sexual abuse meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second floor of the TroyHayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., Troy. For information, call (937) 295-3912 or (937) 272-0308.

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 • The Catholic Adult Singles Club meets at Bearcreek Farms in Bryant, Ind. For information, call (419) 678-8691.

• Shelby County Deer Hunters holds its monthly Sunday Trap Shoot at 7988 Johnston-Slagle Road beginning at noon, 10 birds. Program starts at 2 p.m., 50 birds, long run, handicapped and Lewis class. Open to the public.

Contact Localife Editor Patricia Ann Speelman with story ideas, club news wedding, anniversary, engagements and birth announcements by phone at (937) 498-5965; email, pspeelman@sdnccg.com; or by fax, (937) 498-5991.

Rotary hosts 73rd annual fete The Sidney Rotary Club recently hosted its 73rd annual Christmas party for children with disabilities.

The chairman for the party, Jeff Sargeant, indicated that “lunch and a present from Santa were provided to 65 students this year, representing one of the highest number of students the group has assisted in its history.”

Students from Sidney Middle School, Northwood, Longfellow, Emerson, Jackson Center, Botkins, Anna and Hardin Houston had the opportunity to sing several Christmas songs and meet Santa Claus.

Rotary Club President Scott Barhorst said, “Every year, this event gets all of us into the spirit of Christmas and giving. As a Rotarian, our motto is ‘service above self,’ and this day certainly represents our commitment to this service.”

The event is made possible by the school

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districts, the teachers, the volunteers, and the children’s parents who make attendance at this event possible, the staff and ladies of the First United Methodist

Every mornCook editor) • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Never Alone, ing, son Joseph, Christmas Never Again, meets at 6:30 p.m. at First Christian 9, reminds us of morning is exChurch, 320 E. Russell Road. how many more citing for the days it is until children to see Monday Afternoon their gifts, but • Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon at CJ’s C h r i s t m a s . let’s not forget Highmarks. For more information on activities or When he told me morning the true meanbecoming a member, contact Scott Barhorst at 492- this that there were ing of Christ0823.

Amish mas. Jesus is • The New Knoxville Community Library hosts only “13 days” it the reason for Cook Storytime for children 3, 4 and 5 and not yet in really dawned on me just how season. the kindergarten from 1 to 1:30 p.m.

Lovina Eicher close the holiday Joseph, Lovina, • Parkinson’s Support Group, presented by the 7, and Kevin, 6, Grand Lake Health System in partnership with the season really is.

Auglaize County Council on Aging, meets at the I think the children are are often practicing their Joint Township Hospital at 2 p.m. For more infor- getting a little worried songs for their school and keep asking Joe and Christmas program. It mation, call (419) 394-3335 or (419) 394-8252. me when we are going will be held next week Monday Evening Christmas shopping. We on Dec. 20. Joe will have • The New Knoxville Community Library hosts have a few of their gifts, off two weeks from the Storytime for children 3, 4 and 5 and not yet in but it just seems time factory over the holikindergarten from 6 to 6:30 p.m. too fast.

We plan to days. The children will goes • Art Study Group meets at 6 p.m. at CJs Highgo shopping on Satur- also have two weeks off Marks. For information, contact Starr Gephart at day. school. I know those 295-2323.

(Editor’s Note: Having weeks will go fast with • Women of the Moose meets at 7 p.m. at the visiting dozens of Amish us having Joe’s family Moose Lodge, on the corner of Broadway Avenue across the settlements for Christmas on over and Russell Road.

USA over the past 20 Jan. 7.

Lots to do during • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of years, my observation is that time to prepare.

Hope, group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Christhat Christmas is celeSome of the time will be tian Center, 340 W. Russell Road. brated in different ways spent cleaning the house • Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for depending on the commore than usual.

Our anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meets munity.

Some Amish do basement needs a good at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main incorporate secular sym- cleaning. Our coal stove St., Bellefontaine.

• Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at bols like Santa Claus is in the basement so it reindeer-shaped does not take long for St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new mem- and Christmas cookies into dust to collect. We do bers are welcome. For more information, call Tom their celebrations, others laundry down there and Frantz at 492-7075. do not.

Gift exchanges the children play down • TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7 seem to be common in there a lot too. p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road, most communities, alSaturday we celeNew Bremen. though it is often more brated daughter VerTuesday Morning low-key and less com- ena’s 14th birthday with • The F.J. Stallo Memorial Library of Minster mercial than the non- a fried chicken dinner. will host Storytime for children 3, 4 and 5 from Amish.

Christmas She baked a chocolate 10:30 to 11 a.m. decorations rarely ap- cake and frosted it. We Tuesday Afternoon pear in Amish homes put on candles and had • The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at and I’ve never seen a dec- her blow them out. We Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran orated tree. One way in also had vanilla ice Church, 120 W. Water St. which many Amish do cream to go with the • The Springfield Regional Cancer Center in express their apprecia- chocolate cake. For her Springfield hosts a support and education group for tion of the season is birthday, we gave her a cancer patients and their families from noon to 1:30 through baked goods dolphin anniversary p.m. The groups are free and open to anyone who and homemade candy. - clock and an electronic has a need for cancer education and support. For Kevin Williams, Amish money jar. Verena colmore information, call the cancer center at (937) 325-5001 or the American Cancer Society at (937) 399-0809.

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

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Apostolic Temple, 210 Pomroy Ave. • The New Bremen Public Library will hold Storytime at 6:30 p.m. All ages are invited to join in for stories, songs and more.

• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Apostolic Temple, 210 Pomroy Ave. • The Brain Injury Support Group meets at 7 p.m. in conference rooms A and B at the Upper Valley Med Center, N. Dixie Highway, Troy. This group meets to support the caregivers and see the progress of survivors. For more information, call Shirley Whitmer at (937) 339-0356 or Margie Luthman at (937) 394-8681.

• Shelby County Genealogical Society meets at First Church of God, 1510 Campbell Road, at 7 p.m.

Church who provided their Fellowship Hall and lunch to more than 170 people for this event.

The Sidney Rotary club is a member of Rotary International. The

local club meets every Monday at CJ Highmarks at noon. Anyone interested in learning more about this service club is invited to visit a meeting.

Counting the days till Christmas

Sunday Evening

Tuesday Evening

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SANTA CLAUS talks with Amanda Gilmore after delivering a present to her at the Rotary Club’s annual Christmas party for students with multiple disabilities. Amanda, 11, is the daughter of David and Della Gilmore, of Sidney. She is a student at Sidney Middle School.

Bunny Davidson to celebrate 80 years

PEMBERTON — Ralph “Bunny” Davidson, of Pemberton, will celebrate his 80th birthday at an open house hosted by his children at the Pemberton United Methodist Church Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Davidson has three living children: Bruce Davison and Kelly Michael, both of Anna, and Mark Davidson, of Sidney.

He has seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He retired from

lects anything with dolphins or dogs so she really liked the clock. She doesn’t remember her 13th birthday due to losing her memory for a year because of her brain concussion in June 2010. We are so thankful she is doing better. She has caught up with her school grades again and is excited to be back on the honor roll list. I took her to the doctor’s for a three-month check up since her surgery. She still needs to wear the ankle brace but the doctors were very pleased with how she is doing.

We thank God for all his many blessings. May He help us to remember to always turn to Him when we feel burdened with life’s problems. He can make our load so much more easier to carry.

Today is laundry day again. We usually do laundry two-to-three times a week. The boys cleaned out the chicken coop on Saturday. So now we have some extra smelly coats and pants to wash. When the eggs start coming into the house dirty, we know it is time to remind the boys that the chicken coop and nests need to be cleaned again. Our chickens have slowed down in laying eggs since the cold weather began. I must get busy now and hope all of you readers stay healthy over these holidays.

Saturday morning our thermometer showed 11 degrees. Brrr. Today the

temperature is in the low 20s. Here is a good peanut butter fudge recipe for the holidays.

HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup milk 1 cup chunky peanut butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 6-ounce package chocolate chips 1/2 of one pint jar marshmallow crème Butter a 2-quart saucepan.

Combine sugar and milk in the saucepan and beat and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Cook to 235 degrees (use a candy thermometer to measure temperature). Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients stirring until well-blended. Pour into a buttered 9-inch by 9inch by 2-inch pan. Cool and cut when firm.

THE AMISH RECIPE PROJECT, VOL 1: This is a brand new book, part cookbook, part culinary anthropology by the Amish Cook’s editor. Containing over 200 recipes from Amish and Mennonite settlements across the USA, this book offers a culinary glimpse into changing plain culture and is an attempt to catalogue and preserve traditional Amish cooking. To purchase the cookbook, call 1-800-224-3032 or visit w w w. o a s i s n e w s f e a tures.com/special. Cost is $14.99 plus shipping.

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Attention: Former Jackson Center High Steppers, Tam-ettes, and Let's Dance-Let's Twirl members

Christmas Dinner and Dance Thursday, December 22, 2011 at Palazzo in Botkins Doors open 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Dancing 7:00-10:00 $10.50/person Cash Bar Davidson

Alcoa Building Products.

Friends may send cards to him at Box 52, Pemberton, OH 45353.

All twirlers (past and present) along with their family and friends are welcome.

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Community Action offers help with heating bills Tri-County Community Action has begun its winter crisis program, which runs through March 31.

The program provides assistance with heating bills and is available for income-eligible clients at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines who have been disconnected from their heat sources, have received disconnect no-

tices or have less than a 25 percent supply of bulk fuel. are Appointments now being accepted. Applicants must take to their appointments proof of household income for the past 13 weeks, photo identifications and social security cards, utility bills, and proof of disability if disabled. If an applicant’s income is zero, he must have proof

that explains how he maintains his household. If a family or friend provides financial assistance, a written letter from the family member or friend must be submitted.

For information or to schedule an appointment call 492-8118, tollfree (866) 256-4497.

In-home appointments are available for homebound clients.

The 2011-2012 income guidelines at 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines are as follows: household size of one,$21,780; of two, $29,420; of three, $37,060; of four, $44,700; of five, $52,340; of six, $59,980; of seven, $67,620; of eight, $75,260. For households with more than eight members, add $7,640 per member.

Altrusa announces speakers for luncheon series The Sidney Altrusa Club has announced the speakers for its annual luncheon Enrichment Series which will begin Feb. 16 with H. Roger Fulk.

Fulk is a professor at Wright State University in Celina, where he serves as the director of the Office Information Systems Program.

He has past teaching experience at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.

In addition, he is a certified etiquette presenter and a certified employment coach. He will speak about how to present oneself professionally when using digital tools.

On March 15, Jim Bucher will share many of his life experiences while working for

WDTN, Channel 2 over the past 20 years.

Bucher joined Channel 2 in 1984.

He has won numerous Ohio News Photographer Association awards and an Emmy. He is very active in the community, serving on the board of advisers for Aviation Trail and the Marketing Committee for Carillon Park.

He is a native and resident of Dayton and graduate of Dayton Christian High School.

On April 19, Dr. Lisa Alvetro will present “Leap Before You Look.”

Alvetro has been practicing orthodontics in Sidney for the past 18 years.

Her attitude of “leap before you look” has taken her to places and given her opportunities

both personally and professionally that she never dreamed possible.

One such leap was Alvetro becoming an advocate for 3M Unitek where she educates orthodontists in the U.S., Europe, Central and South America, Asia, and Australia. Her role as international lecturer has taken her around the globe and given her the chance to share her techniques, her team, and Sidney with visiting doctors from around the world.

The luncheon seminars will be catered by The Spot and held at St.

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Twenty years of smiles Sidney-Shelby County YMCA Director Ed Thomas (left) and Associate Director Sam Casalano share a moment of levity during the organization’s recent staff party. Thomas honored Casalano for his 20 years of service to the YMCA. For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com

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Paul’s United Church of Christ, 707 N. Ohio Ave., beginning at 11:30 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m.

Co-sponsored by Wilson Memorial Hospital and Sell, Hegemann & Zimmerman Co., LPA., tickets are $50 for the series or $20 for an individual seminar and may be purchased from any Altrusa member or at CR Frame Gallery, 115 S. Ohio Ave., and School’s Locker Stocker, 126 E. Poplar St.

Applications for Barnes Trust student loans are now being accepted.

The loans are available to any high school senior who is a Shelby County resident or resident of a Shelby County school district and has at least a 2.6 accumulative grade point average.

Students currently in college with a 2.25 or accumulative higher grade point average may also apply. Applications and information are available from high school counselors, by contacting the Barnes Trust Student Loan Program at P.O. Box 652,

Sidney, OH 45365 or from the trust’s website: www.bright.net/~barnes tr.

For the 2021-2013 academic year, the maximum amount for each loan is $3,500. The applicant’s financial need as on the determined FAFSA will be considered. Recipients must be enrolled full time as determined by their universities. Loans are renewable. No repayment is required until six months after graduation, at which time interest begins to accrue.

There is no administrative fee. The deadline to apply is March 31.

WEDDINGS

Bornhorst, Gardner share vows MINSTER — Valerie Jo Bornhorst, of Minster, and Dustin John Gardner, of Boardman, were united in marriage Aug. 27, 2011, in St. Augustine Catholic Church in Minster.

The bride is the daughter of Mark and Susan Bornhorst, of Minster. Her grandparents are Thelma Schmitmeyer and the late Henry Schmitmeyer and the late Lester and Corrine Bornhorst.

The bridegroom is the son of John and Margaret Gardner, of Boardman. His grandparents are Paul and Saundra Kopnisky and Eleanor Gardner and the late Robert Gardner.

The Rev. Greg Bornhorst, godfather of the bride, performed the ceremony. Amy Noykos was the musician.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory-colored, strapless, satin ballgown with beading at the waist and chapel-length train with a chapellength, beaded veil.

Maria Mendes, sister of the bride, was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mandy Bornhorst, sister-in-law

of the bride, Kerrie Frease, sister of the bridegroom, Allison Brown, Renee Morsey, Kristen Shenk, Robin Baker, Elizabeth Radtke and Marta Fabrykowski.

Brynn Bornhorst, niece of the bride, was the flower girl.

The attendants wore one-shoulder, kneelength, deep purple dresses.

Josh Gardner served as his brother’s best man. Groomsmen were Jason Frease, brother-inlaw of the bridegroom, Troy Bornhorst, brother of the bride, Joel Mendes, brother-in-law of the bride, Dave Peters, cousin of the bridegroom, Ross Jensen, Jeremy Dreslinski, Curtis Wuestefeld and Bryce Brown. Raymond Peters and Andrew Peters, cousins of the bridegroom, Scott Pyrcraft and Matt Breslow were ushers.

A reception in the Knights of Columbus Hall in Minster followed the ceremony. The couple honeymooned in Aruba and reside in Columbus.

The bride graduated from Minster High School. She attended Ohio University and

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner graduated with a Doctor of Optometry from the Ohio State College of Optometry in 2011. She is employed by Ohio State Optical and Vision Professionals in Columbus as an optometrist.

The bridegroom graduated from Boardman High School and earned a Doctor of Optometry from the Ohio State University College of Optometry in 2011. He is employed by the Ohio State University College of Optometry Clinic while completing a fellowship in cornea and contact lenses.

The couple met in optometry school.

Hodapps begin married life together — CINCINNATI Claire Valentine Gutmann, of Piqua, and Peter Joseph Hodapp, of Sidney, were united in marriage Aug. 13, 2011, in St. Cecelia’s Church in Cincinnati.

The bride is the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Gutmann, of Piqua. The bridegroom is the son of Peter and Cindy Hodapp, of Sidney.

The Rev. Earl Fernandes performed the ceremony.

The bride, escorted by her father, wore a satin strapless Ramona Kaveza gown. She carried a summer bouquet of hydrangea, roses and lilacs.

William Gutmann served as his sister’s man of honor. Chris Ulrich was best man.

A reception at Drees Pavilion in Devou Memorial Park, Covington, Ky., followed the ceremony.

The couple honeymooned in Vancouver, Canada, and reside in Newport, Ky., with their Scottish terrier, Desmond.

The bride is a graduate of Lehman Catholic High School. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Virginia in 2008. She is a student in the University of Cincinnati College of Law. The bridegroom graduated from Lehman Catholic High School and from the University of Cincinnati in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting.

He is a Master of

Mr. and Mrs. Hodapp Business Administration student at Xavier University and is employed

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OPINION Friday, December 16, 2011

I N O UR V IEW Your hometown newspaper since 1891 Frank Beeson/Regional Group Publisher Jeffrey J. Billiel/Editor and Publisher Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Ask Jasper, the ax expert These days important not to we don’t think get the steel too much about hot and thereaxes. They’re fore take the kinda old-fashtemper out of it. ioned and they And when he are too closely finishes sharpHome associated with ening your ax, Country you manual labor can shave Slim Randles with it. If you for them to be very popular. It’s a really want to. shame, because there is If they gave doctor’s lore to an ax. There are degrees in ax use, Jasper proper and improper would get the first one in ways to sharpen one, for the valley. He built his instance. cabin with just an ax.

There are proper and The whole thing. It was improper ways to fell a while Jasper was showtree with an ax, to limb a ing his new cabin to fallen tree with an ax, to some tourist ladies, in split firewood with an fact, that his ax became ax. Replacing the handle legendary around here. on an ax could be the “You see that ax?” he subject of a very interasked them. “That was esting small book, even. George Washington’s ax.

Marvin always puts a Yep, the same one he coating of fiberglass used to chop down the around the handle just cherry tree. ‘Course it’s below the head to keep been through 42 handles firewood from chewing and six heads since up the handle, for inthen.” stance. Ol’ Jasper Blankenship, up at the The writer is a veteran diggin’s, has been known newspaperman and outto soak an ax handle in doorsman who is a regiskerosene before using it tered outfitter and guide. to give it longer life.

He has written novels In fact, Jasper has and nonfiction books made ax work into some- based on rural living thing of an art form. If and he has also been an you need your ax sharp- award-winning columened, he’s the guy to see. nist for the largest daily He has an old-fashioned newspapers in Alaska grindstone with a water and New Mexico. He drip. He’ll tell you it’s lives in Albuquerque.

LETTER

TO THE EDITOR

Sponsor veteran as perfect Christmas gift To the editor: The shopping malls are packed, big-box stores are bursting at the seams, and in front of almost every door to every shop, there is the ringing of bells and the familiar refrains of carols. With all that rushing around, looking for just the perfect Christmas gift, let me give you this idea.

I recently received an email from some people who said they are going to sponsor a veteran on our next trip to D.C. coming up this May 18-20.

The individual family members were all going to chip in to raise the money so a deserving vet could make this trip. What a great idea for a gift.

This trip will be the seventh time our group has taken veterans to see the WWII and Korean War memorials. Currently we have a few applications in for this upcoming trip, but it’s still early.

And what makes this even better is that four of them are WWII vets. I can’t tell you how much we are hoping more will step forward and see, for the first time, their memorial. The reason we will push so hard between now and then is because this may be the last such trip for those veterans.

Our leadership thinks we have exhausted the supply of these eligible vets in Shelby County, and at some point we have to move on and serve our next segment of vets — those who live in Shelby County and served in Vietnam or during the Vietnam era in some other assignment.

So I guess my purpose in writing this is to encourage you to make one last effort to help us get any WWII or Korean War vet who has not yet seen their memorial to sign up for this trip. I also encourage you to think of us if you are still stuck on what to do for that last, perfect Christmas gift.

The cost to sponsor a vet is $355. If you wish to make a memorial donation or a sponsorship gift, please contact me and I will talk you through the process. We are a 501(c)(3) organization.

The Shelby County Vets to D.C. Committee extends to all best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year.

Mike Bennett, chairman Shelby County Vets to D.C. 12070 McCartyville Road Anna

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Parents’ sacrifice spawns Christmas gift to remember to walk out of there Although happiness with that bike, I was may come and go, it is more likely to see a flythe residing joy that is ing pig on the way home savored over the years. as such a luxury was beAt this time of year, yond consideration. And countless memories while I enjoyed the mocome to mind — all of ment of happiness, it which have made their was soon forgotten as I contribution to the joy Other knew there was no way that now lives within I’d ever have that bike. me. While opinions voices My father, however, had about the true meaning Matt Clayton other plans. of Christmas may vary, After leaving Carty’s we and celebrating the birth of our Savior is now veiled in commer- stopped at the Sinclair station for three gallons of gas, Dad cialism, most would have to agree that Christmas is consid- gave the attendant a dollar, and ered a time of giving. With that after receiving our change we thought in mind I will share one headed home in Dad’s dark-blue 1959 Ford pickup truck. The of my most prized recollections truck was purchased from a coabout a Christmas gift. This story is special to me because of worker at Airstream Trailers in Jackson Center, and though 11 the price that was paid by the years old it was as we used to givers; it went way beyond dolsay, “our pride and joy.” The lars and made perfect sense. truck didn’t have a nickname Intriguing aroma I think the year was 1970. For like Bessie or Jake and wasn’t a reason that would not be real- built for speed, but I loved riding in it. With the window down, I ized for several months, my fawould sit on the edge of the seat, ther, Kenney Clayton, and I stopped at Carty’s Bike Shop on rest my arm on the door and hang onto the support bracket South Brooklyn Avenue in Sidney. For generations Carty’s has that held the large rectangular side-view mirrors in place. All been the best place to go for seemed right with the world as quality service and expert adwe bumped our way down the vice in the area of bicycles. As road in that little truck. we entered the bike shop, the Truck a necessity smell of fresh paint, new rubber, We didn’t live on a farm but cleaning solvent and sweet pipe resided in farm country and had tobacco smoke combined and enough ground for a steer or filled the air to create an intwo. Our home was heated with triguing aroma I remember to a coal and wood stove. These this day. and other circumstances made While Dad talked to the that truck a necessity and a owner, Ward Cartwright, I vital part of day-to-day operawatched as his son Carl painstakingly “tuned” the wheel tions. Dad also used it for transportation to and from work. If I on a bicycle. With one eye squinted, he turned his head to attempted to list all the ways listen to the sound of each spoke that truck affected our lives and as he plucked away with his fin- the things we used it for, I could easily fill this newspaper. Time gertips. He spoke to me as he marches on. worked. Seeing the inquisitive Needless to say that truck look on my face, Carl graciously explained the nature of his task, was a lot more important than bicycles … unless you were my something I’m sure he’d done a dad. Logic told him that new bithousand times before. Like a virtuoso tuning his Stradivarius, cycles weren’t a priority; love told him they were. By now he tweaked each spoke until you’ve probably figured it out. everything was just so.

While my father understood New bikes what a sacrifice it would be to After observing Carl for a give up that truck, he also realwhile, my attention was drawn ized that precious time was slipto the myriad of tools that covered the walls, each with a spe- ping away for three small children. It was a time that cial purpose, hanging in its place waiting for the next job. As would never return, a time in the life of a simple country kid my roving eyes surveyed the when not many things could room they came to rest on the equal the fun to be had on a new treasure trove of new bikes bike. lined up in the shop. The vivid Strange car colors and shining chrome were I vaguely recall a strange car a sight to behold! In no time I pulling into our drive and the had picked the one I liked best passenger meeting Dad in the — a bright red Schwinn Racer. driveway and exchanging an enComplete with the latest velope for the keys and title to “skinny racing tires” and a our truck. As the truck headed three-speed shifter on the hannorth out the drive, I remember dlebars, it was a beauty! The only way it could have been bet- thinking Daddy had lost his mind. I could not for the life of ter was to have had the newme figure out why he would sell style high-rise handlebars. our old friend. Not much was As I stroked the black vinyl said about it; Dad never was one seat, I could almost feel the to cry over spilled milk. wind blowing through my hair In the weeks to come we as I imagined myself flying down the little hill just north of weren’t allowed to venture into “the back room” — a storage our house on Bloomfield Township, Road 34. Though I wanted room of sorts located in the

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A SCHWINN Racer like the one written about by the author is shown in this advertisement from 1970. southwest corner of our house.

We knew little about what was stored in that room, and even less about the last trip Dad took in his truck to Carty’s Bike Shop to buy three new Schwinn bicycles for my sisters and me.

That was one Christmas morning we had no idea what would be waiting for us under the tree. As we came down the steps from our bedrooms and rounded the corner, I was stunned! There it was — a brand-spanking-new red Schwinn Racer, complete with high-rise handlebars. Mom and Dad both had that “I knew it would be worth it” look as they gave each other a reassuring glance upon seeing our faces.

Cost of fun We rode those bikes a million miles and Township Road 34 was never the same! However, over time I learned just what the cost of all that fun would be.

Among other things, it meant Dad would make countless trips across a field to a woods 200 yards away with a wheelbarrow to haul firewood to warm our house. It meant carrying bags of corn on his tired shoulders from the fields where we picked it up after harvest to feed our steers.

It meant putting up with all the inconveniences that came with not having our truck and finding another way to work when Mother needed to use the car. It was a long time before my folks were able to save enough money to get another truck. The cost of giving was steep but Mom and Dad grew rich in the process.

Forty years later I still have my Racer and ride it occasionally every summer. It’s still as solid as a rock! Although the hardships were many, through it all those seeds of love planted in 1970 grew into an immeasurable harvest of joy that will never fade away. Today, as I admired my old red bicycle, I was reminded of that joy and how the value of some things can’t always be measured in dollars.

Moreover, the cost of giving, though sometimes unseen, may come at a very high price.

Thank you Mom and Dad! The writer lives at 17987 Herring Road.

TO THE EDITOR

Support local artists Passing the spirit on To the editor: Sock and Buskin Community Theater’s production of “Rent,” a Broadway musical, was performed at the Historic Sidney Theatre. It was undoubtedly an excellent performance.

The Shelby County and surrounding areas are missing a wonderful opportunity to see local talented people do an excellent job of an award-winning production.

“Rent” received the Tony Award for best musical in 1996. It is currently the ninth longest-running musical in Broadway history, closing in 2008 after 5,123 performances. It returned to New York City Off-Broadway in July 2011.

It is a privilege to be able to see live theater in Sidney. We appreciate the sponsors of “Rent” and Sock and Buskin Community Theater.

You should plan to attend not only the productions of Sock and Buskin Community Theater, but support all the local talented artists of our community.

Merrill and Ann Asher 1586 Cumberland Ave.

To the editor: There is a Christmas spirit in the air. On Nov. 5 my wife and I were in at the Steak and Shake in Troy having a bite to eat. We had just received our meal when the manager came to our table and picked up our bill. He said a young lady with her child had just paid for our meals and wished us a happy holiday. We were astounded and quite touched.

My wife and I have decided that as part of our Christmas, when we are out we will find someone and pass the young lady’s and child’s spirit on.

We are grateful to the young lady and child, whoever they are.

James Weaver 725 Marva Lane

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Contact Jackson Center reporter Terry Pellman with story ideas by phone at (937) 492-0032; email, tpellman@woh.rr.com; or by fax, (937) 498-5991.

New administrator is a familiar face

BY TERRY PELLMAN JACKSON CENTER — Stephanie Goff is leaving the post of Jackson Center village adbut a ministrator, veteran, familiar member of the city staff will follow her. It will be Bruce Metz who has served his home community for 31 years in various capacities.

Goff said she enjoyed her tenure at Jackson Center. That span saw a number of changes take place. For example, Goff placed an emphasis on ensuring that village residents could take advantage of favorable electric rates through the AMP program, a collaboration of communities in and around Ohio that have joined to purchase power collectively.

Homes and businesses in Jackson Center have now had the benefit of those better rates for years.

Quality-of-life improvements included upgrades to the village park, establishment of a Family Fun Day, observance of Christmas in the Village and construction of soccer fields.

The village also made changes to utility billing procedures and set up a vending system for trash bags. Property maintenance codes were forand four malized

REAL

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.

Jackson Center Katharine E. Serr to Nathan V. Lotz, Westview Subdivision, lot 3, $88,000.

David R. Ware, deceased, to Janice M. Bruns, Westview Subdivision, lot 24, exempt.

Montra Jesse J. Brown to David E. Sloan, lot 39, $60,000.

Jackson Township Lucille E. Klopfenstein, deceased, to Thomas M. Klopfenstein and Carol A. Argabright, section 36, south 1/2 west 1/2 northwest 1/4, 40.0 acres; part southeast 1/4 northwest 1/4, 40.0 acres; north 1/2 northeast 1/4 southwest 1/4, 20.0 acres; exempt.

Richard W. Weaver to Andrew W. and Lindsey M. Weaver, section 23, part northeast 1/4 undivided 1/2 interest, 6.962 acres, exempt.

Salem Township Jeffrey S. and Jill K. Payne to Lorna Marie Grinstead and Brett D. Helmlinger, section 5, part west 1/2 southwest 1/4 northwest 1/4 subject easement, 2.998, $172,400.

Sarah F. Starkey to Robert J. Starkey III, section 27, part fractional section, 4.937 acres, exempt.

JMC 1 LLC to Anthony R. and Mary E. Luthman, section 4, part southeast 1/4 subject easement (Tract Q), 6.507 acres; and part southeast 1/4 subject easement (Tract R), 6.507 acres, $63,750.

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BRUCE METZ (left) and Stephanie Goff review the new village budget. condemned properties were dealt with.

Capital improvements include obtaining a new emergency generator and establishment of a village-owned parking lot. In addition, there were some street improvements.

Metz is in preparation to succeed Goff, who has overseen village operations for five years. Metz will have the unique opportunity to direct the workings of a town with which he is extremely familiar. Metz was first hired by the village by Administrator Richard Sailor at the age of 19, helping to pour concrete at a village project.

He was laid off for a while, and then brought back to work as a member of the street department. This time his stay was permanent, although duties would change. Metz went on to

become certified as a wastewater technician.

Metz later became the street superintendent in 1998, but he made it a point to keep up his certification and still works at the water building every fifth weekend.

Service to the community has not been reto normal stricted working hours: Metz began serving as a volunteer firefighter in 1992. In 2003, he was named as chief of the department. One of the village practices that make it feasible for the community to be protected from fire by volunteers is that of allowing fire staff to be called out during their working hours.

Metz is one of three village employees who are subject to such emergency summons.

Metz has been happy in his village duties over the years. He said that

each morning he looks forward to going to work.

After some thought and encouragement from others in the community, he decided that interviewing for the position of administrator was the logical thing to do. He had enjoyed working

alongside Goff and introducing her to local businesses, and felt that he would regret not pursuing the opportunity.

In spite of his familiarity with the parties involved in the selection process, Metz found that he was nervous during his first interview. Now that he has been tabbed as the next administrator, Metz is immersing himself in the information and processes being explained by Goff. He already had some budget duties, but he now must address the pages of numbers as a dominant part of his job.

Metz expects the budget to be an ongoing challenge. He explained that it will only be made worse by upcoming reductions in state revenue historically provided to local governments.

Metz has a great deal of confidence in village employees, and he expects to work with them to ensure that the village infrastructure is kept in good shape. He looks forward to prioritizing the projects that will have to

be completed and funded over the next 10 years.

He is becoming more familiar with village office functions, and expresses gratitude toward the staff for answering his questions and assisting him. Goff is providing him with information on issues and deadlines, and he plans to maintain contact with other local municipal administrators.

The new administrator looks forward to the construction of a village firefighting museum, next to the current village museum. The community is depending on donations of time and materials to continue with the generous donations that have already come in. Metz hopes to see initial stages of construction in the spring.

Metz and wife Kim have two adult daughters and two grandchildren.

He said, “I love this town. It’s always been great.”

His hope is to keep Jackson center a good place to live, work and raise a family.

Four inducted into NHS JACKSON CENTER — On Nov. 4 three juniors and one senior were inducted into the Therl Johnson Chapter of the National Honor Society at Jackson Center High School.

Vice President Steven Dearwester welcomed students, teachers and parents to the candlelight induction ceremony.

Officers and members of the chapter spoke to the student body about the NHS qualities of character, scholarship, leadership and service prior to the induction of new members.

New members were

Elchert

Meyer

tapped by a high school teacher and current member as high school Principal Jeff Reese read a biographic sketch about each inductee. The new members of the Jackson Center National Honor Society are senior Carrie Nuss, daughter of Mark and Tina Nuss;

Nuss

Wahrer

juniors, Trey Elchert, son of Scott and Leisha Elchert; Alex Meyer, son of Tony and Nancy Meyer; and Nathan Wahrer, son of Bryan and Lori Wahrer.

A reception was held immediately following the induction ceremony for the new members and their parents.

Coach switches positions JACKSON CENTER — The Jackson Center Board of Education accepted the resignation of Isaac Klopfenstein as boys varsity assistant basketball coach and rehired him as boys freshman basketball coach during its meeting Nov. 21.

The board also hired Brad Esser as the boys varsity assistant coach.

Esser had been a volunteer.

The board also ac-

cepted the retirement notice of Nancy Wise and noted its appreciation of her 35 years of service to the school system.

In other business, the board heard reports from the maintenance department, the elementary school, the high school and the superintendent.

The elementary school report included the results of fall state tests of third-grade reading scores. Sixty-seven

percent of the students passed the tests. A 75percent passage rate is required by the state in the spring.

The superintendent reported that the district is continuing to prepare in case the Ohio School Facilities Commission is able to offer assistance next spring for a potential building project.

The board met in executive session for 45 minutes to discuss employment issues.

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Enchanted couple Troy Opperman (left), the son of Mark Opperman and Sherri Sosby, and Tara Jones, the daughter of Brian and Raynae Williams, were crowned homecoming king and queen during Jackson Center High School’s pregame ceremonies Friday. The theme of the event was “Enchanted Evening.”

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BY JENNIFER take a sizable cut in pay,” BUMGARNER Clem said. “It was wonjbumgarner@sdnccg.com derful that he was willing to do that but we PORT JEFFERSON have to look at the total— Port Jefferson’s vil- ity of the thing. It would l a g e cause him to work less council hours and still we would rehas have a lot of unknowns.” portedly Butterfield also said decided to the committee and the suspend council weighed the police decosts and the issue waspartment n’t only with the wages operathat Puckett received. tions and According to Butterfield go into a the total amount paid Puckett contract out for the police departwith the Shelby County ment was approximately Sheriff ’s Office for 12 $23,000. months at $12,000. The “It was a difficult dedecision was made dur- cision and it was multiing the Dec. 5 council faceted,” said Clem. “We meeting. weren’t simply looking Port Jefferson’s Police at wages. If one looks at Chief John Puckett things that way, just the stated the council wage doesn’t seem to be claimed to have taken an issue. What it this action because of fi- amounted to really is by nancial reasons, but the time we added up Puckett doesn’t believe it the fuel expenses, insurhas to do with finances. ance and maintenance “In January I submit- — by the time we added ted a letter that they it all in it came to more could cut my wages by than just the wages.” $600. They didn’t want If the figures are acto do that,” said Puckett. curate, there is $13,000 “Then on Nov. 20, I in additional costs assohand-delivered letters to ciated with the departthe council members. I ment. Butterfield also told them I would be said the department willing to go from $15.80 generated about $14,000 an hour to $12 an hour to $15,000 in revenue and only work 30 hours through citations last a month instead of 55 year. Puckett disputes hours. It would take me the amount. from $10,000 a year to lumping “They’re $4,300 a year, and they everything on the shouldidn’t want to do it.” ders of the police departPort Jefferson’s ment,” said Puckett. “I’ve Mayor Steve Butterfield worked for Port Jefferconfirmed Puckett of- son for nine years and fered to take a cut in for the last seven, I’ve wages but said the issue been police chief. Due to went before the safety traffic infractions we committee. issue between $10,000 “He did send a letter and $20,000 in traffic ciand said he would take a tations. These guys are cut in pay,” said Butter- basically getting a free field. “It was given to the department here becouncil members and cause all of the costs are turned over to the safety covered through the citacommittee, and it said he tions.” would take a cut or reAccording to Puckett, duction from 55 hours to some of the financial 30 hours at $12.” problems stemmed from Port Jefferson Village the incident earlier this Council President and year involving part time Mayor-elect David Clem officer Michael Blankenalso appreciated the ship. Blankenship’s posioffer made by Puckett. tion was terminated “The sad part is the during the Dec. 5 meetpolice chief offered to ing according

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The following civil suits were filed in the Shelby County Common Pleas Court: Lori A. and Gregory McLain, 8424 Lochard Road, v. Mark A. Steinke, 9351 Lochard Road. The suit claims Steinke jumped out from a ditch in front of Lori McLain July 14, 2010, as she was riding a bicycle, causing her to fall and be seriously injured. The plaintiffs seek $25,000 compensatory and $25,000 punitive damages.

Dale Peterson & Associates, 211 N. Ohio Ave., v. Gerald L. Vanderhorst, 1591 Westlake Drive, and Vanderhorst Financial Services LLC., complaint for monetary damages and injunctive relief. Suit claims Vanderhorst, who previously worked for DPA, took confidential client information, and attempted to and succeeded in soliciting clients for his new firm while still being paid by DPA as an employee. The plaintiff seeks injunctive relief, compensatory damages in excess of $25,000, punitive damages in an amount to be determined and legal costs and fees.

Kimberly Goubeaux, P.O. Box 442, Hillsboro, v.

Ernest Sporting Goods, 100 S. Main Ave., Courtview Center, Suite 300, and Selimana Enterprises Inc., 370 Seventh Ave., New York,

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N.Y., and The Kroger Co., 50 W. Broad St., Columbus, OH, and Sidney Bargain Center, 2220 W. Michigan St., complaint for personal injuries. Suit claims Goubeaux fell on the property of Kroger and/or Ernst Sporting Goods Jan. 20, 2010, due to excessive ice. Plaintiff seeks compensation for medical expenses in excess of $33,238 plus future expenses, loss of wages in the amount of $3,627.98 and future wages lost, out of pocket expenses and legal costs and fees.

Leo Buehler, 8846 North St., P.O. Box 92, Kettlersville, v. Kelli Eyink, 502 W. State St., Botkins, complaint for money damages and other relief. Plaintiff seeks compensation for damage and injuries received in a car accident Aug. 22, 2009, including medical expenses in excess of $50,000, loss of bodily function, mental anguish, permanent injury, and medication and travel in excess of $2,000, plus legal costs and fees.

William J. Gambill, 853 S. Ohio Ave., v. Gambills Erectors Inc., 2565 State Route 66, Houston, and Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, 30 W. Spring St., Columbus, notice of appeal workers compensation claim.

Allstate Insurance Co., P.O. Box 337, Hud-

to Butterfield.

On Sept. 12, Blankenship called sheriff ’s dispatch and reported an alleged incident in which the driver of a passing car pointed a gun at him on Ohio 47 outside Port Jefferson, and he had given chase, had been shot and returned fire through the cruiser’s windshield. He reportedly also said he had been involved in a crash and was injured.

More than a dozen deputies, state troopers and rescue personnel responded to his calls, and he was transported to Wilson Memorial Hospital.

After deputies interviewed Blankenship, it was determined his reports had been fabricated. No one pointed a gun at him; he had not been a target of gunfire; and the Port Jefferson police cruiser had been damaged in a collision with a guardrail.

Blankenship, who has been on unpaid administrative suspension pending the outcome of the charges, has been a parttime police officer in the village for five years.

Since the incident Puckett has been using a village pickup truck because of the damage to the cruiser. Puckett did inform the council he would need another vehicle when the snow started because the pickup truck is used as a plow.

According to Puckett, the Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office was going to donate a vehicle to the village. Butterfield confirmed there was a vehicle available, but the title had not been transferred and it would eventually be returned to the Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff John Lenhart did not wish to comment on the situation because there is no contract yet between the Sheriff’s Office and the village.

Puckett reported he told the council it would approximately cost $1,400 to put the decals

on the vehicle. He also said the insurance sent a check to the village for $6,300 for damage to the vehicle.

“They kind of sat on it,” said Puckett. “They put it in the general fund with $3,000 for the street department and $3,000 into the police department funds for wages.”

The village council and Butterfield have been in contact with village solicitor Jeff Beigel.

“I don’t know if there’s any legal issues,” said Butterfield. “Like I said the village council has agreed to sign a contract with the Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office for one year. They will be providing coverage seven days a week.”

The Sheriff ’s Office has three shifts in a 24hour period and, according to Butterfield, “There will be an officer there a period of time through their shifts,” and officers will continue to respond to emergencies.

Butterfield said he believes the contract with the Sheriff ’s Office will save the community money and will be more efficient.

“In our police department, he worked approximately 55 hours a month, and he was probably out 10 percent of the time,” said Butterfield. “The other 90 percent of the time the Shelby County Sheriff was there.”

While Clem realizes this is a decision that needed to be made, he also knows this is difficult for the community and for Puckett.

“Whenever we talk about employees, you have to do these things with a broken heart but you have to look at the long term about what will happen to the village,” said Clem. “I don’t think we can be fiscally responsible and continue what we are doing now.

We’ve got to survive and we will. This is one of those things we’d rather not have to do.”

CIVIL CASES son, v. Anna Lumber Co. (dab Father Hubbard’s Cupboards), 308 E. Main St., Anna, and Lowe’s Home Centers, 50 W. Broad St., Suite 1800, Columbus, complaint.

Suit claims damage caused by incorrect installation of water lines at the property of Ann Rhyan, 15700 Sharp Road, in the amount of $15,317.31, plus interest and costs.

Huntington National Bank, 2361 Morse Road, Columbus, v. Janice L. Brandewie, 902 Lynn St., complaint for foreclosure in rem.

Fifth Third Mortgage Co., 5001 Kingsley Drive, Cincinnati, v.

William D. Shepard, 747 Southeast Balboa Drive, Madison, Fla., and Dorothy G.R. Leckey, 12227 Lee Drive, Minster, and Hudson and Keyse LLC, 382 Blackbrook Road, Painesville, and Lehmkuhl’s Landing Property Owner’s Association, 31 S. Main St., Fort Loramie, complaint in foreclosure.

Jose Hernandez, 301 Young St., Anna, v.

American Honda Motor Co. Inc., 1300 E. 9th St., Cleveland, breach of warranty. Suit claims multiple defects in vehicle purchased by Hernandez, for which he repeatedly returned the vehicle for service and which were not satisfactorily resolved. Plaintiff seeks return of all monies paid plus legal

costs and fees.

BAC Home Loans, 7105 Corporate Drive, Plano, Texas, v. Glenna S. and Hulen F. Clark, 792 E. Mason Road, complaint in foreclosure.

Diane M. and Darrell Bender, 693 Norwood Drive, v. Darrell E. Nichols Jr., 329 Doering St., and Fabrication Unlimited, 4343 E. State Route 29, complaint for damages and other relief. Suit claims pain and suffering, permanent injury and mental anguish on the part of Diane Bender as a result of a vehicle collision April 15, 2009. Plaintiffs seek $50,000 for injuries, $25,000 for loss of affection, and $50,000 from Nichols’ employer, as he was acting during the course of his work.

Ida L. Sweigart, 1105 Taft St., v. Brian K. Taborn, 2211 Knoop Johnston Road, complaint for personal injuries.

Suit claims Sweigart sustained severe and permanent injuries as a result of a vehicle collision April 26, 2009, caused by the negligence of Taborn, and seeks compensation for $10,432.92 medical expenses, plus future expenses incurred, and loss of wages and earnings.

U.S. Bank National Association, 1661 Worthington Road, West Palm Beach, Fla., v.

Bruce Grice, 1260 Maple Leaf Court, complaint for foreclosure.

available for review An Ohio Environmental Protection Agency draft report addresses impairments at sites in the upper Great Miami River watershed, including some in Shelby County. An earlier report found 64 percent of the watershed fully meets water quality standards necessary to sustain a healthy ecosystem of fish and other aquatic life, but 72 percent of sites tested have bacteria levels which do not meet recreation use goals. The EPA is seeking public comments about the report before a final document is submitted to U.S. EPA. Using an earlier scientific report as a guide, Ohio EPA will work with local stakeholders to further develop water quality improvement strategies. The draft report may be seen online t a http://www.epa.ohio.gov/ dsw/tmdl/GreatMia m i R i v e r U p p e r TMDL.aspx.

The draft total maximum daily load (TMDL) report addresses adverse impacts and outlines some of the steps necessary to restore and maintain watershed health. Once finalized, the TMDL will guide Ohio EPA’s issuance of discharge permits and the implementation of locally developed nonpoint source pollution control programs.

The draft report uses findings from an earlier report to make its recommendations. The earlier report, Biological and Water Quality Study of the Upper Great Miami River and Selected Tributaries 2008, provides results from an extensive examination of the upper Great Miami River and its tributaries.

EPA biologists assessed the chemical, physical and biological attributes of the 748-square-mile watershed, which includes Auglaize, Mercer, Logan, Shelby, Champaign, Darke and Hardin counties. The results from this study directed the development of the draft upper Great Miami River TMDL report.

The primary concern for humans is elevated levels of bacteria found throughout the watershed. Sites were sampled for E. coli bacteria to see if they exceeded

the primary contact standards associated with recreational activities such as swimming, boating, water skiing and canoeing. An elevated level of E. coli indicates the potential presence of bacteria that could cause disease or infection when recreating in or on the water.

High bacteria levels may be attributed to human and/or animal wastes.

The western portion of the basin was most impaired, particularly in the Loramie Creek subwatershed. In this area, many free-flowing had been streams straightened. Habitat alteration, siltation and nutrient enrichment associated with channelization and agricultural runoff were the most common problems affecting water quality. These accounted for 73 percent of the water quality impairments affecting aquatic life.

The EPA reportedly has one of the most advanced water quality monitoring programs in the nation. Information gathered helps guide the agency’s issuance of discharge permits and implementation of local storm water programs.

The agency also shares the information with governments, area landowners and citizens so they can develop local plans to restore waterways affected by pollution.

Comments related to the draft TMDL report will be accepted until Jan. 5 and should be mailed to Beth Risley, P.O. Box 1049, Ohio EPA, Division of Surface Water, Columbus, OH 43216 or emailed to beth.risley@epa.state.oh. us. After considering comments, Ohio EPA will submit a final document to U.S. EPA for approval.

Following U.S. EPA approval of the report, a stakeholder-driven effort to generate more specific nonpoint source-based recommendations will be developed. The Greater Dayton Partners for the Environment (GDPE) — an alliance of environmental organizations, government and civic organizations, and public and private educational institutions in the Great Miami River watershed — proposes to coordinate this effort.

SCBDD gets school, program updates The Shelby County Board of Developmental Disabilities heard updates on Shelby Hills, Wee School and S&H Products during a recent meeting.

Shelby Hills currently has 333 children attending the Sidney, Fort Loramie and Jackson Center locations, and Wee School currently has 34 infants and toddlers in its program.

Grandparents had the opportunity to spend time at the Shelby Hills location recently. They were able to visit the classroom and spend time with their grandchild in the gym.

Preschoolers also had dental check-ups as part of a state requirement through the Mobile Den-

tist/Smiles Program.

The board accepted the resignation of Roxanne Welsh from the Wee School. She is an early intervention specialist. She was thanked for her years of service.

S&H Products reported that employment has remained steady ,and it continues to have orders.

The board approved a waiver from the Ohio Department of Education for an additional child to be served in the Shelby Hills Early Childhood classroom in the Fort Loramie School District.

The board approved the development of a full time position for a technology support specialist.

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On the other side of the ledger, an Iraq free from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, inching forward toward democracy and vowing to be a good neighbor in the region.

“To be sure the cost was high — in blood and treasure of the United States and also the Iraqi people,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the roughly 200 troops and others in attendance.

“Those lives have not been lost in vain — they gave birth to an independent, free and sovereign Iraq.”

Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said the Iraqi people now have an unprecedented opportunity to live in a relatively peaceful environment, but he also acknowledged it will be a challenging time. And he urged Iraqi leaders to make good choices based on what is best for their people.

“Violence and prosperity cannot co-exist,” said Austin, who eight years, eight months and 26 days ago gave the order for U.S. troops to storm across the border into Iraq. And on Thursday he gave the order to retire the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq.

The flag was then rolled up, covered by a colored camouflage sheath and will be brought back to the U.S. Speaking to the troops in the audience, Panetta lauded their service and their bravery, adding, “You will leave with great pride — lasting pride — secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people to begin a new chapter in history.”

Many Iraqis, however, are uncertain of how that chapter will unfold. Their relief at the end of Saddam, who was hanged on the last day of 2006, was tempered by a long and vicious war that was launched to find non-existent weapons of mass destruction and nearly plunged the nation into full-scale sectarian civil war.

“With this withdrawal, the Americans are leaving behind a destroyed country,” said Mariam Khazim, a Shiite whose father was killed when a mortar shell struck his home in Sadr City. “The Americans did not leave modern schools or big factories behind them. Instead, they left thousands of widows and orphans.

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THE U.S. flag, Iraq flag, and the U.S. Forces-Iraq colors are carried during ceremonies marking the end of US military mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy.

The Americans did not in orderly caravans and develop the logistics, air leave a free people and tightly scheduled flights. operations, surveillance country behind them, in Austin led the massive and intelligence-sharing fact they left a ruined logistical challenge of capabilities they will need country and a divided na- shuttering hundreds of in what has long been a tion.” bases and combat out- difficult region.

Some Iraqis celebrated posts, and methodically President Despite the exit of what they moving more than 50,000 Barack Obama’s earlier called American occu- U.S. troops and their contention that all Amerpiers, neither invited nor equipment out of Iraq ican troops would be welcome in a proud coun- over the last year — home for Christmas, at try. while still conducting least 4,000 forces will re“The American cere- training, security assis- main in Kuwait for some mony represents the fail- tance and counterterror- months. The troops will ure of the U.S. occupation ism battles. be able to help finalize of Iraq due to the great The war “tested our the move out of Iraq, but resistance of the Iraqi military’s strength and could also be used as a people,” said lawmaker our ability to adapt and quick reaction force if Amir al-Kinani, a mem- evolve,” he said, noting needed. ber of the political coali- the development of the Obama stopped short tion loyal to new counterinsurgency of calling the U.S. effort in cleric doctrine. anti-American Iraq a victory in an interMuqtada al-Sadr.

As of Thursday, there view taped Thursday Others said that while were two U.S. bases and with ABC News’ Barbara grateful for U.S. help less than 4,000 U.S. Walters. ousting Saddam, the war troops in Iraq — a dra“I would describe our went on too long. A ma- matic drop from the troops as having sucjority of Americans would roughly 500 military in- ceeded in the mission of agree, according to opin- stallations and as many giving to the Iraqis their ion polls. as 170,000 troops during country in a way that The low-key nature of the surge ordered by gives them a chance for a the ceremony stood in President George W. successful future,” sharp contrast to the high Bush in 2007, when vio- Obama said. octane start of the war, lence and raging sectariDespite the war’s toll which began before dawn anism gripped the and unpopularity, on March 20, 2003, with country. All U.S. troops Panetta insisted that it an airstrike in southern are slated to be out of “has not been in vain.”

Baghdad where Saddam Iraq by the end of the Iraqi citizens offered a was believed to be hiding. year, but officials are more pessimistic assessU.S. and allied ground likely to meet that goal a ment. “The Americans forces then stormed bit before then. are leaving behind them across the featureless The total U.S. depar- a destroyed country,” said Kuwaiti desert, accompa- ture is a bit earlier than Mariam Khazim of Sadr nied by reporters, photog- initially planned, and mil- City. “The Americans did raphers and television itary leaders worry that it not leave modern schools crews embedded with the is a bit premature for the or big factories behind troops. still maturing Iraqi secu- them. Instead, they left The final few thousand rity forces, who face con- thousands of widows and U.S. troops will leave Iraq tinuing struggles to orphans.”

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100 years Dec. 16, 1911 Judge Klinger, of Lima, hearing the demurrer filed by the defendants in the case of Tuesday Wednesday LOCAL OUTLOOK Today Tonight Saturday Sunday Monday Charles Given and others vs. E.V. Moore, the Sidney Business Men’s Association and others, relative to the case Partly Partly Partly Partly Mostly Partly Cloudy brought by the drys to cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy with 50 compel the wets to file a The unseasonable temwith with with west High: 38° High: 42° High: 38° percent peratures are over. A cold more detailed expense northwest northwest winds 5 to Low: 25° Low: 35° Low: 25° chance of account, overruled the front has winds 5 to winds 10 mph rain demurrer and ordered moved 10 mph around 5 High: 38° High: 40° the parties to plead by through High: 38° mph Low: 25° Low: 28° the area Low: 25° the 30th day of Decema n d ber, 1911. The attorneys dropped for the defendants acour temcepted and will present peratures the ruling to the circuit back to Temperature Precipitation Sunrise/Sunset normal for the rest of the court.

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At the next meeting of Low Wednesday. . . . . . . . . 42 Month to date . . . . . . . . . 3.07 Saturday’s sunrise . 7:53 a.m. the State Board of ParYear to date . . . . . . . . . . 55.95 Saturday’s sunset . . 5:12 p.m. dons an application will be made for the commuSource: The Sidney Wastewater Treatment Plant, official weather reporting station for tation of the sentence of Shelby County, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. For current daytime conditions, low/high Frank Walker, convicted temperatures, go to AccuWeather.com. at the April term of court in this county in 1907, on a charge of murder in National forecast the second degree, and City/Region Forecast highs for Friday, Dec. 16 Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy High | Low temps Forecast for Friday, Dec. 16 who was sent to the penitentiary for life.

MICH. Walker’s application for Cleveland commutation of sentence Toledo 36° | 34° recalls the murder of 36° | 29° William B. Legg here in Youngstown the spring of 1907.

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Treating strokes saves cells DEAR DR. duces a “worst DONOHUE: headache ever.”

While having This is a hemordinner with my rhagic stroke, acfather, he sudcounting for 15 denly had a percent of blank look and strokes. stopped eating.

The more-comHe couldn’t speak mon kind of clearly. My broth- To your stroke is an isers and I got him chemic (is-KEYgood onto a couch, and mick) stroke, one he stayed there health that results from for about 15 min- Dr. Paul G. a blockage of utes.

Finally, blood flow Donohue someone sugthrough an artery gested he might be hav- serving the brain. It’s ing a stroke, and we similar to what happens called 911. in a heart attack when a In the emergency heart artery is plugged room, the doctor had a up. Your dad had this CT scan done and then kind of stroke. The CT gave him a clot-busting scan your dad had is one drug. It worked unbeliev- way of differentiating a ably. He regained his hemorrhagic stroke from speech and could move. an ischemic one.

Is this common? I Signs of both kinds of thought strokes came stroke are a sudden infrom bleeding in the ability to speak, an inbrain. What’s going on? ability to understand the — T.M. spoken word, loss of senANSWER: Strokes sations from parts of the come in two varieties. body, weakness of a leg or The less-common kind is arm and vision changes. bleeding from a broken Deprived of blood, brain artery, often one brain cells and tissues that has an innate weak- die fairly quickly. As in ness in its wall. That’s an your father’s case, clotaneurysm. It has an ex- dissolving drugs can esplosive onset and pro- tablish circulation to the

brain area deprived of blood. If such treatment is given within three to four hours from the onset of symptoms, people can make a complete or nearcomplete recovery of function.

The booklet on strokes provides information on this common and often tragic malady. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue — No. 902, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

field of vision when the person moves his eyes.

They’re deposits of debris in the vitreous, a gellike substance that fills the entire back two-thirds of the eye. Nearsighted people are prone to developing them. I bet your son is nearsighted.

There is no treatment for floaters. People learn to deal with them.

A sudden onset of a large number of floaters indicates that the retina is tearing away from its attachment to the back of the eye. Detachment of the vitreous can do the same. If such an event takes place, an immediate examination by an DEAR DR. DONO- ophthalmologist is HUE: My son is 33. He mandatory. and his wife just left to return to their home 400 Dr. Donohue regrets miles away. During the that he is unable to anvisit, he happened to swer individual letters, mention that he had but he will incorporate floaters in his eyes, and them in his column they drove him crazy. He whenever possible. Readdidn’t go into detail about ers may write him or rethis, but I would like to quest an order form of know about floaters and available health newslettheir implications. I ters at P.O. Box 536475, never had them. — L.H. Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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Dec. 16, 1936 At the meeting of city council last evening, Director of Service and Safety Al Guerry advised members that a party was interested in leasing the ground across the highway from Graceland cemetery for the erection of a filling station.

––––– Bill Mentges, fiveyear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mentges, of Columbia Boulevard, suffered a severe injury to his left eye when a small twig of a shrub struck the eye scratching across the pupil. The accident happened as the youngster was playing near his home and he ran to close to the shrubbery.

––––– Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Faulkner, and daughter, Margaret Faulkner, extended hospitality to the members of the First Baptist church last

evening, at their home on South Ohio Avenue, arranging a charming Christmas party.

50 years Dec. 16, 1961 Gene Larger was named president of the Shelby County Home Builders Association at the annual meeting Thursday night in Compromise Grange Hall, Hardin. Other officers are W.J. Harlamert, vice president; Clyde Taylor, treasurer; Kenneth Curtis, state trustee; and Lewis Schaffer, national trustee. James Mawhorr is secretary.

––––– Patrick Milligan, secretary-treasurer of the Sidney Sand and Gravel Co., was re-elected president of the Ohio Sand and Gravel Association at the 26th annual meetTuesday and ing Wednesday in Columbus.

25 years Dec. 16, 1986 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” won best picture and Bob Hoskins was voted best actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics, one of four groups considered a barometer of Academy Award sentiments.

––––– A former Jackson Center Schools superintendent, Dr. Jerry L. Klenke, has been elected president of the Ohio Association of Local School Superintendents.

Klenke, who is currently superintendent of Lexington Local Schools in Richland County, will serve as president-elect during 1987.

––––– 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

Sudoku puzzles also appear on the Sidney Daily News Web site at www.sidneydailynews.com.

Generation gap can cause failure to communicate DEAR ABBY: My asked my fiancee to fiancee said, “Shut please not use that exUP!” during a recent pression with my parconversation with my ents. She said she’d mom, using the phrase try, but warned me in the same way peothat it might be hard ple say, “No way!” or, to stop herself. A fre“Get outta here!” to exquent reader of your press friendly disbecolumn, she also said lief. you probably would Dear Mom didn’t say have told me to let it Abby anything and gave me go. I suggested we find Abigail no reason to believe out. Should I have said Van Buren nothing? — POSSIshe was offended; however, I find talk like that bet- BLE PRUDE IN NEW ter suited to friends and HAMPSHIRE siblings — not parents or fuDEAR POSSIBLE ture in-laws.

PRUDE: Your fiancee is misAs soon as we were alone I taken. I would never advise

someone to ignore something that could be offensive. You were right to speak up. For people in your parents’ generation, “shut up” has a different connotation than with younger people and could be considered offensive.

I hope your intended will take your suggestion to heart.

However, in case she should slip, explain to your folks that the phrase is used commonly and isn’t meant as an insult — as jarring to them as it may be to hear.

20 years. They are an affluent group — doctors, lawyers, etc.

— and very social. My best friend got wind of the fact that I had gone out with an African-American man. She confronted me, told me we could no longer be friends and then kicked me out of her house. If I call her, she hangs up on me.

We had a loving, longtime friendship. It has been five months now and NO ONE has called. I am sad and shocked. I always thought of her as my best friend, and my other DEAR ABBY: I have had friends who were also dear to the same group of friends for me are shunning me as well.

What should I do? — OUTCAST IN THE SOUTH DEAR OUTCAST: I know this has been painful, but you need to recognize that in spite of their educational and financial advantages, your friends’ thinking hasn’t changed despite nearly 50 years of improving race relations. You grew; they didn’t.

For your own sake, you must accept that you and these people are on different paths and will never agree on this. Look elsewhere for companions who think more like you do.

Believe me, there are many out there.

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LEGAL NOTICE Clinton Township Board of Zoning Appeals Clinton Township, Shelby County, Ohio The Clinton Township Zoning Board will meet on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 7:00pm in the Clinton Township Meeting Building at 429 North Fourth Ave. in Sidney, Ohio. The purpose of the meeting is to review a request to change the zoning at 2490, 2498 & 2500 Vandemark Rd to R-3 (Multi-Family Residential) from the current A-1 (Agricultural) The meeting is open to the public and all parties are welcome to attend.

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE A-2707 AN ORDINANCE ABOLISHING THE CITY PROSECUTOR’S POSITION This Ordinance would abolish the position of City Prosecutor and assign those duties to the full-time Law Director effective December 30, 2012.

A copy of the full text of Ordinance A-2707 as adopted by Sidney City Council on December 12, 2011 is available at the Office of the City Clerk, located in the Municipal Building, or at Amos Memorial Public Library.

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LEGAL NOTICE The year-end meeting of the Franklin Township Trustees will be held on December 28th, 2011 at 5PM. The first meeting of 2012 will be held on January 9th, 2012 at 7PM. Both meetings will be held at the Franklin Township Building located at 11095 County Road 25A, Sidney, Ohio. All interested parties are invited to attend.

Franklin Township Trustees Deb Bodenmiller, Fiscal Officer Dec. 16

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE A-2706 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 131.06 OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES BY ADOPTING PAY TABLE II, SCHEDULES A, B, C AND D, AND PAY TABLE III FOR 2012 This Ordinance would adopt the pay tables in the pay plan and classes established for city employees in 2012.

A copy of the full text of Ordinance A-2706 as adopted by Sidney City Council on December 12, 2011 is available at the Office of the City Clerk, located in the Municipal Building, or at Amos Memorial Public Library.

Joyce Goubeaux City Clerk Dec. 16

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE A-2705 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 131.13(b), 131.21(f)(1), 131.23, 131.35(e), and 131.396(b) OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES REGARDING PERSONNEL MATTERS This Ordinance addresses changes in overtime compensation, reinstatement rights, employee physical examinations, and medical insurance coverage for employees’ dependents.

A copy of the full text of Ordinance A-2705 as adopted by Sidney City Council on December 12, 2011 is available at the Office of the City Clerk, located in the Municipal Building, or at Amos Memorial Public Library.

Joyce Goubeaux City Clerk Dec. 16

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2007 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY TOURING, $ $ magnesium/gray cloth, 67,600 miles, pwr. side doors, rear a/c, stow-n-go, pwr. seat, cd, keyless 12,200 or 208 mo.

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE A-2703 AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF SIDNEY, OHIO DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2012 This Ordinance would provide for expenditures of the City of Sidney, Ohio in the total amount of $52,689,205.00 during the year ending December 31, 2012.

A copy of the full text of Ordinance A-2703 as adopted by Sidney City Council on December 12, 2011 is available at the Office of the City Clerk, located in the Municipal Building, or at Amos Memorial Public Library.

Joyce Goubeaux City Clerk Dec. 16

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE A-2704 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 911.01(b), SECTION 915.05(a),SECTION 917.02(a)(1) and (2), AND SECTION 918.05(C) OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO WATER, SEWER, STORMWATER, AND SOLID WASTE COLLECTION RATES This Ordinance would establish the water, sewer, stormwater, and solid waste collections rates for 2012 A copy of the full text of Ordinance A-2704 as adopted by Sidney City Council on December 12, 2011 is available at the Office of the City Clerk, located in the Municipal Building, or at Amos Memorial Public Library.

Joyce Goubeaux City Clerk Dec. 16

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PIT BULLS. 3 blue nose Pit puppies. 2 grey females. 1 fawn (light tan male), blue eyes, 9 weeks old. UKC registered parents, shots, $300 OBO. (937)938-1724 moneyace99@yahoo.com TOY POODLE, 2-3 years old, cream color, male.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

BULLETIN BOARD

Last blood drives of 2011 set Kathy Pleiman, Shelby County coordinator for the Community Blood Center (CBC), has announced the last public blood drives in Shelby County for 2011.

On Tuesday there will be a drive at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. The church is located at 9333 State Route 119.

Whole blood and double red cells, platelets and plasma will be collected. Tom Albers of the Knights of Columbus is chairman. Anyone who donated on or before Oct. 25 is eligible.

Donors are encouraged to sign up for a donation time with CBC’s online appointment website at www.donortime.com.

All donors will receive a special edition holiday T-shirt for registering to donate during the December blood drives.

Recent blood drives were reportedly successful thoughout Shelby County: • On Dec. 6 and 7 Honda of America in Anna hosted associate blood drives that saw 120 units of blood donated.

Lisha Hemmelgarn of Honda’s Medical Department served as chairwoman.

• On Dec. 9 Peerless Group in Sidney hosted its sixth drive for 2011 with 30 units of blood collected. Rob Zielsdorf serves as the Peerless chairman.

The 2012 Shelby County Blood Drive schedules are available on line at www.Donortime.com. They also can be found at Wilson Memorial Hospital laboratory, at any local blood drive or by contacting Pleiman at 295-3100.

Church plans Christmas program A special Christmas program will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Solid Rock Pentecostal Church of God, 2745 State Route 29 North.

The public is invited to the program, which will include a skit, special singing and music, a sign drama and children’s recital. Also, Life-M-Pact Puppets, the church’s puppet ministry, will perform.

For more information, call the church at 4920770.

Overcoming adversity: from housewife to prison guard

BY KATHY LEESE Elaine Manor, of Sidney, knows about adversity. Perhaps that is what helped to make her a successful prison guard in a job where women at that time were in the minority. She was told she was the 17th woman hired as a prison guard in the state of Ohio.

Manor, 62, was a mother with a grown daughter and a young son when her world suddenly changed. Married to a successful businessman, Manor and her family lived in an upscale community in the Beavercreek area, her hometown, when her husband decided he wanted out of the marriage after 20 years.

Manor said her former husband left her and her son with nothing and Manor had never worked outside the home, except delivering newspapers.

She said her former husband took everything and left Manor and her son with no food and no means of survival.

Desperate, she found a job.

“I cleaned horse stalls at $3 a horse stall for food money,” she said.

First Christmas The first Christmas after her husband left them, Manor said she had enough money for 1 pound of canned ham, a can of sweet potatoes and a can of green beans for Christmas dinner.

Finally, Manor read about a program on the front page of the business section of a newspaper talking about a Prep Ohio program for women who had never been in the workplace that offered them an opportunity to train for careers typically held by men.

“Here I was, 39 years old, never had a job. ... I was a little old for construction,” Manor said, referring to one of the training opportunities.

Manor was persistent and determined to get in the program, convinced it was her ticket to making a life for her and her son. After getting in the program, Manor said, “we had a class every day for six weeks.” Manor chose to train to be a corrections officer. “We had to do ... math. In my job (corrections), you had to count to 100.” They needed that skill because they had to count what were typically 100 prisoners on a cell block.

After graduation from Prep Ohio, Manor began applying for jobs. She interviewed at Lima and Madison Correctional facilities and at the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville, where she got a job.

‘I was thrilled’ “I was hired before I got home. ... I was thrilled. ... My starting pay was $8.65 an hour” in 1990.

After being offered the job at Marysville, Manor trained at the Corrections Training Academy in Orient for six weeks. Her sister took care of her son while she trained.

During her training, Manor studied human relations, unarmed self-defense and had lethal-weapons training. She was also trained in firearms, including the M-14, .38-caliber and 12-gauge shotgun. She had never fired a gun before.

“The first time I did it (fired a gun), it was great. I shot the .38 and loved it.

You knew there was responsibility,” Manor said.

Manor also learned to use the PR-24 baton, a weapon used to defend a guard against an attack by an inmate.

When it was time to fire shotguns, Manor asked her dad to teach her. He had recently had open-heart surgery, but said he would teach her. She said he “taught me how to pack it (shotgun) into my shoulder. When I went back to the academy, I was good at it.”

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Manor said unarmed self-defense was more difficult.

“That was a struggle,” but she said, “I never had to use it.”

Manor said that as part of accepting her job, she had to sign an agreement that “we were trained to shoot to kill, not shoot to wound.”

Manor said that did not bother her, because she figured it was either her or them.

“You’re not going to kill them because they slapped you,” she said, but only when her life was in danger.

Manor was taught she should be “firm, fair and consistent” in dealing with prisoners.

“There’s no firearms in prison,” she said, noting that she worked in the prison towers on the grounds sometimes where they had shotguns.

When the male prisoners went into the prison system, Manor said they were taken to the Corrections Reception Center (CRC), where they spent from two weeks to two months being assessed before being assigned to a prison. Prison was not easy for some of them. “Some of them have a hard time,” she said.

“You treated them (prisoners) fair,” Manor said. She said the men were respectful to her. “They tried to get to know you.” But Manor said, a guard was never to give personal information to an inmate. “They never knew anything personal about my life.”

Manor said one day she recognized an inmate. “I ran into a guy I went to high school with. A guy I knew since the fifth grade. He was in there for rape,” she said. She said when he realized who she was, “his head hung down.”

Manor also worked for the Montgomery Education and Pre-Release Center for men. She said they help the men get GEDs and move on with their life. But she said, some prisoners “have lost all confidence in themselves.”

Manor also responded to Lucasville SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg Prison after a riot broke out on Easter ELAINE MANOR holds a PR-24 baton, Sunday in 1993. She said part of the a weapon she learned to use as a prison was taken over by prisoners prison guard. and they held corrections officers For photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com hostage.

At Marysville, Manor said, “it was ‘Some staff killed’ rough.” The prison was built to handle “Two or three inmates were killed,” 248 women, but “they had 2,100” at she said. “I know there were some staff the time she was there. killed.”

“They had them in buildings ... two Manor said a corrections officer was to four inmates in a room ... there’s dif- also killed. ferent levels of security.”

In response, male corrections offiAt that time, Marysville was the cers crawled through vents to see what only women’s prison in the state. the inmates were doing.

“There were cat fights,” Manor said, “It was really bad,” she said. “It was describing the atmosphere at a really dark day. We were all fearful.”

Marysville. She noted that the women Manor said she stood guard outside were much harder to deal with than with other officers during the riot. the male prisoners she worked with.

Manor also did not forget the time she was transporting a pregnant prisInmates’ furniture oner from Marysville to Ohio State The female inmates at Marysville University Hospital alone. The young spent their time working for Ohio woman “went into labor” and was Penal Industries (OPI). They sewed uniforms for the prisoners around the handcuffed to the bed. “She held my hand ... 19 years old. They took her state, made binders and made furnibaby away and gave it to her mother.” ture. Working for OPI was an “elite” The young woman was serving a threejob for prisoners, Manor said. She added that prisoners made “beautiful” year sentence for child endangering.

Manor said the Kairos Christian furniture and noted that she understands the furniture will soon be avail- program in the prison system helps inmates. able to the public.

“The inmates enjoyed that,” she “The majority of them (prisoners) said. “A lot of guys turned around. A were trying to put their lives back tolot of guys accepted Christ.” gether,” Manor said.

“You see interactions of family life Manor also worked with pregnant in prison,” Manor said. Family cannot inmates at Marysville.

“They’d be having a hard time,” she hug or touch the prisoner during visits until they get ready to leave, and hugs said. “You’d give them a little bit of are very brief then. guidance. They called me Mrs. S (her name at the time).”

Learned about herself Manor worked death row at Manor learned a lot about herself as Marysville, where an Ohio governor a prison guard. eventually “exonerated all the women “I lived in upper class,” she said. “I’d on death row. Those women never had never been around anything like that actual physical contact with staff.” In- before.” stead, she said, guards stood behind Manor, who is now married to her bulletproof glass. Food was given to husband, Bob, and runs the French the women on death row through slits. Connection Tanning Salon on Wapakoneta Avenue, said, “I’ve ... seen ‘Earn rights’ things that most people will never see.

In the minimum-security area at Marysville, “they all had rules and reg- I loved it. I loved that job. I would go back to what I did.” ulations” and had to “earn rights,” Manor, who is the mother of two Manor said. grown children, Cindy and Bryan, said Manor left Marysville and transshe has a brother-in-law who is curferred to Lebanon Correctional Facility, a maximum-security facility where rently a corrections officer at Warren County Correctional Facility. she worked for seven or eight years.

Manor encourages women to con“By that time, there were other women” who worked as guards, Manor sider becoming prison guards.

“Go for it,” she said. “Get the educasaid, but she noted, “there were not tion under your belt. Get some correcvery many.”

At Lebanon, Manor would walk the tions experience.”

She eventually completed one year halls, “maybe a half-mile long,” keepof a criminal justice degree at Sinclair ing an eye on inmates. Every six months, she was rotated to a different Community College.

She sometimes runs into former injob in the prison. There were 60-100 mates she had in Sidney. She said one inmates on a cell block and inmates had passes to go to the library or to go of them told her, “you were one of the nicest corrections officers. You were to college classes.

“One inmate I had became a lawyer fair and honest.”

“A good corrections officer has to be in there,” she said. He is now an attorconfident in themselves. Those inney with a practice in the Cincinnati mates can read you like a book,” area.

Manor said.

At the male prisons, they made liManor knows what it takes to overcense plates and furniture and at that come adversity. time, inmates did not have to pay to “I had low self-esteem when I earn a college degree. started that job. ... I earned everything ‘That’s your tax dollars at work,” Manor said. “All the inmates had jobs,” I got. It (being a prison guard) builds self-esteem. ... It’s a great job.” including working in food service and “There’s nothing out there a woman cleaning the floors. “So clean you could can’t do,” Manor said. “If I can do it, eat off of it.” anyone can do it. They ... have to find “I had cop killers, baby rapists, their confidence.” every horrible thing you could think of,” Manor said.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

TODAY’S

SPORTS

REPLAY 50 years ago December 16, 1961 Nothing makes Joe Buneta more pleased than when his Holy Angels hoopsters find the bucket. Hence, the Sidney Parochial school play maker should feel pretty happy today, considering that every member of his crew — all ten of them — broke into the scoring column as the Wings walloped Russia’s Raiders 85-42. Three of the Wings’ top scorers, including Tom Anthony, Denny Braun and Gary Stueve, registered 14 points apiece, with Terry Lachey getting 12 markers and Jerry Geise 10.

25 years ago December 16, 1986 Lehman senior Matt Smith was the unfortunate victim of an inadvertent elbow to the mouth in last week’s boys basketball win over Marion Local. Smith said after the elbow, he found his upper teeth loose in his mouth. It was discovered that not only were his teeth out of place, but the bone holding the teeth was broken.

CALENDAR High school sports TONIGHT Boys basketball Sidney at Vandalia Miami East at Lehman Christian Academy at East Dayton Botkins at Russia Marion Local at New Knoxville Fairbanks at Riverside Delphos St. John’s at Minster St. Henry at Versailles New Bremen at Coldwater Jackson Center at Houston Anna at Fairlawn Girls basketball Christian Academy at East Dayton Bowling Centerville, Xenia at Sidney

ON THE AIR High school basketball On the Internet (Times approximate) TONIGHT Scoresbroadcast.com — Boys basketball, Jackson Center at Houston. Air time 7:40.

SATURDAY Scoresbroadcast.com — Girls basketball, Fort Loramie at Minster. Air time 2:10.

Boys basketball, Russia at Fort Loramie. Air time 7:40.

PressProsMagazine.com — Boys basketball, Russia at Fort Loramie. Air time 7:30 TUESDAY Scoresbroadcast.com — Boys basketball, Russia at Jackson Center. Air time 7:10 THURSDAY Scoresbroadcast.com — Girls basketball, Fort Loramie at Housto. Air time 7:10

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Some say he can’t pass.

From what I saw on film ... the guy can pass and he can also run. He’s more accurate than what people think.”

—Patriots cornerback Antwan Molden, on Denver quarterback Tim Tebow

ON THIS DATE IN 1918 — Jack Dempsey knocks out Carl Morris in 14 seconds in a heavyweight bout in New Orleans.

1940 — Joe Louis knocks out Al McCoy in the sixth round at the Boston Garden to retain the world heavyweight title.

1945 — The Cleveland Rams beat the Washington Redskins 15-14 for the NFL championship. The deciding play turns out to be a first-quarter automatic safety when the Redskins’ Sammy Baugh passes from his own end zone and the wind carries the ball into the goal post.

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Anna girls stay unbeaten ANNA — Houston hung with unbeaten Anna pretty well over the final three periods, but it wasn’t nearly enough to overcome the Lady Rockets’ dominance in the opening quarter of a 66-43 County girls basketball verdict here Thursday.

The win puts the Lady Rockets at 3-0 in the league and 6-0 overall. Houston drops to 3-2 and 5-3.

Anna jumped out to a 21-8 lead after one quarter and steadily increased the lead from there.

The Lady Rockets put three players in double figures, with Natalie Billing scoring 18, Ashley Frohne 16 and Morgan Huelskamp 14.

Billing was 9-for-13 from the floor, while Frohne was 6for-10, and also perfect at the line in four attempts. Billing also led the team in rebounds with eight, and Huelskamp had five assists.

For Houston, Bethany Reister had 15 and Kristi Elliott 12. Allison Roeth just missed a double-double, finishing with nine points and 10 rebounds.

Both teams shot 37 percent from the floor, but Anna got off 27 more shots.

Houston (43) Elliott 5-2-12; Roeth 3-2-9; Reister 5-5-15; Stang 2-1-5; Booher 1-0-2. Totals: 16-10-43.

Anna (66) Overbey 2-1-5; Huelskamp 5-3-14; Huber 1-5-7; Ch. Bensman 1-0-2; Billing 9-0-18; C. Bensman 2-0-4; Frohne 6-4-16. Totals: 26-13-66.

Score by quarters: Houston ..........................8 20 27 43 Anna..............................21 35 47 66 Three-pointers: Houston 1 (Roeth); Anna 1 (Huelskamp).

Records: Anna 6-0, Houston 5-3.

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Loramie wins big FORT LORAMIE — Fort Loramie cruised to an easy County win Thursday, beating Fairlawn 64-16.

The Lady Redskins go to 31 in the league and 3-2 overall. Fairlawn is 0-4 and 0-6.

Fort Loramie rolled to a 30SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg 7 lead at the half and never looked back. Darian Rose had RUSSIA’S MAGGIE Kearns dribbles with Jackson Center’s Brittany Foster guarding her in ac16 points and seven steals, tion Thursday night at Jackson Center. Russia won the game 53-47. and Renae Meyer had 10 rehuge.” but Bremen stormed back in County basketball bounds to go with her five The two teams were dead- the final quarter, pouring in Girls standings points. locked at 9-9 after a quarter 25 points. The Lady Cardinals Fairlawn (16) League All but the Lady Trojans were 11-for-15 from the free Slonkosky 1-1-4; Oates 2-0-6; W-L W-L outscored the visitors 19-7 in throw line in the final period.

Driscoll 1-0-2; Cummings 2-0-4. ToAnna . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-0 6-0 tals: 6-1-16. the second quarter and that Karli Jones finished with Fort Loramie . . . . . . 3-1 3-2 Fort Loramie (64) proved to be the difference in 16 to lead Bremen and both 5-3 Hoying 1-1-3; Turner 2-0-6; Houston . . . . . . . . . 3-2 the game.

Julie Brown and Hannah HolImwalle 2-0-4; Westerheide 4-1-9; Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 5-2 Logan Pitts had a double- dren added 11 apiece.

Drees 1-1-4; Rose 7-1-16; Holdheide 1- Jackson Center . . . . 2-2 3-3 Coldwater (49) double, scoring 15 points and 2-4; Brandewie 4-1-9; Meyer 2-1-5; Botkins . . . . . . . . . .

1-2 3-4 M. Muhlenkamp 0-2-2; J. MuhOrdean 2-0-4. Totals: 26-8-64. pulling down 14 rebounds for lenkamp 2-6-11; Goubeaux 0-2-2; Fairlawn . . . . . . . . . 0-5 0-6 Score by quarters: the Lady Trojans. Claire Mc- Welsch 1-2-4; Dues 3-0-6; Wellman 2Fairlawn ...........................3 7 9 16 Thursday’s scores Cullough had 11 points and 0-6; Schlater 2-1-5; Kanney 4-3-14.

Loramie ........................14 30 52 64 Botkins 53, Bellefontaine 47 Hannah Koch had eight Totals: 14-15-49.

Three-pointers: Fairlawn 3 Loramie 64, Fairlawn 16 New Bremen (46) (Oates 2, Slonkosky); Loramie 4 points and dished out five asAnna 66, Houston 43 Brandt 0-1-1; Otting 1-3-6; Hol(Turner 2, Drees, Rose). sists. “She played a great floor dren 4-3-11; Paul 0-1-1; Moeller 5-5Russia 53, Jackson Center Records: Loramie 3-2, Fairlawn game,” Mack said of Koch.

16; Brown 4-3-11. Totals: 14-16-46.

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Lady Raiders edge Jackson JACKSON CENTER — Russia trailed by one after a quarter but took control in the second period and went on to a 53-47 victory over Jackson Center in the third County game of the night.

Russia is now 2-2 in the league and 5-2 overall. Jackson is 2-2 and 3-3 after seeing its three-game win streak snapped.

Jackson Center’s Brooke Richard had another big game, finishing with 28 points and hitting 12-for-12 from the free throw line. Teammate Brittany Foster added 11 points.

For Russia, Kylie Wilson did the damage, finishing with 13 points.

Russia (53) Puthoff 4-0-8; Borchers 1-1-3; B. Meyer 1-0-2; Wilson 11-1-23; Kearns 1-0-2; S. Meyer 4-1-9; Daniel 3-0-6.

Totals: 25-3-53.

Jackson Center (47) Richard 7-12-28; Elchert 1-0-2;

Bellefontaine (44) Carter 0-2-2; K. Haley 6-1-13; Johnson 4-1-10; Newlon 1-0-2; J. Haley 5-1-11; Rader 3-0-6. Totals: 195-44.

Botkins (53) Christman 2-0-4; McCullough 3-4Meyer 2-0-6; Foster 5-0-11. Totals: 11; Koch 2-4-8; Billing 1-0-2; Bergman 2-1-6; Johnson 2-3-7; Pitts 6-3-15. To15-12-47. tals: 18-15-53.

Score by quarters: Score by quarters: Russia ...........................15 29 39 53 Jackson .........................16 20 31 47 Bellefontaine ..................9 16 36 44 Three-pointers: Russia 0, JC 4 Botkins ...........................9 28 44 53 (Richard 2, Meyer 2).

Three-pointers: Bellefontaine 1 Records: Russia 5-2, JC 3-3.

(Johnson); Botkins 2 (McCullough, Bergman).

—— Records: Botkins 3-4, BelleLady Trojans fontaine 0-5. beat Bellefontaine Reserve score: Botkins 33, BelleBOTKINS — Botkins fontaine 19.

Saturday’s games Fort Loramie at Minster Monday’s games Ansonia at Houston Botkins at Waynesfield

played its third game of the week Thursday and came away with a win, beating Bellefontaine 53-44 in nonleague play.

The win puts the Lady Trojans at 3-4 on the season.

“This was a big win,” said Botkins coach Don Mack. “I told the girls they just finished one of the toughest weeks they will ever have in girls basketball, playing three games. To get that third one is

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Bremen comes up short 49-46 NEW BREMEN — New Bremen came up short in Midwest Athletic Conference play here Thursday, 49-46 against Coldwater in girls basketball action.

The Lady Cardinals drop to 0-2 in the MAC and 2-4 overall.

Coldwater opened up a 3421 lead after three periods,

Score by quarters: Coldwater.......................9 20 34 49 New Bremen ..................9 17 21 46 Three-pointers: Coldwater 6 (Kanney 3, Wellman 2, J. Muhlenkamp); New Bremen 2 (Otting, Moeller).

Records: New Bremen 2-4, Coldwater 3-1.

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Minster drops 2nd straight DELPHOS — Minster lost its second in a row, both in MAC action, getting edged by Delphos St. John’s 37-36 in girls action Thursday.

Minster is 0-2 in the league and 2-2 overall. Delphos is 1-1 and 4-2.

For Minster, Bridget Geiger finished with 13 points.

Minster (36) Albers 8, Fausey 2, Fischer 2, Geiger 13, Hoelscher 4, Richard 2, Schmiesing 2, Wuebker 3.

Delphos (37) Fischbach 3, Grothouse 5, Recker 3, Reindel 14, Saine 2, Vorst 10.

Score by quarters: Minster .........................12 20 29 36 Delphos ...........................9 22 31 37 Records: Minster 2-2, Delphos SJ 4-2.

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BOTKINS FRESHMAN Bailey Schnippel competes in a dual meet with Bellefontaine this week. She won the 500 free and also swam on three relay teams that placed.

Schnippel has good meet for Botkins swim team Botkins freshman swimmer Bailey Schnippel had another strong meet for the Trojans in competition against Bellefontaine recently.

She won the 500freestyle and also swam on the 200 free relay team that placed second.

Her teammates were Paige Cooper, Elleah Cooper and Rachelle Maurer.

Schnippel also swam on the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay teams that both placed third.

Senior Kara Bertsch also brought home a first, in the 100 butterfly, and Maurer was second in the 50 free, with Josie Weatherhead fourth and Katie Schneider fifth.

In the 100 free, Paige Cooper was third and Rachel Cooper fifth, while Kaitlin Underwood took third in the 200 free.

In the 100 backstroke, Josie Weatherhead was second and Heather Brown fourth, and in the 100-breaststroke, Elleah Cooper was third and Rachel Cooper fourth.

For the boys, Logan Bauer was first in the 100 free and second in the 100 breaststroke.

Cody Buehler was second in the 50 free and third in the 100 backstroke.

The Trojans return to action on Monday against Troy and Troy Christian.

Versailles beats Piqua, Greenville Versailles was in action against Piqua and Greenville and defeated both in boys and girls competition.

The boys had 66 points to 27 for Greenville and one for Piqua.

Following are the results for Versailles: 200 meter medley relay: 1. Mitchell Stover, Michael Wenig, Sam Prakel, and Sam Subler; 3. Andrew Kramer, Cole Albers, Chris Klamar, and Joel Dapore 200 freestyle: 1. Andrew Kramer; 2. Sam Subler

200 IM: 1. Mitchell Stover; 3. Ian Lawrence 50 freestyle: 1. Sam Prakel; 2. Michael Wenig 100 butterfly: 1. Sam Prakel; 2. Cole Poeppelman 100 freestyle: 1. Cole Albers; 3. Ian Lawrence 400 freestyle: 1. Andrew Kramer; 2. Sam Subler 200 free relay: 1.

Sam Subler, Cole Poeppelman, Ian Lawrence, and Michael Wenig 100 backstroke: 1.

Stover; 3.

Mitchell Michael Wenig 100 breaststroke: 2.

Cole Albers; 4. Cole Poeppelman 400 free relay: 1.

Sam Prakel, Andrew Kramer, Cole Albers, and Mitchell Stover; 3. Ian Lawrence, Chris Klamar, Joel Dapore, and Cole Poeppelman.

• The Versailles girls finished with 56 points to 25 for Greenville and 13 for Piqua.

Following are the results for Versailles: 200 medley relay: 1.

Hannah Marshal, Amber Seibert, Nicole Frantz, Bailey Marshal; 4. Breanna Winner, Murphy Grow, Caroline Prakel, and Hannah Wenig 200 freestyle: 1.

Nicole Frantz; 3. Breanna Winner 200 IM: 4. Hannah Wenig 50 freestyle: 1. Abby Barlage; 2. Amber Seibert 100 butterfly: 1.

Hannah Marshal; 2.

Nicole Frantz 100 free: 1. Bailey Marshal; 3. Caroline Prakel 400 freestyle: 2.

Abby Barlage; 3. Murphy Grow 200 free relay: 1.

Caroline Prakel, Amber Seibert, Breanna Winner, Abby Barlage; 5.

Mackenzie Condon, Janelle Mangen, Alyssa Barlage, and Emily Ruhenkamp 100 backstroke: 2.

Hannah Marshal; 4.

Hannah Wenig 100 breaststroke: 1.

Amber Seibert; 2. Caroline Prakel

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TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) —— Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 8 p.m. (ESPN) —— Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (11-2), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) —— Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs.

Missouri (7-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN2) —— Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs.

Purdue (6-6), 4:30 p.m.

(ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) —— Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (84), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (75), 8 p.m. (ESPN) —— Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) —— Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), Noon (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs.

Wake Forest (6-6), 6:40 p.m.

(ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (75), 10 p.m. (ESPN) —— Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)

400 free relay: 1.

Hannah Marshal, Abby Barlage, Nicole Frantz, and Bailey Marshal; 4.

Lindsey Didier, Murphy Grow, Mackenzie Condon, and Hannah Wenig.

• The Versailes boys also recently took first place in the Van Wert Relay Invitational with 172 points. Wapakneta was second with 158 in the 10-team meet.

The 600 free relay team of Mitchell Stover, FOOTBALL Ian Lawrence, Andrew Kramer and Cole Albers Bowl lineup was first, the 200 breastCollege Football stroke team of Albers, Bowl Glance Chris Klamer, Michael The Associated Press Saturday, Dec. 17 Wenig and Cole PoeppelNew Mexico Bowl man was first, the 400 At Albuquerque individual medley relay Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple team of Stover, Albers, (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wenig and Kramer took Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho first, and the 300 free Utah State (7-5) vs. Ohio (9relay team of Stover, 4), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wenig, Kramer and AlNew Orleans Bowl bers was also first.

Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4) The 200 backstroke vs. San Diego State (8-4), 9 relay team was third, p.m. (ESPN) —— and the 200 butterfly Tuesday, Dec. 20 relay team was fifth.

Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl The girls finished secAt St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), ond with 178, just two 8 p.m. (ESPN) points behind Bryan.

—— The 400 medley relay Wednesday, Dec. 21 team of Hannah MarPoinsettia Bowl At San Diego shall, Amber Seibert, Nicole Frantz and Bailey Marshal was first, as was the 200 backstroke relay team of H. Marshal, Winner, Caroline Prakel and B. Marshal, and the 200 breaststroke team of Winner, Prakel, Murphy Grow and Seibert.

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High school sports TONIGHT Boys basketball Sidney at Vandalia Miami East at Lehman Christian Academy at East Dayton Botkins at Russia Marion Local at New Knoxville Fairbanks at Riverside Delphos St. John’s at Minster St. Henry at Versailles New Bremen at Coldwater Jackson Center at Houston Anna at Fairlawn Girls basketball Christian Academy at East Dayton Bowling Centerville, Xenia at Sidney —— SATURDAY Girls basketball Piqua at Sidney Lehman at St. Henry Miami Valley at Christian Academy Fort Loramie at Minster Delphos Jefferson at New Bremen Boys basketball Xenia at Sidney Riverside at Lehman Miami Valley at Christian Academy Russia at Fort Loramie Anna at New Bremen Bradford at Fairlawn Wrestling Lehman at Versailles Inv. Swimming/diving Sidney at Celina Minster vs. New Bremen Lehman at SJCC Inv. —— MONDAY Girls basketball Ansonia at Houston Botkins at Waynesfield —— TUESDAY Boys basketball Trotwood at Sidney Russia at Jackson Center Houston at Anna Fairlawn at Fort Loramie Girls basketball Spencerville at New Knoxville

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Former Sidney Post 217 American Legion baseball coach and Fairlawn graduate Steve Partington was honored this week by the Buckeye Club for his “Snowbird Baseball Classic,” held annually in the Gulf Coast region of Florida.

Partington received a “Buckeye Job Well Done” award for 2011 for his baseball tournament, which he founded and directs.

According to the Buckeye Club press release, the Snowbird Classic is growing each year and now brings in an estimated $4 million to the area.

The upcoming Classic will feature 11 Division I and 21 Division III teams, including Ohio teams Baldwin-Wallace, Bluffton, Capital, Mt. St. Joe, Wooster, Denison, Heidelberg, John Carroll, Marietta, Muskingum, Ohio Wesleyan, Miami, Ohio State, Akron and Xavier.

The “Job Well Done” award is presented by the Rotunda West Association Buckeye Club and goes to honor citizens having roots in the state of Ohio.

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BEAVERCREEK — The Sidney High girls bowling team lost its first match of the season finishing Wednesday, with 2099 to 2269 for Beavercreek. Lebanon had 1776.

“It was a disappointing loss,” said coach Angie Mentges. “The shot was a heavy and long pattern and we struggled at first to find the line. That threw our confidence in covering the simple spares.

“These were our lowest scores of the season,” she added. “Beavercreek came into the match undefeated and they had been posting decent scores so I expected a good match. Beavercreek didn’t bowl as well as they had been so we had our opportunity. But missing 13 single-pin spares makes it tough to win a match.”

Bethany Pellman led Sidney with a 205 and Shelbie Anderson added a 202.

The girls are now 5-1.

The boys finished third with 2301 to Creek’s 2684 and Lebanon’s 2328.

Beavercreek is now 80, Lebanon 4-2, and Sidney drops to 1-5.

Despite the loss, Sidney put up its best scores of the season, led by Trent Knoop’s 502 series on games of 234 and 267.

Zach Shiflett rolled a 211 and Jacob Blankenship a 204.

The teams host their first home match today against Centerville and Xenia. Then on Saturday, they travel to Poelking Lanes South to compete in the Team USA Experience Tournament.

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