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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com September 16, 2013

Volume 105, No. 219

INSIDE

Three employees stabbed at Troy bar Staff reports

TROY — According to Troy Police Department reports, three employees of LeDoux’s Restaurant, located at 118 W. Main St., in Troy, were attacked and stabbed with a steak knife by a bar patron early Sunday morning. Police were dispatched to LeDoux’s Restaurant at 1:10 a.m. Three bouncers were injured when Jackson police arrived at the scene. Two sustained serious injuries and a third suf-

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fered less serious injuries. All three were taken to Upper Valley Medical Center. The two with serious injuries were later transported by CareFlight to Miami Valley Hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available at press time. A family member of one of the bouncers said he had been on life support at Miami Valley Hospital, but had since been taken off as of Sunday afternoon. The alleged assailant, Randy Lamar

Jackson, 21, of Sidney, also was taken to the hospital where he was treated and released to authorities. Troy police said Jackson is being held in the Miami County Jail on $100,000 bond. He faces two potential felonious assault charges. Officers said the suspect was with a group at the time of the stabbing, but he is believed to be the only one of the group who attacked the bouncers. Police noted that although they have had bar fights and issues at this location before, they had not had a problem this serious at the downtown Troy restaurant.

Cedar Point announces what’s coming in 2014

Fire kills man, 5 kids A fast-moving fire claimed the lives of a man and five children under the age of 7 on Sunday morning when it swept through a mobile home in northwest Ohio. See Page 5

Care offers massage therapy

For Bob Zimmerman the addition of medical massage therapy at UVMC’s Cancer Care Center has been “a godsend.” The introduction of a massage therapy program this summer was made possible by the John J. Dugan Memorial Fund for Cancer Care through the UVMC Foundation. See Page 6

INSIDE TODAY Calendar...........................3 Crossword........................8 Deaths..............................5 Kristin A. Magill Charles J. Borum Margaret Null Edna M. Pearson Charles J. Borum Virginia O. Furlong Robert G. Williams Opinion.............................4 Sports.............................11

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Staff Photos | ANTHONY WEBER

Dr. Laura Castle, of Brighter Days Dental, discusses the details of an exam with Joyce Roetgerman, an expanded function dental assistant, as Lacey Law listens, center. Brighter Days Dental is located at 70 Troy Town Drive.

Works of art: By David Fong

Executive Editor dfong@civitasmedia.com

TROY — For many, it may seem like a long way from paint brushes to dentist drills — but not for Dr. Laura Castle of Brighter Days Dental. “Actually, my plan was to go to medical school — but I had always really loved art,” Dr. Castle said. “I was really unsure I wanted to go to pursue medicine and a family friend suggested I look into dentistry. To me, every dental procedure seemed like a work of art, so it seemed to be a wonderful fit for me.” So after finishing her undergraduate studies at the University of Findlay, Dr. Castle studied denstistry at Marquette University. During her training at Marquette, she gained four valuable years of clinical experience, with special focus in oral surgery, dental implants and pediatrics. While at Marquette, Dr. Castle was selected for the senior honors program, where

New Troy dentist brings flare for the artistic to practice

she did an externship in family and cosmetic dentistry. Recently — after spending three years praciticing denstitsry in Marietta — she came to Troy and took over the practice formerly run by well-respected local dentist Dr. Wayne Fisher, who recently announced his retirement. Dr. Fisher had been practicing in Troy since 1970. Brighter Days Dental is located at 70 Troy Town Drive. “I grew up in West Liberty and my husband grew up in Urbana,” Dr. Castle said. “We knew we wanted to be closer to home. We started looking for opportunities closer to the area and that’s how I found out about Dr. Fisher’s practice in Troy. We fell in love with the area immediately. We’ve been here since June and all the patients and the staff here have been so welcoming. It’s been an amazing experience so far. Everyone has been really, really wecloming. It’s been very wonderful.” And just as her patients have been welcoming to her, Dr. Castle

seeks to make a trip to the dentist more welcoming to her patients. Brighter Days Dental offers a beverage station to patients, headphones with music for those who don’t like the sound of the dental drill, warm towels to wear around their necks during procedures and cucumber patches to cover patients’ eyes. “We love our patients here,” Dr. Castle said. “We want to create a warm environment for them to feel safe.” Dr. Castle and her husband Drew, a family wedding photographer, have two children — Roxie, 5, and Piper, 1, with a third on the way. Dr. Castle said she and her family are looking forward to becoming a permanent part of the Troy community. “We love it here,” she said. “We are getting ready to move. We want to be close to town. We want to be able to walk to all the festivals.” For more about Brighter Days Dental, visit www.brighterdaysdental.com

Lawmakers debate Syria outcome

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers assessing the agreement on Syria’s chemical weapons argued Sunday about whether President Barack Obama was outfoxed by the Russians and had lost leverage in trying to end the civil war, or whether his threat of military action propelled the breakthrough. Obama said the turn to diplomacy had laid “a foundation” toward political settlement of the conflict. The deal announced Saturday in Geneva by U.S. and Russian diplomat sets an ambitious timetable for elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons by mid-2014, with rapid deadlines including complete inventory of its chemical arsenal within a week and immediate access by international inspectors to chemical weapons sites. The agreement came in response to an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus, the capital, that the U.S. believes was carried out by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Republican lawmakers said that committing to remove or destroy Syria’s chemical weapons was laudable, the agreement fell short by not mandating military action should Assad fail to comply. Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the U.S. is “being led by the nose by” Russian President Vladimir Putin. “So, if we wanted a transition with Assad, we just fired our last round, and we have taken our ability to negotiate a settlement from the White House, and we’ve sent it with Russia to the United Nations,” Rogers, R-Mich., said. “That’s a dangerous place for us to be if you want an overall settlement to the problems.” Russia, which already has rejected three resolutions on Syria, would be sure to

• See SYRIA on page 2

Again in the capital, a cruel summer, tense vibes WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s an old saying that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. It may be a sign of the times, then, that President Barack Obama this month got a second pooch. Summer, that time when kids cool off at the pool and adults gain fresh perspective on long beach walks, seems to have done nothing but harden the partisan divisions and rancor that permeate Washington. Here’s the Washington vibe as summer ends:

Obama is complaining that lawmakers can’t manage even the ABCs of legislating. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is tracing a line from the anarchists of World War I to tea party supporters in Congress. And Republican legislators are savaging not just the Democrats but some of their own. Politicians of all stripes are pausing this week to call for racial harmony on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr.

delivered his “I have a dream speech.” But then they’ll quickly revert to dividing their attention between the budget battles that have consumed Washington all year and the escalating violence in the Mideast, which Republican critics say the president has mismanaged. Members of Congress will return tanned, rested — and ready to fight. Except, that is, for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who resigned citing “partisan posturing.” (He has seen it from mul-

tiple angles, having been a Democrat until switching parties in 2004.) The president last week called on legislators at least to do the basics of passing a budget and paying the government’s bills. “This is not that complicated,” he insisted. Reid and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, would beg to differ. Reid, whose grumpiness doesn’t seem to have eased much over the summer, recently labeled tea party supporters

“modern anarchists.” “They’re vetoing everything,” he said during a radio call-in show while home in Nevada. “We have absolute gridlock.” Of course, Reid sometimes fuels partisan fires himself. He once called then-President George W. Bush a “loser,” then later took it back. The perpetually bronzed Boehner (who started the summer with a better tan than most D.C. types attain

• See CAPITAL on page 2

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