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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com September 29, 2013 Volume 105, No. 230

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Eight injured in two-vehicle crash Mike Ullery

Staff Photographer

Terror, mass shootings don’t mean more danger It almost feels these days as if there is no safe place — that after global jihad strikes a Nairobi shopping mall or a deranged shooter invades the Washington Navy Yard, the next target could very well be our own store, school, theater or stadium.

Yet those who study such violence have a message: Don’t worry.

Even though anxiety is a natural response to pervasive and frightening media images of carnage, they say, statistics indicate that most of the world has never been safer.

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Ex-soldier pleads not guilty in DEA killing plot A former U.S. solder nicknamed Rambo pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges he plotted with phony Colombian drug traffickers to kill a federal agent for $800,000.

Joseph Hunter, stocky and wearing a wrinkled gray prison jumpsuit, was held after the brief appearance in federal court in Manhattan. His lawyer declined to comment.

An indictment unsealed Friday described the 48-year-old Hunter as a contract killer and leader of a trio of former soldiers who were trained snipers. Hunter, a resident of Thailand, was flown Friday evening to New York after he was expelled from Thailand, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

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NEWTON TOWNSHIP - A twovehicle crash at the intersection of the Fenner and Greenlee Road on Saturday left a total of eight victims in need of medical treatment.

The crash occurred around 6:30 p.m. when a pickup truck and a PT Cruiser collided in the intersection. The PT Cruiser crashed into a pair of utility poles, bringing live wires down across both roadways.

The pickup truck overturned and burst into flames.

One victim was ejected from the truck and the four other occupants

were able to escape the burning vehicle. The three occupants of the PT Cruiser were trapped by and had to be cut from the wreckage.

That, however, could not be done until a crew from Dayton Power and Light arrived on the scene and cut the lines, insuring the safety of the victims and rescuers.

Sgt. Chris Bobb of the Miami County Sheriff’s Office said that the driver of the pickup truck was northbound on Greenlee Road, failed to stop at a stop sign, and pulled into the path of the westCivitas Media Photo/Mike Ullery bound PT Cruiser, which struck Firefighters work to put out a fire in a crashed pickup truck and keep the flames the pickup on the passenger side. from spreading to a second vehicle, while avoiding downed power lines at a • See CRASH on page A2 crash scene on Fenner and Greenlee Road on Saturday evening.

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Melanie Yingst Staff Writer

TROY – The streets of Troy are clearing out the orange construction barrels as North Market Street and Staunton Street construction wrapped up last week.

According to city engineer Debra Swan, the construction project wrapped up major work as the final asphalt layer went down last week.

“There are little things that won’t interfere with traffic, just punch-list things,” Swan said Friday of the North Market Street paving project. Swan said the street project was delayed for approximately one month due to electrical work.

Other projects, such as State Route 55 at Archer Drive and Dorset, have been completed by ODOT and is currently open.

New projects, such as the State Route 41 traffic signal intersection, have begun and will be finalized by the end of they year, Swan said.

Swan said a recommendation to council will be consider at Monday’s meet to accept the deed from ODOT for the right of way associated with the Adams Street overpass. Swan said the recommendation is for the right of way to be returned to the city of Troy and is just a matStaff Photo/ANTHONY WEBER ter of being released from The streets of Troy are clearing out the orange construction barrels as North Market Street and ODOT. As of upcoming street Staunton Street construction wrapped up last week. projects, council will be for funding associated with that project,” Swan said. align with the Staunton provided a recommenda- intersection alignment of Construction, if approved, Grange drive to provide a tion authorizing the city Troy-Urbana Road and would begin work on the more safe, 90 degree angle and the director of public to improve visibility at the intersection in 2015. service and safety to file an Piqua-Troy Road. intersection near the city “We are now authorized Swan said the intersec- limits. application with the Ohio Public Works Commission to submit an application for tion would be moved to myingst@civitasmedia.com

U.S.-Iran: Breakthrough after decades of silence WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was ending his visit to the United States and inching through New York’s notorious traffic when the call came from President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Fifteen minutes later, the two say goodbye in each other’s language, and a generation-long rift between the U.S. and Iran was that much closer to being bridged.

Iranians awoke Saturday to learn about the groundbreaking conversation, the first in more than three decades between leaders of the two countries.

They pledged to resolve concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which have isolated Iranians from the rest of the world and led to crippling economic penalties.

Upon his arrival in Tehran on Saturday, Rouhani was met by both cheering supporters and opposition hardliners who tried to block his motorcade.

Several dozen protesters shouted “Death to America” and at least one reportedly hurled a shoe, a gesture of contempt. Supporters greeted Rouhani with cheers and placards praising his peace efforts.

The focus now turns to negotiations among foreign ministers and other officials from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany. The group wants Iran to present a more detailed proposal before or at the next round of negotiations, scheduled in Geneva on Oct. 15-16, according to an Obama administration official.

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Deadline nearing, GOP seeks health care delay WASHINGTON (AP) — Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation’s new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday.

The White House quickly issued a veto threat and Senate Democrats vowed to reject the measure even

before the House began debating it. “Any member of the Republican Party who votes for this bill is voting for a shutdown,” presidential press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.

Undeterred, House Republicans pressed ahead with their latest attempt to squeeze a concession from the White House in exchange for letting the government open for business normally on Tuesday. They also vowed to pass legislation

assuring U.S. troops are paid in the event of a shutdown.

“I think we have a winning program here,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, after days of discord that pitted Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his leadership against tea partybacked conservatives.

Another Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, reacted angrily when asked whether he

would eventually support a standalone spending bill if needed to prevent a shutdown. “How dare you presume a failure? How dare you? How dare you?” he said.

Apart from its impact on the health care law, the legislation that House Republicans decided to back would assure routine funding for government agencies through Dec. 15.

The measure marked something of a reduction in demands by House Republicans, who passed

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A crash victim is loaded aboard CareFlight as addition victims, bystanders and medics treating and comforting them, wait to be loaded aboard medic units as they arrive on the scene of a Saturday evening crash at the intersection of Greenlee and Fenner Road, between Troy and Pleasant Hill.

Eight people were injured in the crash, including three who sustained serious injuries and were transported aboard CareFlight.

Civitas Media Photo/ Mike Ullery

CRASH From page A1 Bobb described the scene upon officers’ arrival as “chaotic.”

Both the driver and front seat passenger of the PT Cruiser were transported aboard CareFlight, as was the passenger of the pickup truck. All of the victims flown from the scene were adults.

Five other victims, two of them

children, were transported aboard medic units to area hospitals. Bobb described the injuries to the victims who were flown aboard CareFlight as possibly life-threatening injuries. He said that all of the victims were conscious and able to communicate with rescuers.

In addition to Pleasant Hill fire

and rescue, and two CareFlight helicopters, mutual aide at the scene was provided by Troy, Union Township and Covington.

A crash reconstruction team from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene.

No names or patient conditions are yet available. mullery@civitasmedia.com

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From page A1 Rouhani’s aides initially reached out to arrange the call, said officials, who weren’t authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity. But it was Obama who signaled days earlier he was willing to meet with his Iranian counterpart.

By the end of the call, Obama was suggesting that a breakthrough on the nuclear issue could portend even deeper ties between the U.S. and Iran. Such a notion would have seemed unthinkable in recent years, when Rouhani’s predecessor was describing America in satanic terms.

The telephone call capped a week of seismic shifts in the relationship while Rouhani was in the U.S. for an annual U.N. meeting. Obama had left open the possibility of an exchange with Rouhani, but the Iranian later said the timing wasn’t right.

But hours before the phone call, at a news conference in New York, Rouhani linked the U.S. and Iran as “great nations.” The night before, U.S. and European diplomats were hailing a “very significant shift” in Iran’s attitude and tone in the first talks on the nuclear standoff since April.

“While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward, and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution,” Obama told reporters Friday at the White House.

The U.S. and Western allies imposed the penalties after years of Iran’s stonewalling inspections and secrecy about

its activities fueled fears about its intentions — especially as they relate to Israel. Iran insists its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., criticized Obama for failing to pressure Rouhani on Iran’s support for Islamic extremist groups and on human rights issues.

He said the U.S. is fooling itself if it thinks that Rouhani, who took office in August after running on a more moderate platform, isn’t beholden to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who controls matters of state, including the nuclear program.

For Obama, the call marked a realization of sorts of a stance he took in 2008, when he was first running for president and saying he would be willing to meet with leaders from nations such as Iran, Syria and North Korea without conditions. The policy earned him rebukes from critics who questioned what they derided as a Pollyanna approach to security threats.

The offer on the negotiating table for Rouhani would give Iran some relief from the economic penalties and pledge not to impose new ones. In exchange, Iran would end uranium enrichment that nears or reaches 20 percent, a level just a few steps from what’s needed to produce fuel for an atomic weapon.

The deal, offered last February, would require suspended enrichment at Iran’s fortified underground Fordo facility and increased access for U.N. inspectors.

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GOP aides said that under the legislation headed toward a vote, portions of the health law that already have gone into effect would remain unchanged. That includes requirements for insurance companies to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and to require children to be covered on their parents’ plans until age 26. It would not change a part of the law that reduces costs for seniors with high prescription drug expenses.

Instead, the measure would delay implementation of a requirement for all individuals to purchase coverage or face a penalty, and of a separate feature of the law that will create marketplaces where individuals can shop for coverage from private insurers.

By repealing the medical device tax, the GOP measure also would raise deficits — an irony for a party that won the House majority in 2010 by pledging to get the nation’s finances under control.

The Senate rejected the most recent House-passed anti-shutdown bill on a party-line vote of 54-44 Friday, insisting on a straightforward continuation in government funding without health care-related addons.

That left the next step up to the House — with time to avert a partial shutdown growing ever shorter.

For a moment at least, the revised House proposal papered over a simmering dispute between the leadership and tea party conservatives who have been more militant about abolishing the health law that all Republicans oppose.

It was unclear whether members of the rank and file had consulted with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has become the face of the “Defund Obamacare” campaign that tea party organizations are promoting and using as a fundraising tool.

Instead, House Republican moderates and conservatives said it soon would be up to Reid and fellow Democrats to decide whether the government would remain open past the shutdown deadline of

midnight Monday.

Asked if the House measure would risk a shutdown, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said, “It depends on how long … Reid wants to continue to be financially irresponsible and obstructionist.”

There was little doubt that Reid had the votes to block a one-year delay in the health care program widely known as “Obamacare.”

It appeared the Republicans’ chances of winning a concession centered on the medical device tax, which was incorporated into the health law to help pay its costs. Some Republicans noted that the Senate has taken a nonbinding 79-20 vote to repeal the levy, and that several members of Obama’s party supported the proposal.

In fact, the total was more than half the Democratic senators, 33 in all. Those in favor included members of the leadership, Sens.

Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York among them, as well as Murray.

The 2.3 percent tax, which took effect in January, is imposed on items such as pacemakers and CT scan machines; eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids and other items are exempt.

Repealing it would cost the government an estimated $29 billion over the coming decade.

If lawmakers miss the approaching deadline, a wide range of federal programs would be affected, from the national parks to the Pentagon.

Some critical services such patrolling the borders, inspecting meat and controlling air traffic would continue. Social Security benefits would be sent and the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs for the elderly and poor would continue to pay doctors and hospitals.

The new health insurance exchanges would open Tuesday, a development that’s lent urgency to the drive to use a normally routine stopgap spending bill to gut implementation of the law.

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11 E. Main St. Today • STORY HOUR: Story Hour will be offered at 10:30 • MUM FESTIVAL: The 55th annual Mum Festival will be held in Tipp City. The event will include enter- a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library. tainment, food, arts and crafts and more. A parade Children from ages 3-5 (and their caregivers) can enjoy stories, puppet shows and crafts at the library. Call (937) begins at 10 a.m. today.

• APPLE FEST: Apple Fest will be offered at Aullwood 698-5515 or visit Facebook or www.mupubliclibrary.org from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Spend the day at Aullwood Farm and for details on weekly themes.

• BACK TO SCHOOL: Anna’s Closet will have enjoy all the sights, sounds and delicious aromas. Sample apple pie baked in a Dutch oven, freshly pressed cider, kettle a back-to-school sale Wednesday through Saturday. corn, roasted almonds, bourbon chicken, fish boats and Proceeds benefit New Path Ministries, an outreach arm pizza straight from the oven. See how Aullwood staff make of Ginghamsburg Church.

• SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami County Troy apple butter in copper kettles and purchase a pint to take Alzheimer’s Support Group, affilihome. Children’s activities will keep the ated with the Miami Valley, Dayton little ones entertained with games and Alzheimer’s Association and the crafts as well as live entertainment in the National Alzheimer’s Association, bank barn. Tractor or draft horse pulled will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. at Senior wagon rides will be ongoing and Johnny Active Adult Services, 2006 W. Appleseed will stroll the festival grounds.

Stanfield Road, Troy, the first and Artisans and craft exhibitors will offer third Wednesdays of each month. items. Admission is $4 per adult and $3 Respite care will be provided. per child.

Caregivers may call 335-8800 for • MUSIC IN THE PARK: The Miami more information.

County Park District will hold its Civic agendas Music in the Park “Red Barn Melodies” • The Elizabeth Township program from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Lost Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in Creek Reserve, 2385 E. State Route 41, CONTACT US the township building, 5710 Walnut east of Troy. Participants are invited Grove Road, Troy. to sit in the shade of the old oak trees Call Melody • The village of West Milton and listen to the sound of music and Vallieu at Planning Board will meet at 7:30 nature. Bring a blanket to sit on and a 440-5265 p.m. in council chambers. snack to eat. Register for the program to list your Thursday online at www.miamicountyparks, • LEPC MEETING: The meeting email to register@miamicountyparks. free calendar will be at 4 p.m. at the Miami County com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104. items. You Communication Center, 210 Marybill • BREAKFAST SET: The American can send Drive, Troy.

Legion Riders of Post No. 586, 377 N. your news • MILTON MEMORIES: The Third St., Tipp City, will present an by e-mail to second of the fall Milton Memories all-you-can- eat breakfast for $6 from recording sessions will be held 7 8-11 a.m. Items available will be eggs, mvallieu@civitasmedia.com. p.m. at the West Milton Municipal bacon, sausage, toast, biscuits, sausage Building, 701 S. Miami St. The topic gravy, home fries, pancakes, French will be the West Milton Fire Department. The panel will toast, waffles, fruit, cinnamon rolls and juices.

• FISH OR WINGS: The American Legion Post No. be made up of James Plummer, Clarence “Fuzzy” Haney, 586, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will offer fish or wings, Bill Jay, Denny Frantz, Robert Adams, Bill Grilliot, Ben fries and slaw dinners beginning at 11 a.m. for $7 in a Herron and Todd Lakes. The sessions are open to the public and audience participation is encouraged. The tent in the parking lot. Beverages also will be available. sessions air on local access Channel 5 and YouTube at Monday • BOOK CLUB: The Tipp City Public Library’s Page various times. DVDs of all the sessions are available for Turners Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. to discuss the purchase, or on loan from the Milton-Union Library. For book selection of the month. Call (937) 667-3826 for more information call Barb at (937) 698-6559 or Susie at the title, or copies are available at the front desk at 11 E. (937) 698-6798.

• SENIORS LUNCH: The A.B. Graham Center will Main St. Snacks and beverages will be provided.

•CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty Listeners will offer its monthly seniors lunch, beginning with the promeet from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public gram at 11 a.m. and lunch at noon. Burney Knisley of St. Library. Participants listen to an audio book and work on Paris will offer a program on his stained glass creations.

Lunch is $6 per person by calling (937) 368-3700. various craft projects.

• FRIENDS MEETING: The New Friends of the • HOOT & HOLLER FAMILY FUN NIGHT: Bring your family to the Troy-Miami County Public Library at Milton-Union Public Library will meet at 6:30 p.m. for a 6:30 p.m. for an evening of fun fall activities, including short meeting and an informational program on all availstories, a craft and refreshments. Call the library at 339- able resources the library offers to the public. Director Carol Netzley Coate will answer questions and note sug0502 to register.

• PORK RIBLET: The American Legion Post No. gestions from the audience.

• COMMITTEE MEETING: The Fort Rowdy 586, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will offer barbecued pork riblet sandwiches and fries for $5 from 6-7:30 p.m. Gathering will have a committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Covington Community Park.

Civic agendas • HOT DOGS: The American Legion Auxiliary Unit • Monroe Township Board of Trustees will meet at 7 586, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will serve hot dogs with p.m. at the Township Building.

• The Tipp City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the toppings and chips for $2 Cookies will be available two for 50 cents. Euchre will start at 7 p.m. for $5.

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Oct. 4 • The Troy City Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the • CHICKEN FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post 6557, meeting room in Council Chambers.

7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a three• The Staunton Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 piece chicken dinner with french fries and macaroni p.m. in the Staunton Township building.

• Covington Board of Public Affairs will meet at 4 p.m. salad for $7 from 6-8 p.m. Chicken livers also will be in the Water Department office located at 123 W. Wright available.

• LASAGNA DINNER: Lasagna, salad and garlic St., Covington.

• The Potsdam Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. in bread will be offered for $7 by the AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary of Post 88, Troy, from 5:30-8 p.m. the village offices.

• BOOK SALE: The Friends of the Tipp City Public Tuesday Library are having their fall book sale from 2-5 p.m. at • COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at the Hayner 11 E. Main St. • RUMMAGE/CRAFT SALE: Tipp City Seniors, Cultural Center in Troy at 7 p.m. Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second 320 S. First St., will offer their annual rummage/craft language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. asked to contact the message center at (937) 660-3170 Saturday, with a bag sale on Saturday, starting at noon until closing. Many quality and antique items will be for more information.

• HOME SCHOOL LIBRARY TOUR: Students in for sale in the rummage area, and many crafts for sale, grades first through fifth are invited to come to the including a handmade quilt.

• GARAGE SALE: A two-day garage sale will be Troy-Miami County Public Library from 2:20-3:30 p.m. offered at the A.B. Graham Memorial Center from noon to learn how to use the library, discover fun facts about the library, sign up for a library card and go on a library to 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

• RUMMAGE SALE: A rummage sale will be from 9 scavenger hunt. Call the library at 339-0502 to register.

• BOOK GROUP: The Just-a-Little Inspiration book a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, spondiscussion group will meet at 11 am. at the Milton-Union sored by the United Methodist Women, at First Place Public Library. “Tidewater Inn,” by Colleen Coble will be Christian Center, 16 W. Franklin St., Troy. Many good the book discussed by group attendees. For information used items and clothing are for sale. Proceeds will be used for mission work. For more information, call 335-2826. about joining a group, call (937) 698-5515.

Oct. 5 • TINY TOTS: Tiny Tots, an interactive program for • COOKOUT FUNDRAISER: A cookout will be infants, toddlers and their caregivers will be offered from offered at 1 p.m. at Richards Chapel United Methodist 1-1:30 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library.

Church, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy, for Jordan Oldham, who Civic agendas •The Concord Township Trustees will meet at 10 now is paralyzed after jumping to safety from an aparta.m. at the Concord Township Memorial Building, 1150 ment fire in May. Other activities will include a silent auction, face painting, balloon animals and carnival Horizon West Court, Troy. games for children. For more information, call Meghan Wednesday • SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami-Shelby Ostomy Bly at (937) 405-8400 or Julie Stair at (937) 529-9508.

Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. at Conference Room A in the lower level of the Upper Valley Medical Center, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The Ostomy Support Group’s meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month except January and July. Programs provide information and support to ostomates and their families, and are beneficial to health care professionals as well. The October program will feature Edison Community College students discussing Health Care Reform Changes.

Refreshments will be provided. For more information, call (937) 440-4706.

• CASUAL CRAFTING: The Savvy Stitchers are a drop-in knitting, crocheting, and other crafts club that meets from 6:30 - 8 p.m. at the Tipp City Public Library,

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TIPP CITY — The Tipp City Water Department will be flushing fire hydrants Sept. 30 through Oct. 11 during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The following schedule will be followed:

Monday — (Main Street south) all hydrants from South First Street to Hathaway, including the Roslyn area.

Tuesday — (Main Street north) all hydrants starting at North First Street to Bowman Avenue.

Wednesday, Thursday — (Southwest area) Tipp Plaza areas, Hathaway, Spring Hill, Willow Glen, Cottonwood, Hampton Woods, Hunters Ridge, York Meadows and Sycamore Woods.

Friday — Along Evanston Road, and South County Road 25-A south of Evanston Road going to Corner Stone Drive.

Oct 7 - 8 — (Northwest area) all hydrants start-

ing at Westedge, Tippecanoe Village, Manchester Chase, North Tipp-Cowlesville Road, Tweed Woods, Commerce Park Drive, Weller Drive and Curry Branch.

Oct. 9-10 — (North West area) all hydrants starting on County Road 25-A, Spring Meade, Woodlawn, Donn Davis Way, Windmere, Oakwinds and Rosewood Creek.

Oct. 11 — Will be used as a makeup day if needed.

Water in these areas may be discolored.

Residents are advised to avoid using laundry or hot water facilities during the flushing period. If residents find their water to be discolored, they should run cold water for 5-10 minutes until the water clears. Although the water will not be turned off, a drop in pressure in some areas is likely.

Flushing hydrants is a preventive maintenance program to periodically clean out natural residues, which deposit in the water lines, as well as to test the hydrants.

Area Brief students are encourScholarship cal aged to apply.

The Miami County application Foundation administers deadline nears and distributes scholarMIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Foundation reminds Miami County high school seniors and graduates the deadline for submitting scholarship applications is Nov. 1.

The Thelma Ross Dalton Memorial Scholarship is for residents to further their post-high school education in any accredited college, trade/vocational or nursing/health related facility.

Miami County Medical Society Scholarship is awarded to a resident who has been accepted into or pursuing an approved course of study to become a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or a Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) at an accredited medical school, college or university.

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ships annually. A committee comprised of Miami County Foundation board members and residents will select recipients. Applications for all these scholarships are available online at www. miamicountyfoundation. org, high schools or by calling the Miami County Foundation office at 7739012.

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Australian on Kenyan atrocity a wake-up call:

The slaughter of innocent men, women and children perpetrated by Islamic militants at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya, a country that is a longstanding and important Western ally, should leave the international community in no doubt about the dire consequences when failed states are allowed to become breeding grounds for terrorism.

Somalia, the wreck of a country on the Horn of Africa from which the evil, al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab thugs responsible for the massacre emanate, has lacked stability since the regime of General Siad Barre, a Soviet toady, lost power in 1991.

In the ensuing anarchy - with the international community unable and unwilling to do much - the worst forms of malevolent Islamic extremism have spawned and thrived, leading to the attack by the al-Shabab terrorists that claimed the lives of scores of people, including Tasmanian-born architect Ross Langdon and his pregnant wife, Elif Yavuz. Another 200 people were wounded. …

Kenya, which has 4,000 soldiers in Somalia as part of an African Union military force battling to restore security to Somalia, is the al-Shabab terrorists’ immediate target, but Nairobi needs help and the international community should be unhesitating in coming to its aid because the threat posed by the Somali terrorists could spread beyond Africa.

Al-Shabab is operating closely with al-Qaida and in conjunction with the equally vile Boko Haram terrorists in oil-rich Nigeria and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

Given the large Somali diaspora around the world, attacks could also be staged elsewhere. …

Recently, perceptions had grown that al-Shabab was losing ground.

Senior US officials claimed the Islamist group was on the run after staging a tactical retreat from Mogadishu, the Somali capital, and losing control of the port of Kismayo from which they launched their piracy and kidnapping attacks on the east African coast. The horror perpetrated in Nairobi shows the optimism was misplaced.

Such atrocities cannot be tolerated and the international community cannot turn a blind eye. It is to the credit of the African Union that it is leading the way in seeking to deal with al-Shabab, but far more than Africa’s interests are at stake in the battle. As the death toll in the Nairobi massacre again shows, Islamic terrorism threatens us all, and the international com-

munity must do all it can to confront it. Somalia’s chaos and the terrorism it has spawned as a failed state was allowed to fester for far too long.

The Korea Herald, Seoul, South Korea on policymakers need to remain vigilant:

The U.S. Federal Reserve has brought both good and bad news by deciding to delay scaling back its massive bond-purchasing program.

The Fed has been printing money to inject liquidity into the financial system and thereby stimulate the U.S. economy. Each month, it has purchased $85 billion worth of Treasury and mortgage bonds to encourage people to borrow, spend and invest.

Until early last week, the Fed was widely expected to take its first step toward rolling back the extraordinary stimulus measures this month.

A majority of Wall Street analysts predicted that it would announce a reduction of $10 billion-$15 billion in its bond purchases at its Sept. 18 meeting.

But it decided to keep the current quantitative easing measures intact, citing the weak hiring and economic growth figures.

The Fed’s unexpected move is good news for a group of emerging countries whose currencies have plummeted in value since May when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke first suggested a possible pullback of the stimulus program within this year.

These countries, including Indonesia, India, Thailand and Turkey, suffered an outflow of foreign capital as the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates caused the flows of money to reverse.

The Fed’s decision is welcome as it will give some relief to these vulnerable economies. It also gives them more time to prepare for Washington’s eventual tapering of the monetary stimulus. The Korean government also welcomed the decision, although it experienced an inflow, rather than an outflow, of foreign capital in recent months.

Korea is no longer a crisis-prone country. Rather, its strong fundamentals have earned it safe haven status. …

For Korea, the U.S. represents the second-largest single export market.

A slow recovery of the U.S. market would hamper growth of Korea’s exports.

Yet it seems to be only a matter of time before the Fed starts winding down the stimulus program. It is expected to take its first step within this year. Policymakers need to keep their guard up.

They said it “I started drawing at a really early age. I remember when I was 6-years-old, my Grandpa (Hans D.) Noren — who was a selftaught artist — drew a portrait of me. When he was done, he asked if I would draw a portrait of him.

I worked very, very hard on it because I wanted to impress him.

When he saw it, he went wild. He started screaming, ‘She’s an artist! She’s an artist!’ I remember he called me whole family around to look at it. I felt really fortunate to have that happen to me. Not every kid knows at that age what they want to do with their lives.

But from that point on, I just owned it. I knew then I wanted to be an artist.”

— Troy High School graduate Jen Noren, the featured artist for the month of September at The Art Vault Gallery “It’s been a big project. It’s nice to know that it’s going to be used more.”

— Miami East High School senior Michael Furrow, on his Eagle Scout project, which will benefit science classes at the school “They are so hard working. We all are working together on a common goal — that is staff, students and our families here at Newton.”

— Newton Elementary School Principal Danielle Davis on students and staff, after her school had been named a National Blue Ribbon School WRITE TO US: The Troy Daily News welcomes signed letters to the editor. Letters must contain your home address and a telephone number where you can be reached during the day. Letters must be shorter than 500 words as a courtesy to other writers. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. MAIL: 224 S. Market, Troy, Ohio, 45373: E-MAIL: editorial@tdnpublishing.com; FAX (937) 440-5286; ONLINE: www.troydailynews.com (“Letters To The Editor” link on left side.)

‘Mercy rules’ sometimes show no mercy toward winners “In the game of thrones, you win … or you die.”

The Northern California Federation Youth Football League is probably not a big fan of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.

Their saying would probably go something like, “in the game of youth football, you win … and you’ll probably be punished for it, too.”

Mercy rules can be a good thing for developmental sports leagues — if they’re intelligently instituted. The NCFYFL does not do this.

A report on KCRA.com earlier this week that made its way around the Internet detailed the changes the league made to its mercy rule this year — which now has teams that win by 35 points or more pay a $200 fine and the winning coach suspended for two games.

Suspended and fined. In sports.

For being better than the competition — which is the whole point of sports.

Now before the letters start coming, believe me I already know there are far more layers to this discussion. But that’s also my point here — there are far more layers to this than just “some kids in our league are losing really badly and don’t want to play anymore, so let’s make rules that will make the winners back off.” It’s basic human nature to feel sorry for the kids that are playing for the teams that are losing so badly

that their players aren’t having fun, be forced to sleepwalk through a but I’ve covered local high school slew of 50-points-or-more victories football — and a lot of really good where the biggest challenges will teams being forced to stomp on be maintaining focus and not playreally bad teams — to see both ing down to the other team’s level sides of things and understand one — and keeping everyone healthy very simple thing. (which can be a big challenges at Blowouts never help anybody. times).

Especially not the winning team.

It’s not fair to everyone else, Sports is all about compebut it’s definitely not fair to tition, about being pushed them, also. If the CCC was to be the best you can be, to divided into two divisions be better than you already in some manner, everyone are, by an opposition that could schedule teams closer could potentially be better to their own level. than you. But that’s just not Another challenge is balalways going to happen, and ancing how long those startmost of the time it’s clear ers stay in the game against Josh before the games even take how out of hand the game is.

Brown place.

People complain a lot about Take a look at the three Sunday Columnist this perceived “running up undefeated teams in our covthe score” thing. But most erage area. Covington and Miami of the time, all coaches want to do East, two of those teams, play in is get their players as much work the insanely top-heavy and mind- as possible so when a full-fourbogglingly large Cross County quarters test inevitably does come, Conference. There are so many they’re ready. If Tippecanoe’s runteams in it, they only get one out- ning backs were done at halftime of-conference game on their sched- every week — since all five of ule each year. One. One chance to their games so far have been over find someone that playing against at that point — what then happens will actually make them better. in Week 10 when they’re down by Because let’s face it, only three two points late in the fourth quarof the teams in that league are ter, need to drive against a fairly going to be challenges to each fresh Springfield Shawnee defense other. Covington and Miami East … and their running backs haven’t played great games in Week 1 out- even seen the field in the fourth side of the CCC that helped them quarter all season until this point? improve and develop as players — The NCFYFL and the parents but until they play each other, and of kids in it didn’t take any of this possibly Tri-County North, they’ll into consideration. They think that

by forcing the better teams to back off, that they’re teaching “compassion” and “good sportsmanship” — which, in truth, are great goals when you’re dealing with children ages 7-13.

But — and this is a big but — the league also has standings, playoffs and eventual champions between five different age groups.

Yet everyone that signs up gets to play thanks to a no-cut policy.

Its recreational football with a serious mask on.

How about, instead of punishing the better teams whose goal is likely to win those championships, eliminate scorekeeping. You want to teach good values and having fun and sportsmanship and the like instead of how to be a better football player? Take winning and losing out of the equation. They’re not even in high school yet. They don’t need that.

Besides, you can go on YouTube and see how the simple act of putting up a scoreboard brings out the absolute worst in humanity through youth league parents.

Seriously, how can you ask a football coach to tell a player that, well, you know Joey, sometimes you don’t really need to give 100 percent out there … ?

Because in California youth football, you can have fun … or you can win. There’s evidently no middle ground.

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Obituaries Charles “Charlie” E. Oiler dren; two brothers, Chester and Ilse Oiler of New Hampshire and Jim and Brenda Oiler of Springfield; two sisters, Nellie and Robert Jackson of Bidwell, Ohio and Jenny and Richard Hosier of Springfield.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 12:00 PM at Braund Pope Funeral Home in New Madison with Rev. Eric Fee officiating.

The family will receive friends and guests two hours prior to the service from 10 AM – 12 PM also at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua, Ohio. The family requests memorial contributions be given to Braund Pope Funeral Home to help with funeral arrangements.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.braundpope.com.

Services entrusted to Braund Pope Funeral Home in New Madison.

John Edward DeBrosse John Edward DeBrosse of Huber Heights, Ohio, passed away Thursday morning in the presence of his wife and three children. John was born November 11, 1945 in Piqua, Ohio, to the late Jean and John Paul DeBrosse.

He graduated from Piqua Catholic High School where he earned twelve varsity letters in basketball, baseball and football playing in 175 consecutive varsity athletic contests. At PCHS, he played on nearly a dozen tournament teams, culminating in captaining the team to the 1964 Ohio state basketball finals.

John’s athletic career continued at the Citadel Military College in Charleston, SC, in 1965 where he played both basketball and baseball as a freshman. John played basketball all four years while attending The Citadel, leading the team in scoring as a junior. His athletic honors included All South Carolina, Honorable Mention All-Southern Conference, and the Tampa Invitational All-Tournament team.

John continued his military service at West Point prep school where he coached the basketball team in 1971 to only their second winning season in the school’s history. John’s coaching career continued at Bishop Watterson HS in Columbus, Ohio; Fairborn Baker HS in Fairborn, Ohio; Miami University freshman team Oxford, Ohio.

John enjoyed over 30 years in education as a secondary school administrator for the Huber Heights City Schools. While serving his community, he created the education program called Renaissance. This program rewards excellence in education by the students in Huber Heights and would later be adopted district-wide. The John DeBrosse Renaissance Award is given

annually to students at Studebaker Middle School in Huber Heights.

John served three terms on the Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Control where he would help regulate and administer Ohio high school interscholastic athletic competition.

He is survived by his wife of fortythree years Pam DeBrosse; son J.J. DeBrosse (wife Emily, Wilson and Riley) of Indianapolis, IN; daughter Katie Hart (husband Josh, Liam and Ava) of Beavercreek, OH; son Scott DeBrosse (fiancé April) of Huber Heights, OH. Two brothers and sistersin-law: Patrick and Susan DeBrosse, Piqua, OH, Dennis and Diane DeBrosse, Piqua, OH, two sisters and brothersin-law: Martha and John Selle, Piqua, OH, Shirley and Donald Kuchta, Piqua, OH. John was preceded in death by his parents, his nephew Francis Kuchta, and granddaughter Catherine DeBrosse.

Visitation will be Tuesday, October 1 from 3pm to 8pm at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, 646 West High St. Piqua, Ohio. Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, October 2 at 10:30am at St. Peter Catholic Church, 6161 Chambersburg Rd. Huber Heights, Ohio. Graveside service will be at 3pm at Forest Hill Cemetery, 8660 State Route 66 in Piqua, Ohio. Full military honors will be provided by The Veterans Elite Tribute Squad. Memorial contributions may be made to the John DeBrosse Renaissance Scholarship Fund (c/o Scott DeBrosse, 8869 Trowbridge Way, Huber Heights, OH 45424) or the Catherine Sabrina DeBrosse Scholarship (Butler University, 4600 Sunset Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46208). Condolences may be expressed to the family at www. melcher-sowers.com.

Berlusconi ministers resign; Italy gov’t in crisis MILAN (AP) — Italy’s fragile coalition government was pushed into a full-fledged crisis Saturday after five ministers from former Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s political party announced their resignations.

The move drew the ire of Premier Enrico Letta, who accused Berlusconi of a “crazy” gesture aimed at covering up his personal affairs.

The five-month-old government has teetered for weeks since the high court confirmed Berlusconi’s tax fraud conviction.

Berlusconi’s centerright People of Liberty Party is in an unusual coalition of rival forces with Letta’s center-left Democratic Party, and the resignations signals the end of the alliance.

The resignations must be formally submitted to President Giorgio Napolitano, who must decide if there is any way to continue the government or if new elections must be held.

The announcement by the center-right ministers came after Berlusconi urged ministers in his party to step down if the government doesn’t revoke an increase to Italy’s value-added tax that takes effect next week.

Tensions already were swirling around a Senate committee vote

next week on whether to revoke Berlusconi’s legislative seat because of the tax fraud conviction.

Letta, in a statement issued by his office, said Berlusconi was using the sales tax increase as an alibi “to justify the crazy and irresponsible gesture, all aimed only to cover up his personal affairs.”

Letta said it was Berlusconi who was forcing the government’s hand on the sales tax by depriving it of the stability needed to push through alternative measures.

“The Italian people will know to return to the sender such a big lie and attempt to distort reality,” Letta said.

Democratic Party leader Guglielmo Epifani called the center-right ministers’ move “irresponsible.”

“They are provoking a crisis and we must evaluate exactly what the consequences are,” he said.

Letta had warned on Friday that he will quit unless he receives prompt pledges of solid support in a confidence vote in Parliament on his government, which is struggling to pull Italy out of a recession.

Nearly all of Berlusconi’s senators have vowed to quit, if a Senate committee votes next week to strip him of his Senate seat because of the conviction.

ews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Rex Herron and a sister Virginia Causey.

A service to honor his life will begin at 10:00 am Tuesday October 1, 2013 at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark A. Lynch officiating.

Burial will follow at Miami Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00pm Monday at the funeral home. Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

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touching moment when he sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” and encouraged the audience to lobby for more gun laws.

“Can you believe blind people have guns?” he said. “Let’s keep it real.

Ridiculous.”

Last year’s Global Citizen Festival featured Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters and The Black Keys. The festival’s nonprofit partners pledged $1.3 billion in new fundraising commitments last year.

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“I can’t believe this is happening,” Maxwell gushed when singing “Superstition.”

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“It’s so nice to be here,” he said.

Other performers included Kings of Leon and Alicia Keys, whose set included “No One” and “Empire State of Mind.”

“I believe if we don’t care about each other, who will?” the singer said. “Help me celebrate tonight so we never forget.”

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The Global Citizen Festival coincides with the U.N. General Assembly. Fans earned free tickets for helping spread the word or volunteering to help end world poverty. Some world leaders attended, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

“There is so much energy here tonight. We can power the world,” Ban told the crowd.

Will.i.am and Olivia Wilde were among the celebrity attendees.

Wonder ended the five-hour event, electrifying the crowd during his hourlong performance. He even teased concertgoers before singing “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”

“That’s it!” he yelled, then added: “Y’all wanna jam some more?”

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Wonder headlines NYC concert highlighting poverty NEW YORK (AP) — Bono served as an opening act for Stevie Wonder.

The U2 frontman gave a funky, rousing introduction to Wonder, who headlined the Global Citizen Festival on New York’s Central Park on Saturday. It was the second annual concert to help end poverty around the world.

Wonder performed a number of his hits, wowing the audience of thousands who danced and sang along to “Superstition” and “Isn’t She Lovely.”

“This is a global celebration,” Wonder yelled to the crowd. “We will end extreme world poverty in our lifetime.”

Wonder has been a U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on disabilities since 2009.

Messengers have recognized talents in the arts, academia and sports and help bring attention to U.N. work.

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Carl “Sonny” Herron Carl “Sonny” Herron, 81, of Piqua, died at 3:42 p.m. Friday September 27,2013 at the Covington Care Center.

He was born February 15,1932 in Piqua to the late Kenneth Carl and Eunice (Swallow) Herron.

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Charles “Charlie” E. Oiler, 78, of Piqua, passed away peacefully on September 25, 2013 at Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy, Ohio. Charlie was born on October 10, 1934 in Bidwell to the late Roy and Hazel (Luckadoo) Oiler.

Charlie was a welder during his life and worked for Shelby Manufacturing in Sidney, Ohio. He enjoyed spending time with close friends, but most of all he enjoyed spending time with his family. Charlie was in the Air Force In addition to his parents, Charlie is preceded in death by a brother, John Oiler and a grandchild.

Charlie is survived by his loving wife, Audra L. (Swick) Oiler; a son, Mark and Annie Oiler of Greenville; three daughters, Cheryl Hall of Piqua, Carla Oiler of Troy and Carol and Doug Bergeron of Moravian Falls, North Carolina; nine grandchildren; six great grandchil-

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Monroe Township discusses water, sewer options CECILIA FOX

Record Herald Writer

MONROE TOWNSHIP Formed to investigate the possibility of centralized water and sewer services for the area, the Monroe Township Water and Sewer District met with the residents of Country Estates East Thursday, Sept. 26 to discuss their options.

The meeting was held to gauge the residents’ interest in centralized water and sewer services.

Residents were asked to vote for water services only, sewer services only, both, or neither.

The district board’s final decision will be based on the ballots collected. Water and Sewer District Board President William Rodenberg said a simple majority will determine the direction of the project.

Members of the board, Mark Cameron from the district’s engi-

neering firm Sands and Decker, and attorney John Albers met with residents to discuss the project. Township trustees and Tipp City officials were also on hand to answer questions.

Residents were shown a preliminary layout, not a final construction plan. A final layout will be designed once the district knows which direction to take the project, Rodenberg said.

The project would include a contract with Tipp City for centralized water and sewer services, but board members stressed that such a contract will not involve annexation of the township.

Residents will not be required to connect to a centralized water system, but they will be required to connect to a sanitary sewer system if one is constructed.

Residents will also be able to keep any existing wells.

The actual cost of the project

is yet to be determined said John Albers, the water and sewer district’s attorney, but all residents will pay the same amount. This is because the cost of the project will be assessed by benefit to the residents, not by property frontage.

Some residents whose properties are already connected to water or sewer lines will only pay for whichever service they do not already have, if that service is installed.

Rough estimates show that the total cost of installing water lines only could be about $877,604.

The portion for each property owner is about $8,016 or $267 annually. For just sewers, the total cost of the project could be about $811,353, which comes to about $12,677 or $423 annually.

The annual cost for installing both water and sewer at the same time would be about $661

bathtub than be killed by terrorists in the United States.”

Worldwide, as regular bombings persist in a few unstable countries like Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya, the terrorism trend is less clear. The number of annual fatalities has fluctuated over the past few decades, according to figures compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

Global terrorism deaths as defined by the consortium reached almost 11,000 in 1984, then dipped before approaching 11,000 again in 1997. Deaths fell once more before rising in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. There were 3,144 killings in 2003, then 12,761 in 2007. In 2012, after the consortium made its data collection more comprehensive, it counted 15,514 deaths from terrorism — mostly in about 10 countries.

The Nairobi attack, by the fanatic Somali Islamic group alShabab, stood out. It touched points across the globe, killing at least 60 civilians from countries including Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands,

Australia, Peru, India, Ghana, South Africa and China. Five Americans were among the nearly 200 wounded.

Al-Shabab is “a threat to the continent of Africa and the world at large,” Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.

That attack came five days after a man who heard voices brought a shotgun through Navy Yard security and killed 12 people. It was the latest in a series of mass shootings, which are defined as killing four or more people: the December massacre of 26 in Newtown; 12 slain in a Colorado movie theater; other 2012 killings at a café, temple, sauna, colleges.

“What troubles us so deeply as we gather here today is how this senseless violence that took place here in the Navy Yard echoes other recent tragedies,” President Barack Obama said at a memorial service.

That’s not to mention the narrowly averted disasters: a man arrested this week on a charge he planned to shoot up a Salt Lake City mall; a gunman last month who was talked into laying down his weapon after invading a Georgia school.

Terror, mass shootings don’t mean more danger The Associated Press

It almost feels these days as if there is no safe place — that after global jihad strikes a Nairobi shopping mall or a deranged shooter invades the Washington Navy Yard, the next target could very well be our own store, school, theater or stadium.

Yet those who study such violence have a message: Don’t worry.

Even though anxiety is a natural response to pervasive and frightening media images of carnage, they say, statistics indicate that most of the world has never been safer.

“Vivid images and memories of these images are used to make judgments about the overall likelihood of dangerous events.” says Robert Kraft, a psychology professor at Otterbein University. In fact, “these horrific events are no more likely today than they were yesterday or 10 years ago.”

Says David Schanzer, a Duke University professor who directs the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security: “Since 9/11, you are far more likely to drown in your

per household.

District officials said they could not offer estimates for the cost of connecting homes to the water and sewer lines, because each home is different.

Residents will be able to choose to pay their portion of the project all at once, or have it assessed on their property taxes.

If the project is completed next year, the earliest residents would be billed is late 2015, officials said.

While there are no grants available for a community with this high of an income level, the district is hoping to secure Ohio Water Development Authority development loans. These loans could have interest rates as low as one or two percent.

Some of the potential benefits for installing water or sewer lines include higher property resale values and lower home-

owners insurance rates, according to officials.

Several residents spoke in favor of the project, but many said that they recently installed new septic tanks or wells and cannot afford to participate.

Some residents questioned the purpose of voting when so many project details were up in the air.

Ballots were handed out to residents during the meeting, but they may also be obtained by visiting or calling the township offices. To be counted, the ballots must be returned to the township offices on or before Oct. 30.

For more information, residents can visit the township’s website at www.monroetownship-miamicounty-ohio.com/ or email the Water and Sewer District at monroewatersewer@ aol.com. ceciliaafox@gmail.com

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In this Sept. 21 photo, a woman who had been hiding during the gun battle runs for cover after armed police, background, enter the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Al-Shabab gunmen attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people.

Yet chances of being killed in a mass killing are probably no greater than being struck by lightning, according to Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass killings in America. He says mass kill-

ings peaked in 1929 and have dropped in the 2000s.

Over the past 30 years, the United States has steadily averaged about 20 mass killings each year, according to James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminology professor who studies such events.

Ex-soldier pleads not guilty in DEA killing plot Manhattan. His lawyer declined to comment.

An indictment unsealed Friday described the 48-year-old Hunter as a contract killer and leader of a trio of former soldiers who were trained snipers. Hunter, a resident of Thailand, was flown Friday evening to New York after he was expelled from Thailand, U.S. Attorney

Preet Bharara said.

Hunter was charged with conspiracy, attempting to import cocaine and plotting to kill a law

enforcement agent. When asked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Haas about his plea, Hunter responded: “Not guilty, sir.”

AP PHOTO

Joseph Manuel Hunter, center, is led by Thai police commandos to Police Aviation Division after being arrested, Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police said they arrested the American man wanted by the U.S. for allegedly running a drug trafficking network that spanned Asia and the United States.

According to the indictment, Hunter served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 2004 before becoming a contract killer who successfully arranged several slayings outside the United States. Authorities didn’t give details.

An informant within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency posed as a drug trafficker and proposed to Hunter and his team that they kill a DEA agent and a boat captain providing information to U.S. law enforcement authorities, claiming it was necessary because there was a leak within the narcotics trafficking organization, according to the indictment.

In an email exchange, according to the indictment, Hunter responded:

“My guys will handle it. …

Are you talking about both the captain and agent or just the captain?”

Audio and video recordings captured Hunter talking about “bonus jobs” of contract killings, claiming the men he recruited wanted as much work as possible, and when assassinations of a federal agent and an informant were proposed, Hunter “didn’t flinch at the chance,” authorities said.

Former U.S. solider Timothy Vamvakias, 42, and Dennis Gogel, 27, a German citizen, were also charged in the assassination plot. Both men pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges that carry the potential for life imprisonment and were held without bail.

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Tire Discounters opens with ‘green’ operations TROY — Tire Discounters has announced its grand reopening of its Troy location, following its transformation to its new “Store of the Future” design.

The store, located at 10 S. Stanfield underwent an extensive makeover to better serve area customers. The remodeled store is a radical departure from the image many have of a typical tire store, both in aesthetics and in the overall customer experience. Comfort, transparency, and efficiency are all enhanced by a variety of new features and the store design and construction set new industry standards for use of eco-friendly materials and energy efficient technology.

“We’ve been proud to serve

the Troy community with our dedicated customer service,” said Tire Discounters Executive Vice President Jamie Ward.

“The Troy remodel is a part of our aggressive remodel program where we are committed to providing our customers with the best experience possible.”

Purposefully designed for customers The new Tire Discounters store design provides added transparency to waiting customers through video feeds that are featured in the waiting room, enabling customers to watch their car as it’s worked on every step of the way. Drive through bays and updated ergonomic placement of equipment means more efficient service.

A new featur that could be valuable for busy commuters is a live time clock display in the waiting room, detailing the projected completion time of service. Communication barriers are removed by providing technicians with individual tablets, creating a clearer personalized interaction for every customer.

Patrons also will have access to complimentary Wi-Fi, a refreshment bar and a variety of television programming.

To meet the needs of parents, the makeover also provides a children’s play area and family restrooms equipped with diaper changing stations.

The Troy location continues to have 10 employees and

feature multiple service bays to offer additional products and services, such as wheels, shocks and struts, brakes and automotive repair.

The store will be open to serve customers from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 .m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Environmentally conscious construction, operations Tire Discounters utilized high, eco-friendly standards in both store remodeling and ongoing store operations.

Construction includes energy efficient glass and use of recycled rubber materials in landscaping. The store is outfitted with LED lighting and light reflecting roofing reducing energy costs, while provide a

brilliantly lit, illuminated space for customers. Digital in-store presentations and communications will reduce the use of paper, while state-of-the-art energy efficient air compressors and Rotary Shock Wave (car lifts) will save energy.

The eco-friendly construction and operation efficiencies build on current Tire Discounters green initiatives that include recycled oil and tire programs and nitrogen inflation of tires, which significantly extends the life of tires, creates fuel efficiency and cuts down on emissions. Tire Discounters also offers Valvoline MaxLife NextGenT semi-synthetic recycled motor oil as its standard oil in all locations.

Greenville florist brings creations to town

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The Ivy League Florist collaborating with Expressions of the Home For the Troy Daily News

Katie Gabbard truly loves her work.

She spends her days as an artist would, selecting the perfect hues and textures that pleases her palette.

But her artist’s tools aren’t canvas, brushes or paint. Her masterpieces are crafted from petal and plant.

Gabbard is the proprietor and designer of The Ivy League Florist, a petite shop in downtown Greenville that overflows with flowers and plant specimens.

Established nearly seven years ago, Gabbard has found that the secret to her success lies in the details.

“It’s the subtle, unconventional touches that lend personality and thoughtfulness to my work. I love blending materials that are normally not used together like mosscovered bark, velvety celosia and lush cabbage roses … some of my favorite ingredients, ” she said.

Other details, like the small cards listing specific flower ingredients that accompany each bouquet, the ever-changing selection of vintage containers that blooms are paired with, or the signature fragrance that surrounds each of her arrangements keep the reputation of The Ivy League steadily growing.

And her recipe for success seems to be working.

In addition to filling everyday fresh flower orders, she’s worked with blushing brides across Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

Her work has been featured on the popular national wedding blog “Ruffledblog.com” and she is often a source of stylish flowers for photo shoots.

“Our brides are a blast. Girls that come to talk to me about their wedding usually leave my shop a bit surprised … excited, but definitely surprised. Through our creative wedding consultations, we offer unconventional ideas, direction and inspiration that often complete a bride’s vision,”

Poettinger joins realtor company

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Katie Gabbard, owner and designer of The Ivy League Florist in Greenville, works on a flower design. Her work now can be seen and purchased at Expressions of the Home in downtown Troy.

Gabbard said. “Depending on her needs, we regularly source vintage containers, offer styling services and create the details that make the day cohesive and thoughtful.

And that’s not the focus of most flower shops these days.”

When Gabbard recently began thinking of expanding The Ivy League, she knew how important it would be to find a place that held

the same appreciation for detail and set her sights on Troy. She said she believes that there could be no better match than that of Expression of the Home, located at 6 S. Market St., downtown Troy.

Since early spring, she has housed an old-fashioned cooler packed full of flowers within their space.

“Expressions of the Home is

filled with vintage finds along with cool furnishings and never fails to surprise me with a new discovery they’ve uncovered,” Gabbard said. “I couldn’t imagine a more perfect fit for my flowers.”

For more information about The Ivy League Florist, visit www.ivyleagueflorist.com Expressions of the Home can be reached at 332-9227.

TROY — Judy Poettinger has recently joined Troy Prudential One Realtors as a realtor, according to Jeff Apple, regional manager.

Poettinger is a full-time realtor that lives in Tipp City with her husband Steve. They have two grown children, a son, Steven II, and daughter, Laura Neal.

He previous work background includes management, financial software and banking.

“Judy shares Prudential One Realtor’s commitment to quality and customer service,” said Robert Arnold, owner/broker. “Judy is exactly the type of sales professional we are seeking, as we continue to grow the company, and increase our presence in the local community.”

“Prudential One Realtor’s focus on the customer and its goal to provide the best products and services for its sale professionals are what make affiliating with Prudential One Realtors the best choice possible,” Poettinger said.

She can be reached at (937) 418-7544.

The Troy office of Prudential One Realtors is located at 1600 W. Main St., Troy, and the office number is 339-8080.

Women tackle tough job of guarding prisoners CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — One to 64. That ratio comes up time and time again at the Cannon Detention Center, and is never far from the thoughts of the correctional officers who work there.

One guard for every 64 inmates. Yet despite being vastly outnumbered as she paced one of the jail’s open-bay units recently, 38-year-old Abdiva Baxter walked with confidence, head held high, commanding authority from the male inmates who surrounded her.

Some watched idly as she passed by.

Others paid little mind to her, choosing instead to focus their attention on a game of checkers, a nearby television or the blank walls and cold glass that locked them all in.

Baxter welcomed the calm that day.

She had no weapon to protect herself if something were to go wrong — authorities have determined that the added protection wouldn’t be worth the risk of a firearm or stun gun getting into the wrong hands.

With little more than a flashlight, a pair of handcuffs and an alert button to notify other officers, Baxter’s safety largely was at the mercy of those she watched over.

Gone are the days at the Charleston County jail where bars provided some separation between guards and inmates.

Blue cots and bolted tables are dispersed throughout the modernized detention center’s wide, spacious units, where

inmates can sleep and wander, even up to Baxter if they choose. “This job is not for everybody,” Baxter said. “It’s a constant revolving door.”

Baxter said the thought of having little to protect herself frightened her when she first took on the job, but not anymore.

The gritty details amounted to a career that Baxter said she’s come to love.

More and more women are entering the professions of jailer and prison guard.

At a little more than 5 feet tall, most of the jail’s male inmates tower over correctional officer Jamie Ray. The 27-year-old’s small stature isn’t a problem, she said.

She can hold her own.

Women take a number of precautions to ensure their safety as guards. Ray said she doesn’t wear necklaces or loose jewelry that could be used to pull or choke her. She also wears her hair high above her collar.

“Anything can happen. It could take one second for someone to grab one of us. We can hit our button and a response team will come, but it would take them a little bit to get here. It takes a while to get through these doors,” Ray said.

There are about 43,000 female correctional officers nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s most recent tally. The study found that men still outnumber women in the career by more than 100,000.

Amendments to the 1964 Civil Rights

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Abdiva Baxter transcribes a request from an inmate in her housing unit at the Sheriff Al Canon Detention Center in North Charleston on July 10. With little more than a flashlight, a pair of handcuffs and an alert button to notify other officers, Baxter’s safety largely was at the mercy of those she watched over.

Act and other ground-breaking pieces of legislation opened the doors for female correctional officers by exposing prison systems that were operating in an unconstitutional manner, said Kelly Ann Cheeseman, chairwoman of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

Cheeseman worked as a correctional officer in Texas and with the Federal Bureau of Prisons before leaving that career to pursue a Ph.D. in criminal justice. She recently wrote the research study “Women Working in Corrections: Where We Have Been and

Where We are Going.”

Before the early 1970s, women were allowed to work as guards only in women’s facilities, Cheeseman said. Then cases like Dothard v. Rawlinson in 1977 made it harder for prisons to invoke height and weight requirements as a means of excluding women from employment, she said.

But even in the early days of change, women found themselves relegated to minimal tasks, such as keeping watch from a perimeter tower outside the prison’s walls, thereby keeping them from having direct contact with male inmates.

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In this Sept.

20 file photo, visitors flock to the Angel Oak on Johns Island near Charleston, S.C. The tree, a landmark in the South Carolina Lowcountry, is thought to be as many as 500 years old.

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Charming Southern cities: Savannah and Charleston

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — In “Gone With the Wind,” Scarlett O’Hara, comparing Savannah and Charleston to the much younger city of Atlanta, called the older locales “aged grandmothers fanning themselves placidly in the sun.” Today the two waterfront cities are among the South’s most popular tourist destinations, attracting millions of visitors annually with their history, restaurants and streetscapes.

Savannah, the oldest city in Georgia, was established in 1733, and Charleston, the oldest city in South Carolina, was founded in 1670. They’re located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) apart, so it’s easy to visit both on one trip.

Savannah is a walkable city, from the waterfront on the Savannah River to the spacious downtown and historic district. Its streets are made from cobblestone and tabby (ground oyster shells, lime, and sand, mixed with salt water), and it’s known for a series of picturesque, park-like squares, lined with live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss.

The 22 squares include Oglethorpe Square, named for the founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, who laid out the city plan for the squares; Pulaski Square, for the Polish general of the Revolutionary War; and Lafayette, for the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. Telfair Square, named for a prominent family whose roots stretched back to Colonial times, is home to two of the city’s most important museums: the Telfair Academy, an 1819 mansion that became a museum in the 1880s, and the contemporary Jepson Center, designed by the noted architect Moshe Safdie.

Chippewa Square honors American soldiers killed in the Battle of Chippawa (different spelling) in the War of 1812.

The park bench scene in the movie “Forrest Gump” was filmed in Chippewa Square, though the bench was a fiberglass prop.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),

which has made the city its home since 1979, has restored or renovated dozens of old buildings around the city, many of which are now used as dorms and classrooms.

Some student housing adjoins the squares; you can tell by all the bicycles parked in front.

Elsewhere, River Street has its share of stores, tourist gift shops, bars and restaurants. Y’all should try the shrimp and grits and local fish, like the amberjack, a yellowtail.

At City Market is a statue of favorite son Johnny Mercer, songwriter of “Moon River,” ”Days of Wine and Roses” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” among many others, who was born in Savannah. You can also tour the family home, now the Mercer Williams House Museum. Its later occupants included Jim Williams, whose trial for murder was the focus of John Berendt’s 1994 book, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

Mercer and Savannahborn poet Conrad Aiken are buried in Bonaventure Cemetery, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) outside of town in a beautiful setting

alongside the Wilmington River. The cemetery, known for its spooky but romantic statues, memorials and more of those live oaks draping gravesites with Spanish moss, was also featured in “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” The book’s famous cover image showed the cemetery’s hauntingly lovely “Bird Girl” statue, resulting in so much attention that “Bird Girl” was moved to the Telfair Academy.

When you’re done with Savannah’s squares, Southern Gothic ambience and ghost stories, head through the tidal flats of the South Carolina lowcountry to Charleston, about a two-hour drive away. The city was voted the top tourist destination in the U.S. two years in a row by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.

Old-fashioned horse carriage tours offer overviews of Charleston’s architecture and history, and many historic homes and nearby plantations also offer tours.

Middleton Plantation is known for its landscaped gardens as well.

The City Market complex, a National Historic Landmark, is one of the

city’s top attractions. Its open-air market buildings date to the early 1800s, but were given a $5.5 million facelift that was completed in 2011. The 150 vendors sell everything from tourist T-shirts to sweetgrass baskets, handwoven onsite.

On Meeting Street is the site of the former South Carolina Institute Hall, where the Ordinance of Secession was signed Dec. 20, 1860, withdrawing the state from the Union. (A marker notes that the historic building was destroyed by the “Great Fire” of 1861.)

Meeting Street ends at White Point Garden, also known as the Battery, a seawall and promenade from which you can see Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. The fort is now a museum accessible by a half-hour ferry ride or tour boat.

A peninsular city, its waterfront park, clean and inviting like most of Charleston, is on the Cooper River, with the wider Ashley River on the other side of town.

The names come from Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and chief Lord Proprietor

This May 2, 1997, file photo shows The Mercer House, located in historic Savannah, Ga., and is the former home of the late antiques dealer Jim Williams whose story was the subject of author John Berent’s book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

of the Carolina Colony.

Docked on the far side of the Cooper River, at Patriots Point, is the World War II aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown.

Beyond Charleston’s city limits, within 15 miles (24 kilometers) or so, are the Sea Islands: Folly, Johns, James, Kiawah (home of the exclusive golf resort), Seabrook, and Sullivans, among them. It is worth a side trip over one of the “connector” bridges to the southern end of Johns Island to gape at one of nature’s exceptional creations. It is about a mile or two off Bohicket Road and down a dirt road that first appears to lead

nowhere. But there, in an isolated park, is the stunning Angel Oak. This live oak tree, named after the family that once owned the property, is 400 to 500 years old. It’s 65 feet (20 meters) tall and 25 feet (8 meters) in circumference, and its longest limb is nearly 90 feet (28 meters) long. Its area of shade is 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters). Many of its limbs rest on the ground, weighed down by age.

It’s a sight that simply stops an unsuspecting visitor in his tracks, and it’s a fitting end to a visit.

In this May 3 file photo, a carriage tour is stopped before a home in the historic Battery in Charleston, S.C. Charleston, the oldest city in South Carolina, was founded in 1670.

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TODAY’S TIPS • BASEBALL: Troy Post 43 legion baseball will be sponsoring its monthly “All-YouCan-Eat Spaghetti Dinner” from 3-7 p.m.

Oct. 5 at the Post 43 Legion Hall at 622 S. Market St. in Troy. It features all the spaghetti you can eat plus a fresh salad bar, bread, soft drinks, coffee and dessert. The cost is $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

• FOOTBALL: Milton-Union High School’s homecoming game against Carlisle on Oct. 4 is now the Goodwill Stores “Drive to Victory” Game of the Week, a competition to see which school can collect the most clothes, household items, computers and even vehicles that will be donated to Goodwill.

The Goodwill “Drive to Victory” Truck, where goods are to be placed, is located in the Memorial Stadium parking lot. Donations will end at 11 a.m. on game day.

• COACHING SEARCH: Lehman Junior High School is accepting coaching applications for the following positions: seventh and eighth grade boys and girls basketball and wrestling. Applications can be found on the Lehman website or picked up in the main office.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@civitasmedia.com or Colin Foster at colinfoster@civitasmedia.com.

September 29, 2013

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Feelin’ it after all

Sinning leads Devils to Miami County win Colin Foster

Associate Sports Editor

WEST MILTON — Tippecanoe’s Allison Sinning wasn’t feeling it when she arrived at the Miami County Invitational Saturday.

“At the start line I was like ‘I don’t want to run.’ I just wasn’t feeling it today. We had a pretty hard week, a hard last two weeks on training, and my right leg was kind of bothering me,” Sinning said.

But the great ones always fight through pain — and all of those

feelings inside her were erased once the start gun went off.

Sinning — a state placer last season — went out and broke Miami East graduate Juli Accurso’s meet record, scorching the course at the Lowry Complex in a time of 18:40. It was her second consecutive Miami County title.

“As soon as I got out there, I felt a lot better, and I kind of had to keep Staff photo/Colin Foster reminding me this is a race and really try to push myself,” she said. A group of Tippecanoe runners, led by eventual first-place

finisher Allison Sinning (far left), runs at the Miami County • See DEVILS on page A11 Invitational Saturday at the Lowry Complex.

Devil girls get revenge vs. Braves Staff Reports

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY No events scheduled MONDAY Boys Golf Troy/Tippecanoe at Northmont (4 p.m.)

Girls Golf Alter at Troy (at Miami Shores) (4 p.m.)

Boys Soccer Tippecanoe at Bellefontaine (7:15 p.m.)

Dayton Christian at Bethel (7 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Troy at Wayne (7 p.m.)

Bellefontaine at Tippecanoe (7:15 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Dixie (6 p.m.)

Volleyball Troy at Butler (7 p.m.)

Versailles at Covington (7 p.m.)

Piqua at GWOC Tourney (TBA) Jackson Center at Lehman (7 p.m.)

TUESDAY Girls Golf Division I Sectional At Kitty Hawk Troy, Piqua (8 a.m.)

Boys Soccer Troy at Sidney (7 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Madison (6 p.m.)

Botkins at Newton (5 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Fairlawn (5 p.m.)

Piqua at Trotwood (5:30 p.m.)

Temple Christian at Lehman (5 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Madison at Milton-Union (7:30 p.m.)

Bethel at Botkins (5 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Yellow Springs (5 p.m.)

Tennis Division II Sectional - At Troy Tippecanoe, Milton-Union, Lehman (9 a.m.)

Volleyball Urbana at Tippecanoe (6:30 p.m.)

Madison at Milton-Union (7 p.m.)

Miami East at Covington (7 p.m.)

National Trail at Bethel (7 p.m.)

Arcanum at Newton (7 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Yellow Springs (6:15 p.m.)

Bradford at Mississinawa Valley (7 p.m.)

New Bremen at Lehman (7 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY Boys Golf Division I Sectional Troy, Tippecanoe, Piqua (at Reid Park) (8 a.m.)

Girls Golf Division II District at Pipestone Tippecanoe, Covington (8 a.m.)

Boys Soccer Tecumseh at Tippecanoe (7:15 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Sidney at Troy (7 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Tecumseh (7:15 p.m.)

Trotwood at Piqua (5:30 p.m.)

Tennis Division I Sectional - At Troy Troy, Piqua (9 a.m.)

Cross Country Troy, Bethel at Tippecanoe Invitational (5 p.m.)

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Tippecanoe’s Mitch Poynter and Troy Christian’s Zac Garver compete at the Miami County Invitational Saturday.

Top heavy

Troy wins County behind strength of Jones, Nosker JOSH BROWN Sports Editor

WEST MILTON — Tippecanoe boys cross country coach Byron Kimmel knew it would be tough for his Red Devils to win an eighth straight Miami County Invitational.

“I knew it would be tough to beat Troy,” he said. “They’re better up front, but we’ve got better depth.”

That top-heaviness at the top of the Trojan lineup was the deciding factor.

Stephen Jones and Branden Nosker finished first and second, respectively, and that coupled with good races from the rest of Troy’s top five proved to be the difference — even though all five of Tippecanoe’s runners finished in the top 10 scoring-wise — as Troy won in the team standings 28-31 at the Lowry Complex at MiltonUnion High School.

But to be honest, the Trojans had something else on their mind — times.

Jones won the race in 15:51 and Nosker was second in 15:55, putting them in elite company at Troy High School.

“Before today, only two guys at Troy had gone under 16 minutes: Levi Fox and Josh Enke,” Troy coach Bob Campbell said.

“They’re the third and fourth guys ever to break that barrier.

That’s some pretty good com-

pany to be in.

“It’d be nice to beat Tipp and win the meet, but the times are what I care about. That’s what really matters.”

“We were both aiming to break 16, and we did it,” Jones said. “We’ve been putting in the work all week to get here, and it paid off.”

“It feels great,” Nosker said.

“We both put in a good effort today and a lot of work during the week. I was just trying to stay with (Jones).”

Mitch Poynter finished third in 16:23 to lead the Red Devils, edging out Troy Christian’s Zac Garver, who was fourth in 16:25.

“I was hoping Mitch could get up there and break them (Jones and Nosker) up,” Kimmel said.

“Mitch beat Branden at Alliance, but Stephen and Branden both ran solid today. And we ran about how I thought we would — which was pretty good.”

Daniel Frame was sixth (16:30) and Jay Schairbaum was seventh (16:41) for Tippecanoe, Jared Rindler was 10th (17:21) and Evan Wharton was 11th (17:21) to round out the scoring for the Devils.

Blake Guillozet was fifth (16:28) for the Trojans, Troy Schultz was eighth (16:45) and Josh Spayde was 17th (17:38).

“We had all kinds of guys run their best race of the year today,” Campbell said. “Blake

Staff photos/Colin Foster

Troy’s Stephen Jones won the Miami County Invitational, leading the Trojans to a first-place finish as a team Saturday at the Lowry Complex.

hasn’t broken 17 all year, and he broke 16:30 today. Troy, he just can’t go out real hard, and he still was in the 16:40s. And we finally got Josh to run the race he’s capable of. It was a great team effort today.

“I did a little verbal buttkicking this past week. We’re a month away from the regional now. It’s time for guys to step up, to show leadership and start attacking races. We’ve got a little more confidence after today.

We’ll see if it carries over.”

Garver was happy to be able to break up the Troy and Tipp dominance at the top — mainly because of his time.

“My goal today was to break 16:30, and I did it. I was happy to do that,” Garver said. “It was a great day to come out. Great temperature, great course — it was a great day to run PRs. “My goal now is to keep training hard, break 16 and make it to state. Anything better than that is just a gift, I guess.”

Newton’s Brady McBride also cracked the top 10, finishing ninth overall (17:01).

Team-wise, Milton-Union was third place with 106 points.

Colton Graumen was 20th (17:47), Kyle Swartz was 25th (18:02), River Spicer was 27th (18:14), Luke Ferguson was 31st (18:31) and Zack Pricer was 37th (18:52).

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TIPP CITY — Four matchups in a row.

Twice last year — including a 4-0 seasonending loss in the tournament.

The Tippecanoe girls soccer team had built up a lot of payback to dish out to Indian Hill.

And that’s exactly what the Red Devils did Saturday afternoon at Tipp City Park, rallying from a 2-1 deficit in the second half to knock off the Braves 3-2 and remain unbeaten on the season.

McKenzie Logan put the Devils on the board first, but the Braves tied the score going into halftime and took a one-goal lead early in the second half.

But Jenna Zuzolo evened things up, and Sarah Harmer drove home the eventual game-winning goal.

The Devils outshot the Braves 6-3 in the game.

The win was Tippecanoe’s fifth in its last six games, with the only blemish a 0-0 tie Monday against Springfield Shawnee. The 9-0-3 Red Devils host Bellefontaine Monday.

Lehman 4, Greeneview 0 SIDNEY — Lehman bounced back from its loss to Miami East earlier this week, shutting out Greenview 4-0 Saturday night.

Taylor Lachey and Ashley Keller each had a goal and an assist, Hannah Fogt had a goal and Maddie Franklin and Lauren Goetemoeller each had an assist.

Lehman (10-1-1) travels to Troy Christian Thursday.

• Boys Miami East 2, Fairlawn 0 CASSTOWN — The Miami East Vikings improved to 8-5 on the season with a 2-0 victory over Fairlawn Saturday.

After the Jets failed to score on a penalty kick with 22 minutes left in • See ROUNDUP on page A11

Young Trojans take 8th at GWOC tourney Staff Reports

Reds lose chance to host wild card The Reds gave up six home runs and lost home-field advantage for the wild-card playoff.

They had to scramble their postseason rotation because of an injury Uh-oh.

Neil Walker hit two of Pittsburgh’s six homers — its biggest power surge in six years — and the Pirates clinched home-field advantage for the NL’s wild card playoff game by beating Cincinnati 8-3 Saturday.

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CENTERVILLE — Troy’s youth put it in a bad position early.

But it’ll only help the Trojans in the future.

All of the Trojans lost in the first round at the Greater Western Ohio Conference Gold Flight tennis tournament Saturday morning at Centerville High School, leading to an eighth-place finish with 10 points.

“When you don’t get anybody out of the first round, it’s tough,” Troy coach Mark Goldner said. “ Freshman Hannah Essick

had the signature win for Troy. After falling in the first round and falling behind Centerville’s Ashley Amiri 6-1 in the consolation bracket, Essick fought back to win a 9-8 tiebreaker and ended up finishing sixth at first singles.

“Hannah probably had our best win of the day,” Goldner said. “She was down 6-1 in her second-round match against Centerville and won in a tiebreaker.”

Shelby Arnett also took sixth place at third singles.

After dropping her first-round match, Arnett routed Butler’s E. Miller 8-1 before falling in her finals match.

At first doubles, Noelle Culp and Marina Wehrkamp took seventh, dropping their first two matches before defeating Greenville’s Abby Monnin and Erin Scott 8-4.

Maggie Hennessy was eighth at second singles, while the second doubles team of Zoey Scancarello and Akari Nagata was also eighth.

“We didn’t play particularly well today, and other kids played well. Some girls we beat during the season beat us today,” Goldner said. “But I can’t be disappointed. At the beginning of the year, I didn’t think we’d make the top eight and play in the gold

flight tournament. It was good experience for the girls we’ve got coming back. They got involved, saw the atmosphere and now they know what it’ll take. They’ve seen all the good players and can work towards getting better next year.

“The girls weren’t pleased with how they played, and that’s good. Now they can take it the next level next year.”

Springboro won (32), Centerville was second (31) and Miamisburg was third (29).

The Trojans play at the Division I sectional tournament Wednesday in Troy.

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WEEK 5 RESULTS MIamisburg 23, Troy 14 Miamisburg Troy 20 First Downs 8 358 Yards Rushing 203 53 Yards Passing 28 7-13 Comp.-Att. 3-14 3 Interceptions Thrown 1 1-1 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 9-65 Penalties-Yards 2-22 2-42.0 Punts-Average 5-35.4 Scoring Summary Troy – Miles Hibbler 59-yard run (Drew Burghardt kick).

Miamisburg – Chris Yerkins 48-yard run (Max Dungan kick) Troy – Hibbler 16-yard run (Burghardt kick).

Miamisburg – Chris Young 67-yard run (Dungan kick).

Miamisburg – Young 5-yard run (Dungan kick).

Miamisburg – Sack in end zone for a safety.

Score by Quarters Troy.................7 7 0 0 – 14 MIamisburg ...0 7 7 9 – 23 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Miamisburg — Lance Brockman 1-7, Camryn Snow 5-(-4), Young 22-148, Yerkins 22-207. Troy — Matt Barr 4-3, Hibbler 20-138, Joe McGillivary 4-34, T.J. Michael 222, Elijah Pearson 1-6.

■ Receiving: Miamisburg — Snow 3-27, Adam Giles 4-26.

Troy — Hibbler 1-7, Austin Kyzer 1-6, Alex Magoteaux 115.

■ Passing: Miamisburg — Brockman 7-13-3 53. Troy — Barr 3-14-1 28.

■ Records: Miamisburg 4-1, Troy 2-3.

Miami East 42, Mississinawa Valley 7 Miami East MV 16 First Downs 12 296 Yards Rushing 196 64 Yards Passing 0 3-5 Comp.-Att. 0-8 0 Interceptions Thrown 3 3-2 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 5-50 Penalties-Yards 3-15 Scoring Summary ME — Alex Brewer 20-yard run (Michael Fellers kick).

ME — Brewer 77-yard run (Fellers kick).

ME — Colton McKinney 12yard pass from Conner Hellyer (Fellers kick).

ME — Fellers 44-yard pass from Hellyer (Fellers kick).

ME — Fellers 1-yard run (2point conversion good).

ME — Fellers 21-yard run (2point conversion failed).

MV — Dane Blumenstock 56yard run (Mason Roark kick).

Score by Quarters MV...................0 0 0 7 – 7 ME .................21 7 14 0 – 42 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Mississinawa Valley — Trent Gilbert 21-42, Lane Livingston 7-24, Dane Blumenstock 13-99, Carson Stump 1-(-2), Cameron Anquiano 1-2, Zach Dirmeyer 131. Miami East — Fellers 7-71, McKinney 7-61, Brewer 8-138, Hellyer 1-1, Robbie Adams 1-2, Levi Adducchio 6-19, Bryce Redick 2-2, Arron Adams 1-2.

■ Receiving: Mississinawa Valley — None. Miami East — Braxton Donaldson 1-8, McKinney 1-12, Fellers 1-44.

■ Passing: Mississinawa Valley — Stump 0-7-2-0, Tyler Jenkinson 0-1-1-0. Miami East — Hellyer 3-5-0-64.

■ Records: Mississinawa Valley 0-5, 0-4. Miami East 5-0, 4-0.

Springboro 52, Piqua 34 Springboro Piqua 26 First Downs 11 261 Yards Rushing 320 297 Yards Passing 62 16-27 Comp.-Att. 3-6 1 Interceptions Thrown 0 0-0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 10-90 Penalties-Yards 5-50 1-44.0 Punts-Average5-29.2 Scoring Summary SBoro — Joe Kylin 11-yard run (Charlie Kubander kick).

SBoro — DL Knock 95-yard pass from Jack Schaaf (Kubander kick).

Piq — Trent Yeomans 47yard run (Caleb Vallieu kick).

SBoro — Kylin 4-yard run (Kubander kick).

Piq — Yeomans 6-yard run (Vallieu kick).

SBoro — Patrick O’Gara 12-yard pass from Schaaf (Kubander kick).

SBoro — Kevin Earles 10yard return of blocked punt (Kubander kick).

SBoro — Kubander 39-yard field goal.

Piq — Yeomans 68-yard run (Vallieu kick).

SBoro — Schaaf 57-yard run (Kubander kick).

Piq — Yeomans 75-yard run (kick failed).

SBoro — Jordan Rigg 12yard pass from Schaaf (Kubander kick).

Piq — Tate Honeycutt 64yard pass from Dan Monnin (Vallieu kick).

Score by Quarters Springboro..14 21 10 7 – 52 Piqua ............7 7 13 7 – 34 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Springboro — Schaaf 17-133, Kylin 22-128.

Piqua — Yeomans 23-305, Austin Reedy 4-16, Darrien Tipps-Clemons, 2-(-1).

■ Receiving: Springboro — Knock 6-157, O'Gara 6-99, Rigg 3-38, Adam Hendizadeh 1-3. Piqua — Honeycutt 2-60, Noah Gertner 2-2.

■ Passing: Springboro — Schaaf 15-27-1 297. Piqua — Monnin 3-6-0 62.

■ Records: Springboro 4-1.

Piqua 1-4.

Tippecanoe 69, Ben Logan 0 Ben Logan Tippecanoe 3 First Downs 16 14 Yards Rushing 310 30 Yards Passing 180 5-9 Comp.-Att. 5-7 2 Interceptions Thrown 0 5-1 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-15 Penalties-Yards 3-20 7-28.7 Punts-Average1-47.0 Scoring Summary Tipp – Jarret Wasson 12yard pass from Ben Hughes (Taylor Clark kick).

Tipp – Sean Ford 53-yard pass from Hughes (Clark kick).

Tipp – Cameron Johnson 27-yard run (Clark kick).

Tipp – Ford 83-yard pass from Hughes (Clark kick).

Tipp – Alex Hall 26-yard pass from Zack Blair (Clark kick).

Tipp – Jacob Hall 14-yard run (Clark kick).

Tipp – Jacob Hall 4-yard run (Clark kick).

Tipp – Ford 6-yard pass from Hughes (Clark kick).

Tipp – Jacob Hall 47-yard run (Clark kick).

Tipp – Chris Garber 13yard run (kick failed).

Score by Quarters Ben Logan ...0 0 0 0 – 0 Tippecanoe .28 21 14 6 – 69 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Ben Logan — Brady Bechtel 11-14, David Wenger 6-8, Joel Dixon 5-(-9), Mack Horton 4-(-5), Beau Swank 3-6. Tippecanoe — Jacob Hall 7-126, Johnson 355, Geordie Heddleston 2-20, Ford 1-12, Hughes 1-19, Blair 1-15, Cameron Gibbs 4-30, Jakob Prall 1-12, Garber 4-16, Gabe Callicoat 1-0, Brandon Roberts 1-2, Erik Januszak 15, Noah Carlson 1-(-2).

■ Receiving: Ben Logan — Wenger 4-29, Horton 1-1.

Tippecanoe — Ford 3-142, Wasson 1-10, Alex Hall 1-26.

■ Passing: Ben Logan — Dixon 5-9-2 30. Tippecanoe — Hughes 4-5-0 154, Blair 1-1-0 26, Carlson 0-1-0 0.

■ Records: Ben Logan 0-5.

Tippecanoe 5-0.

Troy Christian 27, Bethel-Tate 7 TC B-T 12 First Downs 9 208 Yards Rushing 115 36 Yards Passing 98 2-12 Comp.-Att. 5-17 0 Interceptions Thrown 3 1-1 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 7-45 Penalties-Yards 6-35 Scoring Summary B-T – Sam Price 72-yard pass from Blake Norris (Dillon Scott kick).

TC – Scott Douglas 6-yard run (Seth Wynne kick).

TC – Douglas 68-yard punt return (kick failed).

TC – Luke Dillahunt 69-yard punt return (Wynne kick).

TC – Jacob Calvert 4-yard run (Wynne kick).

Score by Quarters TC .................0 7 13 7 – 27 Bethel-Tate...7 0 0 0 – 7 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Troy Christian — Dillahunt 12-89, Calvert 1157, Chase Hayden 4-6, Hayden Hartman 1-2, Levi Sims 6-1, Douglas 8-43, Garrett Hancock 2-10. BethelTate — Blace Haviland 14-30, Norris 15-61, Stephen Cooper 5-21, Scott 3-3.

■ Receiving: Troy Christian — Hayden 1-20, Peyton Spurlock 1-16. Bethel-Tate — Price 2-75, Haviland 1-16, Tler Krekler 1-1, Cooper 1-6.

■ Passing: Troy Christian — Sims 1-9-0 16, Hartman 13-0 20. Bethel-Tate — Norris 5-17-3 98.

■ Records: Troy Christian 3-2. Bethel-Tate 1-4.

Covington 46, Bradford 0 Bradford Covington 7 First Downs 18 -11 Yards Rushing 431 81 Yards Passing 0 0-0 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 7-70 Penalties-Yards 11-85 Scoring Summary Cov – A.J. Ouellette 72-yard run (Bobby Alexander kick).

Cov – Ouellette 60-yard punt return (kick failed).

Cov – Ouellette 63-yard run (Alexander kick).

Cov – Jared Williams 11-yard run (Alexander kick).

Cov – Ouellette 27-yard run (kick failed).

Cov – Bobby Alexander 3yard run (kick failed).

Cov– Brandon Magee 7-yard run (Alexander kick).

Cov – Justin Williams 10-yard run (Alexander kick).

Score by Quarters Bradford ........0 0 0 0 – 0 Covington.....33 13 0 0 – 46 ■ Records: Bradford 0-5, 0-4., Covington 5-0, 4-0.

Other scores Madison (3-2, 2-0) 40, Milton-Union (0-5, 0-1) 31 Tri-County North (5-0, 4-0) 50, Bethel (2-3, 2-2) 0 Lehman (4-1) 57, Riverside (2-3) 0

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What could have been Trojans must now put losses behind them

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor dfong@civitasmedia.com TROY — There likely will come a time when all the players and coaches for the Troy High School football team will look back on the first half of this season and wonder, “What if?”

Now, however, is not that time.

Troy suffered yet another heartbreaking loss Friday, falling 23-14 to Miamisburg to drop to 2-3.

In all three losses, Troy had its chances to win — and largely was undone by its own doing. Against Chaminade Julienne in Week 1, costly fumbles were the difference in the game. Against Springfield Shawnee, Troy’s inability to wrap up and make tackles spelled defeat. Against Miamisburg, it was the inability to haul in passes during crucial moments in the game.

That, however, is in the past. While Friday’s loss put Troy’s playoff hopes on life support, there still remains a big prize to play for — the chance to win the Trojans’ first league championship since 2000.

Now that its non-conference schedule is complete, Troy will play the final five weeks of the season against Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division competition. If Troy can win out, it will do something that hasn’t been done in more than a decade.

First, however, some final notes from Troy’s 2314 loss to Miamisburg: • Player of the Game Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

For the fourth week in a row, Miles Hibbler turned in a stellar performance.

Troy’s senior tailback carried the ball 20 times for 138 yards and both of Troy’s touchdowns. At the midway points of the season, Hibbler has rushed for more than 800 yards — easily putting him on track to become Troy’s first 1,000-yard rusher since Matt Allen last accomplished that feat in 2008.

None of Troy’s first five opponents have been able to hold him under 100 yards rushing. In the Trojans’ last three games, Hibbler has carried the ball 103 times for nearly 600 yards and nine touchdowns.

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Troy defensive lineman Hayden Willis tries to shed a Friday.

• Unsung Hero down run.

Against of the Game Springfield last week, he It’s hard to imagine got the ball on the second what more Seth Overla play of the game and broke could do for the Trojans. loose for a 79-yard touchHe plays nearly the entire down run.

Against game at both defensive end Miamisburg, he did it and tight end for the again, getting the ball on Trojans — basically put- the game’s second play and ting his body through a scoring on a 59-yard run. meat grinder on a weekly In three of Troy’s first basis. five games, Hibbler has Friday night against scored on a touchdown run Miamisburg, he was at it of 50 yards or more on the again, lining up to get hit game’s second play. by opposing linemen — Against Miamisburg, he nearly all of whom out- get free at the line of weigh the 225-pound scrimmage and simply outOverla by anywhere from ran the Viking defense to 25-50 pounds or more — put the Trojans up 7-0 on every play. In addition early. to getting in on his usual • What We Learned number of tackles, the Troy remains a team rangy Overla also dropped looking for a way to close back into pass coverage out games. Much like last and recorded one of Troy’s year — when the Trojans three interceptions on the lost five games by a comnight. bined total of 35 points, • Play of the Game Troy struggles in close A word of warning to games. This season, Troy’s Troy’s five remaining three losses have come by oppoents: Watch out for a combined total of 26 Hibbler on every play of points. the game — but pay particTroy has got to find a ular attention to him on way to get over the hump. the second play of the Troy likely will be in doggame. fights the remainder of the Against CJ, Hibbler season — figuring out a took the ball on the second way to make big plays play of the game and when they are needed scored on a 57-yard touch- most could be what sepa-

block against Miamisburg rates the Trojans from being a great team or an average team.

There is, however, hope.

Troy’s defense — much maligned through the first games of the season after giving up 30 points or more in consecutive games for the first time since 2008 — has turned in three solid performances.

It hasn’t been dominating, but it’s been solid — and have continued to improve with each passing week.

• What Happens Next Troy opens GWOC North play against Sidney — a team it hasn’t lost to since 2009, but also a team that is much improved over previous years. After going 4-26 the past three years, the Yellowjackets already are 3-2 this season.

The Yellowjackets gave Troy first last season, hanging around until the Trojans were able to pull away for good in the fourth quarter. This year’s Sidney team is better than that one. Troy will have to be at its best to open GWOC North play with a win — and eliminate the propensity to make mistakes it has shown through the first half of the season.

5-0 teams gear up for real challenges

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com The gap between the haves and have-nots is a big one.

That, or Week 5 featured some coincidental scheduling — fortunately or unfortunately coincidental, depending on which a team was, a have or a have-not.

Three Miami County teams — Miami East, Covington and Tippecanoe — entered the week with 4-0 records, and all three were matched up against teams with 0-4 marks. And everything went just as expected, with all three improving to 50 without breaking a sweat.

Covington and Tippecanoe in particular had easy times of it. Bradford lost ground on the ground against the Buccaneers with negative-11 yards for the game, and Covington scored five touchdowns in the first quarter alone. A.J. Ouellette added three more rushing touchdowns and another punt return for a score in the game, and four other Buccs found the end zone in the win.

Covington led 46-0 at halftime, and that turned out to be the final.

The Buccs have their biggest test of the season so far next week against TriCounty North, a game that will go a long way in determining the Cross County Conference’s pecking order.

The Red Devils, meanwhile, scored touchdowns on its first two plays from scrimmage — and, in fact, had four possessions that only took one play to score on. A 49-0 half-

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Miami East’s Michael Fellers carries the ball during the Vikings’ victory over Mississinawa Valley Friday night. time lead turned into a 69-0 victory over Ben Logan in a game that took only two hours to finish.

It was the widest margin of victory for the Devils this season — but only by a point.

Tippecanoe hammered Graham 68-0 in Week 1.

Tippecanoe has won its five games by an average score of 56.8-4 and has posted three shutouts. But now the Devils open up Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division play next week at 3-2 Bellefontaine, and they will be challenged more than they have been for the next five weeks.

The same can be said for

the Vikings, even if they already have four CCC wins under their belt. Miami East was up 28-0 at halftime and cruised to a 42-7 win over Mississinawa Valley. Now the Vikings have a trip to county rival Bethel in Week 6 — a rivalry that has seen its share of surprises — before facing Covington and Tri-County North (which defeated Bethel 50-0 Friday night) back-toback.

Milton-Union, meanwhile, stumbled to 0-5 with its fourth close loss on the season, falling 40-31 at Middletown Madison to open Southwestern Buckeye League Buckeye Division

play. The game broke a twoweek scoring drought by the Bulldogs, but Madison (3-2, 20) had enough offense to hold on.

Now Milton-Union returns home to face Carlisle, still in search of win No. 1.

After taking a full year off last season, the Troy Christian Eagles will take two weeks off after their 27-7 victory at Bethel-Tate Friday night. A pair of third-quarter punt returns for touchdowns — one by Scott Douglas and the other by Luke Dillahunt — sent Troy Christian into its bye period with a 3-2 record, an impressive feat for the resurrected program. They will be back in action on Oct. 18.

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A host of runners break the starting line at the Miami County Invitational Saturday.

DEVILS From page A9 Sinning was in front from start to finish, gaining separation from Covington’s Carly Shell as the race progressed. Shell, who finished second overall (19:13), tried to stay with her, but Sinning was just on another level Saturday.

“It was a PR, I can’t complain about that,” Shell said. “I thought I ran a pretty good race.

I wanted to try and stay close to her (Sinning), but she is really fast.”

The rest of the Red Devils ran pretty fast themselves.

As expected, state-ranked Tippecanoe ran away with the team title, scoring 19 points.

The top seven runners from Tipp combined for an average time of 19:43 and all seven were in the top 19.

Hailey Brumfield finished third (19:33), and she was followed by Brinna Price (fourth place, 19:54), Emily Wolfe (fifth, 20:06), Abby Halsey (sixth, 20:18), Kelly Rhoades (17th, 21:15) and Claudia Barhorst (19th, 21:28).

“Yeah (we expected to win),” Sinning said. “I’m not trying to be cocky, because we aren’t that way — but we were thinking that we couldn’t let anybody

beat us. We’ve only lost one time this year, and that was in the D-I race at Alliance. We were pretty happy, we were only one point away.

“Our team is awesome. This is the most talented group of people I’ve ever seen. Everyone wants to work hard, and nobody slacks off at practice. Everyone is pretty awesome. We have a good pack and girls that want to compete — and that’s awesome.

I love it.”

Troy placed second as a team with 53 points — putting seven runners in the top 20 spots.

The Trojans’ pack was led

by Rachel Davidson (seventh, 20:27) and Natalie Snyder (eighth, 20:31). Abby Pence (11th, 20:46) and Megan Falknor (12th, 20:47) were close behind, while Bridget McCormick (15th, 21:06), Katie-Grace Sawka (16th, 21:14) and Ayna North (20th, 21:31) rounded out the top seven.

“We knew Tipp City was going to run away with it — that’s fine, they did their thing,” Troy girls coach Kevin Alexander said.

“But our girls just went after it, and I couldn’t be more pleased.

Our girls really raced a technically smart race, let other teams

go out, and once they got in the woods, they started picking people off.”

“We’ve done the pack running all year. We know we don’t have that one girl that will go out, but almost from our first girl to our 29th girl ran competitive. I’m very pleased with our team from head-to-toe. They went out and competed. The times took care of themselves.”

Covington finished third with 69 points, Miami East took fourth (99 points).

Aside from Shell, the Buccs got strong performances from freshman Anna Dunn (ninth, 20:36) and Hannah Retz (13th, 20:49).

Freshman Lorenza Savini was the top performer from Miami East, finishing 10th in a time of 20:39. Senior teammate Abigael Amheiser placed 14th (20:50).

Milton-Union freshman Lauren Meredith broke up an all Tipp, Troy, Covington and Miami East top 20. She was the only runner from another school to crack the top 20 spots — finishing 18th in a time of 21:18. The Bulldogs placed fifth as a team with 139.

Rounding out the team standings were Piqua in sixth (164 points) and Troy Christian in

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From page A9 Covington was fourth with 115 points. Nate Dunn was 15th (17:37), Alex Schilling was 19th (17:46), Lane White was 23rd (17:57), Sam Sherman was 45th (19:13) and Steven Shane was 39th (19:46).

Miami East was fifth with 122 points, led by

From page A9 the game, Devin Baldasare scored on an assist from Colton Holicki with 17 minutes on the clock to give the Vikings the lead. And with seven minutes to go, Holicki set up a goal by Austin Kowalak.

“We came out sluggish and sleepwalked through the first half, but we picked up the intensity in the second half and finished strong,” Miami East coach Adam Bell said.

Miami East travels to Twin Valley South Thursday.

Luke Mengos in 26th (18:07). Piqua was sixth (136), led by Andy Mayse (14th, 17:32). Bethel was seventh (219), led by Chase Heck (55th, 19:35).

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Indian Hill 3, Tippecanoe 2 TIPP CITY — Even though Tippecanoe’s boys couldn’t end their losing streak to Indian Hill, they still came away with a result that they can take something

Milton-Union’s Lauren Meredith runs Covington’s Carly Shell finished at the Miami County Invitational second at the Miami County Saturday.

Invitational Saturday.

seventh (201).

Senior Courtney Bensman (36th, 22:33) was the top Indian finisher, while Troy Christian was led by junior Cassandra Mendez (66th, 25:33).

Marieke van Harren was the highest finisher for Bethel (52nd, 23:37). Newton was led by Jasmine Ingle (64th, 25:30).

Neither school had a full team at the event.

Troy’s Rachel Davidson competes at the Miami County Invitational Saturday.

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The Devils (8-3) fought back to tie the score twice, but in the end the Braves found a way to put home a third goal and come away with a 3-2 victory Saturday at Tipp City Park.

“They’re state-ranked and having a great season,” Tippecanoe coach Scott Downing said. “The good news is that if you look at their record against teams like Carroll, Bishop Fenwick and some of the best teams in Cincinnati, they’re all 0-0 or 1-0. So now we know we can play with some of the better teams in Dayton and Cincinnati now.”

Ryan Kagy put home both goals — the first of which tied the score at 1-1 with seven second left in the first half — on headers off of

Jon Pfister throw-ins.

“The last three years, they’ve gotten us,” Downing said.

“Tonight we came out playing real well, I thought a little better than them. But all of a sudden, we make one mistake in the back and we’re down a goal. We had a couple of other chances to tie it at the end of the game, too.”

Tippecanoe travels to Bellefontaine Monday before a matchup between another team that’s unbeaten in Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division play against Tecumseh Wednesday.

The Miami East-Piqua girls and Milton-Union-Piqua scores were not reported at time of press.

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Newton’s Brady McBride competes at the Miami County Invitational Saturday.

LEWISBURG — The MiltonUnion volleyball team won in four games on the road, knocking off Tri-County North 25-23, 16-25, 25-19, 25-10 Saturday in non-league play.

“This was a real good win for us against an opponent who has given us problems in the past,” Milton-

Union coach Bill Ginn said. “To go over there and get a win is a real momentum-builder as we get into the last stretch of the season.”

Kinsey Douglas led the way with 17 kills, Christine Heisey had 30 assists, Kaylee Swartztrauber had 12 digs and Kaitlyn Thompson had 11.

“Kinsey just played an excellent game in the middle for us,” Ginn

said. “She scorched them with 17 kills and had a handful of blocks, as well. I told Christine to get her the ball, and she responded. They tried doubling her, tripling her — today it just wasn’t going to happen. She was on top of her game.”

Milton-Union (11-4) hosts Madison Tuesday in a Southwestern Buckeye League Buckeye Division matchup.

Stabbed fan’s dad to speak

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The father of a Dodgers fan fatally stabbed Wednesday during a melee following a Giants baseball game is planning to make a public plea for witnesses after San Francisco’s district attorney said he lacks evidence to charge a suspect who has been released.

A family member said the victim’s father plans to speak outside the Giants’ stadium at noon before the scheduled 1:05 p.m. PDT Sunday game with the San Diego Padres.

The suspect, Michael Montgomery, 21, was released from custody Friday night after District Attorney George Gascon said police had insufficient evidence to charge him in the death of Jonathan Denver, 24.

Gascon said police had not spoken with any independent witnesses who may have witnessed the fight Wednesday night. The victim’s father, Robert Preece, believes someone may have recorded the melee with mobile phones, said Preece’s sister Jill Preece Haro.

“We have reason to believe someone recorded this,” Haro said in Troy’s Branden Nosker runs at the Miami County Invitational. a phone interview, adding that

Denver’s father and others with him saw bystanders were using cellphone cameras. “We’re calling on them to come forward to help both families find out what happened.”

Haro said the victim’s father, who works as security guard at Dodger Stadium, and other family members were motivated to travel from his Southern California home to make his public plea after Montgomery’s release and Gascon’s explanation for not charging Montgomery.

“The San Francisco Police Department has provided us an initial investigation,” Gascon said in a written statement Friday night.

“However, not all witnesses have been interviewed, nor have any independent witnesses of the incident been interviewed. We have requested this and other evidence be collected before we can make an assessment on whether charges should be filed.”

The San Francisco Police Department didn’t return phone calls Saturday.

Haro said the father plans to issue his call for witnesses to come forward at the ballpark’s Willie Mays

statue. The victim’s mother and brother also will be present.

“This is how he wants to address the media,” said Haro, who said she divides her time living in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Covina, Calif. “We are still formulating a plan, but we’re coming up.”

Denver was stabbed to death after attending the game with his brother, father and two others to celebrate his father’s 49th birthday. Denver lived in Fort Bragg, a Northern California city about 170 miles north of San Francisco.

The group, many wearing Dodger garb, left the park after the 8th inning for a nearby bar. At some point, they got into a shouting match over the Dodgers with Montgomery and a few friends who were bar-hopping in the trendy South of Market area. At least one was wearing a Giants cap.

“The back and forth, ‘Go Dodgers!’ ‘Go Giants!’” Police Chief Greg Suhr said. “And it deteriorated from there.”

Suhr said Montgomery made “incriminating statements” that led to his booking the night after the stabbing.

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Ohio State wide receiver Evan Spencer, left, celebrates his touchdown against Wisconsin with teammate Jeff Heuerman during the first quarter Saturday in Columbus. No. 4 Ohio State led No. 23 Wisconsin 24-14 at halftime at time of press.

Too early?

Coaches, recruits say it’s not COLUMBUS – It was a full house on Saturday night at Ohio Stadium.

A full house in the seats. And a full house in the recruiting room when OSU welcomed a long list of recruits to its Big Ten football opener against Wisconsin.

Some were class of 2014 seniors making official visits. Others were class of 2015 juniors on unofficial visits.

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer loves the atmosphere that envelops recruits at night games, so he brought in a big group of prospects.

Eighteen high school seniors have already verbally committed to sign with Ohio State in February. When everybody is signed, sealed and delivered, OSU’s recruiting class could be around 24 or 25 recruits.

If recent history is an indicator, five or six of those recruits will have graduated early from high school and will already be enrolled at Ohio State when national signing day comes around on Feb. 5.

This year, cornerbacks Cameron Burrows and Eli Apple, defensive ends Tyquan Lewis and Tracy Sprinkle and quarterback J.T. Barrett entered OSU in January.

In 2012, linebacker Joshua Perry, offensive linemen Jacoby Boren and Taylor Decker, running back Bri’onte Dunn, defensive back Tyvis Powell, wide receiver Michael Thomas and quarterback Cardale Jones came on board early.

In 2011, quarterback Braxton Miller, linebacker Ryan Shazier, tight end Jeff Heuerman, defensive lineman Joel Hale and defensive back Jeremy Cash, who now plays for Duke, started college after graduating from high school early.

This was a rarity 20 years ago, but 2013 set a record for most football recruits enrolling early, with 162 players in BCS conferences doing it. The previous high was 140.

Every school in the Big Ten except Michigan State and Northwestern had at least one athlete who chose to pass up the final five months of high school to try to advance his college football career.

Ohio State and Michigan had the most earlyenrollees with six each. Wisconsin had two, including starting cornerback Sojourn Shelton.

Nationally, Georgia was the leader, with 10 players coming in early.

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enrolling early last spring.

He admitted enrolling early is not for everyone, but said Ohio State tries to make sure its early enrollees are ready for it.

“We are looking for kids who have the academic acumen necessary to graduate from high school early and have the type of maturity that they can leave home,” he said. “We don’t push it on anybody.

It’s clearly a kid’s choice.

“But those kids who want to do that and are mature enough and the parents feel comfortable with it, I think it’s a huge advantage,” he said.

When the question of whether they would enroll early again was asked if they were given a second chance, OSU’s Decker, Perry and Burrows all said they would.

Burrows called it “one of the best decisions I’ve made.”

Perry said he definitely would not be a starter as a sophomore if he hadn’t enrolled early.

“One of the great advantages of coming out of high school early was being able to hop in the weight room, hop in the film room and get started early in the classroom and finish my degree early and possibly start on a master’s while I’m here,” he said. “The combination of football and academics, coming out of high school early definitely helped.”

Still, it seems like a lot for a 17-year-old or 18-year-old to give up, especially if his college football career doesn’t turn out like he expected.

At least one Big Ten coach is not sold on the idea.

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald is the only Big Ten coach who has never had a player enroll early.

He says he could be convinced it is a good idea but still thinks a player should enjoy his senior year of high school right up through graduation day.

“Some of my peers are graduating kids early and bringing them in.I’m not against that, I just don’t have enough empirical data 18 months out to see the burnout. I’m really concerned about the burnout,” Fitzgerald said at the 2012 Big Ten football media days.

“I really had a fun time playing spring baseball.

I had a fun time going to turnabout or Sadie Hawkins dances or whatever they call it. I really had fun going to prom. I had even more fun going to graduation parties with my boys one last summer,” he said.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Two out of three ain’t bad.

Georgia is certainly not complaining.

Aaron Murray threw four touchdown passes, including a 25-yarder to Justin Scott-Wesley with 1:47 remaining, and the No. 9 Bulldogs rallied to beat No. 6 LSU 44-41 in a thrilling game between Southeastern Conference powerhouses Saturday.

The Bulldogs (3-1, 2-0 SEC) completed their opening-month run through a gauntlet of top teams with a victory that propelled them back into the thick of the national championship race.

“We’ve played some hard teams,” Scott-Wesley said. “It just shows we’re a great team. We can handle anything anybody throws at us.”

Georgia was only the fourth team since the BCS began in 1998 to face three top 10 teams in the first four games of a season. The Bulldogs opened with a 38-35 non-conference loss to Clemson, but came back to beat South Carolina 41-30 and now the Tigers.

“We’ve grown up a lot this past month,” Murray said. “I think everyone in the nation knows what Georgia football is about now. We’re a tough group of guys. We’re fighters.”

About 10 minutes after the game, the team ran back on the field to celebrate with their fans along the famed hedges at Sanford Stadium. Coach Mark Richt gave his wife a big kiss and hug.

“I’m just honored to be a part of something like that,” Richt said.

Now, the Bulldogs are well-positioned to make a run for their third straight SEC East title and trip to the conference championship game.

“We’re definitely happy,” Murray said.

“If had to lose one of these games, obviously Clemson was the one, just because they’re in the ACC. Not saying we wanted to lose. Don’t get me wrong. But this is huge.”

LSU (4-1, 1-1) got a career-best 372 yards passing from former Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger in his return to Athens, and the Tigers went ahead 41-37 on Jeremy Hill’s 8-yard touchdown run with 4:14 to go.

But that was plenty of time for Murray and the high-powered Bulldogs on a day when neither defense had much success. He completed three straight passes to quickly move the Bulldogs into LSU territory, and freshman J.J. Green broke off an 18-yard run to the Tigers’ 25. Then it was Scott-Wesley, breaking wide open behind the secondary to haul in a pass and tiptoe just inside the pylon for the winning score.

“We have a long road ahead of us to get back to the top,” Mettenberger said. “We have to win out.”

Murray ran for Georgia’s other touch-

down on a sneak and finished with 298 yards passing.

“We all know your quarterback has to play well to win a game like this,” Richt said. “Aaron was phenomenal, gutsy, tremendous.”

Murray and Mettenberger were in the same recruiting class at Georgia, contending for the starting job in the spring of 2010.

Mettenberger, a native of nearby Watkinsville, grew up cheering for the Bulldogs and dreaming of the day he could wear the red and black.

But his actions off the field cost him his chance.

Mettenberger pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery charges after an incident in a bar and was kicked off the team. But his ties to Georgia run deep — most notably, his mother, Tammy, still works in football operations for the Bulldogs. Richt gave her the week off because of all the attention surrounding her son.

The former teammates did all that could be expected of them.

Mettenberger had three touchdowns on 23-of-37 passing, continually burning the Bulldogs on third down. He completed a 25-yard pass on Odell Beckham on third-and-22 to improbably extend an LSU drive that led to Hill’s go-ahead touchdown.

But Murray delivered the final blow.

“They are both great players,” Richt said. “It was incredible how well they played.”

Georgia did plenty of damage on the ground in the first half, but star running back Todd Gurley sustained an apparent left ankle injury on a 25-yard run. He didn’t return, watching the second half while wearing a windbreaker and walking boot. Richt wasn’t sure how long he’ll be out.

The Bulldogs weren’t nearly as effective on the ground with Keith Marshall handling the load, but Murray and his receivers took up the slack. Chris Conley had five catches for 112 yards and a touchdown.

Michael Bennett hauled in a pair of scoring passes.

Georgia finished with 494 yards, though the bulk of those came in a back-and-forth first half that ended with Georgia on top 24-17.

Little-used Kadron Boone had two early touchdown catches for LSU, but Jarvis Landry turned out to be Mettenberger’s go-to receiver. The junior had 10 catches for 156 yards, including a 39-yard touchdown that tied the game at 27 late in the third quarter.

Georgia’s schedule gets easier the rest of the way, with only one more regular-season game against a team currently in the Top 25 — injury-plagued Florida.

LSU has a much tougher road, with games still remaining against top-

ranked Alabama and No. 10 Texas A&M. “We have a good football team and we have everything in front of us,” Tiger coach Les Miles said. “When you play a quality team on the road, you can learn what needs to be corrected.”

No. 3 Clemson 56, Wake Forest 7 CLEMSON, S.C. — Tajh Boyd became the second Atlantic Coast Conference quarterback to account for 100 career touchdowns, leading Clemson to the easy win.

Boyd threw for three touchdowns and rushed for another score. He stands at 102 TDs, joining former North Carolina State star Phillip Rivers in the ACC’s century club. Boyd passed for 311 yards and ran for 69 to surpass Charlie Whitehurst as Clemson’s total offense leader.

The Tigers (4-0, 2-0) have won their first four games for the second time in Boyd’s three seasons as starter. He had touchdown throws of 64 yards to Sammy Watkins, 75 yards to D.J. Howard and 14 yards to Mike Williams as Clemson built a 35-7 halftime lead.

Tanner Price had a TD pass for Wake Forest (2-3, 0-2).

No. 8 Fla. St. 48, Boston College 34 BOSTON — Jameis Winston threw for four touchdowns for Florida State, including a 55-yard Hail Mary as time expired in the first half.

Winston had first-half touchdown passes of 56 and 10 yards to tie the game after BC, coming off a 28-point loss to Southern California, opened a 17-3 lead.

The desperation heave to Kenny Shaw made it 24-17, and then Winston added a fourth TD pass in the second half as the Seminoles (4-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) pulled away.

In all, the Florida State freshman completed 17 of 28 passes for 330 yards and ran 14 times for 67 more.

Chase Rettig completed 19 of 29 passes for 197 yards and a career-high four touchdowns for BC (2-2, 1-1).

West Virginia 30, No. 11 Okl. St. 21 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Clint Trickett threw a touchdown pass in his first start at West Virginia, and Ishmael Banks returned an interception for a touchdown.

Josh Lambert kicked three field goals for West Virginia (3-2, 1-1 Big 12), which rebounded from its first shutout loss in 11 years.

Trickett, a transfer from Florida State, became West Virginia’s third starting quarterback after Ford Childress was injured last week.

Trickett finished 24 of 50 for 309 yards in his first start since subbing for EJ Manuel for the Seminoles in October 2011.

J.W. Walsh tossed three touchdown passes for Oklahoma State (3-1, 0-1), but was intercepted twice.

No. 12 S. Carolina 28, C. Florida 25 ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Davis rushed for 167 yards and three touchdowns as South Carolina overcame an injury to its starting quarterback, four turnovers and a halftime deficit to get the win.

Davis picked up the slack after starting QB Connor Shaw left with a sprained right shoulder following a hard tackle during South Carolina’s first offensive series.

Knights quarterback Blake Bortles threw for 358 yards and two touchdowns, but had two interceptions and a fumble.

South Carolina (3-1) also lost second-string tailback Brandon Wilds in the third quarter with a left elbow strain, but Davis remained steady as the primary ball carrier.

UCF (3-1) had all the early momentum, leading 10-0 at halftime, the first time the Gamecocks had been shut out in a half since 2010.

No. 14 Oklahoma 35, No. 22 Notre Dame 21 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Blake Bell threw a 54-yard touchdown pass to Sterling Shepard in the fourth quarter, and Oklahoma jumped to a two-touchdown lead in the opening three minutes.

It was the Sooners’ second win over the Fighting Irish in 11 meetings.

The Sooners (4-0) had three interceptions that led to TDs, including a 24-yard score by linebacker Corey Nelson. Damien Williams, suspended the previous game against Tulsa for violating team rules, added an 11-yard TD run after an interception by linebacker Frank Shannon.

The Irish (3-2) cut the lead to 27-21 in the fourth quarter, but the Sooners answered with Shepard’s TD. Notre Dame’s Tommy Rees struggled for a second straight game. After three straight games of passing for more than 300 yards, he was 9-of-24 passing for a season-low 104 yards.

No. 15 Miami 49, S. Florida 21 TAMPA, Fla. — Stephen Morris threw for two touchdowns before limping off with an ankle injury and Duke Johnson scored a TD in his eighth consecutive game, helping Miami roll to the win.

Miami (4-0) is off to its best start in nine years heading into next weekend’s Atlantic Coast Conference opener at home against Georgia Tech. At 0-4 under firstyear coach Willie Taggart, USF is off to the worst start in school history and has dropped 13 of 14 dating to last season.

Morris threw for 222 yards, moving ahead of Steve Walsh and into ninth place on Miami’s career passing list. He tossed TD passes of 19 yards to Herb Waters and 34 yards to Stacy Coley as the Hurricanes scored on their first three possessions and amassed 251 yards of offense in the first quarter alone.

Georgia wide receiver Justin ScottWesley (86) scores a 25-yard go-ahead touchdown from quarterback Aaron Murray during a 44-41 win over LSU on Saturday in Athens, Ga. AP photo

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Reds fall, wild card game at Pittsburgh CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds gave up six home runs and lost home-field advantage for the wild-card playoff. They had to scramble their postseason rotation because of an injury Uh-oh.

Neil Walker hit two of Pittsburgh’s six homers — its biggest power surge in six years — and the Pirates clinched home-field advantage for the NL’s wild card playoff game by beating Cincinnati 8-3 Saturday.

Pittsburgh will host the Reds on Tuesday night in the Pirates’ first playoff appearance in 21 years.

They went 50-31 at PNC Park, the third-best home record in the NL. The Reds needed to win two of the three games this weekend to get the playoff at Great American Ball Park.

Couldn’t do it.

“It’s disappointing, but you’ve got to get over it,” manager Dusty Baker said.

“Teams have won championships with their backs to the wall, like San Francisco last year. If that’s what you’ve got to do, that’s what you’ve got to do.”

Last season, the Giants won three at Great American Ball Park to advance, eventually winning the World Series. The Reds are in the playoffs for the third time in four years. They’ve failed to get past the first round the last two times.

Cincinnati will go with Johnny Cueto (5-2) in the one-game playoff against left-hander Francisco Liriano (16-8). Mat Latos was on schedule to start for Cincinnati, but Baker said he’s developed a sore arm.

And he’s not the only one hurting. Bronson Arroyo (14-12) had back spasms before the game on Saturday.

Homer Bailey had a sore leg after his start during a 4-1 loss on Friday night.

“Latos’ arm is barking, and we’re hoping to give him a couple of extra days to be ready for Atlanta,” Baker said, looking ahead to the next round.

“Bronson’s back was sore

today. Homer’s leg was sore yesterday. We’re hurting.”

The Pirates won five of nine games against the Reds at PNC Park this season.

Pittsburgh hit five homers off Arroyo, who had never given up that many in a game in his career.

Walker homered twice off the right-hander, Andrew McCutchen and Pedro Alvarez also hit solo homers, and Marlon Byrd had a two-run shot that ended Arroyo’s outing in the fifth and made it 6-3.

Arroyo said his back started bothering him before the game.

“It locked up right before the game,” Arroyo said. “I was in the tunnel. It was like I was being stabbed in the ribs and I couldn’t

swivel from side to side.

“I don’t think it had much to do with the game.

You can’t leave balls in up the zone in this ballpark against that lineup and get away with it.”

Prospect Andrew Lambo hit his first homer off Logan Ondrusek, the first time the Pirates had six in a game since Aug. 22, 2007 at Colorado.

Pirates starter Charlie Morton also struggled, leaving with one out and the bases loaded in the fifth. Vin Mazzaro (8-2) fanned Zack Cozart and retired Ryan Hanigan on a fly ball as the slumping Reds left the bases loaded for the second time in the game.

Cincinnati stranded 11 runners overall.

Logano wins at Dover AP photo

DOVER, Del. (AP) — His chase for a Cup championship all but over, Joey Logano turned his pursuit toward Dover history.

Logano dominated at Dover International Speedway once more and took the checkered flag in the track’s Nationwide Series race for the fourth straight time. Logano became the first driver to win four straight races at Dover in NASCAR’s second-tier series.

He pulled away in the No. 22 Ford down the stretch Saturday and was never seriously challenged for the win on the mile track.

“It’s been my favorite race track ever since I started here,” he said.

With good reason. Logano has swept the two Dover races the last two seasons.

Logano’s Ford, however, flunked postrace inspection because both sides off the front were too low. NASCAR will announce penalties later.

Logano, who started on the pole and led 106 laps, won for the third time this season. Four drivers have won 11 times in the No. 22 Ford, all with crew chief Jeremy Bullins. Brad Keselowski, AJ Allmendinger and Ryan Blaney have all won in the No. 22.

AP photo “There were a lot of streaks to be kept Cincinnati Reds’ Zack Cozart, left, and Devin Mesoraco watch alive today and we managed to pull that from the dugout in the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh off,” Bullins said.

Pirates Saturday in Cincinnati.

Kyle Larson was second, followed by

Kevin Harvick, Brian Vickers and Elliott Sadler.

Sam Hornish Jr. was 17th and had his points lead shrink to four over Austin Dillon with five races left “If we could have lived up to our potential today, I would feel a lot better about it,” Hornish said. “We go to some tracks that I really like. There’s not a place that I don’t like that we’re going to go, so I’m really excited about what we’ve got.”

For all his Saturday success, Logano has yet to transfer those regular wins to the Sprint Cup series. He has had only one top-five finish in nine career Cup starts at Dover.

He blamed a string of bad luck that derailed his Dover Cup races.

“I’ve had a lot of fast race cars here there were capable of running top fives,” he said. “I’ve had loose wheels, I’ve had a flat tire, I’ve had motors blowing up. I’ve gone through a lot at this race track.”

Logano made the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field in his first season at Penske Racing, though it came with a dash of controversy because of the Richmond scandal. His team was placed on probation after radio traffic appeared to show Front Row Racing’s crew chief and spotter talking about David Gilliland giving Logano a pivotal spot on the track in exchange for something unidentified from Penske Racing.

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Seeking their first postseason appearance since 2007, the Indians (91-70) took a one-game lead over Tampa Bay and Texas (both 90-71).

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct x-Boston 97 63 .606 Tampa Bay 90 71 .559 New York 84 77 .522 Baltimore 83 77 .519 Toronto 74 87 .460 Central Division W L Pct x-Detroit 93 67 .581 Cleveland 91 70 .565 Kansas City 85 76 .528 Minnesota 66 95 .410 Chicago 63 98 .391 West Division W L Pct x-Oakland 95 66 .590 Texas 90 71 .559 Los Angeles 78 83 .484 Seattle 71 90 .441 Houston 51 110 .317 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct x-Atlanta 95 65 .594 Washington 85 75 .531 New York 73 88 .453 Philadelphia 72 88 .450 Miami 60 100 .375 Central Division W L Pct x-St. Louis 96 65 .596 y-Pittsburgh 93 68 .578 y-Cincinnati 90 71 .559 Milwaukee 74 87 .460 Chicago 66 95 .410 West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 92 68 .575 Arizona 80 80 .500 San Diego 76 85 .472 San Francisco 75 86 .466 Colorado 72 88 .450 x-clinched division y-clinched wild card

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Str W-2 L-2 W-2 L-1 W-2

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Away 44-35 39-41 38-42 39-42 34-47

GB WCGB — — 2½ — 8½ 5 27½ 24 30½ 27

L10 6-4 9-1 6-4 1-9 3-7

Str L-1 W-9 L-1 L-5 W-1

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Away 42-37 40-40 41-39 34-47 26-55

L10 Str 6-4 L-1 8-2 W-6 5-5 L-3 5-5 W-1 0-10 L-14

Home 52-29 45-35 39-42 36-44 24-56

Away 43-37 45-36 39-41 35-46 27-54

GB WCGB — — 10 4½ 22½ 17 23 17½ 35 29½

L10 6-4 5-5 5-5 2-8 5-5

Str W-2 W-1 L-3 L-3 W-2

Home 55-24 47-34 32-48 43-38 34-45

Away 40-41 38-41 41-40 29-50 26-55

GB WCGB — — 3 — 6 — 22 16 30 24

L10 8-2 6-4 5-5 6-4 3-7

Str W-5 W-2 L-4 W-4 L-2

Home 53-27 50-31 49-30 37-44 31-50

Away 43-38 43-37 41-41 37-43 35-45

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Home 47-32 44-35 45-36 41-40 45-36

Away 45-36 36-45 31-49 34-46 27-52

GB WCGB — — 5 — 17 12 24 19 44 39

AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday's Games Texas 7, L.A. Angels 4 Cleveland 5, Minnesota 1 Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 2 Seattle 7, Oakland 5 Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 5 N.Y.Yankees 2, Houston 1 Detroit at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Tampa Bay (M.Moore 16-4) at Toronto (Redmond 4-2), 1:07 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 13-12) at Miami (H.Alvarez 4-6), 1:10 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 10-13) at Baltimore (Tillman 16-7), 1:35 p.m.

Cleveland (U.Jimenez 12-9) at Minnesota (Diamond 6-12), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (B.Chen 8-4) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-6), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Huff 3-1) at Houston (Bedard 4-12), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Vargas 9-7) at Texas (Darvish 13-9), 3:05 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 4-3) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 5-2), 4:10 p.m.

End of Regular Season NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday's Games Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3 San Diego 9, San Francisco 3 Milwaukee 4, N.Y. Mets 2, 10 innings St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 2 Detroit at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Detroit (Verlander 13-12) at Miami (H.Alvarez 4-6), 1:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-8), 1:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cumpton 1-1) at Cincinnati (G.Reynolds 1-2), 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Miner 0-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 13-8), 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-12) at St. Louis (Westbrook 7-8), 2:15 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 3-8) at San Francisco (Moscoso 2-2), 4:05 p.m.

Colorado (Francis 2-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 14-7), 4:10 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-8) at Arizona (Miley 10-10), 4:10 p.m.

End of Regular Season Postseason Baseball Glance All Times EDT WILD CARD Both games televised by TBS Tuesday, Oct. 1: National League: Cincinnati (Cueto 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 16-8), 8:07 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 2: American League: 8:07 p.m.

Wild Card Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland Tampa Bay Texas

W 91 90 90

L PctWCGB 70.565 — 71.559 1 71.559 1

Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland . .000 230 000—5 7 0 Minnesota . .000 100 000—1 6 0 Kazmir, Rzepczynski (7), Allen (8), J.Smith (9) and Y.Gomes; De Vries,

Swarzak (6), Thielbar (7), Perkins (9) and Fryer. W_Kazmir 10-9. L_De Vries 0-2.

HRs_Cleveland, C.Santana (20).

LA . . . . . . . .101 020 000—4 9 5 Texas . . . . . .140 020 00x—7 10 0 Richards, Boshers (5), Coello (5), Hanson (6) and Iannetta, Conger; D.Holland, Soria (5), R.Ross (7), Scheppers (8), Nathan (9) and Pierzynski.

W_Soria 1-0. L_Richards 7-8. Sv_Nathan (43).

TB . . . . . . . .100 000 001—2 6 0 Toronto . . . .001 240 00x—7 12 0 Archer, Al.Torres (3), J.Wright (4), B.Gomes (5), C.Ramos (6) and J.Molina, Lobaton; Happ, Loup (8), McGowan (9) and Thole. W_Happ 5-7. L_Al.Torres 4-2.

HRs_Toronto, Goins (2), Pillar (3).

Oakland . . .001 001 300—5 10 0 Seattle . . . . .021 040 00x—7 7 0 J.Parker, Blevins (5), Bre.Anderson (6), Otero (7), J.Chavez (8) and Vogt, D.Norris, K.Suzuki; Maurer, Furbush (6), Ruffin (7), Luetge (7), Medina (8), Farquhar (9) and Zunino. W_Maurer 5-8. L_J.Parker 12-8.

Sv_Farquhar (16). HRs_Oakland, Moss (30), Callaspo (10). Seattle, Smoak (20), B.Miller 2 (8).

KC . . . . . . . .000 012 020—5 7 2 Chicago . . .022 000 20x—6 9 0 Ventura, Dwyer (5), Coleman (6), Collins (7), Crow (7) and S.Perez; Er.Johnson, Leesman (6), D.Webb (6), Lindstrom (8), Veal (8), N.Jones (8), A.Reed (9) and Mig.Gonzalez.

W_Er.Johnson 3-2. L_Ventura 0-1.

Sv_A.Reed (40). HRs_Kansas City, Moustakas (12), B.Butler (15), S.Perez (12). Chicago, Semien (2), Jor.Danks (5), A.Dunn (34), Gillaspie (13).

NewYork . . .000 002 000—2 8 0 Houston . . .000 100 000—1 5 1 Pettitte and C.Stewart; Clemens, Lo (6), R.Cruz (7), K.Chapman (7), Zeid (8), Fields (9) and Pagnozzi.W_Pettitte 11-11.

L_Clemens 4-7.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh . .002 131 010—8 13 0 Cincinnati . .003 000 000—3 5 1 Morton, Mazzaro (5), Ju.Wilson (6), Watson (7), Melancon (8), Morris (9) and R.Martin; Arroyo, S.Marshall (5), Ondrusek (6), Duke (7), Hoover (8), M.Parra (8), LeCure (9) and Hanigan.

W_Mazzaro 8-2. L_Arroyo 14-12.

HRs_Pittsburgh, N.Walker 2 (16), McCutchen (21), P.Alvarez (36), Byrd (24), Lambo (1).

San Diego . .100 400 004—9 16 1 SF . . . . . . . . .102 000 000—3 9 1 Stults, Gregerson (8), Vincent (9) and C.Robinson; Petit, Kontos (4), Dunning (5), Mijares (6), Hembree (7), Machi (8), Kickham (9) and H.Sanchez.W_Stults 1113. L_Petit 4-1. HRs_San Diego, Denorfia (10), J.Guzman (9), Gyorko (22). San Francisco, Pence (27).

Mil . . . . . . .000 100010 2—4 12 1 NY . . . . . . .000 100001 0—2 5 0 (10 innings) J.Nelson, Mic.Gonzalez (6), Badenhop (6), Blazek (7), D.Hand (8), Figaro (10) and Lucroy, Maldonado; Harang, Feliciano (7), Aardsma (7), Black (8), Hawkins (9), Atchison (10), F.Francisco (10) and Recker, Centeno. W_D.Hand 1-5.

L_Atchison 3-3. Sv_Figaro (1).

HRs_Milwaukee, C.Gomez (24).

Chicago . . .000 000 002—2 7 0 St. Louis . . .204 000 00x—6 10 0

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 2 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, AAA 400, at Dover, Del. 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Midwest Nationals, at Madison, Ill. (same-day tape) GOLF 8 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, final round, at St. Andrews, Scotland 3 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour Championship, final round, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 7 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, First Tee Open, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. FSN — New York Mets at Cincinnati 2 p.m. WGN — Kansas City at Chicago White Sox Time TBA TBS — Teams TBA MOTORSPORTS 8 a.m. FS1 — MotoGP World Championship, Gran Premio de Aragon, at Aragon, Spain NFL FOOTBALL 1 p.m. CBS — Regional coverage FOX — Regional coverage, doubleheader 4 p.m. CBS — Regional coverage 4:25 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, doubleheader game 8 p.m. NBC — New England at Atlanta SOCCER 8:25 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Norwich at Stoke City 10:55 a.m. NBCSN — Premier League, Liverpool at Sunderland 3:30 p.m. NBC — MLS, Los Angeles at Portland 9 p.m. ESPN — MLS, New York at Seattle 1:30 a.m. ESPN2 — FIFA, Beach World Cup, championship, at Papeete, Tahiti (delayed tape) WNBA BASKETBALL 3 p.m. ESPN2 — Playoffs, conference finals, game 2, teams TBD 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Playoffs, conference finals, game 2, teams TBD E.Jackson, Villanueva (3), Rosscup (6), Grimm (7), B.Parker (8) and D.Navarro; Wainwright, S.Freeman (6), Axford (8), Mujica (9), Choate (9), Maness (9) and Y.Molina, T.Cruz. W_Wainwright 19-9.

L_E.Jackson 8-18. Sv_Maness (1).

HRs_Chicago, Rizzo (23). St. Louis, Holliday (22).

FOOTBALL College Football Scores EAST Albright 48, King's (Pa.) 29 Alfred 34, Brockport 28, OT Amherst 27, Bowdoin 11 Bates 20, Tufts 16 Bloomsburg 56, Lock Haven 10 Bridgewater (Mass.) 30, Fitchburg St. 20 Bryant 47, Wagner 28 Buffalo 41, UConn 12 Carnegie-Mellon 41, Geneva 34, 2OT Coast Guard 37, Nichols 20 College of NJ 7, S.Virginia 2 Delaware Valley 41, Stevenson 23 Dickinson 31, Moravian 7 East Stroudsburg 40, Cheyney 6 Edinboro 43, Seton Hill 7 Florida St. 48, Boston College 34 Fordham 38, St. Francis (Pa.) 20 Framingham St. 14, W. Connecticut 12 Franklin & Marshall 46, Juniata 16 Gannon 45, Clarion 25 Gettysburg 42, Susquehanna 28 Hobart 24, Merchant Marine 8 Indiana (Pa.) 20, California (Pa.) 7 Ithaca 24, Buffalo St. 20 Lebanon Valley 65, FDU-Florham 21 Lehigh 34, New Hampshire 27 Livingstone 35, Lincoln (Pa.) 7 Lycoming 16, Widener 14 Mass.-Dartmouth 38, Plymouth St. 7 Merrimack 66, Pace 14 Middlebury 27, Colby 10 Monmouth (NJ) 37, Columbia 14 New Haven 48, CW Post 23 Pittsburgh 14, Virginia 3 Princeton 50, Georgetown 22 Rhode Island 42, CCSU 7 Rochester 36, Springfield 35 Rowan 7, Montclair St. 0 Sacred Heart 16, Bucknell 0 Salve Regina 29, MIT 21 Shippensburg 48, Millersville 10 Slippery Rock 58, Mercyhurst 34 St. Augustine's 29, Bowie St. 7 St. John Fisher 33, Cortland St. 25 St. Lawrence 30, Union (NY) 20 Stonehill 30, Bentley 3 Towson 35, Stony Brook 21 Trinity (Conn.) 20, Williams 13 Ursinus 40, McDaniel 21 Villanova 35, Penn 6 W. New England 59, Maine Maritime 0 WPI 27, RPI 14 Washington & Jefferson 32, Thiel 19 Wesleyan (Conn.) 35, Hamilton 6 West Chester 22, Kutztown 21 West Virginia 30, Oklahoma St. 21 Westminster (Pa.) 28, St.Vincent 21 Wilkes 33, Misericordia 14 William Paterson 49, NY Maritime 23 Worcester St. 64, Mass. Maritime 63

Yale 38, Cornell 23 MIDWEST Adrian 28, Carthage 14 Augsburg 55, Hamline 20 Baker 63, Avila 17 Baldwin-Wallace 23, Muskingum 13 Ball St. 31, Toledo 24 Bemidji St. 41, SW Minnesota St. 40 Bethel (Minn.) 56, Carleton 14 Bowling Green 31, Akron 14 Briar Cliff 54, Dordt 14 Central 31, Albion 6 Concordia (Moor.) 24, St.John's (Minn.)

14 Concordia (Neb.) 24, Dakota St. 0 Concordia (St.P.) 36, Minn. St.Moorhead 34 Cornell (Iowa) 23, Monmouth (Ill.) 20 Dakota Wesleyan 28, Hastings 19 Defiance 34, Anderson (Ind.) 0 Doane 42, Midland 0 E. Illinois 42, E. Kentucky 7 Emporia St. 45, Northeastern St. 24 Eureka 21, Minn.-Morris 13 Ferris St. 59, Walsh 16 Findlay 40, Michigan Tech 19 Franklin 80, Earlham 14 Grand View 23, St. Francis (Ind.) 7 Greenville 56, Martin Luther 6 Grinnell 42, Beloit 17 Gustavus 45, St. Olaf 19 Heidelberg 66, Wilmington (Ohio) 12 Illinois 50, Miami (Ohio) 14 Illinois College 44, Ripon 28 Illinois Wesleyan 14, Hope 7 Indianapolis 17, Hillsdale 14 Iowa 23, Minnesota 7 Iowa Wesleyan 41, Mac Murray 14 Jamestown 21, Mayville St. 19 Kenyon 28, DePauw 26 Lake Forest 14, Knox 7 Linfield 43, Case Reserve 0 Marist 31, Dayton 20 Millikin 52, Aurora 49 Minn. Duluth 64, Wayne (Neb.) 21 Minn. St.-Mankato 42, Northern St. (SD) 14 Missouri St. 37, Illinois St. 10 Missouri Valley 29, Culver-Stockton 6 Montana St. 63, North Dakota 20 Mount St. Joseph 52, Bluffton 28 N. Dakota St. 20, S. Dakota St. 0 N. Illinois 55, Purdue 24 N. Iowa 41, McNeese St. 6 NW Missouri St. 53, Nebraska-Kearney 7 Nebraska Wesleyan 22, Northwestern (Iowa) 8 North Central (Ill.) 27, Wis.-Stevens Pt. 7 Northwestern (Minn.) 27, Crown (Minn.) 14 Northwood (Mich.) 26, Tiffin 11 Ohio Dominican 57, Grand Valley St. 14 Ohio Northern 38, Capital 24 Oklahoma 35, Notre Dame 21 Olivet 14, North Park 10 Pacific Lutheran 21, Wis.-Eau Claire 19 Pittsburg St. 59, Lincoln (Mo.) 38 Quincy 36, Lindenwood (Mo.) 7 Rose-Hulman 44, Manchester 30 S. Dakota Tech 70, William Jewell 48 Siena Heights 14, Olivet Nazarene 0 Sioux Falls 52, Minn.-Crookston 7

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM St. Ambrose 66, Concordia (Mich.) 0 St. Cloud St. 29, Augustana (SD) 26 St. Joseph's (Ind.) 24, Trine 21 St. Mary (Kan.) 45, Bethany (Kan.) 15 St. Norbert 27, Carroll (Wis.) 7 St. Scholastica 41, Westminster (Mo.) 13 St. Xavier 37, St. Francis (Ill.) 25 Tennessee St. 73, Central St. (Ohio) 6 Trinity Bible 48, Presentation 14 Upper Iowa 36, Mary 7 Urbana 12, Glenville St. 9 Valparaiso 49, Campbell 42, OT W. Illinois 24, South Dakota 10 Wabash 65, Allegheny 0 Washburn 28, Cent. Oklahoma 19 Washington (Mo.) 31, Centre 14 Wayne (Mich.) 38, Malone 27 William Penn 21, Taylor 10 Winona St. 49, Minot St. 14 Wis.-Oshkosh 56, Alma 3 Wis.-Whitewater 65, Waldorf 0 Wooster 38, Hiram 24 SOUTH Alabama St. 49, Alcorn St. 30 Army 35, Louisiana Tech 16 Ave Maria 27, Warner 3 Bethany (WV) 34, Grove City 31 Butler 45, Jacksonville 27 Campbellsville 54, Belhaven 22 Catawba 25, Carson-Newman 22 Catholic 49, Anna Maria 0 Charlotte 45, Presbyterian 21 Chowan 29, Shaw 23 Clemson 56, Wake Forest 7 Coastal Carolina 53, Elon 28 Concord 20, West Liberty 3 Delaware St. 24, Savannah St. 22 Duke 38, Troy 31 East Carolina 55, North Carolina 31 Fairmont St. 56, W.Virginia St. 3 Fayetteville St. 31, Elizabeth City St. 27 Fort Valley St. 35, Benedict 30 Furman 24, The Citadel 17 Gardner-Webb 55, Point (Ga.) 7 Georgia 44, LSU 41 Georgia Southern 23, Chattanooga 21 Huntingdon 56, Ferrum 35 Jackson St. 19, Southern U. 14 Johns Hopkins 45, Muhlenberg 13 LaGrange 35, Greensboro 21 Lenoir-Rhyne 24, Tusculum 10 Lindsey Wilson 37, Faulkner 30, OT Maine 28, Richmond 21 Maryville (Tenn.) 35, Methodist 26 Mercer 31, Drake 17 Miami 49, South Florida 21 Morehead St. 45, Davidson 14 Murray St. 35, Jacksonville St. 34, OT NC State 48, Cent. Michigan 14 NC Wesleyan 27, Averett 24 Newberry 24, Mars Hill 10 Norfolk St. 27, Morgan St. 21 Old Dominion 66, Albany (NY) 10 Reinhardt 41, Bethel (Tenn.) 36 Rhodes 36, Berry 24 Robert Morris 37, VMI 31, 2OT SC State 30, Hampton 6 Samford 62, W. Carolina 23 San Diego 59, Stetson 0 Shepherd 45, WV Wesleyan 10 South Carolina 28, UCF 25 Tennessee 31, South Alabama 24 Thomas More 49, Waynesburg 28 Tuskegee 42, Lane 14 UNC-Pembroke 38, Wingate 10 Union (Ky.) 24, Virginia-Wise 17 Virginia St. 19, Johnson C. Smith 17 W. Kentucky 19, Navy 7 Washington & Lee 35, Sewanee 24 Webber 35, Mississippi College 7 West Georgia 31, Shorter 14 Winston-Salem 55, Virginia Union 15 SOUTHWEST Henderson St. 63, East Central 31 Hendrix 48, Southwestern (Texas) 29 Houston 59, UTSA 28 S. Arkansas 47, NW Oklahoma St. 14 Sam Houston St. 49, E. Washington 34 TCU 48, SMU 17 Trinity (Texas) 26, Austin 3 FAR WEST Chadron St. 35, Western St. (Col.) 14 Colorado Mines 30, NM Highlands 10 Colorado St. 59, UTEP 42 E. Oregon 35, Carroll (Mont.) 31 Fort Lewis 38, W. New Mexico 28 Idaho 26, Temple 24 Menlo 56, La Verne 7 Mesa St. 49, Black Hills St. 11 Montana St.-Northern 33, Montana Western 21 Oregon St. 44, Colorado 17 Rocky Mountain 13, Montana Tech 6 S. Oregon 66, Dickinson St. 20 S. Utah 27, N. Colorado 21 W. Oregon 30, Simon Fraser 9

AUTO RACING NASCAR Nationwide-5-hour ENERGY 200 benefiting Living Beyond Breast Cancer Results Saturday At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 200 laps, 140 rating, 0 points, $49,230.

2. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200, 114.7, 42, $41,322.

3. (8) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200, 112.7, 0, $24,265.

4.(11) BrianVickers,Toyota, 200, 107.4, 40, $27,696.

5. (12) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 199, 98.1, 39, $25,821.

6. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 199, 106.3, 38, $24,671.

7. (9) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 199, 86.4, 37, $22,256.

8. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 199, 134.3, 0, $18,110.

9. (18) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 199, 90.2, 35, $21,621.

10. (6) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 199, 92.8, 35, $22,446.

11. (10) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 199, 85.3, 33, $20,971.

12. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 199, 77.5, 32, $20,846.

13. (7) Brad Sweet, Chevrolet, 198, 81.6, 31, $20,746.

14. (15) Michael Annett, Ford, 198, 72.6, 30, $20,621.

15. (13) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 198, 100.7, 29, $21,521.

16. (19) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 198, 68.3, 29, $20,471.

17. (2) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 198, 78.6, 27, $20,596.

18. (4) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 197, 79.5, 26, $20,346.

19. (20) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 197, 79.7, 25, $20,296.

20. (23) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 197, 59.7, 24, $20,921.

21. (22) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 196, 62.5, 23, $20,191.

22. (21) Travis Pastrana, Ford, 196, 69.6, 22, $20,091.

23. (24) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 196, 53.1, 21, $20,016.

24. (16) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 194, 62, 20, $19,966.

25. (38) T.J. Duke, Ford, 191, 41.3, 19, $20,391.

26.(31) Eric McClure, Toyota, 189, 44.8, 18, $19,866.

27. (34) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 177, 38.9, 17, $19,816.

28. (27) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, 162, 49.1, 16, $19,741.

29. (33) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, rear gear, 107, 41.2, 15, $19,666.

30. (25) Blake Koch, Toyota, handling, 85, 44.1, 14, $19,916.

31. (29) Carl Long, Dodge, transmission, 74, 45.5, 13, $19,566.

32. (30) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, brakes, 60, 49.7, 12, $13,315.

33. (39) Brad Teague, Toyota, parked, 58, 30.9, 11, $13,245.

34. (36) Donnie Neuenberger, Ford, accident, 33, 37.2, 10, $19,406.

35. (28) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 13, 39.2, 9, $13,155.

36. (35) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, overheating, 9, 34.9, 0, $12,260.

37. (37) Chase Miller, Chevrolet, handling, 8, 31.6, 7, $12,240.

38.(26) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, transmission, 7, 32.4, 6, $12,176.

39. (32) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, vibration, 4, 29.3, 5, $12,075.

NASCAR-Sprint Cup-AAA 400 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 161.849 2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 161.805 3. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 161.74 4. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 161.609 5. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 161.609 6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 161.594 7. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 161.493 8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 161.341 9. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 161.326 10. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 161.204 11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 161.023 12. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 160.8 13. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 160.736 14. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 160.721 15. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 160.714 16. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 160.664 17. (47) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 160.65 18. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160.557 19. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 160.542 20. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 160.371 21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 160.249 22. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 160.1 23. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 159.851 24. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 159.645 25. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 158.779 26. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 158.611 27. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 158.451 28. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 158.263 29. (14) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 157.992 30. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 157.929 31. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 157.563 32. (36) J.J.Yeley, Chevrolet, 157.549 33. (30) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 157.336 34. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 156.883 35. (95) Reed Sorenson, Ford, 156.692 36. (51) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 156.644 37. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points 38. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points 39. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, Owner Points 40. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points 41. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points 42. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (40) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, Owner Points

2013 MIAMI COUNTY CROSS COUNTRY INVITATIONAL Saturday At the Lowry Complex Boys Team Results 1.Troy..................................................28 2.Tippecanoe.....................................31 3. Milton-Union.................................106 4. Covington.....................................115 5. Miami East ...................................122 6. Piqua ............................................136 7. Bethel ...........................................219 Individual Results 1. Stephen Jones 10 Troy ............15:51 2. Branden Nosker 12 Troy ..........15:55 3. Mitch Poynter 10 Tipp...............16:23 4. Zac Garver 10 TC ....................16:25 5. Blake Guillozet 12 Troy.............16:28 6. Daniel Frame 11 Tipp...............16:30 7. Jay Schairbaum 12 Tipp ..........16:41 8.Troy Schultz 11 Troy..................16:45 9. Brady McBride 10 Newton.......17:01 10. Jared Rindler 11 Tipp.............17:20 11. Evan Wharton 11 Tipp ...........17:21 12. Jacob Stillwagon 10 Tipp.......17:23 13.Tim Andrews 10 Tipp .............17:25 14. Andy Mayse 9 Piqua..............17:32 15. Nate Dunn 11 Cov .................17:37 16.Thomas Chaney 10 Tipp .......17:38 17. Josh Spayde 11 Troy..............17:38 18. Jordan Brown 10 Tipp............17:38 19. Alex Schilling 11 Cov .............17:46 20. Colton Graumen 9 M-U .........17:47 21. Andrew Lee 11 Tipp...............17:49 22. Spencer Ranft 10 Tipp...........17:54 23. Lane White 12 Cov.................17:57 24. Sam Brumfield 10 Tipp ..........17:58 25. Kyle Swartz 11 M-U ...............18:02 26. Luke Mengos 9 ME................18:07

27. River Spicer 10 M-U...............18:14 28. Josh Ewing 12 ME.................18:23 29. Dylan Jacobs 11 Piqua..........18:28 30. Ben Marlow 10 ME ................18:29 31. Luke Ferguson 10 M-U..........18:31 32. Michael Taylor 11 Tipp............18:34 33. Bryce Meier 12 Troy ..............18:38 34. Matthew Amheiser 11 ME.....18:39 35. Adam Rindler 9 Tipp ..............18:42 36. Alex Meier 12 Troy..................18:43 37. Zack Pricer 12 M-U................18:52 38. Connor Huth 10 Troy..............18:54 39. Dylan Magoto 11 Troy ............18:55 40. Eric Swartz 10 M-U................18:57 41. Parker Hench 10 Troy.............19:00 42. Pete Sheehan 9 Troy..............19:05 43. Ridge Spicer 10 M-U .............19:11 44. Cody Sauser 9 M-U ...............19:12 45. Sam Sherman 11 Cov...........19:13 46. Carsen Clouser 10 Troy .........19:15 47. Isaiah Garber 10 Piqua..........19:17 48. Hunter Sharp 10 ME..............19:17 49. Mitchell Bim-Merle 11 Piqua .19:18 50. Evan Pemberton 11 ME ........19:19 51. Ben Jans 9 Tipp .....................19:28 52. Bryan Mayse 12 Piqua ..........19:29 53.Tell Fisher 12 Newton.............19:31 54. Blake Klingler 12 TC...............19:34 55. Chase Heck 10 Bethel...........19:35 56. Nick Wheeler 10 M-U.............19:42 57. Colin Durcan 9 Tipp ...............19:42 58. Scot Kirby 10 ME ...................19:45 59. Steven Shane 10 Cov............19:46 60. Nick Tobias 12 Cov.................19:48 61. Daniel Jennings 11 Cov.........19:52 62.Tyler Henry 12 Cov.................19:57 63. Nick Stine 10 Tipp ..................20:13 64. Josh Sowers 9 Cov................20:13

65. Josh Hanes 10 Piqua ............20:15 66. Brandon Mack 10 ME............20:19 67. Michael Gross 10 Tipp...........20:26 68. Zane Willoughby 9 Tipp .........20:32 69. Bradley McPherson 9 Piqua..20:36 70. Jack Alexander 10 Troy..........20:40 71. Chad Helman 10 Tipp............20:46 72. Brett Sullivan 10 Newton .......20:48 73. Ryan Koogler 9 Tipp...............20:49 74. Luke Heinl 9 Tipp....................20:52 75. Ryan Hembree 9 Cov............21:08 76. Nash Augustus 9 ME.............21:10 77. Justin DeWeese 9 ME ...........21:14 78. Max McDonald 9 ME .............21:16 79. Sean Slack 11 ME .................21:17 80. Sam Hart 9 Tipp.....................21:18 81. Seth Canan 11 Cov ...............21:19 82. Cale Wagner 11 Cov..............21:19 83. Richie Robbins 9 Tipp............21:20 84. Jack Gates 9 Troy..................21:22 85. Nathan Fleischer 12 Troy.......21:25 86. Josh May 10 Tipp...................21:30 87.Trevor Snapp 9 Piqua.............21:31 88. Matthew Webb 12 TC ............21:33 89. Dante Kemp 9 Piqua..............21:35 90. Evan Thomas 11 Tipp............22:49 91. Sam Pencil 10 Bethel.............23:06 92. Brian Pencil 10 Bethel............23:21 93. Corey Shiltz 11 Troy ...............23:35 94. Jacob Templeton 12 Troy .......23:44 95.Tim Hanna 9 Troy ...................23:50 96. Jacob Smith 11 Bethel...........24:17 97. Aric Tipps 9 Piqua ..................24:21 98. Brandon Gilbert 9 Bethel.......25:38 99. Jacob vanTilburg 9 Bethel .....25:50 100. Logan Westfall 10 Troy.........26:41 101. Jared Hagan 11 Cov............27:24 102. Shawn Ruby 9 M-U..............27:29

103. Brennan Arrell 10 TC ...........33:34 104. Jese Shell 10 Cov................35:30 Girls Team Results 1.Tippecanoe.....................................19 2.Troy..................................................53 3. Covington .......................................69 4. Miami East .....................................99 5. Milton-Union.................................139 6. Piqua ............................................164 7.Troy Christian ...............................201 Individual Results 1. Allison Sinning 12 Tipp.............18:40 2. Carly Shell 10 Cov ...................19:13 3. Hailey Brumfield 11 Tipp..........19:33 4. Brinna Price 11 Tipp.................19:54 5. Emily Wolfe 10 Tipp..................20:06 6. Abbi Halsey 9 Tipp ...................20:18 7. Rachel Davidson 10 Troy .........20:27 8. Natalie Snyder 11 Troy.............20:31 9. Anna Dunn 9 Cov.....................20:36 10. Lorenza Savini 9 ME..............20:39 11. Abby Pence 10 Troy ...............20:46 12. Megan Falknor 11 Troy...........20:47 13. Hannah Retz 12 Cov .............20:49 14. Abigael Amheiser 12 ME.......20:50 15. Bridget McCormick 11 Troy....21:06 16. Katie-Grace Sawka 12 Troy...21:14 17. Kelly Rhoades 9 Tipp.............21:15 18. Lauren Meredith 9 M-U..........21:18 19. Claudia Barhorst 12 Tipp.......21:28 20. Anya North 10 Troy.................21:31 21. Cristina Dennison 11 Troy......21:32 22. Bailey Flora 12 Tipp ...............21:33 23. Lindsay Smith 11 Troy............21:44 24. Abby Hawkins 11 ME.............21:50 25. Morgan Cockerham 10 Troy ..21:56 26. Kayla Bruns 9 Tipp.................22:00

27. Morgan Peltier 9 Troy .............22:04 28. Lauryn Rutan 9 Troy...............22:05 29. Katherine Wilcher 11 Tipp .....22:11 30. Julianna Yingst 10 Cov...........22:15 31. Rachel Jenkins 9 Tipp............22:17 32. Lydia Guevara 9 Tipp.............22:18 33. Courtney Burgasser 12 Troy..22:25 34. Shannon Fujimura 11 Tipp ....22:27 35. Heidi Cron 11 Cov..................22:30 36. Courtney Bensman 12 Piqua22:33 37. Hailey Huelsman 10 Troy.......22:35 38. Jena Stewart 12 Troy..............22:45 39. Alexandra Prentice 11 Tipp ...22:47 40. Sami Sands 10 ME................22:54 41. Haily Bohse 10 M-U...............22:55 42. Nikita Parks 9 Tipp .................22:56 43. Cassidy Cain 11 Cov .............22:57 44. Lauren Anderson 11 Troy.......23:02 45. Autumn Weldon 9 Tipp...........23:05 46. Katie Fetter 10 Troy ................23:07 47. Grace Kueterman 11 Tipp .....23:09 48. Ellie Walters 12 Troy ...............23:19 49. Katie Litton 10 M-U ................23:24 50. Abby Bollinger 9 ME ..............23:31 51. Emily Wenrick 12 Piqua.........23:36 52. Marieke van Harren 11 Bethel23:37 53. Elisabeth Dodd 12 Troy..........23:52 54. Lauren Brackman 12 Tipp .....23:56 55. Megan Sweeney 10 Troy .......24:12 56.Taylor Stookey 10 Troy............24:17 57. Baylee Norman 10 Tipp.........24:27 58. Alonna Lumpkin 9 Tipp..........24:28 59. Ally Davis 10 Tipp...................24:47 60. Madison Handley 11 Tipp......24:52 61. Juliya Hsiang 9 Piqua ............24:58 62. Kira Rohr 9 M-U .....................25:07 63. Briana Grilliot 12 Cov.............25:29 64. Jasmine Ingle 9 Newton ........25:30

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TROY — Participants in the upcoming Harvest Moon & Balloon Fest can keep their eyes to the sky for some picturesque sights during the county’s newest festival.

The Harvest Moon and Balloon Fest will come to Troy’s Miami County Fairgrounds, sponsored by the Miami County Agricultural Society and Bella Hot Air Balloons, Oct. 4-6.

While hot air balloons have been included in past county fairs and other events, this fall marks the first time that the spectacular colorful balloons will be in the spotlight. Autumn activities will be integrated into the event as well.

“We decided to expand it into a fun fall activity as well and relate it to everything with fall, and that’s how we came up with the harvest moon part of it,” said Diana Thompson of the Miami County Agricultural Society’s Fair Board.

With hot air balloons at the forefront, the event will feature launches from the fairground’s infield throughout the weekend.

The balloons will glow Friday and Saturday evening.

Mike Gliatti, owner of Bella Hot Air Balloons, said 12 balloons will be in attendance during the weekend-long event.

He said good weather will be a key factor in the balloons offering the visual show he hopes to bring to the first of what is hoped to become an annual event in Miami County.

Gliatti said wind conditions less than 10 mph are optimal for the launch of the balloons, most of which that are at least seven stories tall, he said.

Area farmers can even get in on the action of the event, according to Gliatti. He said for many years, in areas of the country where balloon events are common, if a family would be OK with a balloon to drop in, they place a white sheet in the yard or field.

“That is a signal to balloonists that we have permission ahead of time to land,” said Gliatti, who started Bella Ballons, along with his wife, in 2007. “We really appreciate when land owners help us with landing spots.”

The couple have grown what was going to be a part-time job him, into a career. He said Bella — translated in Italian is “beautiful” — Hot Air Balloons has grown over the years, and this year retired its first balloon and added yet another.

“Bella has flown thousands of people, helping them celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, retirement, engagements, weddings and just plain old fun!” Gliatti said.

Gliatti said as a hot air balloon pilot, he believes there’s just no better way to relax.

“A balloon flight is very, very relaxing. There is no sense of motion, and you just drift with the wind,” he said. “Ballooning is

extremely interactive with the ground, meaning, you can hear people, animals, cars, just about anything and communicate back. This time of year I love to fly over fields as they are being harvested — we wave to the combine drivers.”

Smiley an eight-story balloon with a face on one side and one that winks on the other, will appear at the Harvest Moon & Balloon Fest.

The other balloons will range in various brightly colored patterns, he said.

Gliatti said each night there will be a competition of sorts between the hot air balloons, in the form of a “hare and hound” race. The first balloon off the ground will be the “hare” and the “”hounds” then pursue and try to drop baggies with their pilot number onto the hare’s landing spot. The closest baggie wins.

Glows will then follow the flights and give the crowd an opportunity to get up close to a balloon and talk with each team, Gliatti said.

Also featured in the three-day event will be a straw maze, wagon rides out to a pumpkin patch, a scarecrow decorating contest and pumpkin carving and decorating for the kids. Pony rides, a petting zoo, free kiddie rides, a painting station, bouncing carousel, an obstacle course and rock climbing wall also will keep children entertained.

A putt-putt golf course will entertain young and old and a beer garden and wine tastings will round out the first event’s offerings.

Children also can build their own kite with help from representatives of the WACO Air Museum.

Other family-friendly activities include an apple-pie baking contest and putt-putt golf, along with numerous food vendors. Adults can enjoy a beer garden as well.

Most events will be free.

Admission price will be $5 per person, with children 12 and younger admitted for free.

Hot air balloons fly over Troy during a past Miami County Fair, where the balloons were part of the annual Veterans Ceremony.

Festival-goers also may take a tethered balloon ride — in which they’re 80 feet in the air — for $10. Gates will open at noon Friday and 10 a.m.

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A Bella Balloon is prepared for flight by Mike Gliatti during the 2012 Miami County Fair. Balloon launches and glows are scheduled during the Miami County Harvest Moon and Balloonfest Oct. 4-6 at the Miami County Fairgrounds, Troy.

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Noon — Sign-up for kiddie tractor pull, inside of stadium Noon to 3 p.m. — Horse drawn wagon rides, east of Goat Barn Noon to 3 p.m. — Pumpkin decorating (while supplies last) Noon to 6 p.m. — Obstacle course with the YMCA Noon to 8 p.m. — Kiddie rides 1 p.m. — Kiddie tractor pulls inside stadium 3 p.m. — Featured movie Shop-N-Crop Building 4 p.m. — Apple Pie Contest 4-8 p.m. — Tractor pulled wagon rides east of Goat Barn 4-8 p.m. — Pumpkin decorating (while supplies last) 5-7 p.m. — Chili cook off (while supplies last) 5:15 p.m. — Balloon launch in-field 5:30-7:30 p.m. — Tethered balloon rides, in-field 7 p.m. — Featured movie, Shop-N-Crop Building 7 p.m. — Balloon glow in-field 10 p.m. — Close of festival for the day

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Sydney Blanton works on technique on a Smarter Spotter September 19, 2013, during practice at Tumble U.

Tumble U. growing in size, popularity David Fong

Executive Editor dfong@civitasmedia.com

CASSTOWN — What started out as a fun night in the basement has grown by leaps and bounds.

With an emphasis on the leaps and bounds.

“This all got started because my daugher and her friends wanted to learn how to do a cartwheel,” said Dawna Hellyer, owner of Tumble U., a tumbling class that runs four nights a week and Saturdays in the old Miami East High School gymnasium and cafeteria. “So I taught them how in our basement. I was a gymnast.

I wasn’t a very good one, but I can see things visually and help the kids.”

Hellyer’s daughter would quickly grow out of tumbling and into volleyball — she’s already 5-foot-11 and still in junior high school — but the tumbling classes would continue. What started as a halfdozen girls in Hellyer’s basement just three years ago has grown into nearly 300 girls tumbling and has gone from the basement to the Elizabeth Township Community Center to the A.B. Graham Center and, finally, to Miami East.

“Honestly, I can’t even believe how big its gotten,”

Hellyer said. “I tell everyone we get girls from Vandalia to Russia, Greenville and Graham and everywhere in between.

And it’s all been through word of mouth. People will call me and tell me they know somebody who knows somebody and they’ll want to see if they can get their kid into one of our classes. I can’t believe how big this has become.”

Hellyer said Tumble U. runs a number of classes for all age groups and skill levels — from cartwheels to back tucks.

“This is for girls who aren’t looking for the full gymnastics experience,” Hellyer said. “We get a lot of girls who maybe

want to learn tumbling, but aren’t necessarily interested in the other elements of gymnastics (beam, bars and vault). We get a lot of girls who do this in addition to dance. We get girls who do this to become better cheerleaders. Here, the girls can concentrate just on tumbling. That’s all we do, is tumble.

“But we also get girls who do it just because they enjoy it and they think it’s fun. Not every girl we get wants to do this to help them with cheerleading or dance. Some just come out because they aren’t involved in any other activities and they think this is a fun thing to do.”

In addition to Hellyer, there are three other coaches at Tumble U. — Doug Sears, Summer Potts and Britney Henderson. Classes run from 2:45 p.m. until 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday afternoons.

As big as Tumble U. already has become, Hellyer said she could see the program expanding even further in the future.

“We’d like to get an even bigger place near Troy,” she said. “Right now we are having trouble getting in all the kids who want to take classes.

That’s how big it has become.”

To learn more about Tumble U. visit its Facebook page.

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October awaits … Oh boy!

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eptember was all about were no great fan of summer’s squeezing out that oppressive swelter. In my final bit of summer’s book, October really serves heat and growth while the world up right — lots adding the finishing drops of sunshine, a riot of color, of golden goodness to the and air so delicious you can season’s largesse. A touch almost become giddy merely more sweetness to the fruit. breathing it in by the lungful.

Another bright bloom to I must also admit, from dazzle our eyes. my point of view it doesn’t By contrast, October hurt that our tenth will be focused on tranmonth provides persition. Ceasing photohaps the best stream synthesis while draining smallmouth action of off the masking chlothe year. Rivers and rophyll. Changing the creeks are full and clear, landscape’s dress from daylight is waning, the monotone greens to a water cooling. Fish are vibrant patchwork robe voraciously feeding in Jim of scarlet-red and royala final fat-adding fling, McGuire building up reserves gold, chromium-yellow Contributing sufficient to carry them and homespun-russet, rubiginous-purple, fiery- Columnist through winter. orange, and a thousand Moreover, when you hues in between. Then, hook a bass of any size, the towards the month’s tag end, nippy water temps seems dropping this glitzy leaf cover to have given them an extra and opening things up, reveal- measure of fighting pizzazz ing shape and form as the — they yank and jump and countryside starts to adopt tailwalk in head-shaking aerthe sparse, ascetic, minimalist ial displays guaranteed to set look of coming winter. any angler’s heart a’thumping.

Some of the finest days of Is it any wonder we incorrithe entire year lie ahead— gible bronzeback addicts ferespecially if, like me, you vently wish the month were

at least three times as long?

The worst is the painfully real dilemma that comes when you have to decide whether to go fishing or squirrel hunting. I’m especially afflicted because, even though Ohio’s squirrel season began on the first day of September, I happen to believe October is really the premier bushytail-stalking month — my hands-down favorite time, anyway.

Maybe because October’s crisp, dewy mornings remind me of my first squirrel outings — of sitting on a damp hillside, back against a shagbark hickory, hearing the drip and rustle in the darkened woods as I shivered and waited for that first ray of light to appear above the top of the eastern hills. I can’t begin to describe how exciting that was. Watching darkness become dawn. Trying to sit perfectly still. Listening for all I was worth for that breath-quickening unmistakable swoosh from somewhere above my head, of a squirrel crossing from branch-to-limb as it followed along a treetop

path.

Many of us simply can’t choose between bass or bushytails. Yet sometimes it’s possible to manage a twofer day — that is, a dawn-tomidmorning squirrel hunt, followed by several hours wading a nearby stream for bass, and — providing we’re not completely exhausted— finishing up with a second vespers squirrel round from late-afternoon until sunset.

In my experience, there’s not better place to practice such dual-dipping than during an October camping trip in the southeastern hill country.

Of course you don’t have to be an angler or hunter to delight in October’s colorful spectacle … or reap the bounty of the month’s savory gifts.

Fall color should be at its peak approximately three weeks from today. A drive down any local rural byway will be a trip through a natural kaleidoscope, with maples and oaks, ash and hickory, pawpaw, willow, walnut, beech, sassafras, buckeye and all the dozens and dozens of

other trees at their polychromatic finest and doing their best to out-dazzle one another. Meadows will be tawny and brown, spattered with goldenrod and asters, while the prairie’s big bluestem will be the color of old burgundy.

But please, don’t wait for the color peak—start now!

Today. Take a country drive or amble along a woodland path. Feel free to gawk at will. Repeat as often as possible, watching the color develop as autumn unfolds.

And be sure to feast more than your eyes!

Bring October onto your table with apples and pears, plums and grapes, persimmons and pawpaws. Don’t forget walnuts, butternuts, beech nuts, and hickory nuts.

The astute wild forager who knows his mushrooms might also harvest chanterelles, shaggy manes, puffballs, and sulfurs.

Yup, one more day and we’ll see the completion of September’s run for this year. Meanwhile, impatient October waits in the wings, eager to get started. Oh, boy!

A trans-Atlantic Sherlock returns in ‘Elementary’

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In this undated photo provided by CBS Entertainment, Holmes, played by Jonny Lee Miller, right, and Watson, played by Lucy Liu, film on location in London, for the second season premiere of Elementary. Perhaps it was elementary, after all. Detective drama “Elementary” is back for a second season, after silencing a chorus of skeptics by garnering critical praise and strong ratings in its first season. The show, which stars Jonny Lee Miller as a modern-day Holmes in New York, returns to CBS in the United States on Thursday, further evidence of the inexhaustible appeal of Sherlock Holmes.

and TV shows, since his inception.”

In any case, the affable Doherty —a huge Sherlock Holmes fan — says he has a thick skin.

“If you’re getting into the Sherlock Holmes business and you’re afraid of comparisons or skepticism, you’re in the wrong business,” he said. “The fun of it for me was taking everything we knew to be his history and his setting and his partnership, and shifting it by a matter of degrees.”

Rather than a cerebral, pipe-smoking Victorian Londoner, the Sherlock in “Elementary” is a tattooed recovering drug addict working as a consulting detective to the New

York Police Department.

Watson is the “sober companion” hired by Sherlock’s wealthy father to keep him straight.

(That’s not so far from Conan Doyle’s original Holmes, an occasional injector of cocaine).

The first season introduced updated versions of characters from the Conan Doyle canon, including Irene Adler — the only woman ever to get the better of Sherlock Holmes — and the detective’s arch-enemy Moriarty, given a twist we won’t reveal here.

The first episode of season two sees Sherlock traveling to London, scene of past glories and traumas, to help out

Inspector Lestrade, an old ally from Scotland Yard. It also introduces elder brother Mycroft (a superbly supercilious Rhys Ifans), a man even more brilliant than the great detective, and the

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only person who makes Sherlock visibly insecure.

Liu promised the arrival of Sherlock’s brother would add an “exciting and interesting ” new dimension to his relationship with Watson.

Doherty promises new and intriguing villains, and perhaps the return of Moriarty — left down, but decidedly not out, at the end of season one.

And while the show has revealed details of Holmes’ troubled past, there is still much to learn about Watson’s past traumas.

One of the show’s attractions is the onscreen chemistry between Miller’s Holmes and Liu’s Watson. But Doherty says fans hoping for romance will be disappointed.

“There are always some people who pine for it, and I get that, because we happen to have a spectacularly beautiful Sherlock and a spectacularly beautiful Joan,” he said. “I just have no interest in that kind of relationship.

The original Holmes and Watson, to the best of my recollection, never slept together; ours don’t have to either.”

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Cumberbatch is currently filming a third three-episode series, and Ian McKellen has been announced as an elderly Holmes in upcoming movie “A Slight Trick of the Mind.”

“I remember saying, ‘Look around the dial — Sherlock Holmes is everywhere,’” said Doherty, who wrote for “Star Trek: Voyager” and was a writer and executive producer on the psychic mystery series “Medium.”

“He is a paradigm. He is the original detective.

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LONDON (AP) — Perhaps it was elementary, after all.

The detective drama “Elementary” is back for a second season after silencing skeptics by garnering critical praise and strong ratings.

The show, which stars Jonny Lee Miller as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in New York, returns to CBS in the United States on Thursday — further evidence of the Holmes’ inexhaustible appeal.

When “Elementary” first aired a year ago, there were plenty of doubters: Another Sherlock? Set in America? With — horrors — a female Watson?

Even Lucy Liu, who plays Watson — Dr. Joan Watson — said she warned the show’s creator, Robert Doherty: “This is dangerous territory.”

“To be honest, the pressure is on, but it’s even more so for the writers and the executives,” Liu said during an interview amid the elegant Georgian buildings of the Old Naval College in London, where the cast and crew decamped this summer for a set-in-Britain season premiere. “They have to change, modernize, something that is beloved in literature.

She said she told Doherty he could “change the characters’ names.

You don’t have to have it Holmes and Watson.

You could just make it anything and it could be a new, fresh idea.’”

Doherty would have none of it. Holmes, he said, is eternal — and ubiquitous.

The BBC’s acclaimed series starring Benedict

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Muppet magic probed in new biography of Jim Henson “Ji m Henson: The Biography ” (Ballantine Books), by Brian Jay Jones.

If ever you had a single question about the felt magic Jim Henson managed to create, chances are Brian Jay Jones’ sweeping new biography of the puppeteer will answer it.

Wondered why Miss Piggy is the way she is?

Consider that her father was killed in a tractor accident, at least in the elaborate character back story created by the Muppets’ masters.

Thought Kermit was always synonymous with frog? Fact is, he had not taken on an amphibious identity in initial appearances, and was not green but the milky blue of an old coat of Henson’s mother.

Curious about the Muppets’ late-night engagements? Bet you didn’t know they once shared a Las Vegas stage with Nancy Sinatra and made regular appearances on “Saturday Night Live.”

Jones offers a meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted. Henson’s story, from his birth in the Mississippi Delta, to his first forays into puppetry as a teenager, to his sudden death in 1990 at the age of 53, is documented in depth.

We’re taken along to the creation of iconic characters, the birth of “Sesame Street,” the strain in Henson’s marriage, friction with revered children’s authors Roald Dahl and Maurice Sendak, and unending merger talks with Disney. We learn Henson’s first choice to cast in the central goblin king character of “Labyrinth” was Sting, not David Bowie, who he was swayed to choose by his children. We’re told of Henson collapsing in fits of laughter on the set of “The Muppet Show,” of him spending hours underwater to film the “Rainbow Connection” scene of “The Muppet Movie,” and how the puppets were so real they could be disarming to crew members.

It is, in a word, exhaustive, and at times, exhausting.

At its low points, the book drags, reading like an old datebook of Henson’s, chronicling every Christmas, every vacation, every minor project, every critic’s review. But at its best, it gives a glimpse of the silliness on Muppet sets, of Henson’s drive and his soft-spoken genius that in such a short life managed to create so much.

It is a better world with the Muppets. And we are better off with this careful account of their master.

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New Jhumpa Lahiri novel is scattered, slow “ The Lowland: A Novel” (Alfred A. Knopf), by Jhumpa Lahiri If you’re one of Jhumpa Lahiri’s many adoring fans, someone who is always impatient for her next book, I’m afraid I have bad news for you.

It’s here. And it’s pretty awful. “ The Lowland,” ostensibly about two inseparable brothers and the vastly different paths their lives take, has a scattered narrative, excessive descriptions of the natural landscape of Rhode Island, and plot twists that feel contrived and nonsensical.

The novel starts out in Calcutta, where brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra are introduced as polar opposites. The older by 15 months, Subhash is cautious, placid, satisfied with the status quo. Udayan is daring, unpredictable, unafraid to challenge authority.

They come of age amid the Naxalbari rebellion of peasants and communist radicals, which draws Udayan into its fold and irreversibly changes their lives.

It was a promising premise but it failed to deliver.

Bafflingly absent are the beautiful writing and masterful storytelling of her previous works — “Interpreter of Maladies,” her debut collection of short stories that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; “The Namesake,” her first novel, which was adapted into a film; and “Unaccustomed Earth,” another collection of short stories.

Each had characters that were flawed, selfish, shortsighted — but

at least they were multidimensional and a reader could understand where they were coming from. That unfortunately was not the case in “The Lowland,” which also suffered from an exceedingly slow pace, followed by a flurry of activity and then periodic updates over decades.

It was a struggle to get through and, in the end, it wasn’t worth it.

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

DATES TO REMEMBER Today n DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixth-grade. n AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open. n AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. n AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. n AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. n Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion . n Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville. n Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney n Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy. n Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons.

Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building. For more information, call 667-1069, Ext. 21. n Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit. n Sunday bingo will be offered at the West Milton Eagles No. 3621, 2270 S. Miami St. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., bingo starts at 1 p.m.

Paper and computer. Proceeds benefit various nonprofit organizations.

Monday nDollar menu night will be from 6-8 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Dollar menu items include hamburger sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for $1 each. n Come join an Intermediate Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library every Monday at 1:30 p.m. Beverages and relaxed company provided. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. n An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy.

Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy. com for more information and programs. n AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room.

The discussion is open to the public. n AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy. n AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). n AA, West Milton open discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible. n Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. n Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues.

• Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699. n TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City.

New members welcome. For more information, call 335-9721. n Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401. n Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. n Parenting Education Groups will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and age-appropriate ways to parent

children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program. n Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door. n Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public. Must currently be in therapy. For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 n Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. n Pilates for Beginners, 8:309:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n NAMI, a support group for family members who have a family member who is mentally ill, will meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the third Monday at the Stouder Center, Suite 4000, Troy. Call 335-3365 or 339-5393 for more information. n The Ex-WAVES, or any woman who formerly served during World War II, will meet at 1 p.m. the second Monday at Bob Evans in Troy. n Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

Tuesday n Double deck pinochle is played at the Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Come enjoy the relaxed environment with beverages provided by the library. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www. lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n Hospice of Miami County “Growing Through Grief” meetings are at 11 a.m. and are designed to provide a safe and supportive environment for the expression of thoughts and feelings associated with the grief process. All sessions are available to the community and at the Hospice Generations of Life Center, 550 Summit Ave., second floor, Troy, with light refreshments provided. No reservations are required. For more information, call Susan Cottrell at Hospice of Miami County, 335-5191. n A daytime grief support group meets at 11 a.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any grieving adults in the greater Miami County area and there is no participation fee.

Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit the website at homc.org. n A children’s support group for any grieving children ages 6-11 years in the greater Miami County area will meet from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee.

Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers.

Crafts, sharing time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal. n Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more information. n A Fibromyalgia Support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Troy First United Methodist Church, 110 W. Franklin St., Troy, in Room 313. Enter from south parking lot. The support group is free. For more information, contact Aimee Shannon at 552-7634. n The Concord Township Trustees will meet at 10 a.m. at the township building, 2678 W. State Route 718. n Mothers of Preschoolers, a group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to information from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from 6:15-8:30 p.m. Single, married, working or stay-at-home moms are invited. Children (under 5) are cared for in MOPPETS. For more information, contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074. n The Miami Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more information, call 778-1586 or visit the group’s Web site at www. melodymenchorus.org. n Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy.

Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people.

For more information, call 335-8814. n An adoption support group for adoptees and birthmothers will meet. Call Pam at 335-6641 for time and location. n The Mental Health Association of Miami County will meet at 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the west entrance to the fourth floor. n AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. n AA Tuesday night meeting, 7

p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. n AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

The discussion is open. n AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discussion (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). n Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Group, Presbyterian Church, corner North and Miami streets, Sidney. n AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Open discussion. n An Intermediate Pilates class will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n Women’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 3396761 for more information. n Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion. n Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion. n Public bingo, license No. 010528, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m. Instant tickets also will be available. n DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women.

For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 335-8397. n Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus. n Double H Squares will offer lessons on Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. at Sulphur Grove United Methodist Church, 7505 Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights. The fee is $2 per person. For more information, call 339-2955, 233-6247 or 667-8282.

Wednesday n The Miami Valley Veterans Museum will have free coffee and doughnuts for all veterans and guests from 9-11 a.m. on the first Wednesday at the museum, located in the Masonic Lodge, 107 W. Main St., Troy, on the second floor. n Come join the Experienced Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library, played every Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., beverages and relaxed company are provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216. n Skyview Wesleyan Church, 6995 Peters Road, Tipp City, will offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. n An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy.

Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy. com for more information and programs. n The “Sit and Knit” group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. n Grandma’s Kitchen, a homecooked meal prepared by volunteers, is offered every Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48. The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $7 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s. n The Miami County Troy Alzheimer’s Support Group, affiliated with the Miami Valley, Dayton Alzheimer’s Association and the National Alzheimer’s Association, will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. at Senior Active Adult Services, 2006 W. Stanfield Road, Troy, the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

Respite care will be provided.

Caregivers may call 335-8800 for more information. n The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989. n The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564. n AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m. Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m. Monday night and is wheelchair accessible. n AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open. n AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step

Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs. n Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. n A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from partner violence is offered.

There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 339-6761. n Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

School-age children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy. There is no charge for this program. More information is available by calling 339-6761. n Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. n Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 252-6766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www.region5oa.org. n Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. n A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104.

Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance.

Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 6674678 for more information. n Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200.

A 12-week video series using Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. Offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life and practice in being able to say no.

For more information, call Linda Richards at 667-4678. n The Temple of Praise Ministries will serve hot lunches from noon to 2 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday at 235 S. Third St., Tipp City. n A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465. nAll Kiser High School alumni and friends are invited to the monthly meeting on the fourth Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Post 200, 5046 Nebraska Ave., Huber Heights. Use the rear entrance. n The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

Thursday n The Upper Valley Medical Center Mom and Baby Get Together group will meet from 9:30-11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm House, located northwest of the main hospital entrance and next to the red barn on the UVMC campus. The meeting is facilitated by the lactation department. The group offers the opportunity to meet with other moms, share about being a new mother and to learn more about breastfeeding and the baby. For more information, call (937) 440-4906. n Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www. lcctroy.com for more information and programs. n An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy. n Parents are invited to attend the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open discussion. n Tipp City Seniors gather to play cards prior to lunch every Thursday at 10 a.m. at 320 S. First St., Tipp City. At noon will be a carry-in lunch and participants should bring a covered dish and table service. On the third Thursday, Senior Independence offers blood pressure and blood sugar testing before lunch. For more information, call 667-8865. n Best is Yet to Come open AA meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

n AA, Tri-City Group meeting will take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of the former Dettmer Hospital. The lead meeting is open.

For more information, call 335-9079. n AA, Spirituality Group will meet at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy. The discussion is open. n Health Partners Free Clinic will offer a free clinic on Thursday night at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer patients to other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 332-0894 for more information. n Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. n Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. n Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

Friday n An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy.

Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy. com for more information and programs. n A “Late Night Knit” meeting will be from 7-10 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. n AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy.

The discussion is open. n AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 S. Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym. n Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

Open discussion. Fellowship from 7-8 p.m. n A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 9-10 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 667-2441. n Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Brethren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. n A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6. For more information, call 640-3015 or visit www.groupia.org. n Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday.

Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants may bring instruments and join in.

A small donation is requested at the door. For more information or directions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624.

Saturday n The Miami County Farmers Market will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind Friendly’s restaurant. n The West Milton Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., West Milton, will offer a free clothes closet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday. Clothes are given to those in need free of charge at this time. For more information, call (937) 698-4395. n Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. n Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings are offered at 8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City. n AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Road and State Route 41. The meeting is closed (members must have a desire to stop drinking). n AA, Troy Winners Group will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy for discussion. The meeting is open. n AA, Troy Beginners Group meets at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting. n Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m. n Pilates for Beginners (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. n Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney. n Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. n The Next Step, a worship celebration for people on the road to recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. n Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit. n The Tipp City Seniors eat out at area restaurants (sign up at the center) at 4:30 p.m. Card cames will be offered at the center for a $2 donation.

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Average mortgage rate at 4.32 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages fell this week to their lowest point in two months.

The decline follows the Federal Reserve’s decision last week to hold off slowing its monthly bond purchases.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate on the 30-year loan dropped to 4.32 percent from 4.50 percent last week. The average on the 15-year fixed loan declined to 3.37 percent

from 3.54 percent.

Both are the lowest averages since July 25.

Mortgage rates are nearly a full percentage point higher than in May, when the Fed first signaled it might slow its $85-billion-a-month in bond buys. But last week the Fed kept the pace steady after lowering its outlook for economic growth.

The bond purchases are intended to lower long-term interest rates, including mortgage rates.

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tinction,” he said. “It is something people notice. It is elegant.”

The least expensive paved driveways are made of asphalt, which cost about $12 to $15 a square foot, and concrete, costing about $14 to $18 a square foot, Keenan said.

Though concrete is more resilient and lasts longer, both materials will crack over time, he said.

Pavers, which start at about $20 to $25 a square foot, should last a lifetime, Keenan said. “The key is the fact that the pavement acts as flexible fabric and it can move with the earth, and isn’t a rigid system and isn’t prone to cracking,” he said.

Pavers can be used to make traditional patterns like basket-weave or herringbone, or be fashioned into a custom look.

For a less traditional look, use a paver that comes in three or four sizes and lay them out at random, Keenan said. Or get a custom design without breaking the bank by using concrete pavers accented with more expensive natural stone pavers.

Keenan is also the co-founder and design director of reGEN Land Design in Minneapolis. He works with homeowners to find the best driveway for their home. People are most concerned with the color, which might be chosen by looking at the home’s roof, siding or trim color.

“I don’t think you can make a value judgment on which one is the best,” Keenan said of driveway designs. “It’s got to fit the building

that you’re paving next to.”

He might recommend, for example, a traditional red-brick driveway to go with a light blue Colonial home. For a contemporary, environmentally “green” home, he might choose light-colored, permeable pavers — a more environmentally sound choice because they let water back through to the earth under the driveway, rather than forcing it to run off and collect debris on the way to bodies of water.

In Naples, Fla., landscape architect W. Christian Busk installs “living driveways” that feature real grass interspersed among pavers.

That reduces heat and glare and provides some drainage.

“We blur the lines between where driveway ends and where landscape begins,” says Busk, president of Busk & Associates. “It always looks beautiful.”

Back in Pasadena, the concreteand-brick option that Ulick chose is popular among the many Craftsman and other historical homes in the area, said Mark Peters, the chief estimator for Boston Brick & Stone, which helped create Ulick’s driveway.

“It’s a very rich feel and it’s understated,” Peters said.

Since he got his driveway in 2009, Ulick said, he has received many compliments, and people sometimes stop to ask if his driveway is the original.

“That’s a bigger compliment,” he said, “that it looks like it’s been done years and years and years ago.”

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The driveway that came with the 1921 Craftsman-style house that David Ulick bought five years ago was the original concrete one, marred by cracks and with tree roots starting to break through.

“I didn’t like the driveway,” said Ulick, of Pasadena, Calif. “I wanted something a little bit nicer.”

He looked through books and drove through the Craftsman-rich neighborhoods of Pasadena to get ideas before deciding on a concrete drive with an antique finish, accented with reclaimed red bricks from the 1920s.

“I wanted this to look like the original driveway, an original, nice driveway, and using used bricks gives it a nice old-fashioned look,” Ulick said.

“It really makes it a grand entrance for the house,” he added, noting the brick walkway up one side. “I figured I’d treat the Craftsman the way it deserves to be treated, and maintain its design style and heritage.”

While a driveway may still be a utilitarian afterthought for many homeowners, others like Ulick are adding some serious curb appeal to their homes by moving beyond basic options like grass or gravel, asphalt or concrete.

“The driveway is commonly overlooked,” conceded Michael Keenan, an adjunct assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota.

“Driveways are not cheap necessarily, but they are completely functional and necessary if you have a car and a garage.”

Doing up the driveway, Keenan said, is a chance to “celebrate the function because it is a piece of the property you do use every day.”

The design options have grown in the last decade or so, he said, as pavers — made from precast concrete, clay and natural stone like granite — are being turned out in a range of colors and sizes.

Some have rounded edges for an older look; others are mottled to add color variation to the driveway.

Installing a customized driveway is a way to put your own stamp on the hardscape and set your house apart from the rest. Depending on the neighborhood, the materials and the quality of the craftsmanship, Keenan said, a driveway also could increase a home’s resale value.

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Consumers making mortgage priority again LOS ANGELES (AP) — The steady rise in U.S. home values is increasingly motivating homeowners to make paying their mortgage on time a priority, according to a new study.

Credit reporting agency TransUnion said Thursday that it examined late-payment rates between 2009 and 2012 on mortgages, credit cards and auto loans among consumers with the three types of financial obligations.

The study, which looked at payment data culled from about 20 million consumers a month, found that consumers were more likely to make timely payments on their auto loans ahead of credit cards and home loans.

But through last year, coin-

ciding with a gradual increase in home values, the late-payment rate on mortgages nearly closed the gap with credit cards.

That suggests a return to behavior before the housing bust, when financially distressed borrowers typically prioritized paying their mortgage ahead of credit cards, TransUnion said.

“With continued improvements in housing prices, it’s probable that by the end of 2013 we will see the majority of consumers paying their mortgages ahead of their credit cards,” said Steve Chaouki, a group vice president in TransUnion’s financial services business unit.

During the last recession, many Americans reined in

spending in favor of paying off debt, particularly credit card balances. The housing downturn also prompted many homeowners to make paying their credit card accounts on time a priority ahead of other financial obligations, such as their mortgage payments.

The mortgages examined in the study and found to be at least 30 days overdue had a late-payment rate of 3.83 percent in 2009. That improved to 1.91 percent last year, TransUnion said.

That’s nearly as low as the late-payment rate on overdue credit cards in the study, which stood at 1.82 percent last year, down from 2.82 percent in 2009.

Among the overdue auto loans in the study, the late-

payment rate fell to 0.88 percent last year, down from 1.34 percent in 2009, the firm said.

The study also compared the spread between late-payment rates for mortgages and credit cards to changes in U.S. home prices over the same period. It found that in markets like Los Angeles, where home prices saw a pronounced drop following a sharp upswing during the housing boom, there was a bigger gap in late-payment rates between mortgages and credit cards than in markets like Dallas, where home values were more stable, by comparison.

That suggests homeowners who saw the value of their homes decline sharply were

less inclined to miss credit card payments at the expense of paying their home loan on time.

Overall, homeowners are doing a better job of making timely mortgage payments.

The national late-payment rate on home loans in the second quarter sank to the lowest level in five years.

The last time the mortgagedelinquency rate was lower was the third quarter of 2008, a time when home prices were sliding and the U.S. economy was in recession.

Even so, the mortgagedelinquency rate is still above the 1 percent to 2 percent average historical range, an indication that many homeowners still are struggling to make their payments.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS TROY Christine Young, Roger Young to Jarrod Scott, a part lot, $120,000.

Minnich Brothers Partnership to Minnich Brothers LLC, two lots, 0.552 acres, $0.

Mark Kline to Mitchelle Meiring, Phyllis Meiring, a part lot, $175,500.

Curtis Mattern, attorney in fact, Dorothy Mattern to Kevin Wise, one lot, $69,800.

Bethany Jutte, Thomas Jutte to Angela Roeth, Brian Roeth, one lot, $217,000.

Elizabeth DeWeese to Frank Bledsoe, Patricia Bledsoe, one lot, $124,000.

Patty Curtis to Evan Jay Wall and Joyce T. Wall Revocable Trust, Evan Jay Wall co-trustee, one lot, $111,500.

N o t t i n g h a m Development Inc. to Scott Investments of Troy LLC, one lot, $44,900.

N o t t i n g h a m Development Inc. to Scott Investments of Troy LLC, one lot, $44,900.

Ann Moyer, Thomas Moyer to Christopher Behm, Colleen Behm, one lot, $0.

Krista Foley, Mark Foley to Darrin Wiseman, Tracy Wiseman, one lot, $219,000.

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Juliette Nixon to Dale Alan Hoffman, two lots, $0.

Anna Nicolas to Nicholas Josefovsky, Anna Nicolas, three part lots, $0.

Leann Summers, Timothy Summers, to Corey Kizziar, Lindsay Kizziar, one lot, $91,000.

Jessica Westfall, Jonathan Westfall to Scott Investments of Troy LLC, one lot, $81,000.

PIQUA Robert Bertelloitti, Carrie Bertelloitti, Robaerta Elsas, Walter Elsas, Edwin Liette, Jean Liette, Ronald Liette, Sharon Liette, Maryilyn Tegtmeyer, trustee,

Robert Tegtmeyer, trustee, Tegtmeyer Living Trust to Robert Liette, a part lot, $50,000.

Douglas Stillwell, Marjorie Stillwell to 321 Leasing LLC, a part lot, $0.

Estate of Eleanor Thoma, Paul Gutmann, executor, to 321 Leasing LLC, a part lot, $27,500.

Cheryl Sprinkle, Steven Sprinkle, Tim Sprinkle to 321 Leasing LLC, a part lot, $13,100.

Craig Bergman to Craig’s Investments LLC, one lot, $0.

Catherine Spencer Farms LLC to Patty Curtis, one lot, $90,000.

Matthew Baskerville, Susan Baskerville to Matthew Baskerville, Susan Baskerville, one lot, $0.

Estate of Minnie Irene Fair, May Lou Renner to Elizabeth Frantom, Robert Frantom, one lot, $49,900.

Estate of Barbara Crowell to Delmar Crowell, one lot $0.

Mary Brown, Diane Hart, attorney in fact to Patricia Gallagher, one lot, $165,000.

Margaret A. Rice Trust under Declaration, Margaret A. Rice, trustee, to Lara Sims, Roderick Sims, one lot, $165,000.

Harley F. Dunn Jr., Marilyn Dunn to Christine Young, Roger Young, one lot, $144,000.

Estate of Michael David Streib to Stephanie Streib, one lot, $0.

BRADFORD Patricia Jordan to Fred Gephart, Marcia Gephart, two lots, $24,000.

COVINGTON Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Angela Nickol, Matthew Nickol, one lot, $0.

Pamela Clark, Ronald Clark, Linda Rutmann, Diane Shields, Jerry Shields, Pamela Williams to Gerald Wight, Lois Wight, one lot, $79,500.

Edna M. Miller Trust,

Phyllis Markley, successor trustee to Sarah Detro, Sandra Riddle, a part lot, $35,000.

PLEASANT HILL Village of Pleasant Hill Ohio Inc. to Pleasant Hill Brethren in Christ Church, two part lots, $10,500.

TIPP CITY Jason Krimm to Clint Isaac, Emilee Isaac, one lot, $300,000.

Brenda Rogers, Logan Rogers to Brenda Rogers, two part lots, $0.

Kay Gay, William Gay to Betty Bross, William Bross, one lot, $265,000.

UpNorth Construction Ltd. to Tiffany Williams, one lot, $259,900.

WEST MILTON Christopher Robison, Ericka Robison to Christopher Robison, Erika Robison, a part tract 0.531 acres, $0.

Jean Rayle, William Rayle to Brad Strayer, one lot, $105,000.

Helen Overbay to Grant Pace, Kacie Pace, one lot, $111,500.

HUBER HEIGHTS Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC to NVR Inc., one lot, $39,000.

M/I Homes of Cincinnati LLC to Kelley McCray, Ryan McCray, one lot, $214,000.

Amy Hunter a.k.a. Amy Kubiak to Charles Mark Batton, Holly Batton, one lot, $196,000.

BETHEL TWP. Kathryn Doll, successor trustee, James S. Doll Revocable Living Trust to Kathryn Ann Doll, trustee, Kathryn Ann Doll Revocable Living Trust Agreement, 20.420 acres, 5.474 acres, $0.

CONCORD TWP. Gina Hillman to David Treadway, Elizabeth Treadway, one lot, $195,000.

Deborah Crouch, Robert Crouch to Laura Strong, Terry Lee Strong Jr., one lot, $310,000.

Stephen Zell, Patricia Zell to Teresa Skidmore, Wallace Skidmore, one lot, $140,000.

Jantzen Hinton, Julia Hinton to Cale Arnold, Meghan Arnold, one lot, $218,000.

Carrie Boze, Curtis Heslep, Patricia Heslep to Jennifer Woodall, Peter Woodall, one lot, $80,000.

John Walters, Sarah Walters to Larry Miller, Linda Miller, 1.377 acres, $150,000.

Kyle Kurtz to Matthew Mucci, one lot, $155,000.

Kelley Hixon, Kelley McCray, Ryan McCray to American Homes 4 Rent

Properties Five LLC, one lot, $134,400.

Dorland Loomis, Ruth Loomis to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Five LLC, one lot, $180,900.

LOSTCREEK TWP. David Bruce Williams Jr., Pamela Williams to Lowell E. Filbrun, cotrustee, Sara Filbrun, co-trustee, Sara Filbrun Trust, 9.394 acres, $63,000.

L.E. Filbrun Farms Inc. to Lowell E. Filbrun, c0-trustee, Sara E. Filbrun, co-trustee, Sara E. Filbrun Trust, $0.

MONROE TWP. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to David Hunger, Jennessa Huner, one lot, $0.

Estate of Ronald Gilliand, Shelley Smith, executor to Laura Fournier-Wick, one lot, $131,500.

Olivia Hoecker to James Snell, Susan Snell, 0.997 acre, $175,000.

Gary E. Snell, settlor, Patricia Snell, settlor, Snell Keystone Inheritance Trust to William Snell, trustee, Snell Keyston Inheritance Trust, 0.0717 acres, $0.

Dipak Shah, Dipti Shah to Surya Properties LLC, one lot, $0.

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NEWBERRY TWP. Jeanette Smith, Tony Smith to Lauren McCord, Matthew McCord, 5.007 acres, $350,000.

Frederick Canan, Helen Canan to Katharine Cheadle, Curtis Dierksen, 6.002 acres, $163,800.

SPRINGCREEK TWP. Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Arthur Donnan, Doris Donnan, one lot, $191,300.

Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Kyle Demeritt, one lot, $150,100.

STAUNTON TWP. Betty M. Suber Revocable Living Trust, Howard E. Suber, successor trustee to Michael Suber, 1.843 acres, $125,000.

UNION TWP. Estate of William N. Charles Jr., William N. Charles JR., executor to Judith Ann Varney, 1.007 acre, $63,000.

Barbara Elleman, attorney in fact, Don Elleman to Barbara Elleman, one lot, $0.

WASHINGTON TWP. Patricia Gallagher, Patricia Zimpher to Eve Aden, CHristopher Graunke, one lot, $254,000.

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Rafael Ventura, 3, from West Covina, Calif. apprehensively mingles with the sheep at the Fairview Farms petting zoo at the Los Angeles County Fair, in Pomona Calif. Goats and sheeps along with some cows, are used in petting zoos because they only have bottom teeth, so are considered safer around children.

Zoos make party animals out of goats and sheep POMONA, Calif. (AP) — Sheep and goats may not be known as party animals, but they’re increasingly at the center of the celebration as petting zoos grow in popularity for birthdays, graduations and other bashes.

Petting a gentle animal of any kind seems to appeal to young, old and in between. Daycare centers, schools, churches and even nursing homes rent mobile zoos that will bring animals and handlers to them or organize trips to petting zoos.

“You can see the absolute joy as they are sitting there stroking some animal, particularly if it’s the first time in their life they have touched one,” said Sky Shivers, superintendent of Fairview Farms at the Los Angeles County Fair, 35 miles east of downtown LA. “There is tranquility, an exchange of emotion that’s amazing to watch.”

Shivers, 63, of Prague, Okla., said a good zoo is as educational as it is entertaining, reeling off

several fun facts: baseballs have wool in their cores; doctors use the intestinal lining from some animals to graft serious burns; female goats have beards like males; and while sheep prefer grass to weeds, goats want it the other way around.

Sheep and goats are popular because they only have bottom teeth and are safer around children.

“Ponies and donkeys have teeth on the top and bottom and are more likely to nip fingers,” Shivers said. Even so, pony rides are often coupled with petting zoos, and can often be found during the holidays at many pumpkin patches and Christmas sales lots.

Rental fees range from $200 to $325 per hour, depending on the number of animals and the particular business.

The animals run the gamut from tortoises to hares. Some include exotic critters like wallabies and llamas while others offer creatures that can be found

closer to home, such as deer and donkeys.

People often like to see babies, so Brendon Kline features baby chicks, ducks and bunnies, small potbellied pigs and a baby goat at Party Animalz Farm in Brogue, Pa. “A lot of the older people enjoy it as much as the children do,” Kline said. “A lot of them grew up on farms and these are animals they don’t see every day anymore.”

All God’s Creatures in Chino Hills, 40 miles east of Los Angeles, features Serenity the silly goose and Goliath, an 80-pound turtle.

Owner Lori Bayour takes the animals on the road to hospices, city neighborhoods, parties and a rodeo.

Faith Lundgren loves to watch her grandson at Bayour’s petting zoo each October at the Industry Hills Charity Pro Rodeo.

“The animals don’t shy away from the kids at all,” Lundgren said. “Sometimes they even

make the first move. They enjoy being there as much as the kids enjoy having them.”

Not everyone thinks petting zoos are a good thing.

“We think they’re a bad idea,” said Meredith Turner, spokeswoman for the national advocacy group Farm Sanctuary. “Animals are often not in good health, they’re kept in an unnatural environment, and they teach kids that animals exist for our entertainment, when in actuality, they exist for their own reasons.”

Animals need to be clean, healthy, gentle and insured.

Handlers should provide feed for the animals and clean up after them. Another must is a sanitizing station so those who pet the animals can wash their hands.

A bad experience for a child can last a lifetime.

“You can’t leave them alone,” Shivers said. “They will get knocked down and scream and cry and be afraid of animals for the rest of their lives.”

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Opposites attract at high speeds in ‘Rush’ Maybe, just maybe, Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan are perfect opposites: one a swinging playboy, the other a cold calculator.

They have twice now collaborated on what you might call coin-flip films: movies about dueling, diametrically opposed forces. Their latest, the Formula One thriller “Rush,” is a lot like their “Frost/Nixon,” only on wheels.

Chris Hemsworth plays the English bounder James Hunt, a dashing head of blond hair whose daring-do and high-class accent turn women into mush.

Daniel Bruhl plays Niki Lauda, an analytical Austrian with pointy front teeth and a complete dearth of what you might call people skills.

Whereas Hunt is a classic, carousing, big-ego racer, Lauda is a methodical tactician. The film, based on the lives of the two famous racers, captures the climax of their collision in the 1976 world championship that came down to the final race and that also featured a crash that

left Lauda’s face terribly burned.

Just as “Frost/Nixon” marveled at the contrast of flashy TV newsman David Frost and the curmudgeonly Richard Nixon, “Rush” (also set in the ’70s) toggles between Hunt and Lauda.

Howard’s film is propelled by the clash of styles that repels them from one another, even as their mutual dedication draws them closer.

Racing films often speed inevitably toward clichés of fastpaced living catching up to the men behind the wheel. “Rush” has plenty of that — the adrenaline-fueled death dance required for the checkered flag. (Hunt describes his car as “a little coffin, really, surrounded by highoctane fuel.”) But it veers away toward something much sweeter: a simple ode to rivalry.

“Rush” makes for a terrific double feature with the superb 2010 documentary “Senna,” about Brazilian Formula One racer Ayrton Senna, which Howard has said he studied in making “Rush.” Formula One, which engenders far more pas-

sion in Europe than in the NASCAR-favored U.S., has otherwise seldom turned up in the movies. Most notably, there was the handsomely photographed “Grand Prix” (1966).

While “Rush” has plenty of exciting, highly saturated racing scenes as it makes pit stops through famous Formula One courses, Howard (whose directorial debut, 1977’s “Grand Theft Auto,” was a far less accomplished tale of car chases) is more concerned with the personality conflict, played out at high speed.

Without Thor’s hammer in tow, Hemsworth looks particularly unburdened in a role perfectly suited to his talents and natural bravado. Bruhl, though, is even more compelling. The German-born actor (who also makes a strong impression in the upcoming WikiLeaks drama “The Fifth Estate”), makes Lauda, with a clipped Austrian accent, endearing in his obsessive pursuit.

Howard, with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle,

frames both actors in close-up, letting the ping pong of their competition fill the movie.

There are other good supporting performances (Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara as the drivers’ wives), but the film belongs to Hemsworth and Bruhl as they weave through a tumultuous racing season.

It’s not only one of the better racing films, it’s one of Howard’s best. For Morgan, who also penned another distinct sports film, 2009’s “The Damned United,” it’s yet another example of his great talent for taking seemingly minor true stories and expanding them operatically.

Whatever the nature of Howard and Morgan’s collaboration, it seems to be pushing them — like Hunt and Lauda — to greater heights.

“Rush,” a Universal Pictures (NYSE:GE) release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for sexual content, nudity, language, some disturbing images and brief drug use.

Running time: 123 minutes.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013 9:30 AM ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Very nice small walnut 7 drw chest; walnut game table; Victorian loveseat & 4 pc parlor set; 5 quilts; walnut dresser w/ mirror, marble top & opalescent glass pulls; mixed wood bureau; walnut 3 drw commode stand; 17 str chairs incl 6 rose backs; pottery mushroom stool; teacher’s brass hand bell; oil lamps; stencil decorated child’s table & chrs; globe; foos ball bame; poker chips; older clothing; formal gowns; Whiting Davis mesh purse; jewelry box & misc; variety of books incl older novels & Piqua HS annuals; nice pictures; 3 Longaberger baskets; etc. CHINA & GLASSWARE: Wedgwood candlesticks & related pcs; bisque figurines; Edith Cosley Kramer hand painted plates (20), circa 1888; cups & saucers; 6 Hummels incl full crown Little Scholar; Cranberry Glass; yellow flashed Francis Ware; crystal stemware & pressed glass; Fostoria, Fenton & Candlewick. Sterling silver hurricane lamps, candlesticks, mint dish, salt, pepper & spoons; MOP flatware; silver plate items; brass candlesticks; pewter; copper hod; etc. HOME FURNISHINGS & HH GOODS: Table style desk w/ slant top & work gallery; pr of floral fireside chairs & ottoman; striped wingback chr; maple Windsor chair; ivory beige 2 cushion couch; Duncan Phyfe round lamp table & others; crystal pineapple lamp, student lamp & others; pecan dinette table w/ 2 leather chrs; lg dining table & chrs; 2 maple single beds, complete; KS maple headboard; etc. UNIQUE ITEMS: Large wooden butcher block; Crosley automobile engine, rear end & misc parts; Maytag kick-start engine; lg wooden storage box; Military Memorabilia: WWI photo of 38th Infantry, 3d Division; yearbooks; Eisenhower book; clothing & duffel bag; 10-Elvis 33 rpm record albums & others; target rings & thrower. NOTE: These are very nice items being dispersed from the Duer Family home. Please plan to attend.

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Randolf Township, Union, Ohio

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The land is located at 11600 Ballinger Rd, between Old Springfield Rd & Frederick Garland Rd. From Rt 48 at the North edge of Union, go east on Old Springfield Rd & then continue north on Ballinger. The real estate consists of a five acre tract w/ an older 2 story home, plus 6 tracts of vacant land lying on the east & west sides of the highway. Approx 45 acres is tillable, the balance is in hillside and woods. The Multi-Parcel Auction Method allows a potential buyer to bid on any combination of parcels or on the entire acreage. This is a unique setting. Explore the possibilities: Farmland, Recreation, Investment, or Possible Home Site. Offered free of appraisal w/ reserve. Details & earnest money information at www.stichterauctions.com Martha & John Davidson, Owners

REAL ESTATE TROY, OHIO

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LEGALS Troy Civil Service Commission City Building Troy, Ohio 45373 NOTICE OF OPEN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION

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At 131 S. Dorset Road. From I-75, take Exit 74 East on Main Street & South on Dorset. Watch for signs on:

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Brick ranch home w/ 2 car garage offered w/ reserve. An older 1,643 sqft home w/ living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, family rom w/ fireplace, three bedrooms & 2 baths now needing updated but great potential for a new owner. Go to the website for photos & details at www.stichterauctions.com Property of GRILLIOT FAMILY

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Three Tractors – Older Farm Equipment Very Nice Bison Stock Trailer Butchering Equipment – Tools Antiques – Appliances & HH Goods

Between Covington & Bradford, OH At 9528 W. Klinger Rd. From Covington, take Rt 48 north to Ebberts’ Seeds & then west on Klinger to the corner of Hill Rd. From Rt 721 in Bradford at the north edge of town, go east on Klinger to sale site.

TIME: 9:30 AM

3 TRACTORS & FARM EQUIPMENT: Farmall 460 & H w/ spoke wheels & loader; Ford 8N; full line of older equipment; Dearborn 2 btm, 3 pt plow; JD 3 btm pull type plow; NH baler; Kewanee elevator; 2 older flatbed wagons; utility trailer; dbl rear wheel rotary mower; Oliver 1 row corn picker; Wheel Horse & Craftsman lawn tractors & more! BISON STOCK TRAILER, tandem axle, approx 8 yrs old, but in excellent condition & stored inside. BUTCHERING EQUIPMENT: Hobart meat saw & grinder; National slicer; Toledo tenderizer 2 scalding kettles; sausage & lard presses & related items. BARN & SHOP: Full set of double nylon harness; plus older harness & related items; wooden pulleys; nail kegs; log chains; hand & power tools; Rockwell table saw; whetstone grinder; shop supplies; air compressor; chicken crates; scrap metal; receiver hitch step; several ball hitches; etc. APPLIANCES & ANTIQUES: Vizio 32” flat screen TV; Hotpoint refrigerator & elec range; cedar chest; 5 Antique Oak dressers; beds; ornate floor lamp; trumpet; pink depression glass; McCoy planters; head vase; CI skillets; granite ware; canners; wringer washer; dbl tubs; galvanized tubs & buckets; tire ash tray; Decker’s lard tins; rusty toys; doll house; bird cages; rocking hobby horse; 5 sleds; bikes & trikes; 2 red wagons; HH goods, etc. . Note: After many years at this location, the estate auction will now disperse this lifetime collection from the old to the new. Please plan to be with us. Off Road Field Parking. Photos at www.stichterauctions.com The Estate of James R. Robinson Bonnie Sue Robinson, Executor Miami Co. Probate Case 86164

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QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma or GED; good character background; must be 21 years of age or older; original appointment must occur before applicant’s 35th birthday.

October 05, 2013 at 9:30 AM 8591 E. State Route 41, Troy, OH (East of Alcony) FURNITURE: Leather couch & recliner,Lg.Walnut Kitchen cabinet,wal. dresser/ fruit handles,sm oak dresser,2 tier wal.stand,Lg. China Cabinet & dining rm table w/6 chairs,wal.telephone stand,(3)mid century dressers,Mahogany secretary,(2) Lg. Wal. wardrobes,wal. bookcase,inlay flower stand,lg. 3 door cubboard,tree branch rocker,lg. Oak flower pedestal,pie safe,lg. 6” wood trunk,end tables,painted cuboards,wood cabinets,Roman Style Bench,jewelry chest,chairs,(2) cedar chests,wal.hope chest,desk,beds w/matress,potato box,(2)wood school desks,mahogany table,buffet,cane chairs,painted chairs,(2)Philco floor model tube radio,kitchen table 4/chairs/ painted table & chairs,Walnut dresser,Old desk, GLASSWARE & POTTERY: Lg. collection of Carnival ware, Lg. selection of depression glass green, clear, pink, Set of (4) Fire King Jadite nesting Bowls, Vintage green bowl & mixer, McCoy cookie jar, Limoses, USA, McCoy, Imperial, Iron stone pitcher & bowl, Lg. heavy glass punch bowl,Assortment of crocks one 12 Gal.,Horse trailer cookie jar HOUSEHOLD GOODS:Lg assort of lamps table and floor, Woven picnic basket,Flatware,Dishes,Ki tchenaid mixer,Toaster,Blender,TV w/stand,Cannister sets,wood bowls,mirrors,misc. silverplate items,vintage osterizer mixer w/accessoires,Sterling silver Candle holders,bowls,creamer,sugar,Whi te sewing machine in cabinet,Wagner,Favorite,Megna,Copper pots,granite ware, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES:Gone wth the wind lamp,Vintage door locks & knobs,Sunshine bisc tin box,Butter churn#3,Porcelain pot,granite ware,Ohio State fair bucket,cast iron pot,weather vane,gum ball machine,old wood fireplace mantle,Kachina dolls,Hallmark Barbie dolls,lg group of vintage dolls,Vintage Roy Rodgers chaps,vest and hat,Doll furniture,Quilt rack,Navaho rugs,Les Middleton Doll, Oil lamps,POSTCARDS of early Troy& 1913 flood,cast iron deer bank,shoe lathe,Old ice box refrig.

TOOLS & MISC: Air compresser,Craftsman riding mower,Log splitter, bottom of haywagon chassie,Old wood manure speader, old metal manure speader,Old sleigh, Hand tools,lots of very old tools,Lawn & Garden tools,Magic chef refrig.,(3) point scoop,Hay rake,Scraper GUNS & Knives:Long guns Remington Sportsman 48,Stevens 12 ga,Remington Mohawk 12 ga,Old Belgiun rifle, Master Mag 20 ga,Mossberg s-130,Remington Nylon 66 w/scope,FIF Corp 12 ga double barrel,Neumann Bros double barrel,HAND Guns:Nichol plated Interarms 9mm w/holster,Repr. Colt 1851 Navy 44 Cal,(2) repro 45’s,Hi-Standard 22 cal Sentinel,Excam inc. 22 cal model TA22, High Standard Derringer,Pocker 22 cal.Ruger 22 auto w/hoslter,Colt Woodsman 22 cal,Colt All American Model 2000 9mm,Bersa Model .383,Charter arms undercver 32 cal.Jennings Model 25 cal,Jennings Model 48 .380 cal.Crossman Pellit in box. Knives: Assortment of over 100 hundred knives,Bowie type,Sword,pocket,collectibles AUTOS:1966 Chevolet Impala Convertible 327 automatic one owner with 106,000 miles in remarkable condition for it age. 1974 Buick Convertible 350 automatic with 55,000 miles in good condition for its age.Cars will sell at 1:00 NO RESERVE......

ITEMS of INTEREST:Lots of very old books,Lots of prints, pictures,(2) Old treadle sewing machines,Lots of old vinyl records some Elvis,Vintage bakelite RCA Phono. record player.(2) wringer washers,Commemorative & Mint Stamps 1975 thru 2001 books,Old strait razors, Auctioneers note: This is a partial list of items with multi owners and items being added daily. Bring a chair and spend the day.(2) Rings most of the day.

Terms of Sale is cash or checks with approved Photo ID. in state checks only.

Check on AuctionZip.Com Enter #30691 to see some pictures of items in the Sale

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SCHAEFFER AUCTIONS Bob Schaeffer & Dean Schaeffer 339-8352 or 570-7087

The following examination for a position in the City of Troy, Classified Service, will be held Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Troy Jr. High School cafeteria, 556 N. Adams St., Troy, Ohio.

POLICE OFFICER ENTRY LEVEL

Antiques-Furniture-Glassware-Farm Equip-Collectibles-Autos

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2013

OPEN HOUSE: THURS, OCT 3 5-7PM REAL ESTATE: 45 Acres, located at the southwest corner of Kessler Rd & Monroe Concord Rd. Parcel 1: 10 Acres with older farm house, 80x80 riding arena w/ tack room and 5 stalls, multi-bay older 40x100 barn & large workshop/garage.

Parcel 2: 35 Acres of bare, tillable land. The property will sell by the Multi-Parcel Auction. Call for details to obtain a bidder’s packet. Offered subject to confirmation. More information at www.stichterauctions.com Eickmeyer Family, Owners

The Auction will be conducted at the Community Church, 2261 S. Miami St (Rt 48), West Milton

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Robinson Estate

Agricultural Real Estate Offering 2 Tracts, 45 Acres Total Country Home & Farm w/Riding Arena

The Auction will be conducted on site at 3100 S. Kessler Rd. From I-75 at Troy, take Exit 73 & then west on Rt 55 & south on Kessler Rd 1 mile to sale site.

Johnson Electric offers Day 1 Medical Coverage, Paid Time Off, Competitive Wages, 401K Match, Climate Controlled Facility.

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Johnson Electric, located in Vandalia, OH, is an industry leader in motion subsystems including motors, solenoids, switches, flex circuits and microelectronics.

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RESIDENCY: to ensure adequate response times to emergencies and disasters, employees, as a condition of employment, shall reside either in Miami County or in one of the following adjacent counties: Darke, Shelby, Champaign, Clark or Montgomery.

SALARY: 2013 base salary of $46,471.63. Based on the current wage scale, salary will advance to $67,263.49 following continuous satisfactory employment of a period of three (3) years. This position carries a one (1) year probationary period. This examination is being held to provide an eligibility list for an existing vacancy.

Those persons certified as a result of this examination will be subject to a rigid physical, polygraph, psychological examination, physical agility and drug screening as well as an interview procedure including background check.

All persons taking this examination who have had military service may be eligible to obtain an additional 20% of their passing grade. Form DD-214 as proof of service and honorable discharge must be submitted at the time of application. Applicants may receive an additional 10% of their passing grade for POTC training. Current certification from the State of Ohio as proof of said training and successful completion must be submitted at the time of application. Maximum additional credit shall be 20%.

PHOTO IDENTIFICATION is required at the time of the examination.

Application forms are available in the Office of Human Resources, first floor of City Hall, 100 S. Market St., Troy, Ohio or downloaded from our website at http://www.troyohio.gov. Completed applications must be filed no later than Friday, October 18, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. with the Human Resources Office. A copy of the position description outlining duties and responsibilities is available upon request in the Human Resources Office.

The City of Troy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The City of Troy is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Any applicant requiring accommodation in order to take the exam must so notify the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission at 937-339-7805 no later than Friday, October 18, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.

By order of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Troy, Ohio.

Mary Lynne Mouser Secretary 09/29, 10/06, 10/13-2013 40492670

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510 Birchwood, Troy Th 4 bed, 2.5 bath home, is in a great neighborhood and This sit sits on a corner lot. Large backyard surrounded by mature tre trees, situated on approx. half acre. Upstairs you will find 4 lar large bedrooms with a HUGE Master Suite w/full bath. All bedrooms have very large closets. Downstairs the home has a very nice family room off of the large eat in kitchen. There is also a formal dining room located just off another nice living room. The over sized 3 1/2 car garage is awesome, with plenty of space for storage as well as 3 cars if needed.

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