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It’s Where You Live! October, 3, 2013
Volume 105, No. 233
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DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — A bus taking a church group home to North Carolina blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractortrailer Wednesday in a fiery wreck that killed eight people, authorities said. See Page 9
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Dave’s Services to give back again this year Melanie Yingst
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MIAMI COUNTY — Lending a helping hand to those in need, one local business is reaching out to the community members to help keep the heat in their homes as the weather slowly turns from fall to the frosty cold months of Ohio winters. For the third year, Dave Services’s, a Troybased local heating and cooling company, is once again giving back to the community by providing one home owner a free Bryant furnace installation before winter. “We see the need and I’ve been living in Troy and been here my whole
life,” said Dave Denoyer, owner of Dave’s Services since 1984. “There is such a need out there. My guys will come back with stories about a call they went on and how they wished they could help.” Denoyer likens old and worn out furnace systems to an aging car — constantly replacing and fixing parts when there is need for a whole new system. “The feedback from the community has been great and it’s like you are doing the right thing,” Denoyer said. Dave Service’s team has provided two local families with a heating system in the last two years. The feedback from the
last two years has been so positive that Denoyer has started a new program with the Troy Foundation after a community member approached him and wanted to help more people through donations. “We didn’t have a place to put the funds that this guy wanted to give us because he saw and supported what we were doing,” he said. “So we started this new program (H.I.G.H.) and we even donated $500 to get the ball rolling.” The Troy Foundation also is in charge of the new H.I.G.H. program and its funds for organizations and individuals to donate money toward helping families who See SERVICES | 2
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Jim Morlan, left, Jim Vaughan, center, Marvin Hawk, right, and Dave Denoyer (not pictured) of Dave’s Services Air Conditioning and Heating work on installing a complete Bryant heat pump system with a new line set along with indoor electric strips Friday, December 7, 2012, at a home on Linwood Avenue Friday in Troy.
Voter deadline looms, early voting set to start
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Sunday morning turned out to be nice and sunny, although a bit on the chilly side. Friends and family attended our church services at Jacob and Emma’s house, in honor of baptismal services being held for Mose, Susan and Elizabeth. Jacob had two bench wagons there so he would have plenty of benches to set up. It was a good thing he had prepared. The big tool shed was filled with people by the time services started at 9 a.m. People attended from South Holland, Ill., Hicksville, from several towns in Indiana including Grabill, Shipshewana, Middlebury, Berne, LaGrange, and Nappanee and Hersey and Charlotte Michigan. See Page 6
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Agricultural Society and Bella Balloons, is the epitome of what Miami County represents, entertainment chairwoman Roberta Jacobs said. “To me it just embraces what Miami County has to offer for families,” Jacobs said. “There will be so much
TROY — With the deadline looming to register to vote concerning the upcoming Nov. 5 general election, board of election officials say there is still time to register — or vote early — to become a part of the democratic process. Miami County Board of Elections Director Drew Higgins said there has not been a noticeable increase of people registering to vote this year, but said the deadline to do so is Monday, Oct. 7. To register to vote, Higgins said that can be accomplished by visiting any public library, bureau of motor vehicles, jobs and family services facility or at the board of elections, which is located on the first floor of the Miami County Board of Elections. For those who are registered in the state but have moved, a change of address form is needed. A change of address form can be filled out online at: www.myohiovote.com. For those voters who are already registered voters, early voting started at the board of elections office on Monday, though traffic has been especially light so far, Higgins said. “This is, relatively speaking, not a big election,” Higgins said, drawing comparisons to early voting turnout in the last presidential election. On Monday, when early voting began, only five people took advantage of the early voting process, he said. Those interested in voting early may do so at the board of elections office between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, with exception to Columbus Day, Oct. 14. About 25 requests for absentee ballots have also been requested so far this election cycle, he added. Higgins said he expects total voter turnout this year to be rather light. “The only thing we can compare it to is the May primary election and that was hit or miss,” Higgins said. “A ball park estimate (for voter turnout this year) … I would say a little over 30 percent, but obviously this election will be issuedriven as well.” Ballot for Nov. 5 gene ra l el e c t i o n complete
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Bella Balloons crew chief Daniel Brandmeyer, left, and Scott Black guide the aircraft to a softer landing on a farm near Riverside Drive Wednesday in Troy. Bella Balloons pilot Ron Terranova stands in the basket as a flight comes to an end.
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First Harvest Moon & Balloon Fest to take off Friday Melody Vallieu
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The first Harvest Moon & Balloon Fest is on the horizon and organizers are excited to see their planning come to fruition. The festival opens at noon Friday and continues through
Sunday at the Miami County Fairgrounds. A balloon launch in-field at the stadium will open the festival each morning on Saturday and Sunday — weather permitting — at 7 a.m. On Saturday, a pancake breakfast will follow on the grounds at 8 a.m. The festival, sponsored by the Miami County
Obama, lawmakers meet on shutdown’s second day WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there were no signs of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. Obama “refuses to
negotiate,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., told reporters after private talks that lasted more than an hour. “All we’re asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under Obamacare.” But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said moments later, “We’re locked in tight on Obamacare” and
neither the president nor Democrats will accept changes in the nation’s three-year-old health care law as the price for spending legislation needed to end the twoday partial shutdown. With the nation’s ability to borrow money soon to lapse, Republicans and Democrats alike said the shutdown could last for two weeks or more, and soon oblige a divided
government to grapple with both economythreatening issues at the same time. The high-level bickering at microphones set up outside the White House reflected the day’s proceedings in the Capitol. The Republicancontrolled House approved legislation to reopen the nation’s parks and the National Institutes of Health, even
though many Democrats criticized them as part of a piecemeal approach that fell far short of what was needed. The bills face dim prospects in the Senate, and the White House threatened to veto both in the unlikely event they make it to Obama’s desk. “What we’re trying to do is to get the See SHUTDOWN | 2
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