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Catholics invited ‘home’ Parishes reach out to faith’s inactive

BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@tdnpublishing.com

Sheriff retiring after 48 years

Inactive Catholics are invited to reconnect with the church through the “Catholics Come Home” series, a program offered at parishes including St. Patrick

MIAMI COUNTY Catholic Church in Troy and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Tipp City. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has been airing commercials for the initiative, an effort to boost church attendance

in the midst of steadily declining numbers.

Some churchgoers may have left the church because of disagreements over traditions or disappointment following events that transpired in recent years, said Deacon Mike Knight, who coordinates the series at St. Patrick.

DETROIT (AP) — When the word reached the Orion Assembly Plant, it spread along the serpentine assembly line like news of a death or natural disaster: General Motors, the biggest automaker in the world, had filed for bankruptcy protection.

On that grim day in 2009, Chevrolet and Pontiac sedans kept rolling down the line. And 1,700 worried workers stayed at their stations even as GM announced it would close the plant in a desperate bid to survive. See Business, Page

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NEW YORK (AP) — Every day, throngs of riders stand on the edge of danger in the nation’s busiest subway system, waiting on platforms with nothing between them and the tracks.

Dozens of subway and light rail systems around the world have safety barriers with sliding doors on their platforms, but the idea hasn’t gotten traction in New York. Yet transit officials are giving it a new look after two people were pushed and a third fell to their deaths on the tracks since early December.

Safety doors would be expenSTAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER sive and difficult additions to the Lt. David Norman of the Miami County Sheriff’s Office discusses improvements at the Miami County sprawling, 108-year-old subway Incarceration Facility on North County Road 25-A Friday, including the recreation yard. system, but some people are urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to try it. A company has proposed to install the barriers for free in exchange for advertising revenue.

Being shoved or bumped onto the tracks is “my biggest worry about New York,” said Ed David, a cinematographer who last spring launched an online petition to install the devices after reading about a college student who was

BY MELANIE YINGST hurled onto the tracks and killed MIAMI COUNTY Staff Writer by a train amid a fight at a myingst@tdnpublishing.com Brooklyn subway station.

The Miami County Sheriff’s Friday. “As long as we are working “I know that people like the A list of maintenance issues are toward opening the facility, the Office provided the following roughness” of New York subways, traffic statistics through the slowly getting checked off at the state inspector is OK.” said David, “but it’s a horrible way In spring 2012, a state jail Christmas and New Year’s Day Incarceration Facility on North to die, and it can be prevented.”

County Road 25-A in anticipation inspection placed the downtown holiday period: 21 OVI violaAbout 140 people are hit by of two pods to house non-violent jail as “one of the worst in the tions, 55 speeding violations, New York City subways per year, male inmates being reopened in state” and said upgrades must be 12 driving with a suspended in situations such as accidental made to comply with federal and license violations, two seatbelt the near future. knocks and willful leaps. Fifty-five violations and 36 other moving According to Lt. David Norman, state health and jail codes. people died last year and 47 in Under provisions of House Bill violations.

Miami County Sheriff’s Office jail 2011, according to the MTA. A total of 106 hours in overadministrator, the state jail 86, in effect since last September, The numbers are small cominspector will not take action some felonies are now handled at time were expended solely on pared to the 1.6 billion subway against the sheriff’s office as long the county level rather than state traffic enforcement courtesy of rides taken each year, and officials as work to the Incarceration level, leading to the increase of the a grant the Miami County say a substantial proportion is suiSheriff’s Office received from Facility, closed for three years, is overcrowding in local jails. cides. the Ohio Office of Criminal moving forward.

But two men were killed last Justice Services.

“Physically, the building will be month in a scenario out of an • See REPAIRS on A2 ready by February,” Norman said

Making repairs

County working to reopen Enforcement shuttered Incarceration Facility stepped up over holidays

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Some gun shows canceling Raw nerves after mass shooting make them seem inappropriate SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Several gun shows, all about an hour’s drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled.

A show in White Plains, N.Y. brought back a few years ago after being called AP PHOTO/THE DESERT NEWS, BEN BREWER off for a decade because of Gun owners discuss a potential sale of an AR-15, one the Columbine shooting is of the most popular and controversial weapons, during off because officials decided the 2013 Rocky Mountain Gun Show at the South Towne it didn’t seem appropriate 1 Expo Center in Sandy, Utah, Saturday. now, either. In Danbury,

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The still-energetic 80-yearold can rattle off names, cases and other facts with startling recall as he tells tales of a lawenforcement career stretching to 1953. See Page A5.

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Others may have felt they no longer needed to practice their religion but have found they now want to restore Catholicism in their lives.

“Everybody’s got their reason,” Knight said. “Some people are angry about the rules, the way they were treated or blown off. It could be almost anything. Or some

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Catholics • Continued from A1 people go to college and go out on their own and just give up church. And now they’re 30 or 35 and have a family and want to reconnect. There could be as many reasons as snowflakes.�

Regardless of the reason, all interested individuals may attend the sixweek series at St. Patrick, which takes place at 7 p.m.

Wednesdays beginning Jan. 9. The church is at 409 E. Main St. “Certainly everyone is

welcome to come back to church,� Knight said. “We’re all human and fragile. We don’t exclude anybody.�

Subject matters include the Nicene Creed, individual beliefs, faith stories, prayer life and new church practices since Vatican II, as well as any other matters of discussion desired.

Jennifer Melke, director of religious education at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Tipp City, said some people may have left after cases of sexual abuse by priests surfaced, while

others may take offense to some of the church’s teachings. But she said the large majority of people who leave don’t have any major disagreements with the church. “They don’t have any hard feelings. They’ve just gotten out of the habit of going to mass and practicing the societal message that you don’t need organized religion,� Melke said.

St. John the Baptist’s sessions will be from 7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 15, 22 and 29 at the church, 753 S. Hyatt St., Tipp City.

In today’s society, Melke said, other activities might take precedence over attending mass, such as children’s sporting events in the case of young families.

People of all ages seeking to rekindle their spirituality often find they need more purpose in their lives, Melke said. “For people who have been away for 40 to 50 years, it’s because at the second half of life, they’re coming to terms with their own mortality and starting to think about spirituality

Repairs select family benefits. “We are finishing up the interview process from August and will be testing all month,�

Norman said.

Norman said several corrections officers who were laid off three years ago when the facility closed its doors have returned to attempt to be rehired when the facility opens once again.

Norman said multiple interviews, evaluations, physical and written tests for qualified candidates will continue through the late winter and early spring months. Physical and psychological exams, training, uniforms and portable radios are projected to cost $29,270 – a one-time expense for the county – according to estimates presented last fall. “It will make the downtown jail a lot easier to manage,� Norman said. “We are looking to hire 19 to maybe 20 corrections officers and that takes a lot of time.�

Norman said the training and evaluation process the corrections officers endure is now on par with deputy hires.

Norman said a “small riot� broke out on Nov. 25 after inmates refused to give up a bottom bunk for an inmate who needed a lower bunk for medical purposes. It took 20 corrections officers and deputies to disperse the inmates and five were

later charged with misdemeanor causing a riot.

Norman said the more beds available “the better.�

Norman also gave the example of a man who broke into several vehicles last fall, stealing money and property for drug money.

The man was released the following day due to not enough space in the jail and the charges not being violence-related. “What did that teach that guy? He was back out on the streets in less than 24 hours. It’s very frustrating for officers, judges and for everyone,� Norman said.

Norman said the more beds available to house those who break the law means better rehabilitation for the inmate and to make Miami County safer as a whole. “Getting this facility open is going to help a lot of different people – especially Miami County citizens,�

Norman said. “The judges will have the ability to sentence people for longer periods of time and when we finally have this open, it will help those who need to be here in jail.�

Norman did not have a specific date the facility would be ready, but speculated the facility could be ready by late spring or early summer. “We’ve got a few more hoops to get through. I’m hoping to have everything ready for inspection so all they have to do is just walk through,� Norman said.

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The less-than-20-year-old AirTrain systems at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and nearby Newark Liberty Airport were built with the safety doors. No passengers ever have fallen onto the tracks.

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• Continued from A1 Inmates could have been housed at other facilities for $60 a day if other jails had the room for Miami County inmates.

If the repairs were not being made to open the “I.F.,� the county’s options were slim: judges could order more ankle bracelets, although there is a limited supply of them; some inmates could be released on their own recognizance and report back to the sheriff’s office; or open the 10year-old Incarceration Facility on County Road 25A. Repairs are being made to the building and the sheriff’s office is moving forward toward its goal of reopening the Incarceration Facility.

Norman said now that the roof leaks have been addressed, work to the HVAC will begin next week.

Bids are in the process of being approved to retile and seal showers, repair flooring and purchase supplies to open two pods of the facility, Norman said. “More razor wire will go up later this month,�

Norman said. “It’s going to take a little longer but the roof has been fixed and there are no leaks or problems there anymore.�

The sheriff’s office also used materials removed from the Incarceration Facility, such as televisions, computer and medical equipment, to replace dam-

aged equipment at the downtown facility.

Previously, the state jail inspector found the downtown facility not in compliance with several mandates and that it was overcrowded. The state ordered the sheriff’s office to cut the Miami County Jail population from 115 to 55 by Jan. 1, 2013.

Norman said because the county is making significant strides to repair the Incarceration Facility to reduce the downtown jail’s population, the state inspector is holding off on orders to downsize the population.

Approximately 120 male inmates with crimes less than a third-degree felony will be housed at the “I.F.� according to Norman.

Violent crime inmates, women and those who are incarcerated overnight and need to appear in court the following day will remain housed in the downtown jail. The downtown jail may only be 40 years old, but according to Norman, the maintenance age is more like 200 years old due to its constant use, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Norman said the sheriff’s office also has been busy interviewing corrections officers to hire once the facility is ready to house non-violent male inmates in two pods. The projected cost for 19 corrections officers’ salaries is $635,481 per year, plus $381,071 in benefits if all

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and what they believe, and in some ways setting things right between themselves and God,� Melke explained. “Or they feel there’s something more to life,� she continued. “They have the job, the beautiful home, their successful kids. They have everything, but still they’re left feeling empty in some way and thinking, ‘What more is there?’ because they’re still not feeling fulfilled. We’re spiritual beings, and we have this desire to connect with the transcendence.�

Knight said the series is all about outreach, helping individuals rediscover their faith. “We welcome everyone with loving arms and openness,� Knight said. “I like it a lot. It lets people get rid of some ill will at the minimum and get some healing and move on — even if they don’t come back.�

At both churches, interested individuals are welcome to bring a friend or family member. For more information on Catholics Come Home, visit CatholicsComeHome.org.

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• WINTER SPEAKER: “Conservation: On the Edge,” will be presented at 2:30 p.m. with speaker Chris Bedle, Cincinnati Museum Center Preserve director, as part of Aullwood’s Winter Speaker Series, at the center. Bedle has been with the museum for 27 years overseeing the museum’s land management and educational offerings. His latest project is an effort to catalog The Edge of Appalachia Preserve System’s biodiversity to better understand the eastern forest system the preserve is working to protect and manage.

MONDAY • WINGS OFFERED: American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will offer wings from 6-7:30 p.m.

• COMMITTEE MEETING: The Covington High School junior class will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the high school library. For more information, call Michelle Henry at 418-1898.

TUESDAY • LITERACY COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at the Hayner Cultural Center in Troy at 7 p.m.

Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are asked to contact our message center at (937) 660-3170 for further information.

• PARK COMMISSIONERS: The January meeting of the city of Troy Board of Park Commissioners will be at 11 a.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 100 S. Market St., Troy.

• BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will host a carry-in dinner to celebrate the January, February and March birthday celebrants. Come and offer birthday greetings and bring a covered dish to share. A birthday cake will be provided as well as table service. Coffee will be available.

• EXPLORATION HIKE: The Miami County Park District will have an adult exploration hike at 9 a.m. at John A. Wannemacher Reserve, 1876 MonroeConcord Road, near Troy. Join naturalists as they head to explore nature. Preregister for the program online at www.miamicountyparks, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

WEDNESDAY • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Miami County YMCARobinson Branch. Jim McMaken, YMCA executive director, will offer a brief overview of the YMCA’s operations, followed by a tour of the facility. A boxed lunch will be provided for $10.

For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 4181888.

• COUNCIL MEETING: The Troy Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organization, will meet at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. Adults seeking help with basic literacy or wish to learn English as a second language, and those interested in becoming tutors, are asked to contact the message center at (937) 660-3170 for more information.

• ALUMNI LUNCHEON: The Staunton School alumni will meet at 11:30 a.m. at Friendly’s in Troy.

• FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOP: Covington High School will host a financial aid workshop for college bound seniors and their parents at 6:30 p.m. A member of the Wright State financial aid counseling staff will conduct a presentation on college scholarship scholarship and loan processes, application procedures, sources and types of financial aid and FAFSA instructions. A question and answer session will follow.

• REORGANIZING MEETING: The Newton Local Board of Education will hold an annual reorganization meeting followed by the regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. in the Newton School Board of Education Room.

THURSDAY • SLOPPY JOES: American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer sloppy joe sandwiches and chips from 6-7:30 p.m. Euchre will start at 7 p.m. for $5.

• BOE MEETING: The Covington Board of Education will hold its organizational meeting at 6 p.m. in the Covington Middle School, 25 Grant St. • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be from 89:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

• PROJECT FEEDERWATCH: Come count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts and share stories from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The bird counts help contribute to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Admission is free. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more information.

FRIDAY • STEAK FRY: The Sons of the American Legion, Tipp City, will present a steak fry, baked potato, salad and dessert for from 6-7:30 p.m.

• FILM SERIES: The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center’s film series will continue with a comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell at 7:30 p.m. at the center. The evening will start out with an introduction of the film. After viewing the film, a short discussion may follow. There will be cafe-style seating with popcorn and soda pop. The film series is intended for adult viewership and may not be appropriate for children under 13. For more information, call 339-0457.

• SOUPER WALK: The Miami County Park District will hold its Souper Walk Series program from 7-9 p.m. at Hobart Urban Nature Preserve, 1400 Tyrone, off of Dorset Road, Troy, weather permitting.

Participants are invited to come enjoy a guided hike led by a park district naturalist followed by a warm crackling campfire and a hot cup of soup de jour. Hikers are encouraged to bring a can of soup for donation to a local food pantry.

Registration preferred by noon on the day of the program. Register for the program online at www.miamicountyparks.com, email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 335-6273, Ext. 104.

• PROJECT FEEDERWATCH: Come count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts and share stories from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The bird counts help contribute to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Admission is free. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell. edu/pfw for more information.

SATURDAY • DAR MEETING: The Piqua-Lewis Boyer Daughters of the American Revolution and Fort Pickawillany Society Children of the American Revolution will meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, Troy.Hostesses will be Nancy Eppleston, Laura Larck and Marianne Ober. Prospective women members are members to attend as well as children and students.

• PLANT WORKSHOP: A Bark, Buds & Berries plant workshop will be offered from 1:30-4:30 p.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Participants will collect seeds, twigs, etc., to start their own winter plant collection. Bring hand pruners and dress for the weather. Preregistration is required. Class fee is $40 for non-members.Call (937) 890-7360 for more information.

JAN. 13 • TURKEY SHOOT: The Troy VFW Post No. 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer a turkey shoot with sign ups beginning at 11 a.m. The shoot will begin at noon. An all-you-can-eat breakfast, by the auxiliary, will be available from 9 a.m. to noon for $6.

Foundation awards grants Distributes $16,813 to community organizations The close of 2012 also marks the completion of the Tipp City Area Community Foundations’ 70th year of giving grants into the community.

Since 1943, the Tipp City Area Community Foundations has awarded more than $1,600,000 in grants to the community.

For more information about the foundations and the funds that make these grant awards possible, visit the website at www.tippfoundation.org.

In December, the Distribution Committee of the foundations met for its final 2012 session to award grants. These community leaders considered several grant requests that could benefit its residents. In the end, seven organizations were chosen to receive 10 awards totaling $16,813.15.

• Community Minded Women, $500, continues the custom begun in 1944 of a Tippecanoe High School Senior Girls’ Traditional Tea, saluting the young women about to graduate.

• Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, $2,000, underwrites the expenses associated with bringing music to both Bethel and City schools.

Tipp Specifically, students will experience live orchestral performances, learn about music and musical concepts, and have their classroom lessons and learning enriched through demonstrations of music’s correlation to academic subjects including language arts, history, geography, social

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• Needy Baskets, $4,884.28, helps this agency meet an expanding demand at the holiday season. Specifically, Christmas baskets will be prepared for families that contain the ingredients for a traditional holiday meal.

• Parents Who Care, $500, supports the parentled Tippecanoe High School After Prom, which offers an alcohol- and drug-free environment for THS prom guests.

• Tipp City Exempted Village Schools, $1,788.98, opens doors to the ancient world of legends with the purchase of mythology books for fourth-grade students.

• Tipp City Exempted Village Schools, $691.50, buys graphing calculators for Algebra II students who enhance their learning in the high school Resource Room. When taught in a small group setting, students can be more successful with this level of mathematics, now a core requirement for receiving a diploma.

• Tipp City Exempted Village Schools, $608.39, adds additional bike racks for middle school and L. T. Ball students who are increasingly riding to school. Bikers increased noticeably after the bus routes were changed in fall 2012.

• Tipp City Music Boosters, $2,590, crowns the marching Red Devils through the purchase of

plumes to top off their new band uniforms. Each year 140 high school students entertain the community as they march in parades and perform during athletic events. In fall 2012, the band brought home a Superior rating from statewide high school competition.

• Tipp City Music Boosters, $2,250, tunes into the needs of the marching band with the purchase of an Adams Marimba. With their trip to Disney World coming in the spring, this percussion instrument can be bought in time for the international audience to enjoy.

• Tippecanoe Historical Society, $1,000, brings photographs out of archived files and puts them on display in a new cabinet. The museum continues to be a teaching place for all generations and is staffed solely by volunteers.

Members of the Distribution Committee are Jim Ranft, chair, Heather Bailey, Dave Grim, Matt Timmer and Jackie Wahl.

Other trustees include Jesse Chamberlain, Joan Creech, Anita BowmanHamber, Mike Lightle, Jim McKee and Marilyn Richards.

The Tipp City Area Community Foundations is a member fund of The Troy Foundation. If you would like information about how to make a taxdeductible contribution to the foundation, or how your organization can apply for a grant, contact Jim Ranft at 667-1270.

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on South Korea-Japan relations: South Korea will soon be led by its first female president, Park Geunhye of the ruling Saenuri Party. In the presidential election held on Dec. 19, she defeated her opponent, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party. …

South Korean voters sought “change within stability.”

With the advancement of Samsung Electronics Co. and other businesses, South Korea appears robust. In reality, however, it is standing at a crossroads.

Incumbent President Lee Myung-bak put importance on economic growth and adopted policies that give consideration to such conglomerates as the Samsung and Hyundai groups. However, the fruits of the economic growth did not spread widely among the public.

In South Korea, the aging of society and the declining birthrate are advancing at a pace faster than in Japan. But South Korea’s social security systems, such as pension programs, remain fragile. More people feel the gap in society is growing wider.

For North Korea, Park advocates a policy of dialogue after judging that incumbent President Lee Myung-bak’s hard-line policy did not lead to improved relations. … it is important for South Korea to keep in step with Japan and the United States on diplomatic policy.

This year, Japan-South Korea relations drastically worsened after Lee landed on the disputed Takeshima islets in the Sea of Japan and made a controversial remark about the emperor’s visit to South Korea. At a time when new administrations are set to take off both in Japan and South Korea, they should seize this opportunity to improve relations. …

In South Korea, there are concerns about the historical recognition of Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe, who will become Japan’s next prime minister. …

Abe emphasized that he will put importance on the Japan-U.S. alliance.

Along with South Korea, which is also a U.S. ally, cooperation of the three countries forms the basis of stability in East Asia.

London Evening Standard on the UBS-Libor scandal: The sheer scale of the UBS fine for its part in the Libor-fixing scandal is an indication of how seriously the financial authorities take the affair.

Crucially, UBS profited from the fixing of Libor — the rate at which banks say they can borrow money from each other — which could not be proven in the case of Barclays earlier this year. So in addition to the record $1.5 billion fine to financial authorities, in London, New York and Tokyo, UBS faces the alarming prospect of civil cases from clients.

This is, by any estimate, an exemplary fine for behavior which bordered on the farcical in the case of traders who wheedled and cajoled colleagues in other banks into collusion. But as with Barclays, it was also done to convey a false sense of security about the rate at which UBS could obtain credit during the financial crisis.

Although the financial authorities, including London’s FSA, can congratulate themselves on the draconian punishment, the bigger question is how they managed not to identify a scam that seems to have been common knowledge for years before anything was done.

Nor did it appear to have registered with the bank’s own compliance department, which ran five separate internal audits during the period.

This scandal has some way to run yet. Many banks were in on rigging Libor. This is not an issue of interest merely to financiers. If banks have to find millions to pay severe fines, even if not on the UBS scale, then they will have that much less credit to offer individuals and businesses who want to borrow.

And among those who will pay for the costs involved are bank customers.

As ever, we all pay for the sins of bankers.

THEY SAID IT “We even had overtime posted, but no OVIs is good. We made a lot of stops, but most were designated drivers, so the word is getting out.”

— Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Sgt. Brian Aller, on New Year’s Eve traffic “I have a new baby sister.”

— Taylor Huffman, 7, on the birth of little sister Sariah Snow Huffman, the first baby born in Miami County in 2013 “Just yesterday (Jan. 2) I got two calls from guys sleeping in their cars. Even in this weather, it’s tough sleeping in the car.

We want to afford them some food and a place to sleep.”

— Saint Joseph’s House director Dick Steineman

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Console makers biting the hand that feeds them Same story, different year.

As recently as February of last year, I wrote of rumors of Microsoft and Sony’s next-generation video game consoles potentially having the capability of blocking either second-hand or rented games in some fashion and how bad that would be for gamers — and the economy as a whole.

Earlier this week, we got proof that they’re not only rumors, but these dummies are actually working toward that very goal.

Sony filed a patent application for technology that could be used to tie individual game discs permanently to a user account. Every time the game was loaded into a console after that first time, it would search to make sure that same user account was the one attempting to play it — and if it isn’t, it would shut down and not play the game.

Evidently the video game industry is so sick of people saving money by buying and selling used games, they want to kill every industry that video games touch.

The target, obviously, is the second-hand market. Retailers — particularly the world’s largest video game retailer, Gamestop — make billions by buying back consumers’ old used games and then selling

sales, which, just like with piracy, are far, far fewer in reality than they’d like to believe.

So they’re fighting back the only way they know how.

By robbing their faithful fans of their rights.

The news made immediate waves, too.

Gamestop’s stock dropped 5 perJosh Brown cent the day Sony’s patent applicaSunday Columnist tion was announced, although it did rebound 2 percent the next day. them at reduced prices from new.

In addition, every video game Video game developers and publish- messageboard in existence was ers see none of that second-hand filled with angry gamers decrying money, while the retailers make the “death of Sony” and how they nothing but profit on their sales. had no plans to buy any machine Forget the fact that many boasting this tech. gamers — myself included — wouldGood. And hopefully Gamestop, n’t have the money to buy new Best Buy and every other retailer games without selling back our old that sells video games refuses to ones first, and still more gamers stock and sell any console with can’t afford to buy new ones at all these capabilities. It’s time that and look at buying second-hand everyone involved sends a message games as their only outlet. to these companies that their harmAnd also forget that the develop- ful practices won’t be tolerated anyers already made their money on more. that first sale, and that since the After all, it’s not just the buyers consumer bought it, it’s their propand the sellers that would suffer if erty and they’re free to do whatever the next-gen consoles blocked secthey want with it — including sell it ond-hand games. off to someone else to make some of Rental stores like Family Video their money back.

— which have already been batNo, all they see is perceived lost tered by online streaming video

services — would find one of their last remaining lifelines cut. After all, there aren’t nearly as many online video game rental services to compete with — just Gamefly really — as there are movie services, meaning that people still can go to their local video store to rent games.

If Sony and Microsoft go ahead with this (it still isn’t set in stone), it will likely be the end of video stores as we know them. Retailers will suffer. Game sales will dive even further — both from boycotts of the new systems and people simply not having the capability to buy games.

And in the end, many, many, many jobs will be lost.

More than already have been.

I believe in supporting the people that make video games, which is why I always buy my games new.

But to do so, I have to sell back my old games and feed the used games market. Take away my right to sell my own property, and I have no way to support them.

Sony, stop biting the hand that feeds you.

Or we’ll just have to curl those hands up into fists.

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This photo taken Dec. 12, 2012, shows the nation's longest-serving sheriff, Pickaway County's Dwight Radcliff, talking to teens after receiving the 2012 Ohio SADD Law Enforcement Award of Excellence during the Pickaway County Safe Communities coalition meeting at the sheriff’s office.

Law enforcement icon Sheriff retiring after 48 years in office CIRCLEVILLE (AP) — Even amid the jumble of details dating to the early days of the Eisenhower presidency, Pickaway County Sheriff Dwight Radcliff hasn’t forgotten much.

The still-energetic 80year-old can rattle off names, cases and other facts with startling recall as he tells tales of a lawenforcement career stretching to 1953.

“Y604L,” Radcliff says, reciting the plate number of the 1957 Chevy driven by a suspect in the first homicide he worked, and solved, after taking office as sheriff in 1965.

To many residents of Pickaway and colleagues in law enforcement, Radcliff is himself an unforgettable man. Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott lauds his neighbor to the south as an “icon, not only in Ohio but nationally.”

As Radcliff prepares to hang up his gun belt after 48 years in the family business, he ranks as the nation’s longest-serving sheriff.

He attributes his longevity to passion for his job and always being a straight dealer, whether with the people, his deputies or the prisoners in his jail.

“I know people. If you don’t lie to them, they’ll take care of you. Treat people how you like to be treated yourself,” Radcliff said from his memorabilia-packed office. “I’ve always meant what I said and said what I meant. I’m proud of that.”

He isn’t sure what he will do in retirement. Aside from a four-year stint selling cars, law enforcement is all Radcliff has known.

It’s all in the family.

Charles Radcliff, the manager of a dairy co-op, was elected sheriff in 1931, moving into the residence at the jail where his wife, Sadie, served as matron. A year later, their son Dwight was born, his destiny seemingly set.

Dwight Radcliff began shooting crime-scene photos for his father as a teenager in the 1940s, and he hired on with his dad as a full-

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This photo released by the Pickaway County Sheriff's Department shows Pickaway County Sheriff Dwight Radcliff, right end, in 1954, along with his father, Charles H. Radcliff, center, and his mother, Sadie B. Radcliff, right. time deputy in 1953. But Charles Radcliff lost a primary race in 1960, sending him to the sidelines and his son to the car lot.

Over his protests, Radcliff said, a couple of supporters dragged him to the board of elections in 1964 and “made” him run for sheriff as a Democrat.

Radcliff won election, the first of what would be a dozen such wins.

Radcliff came to know his county, and its people, as no one else did. He knew everyone, it seemed. He could tell you where they lived and what they did for a living, illegally or otherwise.

When detectives couldn’t get anywhere questioning a suspect, they would call in the boss, said Lt. John Monce. “Dwight can get stuff out of people because he knows their dad, their mom, their relatives. They’ll talk to him.”

Radciff ’s son, Robert, likewise grew up at the county jail where Betty, Dwight’s high-school sweetheart and bride of 59 years, also served as jail matron and office manager before retiring a decade ago after 37 years.

“Robbie,” as the Radcliffs call their son, was hired by his father as a jail deputy in 1980 and rose to lieutenant before retiring this year so he could run for sheriff, successfully extending the family legacy to three generations.

The 50-year-old new sheriff, one of Dwight and

Betty’s three children, hopes he can be as effective and as respected as his father.

“Something my grandfather taught him, and he’s taught me, is that you serve the entire public. You treat everyone the same; it doesn’t matter where they come from,” Robert Radcliff said.

The son also hopes to match his father’s energy: “He’s a 24/7 sheriff. The sheriff’s office was his love from the time he was born.

It’s what he lives for.”

The elder Radcliff never fired his gun in the line of duty and leaves office with no unsolved homicides on his watch (unless you count two men killed in Columbus whose bodies were dumped in Pickaway County in 1974).

He takes pride in running a full-service operation, telling state troopers to stand down from handling fatal crashes, and working homicides instead of leaning on the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

“If you are a resident of my county, and you call me, I need to respond. We’re not going to pick and choose.

We’re not going to pawn it off. If something happens here, we’re going to be there. We can do the job.”

As he prepares to pass on his badge to his son today, Radcliff has seen many changes.

There’s more violence; drugs are rampant; there’s a dismaying number of women behind bars.

Lebanon keeping train attraction ing the Christmas season.

It also has had events focused around Thomas the Tank Engine, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Curious George.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the train’s future had become uncertain during talks on a new contract.

Owner Cincinnati Railway Co. had discussed moving it to another city.

But city leaders wanted to keep it as another tourism draw for Lebanon’s quaint, historic downtown, which includes the famed Golden Lamb inn and restaurant, antique shops and other attractions in the Warren County seat.

“We felt this is not a good time, in this economy, to lose the train and this part of our town,” said Vice Mayor Charleen Flick.

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CEO Brian Collins said he had hoped to be able to keep the train in Lebanon, praising the city’s “Norman Rockwell” style charm.

“It’s picture postcard, and we’ve got this nice little setup down there with the little train station, parking, our offices and everything else,” he said.

The train has operated under its current name since 2006. It operates on a line that dates to 1881.

TIPP CITY — Elizabeth Louise Hirt, 93, of Bethel Township, formerly of Piqua, Ohio, died Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. She was born Dec. 28, 1918, in Piqua, to Ray and Gold (Large) Hardesty. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lawrence Hirt, in 1991; and two brothers.

She is survived by brothers, Guy Hardesty and Richard (Lois) Hardesty; son, Jerry Hirt; daughter, Jenny and her husband, Ron Dickensheets; three grandchildren, J.L. (Missy) Hirt, Rob O’Dell and

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Louise was a member of the Brandt UMC, where memorial services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Louise to the Brandt United Methodist Church Debt Retirement Fund.

Arrangments have been entrusted to Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City.

JOANN (MESSICK) HEPFER TIPP CITY — JoAnn (Messick) Hepfer, 84, passed away peacefully at home on Jan. 3, 2013, due to a lengthy illness. She was born Sept. 8, 1928.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Edna (Sullivan) and Joseph Messick; three sisters; her husband of 60 years, Billy C. Hepfer Sr.; her son-in-law, MESSICK Rick Allred; and a grandchild, Michael Hanshaw Jr. She is survived by her children, daughter Tina Allred, Troy, son Billy (Christine) C. Hepfer Jr., and daughter Beth Hepfer, Tipp City; grandchildren, Brad (Karen) Hepfer, Melissa Allred, Jennifer Hanshaw, Matthew (Kourtney) Allred, Casey (Jess) McGreevy and Angela (Howard) Brentlinger; and eight great-grandchildren.

JoAnn was an employee of WrightPatterson upon graduating from

Tippecanoe High School, Class of 1946. She worked many years in the office at Spring Hill Nurseries. She loved to do crafts, many of which were always given as gifts to friends and family.

JoAnn was a member of the Tipp City Seniors.

Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, Tipp City. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the funeral home, with Chaplain John Shelton officiating. Burial will follow at Maple Hill Cemetery.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to Hospice of Miami County, 550 Summit Ave., Suite 101, Troy, OH 45373, in JoAnn’s name, to acknowledge and thank them for the superior and compassionate care they gave to JoAnn.

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Oldest living U.S. citizen dies at 114 (AP) — A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died, two of her daughters said Saturday.

Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, who held the title as the country’s oldest person for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Ga., said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Md., and Janie Ruth Osborne of Edgefield. They said their mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.

Gerontology Research Group, which verifies age information for Guinness World Records, listed Mamie Rearden as the oldest living American after

last month’s passing of 115year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa. Rearden’s Sept. 7, 1898, birth was recorded in the 1900 U.S. Census, the group’s Robert Young said.

Rearden was more than a year younger than the world’s oldest person, 115year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.

“My mom was not president of the bank or anything, but she was very instrumental in raising a family and being a community person,” said Sara Rearden, her youngest child. “Everybody can’t go be president of a bank or president of a college, but we feel just as proud of her in her role as housewife and particularly as mother and homemaker.”

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LEBANON (AP) — City officials are keeping the southwest Ohio community’s train from permanently pulling out of its station.

Lebanon’s city council recently approved a new two-year deal for the Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad. The city owns five miles of track, and has agreed to keep up bridge inspections and maintenance, and has cut the train’s lease amounts for the track and station bathrooms. The train will pay the city 50 cents each out of most passenger tickets, with the proceeds going to long-term track repairs.

Starting in downtown Lebanon, the train offers short rides around the region, with special seasonal events such as the North Pole Express trips to visit Santa and Mrs. Claus dur-

Council of Churches and PIQUA — Elizabeth Church Women United. She Easterwood, age 92, of worked at the YWCA for four Piqua died at 1:08 p.m. years, Piqua Memorial Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at Miami Hospital for 15 years, J.C. Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio.

Penney’s for 12 years, ElderShe was born in Greenfield, Beerman for five years and Ohio, on Jan. 24, 1920, to also sold Avon as an indethe late John A. and Hazel pendent dealer.

(Greene) Holland. On Oct. Funeral services will be at 19, 1965, in Circleville, Ohio, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, she married Willis L. 2013, at Cyrene A. M. E. Easterwood. He preceded her EASTERWOOD Church, Piqua, with the Rev. in death on Aug. 3, 2000.

Christopher Ferguson officiating and Elizabeth is survived by two daughthe Rev. John Vaughn having the ters, Mary Jane Hawkins, Trotwood, eulogy. Burial will follow in Miami and Hazel Joanne McKnight, Dayton; Memorial Park, Covington. one son, John Robert Lee, Piqua; 12 grandchildren; 25 grandchildren; and 16 Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Cyrene A.M.E. great-great grandchildren. She was Church, 227 W. Ash St., Piqua. preceded in death by three sons, one A special thanks to a steadfast and daughter and two brothers. loving granddaughter, Valerie Graves.

Elizabeth graduated from E. L. Arrangements are entrusted to McClain High School in 1939. She Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home. was a member of Cyrene AME Memorial contributions may be made Church, Piqua. At the church, she was to Cyrene A.M.E. Church, 227 W. Ash a member of Women’s Missionary St., Piqua, OH 45356. Condolences Society, Ladies Aid, Trustees and the may be expressed to the family at Layman Organization. Elizabeth had been a member of YWCA since 1946, www.melcher-sowers.com.

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Mamie Rearden, who was married to her husband Oacy for 59 years until his death in 1979, raised 11 children, 10 of whom survive, Sara Rearden said. She lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter on land that had been in the family since her father’s accumulation of acreage made him one of the area’s largest black landowners.

Her father sent her off to earn a teaching certificate at Bettis Academy on the far side of the county, spending an entire day on a loaded wagon to reach the school along dirt roads, her daughter said. She taught for several years until becoming pregnant with her third child.

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• COACHING SEARCH: MiltonUnion is accepting applications for the position of head varsity football coach.

Applications will be accepted until Feb. 8. Candidates should include a cover letter and resume and send them to Athletic Director Tom Koogler at kooglert@milton-union.k12.oh.us.

• SOFTBALL: There is a meeting for girls interested in playing junior high softball at 2 p.m. Jan. 12 at Nazarene Church on Barnhardt Rd. in Troy. For more informations, call Phil Smith at 776-5857.

• BASEBALL: Troy Post 43 baseball is hosting an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner. It will be open to the public from 3-7 p.m. Saturday at the Troy Post 43 Lodge on 622 S. Market St. in Troy.

The cost is $6.75 for adults or $4 for children under 12.

• SOFTBALL: The Newton High School softball team will be hosting a chicken and noodles dinner from 4:307 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Newton Cafeteria.

Presale tickets are $6 for adults or $3 for children under 6, with the cost going up by $1 at the door. Tickets may be purchased from any Newton softball player, high school office or coach Kirk Kadel. Proceeds to help with the spring trip.

• HALL OF FAME: The MiltonUnion Athletic Department will be honoring its eighth class of Hall of Fame inductees during the boys basketball game against Franklin Monroe Feb. 9.

Inductees will include Kim BernerDohrman (class of 1990), Dr. William N. Ginn (class of 1974), Clint Magel (class of 1991) and Dick Overla (class of 1955). The ceremony will take place between the JV and varsity games, with the JV game starting at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity game scheduled to tip off at 8:15 p.m.

• BASKETBALL: The Tippecanoe basketball team will be honoring the 1973 SWBL champions on Jan. 19.

The Red Devils face Versailles that night at 7:30 p.m. Any member of the team, cheerleaders or coaches need to contact Dale Pittenger at dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us for more information.

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

Vikings outlast Pats

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Once Miami East coach Preston Elifritz saw Tri-Village’s plan, he knew what to do.

“They weren’t going to guard Leah (Dunivan) out of a lack of respect for her shooting ability. So I put Ashley Current in off the bench and into her role,” Elifritz said. “And Ashley played a massive role today.”

Current — one of Miami East’s twin 6-foot-plus forces in the post — immediately hit a 3-pointer and

CASSTOWN ignited a seven-point run in the first quarter to give the Vikings the edge over the undefeated Patriots. And while stubborn TriVillage, a state semifinalist a year ago, refused to back down, the Viking defense made that cushion stand up over four grueling and physical quarters in a 51-44 victory that in all likelihood decided the Cross County Conference championship.

Miami East improved to 10-1

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Miami East’s Trina Current tries to fight through a double team ■ See VIKINGS on A8 against Tri-Village Saturday at Miami East.

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Troy’s Morgan Taylor goes to the ground between three Butler defenders Saturday at Butler.

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Troy’s Alex Dalton (285) controls Tippecanoe’s Logan Ferrell during the championship match at the Troy Invitational Saturday at the Trojan Activities Center in Troy. Dalton won an indivudual title.

Time to shine

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Dalton wins Troy Invitational title

TUESDAY Boys Basketball Troy at Sidney (7:30 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Northridge (7:30 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Tri-Village (7:30 p.m.)

Piqua at Trotwood (7:30 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Newton at Stivers (7 p.m.)

Bowling Tippecanoe at Kenton Ridge (4 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball Troy at Trotwood (7:30 p.m.)

Greenon at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.)

Piqua at Greenville (7:30 p.m.)

Wrestling Tippecanoe at Tecumseh (6 p.m.)

Piqua at Carlisle tri (5 p.m.)

Bowling Springfield Shawnee at Tippecanoe (4 p.m.)

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MONDAY Girls Basketball Milton-Union at Covington (7 p.m.)

Urbana at Miami East (6 p.m.)

Bethel at Southeastern (7:30 p.m.)

Parkway at Bradford (7 p.m.)

Bowling Troy at Xenia (4 p.m.)

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BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Last season, Troy heavyweight Alex Dalton had to watch a teammate, then-senior Ryne Rich, win the Troy Invitational championship.

“Last year, Rich led us, and working with him in the room all year was big for me,” Dalton said. “Wrestling is one of those

Troy starts hot, finishes strong in win at Butler

BY COLIN FOSTER Associate Sports Editor cfoster@tdnpublishing.com Another hot start by Troy looked like it was going to be erased once again.

Only this time around, the Trojans weren’t about to let their lead slip away.

Troy led from wire to wire, opening up the game on a 10-0 run against Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division foe Butler, before the Aviators cut the deficit to three midway through the second quarter. But

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TROY sports where you get out what you put in, and you’ve got to have a good drill partner.”

But Dalton’s not on the sidelines anymore.

Now a junior, Dalton (285) dominated Tippecanoe’s Logan Ferrell in the final match of the night at the Troy Invitational on Saturday, building a commanding lead throughout the first two periods before scoring a pin with 25.7 seconds left in the sec- Troy’s Frankie Quintero (front) tries to escape a hold from

Tippecanoe’s Gabe Callicoat (back) Saturday. Callicoat won ■ See TROY INVITE on A7 the individual title in the 145-pound weight class.

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Putting it away

Kristen Wood and Courtney Mazzulla knocked down a pair of triples just before half to put Troy up nine — and the rout was on. The Trojans outscored the Aviators 19-9 in the third quarter and won by a score of 50-28.

The victory keeps Troy on top of the GWOC North standings at 2-0. Troy shares the league lead with Sidney, who scored its second conference win in as many tries Saturday, holding off Piqua for a 52-42 win.

“It kind of went the same way as those games last week,” Troy

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Bengals’ bad luck in playoffs continues A.J. Green had several steps on the two Texans frantically and vainly trying to catch up. He was all alone, 5 yards deep in the end zone. The ball was in the air. Amazingly, the Cincinnati Bengals had a chance to end their playoff futility streak. See Page A9.

Troy Christian’s Christian Salazar is fouled

by Miami East’s Nick Beard Saturday night at Troy Christian High School. The Eagles avenged an ugly loss from last season, beating the Vikings.

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When Troy Christian lost in blowout fashion to Miami East last season, Eagle coach Ray Zawadzki said he wanted his team to become a perennial powerhouse just like the Vikings one day.

The Eagles are getting there.

“I remember my first year (coaching against Miami East), I was losing 24-0 in the first quarter,” Ray Zawadzki said. “I had to use three timeouts. We’ve come a long way since that day.”

TROY They sure have.

With the Miami East defense bent on stopping point guard Grant Zawadzki, the supporting cast shined for Troy Christian.

Christian Salazar led a trio of Eagles in double figures with 14 points, Holden Varvel dropped home 12 and Nathan Kirkpatrick added 10 as Troy Christian scored its first win over Miami East in coach Ray Zawadzki’s time at the school by a count of 55-42 Saturday night

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Illinois pummels Ohio State, 74-55 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Deshaun Thomas, Evan Ravenel and Aaron Craft headed to the Ohio State bench for good Saturday with just under 2 minutes to play. Their faces dripped with sweat and, as each AP PHOTO tried to catch his breath, Ohio State’s Shannon Scott (3) tries to shoot past they looked beaten.

They were. Badly.

Illinois’ Tyler Griffey (42) with Ohio State’s LaQuinton Thad Matta, the coach of Ross (10) assisting Saturday in Champaign, Ill.

the eighth-ranked Buckeyes, was pulling the heart of his lineup from the game, throwing in the towel in a 74-55 loss to No. 11 Illinois he said he saw coming early. His hints were a flurry of turnovers, cold-asice shooting and an unlikely 16 points from Illini center Nnanna Egwu. The 6-foot11 sophomore averaged 6.0

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points a game coming in.

“We’d seen that he could shoot, but when he started knocking down 17-footers, it was like, ‘Geez, this is really their day,’” Matta said.

The Buckeyes (11-3, 1-1 Big Ten), normally a lowturnover team, gave the ball away 11 times in the first half and 15 overall. They shot 33 percent from the

field and weren’t able to keep up with the Illini’s defense.

Matta said he has things to work on, but isn’t overly concerned with the Buckeyes’ struggles.

“I’m not like panicking like, ‘Oh my God,’” Matta said. “This team has shown they can play some pretty good basketball.”

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Troy Invite ■ CONTINUED FROM A6 ond period to win an individual championship of his own.

“Ryne was the champ here last year, and Alex is this year,” Troy coach Doug Curnes said. “This title shows that he’s at that level, maybe even a higher level than that this year. The way he dominated his finals match, hitting leg attacks left and right, it shows that he’s set his own course.

“He’s waiting behind nobody now.”

Getting to the title match proved to be treacherous for Dalton — his opponent in the semifinal round was disqualified after he bit Dalton during the match.

“I was just pounding on him, and I guess he got frustrated,” Dalton said. “I’ve never seen that before.”

His victory in the championship match was a bit more traditional. He battled with Ferrell for the first minute of the match before finally getting hold of a leg and taking him down to get the lead. Dalton let him up twice and scored two more takedowns to build a 6-2 lead after one — and extended that to 10-4 in the second before getting Ferrell turned to his shoulders.

“Usually when we get back to school on Monday, everybody’s like, ‘How did you do this weekend?’ But this is the Troy Invitational.

Everyone’s already going to know,” Dalton said. “It’s been a long day, but there’s selfsatisfaction in winning something like this. It boosts your confidence.”

Kevin McGraw (182) finished second. He fell behind early to Urbana’s Jack Harris, then Harris began the third period with a reversal that led to a pin.

“Kevin’s match went well on his feet. Against a guy like that, that makes me think he can wrestle with anyone on his feet,” Curnes said. “But he got down and got in a bad position, tried to throw in something he typically doesn’t run and got caught in it.”

Andrew Kostecka (220) had to settle for fourth place after a four-overtime battle against Coldwater’s Justin Post in a 6-5 loss, and Mason Perkins (126) dropped a narrow 3-1 decision to Mount Vernon’s Tyler Zeller and took sixth place. Overall, Troy was 11th as a team with 126, tied with Tippecanoe.

“We lose too many matches we should win,” Curnes said. “We’ve got to stop dropping the close matches to guys we shouldn’t be losing to. And today, that came out.

“Still, those three guys — Dalton, McGraw and Kostecka — have placed in everything we’ve wrestled in, minus the (GMVWA) Holiday. They’re racking up the hardware this season.”

• Youth Served Even with four seniors and two returning state placers on the roster, a freshman brought home the lone championship for the Covington Buccaneers.

Ryan Ford (126) shut down St. Xavier’s Ryan Gordon with a late takedown, holding on to win 5-3 and help lead the Buccs to a third-place finish overall with 247 points.

With Ford leading 3-2 late in the third period, Gordon tried to spin behind the young Bucc and looked to have a chance to gain the advantage. But Ford was quicker and turned it around on him, taking Gordon down instead to go up by three.

“After I got that last take-

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Miami East’s Luke House goes up for a shot between three Troy Christian defenders Saturday night.

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Tippecanoe’s Austin Robbins (front) tries to break out of a hold by Miami East’s Daniel O’Malley (back) Saturday in Troy. down, I was pretty confident,” Ford said. “I felt like that one wrapped it up. I just had to hold on.”

And even in his first year on varsity, Ford has his sights set high.

“I want to be top four at state, and I want to set the takedown record at the school,” he said. “It’s 234, and I think I’m around 120 right now. Some people would say that they’re big (goals for a freshman). But I think they’re realistic.”

Covington also had a pair of second-place finishes.

Jake Sowers (152) dropped a 7-4 decision to Mount Vernon’s Lucas Staten, while Ben Miller (170) lost an 11-0 major decision to Coldwater’s Derek Collett.

Daniel Jennings (145), Kyler Deeter (160) and Cole Smith (152) were third, Brock Smith (138) and A.J. Ouellette (182) were fourth and Brian Olson (195) was fifth.

“We’ve got some good young kids, and we’ve got four seniors to lead them,” Covington coach Tom Barbee said. “We were pleased today. We’ve got good kids, and they’re wrestling well.”

• Movin’ On Up Last season as a freshman, Tippecanoe’s Gabe Callicoat (145) set bars for himself.

He’s already leaping right past them.

The sophomore built a big lead against Wayne’s Joseph Miller Saturday in the championship match and fended off a late rally, holding on for a 10-9 victory — his second title in as many weeks.

“I won last week at our holiday tournament, and I was fifth here last year,” Callicoat said. “It feels really good to win after that. I can tell I’m going somewhere.”

And he knows right where he’d like to go, too.

“Last year, I got stopped at districts,” Callicoat said.

“I want to qualify for state, gets some good wins there and maybe even place. It’s going to be hard, but I think I can do it.”

As a team, Tippecanoe was tied with Troy for 11th with 126 points. Logan Ferrell (285) finished second, Austin Robbins (160) was fourth and Jack Peura

Covington’s Justin Freeman (138) competes against Milton-Union’s Canaan Berry Saturday.

Miami East’s Josh Morrow (left) battles for position with Troy’s Shane Love (right) during a 138-pound matchup Saturday in Troy.

(138) was sixth.

But it’s already clear that big things are on the horizon for the Red Devils.

“We have a handful of experienced guys, but we’re all still young,” Callicoat said. “We have one senior, and it’s his first year out. It has its ups and downs, and at big tournaments like this, we usually come in as underdogs. But we’re able to pick it up. We’ve got guys that can pull out those hard, close matches. Sometimes what we lack in technique, we make up in heart.”

“I am very pleased with the way our guys wrestled today,” Tippecanoe coach Jordan Krebs said. “It’s all about getting better, and we got better today.”

• Under the Radar The Miami East Vikings didn’t have any individual champions on Saturday, but they piled up enough points

up and down the lineup to take seventh as a team with 141 points.

Returning state qualifier Allen Seagraves (120) had the best solo finish, taking second place. He fell 11-8 in the title match to Mount Vernon’s Dakota Riley.

Austin Rush (132) finished third, pinning Coldwater’s Reece Kaiser.

Mack Rose (145) finished fourth and Aaron Hubbard (170) was sixth.

Milton-Union finished 15th with 67 points. Josh Booher (126) was fourth, Matt Bracci (285) was fifth and Canaan Berry (132) was sixth.

St. Xavier won the tournament with 276 points, while Mount Vernon was second (250.5).

Covington, Miami East and Tippecanoe will all meet in Troy again Thursday night for a quad.

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“Credit Troy Christian, we tried to take (Grant) Zawadzki away and three other guys stepped up and filled that scoring void for them,” Miami East coach Allen Mack said. “They had three guys in double figures still, and Spencer Thomas had eight and Zawadzki had seven. It was a very balanced effort by them tonight.”

The Eagles forced seven Miami East turnovers in the first quarter, which translated to seven points at the other end. For the game, the Vikings surrendered 22 turnovers.

“We played so hard and we played for each other out there,” Salazar said.

“We really stepped up our defensive pressure. We let our defense turn into offense.”

Troy Christian clung to a 6-5 lead early in the first, but the Eagles closed on a 10-0 run to take a 16-5 lead into the second. Thomas gave the Eagles their first doubledigit lead of the game when he hit a 3-pointer three minutes into the second. Grant Zawadzki assisted Salazar for a bucket on a well-designed play just before the halftime buzzer to put the Eagles up 30-15.

Luke House led the Vikings with 17 points, eight of which came in the third. Still, the Vikings could never cut the lead down to single digits for the rest of the game — Troy Christian just had too much firepower. At one point in the fourth, the Eagles led by 21 points.

When asked if he can remember the last time Miami East had lost three in a row, Mack couldn’t even recall — it’s been that long. But those losses have come against Versailles, Bethel and Troy Christian — three

teams with a combined two losses this season.

The Vikings will look to get back on track Friday, hosting a Cross Conference County matchup against Ansonia.

“Troy Christian is very well coached,” Mack said.

“They are fundamental on the offensive end, pass the ball well. On the defensive end they brought a lot of pressure. It’s kind of uncharacteristic of us to turn the ball over that many times. We had those 22 turnovers tonight, after we had only eight last night against a different kind of pressure that Bethel came at us with.

We were probably averaging 11 on the year. We had 12 turnovers at half, so that was the key tonight.”

As for the Eagles, they have rolled off eight wins since dropping the season opener to New Bremen.

But when asked if he thought his team has become that powerhouse he wants them to be, Ray Zawadzki wasn’t ready to put all his chips in just yet.

“Ask me after Tuesday,” he said.

On Tuesday, the Eagles travel to New Madison to take on one of the Cross County Conference’s best in Tri-Village.

Miami East — 42 Luke House 6-4-17, Braxton Donaldson 0-0-0, Conner Hellyer 2-0-6, Nick Beard 0-0-0, Brandon Mack 0-0-0, A.J. Hickman 2-2-7, Garrett Mitchell 3-6-12, Ross Snodgrass 0-0-0, Kevin Jackson 0-0-0, Michael Harmon 0-0-0. Totals: 13-12-42.

Troy Christian — 55 Matthew Coots 0-0-0, Holden Varvel 5-2-12, Spencer Thomas 2-2-8, Logan George 2-0-4, Nathanael Boone 0-0-0, Christian Salazar 5-4-14, Grant Zawadzki 2-2-7, Nathan Kirkpatrick 4-0-10, Aaron Horn 0-0-0, Justin Lewis 0-0-0, Scotty Scott 0-0-0, Travis Sloan 0-0-0.

Totals: 20-10-55.

Score By Quarters ME ......................5 15 26 42 TC .....................16 30 42 55 3-point goals: Miami East — House, Hellyer 2, Hickman.

Troy Christian — Thomas 2, Zawadzki, Kirkpatrick 2.

Records: Miami East 6-3.

Troy Christian 8-1.

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Troy’s defense was on display Saturday.

Unfortunately for the Trojans, their offense was missing in action.

Troy was outshot by both of its opponents Saturday at Hobart Arena yet remained in both games thanks to strong defensive efforts, falling to Findlay 1-0 and Jackson 2-0.

“Findlay is ranked 10th in the state. Their coach told me after the game that we’re one of the best defensive teams he’s played,” Troy coach

Larrell Walters said. “But we struggled to get our offense started.”

Jake Eldridge had 23 saves as Troy was outshot 24-9 against Findlay, then Eric Wright stopped 35 shots as Jackson outshot the Trojans 36-18.

“We have to do a better job of getting shots in front of the net,” Walters said. “We’re taking too many from the outside and not getting the puck to the middle.”

Troy faces either Beavercreek, Alter or Trinity today at 1 p.m.

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Bulldogs hold off Buccaneers, 60-55 Staff Reports

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COVINGTON — MiltonUnion coach Rusty Berner admitted that going into Saturday’s matchup against Covington, he was a little worried because he knew what the Buccaneers were capable of inside.

And despite getting outrebounded 32-28 Saturday, the Bulldogs escaped Covington with a 60-55 win to improve to 6-3 on the season — which is one more win than they had all of last season.

“This was our best rebounding game of the year,” Berner said. “I’m so proud of how our kids responded after last night’s loss. This was a character game, and our kids responded.”

Caleb Poland torched the

net with 22 points to lead Milton. Trevor Klosterman scored 13 and Ben Stelzer had 11.

Ryan Craft scored 10 of his 12 points in the opening quarter. Andre Benedict was the high man for Covington with 13 points and Cole Owens added 10.

Milton-Union returns to action Tuesday against Southwestern Buckeye League Buckeye Division rival Northridge. Covington (4-4) hosts Bethel on Friday.

Milton-Union — 60 Poland 7-6-22, Stelzer 3-3-11, Klosterman 6-0-13, Dickison 0-1-1, Albaugh 3-0-7, Pennington 2-2-6.

Totals: 21-12-60.

Covington — 55 Craft 5-2-12, Cron 4-0-8, Tobias 2-0-6, Benedict 5-2-13, D. Owens 11-3, Angle 0-3-3, C. Owens 4-2-10.

Totals: 21-10-55.

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M-U........................14 30 40 60 Covington..............12 24 33 55 3-point goals: M-U — Poland (2), Stelzer (2), Klosterman, Albaugh. Covington — Tobias (2), Benedict.

Records: Milton-Union 6-3.

Covington 4-4.

• Girls Tippecanoe 80, Kenton Ridge 73 TIPP CITY — In a season full of tough losses to teams, the quality Tippecanoe Red Devils now have their signature win.

The Devils (6-6, 3-2 Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division) got big games out of sophomore Halle Printz and freshman Carly Clodfelter, keeping pace with a high-scoring Kenton Ridge offense and pulling out an 80-73 victory Saturday night against their bitter rivals.

Printz scored 31 points to

lead Tippecanoe and Clodfelter added 20.

Tippecanoe hosts Greenon Wednesday.

Troy Christian 46, Miss. Valley 34 TROY — Three Troy Christian Eagles reached double figures Saturday, bouncing back from a Metro Buckeye Conference loss on Thursday with a convincing 46-34 victory over Mississinawa Valley.

“Coming off a disappointing loss to Yellow Springs, we came ready to play tonight,” Troy Christian coach Dick Steineman said.

“We handled their full-court pressure well with few turnovers and had good decision making on the court. And we had good balance scoring as a team.”

Freshman Sarah Campbell led the Eagles (9-

3) with 13 points, six rebounds and six assists.

Morgan Haddad and Lydia Demmitt each added 10.

Troy Christian takes on Sidney Christian Tuesday.

Miss. Valley — 34 Dirmayer 5-0-10, Neargardner 2-5-9, Lumpkin 1-0-3, Murphy 2-26, Scholl 1-1-3, Collins 1-0-2, Amspaugh 0-1-1. Totals: 12-9-34.

Troy Christian — 46 Campbell 4-4-13, Haddad 5-010, Demmitt 4-2-10, Varvel 1-0-2, Slone 1-2-4, Poteet 1-2-4, Benjamin 1-0-3. Totals: 17-10-46.

Score By Quarters MV .........................11 23 35 34 TC ..........................16 28 37 46 3-point goals: Mississinawa Valley — Lumpkin. Troy Christian — Campbell, Benjamin.

Records: Mississinawa Valley 3-8. Troy Christian 9-3.

Covington 49, Jackson Center 39 JACKSON CENTER — Jessie Crowell and Jackie Siefring combined for 30 Covington points Saturday,

leading the Buccaneers to a 49-39 victory at Jackson Center.

Crowell hit three 3s and scored 17 points to lead the way scoring-wise, while Siefring added a double-double with 13 points, 12 rebounds and five assists.

Cassidy Cain chipped in nine points and Heidi Cron had four points, 10 rebounds and six steals as the Buccs Jackson outrebounded Center 40-29.

Covington (9-4) plays Milton-Union Monday.

Houston 35, Bradford 27 BRADFORD — Houston held off Bradford in nonleague play Saturday night, winning 35-27 on the road.

Brooke Dunlevy and Haley Patty eached scored eight to lead the Railroaders (4-9).

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Troy’s Mackenzie Schulz sizes up a shot Saturday at Butler.

Trojans ■ CONTINUED FROM A6 coach Nathan Kopp said, referring to a pair of losses to Fort Recovery and Tippecanoe. “We go up 10-0, then it’s 17-14.

Then we are thinking it’s going to be a dog fight.

“But then Kristen hits that 3, then Courtney hits that 3 just before half to put us up nine. It made us feel a little better about ourselves going into halftime, then we come out and jump on them in the second half.”

And jump on Butler is exactly what Troy did to open the third quarter.

The Trojans turned a 23-14 halftime lead into a 42-23 cushion by the end of the third. Todda Norris had 12 out of her gamehigh 18 points in the third. She finished the game 11 for 14 at the charity stripe, plus added six steals and six rebounds.

But it in first half it was Wood and Mazzulla leading the charge offensively. Wood tallied all eight of her points in the second quarter and Mazzulla had all nine of her points in the opening half.

“Mazzulla had huge first half for us,” Kopp said. “She had nine points in the first half.

She really stepped up.

She had two 3s and she

had a great and-one in transition. Those are the little things that kind of build on each other and the girls kind of rally around.

“Momentum is a crazy thing both ways. We kind of had it and just kept rolling with it.”

Morgan Taylor also added eight points for Troy, which continues GWOC North play Wednesday at Trotwood.

“We go 18 (points), eight, nine and eight. If we can get that kind of balanced scoring, we are going to be tough,” Kopp said. “Most importantly, it’s a GWOC North game.

Now we’re 2-0 and right where we want to be.”

Troy — 50 Mackenzie Schulz 2-0-5, Sierra Besecker 0-0-0, Todda Norris 3-11-18, Kristin Wood 30-8, Maddy Taylor 1-0-2, Courtney Mazzlula 3-1-9, Morgan Taylor 3-1-8, Mackenzie Armstrong 0-0-0, Kayla Niswonger 0-0-0. Totals: 15-1450.

Butler — 28 Autumn Ratliff 5-1-12, Mallory Trentman 1-2-4, Danielle Ratlif 1-0-2, Alyson Frogge 2-1-5, Courtney Ross 20-5, Michaela Stephens 0-0-0, Morgan Hixenbaugh 0-0-0.

Totals: 11-4-28.

Score By Quarters Troy .................10 23 42 50 Butler ................4 14 23 28 3-point goals: Troy — Schulz, Norris, Wood 2, Mazzulla 2, Morgan Taylor.

Butler — A. Ratliff, Ross.

Records: Troy 5-8, 2-0.

Butler 2-7, 0-2.

■ CONTINUED FROM A6 and remained undefeated in the CCC at 7-0 after closing out the Patriots, who fall to 10-1, 6-1 in the CCC. “We’re not taking any other teams we play lightly, but for us, the championship goes through Tri-Village. For Tri-Village, the championship goes through us,” Elifritz said. “We’ve still got some challenges left with National Trail, Tri-County North and Covington. But we’ve split in the last four years with Tri-Village, with both of us going 2-2. The girls knew this was a big game.”

And no one played bigger than Current.

With the score stuck at 44 midway through the first quarter, Current came off the bench. Left all alone at the top of the key by the TriVillage defense, she buried a 3-pointer — and East never trailed again.

“Whenever I’m open,” Current said when asked how often she gets to take 3s. “Coach Elifritz always says to let it go if you’re open.

“Coming off the bench is a big job, and coach thinks I handle it well.”

After a Tri-Village turnover, Current scored on a putback to widen the gap, then she grabbed a rebound on the defensive end and hit Madison Linn for a fast break layup to make it 11-4 Vikings and leave the Patriots momentarily stunned.

Current finished with 16 points to lead all scorers and added six rebounds.

“Ashley comes in and hits

the first quarter, kids had red cheeks. Both teams were very, very gassed by the end — and that showed in our free throw percentage. But we played consistent and executed.”

Linn found herself on the receiving end of many fast breaks, finished with 12 points and added three assists, while the Vikings’ bigs did the rest. Trina Current added eight points and eight rebounds, Abby Cash had seven points and five rebounds and Dunivan had six points and six rebounds.

Teha Richards led TriVillage with 13 points, Falknor added 12 and Ecko Brown had 10 points and seven rebounds — the only Patriot with more than five as the Vikings won on the glass 35-26.

“It feels really good to beat one of the top teams in the CCC,” Ashley Current STAFF PHOTO/JOSH BROWN Miami East’s Madison Linn looks to pass as a Tri- said. “We were all really Village player tugs her jersey Saturday at Miami East. amped up for this one. This will get us ready for the a 3, and she played massive at the half at 23-18 by going tournament.”

Tri-Village — 44 defense at the top of our 1-2- 6 for 8 from the line. A hardEcko Brown 3-4-10, Elizabeth 2 zone,” Elifritz said. “She fought basket by Krystal Collins 0-0-0, Raya Mikesell 0-0-0, just uses her size so well. Falknor in the paint to start Krystal Falknor 4-4-12, Teha Even coming from the top of the third quarter made it Richards 4-3-13, Shaye Thomas 4that zone, she was able to 23-20, but that was the clos- 0-9, Heather Ferris 0-0-0, Leslie Bruner 0-0-0. Totals: 15-11-44. get six rebounds, too. And est Tri-Village could get.

Miami East — 51 “Give it to Tri-Village. she did a very good job of finAngie Mack 1-0-2, Tori Nuss 0ishing around the basket They come in massively 0-0, Madison Linn 6-0-12, Ashley undersized, but they don’t Current 7-1-16, Trina Current 2-4today.”

Tri-Village didn’t give up back down,” Elifritz said. 8, Abby Cash 1-4-7, Leah Dunivan its spot atop the CCC so eas- “This was a physical game. 3-0-6. Totals: 20-9-51.

Score By Quarters But our kids handled that. ily, though.

TV..............................6 18 27 44 Struggling from the field We got some easy buckets ME ..........................11 23 37 51 against the Vikings’ bigs due to being physical 3-point goals: Tri-Village — inside, the Patriots used through their traps. Both Richards 2, Thomas. Miami East — their quickness and aggres- teams were tired by the end, A. Current, Cash.

Records: Tri-Village 10-1. siveness on the dribble to but we wore them down.

Miami East 10-1.

“This was not a walk-theget to the free throw line, Reserve score: Miami East keeping it a five-point game ball-up-the-floor game. In 50, Tri-Village 20.

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Rockets hold off Cavs, 112-104 CLEVELAND (AP) — James Harden scored 29 points, including 16 in the fourth quarter, and the Houston Rockets defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-104 on Saturday night.

Jeremy Lin added 20 points for Houston, which has won 11 of 14.

Kyrie Irving led Cleveland with 30 points, including 11 in the final period, but the Cavaliers fell short of winning two in a row for the second time this season.

Harden, who had four points in the first half, made 6 of 17 field-goal attempts, but was 14 of 15 at the line and had a career-high seven

steals. He came into the game averaging 26.3 points and has topped the 20-point mark in each of his last 16 games.

Harden scored seven straight points for Houston during one key stretch in the final period. He made a foul shot and converted a three-point play to help Houston build a 91-86 lead.

Then he made a 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down, making it 94-88 with 5:52 remaining. Harden lost control of his dribble at the top of the key, hurriedly retrieved the ball and hit the shot over Dion Waiters.

Harden added another 3pointer with 3:58 left for a

100-92 lead.

Lin’s three-point play and Carlos Delfino’s 3-pointer helped Houston maintain the lead, but Irving kept Cleveland in the game with a pair of 3-pointers and a foul shot. Harden hit a jumper with 45.7 seconds left and added two free throws at the 29.6-second mark to make it 110-103.

The Rockets trailed by 18 in the second quarter of Friday night’s 115-101 victory at Milwaukee. They trailed by 10 in the first quarter against Cleveland, but managed to rally for another win.

Cavaliers center Anderson Varejao, the

league’s leading rebounder, missed his ninth straight game with a bruised right knee.

Patrick Patterson scored 15 points for Houston while Marcus Morris and Greg Smith had 11 apiece. Smith also had 11 rebounds.

Alonzo Gee scored 18 points for Cleveland. Tristan Thompson added 14 points and 16 rebounds.

Irving, whose jump shot with one second left gave the Cavaliers a 106-104 win over Charlotte on Friday, brought the crowd to its feet in the first quarter when he spun around a defender while dribbling at midcourt and drove in for a layup.

■ College Football

Ole Miss hammers Pitt in BBVA Compass Bowl BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Hugh Freeze needed only one year to make a winner out of a Mississippi team that was woeful in 2011.

The coach noted with satisfaction that most experts didn’t predict such dramatic improvement in his first season.

Bo Wallace threw three touchdown passes and Ole Miss beat Pittsburgh 38-17

in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Saturday to complete an impressive turnaround. Ole Miss (7-6) took a five-win improvement over its 2-10 finish in 2011.

“I’ve tried to learn not to make too much out of a single game either way, but no question this advances our journey a bit,” Freeze said. “To be where we’re sitting here year one far surpasses certainly

the prognosticators and whatever they had for us.

Our guys really chose to buy in and determine we could be who we want to be. We don’t have to have someone else determine that.”

The bowl win was especially satisfying for veteran players who had no postseason last year.

“The best thing is our program is moving in the right

direction,” said junior linebacker Mike Marry, who had four of the Rebels’ 11 tackles for losses. “We’re not where we want to be right now but we’re moving there.”

Freeze’s no-huddle, uptempo offense produced 38 first downs and 387 yards.

Pitt was held to 266 yards, its second-lowest total of the season.

N. Dakota St. 39, Sam

Houston 13 FRISCO, Texas — The North Dakota State Bison have a second straight FCS championship in what’s becoming their second home.

Backed by more than 10,000 fans wearing green and gold in the same suburban Dallas stadium where they beat Sam Houston State a year ago, the Bison outnumbered their Texas coun-

terparts in the stands and outplayed them on the field again.

Quarterback Brock Jensen ran for three touchdowns, including the goahead score in the third quarter not long after a holding penalty wiped out a touchdown that would have given Sam Houston the lead, and Sam Ojuri scored twice in a 39-13 victory Saturday.

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Packers roll past Vikings, 24-10 and off target all night. His only highlight was a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.

Rodgers led touchdown drives of 82, 62 and 80 yards as the Packers built a 24-3 lead.

Webb did not fare well.

He tripped over Clay Matthews for an easy sack early in the second quarter, and he was called for intentional grounding while being swarmed behind the line of scrimmage on the next play.

Webb ran five times for 60 yards, but completed only seven of his first 20 attempts for 61 yards.

Peterson gained 69 yards on 19 carries through three quarters.

Rodgers didn’t let up after the Packers took a 17-3 halftime lead. The Vikings had the Packers stopped for a field goal on fourth-and-4,

but Jasper Brinkley was called for 12 men on the field when he couldn’t make it to the sideline in time, and the penalty gave the Packers just enough yards to keep going. Rodgers found Kuhn open on the next play, and the fullback barged into the end zone by barreling over Jamarca Sanford at the goal line for a 24-3 lead.

The last time the Vikings were in a playoff game, they infamously were called for 12 men on the field, too, on offense that time in the fourth quarter of the NFC championship game in New Orleans to push them out of field-goal range. Brett Favre threw an interception, and they lost to the Saints in overtime.

The Vikings finally made it across midfield again on the next possession, but on fourth-and-3 at the 38, Matthews took down Webb

for another sack, forced the ball out and recovered it.

After a Packers punt, Webb scrambled for a first down at the Green Bay 46. But on the next play, his long pass was intercepted by Sam Shields at the 8.

After the Vikings forced another punt early in the fourth quarter, Marcus Sherels fumbled, and the Packers recovered at the Minnesota 39.

Rodgers, who entered the game with the NFL’s best postseason passer rating in history at 105.5 after seven previous playoff appearances, was in prime form.

After a fourth straight punt by the Vikings, Rodgers got the Packers from their 38yard line to the Minnesota 3 in three plays. He rolled right and threw a zinger to Jordy Nelson in the final minute of the first half to set up Kuhn’s plunge.

Bad luck continues Bengals lose to Texans 19-13, extend futility HOUSTON (AP) — A.J. Green had several steps on the two Texans frantically and vainly trying to catch up. He was all alone, 5 yards deep in the end zone.

The ball was in the air.

Amazingly, the Cincinnati Bengals had a chance to end their playoff futility streak.

The Pro Bowl receiver dived and stretched, reaching his fingertips as far as they’d go. It wasn’t far enough.

The ball hit the ground.

The streak went on.

Andy Dalton overthrew Green in the closing minutes Saturday, and the Houston Texans held on for a 19-13 victory in a wild-card rematch that had a sickeningly familiar ending for the Bengals.

When the playoffs begin, bad things happen for them.

They’ve now gone 22 seasons without a playoff win, the longest current streak of futility in the league. It equals the seventh-longest in NFL history, according to STATS LLC. “It hurts when you lose, particularly when you lose in the playoffs,” coach Marvin Lewis said.

Nobody knows that exquisite pain more than the Bengals.

“It’s hard to put it into words,” said cornerback Leon Hall, who returned an interception for Cincinnati’s only touchdown. “It’s disappointing. I mean, we had a good year, but it didn’t end how we wanted it to and how we planned it to. At the end of the day, they made the plays that won the game for them.”

What hurt most about this one? How close they came to finally pulling one off.

Despite being outplayed all game, they had one final shot at the end. They got the ball back at their 20-yard line with 6:15 left,

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Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Leon Hall (29) celebrates after intercepting a pass for a touchdown against the Houston Texans during the second quarter of an NFL wild card playoff football game Saturday in Houston. and Dalton had his chance for a memorable comeback in his hometown.

He’s used to playing at Reliant Stadium he grew up in suburban Katy and had high school games there and now had a chance for an 80-yard drive that would get the Bengals the first playoff road win in their history.

“I was telling everybody we’re going to drive down, going to win this game,” Dalton said. “Everybody felt that.”

They had their chance.

Green got behind the coverage on a double move and Dalton saw him running free. He overthrew him on third-and-11 from the Houston 36-yard line with 2:57 to go, sailing his pass too deep into the end zone.

“I just threw it a little too far,” Dalton said.

“That’s a play that if we make it, obviously the game’s a lot different.”

Green couldn’t even get his fingertips on the ball.

“I was digging for it,” Green said. “I laid out, couldn’t get a hand on it. It

happens like that. That’s one thing we need to get better with, we need to capitalize on plays. That’s the next step to being a great team.”

Dalton threw a quick pass to Marvin Jones on fourth down, but he was tackled 3 yards shy of the first down. The Texans then ran out the clock.

“Inches away,” offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “We had A.J. on that one play. Inches away.”

And the postseason misery goes on.

Since their last playoff win, the Bengals have been through five coaches, had 21 different quarterbacks throw a pass, and lost all four of their first-round chances.

Their last playoff win came against a team that no longer exists, at a stadium that no longer stands.

They beat the Houston Oilers 41-14 at Riverfront Stadium in a first-round game in January 1991.

This represented their best chance to break through. They’d won seven of eight to close the season,

matching the best finish in franchise history. They were playing in the same place where the lost 31-10 in the opening round last year, giving them some familiarity.

In the end, it didn’t matter for much.

Houston’s Matt Schaub gave the Bengals a chance to stay in a lopsided game by making one bad mistake. His sideline pass was intercepted by Hall and returned for a 21-yard touchdown, the cornerback’s second score in three games.

“It was never easy,” Schaub said. “Cincinnati is a great team. I made a turnover and gave them points. We just had to rally around each other and we did that.”

Given how much the Texans dominated, the Bengals were fortunate to be so close.

Dalton had a horrid time. He was 4 of 10 for 3 yards in the first half. With J.J. Watt’s sack added in, the Bengals had minus-6 yards passing and only 53 yards overall.

Browns have second meeting with Kelly CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns have Chip Kelly’s interest. Now they need his signature.

The team is expected to meet with Oregon’s innovative coach again and hopes to complete a deal to make him Cleveland’s sixth fulltime coach since 1999.

However, Kelly kept a scheduled meeting with the Philadelphia Eagles and, as of late Saturday night, hadn’t had his second visit with the Browns.

Kelly and his representatives met with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner for a reported seven hours in Arizona on Friday. They came close to reaching an agreement, but the sides parted company agreeing to speak again, a strong sign that Kelly was leaning toward the Browns.

Kelly also met with the Buffalo Bills, and he decided

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There’s also a chance Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and general manager Howie Roseman are making a hard push at Kelly to steal him from the Browns. Banner spent 19 seasons with Philadelphia, the last 12 as president, but left the club last year and has had a falling out with Lurie, a longtime friend.

Kelly nearly jumped to the pros last year with Tampa Bay but decided at the last minute to return to Oregon, where he has been coach since 2009.

Haslam and Banner plan

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Kelly went 46-7 in four years at Oregon, where his high-tempo, warp-speed offense averaged nearly 50 points per game this season.

He has no pro coaching experience, but some of his offensive principles are being used by New England and Washington. Patriots coach Bill Belichick met with Kelly in the offseason and has adopted a few of the Ducks’ offensive wrinkles into his schemes this season.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers showed how dangerous they can be when they’re at full strength Saturday night, overwhelming the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 in an NFC wild-card game that was never really close.

John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, DuJuan Harris added another and Rodgers connected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receivers as he threw for 274 yards.

Defensively, the Packers (125) finally managed to contain Adrian Peterson and were all over Vikings backup Joe Webb, pressed into service because of Christian Ponder’s elbow injury.

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FOOTBALL NFL Playoff Glance All Times EST Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 5 Houston 19, Cincinnati 13 Green Bay 24, Minnesota 10 Sunday, Jan. 6 Indianapolis at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at Washington, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 12 Baltimore or Indianapolis at Denver, 4:30 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at San Francisco, 8 p.m.

(FOX) Sunday, Jan. 13 Washington or Seattle at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

(FOX) Houston at New England, 4:30 p.m.

(CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 20 AFC, TBA (CBS) NFC, TBA (FOX) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 27 At Honolulu AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 At New Orleans AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6 p.m. (CBS) College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State 41, Toledo 15 Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego BYU 23, San Diego State 6 Friday, Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. UCF 38, Ball State 17 Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34 Las Vegas Bowl Boise State 28, Washington 26 Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU 43, Fresno State 10 Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan 24, Western Kentucky 21 Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington San Jose State 29, Bowling Green 20 Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati 48, Duke 34 Holiday Bowl At San Diego Baylor 49, UCLA 26 Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Ohio 45, Louisiana-Monroe 14 Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech 13, Rutgers 10, OT Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31 Saturday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth,Texas Rice 33, Air Force 14 Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona State 62, Navy 28 Pinstripe Bowl At NewYork Syracuse 38, West Virginia 14 Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Texas 31, Oregon State 27 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Michigan State 17, TCU 16 Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville,Tenn.

Vanderbilt 38, N.C. State 24 Sun Bowl At El Paso,Texas Georgia Tech 21, Southern Cal 7 Liberty Bowl At Memphis,Tenn.

Tulsa 31, Iowa State 17 Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Clemson 25, LSU 24 Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At Dallas Oklahoma State 58, Purdue 14 Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Northwestern 34, Mississippi State 20 Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia 45, Nebraska 31 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina 33, Michigan 28 Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford 20, Wisconsin 14 Orange Bowl At Miami Florida State 31, Northern Illinois 10 Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Louisville 33, Florida 23 Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Oregon 35, Kansas State 17 Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Texas A&M 41, Oklahoma 13 Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Mississippi 38, Pittsburgh 17 Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (93), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, TBA (NFLN)

NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 24 Wagner 31, Colgate 20 Coastal Carolina 24, BethuneCookman 14 South Dakota State 58, Eastern Illinois 10 Stony Brook 20, Villanova 10 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 1 Wofford 23, New Hampshire 7 Georgia Southern 24, Cent. Arkansas 16 Old Dominion 63, Coastal Carolina 35 Illinois St. 38, Appalachian St. 37, OT North Dakota State 28, South Dakota State 3 Sam Houston State 18, Cal Poly 16 Eastern Washington 29, Wagner 19 Montana State 16, Stony Brook 10 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 7 Sam Houston State 34, Montana State 16 Saturday, Dec. 8 Georgia Southern 49, Old Dominion 35 North Dakota State 14, Wofford 7 Eastern Washington 51, Illinois State 35 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20 Saturday, Dec. 15 Sam Houston State 45, Eastern Washington 42 Championship Saturday, Jan. 5 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco,Texas North Dakota State 39, Sam Houston State 13

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 23 10 .697 — 19 15 .559 4½ Brooklyn Boston 16 17 .485 7 15 20 .429 9 Philadelphia Toronto 12 21 .364 11 Southeast Division Pct GB W L 22 9 .710 — Miami 20 12 .625 2½ Atlanta Orlando 12 21 .364 11 8 24 .250 14½ Charlotte 4 27 .129 18 Washington Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 20 14 .588 — 18 13 .581 ½ Chicago 16 16 .500 3 Milwaukee 13 22 .371 7½ Detroit 8 27 .229 12½ Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB W L San Antonio 27 9 .750 — 20 10 .667 4 Memphis 20 14 .588 6 Houston 13 21 .382 13 Dallas 8 25 .242 17½ New Orleans Northwest Division Pct GB W L Oklahoma City 25 7 .781 — Portland 18 15 .545 7½ Denver 19 16 .543 7½ 15 15 .500 9 Minnesota 17 18 .486 9½ Utah Pacific Division Pct GB W L 26 8 .765 — L.A. Clippers 22 10 .688 3 Golden State L.A. Lakers 15 17 .469 10 Sacramento 13 21 .382 13 Phoenix 12 22 .353 14 Friday's Games Cleveland 106, Charlotte 104 Sacramento 105, Toronto 96 Brooklyn 115, Washington 113,2OT Detroit 85, Atlanta 84 Portland 86, Memphis 84 Oklahoma City 109, Philadelphia 85 Boston 94, Indiana 75 Chicago 96, Miami 89 Houston 115, Milwaukee 101 Utah 87, Phoenix 80 L.A. Clippers 107, L.A. Lakers 102 Saturday's Games Boston 89, Atlanta 81 Indiana 95, Milwaukee 80 New York 114, Orlando 106 Houston 112, Cleveland 104 Brooklyn 113, Sacramento 93 Portland 102, Minnesota 97 New Orleans 99, Dallas 96, OT San Antonio 109, Philadelphia 86 Denver 110, Utah 91 Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday's Games Oklahoma City at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday's Games Oklahoma City at Washington, 7 p.m.

Boston at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 9 p.m.

Orlando at Portland, 10 p.m.

Memphis at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Saturday's College Basketball Scores EAST Brooklyn 62, Lehman 58 Bryant 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 58 CCSU 77, Robert Morris 70 Canisius 73, Marist 64 Chestnut Hill 66, Nyack 52 Cheyney 72, Clarion 60 Colgate 78, Dartmouth 62 Columbia 64, Army 52 DePaul 83, Providence 73 Dominican (NY) 72, Wilmington (Del.) 68, OT Endicott 69, W. New England 66 Gettysburg 69, Washington (Md.) 53 Hartford 77, Boston U. 74 Hartwick 81, Houghton 73 Harvard 92, Rice 62 Hobart 67, Skidmore 66, OT Holy Family 80, Caldwell 78, OT Ithaca 48, St. John Fisher 46 La Salle 74, Penn 57 Maine 81, UMBC 66 Maine-Farmington 74, Lyndon St. 59 Mount St. Mary's 71, Monmouth (NJ) 59 NC State 78, Boston College 73 Niagara 71, Fairfield 67 Northeastern 68, UNC Wilmington 64 Oklahoma 67, West Virginia 57 Philadelphia 77, Post (Conn.) 53 Quinnipiac 82, LIU Brooklyn 74 Ramapo 88, Rowan 87, OT Rochester 89, Emory 80 Rutgers 67, Pittsburgh 62 S. Connecticut 66, St. Rose 60 Sacred Heart 66, St. Francis (NY) 65 Sciences (Pa.) 75, Concordia (N.Y.) 74 Slippery Rock 68, Shippensburg 59 St. Anselm 78, Bentley 69

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Louis 71 King (Tenn.) 80, Belmont Abbey 67 LSU 79, Bethune-Cookman 63 Lees-McRae 112, Mount Olive 70 Lipscomb 60, ETSU 56 Maryland 94, Virginia Tech 71 Miami 62, Georgia Tech 49 Middle Tennessee 60, South Alabama 56 Milligan 88, Reinhardt 82 Morehead St. 65, E. Illinois 50 NC A&T 71, Georgia Southern 65 Newberry 113, Mars Hill 72 Norfolk St. 74, Navy 68 North Florida 90, Stetson 74 North Georgia 82, Georgia College 63 Northwestern St. 86, Lamar 58 Notre Dame (Ohio) 78, Trevecca Nazarene 75, OT Nova Southeastern 79, Eckerd 74 Oral Roberts 76, Nicholls St. 63 Point Park 102, Asbury 97 Princeton 74, Elon 64 Randolph 66, Randolph-Macon 65 SC-Upstate 60, N. Kentucky 54 SE Louisiana 72, Cent. Arkansas 68 Saint Joseph's 70, Morgan St. 60 South Carolina 80, SC State 69 Southern Wesleyan 90, Loyola NO 86 Tennessee St. 66, Jacksonville St. 57 Tougaloo 60, Fisk 58 Transylvania 75, Defiance 68 Troy 67, UALR 64 UCF 99, Florida A&M 69 UNC Asheville 83, Liberty 69 UNC Pembroke 70, Augusta St. 64 UT-Martin 76, Austin Peay 74, OT VCU 59, Lehigh 55 VMI 86, Presbyterian 77 Va. Intermont 89, Bryan 78 W. Carolina 72, The Citadel 55 Wheeling Jesuit 80, Seton Hill 74 Xavier (NO) 67, Edward Waters 58 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 86, Delaware St. 51 Arkansas St. 75, W. Kentucky 61 Baylor 86, Texas 79, OT Louisiana Tech 55, Texas-Arlington 52 Louisiana-Monroe 81, North Texas 68 Stephen F. Austin 71, McNeese St. 43 Texas Tech 62, TCU 53 FAR WEST Arizona 60, Utah 57 Boise St. 106, Walla Walla 39 Colorado St. 85, St. Bonaventure 64 Gonzaga 81, Santa Clara 74 Idaho St. 86, N. Colorado 63 Long Beach St. 77, UC Santa Barbara 70 Montana 62, Portland St. 55 NJIT 57, Utah Valley 52 New Mexico St. 78, Texas St. 67 S. Utah 90, N. Arizona 77 Saint Mary's (Cal) 74, Loyola Marymount 61 UCLA 68, Stanford 60 Weber St. 95, North Dakota 63 Saturday's Scores Boys Basketball Akr. East 80, Berea 68 Albany Alexander 45, AmandaClearcreek 44 Anna 43, Maria Stein Marion Local 40 Antwerp 48, Stryker 31 Apple Creek Waynedale 64, Jeromesville Hillsdale 42 Attica Seneca E. 52, New Washington Buckeye Cent. 49 Avon 50, Cle. E.Tech 48 Beallsville 75, Cameron, W.Va. 58 Bellevue 96, Genoa Area 77 Beverly Ft. Frye 59, Waterford 35 Blair, N.J. 60, St. Paris Graham 32 Bloomdale Elmwood 45, Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 32 Brookville 49, New Paris National Trail 38 Bryan 73, Defiance Tinora 71 Camden Preble Shawnee 49, Middletown Madison 43 Can. South 66, Navarre Fairless 38 Canfield 47, Salem 40 Celina 67, Cols. Linden McKinley 37 Chagrin Falls 54, Aurora 41 Chagrin Falls Kenston 49, Painesville Harvey 46 Chillicothe Zane Trace 57, Greenfield McClain 56, OT Cin. Clark Montessori 63, Cin. Purcell Marian 57 Cin. La Salle 71, Cin. Oak Hills 44 Cin. Moeller 62, Cin. Hughes 40 Cin. Summit Country Day 67, Cin. Seven Hills 42 Cin. Sycamore 61, Loveland 50 Cin. Walnut Hills 80, Cin. Anderson 43 Cin. Woodward 72, Lockland 45 Cle.Benedictine 67,Youngs.Mooney 58 Cle.VASJ 62, Cle. Hay 55 Coldwater 64, Lima Shawnee 47 Cols. Brookhaven 59, Cols. Watterson 56 Cols. East 50, Cols. Walnut Ridge 31 Cols. Eastmoor 47, Centerville 39 Cols. Hartley 59, Canal Winchester 50 Cols. Northland 62, Cle. St. Ignatius 55 Cols. Ready 49, Worthington Christian 34 Cols. St. Charles 51, Utica 29 Columbus Grove 69, Ft. Jennings 41 Conneaut 42, Madison 41 Coshocton 59, Newark Licking Valley 37 Dalton 64, Creston Norwayne 55 Day. Carroll 71, Day. Christian 52

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Day. Jefferson 54, Canal Winchester Harvest Prep 44 Day. Miami Valley 60, Bellbrook 56 Day. Stivers 80, East Dayton Christian School 31 Defiance 40, Findlay 31 Detroit Consortium, Mich. 73, Tol. Scott 43 Doylestown Chippewa 74, Smithville 57 E. Cle. Shaw 53, Youngs. Boardman 40 Edgerton 52, Delta 49 Findlay Liberty-Benton 55, Elida 50 Ft. Recovery 64, Van Wert Lincolnview 45 Garfield Hts. 88, Akr. Firestone 62 Gates Mills Gilmour 74, Ashtabula Edgewood 49 Gates Mills Hawken 54, Wickliffe 42 Girard 66, New Middletown Spring. 60 Groveport-Madison 52, Plain City Jonathan Alder 45 Hamilton Ross 73, Morrow Little Miami 61 Hannibal River 79, Magnolia, W.Va. 68 Harrison 39, Cin. NW 38 Haviland Wayne Trace 63, Edon 29 Hilliard Bradley 60, Ashville Teays Valley 51 Holgate 57, Sycamore Mohawk 30 Huron 66, Elyria Cath. 59 Ironton 65, Ashland Blazer, Ky. 51 Ironton St. Joseph 68, New Boston Glenwood 39 Jackson Center 58, WaynesfieldGoshen 44 Kettering Alter 54, Kettering Fairmont 35 Kingsway Christian 57, N. Ridgeville Lake Ridge 39 Lakewood 70, Avon Lake 53 Leipsic 81, Continental 47 Lexington 64, Shelby 53 Lima Temple Christian 62, Harrod Allen E. 61 Lisbon David Anderson 67, Canton Heritage Christian 58 Lucasville Valley 56, Chillicothe Huntington 42 Mansfield Christian 43, Mansfield St. Peter's 42 Maple Hts. 61, Warrensville Hts. 59, OT Massillon Washington 54, New Philadelphia 45 Maumee 53, Wauseon 40 McArthur Vinton County 62, Piketon 60 McComb 40, Kalida 34 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 71, Ada 54 Middleburg Hts. Midpark 90, Akr. North 55 Middlefield Cardinal 78, Newbury 46 Middletown Fenwick 49, W. Alexandria Twin Valley S. 24 Miller City 56, Pandora-Gilboa 43 Millersburg W. Holmes 46, Sugarcreek Garaway 42 Milton-Union 60, Covington 55 Mineral Ridge 72, Southington Chalker 36 Mowrystown Whiteoak 50, Frankfort Adena 34 Mt. Blanchard Riverdale 58, Lucas 21 Mt. Orab Western Brown 71, RipleyUnion-Lewis-Huntington 59 N. Robinson Col. Crawford 62, Crestline 32 New Bremen 50, St. Marys Memorial 40 New Knoxville 49, Botkins 42 New Lexington 56, McConnelsville Morgan 30 New Riegel 50, Bucyrus 30 Norwalk 60, Collins Western Reserve 36 Olmsted Falls 66, Grafton Midview 56 Ontario 72, Galion 53 Oregon Stritch 51, Lakeside Danbury 29 Ottawa-Glandorf 77, Bluffton 48 Ottoville 48, Minster 39 Paden City, W.Va. 56, Bellaire St. John 40 Parma Padua 53, Parma Hts. Holy Name 50 Paulding 61, Rockford Parkway 40 Pickerington N. 44, Hilliard Davidson 33 Pitsburg Franklin-Monroe 76, Bradford 36 Portsmouth Sciotoville 55, S. Webster 50 Powell Olentangy Liberty 58, Lewis Center Olentangy 49 Racine Southern 62, Bidwell River Valley 58 Reedsville Eastern 52, Crown City S. Gallia 49 Richmond Hts. 66, Beachwood 59 Ridgeway Ridgemont 66, N. Baltimore 39 Russia 78, Ansonia 46 Salineville Southern 55, Richmond Edison 48 Sandusky St. Mary 87, Fremont St. Joseph 81, 2OT Southeastern 72, Latham Western 60 Springboro 64, Franklin 52 St. Bernard Roger Bacon 81, Cin. N. College Hill 40 St. Henry 53, Eaton 45 Steubenville 77, Steubenville Cath.

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In this April 25, 2012, photo, Jose Rivera Jr. installs a wiper and cowl screen on a Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich.

Rolling again Sonic tells the story of Detroit’s comeback DETROIT (AP) — When the word reached the Orion Assembly Plant, it spread the serpentine along assembly line like news of a death or natural disaster: General Motors, the biggest automaker in the world, had filed for bankruptcy protection.

On that grim day in 2009, Chevrolet and Pontiac sedans kept rolling down the line. And 1,700 worried workers stayed at their stations even as GM announced it would close the plant in a desperate bid to survive.

“The unknown was the scariest part,” recalled Gerald Lang, who had worked at Orion for two years installing dashboards and doors. “We really had no clue what was going to happen.”

There was something else that the workers didn’t know: They were witnessing the opening act of one of the greatest recovery stories in American business.

Nearly four years later, Chevrolets are still moving down the assembly line under the plant’s 82-acre roof. Lang and his co-workers now build the Sonic, the best-selling subcompact car in the nation. It’s a vehicle no one thought could be made profitably in the U.S., by a company that few people thought would last.

But GM has not only survived, it has earned $16 billion in profits in the past three years. And the industry is on track to make this year its best year since 2007.

Detroit’s improbable comeback is the work of many: President George W. Bush, who authorized the first bailout loans; President Barack Obama, who made more loans; workers who took lower wages and focused more on quality to compete with foreign rivals; and executives and designers who developed better cars amid the financial maelstrom happening around them.

To be sure, there were victims: shareholders, auto-parts makers and other suppliers who went out of business, as well as taxpayers who will never get all their money back.

But there is no denying

college. He was nearing retirement after 28 years at GM, and his pension was in jeopardy. But as he walked toward the plant floor, his immediate concern was what to say to workers.

“You can’t let the people know you’re devastated and scared for your life,” he said. “I had to tell my people to stay positive and good things would happen.”

As lawyers for GM and its creditors fought in court over scraps of the company, Orion’s second chance emerged.

In exchange for its $50 billion bailout, the government got a 60 percent stake in the company and GM agreed to build a tiny car known as the Sonic at one of the U.S. plants it was closing. Small-car production had long been relegated to other countries where wages weren’t as high. But GM couldn’t take government money and build a small car overseas.

For folks in Orion like Dunn and Pat Sweeney, the local union president, the mission was clear: Get the Sonic.

First, they met with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and other state officials, who promised GM a $779 million, 20-year tax credit.

Gibb spent all spring organizing petition drives and thinking of ways to cut the plant’s costs. So when an army of GM lawyers and tax experts showed up at his office, he was ready with a generous package of tax incentives. The township also promised a new $4.5 million water-storage tower and pledged to buy water at off-peak hours so GM could get lower rates.

The tax abatement cost the township and its schools about $780,000 per year, but Gibb said it was worth it to save the plant’s roughly 3,600 jobs. If the plant closed, he estimated that half of the area’s commercial properties would be vacant within two years.

Plus, the township was competing with Janesville and Spring Hill, Tenn., which had a newer factory than Orion.

At the end of June, GM made up its mind: The

AP PHOTOS/DUANE BURLESON

In this April 25, 2012, photo, a drive train assembly is mated to a Buick Verano at the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich. Nearly four years after GM filed for bankruptcy protection, the automaker is building the Verano and the Sonic, the best-selling subcompact car in the nation. that American carmakers have made a remarkable recovery. Nearly 790,000 people now have jobs building cars, trucks and parts, up 27 percent from the dark days of 2009. The story of the Sonic shows how the industry, along with a community in a downtrodden state, got there.

Downward spiral The collapse of the industry in 2008 that nearly put GM and Chrysler out of business and cost Ford billions of dollars came from a perfect storm that included the Great Recession, expensive gasoline and the financial meltdown that dried up funding for car loans. But the automakers’ problems were years in the making.

They had business models that couldn’t generate enough cash to cover expenses. They had too many factories making too many cars and trucks. They sold too many vehicles at discounts or even steep losses just to move them out of showrooms to make room for more. And their workers earned more in wages and benefits than Japanese competitors.

Even when autoworkers were laid off, companies

couldn’t get them off their books. Union-mandated “jobs banks” forced automakers to keep paying workers whose plants had been shut down. They got paid to sit in rooms and do crossword puzzles.

Years of losses caused the three U.S. automakers to rack up $200 billion in debt, about half the liabilities that are now strangling Greece. GM alone lost $82 billion in the four years before bankruptcy. All three companies had to pay escalating health care costs for workers and a staggering half-million retirees a number about equal to the population of Portland, Ore. At GM, medical costs for workers and retirees added $1,500 to the price of a car.

An increasingly bad situation turned worse during the 2001 recession, which was followed by rising gas prices that lasted for most of the decade. Then came the 2008 financial meltdown. As GM and Chrysler careened toward bankruptcy, President Bush stepped in, loaning $17.4 billion to GM and Chrysler just before he left office. But auto sales remained in a free fall, plummeting to a 30-year low of 10.4 million by the end of 2009.

At the Orion (pronounced OHR’-ee-uhn) plant, the recession had slowed sales of the midsized Pontiac G6 and Chevrolet Malibu cars that were made there. In February 2009, the company eliminated a shift and laid off 400 workers. The outlook darkened even more when GM announced it would dump the Pontiac brand. Since the G6 made up half of Orion’s production, workers feared the plant was doomed.

It didn’t take long for issues inside the plant to ripple outside to the surrounding concrete industrial parks. Dozens of autoparts companies laid off workers.

At Casey’s Chicken, a barbecue joint in a nearby strip mall, a healthy side business catering GM birthday and retirement parties dried up.

About that time, Orion Township’s chief executive, Matt Gibb, got a call from Ed Montgomery, President Obama’s auto-recovery czar, telling him the plant was on a secret list of GM factories to be closed. The factory was the township’s largest employer and taxpayer. About a third of its 35,000 residents work for GM, Chrysler or parts sup-

pliers.

As Gibb watched the local economy unravel, he was haunted by a documentary he had seen about Janesville, Wis., where another GM plant had closed, leaving behind empty industrial parks and ball fields overgrown with weeds.

“I don’t want to be Janesville,” he told friends.

Another chance GM, meanwhile, was drowning, even with emergency loans from the government. On June 1, 2009, it became the largest American industrial company ever to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It had just $2 billion in cash and $172.8 billion in liabilities.

The bankruptcy wiped out GM’s debts, allowed it to shed 21,000 jobs, dump 2,600 dealers and close factories, including Orion.

“It was like somebody just took the heart out of you,” recalled Mike Dunn, the chief United Auto Workers union bargainer at Orion. “You didn’t really know if you would have a future.”

Worries spun through his head. He had to support six kids, including two in

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................38 at 2:39 p.m.

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Normal High .....................................................35 Normal Low ......................................................21 Record High..............................62 in 1946, 1939 Record Low........................................-15 in 1904

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Sunday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2013. There are 359 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On Jan. 6, 1963, “Oliver!,” Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist,” opened on Broadway.

On this date: In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the

Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

In 1963, “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” premiered on NBC-TV. In 1993, authorities rescued Jennifer Stolpa and her infant son, Clayton, after Jennifer’s husband, James, succeeded in reaching help, ending the family’s eight-day ordeal in the snow-covered

Nevada desert.

Ten years ago: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in “intelligence work” instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in his country.

One year ago: The Obama administration expanded the FBI’s more than eight-decades-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims physically resisted their attackers.

LOCAL BUSINESS LEDGER

Dungan & LeFevre attorneys honored

Lawyers in Ohio.

McGraw is a Fellow in the TROY — The partners of American Dungan & LeFevre Co., L.P.A. College of Trust are pleased to announce that and Estate William J. McGraw III, a partner at Dungan & LeFevre’s Troy Counsel and is the immediate office, has been past board chair named a 2013 MCMURRY (2009-2011) of Ohio Super the Estate Lawyer.

Planning, Trust & Probate Only 5 perSection of the Ohio State Bar cent of attorneys Association. He has published in the state of numerous articles and serves on Ohio are chosen the editorial board of the Ohio to be listed in Probate Law Journal. A 1972 Ohio Super graduate of The Ohio State Lawyers.

MCGRAW University College of Law, cum McGraw is a laude, McGraw is a frequent board certified speaker on estate planning, specialist in estate planning, trust and probate issues trust and probate law by the Ohio State Bar Association and throughout Ohio. a Fellow of the American College Glen R. McMurry, an associof Trust & Estate Counsel. He ate attorney at Dungan & has been named an Ohio Super LeFevre’s Troy office, also has Lawyer every year since its been named a 2013 Ohio Super inception in 2004 and was Lawyer Rising Star. Rising Stars named one of the top 100 Super names outstanding young

lawyers in the state of Ohio (those 40 years old or younger, or those who have been in practice for 10 years or less). No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state achieve this honor each year.

McMurry, a 2007 graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law, practices in the areas of business/commercial litigation, tort, tort defense, utility services, employment matters and criminal matters.

McMurry has represented clients in a number of civil and defense matters, including derivative shareholder actions, products liability defense and construction litigation.

McMurry also is experienced in federal litigation and serves as the chapter president of the Dayton Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He also serves as chair of the Dayton Bar Association’s Diversity Issues Committee and serves on the national board of directors for the Federal Bar Associations’

Younger Lawyer Division as the Sixth Circuit liaison and publications editor.

tax manager.

Tracy A. Poeppelman, CPA, has been promoted to tax manager.

Jessica L. Sheets, CPA, has Battelle & Battelle been promoted to audit managpromotes staff er.

Abby M. Barnhart, CPA, has DAYTON — Battelle & Battelle LLP is pleased to been promoted to audit senior. announce the following promoJessica K. Smith, CPA, has tions: been promoted to audit senior.

Brenda K. Clemens, CPA, has “Battelle & Battelle LLP is been promoted to audit principroud of the leadership skills pal. our promoted employees have Matthew F. (Matt) Deitsch, shown during their time with CPA, has been promoted to tax the firm,” said Charles A. Foley, principal.

CPA, managing partner at Allyson J. Huve, CPA, has Battelle & Battelle LLP. “They been promoted to audit princibring a fresh perspective to their pal. client service teams and help Matthew B. (Matt) Lubbers, ensure the firm remains proacCPA, has been promoted to tax tive toward our goal of growth principal. and quality commitment in the Brian S. Cox, CPA, has been new year.” promoted to audit Manager.

Currently, Battelle & Battelle Todd A. Gossett, CPA, has LPP has approximately 85 fullbeen promoted to audit managand part-time employees, which er. includes approximately 46 Robert J. (Bob) Horstman, CPA, CVA, has been promoted to CPAs.

Sonic • Continued from A11

In Loving Memory of

Janice Svajda January 6, 2011

It's been two years since you were taken away from us.There is an emptiness that we feel in our hearts and our daily lives now that your gone. We miss your beautiful smile and all the adventures you would've taken us through (moving you, your jobs, and being a mom). But one day we will be complete again. You may have gotten the last word in our favorite saying "Love you more than you'll ever know end of discussion," but I hold on to the last words you said to me that night, I LOVE YOU. Greatly missed by Mom and Dad, Your Sisters, Uncle, Aunts, Cousins and Many Friends.

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Orion factory would get the small car. But there was a catch. The plant had to shut down for more than a year to be revamped — a closure that would further threaten businesses in a fragile economy.

Dunn watched as workers removed the plant’s equipment, knowing GM could pull out of the deal at any time.

“You could see from one end to the other,” he said.

“There was nothing in there but cement and pillars.”

Negotiating a future There was another obstacle. GM and the UAW had to figure out how to cut labor costs at the plant.

For decades, the UAW and automakers fought openly as the companies tried to reduce costs and the union demanded pay increases. The UAW would

strike, or threaten to, and the companies would cave in. By 2007, GM was paying $1,400 more per vehicle for labor than nonunion Toyota.

That same year, both sides agreed to a historic compromise on labor costs.

They established a two-tier wage system that would pay new employees around $14 an hour, or half the hourly wage of older workers. Worker pay and pensions were frozen. Union trusts funded by the company and workers would take over retiree health care costs. Union President Bob King said each worker gave up at least $7,000 during the four-year contract.

But GM still couldn’t make money building the Sonic at Orion without an immediate influx of lowerwage workers. So the UAW and GM went beyond the national agreement and came up with an unprecedented solution. More

lower-wage workers could be hired at Orion than any other plant in the country.

Forty percent would be paid the lower wage, as opposed to a maximum of 25 percent at other factories.

“We all sort of wanted to do something that was very radical that would test those relationships and also test our ability to be really competitive here,” said Mark Reuss, GM’s North America president.

Union leaders Sweeney and Dunn accepted the deal in October 2010, figuring it was better to have lowerpaying jobs than none at all.

They were vilified by some workers.

“People like to complain, but I think deep down inside, they realize what we had to do and why we did it and how everybody’s truly benefiting,” Dunn said. “It’s better than having the doors closed and wondering where your next paycheck is coming from.”

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Ohio Patriot Guard members render a salute in honor of Army Private First Class Jeffrey Rice at WrightPatterson Air Force Base July 28. More than 60 Patriot Guard members participated in the ceremonies for Rice.

Ayearto remember W

hile last year saw its challenges — with the economy still in a slump and the horrors of Superstorm Sandy and Sandy Hook — there were still lots of reasons to smile in 2012.

Especially in Miami County.

From concerts filling the air at Troy’s Hobart Arena to the county fair and festivals to high school sports, residents were able to spend their leisure time enjoying the many offerings Miami County has available.

In 2012, Troy also lost one of its own, Army Pfc. Jeffrey L. Rice, on July 19 when the Troy High School graduate was killed in Afghanistan, according to a press release from the United States Department of Defense. Rice, 24, was assigned to the 20th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas. He was in Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

For many, 2012 will be a year to remember, for some it will be a year not forgotten quickly enough.

Onward and Countless people flooded the streets of downtown Troy June 2 during the 2012 Troy upward — welcome to Strawberry Festival. The festival was moved downtown during the reconstruction of 2013! the Adams Street Bridge.

Ventriloquist Terry Fator, known as the The Human Jukebox and winner of Season 2 of America’s Got Talent, performs for a crowd Dec. 14, at Hobart Arena in Troy with Emma Taylor singing Etta James.

At least five hot air balloons became the backdrop during the Salute to Veterans ceremony Aug. 15, during the 2012 Miami County Fair.

Miami East High School varsity volleyball team celebrates after closing out its first game of a Division III State semifinal match against Bloom-Carroll Nov. 9 at the Nutter Center in Fairborn. The Vikings went on to win its second consecutive state title, sweeping Columbus Ready to become the 16th school in Ohio’s history to win back-to-back state championships in the sport.

Corie Schweser, the Troy Strawberry Festival general chairwoman, reacts after getting a face full of strawberry pie in downtown Troy. She and others participated in a celebrity pie eating contest during the Strawberry Festival in June.

Workers pour concrete for the new Adams Street bridge on May 9.

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NATURAL WANDERS

Trail of new year is both familiar and unexplored On the second day of this brand new year, a half hour before the pale winter sun clambered from the eastern darkness, I accompanied Moon-the-Dog outside. While she went about her morning constitutional, I ambled over to the big hackberry near the door to check the thermometer.

Eleven degrees! Colder than I’d have guessed, but then the air was dry and lacked even a hint of wind. I’ll take cold, dry, and windless to damp, blowing, and barely freezing every time.

The sky was clear and dappled with stars as a waning moon slipped above the sycamores to the west. Quiet prevailed. The only sounds I heard were those of the pooch snuffling through a tangle of evergreens up by the fence, the musical purl of water running over riffle stones, and the squeak of snow underfoot as I shuffled toward the river.

I stopped on the high bank overlooking the home pool. Below, in the slow-moving water along the edge, reflected stars swirled in the surface’s dark mirror.

Farther out, the line of main current danced — and on the stream’s far side I could just make out the eddy’s lazy Andromeda spiral.

In spite of the low tempera-

Jim McGuire Troy Daily News Columnist

ture, there was still no ice along the pool’s edges. Yet something wasn’t right — a shadow where no shadow should have been.

When you live beside a river, literally within spitting distance, and daily observe the same stretch, you get to know that piece of river intimately: long riffle and pour-over into the home pool; sand bar; gravel shoal; flat glide preceding the shallows above another riffle 70 yards downstream. You become familiar with every protruding rock, root or temporarily mired log. You know exactly what you’re looking at in various light, throughout the seasons.

I know my home pool just that way. Plus the setting moon was still fairly full and shining bright, it’s cool silvery glow increased

dramatically by the blanket of sparkling snow. Not enough light to read by — but plenty enough to see that the large, dark lump a foot out from bank was steadily moving my way!

Beaver! I recognized what I was looking at the same moment the swimming animal sensed something amiss. The beaver paused, treading water against the slow current. I stood stock still. We each stared at one another. I made out the long and hefty fur-clad body, broad tail, rounded head topped with small ears, and the shiny black eyes looking intently up.

In the end, however, I was apparently mistaken for a stump or some similar harmless lump.

Because after a thorough if inadequate scrutiny, instead of sounding an alarm-slap with his paddle-like tail prior to diving abruptly for the safety of the pool’s depths, the beaver simply continued his leisurely upstream cruise.

I thought of that beaver later in the day when a fellow I was talking with dismissed the prospects of a new year as nothing special.

“Big deal,” he said, his voice lacking any hint of emotion.

“Another year begins. So what?

I’ve done the gig before. What’s

to get excited about?”

My first thought was if I grabbed him by the throat and shook him around a bit, he’d doubtless get plenty excited. But I just as quickly felt chagrined for harboring such an uncharitable impulse. Instead I was sorry for this poor guy who views the 12-month journey through the seasons as simply days to be ticked off the calendar.

Been there, done that doesn’t apply when it comes to years.

Every year is different — familiar in certain superficial aspects, perhaps, but in no way identical.

The round of a year is a circular pathway through countless new adventures.

Take that beaver I’d watched just before dawn — not the first beaver I’ve seen on the Stillwater, nor even the first I’ve seen close-up in the pool adjacent to the cottage. But still uncommon enough that a beaver sighting remains a special treat.

However, not many years back, it wouldn’t have been possible. Beavers have only recently reintroduced themselves into the Stillwater. I don’t know exactly when beavers moved back into the watershed after being extirpated more than a century before, but it hasn’t been all that long ago.

The same is true for eagles.

When an eagle perched on a limb overlooking the cottage pool a couple of years back, I was simply dumbfounded. An eagle!

In my back yard!

Now I see eagles all the year around. My most recent sighting came less than a week ago — a majestic bald eagle fishing a gravel pit pond north of Union.

Two weeks ago I stood transfixed in a Kroger parking lot watching and listening as a huge flight of sandhill cranes passed overhead. Talk about thrilling! If such a magical spectacle doesn’t move you to your very core, you need to check your pulse — along with your capacity for wonder.

We’ve just started out on another circular journey around the year, through the seasons, month-by-month, for a trip that will take a full 365 days. The trail is both familiar and unexplored. You can count on the unexpected, on having impromptu adventures, on experiencing moments you’ll treasure and remember the rest of your life.

And that aforementioned excitement? Oh my, yes! There’ll be excitement aplenty! Who knows what a day might bring — let alone a whole year’s worth!

Health, fitness apps make smartphones an exercise tool

BY CYNTHIA H. CRAFT Sacramento Bee When Jon Mead, a devoted cyclist, visits a new city, he goes right to his smartphone app Strava to find the best bike routes. his hometown, In Sacramento, Calif., the 24year-old uses MapmyRide to track his course in an archive.

Bethany Scribner, a runner who also works at the fitness gear retailer, likes the apps MapmyRun and Livestrong, which tracks nutrition in a daily pie chart showing fat, protein and carbs.

Saucony Run4Good is a favorite, too, said Scribner, 21, because the company donates to anti- obesity programs for kids if enough runners cover enough miles.

M a p M y R i d e , MapMyRun, Livestrong, Run4Good, MyFitnessPal — they’re all part of an exploding arena of health and fitness applications for smartphones. The trend, which falls under the umbrella of Health 2.0, an international tech movement, is proving an obsession for programmers at code-a-thons, as well as users who get hooked on tracking their workouts, calorie intake and weight loss. Among users, this an activity as addictive as Twitter is for some and Facebook is for others.

The Pew Research Center, in a new report titled Mobile Health 2012, found smartphone owners in the vanguard, with 52 percent gathering health information on their palm-

sized micro-computers.

That compares with 6 percent of owners of regular cellphones, the report said.

In addition, Pew found, 19 percent of smartphone owners have at least one health app on their devices — with exercise, diet and calorie-counting programs the most popular.

Overall, the proportion of cellphone owners who use their phones to access health data nearly doubled from 17 percent two years ago to 31 percent today, according to the report.

Ale Lauth is a senior health educator for Kaiser Permanente. She has witnessed the trend firsthand in her role as wellness guru for hundreds of Kaiser employees and physicians.

“The apps have come a

long way, and they’re constantly upgrading” Lauth said.

And it’s not just fitness.

There’s a parallel world of apps geared to other aspects of health and wellness: iTriage, iFirstAidLite, InstantHeartRate, CuresA-Z, not to mention a host of downloadable apps such as OvulationCalendar that help women track their menstrual and fertility cycles. And, yes, there are apps with tips for carrying on when that fertility cycle is spot on.

The American Medical Association has launched its own consumer weight app, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology held a contest

for the best app to help consumers identify and reduce their risk of heart disease.

The next phase is already in the works: apps that will transform your smartphone into a regulated medical device. Think of phones as electrocardiography, or ECG, machines that can detect abnormal heart rhythms and determine if a patient is having a heart attack.

Such clinical apps will not go forward without approval from the federal and Drug Food Administration. For now, most physicians are happy to see patients using simple apps to motivate them to exercise, eat well and lose weight. has MyFitnessPal emerged as one of the more popular apps in this cate-

gory, allowing users to set weight-loss goals, then diligently chart calories consumed, calories burned and poundage.

“These are great motivators,” said Lauth. “When you hit your goals, you and your friends see the results.”

Others in this category flash smiley-faces or other positive on-screen icons as rewards. They also offer pre-programmed verbal pats-on-the-back.

Says Lauth, “It’s like they are saying, ‘You are fantabulous!’ “ Scribner says she likes the social network aspect of workout apps.

“You can compete with your friends over your course, and it shows your elevation,” she said.

“Simply hit go.”

with meat sauce or yummy yogurt fruit salad, green beans, fresh apple, fruit cup, breadstick, milk.

Wednesday –Pizza slice or peanut butter bar, broccoli, fresh fruit, fruit cup, fruit sherbet, milk.

Thursday – Cheeseburger or chef salad, french fries, peaches, orange half, milk.

Friday – Fiesta stick with cheese or peanut butter bar, corn, tossed salad, black bean corn salsa, fruit cup, banana, milk.

• BETHEL SCHOOLS Monday — Hot dog on wheat bun, baked beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Tuesday — Popcorn chicken, broccoli, choice of fruit, milk, plus Domino’s pizza for 6th12th.

Wednesday — Chicken noodle soup, Uncrustable, peas and carrots, choice of fruit, milk.

Thursday — Burrito, salsa, sour cream, corn,

green beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Friday — No school.

• COVINGTON ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS Monday – Barbecue chicken snacks, sweet fries, green beans, pineapple, milk.

Tuesday – Beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, peas, peaches, roll, milk.

Wednesday – Chicken chunks, green beans, carrot sticks, applesauce, graham cracker milk.

Thursday – Cheese pizza, romaine salad, diced tomatoes, pears, milk.

Friday – Beef patty on bun, cheese slice, bean salad, corn, fruit mix, milk.

• COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Monday – Barbecue chicken snacks, sweet fries, green beans, pineapple, apples/caramel, milk.

Tuesday – Beef and

noodles, mashed potatoes, peas, peaches, raisins, roll, milk.

Wednesday – Chicken chunks, green beans, carrot sticks, applesauce, graham cracker, fruit mix, Goldfish Grahams, milk.

Thursday – Stuffed crust pizza, romaine salad, diced tomatoes, pears, orange, milk.

Friday – Beef patty on bun, cheese slice, bean salad, corn, fruit mix, peaches, milk.

• MIAMI EAST ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH Monday – Nachos with meat, salsa, salad, peaches, Teddy Grahams, milk.

Tuesday – Hamburger, baked beans, applesauce, milk.

Wednesday – Chicken fajita with lettuce, cheese and tomatoes, chocolate graham crackers, carrots, apple, milk.

Thursday – French toast, sausage links, hash browns, banana, sherbet, milk.

Friday – Pepperoni pizza, cucumber slices, cauliflower, green peppers with dip, mixed fruit, milk.

• NEWTON SCHOOLS Monday – Chicken fryz, whole wheat dinner roll, salad, diced peaches/banana (high school: juice and crackers), milk.

Tuesday – Corn dog, green beans, diced pears, juice, Doritos, milk.

Wednesday – Cook’s choice.

Thursday – Asian-style tangy chicken, brown rice,

carrots/peas, fortune cookie, pineapple, juice, milk.

Friday – Bosco sticks with pizza dipping sauce, broccoli/green beans, applesauce/oranges, milk.

• PIQUA CITY SCHOOLS, K-8 Monday — Grilled cheese sandwich, California blend, tomato soup, fruit, milk.

Tuesday – General Tso’s chicken with rice, fruit, broccoli, milk.

Wednesday – Rotini with meat sauce, fruit, green beans, milk.

Thursday – Beef and refried bean burrito with salsa, fruit, corn, milk.

Friday – No school.

• PIQUA HIGH SCHOOL Monday – Barbecue chicken sandwich, fresh cucumber and tomato dip, baked beans, fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Sweet and sour chicken with honey, rice, green beans, fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Rotini with meat sauce, garlic broccoli, fruit, roll, milk.

Thursday – Beef and bean burrito, spinach strawberry salad, fruit juice, milk.

Friday — No school.

• TIPPECANOE MIDDLE SCHOOL Monday — Domino’s pizza, baked beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Tuesday – Chicken patty, sweet potatoes, choice of fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Pork chop, spinach salad, choice of fruit, milk.

Thursday —

Mozzarella cheese sticks, lima beans, choice of fruit, milk.

Friday — Toasty cheese, Brussels sprouts, tomato soup, choice of fruit, milk.

• TIPPECANOE HIGH SCHOOL Monday — Mini corn dogs, baked beans, choice of fruit, whole grain roll, milk.

Tuesday – Popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, choice of fruit, biscuit, milk.

Wednesday — Ravioli, romaine salad, choice of fruit, garlic toast, milk.

Thursday — Fusian a la carte, egg roll, broccoli, choice of fruit, cheesy rice, fortune cookie, milk.

Friday — Toasted cheese, tomato soup, carrots, choice of fruit, cracker, milk.

• UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER Monday – Coney dog or mini corn dogs, baked beans, assorted fruit, multi-grain bun, milk.

Tuesday – Ravioli or cheese sticks, pasta sauce, side salad, assorted fruit, milk.

Wednesday – Pizza or quesadilla, fresh baby carrots with dip, assorted fruit, milk.

Thursday — Walking taco or chicken fajitas, rice, salsa, black beans, assorted fruit, milk.

Friday – Grilled cheese or hot ham and cheese, baked potato, broccoli and cheese, assorted fruit, multi-grain roll, milk.

SCHOOL MENUS • TROY ELEMENTARY/JR. HIGH Monday — Sausage, mini pancakes, applesauce, carrot snaccks, celery sticks, fruit, milk.

Tuesday — Chicken tenders, dinner roll, mashed potatoes with gravy, carrot snacks, fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Cheeseburger on whole grain bun, baked beans, broccoli florets, fruit, milk.

Thursday — Walking taco with Fritos, meat and cheese, lettuce cup, celery sticks, fruit, bug bites, milk.

Friday — Beef rib BQ on whole grain burn, french fries, carrot snacks, fruit, milk.

• BRADFORD SCHOOLS Monday – Chicken fingers or peanut butter and jelly, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, fruit cup, fruit juice, wheat dinner roll, milk.

Tuesday – Spaghetti

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Dental care provided at home for frail seniors

BY ANITA CREAMER Sacramento Bee

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Diann Azevedo, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, cleans Dolores Hanson’s teeth at her apartment as Misty the cat looks on. softly, and she retrieved a rubber bite block from her bedside supplies.

In an aging nation — with the population of older adults soaring with the graying of the baby boom generation — maintaining seniors’ oral health has become an unexpectedly urgent issue.

To meet the growing need, California a decade ago began licensing registered dental hygienists in alternative practice to take routine care into nursing homes and private residences.

“It’s a job of the heart,” said Susan Lopez, president of the California Hygienists’ Dental Association. “The frail, elderly homebound are so

fragile.”

Today, 400 hygienists such as Azevedo provide care across the state, along with 17,000 dental hygienists in traditional practice.

Twenty-two more states are considering legislation to expand the scope of hygienists’ care beyond the office.

According to a surgeon general’s report, infections related to dental problems are a silent epidemic, with almost one-fourth of people ages 65 to 74 suffering from periodontal disease that can become so severe it leads to systemic inflammation.

“When you have a high bacterial load, it affects your respiratory system and blood system,” said

A triathlete explains why he does it

BY WARREN WOLFE Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Dave Voss typically doesn’t think of himself as a master triathlete. More of a hard worker. He’s been fairly active all his 51 years — a little soccer, baseball, jogging, biking and chasing after bad guys as a Minneapolis cop. ran that marathon at 3:02.)

The triathlon seemed like a good challenge. After my first triathlon, I was hooked for life. Now I use marathons to train for triathlons.”

What is training like?

“I’m up at 4:30 most mornings to run or bike for an hour or so. When I’m in full training, most of the year, I’ll work out again at night for a couple hours, then three to five hours on weekend days. At the peak, I train about 20 hours a week. And I pay attention to my food.”

What’s the sacrifice? “I couldn’t do this without support from work and my family. The department gives me flex time so I can train and compete.”

Does mastery help other parts of life? “I’m a better cop. I’m more fit mentally and physically than ever before. As a detective I don’t usually run after people, but once I was chasing a guy and

hollered out, ‘I can run to White Bear Lake. How far can you go?’ The guy just gave up.” (He credits Minneapolis policeman and runner Jim Heimerl with first use of that line.)

What’s your ultimate goal? “My dream is to compete at Kona, the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon, the world championship. I’d have to come in near the top in my age class at one of the qualifying triathlons. And I want to live in Florida and be the 85-year-old runner passing all those 55-year-olds.”

mouthful of plastic with it.”

But even with dental insurance, access to office care in advanced age can grow iffy as a result of problems — physical everything from debilitating arthritis pain, which can limit mobility, to the encroaching toll of dementia.

For as long as Hanson was able to walk, her daughter took her to Azevedo’s office for routine cleanings.

“But after a few years, she couldn’t walk up the stairs any more,” said Andrews, 56, who does part-time medical transcription work at home so she can care for Hanson.

And so began Azevedo’s house calls.

“It’s important to have her teeth and gums checked, because if you don’t, it leads to pain,” said Andrews. “This way she can enjoy food. It’s one of the few things left to her, along with music and her cats. It’s that simple.”

Frank Sinatra’s music played softly in Hanson’s bedroom as Azevedo peered into her mouth, gently brushing, scraping and checking her gums and teeth.

After a half-hour examination and cleaning, Azevedo pronounced Hanson’s mouth healthy.

“We’re almost done,” she said, finishing with a quick swabbing of topical fluoride varnish on Hanson’s teeth. “You need a rest. I can tell.”

Gene shows who will have early losses in hearing

BY IRENE MAHER Tampa Bay Times So, maybe there were a few loud concerts over the years. You’ve always loved big fireworks shows. And you don’t always protect your ears when using the leaf blower. But you’re just in your 40s or 50s, way too young for significant hearing loss.

Still, conversations are getting harder to follow and you feel awkward asking people to keep repeating themselves. What’s going on? Can you be losing your hearing decades before Medicare age?

Yes, say researchers at the University of South Florida’s Global Center for Hearing & Speech Research. They have identified a gene — known as GRM7 — responsible for age-related hearing loss that is more severe and occurs earlier than expected. “Everyone has the gene and everyone will have some age-related hearing loss,” said Robert Frisina Jr., director of the center and professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the university. “But in some people the abnormal sequence of proteins in that gene causes these people to have worse agerelated hearing loss than others their age.”

The study, conducted by Frisina and researchers in New York and California, represents the first time a genetic biomarker has been identified for agerelated hearing loss.

Frisina talked about the research and what it may mean to those of us who want to hear everything possible as we age.

Q: What does your research tell us about hearing loss that we didn’t know before?

A: Previous studies

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At age 51, Dave Voss doesn’t talk about himself as a master triathlete.

More like a conscientious worker: “I’m pretty good, but I love it, I work at it, and I just never quit.”

“Some people think I’m nuts,” he added. “Look at my face at Mile 22, say, and maybe all you see is the pain and the strain. But I’m on such a high. Even if I’m not doing well, I’m figuring out how to get on track.”

Voss has been active all his life — a little soccer, baseball, jogging, biking, chasing after bad guys as a Minneapolis cop. But not until age 40 did he run his first marathon, and at 46 took on grueling triathlons — at maximum “ironman” distance, that includes swimming 2.2 miles, biking 112 miles and running 26.2 miles over 12 to 14 hours.

“Winning is great.

Completing is important.

But I love just doing it,” he said. “Competing or training, it’s almost the same thing.”

Married to a Minneapolis police lieutenant, Voss is a sergeant who has worked assaults for six years and homicides for a decade before that. He grew up in the Chicago area and was a police officer in California before Minnesota.

In front of his wall of medals and plaques, he talked about mastery and why it matters.

What is mastery? “It’s experience plus willpower.

Mastery is knowing I can pace myself, but still push a little farther, a little faster, a little smarter, even if I’m exhausted. It’s not being better than anybody else, but being the best I can be. I’m still the student but I’m the teacher, too, helping rookie athletes or rookie cops.”

How did you start?

“After my first marathon, I was on a hotel bed in Duluth with ice packs on my legs and I’d had it. No more. Until I woke up from a nap and thought, gee, I should be able to do better than 3:57. (Last year, he

Lopez. “People have a lowgrade infection all the time.

They feel rotten.”

Or worse: They can suffer heart disease and stroke as a result of infections that begin in the mouth, and some studies show a strong link with diabetes as well.

“Infection of gum tissue is invasive,” said Azevedo.

“An abscess is serious.

People can die because an infection left untreated can go to the brain.”

That’s exactly what happened a little more than a year ago, when the death of a 24-year-old Ohio man from severe, untreated gum infection made national news. He had lost his job and couldn’t afford dental insurance, accord-

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have suggested that agerelated hearing loss is familial, that your hearing will be similar to your parents’. But, until our study, there hadn’t been any genes definitively identified that were associated with age-related hearing loss. The people with the abnormal gene sequence make a slightly different protein in the inner ear, which reduces the normal functioning of the inner ear, which worsens agerelated hearing loss. In our study, people in their 60s who had the genetic variation had hearing that was more like someone in their 70s who didn’t have the variation.

Q: What should people do with this information?

A: First, if you have the gene you know it will be especially important to protect the hearing you have. But also, if you are in your 40s and are having trouble hearing you should be evaluated because hearing loss can be caused by a number of things, including a tumor or even medication. As part of that evaluation you can be tested for this gene. If you have the gene you know to be careful with medications that can affect hearing, you will be more careful with using hearing protection when mowing the lawn, hunting, listening to loud music.

Q: Treatment to prevent or reverse hearing loss?

A: We’re on the horizon of being able to treat genetic disorders right now. So, in the next 10 to

15 years, we’ll be able to compensate for genes that are abnormal and possibly make the protein in that gene right, correct the protein. That’s the most exciting part of this development. Ideally, we will be able to intervene in middle age, before the hearing loss develops and prevent it from happening.

Hearing loss is caused by cells that die in the inner ear. They don’t grow back, like your skin heals after a cut. Reversing hearing loss is a lot harder (than preventing it). That could come, too, but later.

Q: How many people have this genetic configuration?

A: That we don’t know yet. Our study was the largest of its kind and included 687 people. But that’s not enough to know the prevalence of the condition in the general population. Also, we will probably find that more genes and more variations of those genes are responsible for early and more severe age-related hearing loss.

Q: Does everyone lose their hearing as they age?

A: Almost everyone has diminished hearing as they age but it doesn’t become troublesome until about the 60s. But take someone with the genetic variation, add all the environmental factors, such as chronic exposure to loud sounds, and the normal aging process and these people will have significant hearing loss, perhaps as early as their 40s or 50s.

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Diann Azevedo makes house calls.

As a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice — whose clients include the frail, homebound elderly as well as the developmentally disabled — she is part of a growing movement to take routine dental care out of the office and into vulnerable patients’ homes. She totes a portable dental chair in her car, along with a large kit stuffed with dental supplies.

“Has your mother had any changes in her medications?” she asked Jeanne Andrews, whose mother, 80-year-old Dolores Hanson, has advancedstage Alzheimer’s disease.

For Hanson, the dental chair wasn’t necessary.

The symptoms of her illness include rigidity and loss of balance. She can’t walk and she no longer talks. She sometimes can’t even sit. Her awareness flickers in and out. Illness has restricted her life to a hospital bed in a bedroom of the small Roseville, Calif., apartment she shares with Andrews, who cares for her.

Propped into place with pillows in the hospital bed, Hanson gazed at Azevedo’s face as the dental hygienist gently began a routine cleaning and examination.

Reflex kicked in, and Hanson bit down on the toothbrush.

“It’s OK,” Azevedo said

ing to reports.

The connection with older adults? Many lose their dental insurance when they retire, leading them to forgo the routine dental treatments that could prevent problems from developing.

For seniors in particular, delaying care can lead to dire complications as well as higher medical and dental costs, not to mention a whole lot of pain.

“The cost of neglect is enormous,” said Lopez.

“Having dental work done in the emergency room is the most costly way of providing dental care.”

The elderly are more prone to oral health issues anyway.

Many medications as well as certain cancer treatments can cause dry mouth, which can lead to root decay, according to experts. And gum disease can result in diminished sense of taste, digestive problems, jawbone loss and loss of teeth.

Only 30 years ago, almost half of people 65 and older had lost some or all of their teeth to neglect, gum disease, accident or age; that number has dropped to only 25 percent, Lopez said.

“We used to accept losing teeth as a part of aging,” she said. “We don’t accept that any more. The baby boomers will not accept that.”

“And when people have dentures, everything has a plastic taste,” she said.

“Everything you eat has a

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Tipp City will begin a three-week series, Catholics Come Home, for Catholics who wish to consider returning to an active practice of the faith.

The sessions will be Tuesdays, January 15, 22, & 29 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm at St. John the Baptist Church, 753 South Hyatt Street, Tipp City, OH 45371.

If you need more information or directions, please call Jennifer Melke, Director of Religious Education at 667-3419 or email her at jamelke@woh.rr.com.

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Underwater thrills AP PHOTO/BRIAN WITTE

In this May 5, 2012, photo, a diver uses a magnifying glass to look for a shrimp inside an anemone during a dive at the Shark Shoal site in the Saba Marine Park in Saba, an island in the Caribbean. The island, a Dutch municipality, is popular with divers.

Diving off of Saba, Caribbean’s unspoiled queen THE BOTTOM, Saba (AP) — The small propeller airplane lands quickly and softly, like a butterfly, on one of the world’s shortest commercial runways on the rainforestcapped island of Saba, which rises stunningly out of the Caribbean. It won’t take long for visitors to see why the sign outside declares: “Welcome to The Unspoiled Queen.”

Saba’s Mount Scenery, at 2,877 feet (877 meters) high, is touted as the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. (The island became a Dutch municipality following the breakup of the Netherlands Antilles.) Still, some of the island’s most sought-after peaks are underwater near Saba’s sharply rising shores. The small island’s volcanic nature has sculpted the seascape for unique recreational diving, as its coralencrusted pinnacles and seamounts top out within recreational diving limits of 85 to 120 feet (26 to 36 meters). Yellow sulfur deposits on the sand at the dive site known as Hot Springs shows volcanic activity continues. If you stick your hand in the sand, you can feel its heat.

Forget the beach. There isn’t one. No casinos, either.

After hiking and diving, one of the next best things to do is simply relax and wait for the symphony of whistling frogs that fills the night with song.

Many who take the time to visit this remote and verdant island about a 15minute flight from St. Maarten are scuba divers are who come to explore some of the most colorful and vibrant underwater life on this side of the world. A main draw for divers are the pinnacle dive sites, where magma pushed through the sea floor to create underwater towers of volcanic rock that start at about 300 feet (91 meters) down and rise to about 85 feet (26 meters) beneath the surface.

“There’s tons of color and, of course, because they are out in this blue oasis of water and then all of the sudden you’ve got forma-

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• SABA: http://www. sabatourism.com/. Flights to the Caribbean island of Saba are available from St. Maarten on Windward Islands Airways, http://www.fly-winair.com.

Service by ferry, which takes about 90 minutes from St. Maarten, is also available. Although Saba is a municipality within the Netherlands, English is widely spoken and the U.S. dollar is the official currency.

where to find them.

After spending the morning diving, there’s plenty to do on land in the afternoon, if you’re not ready to relax by the pool.

The island has six different vegetation zones, including rainforest and cloud forest at the very top, where there are orchids. There are more than a dozen trails of A moray eel pokes up out of a reef in the Saba Marine Park in Saba, an island in the Caribbean. varying lengths and difficulty. Mount Scenery, at tions, it attracts corals and the top, takes an hour and sponges which, of course, a half each way to hike. attract the smaller fish, Tour guides are available. which of course attract bigSaba has more than 60 ger and bigger fish,” said species of birds. There is Lynn Costernaro, who even a lodge and restauowns the Sea Saba Dive rant in the rainforest. It Center, during a presentatakes about 10 minutes to tion to divers who were vishike along a trail to reach iting the island in May. the restaurant, and a The sponges, both in flashlight is needed at their variety and size, are night. Frogs cling to the one of the most noticeable windows in the dining features of the Saba room. A slide-show presenMarine Park. Giant barrel tation on the rainforest is sponges almost as big as given on Wednesday some divers tower over the nights. seascape, which is thick There is only one main with striking red, purple, road, steep and twisty, orange and yellow sponges. often providing exhilaratSea turtles and stingrays ing views over sheer cliffs are regularly spotted. Reef down to the sea. sharks can be seen on Hitchhiking is common. patrol. Spiny lobsters, crabs Cars regularly roll along and moray eels hide in from one side of the island A hawksbill sea turtle snags lunch at the Man-Of-War Shoals dive site in the Saba small openings in the to the capital, known as Marine Park in Saba, an island in the Caribbean. corals.

The Bottom, a town of redOne of the park’s most Measures are taken meas- roofed white buildings after, before much diving toward nothing. A few thrilling dives, called Third heart-pounding moments had started. The park was ures to protect them. For with green shutters in a Encounter, is on top of an example, restaurants do officially established in after hovering over the valley surrounded by lushunderwater mountain. The blue abyss, a narrow tower- 1987, but steps had been not serve grouper. As a ly green and high-rising top, which is about 100 feet ing spire suddenly comes taken before that to protect result, a variety of species peaks.

(30 meters) deep, is covered into view again covered the area, such as talking to of grouper that is harder Even if you never go to in coral and sponges with to see around other fishermen and setting up with colorful growth. the island’s highest points, deep, dark blue drop-offs Caribbean islands is com- just about anything you do homemade moorings for The first known divers along its sides. Soon after monly seen here. Other boats. in Saba waters did not on the island will require getting there, a dive guide come until 1982. The Dutch seldom-seen fish such as About 150 species of some significant hiking, will start moving off into frogfish also can be found, because the terrain is government decided to cre- fish have been found in the deep blue, seemingly and the dive guides know quite steep. ate a marine park not long the waters of the island.

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Film-to-digital switch threatens some drive-ins Businesses can’t afford to replace projectors Drive-in also will reopen for 2013 even if it’s on the gamble his old 35 mm projector will get him through one more season.

“I’m just doing what I have to do to keep our little piece of history alive here,” Gawel said. “We don’t have much of a choice.”

It’s not an easy decision, added Rosko, who’s hopeful that costs to upgrade to digital will drop in the months ahead.

“When you’re talking about spending $60,000 to replace one projector system, it’s no pushover,” he said.

Still, both men say they understand the reason for the switch.

The digital format Hollywood’s moviemakers prefer is cinematically superior. And film isn’t cheap, Rosko noted.

It costs filmmakers about $150 to send theaters a digital copy of a film on a hard drive, Gawel said. To send a reel, they have to pay to have their digital film processed onto a 35 mm roll.

Hollywood faces fracking in ‘Promised Land’ ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) The new movie “Promised Land” digs into the fierce national debate over fracking, the technique that’s generated a boom in U.S. natural gas production while also stoking controversy over its possible impact on the environment and human health.

Written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, the film comes at an opportune time for a big-screen exploration of the issues surrounding the shale gas revolution, with cheap natural gas transforming the nation’s energy landscape and “fracking” now a household word.

But viewers shouldn’t necessarily expect a realistic treatment of drilling and fracking. It’s not that kind of film.

Lending an air of authenticity, the movie was shot in Pennsylvania, where thousands of wells have been drilled and fracked in recent years as industry heavyweights pull huge volumes of gas from the sprawling Marcellus Shale, a rock formation deep below the surface of the Earth.

But “Promised Land” spends little time explaining how energy companies actually go about pulling natural gas out of the ground, and what little explanation the movie does provide is simply not very accurate.

The Focus Features release instead concentrates on another aspect of the drilling boom the battle for hearts and minds as gas companies seek to lease land for drilling while environmentalists warn of the perils of punching a bunch of holes in the ground.

Bewildered landowners, meanwhile, are left to sort out the competing claims and counterclaims.

It’s potentially fertile territory. In real life, drilling companies injected millions of dollars into moribund local economies, transforming sleepy villages in Pennsylvania and other states into boomtowns almost overnight.

But the industry also sowed division, pitting neighbor against neighbor as some residents complained of ruined water wells and other environmental degradation. Many others, judging by recent public opinion surveys, heralded the prosperity that drilling creates and the abundant homegrown energy it produces.

Even here, though, the movie seeks to entertain more than enlighten, with an implausible plot twist undermining what could have been a realistic portrayal of life as it is really lived in the gas fields.

“Promised Land” follows Steve Butler (Damon), a

gas company salesman who shows up in an economically struggling small town in Pennsylvania that happens to sit atop a vast reserve of gas. His task: To get residents to sign on the dotted line, promising them they’ll become instant millionaires once the gas starts flowing from the shale underneath their land.

Standing in his way is Dustin Noble (Krasinski), an environmental activist determined to convince townsfolk they don’t want what the driller is selling.

Damon’s character repeatedly points out that drilling has brought new life to struggling towns, calls U.S. reliance on foreign sources of energy “insane,” and defends fracking as a technology with a proven track record of safety. And he seems to believe it himself, at least initially.

But the film leaves little doubt as to where its sympathies lie.

“Nobody’s going to be disingenuous here. If you were expecting a pro-fracking movie from Matt Damon, you were probably living in an alternate universe,” Focus Features CEO James Schamus said with a laugh.

But he insisted that “Promised Land” ultimately is not a movie about a highly technical process in which drillers use water, sand and chemicals to break apart gas-bearing shale rock and it should not be judged by that standard.

“The filmmakers didn’t necessarily set out to make, nor did they make, some kind of civics lesson or propaganda movie about fracking,” Schamus said.

Rather, he said, the movie is a Frank Caprastyle yarn about “workingclass identity, about aspiration, about money and what it does to you,” with fracking as the vehicle that propels the story and a healthy dose of corporate villainy.

Krasinski says he and Damon tried to avoid too much of a political message. “We really wanted to tell a story about community, about these small towns that are going through very real situations right now, especially with the economic situation as it is,” he told the AP. Yet industry groups and environmental activists alike see “Promised Land” very much as a message film about the perils of the gas boom, and are reacting accordingly.

Drillers who mounted a furious rebuttal of “Gasland,” the 2010 awardwinning, anti-drilling HBO documentary began pushing back against “Promised Land” months ago while simultaneously noting that it is indeed a work of fiction.

That can cost up to $1,500 per film, he added.

“It can mean shipping the reels from Virginia onto a plane and then a cab,” Rosko said. “And Hollywood hates losing money.

We all know that.”

Trouble is, most of the country’s remaining drive-ins are small-time operations that operate on a part-time schedule, Rosko said. They have to rely on the summer’s biggest hits, and nostalgia, to draw crowds, whereas indoor multiplexes can rely on a year’s worth of hit movies and multiple screens to make money.

“For most drive-ins in this area, you get three good months to make money before you start running up against fall events and high school football games,” Rosko said.

Rosko acknowledged he’s rolling the dice by entering the 2013 season with his old projector. A few moviemakers have already dropped film. And while

pledging $500 donations. They fell short, collecting only $7,536.

It’s sad to see, said Paul Geissinger, who has owned Shankweiler’s, the nation’s oldest continuously operating drive-in, since 1984.

Shankweiler’s, in Lehigh County, has survived generations of new technologies, switching to speaker poles in 1948 and FM radio in 1986. And it will make the move to digital next year at a nearly $100,000 price tag, Geissinger said. But many others, perhaps half of the 368 left, won’t make the cut, he added.

“Drive-in owners are a close bunch. When you hear about somebody closing, it becomes emotional,” said Geissinger, who originally started working at his drive-in as a projectionist in 1971. “I wish everyone luck, because it’s tough.”

He hopes there’s a silver lining, though. The switch to digital could also be a difference-maker for those able to survive the switch, he said.

“I went to a drive-in a few

FILM REVIEW

AP PHOTO/FOCUS FEATURES, SAM JONES

This undated publicity film image provided by Focus Features shows Matt Damon starring as Steve Butler in Gus Van Sant’s contemporary drama, “Promised Land,” a Focus Features release.

‘Promised Land’ doesn’t dig deep Director succeeds in fits and starts

BY CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Film Reviewer “Promised Land” offers an experience that’s alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections.

Director Gus Van Sant has the challenging task of taking the divisive, hightech practice of fracking and trying to make it not just human but cinematic.

Working from a script by co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, based on a story by Dave Eggers, he succeeds in fits and starts.

The impoverished small town that’s the tale’s setting, a place in need of the kind of economic rejuvenation that extracting natural gas could provide, is full of folksy folks whose interactions with the main characters don’t always ring true. “Promised Land” has its heart on its sleeve and its pro-environment message is quite clear, but

it’s in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works.

Damon, collaborating with Van Sant for the third time as both screenwriter and actor (following “Gerry” and the Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting”), stars as Steve Butler, a salesman traveling the country on behalf of a bland behemoth of an energy corporation.

Having grown up on an Iowa farm himself and seen how an economic downturn can devastate a small town, Steve is a likable everyman who seems genuinely invested in what he’s selling. But he’s also a pragmatist, as evidenced by the playfully cynical give-and-take he enjoys with his partner, Sue, played by a dry, sharp Frances McDormand.

Famously for his efficiency in persuading rural residents to sell their land for the drilling rights, Steve runs into an

unprecedented challenge when he and Sue arrive in the depressed dairy farming community of McKinley in western Pennsylvania. Outspoken old-timer Frank (Hal Holbrook), the high school science teacher, and flashy, charismatic environmental crusader Dustin (Krasinski) dare to question the company’s methods in increasingly vocal ways.

But even as Steve struggles to close the deal, he finds himself growing entrenched in the daily rhythms of this idyllically charming little nook of the heartland. Rosemarie DeWitt co-stars as a winsome grade school teacher with dismayingly halfbaked romantic connections to both Steve and Dustin; essentially, it’s as if she’s waiting around the local watering hole on karaoke night, hoping that some cute, exciting outsider will waltz in and

rep announced later that Armstrong was headed to treatment for substance abuse.

“I just want to thank you all for the love and support you’ve shown for the past few months,” Armstrong told fans in a statement Monday.

The tour is scheduled to begin March 28.

to make a hoped-for 2013 opening date.

The Tennessean reports the National Museum of African American Music is still millions of dollars away from reaching its fundraising goal.

Paula Roberts, who directs the foundation that will oversee the museum, declined to discuss fundraising specifics or when the $47.5 million project might break ground.

Work toward creating the museum began in 2004 after the state agreed to lease three acres of stateowned land near down-

woo her. The actress, and the character, deserve better. Similarly, Sue enjoys a brief flirtation with the sarcastic convenience store owner (Titus Welliver) whose character is underdeveloped and yet so briefly intriguing, you’d like to know more about him. All of this feels halfheartedly wedged-in.

Steve and Dustin obviously function as two sides of the same coin, but their confrontations don’t crackle the way they should because everyone involved is just so darn nice. But there is an appealing gray area suggested in Damon’s character. For a while, we’re not quite sure whether he’s a true believer or an opportunistic climber that is, until some major and implausible plot twists make his stance forcefully, indisputably clear.

“Promised Land,” a Focus Features release, is rated R for language.

Running time: 106 minutes. Two stars out of four.

MUSIC BRIEFS

Green Day sets tour dates

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Green Day is going back on the road. The Grammy-winning punk band announced new tour dates Monday.

The band canceled the rest of its 2012 club schedule and postponed the start of a 2013 arena tour after singer-guitarist Billie Joe Museum won’t Armstrong’s substance abuse problems emerged open in 2013 publicly in September when he had a profane meltdown NASHVILLE, Tenn. — on the stage of the A planned museum of iHeartRadio Music Festival African American music in in Las Vegas. The band’s Nashville seems unlikely

town to the African American History Foundation of Nashville Inc. The agreement called for construction to begin by October 2009.

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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — It’s an unmistakable sound: The steady, crackling flutter of a film projector at work.

But that will soon be a sound of the past, it seems.

Hollywood’s moviemakers are phasing out film stock for cheaper, higher-quality digital formats, a move that could signal the final frame for many of the nation’s 368 remaining drive-ins, torchbearers of the 35 mm celluloid era.

But while film producers such as Fox, MGM and Paramount have already released plans to drop film by year’s end, movies will keep rolling this summer at three Cambria County, Pa., driveins, their owners say.

Don Gawel, owner of the Portage Bar-Ann Drive-in and Hi-Way Drive-in outside Carrolltown, hopes to start the season with high-definition projectors at both of his theaters.

And Rick Rosko said the Silver

the major companies have said they plan to do the same by the end of the year, there’s no guarantee they won’t do it at midsummer.

But delaying should help his chances to find a cheaper projector, or even used one, Rosko said.

“I think a lot of us are just trying to make it one more summer, hoping the prices improve a little,” he said.

He’s also looking to see if there’s a market for a 1948 portable projector, built within a stainless steel trailer. It’s in good shape for its age. Rare, too, he said, noting that “with a little work, it would be a great, working exhibit in a museum.”

Other theater owners are getting creative, too. Some are selling bumper stickers to raise funds.

In September, an Illinois couple turned to the online fundraising site Kickstarter aiming to raise $40,000 toward their digital conversion. They offered donors snacks, movie admissions and even private screenings for those

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• Weight Watchers, Westminster • DivorceCare seminar and sup- Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 port group will meet from 6:30-8 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God • Parenting Education Groups Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Piqua. Child care provided through Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 the sixth-grade.

E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and • COSA, an anonymous 12-step age-appropriate ways to parent chilrecovery program for friends and dren. Call 339-6761 for more inforfamily members whose lives have mation. There is no charge for this been affected by another person’s program. compulsive sexual behavior, will • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A meet in the evening in Tipp City. For Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the more information, call 463-2001.

Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. • AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will Main St., Troy, use back door. meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. discussion meeting is open.

• Sanctuary, for women who have • AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at been affected by sexual abuse, loca7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 tion not made public. Must currently Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal be in therapy. For more information, Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. • AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., 430 Westminster Presbyterian Church, • Miami Valley Women’s Center, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs.

Heights, offers free pregnancy test• AA, Living Sober meeting, ing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For open to all who have an interest in more information, call 236-2273. a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 Westminster Presbyterian Church, a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Main St., Tipp City. For more inforPiqua. mation, call Tipp-Monroe • Narcotics Anonymous, Community Services at 667-8631 or Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. Celeste at 669-2441. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. • Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion . p.m. at Ginghamsburg South • Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Road 25-A, one mile south of the Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third main campus. floor, Greenville.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Never TUESDAY Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., • Deep water aerobics will be Sidney offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through com- Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lccmunication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 troy.com for more information and programs.

Staunton Road, Troy.

• The Friends and Neighbors • Singles Night at The Avenue Club of Miami County, a women’s will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main nonprofit and social organization Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, doing charitable work in the Troy Troy. Each week, cards, noncompet- area, meets at 7 p.m. the second itive volleyball, free line dances and Tuesday of each month at the TroyHayner Cultural Center. For more free ballroom dance lessons. Child information, contact Joanne at care for children birth through fifth jrosenberglvspopcorn@hotmail.com. grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m.

• A teen support group for any each night in the Main Campus grieving teens, ages 12-18 years in building. For more information, call greater Miami County area is the 667-1069, Ext. 21. offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on the sec• A Spin-In group, practicing the ond and fourth Tuesday evenings at art of making yarn on a spinning the Generations of Life Center, secwheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver ond floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp There is no participation fee.

City. All knitters are invited to attend. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers.

For more information, call 667Crafts, sharing time and other grief 5358. support activities are preceded by a • Baseball bingo will be offered light meal. from 7 p.m. until games are com• Quilting and crafts is offered plete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday St., Piqua. Refreshments will be at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First available. Proceeds help the youth St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for baseball organization, a nonprofit. more information.

• Mothers of Preschoolers, a MONDAY group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to infor• Christian 12 step meetings, mation from speakers, meet the sec“Walking in Freedom,” are offered at ond and fourth Tuesday from 6:157 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 8:30 p.m. Single, married, working Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. or stay-at-home moms are invited.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be Children (under 5) are cared for in offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at MOPPETS. For more information, Lincoln Community Center, Troy. contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Call 335-2715 or visit Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074. www.lcctroy.com for more informa• The Miami Shelby Chapter of tion and programs. the Barbershop Harmony Society • AA, Big Book discussion meet- will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene ing will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Street United Methodist Church, 415 Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interRoad, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. ested in singing are welcome and The discussion is open to the pubvisitors always are welcome. For lic. more information, call 778-1586 or • AA, Green & Growing will meet visit the group’s Web site at at 8 p.m. The closed discussion www.melodymenchorus.org. meeting (attendees must have a • Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at desire to stop drinking) will be at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Troy. Video/small group class Staunton Road, Troy. designed to help separated or • AA, There Is A Solution Group divorced people. For more informawill meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg tion, call 335-8814.

United Methodist Church, County • AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The dis- Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. cussion group is closed (partici• AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 pants must have a desire to stop p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, drinking).

1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• AA, West Milton open discus• AA, The Best Is Yet To Come sion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Lutheran Church, rear entrance, Step Room at Trinity Episcopal 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. handicap accessible.

The discussion is open.

• Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room Lutheran Church, Main and Third at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed disDorset Road, Troy. The discussion cussion (participants must have a meeting is open. A beginner’s meet- desire to stop drinking). ing begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney • Alternatives: Anger/Rage Group, Presbyterian Church, corner Control Group for adult males, 7-9 North and Miami streets, Sidney. p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. • AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. are physical, verbal and emotional Open discussion. violence toward family members • An Intermediate Pilates class and other persons, how to express will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. feelings, how to communicate at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For instead of confronting and how to more information, call Tipp-Monroe act nonviolently with stress and Community Services at 667-8631 or anger issues.

Celeste at 669-2441.

• Mind Over Weight Total • Women’s Anger/Rage Group Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin will meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at St., Troy. Other days and times the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami available. For more information, call County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

339-2699.

Issues addressed are physical, ver• TOPS (Take Off Pounds bal and emotional violence toward Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran family members and other persons, Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. how to express feelings, how to New members welcome. For more communicate instead of confronting information, call 335-9721. and how to act nonviolently with • Troy Noon Optimist Club will stress and anger issues. Call 339meet at noon at the Tin Roof 6761 for more information.

TODAY

• 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.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion.

• 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.

• Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available.

Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959.

• 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 3358397.

• 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.

WEDNESDAY • 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Milton-Union Senior Citizens will meet the second and fourth Wednesday 1 p.m. at 435 Hamilton St., West Milton. Those interested in becoming members are invited to attend. Bingo and cards follow the meetings.

• 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 $6 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s.

• The Town and Country Grandmothers No. 329 meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Wednesday at the AMVETS Post on LeFevre Road, Troy.

• 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.

• The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564.

• The Toastmasters will meet every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at American Honda to develop to help participants practice their speaking skills in a comfortable environment.

Contact Eric Lutz at 332-3285 for more information.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs.

• Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• 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.

• 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 3396761.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• 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.

• Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 TippMonroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• 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 667-4678 for more information.

• 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.

• The Troy Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. For more information, call 335-1923.

• A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25A, 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.

THURSDAY • 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.

• The Generations of Life Center of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restaurants on the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m.

Locations vary, so interested parties can call the office at 573-2100 for details. This is a social event for grieving adults who do not wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu.

• An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• 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.

• Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at different locations in the county. The luncheons are casual dining experience that allows adults to come together for food and fellowship. Call the Generations of Live Center at 335-5191.

• 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.

• Best is Yet to Come open AA meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• 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 3359079.

• AA, Spirituality Group will meet at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy. The discussion is open.

• 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.

• Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• 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.

• Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

FRIDAY • 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.

• The Tri-County Suicide Prevention Coalition will meet at 9 a.m. the second Friday 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.

• 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.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 South Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

Open discussion. Fellowship from 78 p.m.

• A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 910 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call TippMonroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 667-2441.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• 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.

• 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 • 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.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m.

• 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.

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

• Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25A. • 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. • Yoga classes will be offered from 10-11 a.m. at the First United Church of Christ, Troy. The public is invited.

• 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.

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BOOK REVIEW SUNDAY CROSSWORD

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This book cover image provided by The Dial Press shows “Tiger Rag,” by Nicholas Christopher.

Novel draws on jazz legend’s music

BY KENDAL WEAVER AP Book Reviewer “Tiger Rag” (The Dial Press), by Nicholas Christopher: Buddy Bolden is a jazz legend whose powerful, original sound at the turn of the last century was so enthralling that some now call him the first big star of that lively American art form.

But his own star died quickly. Increasingly erratic, even violent, he was institutionalized in Louisiana in 1907 when he was still in his late 20s and before the word “jazz” had even entered the musical lexicon. He died without ever performing in a rocking, smoke-filled club again.

Nicholas Christopher, in his new novel, “Tiger Rag,” brings Bolden back to life, full of outsize charm and drive, a virtuoso on his beloved cornet, but quickly losing his mental grip and ending at the center of a full-blown mystery.

To this day, no recording of Bolden has been found.

Historical accounts indicate at least one session was captured on an Edison cylinder, the clunky recording equipment of the time.

And as “Tiger Rag” opens, Christopher recreates that session and sets spinning a moving, page turner of a story that spans a century and a hunt for the lost Bolden cylinder.

It also spans four generations of Dr. Ruby Cardillo’s family. A highly regarded 48-year-old anesthesiologist, Ruby is in the midst of an emotional breakdown. Her husband, a wealthy cardiologist, has divorced her to marry his 26-year-old girlfriend almost the same age as their daughter, 25-year-old Devon, a troubled jazz pianist and would-be journalist fighting her own demons.

Christopher weaves the narrative by moving back and forth in time and place, from New Orleans in the early 1900s, after “Kid” Bolden burst on the scene and became “King” Bolden, to pre-Christmas 2010, as Ruby and Devon drive from Ruby’s coastal Florida villa to the Pierre Hotel in snowy Manhattan.

As the tale of Bolden and the lost recording moves through the decades, right up to 2010, the saga of Ruby’s life unfolds as well, turning through some of those same decades with similar notes of hope and despair. These parallel stories, well-syncopated in Christopher’s skilled hands, soon begin to merge, at times in fascinating, unexpected ways.

With “Tiger Rag,” Christopher has reached into jazz history to produce a novel that enriches the Bolden story and is a suspenseful modern drama about a fractured family as well.

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BOOK REVIEW

Professional couple offers ‘Family Inc.’ advice

BY MICHELLE WIENER AP Book Reviewer “Family Inc.” (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin), by Caitlin and Andrew Friedman: In “Family Inc.,” Caitlin and Andrew Friedman, professionals who have been married for over 10 years and are the parents of two children, argue that taking the office home with you will benefit your family life.

Applying various office management strategies to the home, such as holding weekly agenda meetings for both short- and long-term goals, delegating responsibility and creating plans for dealing with unexpected hardships, will create a more harmonious family life, not only without sacrificing the tender and loving domestic relationships, but also enhancing them, primarily by reducing the

amount of stress inherent in a chaotic household.

While the Friedmans offer several useful tips on organizing multiple schedules and streamlining household tasks, and their love of making lists speaks to my own, it is worth pointing out that their audience appears to be similar to themselves and the other couples providing anecdotal evidence to support each chapter: a dual-income family with an envi-

able level of financial stability, regardless of economic obstacles faced in the past.

It’s not that their advice is therefore suspect, but including a broader swath of working families, particularly those who may not have the ready income or resources available to contract regular in-home child care or housecleaning, might have lent more substance to their arguments.

BOOK BRIEFS

Patrons use mobile access

According to Pew, a 2009 University of Washington study showed 6 percent of those 16 and older using a NEW YORK (AP) — A mobile device to access a new Pew study reports that around 13 percent of library site.

The latest survey from Americans aged 16 and the Pew Research Center’s older used a mobile device Internet & American Life to visit a library website Project was released during the past year.

Monday. Pew has been Patrons ages 18-49 were the most likely to use conducting a series of studies on e-books and ea mobile device for the library, while those 65 and reading devices.

The survey of 2,252 older were the least likely.

people was conducted via land lines and cellphones from Oct. 15 to Nov. 10.

The sampling error margin is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

Rare book up for auction ELLSWORTH, Maine — A signed copy of a rare Stephen King book is up for auction at a Maine bookstore, with proceeds

going to a nearby homeless shelter’s emergency home heating fund.

The copy of “The Regulators,” written by horror writer and Maine native King under the pen name Richard Bachman, was donated by a customer of Scottie’s Bookhouse in Hancock.

Owner Michael Riggs says there are only 550 copies of the book in a special collector’s box.

Auction proceeds will go to the Emmaus Homeless Shelter’s emergency fuel fund in Ellsworth.

Emmaus director Sister Lucille MacDonald tells WABI-TV it’s an “ingenious” way to help people struggling to buy heating oil.

The book is on display at Scottie’s and bids are being accepted by email, phone and in person until Jan. 31.

BESTSELLERS FICTION 1. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 2. “The Racketeer” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishing Group) 4. “Threat Vector” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam) 5. “The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown) 6. “I Funny” by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein (Little, Brown 7. “Merry Christmas, Alex Cross”

by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 8. “Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena” by Rick Riordan (DisneyHyperion) 9. “Notorious Nineteen: A

Stephanie Plum Novel” by Janet Evanovich (Bantam) 10. “The Forgotten” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) NONFICTION 1. “Killing Kennedy” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.) 2. “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt & Co.) 3. “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” by Jon Meachum (Random House) 4. “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer (Dutton Books) 5. “Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) 6. “World Records” Guinness 2013” by Guiness Book Records

(Guiness Book Records) 7. “America Again” by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central Publishing) 8. “The Elf on the Shelf” by Carol V. Aebersold, Chanda A. Bell (CCA&B) 9. “Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health” by William Davis (Rodale) 10. “The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself”

by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) FICTION E-BOOKS 1. “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden” by Jessica Sorensen (Jessica Sorensen)

3. “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishing Group) 4. “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 5. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books) 6. “Hopeless” by Colleen Hoover (Colleen Hoover) 7. “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James (Vintage Books) 8. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 9. “The Racketeer” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 10. “Merry Christmas, Alex Cross”

by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

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‘Checkout fee’ could be added to credit card purchases soon other guy does it.”

She noted that the practice is banned in 10 states, including California, Florida and Just as credit card New York. holders begin mending Consumers who the wounds of their holiday purchases, they could encounter the fees should voice their displeasure, be sideswiped by a new which may persuade merfee.

The consumer advoca- chants to drop them, Susswein said. cy group Consumer Merchants won the Action is urging people to right to charge the fees be on alert for so-called under a class action setcheckout fees some tlement with Visa, retailers could begin to MasterCard and big impose on credit card banks reached last sumtransactions starting mer and tentatively Jan. 27. approved by a judge in Merchant trade November. groups contend most The fee allows merretailers, fearing cuschants to recoup the tomer backlash, will not swipe fees they pay to charge the fee. But process credit card transConsumer Action wants actions, which typically cardholders to be aware range between 1.5 perof the possibility and options for fighting back. cent and 3 percent of the purchase amount.

“We’re not sure Checkout fees are capped whether retailers are at 4 percent, meaning a going to charge these cardholder buying $100 fees,” said Ruth in merchandise could Susswein, deputy direcface up to a $4 surcharge. tor of national priorities Visa and the other at Consumer Action in defendants also agreed to Washington, D.C. “They pay merchants just over may not for competitive $6 billion and temporarireasons. Some of it will ly reduce swipe fees to depend on whether the

BY PATRICIA SABATINI Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

TROY — Charles (Doug) and Joyce Wesco of Troy celebrated their 30th anniversary Dec. 28, 2012.

They have three children, Cindy Peltier of Marion, Bill Wesco of Piqua and Wendy Risher of Summerville, S.C.; and eight grandchildren.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Brandon Michael Cain, 18, of 330 Vine St., Bradford, to Chelsey Nicole Knight, 20, of 421 Orr St., Piqua.

Steven James Smith, 21, of 1135 N. Market St., Troy, to Kassandra Marie Contento, 20, of same address.

Jeremy Robert Rowland, 33, of 1140 G Stephenson Rd., Troy, to Tishuanda Michelle Simmons, 28, of same address.

Austin Bradford Cooperrider, 23, of 2453 Ryan Road, Heath, to Rachel Marie Schwartz, 23, of 1228 Northbrook Lane,

Troy.

Shawn Lee Stout, 27, of 323 Garfield Ave., Troy, to Charlene Louise Winert, 26, of same address.

Richard Jordan Emerick, 28, of 7914 Ardleigh St., Philadelphia, Pa., to Rachel Catherine Boggs, 24, of same address.

Logan Dean Adams, 25, of 6373 W. State Route 36, Covington, to Jessica Lynn Schroeder, 22, of 5980 Road D5, Leipsic.

Ernest Kelly Rice Jr., 46, of 207 N. Garber Drive, Tipp City, to Jodi Lynn Magato, 37, of same address.

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chants from offering discounts for cash purchases, but that prohibition was lifted in 2011 under a settlement with the Justice Department.

Although a judge gave the class action settlement preliminary approval, some major retailers involved in the case aren’t happy with the deal and are pushing hard to get it scuttled, saying it does not fundamentally alter the anticompetitive swipe fee structure.

“An overwhelming portion of the retail community (including plaintiffs in the case) oppose the settlement and are committed to fighting its final OK,” Retail Industry Leaders Association spokesman Brian Dodge said in an email.

Meanwhile, Visa and MasterCard have said they are making preparations for checkout fees, including changing backoffice systems to handle the record keeping.

For more on checkout fees visit www.consumeraction.org.

Hospitals cater to patients with tea, sushi, London broil question about food.

BY ANDREA WEIGL Raleigh News and Observer Instead, they are asked about the friendliness of Better food is the latest the staff, cleanliness of the example of a trend — facility, noise level and sometimes called “amenity general questions about wars” — among hospitals customer service. But food service managers at severacross the country.

When Angelo Mojica al North Carolina hospitook over food service tals cited the Medicare seven years ago at the reimbursement as a reaUniversity of North son to improve their hosCarolina hospitals, the pital’s food.

The old hospital food number of patients satisfied with their meals was service model was that all patients got the same 11 percent.

Mojica has since trans- meal, adjusted to their formed the hospitals’ food. dietary restrictions, three He opened a Starbucks times a day. The next iterand developed 20 different ation allowed patients to restaurant concepts inside order off a menu a day the food courts throughout ahead but the food was the hospitals.

Now still delivered at the same patients order off a 20- time every day. Both modpage menu featuring 90 els could waste a lot of dishes from any of those food if patients didn’t like “restaurants,” such as what they were served or green beef curry or a car- the food came when a patient wasn’t in the nitas burrito.

As a result, a private room.

As a result, many hossurvey commissioned by the hospital now shows 99 pitals are moving toward a percent of patients are room-service style model satisfied with their meals. where patients order what Mojica claims this they want to eat when restaurant-delivery model they want to eat it. UNC of hospital food service is has taken it a step further the first of its kind in the with its restaurant-delivcountry. He’s just begun ery model, offering dozens consulting with a hospital of menu options whenever system in California about patients want to eat.

Hospitals are continuhow they can adapt the ing to up their game when system.

Hospitals are compet- it comes to food for ing for patients and so are patients, visitors and staff. offering better food, valet Rex Hospital in Raleigh, parking and even day spa N.C., offers afternoon tea services. Another reason to patients with bedside hospitals are trying to delivery of chocolatestrawberries, offer a better patient expe- dipped rience is that the scones and an assortment teas. And Duke Affordable Care Act of requires a patient satis- University Hospital in Durham, N.C., will transifaction survey.

A hospital’s public sur- tion to a room-service vey results are tied to 1 style model after a $15 percent of its Medicare million renovation to its reimbursement.

It’s kitchens next summer, unclear how much food said Ed Chan, the hospiinfluences those survey tal’s general manager for results since patients food services.

Mojica explained that aren’t asked a specific

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for years he had been asking his superiors for two dozen more employees to move patient food service to a room-service style model. At the same time, he was developing all these retail concepts offering sushi, breakfast sandwiches, paninis, smoothies and more. He and his staff figured out that they could add nine employees to staff a call center and start offering what was being served on the retail side to patients. All the retail food is cooked in satellite kitchens around the hospitals.

“You would have 15 to 18 maximum entrees for room service programs,” Mojica said. “We have 90 entrees.”

Plus, food costs dropped 5 percent since the program launched in April, an annual savings of about $300,000. And the private survey commissioned by the hospital shows patient satisfaction with the food jumped from the low 80s to 99 percent.

Dave MacDougall of Fayetteville, N.C., had an eight-day hospital stay earlier this month after hurting his head and wrist in a fall. MacDougall said he never ordered the same thing to eat twice. Instead, he opted to explore the menus, enjoying a red wine-marinated London broil with au jus one day, an orange-glazed pork tenderloin on another day, and French toast, pancakes and an omelet for breakfasts.

“You always hear people saying how horrible hospital food is,” MacDougall said. “This was much more like staying at a high-class hotel.”

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settle allegations that they engaged in anticompetitive practices and price fixing when processing credit card payments.

To avoid blindsiding customers, merchants that impose checkout fees must disclose the surcharge at store entrances, at the register and on customer receipts.

Online businesses must put a notice on their homepage.

Checkout fees don’t apply to debit card transactions, whose swipe fees were reduced by the federal government in 2011.

Susswein emphasized that credit card users could be charged different checkout fees depending on which card they use. For example, customers with reward cards could be charged more because they typically cost merchants more to process.

Before the class action settlement, Visa and MasterCard had prohibited retailers from surcharging customers who use credit cards. They also had barred mer-

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TROY — Get out of the post-holiday doldrums and laugh at Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell at 7:30 p.m.

Friday for the Hayner Center’s film series “Let’s Go to the Movies.”

The evening will start out with an introduction of the film. After viewing the film, a short discussion may follow. There will be cafe-style seating with popcorn and soda pop.

The film series is intended for adult viewership and may not be appropriate for children under 13.

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MORTGAGE WATCH

Rate on 30-year loans slips to 3.34 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages moved closer to their record lows this week, a trend that has made home buying more affordable and helped sustain a housing recovery.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan slipped to 3.34 percent from 3.35 percent last week. That’s near the 3.31 percent rate reached in November, the lowest on records dating to 1971.

The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage ticked down to 2.64 percent from 2.65 percent last week. The record low is 2.63 percent.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 3.66 percent in 2012, the lowest annual average in 65 years, according to Freddie Mac. Cheaper mortgages are a key reason the housing market began to come back last year and many economists predict the recovery will strengthen in 2013.

In November, sales of previously occupied homes rose to their highest level in three years, while new-home sales reached a 2-year high.

Home prices are steadily increasing, which makes consumers feel wealthier and more likely to spend.

Another reason for the recovery: the nation doesn’t have enough houses for sale. The number of new homes available for sale at the end of November was just slightly above the lowest on records dating to 1963. And the supply of previously occupied homes for sale was at an 11-year low that month. A limited supply has created demand for new construction, which has made builders more confident.

Lower mortgage rates also have persuaded more people to refinance. That typically leads to lower monthly mortgage payments and more spending. Consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic activity.

Still, the housing market has a long way to a full recovery. And many people are unable to take advantage of the low rates, either because they can’t qualify for stricter lending rules or they lack the money to meet larger down payment requirements.

The average rate on a one-year adjustable-rate mortgage rose to 2.57 percent from 2.56 percent.

The average rate on a five-year adjustable-rate mortgage ticked up to 2.71 percent from 2.70 percent last week.

I love making New Year’s resolutions, and here are a few from me and my decorating team that you might want to adopt to make your home even more lovely in 2013. (Thankfully, none of them involves dieting!)

• Do something wonderful with windows For years, I was convinced that shutters were the only kind of window treatments that would work in my living room. But I revisited the idea of drapes, thinking they could be my ticket to fabric paradise. I am so glad I did, because I was completely wrong — my windows look lovely framed by simple fabric panels.

Next on my list: Updating the tired drapes in my bedroom. I prefer subtle colors in my bedroom, perhaps because by the end of the day my overcharged brain needs a chance to chill out. The camel-and-cream animal print I used for my drapes is the perfect blend of edgy and serene.

• Rethink your decor when the decorations come down My home always seems so bare right after I take down holiday decorations. But it’s the perfect time to look at your decor with fresh, new eyes and make some muchneeded changes. First, take a critical look at everything in your home. Start with the displays in bookcases and on side tables. How can you edit them so the design is clean? As you pinpoint items you are not using or no longer love, donate them to a charitable organization so they can bring joy to someone else.

Once you’ve done a good,

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Moving your furniture from room to room will give you a different look without spending extra money. thorough cleaning-out, take a second look at your furniture placement. Does the flow of each room work? Are all the furnishings to scale? If not, try moving pieces from room to room, using them in new places and in new ways.

• Hang some beautiful art Take a look at the walls of your home. Are they filled with artwork that makes your heart sing? Far too often, customers tell us they don’t hang art in their homes because they are afraid they won’t buy the “right” artwork or hang it “correctly.” Toss that one out the window, because in my book, the only “right” artwork is the kind that makes your heart skip a beat. And the only “correct” way to hang it is the way that pleases you. Can it get any better than that?

• Add theatrical lighting

“All the world’s a stage, so you need to light it well,” says Bruce, our resident actor and singer. Bruce uses three creative techniques to create dramatic lighting in a home.

The first is “framing,” placing a pair of matched lamps on either side of a killer display. Try it on your buffet or mantel this year.

You’ll be surprised by how the lamps spotlight the tableau.

The second is “illuminating,” using lovely lamps to provide the light you need to perform a task, like reading.

And the last is “highlighting,” using a small accent lamp to call attention to something special to you. To pull this off, pick out some objects of great sentimental value, like snapshots of loved ones, a treasure from vacation or a family heirloom.

Then, put them on a side

table under the downward light of an accent lamp.

• Freshen accent pillows The secret to being a pillow princess is to fill the pillows with high-quality down inserts. Get rid on any old poly forms you may have in your accent pillows and replace them with down pillow forms.

When you do, you will be amazed by how sink-into-soft your pillows look. Instead of the stiff, uninviting look you get with poly form pillows, those stuffed with down inserts are plump and full and indulgent. Unlike poly forms, down forms don’t lose their shape. Just plump them and they are perfect again.

This column has been adapted from Mary Carol Garrity’s blog at www. ellhills.com

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Dian Hymer For the Miami Valley Sunday News

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Audrey Gilespie, two lots, $0.

Anthony Cox to Flagstar Bank FSB, two lots, $52,000.

Jimmy Bunck, Judy Bunck to Christy Exley to Bank of Gloria Parker, Robert Parker, one America N.A., one lot, $46,000. lot, $218,000.

Cynthia Rowley, Donald Sharon Funk, Yvonne Funk to Rowley Jr. to Piqua Property AH4R-OH LLC, one lot, Holdings LLC, a part lot, $127,500. $50,000.

Barbara Collins to AH4R-OH Delores Crotinger to Roberta LLC, one lot, $164,000.

Earick, one lot, $63,000.

Loris Jean Weaver to Robert Estate of Wanda Moniaci, Boone, one lot, $117,000.

Steven Moniaci, executor to Kimberly Coffman, Shawn Howard Denney, one lot, Coffman to Benjamin Smith, $48,900.

Patricia Smith, one lot, $133,500.

Mark Stillwell, Megan Stillwell Donna Flinn Richardson, Ron to Karen Petering, a part lot, Richardson to Garry Yunker, one $150,000. lot, $154,000.

Chappie’s Properties LLC to Judith Collins, Judy Collins to Leigh Chappie, one lot, $0.

Judith Collins, trustee, Judith G. Messer Investment Corp. to Collins Revocable Living Trust, Peoples Federal Savings and one lot, a part lot 0.0233 acres, Loan, three part lots, $0. $0.

Estate of Lloyd Hubbard to Robert Studebaker to Cory Steven Proffitt, Shawn Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs, Proffitt, one lot, $0. one lot, $0.

Estate of Lloyd Hubbard to Arleen Kuntz, Theodore Kuntz Dwight Hubbard, one lot, $0. to Federal National Mortgage Association, one lot, $80,000.

TIPP CITY Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, one lot, one part Cynthia Koznarski-Brown, lot, $0.

Thomas Brown to AH4R-OH Anne Moore Goings, attorney LLC, one lot, $143,000. in fact, Honore Moore to Anthony Community Bible Church, Detrick, one lot, $132,500.

Gospel Lighthouse Church Inc. to Gerime Blankenship, Kelly Community Bible Church, two Blankenship to Michael Finney, lots, $0.

Sheena Finney, one lot, John Remley, Natosha $176,000.

Remley to James Walters, one Jerry Young, Vonda Young to lot, $120,000.

Windsong Trust, Jerry Young, coIvo Rasic to Carol Cox, trustee, Jerry Young, trustee, Timothy Cox, one lot, $125,900.

Vonda Young, co-trustee, trustee, one lot, $0.

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PIQUA James L. Creager Trust, Jeri Scherer, trustee to Jeri Scherer, Richard Scherer, a part lot, $50,000.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Shelly Osteen, Donna Warner, one lot, one part lot, $0.

Treva Gallo, Michael Miering, Treva Miering to Mark Stillwell, Megan Stillwell, one lot, $122,900.

Charles Lloyd Taylor, Jennifer Taylor to South Main Properties LLC, a part lot, $23,500.

Estate of Patricia Gillespie to

Snyder, two lots, $105,000.

First American Mortgage Services, First American Title Insurance Company, Selene RMOF Reo Acquisition II LLC to Andrea Goubeaux, Kyle Goubeaux, a part lot, $40,000.

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Inverness Group Inc. to Christi Bohrer, Doug Bohrer Jr., one lot, $187,900.

Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Association, First American Tile Insurance Company, attorney in fact, National Default Title Services to Huntington National Bank, one lot, $57,800.

Amanda Hodac, John Hodac to AH4R-OH LLC, one lot, $157,000.

Kristina Haggitt a.k.a. Kristina Tumey, Michael Haggitt, to AH4R-OH LLC, one lot, $150,000.

NVR Inc. to Harry Mathis III, Sheryl Mathis, one lot, $279,100.

Anthony Aiken to Bank of America N.A., 0.257 acres, $50,400.

Jennifer Grove, Trent Grove to Robert Davis, Sarah Davis, 11.944 acres, $83,000.

A & E Farm LLC to 3 Gen D LLC, a part tract, 49.734 acres, $435,000.

Michael Boomershine to Candace Boomershine, Michael Boomershine, $0.

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Estate of Genevieve Mott, Tommy Lawson, executor to James Sarver, Tracy Sarver, 2.783 acres, 0.709 acres, a part lot, 0.082 acres, a part lot, $96,500.

BRADFORD Federal National Mortgage Association, Carlisle, McNellie, Francesca Myers, Thomas Rini, Kramer & Ulrich Co. to Brian Myers to Aaron Frantz, Dawn Otley, Robert Otley, two Alaina Swabb, one lot, $18,000. lots, $79,900.

Jill Rank, attorney in fact, Bradley Hayes, Cara Hayes to Ellen Sargent to Jacob Rank, two Debora Kline, Matthew Kline, one part lots, $46,000. lot, one part lot, $95,000.

Yvonne Patty to Dennis Patty, two lots, four part lots, $0.

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Barb II LLC to Robert Dix, 6.00 acres, $250,000.

Estate of Teba Cain to Daniel Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal Cain, Lonnie Cain, Marc Cain, National Mortgage Association, Stacie Gillespie, Bonia Seitz, one Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, lot, $0. attorney in fact, to Richard Long, Jason Angle, Nichole Angle to Sheila Long, 1.50 acres, Dana Icenogle, MacKenzie $105,000.

Hymer • Continued from C1 price with all cash. Buy in areas where employment and transportation are good so that you will have a pool of buyers for your product when it’s ready to sell.

Select the neighborhood carefully. Is it conveniently located? Are homes selling quickly? What is the average “days on market” from list date to sale date? This information is critical to knowing how fast you can turn the property over to a new buyer.

For the last couple of years, institutional investors bought hundreds of devalued properties at a time, many of them foreclosures. First-time buyers who needed to qualify for a mortgage in order to buy were muscled out. A sole-practitioner flipper should look for buying opportunities in smaller neighborhoods in good locations, near jobs and transportation.

The other type of fixer buyers are those who buy for their own use. They do not intend to flip the property, but want to increase the value of the property over time while providing

a roof over their heads. This type of buyer may be able to pay more for a property than the flipper, but the price paid and the amount spent on improvements should always be well researched before making a purchase.

HOUSE HUNTING TIP: Don’t pay a Cadillac price for a home that needs a lot of work if you want to make a profit on a fixer-upper. Find out the sale price of recently sold homes in the neighborhood that were similar to the one you’re considering, but in much better condition. Be sure to overestimate how much the renovations will cost. There will always be unanticipated costs, so there’s no point in skimping on your estimate to make the numbers work.

Keep a close eye on the costs of your renovations while you’re working on the project. There’s always the temptation to improve more than you had intended once you see how good the improvements you have made look.

Even though you’re improving the house for yourself, remember that you will be selling

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someday and you want to make a profit on the time and money you invested.

It’s a great time to buy at prices that were not possible at the peak of the market.

Just make sure you know values for the neighborhood and don’t overpay for a property that needs work. Fixer buyers who paid high prices at the peak of the last market cycle not only didn’t make a profit, but some lost the homes in foreclosure.

The housing market picked up in 2012 and will hopefully continue to move in a positive direction. However, the home sale market is continually changing and varies from one location to the next.

THE CLOSING: A wellinformed, level-headed approach is the best bet.

Dian Hymer, a real estate broker with more than 30 years’ experience, is a nationally syndicated real estate columnist and author of “House Hunting: The Take-Along Workbook for Home Buyers” and “Starting Out, The Complete Home Buyer’s Guide.”

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Julie Farley to Julie Farley, trustee, Julie Farley Revocable Living Trust, 0.518 acres, $0.

Elizabeth Dubois a.k.a Elizabeth Salisbury, Timothy Dubois to Elizabeth Dubois, Timothy Dubois, 3.2696 acres, $0.

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NEWTON TWP. David Black, Karen Black to RNJ Investments LLC, 10.796 acres, $0.

Grady Hix to Bank of America, N.A., successor, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, Fannie Mae Remic Trust, Bac Home Loans Servicing LP, 0.505 acres, $42,000.

ELIZABETH TWP. Brenda Lee Coverstone to Hard Times Farms LLC, 8.077 acres, 6.923 acres, $0.

STAUNTON TWP.

MONROE TWP. Reinhard Holding Co. LLC to Stellar Staffing LLC, 12.578 acres, $0.

Reinhard Holding Co. LLC to Daniel Reinhard, Lisa Reinhard, 5.031 acres, $0.

Reinhard Holding Co. LLC to Dartonan Management Co. LLC, 5.031 acres, $0.

Michael Arvin to Chase Home Finance LLC, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., one lot, $132,000.

James McDaniel to James McDaniel, $0.

True Investments LLC to Cindy Hill, a part tract, $170,000.

Thomas Harmon Jr. to Suzanne Harmon, two part lots, $0.

Adam Therrien, Taeko Therrien to Adam Therrien, Taeko Therrien, $0.

NEWBERRY TWP. Elmer Fisher, trustee, Juanita Fisher, trustee, Juanita Fisher Living Trust to Elmer Fisher, Juanita Fisher, 3.685 acres, 26.088 acres, 35.233 acres, $0.

Elmer Fisher Living Trust, Elmer Fisher, trustee, Juanita Fisher, trustee to Elmer Fisher, Juanita Fisher, 3.685 acres, 26.088 acres, 35.233 acres, $0.

Devered Raschiatore, Kathleen Raschiatore, Michael Sayers, Susan Sayers, George White Jr., Jill White, John White, Margaret White, Susan White to E.L. Lavy & Sons, a part tract, 78.219 acres, $1,245,500.

UNION TWP. JP Morgan Chase Bank to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 0.973 acres, $0.

Bernard Mayer, Yvonne Mayer to John Hoover, trustee, Rosalie Hoover, trustee, John Hoover Declaration of Trust, Rosalie Hoover Declaration of Trust, a part tract, 18.415 acres, $235,000.

WASHINGTON TWP. Elmer Fisher to Elmer Fisher, Juanita Fisher, 14.169 acres, $0.

Elmer Fisher, trustee, Juanita Fisher, trustee, Juanita Fisher Living Trust to Elmer Fisher, Juanita Fisher, 0.164 acres, 0.050 acres, 92.82 acres, 118.147 acres, 64.514 acres, $0.

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Plant heirloom seeds indoors to jump-start spring season

BY JOE LAMP’L Scripps Howard News Service Winter is the perfect time to think about next spring’s garden. I have a fascination with heirlooms (plant varieties generally over 50 years old and typically passed down through generations), so my plans always include plenty of these.

I’ve been starting heirloom seed varieties for years, and I still get a thrill when something so tiny and dry — and with such an interesting history — actually grows into a vibrant, living plant.

There are practical reasons for starting from seed, too. Mature nursery plants are expensive, and not many unusual heirloom varieties come ready to transplant. So starting heirloom plants from seed is often the only way to save these unique varieties for future generations.

There are plenty of catalogs and websites for folks who grow, sell and share these old fashioned favorites.

The Seed Savers Exchange of Iowa, www.seedsavers.org, Virginia’s Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, www.southernexposure.com, and Native Seeds/SEARCH of Arizona, www.nativeseeds.org, are good places to begin your search.

Timing is everything when you’re starting seeds indoors. Start too soon, and the plants outgrow their containers and end up needing more light then a typical indoor home can provide. Start too late, and you’ll have small seedlings that have to be pampered to survive. The key is the last frost date in your area. Plants set out after that should be safe. Ask the extension service when your last frost date is expected or insert that search term for your area online. Find the number of days the seed takes to germinate and grow enough to set out; retail seed packets include this information on the label. Then back time planting from there.

For example, the 1938 AAS winner heirloom summer squash Early Prolific, available from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds, www.rareseeds.com, takes 45 days.

If your last frost date is April 10, count back and start the seeds on or around Feb. 25.

Start seeds in most any welldrained small container. Butter tubs, plastic bakery boxes, even pizza boxes are fine. Use a sterile

seed starting mix rather than garden soil. The latter is full of disease organisms and too dense to let young roots develop properly.

Moisten the soil-less mix with water to the consistency of fresh brown sugar. Fill each pot to 1/4 inch from the top.

Heirloom seeds may not sprout as well as hybridized seeds, so plant three or four and thin out the weakest later. Cover lightly with additional soil-less mix. Refer to the seed packet for proper sowing depth. The top of the refrigerator supplies important bottom heat for good germination, but a commercial heating mat gives a more consistent temperature. Plus I like to have my containers in sight to keep an eye on all the action.

The instant the seed sprouts break the soil surface, sufficient light is critical. Ordinary fluorescent shop lights work just fine when hanging an inch or two above the leaves. You could use one warmdaylight and one cool-daylight tube to provide the full light spectrum, but personally, I haven’t found it to be worth the extra expense over standard 40-watt tube bulbs. Set a timer to give the plants 16 to18 hours of light. Raise the lights as the plants grow to keep the lights about an inch or two above the leaves.

Wait until after the first true set of leaves have developed before feeding with diluted amounts of soluble fertilizer in warm water (three-quarters to one-quarter strength or less), gently pouring at the side of the pot to leave the tender young plants undisturbed.

Seedlings are too delicate to set directly into the spring sunshine, so harden them off over two weeks, starting with four hours of sun and adding a half-hour every other day until they’re getting a full eight hours. Heirloom seeds are like kids — give them the right conditions and they do the rest. With a little warmth, the right moisture and light and a bit of patience, and you’ll raise a crop of healthy, garden-ready heirlooms that can’t wait to start growing and pass on their gardening legacy.

Joe Lamp’l, host of “Growing a Greener World” on PBS, is a Master Gardener and author. For more information visit www.joegardener.com.

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Open crawlspace vents keep winter homes healthier Inside the living areas of

BY DWIGHT BARNETT Scripps Howard News Service our homes, we control the flow of moisture using fans, air conditioners and dehuQ: You have often said midifiers. Otherwise, a tightthat crawlspace vents ly sealed home could become need to be opened in the a garden for mold spores. winter. Why is that? I We also need to control always thought they the levels of humidity in the should be closed to keep crawlspace, where water my water pipes from vapors can saturate the freezing. wood floor system, which A: I used to think the then can lead to wood rot, same thing, but the energy crisis of the 1970s led to a lot mold growth, decay and of research on how to main- structural damage.

Many of the crawlspaces tain homes to conserve enerI’ve inspected have elevatedgy. humidity problems. To conOver a period of time, it was discovered that making trol the humidity, you open a home substantially airtight the crawl vents in the winter would also trap moisture and to allow the warm moist air other gases inside the living to flow naturally to the cooler dryer outside environenvironment. Warm moisment. ture-laden air or humid air In the summer, you close naturally travels from the the vents to keep the warm warmer areas outside the moist air outside and away home to cooler areas inside from the much cooler dryer the home, where it can conair in the crawlspace. densate back into water.

However, if you have a water line near one of the crawlspace vents, that vent should be permanently sealed and insulated to prevent freeze damage to the water line.

In addition to preparing the crawlspace for winter, you should also: • Remove garden hoses from water faucets. A modern anti-freeze faucet can be damaged if the hose is left in place all winter. If the faucet has an inside shut-off valve, close it until spring. • Check to see if you have a kitchen or bathroom sink with plumbing on or next to an outside wall; the pipes could freeze. To protect the water pipes, leave the cabinet doors open or let the water trickle slowly during the night. Placing a 60-watt lamp on the floor just outside the cabinet doors also can provide enough addition-

al heat to prevent freezing.

Never place a light fixture inside the cabinet. • Insulate the water lines in the crawlspace or basement. Insulation conserves hot water while you are using it and prevents condensation from forming on the cold water pipes in the summer. • Locate the main water shut-off valve and make sure it is operable. Most older valves are difficult to close and many will leak when you do turn them off.

A minor repair now could save you from an expensive repair later if you are unable to turn the water off in an emergency. • In mobile homes, electric heat tape may be necessary to prevent freezing of the exposed water pipes.

another shot in 2013. The Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP 2.0, was revamped to allow homeowners to refinance regardless of how deeply underwater they are.

Lenders are much more open to HARP 2.0 refinances these days than they were a few months ago. If one lender says you don’t qualify for a HARP refi, don’t take “no� for an answer. Try to find a lender willing to do it.

7. Give your lender a chance. If you have trouble paying your mortgage, don’t ignore your mortgage servicer.

There are new programs available for borrowers who struggle to keep up with mortgage payments, including forbearance for those with FHA mortgages. Lenders have been more willing to work out delinquent loans through loan modifications and even short sales for homeowners who can’t afford to stay in their homes.

8. Shop for a low rate and good service. Even with rates hovering near record lows, you

should still shop for the best mortgage deal. Get quotes from at least three lenders and compare not just the interest rate but also closing costs and the quality of their service.

Favor lenders that have a reputation of closing on time.

9. Approved for a mortgage? Leave your credit alone.

Most lenders order a second credit report for the borrower a few days before closing. Don’t open new accounts or charge up your credit cards at the furniture store while you wait for closing day.

10. It’s not over until the loan closes. You’ve submitted your mortgage application and locked a rate. The race has just begun. Submit any documents requested by your loan officer or mortgage broker within 24 hours, if possible. Lenders will remain overwhelmed with the large volume of refinance applications at least through the first few months of 2013.

Follow up with your lender or mortgage broker at least once a week to ensure the process goes smoothly.

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Here are 10 mortgage tips to help you with your mortgage decisions in 2013.

1. Stop procrastinating and refinance. If you haven’t refinanced recently, you’re probably paying a higher interest rate on your mortgage than you should. Take advantage of today’s record-low mortgage rates while they last.

2. Buyers, get moving. With rates near the bottom and home prices on the rise, it’s still a perfect time to buy a house.

Get a mortgage preapproval before you start shopping.

3. Compare FHA vs. conventional loans. Many homebuyers opt for a Federal Housing Administration mortgage because it allows them to buy a home with as little as 3.5 percent down. But the already costly FHA fees that are added to your loan will increase again in 2013. Consider saving a little extra for a down payment on a conventional loan.

4. Ensure that your credit is golden. Credit standards remain tight. As new mortgage rules are unveiled in 2013, the

standards are not expected to loosen. If you plan to get a mortgage anytime soon, you must treat your credit as one of your most valuable assets.

You’ll need a credit score of at least 720 to get the best rate.

Borrowers with a credit score of 680 or more can still get a good deal.

Review your credit report before you apply for a mortgage. Sometimes, paying part of your credit card balances can boost your credit score quickly.

5. Want to pay off your mortgage earlier? If you are one of those homeowners who dream about being mortgagefree, the low-rate environment may be a good opportunity to refinance your 30-year mortgage into a 15- or 20-year loan. Make sure you can afford the higher payments on the shorter loan and that you have money saved for emergencies.

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Call to describe and claim properly (937)773-9277.

135 School/Instructions

AIRLINES ARE HIRINGTrain for hands on Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified - Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-676-3836

105 Announcements

CAUTION Whether posting or responding to an advertisement, watch out for offers to pay more than the advertised price for the item. Scammers will send a check and ask the seller to wire the excess through Western Union (possibly for courier fees).

The scammer's check is fake and eventually bounces and the seller loses the wired amount.

While banks and Western Union branches are trained at spotting fake checks, these types of scams are growing increasingly sophisticated and fake checks often aren't caught for weeks.

Funds wired through Western Union or MoneyGram are irretrievable and virtually untraceable.

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Electrician Needed for Piqua contractor Send confidential resume to:

Piqua Daily Call Dept. 6792 100 Fox Drive, Suite B Piqua, OH 45356

200 - Employment

205 Business Opportunities

NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info: (985)646-1700, Dept.

OH-6011.

MECHANIC, Local company seeking full time diesel and/ or gas vehicle mechanic. Excellent wage and benefits. Apply in person at, 15 Industry Park Ct, Tipp City, (937)667-1772.

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If you have the hands of a surgeon, the memory of an elephant, and are able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, I have the position for you.

Must have radiograph license. Experience preferred.

Investigate in full before sending money as an advance fee. For further information, call or write:

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FULL TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE/ CLERICAL Hourly employment (32-40+) week. Routing and scheduling experience required. 5 years good employment history. Dependable transportation & good driving record. Office experience: typing, Word, Excel, internet. Good multitasking and communication skills. 2 years higher education.

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POLICY: Please Check Your Ad The 1st Day. It Is The Advertiser’s Responsibility To Report Errors Immediately.

Publisher Will Not Be Responsible for More Than One Incorrect Insertion. We Reserve The Right To Correctly Classify, Edit, Cancel Or Decline Any Advertisement Without Notice.

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If you have questions regarding scams like these or others, please contact the Ohio Attorney General’s office at (800)282-0515.

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Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified.

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DIESEL TECHNICIAN

Continental Express Inc., a full service transportation company that specializes in hauling refrigerated food products is currently seeking an experienced Diesel Technician for its Sidney terminal.

Will perform maintenance and repairs on semi trailers and refrigeration units. Duties will include preventative maintenance, inspections and repairs, brake and tire repairs, and other duties as assigned Candidates with prior knowledge and experience on refrigeration units helpful but not necessarily required. Must have own tools and be extremely dependable.

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Home flexible weekends. 5 years driving experience required.

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Class A CDL license, 2 years experience with dump trailer and flatbed, and good driving record required. Local Runs!

(937)492-8309 Monday-Friday 8am-3pm

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We are looking for drivers to deliver the Troy Daily News on Daily, Sundays, holidays and on a varied as needed basis.

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We love you, Mom & Dad

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Mom, Happy Valentine’s Day to the best mom ever!

Hugs & Kisses, Natalie

Blake, You’ll never know how much you mean to me!

I love you!

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Send your message with payment to: Sidney Daily News, Attn: Classifieds, 1451 North Vandemark Rd., Sidney, OH 45365 Name Address: City: Your Sweet Talkin’ Message: (25 words or less)

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(937)339-2347.

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Antique FISHING Lure & Tackle Clinic Jan 16-20 with FREE identifications evaluations & appraisals 8640 N. Dixie Dr. Dayton 45414.

(937)475-7997

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LOVESEAT, black reclining and red loveseat and chair both purchased at Front Room Furnishings in Dublin, Ohio. Like new excellent condition. Just moved to Sidney and don't have room for them.

Each set $550 jlentz61@yahoo.com.

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583 Pets and Supplies

592 Wanted to Buy

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I buy guns, gold and silver coins and jewelry. Fair prices. (937)698-6362

800 - Transportation

577 Miscellaneous

545 Firewood/Fuel

FIREWOOD, $125 a cord pick up, $150 a cord delivered, $175 a cord delivered and stacked (937)308-6334 or (937)719-3237

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879

FIREWOOD, split, seasoned, delivered (local) $140 cord; $75 half cord.

(937)559-6623. Leave a message, and I will get back with you. Thank you.

SEASONED FIREWOOD $150 per cord. Stacking extra, $120 you pick up.

Taylor Tree Service available, (937)753-1047

CRIB, changing table, changing chest, doorway swing, swing, high chair, booster, travel bassinet, tub, clothes, blankets, movies, dolls, more (937)339-4233.

GUN Winchester model 37, 12 gauge shot gun. $250. (937)581-7177

QUILTING FRAME, Next Generation, partially assembled, large enough for king-size, can be made smaller, excellent condition, instructional dvd, $150, (937)418-4758

SNOW BLADE with chains, John Deere L130, used once, $150 OBO, (937)773-5248.

WALKER, seated walker, wheel chair, tub, shower/ transfer benches, commode chair, toilet riser, grab bars, canes, entertainment center, more!

(937)339-4233.

805 Auto

CAT, free to a good home. We would love to keep her but we can't. I already have a dog and a cat and we are only allowed two animals. She is very loving, friendly, loves to play and loves you to pet her.

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LABRADOR RETRIEVER puppies, AKC, born 10/31, first shots & wormed, 2 black females, 2 black males, $225.

Call/text (937)638-0496.

2005 CADILLAC CTS, silver, with black leather interior, 125,000 miles. fully loaded: navigation, DVD, leather, heated seats, dual climate control, Sirius radio and much more! Wood trim. She's a beauty - don't pass her up!! $9000 OBO. Please contact me if interested!

(937)418-4029

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CASH PAID for junk cars and trucks. Free removal.

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2003 FORD F150 SUPER CAB

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