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BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com For more than a decade, the little house on Plum Street was a safe haven for children that served as a shelter from the bitter, ten-

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sion-filled world of divorce and custody disputes.

Family Connection of Miami County provided a neutral, safe place for parents to drop off or pick up children for court-ordered visitations. It offered parents an alternative to using sites such as

the police station lobby, library, schools or fast-food restaurants for exchanges.

On April 29, Family Connection of Miami County, 123 S. Plum St., will close due its dwindling income sources and low referrals to the agency by family courts.

“Clients have known for a month,” said Dee Mahan, execu-

tive director of the independent agency. “We’ve been struggling for the last two years and reduced staff, although not all were full time, from five to just two employees.”

Mahan said she met with the board of directors to come to the conclusion to shut the doors at the end of this month.

“It’s just breaking our heart,”

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Museum brings past to life The National Museum of the United States Air Force hosted living aviation history as four of the five surviving “Doolittle Raiders” pilots reunited to toast their fellow “raiders” who took part in one of World War II’s most celebrated Allied attacks.

The “Doolittle Raider” display is just one of the many exhibits and displays about aviation history housed in the museum.

In ’72, EPA battled pollution; now it’s politics WASHINGTON (AP) — A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

A light-rail line zips past the spot where a nowdefunct Portland, Ore., gasoline station advertised in 1972 that it had run out of gas.

A smoking Jersey City, N.J., dump piled with STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER twisted, rusty metal has disappeared, along with the twin towers of the Despite drizzly conditions, walkers participating in the 2012 MS Walk made their way along the route from Troy World Trade Center in Memorial Stadium to Duke Park as they braved the cooler temperatures Saturday morning. This year was the lower Manhattan that were its backdrop.

15th annual MS Walk, which raises funds to help find a cure for multiple sclerosis.

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Watergate figure dies Charles “Chuck” Colson was described as the “evil genius” of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction.

His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism. See

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TV game-changer Fox marks 25th year

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”In Living Color,” ”Ally McBeal,” ”Beverly Hills, 90210,” ”House” and “24.”

And, in center stage, the enduring “The Simpsons” and TV’s great gamechanger, “American Idol,” are taking a bow.

It’s an impressive showing for a network that’s less than half the age of competitors NBC, CBS and ABC. As analyst Brad Adgate of Horizon Media sees it, Fox hasn’t just met

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television networks are masters of self-promotion, so it’s no surprise that Fox is carving out two primetime hours Sunday to celebrate its 25th year.

But why quibble over the hoopla planned for the 8-10 p.m. EDT showcase?

With Ryan Seacrest as ringmaster, let’s give a shout-out to the stars of “Married …

With Children,” ”The X Files,”

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Nothing says Earth Day like getting your hands a little dirty planting trees.

This week, the Miami County Park District had some extra help tending to Mother Earth.

On Thursday, Kohl’s employees spent the sunny afternoon planting 20 native hardwood trees at Hobart Urban Nature

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LEFT: Troy Kohl’s employees, including store manager Julie Folan and associate Jamie Slade, planted 20 native hardwood trees at Hobart Urban Nature Preserve Thursday, with assistance from members of the Miami County Park District, including Dale Gade, operations director.

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“Of the major networks, it’s the only one that can bring in younger audiences on a regular basis,” Adgate said. “They have brought out some breakthrough shows … They’ve really done things that the other three networks wouldn’t have done with their programming.”

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Date of birth: 2/6/84 Location: Piqua Height: 6’0�

Weight: 160 Hair color: Red Eye color: Hazel BOWERS Wanted for: Failure to appear — Non-support

Date of birth: 8/4/71 Location: Troy Height: 5’9�

Weight: 180 Hair color: Brown Eye color: FULLER Blue Wanted for: Failure to appear — DUI

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Weight: 210 Hair color: Black Eye color: HICKS Brown Wanted for: Failure to appear — Non-support

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Weight: 140 Hair color: Brown Eye color: LIPKER Brown Wanted for: Burglary

• This information is provided by the Miami County Sheriff’s Office. These individuals were still at-large as of Friday. • If you have information on any of these suspects, call the sheriff’s office at 440-6085. • Location identifies the last known mailing address of suspects.

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a healthy and positive relationship with the children.�

The agency provided three levels of supervision at the home.

Mahan said the agency at this time is working with 30 families and has provided services for up to 45 families at one time this year. At its peak,

Family Connection helped facilitate 1,265 exchanges in 2008-2009. Last year, Family Connection helped facilitate 926 exchanges and 608 visitations, which were down from the previous year. “We’ve given our clients the tools and paperwork to help work things out so a lot of

exchange clients are working it out on their own,� Mahan said.

Mahan said its rate of $20 a month was lower than other similar agencies in other counties.

Clients needing supervised visitation will be referred to the courts and to Miami County Children Services.

U.S. broadcast network, three decades after Dumont dissolved in 1955 and left the Big Three networks to slice up an increasingly rich pie.

Yes, a broadcast network could shrink its prime-time lineup to the hours between 8-10 p.m. ET, allowing lucrative local newscasts control of the 10 o’clock hour, and prosper.

Yes, airing outrageously cheeky fare ranging from clever (“Tracey Ullman�) to exploitive (“Temptation Island�) would lure the 18to-49-year-old audience that make advertisers swoon.

Fox became profitable after just three years of operation, according to “Outfoxed,� the 1990 book

by Alex Ben Block detailing the network’s birth.

That success turned competitors into copycats, extending Fox’s influence across the medium.

The network’s creation was “a real trial by fire for all of us,� said Garth Ancier, Fox’s inaugural programming chief. “My mentor at NBC, Brandon Tartikoff, thought I was crazy, and he was probably right.�

The challenge: “How do we carve the audience in a different way from NBC, ABC and CBS? How do you grab people by their shirt collars and drag them over to an alternative?� Ancier said.

A key answer was development of a stable of reality shows including “America’s Most Wanted� and “Cops,�

the latter using portable video cameras to reimagine the scripted police drama.

Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. media mogul behind Fox, also urged his executives to look outside the U.S. market for ideas, Ancier recalled. “He’s always been an internationally focused guy and knows what’s working in other countries,� he said.

That global focus helped bring “American Idol� to Fox from the U.K. in June 2002, but not before Fox found itself on shaky ground, said Gail Berman, its programming head from 2000-05. “When I came in, the network was not in particularly good shape,� she recalled, with then-News Corp.

President Peter Chernin cautioning her that she had to boost company morale along with ratings (although Fox had reached No. 1 with teenagers and adults 18 to 34). “Having been the fourth network, there was a sense that being at the bottom of the barrel was an OK place to be,� Berman said. “We built a great team of people that could really change the culture of ‘When Animals Attack’ to the culture of ‘American Idol.’�

In her tenure at Fox, the network also found a new measure of scripted success, with “24� and “The O.C.� among the hits, and new peer respect. In 2005, Fox earned 49 Emmy Award nominations, the most in its history, including 11 nods each for “24� and the critically acclaimed “Arrested

Development,� which the year before won the Emmy for best comedy series.

But it was the next wave of reality “American Idol� and the talent contest genre that put the ratings into orbit.

Mike Darnell is a key part of Fox’s culture, past and present. Among Fox’s longest-serving executives and currently president of alternative entertainment, with “Idol� part of his portfolio, his network bio proudly lists “previous hits� including “World’s Wildest Police Chases� and “World’s Most Amazing Medical Oddities.�

He hasn’t, and won’t, apologize for that brand of shows. With apparent glee, he recalls how they were routinely branded by critics as “the end of Western civilization, sleazy and lowbrow.�

But such programming helped bolster the network in the 1990s, he said, and proved widely influential.

After Fox blazed the trail, NBC aired “Fear Factor� and “Dog Eat Dog,� ABC fell into the arms of “The Bachelor� and “Wife Swap,� and CBS turned to “Big Brother.� The progeny of “American Idol� include NBC’s “The Voice� and “America’s Got Talent,� and ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.�

So far, nobody has done it quite like Fox. While relatively staid CBS is the mostwatched network, Fox ended last season with its seventh ratings victory in a row among young adults

and with “American “Idol� the most-watched series for the eighth straight year.

In advance of the 201112 TV season, Fox brought in $2.2 billion in sponsor commitments which, for all the networks, totaled $9.25 billion, according to AdWeek. Leader CBS, by comparison, had $2.65 billion in early ad buys.

Fox’s future is clouded by the same issues confronting the rest of cable and broadcast TV: an aging audience and a crowded media environment in which the Internet and other options compete for attention.

Even standard-bearer “American Idol,� although still a top-rated show, has seen its eroding viewership drop by 25 percent this year and its median audience age climb to 50, analyst Adgate said. Fox newcomer “The X Factor� is scrambling to revamp its casting after a disappointing first season, while the Jennifer Lopez-Marc Anthony talent show “Q’Viva!� drew paltry ratings and was bumped from prime-time to latenight Saturday.

But Fox isn’t ceding ground. “Glee� and “New Girl� are young viewer draws. And this month, in collaboration with Fox Sports, the network launched a new tactic for long-ignored Saturday night, a mix of sports programming that’s set to include NASCAR races, college football and Major League Baseball games and Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts.

They participated as part of Kohl’s Cares: Associates in Action, a corporate initiative in which employees volunteer for youth and environmental organizations.

Each tree received about 5 gallons of water, said Dan Weaver, park district assistant operations director.

The trees will be watered in the event of a dry spell, but otherwise spring rainfall should be adequate. “We’re optimistic they’re going to do really well,� he said.

On Saturday morning, 30 Honda volunteers were scheduled to plant 12 pawpaw, apple, butternut hick-

ory and sassafras trees. The volunteers are part of Honda’s HCAT team, comprised of associates, contractors, contingent workers and family members.

Tama Cassidy, park district assistant environmental education director, said volunteers are excited about the long-term poten-

tial of apple trees in particular. “When the apple trees get older and mature, Honda would like to harvest those fruits for the needy,� Cassidy said.

The park district accepts donations for purchasing and planting trees at Hobart Urban Nature Preserve through its “One Tree at a Time� program. “We haven’t had to dip into that money as much because of donations from Kohl’s and Honda,� Weaver said.

Those who donate can have their names carved in a brick on the walkway. For more information, call the Park District at 335-6273.

Mahan said. “It was hard for us to make this decision.�

According to its website, the purpose of Family Connection was to provide “contact between a noncustodial parent in a safe and neural site in order to either initiate or continue

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Trees • Continued from A1 our surroundings, clean our air, produce oxygen, and help us save energy by providing cooling shade in summer and wind reduction in winter,� said park district deputy director Kevin Swanson.

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Julie Folan was one of five employees donning purple Kohl’s Cares T-shirts while helping plant bur oak, Eastern red bud and service berry trees at the preserve. “We lucked out today,�

Folan said. “Last year it rained. This has been the best year so far.�

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• BOARD MEETING: The Miami County Park District will meet at 9 a.m. at the Lost Creek Reserve Cabin, 2645 E. State Route 41, east of Troy. For more information, contact the Miami County Park District at 335-6273.

• RETIREES BREAKFAST: The BFGoodrich retirees will meet at 8 a.m. at Lincoln Square, Troy.

Civic agendas • The village of West Milton Council will have its workshop meeting at 7 p.m. in the council chambers.

• BOOK SALE: The Friends of the Troy-Miami County Public Library will Community sponsor its spring book sale at the Miami County Calendar Fairgrounds, 650 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Sale times CONTACT US are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.

Admission is free. Books are 50 cents each.

Specials, some books, Call Melody videocassettes, CDs, colVallieu at lectibles and miscellaneous 440-5265 to items are individually priced. Sunday is $1 per list your free bag with specials at half calendar WEDNESDAY price. Proceeds from the items.You event are used for the Summer Reading Club, lit• CHESS CLUB: An aftercan send eracy efforts and special school chess club, for stuyour news by e-mail to purchases for the library. dents in second through vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. eighth grade, will be offered For more information, call (937) 339-0502. from 3:30-5 p.m. in the multi• SUNDAY BREAKpurpose room at the TroyMiami County Library, 419 W. FAST: Pleasant Hill VFW Main St., Troy. There will be a friendly round Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, robin match and staff will keep score of the Ludlow Falls, will offer a made-to-order pieces captured. Snacks will be provided. breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Everything is a la • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis carte.

Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m.

• CHANGE FOR CHARITY: A Change at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters for Charity event will be offered from 1-4 Road, Troy. Becky Crow with Brukner p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City, to benefit Hospice of Miami County. Doors will Nature Center will speak. For more information, contact Kim Riber, vice president, at open at 1 p.m. Tickets will be $2 each and 339-8935. may be purchased at Hospice of Miami • COLLEGE NIGHT: Miami East High County’s office, 550 Summit Ave., Troy, or School will have a college night at 6:30 p.m.

335-5191. Limited tickets will be available at Current sophomores and junior students the door. There will be numerous vendors may attend to get information about the colrepresented at the event. Special drawings lege planning process. A representative will be held from 2-4 p.m. from Edison will be on hand to answer • FAMILY QUEST: The Miami County questions. Topics will include making visits, Park District will have its Family Quest financial aid and what to look for in choosSunday “Rock Hounds” program between 1ing a school. Call 335-7070 for more infor4 p.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 mation.

Ross Road, south of Tipp City. This pro• PLANNING COMMISSION: The Troy gram on Sundays is a series of fun, family Planning Commission will meet at 3:30 p.m. activities in the park. A roving naturalist will at city hall in council chambers. be on-site. For more information, visit the park district’s website at www.miamicountyTHURSDAY parks.com.

• BREAKFAST SET: Sons of the • WHO’S COOKING: The Who’s Cooking American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, with Queen Darlene program will offer will serve an all-you-can-eat breakfast from “Nothing Brings People Together Like Food” 8-11 a.m. Items available will include eggs from 1-4 p.m. at the Troy Senior Citizens to order, toast, pancakes and waffes, Center, 134 N. Market St., Troy. The Cypress bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, biscuits, Pointe Health Campus chef will offer recipes. home fries, orange, tomato and apple juice, • QUARTERLY MEETING: The Local fruit and cinnamon rolls for $7.

Emergency Planning Committee will meet at • EARTH DAY WALK: An Earth Day 4 p.m. at the Miami County Communications Walk will be offered at 2:30 p.m. at Center, 210 Marybill Drive, Troy.

Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton. Enjoy • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovan afternoon walk to reflect on all that this ery walk for adults will be offered from 8special planet means to us. Bring favorite 9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 poems, stories or readings about the Earth Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, eduthat you would like to share. Learn how you cation coordinator, will guide walkers as they can do your part to protect the Earth. experience the seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY • FAMILY FUN: Families will play “Minute To Win It,” from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the TroyMiami County Public Library. Students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade and their families may register by calling 339-0502.

• BOOK LOVERS: Book Lovers Anonymous, a monthly book club, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Library.

For April, members will discuss “Doc,” by Mary Doria Russell. This historical fiction story introduces readers to the legend of Doc Holliday.

• MEET THE COACHES: Troy High School soccer players can meet the coaches for the 2012 season at 7 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. It is important that all players and their parents attend. The players will receive their summer schedule and more.

• TEXAS TENDERLOIN: The American Legion Post No. 586 of Tipp City will offer Texas tenderloin sandwiches and fries for $5 from 6-7:30 p.m.

• BOARD MEETING: The regular meeting of the Tipp City Exempted Village Board of Education at 7 p.m. will be held at the Tippecanoe High School, Room 109, 615 E. Kessler Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. The meeting was originally to be held at the board of education office, 90 S. Tippecanoe Drive, Tipp City.

Civic agendas • Tipp City Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. at the board office, 90 S. Tippecanoe Drive. Call 667-8444 for more information.

• Covington Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.

• The Covington Street Committee will meet immediately following the regular council meeting.

• Brown Township Board of Trustees will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building in Conover.

TUESDAY • NATURE’S PRESCHOOL: The Miami County Park District will hold the Mother Nature’s Preschool “Spiders” program from 10–11 a.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City.

Children 3-5 years old and an adult companion are invited to attend and learn about spiders. There will be a story and crafts.

Dress for the weather. Pre-register for the program by sending an email to register@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) 667-1286, Ext. 115.

• SHARE A BOOK: Share a book you’ve read at 1:30 p.m. at the OakesBeitman Memorial Library. Come and share what you are reading with other avid readers, you might just discover a book you’d love to read. Light refreshments served and no registration is necessary.

• ART EXHIBIT: The Troy VFW Post 5436 will host an art exhibit, “Eyes of Freedom,” honoring American soliders — from the Lima Company — killed in Iraq.

The exhibit will be available for view from noon to 7 p.m. Friday and noon to 6 p.m.

Saturday. The exhibit is free to the public.

FRIDAY • LUNCH ON LAWN: The Miami County Cattlemen will hold its first Lunch on the Lawn of the year from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the courthouse plaza, Troy. Participants can purchase a sack lunch of either a ribeye sandwich or chopped sirloin with chips, cookies and a drink.

• FESTIVAL PROGRAM: An informative program about the upcoming Troy Strawberry Festival with manager Heather Dorsten will be at 11 a.m. at the TroyMiami County Library. She will be highlighting the history of the festival, the mission, the agenda for this year’s festival and plans for the future. This program will include interesting facts and pictures.

Registration is required. Call 339-0502 to sign-up. For more information about the Troy Strawberry Festival, visit http:// gostrawberries.com/.

• BOOK FAIR: First Kids Preschool will host a Scholastic Book Fair from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 110 W. Franklin St., Troy. The book fair will offer specially priced preschool and elementary school reading level books and educational products. For more information, contact Bridget Haines at 335-2826 visit bhaines@troyfumc.org.

• FISH AND WINGS: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will serve fish and wings with fries or macaroni and cheese, hush puppies, coleslaw and dessert, from 6-7:30 p.m. for $7.

SATURDAY-APRIL 29 • GEM SHOW: The Brukner Gem, Mineral, Fossil and Jewelry Show will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Miami County Fairgrounds activity building. Admission will be $1 for adults and free for children, parking also is free. The event will include door prizes, a free rock for each child and food will be available for purchase. Mineral identification will be offered by club members. Participants will see gems in the making, specimens, jewelry, demonstrations, silent auctions, dealers and raffles.

Children’s activities will be offered.

Proceeds will benefit Brukner Nature Center.

Theatre on Ice to return to Hobart June 20-23 and draped in the back hallway of Hobart Arena.

The props and scenery The Troy Skating Club requires a very large will again host the Sixth team/teams will compete annual 2013 National at this competition. These tent(s) constructed at the Theatre on Ice competiteams will be formed from north end of the arena for housing props and tion from June 20-23 at skaters from throughout scenery.

Hobart Arena. the Miami Valley.

There also will be a The Troy Skating Club Theatre on Ice is a crelarge tent constructed in was awarded the bid this ation using all aspects of past Friday by U.S. Figure figure skating, incorporat- the parking lot at the south end of the arena for Skating. ing a theme, emotion or The Troy Skating Club story, enhanced by music. vendors.

Troy Skating Club was hosted this competition It is a package that the first time in 2010 and includes five dimensions: established in 1954 for the Miami County theme, music/sound, cho- the purpose of promoting ice skating and its related Visitors Bureau estimated reography/skating movedisciplines. that the weekend brought ments, performance/the For more information in $1.1 million to Troy rapport between the and the surrounding area. skaters and/or sub-groups about the 2013 Theatre on Ice, contact Kathy Slack There were 34 teams and of skaters, costuming, at 339-1994 or (937) 371629 skaters involved in props and/or scenery.

4762, or visit the Troy the competition.

The event requires Skating Club website at The Miami Valley eight to 10 dressing Theatre on Ice rooms, which will be piped www.troyskatingclub.org.

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The Council on Rural Services, an early childhood education provider, needs interested community representatives to join the early childhood advisory council.

The group has the task of reviewing program design for quality standards that result in improved outcomes for young children from birth through age 5.

The advisory council is made up of program parents as well as members of the community. They review grants, participate in program evaluations, provide insight into local needs and serve as a liaison to the community in sharing the value and necessity of early education services.

As a member of the early childhood advisory council, members also will influence continued services of health, nutrition and parent involvement; all of which increase a child’s readiness for school.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Hutchinson (Kan.) News on renewable energy: Most everyone knows about ethanol plants. Kansas has a handful of them. They take agricultural foodstuffs — primarily corn and milo grown right here — and make a fuel much like gasoline that can power our cars in part if not whole.

Now imagine one of those ethanol plants getting its operating power from a yet another renewable energy source. Imagine creating energy by mixing cattle manure from a nearby feedlot, municipal waste from a nearby city, grain dust and animal waste.

That’s just what the Western Plains Energy ethanol plant near Oakley in northwest Kansas will do, eliminating nearly 90 percent of fossil fuels currently used to operate the plant and becoming a user and producer of renewable energy.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a $5 million grant for the biogas anaerobic digester to Western Plains Energy while in Kansas recently.

Feedlot manure, sewage and municipal wastes in landfills are not usually fascinating subjects.

But these are environmentally harmful byproducts of human consumption, and if we can mitigate those while producing a renewable fuel, well, that is fascinating.

It’s progress and results are well worth watching.

The Seattle Times on the U.S. Secret Service scandal: The 11 Secret Service agents who were part of the president’s advance security detail were hired, trained, armed and paid well for their judgment. They failed miserably. Fire them.

Take a couple of their supervisors off the payroll as well. The numbers involved in this scandal suggest a failure of command and control in a go-along, get-along culture without any professional oversight.

On one level, this is a frat party run amok, with agents reportedly trying to impress their female companions with their status as protectors of the president.

They were so darn special.

In fact, the behavior is closer to the Army’s Abu Ghraib debacle or the Navy’s Tailhook scandal, where no rules applied and no one was apparently in charge.

The heady arrogance exposed is as intoxicating for participants as the vast quantities of alcohol consumed.

None of us would be paying attention if this were a bunch of party-hearty federal employees from the Commerce Department, but the assignment was to secure an unknown environment and help protect the president, Cabinet officials and senior administrators — our leaders representing our interests.

On that kind of assignment is the security detail ever truly off duty?

How does mindless, self-indulgent behavior potentially compromise the mission with loose talk or pilfered records and plans?

Apparently, an agency culture that left the agents confident enough to hire hookers did not feel particularly vulnerable to exposure, blackmail or extortion.

The Secret Service agents have had their security clearances pulled, so they have lost the coin of the realm in the federal government.

They might as well start looking for other work.

Are they intelligent, brave and well-trained? No doubt. Can their judgment be trusted? Apparently not.

THEY SAID IT “It’s the Super Bowl of marathons. It’s a great celebration of running. Basically, I’m looking to run a good race, looking for a good time and good finish in my age group … and to enjoy myself.”

— Troy resident Mark Looney, on running the Boston Marathon. Looney finished 14th in his age group “Our community has always given us strong support. In return, we strive to give the community the best schools possible.”

— Troy City Schools Superintendent Eric Herman, during his annual state of the schools address “When you have more than 700 students, even the little things like not knowing where to go on test day, can throw them off. So we took time to practice where each ‘team’ of students goes on test days next week.”

— Troy Junior High School Principal David Dilbone, on this week’s Ohio Achievement Assessments testing

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Spoiler alert: ‘Cabin in the Woods’ is amazing That was one weekend at a cabin in the woods I’ll never forget.

Of course, I’m not talking about actually traveling to a real cabin in the woods and spending the weekend (although that’s something I’d love to do sometime). No, my wife and I went to see the new horror movie “The Cabin in the Woods” last weekend — twice.

I spend a lot of time here complaining about a lack of original ideas and creativity in movies these days. “Cabin” gave me everything I want in a horror movie — and a movie in general — and more.

And don’t worry. I’ll stay spoilerfree here. Which is incredibly difficult, as even talking about the general concept behind the movie is a massive spoiler.

Suffice to say, a group of friends goes on a trip to spend the weekend in a cabin in the woods, and very bad things happen to them. A very tried-and-true horror movie formula, sure — and that’s what makes this “Cabin” so special.

If you’re expecting anything you’ve seen before, that’s exactly what you won’t get.

“Cabin” revels in hinting at all of those familiar cliches that have been tried out, used again and

Other recent movies like the “Scream” series, “Shaun of the Dead” and most recently “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil” have taken subversive shots at horror cliches, but they only scratched the surface.

“Cabin” digs the horror genre a sixfoot-deep grave — and invites it to step in of its own free will.

And it’s not just the cabin-in-theJosh Brown woods-style horror movies that Troy Daily News Columnist “Cabin” thumbs its nose at, either.

The movie finds ways to take shots at cliches from around the world, again, perfected, abused and then from Japanese horror to Swedish to beaten to death over the many, many years that horror movies have Spanish and beyond, “Cabin” has something to say about everyone. been made … only to pull the rug But while there is tons of comedy out from under you and go in a comand many tongue-in-cheek moments pletely different direction. in “Cabin,” the movie never sinks to But every little thing that happens builds to something much big- the parody level, as with the “Scary Movie” series. “Cabin” is meant to be ger. The movie has a plan, and while it might not make sense early taken seriously from beginning to end, even when it seems like it’s just on, minds are blown by the end. goofing off. “Cabin” has the perfect Writers Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard — both veterans of the TV mix of humor — and since it’s a Joss show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” — movie, sharp, witty, biting humor — suspense, mystery and action. And crafted a masterful piece of genre gore. It certainly earns its R rating. commentary with “Cabin.” The But if you go in expecting your movie is meant both as an homage to the horror genre, with all of its average, everyday horror movie, shout-outs to and easter eggs from you’re bound to be sorely disapother movies, and a criticism of it pointed. “Cabin” is not average in and its fans. any way, shape or form. It takes

every cliche ever conceived, smashes them into pieces and expertly crafts something new, inventive and exciting out of the shattered remains.

You’ve never seen anything like it … because nothing like it has ever existed before now.

“A Nightmare on Elm Street” was the first movie I remember seeing when I was old enough to understand what movies were. It made me a life-long lover of horror movies and played a role in shaping the life that I’ve had since. “Cabin in the Woods” makes me look back on that life in entirely new ways, both in a celebratory way but also a questioning one.

True fans of horror are sure to love this movie — but only if they have the ability to look at themselves in a not-so-favorable light.

And fans of movies in general will love picking apart the tiny details and many small intricacies — and the way they weave together masterfully to create something new.

This is one trip to a Cabin in the Woods that everyone should take.

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Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at age 80 But it was actions that preceded the actual Watergate break-in that resulted in Colson’s criminal conviction. Colson pleaded guilty to efforts to discredit Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg. It was Ellsberg who had leaked the secret Defense Department study of Vietnam that became known as the Pentagon Papers.

The efforts to discredit Ellsberg included use of Nixon’s plumbers — a covert group established to investigate White House leaks — in 1971 to break into the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist to look for information that could discredit Ellsberg’s anti-war efforts.

The Ellsberg burglary was revealed during the course of the Watergate investigation and became an element in the ongoing scandal. Colson pleaded guilty in 1974 to obstruction of justice in connection with attempts to discredit Ellsberg, though charges were dropped that Colson actually played a role in the burglary of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office. Charges related to the actual Watergate burglary and cover-up also were dropped.

He served seven months in prison.

Before Colson went to prison he became a bornagain Christian, but critics said his post-scandal redemption was a ploy to get his sentence reduced.

The Boston Globe wrote in 1973, “If Mr. Colson can repent of his sins, there just has to be hope for everyone.”

Ellsberg, for his part, said in an interview that Colson never apologized to him and did not respond to several efforts Ellsberg made over the years to get in touch with him. Ellsberg said he still believes that Colson’s guilty plea was not a matter of contrition so much as an effort to head off even more serious allegations that Colson had sought to hire thugs to administer a beating against Ellsberg, an allegation that Colson states in his book was believed by prosecutors despite his denial.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — He was described as the “evil genius” of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergaterelated conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon’s hatchet men.

But Charles “Chuck” Colson spent the next 35 years steadfast in his efforts to evangelize to a part of society scorned just as he was. And he became known perhaps just as much for his efforts to minister to prison inmates as for his infamy with Watergate.

Colson died Saturday at age 80. His death was confirmed by Jim Liske, chief executive of the Lansdowne, Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries that Colson founded. Liske said the preliminary cause of death was complications from brain surgery Colson had at the end of March. He underwent the surgery to remove a clot after becoming ill March 30 while speaking at a conference.

Colson once famously said he’d walk over his grandmother to get the president elected to a second term. In 1972 The Washington Post called him “one of the most powerful presidential aides, variously described as a troubleshooter and as a ‘master of dirty tricks.’”

“I shudder to think of what I’d been if I had not gone to prison,” Colson said in 1993. “Lying on the rotten floor of a cell, you know it’s not prosperity or pleasure that’s important, but the maturing of the soul.”

He helped run the Committee to Re-elect the President when it set up an effort to gather intelligence on the Democratic Party.

The arrest of the committee’s security director, James W. McCord, and four other men burglarizing the Democratic National Committee offices in 1972 set off the scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation in August 1974.

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Church, Piqua Leisure Club, and a life PIQUA — Romona J. Montgomery, 73, formerly of 419 Y St., Piqua, died at member of the V.F.W. Post No. 4874 Auxiliary. She was a former member 2:03 a.m. Saturday April 21, 2012, at of the Auxiliary of the the Upper Valley Medical Fraternal Order of the Center. She was born May Eagles Lodge No. 614 and 24, 1938, in Piqua, to the late the American Legion Post George W. and Dorothy E. 184.

(Francis) Montgomery.

A service to honor her life Survivors include a brother, will begin at 10 a.m.

Ronald (Jane) Montgomery of Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Piqua; a niece, Traci at the Jamieson & Yannucci Montgomery; a great niece, Funeral Home, with the Rev. Kara Smith; and a great Fr. Angelo C. Caserta officinephew, Scott Smith. ating. Burial will follow at She was preceded in death MONTGOMERY Miami Memorial Park, by her life partner, Ed Covington.

McCrossin; and a nephew, Scott Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m.

Montgomery.

Miss Montgomery was a 1957 gradu- Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made ate of Piqua Catholic High School, to St. Boniface Catholic Church, 310 S. worked at the former Sanders Dairy Downing St., Piqua, OH 45356. and the South Side Drug Store and Condolences to the family may also be retired from the Copeland Corp. of expressed through jamiesonand Sidney June 30, 2000. She was a yannucci.com. member of St. Boniface Catholic

JAMES E. MOODY TROY — James E. Moody, age 90, of Troy passed away on Friday, April 20, 2012, at Springmeade Healthcenter, Tipp City, surrounded by his loving family. He was born May 3, 1921 in Cookeville, Tenn.

James was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence and Mary (Williams) Moody; brothers, Glen Moody and Doyle Moody; sisters, Geraldine Davidson and Edith Netherton; and sisters-in-law, Dean Moody, Betty Moody and Virginia Moody.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Georgia P. (Edmonds) Moody of Troy; daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn and Joe Payton of Troy; grandchildren, Mary and Joseph; brothers and sisters-in-law, Ernest H. Moody of Cookeville, Tenn., Herman Moody of Livingston, Tenn,, Joe and Agnes Moody of Livingston, Tenn., and Donald B. and Barbara Moody of Livingston, Tenn.; brothers-inlaw, J.D. Davidson and Dawson Netherton; and a host of

CLAUDE M. GOODNER VANDALIA — Claude M. Goodner, age 86, of Vandalia, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, April 21, 2012, at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was born April 10, 1926, in Arcanum, Ohio, son of the late Grover S. and Katie (Johnson) Goodner.

Claude was a member of the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Vandalia, a member of Masonic Lodge No. 742 F&AM, the Franklin Council No. 14 of Troy and the Royal Arch Masons No. 24 of Troy. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran of WWII and a retired employee of General Motors with 40 years of service. Claude was a volunteer at Miami Valley Hospital and the VandaliaButler Food Pantry. He was an avid golfer who genuinely treasured his golf friendships, and was a member of the Troy Country Club and enjoyed his leagues at Cassel Hills Golf Course.

Preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Ann, in 2006, Claude is survived by his children, Gregory Goodner (Yevonne) of Dayton, Douglas Goodner (Donna) of Florida and Susan Wagner (Frank) of Alabama; seven grandchildren, Megan (Brenden), Amy, John, Katie, Sarah, David and Robbie (Virginia); two sisters, Edna Barga and Barbara Link (Marvin); and his good friend, Janet Pendergrass, who was a very special part of his life.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, April 25, at the St. John’s Lutheran Church of Vandalia, with Pastor Gil Santiago officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends from 47 p.m. Tuesday at the Morton & Whetstone Funeral Home, 139 S. Dixie Drive, Vandalia.

If so desired, contributions may be made to the St. John’s Lutheran Church Memorial Fund in Claude’s memory.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Vesta W. Brewer TROY — Vesta W. Brewer, 96, of Troy, passed away at 11:37 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2012, at Springfield Regional Medical Center.

Arrangements are pending at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy.

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He will be dearly missed by his family and friends. James proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII for 3 years, 3 months and 29 days, retired from RTA, was a member of Dayton Baptist Temple and Cornerstone Baptist Temple and attended Grace Baptist Church, Ludlow Falls.

The family would like to thank Springmeade staff and nurses for all their special care and concern.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Ohio time (1 p.m. Tennessee time) on Thursday, April 26, 2012, at Poplar Springs Baptist Church, corner of Poplar Spring Road and MackRay Road, Cookeville, Tenn., with burial to follow at Poplar Springs Cemetery.

Military Honors will be held at the graveside.

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In this June 21, 1974 , file photo, former Nixon White House aide Charles W. Colson arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington to be sentenced for obstructing justice. Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80. Jim Liske, chief executive of the Lansdowne-based Prison Fellowship Ministries that Colson founded, said Colson died Saturday.

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — Charles Leroy Kerr was born June 16, 1923, in Troy, Ohio.

He passed away Thursday, April 19, 2012, in St. Cloud, Fla. He was a life-long resident of Troy until he and his wife retired to Lakeland, Fla., in 1982.

Mr. Kerr just recently moved to St. Cloud in November 2011.

Survived by his wife of 58 years, Reba Kerr of St. Cloud, Fla., daughter, Elizabeth McCarel Barnard and son-in-law, Bruce Barnard of St. Cloud, Fla., sister-in-law, Betty Warner of Greensboro, N.C.; and step-grandchildren, Kyle Barnard and Jenna Kehr.

Mr. Kerr was a graduate of Troy High School.

He was employed by Hobart Corp. in Troy. He owned and operated two businesses, a wedding photography business and Kerr’s Office Supply, also in Troy.

Mr. Kerr was active in the Scottish Rite and the Masonic Lodge.

He was a 64-year member of Franklin Lodge No. 14 F & A.M., Franklin Chapter No. 24 R.A.M., Franklin Council No. 14 R&S.M., and Coleman Commandery No. 17 K.T. all of Troy.

An avid baseball fan, Mr. Kerr and his wife spent several weeks out of the year in Lakeland, Fla., where he enjoyed watching the Detroit Tigers in spring training.

Upon moving to Florida, Charles and his wife, Reba. became active members of Highland Park Church of the Nazarene in Lakeland.

A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. today, Sunday, April 22, 2012, at Highland Park Church of the Nazarene in the Sanctuary, with Pastor Fred Sykes officiating.

Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Troy.

Arrangements are entrusted to FisherCheney Funeral Home, Troy.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Salvation Army, Asbury Theological Seminary and Highland Park Church of the Nazarene.

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A garden shed with double doors makes it easier to move mowers and other large items in and out without crowding.

Garden sheds help with space “Only in America do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.”

Whoever first came up with this was right, but failed to explain that the family car may indeed be safer outside. When the garage is packed with bikes, toys, gardening tools and the lawn mower, the chances of getting to the car without damaging it or yourself are slim.

Thankfully, there’s a way to solve this problem. Buy a shed.

You’ll find that storing yard-care tools, equipment and supplies in a single

location makes getting the work done much easier. You won’t have to dig through the garage to find the trowel. The wheelbarrow and hand tools are right there beside each other every time you need them.

Prefabricated sheds are one of the best values today. These are generally already finished and then delivered via forklift.

Many types of sheds can be made to order. This allows you to better match existing structures in your landscape or yard. You can select the ideal size and then specify finish materials to match your home or garage. Sheds with a barnstyle gambrel roof offer the benefit of a loft above for additional storage.

If you have a lawn trac-

tor, a shed with double doors may be required so you can move the large mower in and out.

Windows can make a shed more comfortable, with a screened opening allowing for better circulation of air but keeping out insects.

Prefabricated sheds are usually not built on site.

They leave the factory finished and ready to set at the new location. You may not have to worry about building permits, setbacks or foundations when it comes to prefabricated sheds. However, some communities with strict covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) may prohibit them entirely, so be sure to check ahead of time.

There must be sufficient

access to your backyard.

Homes with narrow side yards and no rear yard access may not be able to accommodate a prefabricated unit. But sometimes just taking down a fence panel is enough to allow a forklift to bring one in.

Before you buy a shed, study your yard to determine its best location.

Since they generally aren’t particularly decorative, sheds are sometimes set in out-of-the-way spaces such as utility yards or hidden behind dense planting.

But if a shed will be easily visible from your house, consider its appearance.

Specify a paint color that matches that of your house or other nearby structures.

Seek a style with a roof line similar to that of your house’s roof so the shed doesn’t appear like an afterthought.

You can also take an ordinary shed and tart it up once it’s in place.

Creative faux paint can give it a rustic appeal.

Shutters and a window box can render a dull window charming. Even the door itself can be embellished with fancy hardware and other details.

Give that shed some garden flourishes by adding decorative foliage and flowers. They’ll help keep the shed from looking as though it just got dropped into place.

This year, don’t fight the junk. Plant a shed in your yard and get organized.

Then take back the garage and move at least one car inside.

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There are lots of gardening myths out there.

Take planting trees and woody shrubs, for example.

They don’t need a deep planting hole, they don’t need organic matter or fertilizer amended to the soil and they don’t need to be pruned back to “balance” the foliage of the plant with its traumatized, transplanted roots.

At best, these practices do no good and waste a lot of time and energy.

At worst, they’ll make the plants take longer to become established and create problems down the road.

The deep-hole myth probably started with people thinking that trees and shrubs have roots that spread downward.

If you dig a deep hole, some soil has to go back to the bottom to raise the plant to proper height. In time, that disturbed soil sinks, the plant drops below the soil surface, water collects and stands in the depression, drives air from the root zone and the plant dies.

Instead, dig a hole the same depth as the plant’s root ball, but three times as wide, so the roots can naturally spread horizontally.

For shrubs, once the diameter is correct, set the plant in and check the depth: the top of the root ball should be level or even slighter higher than the ground.

To compensate for likely settling after planting, I almost always dig the hole about 1 inch shallower than the root ball so the plant sets a bit high at first.

Then I mound soil up to the base of the plant to cover the roots. There’s another trick you need to know to get the depth correct for trees.

Rather than making sure the root ball is even with or slightly higher than the surrounding ground, it’s the flare of the trunk where the roots begin to form that you’re looking for, and that can be a good bit below the soil line of the container.

It’s a common practice these days for trees (and shrubs) to have been repotted several times before you buy them, with more soil being added each time to the container. So be sure to Joe Lamp’l, host of pull back the layer of soil “Growing a Greener on top until you can clearWorld” on PBS, is a master gardener and author.

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ly see the base of the trunk flare, and feel or see the roots spreading out from that point.

That’s the level that needs to match up with the surrounding ground once it’s planted.

The second myth says to amend the backfill soil with large amounts of organic matter. This idea is costly and unnecessary.

Many tests have proven that trees and shrubs planted without amendments establish more quickly than their composted cousins.

When the hole is ready, remove the plant from the container and check the roots. If they’re spiraling around the inside of the container, tease them out to break the pattern. Place it into the planting hole and half fill with soil. Water well to settle and close air pockets. When the water has drained, add the rest of the soil, lightly tamp and water again.

Apply a 3-inch-thick “doughnut” of mulch around the plant to retain soil moisture, keeping it at least an inch away from the trunk to discourage rot. For the first two weeks, I water about every other day.

For the next two months, I’ll water every four days or so in hot weather, every week in mild. But the best rule of thumb is to stick your finger in the soil and test it. If your finger comes up with damp soil stuck to it, there’s enough water. It’s critical to provide enough water during establishment, but I’ve drowned many a newly planted tree by overwatering also.

Don’t fertilize yet; the soil provides all nutrients for the first year.

The last myth says to prune one-third of the plant’s foliage to “balance” it with the small, transplanted root ball.

But if you cut off branches, the plant puts its energy into replacing lost leaves and root growth stops — exactly opposite of what it needs. Prune dead, diseased and broken branches, but stop there for now until whatever you’ve planted is well established.

Planting trees and woody shrubs is simple: wide, shallow hole, mulched soil and regular water. Nothing else is necessary. Understand and work with nature and your garden will thank you.

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A water feature is usually the focal point of a garden, and should match its style.

The water works Don’t be afraid to add water to your garden

BY JOE LAMP’L Scripps Howard News Service There’s something primal about water — we’re drawn to it. Watching clouds reflected on its surface, listening to the musical sounds it produces, seeing fish swimming lazily among rocks and plants, can sooth us like nothing else. Maybe that’s why so many people have a water feature in their gardens.

A water feature is usually the focal point of a garden, and should match its style. An elegant rectangular or circular pool would complement the geometric beds and straight paths of a formal garden. Meandering pathways and easygoing planting schemes would favor a water feature with undulating edges and a natural look. The paving and planting at any pool’s edge should blend the pool and surrounding landscape together.

If possible, locate your water feature where you can enjoy it most — near a window close to your easy chair or next to the patio or deck where you can spend a pleasant summer evening. Once you’ve found the perfect setting, consider the needs of the feature and its occupants before you dig. Avoid low or poorly drained areas where rainwater runoff might contaminate the water.

You’ll want at least five hours of direct sun daily to support light-hungry water plants. Still water is the ideal environment for many delicate aquatic plants like water lilies that can’t take rushing torrents. A stillwater pool makes a perfect mirror to reflect the colors of summer, the clouds in the sky and the fire of fall leaves. If your pool is large enough, a flowing fountain or waterfall at one end will leave the water still enough at the other for fragile plants.

Moving water’s ever-changing sounds and shapes can have a relaxing effect. Water’s sound can even be adjusted to personal taste: the farther it falls, the louder the sound.

Dampen the tones with lush plantings or amplify them by building a small, cavelike resonating chamber behind the waterfall to reflect sound

TIPS FOR NEWCOMERS New to gardening? Here are fresh tips for successful gardening: 1. Start small. The surest way to become frustrated with gardening is to bite off more than you can chew. Of course, “small” is a relative term; in an area of, say, only 100 square feet, you can plant a lot more than you might think.

2. Start a compost pile. It doesn’t matter whether you choose to build an elaborate bin and compost on a grand scale, create a simple pile in an outof-the-way corner of your property or place a store-bought composter in a sunny spot in the yard. All that matters is that you make compost — and use it, of course.

3. Maintain healthy soil. The use of compost goes hand in hand with maintaining healthy soil, but there are other things to consider: Try to avoid walking on the soil in established gardens, because every step compacts the soil, and compaction makes it difficult for roots to grow.

Create paths between rows or in beds, or place a board on the soil adjacent to areas where you work to distribute your weight more evenly over the soil.

Avoid working the soil when it’s wet.

4. Mulch. Mulch suppresses weed growth, maintains soil moisture, stabilizes soil temperatures and much more. So do yourself a favor: Mulch everything in sight with whatever organic mulch you like.

5. Water properly. Don’t water frequently for only brief periods. Doing so causes plant roots to hover near the soil surface. Instead, deep-soak each time you water to encourage roots to grow deep down into the soil.

6. Go native. Native plants tend to be easier to grow, have fewer pest and disease problems and require less supplemental watering. As a result, if you grow a lot of native plants, you’ll develop more confidence with fewer hassles.

7. Minimize maintenance: — Cut back on fertilizers — Prune only when necessary back.

There are several basic types of aquatic plants for a water garden.

Oxygenators are rapid-growing, floating plants sold in clumps. They release oxygen into the water through photosynthesis, and shade the water to help prevent algae growth. Parrot feather, water hyacinth and water poppy are popular oxygenators.

Emergent plants like water lilies are the signature water plant. Hardy varieties have rounded leaves and white, yellow or rosy flowers that float on the water. They overwinter in Zones 3-10. Tropical water lilies also come in lilac and blue tones, have scalloped leaves and hold their flowers on stems that stand out of the water. They are either grown as annuals or removed from the water and stored in damp moss where they won’t freeze.

Both have cultivars tiny enough for even the smallest water gardens.

Hardy water lilies include bright red “Louise,” bright pink “Pink Opal” and white “Walter Pagels.” Tropical water

lilies include deep blue “Midnight,” pink “Texas Shell Pink” and nightblooming, white “Woods White Night.” Arrowhead and dwarf papyrus provide a strong vertical accent to low-growing floaters.

For the edge transition zone between pool and dry land, plant moisture-loving ground covers, bog plants and perennials like lady’s mantle, Siberian irises, yellow flag, lobelias, ferns and primrose.

If you want to start small or just create a showpiece container for a deck or patio, use a 15- to 25-gallon (or larger) lightweight fiberglass pot.

Run the electric cord of a small submersible pump through the drain hole and seal the hole with silicone caulk. Fill the pot with water and plant with a mix of oxygenators, low and tall emergent plants. There are plenty of how-to articles and videos online that can take you through the entire process. It’s a simple and inexpensive project that only takes an hour or two to set up and a great introduction to the many benefits of having a water garden.

Garden design is an art, not any kind of exact science.

The “best” design is the one that satisfies you.

But there are certain guidelines that have been proven over the years to be more or less universal when it comes to creating pleasing gardens.

One of the most common is short plants, from low ground covers to about 18 inches tall down in front, mid-sized plants to 3 feet tall in the middle and large plants over 3 feet tall in the back.

I know it sounds pretty rigid; but by placing plants in this configuration you’ll be able to see all of them and, over the course of the season, get to know which ones shoot up and bloom first or longest, which ones are light and airy, which ones flower longest and which end up blocking their neighbors.

Once you understand your garden’s personality, it will be easier to break the rules and create the look you want.

Pay special attention to the front-of-the-border plants.

Their job is to anchor the bed to the surrounding area, smoothing the change and keeping it from being too abrupt.

They have to look good all season long, too, in spite of hot weather, insect damage or pets.

Make the transition from yard or walkway to garden-bed gradual.

Use plants that are about 12 inches tall at the most, and have interesting details or textures.

Unless you’re creating the most geometrically formal of gardens, plant your edges in a visual smorgasbord with drifts of different species.

A broad mix is more interesting, and also ensures season-long color.

Don’t forget to include some small deciduous and evergreen shrubs for interesting textures and color across the seasons.

The front border is also the place to show off bulbs.

Plant them in the fall, then overplant with colorful annuals. After the bulbs have bloomed, the annuals will hide the bulbs’ dying foliage.

If the front-edge plants are all very small, they’ll be out of scale with the larger perennials in the back.

Use trailing perennials that will flow over and soften hard edges like paths and walls. Include some with mounding habits to hide the “bare ankles” of the taller perennials behind them.

And mix in a few with fine textures, especially where the perennial bed merges into a lawn; their

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Certain guidelines have been proven universal when it comes to creating pleasing gardens. feathery appearance make the bed and turf connect, visually anchoring the two.

Here are some popular plants for the front of the border.

• Annuals Ageratum blooms summer to fall; tiny powder-puff flowers of true blue, white, lavender and rose; 6 to 24 inches tall; plant in large drifts for best effect. Wishbone flower: 8 to 12 inches; prefers shade; blooms nonstop until frost; great alternative to impatiens.

Sweet alyssum: clouds of tiny, fragrant white flowers spring and fall; won’t bloom in high summer heat; 8 to 10 inches.

• Perennials Thrift: pink, white, rose flowers mid-spring; long, grassy leaves 3 to 4 inches tall. Creeping baby’s breath: dainty white flowers in summer; 4 to 8 inches. Ozark sundrop: bright yellow flowers all summer; 12 inches; trailing habit. Rock soapwort: tiny pink flowers spring to summer; cascades over walls and rocks; 6 to 10 inches; cut back to encourage new growth.

• Shrubs Prostrate white abelia: fragrant white flowers all summer; 12 to 18 inches tall. Crimson pygmy dwarf Japanese barberry: burgundy foliage is a great color alternative; spines at each leaf node; 18 to 24 inches.

• Bulbs Grape hyacinth grass: sweetly grape-scented masses of tranquil blue spikes; 3 to 8 inches; plant in mass drifts for best effect. Crocuses: early spring bloom in cup-shaped flowers of white, blue, purple and yellow; 3 to 8 inches; they often bloom in the snow.

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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• COACHING SEARCH: Bethel High School is looking for a varsity head football coach. Please submit a letter of interest, resume, and references to Bob Hamlin, Athletic Director, Bethel High School, Tipp City 45371 or bethelathdept@bethel.k12.oh.us.

• COACHING SEARCH: MiltonUnion High School has an opening for for head varsity boys basketball coach.

Interested candidates may submit a cover letter and detailed resume via email to Tom A. Koogler, Athletic Director at kooglert@miltonunion.k12.oh.us or by mail to MUHS, C/O Tom A. Koogler, 221 South Jefferson Street, West Milton, Ohio 45383. Available teaching positions in the high school for 2012-2013 are English, Art and RAP. Application deadline is May 4.

• SOCCER: Troy High School will host a “Meet the Coaches” night for all returning and incoming soccer players and their parents for the fall 2012 season at 7 p.m. Monday in the high school cafeteria. It is important that all players and their parents attend. The players will receive their summer schedule and more.

• GOLF: The Ladies 18-hole Golf League at Miami Shores Golf Course is having its opening meeting at 9 a.m.

Tuesday at Miami Shores. Everyone is invited. For more information, call the golf course.

• GOLF: The Ladies 9-hole Golf League at Miami Shores Golf Course is having its opening meeting at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Miami Shores.

Everyone is invited. For more information, call Gail at (937) 332-7467.

• FOOTBALL: The Troy Football Alumni Association is holding a Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament at 4 p.m. April 28 at the St. Patrick’s Parish Center, 409 E. Main St., Troy. Registration begins at 3:15 p.m the day of the event. There is a maximum of 200 players. Participants may pre-register by sending a request to brad8rohlfs@yahoo.com. There is a $50 entry fee. There will be a payout to the top 10 finishers, free snacks, raffles and a 50/50 drawing. Beer and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Proceeds from the event will go toward the Troy Football Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.

Checks and money orders may be mailed to Troy Football Alumni Association, P.O. Box 824, Troy OH 45373.

• BASEBALL: The Troy Post 43 baseball team is holding the 2012 Golf Scramble at Cliffside Golf Course in Tipp City on May 12. Check in starts at noon. A shot gun start will take place at 1:00 p.m. The fee is $65 a person.

Proceeds go to the support of Troy Post 43 baseball. To learn more, contact Frosty Brown at (937) 339-4383 or at (937) 474-9093.You can also contact Frosty via email at ibrown@woh.rr.com.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY No events scheduled MONDAY Baseball Trotwood at Troy (5 p.m.)

Spr. Shawnee at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.)

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Franklin Monroe at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

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Franklin Monroe at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

National Trail at Covington (5 p.m.)

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Lehman at Arcanum (5 p.m.)

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Devils sweep at Gahanna Staff Reports GAHANNA — Tippecanoe knew it would see its best competition so far this year at the Gahanna Classic Saturday.

So it played its best softball of the year.

CC Alvarez threw a two-hitter to open the day, giving up no earned runs to Johnstown Northridge, while the Red Devils scored just enough to take a 2-1 victory. And a two-run error in the bottom of the seventh helped Tippecanoe bounce back in the second game and rally for a 4-3 win over North Union to cap off the day.

MIAMI COUNTY “This was the best we’ve played all year, and it’s the best competition we’ve seen all year,” Tippecanoe coach Charles Tackett said. “These are the kind of games that we’ll be seeing come tournament time.”

Alex Dawes tripled, scored a run and had an RBI in the opener, Darlene Reinhard had a hit and a run and Alvarez had two hits in the first game. Alvarez also won the pitching duel, striking out nine and walking two.

Tippecanoe held a 2-0 lead in

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Troy’s Nathan Helke fouls off a ball during a game against Centerville on Saturday at Market Street Field in Troy.

Disappointing day Troy swept by state-ranked Centerville

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Milton runs at Bulldog Staff Reports Milton-Union didn’t have any champions at its Bulldog Invitational on a brisk Saturday morning at the Lowry Complex, but the Bulldogs had quality showings as teams. The MiltonUnion boys were fourth with 69 points, while the girls were eighth with 39.

The Centerville Elks have been bull-rushing through competition this season.

Ranked No. 8 in Division I, the Elks’ only loss was an 8-5 setback to Hamilton on April 7.

On Saturday, Centerville came

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Though Troy didn’t make it easy, Centerville left Market Street Field with a doubleheader sweep, holding on for a 4-2

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The 4x800 team of Jake Finfrock, Sergei Brubaker, Josh Booher and Matt Howard was second (8:40.8). The 4x200 team of Finfrock, Clay Minton, Kain Smiley and Zach Pricer was fourth (1:35.03). The 4x400 team of Finfrock, Smiley, Pricer and Minton was fourth (3:37.12). The

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Friendly competition Scarlet wins OSU spring game COLUMBUS (AP) — Urban Meyer opened his first spring game at Ohio State with his players gathered at midfield for a series of one-on-one battles.

It started with defensive tackle John Simon and offensive lineman Jack Mewhort pushing and shoving like sumo wrestlers until one appeared to have the upper hand. Even the top two quarterbacks, Braxton Miller and Kenny Guiton, went at it.

Cheering and taunting teammates circled the combatants.

“I’ve got a little bit of a quick whistle when some of those guys are in there,” Meyer said with a grin. “I just wanted some good energy in there. Our quarterbacks, like anybody else, they’ve got to put their nose on people.

You have to be very careful and very smart. And sometimes I’m accused of neither. But it was fun for the fans and I know that our players came out of their shoes when we did that.”

Rod Smith ran for a 7-yard touchdown with 5:29 left and

Christian Bryant made it stand up with a late interception to lead the Scarlet to a 20-14 victory over the Gray.

The crowd was announced as 81,112 on a misty, chilly day at Ohio Stadium, although there appeared to be far fewer.

Meyer wore a white pullover as the Buckeyes wrapped up 15 spring practices, often standing just a few feet directly behind as his quarterbacks ran plays. He took over the program last November in the wake of a year of NCAA violations, suspensions, player departures and coach Jim Tressel’s forced resignation.

An Ohio native who was a graduate assistant at Ohio State in the mid-1980s, Meyer led Florida to two national championships. He stepped aside after the 2010 season citing health and family considerations and spent last year as a college football analyst at ESPN. He conceded that his emoAP PHOTO tions got the best of him at least Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller, left, throws a pass dur-

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NFL teams fear picking ‘busts’ in draft CLEVELAND (AP) The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton is filled with the busts of the game’s greatest players, their images preserved in bronze.

Up the road in Cleveland, there are other busts.

Cincinnati’s had a few of the latter kind, too. So have Detroit, Buffalo, Oakland, Kansas City and other NFL cities. They’re just about everywhere.

You know these busts, those can’t-possibly-miss players tagged as saviors on draft day who wind up flopping on the field.

JaMarcus Russell, the No. 1 overall pick in 2007, was supposed to pull the Oakland Raiders out of their black hole. Ryan Leaf, who some thought should have been taken ahead of Peyton Manning in the 1998 draft, was selected with the No. 2 pick, flamed out in San Diego and was recently arrested twice in four days on accusations of burglary to steal prescription painkillers.

Akili Smith. Charles Rogers. Courtney Brown.

Joey Harrington. Brian Bosworth. Peter Warrick.

Mike Williams. Brady Quinn.

Tony Mandarich.

The list of busts goes on, and this year a few more names could be added to the roll-call of notable flounders.

On Thursday night, teams will begin selecting players they’ve watched for hours on film. Scouts and front-office members have spent months pouring over statistics, assessing 40-yarddash times and vertical leaps, reviewing interviews and Wonderlic tests and doing background checks on these potential future employees.

The goal is to get it right

and pick a quality player of high character who can help you win.

Get it wrong, and the consequences can be catastrophic for an organization.

“Everybody wants the 10year Pro Bowler, which is fine, but I’ll take the two-year Pro Bowler rather than a bust,” said Browns general manager Tom Heckert, who has 13 picks at his disposal this year. “You don’t want a bust, you can’t have a bust.

That’s what you are trying to avoid.”

The Browns, perhaps more than any other team,

have perfected the art of the wrong choice.

Cleveland has had seven picks in the Top 10 of the draft since its 1999 rebirth.

The Browns picked first in 1999 (Tim Couch) and 2000 (Brown), they had the No. 3 selection in 2001 (Gerard Warren), 2005 (Braylon Edwards), and 2007 (Joe Thomas), the No. 6 in 2004 (Kellen Winslow) and the No. 7 (Joe Haden) in 2010.

After taking Thomas, the Browns traded their ‘08 firstround pick to move back into the first round and select Quinn, the Notre Dame star

who left all his Irish luck in college. Tabbed as the future, he played in 14 games, was traded in 2010 to Denver and is now with Kansas City.

This year, a team that has made the playoffs just once in 13 years and posted 10 seasons with at least 10 losses in that span, will pick at No. 4 and No. 22 in the first round.

Besides Thomas, who has made five straight Pro Bowls, Cleveland’s poor track record on top picks is perhaps the biggest reason the Browns are 68-140 in their orangehelmeted incarnation.

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Cubs blast Reds Snap six-game losing streak in 6-1 victory CHICAGO (AP) — Dusty Baker likened his offense to the inconsistent April weather.

On Saturday, it was cold.

The Cincinnati Reds were shut down by Paul Maholm and managed just six hits in a 6-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs, who stopped a six-game slide.

Baker’s club scored one run for the seventh time this season and has managed only 12 runs in the team’s nine losses.

“It’s not like we didn’t have chances,” the manager said. “We had some chances to come back in that game. We could have pecked away and got a little closer.”

The Reds stranded 10 baserunners and went 2 for 10 with runners in scoring position, a stark contrast to the team that scored 15 runs over the previous two games both wins.

“This is how spring goes sometime - hot one day and cold the next,” Baker said.

“We didn’t come up with the big hits. That was the difference.”

Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips went a combined 1 for 7 for the Reds, who have lost six of nine. Mike Leake (0-2) allowed 10 hits and five runs in 5 2-3 innings.

Darwin Barney and Steve Clevenger each had three hits for the Cubs, who grabbed control with a four-run second inning.

Starlin Castro had a double and a triple.

“I was just doing stupid sequences. I wasn’t mixing and matching enough,” Leake said. “They took advantage of me and I didn’t react quick enough.”

The 24-year-old righthander pitched shutout ball after the rough start, but it was too late. He entered with a 4-1 record and a 2.66 ERA in seven career starts against the Cubs.

“Sometimes those innings will do it to you,” he said. “I’m happy that I came back and threw three more scoreless innings, just gotta minimize.”

Maholm (1-2) allowed one run and four hits in six innings, snapping a personal six-game losing streak. The left-hander struck out five and walked

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Cincinnati Reds left fielder Ryan Ludwick can’t catch a ball off the bat of Chicago Cubs’ Starlin Castro that went for a triple during the second inning of a baseball game Saturday in Chicago. three in his first victory since July 10 for Pittsburgh against the Cubs.

“I was throwing my breaking ball for strikes today,” Maholm said. “I used all my pitches and the defense picked me up, and obviously the offense got rolling pretty quick.

“I had to make sure we had to keep that lead.”

One day after he learned he will not face charges over an alleged sexual assault, Castro tripled home a run in the second and doubled in the fifth. The 21-year-old shortstop also committed two errors to run his major league-worst total to seven.

State’s attorney spokeswoman Sally Daly said Friday police and prosecutors reviewing the case found insufficient evidence

to charge Castro. His attorneys have said the allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman last fall are baseless.

Phillips singled in a run in the first, but Bryan LaHair hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom half and the Cubs added four more runs in the second.

Clevenger led off with a single to right and moved to second on a groundout.

Joe Mather followed with an RBI double to left.

Mather advanced on Leake’s errant pickoff attempt and scored on David DeJesus’ single.

Barney added a run-scoring double and came home on Castro’s first triple of the season to make it 5-1.

Clevenger added an RBI single in the seventh as the Cubs finished with a season-high 14 hits.

Clevenger, the backup

catcher, is 10 for 17 on the season.

The Reds had runners on third and second with no outs in the seventh, but James Russell retired Stubbs, Votto and Phillips to get out of the inning.

NOTES: Reds OF Jay Bruce was given the day off against the lefty Maholm. . Baker said he expects Phillips (hamstring) to play Sunday and take another day off on Monday. . Cubs RHP Ryan Dempster was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right quadriceps. OF Tony Campana was recalled from Triple-A Iowa, and Randy Wells will start in place of Dempster on Sunday. . Johnny Cueto (10, 1.89 ERA) will take the hill opposite Wells on Sunday in the rubber game.

BOSTON (AP) — Troy Brouwer scored on a power play with 1:27 left, giving the Washington Capitals a 4-3 victory Saturday and moving the defending champion Boston Bruins a loss away from elimination.

Brouwer gave the Capitals a 3-2 series lead with his second goal of the playoffs, beating Tim Thomas over the glove with a wrist shot with 37 seconds left on Benoit Pouliot’s slashing penalty.

The Capitals can wrap up the best-of-seven series at home Sunday.

The Bruins have been in this predicament before. They trailed the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 last year in the Stanley Cup finals, then won the last two games on the road to capture their first title since 1972.

The Bruins, who trailed 2-0 and 3-2, tied it at 8:47 of the third period on Johnny Boychuk’s goal.

Alexander Semin and Jay Beagle scored in the second period to give Washington a 2-0 lead, and Dennis Seidenberg and Brad Marchand tied it with goals in a 28-second span late in the period. Washington regained the lead 3:21 into the third period when Mike Knuble scored off a rebound Senators 2, Rangers 0 NEW YORK — Craig Anderson stopped 41 shots to make Jason Spezza’s first-period goal stand up, and the Ottawa Senators pushed the topseeded New York Rangers to the brink of elimination with a 2-0 victory

Saturday night in Game 5.

The Senators, the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference, have won two straight and will have a chance to knock out the Rangers on Monday night in Ottawa.

Panthers 3, Devils 0 SUNRISE, Fla. — Kris Versteeg scored a goal and set up another, Jose Theodore made 30 saves for his second playoff shutout, and Florida beat New Jersey to move a win away from its first series win in 16 years.

Scottie Upshall also scored for Florida, which leads the Eastern Conference first-round series 3-2. The Panthers’ last series victory came in the 1996 East finals, and they’ll have two chances to snap that drought.

Tomas Kopecky was credited with an emptynet goal with 34 seconds left, after Ilya Kovalchuk impeded his clear path to the net.

Martin Brodeur made 30 saves for New Jersey, which hosts a win-or-else Game 6 on Tuesday night.

Blues 3, Sharks 1 ST. LOUIS — Jamie Langenbrunner and David Perron scored in a 45-second span in the third period, and St. Louis Blues woke up in time to put away the San Jose Sharks 3-1 and wrap up the first-round series in five games Saturday night.

Joe Thornton scored in the final minute of the second period for San Jose, and the Sharks were seemingly in control before the flurry that ended their season.

■ Major League Baseball

Humber games: ChiSox hurler perfect vs. Ms SEATTLE (AP) — Phil Humber had Tommy John surgery before his career even started. He bounced around a bit as he tried to make it in the major leagues.

Now, well, Humber is perfect.

Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

“What just took place

was just awesome,” he said.

It was baseball’s 21st perfect game and first since Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. It was the third in White Sox’s history, joining Mark Buehrle against Tampa Bay on July 23, 2009, and Charles Robertson against Detroit on April 30, 1922.

Before Saturday, Humber was best known as one of four prospects the

Mets traded to Minnesota for two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana in February 2008.

That’s no longer the case — not after tossing the majors’ first no-hitter of the season and the second April perfect game in major league history.

“I don’t even know what to say,” Humber said. “I don’t know what Philip Humber is doing in this list. No idea what my name is doing there, but I’m thankful it’s

there.”

He was drafted No. 3 overall by the New York Mets in 2004, one pick after Justin Verlander went to the Detroit Tigers. But Humber was sidelined by elbow-ligament replacement surgery the following year and didn’t win a game in the majors until 2010 with Kansas City.

With the White Sox lined up on the top step of the dugout, Humber fell behind 3-0 to Michael Saunders leading off the ninth. But he

rebounded to strike him out.

John Jaso then flied out before Brendan Ryan, another pinch hitter, struck out to end the game.

Ryan took a checked swing and missed at a fullcount pitch that was outside and low, but the ball got away from Pierzynski. Ryan lingered outside the batter’s box for a minute, unsure of umpire Brian Runge’s call, and Pierzynski fired to first to complete the play.

“I was more nervous than

I was in the World Series,” catcher A.J. Pierzynski said.

“There was no build up for this, it just happened. And you want it so bad for the guy on the mound and you want him to have that achievement forever and you want to have him remembered forever. It’s a special thing that Phil did.”

Humber fell to his knees when it was over, and his teammates rushed toward the mound to congratulate him.

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■ Track and Field

■ Baseball

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Trojans

■ CONTINUED FROM A8 4x100 team of Chris Bohse, Davonte Fugate, Skyler Deeter and Trey Eustache was sixth (49.57 seconds).

Brubaker was also second in the 800 (2:05.69) and sixth in the 1,600 (4:49.29). Matt Ward was second in the discus (1362). Cory Klosterman was fifth in the pole vault (120), while Austin Dickison was seventh (10-0). Nick Fields was fifth in the shot put (40-6.5). Chris McGrath was sixth in the long jump (18-0.25). Tyler Hunt was seventh in the 110 hurdles (17.23 seconds).

The 4x100 team of Rachel Paden, Brooke Brown, Kasey Jackson and Kinsey Douglas was fifth (56.95 seconds). The 4x800 team of Michaela Litton, Cassie Schieltz, Shelby Brumbaugh and Jessica Albaugh was sev-

enth (10:48.53). The 4x400 team of Albaugh, Bates, Brumbaugh and Schieltz was seventh (4:38.36). The 4x200 team of Michaela Bates, Laynie Hildebrand, Jackson and Paden was eighth (2:02.77).

Jackson was also second in the long jump (1310). Paden was fifth in the 100 (13.94 seconds) and sixth in the 200 (29.31 seconds). Rachel Hurst was sixth in the discus (89-0). Cate Busse was sixth in the shot put (304.25), while Meghan Swartz was seventh (295.25). Douglas was sixth in the long jump (13-6.25) and seventh in the high jump (4-4). Brown was eighth in the pole vault (8-0).

Minster swept the meet, winning in the boys (181.5) and girls (149) team standings by 45 points or more.

■ College Football

Buckeyes ■ CONTINUED FROM A8 once. “‘Hang On Sloopy’ was kind of a touching moment, having grown up watching that,” he said of the signature song played by the Ohio State band.

The scrimmage offered a glimpse of Meyer’s hurry-up offense. There were hits and misses as he and his staff try to find playmakers to run the scheme made famous at Florida by Chris Leak, Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin.

“It was fun getting the ball in the playmakers’ hands,” said quarterback Braxton Miller, the Buckeyes’ top returning offensive threat who completed 24 of 31 passes for 258 yards with an interception. “I felt pretty good. We didn’t show too much today.”

Kenny Guiton, calling signals for the Gray, was 17 of 26 for 191 yards with the late interception. He threw for a touchdown and ran for another. Guiton completed passes of 21 and 23 yards to Corey Brown to move the Gray downfield for a go-ahead touchdown.

Meyer had promised a pass-first scrimmage, but there weren’t a whole lot of big plays or offensive stars beyond the two quarterbacks and freshman wide receiver Michael Thomas, who had 12 catches for 131 yards. To put that into perspec-

tive, no Ohio State receiver had more than 14 receptions total last season.

The Buckeyes are trying to turn things around after going 6-7 and losing their final four games under interim coach Luke Fickell, who was retained by Meyer as the defensive coordinator.

The Buckeyes will not have a bowl game as motivation this fall because of NCAA sanctions. But the competitive juices were flowing right away after what players call the “circle drill” at midfield.

“It was fun. It was competitive. It got the crowd into it,” Miller said of his time squaring off against Guiton.

“We’re good friends. We were just competing. We were just laughing at each other, like, ‘Are we really in the circle drill together? That’s crazy.’”

Meyer praised the effort and enthusiasm, but also recognizes that the Buckeyes are far from game-ready. After the scrimmage, and after he had continued the Tressel tradition of joining the team in singing the alma mater in front of the band, he challenged his players.

“Yes, we identified our issues and we also identified our strengths,” he said. “I just told them that it has to be the best offseason in the history of college football. That has to happen. It starts Monday.”

Sunday, April 22, 2012

A10

Troy’s Ian Nadolny tracks down a pop up Saturday.

■ CONTINUED FROM A8 win in the opener after late a Troy rally fell short, then winning the second game by a count of 12-2.

Despite the Elks’ record and their talent, the fact of the matter is that Troy coach Ty Welker wasn’t satisfied — and for good reason.

Troy was held scoreless for the first six innings of Game 1 before making it interesting in the seventh, scoring two runs — but ending the game by leaving the bases loaded. Also not helping matters for the Trojans was the fact that only two of Centerville’s four runs were earned, leaving pitcher Devon Alexander with the loss.

“We only gave up two earned runs in that game,” Welker said. “We gave them a run in the first on a wild pitch. We made errors and mistakes here and there.

But our offense didn’t score. We left guys in scoring position. Left the bases loaded in the seventh. We struck out eight times. We just could have made it a better baseball game.”

In Game 2, Troy trailed 3-2 in the going into the top of the fifth. And though the Elks had just two hits in the inning, they scored four runs. One hit batter, two walks and one error on Troy’s part proved detrimental as Centerville pushed its lead to 7-2.

And once again, Troy didn’t help its cause on the offensive side.

Ian Nadolny was hit by a pitch to start the second inning, then Jordan Price doubled to put runners on second and third. Price was caught in a jam on the basepath and called out on a Kevin McGraw grounder on the next at-bat, leaving runners on the corners. But those runners were stranded as the next two hitters struck out.

Then in the third, Troy had something promising going when Nick Antonides, Nathan Helke and Jordan Guillozet led off the inning with three

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Troy’s Nick Antonides is hit by a pitch Saturday against Centerville.

After two big GWOC North wins over Butler last week, the Trojans (11-7, 4-2 GWOC North) have now suffered a three-game losing streak for the first time this season. Pitcher Ben Langdon — who was 2-0 with an ERA of 2.23 entering Saturday — suffered the loss.

“That’s a great baseball team,” Welker said. “They are 17-1 now. The score was 3-2 going into the fifth. I’ll take that every time.

“We just have these moments where we make mental mistakes. We don’t get a double play here, or we make an error. It’s a shame we did that to him (Ben Langdon), because that wasn’t all on him that inning. He didn’t pitch a bad game.”

Troy looks to bounce back on Monday, hosting Trotwood.

Troy’s Dylan Cascaden runs to first Saturday against Centerville. straight base hits, loading the bases for Price — who was walked to bring in Troy’s first run. McGraw’s single brought in Helke to make the score 3-2. But just when the Trojans had a chance to pounce, the inning ended abruptly with

more runners left stranded on the bases.

There were only 13 more Troy players to come to the plate after that point. Centerville recorded three straight one-twothree innings in the fourth, fifth and six.

seven and allowed five hits to get the win.

• Baseball TC 11, Cavaliers 10; TC 11, Cavaliers 10 TROY — The games may have been as sloppy as the conditions.

But the Troy Christian Eagles are red hot — unlike the conditions.

The Eagles (14-3) won the third and fourth straight games Saturday, sweeping a cold, wet doubleheader from the Springfield Cavaliers by claiming both games with matching 11-10 scores.

David Diltz tripled and Ben Morrow and Spencer Thomas both doubled in the opener, a back-and-forth battle through the muck. Troy Christian jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held a 7-5 edge after four, but the Cavaliers scored five in the top of the sixth to jump ahead. The Eagles answered with four of their own in the bottom of the inning, though, and held on for the win.

Troy Christian again jumped out to a big lead in the second game, going up 10-2 after four. But the Cavaliers came back once again, scoring six in the top of the sixth to cut the lead to one — but the Eagles were able to hold on.

Garret Hancock and Alec Patterson doubled in the sec-

ond game, while Nathan Kirkpatrick doubled and tripled.

Elijah Sims got the win in relief in the opener, while Patterson got the win in the second game.

Newton 15, MC 2; Newton 9, MC 5 MIDDLETOWN — After a quick opener, Newton and Middletown Christian played a three-and-a-half-hour 10inning game. Newton rode Cody Alexander’s arm to a 152 win over Middletown Christian in Game 1 — which gave the Indians their second consecutive run-rule victory — then powered out 14 hits at the plate in a 9-5 win in the second.

Alexander picked up the victory in the first game, striking out six, allowing six hits and two earned runs.

“We rode Cody to victory (in the first game),” Newton coach Gregg Carnes said. “He was a workhorse for us.”

Logan Welbaum had a 2 for 3 game with three RBIs and two runs scored, Gavin Alexander was 2 for 3 with three RBIs and three runs and Chase Courtney was 2 for 3 with two runs scored.

Courtney — who went 2 for 5 in Game 2 — played an even bigger role in the second game, driving in the winning runs with a double in the

Cent. ........100 200 1 — 4 6 1 Troy .........000 000 2 — 2 5 1 Alexander, Antonides (7) and Nadolny. Hendrixson, Fitzgerald (7) and Murphy. WP — Hendrixson. LP — Alexander. 2B — Young (C), Fitzgerald (C), Murphy (C). 3B — Fitzgerald (C).

Cent. ....300 042 3 — 12 12 1 Troy .........002 000 0 — 2 6 4 Fox and Murphy. Langdon, Croft (6) and Nadolny and Magoteaux (7). WP — Fox. LP — Langdon. 2B — Price (T).

Records: Centerville 17-1. Troy 11-7.

■ Softball/Baseball

Roundup ■ CONTINUED FROM A8 the second game, but an error with two outs in the fifth gave North Union’s cleanup hitter a chance, and she blasted a three-run homer — her 12th of the season — to put the Devils down 3-2.

After Alvarez and Reinhard led off the bottom of the seventh with hits, North Union got the lead runner at third on two straight fielder’s choices to put Tippecanoe down to its last out. A Jordynn Kostyal single loaded the bases, and Hannah Beck hit a shot to third that was thrown away at first, allowing both runs to score.

Bri Eichbaum got the win in the second game.

ME 6, Triad 1; ME 14, Triad 7 NORTH LEWISBURG — Miami East put it all together in a win over Triad to open Saturday’s doubleheader.

In the second game, the Vikings opened up at the plate.

Miami East (12-5) jumped out to an early lead and held the Cardinals in check from there in a 6-1 victory to start the day, then the Vikings hammered out 22 hits in a 147 win to cap off the day.

“These are two good wins for us,” Miami East coach Brian Kadel said. “We came out strong in the first game,

strung together a bunch of hits and got our confidence up. And Paige (Kiesewetter) threw the ball well, and we played solid defense.”

Kiesewetter struck out 11 and walked none in six innings to start the day, giving up eight hits but only one run in the first inning. She also led the way at the plate, going 3 for 3 with a double, a triple and three RBIs. Jeni Accurso was 2 for 3 with a double and two RBIs and Kristy Brown and Paige Mullen both went 2 for 3.

Accurso and Kiesewetter continued to feast on Triad pitching in the second game.

Accurso was 3 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs and Kiesewetter was 4 for 5 with a double and three RBIs. Brown had a pair of doubles, Gabby Ryman had a double, Lindsey Brookhart and Christine Bowling were both 3 for 5 and Sam Denlinger — who got the win — was 2 for 3.

M-U 11, Covington 10; RV 6, M-U 2; Covington 2, RV 1 COVINGTON — MiltonUnion handed Covington its second straight loss despite committing seven errors, winning 11-10 to begin a tri at Covington on Saturday. But the Bulldogs couldn’t overcome six more errors against River Valley in a 6-2 loss.

“When you have 13 errors in two games, you’re lucky to win one,” Milton-Union coach Curt Schaefer said. “We let (Covington) extend some innings, and when you do that against good teams, they’re going to hurt you.”

But Brittany Courtright hit a three-run homer and finished the game 2 for 2 with five RBIs to give the Bulldogs enough punch to hold on for the win. Chloe Smith was 3 for 5 with a double, Kayla Smith was 2 for 5 and Christine Heisey doubled.

Ashley Smith got the win on the mound.

River Valley cashed in on errors, as well, scoring three in the third inning after a couple of two-out errors to put it away. Andrea Fetters struck out six, walked none and gave up only four hits but was stuck with the loss.

Fetters also homered in the game for Milton-Union (14-5), Kelsey Flory was 3 for 3 and Ashley Smith was 2 for 4.

Meanwhile, Covington (152) — which lost for the first time this season Friday to Arcanum — paid back River Valley (15-1), cashing in on a key error to salvage a 2-1 victory to close out the day and hand River Valley its first loss of the year.

Casey Yingst struck out

10th. Gavin Alexander — who had a monster game, going 3 for 6 with two doubles and three RBIs — drove in two more runs on a double to put Newton up 9-5 moments later.

Tyler Denlinger was 2 for 4.

Mitchell Hussong got the win. He allowed just one earned run, two hits and struck out four.

Bethel 12, M-U 9; Bethel 5, M-U 2 BRANDT — Bethel answered Milton-Union’s sixrunning fifth inning with one of its own to kick off a doubleheader Saturday, holding on for a 12-9 win, then Joey Serrer shut down the Bulldogs in a 5-2 Bee win to complete the sweep.

Colin Hoke was 3 for 3 with two RBIs, Jon Ellerbrock was 2 for 3 with a double and two RBIs and Nate Reese was 3 for 4 with two RBIs to lead Bethel (16-3) in Game 1, helping Jimmy Pelphrey earn the win in relief.

Serrer then had a big game in the second one, going 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs and only giving up four hits on the mound. Ellerbrock added two RBIs and Brent Rowley was 2 for 2.

Kimmell was 2 for 3 with two RBIs and Overla was 2 for 4 with two RBIs for Milton-Union (8-12) in the first game.

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SCOREBOARD

Sunday, April 22, 2012

BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct New York 9 6 .600 8 6 .571 Baltimore 8 6 .571 Toronto 8 7 .533 Tampa Bay 4 10 .286 Boston Central Division W L Pct Detroit 10 5 .667 7 5 .583 Cleveland 8 6 .571 Chicago 5 10 .333 Minnesota 3 11 .214 Kansas City West Division W L Pct Texas 12 3 .800 Oakland 7 8 .467 7 9 .438 Seattle 5 9 .357 Los Angeles NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 12 4 .750 Atlanta 10 5 .667 8 6 .571 New York 7 8 .467 Miami 7 8 .467 Philadelphia Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 10 5 .667 Milwaukee 7 8 .467 Pittsburgh 6 8 .429 6 9 .400 Cincinnati 5 10 .333 Houston 4 11 .267 Chicago West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 12 3 .800 Colorado 7 7 .500 7 .500 San Francisco 7 7 8 .467 Arizona 4 12 .250 San Diego

Scores GB WCGB — — ½ — ½ — 1 ½ 4½ 4

L10 7-3 5-5 6-4 4-6 3-7

Str Home Away W-3 4-3 5-3 L-1 3-3 5-3 W-2 4-5 4-1 W-1 4-1 4-6 L-5 3-5 1-5

GB WCGB — — 1½ — 1½ — 5 3½ 6½ 5

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

Str Home Away W-1 6-3 4-2 W-2 1-4 6-1 W-2 3-4 5-2 L-1 2-4 3-6 L-9 0-8 3-3

GB WCGB — — 5 1½ 5½ 2 6½ 3

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

Str Home Away L-1 5-2 7-1 L-1 3-5 4-3 L-3 3-5 4-4 W-1 3-5 2-4

GB WCGB — — 1½ — 3 1½ 4½ 3 4½ 3

L10 8-2 9-1 4-6 5-5 5-5

Str Home Away W-2 8-2 4-2 W-5 5-1 5-4 W-1 5-3 3-3 L-2 5-2 2-6 L-1 3-3 4-5

GB WCGB — — 3 3 3½ 3½ 4 4 5 5 6 6

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

Str Home Away L-1 4-2 6-3 W-1 4-4 3-4 W-1 3-2 3-6 L-1 3-3 3-6 L-2 3-5 2-5 W-1 3-6 1-5

GB WCGB — — 4½ 2½ 4½ 2½ 5 3 8½ 6½

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

Str Home Away W-3 6-0 6-3 L-1 5-4 2-3 L-1 4-2 3-5 L-5 4-5 3-3 W-1 3-7 1-5

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games N.Y.Yankees 6, Boston 2 Texas at Detroit, ppd., rain Minnesota 5, Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 4, Kansas City 3 L.A. Angels 6, Baltimore 3 Cleveland 4, Oakland 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Seattle 3 Saturday's Games Texas 10, Detroit 4, 1st game Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 0 N.Y.Yankees 15, Boston 9 Detroit 3, Texas 2, 2nd game Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 1 Toronto 9, Kansas City 5 Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Texas (Lewis 2-0) at Detroit (Smyly 00), 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Liriano 0-2) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 0-2), 1:40 p.m.

Toronto (R.Romero 2-0) at Kansas City (Duffy 1-1), 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Haren 0-1), 3:35 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 0-1) at Oakland (T.Ross 0-0), 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 1-2) at Seattle (Millwood 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees (Sabathia 1-0) at Boston (Bard 0-2), 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games N.Y.Yankees at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 4 Washington 2, Miami 0 St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1 San Francisco 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, Houston 1 Colorado 4, Milwaukee 3 Atlanta 9, Arizona 1 Philadelphia 4, San Diego 1 Saturday's Games Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati 1 Washington 3, Miami 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, San Francisco 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, Houston 1 Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 0 Milwaukee 9, Colorado 4 Atlanta 3, Arizona 2 San Diego 5, Philadelphia 1 Sunday's Games San Francisco (Lincecum 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 1-1), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Jo.Johnson 0-2) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 1-0), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Lohse 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Bedard 0-3), 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 2-0) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 0-2), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Guthrie 1-1) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 1-1), 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 0-0), 2:20 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 1-2) at San Diego (Bass 0-2), 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Delgado 2-0) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 2-0), 4:10 p.m.

Monday's Games Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

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Umpires_Home, Scott Barry; First, Gary Darling; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Lance Barrett.

T_2:40. A_38,405 (41,009).

Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game Texas . . . . . . .810 000001—10 17 0 Detroit . . . . . .000 200 020—4 8 1 M.Harrison, Uehara (8) and Napoli; Porcello, Below (2), Schlereth (8) and Laird. W_M.Harrison 3-0. L_Porcello 11. HRs_Texas, Hamilton (6), Napoli (6).

Detroit, A.Jackson (3), Mi.Cabrera (4).

Second Game Texas . . . . . . .000 100 010—2 7 0 Detroit . . . . . .000 300 00x—3 3 0 Feliz and Torrealba; Verlander, Dotel (7), Benoit (8), Valverde (9) and Avila.

W_Verlander 2-1. L_Feliz 1-1.

Sv_Valverde (4).

NewYork . . . .000 001770—15 16 0 Boston . . . . .232 020 000—9 17 1 F.Garcia, Rapada (2), Phelps (3), R.Soriano (7), Logan (8), Eppley (9) and Martin; Doubront, Padilla (7), Albers (7), F.Morales (7), Aceves (8), J.Thomas (8), Tazawa (8) and Saltalamacchia. W_R.Soriano 2-0.

L_Aceves 0-1. HRs_New York, Teixeira 2 (3), Swisher (4). Boston, C.Ross (3).

Chicago . . . .012 000 001—4 9 0 Seattle . . . . . .000 000 000—0 0 0 Humber and Pierzynski; Beavan, Luetge (7), Delabar (8) and Olivo.

W_Humber 1-0. L_Beavan 1-2.

HRs_Chicago, Konerko (2).

Minnesota . . .000 000 001—1 5 3 Tampa Bay . .000 003 10x—4 8 0 Pavano, Al.Burnett (7), Duensing (7), Gray (8) and Doumit; Shields, Rodney (9) and J.Molina. W_Shields 3-0.

L_Pavano 1-2. Sv_Rodney (5).

Toronto . . . . .000 402 300—9 14 0 Kansas City .100 040 000—5 10 0 Hutchison, Oliver (6), Villanueva (8) and Arencibia; Mendoza, Teaford (4), K.Herrera (7), Collins (9) and B.Pena.

W_Hutchison 1-0. L_Teaford 0-1.

HRs_Toronto, Rasmus 2 (3), Encarnacion (4). Kansas City, A.Gordon (2), Hosmer (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami . . . . . . .000 000002 0—2 6 1 Washington .000 001100 1—3 7 0 (10 innings) A.Sanchez, Webb (8), Mujica (9) and J.Buck; Strasburg, Mattheus (7), S.Burnett (8), Lidge (9), Gorzelanny (10) and Ramos. W_Gorzelanny 1-0.

L_Mujica 0-1. HRs_Miami, Morrison (1). Washington, Desmond (2), Werth (1).

San Francisco001 000 003—4 9 3 NewYork . . . .000 010 211—5 9 0 Vogelsong, Ja.Lopez (8), Otero (8), Hensley (9), Affeldt (9) and Posey; Pelfrey, F.Francisco (9), Byrdak (9), Rauch (9) and Thole. W_Rauch 2-0.

L_Hensley 1-1.

St. Louis . . . .000 000 000—0 5 1 Pittsburgh . . .000 101 00x—2 7 0 Westbrook, Salas (7), Rzepczynski (8) and Y.Molina; A.J.Burnett, J.Cruz (8), Watson (8), Grilli (8), Hanrahan (9) and Barajas. W_A.J.Burnett 1-0.

L_Westbrook 2-1. Sv_Hanrahan (2).

Los Angeles .010 002 020—5 8 0 Houston . . . .000 000 010—1 4 1 Kershaw, MacDougal (8), Jansen (8), J.Wright (9) and A.Ellis; Weiland, R.Cruz (8), Davi.Carpenter (8), W.Lopez (9) and C.Snyder. W_Kershaw 1-0. L_Weiland 0-3. HRs_Los Angeles, Loney (1), Kemp (9).

Colorado . . . .000 102 001—4 6 0 Milwaukee . .000 021 60x—9 9 0 Pomeranz, Rogers (6), E.Escalona (7), Roenicke (8) and Rosario; Estrada, M.Parra (6), McClendon (6), Veras (7), Dillard (8) and Lucroy. W_Veras 2-0.

L_Rogers 0-1.

HRs_Colorado, Tulowitzki (2), Helton (3). Milwaukee, Braun (2), Ale.Gonzalez (3).

Atlanta . . . . . .111 000 000—3 6 0 Arizona . . . . .110 000 000—2 5 1 Hanson, Venters (8), Kimbrel (9) and McCann; J.Saunders, Shaw (8), D.Hernandez (9) and M.Montero.

W_Hanson 2-2. L_J.Saunders 1-1.

Sv_Kimbrel (5). HRs_Atlanta, Uggla (2). Arizona, Kubel (1).

Philadelphia .000 000 001—1 3 0 San Diego . . .011 000 03x—5 8 1 Halladay, Stutes (8) and Schneider; Luebke, Street (9) and Hundley.

W_Luebke 2-1. L_Halladay 3-1.

Midwest League Eastern Division W L Lansing (Blue Jays) 13 3 Bowling Green (Rays) 11 4 Great Lakes (Dodgers) 9 7 Dayton (Reds) 8 8 South Bend (D’Backs) 8 8 West Michigan (Tigers) 7 9 Fort Wayne (Padres) 6 10 Lake County (Indians) 4 12

Pct. GB .813 — .733 1½ .563 4 .500 5 .500 5 .438 6 .375 7 .250 9

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, at Manama, Bahrain 12:30 p.m. FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, STP 400, at Kansas City, Kan. COLLEGE BASEBALL 3 p.m. ESPN2 — Georgia at Florida COLLEGE SOFTBALL 3:30 p.m. ESPN — Missouri at Oklahoma CYCLING 12:30 a.m. NBCSN — Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Liege to Ans, Belgium (delayed tape) GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, China Open, final round, at Tianjin, China (same-day tape) 1 p.m. CBS — Champions Tour, Legends of Golf, final round, at Savannah, Ga. 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Texas Open, final round, at San Antonio MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2:10 p.m. FSN, WGN — Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at Boston MOTORSPORTS 5 p.m. SPEED — FIM World Superbike, at Assen, Netherlands (same-day tape) 11 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at Braselton, Ga. (same-day tape) NBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — New York at Atlanta 3:30 p.m. ABC — Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers NHL HOCKEY Noon NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, Pittsburgh at Philadelphia 3 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, Boston at Washington 8 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, Los Angeles at Vancouver SOCCER 6 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS, New York at D.C. United Western Division W L Pct. GB Quad Cities (Cardinals)10 6 .625 — Wisconsin (Brewers) 10 6 .625 — 8 8 .500 2 Beloit (Twins) Kane County (Royals) 8 8 .500 2 Cedar Rapids (Angels) 7 8 .467 2½ Burlington (Athletics) 7 9 .438 3 6 10 .375 4 Peoria (Cubs) 5 11 .313 5 Clinton (Mariners) Saturday's Games Wisconsin 3, West Michigan 2, 12 innings Great Lakes 2, Peoria 1 Fort Wayne 7, Kane County 2 Clinton 8, Lake County 5 Dayton 5, Quad Cities 1 South Bend 8, Beloit 5 Lansing 9, Burlington 6 Cedar Rapids at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Beloit at West Michigan, 1 p.m.

Lake County at Kane County, 2 p.m.

Wisconsin at South Bend, 2:05 p.m.

Great Lakes at Burlington, 3 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Clinton, 3 p.m.

Lansing at Peoria, 3 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Dayton, 4 p.m.

Quad Cities at Bowling Green, 6:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Lake County at Kane County, 1 p.m.

Beloit at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Dayton, 7 p.m.

Wisconsin at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.

Great Lakes at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Lansing at Peoria, 7:30 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Clinton, 7:30 p.m.

Quad Cities at Bowling Green, 7:35 p.m.

AUTO RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-STP 400 Lineup After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kan. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (22) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 175.993.

2. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 175.747.

3. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 175.724.

4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 175.667.

5. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 175.484.

6. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 175.444.

7. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 175.313.

8. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 175.302.

9. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 175.092.

10. (12) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 175.086.

11. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 175.063.

12. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 174.927.

13. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 174.887.

14. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 174.876.

15. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 174.803.

16. (10) David Reutimann, Chevrolet, 174.803.

17. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 174.706.

18. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 174.486.

19. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 174.323.

20. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 174.261.

21. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 174.244.

22. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 174.171.

23. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 174.143.

24. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 174.031.

25. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 174.02.

26. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 174.003.

27. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 173.947.

28. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 173.863.

29. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 173.756.

30. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 173.745.

31. (49) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 173.516.

32. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota,

173.388.

33. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 173.383.

34. (23) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, 173.249.

35. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 173.221.

36. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 173.182.

37. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 173.155.

38. (26) Josh Wise, Ford, 172.756.

39. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 172.507.

40. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 171.985.

41. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 171.625.

42. (32) Reed Sorenson, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 171.396.

NASCAR Camping World Truck-SFP 250 Results Saturday At Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kan. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 167 laps, 148.6 rating, 48 points, $43,150.

2. (10) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 167, 116.1, 42, $31,890.

3. (12) Brad Keselowski, Ram, 167, 100.8, 0, $19,985.

4. (8) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 167, 109.1, 40, $17,075.

5. (9) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 167, 113, 40, $15,550.

6. (16) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 167, 95.6, 39, $11,925.

7. (3) Justin Lofton, Chevrolet, 167, 94.1, 37, $14,025.

8. (11) Parker Kligerman, Ram, 167, 88.1, 36, $13,950.

9. (5) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 167, 91.3, 35, $14,875.

10. (13) Miguel Paludo, Chevrolet, 167, 82.4, 34, $15,100.

11. (15) Cale Gale, Chevrolet, 167, 78, 33, $13,775.

12. (17) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 167, 76.9, 32, $13,650.

13. (19) John King, Toyota, 167, 73.7, 31, $13,575.

14. (7) Joey Coulter, Chevrolet, 166, 101.5, 30, $13,525.

15. (20) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 166, 65.1, 30, $12,100.

16. (18) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 166, 65.2, 28, $11,350.

17. (1) Tim George Jr., Chevrolet, 166, 65.3, 27, $15,625.

18. (2) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 165, 103, 27, $11,025.

19. (4) Jason White, Ford, 164, 90.1, 26, $13,225.

20. (31) Chris Fontaine, Chevrolet, 164, 47.8, 24, $11,525.

21. (29) Bryan Silas, Ford, 164, 48.9, 23, $13,125.

22. (23) Max Gresham, Chevrolet, 163, 51.5, 22, $13,100.

23. (32) Scott Stenzel, Chevrolet, 163, 42.4, 21, $10,825.

24. (14) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 162, 75.6, 20, $14,050.

25. (36) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ram, 160, 38.9, 19, $10,925.

26. (34) Chris Cockrum, Chevrolet, 159, 33.4, 18, $13,000.

27. (27) Paulie Harraka, Ford, 158, 45.9, 17, $12,975.

28. (35) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 155, 30.7, 16, $11,700.

29. (30) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, rear gear, 128, 49.1, 15, $11,650.

30. (28) Chad McCumbee, Chevrolet, fuel pump, 54, 42, 15, $11,125.

31. (22) David Starr, Toyota, accident, 41, 57, 13, $10,600.

32. (26) Brennan Newberry, Chevrolet, accident, 40, 46.1, 12, $10,575.

33. (21) Russ Dugger, Chevrolet, accident, 39, 34.7, 11, $10,550.

34. (24) Ross Chastain, Toyota, engine, 17, 38.7, 10, $10,525.

35. (33) Chris Jones, Toyota, rear end, 14, 31.1, 9, $10,500.

36. (25) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, accident, 2, 29.7, 8, $10,471.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 121.112 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 4 minutes, 6

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Margin of Victory: 5.320 seconds.

Caution Flags: 5 for 28 laps.

Lead Changes: 16 among 8 drivers.

Top 10 in Points: 1. T.Peters, 163; 2.

J.Buescher, 159; 3. J.Lofton, 152; 4.

T.Dillon, 149; 5. N.Piquet Jr., 140; 6.

P.Kligerman, 137; 7. R.Hornaday Jr., 129; 8. J.King, 124; 9. J.White, 120; 10.

M.Crafton, 115.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Pct GB W L 37 27 .578 — y-Boston 33 30 .524 3½ x-New York Philadelphia 33 30 .524 3½ 22 41 .349 14½ Toronto New Jersey 22 42 .344 15 Southeast Division W L Pct GB 45 18 .714 — y-Miami x-Atlanta 38 25 .603 7 36 26 .581 8½ x-Orlando 17 46 .270 28 Washington Charlotte 7 55 .113 37½ Central Division W L Pct GB 48 16 .750 — y-Chicago x-Indiana 41 23 .641 7 30 33 .476 17½ Milwaukee Detroit 23 40 .365 24½ 21 41 .339 26 Cleveland WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Pct GB W L y-San Antonio 46 16 .742 — 39 25 .609 8 x-Memphis x-Dallas 36 29 .554 11½ 33 31 .516 14 Houston 20 43 .317 26½ New Orleans Northwest Division Pct GB W L y-Oklahoma City 46 17 .730 — 35 28 .556 11 x-Denver Utah 33 30 .524 13 28 36 .438 18½ Portland Minnesota 26 38 .406 20½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB x-L.A. Lakers 40 24 .625 — ½ x-L.A. Clippers 39 24 .619 Phoenix 33 31 .516 7 22 41 .349 17½ Golden State Sacramento 20 43 .317 19½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Friday's Games Atlanta 97, Boston 92 Memphis 85, Charlotte 80 Cleveland 98, New York 90 Dallas 104, Golden State 94 San Antonio 121, L.A. Lakers 97 Oklahoma City 103, Sacramento 92 Saturday's Games Denver 118, Phoenix 107 Philadelphia 109, Indiana 106, OT Washington 86, Miami 84 Chicago 93, Dallas 83 Houston 99, Golden State 96 Memphis 93, Portland 89 Milwaukee 106, New Jersey 95 Orlando at Utah, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday's Games New York at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Denver, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday's Games Detroit at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers vs. Ottawa Thursday, April 12: NY Rangers 4, Ottawa 2 Saturday, April 14: Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Monday, April 16: NY Rangers 1, Ottawa 0 Wednesday, April 18: Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Saturday, April 21: Ottawa 2, NY Rangers 0, Ottawa leads series 3-2 Monday, April 23: NY Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m. x-Thursday, April 26: Ottawa at NY Rangers, TBD Boston vs. Washington Thursday, April 12: Boston 1, Washington 0, OT Saturday, April 14: Washington 2, Boston 1, 2OT Monday, April 16: Boston 4, Washington 3 Thursday, April 19: Washington 2, Boston 1 Saturday, April 21: Washington 4, Boston 3, Washington leads series 3-2 Sunday, April 22: Boston at Washington, 3 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 25: Washington at Boston, TBD Florida vs. New Jersey Friday, April 13: New Jersey 3, Florida 2 Sunday, April 15: Florida 4, New Jersey 2 Tuesday, April 17: Florida 4, New Jersey 3 Thursday, April 19: New Jersey 4, Florida 0 Saturday, April 21: Florida 3, New Jersey 0, Florida leads series 3-2 Tuesday, April 24: Florida at New Jersey, TBD x-Thursday, April 26: New Jersey at Florida, TBD Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Wednesday, April 11: Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Friday, April 13: Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 5 Sunday, April 15: Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 4 Wednesday, April 18: Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 3 Friday, April 20: Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2, Philadelphia leads series 3-2 Sunday, April 22: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, noon x-Tuesday, April 24: Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Vancouver vs. Los Angeles Wednesday, April 11: Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2

Friday, April 13: Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2 Sunday, April 15: Los Angeles 1, Vancouver 0 Wednesday, April 18: Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 1, Los Angeles leads series 3-1 Sunday, April 22: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 24: Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD x-Thursday, April 26: Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD St. Louis 4, San Jose 1 Thursday, April 12: San Jose 3, St. Louis 2, 2OT Saturday, April 14: St. Louis 3, San Jose 0 Monday, April 16: St. Louis 4, San Jose 3 Thursday, April 19: St. Louis 2, San Jose 1 Saturday, April 21: St. Louis 3, San Jose 1, St. Louis wins series 4-1 Phoenix vs. Chicago Thursday, April 12: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Saturday, April 14: Chicago 4, Phoenix 3, OT Tuesday, April 17: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Thursday, April 19: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT, Phoenix leads series 31 Saturday, April 21: Chicago at Phoenix, 10 p.m. x-Monday, April 23: Phoenix at Chicago, TBD x-Wednesday, April 25: Chicago at Phoenix, TBD Nashville 4, Detroit 1 Wednesday, April 11: Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Friday, April 13: Detroit 3, Nashville 2 Sunday, April 15: Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Tuesday, April 17: Nashville 3, Detroit 1, Friday, April 20: Nashville 2, Detroit 1

GOLF PGA-Texas Open Scores Saturday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6,2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Third Round a-amateur Ben Curtis.....................67-67-73—207 Matt Every.....................63-74-73—210 John Huh.......................77-68-67—212 Seung-Yul Noh..............73-71-68—212 Charlie Wi......................72-69-71—212 Matt Kuchar...................70-76-67—213 Greg Chalmers.............72-72-69—213 Brian Gay......................73-69-71—213 David Mathis.................69-67-77—213 Cameron Tringale .........72-65-76—213 Chris Stroud..................72-73-69—214 Bob Estes......................72-72-70—214 Martin Flores.................71-73-70—214 Ryan Palmer .................71-69-74—214 Ryan Moore ..................72-72-71—215 Fredrik Jacobson..........68-76-71—215 Kris Blanks....................74-73-68—215 Kevin Streelman ...........71-70-74—215 Frank Lickliter II.............71-70-74—215 Scott Piercy...................76-65-74—215 Brian Harman ...............72-73-71—216 Nathan Green...............73-71-72—216 Brendan Steele.............73-74-69—216 Kevin Kisner..................73-70-73—216 Billy Mayfair...................70-73-73—216 Daniel Summerhays.....74-68-74—216 Billy Hurley III................71-77-68—216 a-Jordan Spieth ............75-70-72—217 J.J. Killeen .....................73-71-73—217 Charley Hoffman ..........72-74-71—217 Justin Leonard ..............74-70-73—217 Skip Kendall..................71-73-73—217 Tom Gillis.......................72-72-73—217 Russell Knox.................72-71-74—217 Tim Herron....................74-69-74—217 Hunter Haas..................66-74-77—217 Tommy Biershenk.........70-74-74—218 Harrison Frazar.............72-74-72—218 Garth Mulroy.................71-71-76—218 Matt Jones ....................77-71-70—218 Will MacKenzie .............72-76-70—218 Patrick Reed .................71-74-74—219 Kyle Reifers...................70-75-74—219 Cameron Beckman ......68-76-75—219 Spencer Levin...............71-75-73—219 Chad Campbell.............73-71-75—219 Miguel Angel Carballo..70-73-76—219 David Hearn..................74-74-71—219 Bill Lunde ......................73-70-76—219 Bud Cauley ...................70-72-77—219 Blake Adams ................71-69-79—219 Will Claxton...................75-71-74—220 Hank Kuehne................72-74-74—220 Paul Stankowski ...........73-74-73—220 Jerry Kelly .....................72-74-75—221 Derek Lamely ...............68-75-78—221 J.J. Henry ......................74-74-73—221 Robert Damron.............76-72-73—221 Scott Langley................72-76-73—221 Stephen Ames..............74-74-73—221 Danny Lee ....................75-71-76—222 Graham DeLaet............73-74-75—222 Marco Dawson .............71-73-78—222 Ricky Barnes ................74-74-74—222 Harris English ...............70-73-80—223 Nick O'Hern...................73-74-76—223 Bobby Gates.................77-71-75—223 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Scores Saturday At Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa Savannah, Ga. Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 7,087; Par: 72 Second Round Bryant/Purtzer ....................60-65—125 Allen/Frost...........................62-63—125 Kite/Morgan........................65-61—126 North/Clampett...................64-62—126 Couples/Haas.....................63-63—126 Faxon/Sluman....................62-64—126 Pernice/Tway ......................65-62—127 Hallberg/Pavin ....................65-62—127 Langer/Lehman..................64-63—127 Cook/Sindelar.....................63-64—127 Bean/Lu ..............................63-64—127 Cochran/Perry ....................62-65—127 Browne/Pate.......................64-64—128 Fleisher/Jenkins .................62-66—128 Irwin/Baker-Finch ...............66-63—129 Gallagher/Huston...............66-63—129 Jacobsen/Weibring ............65-65—130 McNulty/Eger......................66-64—130 Mize/Sutton ........................64-66—130 Stadler/Goodes..................65-65—130 Brooks/Glasson..................65-66—131 Senior/Lyle..........................65-66—131 Fergus/Levi.........................66-65—131 Roberts/Simpson...............64-67—131 Hatalsky/Nelson.................67-64—131 Calcavecchia/Spittle...........66-66—132 Blake/Funk..........................66-66—132 Gilder/Romero....................66-67—133 Quigley/Thorpe ..................67-67—134 Beck/Wiebe ........................67-67—134 Doyle/Vaughan...................69-67—136 Jacobs/Zoeller....................67-70—137 Wadkins/Wadkins...............70-67—137 Green H./Thompson..........69-72—141 Sigel/Tewell.........................71-71—142

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Solution for a disaster?

House in a box, maybe NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by flooding in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, developers have built a prototype house that’s aimed at providing a quick housing solution for areas blown away by hurricanes and tornadoes or knocked down by earthquakes.

The dwelling in the Lakeview section of New Orleans is somewhat box-like, with a roof that slants inward and an arched structure in front that forms a covered front porch. But style isn’t the purpose of the house that’s meant to go up quickly after disasters and then serve as permanent housing that can withstand future calamities. It’s designed to be environmentally friendly, survive outside damaged utility grids and can be shipped in pieces in a single container and assembled like an erector set.

The house is the first of its kind, but its designers believe that there could be demand for tens of thousands of them in areas around the world that need to quickly rebuild after disasters.

The arch serves as the mount for 22 solar panels and the inward-slanting roof catches rainwater, all with the goal of making the house independent of disaster-damaged electricity and water systems. Its walls are steel structural insulated panels two sheaths of steel with a polystyrene core best known for their use in walk-in refrigerators. The walls are erected on a system of heavy-duty tracks and supports, and tested to withstand winds of 156 miles per hour. Without wood, of course, they are quite unappealing to termites.

“This building can be put in a disaster area without infrastructure, but it is permanent and can be expanded,” said Joseph Basilice, president of OceanSafe LLC, which produced the panels for the home.

After years of disasters, they

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Solar panels are seen atop the Roese Sunshower SSIP house in New Orleans. The house is meant to go up quickly after disasters and then serve as permanent housing that can withstand future calamities. It's designed to be environmentally friendly, survive outside damaged utility grids and can be shipped in pieces in a single container and assembled like an erector set. believe the market is there.

“We’re trying to make this a mass-production concept,” said Richard Dupont, estimating manager for Woodward Design + Build, the house’s construction manager. “You could sell them in onesies and twosies, but we want to sell them by the thousands.”

Basilice said the durability of the steel panels already has been proven. “After Hurricane Andrew, the only thing left standing was the walk-in coolers,” he said.

The house comprises about 1,100 square feet in a one-story living area featuring two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a great room and a kitchen. Its air conditioning system has individual room units with individual thermostats connected to a quiet outdoor compressor.

When it rains, water flows down the slanted roof into a 4-foot opening, collects in a cistern and then flows into a 6,000-galllon accumulation bladder. In New Orleans, rainwater can only be

used for irrigation, although restrictions vary across the country, Basilice said.

Basilice said a filtration system could be used to make rainwater potable for almost any purpose.

“In many parts of the world, that’s how people gather their water,” said Judith Kinnard, an architecture professor at Tulane University, who, with fellow professor Tiffany Lin, designed the house. “Water is going to be an increasingly scarce resource worldwide.”

The solar panels are designed to handle the house’s routine power needs. It can also be fitted with a turbine to generate electricity in windy regions. The outside of the walls is composed of a cement fiberboard that resists moisture, Kinnard said.

About 14 weeks are required to put the house together, about the same time required for the building of a non-custom standard home, said C.J. Minor, co-owner of

C&G Construction, which donated the land and served as general contractor.

Christophor Faust, managing partner a company called The Regen Group that specializes in green building techniques, said many ideas for the house started after Katrina when New Orleansarea builders were working with actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right rebuilding project. During that period, designers submitted entries for rebuilding houses in the city.

Faust’s group lost in the finals and “after that, we decided to design a sustainable housing kit that could be shipped into a disaster area,” he said.

Faust said the group also wanted to provide employment for construction craftsmen in disaster-hit areas, something that bringing in portable trailers doesn’t do.

The house comes in a single container transportable by truck, rail or ship meets the toughest

fire resistance codes and has walls that have been certified to withstand winds of up to 156 miles per hour, Faust said. Testing was performed in the “tornado cannon” at Texas Tech University.

There are only a few windows.

Each is covered with a snap-on mesh that has been shown to repell a wooden plank hurled at 90 miles per hour, Basilice said.

Faust says flooding isn’t a problem, either, because all of the construction material is water resistant.

The demonstration house is built one foot above the level of Katrina flooding in Lakeview. But if higher water invaded, “we’d use a pressure washer to get the mud out. Then we’d invite our neighbors over to spend the next six months.”

The group has pitched the house to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and housing authorities in South Africa, Iraq, Brazil, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Unity National Bank selects Baumeister as new president Unity National Bank has announced the appointment of Brett Baumeister to president.

Baumeister was senior vice president and head of commercial lending for Unity National Bank for six years. In 2010, he temporarily relocated to Alabama to assist Park National Corp. affiliate Vision Bank in managing commercial lending activities in that market.

Unity National Bank is one of 11 Ohio community

PIQUA banks within the Park National Corp.

“Brett Baumeister has demonstrated excellent leadership, dedicated service and fully developed skills as a commercial banker. His professional qualifications, combined with his depth of experience and familiarity with Piqua and the surrounding communities in Miami County, make him an ideal

leader for Unity National Bank,” said Park National Corp. Chairman C. Daniel DeLawder.

Baumeister also will serve as chairman of Unity’s advisory board of directors, according to DeLawder.

Baumeister has more than 22 years of business banking experience. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance from the University of Toledo, and he earned a standard of

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tives for Unity’s permanent leader. Darding returns to his role as executive vice president at Security National Bank, a community bank and Park National affiliate based in Springfield. DeLawder and David L. Trautman, president of the Park National Corp., expressed appreciation for Darding’s leadership during the interim period and look forward to continuing successes in the markets served by Unity National Bank.

Piqua Rotary and excellence degree the Piqua YMCA. from the Stonier He also served as Graduate School board chairman and of Banking. He finance committee has been signifimember for the cantly involved Northern Miami in the Piqua comValley Chapter of munity, including the American Red membership on BAUMEISTER Cross. He is returnthe city of Piqua ing to Piqua with Tax Incentive his wife, Anna, and Review Council, the city of Piqua two sons.

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Total Assets Name Obj ($Mlns) PIMCO TotRetIs CI 151,030 Vanguard TotStIdx LB 69,995 Vanguard InstIdxI LB 67,783 Fidelity Contra LG 60,967 American Funds GrthAmA m LG 58,599 Vanguard 500Adml LB 58,095 American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 57,179 Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 56,340 American Funds IncAmerA m MA 55,422 American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 47,942 American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 46,242 Vanguard InstPlus LB 43,245 Dodge & Cox Stock LV 40,764 American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 40,556 Fidelity Magellan LG 13,799 Putnam GrowIncA m LV 4,486 Putnam MultiCapGrA m LG 3,161 Janus RsrchT LG 1,432 Janus WorldwideT d WS 870 Fidelity Advisor HiIncAdvT m HY 548

CURRENCIES

NAV 11.19 34.46 126.32 76.19 32.24 127.14 51.27 34.47 17.40 34.95 29.41 126.33 111.99 30.11 71.48 13.99 55.12 31.77 44.65 9.90

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Pct Min Init Load Invt NL 1,000,000 NL 3,000 NL 5,000,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 NL 10,000 5.75 250 5.75 250 5.75 250 NL200,000,000 NL 2,500 5.75 250 NL 2,500 5.75 500 5.75 500 NL 2,500 NL 2,500 4.00 2,500

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

WEATHER & BUSINESS

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM

Today

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TODAY’S STATEWIDE FORECAST Sunday, April 22, 2012 AccuWeather.com forecast for daytime conditions, low/high temperatures

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday.............................51 at 3:21 a.m.

Low Yesterday............................41 at 11:38 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................64 Normal Low ......................................................43 Record High ........................................84 in 1987 Record Low.........................................26 in 1904

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m..............................0.01 Month to date ................................................1.25 Normal month to date ...................................2.81 Year to date ...................................................9.91 Normal year to date ....................................11.21 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Sunday, April 22, the 113th day of 2012. There are 253 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On April 22, 1912, the United States Chamber of Commerce had its beginnings with a National Commercial Conference held in Washington, D.C., at the behest of President William Howard Taft.

On this date: In 1864, Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.

In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.

In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape.

In 1952, an atomic test in Nevada became the first nuclear explosion shown on live network television as a 31-kiloton bomb was dropped from a B-50 Superfortress.

In 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first “Earth Day.” One year ago: Syrian security forces fired at protesters, killing at least 75 people around the country.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Charlotte Rae is 86. Singer Glen Campbell is 76. Actor Jack Nicholson is 75. Author Janet Evanovich is 69. Actress-talk show host Sherri Shepherd is 45.

LOCAL BUSINESS LEDGER

Overholser wins state award TROY — Georgia Overholser, Upper Valley Medical Center site manager of Health Information Services (HIS), was recognized with a statewide organization’s Ambassador to Education Award.

Overholser’s selection was announced recently by the Ohio Health OVERHOLSER Information Management Association. She was nominated based on her strong commitment and support of the Health Information Technology program at Sinclair Community College.

Overholser, BS, RHIA, has been employed at UVMC for more than 30 years, performing a variety of roles in the HIS department.

As manager, she coordinates all activities for health information and the release of information.

A Troy resident, Overholser is a graduate of Sinclair, with an associate degree in health information management, and the University of Cincinnati, with a bachelor’s degree in health information management.

The award recognizes Overholser’s continuing work with Sinclair students during their clinical rotation. While the students have specific assignments to complete, those in the UVMC program have additional “Georgia” projects that she said go “well beyond” the required assignments.

UVMC has accepted students since 1989. The students now are required to complete 200 hours of clinical rotation.

UPS Store honored for innovation ORLANDO, Fla. — The UPS Store, including the branch at 1841 W. Main St., Troy, recently was honored with the 2012 Mail Innovation Award by the U.S. Postal Service at the National Postal Forum.

The company was honored for

its participation in Every Door Direct Mail, which provides small businesses with a cost-effective way to send direct mail.

Using Every Door Direct Mail, small business customers can work with their local The UPS Store center to create, print and distribute high quality direct marketing pieces to every address in a designated neighborhood.

Stuart Mathis, president of Mail Boxes Etc., which franchise The UPS Store locations., said, “We are honored by this recognition and look forward to continuing our relationship to help grow both our businesses as well as support the small business community.”

For more information, visit www.theupsstore.com or on-the-go customers can visit m.theupsstore.com.

Troy Main Street earns accreditation COLUMBUS — Heritage Ohio has announced the 2011 certification of Troy Main Street as an Ohio Main Street Community. A member of the Main Street program since 2004, Troy Main Street continues to work toward revitalizing its historic downtown districts.

“We are very proud to see Troy Main Street receive National Accreditation for 2011,” said Jeff Siegler, director of revitalization for Heritage Ohio. “This demonstrates that the organization is meeting all of the necessary criteria to be successful in its effort to revitalize downtown Troy. The importance of the Troy Main Street’s efforts to sustain downtown businesses and protect the historic infrastructure cannot be overstated during this time of economic uncertainty.”

Since 2007, $432,786,500 has been invested across 30 Main Street districts, of which Troy Main Street was one. For each dollar that went into the local budgets, communities saw more than $22 in improvements, such as renovations, new construction and façade improvements.

Heritage Ohio is the leading statewide, non-profit preservation organization, dedicated to encouraging and assisting people and organizations to protect and preserve Ohio’s heritage and cultural

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The OAMP is a non-profit Trojan Auto to offer organization that works for the betterment of the meat industry car care seminar in Ohio.

TROY — Trojan Auto Care will offer a women’s car care clinSeminar to inform ic from 10-11:30 a.m. May 5 at public on real estate the repair shop, 2511 W. Main St. The topic will be “Basic Auto TROY — Greg Greenwald of Care to Protect Your Car and Prudential One REALTORS, Alan Self Defense to Protect You.” Kappers of Dungan and Lefevre, Officer Joel Misirian of the Troy Bill Krauss of Farmers Insurance Police Department will be one of and Christina Wheeler-Wellman the featured speakers and will of Equity Resources will offer a talk about the ways women can free seminar to the public from 10 stay safe when they are driving. a.m. to noon May 5 in the Vic Haddad, owner, said he Concord Room at Club 55. enjoys providing seminars for A question-and-answer session Trojan Auto Care customers. He will follow the event. said female customers recently Organizers will offer insight have said they would like to for those who own or are consider- learn more about the basics of ing purchasing real estate, includ- car maintenance. ing information on: “This car care clinic is in • Current market statistics for response to their requests,” he said. “We’re also pleased to have Troy, Miami County, Dayton Officer Misirian as a featured Metropolitan, Ohio and nationspeaker and we’re confident the wide information he provides will add • Market outlooks further value to what the women • Foreclosure statistics, curwill learn at the event.” rent and outlook All attendees will receive a • How the foreclosure process free gift, along with complimenworks A to Z tary coffee and doughnuts.

• Define what are short sales Women are encouraged to bring & REO properties a friend.

• What are the options of Reservations are appreciated, someone in foreclosure and but not necessary, and can be explain common misconceptions • How does someone go about completed online at www.TrojanAutoCare.com. investing in a foreclosure and

resources.

Learn more by visiting www.heritageohio.org.

Seniormark welcomes Kaiser TROY — Seniormark LLC has welcomed Pam Kaiser of New Bremen to their staff.

Kaiser brings with her seven years of insurance experience.

She will assist with Medicare Supplement insurance, as well as health insurance for those under age 65. Working with companies such as Medical Mutual, Anthem, Aetna and Golden Rule, she will work with clients to get the best fit for them, looking at their medical history and combining that history with KAISER the options available.

A native of Botkins, Pam and her husband, Jim, are the parents of six children. In her spare time, she enjoys being a 4-H adviser, a position she has held for more than 20 years. She also volunteers at her church, as a religious education teacher, lector, and Eucharistic minister.

Dan Hoelscher, the founder and principal agent with Seniormark, said, “We are excited to add Pam to our team. She brings with her the insurance knowledge and enthusiasm to make a difference in each of our client’s lives.”

Founded in 2007, Seniormark, has offices in Sidney and Troy, and helps retirees make a successful transition from the workplace to the very unfamiliar world of retirement. At a time when retirees are often overwhelmed by the many decisions that have to be made, Seniormark helps eliminate the anxiety by patiently walking retirees through this very difficult process.

On May 15, they will hold a workshop in their Sidney office at 1602 Wapakoneta Ave. called “Solving the Medicare Puzzle.” It’s an introductory workshop for those new to Medicare and answers many of the questions that arise at that time. The workshop will start at 5:30 p.m. and last about an hour.

Anyone wanting to attend is asked to call their office at 4928800 to make a reservation.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

EARTH DAY

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TDN-NET.COM

Pollution • Continued from A1 Forty years after the Environmental Protection Agency sent an army of nearly 100 photographers across the country to capture images at the dawn of environmental regulation, The Associated Press went back for Earth Day this year to see how things have changed. It is something the agency never got to do because the Documerica program, as it was called, died in 1978, the victim of budget cuts.

AP photographers returned to more than a dozen of those locations in recent weeks, from Portland to Cleveland and Corpus Christi, Texas. Of the 20,000 photos in the archive, the AP selected those that focused on environmental issues, rather than the more general shots of everyday life in the 1970s.

Gone are the many obvious signs of pollution — clouds of smoke billowing from industrial chimneys, raw sewage flowing into rivers, garbage strewn over beaches and roadsides — that heightened environmental awareness in the 1970s, and led to the first Earth Day and the EPA’s creation in 1970. Such environmental consciousness caused Congress to pass almost unanimously some of the country’s bedrock environmental laws in the years that followed.

Today’s pollution problems aren’t as easy to see or to photograph. Some in industry and politics question whether environmental regulation has gone too far and whether the risks are worth addressing, given their costs.

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has called for the firing of EPA chief Lisa Jackson, while GOP rival Newt Gingrich has said the EPA should be replaced altogether.

Jackson has faced tough questioning on Capitol Hill

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This March 1973 photo released by the U.S. National Archives shows an illegal dumping area off the New Jersey Turnpike, facing Manhattan across the Hudson River, and north of the land fill area of the proposed Proposed Liberty State Park, N.J. This archival image was taken for the “Documerica” program, begun in 1972 by the new Environmental Protection Agency, to document subjects of environmental concern.

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This photo taken April 12 shows the Jersey City and New York City skylines with the green area near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., in the foreground. The image was photographed from the vantage point of an historic 1973 photo, that was part of the “Documerica” program.

“To a certain extent, we so often in past two years that a top Republican are a victim of our own sucsaid William quipped that she needs her cess,” Ruckelshaus, who headed own parking spot.

the EPA when it came into existence under Republican President Richard Nixon and was in charge during

the Documerica project.

“Right now, EPA is under sharp criticism partially because it is not as obvious to people that pollution problems exist and that we need to deal with them.”

Environmental laws that passed Congress so easily in Ruckelshaus’ day are now at the center of a partisan dispute between and Republicans Democrats. Dozens of bills have been introduced to limit environmental protections that critics say will lead to job losses and economic harm, and there are those who question what the vast majority of scientists accept that the burning of fossil fuels is causing global warming.

In the 1970s, the first environmental regulations were just starting to take effect, with widespread support. Now, according to some officials in the oil and gas and electric utility are industries, which

responsible for the bulk of emissions and would bear the greatest costs, the EPA has gone overboard with rules.

For instance, Documerica photographers captured a wave of coal-fired power plants under construction. Republicans and the industry now say environmental regulations are partly to blame for shuttering some of the oldest and dirtiest coal plants.

DiPeso of Jim ConservAmerica, a group that recently changed its name from Republicans for Environmental Protection, says the EPA is caught in the center of a perfect storm. “This time of greater cynicism about government, more economic anxiety and the fact that the problems are not immediately apparent, has created this political problem for EPA,” he said.

In an interview, Jackson said she believes that people in the United States still want to protect the environment. “There’s a large gulf between the rhetoric inside the Beltway to do everything from cut back on EPA to get rid of the whole place, and what the American people would actually stand for,” she said.

“It’s very easy to make rash statements without thinking about what that means to the health of everyday Americans.”

A 2010 Pew Research Center survey showed that 57 percent of those questioned held a favorable view of the EPA, compared with a 1997 poll that showed 69 percent with a positive view of the agency.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll taken last year found that 71 percent of people surveyed said that the government should continue provide money to the EPA to enforce regulations to address global warming and other environmental issues.

“We are not done. We still have challenges we have to face,” Jackson said.

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MUSEUM The National Museum of the United States Air Force is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Thanksgiving Day, New Year’s Day and Christmas Day. Admission to the museum is free, although there is a charge for the IMAX theater.

LEFT: A Northrop YC125B Raider can be seen at The National Museum of the United States Air Force at WrightPatterson Air Force Base. The aircraft was used for troop and equipment transport to forward combat areas.

RIGHT: A Fokker Dr.I triplane is displayed overhead inside the the National Museum of the United States Air Force at WrightPatterson Air Force Base.

History heaven Doolittle Raiders gather at museum that brings aviation’s past to life

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer he National Museum of the United States Air Force hosted living aviation history last week as four of the five surviving “Doolittle Raiders” pilots reunited to toast their fellow “raiders” who took part in one of World War II’s most celebrated Allied attacks.

The four of the five surviving “Doolittle Raiders” met at the National Museum of the United States Air Force on the 70th anniversary of the secret mission that took place on April 18, 1942, over Japan, dubbed the “Doolittle Tokyo Raid.”

The “Doolittle Raider” display is just one of the many exhibits and displays about aviation history housed in the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The 80 “Doolittle Raiders” — five on each of the 16 planes — each have their own unique story of what happened to them after their bombers took off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet.

The “Doolittle Raid” was the first U.S. military strike against Japan after the initial attack on Pearl Harbor and was considered a success against Japan, boosting war-effort

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A C-141 Starlifter aircraft, better known as the Hanoi Taxi, is displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. morale back in the United States.

Fifteen of the 16 bombers either crashlanded or bailed out of their planes in China due to low fuel; the other plane ended up in Russia.

The museum is home to the “Doolittle Raiders” sterling silver goblets, which memorialize each man during a “Goblet Ceremony,” as successors toast to those who have passed and their goblet — with their name engraved on it twice to be seen right

side up and upside down — then is permanently placed upside down after the toast.

Corporal Leland D. Faktor was killed on bail-out after mission.

Sgt. Donald Fitzmaurice and Staff Sgt. William J. Dieter drowned after crash landing off the coast of China. Eight “Doolittle Raiders” were captured by the Japanese. Of the eight, three were executed by firing squad, one died of disease and malnutrition and the other four survived more than 40

months in prison — most of the time spent in solitary confinement.

Five of the raiders later became generals in the war, including James H. Doolittle. Four raiders also later became prisoners of war in Germany and 13 raiders died in action later in WWII. All 80 raiders received the “Distinguished Flying Cross” award. General Doolittle received the highest military honor, The Medal of Honor, from President Roosevelt.

The National Museum of the United States Air Force, 1100 Spaatz St. on WrightPatterson Air Force Base, is aviation history heaven. According to its website, the National Museum of the United States Air Force galleries present military aviation history, boasting more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles on display — many rare and one-of-a-kind — along with thousands of historical items and powerful sensory exhibits that bring history to life and connect the Wright brothers’ legacy with today’s stealth and precision technology.

• For more information about the National Museum of the United States Air Force, its special exhibits and galleries, visit www. nationalmuseum.af.mil.

An exhibit describes flying training at Randolph and Brooks Fields, and as it took place in the 1930s.

ABOVE: A Boeing EC135E ARIA is exhibited at the museum.

At least eight Boeing C-135 Stratolifter cargo aircraft were modified and equipped with a steerable antenna dish in its distinctive “droop snoot.”

LEFT: Many boxcars carried 168 allied POWs from Paris to the Buchenwald concentration camp in August 1944.

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IT HAPPENED YEARS AGO

BY PATRICK D. KENNEDY For the Troy Daily News 25 Years Ago: April 22-May 5, 1987 • PIQUA — The Alliance, Ohio, based developers of a proposed new mall in Piqua have taken the first step in the project by having the county commissioners consider the propriety of rezoning their parcel of land. The property is west of I-75 and lies between State Route 36, on the north, and Garbry Road, on the south. A new large enclosed shopping mall is planned and the businessmen have already secured purchase orders from nine of the 14 properties along Garbry Road. A few homeowners are concerned about the presence of the mall lowering the value of their homes on Garbry.

Negotiations also are under way with three department stores about occupancy in the mall. In addition, the large complex may include a hotel, a cinema and other specialty stores.

• TROY — A Trojan in space?

If Nancy (Decker) Sherlock is able to fulfill her dream, then the Troy High School graduate will indeed be part of a space shuttle crew which is being selected for another mission. Sherlock recently received word that she is one of the 122 finalists for the program after having gone through a multitude of physical tests and interviews. During the next month decisions on the final 12 will be made. Sherlock has not let the 1986 Challenger tragedy deter her desire, stating, “Being in a job where you fly everyday, we are used to the underlying sense that there is always something that could happen.” She also tempers her enthusiasm with the knowledge that 60 percent of eventual astronauts do not make the cut their first time through the selection process. (Columnist’s Note: Nancy (Decker) Sherlock, now Currie, did not make the cut that year, but eventually she made four missions into space aboard the shuttles Endeavour (1993 & 1998), Discovery (1995) and Columbia (2002). Many will remember it was only a year later (2003), after her final trip in

HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY 50 Years Ago: April 22May 5, 1962 • SIDNEY — The new extension of the I-75 highway north from Sidney to Wapakoneta is progressing nicely and is tentatively scheduled for opening on July 1. A company contracted to place signs along the 16-mile stretch will be working alongside other workmen applying finishing touches to various portions of the ongoing road project.

One of the large jobs which needs to be completed is extending the new highway over the access ramp to the current road north. The crews need to cut through the ramp which is now utilized by the northbound traffic to access old U.S. 25 at the point where I-75 ends.

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The Knoop Children’s Home in 1910.

Wright State University, which founded in 1964. It was originally the Dayton branch campus of both Miami University and Ohio State University. The first building constructed was Allyn Hall, named for Stanley Allyn, president of National Cash Register and one of the university’s founders.)

the Columbia, that Capt. Rick Husband and six other crew members were killed upon reentry aboard the Columbia. More facts can be read about Nancy Currie at http://www. jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ currie.html, or by visiting the Troy Hall of Fame in Hobart Arena.)

50 Years Ago: April 22-May 5, 1962 • DAYTON — A campaign to raise funds for a new university project held a kickoff dinner in Dayton last Thursday (April 26) and will be holding events in area counties to organize support and raise funds for the proposed new university. The school is envisioned as a joint effort between Miami University and Ohio State University and will be located in Dayton. The six million dollar campaign will raise the necessary funds to construct the first building of the university and progress toward opening classes to students. Stanley Allyn, chairman of the campaign, will be speaking in Troy in early May in order to explain and promote the need for a new state school and the funds required to build that dream. Robert E. Hall, James J. Mischler and Glenn B. Jeffers are the Miami County representatives for the fund drive.

(Columnist’s Note: This was the beginning of what developed into

75 Years Ago: April 22-May 5, 1937 • MIAMI COUNTY — The state has served notice and is requiring Knoop Children’s Home in Elizabeth Township to meet with specific children’s welfare standards or be faced with the possibility of not being certified as a state approved home for children. The power of the state is such that if this action was completed, then the Juvenile Court of Miami County could no longer send children to the Knoop home: rather, it would have to pay for private home care. The State representative in January only gave the home a six-month certificate against the usual annual certification because of some deficits in care standards.

This warning was repeated by the representative to the county commissioners and home trustees at a meeting yesterday (April 30). Several items included on the list are: Stop dressing the children in a uniform manner;

transport the children into Troy to the sunday school of their choice and eliminate holding services for the children, as a group, at the home; allow co-ed play and dining for the children; initiation of vaocational training for the children, including sewing, cooking and general housekeeping for the girls and projects similiar to ones sponsored by the county 4-H for the boys. It was also determined the schooling of the children needed to be in the Elizabeth Township school and not the home. The recommendations of the state are not an indictment of a poorly run children’s home; rather, all of the measures are intended to help improve the children’s socialization and to minimize any feelings of inferiority related to being at the home, or as a result of isolation with the same group of children. The trustees, superintendent and matron made no speciific comments concerning the recommendations, but it is understood that they desire to cooperate.

100 Years Ago: April 22-May 5, 1912 • PLEASANT HILL — A meeting on Tuesday (April 23) in the Newton Township Hall saw a substantial crowd gathered in order to discuss the organization of a company for the purpose of laying sanitary sewer in

the village. It would seem that, as indicated by the attendance, there is a strong interest in this type of improvement for our village. A committe for organization and incorporation has been chosen and over one-half of the stock for the proposed company has already been subscribed.

• MIAMI COUNTY — Following their recent visit to Detroit, the commissioners wasted little time in implementing the plan to improve the road between Piqua and Troy. County deputy surveyor L.D. Knoop has already completed his sighting of the road from the south corporation of Piqua to the north corporation line of Troy. The total distance between the two points is 6.14 miles with a drop of 26.60 feet. The commissioners are still in the process of deciding whether the paving will be macadam or concrete.

Patrick D. Kennedy is archivist at the Troy-Miami County Public Library’s Local History Library, 100 W. Main St., Troy, 335-4082.

SCHOOL MENUS SCHOOL Monday — Popcorn chicken, roll, broccoli, fruit, milk.

Tuesday — Peppered chicken strip wrap with lettuce, cheese and sauce, fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Fiesta stick with lettuce, cheese and sauce, corn, fruit, milk.

Thursday — Taco salad with lettuce, cheese and sauce, Doritos, fruit, milk.

Friday — Pizza sticks, green beans, mixed fruit, milk.

• NEWTON SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken patty sandwich, tater tots, Strawberry Sidekick, milk.

Tuesday — Hot dog on a bun with coney sauce, baked beans, diced peaches, milk.

Wednesday — Macaroni and cheese, whole wheat dinner roll, green beans, diced pears, milk.

Thursday — Popcorn chicken, whole wheat dinner roll, corn, pineapple tidbits, milk.

Friday — Wrap with meat, cheese and lettuce, chips, applesauce, milk. High school only: Build your own

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consider going the extra step and whipping up a more creative topping. Here are some suggestions: In a small saucepan over medium heat, warm one part molasses to two parts honey, a splash of water, a pinch each of salt and black pepper, a squeeze of lemon juice and some chopped crisp bacon. Simmer until the flavors meld together.

Toss huckleberries with

cane sugar, vanilla extract and fresh lemon juice.

Allow to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes, allowing for a light sauce to extract from the berries.

Spread the berries over pancakes (lemon-ricotta pancakes are particularly good) and drizzle with some of the sauce.

Make banana syrup by slicing and microwaving an overripe (black) banana

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Monday — Chicken nuggets, steamed corn, choice of fruit, roll, milk.

Tuesday — Taco with lettuce and tomato, choice of fruit, spanish rice, milk.

Wednesday — Cheeseburger on a bun, baked smiley fries, choice of fruit, milk.

Thursday — Mini corn dogs, California vegetable blend, fruit, milk.

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

• UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER Monday — Hot dog or mini corn dogs, baked beans, assorted fruit, multi-grain roll.

Tuesday — Ravioli or cheese sticks and sauce, side salad, assorted fruit.

Wednesday — Pizza or quesadilla, fresh baby carrots and dip, assorted fruit.

Thursday — Walking taco or chicken fajita with lettuce, tomato and salsa, red beans and rice, assorted fruit.

Friday — Grilled chicken or hot ham and cheese, baked potato, broccoli and cheese, assorted fruit, multigrain bun.

until very soft and syrupy.

Spoon over pancakes with a dollop of Greek-style yogurt, toasted pecans and a dash of cinnamon.

Saute fresh pineapple cubes in brown sugar, then deglaze the pan with a bit of coconut milk and reduce till it has a syrup-like consistency. Pour over the pancakes and top with whipped cream and toasted coconut flakes.

Mix ricotta cheese with a dash of honey and spoon over pancakes topped with blueberry jam.

Saute sliced pears and pineapple chunks until soft.

Add a squeeze or two of lemon juice, some sugar and vanilla extract.

As soon as you pour the pancake batter into the pan, top it with granola and fresh blueberries, then continue cooking as normal.

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• ST. PATRICK Monday — Chicken cheese quesadilla, nutrition bar, carrot and celery sticks, oranges, milk.

Tuesday — Cheese ravioli, salad, bread stick, pears, milk.

Wednesday — Chicken sandwich, scalloped potatoes, apple slices, chocolate chip cookie, milk.

Thursday — Turkey and noodles, mashed potatoes, corn, grapes, milk.

Friday — Pizza, peas, peaches, pretzel rod, milk.

• TROY CITY SCHOOLS Monday — Taco triangles, corn, fruit, Goldfish Grahams, milk.

Tuesday — Chicken tenders, dinner roll, mashed potatoes and gravy, fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Sausage, mini pancakes, juice, fruit, milk.

Thursday — Grilled mozzarella cheese sticks, dino pasta, fruit, milk.

Friday — Hot dog on a bun, potato starz, fruit, milk.

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Tuesday — Turkey slice, scalloped potatoes, dinner roll with butter, pineapple, milk.

Wednesday — Taco salad, chips, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, pears, milk.

Thursday — Hamburger sandwich, corn, cheese, pickles, mixed fruit, milk.

Friday — Pizza, carrots with dip, yogurt, peaches, milk.

• MILTON-UNION ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken tenders with sauce, roll, green beans, fruit, milk.

Tuesday — Middle school: Pizza sticks. Elementary: Pizza sticks with cheese, salad with ranch dressing, fruit, milk.

Wednesday — Sausage patty with cheese sandwich, smile potatoes, fruit, milk.

Thursday — Hamburger or cheeseburger on a bun with pickles, California blend vegetables, fruit, milk.

Friday — Popcorn chicken with sweet and sour sauce, roll, fortune cookie, corn, fruit, milk.

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Wednesday — Assorded pizza or peanut butter and jelly sandwich, corn on the cob, fruit cup, milk.

Thursday — Egg and cheese omelet or chef salad, sausage patty, hash browns, fruit juice, biscuit, milk.

Friday — Chicken patty on a bun or peanut butter and jelly sandwich, french fries, fruit cup, milk.

• COVINGTON SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken nuggets, corn, pears, pretzels, milk.

Tuesday — Tenderloin sandwich, green beans, peaches, milk.

Wednesday — Sausage, french toast, hash browns, applesauce, milk.

Thursday — Taco pizza or pepperoni pizza, mixed vegetables, fruit, milk.

Friday — Bosco stick, pizza sauce, carrots and dip, orange, milk.

• MIAMI EAST SCHOOLS Monday — Bagels, cream cheese, sausage, smiles, applesauce, milk.

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• BETHEL Monday — Chicken patty on wheat bun, carrot sticks with dip, fruit, milk.

Tuesday —Whole grain french toast sticks with syrup, turkey sausage, baked apples, oranges, milk. High school only: Dominos pizza.

Wednesday — Chili, wheat dinner roll, salad, choice of fruit, milk.

Thursday — Fajita on a flour tortilla with cheese and rice, corn, fruit, milk.

Friday — Cook’s choice.

• BRADFORD SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken nuggets or peanut butter and jelly sandwich, mashed potatoes with chicken gravy, fruit cup, milk.

Tuesday — Soft taco or chef salad, tossed salad with

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A freezer full of food lets Mom chill 1 (16-ounce) jar spaghetti sauce 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, divided 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided 1 (8-ounce) can refrigerated crescent rolls Brown beef, onion and garlic in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.

Once browned, drain fat and stir in spaghetti sauce.

In a 9- by 13-inch baking dish, spread a layer of sauce. Top with half of the mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, another layer of sauce and the rest of the cheese. Cool completely.

Cover with foil and freeze.

To serve, thaw completely. Uncover, top with crescent rolls, pinching seams together. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes, or until rolls are golden brown.

BY MARY CONSTANTINE Scripps Howard News Service Too many trips through the fast-food drive-through and a personal health scare prompted Katie Smith to find a different approach to feeding her family of three.

The solution is in her garage. It’s the freezer.

“I’m not what you call a health fanatic, but feeding my family healthy meals is really important to me, and as a working mom it’s hard to find time to do that. I had read online about cooking ahead for a week or so and putting things in the freezer, so I checked out a couple of cookbooks from the library, (one was “Don’t Panic, Dinner’s in the Freezer”), selected a few recipes and I started from there,” she said.

Once a month she puts together a grocery list, taking into consideration what is on sale when selecting the 16-plus recipes she will put together in one day.

She said it typically takes six hours to complete.

“If you are going to do this, it’s important to wear comfortable shoes and to plan an evening out for dinner on that day. Nobody wants to make 16-18 meals, then turn around and make another one that night,” she said.

On the day this reporter visited, Smith’s kitchen table was laden with numerous cans of spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, cranberry sauce, marinara sauce, Catalina dressing, a package of grated Parmesan cheese, a selection of pasta including jumbo shells, bell peppers, onion, taco shells, taco seasoning, onion-soup mix and more.

On the kitchen counter were seven family packs of bone-in chicken breasts, seven pounds of ground beef and a beef roast.

And instead of a stack of cookbooks to finger through while assembling her meals, her recipes were archived on a laptop computer she had positioned on the counter top near her workstation. Held by the clothespin bill of a wooden duck was a slip of paper scribbled with the names of recipes she would be preparing that day, some to be split into two servings.

It included Porcupine Meatballs, Pizza Shepherd’s Pie, Stuffed Peppers, Balsamic Marinated Chicken, Spicy Garlic Lime Chicken, Cheese-Stuffed Pasta Shells, Beef Stroganoff, Oriental Chicken Sesame Strips, Taco Meat, Crouton-Breaded Chicken, Naked Chicken Parmesan and Beef Roast.

“I usually stick to beef and chicken dishes because my family doesn’t particularly like pork, but I try to alternate so I don’t wear them out with so much chicken that they are ready to start clucking.

“If my recipe calls for six chicken breasts I split that

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Katie Smith adds spice mix to chicken breasts that will be crusted with crushed croutons. recipe in half — three and three — so that I get two meals out of it. I have about 25 to 30 different recipes and am adding more as I go along,” she said.

To save money, she bones the chicken breasts and uses the leftovers to make chicken stock.

“If I can bone a chicken breast, anybody on the planet can do this. I’m not Rachael Ray and don’t claim to be,” she said.

Although some recipes may require sauteing of vegetables, the only meat that she precooks before freezing is ground beef. The chicken is frozen raw, as is the roast. The pasta shells are parboiled before filling.

“I have a recipe called Chicken Parisian that calls for a can of cream-ofmushroom soup and a can of cream of celery soup. I put that in a bowl and add the other spices, mix it up well, put the chicken in a freezer bag then pour all the ingredients into the bag, seal it, mush it up so it all gets coated and then I lay the bag flat in a large pan and put that in the freezer. I’ve found if you freeze them flat they are easier to stack,” she said.

One of the chicken dishes she made during my visit was for CroutonBreaded Chicken, which she converted into a freezer-friendly recipe. Instead of soaking the chicken in buttermilk for six hours, which is what the original recipe called for, she coats the breasts with buttermilk dressing, then rolls them in crushed croutons before freezing individually. Although skeptical at first, she said she was pleasantly surprised to find that the breading maintained its crispness after thawing.

“By letting it thaw slowly in the refrigerator, those breadcrumbs keep their dry texture,” she said.

Instead of thawing meals on a daily basis, she

puts a note on her calendar to remind her to take out a week’s worth of meals over the weekend.

“I’ve learned what works well is to take four meals out of the freezer late Saturday night or on Sunday and let them thaw properly in the refrigerator,” she said.

That also prevents the dilemma of coming home to plenty of frozen dishes, but nothing that can be cooked quickly.

On Fridays, her family, which includes husband Danny and 8-year-old son David, will either eat leftovers or dine out.

Her grocery bill runs about $175 for the month, including freezer bags and aluminum foil. She calculated the number of meals prepared by that figure and said it came out to a little more than $8 a meal. As she stocks up on pantry items, the initial cost will become less. That cost also includes some of the side dishes she serves, including vegetables steamable and/or rice.

“We steer away from the casserole-type recipes. I tried a few of those, and they didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped,” she said.

When not in the kitchen, Smith serves as ministry software coordinate for Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tenn. She also has a blog on which she shares tips on how to get started, as well as her freezer failures and successes. You can find it at http://busymeals.wordpress.com.

She shares the following two recipes:

BALSAMIC MARINATED CHICKEN 1/2 cup balsamic vinaigrette 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts Combine vinaigrette, pepper and rosemary.

Place chicken breasts in a freezer bag and pour other ingredients over them.

Seal, mix well, label and freeze. To serve, thaw, grill chicken until no pink inside, about 5 minutes per side. You could also bake in a 13- by 9-inch pan on 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Serve with French green beans and sweet potatoes.

BEEF STROGANOFF 1 (8 ounce) package egg noodles 1 pound ground beef 1 (10.75 ounce) can fat-free condensed cream-of-mushroom soup 1 packet dry ranch Katie Smith places crouton-crusted chicken breasts in dressing mix her freezer.

1/2 cup sour cream Salt and pepper to Place chicken in a bowl wrap and place on a light- taste In a large skillet over ly sprayed cookie sheet. and cover with ranch medium heat, saute Spray tops of chicken dressing. In a separate ground beef for 5 to 10 breasts lightly with cookbowl, place crushed crouminutes, or until browned. ing spray. tons (you can crush the Drain the fat and add the Preheat oven to 450 croutons by either grindsoup and ranch-dressing ing them in a food proces- degrees. Bake for 5 minutes. Carefully flip chicken mix. Place in freezer consor or put in a resealable bag and bash with rolling breasts, lightly spray other tainer and freeze.

To serve, thaw mixture side of breasts with cookpin). ing spray and bake for an and cook in skillet for 10 Coat chicken in dressminutes or until heated additional 5 minutes or ing, then roll in croutons. through. Prepare egg noountil chicken is no longer Wrap coated chicken dles according to package pink inside. breasts in plastic wrap directions and set aside. and flash freeze on a bakPIZZA SHEPHERD’S Remove from heat and ing sheet for 2 hours. combine the meat mixture When solid, transfer indi- PIE 1 pound lean ground with the egg noodles. Add vidually wrapped chicken the sour cream, stirring breasts into a freezer bag. beef well. Season with salt and 1 onion, chopped Label and freeze.

CROUTON-BREADpepper to taste. Serve 1 teaspoon minced To serve, thaw chicken ED CHICKEN warm. garlic breasts. Remove plastic 1/2 cup light ranch dressing 1/2 (5-ounce) bag fatfree herb seasoned croutons, crushed 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

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AP PHOTO/CARRIE OSGOOD

In this Jan. 11 photo, a lone visitor sits on a pier with a book in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Traveling solo can involve big or small adventures, with all the decisions about itineraries and plans left up to the individual.

Table for one? Tips for traveling solo be targeted by scam artists and touts peddling illicit activities.

Ignoring verbal aggressors And sometimes the worst expe- whether beggars, vendors or riences generate great stories passers-by is frequently the best later on. defense, although in some culWrite in a journal every tures, like the markets in night. It records your advenIstanbul, a simple “no, thank tures while also giving you the you” works better. Intimidation conversational outlet to express and harassment are never fun; and process the details of your feel empowered by your ability action-packed day. to say no.

When dining alone, bring a Check guidebooks and conbook or journal. Eating at the sult with local tourist offices bar may feel more comfortable and hotel staff for advice on than a table for one. what to watch out for. Take speBe respectful, inconspicuous cial care after dark, in dense and dress to blend in. Local crowds, and with likable fashion norms vary, but I typistrangers. The freedom of being cally wear jeans with subdued far from home can release inhicolors, dark shoes and subtle bitions in wonderful ways. In accessories so as not to attract fact, I try to do something new undue attention. every trip. But if you feel as English has become the though you’re taking a risk, world’s second language, but have an exit strategy, inform the learning to say hello and thank hotel staff of your whereabouts, you in the local tongue goes a or make sure you’re in a place long way. where you can shout out to othBe cautious but not paranoid. ers.

If there’s a site that piques your Gratifying solo travel comes interest, but it’s out of the way from following your bliss. Don’t or you have concerns about per- let societal pressures rattle you. sonal safety, take a day tour or Don’t let loneliness paralyze hire a guide. Independent you. Educate yourself so you female travelers may face know what you can, and cannot, harassment and other dangers, do. Most of all, embrace the while men traveling alone may exciting possibilities before you.

Visiting a new place on your own can be thrilling Visit walkable destinations connected by trains, buses, ferries and flights. Getting around NEW YORK (AP) — Are you this way will be straightforward, prices will be per person, filled with wanderlust, but and you increase your odds of sticking close to home because you lack a like-minded compan- meeting others, unlike destinaion? Solo travel is an extraordi- tions best seen or reached by car, where there may be fewer nary, accessible opportunity interactions. I’ve found places that can involve big or small adventures, easy or difficult as outside the U.S. and Caribbean are sometimes more friendly to you choose. individuals, with reduced-fare You can do what you want, when you want, how you want, single-person rooms. Youth hoswhere you want. You pick your tels are great for 20somethings own pace, budget, itinerary and and travelers of any age on tight budgets who crave convercan always change your mind sation and don’t need upscale on a whim, never having to accommodations. negotiate. The experience can Traveling offseason can save be liberating and thrilling, a lot of money. One year in igniting a rewarding sense of October, it was cheaper for me accomplishment, and the detachment from your “real” life to spend a week in Costa Rica than to visit the Adirondacks in is often therapeutic. upstate New York. The off-peak When entering a new place flight, local transport and sinon your own, you may notice gle accommodation in Costa more than you do when you Rica was less than the car travel with others. I strike up conversations more easily when rental and pricier double rooms I’m solo, something I’ve done in during fall foliage season here.

If you can’t fly nonstop, turn dozens of countries across six continents. But not all destina- your stopovers into perks. I’ve visited Fiji, Iceland, London, tions are right for solo travelParis and Rome, at no extra ers. Here are some tips.

BY CARRIE OSGOOD Associated Press

cost, all on extended layovers.

Ask others about their vacations to get ideas for your own trips, and read up online and in guidebooks. Publishers can vary tremendously so look at a variety of brands in a bookstore or library, then travel with a guidebook that best suits your priorities.

Keep expectations to a minimum so you’re not disappointed. Instead, be flexible, go with the flow and treasure the unexpected. I’ve stumbled upon some amazing hidden gems.

Bedouins invited me for tea in the caves of Petra, and a Portuguese model in Lisbon declared his affection for me by saying it was “love at first look.”

Be prepared for the occasional bad day. I’ve been tired, cranky, lonely and frustrated, suffering from food poisoning and stressed out by emergency landings, 14-hour flight delays, altercations with customs officials, bad weather and other complications. But temporary misery is part of travel, and can help you enjoy the magnificent moments that much more.

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Zoo celebrates 40 years of pandas

greet passengers at the world’s busiest airport when the terminal opens on May 16.

The restaurants that will WASHINGTON (AP) — The open that day include Sweet National Zoo is celebrating 40 Auburn Market Cafe, French years of giant pandas.

Meadow Bakery, Pei Wei Asian Monday was the 40th Diner, The Varsity, The Original anniversary of the day that the El Taco and The Pecan. pandas Hsing-Hsing and LingShopping choices include Ling landed at Andrews Air The Body Shop, Tommy Hilfiger Force Base in Maryland. The and Brookstone. An interfaith pandas were gifts to the United chapel, vending machines and States from China following ATMs will also be available President Richard Nixon’s his- when the terminal opens. toric visit to that country.

More shops and restaurants The pandas were presented will open later this year, includto the zoo officially on April 20, ing spa accommodations and a 1972. They were the first panlounge. das in US zoos in modern histoThe terminal is more than a ry. Now 11 pandas are at four decade in the making and is American zoos. designed to handle the airport’s Ling-Ling lived at the growing international traffic.

National Zoo until 1992, when she died. Hsing-Hsing died in JetBlue, Japan 1999.

The zoo’s current two panAirlines reach deal das, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, NEW YORK — JetBlue arrived in December 2000.

Airways Corp. and Japan said Tuesday that they Concessions chosen Airlines reached a deal on a codeshare agreement that will make it for new terminal easier for travelers to book ATLANTA — Airport offiflights between the U.S. East cials are unveiling which conCoast and Japan. cessions will open for Atlanta’s Starting Wednesday for travnew international terminal. el on or after Sunday, customers Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta making reservations will see International Airport says more Japan Airlines’ code on JetBluethan 20 retail outlets, restauoperated flights, the airlines said. rants and other shops will

The agreement coincides with the Japanese airline starting flights between Boston and Tokyo with the new Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787 aircraft. Japan Airlines also currently offers daily nonstop service to Tokyo from New York.

Customers can also book tickets for combined travel on the two airlines through Los Angeles, where they can catch Japan Airlines flights to several major Asian cities, the companies said.

Travelers flying to or from Tokyo through Boston will be able to connect to JetBlue flights to 13 U.S. cities, while travelers flying through New York can transfer to 16 U.S. destinations.

JetBLue shares rose 1 cent to $4.84 in midday trading.

Louisiana touts ecotourism NEW ORLEANS — Guides touting Louisiana as an ecotourism destination are now on the racks of tourism centers, according to the America’s Wetland campaign, a group highlighting coastal wetlands loss.

America’s Wetland says the Travel Green Wetland Tour guides take travelers on four routes through the coastal prairies of southwest

Louisiana, the Atchafalaya Basin, the bayou country of southeast Louisiana and around the Mississippi River region of New Orleans and the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

The guides tell travelers where to go, eat, drink and stay and cover more than 300 places to visit.

Valsin Marmillion, managing director of America’s Wetland, and his brother, Norman Marmillion, the owner of the Laura Plantation, collaborated to create the guides.

“Clybourne Park.”

Hampton, a British playwright and director, is writing a new play for the Guthrie, “Appomattox,” which ranges from the Civil War’s end to the 1960s civil rights era. His “Tales From Hollywood” also will be staged.

The Guthrie was founded in 1963 by the late Irish stage director Sir Tyrone Guthrie.

Grand Rapids plans jazz festival

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Organizers have announced that Grand Rapids is going to be hosting a free jazz festival MINNEAPOLIS — The Tony this summer.

Award-winning Guthrie GRandJazzFest will be held Theater in Minneapolis is celeat Rosa Parks Circle on Aug. brating its 50th season with a 18. new work by playwright The daylong festival is to Christopher Hampton, a production of a Eugene O’Neill feature Michigan-based jazz classic and a Pulitzer Prizeartists. winning drama.

The festival is being organGuthrie Director Joe ized by Grand Rapids resident Dowling says that rather than Audrey Sundstrom and a group dwelling in a nostalgic haze, of jazz aficionados, including “we’re looking at contemporary the West Michigan Jazz Society. work and moving the artistic Sundstrom is the wife of City life of the theater forward.”

Manager Greg Sundstrom.

The 11 main-stage producGRandJazzFest is being tions announced Monday financed by sponsors and ininclude O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and Bruce kind contributors so it can be Norris’ 2011 Pulitzer winner free to the public.

Guthrie Theater celebrates 50 years

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Fargo Bank, N.A., trustee, two lots, $46,700.

FLETCHER Catherine Arentt a.k.a Catherine Powell to ABFS Larry J. Taylor, Susan Taylor Mortgage Loan Trust 2001-2, mortgage pass-through, Bank of to LSF7 NPL II Trust, U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., trustee, two lots, New York Mellon, trustee, one $24,000. lot, $50,600.

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David Hutson, Nicole Hutson WEST MILTON to Frances Thomas, Richard Thomas, one lot, $129,900.

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National Mortgage Association, Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal Learner, Sampson and Rothfuss, National Mortgage Association to attorney in fact to Kevin Klawon, Brian Lightner, Jamie Lightner, one lot, $33,000. one lot, $50,500.

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H & D Lot Sales LLC to Charles Jergens to Kerry Jerald Yost, Margaret Yost, one Jergens, Phillip Jergens, 29.392 lot, $63,900.

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Deborah Jenkins to Roger Development, one lot, $0.

Jenkins, 2.314 acres, $0.

PIQUA Bradley Bowman, Krista Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Association to Bowman to Karla Ralston, Douglas Liette, Edwin Liette, one Thomas Terrian, 10.602 acres, lot, $10,000. $527,700.

Nancy Treon, Philip Teron to Jeffrey Covault, Jillian Covault, CONCORD TWP. one lot, $70,900.

James Schutte to Cynthia Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal Schutte, one lot, $0.

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Federal National Mortgage Association, two part lots, ELIZABETH TWP. $70,000.

BAC Home Loans Servicing Charles G. Pearson to Dana LP, Countrywide Home Loans Pearson, $0.

Servicing LP to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, one lot, $0.

LOSTCREEK TWP. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Rachel Jimmie Scott, Patricia Scott to Weaver, one lot, $0.

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Jacqueline Trubee to Teresa Secretary of Housing and Hursey, Christian Trubee, Curtis Urban Development to John D. Jakubek, Angela M. Sandlin, one Trubee, 1.50 acres, $0.

Scott Investments of Troy LLC lot, one part lot, $0.

Paul Burger to Midtowne to Roslyn Pitman, Thomas Centre LTD., one lot, $68,000.

Pitman, 1.590 acres, $205,700.

Jacqulyn Walters to Dale Wissman, one lot, $66,000.

SPRINGCREEK Barrett Paving Materials Inc., TWP. Earhart Petroleum Inc., Taynt Co. to Mike Hawk Homes LLC, four Joyce Lear, successor lots, $26,000.

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Avengers, Spidey, Batman lead huge summer lineup LOS ANGELES (AP) — As superhero summers go, this one is truly super.

Amid one of the most-promising box-office seasons Hollywood has ever served up, three movies stand above the rest.

The first weekend in May brings “The Avengers,” the ensemble adventure teaming Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man with such fellow Marvel Comics heroes as Thor, Captain America and the Incredible Hulk.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” follows over the Fourth of July as Marvel’s web-slinger gets a fresh origin story, with Andrew Garfield taking over as teen-turned-superhero Peter Parker.

Finally, in late July, there’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” with Christian Bale returning as DC Comics’ masked vigilante in the finale of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.

These three are the gold standard for fans: “The Dark Knight,” Tobey Maguire’s three “SpiderMan” flicks and Downey’s two “Iron Man” movies are the six top-grossing superhero adventures ever.

Add in solid receipts for solo turns of “Avengers” co-stars Chris Hemsworth in “Thor” and Chris Evans in “Captain America: The First Avenger” plus the lure of a new incarnation of the Incredible Hulk by Mark Ruffalo in “Avengers” and summer’s superhero meter is off the charts. “‘The Avengers’ is literally one of the first books I followed regularly. … Some of the work that was done in there was really groundbreaking and really epic,” said “The Avengers” writer-director Joss Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”). “It’s great fun to take characters that you are so invested in, because you grew up with them, and get to put words in their mouths and figure out what they’re going to be doing with their lives for a while.

Of course, there’s plenty to fill in the gaps between superhero sagas.

Other action tales include “Men in Black 3,” with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron’s fairy-tale makeover “Snow White and the Huntsman”; Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi with “Prometheus”; “Avengers” co-star Jeremy Renner’s “The Bourne Legacy”; Colin Farrell’s remake “Total Recall”; and the board game adaptation “Battleship.”

Cartoon makers offer up the Scottish adventure “Brave,” the latest from the animation virtuosos at Pixar, while talking-animal franchises return with “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” and “Ice Age: Continental Drift.”

The comedy and music front brings Adam Sandler’s fatherhood story “That’s My Boy”; the all-star song fest “Rock of Ages”; Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill’s suburban romp “Neighborhood Watch”; Sacha Baron Cohen’s tyrant tale “The Dictator”; and Whitney Houston’s final film, “Sparkle.”

And what would summer be without vampires? Johnny Depp turns blood-sucker as he reunites with director Tim Burton for “Dark Shadows,” a big-screen take on the gothic soap opera.

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” has the great emancipator taking down the undead.

Here’s a look at other summer highlights: MAY — “Battleship”: Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson are in the Navy now as sailors take on inhuman invaders in an action tale inspired by the game.

— “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”: Those classy Brits put some sophistication into summer with a tale of UK retirees in India. With Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Tom Wilkinson.

— “Chernobyl Diaries”: Six rookie tourists mistakenly visit the site of the nuclear disaster and find unexpected horrors in the abandoned place.

AP PHOTO/SONY PICTURES, WILSON WEBB

In this film image released by Sony, Will Smith, left, and Tommy Lee Jones are shown in a scene from “Men in Black 3.”

— “Dark Shadows”: We bet the latest reunion of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton will bring some fresh bite to vampires as they adapt the creepy TV soap opera featuring a 200-year-old bloodsucker.

— “The Dictator”: Sacha Baron Cohen outdoes Castro with his wild beard in this comedy about a tyrant battling for untruth, injustice and the totalitarian way.

— “Men in Black 3”: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones return to fight aliens in a time-traveling action comedy that adds Josh Brolin as the young version of Jones’ Agent K. Nice casting.

— “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”: Everyone’s in a family way with an ensemble tale about pending parenthood that features Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks and Dennis Quaid.

JUNE — “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”: Can’t wait for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming biopic “Lincoln”? Then catch the 16th president (Benjamin Walker) as he emancipates the land from blood-suckers.

— “Brave”: A Scottish lass (voiced by Kelly Macdonald must undo the chaos her defiance has unleashed on her kingdom in the latest from the animation maestros at Pixar.

— “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”: The toy soldiers inspire another liveaction firefight featuring Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson.

— “Magic Mike”: Channing Tatum takes it off again in a story inspired by his early work as a male stripper. Steven Soderbergh directs.

— “People Like Us”: “Star Trek’s” Chris Pine comes down to Earth as a salesman tidying up his late father’s estate in a comic drama co-starring Elizabeth Banks and Michelle Pfeiffer.

— “Piranha 3DD”: It’s another Friday night fish fry in reverse as prehistoric piranha chow down on tourists at a water park.

— “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott.

Science fiction. Any questions?

The “Alien” creator returns to the genre with a cousin to his space horror tale starring Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender.

— “Rock of Ages”: Journey and REO Speedwagon ride again in a musical romance featuring old rock tunes and a cast that includes Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Julianne Hough.

— “That’s My Boy”: Adam Sandler tries to grow up as a bad dad hoping to make things right with his estranged grown son (Andy Samberg).

— “To Rome with Love”: Woody Allen woos Italy and appears on-screen for the first time in years with an ensemble romance co-starring Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni and Ellen Page.

— “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection”: Filmmaker Perry reprises his role as saucy grandma Madea, who takes in the family of a CFO (Eugene Levy) in witness protection.

JULY — “Ice Age: Continental Drift”: For extinct species, these cartoon critters sure are survivors. Ray

Romano and his voice co-stars are back with another prehistoric comedy.

— “Katy Perry: Part of Me”: The pop superstar gets the 3-D treatment in a music documentary featuring performances and behind-the-scenes access.

— “Neighborhood Watch”: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill learn their town is teaming with space invaders disguised as average suburban dwellers.

— “Ruby Sparks”: A character created by a novelist (Paul Dano) comes to life as a real woman (Zoe Kazan) in the latest from the directors of “Little Miss Sunshine.”

— “Savages”: California pot growers fight a Mexican drug ring in Oliver Stone’s thriller featuring Salma Hayek, John Travolta, Taylor Kitsch and Uma Thurman.

— “Step Up: Revolution”: The next round in the dance franchise has a crew of Miami hoofers fighting a neighborhood developer.

— “Ted”: A teddy bear come to life is every boy’s dream — until the thing sticks around into the kid’s adult years. Mark Wahlberg stars in the comedy from Seth MacFarlane (“Family Guy”).

AUGUST — “The Apparition”: Ashley Greene stars in a spooky tale of a couple haunted by a presence conjured up in a college experiment.

— “The Bourne Legacy”: The spirit of lethal operative Jason Bourne lives on, minus Matt Damon, with Jeremy Renner at the center of fallout from the first three action hits.

— “The Campaign”: Dirty politics in this age of bipartisanship?

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis sling mud as congressional opponents in Jay Roach’s comedy.

— “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days”: The hapless hero (Zachary Gordon) of the best-selling books stumbles through trouble over summer vacation.

— “The Expendables 2”: Action heroes crowd the screen again as Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and friends seek vengeance after a mission goes wrong.

— “Hope Springs”: Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are a long-married couple trying to renew the spark with a counselor (Steve Carell) at a marital retreat.

— “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”: A couple (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) eager to start a family gets a dose of the unexpected when a mysterious boy turns up at their door.

— “ParaNorman”: The animated comedy centers on a boy who can speak with the dead and becomes the last hope of his hometown after it’s overrun by zombies.

— “Sparkle”: Whitney Houston’s final movie role features the late singer as mom to a girl group (including “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks) struggling with the pressures of fame.

— “Total Recall”: Colin Farrell steps into Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi role as an average guy on the run who uncovers a secret identity even he didn’t know about.

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TOP ITUNES Top Songs: 1. “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye 2. “We Are Young (feat. Janelle Mone),” Fun. 3. “What Makes You Beautiful,” One Direction 4. “Boyfriend,” Justin Bieber 5. “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen 6. “Starships,” Nicki Minaj

7. “Wild Ones (feat. Sia),” Flo Rida Top Albums: 1. “Tuskegee,” Lionel Richie 2. “Up All Night,” One Direction 3. “Making Mirrors,” Gotye 4. “All American,” Hoodie Allen 5. “Pink Friday.Roman Reloaded,” Nicki Minaj 6. “21,” ADELE 7. “Slipstream,” Bonnie Raitt

SCHEDULE SUNDAY 4/22 ONLY THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) TITANIC 3-D ONLY 11:30 2:05 4:40 7:30 10:10 (PG-13) 11:40 3:50 8:00 CHIMPANZEE (G) WRATH OF THE TITANS 12:30 2:45 5:00 7:10 9:20 3-D ONLY (PG-13) 7:20 THREE STOOGES (PG) MIRROR MIRROR (PG) 11:15 1:40 4:10 6:40 9:35 11:20 1:55 4:30 CABIN IN THE WOODS THE HUNGER GAMES (R) (PG-13) 11:55 2:25 5:10 7:50 10:25 12:10 3:35 6:55 10:30 AMERICAN REUNION (R) 21 JUMP STREET (R) 11:25 2:10 4:50 7:40 10:20 9:50

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DATES TO REMEMBER information, call 335-9721.

• Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof • DivorceCare seminar and sup- restaurant. Guests welcome. For port group will meet from 6:30-8 more information, call 478-1401. p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God • Weight Watchers, Westminster Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 Piqua. Child care provided through and meeting at 5:30 p.m. the sixth-grade.

• Parenting Education Groups • COSA, an anonymous 12-step will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family recovery program for friends and Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 family members whose lives have E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and been affected by another person’s age-appropriate ways to parent chilcompulsive sexual behavior, will dren. Call 339-6761 for more informeet in the evening in Tipp City. For mation. There is no charge for this more information, call 463-2001. program.

• AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The Main St., Troy, use back door. discussion meeting is open.

• Narcotics Anonymous, • AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Road, Troy.

Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy.

• Sanctuary, for women who • AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., have been affected by sexual Westminster Presbyterian Church, abuse, location not made public. corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Must currently be in therapy. For Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. more information, call Amy Johns at • AA, Living Sober meeting, 667-1069, Ext. 430 open to all who have an interest in a • Miami Valley Women’s Center, sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Westminster Presbyterian Church, Heights, offers free pregnancy testcorner of Ash and Caldwell streets, ing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For Piqua. more information, call 236-2273.

• Narcotics Anonymous, • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Main St., Tipp City. For more inforDorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion . mation, call Tipp-Monroe • Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Community Services at 667-8631 or Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Celeste at 669-2441.

Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third • Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 floor, Greenville. p.m. at Ginghamsburg South • Narcotics Anonymous, Never Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Road 25-A, one mile south of the Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., main campus.

Sidney • Al-Anon, “The Language of • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through com- Letting Go, Women’s Al-Anon,” will be at 6:45 p.m. at the Presbyterian munication, will meet at 6 p.m. at Church, Franklin and Walnut streets, the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Troy.

Women dealing with an addicStaunton Road, Troy. tion issue of any kind in a friend or • A Spin-In group, practicing the family member are invited. art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the TUESDAY third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp • Deep water aerobics will be City. All knitters are invited to attend.

For more information, call 667-5358. offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lccMONDAY troy.com for more information and programs.

• Christian 12 step meetings, • A teen support group for any “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at grieving teens, ages 12-18 years in 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 the greater Miami County area is Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings at offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at the Generations of Life Center, secLincoln Community Center, Troy. ond floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy.

Call 335-2715 or visit There is no participation fee. www.lcctroy.com for more informaSessions are facilitated by trained tion and programs. bereavement staff and volunteers.

• Zumba $5 sessions will be Crafts, sharing time and other grief offered at 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln support activities are preceded by a Community Cnter, Troy. Call 335light meal.

2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for • Quilting and crafts is offered more information and programs. from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday • An evening grief support group at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First meets the second and fourth St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for Monday evenings at 7 p.m. at the more information.

Generations of Life Center, second • Mothers of Preschoolers, a floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any griev- group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to inforing adult in the greater Miami County area and there is no partici- mation from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from pation fee. Sessions are facilitated 6:15-8:30 p.m. Single, married, by trained bereavement staff. Call working or stay-at-home moms are 573-2100 for details or visit the invited. Children (under 5) are cared website at homc.org.

• AA, Big Book discussion meet- for in MOPPETS. For more information, contact Michelle Lutz at 440ing will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity 9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset 8074.

Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room.

• The Miami Shelby Chapter of The discussion is open to the pubthe Barbershop Harmony Society lic.

• AA, Green & Growing will meet will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, at 8 p.m. The closed discussion 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men meeting (attendees must have a interested in singing are welcome desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old and visitors always are welcome.

For more information, call 778-1586 Staunton Road, Troy.

• AA, There Is A Solution Group or visit the group’s Web site at will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg www.melodymenchorus.org.

• Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The dis- Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. Video/small group class cussion group is closed (particidesigned to help separated or pants must have a desire to stop divorced people. For more informadrinking). tion, call 335-8814.

• AA, West Milton open discus• AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 sion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Lutheran Church, rear entrance, Room.

1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, • AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 handicap accessible.

• Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• AA, The Best Is Yet To Come at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meet- Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. ing begins at 7:30 p.m.

The discussion is open.

• Alternatives: Anger/Rage • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Control Group for adult males, 7-9 Lutheran Church, Main and Third p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discussion (participants must have are physical, verbal and emotional a desire to stop drinking). violence toward family members • Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney and other persons, how to express Group, Presbyterian Church, corner feelings, how to communicate North and Miami streets, Sidney. instead of confronting and how to • AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of act nonviolently with stress and the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. anger issues.

Open discussion.

• Mind Over Weight Total • An Intermediate Pilates class Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m.

St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe 339-2699.

Community Services at 667-8631 or • TOPS (Take Off Pounds Celeste at 669-2441.

Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran • Women’s Anger/Rage Group Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City.

New members welcome. For more will meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at

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the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 3396761 for more information.

• 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.

• The Knitting Group meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Bradford Public Libary, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. All knitters are welcome or residents can come to learn.

• 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, is $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 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.

• 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 339-6761.

• 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.

• Weight Watchers, Suite 2600, Stouder Center, Troy, at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• 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 • Dedicated Rescue Efforts for Animals in Miami County will meet at 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday in April and May at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, at at 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday in June, July and August at the Tipp City Library.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Weight Watchers, Suite 2600, Stouder Center, Troy, at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• 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 3320894 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.

• 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 7-8 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 Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 6672441.

• Weight Watchers, Suite 2600, Stouder Center, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 3749191.

• 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 • Instructional boxing (fundamentals and techniques) classes will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon at Lincoln Community Center, Troy.

Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• 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.

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Hollywood warms to China’s openness LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s a new breach in China’s great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in.

Disney’s announcement Monday that it will make “Iron Man 3” in partnership with a Chinese company is the latest sign that movie studios are warming to China’s new openness.

For decades, China has capped the number of foreign films it allows into the country. Until recently, the limit was 20, but in February Chinese officials announced that they are increasing the quota to 34.

China said it will also allow foreign studios to garner a greater share of box office revenue. Foreign companies can now expect to earn 25 percent of their movies’ ticket sales in China, up from between 13.5 and 17.5 percent.

The changes are a significant move for a bureaucracy that is leery of outside cultural influences and competition from foreign films.

The change could affect everyone from action movie fans in Guangzhou to Hollywood’s most powerful filmmakers.

The relaxing of China’s strict rules comes at a price for U.S. studios. The world’s most populous nation wants foreign studios to bring their moviemaking know-how to China by forming joint ventures with Chinese studios.

Still, Hollywood isn’t gushing. In recent years, U.S. movie studios have developed a rocky romance with China. Chinese people adore foreign movies, especially 3-D adventures like “Avatar,” or more recently “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.” But studios have been jilted when Beijing has promised new openness only to reverse course. In Disney’s case, many of its movies have made it into the country, but recent hit “Tangled,” for instance, was stopped at the border.

In a recent interview, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (NYSE:DWA) CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg summed up the industry’s attitude: “The goal lines are moving all the time,” he said. “Everyone is wondering how it plays out.”

China has long kept up a barrier against foreign films wary of insidious cultural influences while sheltering its own filmmakers.

Officials last raised the annual cap on foreign movie imports as a condition of joining the WTO in 2001.

The recent increased foreign movie quota is a belated response to a trade dispute the U.S. won nearly three years ago.

Studios are patiently trying to make the relationship work, because of China’s enormous potential. Box office revenue in China rose more than a third last year to $2 billion, putting the country on pace to become the world’s second largest movie market after the combined U.S. and Canadian region this year. It is expected to top $5 billion by 2015.

The U.S. and Canadian theatrical market, meanwhile, shrank two years in a row to about $10 billion in 2011. So far this year, however, revenue at U.S. and Canadian theaters is up about 19 percent.

It’s only a matter of time before China’s movie-going market is the world’s biggest, according to some industry watchers. Whether it is the most profitable for outsiders is another question. In 2006, Warner Bros. pulled out of a two-year-old theater chain joint venture when Beijing changed the rules, suddenly disallowing the studio’s majority stake.

Late last year, production company Legendary Pictures’ joint venture, which is set to make the movie “The Great Wall,” hit a stumbling block when its Hong Kongbased partner failed to raise enough capital.

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A Pulitzer-Prize winning effort Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan NEW HAVEN, Conn.

(AP) — In the five months since his biography of Cold War diplomat George Kennan came out, John Lewis Gaddis has been toasted as a master historian, and roasted as a conservative who minimized Kennan’s liberal tendencies.

Now he’s won the Pulitzer Prize and he’d like readers to just take in the story.

“I didn’t have any particular agenda in mind,” Gaddis says. “My hope is, and I think it has been borne out, that people would respond to the book on its own merits.”

Gaddis was widely acknowledged as the obvious choice to tell the story of Kennan’s life. A published author for more than 40 years, he has been called the dean of Cold War thinkers by Harvard historian Priscilla McMillan.

Evan Thomas, whose book “The Wise Men” includes a chapter on Kennan, says

Gaddis is a “master” who makes an “honest effort to cut through cant and ideology.” In 2005, Gaddis received a National Humanities Medal for “his incisive examination” of the epic conflict between the capitalist West and communist East.

But while Gaddis is an insider — a popular teacher at Yale University, winner of numerous awards, a guest at the White House — he’s an outsider to many colleagues in New Haven and elsewhere. He has kind words for Ronald Reagan and became close enough to George W. Bush to advise him on his second inaugural address and on his memoir “Decision Points,” which Gaddis includes in a class he teaches on biography.

Henry Kissinger is a supporter of the “Studies in Grand Strategy” course Gaddis helps teach and wrote a highly favorable review of the Kennan book

for The New York Times.

So while the Pulitzer board praised “George F. Kennan” as “an engaging portrait” of the quintessential Cold War diplomat and the times he lived in and the National Book Critics Circle cited Gaddis’ “profound understanding of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century” in awarding him its biography prize Gaddis has been criticized for omitting or disregarding some of Kennan’s more liberal opinions. Eric Alterman of the liberal weekly The Nation labeled the book “Strategies of Disparagement.”

“It’s fair to say I am more conservative than most of the Yale faculty,” Gaddis observes during a recent interview at his Yale office, where pictures of him with Bush and Kissinger hang on the walls. “I’m used to it, but certainly it’s not always a popular position.

Universities are rather intolerant places and

Ellis (Little, Brown) 6. “The Lost Years” by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) 7. “Come Home” by Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin’s Press) 8. “Betrayal” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press) 9. “Big Nate Goes for Broke” by Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins) 10. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” by Jeff

Kinney (Abrams)

there are orthodoxies within universities.

Political correctness is not what it once was, but it does still exist.”

Kennan himself had differences with his biographer. Gaddis thought Reagan was a visionary who ended the Cold War and the nuclear arms race; Kennan worried the president would blow us all to Kingdom Come. Gaddis supported the Iraq war, Kennan opposed it.

Kennan, a born brooder, wondered whether Gaddis was the right man.

“I think he got a little nervous at times because I was a little more to the right of him on the current political issues than he was,” Gaddis says. “I was more sympathetic to Ronald Reagan, for example, and later to George W. Bush, for sure. But we never got to the point where he said, ‘Because of your politics you are no longer qualified to write the biography.’ He never did, and never came close to it.”

And Kennan had a long time to second-guess his choice. Gaddis first met Kennan in the mid-1970s

and felt enough of a rapport to send some pages from an upcoming book about the Cold War. They became friendly and agreed in the early ’80s that Gaddis write his story. Gaddis would be granted full access to Kennan, his family and friends and to Kennan’s papers. Kennan, in his 70s at the time, sought no editorial control. But he did ask that the book not be released until after his death.

Kennan lived to 101.

“Poor John Gaddis has seen his undertaking being put off for years while he waits for me to make way for it,” Kennan, who died in 2005, wrote in his diary.

Gaddis says his goal was to present his subject fully and fairly, with flaws and virtues accounted.

Kennan had much to offer on each side. He was a tireless seeker of knowledge and a first-rate prose stylist who won two Pulitzer Prizes. His influence far outweighed his rank; Kennan was a member of the foreign service who never held a highlevel position.

Business School Press) 4. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier” by Ree Drummond (William Morrow & Co.) 5. “Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama’s Dream of the Socialist States of America” by Michael Savage (William Morrow & Co.) 6. “The Big Miss” by

Hank Haney (Crown Archetype) 7. “StrengthsFinder 2.0”

by Tom Rath (Gallup Press) 8. “Mrs. Kennedy and Me” by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin (Gallery Books) 9. “A Natural Woman”

by Carole King (Grand Central Publishing) 10. “Imagine” by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

BESTSELLERS FICTION 1. “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press) 2. “Mockingjay” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press) 3. “Calico Joe” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. “The Hunger Games”

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NONFICTION 1. “Drift” by Rachel Maddow (Crown Publishing Group) 2. “Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence” by Sarah Young (Integrity Publishers) 3. “Reverse Innovation”

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

More women making beer

BY MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press A brew and a bro it’s the classic pairing, right? Not necessarily.

From the rise of female brew masters to the growth of women’s tasting groups, women are becoming much more than a pint-sized part of the brewing world.

The emergence of women as both beer lovers and brewers happened as the craft beer scene grew overall by leaps and bounds, and that’s no coincidence, says Lisa Morrison, Oregon-based writer, blogger and author of “Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest.”

“I think that women are finally discovering, thanks to craft beer, that beer has flavor,” she says.

“When we start getting into the artisan stuff you start realizing that there’s an entire rainbow of flavors that you can enjoy. And because of that you can pair that with all kinds of different food flavors,” Morrison says. “Women love food. We love cooking. We love tasting food. We love sampling different things. So when you put all that together, the cooking with beer, the pairing food with beer, the whole wide-ranging genre of beer styles and beer fla-

vors it’s something that women can get really excited about.”

The marketing message is also different, says Julia Herz, home brewer and craft beer program director at the Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association.

“Historically, the massproduced lagers have been marketed as a beverage targeting males in their mid to high 20s, and it seems to me in advertising that I see for craft beer that it’s really not marketed as a gender-specific beverage.”

It’s hard to put a number on the trend, but Morrison and others say they’ve personally seen more women take an interest in beer.

“It used to be at beer festivals, I was pretty much the only gal. Now it’s definitely venturing more toward 6040” with women being the 40 percent, says Morrison, who has been involved in the craft beer scene for nearly 15 years.

On the business side, beer management remains predominantly male, though there have been changes there, too, says Irene Firmat, founder and CEO of Full Sail Brewing Co. in Hood River, Ore. To support female brewers, a support network called the Pink Boots Society was formed.

ENGAGEMENTS

Gwin, Thokey to wed in May

Barhorst, Holsinger to marry

TROY — The engagement of Ashlee Susan Gwin and Brock William Thokey, both of Troy, is announced by her parents, Mark and Susie Gwin of Troy. Steve and Shari Thokey and Gerri Jamison of Troy are parents of the groom-to-be.

The bride-elect is a managing cosmetologist at Above And Beyond Salon And Spa, Covington. Her fiance is a farrier at Hillsamer Blacksmith.

The couple plan a May 5, 2012, wedding.

PIQUA — The engagement of Michelle Elizabeth Barhorst of Cincinnati and Swade Anthony Holsinger of Piqua is announced by her parents, Jim and Cathy Barhorst of Covington. Dr. Todd and Melina Holsinger of Piqua are parents of the groom-tobe.

The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Covington High School, graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts degree with honors in psychology, and currently is enrolled in the master’s in school counseling program at the University of Cincinnati. She worked for four summers at Echo

Bensman, Smith engaged BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Julie M. Bensman and Karl E. Smith, both of Boynton Beach, Fla., announce their engagement and plans for a June 16, 2012, wedding.

She is the daughter of John and Jan Bensman of Anna.

He is the son of Ron Smith and Louie and Mary Torres of Florida.

The bride-elect graduated from Anna High School in 1997, Wright State University in 2001 and the University of Dayton in 2005.

Her fiance graduated from Wellington

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Her fiance is a 2008 graduate of Troy Christian High School, and graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He is employed at Family Video in Piqua, and is in the manager in training program within the company.

The couple plan a June 2, 2012, ceremony at The Orrmont Estate in Piqua.

Goodin, Boyd plan wedding TROY — The engagement of Megan Goodin and Ryan Boyd is announced by her parents, Marla and Community High School, Matt Goodin of Troy.

Wellington, Fl., in 1997, Kim and Richard and Elmhurst College, Ill., Boyd of Troy are in 2002. parents of the groom-to-be.

The bride-elect is ANNOUNCEMENT a registered nurse POLICY graduating from the University of Cincinnati.

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ANNIVERSARY

McMakens celebrate 50 years PIQUA — Edward and Karen (Earhart) McMaken of Piqua are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married April 25, 1962, in Pleasant Hill.

Their children include Kim (McMaken) and John Shell of Covington, Kelly McMaken of Piqua and Kristy (McMaken) and Brian Stiteler of Coshocton. They have five grandchildren, Chloe, Carly Jese and Jack Shell, and Lainee McMaken.

He is a Washington Township trustee, retired from the Piqua Fire Department in 1989 and retired from Miami

County 911 in 2003. She worked for Piqua City Schools until 1997.

There will be no open house but the couple would love to hear from family and friends with a phone call or card.

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Carl Wayne Burton, 35, of 309 S. Downing St., Piqua, to Trina Nicole Barker, 27, of same address.

Jeffrey Scott Moore, 33, of 3236 Gardenia Drive, Troy, to Grace Marie Woodward, 29, of 6032 Leycross Drive, Huber Heights.

Richard Eugene Hill, 59, of 701 S. Wayne St., Piqua, to Diana Lynn Musselman, 50, of same address.

Kent David Bryant, 22, of 505 Summitt Ave., Troy, to Kaila Jeanne Kinnison, 21, of 747 N. Pearl St., Covington.

Robert Joseph Bolton, 40, of 1256 Garbry Road, Apt. 10, Piqua, to Susan Marie Barhorst, 42, of same address.

Eric Wilder Fullerton, 33, of 1225 S. Mulberry St., Troy, to Wendy May

Bochenek, 31, of same address.

Benjamin Mark Bingamon, 31, of 3130 Honeysuckle Drive, Troy, to Stacie Janice Lewis, 27, of same address.

Joshua Kent Fosnight, 31, of 6121 Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, to Sarah Anique Ascher, 26, of 1508 Amherst Ave., Piqua.

Lancius David Mattieu, 23, of 702 Moody Ave., Bradford, to Amanda Lynn Snavely, 20, of 10794 Kendig Road, New Carlisle.

William James Liddy, 56, of 10615 N. Casstown Sidney Road, Piqua, to Susan Kay Christian, 55, of 989 Skylark Drive, Troy.

Steven Wayne Walker, 26, of 604 N. College St., Piqua, to Amanda Marie Elliott, 27, of same address.

Seth Ian McKinney, 33, 1800 Nicklin Ave., Piqua, to Kristin Nicole Hanson, 32, of same address.

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U.S. rate on 30-year mortgage rises to 3.90 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage stayed near its lowest level on record, keeping home-buying and refinancing affordable.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on the 30-year loan rose to 3.90 percent from 3.88 percent. The rate touched 3.87 percent in February, which was the lowest since longterm mortgages began in the 1950s.

The 30-year loan is the most common financing option for home buyers.

The 15-year mortgage, which is popular with those refinancing, rose to 3.13 percent from 3.11 percent, an all-time low.

Cheaper mortgages have done little to boost home sales. Americans bought 2.6 percent fewer homes in March, according to a separate report released by the National Association of Realtors.

Some would-be buyers are skeptical about purchasing a home with prices still falling. Home appraisals that are higher or lower than the sales price have scuttled some home contracts. And many Americans are struggling with damaged credit and unstable finances.

To calculate the average rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country on Monday through Wednesday of each week.

The average rates don’t include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount.

The average fee for the 30-year loan rose to 0.8 from 0.7. The fee for the 15-year loan was unchanged at 0.7.

For the five-year adjustable loan, the average rate fell to 2.78 percent from 2.85 percent. The average fee for the loan was unchanged at 0.7.

Home sales fell in March WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans bought fewer previously owned homes in March, a reminder that the housing market remains weak.

The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that home sales fell 2.6 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.48 million. That followed a revised 4.6 million sold in February.

A mild winter may have encouraged more people to buy earlier, essentially stealing sales from March.

One of my favorite things to do in the spring is to get my porch spruced up for a summer of entertaining and relaxation.

This season, why not make your outdoor room your favorite spot to hang out? The secret to creating outdoor spaces you will really use is to make them so beautiful that they fill your senses and so easy to maintain that they don’t add stress to your life.

Here are some ideas.

My historic home is outfitted with a few patios, a necessity back in the days before air conditioning. These open areas are lovely, but they are woefully exposed to everything Mother Nature dishes out, from high winds, beating sun and torrential rains, to birds that leave their droppings right where I want to sit. I’ve learned the hard way that everything you place there needs to be tough enough to take on the elements and win.

When I designed the furniture grouping on my front patio, I wanted a relaxed, gracious feel, so I chose weather-resistant outdoor wicker furniture.

Summer after summer, these chairs stand up to the elements, and they still look beautiful. It may sound crazy, given the amount of debris that falls down on the chairs from the trees and neighborhood wildlife, but I outfitted them in white cushions. Here’s why: Even though white shows dirt, it’s super-easy to clean up. When the cushions start to look dingy, I slip off the covers, wash them in a bit of bleach, place them back on the cushions when they are still damp and they look like new.

Last fall, I added a group of iron chairs to my courtyard, and I am completely smitten by them. I tried fitting them with indoor cushions at first, but it was a nightmare. To keep the cushions looking good, I had to store them inside. That meant that every time we wanted to use the chairs, we had to drag out all the cushions. Needless to say, this was such a hassle we almost never used the chairs. This spring, I’m making weather-resistant cushions out of outdoor fabric.

If you’re still babying your outdoor furniture, give yourself a break and invest in furnishing and fabrics that are made to withstand the weather.

You’ll be amazed at how far outdoor furniture and fabrics have come. I was.

I’m particularly blown away by the range of colors, styles and patterns

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If your outdoor room is only partially protected, use furniture and cushions that can handle a bit of stress. available now in outdoor fabrics.

One of the best pieces of furniture I’ve gotten for my courtyard is an eyecatching concrete table. I’ve had it for about five years, and I reinvent it every season, using it to hold a variety of accents, surrounding it with chairs for a dinner party or using it as a buffet when I entertain. It’s regal and elegant and can’t be destroyed by the weather or rough use. Guests to my home love it so much, I’ve started selling similar pieces at Nell Hill’s.

I really like to use indoor furniture in my outdoor rooms because it’s so unexpected to have refined pieces in rugged, natural environments. But I also live in a part of the country that sees some pretty severe weather during the summer. So I place my more delicate pieces, like my antique daybed and wooden hutch, on my covered

screened porch, where they aren’t exposed to rain, wind, direct sunlight or the neighborhood wildlife. I have indoor cushions on my furniture, and even though they get damp during some of our Kansas storms, they dry nicely.

Dan and I practically live on our screened porch during the summer, so our cushions get a lot of wear and tear.

Every few years, when I need to recover the cushions, I usually try a whole new look. But I am so over the moon about the blue and cream ticking on my cushions right now that I’m repeating it. The ticking acts like a neutral, allowing me to use a host of different colors and patterns in pillows, area rug and other accents.

If your outdoor room is only partially protected, use furniture and cushions that can handle a bit of stress.

HOUSE HUNTING

Signs it’s good time to sell Traditionally, most homes have sold during the spring months. In the current volatile housing market, the time of year is not the most reliable predictor of the best time to sell.

Homes certainly show better in spring than they do on a dark and dreary winter day. Lately, however, weather patterns are hard to predict.

The weather has some effect on home sales. It can slow things down if incessant rain keeps sellers from being able to prepare their homes for sale. However, a bigger influence on the housing market is the overall economic situation and its impact on buyers’ psyche.

Normally, the home-sale market ramps up in March or April and

Dian Hymer For the Miami Valley Sunday News stays busy until the beginning of July when the market tends to slow down for the summer. The 2011 home sales went counter to this. The market was active at the beginning of the year, but stalled in April. If you waited until spring to sell last year, you would have missed the best selling opportunity of the first half of 2011.

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AREA REAL ESTATE BRIEFS

Hymer unemployment is decreasing; the economic news is mild; and there are more buyers in your homebuyer stimulus package.

The homebuyer tax credit pro- local market niche than there are sellers. A high-demand, gram accelerated home purlow-inventory market gives chases creating a mini bubble sellers an edge. that was followed by a signifiThe Conference Board cant slowdown in home sales.

Consumer Confidence Index Negative economic news increased in February 2012 to played a big part in the sluggish home sales during most of 70.80 (1985=100), up from 61.5 last year. The stock market was in January. While the index is still low, it is close to levels last unpredictable and dropped about 1,000 points over several seen in February 2011 when it was 72. months. The earthquake in Lynn Franco, director of The Japan had repercussions for Conference Board Consumer many industries around the world, particularly the auto and Research Center, attributes the improvement in consumer conauto parts industries. Plus, fidence to less pessimism about Greece was on the brink of current business and employbankruptcy, and the future of ment conditions and more optithe European Union was in mism “about the short-term doubt. outlook for the economy, job Bad economic news and prospects and their financial massive uncertainty lowers situation” despite the rise in consumer confidence. Buyers need to have jobs, but they also gas prices.

Interest rates are currently need to feel confident in their at historic lows and are expectfuture to take on a major pured to stay low for the rest of the chase like a house. year. Even with low rates, buyHOUSE HUNTING TIP: ers have had difficulty qualifyThe best time to sell is when ing due to rigid mortgage consumer confidence is on the upswing; interest rates are low; approval underwriting.

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Capital Economics, an analytics firm, expects the housing crisis to end this year partially due to lenders loosening credit.

According to Capital Economics, one indicator of loosening is that banks are now lending 82 percent of loan-tovalue (LTV), compared with a low of 74 percent LTV reached in mid-2010. This means qualified buyers need less cash to buy, which should lead to more sales this year, although higher home prices are not expected.

These positive indicators combined with a drop in homes for sale at the end of 2011 and a decrease in unemployment may provide an opportunity for sellers in spring 2012, provided their homes are priced right for the market. A major surprise on the economic front could change the picture.

THE CLOSING: Regardless of the economic indicators, the best time to sell is when the time is right for you.

Newnam joins Galbreath Realtors

TROY — Galbreath Realtors is pleased to announce that Wayne Newnam has joined the office as a real estate agent.

“Galbreath Realtors has a reputation for providing quality real estate services and I’m honored to be a part of the company,” Newnam said. “I look forward to NEWNAM being a part of such a fine group of real estate professionals and serving the Miami Valley community.”

Galbreath Realtors specializes in providing real estate services in the Miami Valley since 1955.

“We would like to welcome Wayne to Galbreath Realtors and are very pleased to have him. We think Wayne will be a great addition to the Galbreath Realtors,” Dian Hymer, a real estate broker with more than 30 years’ said Wayne Snyder and David Galbreath, broker/owners of experience, is a nationally synGalbreath Realtors. dicated real estate columnist.

Galbreath Realtors main office is at 1026 W. Main St., Troy, and the telephone number is 339-0508.

Galbreath realtors receive recognition MIAMI COUNTY — Bert Barnes, Mary Couser, Donna Mergler, Patty Murphy, Christine Price and Shirley Snyder of

Galbreath Realtors have been awarded the highest level of service achievement in the real estate industry, Quality Service Certified Platinum. The award is in recognition of earning 100 percent client service satisfaction in 2011, as measured by Leading Research Corporation.

Quality Service Certified status is the only award in the real estate industry based on independently validated, measurable service results. Clients of QSC agents receive a customer satisfaction survey at the end of each transaction. The surveys are administered and the results are compiled by LRC. Client feedback from the surveys becomes part of the agent’s credentials. An overall satisfaction rating is displayed on a consumer website (www.QualityServices.org) where sellers and buyers have the ability to select a real estate professional based upon each agent’s validated record of service satisfaction.

“Nothing is more important to a prospective client in selecting a professional than the service results achieved with past clients,” said Larry D. Romito, president and CEO of QSC. “Consumers have greater confidence in service reliability, results and satisfaction with a Quality Service Certified real estate professional because they know that the agent’s service record has been validated by an independent third party. One hundred percent service satisfaction record like these realtors have achieved is just awesome.”

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As mentioned above, your favorite colors are the ones you should use, but I will tell you the popular ones for this year.

Jewel tones, such as emerald green, golden yellow, sapphire blue and ruby red. As seen in the metallics woven into the fabrics, gold, silver and other metallics in accessories and accents are in.

Since it seems everything old is new again, mirrored furniture and accessories are back.

As far as style, any one you prefer is fine, whether contemporary, country, traditional or eclectic.

Many of us are strapped for money these days, so redecorating might seem out of the question, but it still is possible if you are willing to search for items. Refurbished secondhand furniture from thrift stores or consignment shops is one option. The entire house doesn’t have to be a hand-me-down place, but a few reclaimed pieces actually add charm and personality to any room.

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Spring always begs lightheartedness, and the new decorating themes back that up.

Light backgrounds on walls, floors and furniture set the stage while pops of color with accessories and fabrics bring out the owner’s personality.

The light background colors include cream or beige, white and soft gray. The pops of color are all up to you. Whatever colors make you happy will make the room pop just fine.

That light color on furniture is particularly visible in woods.

Dark wood was popular before, but the

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Furniture arrangement has shifted from the wide-open spacious look to a more intimate plan. Think of how you can arrange your furniture in a more familiar, cozy way with conversation areas well-defined.

What about fabrics? Is there is more to the fabric selection than simply beige?

Well, there is. To the simple neutral colors, you will find metallic threads added. This is in keeping with the light look as the metallic threads lift the visual feel of the fabric. Oh, and there is a comeback some might be happy about but others not. Faux fur and textured knobby fabrics. Go figure. But the choices are more than that. The current trend in fabrics also includes plaids, stripes and modern florals, mostly in bold colors.

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Richard Pierce

866-700-7582

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945476

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625 Construction

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New Drivers Earning Up to $1000+/wk!

Paid Holidays And Vacation!

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Call for a free damage inspection.

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CALL CALL TODAY!335-5452 335-5452

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DO YOU HAVE MISSING SHINGLES OR STORM DAMAGE?

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Ohio Driver Needed!

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925 Legal Notices

925 Legal Notices

800 - Transportation

583 Pets and Supplies

APARTMENTS RENTAL APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED The Miami Metropolitan Housing Authority is accepting applications for two bedroom apartments at Floral View and Washington Commons. Applications must be income eligible with a suitable rental history. Applications may be picked up between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 1695 Troy Sidney Road, Troy, Ohio 45373.

Equal Opportunity Program. Disabilities accommodated.

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DOG HOUSE custom built for large dogs, custom built dog deck, 100 ft chain link fence, $500, (937)606-0044

805 Auto 586 Sports and Recreation STRENGTH TRAINER, FreeMotion S75, 200 pounds machine weights, nine different workout stations, digital Target Zone Coach, like new, sold new for $1400, $500. kmanning1@woh.rr.com.

(937)524-1747.

1999 CHEVY TAHOE LT 2-tone grey body, great shape, must see. Rebuilt tranny, new parts (have receipts). Can email pics.

(402)340-0509

515 Auctions

515 Auctions

590 Tool and Machinery

PUBLIC AUCTION

1979 AIRSTREAM 31', Excellent condition! $7500.

(937)497-9673

1997 FORD CROWN VICTORIA 69,900 miles, V8, 4.6 engine. Great gas mileage. Excellent condition. $4000 firm.

Call (937)693-4293

1998 HONDA GL1500 GOLDWING ASPENCADE 90,306 miles. New seat in summer 2011. Comes with 1 full cover, 1 half cover and trailer hitch. $6500 OBO. (937)596-5474 fctss5@hotmail.com

2001 KEYSTONE 242 FW SPRINGDALE 5TH WHEEL 12 foot super slide, sleeps 6. Excellent condition! Stored inside when not used. $9000.

(937)726-4580 Botkins, OH

2002 HONDA 1800 GOLDWING Illusion blue, 31,000 miles, Has CB radio, intercom, cruise control, etc., too many extras to list, $11,000. Call Steve.

(937)726-7998

2004 CHEVY MALIBU LS V6 clean, 90,000 Very miles, $5900. Must sell!

(937)776-9270

Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:30 A.M.

2006 CHEVROLET IMPALA LT Cloth interior, silver, great shape, new brakes, runs great. Asking $7800 (937)684-0555

LOCATION: 1610 Nicklin Ave., Piqua, Ohio DIRECTIONS: From I-75 take 25-A south, turn right on St. Rt. 66 (Riverside Dr.) Drive about 1 mile and turn left on Cherry St. then right on Nicklin. Auction is on the left.

CADILLAC – LINCOLN – ANTIQUES – FURNITURE – GLASSWARE - HOUSEHOLD AUTOS: 2001 Cadillac DeVille, 4 door, all leather, pearl color w/soft top, 93,900 miles (nice car); 1996 Lincoln Towncar, Executive Series, 4 door, leather, 51,900 miles (nice car); FURNITURE: 3 Cushion Leather Sofa (like new); 2 Overstuffed Recliners; 2 Maple Corner Cabinets, Maple Hutch (Heywood-Wakefield); Duncan Fyfe Drop Leaf Table & 4 Chairs; Cherry Buffet; Small Maple Cabinet; 3 pc. Corner Shelf Set, Homemade Grandfather Clock, Victorian Chairs; Antique Rocker & Rocking Stool; Small Curio Cabinet; Couch; Overstuffed Arm Chair; 2 Blonde Bedroom Suites; 4 pc. Wicker Set; Whirlpool Washer & Dryer; Sessions Mantle Clock; Older 4 door Kitchen Cabinet; Floor model Philco Stereo w/speakers; Desk, Lift Top. GLASSWARE, COLLECTOR ITEMS: Silver Cornet, Mfg. by Abbott (nice condition); Dovetail Oak Machinist Box w/Tools; Jim Beam Bottles Collection; Cast Bull Dog; Wagner Dutch Oven; AMT Early Scale Model Remote Car; Coca-Cola Cooler, McCoy Aunt Jemima Cookie Jar; Wagner Roaster; Lots of Custom Jewelry; Brass Cane Holder w/Lion Heads; Cigarette Papers (Prince Albert & Half & Half); Lighter & Cigarette Holder; Milk Glass – Hen on nest, Hand w/bird box, Vases; Cake Stand; Stemmed goblets; Set of Noritake for 12; Set of Arcadian Dishes for 8; Candle Wick pieces; Overlay; All types of Figurines; 2 Victorian Dresser Lamps; Approx. 20 Hummel Plates (1972-1991); Goebel Cottage Clock w/Girl; 3 Bird Goebel Figurines; 10 Etched Wine Glasses; 2 Glass Roosters; 2 Floral Basket China-Radnor; 2 Gold Etched Covered Dishes; Egg Plate; Footed Pieces. MISC. ITEMS: Pots; Pans; Corning Ware; Flatware; Yard Tools; 2 Push Mowers; Fire Hydrant; 3 Martin Houses (like new); Fishing Equipment; Wooden Tool Box; Many More Items.

2007 PONTIAC SOLSTICE Black on black. 5 speed transmission.

38,150 miles. Excellent condition! $16,000.

(937)492-3000

TOOLS for start-up shop.

13 hand power tools, numerous small hand tools, tool boxes, 8 drawer steel cabinet, levels, squares, sawhorses, ladders, shovels, maddox, axe, numerous sizes of screws, nails, bolts. Much, much more.

One price $600.

(937)448-0717

810 Auto Parts & Accessories JOEY LIFT with Sonic Scooter, $1500 (937)417-4430 or (937)336-3083

860 Recreation Vehicles 592 Wanted to Buy

2001 POLARIS, 250 Trailblazer, less than 10 hours on new top end rebuild, fun to ride, $1000 call Steve, (937)726-7998

COINS WANTED: Cash in a flash for coin collections, precious metals, currency, money-coin related items, (937)878-8784

899 Wanted to Buy

WE PAY cash for your old toys! Star Wars, GI Joes, He-Man, Transformers and much more.

(937)638-3188.

Get Cash for your junk car or truck. Free removal. Get the most for your junker call us (937)732-5424.

OWNER: Betty L. Zimmerman Trust TRUSTEE: Doug Murray

2009 HARLEY DAVIDSON ULTRA CLASSIC Turquious & Antique White, security system, smooth rim, chrome spoked wheels, ABS brakes, below 4000 miles, Nice stereo, $18,000 Firm, Call Rod, (937)638-2383

TERMS: Cash or Check with Proper I.D. Not Responsible for Accidents.

Any Statements Made Day of Sale Supercede Statements Hereon.

AUCTIONEERS

H AV E N A R – B A I R “Have Gavel – Will Travel” Mike Havenar, Rick Bair (937) 606-4743 www.auctionzip.com (Auctioneer #4544)

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1280 South Market St. (CR 25A) Troy, OH 45373

Evans Volkswagen 7124 Poe Ave. Exit 59 off I-75.

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217 N. Broad St. Fairborn, OH 45324

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Miami Valley Sunday • Classifieds That Work • Sunday, April 22, 2012 • C7

r b a e t l e e c earth day april 22, 2012

Take steps to increase the energy efficiency of your home.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Classic Pools

Buy products with minimal packaging.

Lopez, Severt & Pratt Co., L.P.A. www.lopezsevertpratt.com

Pamper your pool with earth friendly product lines such as: Natural Chemistry & Soft Swim

18 E. Water St., Troy

937.335.5658

849-9433 “New Carlisle” 339-1155 “Troy” Walk, bike, carpool or use public transportation to protect air quality.

Carpool to work more often.

Happy Earth Day

Teach children about the importance of being good to the environment.

from Troy Eagles Auxiliary 971 People Helping People

a personal experience. a rewarding education.

Seal off drafts around your home and save 5-30 percent in energy costs.

Conserve water by fixing leaky faucets and reducing shower times.

625 Olympic Dr., Troy, OH 45373 (937) 335-6418 • 1-800-237-5296 Fax (937) 339-7952

Turn off the water when brushing your teeth.

Miami Shores Golf Course Open to the public New Reduced Rates Mon thru Fri Beginning at 1pm Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays.

18 holes $19.00 / 9 holes $11.00 Carts not included.

402 East Staunton Troy

David Fair on the Square 301 Public Square, Troy

2780 Stone Circle Dr., Troy, OH

(937) 440-8232

335-8000

(937)335-4457

Whenever possible, purchase products that use recyclable materials.

Wash your pet(s) outdoors in an area of your lawn that needs water.

COOPER’S GRAVEL

Furry Friends Grooming Salon

Gravel Hauled, Laid & Leveled Driveways & Parking Lots

875-0153 698-6135

MINIMUM CHARGES APPLY

We have to pick everything up, cause trash is yucky.

– Shane, student

www.miamicountysed.com

www.sundowntanohio.com

17 North Main St. Pleasant Hill, OH

(937) 676-2194 Install low-flow faucets and showerheads.

Environmental Problems?

Make Sure to Recycle!

Phone: 440-3488

Turn off lights and electronics when you leave the room. Likewise, unplug electronic items, energy strips and protectors when not in use.

Becky Christman Owner & Groomer

Happy Earth Day 2012

Miami County Sanitary Engineering

Car hop service all year long!

We’ve got answers.

937-335-8807 www.turn-keyenvironmental.com Turn-Key Environmental Consultants (TKEC) specializes in indoor air quality, asbestos, soil and groundwater remediation, the investigation and mitigation of hazardous waste sites, and health and safety compliance.

Support local farmers’ markets and opt for organic produce.

Miami County Farmer’s Market (Behind Friendly’s - W. Main at Experiment Farm Rd.) Every Saturday From 9am-2pm Starting The First Saturday In May Until The Last Saturday Of October Early Offerings Include: Maple Syrup, Vegetable & Flower Plants, Baked Goods, Seasonal Produce, Asparagus & Herbs As Always For The Last 23 Years, There’s Something For Everyone!

more earth friendly tips for kids..

Kids’ Recycled Crafts • Glue a popsicle stick to an empty toilet paper roll to create a puppet.

• Decorate old CD-ROMs to create colorful coasters.

• Fill recycled jars with colored water, beads and other fun leftover items to create a “snowglobe”shaker.

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• Plant seeds in empty cardboard • Buy bird seed or use leftover egg crates. When the plants bread to feed birds or ducks begin to grow, cut apart each in your area. section and plant the seedling • Visit a local petting zoo or and container in the ground. animal rescue organization.

• Ask your parents to help • Use blank labels to make you start a small flower or stickers featuring drawings of vegetable garden in the your favorite animals from backyard. around the world.

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