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TROY

Troy residents will designate their council representatives at the May primary election Tuesday, with four candidates running for three council-at-large spots.

Two wards were added this year as a result of Troy’s population increase. Only one candidate is running in each of the six wards.

“State law prescribes that when a population goes over 25,000,

there has to be two additional wards added,” said city administrator Sue Knight. “I believe our population in 2010 was 25,058, so we went through the process of basically making the wards as equal as we could.”

Under the Ohio Revised Code, cities with more than 25,000 resi-

dents but fewer than 40,000 must elect nine council representatives.

Troy’s previous population mandated only seven members.

The two additional representatives must be elected by wards, thus requiring the board of elections to reapportion the city’s four wards into six, drawn as equally population-wise as possible. The

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It’s a tried and true formula that has worked for decades — and Troy Junior Baseball has no intentions of changing it.

“We’re going to maintain the status quo — we don’t really plan on changing much,” said Troy Junior Baseball Executive Officer Jay Vernau of the 2013 season, which opened April 27.

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Teen twins fight disorder CINCINNATI (AP) — Daniel and Forrest Theiss wanted to fight for their country.

Daniel dreamed of becoming an airborne medic in the U.S. Army. Forrest enlisted with the U.S. Marines.

Instead, the 18-year-old identical twins are fighting for their lives. See Page A6.

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Fifth-grade student Caleb Renkin of Kyle Elementary School forms a space ship using sheet metal Tuesday at the school. Students in Gabbie Braun’s art class are creating an art piece that will be displayed at the school.

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Wineries trade Students creating art project on celebrity for permanent installation connections EALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre (600hectare) spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-century, want to know: Where’s the heliport? Where’s the screening room? See Travel,

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com With goggles and gloves, Kyle Elementary fifth graders looked more like mad scientists than Picasso as they molded metal and melted down plastic as part of a permanent installation they’ll leave behind.

According to Kyle Elementary art teacher Gabbie Braun, the fifth-grade students literally are melting science and art together to create a unique art piece of the solar system, which will be hung up in the school before they move on to bigger and better things in sixth grade.

“It’s their voice, their ideas all

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BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@civitasmedia.com A nephew of the late Lt. James Calvin Smith, for which the Smith O’Neal VFW Post 5436 is named, donated his uncle’s Purple Heart and American flag to the post on Wednesday.

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coming together for one final project,” said Braun as she helped students mold “cookie cutters” and riveted them together into the shapes of the solar system.

Braun had the students research the solar system in books and draw their creations before shaping the planets, stars and galaxies with pieces of metal. The students then will fill in the “cookie cutters” with plastic colored beads, which will be melted in toaster ovens to create the 60 unique pieces, or “discs,” which will be turned in to a large mobile featured in the school building.

“It’ll be part of a permanent

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installation and will be hanging up here in the building where most of them have spent the last six years,” Braun said. “It’ll be a lasting piece for them to visit here in their school — it’s something they can see and be a part of because each student has something to say.”

Adara Myers, 11, said she liked learning about the planets in science class and liked seeing other parts of the solar system in the art room.

“I like science and I like art — so this puts them both together,” Myers said. “This project is cool because it combines both of my favorite things about school and the installation will become part of Kyle. That’s pretty neat.”

Kyle Elementary fifth grade student Blaine Peltier said he enjoyed researching the project

If you don’t have a ticket for the weekend full of festivities during the Mumford & Sons Gentlemen of the Road Stopover Aug. 30-31 — it’s not the end of the road.

Troy Main Street Director Karin Manovich said there are still many things community members can be involved in during the weekend — from volunteering to entertaining visitors.

Manovich said the venue will have two ticket levels.

The first being those with tickets to the Mumford & Sons concert, along with the guest bands that will be performing at Troy Memorial Stadium.

However, for a $5 daily fee, the public will have access to the second level — downtown events, which will include entertainment, arts and crafts, food booths and more, all of which is now being putting together. The downtown businesses will be open and have different offerings, she said. Local to international musical performers also will be performing on three downtown stages.

“It will kind of be like a Troy Streets Alive event,” Manovich said of the activities planned.

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Linda Davis, left, secures a ribbon for beating a malignant brain tumor.

“I was told I had three to five years left to live and I’ve lived 31 years since then in June,” Davis said. Joan Fosnight, right, ties a ribbon as a symbol for beating breast cancer, during the 2013 Relay For Life.

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The weather cooperated for this year’s event, making it an even sunnier ending to the 2013 Miami County Relay for Life.

“No rain on set up, no rain during,” said Joyce Kittel, event co-chair, along with Nicole Bolin. “It was absolutely beautiful.”

Kittel said Saturday following the event that $183,000 of the $210,000 goal had been raised to help the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer. Kittel said she isn’t

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Election ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 number of at-large members remains unchanged.

Andrew Higgins, director of the Miami County Board of Elections, said the board sent out postcards to anyone having a change in precinct or polling location.

“We’ve fielded a lot of phone calls about that. People thought their registration had changed,” Higgins said.

Additional information and a sample ballot are available on the new Miami County Board of Elections website at http://www.electionsonthe.net/oh/miami/.

The four candidates for the three at-large seats are: • Al Clark After a decade on council, incumbent Al Clark, 63, said he would like to continue representing the interests of Troy residents.

“I’m familiar with the city and the workings of the city because not only have I been on city council — this is my 10th year — but I also was a city employee (for the police department) for 27 years. That’s why I moved to Troy,” Clark said. “I got a job here and raised my family here. It’s a great city, and we love it.”

Clark works at the Miami County Educational Service Center and lives in Troy with his wife Eileen. The couple have two adult children.

In the face of budget cuts trickling down from the state, Clark acknowledged that the city must strive to make do with less.

“We have infrastructure issues that we’re going to have to address, and it’s tough to do that without state or federal assistance,” Clark said. “I really don’t like raising taxes. I live here. If I raise taxes, I raise them on me. I’m concerned with everyone’s finances and their well-being. But we also have to be aware that people don’t have to be replaced, with attrition, so we do more with less.

Obviously it’s a big balancing act, and I think we’ve done well in the past and will continue that trend.”

Clark said he encourages residents to call him with any questions or concerns related to city matters.

• Robin Oda In her first term on council, Robin Oda, 52, said fiscal responsibility is a prime issue for the city, calling the

CITY COUNCIL CANDIATES President of Council Martha Baker — Republican Council-At-Large Al Clark — Republican Colin Girolamo — Republican Robin Oda — Republican Lynne Snee — Republican Council First Ward Tom Kendall — Republican Council Second Ward Doug Tremblay— Republican Council Third Ward John Schweser — Republican Council Fourth Ward Bobby Phillips — Republican Council Fifth Ward Bill Twiss— Republican Council Sixth Ward Brock Heath — Republican budget a “delicate balancing act.”

“The biggest thing for me right now is I’m concerned about the city wanting to raise revenue. I would much rather look for a way to cut first,” Oda said. “I hate to point the city out on that, since they have been trimming, but I’m not looking for them to turn to residents for revenue yet.”

Oda home-schooled her three children through the sixth grade. For almost 17 years she has lived in Troy with her husband, Scott. She was raised in Elkhart, Ind., and also has lived in South Bend, Ind., and St. Louis.

After living in multiple places, Oda said she can say with certainty that Troy is a great place to live. She wants to see the same standard of living sustained, without taxpayers bearing the burden.

“As a family, I have to look at ways to cut. I can’t raise revenue; I have to look at ways to cut,” Oda said. “Do I want to lose services in Troy? Do I want to lose the things that make Troy nice? No. And there are so many things that make Troy a nice place to live. There’s no easy answer. It’s very, very tough.”

• Colin Girolamo At age 29, Colin Girolamo is running for council for the second time, after an unsuccessful bid in 2011. A long-time Troy resident, Girolamo

attended Troy High School and Ohio University. He works for The Caroline downtown.

His reasons for running for city council are simple.

“I love Troy, I’m passionate about public service and I just saw this as a great opportunity for me to give something back to the community,” Girolamo said.

If elected to council, he plans to help the city maintain the same standard of living as he’s experienced.

“Troy has great warm neighborhoods, thriving businesses and great schools. I feel that everyone feels some sort of duty to do some sort of service, and I have the time right now to devote my attention to serving,” Girolamo said.

• Lynne Snee Running for her second term, Lynne Snee, 46, said she would like to seek the public’s feedback on council decisions even more, should she be reelected.

“I’d like to see more citizen input because that is what guides our decisions,” Snee said. “I certainly would encourage citizen input and I certainly am open to it.”

A fifth-grade teacher at Forest Elementary, Snee has lived in Troy for 14 years with her husband, Chad.

They had three children in Troy City Schools.

Snee noted that her decisions on city spending were guided by the priorities outlined by city staff and council members at the budget workshop last year.

“I tried to always weigh decisions based on those priorities we had agreed on,” Snee said. “And I hope every other decision I made was based on the merits we weighed it upon.”

She pointed to the street light assessment as an example of a potential revenue source that council opted not to pursue. Rather than charge residents, the city was deemed responsible for the lighting of streets, alleys and public places.

Monitoring spending while exploring revenue options is a major issue for her as a council member, she said.

“I think we need to look carefully at every revenue source and see if it makes sense in light of all the residents of Troy,” Snee said.

Volunteers ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 Manovich said the No. 1 priority right now is that organizers are looking for 700-1,000 volunteers, primarily groups, to work some of the week prior and during the festival. She said the festival will begin on Thursday and run through Monday.

She said nonprofit organizations or companies working for a cause also will be considered for volunteer positions. High school students most likely will be utilized for volunteering, too, she said.

Volunteer jobs will include, for example, setting up, tearing down, manning gates and even pouring beer.

For their time, Manovich said volunteers will receive free access to the downtown venue to be part of the week-

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food vendors and arts and crafts booths in the second level venue, Manovich said, who said to again email info@troymainstreet.com.

Artists, art students or classes also are being sought to help with some of the venue decorating, such as backstage of the main concert area, Manovich said.

“The organizers again will decide who fits into the event,” Manovich said.

For those who want to participate in a smaller way, Manovich said organizers are asking the whole community to come together to welcome Mumford & Sons and the other performers.

She said homeowners and businesses — especially on the main thoroughfares where visitors will be coming off Interstate 75 by car and shuttle locations such as WACO — are asked to decorate to welcome the Grammy-winning visitors.

She said she hopes homeowners and businesses will come together in the spirit of the event and decorate with creative signs or even British flags. She said businesses with changeable signs may even consider posting messages for the weekend. She said from the simple “Welcome Gentlemen of the Road” signs, to the more complex artwork for the really creative, all efforts will be appreciated. Manovich said the official logo and badge are copyrighted and may be

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“One of the reasons we were chosen is we told (organizers) we would roll out the red carpet for this event,” she said. “We’re encouraging everyone in the community to think about decorating to be hospitable to the visitors.”

Manovich said organizers also are encouraging people who think they have a service or product that might be needed during the course of the weekend to make contact through the info@troymainstreet.com email address, and they will again pass the information on to the organizers for consideration.

She said so far, examples include a chiropractor offering massages and adjustments for band members, a company offering to bring in portable ATMs, port-apotties and security services.

Manovich said she believes the long-term effects of the two-day event will benefit Troy far beyond the weekend. She said organizers believe the attention could bring people back to live in the area and even sees the possibility of businesses relocating to the area after visitors have seen what Troy and the surrounding areas have to offer.

“We anticipate this is going to put Troy on the map long after the event,” Manovich said.

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end’s events, and there may be some financial stipend for the organizations, which is not yet clear.

Two volunteer coordinators are working to bring the volunteers together, Manovich said, and groups interested may email mumfordvolunteers@gmail.com.

“We are initially looking for groups, so if a single person is interested in volunteering can align themselves with a group, that would be best,” she said. “I think it will be a really fun way for people to participate in the action. If you don’t have a ticket, it will be a great way to be involved.”

Buskers — street performers such as jugglers and mimes — and troubadours — musical entertainers — both who work for donations, also are needed to perform in the downtown venue throughout the weekend.

“They can work for tips and will be given a passport and camping in exchange for being available all weekend to work at various spots throughout the venue,” said Manovich, who said those qualified also can email info@troymainstreet.com to throw their hat in the ring.

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Art project ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 and is looking forward to the finished piece.

“I’m excited to see the final result and everything put together,” Peltier said.

Briana Soto, 11, was busy shaping the strips of metal for her part of the art piece.

“I’m doing a galaxy,” Soto said. “I can’t wait to see how all the planets turn out.”

Soto said she is happy her galaxy will be part of the art piece and to see it displayed in her elementary school.

“Kids can come and see how much fun the fifth grade can have when they see it,” Soto said.

Skyler Reed, 11, said it was fun for students to use their imagination to come up with the fifth

grade art project.

“There’s no limit to your imagination,” Reed said. “I think it’s cool to melt the colors together — normally, I wouldn’t be able to do something like that in another class.”

Braun will melt down the plastic beads to combine the colors for each “disc” of the student’s art work. Braun procured permanent art room supplies like the gloves, goggles, toaster, drill and other art supplies with help from a $500 “Making Activities Count” grant from the Scott Family McDonalds.

“I can use all these supplies I was able to buy with the grant next year for different projects,” Braun said.

For more information about Troy City Schools and its art program, visit www.troy.k12.oh.us.

Relay ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 Cure.” She said teams sold T-shirts raffled baskets and there was even an inflatable bounce house for children.

Kittel said now that the human Relay event is wrapped up, fundraising is going to the dogs. A Bark for Life event for dogs will begin at 9 a.m.

June 8 at the bark park at Duke Park, Troy. Those interested can sign up for the event at RelayforLife.org/barkmiamioh. Participants and their canine friends will start with a walk and then continue the morn-

ing with demonstrations, contests and games.

“You can bring your dog and celebrate them as a caregiver or if they have had cancer,” Kittle said.

Also, she said, a team wrap-up meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. June 18 in the Miami Valley Centre Mall’s conference room.

She said planning for the 2014 Relay for Life will begin in September and that she continues to support the event for several reasons.

“The team participation and seeing the community come together on fighting back against cancer,” Kittel said.

VFW ■ CONTINUED FROM A1 Louise Smith Borckardt, died in October.

“The options were for them to be sent to the VFW to be appreciated, enjoyed and celebrated, or to collect dust in a drawer,” Borckardt said. “I decided to donate them.”

Smith’s parents (Borckardt’s grandparents) received the American flag when they were notified of his death in World War II. A member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Smith was listed as lost at sea, with his death reported as Feb. 27, 1942, at the age of 22.

J.B. Gibson, caption of the Honor Guard, said vistors will be able to view the Purple Heart and American flag at the VFW Post, 2220 LeFevre Road.

“We’ll have it properly displayed in a glass case on the wall,” Gibson said.

Borckardt flew into Troy on Wednesday from Dallas, Texas, for a business trip and stopped at the VFW as part of the visit. It was his first time seeing the post for which

SMITH his uncle is named.

“I’m just really excited to be here,” Borckardt said. “I saw the sign out front and took a picture immediately.”

Smith was aboard the aircraft tender USS Langley when it was attacked by the Japanese.

The VWF Post is named in honor of Smith and Robert Shilling O’Neal, who were the first of Troy to be killed in battle.

Born on Feb. 3, 1920, Smith was raised on the family farm near Troy and attended Staunton Township high school, where he was valedictorian.

Portman faces questions SPRINGFIELD (AP) — As Ohio Sen. Rob Portman traveled through the state during this week’s congressional recess, he got plenty of heat for his recent vote against a bipartisan bill that would have expanded background checks to more gun sales.

Groups in favor of the legislation protested some of his appearances and an Ohio woman whose son was killed in last year’s mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater tried to set up a meeting with Portman to express

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her frustration with his vote.

Jerri Jackson, 52, of Springfield, said that she thinks a background check might have kept her son’s killer from buying a gun after police at his university expressed concerns about his mental health.

Her son, Matthew McQuinn, was shot nine times last July as he tried to protect his girlfriend from the gunman. James Holmes is charged with killing her son and 11 other people.

“Assault rifles have no place on the streets of America,” Jackson said. “If he did not have that highpowered magazine, he would not have been able to shoot as many people as he did as quickly as he did.”

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Reading program ready to kick off TROY — As the school year is winding down for area students, the summer reading program at the Troy-Miami County Public Library is kicking into full swing.

The 2013 theme is “Dig Into Reading.” This is an independent, goal-oriented reading program with activities at the library to encourage the love of reading for pleasure as well as information.

Registration for the program opens June 3.

Children through fifth grade are encouraged to sign up during the first week, June 3-9, to receive a yard sign and paperback book. These will be given out while supplies last. As in previous years, participants are asked to select a goal of 25 books, 25 days or 25 hours of reading.

To kick off the nineweek program, there will be a cookout June 6.

Library staff will offer more than 45 different activities, all in keeping with an underground theme. The summer will conclude with a visit from Ohio natives and illustrators, Jeanette and Christopher Canyon, at 1 p.m. Aug. 2.

For more information, contact the library at 3390502.

‘Under the Dome’ copies available WEST MILTON — Stephen King’s novel “Under the Dome” will air June 24 as a 13-episode mini-series on CBS. Milton-Union Public Library Adult Fiction Specialist Kim Brubake has gathered multiple copies of the book so that patrons can read the book before watching the show.

Computer classes will be offered from May 21-25 and registrations are now being taken. Library staff and community members will teach up to nine people per

class. Classes to be taught include Basic Word, email, resume, basic computer, Facemook, basic Internet and Pinterest. Reservations are needed for these classes.

The library, 560 S. Main Street, West Milton, is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information or to register, call (937) 698-5515, visit mupubliclibrary.org or friend them on Facebook.

Summer camp offered at YMCA

MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County YMCA is offering a summer day camp program. Each week will allow boys and girls an opportunity to enjoy themselves and make new friends in an outdoor/camp atmosphere. A variety of activities will be offered, including swimming, hiking, arts and crafts and sports.

Summer Day Camp will have a different theme each week with Thursdays being D.R.E.A.M. joins the “Trip of the Week.” Week themes include Crazy Petfinder Clothes Week, Day Camp Olympics Week and Water WEST MILTON — Works Week. Trips include D.R.E.A.M. has joined zoos, a Cincinnati Reds thousands of animal welgame, Kings Island, COSI fare organizations across and Zoombezi Bay Water North America that list Park. Campers can sign up their homeless pets on Petfinder, the online leader for one to 11 weeks of camp. in responsible pet parent- There is also the option to just participate on trip days. ing. Petfinder has been Summer Day Camp is committed to animal welfare and the organizations for children going into first through sixth grade. Youth dedicated to the cause since its founding in 1996, in seventh grade and up can apply to be counselors-inand has the largest database of adoptable animals training in which they will have a chance to take a on the Internet. leadership role during Approximately 14,000 rescues and shelters lever- camp, helping counselors lead activities. Interested age Petfinder’s website, Petfinder.com, and mobile CITs should contact the camp director. apps to connect homeless Camp runs from 9 a.m. pets with prospective pet to 4 p.m. (later on trip days) parents. To get started, potential adopters simply at both the Piqua and enter their search criteria Robinson branches with and a list is returned that pre- and post-camp offered ranks the pets by proximi- at the Piqua Branch Child ty to the location entered. Care Center. Registration Adoptions are carried out forms are available at both branches and questions can by the animal placement group that is caring for the be answered by camp director Jaime Hull at (937) 440pet, following their best 9622. practices and policies.

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Noon Optimist Club. For Contact the library at (937) more information, call 698-5515 for details about (937) 875-0385. The the weekly themes.

WACO museum also will • STAUNTON LUNCHbe open.

EON: The Staunton School Luncheon will • CREATURE FEATURE: Brukner meet at 11:30 am. at Friendly’s in Troy. All Nature Center will present “Eastern graduates and those who have attended Screech Owl” from 2-3 p.m. at the center. the school and friends are invited.

Join staff and volunteers as they investi• MONTHLY MEETING: The Newton gate the eastern screech owl’s deceptive Local Board of Education will hold its regillusions designed to trick their predators. ular meeting at 7 p.m. in the Newton The event is free.

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• FUNDRAISER DINNER: A fundrais• KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis er dinner for Sarah Hackett, who is batClub of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. tling a rare, soft tissue cancer and being at the Troy Country Club. David Fong, editreated at the Cleveland Clinic, will be tor of the Troy Daily News, will speak on offered from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at his role with the newspaper. For more Immaculate Conception Parish Hall, 401 information, contact Donn Craig, vice E. Walnut St., Bradford. The dinner will president, at (937) 418-1888. include chicken and noodles or fried • BIRDATHON: An Aullwood Birdathon chicken, mashed potatoes and green with three different birding sessions will be beans for $7 for adults and those 12 and offered beginning at 6:30 a.m. at Aullwood. older and $3 for children 11 and younger. All proceeds from this event benefit Drinks and desserts will be sold sepaAullwood’s educational programs and rately. A silent auction and 50/50 raffle environmental mission. For more informaalso will be offered. For more information tion, call Aullwood at (937) 890-7360. or to make donations, call (937) 448• SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami 2569.

Valley Troy Chapter of the National • BREAKFAST SET: Boy Scout Troop Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver 586 of American Legion Post No. 586, Support Group will meet from 4-5:30 p.m.

Tipp City, will serve an all-you-can-eat at the Church of the Nazarene, 1200 breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Items available Barnhart Road, Troy. Use the entrance at will include eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, the side of the building. For more informaFrench toast, pancakes, waffles, hash tion, call the Alzheimer’s Association at browns, sausage gravy, cinnamon rolls, (937) 291-3332. fruit and juices.

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• The village of West Milton Planning • WAGON RIDES: Draft horse pulled Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in council wagon rides will be offered from 1-2:30 chambers. p.m. at Aullwood Farm, 9101 Frederick Pike, Dayton. Join Red and Mick, THURSDAY Aullwood’s draft horse team, and Farmer John for a relaxing tour of Aullwood Farm • QUARTER AUCTION: Corinn’s Way on a wagon drawn by horse power. Each will offer its second annual quarter aucride lasts about 30 minutes. tion from 6-9 p.m. in the Riverside gym, across from Duke Park. Doors will open MONDAY at 5:30 p.m. Food and drink will be available for purchase, and proceeds will ben• CRAFTY LISTENERS: The Crafty efit Special Olympics. Paddles that are Listeners will meet from 1-2:30 p.m. at $25 put participants in for every item, the Milton-Union Public Library. other paddles are $1 and items will be Participants listen to an audio book and bid on individually. VIP seats are available work on various craft projects. for $10. For more information, cal Alicia • SENIOR NIGHT: Newton High Love at (937) 694-5318.

School Seniors Night will be at 5:30 p.m.

• FORGOTTEN COMMUNITIES: A at the softball field. Parents are encourprogram about forgotten communities of aged to attend, and softball, baseball and Miami County, such as Ragtown, track participants will be recognized.

Grayson and Livingston, will be at 7 p.m.

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Doug Christian, retired county engineer • The Tipp City Council will meet at who has done extensive research of the 7:30 p.m. at the Government Center.

• The Piqua City Commission will meet area, will present a program of pictures and stories of some of these communiat 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. ties. For more information, call (937) 698• The Troy City Council will meet at 7 6798. p.m. in the meeting room in Council • SLOPPY JOE: The American Legion Chambers.

Auxiliary Unit No. 586, Tipp City, will • The Staunton Township Trustees will serve sloppy joe sandwiches for $ and meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Staunton cookies two for 50 cents from 6-7:30 p.m.

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Euchre will start at 7 p.m. for $5.

• Covington Board of Public Affairs will • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning dismeet at 4 p.m. in the Water Department covery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 office located at 123 W. Wright St., a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Covington.

Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, • The Potsdam Village Council will education coordinator, will lead walkers meet at 7 p.m. in the village offices. as they experience the seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars.

TUESDAY Civic agendas • The Miami County Public Defender • BIRD HIKE: An early morning bird Association will meet at 10 a.m. in the hike will begin at 7:30 a.m. at Brukner office on the second floor of the courtNature Center. Participants will experience house, 201 W. Main St., Troy. warblers that are passing through on their way north to their breeding grounds. Over the years, the center has recorded 28 war- MAY 10-11 bler species at BNC, including the rare • TCT PRODUCTION: The Troy Civic worm-eating warbler. Binoculars and field Theatre will offer “The Late Edwina guides also are available from the nature Black,” a tale of murder, scandal and center, if participants call ahead. All levels mystery, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at of experience are welcome and the event the Barn in the Park. Call 339-7700 for is free. tickets.

• TINY TOTS: The Tiny Tots program will be from 1-1:30 p.m. at the MiltonMAY 10 Union Public Library. The interactive program is for children birth to 3 years old • FRIDAY DINNERS: Dinner will be and their parents and caregvivers. offered from 5-8 p.m. at the Covington • LITERACY MEETING: The Troy VFW Post 4235, 173 N. High St., Literacy Council, an all-volunteer organiCovington. Choices will include a $12 New zation, will meet at the Troy-Hayner York strip steak, broasted chicken, fish, Cultural Center in Troy at 7 p.m. Adults shrimp and sandwiches, all made-to-order. seeking help with basic literacy or wish to • MARKET ON THE MIAMI: Market learn English as a second language, and on the Miami, a collaboration of local those interested in becoming tutors, are vendors who produce locally grown, asked to contact the message center at homemade cottage foods and artisan (937) 660-3170 for more information. items will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon • EXPLORATION HIKE: The Miami at the Tin Roof Restaurant, 439 N. Elm County Park District will hold an adult St., Troy, at Treasure Island Park. For exploration hike at 9 a.m. at Garbry Big more information, visit www.MarketOn Woods Sanctuary, 2540 E. Statler Road, east of Piqua. Join a park district naturalist TheMiami.com, on Facebook at “Market On The Miami,” call (937) 216-0949 or or volunteer leader as they head out to explore nature. Walks are not strenuous or email MarketOnTheMiami@gmail.com.

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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.”

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP New York Times on Japan’s unnecessary nationalism: Since taking over as Japan’s prime minister in December, Shinzo Abe and his conservative Liberal Democratic Party have been juggling a packed agenda of complicated issues, including reviving the country’s economy, coping with the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and managing prickly relations with neighbors like North Korea.

Stirring up extraneous controversy is counterproductive, but that’s exactly what he and his nationalist allies in Parliament have done.

On Tuesday, a group of 168 mostly low-ranking conservative lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo, which honors Japan’s war dead, including several who were executed as war criminals after World War II. It was the largest mass visit by Parliament in recent memory. The Japanese news media said that Abe didn’t visit the shrine, instead sending a ritual offering, but his deputy prime minister and two other ministers made a pilgrimage there over the weekend. He has a record of defending Japan’s conduct during World War II. Abe and his allies know well what a deeply sensitive issue this is for China and South Korea, which suffered under Japan’s 20th-century empire-building and militarism, and the reaction was predictable. On Monday, South Korea canceled a visit to Japan by its foreign minister and China publicly chastised Japan. On Tuesday, tensions were further fueled when Chinese and Japanese boats converged on disputed islands in the East China Sea. Japan and China both need to work on a peaceful solution to their territorial issues. But it seems especially foolhardy for Japan to inflame hostilities with China and South Korea when all countries need to be working cooperatively to resolve the problems with North Korea and its nuclear program.

Instead of exacerbating historical wounds, Abe should focus on writing Japan’s future, with an emphasis on improving its long-stagnant economy and enhancing its role as a leading democracy in Asia and beyond.

The Oklahoman on overreach by President Barack Obama doomed gun control bill: Washington might have a gun control bill now were it not for President Barack Obama’s overreach. The Great Divider has again lived up to the moniker by refusing to embrace a compromise position and refusing to embrace compromise in general.

After all, compromise is in the realm of governing. Obama stays in the realm of politics, the perpetual campaigner who will try to win back the U.S. House by demonizing the gun lobby and Republicans for dishonoring victims of the Newtown massacre.

The U.S. Senate’s rebuff of gun legislation came on the week when Boston grieved its dead, police moved swiftly to find and arrest the marathon bombing perpetrators and Oklahoma City remembered the victims of its own massacre. These were reminders that evil and demented people are among who will kill by whatever means, be it “assault” weapons or “assault” pressure cookers.

Obama and pro-gun control Democrats had opportunities to reach a compromise, most notably in the area of background checks. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, suggested one such compromise. The Democrats weren’t interested. Other Democrats joined Republicans in refusing to embrace the overreach, which was predicated on the belief that Newtown justified any means to an end.

Was the gun lobby dishonest about the bill restricting weapons transfers to relatives? You bet. Were any mistruths the reason for its defeat?

No way. Americans want sensible, fair and constitutional gun restrictions debated with reason and restraint. Obama consistently refuses to back legislation that has a chance to win bipartisan support before a vote is taken. Sometimes he gets his way, as with Obamacare. Often he doesn’t, but The Great Divider still notches a victory in defeat because it becomes part of his campaign strategy going forward.

We’re still waiting for him to have a governing strategy. It’s pretty shameful that he seems less interested in running the country than in running a campaign.

THEY SAID IT “When Bev and I were looking to purchase a classic car, I told her to think of all the cars we’ve had over the years and if there were any that stood out to her. She said out of any car out there she wanted another one like that 1964 Plymouth, so we purchased a replica of that exact car.”

— West Milton resident George Stamper, on he and his wife’s love of classic cars “When I was 8 years old, I went to a little red one-room school house and there were only two boys and one other girl — there were only four of us.

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Game dev gives pirates taste of own medicine To beat a pirate, you have to think like a pirate.

And even though piracy really isn’t the entertainment world-killing problem that entertainment executives would love for you to believe, it’s good every now and then to stick it to the people who illegally download things for free a little too much.

So independent video game developer Greenheart Games gave the people pirating its game a taste of what it feels like.

Game Dev Tycoon, which began as a Windows 8/RT App Store exclusive, is a simulator that has the player run a video game developer studio. You start out coding in your garage as an indie developer, making small and easy games, but eventually you can work your way to a fancy office building with a big staff and work on big-budget AAA games — IF the games you make are good and sell.

And that’s where the fun comes in.

The game was doing alright on the Windows App Store, but with the disappointing performance of both the Windows 8 operating system and the Surface tablets, the game wasn’t available on platforms people actually have. So Greenheart Games released a version for Mac, Windows and Linux systems and

Josh Brown Sunday Columnist has a version for the Steam digital distribution service in the works.

Instead of using awful, intrusive digital rights management (DRM) to fight pirates, though, the developer secretly put up the game on a torrent sharing site — where the pirates reside. They labeled it as a “cracked and working” full version of the game, meaning that anyone downloading it from there could theoretically skip the $7.99 price tag and enjoy the whole game illegally for free.

Within hours, 3,104 people had stolen the game, compared to 214 who had paid for it.

Those 3,104 got more than they bargained for.

They got to be on the receiving end of their own behavior.

You see, the “cracked” version wasn’t the actual game. It was a

slightly modified version of the game and, given the nature of the gameplay itself, lent itself perfectly to the developers’ revenge. Once pirate players get to a certain point and their in-game company grows a little, an in-game sales report pops up with bad news: “Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.

If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.”

Oh, the delicious irony. No matter how well they play, no matter how good the games their company makes are, their sales numbers don’t reflect it and they run out of money and lose the game. Because that’s what happens when people steal.

Still, it’d be interesting to see newer sales figures on their game.

Because most people are like me: when they download a game, they’re doing so as a means of trying it out to see if they like it. You can’t rent PC games from a video store the same way you can console games, and a lot of them don’t release free demos (Game Dev Tycoon had a demo, but only on the Windows App Store — which led me to buy the game before any of this even hap-

pened).

Most of the time, piracy isn’t stealing — it’s free advertising.

But far too many developers look at every illegally downloaded copy as a lost sale, when the fact is that a vast majority of those people weren’t going to buy the game anyway — and a higher percentage still of those just delete it after a few hours. Like they would, you know, a demo.

And aside from that, the buzz this whole stunt has stirred up on the Internet got the game attention — maybe a little too much for two people to handle. Mere days later, the company’s forum site was inundated with people reporting bugs and crashes and problems after playing the game. Which is typically what happens when a game made specifically for one platform branches out to other ones — there’s just usually more people to help clean up the mess at a bigger company.

Bottom line: pirates, if you like something, put your money where your mouth is.

Because maybe if you did more often, DRM and other anti-piracy measures wouldn’t exist in the first place.

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Nursing: The Health of a Nation This year’s theme for National Nursing Week is a continuation of the campaign “Nursing: The Health of a Nation”. Without nurses, we would suffer through longer waits at our publicly funded health institutions, our elderly and bed-ridden would be forced to endure the agony of clinic waiting rooms, and our children and teens would know a lot less about how to keep in good health.

Sponsored by the Canadian Nurses Association, National Nursing Week is a celebration of those who work in public health clinics, hospitals and clinics, and private and home-care organizations. CNA president Judith Shamian says it is a time to “acknowledge and celebrate nursing — a profession in which going above and beyond is a daily occurrence.”

The CAN represents just over 145,000 registered nurses who work on the front lines and behind the scenes. Not only do they assist physicians in administering direct care, they work to educate community members about hygiene, safe sex practices, disease control, and disease prevention. They are the front-line care givers in hospital emergency rooms, medical clinics, learning institutions, and homes for the elderly.

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Ohio teen twins fight rare, deadly disorder CINCINNATI (AP) — Daniel and Forrest Theiss wanted to fight for their country.

Daniel dreamed of becoming an airborne medic in the U.S. Army. Forrest enlisted with the U.S. Marines.

Instead, the 18-year-old identical twins are fighting for their lives after being diagnosed with a genetic condition so rare it doesn’t even have a name that causes blood vessels in their body to rip and shred.

In the past year and a half, the once healthy and active Mason teens have each undergone multiple surgeries to repair aortas shredded like wet tissue paper. Complications during a surgery in January Daniel’s third major operation left him a paraplegic.

For the brothers and their parents, Matt and stepmom Kathy, the journey has been both heartbreaking and harrowing, but also inspiring, a lesson about finding joy in adversity and of the transformational power of family and community.

At first glance, it’s hard to tell Daniel and Forrest apart.

Sharing a 98 percent genetic match, both have the same tall, lanky build, aquiline nose and doleful brown eyes. Even their voices and their infectious sense of humor are nearly indistinguishable The differences, they will tell you, are in the details.

Daniel, the older brother by five minutes, is practical and patient. Forrest, the entertainer, embraces the limelight, while Daniel, the quiet artist, prefers to remain behind-the-scenes.

When Matt’s job as a business analyst moved the family from Long Island, N.Y., to Mason the summer before their senior year in 2011, the boys quickly found their groove at Mason High School.

Daniel joined the cross country team. Forrest tried out for the school musical.

Despite a bout of pneumonia that fall that sidelined Daniel, there was little sign of what was to come.

In January 2012, an observant Army doctor detected a heart murmur in Daniel. That same night, he was overcome by a sudden wave of excruciating stomach pain.

An echocardiogram detected an aortic dissection, an uncommon but often lethal tear in the inner lining of the body’s largest artery. The tear allows blood to surge into the middle layer of the aorta, causing the muscle layers to peel apart. If the tear ruptures through the aorta’s third and outside wall, death can

MARGARET E. ‘PEG’ WILHELM She was a graduate of TROY — Margaret E. “Peg” Wilhelm, age 82, of LostCreek Schools. Peg was a member of the Casstown, died Casstown Saturday, United May 4, 2013, Methodist at the Troy Church and the Care and Miami County Rehabilitation Farm Bureau.

Center in She was a Troy. She was cook for the born April 16, Miami East 1931, in High School, Casstown to retiring after the late Harry 30-plus years C. and Ellen WILHELM of service.

J. (Jackson) Services will LaTourrette. be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, She married Herbert May 7, at the Baird Oda Wilhelm.

Funeral Home, Troy with Survivors include her husband of 61 years of the Rev. David Ramming marriage, Herbert; sons officiating. Interment to follow in the Miami and daughters-in-law, Wade Harry and Diana Memorial Park, Covington.

Wilhelm of New The family will receive Carlisle; Wayne Carl friends prior to the servand Diana Wilhelm of ice from 11 a.m. to 2 Casstown; daughter, Lauraetta Jane Wilhelm p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. of Casstown; three Memorial contributions grandchildren, Steve may be made to and Christy Wilhelm, Hospice of Miami Valley Michelle and Ian or Casstown United Robbins, and Jamie Methodist Church Music Wilhelm; three greatFund. grandchildren, Samuel Friends may express and Matthew Wilhelm condolences to the famiand Will Robbins; and sister, Eleanor Wilhelm ly through www. bairdfuneralhome.com. of Bloomington, Ind.

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In this April 26 photo, Daniel Theiss, 18, sits at home in Mason with a poster of photos of his brother Forrest, who is in a hospital in Cleveland. The twins suffer from a genetic condition, so rare it doesn’t even have a name, that affects the blood vessels in their bodies and makes them more prone to ripping and shredding. be almost immediate.

Aortic dissections claimed the lives of actors Lucille Ball and John Ritter.

The Theisses were even more stunned by what came next.

Genetic tests revealed both Daniel and Forrest share a mutation of the ACTA2 gene. The defective gene affects muscular contractions in the aorta and other blood vessels, which can lead to aortic aneurysms and dissections.

Doctors stabilized Daniel and scheduled both boys for surgery after graduation that June.

Two weeks later, in February, Daniel was rushed to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center with chest pain As doctors stabilized Daniel, Forrest felt his left arm go numb. An MRI revealed an ascending aortic dissection. Forrest needed emergency surgery.

Matt made the difficult decision to transfer Forrest to the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors there might save his aortic valves.

“They told me that every half-hour we waited was another 10-15 percent chance Forrest could die,” Matt recalls.

In Cleveland, hospital staff immediately whisked Forrest into surgery, where cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Eric Roselli sawed through his ribcage to replace his dissected aorta with a synthetic sleeve. Daniel would undergo a similar procedure four days later.

“If they didn’t have the surgery, they most certainly would have died within days,” Roselli says.

After several months of rehabilitation, Daniel and Forrest came home. They went to prom. Graduated

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high school. Tried to put the harrowing experience behind them.

Daniel got a job at a local fast food restaurant and planned to become an EMT. Forrest moved to New York to study nursing.

But their ordeal wasn’t over.

In August, Daniel suffered a series of mini-strokes sparked by aneurysms in his arteries.

Four carotid months later, his aorta dissected another 20 centimeters.

Forrest flew in from New York for Daniel’s Jan. 22 surgery. As Roselli gathered the family for an update, Forrest suffered a stroke.

Daniel and Forrest’s parallel medical paths would soon diverge. Over the next two days, Daniel fell victim to a spinal stroke and lost all sensation from the waist down.

“Forrest and Daniel are in sync. When one does something, the other has to top it. I didn’t think they were going to medically top each other, but they have,” Kathy says.

Faith that God has a purpose for the boys is what sustains Matt and Kathy.

For Daniel and Forrest, laughter is the best medicine.

The brothers call themselves Forrest Gump and Lt. Dan a self-deprecating wit that belies a steely determination to live life to the fullest.

“You have to have a good sense of humor about it.

Otherwise, you’d be sitting in bed all day thinking, ‘What’s the point?’” Daniel says.

But laughter won’t pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical costs incurred by the Theisses, who’ve dipped

DAYTON (AP) — A group of Dayton residents is hoping to create a hall of fame for funk music by collecting $10 donations from 10 million people.

The Dayton Funk Dynasty Group held a news conference Friday to discuss details of the planned Funk

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Ohio adds highway memorials to fallen CINCINNATI (AP) — A red-haired boy and his little cousin tugged on either side of the sheet in unison, pulling it down to uncover a new highway sign.

As people clapped, the boy grinned and waved his hand, drawing more applause. He waved again, to the delight of the overflow crowd in the Miami Community Township Center.

“He’s a ham,” said Chrystina Kreuter, smiling at her 7-year-old son, Christian. “Just like his dad.”

The Sgt. David Kreuter Memorial Highway on a stretch of state Route 264 running through his home township west of Cincinnati honors the father that Christian never got the chance to know. David was among 14 U.S. Marines most of them in the Columbusbased Lima Company killed Aug. 3, 2005, by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Christian had been born less than two months earlier; David saw him only in photos and heard his infant son breathing over the phone before his death at age 26.

“I think this really lets

Hall of Fame and Museum and urge fans of funk to contribute, according to reports.

Organizers hope the museum will be open within two years and that it will be the center of an entertainment district.

“We are bringing back

the funk,” the group’s CEO, David Webb, said. “We are bringing Dayton back on the map.”

The news conference was held on what would have been funk pioneer James Browns’ 80th birthday, and an account has been established at Chase Bank to handle any donations.

Dayton Mayor Gary Leitzill, who helped present the group’s plan to city planners, said donations should not only come from funk fans, but also from rap artists who have profited for years from funk.

“This can happen. It is going to be a global effort,” Leitzill said. “There are funk fans all over the world.”

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Christian get to be involved and relate to his dad in a way he was never able to,” Kreuter’s widow said after the April 27 dedication ceremonies.

Such roadway reminders are becoming increasing popular as memorial tributes. Nearly 150 have been approved by legislators in the last five years, with the number topping 50 last year alone. Legislators say the bills are simple but important ways to recognize and remember the sacrifices Ohioans have made, and they have had strong support in the Statehouse.

“I think it’s critical to do these things,” said state Rep. Louis Terhar, R-Cincinnati, who promoted the Kreuter highway bill.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt.

Eric Flanagan said that he wasn’t sure how common the practice is elsewhere but that such dedications of highways, bridges and other everyday structures are tributes that augment annual Memorial Day observances.

“Giving one’s life in defense of the country, whether at home or abroad, deserves to be remembered,” Flanagan said.

Dayton native Brenda Curtis, a founder of the Dayton Funk Dynasty Group, said a local funk museum has been her dream for 25 years and that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland is among the institutions the group is using as a model.

Some of funk’s most popular artists are from Dayton and other parts of Ohio.

Dayton’s funk bands such as the Ohio Players, Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame, Zapp, Faze-O, Heatwave, Sun, Slave and Lakeside have been applauded nationally, but there is no permanent physical monument to their work.

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into their retirement funds and taken a loan against their house. It won’t pay for the $34,000 home renovation to make their home handicap-accessible or for a variety of assistive devices to help Daniel live independently.

Luckily, the Theisses didn’t move into just any neighborhood. They moved into Mason’s Coddington Reserve.

After the twins’ first surgeries, neighbors in the Theisses’ remarkably closeknit, 10-home cul-de-sac sprang to action, organizing a “meal train,” performing yard work and lending a sympathetic ear. They hoped to raise at least $6,000 Saturday at a fundraiser at the Mason American Legion.

The Theisses take nothing for granted. Each day is a gift.

“It’s pretty much guaranteed that their arteries will continue to degenerate,” Matt says. “We know they won’t have a normal life span.”

Their career goals upended, Daniel and Forrest struggle to redefine themselves.

Forrest switched majors from nursing to a one-year auto-diesel repair program. Daniel’s goal is to simply become independent.

“I had a plan A and then I had a plan B,” Daniel says.

“Now I need a plan C.” Still, the Thiesses say they are blessed.

“I feel like Jimmy Stewart in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” Matt says. “You like to think you can handle it all, but you can’t and after a while you realize you need a community to raise your family. It’s made me believe it’s about family, friends and helping others.”

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• COACHING SEARCH: Milton-Union High School has varsity football assistant coaching positions available, including offensive and defensive coordinator.

Please send a letter of interest and resume with coaching experience via email to head coach Mark Lane at lanema@milton-union.k12.oh.us. The application deadline is May Friday.

• GOLF: Troy Post 43 American Legion baseball is hosting a golf scramble May 19 at Cliffside Golf Course.

Check-in is at noon with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The cost is $65 per person, with teams of four. Registration is limited to the first 30 teams. For more information, call Frosty Brown at (937) 339-4383 or 474-9093.

• BASEBALL: Spots are still available for the Locos Express Super Power Slam 13U, 14U, 15U baseball tournament June 14-16 in Lima. There is a four-game guarantee. Contact locosexpress@gmail.com for additional information.

• HALL OF FAME: Covington High School is accepting nominations for its Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will be on Sept. 13. Anyone wishing to submit a nomination should do so with a letter to the athletic director detailing as much information as possible about the potential inductee. Nominations are due by May 24. For more information, call the athletic department at (937) 473-2552.

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

Trojans rebound

JOSH BROWN

Staff Reports TROY — Six games in as many days. Two of them extrainning affairs.

A run-rule win one day, only to be followed by a no-hitter at the hands of one of the best teams in the state in Division I. It’s been a busy week for the Troy Trojans.

And it couldn’t have ended in a better way.

Clutch hitting, solid defense, tough pitching and the will to win all came together in one afternoon on Saturday as the Trojans (9-13) capped off a grueling stretch with a 5-3 victory over Miamisburg at Market Street Diamond.

“The girls have played six games in six days now, and that can be difficult,” Troy coach Megan Campbell said. “But the girls played very relaxed today, and they did a lot of the little things well.

“At this point in the season you want to see everything coming together. And the girls came

MIAMI COUNTY out ready to play.”

Amber Smith — throwing her fourth game of the week — went the distance, striking out five, walking none and giving up seven hits. Miamisburg (9-11) scored all of its runs in the final two innings, but Smith was able to fight through the fatigue to finish the win.

“This was her fourth game of the week, and she was tired,” Campbell said. “But all of her pitches were working, and she threw well.”

Getting some support early on helped.

Troy took a 1-0 lead after the first and built a 3-0 lead before the Vikings finally dented the scoreboard with two in the sixth.

But the Trojans scored two more in the bottom of the sixth to put it out of reach.

Alex Wilt was 3 for 4 with two STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER runs, Brittany Sowers was 2 for 3 Troy pitcher Amber Smith delivers a strike during a game

■ See ROUNDUP on A9 against Miamisburg Saturday at Market Street Diamond in Troy.

■ Baseball

■ Track and Field

M-U boys win Kenny Beard title

TODAY No events scheduled

Girls place 2nd

MONDAY Baseball Troy at Trotwood (5 p.m.)

Kenton Ridge at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.)

Miami East at Milton-Union (5 p.m.)

Lehman at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

Greenville at Piqua (5 p.m.)

Fort Recovery at Bradford (5 p.m.)

Softball Troy at Trotwood (5 p.m.)

Kenton Ridge at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.)

Dunbar at Newton (5 p.m.)

Lehman at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

Greenville at Piqua (5 p.m.)

Bradford at Fort Recovery (5 p.m.)

Tennis Xenia at Troy (4:30 p.m.)

Piqua at Lebanon (4:30 p.m.)

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Big contributions all over in 5-3 win

SPORTS CALENDAR

TUESDAY Baseball Trotwood at Troy (5 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Kenton Ridge (5 p.m.)

Mississinawa Valley at Miami East (5 p.m.)

Newton at Covington (5 p.m.)

Riverside at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

Piqua at Greenville (5 p.m.)

Anna at Lehman (5 p.m.)

Softball Trotwood at Troy (5 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Kenton Ridge (5 p.m.)

Mississinawa Valley at Miami East (5 p.m.)

Newton at Covington (5 p.m.)

Riverside at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

Piqua at Greenville (5 p.m.)

Minster at Lehman (5 p.m.)

Tennis Troy at Centerville (4:30 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Northwestern (4:30 p.m.)

Xenia at Piqua (4:30 p.m.)

Lehman at Greeneview (5 p.m.)

Track Tecumseh at Tippecanoe (4:30 p.m.)

Miami East at Graham (4:30 p.m.)

Lehman at Minster tri (5 p.m.)

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Troy’s Dylan Cascaden slides safely into home plate on a wild pitch during a game against Kenton Ridge Saturday at Market Street Field in Troy.

Senior shuffle Kendall, seniors lead Troy past KR

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com After a winless week against the Greater Western Ohio Conference’s best, Troy desperately needed a victory.

And the Trojans’ seniors delivered.

TROY An all-senior lineup plated four runs in the first three innings to take the pressure off of starter Zach Kendall, and the junior did the rest by tossing a three-hit gem in a 4-0 Senior Day win over the Kenton Ridge Cougars Saturday at Market

The Milton-Union boys relay teams were dominant Saturday.

The Bulldogs placed in the top two in four out of five relay events scored, helping pave the way for a first-place team finish Saturday at the legendary Kenny Beard Invitational in West Milton.

A week after placing fourth at the Bulldog Invitational, MiltonUnion ran away with the team title Saturday, scoring 153 points.

Houston was the next closest with 104 and Twin Valley South was third (103.50).

WEST MILTON Kyle Swartz, Joe Thoele, Skyler Deeter and Chris Bohse won the 4x800 relay (8:54.91). In the 4x400, Swartz, Zach Pricer, Thoele and Deeter won in a time of 3:35.34. The Bulldogs 4x200 team of Ryan Nichols, Zach Pricer, Deeter and Thoele finished runner-up (1:38.83). Milton’s 4x100 Iron Man relay team of Andrew Lynn, Wes Marten, Shane Barnett and Nick Fields placed second to Twin Valley South in a time of 51.68 seconds.

“We always take pride in those relays,” Milton-Union coach Michael Meredith said. “We never just fill out a relay to run one. If we are going to run a relay, we are going to run our top guys when we do it. When you run at a small school and you don’t have the greatest talent, none of those kids may win events by themselves, but they can win when they run together.”

Also for Milton, Colt Hildebrand was runner-up in the 110 hurdles (18.22 seconds),

■ See TROJANS on A8 Troy’s Devin Blakely beats a throw to second base.

■ See BEARD on A8

■ Horse Racing

Orb wins 139th Derby

Reds rally for 6-4 victory over Cubs The Cincinnati Reds were watching when Carlos Marmol came on to pitch the eighth inning, and they knew exactly what to do.

It pays to be patient when the erratic right-hander is on the mound.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Orb was so far behind a wall of horses at the Kentucky Derby that even his jockey wasn’t sure he could master the muddy track and make a run for the roses.

“I was really far back,” Joel Rosario said. “I said hopefully he can go faster than that. I was saying maybe I was too far back, but it was so easy.”

The bay colt made it look that way Saturday, splashing through the slop to win the Derby by 2 12 lengths and giving Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey his first victory in the 3-year-old classic.

Long shot Golden Soul was AP PHOTO second with Revolutionary third Joel Rosario (front) rides Orb to win the 139th Kentucky Derby while Normandy Invasion faded at Churchill Downs Saturday in Louisville, Ky. to fourth.

Orb, the 5-1 favorite, broke from the No. 16 post and bided his time near the back of the pack early while Palace Malice set a blistering pace in the muck.

Orb was still idling in 16th place a half-mile into the race.

On the turn for home, Rosario moved him past 11 horses into striking position in the middle of the track. With a quarter of a mile to go, Orb began picking off the leaders. The only question left was whether he could sustain his momentum on a surface that resembled creamy peanut butter.

“He was very relaxed, it’s exactly what I wanted,” Rosario said.

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■ Major League Baseball

Reds rally for 6-4 victory CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds were watching when Carlos Marmol came on to pitch the eighth inning, and they knew exactly what to do.

It pays to be patient when the erratic righthander is on the mound.

Marmol walked two guys and hit another batter before he was pulled, and Cincinnati scored four times to rally for a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

AP PHOTO “You’ve got to take what Cincinnati Reds’ Zack Cozart hits an RBI single they’re giving you, and against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning of Marmol had a little tough a baseball game Saturday in Chicago. time out there,” Reds man-

ager Dusty Baker said.

“Our guys stayed off some close pitches and were fortunate enough to get the hit when we needed it. But also did a good job of keeping the ball off the ground when we had the bases loaded.”

That’s right, Cincinnati had just one hit in the big eighth inning, but that was all it needed to secure its first winning road series of the season. The Reds held on for a 6-5 victory in the opener on Friday when Darwin Barney struck out with the bases loaded to end the game.

Alfonso Soriano hit a

pair of two-run homers for the Cubs, who have lost four of five. But Soriano’s 31st career multihomer game had an all-toofamiliar end for the veteran slugger.

“We have so many games where we’re winning in the sixth, seventh inning and we give it to the other team,” Soriano said. “I think that’s the difference. … A game like this we can’t give it away.”

Jeff Samardzija pitched six effective innings for Chicago after Shin-Soo Choo homered on the first pitch of the game, and James Russell got three

outs before Marmol entered with a 4-2 lead. It was Marmol’s 453rd relief appearance with the Cubs, snapping a tie with Lee Smith for the franchise record.

He marked the occasion by walking Zack Cozart on four pitches, walking Joey Votto on a full count and hitting Brandon Phillips to load the bases with no outs. That was enough for manager Dale Sveum, who replaced Marmol with Hector Rondon. The crowd of 36,455 showered Marmol (2-2) with boos as he made his way to the dugout.

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Kazmir gets 1st win since 2010, Indians beat Twins, 7-3

■ CONTINUED FROM A7 Street Field.

“Two things,” Troy coach Ty Welker said. “First, it was Senior Day, all of the seniors played and they all did a great job. Second, Zach Kendall threw a really nice game.”

And Troy’s (13-9) seniorpacked lineup got to work early.

Jay Swigard singled with one out in the bottom of the first, and Dylan Cascaden immediately brought him around to score with an RBI double.

And with two outs, Cam Weaver ripped a grounder to third that took a crazy hop three feet over the Kenton Ridge defender’s head for a clutch run-scoring single to stake Kendall out to a 2-0 lead.

That lead only grew in the second, as Riley Turner reached on a bunt single, stole second and scored on an RBI single by Devin Blakely. And in the third inning, Cascaden led off with his second double of the game and eventually scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-0.

“Whenever I call any one of these guys’ name, they’re always ready to give 100 percent no matter what role I need them in,” Welker said of the seniors. “They work hard, they do whatever I ask of them and they always do a nice job for us.”

And Kendall — who hasn’t seen much run support of late — made the most of it.

The junior struck out 11, walked two and gave up only three hits, the first of which came in the second inning on a crazy hop at third exactly like Weaver’s single. After an errant pickoff throw put the runner in scoring position, Kendall struck out the side from there — giving him six strikeouts in the first two innings.

“We scored two in the first, and Zach took over from there,” Welker said.

“We’d like him to be the kind of guy that says ‘you give me a run, and I’ll give us a win.’ He’s had some tough luck in his last three losses, though. He’s only given up runs in three innings out of 25 or 26, and he has three losses to show for it because we haven’t

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Troy’s Kyle Croft runs after making contact during a game against Kenton Ridge Saturday in Troy. been scoring runs for him.”

The Cougars (11-11) made Kendall work for it, though. Six batters worked counts full against him, and he finished the complete game on his 124th pitch.

Still, Kenton Ridge only put two runners in scoring position in the entire game and never got anyone past second base. And of those six hitters that drew full counts, only one reached base at all.

Kendall was simply in control from start to finish, using lessons he’d learned in those losses that came before.

“He’s had some tough losses, but he learned something about composure — and tempo,” Welker said.

“We saw Centerville and Lebanon’s pitchers, and how they’d get the ball and immediately go back and throw the next pitch. We’ve been working with the guys to be in control of the game and set the pace.”

Logan Perkins added a double in the game for Troy,

while seniors Ian Nadolny, Cody Fuller and Kyle Croft also started and played the whole game.

The win gives Troy some positive momentum heading into the regular season’s final week — with the tournament draw happening today. Troy plays an away-home series Monday and Tuesday against Trotwood to finish GWOC

North Division play before hosting Versailles on Thursday in its final home game of the regular season.

The Trojans then finish up at Fairborn on Friday and at Northmont Saturday.

death for the people who put so much time into this horse, and, of course, I’m thrilled to death for me,” he said.

Todd Pletcher had a record-tying five runners.

Revolutionary was the best of the “Todd Squad,” followed by Charming Kitten (ninth), Overanalyze (11th), Palace Malice (12th) and Verrazano (14th).

Goldencents, owned in part by Rick Pitino, coach of Louisville’s national basketball champions, finished a 17th. His jockey, Kevin Krigger, was trying to become the first black rider to win the race since 1902.

Rosie Napravnik was also bidding to make history as the first woman jockey to win the world’s biggest horse race. She finished fifth aboard Mylute, the highest finish by a female rider.

D. Wayne Lukas, who won the Derby four times and would have been the oldest trainer to saddle a winner, sent out two runners. Oxbow, with threetime Derby winning jockey Gary Stevens aboard, finished sixth. Will Take Charge was eighth.

Lines of Battle from Ireland finished seventh, denying European champion trainer Aidan O’Brien the international victory.

The rain that pelted the track earlier in the day had stopped by the time 19 horses paraded to the post for the 139th Derby.

The crowd of 151,616 must have known something, with a surge of late money sending Orb off as the favorite after Revolutionary owned that position most of the day.

Winning co-owners Stuart Janney and Ogden

Mills “Dinny” Phipps scored their first Derby victory.

The first cousins are among the sport’s blue bloods that include the old-money Whitney and Vanderbilt families.

Being from Lexington, the heart of Kentucky’s horse country, McGaughey figured to be a regular Derby participant. But Orb was just his second starter since 1989, when McGaughey watched Easy Goer lose to Sunday Silence.

Orb also was the second Derby starter for both Janney and Phipps, whose previous entries were in 1988 and ‘89. Their family wealth allows them to race the horses they breed, unlike the majority of current owners who are involved through partnerships that split up the exorbitant costs of the sport.

Troy’s Riley Turner beats a throw to first base.

KR ...........000 000 0 — 0 3 1 Troy ........211 000 x — 4 7 1 Sims, Turner (6) and Lykins.

Kendall and Nadolny. WP — Kendall. LP — Sims. 2B — Cascaden 2 (T), Perkins (T).

Records: KR 11-11, Troy 13-9.

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Derby ■ CONTINUED FROM A7 When the field turned for home on the cool, overcast afternoon at Churchill Downs, Normandy Invasion had the lead. But Orb was gearing up and prevailed in the deep stretch, carrying Rosario to his first Derby win.

“Perfect trip. I stayed on the outside I don’t want to be too wide on the first turn.

I was hoping somebody in the middle (of the race) didn’t push me wide,” he said.

Orb ran the 1¼ miles in 2:02.89 Orb paid $12.80, $7.40 and $5.40. Golden Soul, a 34-1 shot, returned $38.60 and $19.40 while Revolutionary paid $5.40 to show.

The 62-year-old McGaughey said the victory meant everything to him.

“I’m thrilled to death for (the owners), thrilled to

CLEVELAND (AP) — Scott Kazmir can be excused for not recalling any details about his last major league victory.

“I can’t remember that long ago,” he said.

Kazmir earned his first win in three seasons Saturday as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Minnesota Twins 7-3 for their sixth straight victory.

A two-time AL All-Star who pitched in an independent league last season, Kazmir (1-1) allowed two runs in six innings. It was his first win since beating Tampa Bay on Sept. 19, 2010, while with the Angels.

The 29-year-old Kazmir overcame a series of arm injuries and a stint with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League in 2012.

“I don’t need to be reminded of it anymore,” Kazmir said. “I’m glad this is out of the way so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.”

Nick Swisher homered in his first at-bat since missing three games with a sore shoulder. Jason Kipnis also homered in the first inning, added an RBI single in the second and had three hits.

Cleveland has won six straight for the first time since winning seven in a row April 26-May 3, 2011.

Kevin Correia (3-2) failed to go seven innings for the first time in six starts this season. Rookie outfielder Aaron Hicks, the Twins’ top prospect, hit his first major league home run to lead off the

fifth, clearing the 19-foot wall in left field.

Kazmir, who allowed eight earned runs in 8 1-3 innings in his first two starts, struck out seven.

“This dude was pitching independent ball last year,” Swisher said. “For him to be where he is now, he’s got a lot left in the tank. I’m glad he’s on our side.”

Kazmir won 53 games for the Rays from 2005-09 before his career was derailed. He was 9-15 for the Angels in 2010 and appeared in only one game in 2011 before being released.

Kazmir was 3-6 with a 5.34 ERA in 14 games for Sugar Land last season and signed a minor league contract with the Indians in January. He won a spot in the rotation in spring training, but ended up on the 15-day disabled list before the season started with a pulled muscle in his rib cage.

“He’s an easy guy to pull for,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “He loves to pitch. He wants so bad to make this work.

We’re pulling for everybody. That’s the way we are, but it’s hard not to have a soft spot when you see what he’s been through.”

Kipnis, who has six RBIs in his last two games, and Swisher both homered to right in the first. Swisher, who entered the game in a 4-for-28 slump, missed the twogame series against Philadelphia and didn’t play Friday.

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Beard ■ CONTINUED FROM A7 Troy Christian, which scored 83 points to finish fourth as team, got strong performances across the board. Zachary Garver won the 1,600 (4:40.29), Tyler Shinall (12.28 seconds) and Matthew Coots (12.41) went third and fourth in the 100. Shinall won the long jump (1811.50), Coots placed third in the 200 (24.59) and Eric Cooper was third in the 400 (52.96).

The Eagles 4x100 relay team (Shinall, Luke Dillahunt, Brennan Klingler and Coots) placed second (46.54 seconds).

Eric Cooper, Coots, Klingler and Garver also took second in the 4x400 (3:36.33).

The Milton-Union girls had a pretty good day themselves, finishing second as a team (91.50 points) behind Oakwood (169). Troy Christian finished sixth overall (49 points).

Milton’s 4x100 relay team of Brooke Brown, Rachel Paden, Emily Delk and Kinsey Douglas coasted to victory (55.91 seconds). The Bulldogs 4x400 relay team of Haily Bohse,

Sarah Motz, Melissa Schlecht and Katie Litton placed third (4:46.44).

The Bulldogs had a pair of placers in the discus in freshman Emily Delk and sophomore Caitlyn Hurd.

Delk won with a toss of 8511 and Hurd finished second (81-8). Hurd also won the shot with a heave of 29-5.50. Douglas placed third in the long jump (1311.75) and third in the high jump (4-6). In the pole vault, Motz placed second (7-0) and Brown was third (7-0).

Leading the way for Troy Christian in the individual events was Meredith Haddad, who won the 100 (13.58 seconds) and long jump (164.25), plus finished third in the 200 (28.40). Teammate Maddie Rench finished second in the 1,600 (5:42.77).

Troy Christian’s 4x400 relay team of Morgan Rench, Maddie Rench, Hannah Benjamin and Meredith Haddad were runner-up (4:37.65). The Eagles 4x100 team of Kalah Shinall, Morgan Rench, Haley Farr and Maddie Rench placed third (58.28 seconds).

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■ National Hockey League

Green goal lifts Capitals past Rangers, 1-0 WASHINGTON (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist and Braden Holtby kicked, swiped, caught and otherwise kept getting in the way of the puck, matching each other save-for-save for a second shy of 68 minutes, until Mike Green scored the power-play goal in overtime that gave the Washington Capitals a sweep at home to open their playoff series against the New York Rangers.

Green nailed a one-timer from high in the slot on a feed from Mike Ribeiro pre-

cisely at the eight-minute mark of the extra period, Holtby made 24 saves for his first career playoff shutout, and the Capitals beat the Rangers 1-0 Saturday to take a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

With Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh in the penalty box for delay of game, having lifted the puck over the glass in New York’s defensive zone, the Capitals took advantage of their first power play since the first period. Ribeiro faked a slap

shot, and then pushed the puck to Green, who beat Lundqvist to the glove side.

Game 3 is Monday in New York.

Henrik Lundqvist made 37 saves for the Rangers.

Holtby has saved 59 of 60 shots in the series, including 35 of 36 in Thursday’s 3-1 victory in Game 1.

Maple Leafs 4, Bruins 2 BOSTON — Joffrey Lupul scored two goals and Toronto got a win over Boston that evened the first-round series at one

Ducks went on to a victory to take a 2-1 series lead over the Red Wings in the Western Conference playoffs.

Abdelkader appeared to catch Lydman square in the side of the head with his left shoulder, and he was given a major penalty for charging and a game misconduct with 4:49 remaining in the second.

The Ducks immediately took advantage when Bonino backhanded a shot past goalie Jimmy Howard from point-blank range.

game.

The Maple Leafs played aggressively from the start after a weak performance in a 4-1 loss in which the Bruins were much more physical.

But that changed early in Game 2 as Toronto delivered 22 hits in the first period to just 10 for Boston.

Nathan Horton gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 1:56 of the second period, but Lupul scored at 5:18 on a power play and at 11:56 with the teams at even strength.

Phil Kessel made it 3-1

on a breakaway 53 seconds into the third period.

Johnny Boychuk cut the lead at 10:35 before James van Riemsdyk scored for Toronto at 16:53.

Game 3 of the best-ofseven playoff series is Monday night in Toronto.

Ducks 4, Red Wings 0 DETROIT — Nick Bonino scored for Anaheim on a second-period power play 18 seconds after Detroit’s Justin Abdelkader was ejected for a violent hit on Toni Lydman and the

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Troy’s Alex Wilt takes a cut Saturday.

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Roundup

Troy’s Rainey slides Saturday.

Rohlfs

■ CONTINUED FROM A7 with a double and an RBI, Megan Schreiber was 2 for 3 with two runs, Allison Pierce was was 2 for 3 with an RBI, Rainey Rohlfs was 2 for 4 with an RBI, Victoria Adams was 1 for 3 with two RBIs and Maggie McClurg was 1 for 2.

“Alex Wilt had a nice hook slide at home to score a run,” Campbell said.

“Rainey made some phenomenal plays at second base, and Maggie has played strong at short all week.”

Troy faces Trotwood on Monday and Tuesday — with Tuesday’s home game being Senior Day — then the Trojans host Covington and finish the regular season at Fairborn.

Covington 5, Celina 2; Covington 3, Celina 2 COVINGTON — Covington got the test coach Dean Denlinger wanted Saturday.

The Buccaneers’ final score added up to 21-0.

Covington’s pitching and defense was solid all afternoon and the offense did just enough to finish off a sweep of Celina, 5-2 and 3-2 to remain undefeated through 21 games — with the second game ending in exciting fashion.

After Celina tied the game in the top of the sixth at 2-2, Connor Schaffer (3 for 3) doubled to lead off the Buccs’ half of the inning — and three consecutive oneout walks brought in the goahead run.

But it was Schaffer’s play behind the plate that wrapped up the game. “(Morgan Arbogast’s) changeup really had them off balance all game, but they started catching it in the fifth inning,” Denlinger said. “She got the first out of the seventh, but then they hit a double and we put in Casey (Yingst) to save it.

They got the runner to third, but Brittanie Flora made a great running catch on a liner to keep her there for the second out.

“They had their best hitter up, but we threw a wild pitch and they sent the runner. Connor tossed a backhanded flip to Casey and got her. It was a close play and could have gone either way.”

Yingst was also 2 for 3

Troy’s Brittany Sowers records a force out during a game against Miamisburg Saturday in Troy. with three stolen bases in the game, Arbogast was 1 for 2 and Heidi Snipes was 1 for 3.

Jessie Shilt was 3 for 3 with two stolen bases in the first game, Heidi Cron was 2 for 3 with a steal and Snipes was 1 for 2 with two steals as the Buccs went 6 for 6 stealing in each game to compile 12 stolen bases on the day.

Covington faces Newton Tuesday looking to keep its one-game Cross County Conference lead to begin the regular season’s final week.

Bradford 6, ML 0; ML 8, Bradford 2 MARIA STEIN — Bradford split a doubleheader at Marion Local Saturday, cashing in on its chances in a 6-0 win in the first game but leaving too many runners on in an 8-2 loss in the second.

Haley Patty tossed a two-hit shutout to start the day, striking out four and walking four. She also went 3 for 4 at the plate, as did Lindsey Rose, while Brooke Brower and Kylie Miller were each 2 for 4 and Erika Hart tripled.

Michayla Barga hit a home run in the second game, but that was practically all the offense the Railroaders (10-11) could muster despite nine hits.

Hart and Brooke Dunlevy were both 3 for 4 and Brower was 2 for 3.

Bradford hosts Russia Tuesday.

Stras. Franklin 4, Miami East 3; Riverview 8, Miami East 1 GAHANNA — Miami East went to Gahanna to get a challenge.

And the Vikings were tested in a big way Saturday.

Miami East dropped a pair of games, losing to

Strasburg Franklin 4-3 and falling in the second to Riverview, 8-1.

Paige Kiesewetter and Sarah O’Neal both hit solo homers to tie the game with Strasburg up in the seventh. But Strasburg scored in the bottom half of the inning to come away with the win.

Kris Bigelow also connected on a solo home run in the loss.

“We just couldn’t come up with the big plays when we needed them,” Miami East coach Brian Kadel said.

In Game 2, the Vikings managed just three hits in the loss to Riverview.

Madison Linn walked in the first inning and plated East’s only run on an RBI triple by Lindsey Brookhart.

“I think their pitcher had something like nine no-hitters coming in,” Kadel said.

“I would have liked to see us make more adjustments in the box.

“But that’s the reason we came here. We wanted to face some adversity and have to battle. We’re trying to get ready for tournament.”

East hosts Tri-County North Monday.

• Baseball Tipp 9, FL 0; Tipp 5, FL 4 TIPP CITY — Tippecanoe has seen a little of everything in extra innings this week.

Which is just fine for coach Bruce Cahill.

After Reid Ferrell threw a one-hit shutout to help the Red Devils (20-4) defeat Fort Loramie 9-0 to start a doubleheader Saturday, Tippecanoe had to rally twice in the second game — once to tie it in the bottom of the seventh and again to win it in the eighth in a 5-4

extra-innings win, their third such game in the last seven days.

“It was good for us to battle back like that,” Cahill said. “We haven’t had very many games where we’ve had to come back in the seventh. You want to find out what you can do in those situations.”

There was no such drama in the opener thanks to Ferrell. He struck out six and gave up one hit, while the offense did plenty of damage to back him up.

Cameron Johnson was 2 for 3 with two RBIs, Ben Hughes was 2 for 4 with two RBIs, Zack Blair was 2 for 3 with a double and B.J. Donathan was 3 for 3.

Tippecanoe trailed 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh in the second game, but Carter Langdon hit a two-out RBI double to force extras. The Redskins took a one-run lead by scoring in the top of the eighth, but they balked in the tying run in the bottom of the inning — and Blair (two RBIs) drove in the game-winner with a walk-off hit.

Ferrell was also 2 for 4 with a double in the second game.

Tippecanoe faces Kenton Ridge Monday and Tuesday looking to protect its onegame lead in the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division standings.

ME 6, NW 4; NW 6, ME 4 CASSTOWN — Michael Fellers pitched a nice game to open a doubleheader against Northwestern Saturday, making up for four Miami East errors in a 6-4 victory. But in the second game, the Vikings (153) couldn’t finish off a seventh-inning rally, leaving the bases loaded in a 6-4 loss.

Fellers struck out seven and gave up three earned runs as the Vikings battled back from a 4-1 deficit.

Fellers was also 2 for 3 with a double and Alex Brewer was 2 for 4 in the game.

“Michael got out of some big innings on the mound with some strikeouts, and we had some key hits in that first one,” Miami East coach Barry Coomes said.

“In the second game, we were down 6-2 going into the seventh in the second game and had a runner on with two outs. We scored two runs and loaded the bases to give ourselves a chance to tie or take the lead, but we couldn’t get them in.

“The kids battled back in that game, and we did a lot of good things. It was good to see them not quit when we were down late. We hit the ball well, but they made some nice plays on us.”

Miami East kicks off the regular season’s final week Monday at home against Tri-County North.

Bethel 7, CC 1; Bethel 13, CC 12 BRANDT — Jordan Elam was the model of efficiency to start the day.

The Bethel Bees found themselves holding on for dear life by day’s end.

Still, Bethel (14-6) polished off a doubleheader sweep of Catholic Central Saturday at home, riding a strong pitching performance to a 7-1 win and surviving a 13-12 slugfest in the late game.

Elam struck out 10, walked one and gave up five hits in the opener, throwing only 84 pitches in a complete game.

“Jordan pitched a great game for us,” Bethel coach Brett Brookhart said. “He was very efficient.”

He was also 3 for 4 at the plate with a double, Brandon Nesbitt was 2 for 3

and Nate Reese and Mitch Siler doubled.

Elam was also 3 for 3 with a double and three RBIs in the second game as the Bees piled up 10 runs in the first two innings and built a 12-3 lead. But Catholic Central (10-11) scored nine runs in the top of the sixth to come all the way back and tie the game — only to have Mason Kretzer (2 for 2, two doubles) win it with a two-out RBI double in the bottom of the inning.

“They woke up for the day in that inning, had seven hits and we compounded it with some errors,” Brookhart said.

“But overall, it was a great day. Jordan had a huge day for us, and Mason had a couple of big hits in that second game.”

Bethel travels to Mississinawa Valley Monday.

Dayton Christian 5, Troy Christian 0 DAYTON — Making contact wasn’t an issue for Troy Christian.

Getting hits to fall, however, was a problem.

Garrett Hancock had the only hit for the Eagles in a 5-0 loss to Metro Buckeye Conference foe Dayton Christian Saturday at Fifth Third Field in Dayton.

“That’s probably the toughest one through five we will see all year,” Troy Christian coach Bill Campbell said. “It’s tough. I thought we did a good job of putting the ball in play, we only struck out four times.

“We’re playing well, it’s just not showing up on the scoreboard.”

Campbell said he hopes his team can prepare for tournament with the upcoming slate of games this week. The Eagles (5-8, 2-3) open up a stretch of four games in five days at Lehman on Monday.

■ National Basketball Association

■ Auto Racing

Bulls beat Nets 99-93 in Game 7

Smith wins Nationwide

NEW YORK (AP) — Joakim Noah had 24 points and 14 rebounds, Marco Belinelli also scored 24 points and the Chicago Bulls beat the Brooklyn Nets 99-93 on Saturday night in Game 7 of their first-round series.

Carlos Boozer added 17 points as the Bulls shook off injuries to two starters and every run

the Nets tried to make in the second half to win a Game 7 on the road for the first time in franchise history. They advanced to a second-round series against defending champion Miami that starts Monday night.

The Bulls opened a 17point halftime lead with a rare offensive outburst, and found a way to get

big baskets every time the Nets pulled close to win the NBA’s only do-ordie game of the first round.

Deron Williams had 24 points, seven assists and six rebounds for the Nets.

They were trying to become the ninth NBA team to win a series after trailing 3-1.

But they had a horren-

dous first-half defensive performance and Joe Johnson was bad all game on offense, finishing with six points on 2-of-14 shooting, including 1 of 9 from 3-point range.

With Luol Deng (illness) and Kirk Hinrich (bruised left calf) out again, the Bulls leaned on Noah, who logged 41 minutes and shot 12 of 17.

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Regan Smith won the crash-filled Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway when NASCAR said he was leading at the final caution flag Saturday night.

The race was delayed three hours by rain and slowed by several cautions, and NASCAR cut the distance by 10 laps as darkness closed in on the

track. Then Joey Coulter brought out a caution and NASCAR decided to make one attempt at a greenwhite-checkered finish.

At least 10 cars were jockeying for position in packs of two on the final lap when Brian Vickers was spun hard into the outside wall. Smith, Joey Logano and Kasey Kahne raced three-wide to the finish line and Kahne crossed it first.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Scores

BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Boston 20 9 .690 New York 18 11 .621 18 13 .581 Baltimore 13 15 .464 Tampa Bay 10 21 .323 Toronto Central Division L Pct W Detroit 18 11 .621 Kansas City 16 10 .615 14 13 .519 Cleveland 12 14 .462 Minnesota 12 16 .429 Chicago West Division L Pct W Texas 18 11 .621 Oakland 17 14 .548 Seattle 15 17 .469 11 19 .367 Los Angeles 8 23 .258 Houston NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 17 12 .586 Washington 16 15 .516 14 17 .452 Philadelphia 12 15 .444 New York 9 22 .290 Miami Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 19 11 .633 Pittsburgh 17 13 .567 Cincinnati 17 14 .548 14 15 .483 Milwaukee 11 19 .367 Chicago West Division L Pct W Colorado 17 12 .586 San Francisco 17 12 .586 Arizona 15 14 .517 13 15 .464 Los Angeles 12 17 .414 San Diego

GB WCGB — — 2 — 3 ½ 6½ 4 11 8½

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

Str Home Away L-1 11-5 9-4 W-1 12-6 6-5 W-1 7-5 11-8 W-1 8-4 5-11 L-4 6-12 4-9

GB WCGB — — ½ — 3 2½ 4½ 4 5½ 5

L10 8-2 7-3 7-3 3-7 5-5

Str Home Away W-3 10-4 8-7 W-3 9-4 7-6 W-6 6-6 8-7 L-2 7-6 5-8 L-1 7-7 5-9

GB WCGB — — 2 1½ 4½ 4 7½ 7 11 10½

L10 5-5 4-6 7-3 3-7 1-9

Str Home Away W-1 9-4 9-7 L-1 9-8 8-6 W-3 9-8 6-9 L-1 7-8 4-11 L-5 4-11 4-12

GB WCGB — — 2 1½ 4 3½ 4 3½ 9 8½

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

Str Home Away L-3 8-5 9-7 W-1 9-7 7-8 L-1 8-9 6-8 W-2 7-8 5-7 W-1 5-11 4-11

GB WCGB — — 2 — 2½ ½ 4½ 2½ 8 6

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

Str Home Away W-5 7-5 12-6 L-1 9-5 8-8 W-2 12-4 5-10 L-4 9-9 5-6 L-3 5-9 6-10

GB WCGB — — — — 2 1½ 3½ 3 5 4½

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

Str Home Away L-1 9-4 8-8 W-4 9-4 8-8 L-4 8-8 7-6 L-2 7-8 6-7 W-2 6-7 6-10

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Cleveland 7, Minnesota 6, 10 innings Oakland 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Seattle 4, Toronto 0 Texas 7, Boston 0 Detroit 4, Houston 3 Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, ppd., rain Tampa Bay 7, Colorado 4, 10 innings L.A. Angels 4, Baltimore 0 Saturday's Games Cleveland 7, Minnesota 3 N.Y. Yankees 4, Oakland 2 Seattle 8, Toronto 1 Baltimore 5, L.A. Angels 4, 10 innings Kansas City 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Detroit 17, Houston 2 Boston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games Minnesota (Pelfrey 2-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 2-0), 1:05 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 3-2), 1:05 p.m.

Seattle (J.Saunders 2-3) at Toronto (Morrow 0-2), 1:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-0) at Kansas City (W.Davis 2-2), 2:10 p.m.

Boston (Lester 4-0) at Texas (Darvish 5-1), 3:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Hammel 4-1) at L.A. Angels (Williams 1-0), 3:35 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 3-2) at Houston (Humber 0-6), 4:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 3-2) at Colorado (Chacin 3-0), 4:10 p.m.

Monday's Games Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Texas at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Philadelphia 4, Miami 1 Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1 N.Y. Mets 7, Atlanta 5, 10 innings St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 1 Tampa Bay 7, Colorado 4, 10 innings San Diego 7, Arizona 6 San Francisco 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Saturday's Games Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 4 St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 6 Washington 5, Pittsburgh 4 Miami 2, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, ppd., rain Tampa Bay at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games N.Y. Mets (Niese 2-2) at Atlanta (Hudson 3-1), 1:35 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 2-2) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 2-1), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-1) at Milwaukee (Estrada 2-1), 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 0-4), 2:20 p.m.

Miami (Slowey 0-2) at Philadelphia (Halladay 2-3), 2:35 p.m.

Arizona (Kennedy 1-2) at San Diego (Volquez 2-3), 4:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 3-2) at Colorado (Chacin 3-0), 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 3-1) at San Francisco (M.Cain 0-2), 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Atlanta at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Texas at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

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

Miami at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Reds 6, Cubs 4 Cincinnati Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Choo cf 4 2 1 1 Sappelt cf 2 0 0 0 Cozart ss 3 1 1 1 DeJess ph 1 0 0 0 Votto 1b 4 1 2 0 Ransm 3b 3 0 0 0 Phillips 2b 4 1 0 0 Valuen ph 1 0 0 0 Bruce rf 5 1 1 1 Rizzo 1b 3 2 1 0 Frazier 3b 3 0 0 1 ASorin lf 3 2 2 4 Paul lf 2 0 1 0 SCastro ss 4 0 0 0 CMiller c 2 0 0 0 Castillo c 3 0 0 0 Hannhn ph0 0 0 1 Hairstn rf 3 0 0 0 Broxtn p 0 0 0 0 Marml p 0 0 0 0 Chpmn p 0 0 0 0 HRndn p 0 0 0 0 Cingrn p 2 0 0 0 Barney 2b 3 0 0 0 Lutz ph 1 0 0 0 Smrdzj p 2 0 0 0 Ondrsk p 0 0 0 0 Russell p 0 0 0 0 Mesorc ph-c0 0 0 1 Borbon rf 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 6 6 6 Totals 29 4 3 4 Cincinnati .................101 000 040—6 Chicago.....................202 000 000—4 E_Samardzija (1). DP_Cincinnati 1, Chicago 1. LOB_Cincinnati 8, Chicago 2. 2B_Votto (4), Paul (3), Rizzo (8).

HR_Choo (5), A.Soriano 2 (3).

SF_Frazier, Mesoraco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Cingrani . . . . . . . . . . .6 3 4 4 1 5 Ondrusek W,2-0 . . . .1 0 0 0 0 0 Broxton H,4 . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 0 1 Chapman S,7-7 . . . . .1 0 0 0 1 0 Chicago Samardzija . . . . . . . . .6 4 2 1 3 5 Russell H,7 . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 1 1

Marmol L,2-2 . . . . . . .0 0 3 3 2 0 H.Rondon BS,1-1 . . .2 2 1 1 2 0 Marmol pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.

HBP_by Cingrani (Rizzo, Castillo), by Marmol (Phillips).

Umpires_Home, Alan Porter; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Mike Estabrook.

T_2:52. A_36,455 (41,019).

Indians 7, Twins 3 Cleveland Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Dozier 2b 4 0 0 0 Brantly lf 5 0 1 1 Mauer dh 4 1 1 0 Kipnis 2b 4 2 3 2 Wlngh lf 4 0 1 0 ACarer ss 3 1 1 1 Mornea 1b 4 0 0 0 Swisher dh 4 1 1 1 Plouffe 3b 4 1 1 0 MrRynl 1b 4 0 2 1 Doumit c 4 0 1 1 CSantn c 3 0 0 0 Parmel rf 3 0 0 0 Chsnhll 3b 3 1 1 0 Hicks cf 3 1 1 1 Stubbs cf 4 1 1 0 Flormn ss 2 0 1 1 Carrer rf 4 1 2 1 Arcia ph 1 0 1 0 EEscor pr 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 7 3 Totals 34 712 7 Minnesota.................010 010 010—3 Cleveland..................220 000 21x—7 E_Kipnis (2). DP_Minnesota 1, Cleveland 1. LOB_Minnesota 9, Cleveland 6. 2B_Willingham (6), Plouffe (4), A.Cabrera (6), Stubbs (7).

3B_Kipnis (2). HR_Hicks (1), Kipnis (2), Swisher (3). SB_Kipnis (6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota Correia L,3-2 . . . . . . .5 6 4 4 2 4 Swarzak . . . . . . . . . . .2 4 2 2 0 1 Pressly . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 1 1 0 0 Cleveland Kazmir W,1-1 . . . . . . .6 5 2 2 1 7 Shaw H,1 . . . . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 1 1 J.Smith . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 1 1 2 0 C.Perez . . . . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 1 1 HBP_by Correia (Chisenhall).

WP_Shaw.

Umpires_Home, Tim Timmons; First, Mike Winters; Second, Mark Wegner; Third, Laz Diaz.

T_2:51. A_17,830 (42,241).

Midwest League At A Glance Eastern Division South Bend (D-backs) Bowling Green (Rays) Fort Wayne (Padres) West Michigan (Tigers) Great Lakes (Dodgers) Dayton (Reds) Lansing (Blue Jays) Lake County (Indians) Western Division

W 18 19 16 13 12 9 8 8

L 7 9 10 14 16 19 18 19

Pct. GB .720 — .679 ½ .615 2½ .481 6 .429 7½ .32110½ .30810½ .296 11

W L Pct. GB Cedar Rapids (Twins) 19 7 .731 — Quad Cities (Astros) 16 11 .593 3½ 14 12 .538 5 Beloit (Athletics) Kane County (Cubs) 13 13 .500 6 Peoria (Cardinals) 11 12 .478 6½ Clinton (Mariners) 12 14 .462 7 Wisconsin (Brewers) 11 14 .440 7½ 10 14 .417 8 Burlington (Angels) Saturday's Games West Michigan 7, Quad Cities 4 Bowling Green 3, Clinton 2 Wisconsin 6, Great Lakes 4 Beloit 11, Lansing 6 Cedar Rapids at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.

Kane County 6, Dayton 1 Burlington 4, Lake County 1 Fort Wayne at Peoria, 7:30 p.m.

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

Dayton at Kane County, 2 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at South Bend, 2:05 p.m.

Lake County at Burlington, 3 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Peoria, 3 p.m.

Bowling Green at Clinton, 3 p.m.

Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 3:05 p.m.

Beloit at Lansing, 5:05 p.m.

Monday's Games Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 10:35 a.m.

Dayton at Kane County, 12 p.m.

Lake County at Burlington, 12:30 p.m.

Bowling Green at Clinton, 1:30 p.m.

Quad Cities at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m.

Beloit at Lansing, 7:05 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at South Bend, 7:05 p.m.

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

AUTO RACING NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Aaron's 499 Lineup Saturday qualifying ccd., rain; race Sunday At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles Lineup based on practice times (Car number in parentheses) 1. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford.

2. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.

3. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford.

4. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.

5. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet.

6. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota.

7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota.

8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet.

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 11 a.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, Sao Paulo Indy 300 12:30 p.m. FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Aaron's 499, at Talladega, Ala. 8 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Southern Nationals, at Commerce, Ga. (same-day tape) COLLEGE SOFTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — Texas at Oklahoma St. 3 p.m. ESPN — LSU at Georgia GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, China Open, final round, at Tianjin, China (same-day tape) 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship, final round, at Charlotte, N.C. 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship, final round, at Charlotte, N.C. TGC — LPGA, Kingsmill Championship, final round, at Williamsburg, Va. 7 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Insperity Championship, final round, at The Woodlands, Texas (same-day tape) HOCKEY 1 a.m. NBCSN — IIHF World Championship, preliminary round, United States vs. Latvia, at Helsinki (delayed tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. TBS — N.Y. Mets at Atlanta 2:10 p.m. FSN, WGN — Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco MOTORSPORTS 8 a.m. SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, Spanish Grand Prix, at Jerez, Spain 5 p.m. SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, Spain (same-day tape) NHL Noon NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Pittsburgh at NY Islanders 3 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Chicago at Minnesota 7 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Montreal at Ottawa 10 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 3, Vancouver at San Jose SOCCER 11 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS, Houston at Los Angeles 9. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet.

10. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet.

11. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford.

12. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet.

13. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.

14. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota.

15. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford.

16. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet.

17. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford.

18. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford.

19. (34) David Ragan, Ford.

20. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota.

21. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford.

22. (13) Casey Mears, Ford.

23. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet.

24. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet.

25. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet.

26. (35) Josh Wise, Ford.

27. (30) David Stremme, Toyota.

28. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet.

29. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet.

30. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet.

31. (38) David Gilliland, Ford.

32. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota.

33. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet.

34. (51) Regan Smith, Chevrolet.

35. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota.

36. (95) Scott Speed, Ford.

37. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford.

38. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford.

39. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota.

40. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet.

41. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota.

42. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet.

43. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet.

Failed to Qualify 44. (81) Elliott Sadler, Toyota.

NASCAR Nationwide-Aaron's 312 Results Saturday At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (20) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 110 laps, 112.6 rating, 47 points, $53,445.

2. (12) Joey Logano, Ford, 110, 132.9, 0, $39,725.

3. (11) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 110, 121.9, 0, $30,500.

4. (9) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 110, 103.2, 0, $29,275.

5. (5) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 110, 99.5, 40, $32,550.

6. (18) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 110, 94.7, 39, $28,100.

7. (38) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 110, 70.3, 37, $26,500.

8. (31) Jason White, Toyota, 110, 61.7, 36, $25,850.

9. (37) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 110, 69, 35, $25,225.

10. (2) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 110, 72.2, 35, $26,825.

11. (7) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 110, 97.5, 34, $25,975.

12. (29) Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, 110, 59.3, 32, $18,850.

13. (14) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 110, 88.1, 31, $25,675.

14. (24) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 110, 73.7, 30, $24,500.

15. (21) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 110, 105.5, 30, $25,050.

16. (27) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, 110, 48.9, 28, $24,350.

17. (22) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, accident, 109, 70, 0, $18,525.

18. (39) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, accident, 109, 53.3, 26, $23,975.

19. (36) Donnie Neuenberger, Chevrolet, 108, 37.5, 25, $17,850.

20. (33) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 107, 49.6, 24, $24,400.

21. (10) Joey Coulter, Toyota, accident, 104, 72.9, 0, $23,550.

22. (15) Reed Sorenson, Ford, 103, 84.6, 23, $23,400.

23. (23) Eric McClure, Toyota, accident, 94, 62.5, 21, $23,250.

24. (17) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, accident, 93, 74.4, 0, $23,100.

25. (6) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 93, 99.9, 19, $23,275.

26. (25) Johanna Long, Chevrolet, accident, 92, 52.7, 18, $23,000.

27. (8) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, accident, 92, 79.7, 18, $22,800.

28. (3) Trevor Bayne, Ford, accident, 92, 95.3, 17, $22,900.

29. (16) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 92, 71.9, 15, $22,400.

30. (40) Tim Andrews, Ford, accident, 91, 37.6, 14, $22,475.

31. (26) Bobby Gerhart, Chevrolet, accident, 91, 33.1, 13, $16,125.

32. (28) Mike Harmon, Dodge, accident, 91, 29.7, 12, $22,050.

33. (34) Blake Koch, Toyota, accident, 87, 53.7, 11, $22,015.

34. (32) Hal Martin, Toyota, 84, 31.4, 10, $21,980.

35. (35) Morgan Shepherd, Dodge, fuel pressure, 72, 38.4, 9, $15,940.

36. (1) Travis Pastrana, Ford, accident, 71, 74.7, 9, $24,580.

37. (30) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 64, 53.1, 7, $20,695.

38. (19) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, accident, 52, 53.6, 6, $20,661.

39. (4) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, accident, 16, 40.4, 0, $14,775.

40. (13) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 3, 25.4, 4, $14,425.

HOCKEY NHL Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE NewYork Islanders vs. Pittsburgh Wednesday, May 1: Pittsburgh 5, NY Islanders 0 Friday, May 3: NY Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3, series tied 1-1 Sunday, May 5: Pittsburgh at NY Islanders Noon Tuesday, May 7: Pittsburgh at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 9: NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. x-Saturday, May 11: Pittsburgh at NY Islanders, TBD x-Sunday, May 12: NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, TBD Ottawa vs. Montreal Thursday, May 2: Ottawa 4, Montreal 2 Friday, May 3: Montreal 3, Ottawa 1, series tied 1-1 Sunday, May 5: Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7: Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 9: Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Saturday, May 11:Montreal at Ottawa, TBD x-Sunday, May 12: Ottawa at Montreal, TBD NewYork Rangers vs.Washington Thursday, May 2: Washington 3, NY Rangers 1 Saturday, May 4: Washington 1, N.Y. Rangers 0, Washington leads series 2-0 Monday, May 6: Washington at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8: Washington at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 10: NY Rangers at Washington, 7:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 12: Washington at NY Rangers, TBD x-Monday, May 13: NY Rangers at Washington, TBD Toronto vs. Boston Wednesday, May 1: Boston 4, Toronto 1 Saturday, May 4: Toronto 4, Boston 2, series tied 1-1 Monday, May 6: Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8: Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 10: Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, May 12: Boston at Toronto, TBD x-Monday, May 13: Toronto at Boston, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota vs. Chicago Tuesday, April 30:Chicago 2, Minnesota 1, OT Friday, May 3: Chicago 5, Minnesota 2, Chicago leads series 2-0 Sunday, May 5: Chicago at Minnesota, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7 Chicago at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 9: Minnesota at Chicago, TBD x-Saturday, May 11: Chicago at Minnesota, TBD x-Sunday, May 12: Minnesota at Chicago, TBD Detroit vs. Anaheim Tuesday, April 30: Anaheim 3, Detroit 1 Thursday, May 2: Detroit 5, Anaheim 4, OT

MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Saturday, May 4: Anaheim 4, Detroit 0, Anaheim leads series 2-1 Monday, May 6: Anaheim at Detroit, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 8: Detroit at Anaheim, 10 p.m. x-Friday, May 10: Anaheim at Detroit, TBD x-Sunday, May 12: Detroit at Anaheim, TBD San Jose vs.Vancouver Wednesday, May 1: San Jose 3, Vancouver 1 Friday, May 3: San Jose 3, Vancouver 2, OT, San Jose leads series 2-0 Sunday, May 5:Vancouver at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Tuesday, May 7: Vancouver at San Jose, 10 p.m. x-Thursday, May 9: San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m. x-Saturday, May 11: Vancouver at San Jose, TBD x-Monday, May 13: San Jose at Vancouver, TBD Los Angeles vs. St. Louis Tuesday, April 30: St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, OT Thursday, May 2: St. Louis 2, Los Angeles 1, St. Louis leads series 2-0 Saturday, May 4: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Monday, May 6: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 8: Los Angeles at St. Louis, TBD x-Friday, May 10: St. Louis at Los Angeles, TBD x-Monday, May 13: Los Angeles at St. Louis, TBD

BASKETBALL NBA Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (x-if necessary) (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami 4, Milwaukee 0 Sunday, April 21: Miami 110, Milwaukee 87 Tuesday, April 23: Miami 98, Milwaukee 86 Thursday, April 25: Miami 104, Milwaukee 91 Sunday, April 28: Miami 88, Milwaukee 77, Miami wins series 4-0 NewYork 4, Boston 2 Saturday, April 20: NewYork 85, Boston 78 Tuesday, April 23: New York 87, Boston 71 Friday, April 26: NewYork 90, Boston 76 Sunday, April 28: Boston 97, New York 90 Wednesday, May 1: Boston 92, New York 86 Friday, May 3: New York 88, Boston 80, New York wins series 4-2 Indiana 4, Atlanta 2 Sunday, April 21: Indiana 107, Atlanta 90 Wednesday, April 24: Indiana 113, Atlanta 98 Saturday, April 27: Atlanta 90, Indiana 69 Monday, April 29: Atlanta 102, Indiana 91 Wednesday, May 1: Indiana 106, Atlanta 83 Friday, May 3: Indiana 81, Atlanta 73, Indiana wins series 4-2 Chicago 4, Brooklyn 3 Saturday, April 20: Brooklyn 106, Chicago 89 Monday, April 22: Chicago 90, Brooklyn 82 Thursday, April 25: Chicago 79, Brooklyn 76 Saturday, April 27: Chicago 142, Brooklyn 134, 3OT Monday, April 29: Brooklyn 110, Chicago 91 Thursday, May 2: Brooklyn 95, Chicago 92 Saturday, May 4: Chicago 99, Brooklyn 93 WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City 4, Houston 2 Sunday, April 21: Oklahoma City 120, Houston 91 Wednesday, April 24: Oklahoma City 105, Houston 102 Saturday, April 27: Oklahoma City 104, Houston 101 Monday, April 29: Houston 105, Oklahoma City 103 Wednesday, May 1: Houston 107, Oklahoma City 100 Friday, May 3: Oklahoma City 103, Houston 94, Oklahoma City wins series 42 San Antonio 4, L.A. Lakers 0 Sunday, April 21: San Antonio 91, L.A. Lakers 79 Wednesday, April 24: San Antonio 102, L.A. Lakers 91 Friday, April 26: San Antonio 120, L.A. Lakers 89 Sunday, April 28: San Antonio 103, L.A. 82, Spurs win series 4-0 Golden State 4, Denver 2 Saturday, April 20: Denver 97, Golden State 95 Tuesday, April 23: Golden State 131, Denver 117 Friday, April 26: Golden State 110, Denver 108 Sunday, April 28: Golden State 115, Denver 101 Tuesday, April 30: Denver 107, Golden State 100 Thursday, May 2: Golden State 92, Denver 88, Golden State wins series 4-2 Memphis 4, L.A. Clippers 2 Saturday, April 20: L.A. Clippers 112, Memphia 91 Monday, April 22: L.A. Clippers 93, Memphis 91 Thursday, April 25: Memphis 94, L.A. Clippers 82 Saturday, April 27: Memphis 104, L.A. Clippers 83 Tuesday, April 30: Memphis 103, L.A. Clippers 93 Friday, May 3: Memphis 118, L.A. Clippers 105, Memphis wins series 4-2

GOLF Wells Fargo Championship Scores Saturday At Quail Hollow Club Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,492; Par: 72 Third Round Nick Watney..................67-70-71—208 Phil Mickelson...............68-67-73—208 George McNeill.............69-68-72—209 John Senden ................70-73-67—210 Ryan Moore ..................67-75-68—210 Robert Karlsson ...........69-72-69—210 David Lynn....................71-68-71—210 Derek Ernst...................67-71-72—210 Lee Westwood..............70-68-72—210 Brian Harman ...............70-70-71—211 D.A. Points.....................71-69-71—211 Kevin Streelman ...........68-72-71—211 Jason Kokrak ................68-70-73—211 Rory McIlroy..................67-71-73—211 Bo Van Pelt....................74-70-68—212 D.H. Lee ........................72-71-69—212 Sergio Garcia................72-68-72—212 Lucas Glover.................68-71-73—212

Rod Pampling ...............69-69-74—212 John Merrick .................74-71-68—213 Henrik Norlander ..........74-70-69—213 Charles Howell III .........72-72-69—213 Vaughn Taylor ...............70-72-71—213 Russell Henley..............69-71-73—213 Scott Gardiner...............70-67-76—213 Shawn Stefani...............69-73-72—214 Ross Fisher...................70-71-73—214 Robert Garrigus............67-72-75—214 Brian Davis....................72-74-69—215 Webb Simpson .............70-74-71—215 Lee Williams..................73-71-71—215 Richard H. Lee..............73-70-72—215 Chris Kirk ......................72-71-72—215 John Rollins ..................69-74-72—215 James Driscoll ..............70-72-73—215 Kyle Stanley ..................74-68-73—215 Jordan Spieth ...............69-71-75—215 Daniel Summerhays.....67-73-75—215 Josh Teater....................72-73-71—216 Peter Tomasulo .............71-73-72—216 Martin Flores.................73-71-72—216 Bud Cauley ...................70-73-73—216 Steve Marino.................71-72-73—216 Jimmy Walker................71-72-73—216 David Hearn..................69-72-75—216 Ted Potter, Jr. ................71-70-75—216 Ryo Ishikawa.................73-73-71—217 Robert Allenby..............76-70-71—217 Luke List........................71-75-71—217 Geoff Ogilvy..................74-72-71—217 Pat Perez.......................76-69-72—217 Brendon de Jonge........74-71-72—217 Patrick Reed .................70-74-73—217 Gary Woodland.............70-73-74—217 Stuart Appleby..............71-71-75—217 Angel Cabrera ..............73-69-75—217 Dicky Pride....................71-71-75—217 Zach Johnson...............68-72-77—217 James Hahn .................72-74-72—218 Steven Bowditch...........69-76-73—218 Casey Wittenberg.........73-71-74—218 Roberto Castro.............71-73-74—218 Luke Guthrie .................74-69-75—218 Nate Smith....................67-74-77—218 Will Claxton...................73-73-73—219 Tommy Gainey..............74-72-73—219 Hunter Haas..................75-71-73—219 Matteo Manassero .......71-75-73—219 Scott Brown ..................74-71-75—220 Brad Fritsch...................71-72-77—220 Boo Weekley.................68-75-77—220 Trevor Immelman..........70-72-78—220 Kingsmill Championship Scores Saturday At Kingsmill (River Course) Williamsburg, Va. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,340; Par: 71 Cristie Kerr ....................66-71-66—203 Suzann Pettersen.........68-69-68—205 Stacy Lewis...................68-68-69—205 Angela Stanford............68-68-70—206 Ilhee Lee .......................69-69-69—207 Lizette Salas .................72-71-65—208 Ariya Jutanugarn ..........64-71-73—208 Inbee Park.....................68-72-69—209 Katie Burnett.................68-70-71—209 Mo Martin......................68-72-70—210 Sandra Gal....................68-69-73—210 Chella Choi ...................70-73-68—211 Jenny Shin ....................71-72-68—211 Caroline Hedwall ..........68-73-70—211 Karrie Webb..................70-71-70—211 Irene Cho ......................70-69-72—211 Jane Park......................68-71-72—211 Shanshan Feng............69-69-73—211 So Yeon Ryu .................67-71-73—211 Laura Diaz.....................70-75-67—212 Na Yeon Choi ................69-73-70—212 Anna Nordqvist.............70-72-70—212 Giulia Sergas ................74-68-70—212 Azahara Munoz ............68-73-71—212 Yani Tseng.....................69-72-71—212 Amy Yang ......................69-72-71—212 Sun Young Yoo ..............71-73-69—213 Moriya Jutanugarn........73-70-70—213 Lexi Thompson .............71-71-71—213 Paula Creamer .............69-70-74—213 Alison Walshe ...............69-70-74—213 Juli Inkster.....................69-69-75—213 Julia Boland ..................73-71-70—214 Daniela Iacobelli ...........70-73-71—214 Gerina Piller ..................72-71-71—214 Eun-Hee Ji....................70-72-72—214 Lisa McCloskey ............69-73-72—214 Thidapa Suwannapura.69-73-72—214 Ai Miyazato ...................68-70-76—214 Jodi Ewart Shadoff.......71-73-71—215 Brittany Lincicome........75-69-71—215 Catriona Matthew .........72-71-72—215 Kris Tamulis...................71-71-73—215 Stacy Prammanasudh .69-72-74—215 Christel Boeljon ............69-70-76—215 Karen Stupples.............68-71-76—215 Beatriz Recari...............72-72-72—216 Sarah Kemp..................69-74-73—216 Jee Young Lee ..............68-74-74—216 Hee Kyung Seo ............71-71-74—216 I.K. Kim..........................72-73-72—217 Hee Young Park............68-77-72—217 Dewi Claire Schreefel...67-78-72—217 Chie Arimura.................74-70-73—217 Sarah Jane Smith.........73-71-73—217 Jiyai Shin.......................70-72-75—217 Lindsey Wright..............69-73-75—217 Natalie Gulbis ...............72-73-73—218 Nicole Jeray ..................73-72-73—218 Brittany Lang.................70-75-73—218 Meena Lee....................69-76-73—218 Mindy Kim.....................69-75-74—218 Vicky Hurst....................70-73-75—218 Champions Scores Saturday At The Woodlands CC The Woodlands, Texas Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 7,002; Par 72 Second Round Gene Sauers......................70-66—136 Mike Goodes......................69-69—138 Loren Roberts....................72-69—141 Peter Senior........................73-70—143 Esteban Toledo...................72-71—143 Barry Lane..........................77-67—144 Mark Calcavecchia ............75-69—144 Mark O'Meara ....................73-71—144 Steve Jones........................72-72—144 Brian Henninger.................71-73—144 David Eger..........................75-70—145 John Cook..........................73-72—145 Blaine McCallister ..............73-72—145 Hal Sutton...........................71-74—145 Michael Allen......................71-74—145 Tom Kite..............................76-70—146 Jay Don Blake....................75-71—146 Chien Soon Lu...................75-71—146 Dan Forsman .....................76-71—147 Andrew Magee...................76-71—147 Bob Gilder ..........................74-73—147 Bob Tway ............................73-74—147 Steve Elkington ..................73-74—147 Tom Pernice Jr. ..................76-72—148 Tom Purtzer........................76-72—148 Jim Rutledge ......................73-75—148 Jay Haas.............................73-75—148 Mark Mouland....................72-76—148 Jeff Sluman ........................72-76—148 Mark Brooks.......................71-77—148 David Frost .........................80-69—149 Bernhard Langer................77-72—149 Rod Spittle..........................75-74—149 Bart Bryant .........................75-74—149 Kenny Perry........................74-75—149 Hale Irwin............................73-76—149 Steve Lowery......................72-77—149 Mark Bucek ........................71-78—149 Larry Nelson.......................81-69—150 Wayne Levi.........................78-72—150 Curtis Strange....................76-74—150 Kirk Triplett ..........................76-74—150 Peter Jacobsen ..................76-74—150 D.A. 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MIAMI VALLEY SUNDAY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

Pearson House renovations embrace history WEST MILTON

BY AMY MAXWELL For Civitas Media tdneditorial@civitasmedia.com One of the things that has remained the same amidst changes around West Milton is Pearson House restaurant.

“We are still here after all this time, and I think that says a lot,” said Bob Bianco, owner for the past 30 years. “I think the main reason is our food — there’s really an emphasis on keeping things homemade.”

Bianco’s wife, Beth, who can be found hard at work in Pearson House’s kitchen doing the prep work for those homemade items, namely their popular pies, felt it was time to make some changes, though.

“She really felt it was time to update the place. It was really starting to show its age and she decided she wanted to have it renovated,” Bob said.

Beth contacted local designer Greg Rogers of the Design House in West Milton and started discussing her vision with him.

She wanted the renovations to encompass the history of the restaurant, which is housed in a former hotel.

“The Pearson Hotel originated in the mid-1800s and after being damaged by fire, was reopened under the name of Pearson House in 1903 and remained a hotel,” Bianco said. “When it was rebuilt, it also housed a barber shop attached to the hotel.”

In the latter part of the 20th century, it became solely a restaurant. The Biancos picked up ownership 30 years ago, originally as a place to bake bread.

Beth used to provide loaves to the then-wineries of West Milton.

A restaurant located on the southern outskirts of town let her use their ovens to bake the bread for the wineries, because she needed use of large ovens.

Bob said she also would sell the bread in this restaurant’s gift shop. The restaurant ended up going out of business, but she still needed someplace to bake the bread. So that was when they decided to purchase Pearson

The dining area includes an original inverted tray ceiling, which was found in the basement of Pearson House and restored for use.

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Bob Bianco works at thecash register counter, remodeled by Mauk Cabinets of Tipp City.

House.

During the renovations, Rogers designed the room that housed the former barbershop to channel its history. The room even features an antique barber chair. There is also a photo that has been enlarged and framed that shows one of Pearson House’s customer’s great-grandfather Harry Niles at work in the barbershop.

The main dining room features an area for customers to pay their bill at a counter, which was designed by Mauk Cabinets of Tipp City, that resembles a check-in desk of a hotel. In the final dining area, which was originally a dining room of the former hotel, there is an original inverted tray ceiling, which was found in the basement of Pearson

House and restored for use.

The renovations began in January and just wrapped up last week. The Bianco’s granddaughter, Whitney Maiden, is a manager at the Pearson House, along with her mother Angie, and has been on hand as the renovation visions became a reality.

“I am really looking forward to the future of Pearson House,” she said. “I’ve lived in West Milton all of my life and it is important to me to be involved with the community, and I look forward to developing the relationship that Pearson House has with the community over the years.”

Pearson House is at 28 N. Miami St. in West Milton. For more information, call (937) 698The hallway of the newly renovated Pearson House.

6665.

LOCAL BUSINESS LEDGER

Nursing center has new name

SolAmor Hospice.

Genesis has more than 400 nursing centers in 28 states.

Genesis HealthCare also operTROY — Troy Care and Rehabilitation Center, a 185-bed ates a rehabilitation therapy business with more than 1,500 skilled nursing center, has contracts in 46 states. announced that it has officially “This is an exciting time for changed its name to Troy Center.

The new name better reflects the Troy Center,” said administrator Mark Johnston. “We are proud to change in ownership of the center, according to a press release be a part of the Genesis family provided by the company. now. We are committeed to the Troy Center formerly was Genesis mission; to improve the operated by SunBridge Healthlives we touch through the delivcare. In December 2012, Geneisis ery of high-quaility health care HealthCare, one of the nation’s and everyday compassion.” largest providers of skilling nursing and rehabilitation care, comSchultz to manage pleted the acquisition of Sun Healthcare Group Inc. insurance office Sun Healthcare Group Inc. MIAMI COUNTY — operates SunBridge Healthcare, Koverman Dickerson Insurance SunDance Rehabilitation, CareerStaffUnlimited and would like to announce the pro-

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and St. Paris. The agency writes all lines of insurance including home, auto, boat, motorcycle, umbrella, business, commercial farm, life, health and Medicare.

Learn more about KDI at www.kovermandickerson.com.

nizes operational excellence in quality of service delivery. Butler, owner of Comfort Keepers of Springfield, Dayton, Beavercreek, Englewood and surrounding areas, received the award from the company’s support office in Dayton, and was selected from more than 650 Comfort Keepers Butler recognized franchises nationwide. Criteria

by Comfort Keepers for the award include overall client satisfaction for quality SPRINGFIELD — A Miami service, caregiver satisfaction Valley entrepreneur was recently and community involvement. awarded the “Operational “This is indeed an honor,” Excellence” award by CK Butler said. “To be recognized not Franchising Inc., the franchisor only by our clients, but also by of Comfort Keepers. Butler was our family of Comfort Keepers recognized at the annual awards who provide the type of personal ceremony during the Comfort care that is the hallmark of Keepers Leadership Conference Comfort Keepers, and the local recently in Boca Raton, Fla. community in the Miami Valley This was the first year for this we serve … it just doesn’t get any better than that.” prestigious award, which recog-

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She graduated from Wright State University with a bachelor of science degree in business/marketing. In 2003, after several years in the manufacturing industry, Schultz began her insurance career. She joined the staff at KDI in 2007 and has earned her CISR and CPIA designations. She will be responsible for managing all departments, employees and offices, as well as handling marketing and IT for the agency.

Schultz resides in Versailles with her husband Shane and two sons, Owen and Gavin.

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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.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Sunday, May 5, the 125th day of 2013. There are 240 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On May 5, 1813, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, considered the father of existentialism, was born in Copenhagen.

On this date: In 1862, Mexican troops defeated French occupying forces in the Battle of Puebla.

(The Cinco de Mayo holiday commemorates Mexico’s victo-

ry.)

In 1891, New York’s Carnegie Hall (then named “Music Hall”) had its official opening night.

In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)

In 1942, wartime sugar rationing began in the United States.

In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7, a Mercury capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1973, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, the first of its Triple Crown victories.

In 1987, the congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened with former Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord the lead-off witness.

Drought fears create worry in third year In parts of Plains, weather tries farmers’ patience FREDERICK, Okla. (AP) — When Kent Walker walked through his dusty fields one morning this spring, the ominous signs were right there at his feet.

His wheat crop that should have been thick, dark green and thigh-high was thin, brown and barely covered the top of his shoes. It looked like the start of an ugly rerun.

Last year, most of his cotton crop was destroyed by drought. In 2011, almost all his cotton and wheat were stunted or shriveled. Walker sold about a third of his cattle then because he didn’t have water and feed. Now, more dry months compounded by four deadly freezes this spring threaten once again. And after surveying his fields, white cowboy hat shading his eyes, he sums up his frustration.

“Dadgummit,” he says. “… It’s very trying. It tries your patience. It tries your faith. Bottom line: Every day you just have to go out and trust in God that all will be fine … and roll on to the next day.”

Walker’s resilience echoes across the southwest corner of Oklahoma as fears of a third straight year of drought ripple through this vast prairie where the dry spell has left visible scars: Ponds that are nearly or totally empty. Dead cedar trees. Sprouting weeds, fewer cows, bald pastures that resemble dirt roads instead of lush, green fields.

“You always know that there’s going to be a year when you have a failed crop or some sort of disaster,” Walker says. “Normally you can manage one year, but when you go to two or three years, you’re left questioning your choice of occupation. It can set you back on your heels.”

Still, he remains an optimist. Though as much as 80 percent of his wheat may be damaged from the drought and freeze, he sees any losses as a temporary setback.

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Kent Walker, who farms and ranches, walks through a drought-stricken pond in one of his pastures in Frederick, Okla., on April 23.

Louis Box, who runs an agricultural supply store and sells farm equipment, stands in his store in Frederick, Okla., on April 23. The 74-year-old farm supply owner isn't worried. In more than a half-century of growing wheat and raising cattle, he’s seen it all. “It hasn’t been a death blow. Not at all,” he says.

Jim Ard stands at his storage and U-Haul facility in Frederick, Okla., on April 23. In Tillman County, everyone has a stake in the weather. It's more than farmers and ranchers who suffer from drought. At Ard's Subway shop, he can measure the number of foot-long sandwiches he sells by how wet or dry it is in any planting season.

“We won’t shut down,” says Walker, who farms with his father. “We will get through this one way or another.”

The merciless drought that ravaged large sections of the Midwest and Plains is over, disappearing this spring in a dramatic weather reversal: heavy rains and

It’s far too soon for predictions. Rain this winter and spring blanketed central and eastern Oklahoma, bringing relief to a state that marked its hottest year ever in 2012 and its driest May-through-December on record, according to Gary McManus, associate state

floods swamping fields with mud in many areas. But some farmers and ranchers in parts of the West and the Plains, including southwest Oklahoma, are pondering the prospect of another year of a desert-like landscape and a disappointing harvest.

climatologist. But the western third of Oklahoma, including the Panhandle, remains gripped by drought, along with stretches of the central Plains from South Dakota down to west Texas and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada.

For some, this year may be a tipping point, says Mark Svoboda of the National Drought Mitigation Center. “A drought really tests your coping capacity,” he says. “You either adapt or you sell out and move on. …. If you’re going on year three those places that are set up best, they’re going to survive it and the others won’t.”

Two years of heat and far too little rain already have drained Oklahoma agriculture of more than $1.1 billion in direct losses, according to Oklahoma State University. In that time, farmers and ranchers sold nearly one in five of their cattle as ponds and creeks dried up and feed became scarce.

It’s a scenario Oklahomans know only too well and dread parched earth, blowing dust, burned crops. During the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, boiling dark masses of dirt, some thousands of feet high, rolled along, blotting out the sun. That ecological disaster, coupled with the Great Depression, triggered a mass migration west. In the 1950s, there was another devastating dry spell.

This time around, it has rained, just not enough.

In Jackson County, northwest of here, a lake that supplies water for irrigation is only 17 percent full, says Jantz Bain, manager of Humphreys Cooperative in Altus. “For virtually 50 years,” he says, “the good Lord has been consistent in letting the lake fill up, and now …”

His cotton gin hasn’t made enough money to break even the last two years, he says, and the drought and freeze packed a one-two punch, already dooming a lot of the county’s wheat. “So far, everybody is hanging on by their fingernails,” Bain says. “We can’t take much more of this …

These people want to grow a crop. That’s what they do.

It’s no different than a doctor with no patients.”

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RIGHT: J-Ball player Mitch Davis (5) for the Meijer team tags out Eagles runner Trevor Hayslip (11) April 27 at Knoop Sports Complex.

LEFT: J-Ball player Nick Buechter (6) catches a fly for a J-Ball Meijer team at Knoop Sports Complex.

‘We want kids to enjoy it’

BELOW: J-Ball player Christian Block (3) swings for the Meijer team April 27 at Knoop Sports Complex in Troy.

Troy Junior Baseball teaches fundamentals and teamwork

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com t’s a tried and true formula that has worked for decades — and Troy Junior Baseball has no intentions of changing it.

“We’re going to maintain the status quo — we don’t really plan on changing much,” said Troy Junior Baseball Executive Officer Jay Vernau of the 2013 season, which opened TROY April 27 and will run through late June and possibly into early July, depending on the weather and tournament schedules. “We started at the same time; we’ll end at the same time. It’s been working for us.”

Indeed, Troy Junior Baseball has seen tens of thousands of boys and girls come through its program over the years. It features five different leagues — T-Ball (ages 5-6), J-Ball (ages 7-8), Minor (ages 9-10), Major (ages 11-12) and Teener (ages 13-15).

“Teener was up (in participation numbers) this year,” Vernau said. “It’s slightly down in Major, it’s even in Minor and it’s slightly down in T-Ball and J-Ball. I’m not sure why the numbers are down for the younger ages — it’s not because of travel teams, because they don’t have travel teams that young.”

The fact that the league doesn’t involve travel and, according to the organization’s website, www.troyjuniorbaseball.com “is not a traveling or select organization. We provide Recreational (Rec) Leagues that are designed to offer a fun and safe, yet educational and competitive setting” is part of the league’s appeal, Vernau said.

“That’s right — we are totally recreational,” he said. “Our goal is to teach fundamentals and teamwork. We want kids to enjoy it. We want them to have a love for the game. It’s not cut throat.”

Teener league games are played at Duke Park in Troy. The four other leagues play their games at the Knoop Complex at the corner of County Road 25-A and Eldean Road. The Mark Knoop Baseball Complex has produced hundreds of high school players, dozens of college baseball players and at least one Major League Baseball player in Heath Murray, who would go from pitching at the Knoop Complex to pitching in nearly every park in the big leagues.

Tens of thousands of young baseball players never would have gotten the chance to play ball at the complex had it not been for the generosity of Mark Knoop. In 1979, Knoop — a fifth-generation Miami Countian — donated 21 acres of land to Troy Junior Baseball Inc. Knoop originally had donated the land to the Miami County Park District, which turned down the gift because it lacked the staff to

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T-ball player Silas Carter (7) runs to home plate for the Eagles team April 27. maintain the area.

On March 19, 1981, ground was broken on the Mark Knoop Baseball Complex. Games were being played on the complex’s four fields — more fields would be added later — soon after.

Knoop — a farmer by trade — had a history of public service. He served as president of the Troy Rotary Club, the Troy Country Club, the Ohio Cattle Feeders and the Stouder Memorial Board of Trustees. He was a member of the Upper Valley Medical Board, director of the First National Cincinnati Corp. and director emeritus of the First National Bank and Trust Co., Troy.

Knoop passed away several years ago at the age of 91, but the baseball complex he was such an instrumental part of still bears his name.

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Pickups spur increase in April auto sales DETROIT (AP) — Detroit was king in April, with demand for its big pickups helping to boost U.S. auto sales and offset a soft month for Toyota.

Ford, GM and Chrysler sold a total of 144,042 fullsize pickups, up 29 percent from last April, driven by strength in the U.S. housing industry.

Overall sales grew 8.5 percent to nearly 1.3 million. While that’s the industry’s best April total since 2007, the pace slowed from the first three months of this year. On an annualized basis, April sales were 14.9 million, the first month below 15 million since October.

One reason for the slowdown: Toyota. The Japanese automaker’s U.S. sales dropped by 1 percent, or around 2,000 vehicles, from last April. Alec Gutierrez, a senior market analyst with Kelley Blue Book, said he and other analysts underestimated the impact that increasing competition is having on Toyota.

Popular Toyota vehicles like the Corolla and Camry sedans lost sales to fresher models like the Hyundai Elantra and the Ford Fusion. Gas prices which are 30 cents cheaper than at this time last year hurt sales of the Prius hybrid, down 21 percent. Toyota’s share of the market fell to 13.7 percent from 15 percent a year earlier, putting it behind GM and Ford.

Analysts still expect the industry to sell more than 15 million cars and trucks this year. Gutierrez is keep-

Jeep-Ram dealership near Youngstown, Ohio. Eddy said energy industry workers from all over the country were coming in to buy trucks last month, keeping him in tight competition with a nearby Ford store.

“I’m selling heavy-duty trucks. We had people coming in from all over the country buying. We had a guy come in from Montana,” Eddy said.

Jesse Toprak, a senior analyst for the TrueCar.com auto pricing site, said fullsize trucks made up around 11.5 percent of sales in April, up from around 10 percent last year. He expects them to top 12 percent of total sales or nearly 2 million vehicles by the fall of this year, when truck sales are usually strongest.

Full-size truck sales peaked at 15 percent of the U.S. market in 2004.

The growth in truck sales shows underlying strength in the economy, Toprak said, since small businesses won’t buy them unless they’re confident in the future.

The U.S. economic recovery is far from smooth.

Unemployment stands at a stubbornly high 7.6 percent and factory activity expanded at a slower pace in April, held back by weaker hiring and less company stockpiling.

But many factors favor car and truck sales. Interest rates are low the average four-year loan on a new car is 2.4 percent, according to Bankrate.com. Credit is widely available, even to those with low scores.

AP PHOTO/TOBY TALBOT

In this April 25 photo, GMC trucks are lined up on the lot of Capitol City Buick Pontiac GMC in Montpelier, Vt. Overall sales grew 8.5 percent to nearly 1.3 million in April. While that’s the industry’s best April total since 2007, the pace slowed from the first three months of this year. ing his forecast at 15.3 million. That’s up from sales of 14.5 million last year. The most recent high was 17 million in 2005, while the trough was 10.4 million during the recession in 2009.

“We’re not reading too much” into the April number, Gutierrez said.

Ford, General Motors and Chrysler reported double-digit sales increases last month. Nissan led Japanese automakers with a gain of 23 percent, while Honda’s sales rose 7 percent.

Volkswagen sales dropped 10 percent, according to figures released Wednesday.

Detroit dominates the pickup segment, as U.S. buyers remain loyal to

domestic brands despite efforts by foreign brands to win them over. Sales of Ford’s F-Series, the bestselling vehicle in the U.S., rose 24 percent, while Chevrolet Silverado sales rose 28 percent. Chrysler’s recently redesigned Ram pickup saw a 49-percent increase.

The gains bode well for second-quarter earnings, since pickups are among automakers’ most profitable vehicles.

Truck sales have been strong all year because of customers like Adrien McFrederick, who recently put down a deposit on a 2013 Ram 3500.

McFrederick, 35, owns a marble and tile business,

and needed to replace the 2007 Silverado he kept while work was slow. He started looking at Rams late last year after he and his wife bought a Chrysler Town and Country minivan.

Businesses like McFrederick’s are getting a boost from a rise in home building, which increased 7 percent from February to March. A revived housing sector means higher sales of big pickups as companies and laborers return to the market. GM said its sales to small businesses rose 32 percent to 57,000 in April.

A different kind of business natural gas drilling is propelling sales at Chuck Eddy Jr.’s Chrysler-Dodge-

Buyers can currently get good trade-in value for their old cars. Lease deals are good. Gas prices have fallen since February, and ended April at $3.51 per gallon.

And cars and trucks have reached a record average of 11 years old.

All that, plus record-setting stock markets and a recovery in home prices, is boosting sales in many segments of the auto market.

GM sales rose 11 percent in April, and not just because of pickups. Even though gas is cheaper than last year, small cars like the Chevrolet Cruze and Sonic saw 20-percent gains.

Cadillac sales increased 34 percent thanks to the new ATS and XTS sedans.

Chrysler’s sales also rose 11 percent. Sales of the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV increased 27 percent. The Dodge Dart compact car posted its best month ever with sales of nearly 8,100.

But sales of the Chrysler brand fell 13 percent.

Ford sales jumped 18 percent thanks to a 52 percent gain for the retooled Escape SUV and a 25 percent jump for the Fusion sedan, which both went on sale last fall. The new MKZ midsize sedan pushed Ford’s struggling Lincoln brand to its first sales increase since August.

Sales of the hybrid version have been so strong particularly in Los Angeles, where they make up 60 percent of all sales that Ford plans to increase the percentage of hybrid MKZs it builds from 20 percent to 30 percent.

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Shoppers find ethical clothing hard to find NEW YORK (AP) — You can recycle your waste, grow your own food and drive a fuel-efficient car.

But being socially responsible isn’t so easy when it comes to the clothes on your back.

Jason and Take Alexandra Lawrence of Lyons, Colo. The couple eat locally grown food that doesn’t have to be transported from far-flung states. They fill up their diesel-powered Volkswagen and Dodge pickup with vegetable-based oil. They even bring silverware to a nearby coffeehouse to avoid using the shop’s plastic utensils.

But when it comes to making sure that their clothes are made in factories that are safe for workers, the couple fall short.

“Clothing is one of our more challenging practices,” says Jason Lawrence, 35, who mostly buys secondhand. “I don’t want to travel around the world to see where my pants come from.”

Last week’s building collapse in Bangladesh that killed hundreds of clothing factory workers put a spotlight on the sobering fact that people in poor countries often risk their lives working in unsafe factories to make the cheap T-shirts and underwear that Westerners covet.

The disaster, which comes after a fire in another Bangladesh factory killed 112 people last November, also highlights something just as troubling for socially conscious shoppers: It’s nearly impossible to make sure the clothes you buy come from factories with safe working conditions.

Very few companies sell clothing that’s so-called “ethically made,” or marketed as being made in factories that maintain safe working conditions. In fact, ethically made clothes make up a tiny fraction of 1 percent of the overall $1 trillion global fashion industry. And with a few exceptions, such as the 250-store clothing chain American Apparel Inc., most aren’t national brands.

It’s even more difficult to figure out if your clothes are made in safe factories if you’re buying from retailers that don’t specifically market their clothes as ethically made. That’s because major chains typically use a complex web of

Fair Indigo’s products incude $100 floral ballet flats.

suppliers in countries such as Bangladesh, which often contract business to other factories. That means the retailers themselves don’t always know the origin of clothes when they’re made overseas.

And even a “Made in USA” label only provides a small amount of assurance for a socially conscious shopper. For instance, maybe the tailors who assembled the skirt may have had good working conditions. But the fabric might have been woven overseas by people who do not work in a safe environment.

“For the consumer, it’s virtually impossible to know whether the product was manufactured in safe conditions,” says Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a retail consultancy.

“For U.S.-made labels, you have good assurance, but the farther you get away from the U.S., the less confidence you have.”

To be sure, most global retailers have standards for workplace safety in the factories that make their clothes. And the companies typically require that contractors and subcontractors follow these guide-

lines. But policing factories around the world is a costly, time-consuming process that’s difficult to manage.

In fact, there were five factories alone in the building that collapsed in Bangladesh last week.

They produced clothing for big name retailers including British retailer Primark, Children’s Place and Canadian company Loblaw Inc., which markets the Joe Fresh clothing line.

“I have seen factories in (Bangladesh and other countries), and I know how difficult it is to monitor the factories to see they are safe,” says Walter Loeb, a New York-based retail consultant.

And some experts say that retailers have little incentive to be more proactive and do more because the public isn’t pushing them to do so.

America’s Research Group, which interviews 10,000 to 15,000 consumers a week mostly on behalf of retailers, says that even in the aftermath of two deadly tragedies in shoppers Bangladesh, seem more concerned with fit and price than whether their clothes were made in factories where workers are safe and make reasonable wages.

C. Britt Beemer, chairman of the firm, says when he polls shoppers about their biggest concerns, they rarely mention “where something is made” or “abuses” in the factories in other countries.

“We have seen no consumer reaction to any charges about harmful working conditions,” he says.

Tom Burson, 49, certainly is focused more on price

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and quality when he’s shopping. Burson says that if someone told him that a brand of jeans is made in “sweatshops by 8-yearolds,” he wouldn’t buy it.

But he says, overall, there is no practical way for him to trace where his pants were made.

“I am looking for value,” says Burson, a management consultant who lives in Ashburn, Va. “I am not callous and not unconcerned about the conditions of the workers. It’s just that when I am standing in a clothing store and am comparing two pairs of pants, there’s nothing I can do about it. I need the pants.”

In light of the recent disasters, though, some experts and retailers say things are slowly changing.

They say more shoppers are starting to pay attention to labels and where their clothes are made.

Swati Argade, a clothing designer who promotes her Bhoomki boutique in the Brooklyn borough of New York City as “ethically fashioned,” says people have been more conscious about where their clothes come from.

The store, which means “of the earth” in Hindi, sells everything from $18 organic cotton underwear to $1,000 coats that are primarily made in factories that are owned by their workers in India or Peru or that are designed by local designers in New York City.

“After the November fire in Bangladesh, many customers says it made them more aware of the things they buy, and who makes them,” Argade says.

Jennifer Galatioto, a 31year-old fashion photographer from Brooklyn, is among the shoppers who have become thoughtful about where her clothes are made. Galatioto has been making trips to local shops in the Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn that sells a lot of clothes made locally. She has also ventured to local shopping markets that feature handmade clothing.

“I am trying to learn the story behind the clothing and the people who are making it,” she says.

Some retailers are beginning to do more to ease shoppers’ consciences.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said in January that it would cut ties with any factory that failed an

inspection, instead of giving warnings first as had been its practice. The Gap Inc., which owns the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic chains, hired its own chief fire inspector to oversee factories that make its clothing in Bangladesh.

Still, Wal-Mart, Gap and many other global retailers continue to back off from a union-sponsored proposal to improve safety throughout Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry. As part of the legally binding agreement, retailers would be liable when there’s a factory fire and would have to pay factory owners more to make repairs.

Fair Trade U.S.A., a nonprofit that was founded in 1998 to audit products to make sure workers overseas are paid fair wages and work in safe conditions, is hoping to appeal to shoppers who care about where their clothing is made. In 2010, it expanded the list of products that it certifies beyond coffee, sugar and spices to include clothing. organization, The known for its black, green and white label with an image of a person holding a bowl in front of a globe, says it’s working with small businesses like PrAna, which sells yoga pants and other sportswear items to merchants like REI and Zappos. It also says it’s in discussions with other big-name brands that it declined to name.

To use the Fair Trade label on their products, companies have to follow certain safety and wage standards that are based on established industry auditing groups, including the International Labor Organization. They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.

Local nongovernment groups train the retailers’ workers on their rights. And workers are provided a grievance process to report problems directly to the Fair Trade organization.

Still, well under 1 percent of clothing sold in the U.S. is stamped with a Fair Trade label. And shoppers will find that Fair Trade certified clothing is typically about 5 percent more expensive than similar items that don’t have the label.

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In this photo taken April 11, bottles of Chardonnay are shown beside of photograph of the late actor Raymond Burr and actress Barbara Hale at Raymond Burr Vineyards in Healdsburg Calif. The star of TV’s “Perry Mason” and “Ironside,” also had a passion for wine.

Hollywood and vine California wineries trade on celebrity connections HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre (600hectare) spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-century, want to know: Where’s the heliport? Where’s the screening room?

Kate MacMurray, Fred’s daughter, just smiles.

“This was our home,” she explains.

What visitors will find at the ranch is a place that’s not much different than when the MacMurray family lived there, right down to the rocking chair with the wide flat arms just right for holding the actor’s drink as he sat reading the paper in the evening, close enough to the window to keep an eye on the Black Angus cattle he raised.

MacMurray and his wife, actress June Haver, bought the ranch in 1941 from the Porter family, pioneers who established the farmstead in the 1850s their old wagon still stands in front of the house. The MacMurrays used it for diversified farming during World War II and later raised cattle.

The MacMurray Ranch is now owned by the Gallo wine family and open to the public only during the Sonoma Wine Country Weekend in August, but it’s one of several California wineries with celebrity connections, including wineries owned by “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola, the late “Davy Crockett” star Fess Parker, and the late “Perry Mason” star Raymond Burr.

MacMurray, star of such classics as “Double Indemnity” and “The Apartment,” and later the star of the popular TV series “My Three Sons,” spent his free time at the ranch and was deeply involved in the local agricultural scene. Photographs displayed in the property’s refurbished barn show the couple with their prize cattle (owners and beast looking very spiffy). There are also a series of historical photographs following the evolution of the ranch from hops and prunes to livestock and now vines.

“If you held a mirror up to our ranch what would reflect back is the whole history of agriculture in Northern California,” MacMurray points out. “It’s quite remarkable.”

The MacMurray family sold the ranch to the Gallos in 1996, a few years after Fred MacMurray’s death, and the land in a prime area of Sonoma County’s renowned Russian River Valley appellation now has 425 acres of vines, mostly pinot noir grapes which go into Gallo’s MacMurray

IF YOU GO: • SONOMA WINE COUNTRY WEEKEND 2013: Aug. 30-Sept. 1. Tickets $85$500 depending on how many events included. Taste of Sonoma at MacMurray Ranch is $165 per person, general admission, or $195 per person for the grand reserve tour, which includes access to additional limited release wines and preferred seating. Tickets, http://www.sonomawinecountryweekend.com .

• FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WINERY: 300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville, Calif.; http://www.franciscoppolawinery.com or 707-857-1400. Wine park open daily 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Tasting fees range from free for a pour of the everyday red and white to $15. Daily pool passes start at $20 for adults, $10 children, and renting a cabine, the only way to guarantee pool access, starts at $125, which includes four pool passes, four lounge chairs, towels, wine-tasting flights and two souvenir bottles of water.

• FESS PARKER WINERY & VINEAP PHOTOS/ERIC RISBERG, FILE YARD: 6200 Foxen Canyon Road, Los In this July 15, 2010, file photo, a car enters the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in Geyserville, Calif. Part Olivos, Calif., http://www.fessparkerresort, part winery, this property in Sonoma County has a lot of extras including a swimming pool, wines.com or 800-841-1104. Open daily cabines equipped with showers for rent, bocce courts and two places to eat including RUSTIC, which 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tasting fees start at $12 has an outdoor patio with a great view of the Alexander Valley. per person.

• RAYMOND BURR VINEYARDS: buddy Bing Crosby, as well as 8339 W. Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg, the memorabilia from Calif., http://raymondburrvineyards.com/ or MacMurray’s other hobbies 707-433-4365. Open daily 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. which included skeet shooting, leatherwork and painting.

MacMurray never was nominated for an Oscar or Emmy, but the original automobile from the good-natured actor told his “Tucker: The Man and His daughter that if she wanted to Dream.” put an award out, to make it the • FESS PARKER WINERY one he got from an outfit called & VINEYARD: This winery in Popcorn Village USA commend- California’s Central Coast wine ing him for making pictures that growing region has two claims to sold the most popcorn. “He celebrity fame. It was founded by adored popcorn,” MacMurray the late Fess Parker, star of the says with a laugh.

“Davy Crockett” and “Daniel Here are more wineries that Boone” TV series and was also could leave you with stars in featured, under the name Frass your eyes.

Canyon, in the 2004 wine road • FRANCIS FORD COPtrip movie “Sideways.” (It’s In this photo taken March 15, Kate MacMurray, daughter of the late POLA WINERY: Part resort, where Paul Giamatti’s character, actor Fred MacMurray, poses with a glass of Pinot Noir by a photoMiles, has his meltdown with the graph of her father in a tasting area and gallery of old photographs part winery, this property in spit bucket funny onscreen, at the MacMurray Ranch in Healdsburg, Calif. The former cattle Sonoma County has a lot of extras including a swimming highly inadvisable in real life.) ranch, which was purchased in 1941 by the actor in the popular TV series “My Three Sons,” now produces wine and is owned by the pool, cabines (cabanas) equipped You’ll find memorabilia like with showers for rent, bocce coonskin caps at the winery gift Gallo wine family. courts and two places to eat store, and you can also stay at Ranch Russian River Valley Pinot striking figure with a rich laugh including RUSTIC, which has an the Fess Parker Wine Country outdoor patio with a great view and a cascade of copper curls, Noir and Russian River Valley Inn & Spa, an upscale retreat. of the Alexander Valley. These lives in a small house near the Reserve Pinot Noir. The ranch • RAYMOND BURR VINEdays, wines from the director of property and travels the world also supplies grapes for the YARDS: The star of TV’s “Perry such classics as “The Godfather” Mason” and “Ironside” also had a promoting MacMurray Ranch MacMurray Ranch Pinot Gris, a are well-established, including wines. zippy white wine. passion for wine, which is still the winery’s the popular Although the winery is open When she turned the keys celebrated at this small winery Diamond Collection. His film to the public only once a year, over in August 1996, Kate in Sonoma County’s Dry Creek career is on display here as well Valley. There are lots of old phowine club members get to visit MacMurray thought “that chapter in our family life was closed,” at special events held four times with the Movie Gallery (NAStos, “TV Guide” covers and DAQ:MOVI) featuring lots of a year. Visitors who go have a but in 2000 Bob Gallo, son of awards in the small tasting room memorabilia, including several chance to see photographs of wine pioneer Julio Gallo, asked and guests can take their glasses Academy Awards, Don Corleone’s outside to the deck and enjoy her to work with the family as a Fred MacMurray and some of desk from “The Godfather,” and brand ambassador. MacMurray, a his famous friends, like golfing sweeping views of the vineyards.

Five free things visitors can do in California’s Napa Valley NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Love the lush and lovely Napa Valley but hate how expensive it can be? You’re not the first. In the late 19th century, writer Robert Louis Stevenson moved his honeymoon to the rustic but free setting of an abandoned mining camp when the $10-aweek going rate for Calistoga hotels proved too much for his slender purse.

You’re not likely to find free lodging today, even if it is in a beat-up cabin.

But there are a number of things you can enjoy in California’s premiere wine region at no charge.

• SCENERY: There are two main ways to see the Napa Valley by car.

Highway 29 is a straight shot from the south end of the valley marked by the famous Grape Crusher Statue through Napa, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena and Calistoga.

Along the way are dozens of restaurants and wineries, including the Robert Mondavi Winery and Inglenook, the winery restored by director Francis Ford Coppola. Be

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In this photo taken April 13, people try up to four free tastes of wine at Sutter Home Winery in St. Helena, Calif. aware traffic gets heavy at rush hour and slows to a crawl when there’s a big event going on, such as the annual wine auction held the first weekend in June.

To reach the Grape Crusher Statue from Highway 29 (heading north from the San Francisco Bay area), turn left onto Soscol Ferry Road, continue on Vista Point Drive, then continue onto Napa Valley Corporate Drive and then right at the statue.

The other driving option is the Silverado Trail, which is most easily

picked up by taking the Trancas Street exit from Highway 29 in Napa and then turning left when you see the sign for the Silverado Trail. The trail more or less runs parallel to Highway 29 but is quieter, winding through green vistas of vineyards and rolling hills. Wineries along this route include Mumm Napa Valley.

• WINERIES: The days when winery owners routinely poured their wares for free are no more, although several wineries offer two-for-one tasting coupons (check online

before you visit), and others will waive tasting fees if you buy a bottle to take home. But there is still at least one winery offering tariff-free tasting. That would be Sutter Home Family Vineyards the people who introduced America to white zinfandel in the 1970s in St. Helena.

Stop by the charming tasting room on Highway 29 in St. Helena (277 St. Helena Highway) and taste up to four wines free from the eight-wine tasting menu, which includes a zinfandel port. And if you want to go cost- and alcohol-free, ask for a tasting of Fre, which is a line of wines that have had the alcohol removed; http://www.sutterhome.co m , open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

• MARKETS: The Napa Valley is famous for fine dining and you can watch some of the city’s top chefs plying their trade at the Napa Chef’s Market, a free weekly event on Thursday nights in downtown Napa. Traffic is rerouted so the market is like a big street party with live music and scores

of stalls selling food, drink, art and other items.

There are two cooking demonstrations, at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. where you can watch the food being made and then enjoy a taste when it’s done.

The valley may be best known for its grapes, but there are other things grown here, too. See the rest of the region’s bounty at the Napa Farmers Market (500 First St., next to the Oxbow Public Market), held on Tuesday and Saturday mornings, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., May 1Oct. 30. The pickings get better as the weather grows warmer; hit the market in late summer to see it at its best.

• ART: More than 75 wineries have art on display all year long. Some of the places to see free art anytime include The Hess Collection’s contemporary art museum, featuring works from the private collection of owner Donald Hess (4411 Redwood Road, Napa, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.), and The Baron Wolman Gallery at Markham Vineyards (2812 St. Helena Highway, St.

Helena, open daily 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.), with photographs by Wolman, Rolling Stone’s first chief photographer.

• HIKES: The Land Trust of Napa County offers free hikes most weeks between April and November exploring the wild side of the valley. Go online to see the hikes planned for this year.

Advance registration http://community.napalandtrust.org/page.aspx?pi d=300 is required and some of the hikes are quite strenuous.

Also free is Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, which includes a five-mile hike one-way (eight-kilometer) to the top of Mount St. Helena, offering panoramic views of the valley and beyond.

The park is about eight miles (13 kilometers) north of Calistoga on Highway 29; limited parking, no bathrooms.

The cabin where Stevenson and his bride dodged those pricey rack rates of 1880 is long gone, but a monument about a mile (1.6 kilometers) up the trail marks the area where the couple stayed.

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‘Maisie’ tasteful with strong performances ents have split failing to show up for days when it’s time for her to stay at your place (both sides are guilty here), or spendLOS ANGELES (AP) — A ing your time with her on loud, broken-family melodrama with “he can’t get away with this” a minimum of histrionics, Scott phone calls to a lawyer? Steve McGehee’s and David Siegel’s Coogan’s Beale is an up-front “What Maisie Knew” begins narcissist; Susanna needs her from scenes that will be famildaughter’s welfare as an excuse iar to most viewers who’ve witto make everything about her nessed a custody battle. Things own desires. get pretty orchestrated from Moore has the most complithat familiar scenario onward, cated part to play here, as a but never to the point of unbewoman who really believes she lievability. The sad tidiness of loves her daughter more than the film’s resolution (and the anything but is blind to what way it departs from the Henry such a devotion might mean in James book it’s based on) practice. Over and over, she makes it all the more appealrelies on Lincoln to pick Maisie ing. up from school, watch her when Maisie is a six year-old New a gig beckons, improvise when Yorker (Onata Aprile) in a posinecessary. It’s inevitable that he tion to know a great deal. She will come to identify with knows her rock-star mother Margot, who fills the same role (Julianne Moore) is too busy for Beale. arguing with Dad (Steve And another thing Maisie Coogan) to pay for the pizza delivery she ordered; she knows AP PHOTO/MILLENNIUM ENTERTAINMENT, JOJO WHILDEN knows is to trust the people Dad tries extra hard to be cute This film image released by Millennium Entertainment shows Julianne Moore, left, and Onata Aprile who actually take care of her never voicing an allegiance that when her nanny Margo (Joanna in a scene from “What Maisie Knew.” would exclude anyone she cares Vanderham) is in the room. She that (to a perhaps implausible as family-like by marrying a ignorance when Mom asks if for, but eagerly accepting love knows Mom and Dad aren’t degree) disturbs Susanna. “You that’s offered in the form of younger man (Alexander Daddy (now in his own apartgoing to live together anymore, don’t get a bonus for making Skarsgrd’s Lincoln) she hardly actions as well as words. In this and there’s a lot of arguing over ment, with the nanny there to her fall in love with you,” modern take on a century-old how much time she’ll spend with help when Maisie’s with him) is knows. The closest thing to an Susanna snaps at one point, ever so happy to see Margo that innocent in all this aside from story, that distinction remains him. making us wonder whether Maisie, Lincoln a lanky the most valuable one of all.

Most importantly, she knows he gives her a kiss. that’s a literal comment, and He is, of course, and when he Southerner whose body somehow to keep some of these she has actually paid the bartimes seems to fold inward on “What Maisie Knew,” a things at bay as the adult rela- marries his former employee, tender to be a prop husband. itself in deference to those Millennium Entertainment tionships around her grow more Maisie’s mother Susanna feels What’s more emotionally she must compete in the court’s around him can’t help but release, is rated R for language. disturbed, she coasts along as eyes making her own home just befriend the girl, a development abusive to a child whose parRunning time: 98 minutes. best she can, wisely choosing

BY JOHN DEFORE AP Film Reviewer

Downey, Paltrow forge bond LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s something of the old married couple about Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr., though they’re married to other people.

They’ve known each other for 20 years, through bad times (his) and good (hers all along and now his, too). They’re cozy and comfy sitting down together for an interview, shifting easily between talking about their Marvel Studios superhero sequel “Iron Man 3,” chatting up each other’s career and family and trading small talk about their little ailments as Downey rummages through a case of nostrums he travels with.

“I think I picked up a little bacteria on the road,” Downey says of his trips promoting the film worldwide ahead of its U.S. debut this week. “No big deal.”

“In what part of your body?” Paltrow asks.

“Tum-tum,” Downey replies.

“I got really sick from the plane from England,” Paltrow says. “Just terrible stomach problems.”

“Travel’s tough when you’re not a kid anymore,” Downey adds. “You’ve got to take it really seriously.”

Both are taking everything seriously now, from work to family to lifestyle.

Downey and Paltrow are in enviable places among their fortysomething Hollywood peers.

At 48, he’s the great reclamation project of show business, rebounding from a fitful early career overshadowed by drug abuse and prison to become arguably the hottest leading man on the planet. “Iron Man 3” just opened to a whopping $195 million overseas, surpassing last year’s international debut of Marvel’s “The Avengers,” in which he also had the leading role.

At 40, Paltrow’s diversified into a super-hyphenate. While slowing down

‘Iron Man 3’ loaded down by heavy metal

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This film publicity image released by Disney-Marvel Studios shows Robert Downey Jr., left, as Tony Stark/Iron Man and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in a scene from “Iron Man 3.” on acting to raise her two children with her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Paltrow has just published her second cookbook, runs the Web site lifestyles Goop.com and is a business partner with fitness trainer Tracy Anderson.

Paltrow also managed to book-end her Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love” with an Emmy win for her guest spots on “Glee.”

Paltrow has plenty of detractors, though. Critics questioned her designation by People magazine as the world’s most-beautiful woman, which came days after Star magazine named her the most-hated celebrity.

Downey and Paltrow are following “Iron Man 3” with smaller dramas, Paltrow starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the Pablo Picasso tale “33 Dias,” Downey joining Robert Duvall for the father-son story “The Judge.” He also has plans for a third entry in his other franchise, “Sherlock Holmes,” though the future of “Iron Man,” Downey’s billionaire genius Tony Stark and Paltrow’s Gal-Fridayturned-girlfriend-andCEO Pepper Potts are uncertain.

“Iron Man 3” hints that Tony might hang up his metal suits to focus on life with Pepper. Downey won’t tip his hand on the prospects of future solo entries or whether he’ll return for the upcoming

“The Avengers” sequel.

After so many years on the outs in Hollywood, though, Downey’s gotten used to the blockbuster life.

“Kind of like Tony’s obsession with the suit, this genre of movie, this and the ‘Sherlock’ stuff, it’s addictive,” Downey says.

“Because they’re big movies. Interesting people seem to be drawn to them in recent years. You get really cool directors, people really running wild with their imagination.”

Paltrow eagerly says she would come back for more “Iron Man.” Especially now that she’s getting into the thick of things.

In “Iron Man 3,” Pepper graduates from glorified personal assistant to running Tony’s empire, and Paltrow even gets to put on the Iron Man suit and mix it up in the action scenes.

“I seriously question all my career choices up to that point. It’s like, what have I been doing in these highbrow frigging corset things? This is so much more fun,” Paltrow says.

Paltrow and Downey became friends after meeting at a film festival in the 1990s, though like much of Hollywood, she had doubts about the talented but manic actor who squandered his early promise through his partying and addictions.

He recalls that after they met, a mutual friend told him Paltrow had called looking for insights on Downey.

In the galaxy of bigscreen superheros a rather glum lot Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is the snappy one.

He’s the sarcastic, motor-mouthed, preening, self-referential do-gooder, as opposed to all those self-serious crusaders. No matter how much of a scrap heap of metal-twisting mayhem the franchise piles on (and it’s a lot), Downey’s sheer charm his unsentimental, offhand yammering is the only real super power in Marvel’s “Iron Man” trilogy.

“Iron Man 3” follows not just “Iron Man 2” but the box-office busting “The Avengers,” in which Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, joined forces with other superheroes. These global blockbusters are more produced than directed, but it’s nevertheless particularly fitting that Shane Black here inherits the helm from John Favreau, the director of the previous two.

Black (the “Lethal Weapon” screenwriter) and Downey last teamed up (before Downey’s career had been fully resurrected) in the wonderfully zippy, deconstructed LA noir “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” ”Iron Man 3” begins exactly the same, with Stark in a halting voiceover that he restarts and then gives up on, concluding: “Well, you know who I am.”

Black’s film, more than any other “Iron Man,” is stuffed with this selfaware, winking style. This includes loads of references to “The Avengers,” an experience from which Stark has developed panic attacks and sleep-depriving nightmares. Though the stated cause is the alien battle that concluded “The Avengers,” one suspects it could be Scarlett Johansson’s acting that

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haunts him.

He is pulled into a confrontation with a terrorist named Mandarin (a bearded Ben Kingsley), who, in hijacked broadcast transmissions, takes credit for public explosions that, in a movie such as this, chafe awkwardly in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

When reporters mob Stark for his response after an explosion puts his friend and bodyguard (Favreau, looking happily unburdened) in the hospital, Stark swears vengeance and brazenly supplies his home address for a fight.

You might think Superman would be the favorite of journalists everywhere, but I suspect it’s Iron Man. Ever since Stark declared his identity at the conclusion of the first “Iron Man,” he’s unique among his more secretive brethren: He’s the superhero who comments.

When helicopter missiles collapse Stark’s Malibu estate into the sea, his companion Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is separated from him, and his damaged computer operator Jarvis (voiced in formal British by Paul Bettany in a manner not unlike the classic butler Jeeves) rockets Stark to Tennessee.

With a damaged suit and grasping at leads on the bombing, Stark has to rebuild himself, which he does with the help of a mop-headed, fatherless boy (an excellent Ty Simpkins). Tennessee isn’t an accidental landing spot, but a preprogrammed flight to a location where Stark begins to learn what’s behind the bombings.

Downey and Simpkins make a good team playing a kind of mockSpielbergian pair, and it’s the best and most natural part of the movie.

There are good bad

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guys. Guy Pearce plays Aldrich Killian, an inventor turned military contractor who Stark haphazardly jilted back in his partying years. His connections to the terrorism aren’t immediately clear, but his rise comes from a kind of biological enhancement that makes its users nearly indestructible and, when really angry, breathe fire.

The “Iron Man” films have always played in the world of the military industrial complex, one where the guys with the fancy weapons control the world more than politicians. Soldiers, and even terrorists, are merely pawns in a larger corporate battle.

But within “Iron Man 3” is a fight between screwball irony and blockbuster bombast. The script, by Black and Drew Pearce, contains the best dialogue of the series. But the wisecracking begins to feel suffocated under the weight of a whole lot of action, more Iron Man suit changes than Beyonce would even dare, and the lumbering machinations of a plot that closes in on a lengthy oil rig finale as if pulled by magnetic force.

This is the first “Iron Man” in 3-D, and the darkening effect is particularly disappointing for what’s been a bright-hued franchise. The action scenes, too, are cut too quickly so that your eye often feels like it’s racing to catch up. The heavy metal action could never sink the irrepressible Downey, but it weighs down the otherwise light joy of “Iron Man 3.”

“Iron Man 3,” a Walt Disney release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief suggestive content.

Running time: 130 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

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DATES TO REMEMBER Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, loca• DivorceCare seminar and suption not made public. Must currently port group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. be in therapy. For more information, at Piqua Assembly of God Church, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child • Miami Valley Women’s Center, care provided through the sixth7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber grade.

Heights, offers free pregnancy test• AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will ing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter more information, call 236-2273.

Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The dis- a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. cussion meeting is open.

Main St., Tipp City. For more informa• AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 tion, call Tipp-Monroe Community p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal 669-2441.

Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy.

• Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 • AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Westminster Presbyterian Church, Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, 25-A, one mile south of the main Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. campus.

• AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober TUESDAY lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash • Deep water aerobics will be and Caldwell streets, Piqua.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy.

Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information Troy. Open discussion . and programs.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Poison • Hospice of Miami County Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, “Growing Through Grief” meetings are at 11 a.m. on the first, third and Greenville. fifth Tuesdays of each month, and 7 • Narcotics Anonymous, Never p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First and are designed to provide a safe Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., and supportive environment for the Sidney expression of thoughts and feelings • Teen Talk, where teens share associated with the grief process. All their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the sessions are available to the community and at the Hospice Generations Troy View Church of God, 1879 of Life Center, 550 Summit Ave., secStaunton Road, Troy.

• Singles Night at The Avenue will ond floor, Troy, with light refreshments provided. No reservations are be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main required. For more information, call Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Susan Cottrell at Hospice of Miami Troy. Each week, cards, noncompeti- County, 335-5191.

• A children’s support group for tive volleyball, free line dances and any grieving children ages 6-11 years free ballroom dance lessons. Child in the greater Miami County area will care for children birth through fifth meet from 6-7:30 p.m. on the first and grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus build- third Tuesday evenings at the Generations of Life Center, second ing. For more information, call 667floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is 1069, Ext. 21. no participation fee. Sessions are • Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers. Crafts, sharing at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua. Refreshments will be available. time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal.

Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

• Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., MONDAY Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more • Dollar menu night will be from 6- information.

• A Fibromyalgia Support group 8 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Dollar menu items include hamburger will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. the first Tuesday at the Troy First United sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled Methodist Church, 110 W. Franklin cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for St., Troy, in Room 313. Enter from south parking lot. The support group $1 each. is free. For more information, contact • Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 Aimee Shannon at 552-7634.

• The Miami Shelby Chapter of the p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Barbershop Harmony Society will Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call Greene St., Piqua. All men interested 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more informore information and programs. mation, call 778-1586 or visit the • AA, Big Book discussion meetgroup’s Web site at www.melodymening will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity chorus.org.

Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset • Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. discussion is open to the public.

Video/small group class designed to • AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meet- help separated or divorced people. ing (attendees must have a desire to For more information, call 335-8814.

• An adoption support group for stop drinking) will be at Troy View adoptees and birthmothers will meet Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton on the first Tuesday of each month.

Road, Troy.

Call Pam at 335-6641 for time and • AA, There Is A Solution Group location. will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg • The Mental Health Association of United Methodist Church, County Miami County will meet at 4 p.m. on Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants the first Tuesday in the conference must have a desire to stop drinking). room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder • AA, West Milton open discusCenter, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the sion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 west entrance to the fourth floor.

• AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. accessible.

• AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 • 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. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. • AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 meeting is open. A beginner’s meetStep Room at Trinity Episcopal ing begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion is open.

Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physi- Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discal, verbal and emotional violence cussion (participants must have a toward family members and other desire to stop drinking). persons, how to express feelings, • Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney how to communicate instead of conGroup, Presbyterian Church, corner fronting and how to act nonviolently North and Miami streets, Sidney. with stress and anger issues.

• AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the • Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy.

Open discussion.

Other days and times available. For • An Intermediate Pilates class will more information, call 339-2699. be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 • TOPS (Take Off Pounds 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran information, call Tipp-Monroe Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City.

Community Services at 667-8631 or New members welcome. For more Celeste at 669-2441. information, call 335-9721.

• Women’s Anger/Rage Group will • Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restau- meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at the rant. Guests welcome. For more infor- Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. mation, call 478-1401.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal • Weight Watchers, Westminster and emotional violence toward family Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 members and other persons, how to and meeting at 5:30 p.m.

• Parenting Education Groups will express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. to act nonviolently with stress and Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and age- anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. appropriate ways to parent children.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Call 339-6761 for more information.

Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity There is no charge for this program.

Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Troy. This is an open discussion.

Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the • Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life St., Troy, use back door.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion.

TODAY

• Public bingo, license No. 010528, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Instant tickets also will be available.

• Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and concessions will be available.

Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams.

For more information, call 543-9959.

• DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women.

For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 335-8397.

• 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 • The Troy High School class of 1962 will meet at 1 p.m. every second Wednesday at Marion’s Piazza, 1270 Experiment Farm Road, Troy. All classmates and spouses are invited.

For more information, call Sharon Mathes at 335-1696 or Esther Jackson at 339-1526.

• 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 56:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48. The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $6 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s.

• The Town and Country Grandmothers No. 329 meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Wednesday at the AMVETS Post on LeFevre Road, Troy.

• The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989.

• The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564.

• The Toastmasters will meet every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at American Honda to develop to help participants practice their speaking skills in a comfortable environment.

Contact Eric Lutz at 332-3285 for more information.

• AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m. Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m. Monday night and is wheelchair accessible.

• AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open.

• AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs.

• Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues.

Call 339-6761 for more information.

• A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from partner violence is offered. There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 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.

• 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 Tipp-Monroe 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 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 5702688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465.

• The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 332-0894 for more information.

• Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford.

• Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082.

FRIDAY

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• A “Late Night Knit” meeting will be from 7-10 p.m. on the first and third Friday 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 Tri-County Suicide Prevention Coalition will meet at 9 a.m. the second Friday in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the west entrance to the fourth floor.

• AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. The discussion is open.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 S. 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 9-10 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City.

For more information, call TippMonroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 667-2441.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Brethren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191.

• A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6. For more information, call 640-3015 or visit www.groupia.org.

• Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday.

Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants THURSDAY may bring instruments and join in. A small donation is requested at the • The Upper Valley Medical Center door. For more information or direcMom and Baby Get Together group tions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624. will meet from 9:30-11 a.m. on Thursdays at the Farm House, locatSATURDAY ed northwest of the main hospital entrance and next to the red barn on • The Miami County Farmers the UVMC campus. The meeting is Market will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 facilitated by the lactation department. p.m. behind Friendly’s restaurant.

The group offers the opportunity to • The West Milton Church of the meet with other moms, share about Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., West being a new mother and to learn Milton, will offer a free clothes closet more about breastfeeding and the baby. For more information, call (937) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday. Clothes are given to those 440-4906. in need free of charge at this time.

• Deep water aerobics will be For more information, call (937) 698offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. 4395.

• Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information St., Church of the Brethren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call and programs.

(800) 374-9191.

• The Generations of Life Center • Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restau- are offered at 8:30 p.m. at rants on the second Thursday of each Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25month at 11:30 a.m. Locations vary, A, Tipp City. so interested parties can call the • AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at office at 573-2100 for details. This is a 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran social event for grieving adults who Church, corner of Washington Road do not wish to dine out alone. and State Route 41. The meeting is Attendees order from the menu. closed (members must have a desire • An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., to stop drinking).

• AA, Troy Winners Group will 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Parents are invited to attend the meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support 1550 Henley Road, Troy, for discusgroup from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open dis- sion. The meeting is open.

• AA, Troy Beginners Group meets cussion. at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the • Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at differ- Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 ent locations in the county. The lunch- Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting. eons are casual dining experience • Weight Watchers, Westminster that allows adults to come together Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 for food and fellowship. Call the a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m.

Generations of Live Center at 335• Pilates for Beginners 5191.

• Tipp City Seniors gather to play (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 cards prior to lunch every Thursday at 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe 10 a.m. at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

Community Services at 667-8631 or At noon will be a carry-in lunch and Celeste at 669-2441. participants should bring a covered • Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday dish and table service. On the third Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Thursday, Senior Independence Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney. offers blood pressure and blood • Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30sugar testing before lunch. For more 6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, information, call 667-8865. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, • Best is Yet to Come open AA 6759 S. County Road 25-A. meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal • The Next Step, a worship celeChurch, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. bration for people on the road to • AA, Tri-City Group meeting will take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the cafe- recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. teria of the former Dettmer Hospital.

County Road 25-A. The lead meeting is open. For more • Baseball bingo will be offered information, call 335-9079. from 7 p.m. until games are complete • AA, Spirituality Group will meet at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy. The discussion is open. Piqua. Refreshments will be available.

Proceeds help the youth baseball • Health Partners Free Clinic will offer a free clinic on Thursday night at organization, a nonprofit.

• The Tipp City Seniors eat out at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road 25-A, area restaurants (sign up at the cenTroy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 ter) at 4:30 p.m. Card cames will be p.m. No appointment is necessary. offered at the center for a $2 donaThe clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer patients to tion.

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BOOK REVIEW SUNDAY CROSSWORD

Sizemore book details his battle with drugs

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER AP Book Reviewer “By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There,” (Atria Books), by Tom Sizemore, with Anna David: The cover photo of Tom Sizemore’s autobiography, “By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There,” is a perfect introduction for what’s to come.

The 51-year-old actor stands looking up at the camera, instantly recognizable because of his work portraying tough-guy characters in such memorable 1990s films as “Saving Private Ryan,” ”Heat” and “Natural Born Killers.”

His face, though, looks worn, and his eyes are those of a man who’s been to hell and back.

And that’s exactly what his book details Sizemore’s ascent to the height of cinema, working for the Steven Spielbergs and with the Robert De Niros of the world and his drug-fueled descent that left him imprisoned and out of options.

“I was a guy who’d come from very little and risen to the top,” writes Sizemore, who was born and raised in hardscrabble Detroit. “I’d had the multimillion-dollar house, the Porsche, the restaurant I partially owned with Robert De Niro.

“And now I had absolutely nothing.”

“By Some Miracle” the title is taken from a line uttered by his “Saving Private Ryan” character, Sgt. Mike Horvath is a painfully honest look at a man, who, by his own admission, had become a “spoiled movie star” and an “arrogant fool” who at his lowest point was “a hope-todie addict.”

Sizemore recounts his friendships with Hollywood’s elite Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr. and De Niro among them and his dalliances with actresses Edie Falco, Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis.

It was during Sizemore’s tabloid romance with former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss that his life truly fell apart. He was convicted in 2003 of harassing, annoying and physically abusing Fleiss. While Sizemore admits in the book to being “immature” and says he regrets may of his actions, he denies striking Fleiss.

Readers interested in a behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood’s machinations will love Sizemore’s book, but it’s not for everyone.

It’s written in a plain, sometimes coarse prose befitting some of the hardboiled characters Sizemore brought to life on screen.

And the subject matter can at times be difficult to stomach sex tapes, copious amounts of drug taking, etc.

But in many ways, it’s a story of redemption of a man who now is trying to regain a small measure of what he squandered.

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BOOK REVIEW

Novel traces fates of Paris families over centuries

BY MICHAEL HILL AP Book Reviewer “Paris: The Novel” (Doubleday), by Edward Rutherfurd: Paris has been both good and bad to the aristocratic de Cygne family over the centuries. While one generation was welcome at the nearby court of Versailles, another faced the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

Edward Rutherfurd’s latest historical novel tracks the de Cygnes and a few other families in Paris from 1261 to 1968 as the city evolves from a medieval outpost to world-class metropolis. His primary focus is on the cohort born later in the 19th century who grew up to witness the existential threat to Paris in two world wars. Aside from the noble de Cygnes, the book follows the merchant Blanchard family, the working-class Gascons and the lefty Le Sourd clan. Action jumps from their day to points in the

past. The fates of the families intersect over the centuries like lines on a Paris subway map.

The churches, gardens and back alleys of long-ago Paris are revealed through the characters’ eyes. And they bump into a few famous people along the way: Cardinal Richelieu plots away, Marc Chagall doodles on a tablecloth and Gustave Eiffel explains the engineering behind his tower.

Rutherfurd spends time up and down the social ladder in “Paris,” but he seems to prefer the chateau over the hovel. The wealthier characters tend to be more fully drawn. And with so many characters over so many centuries, some seem to merely exist to keep some plot thread moving or to show off some facet of the city.

Rutherfurd does provide good glimpses of Paris as it was, like the old Knights Templar fortress and a stumpy Eiffel Tower halfway finished. But since he’s

expository dialogue to do the work, like this father-son exchange from 1887: “Did you know that the original Louvre was just a small medieval fort guarding the river, in the corner of the present palace?” his father inquired casually.

“Yes,” Roland replied. “It was just outside the old city wall of King Philippe Auguste.”

Sometimes, the book seems burdened by the weight of all its scenes and subplots.

Rutherfurd takes it up a notch in the last part of the book, which is set in occupied Paris during World War II. In this long, climactic section, Rutherfurd succeeds best at AP PHOTO/DOUBLEDAY describing not just the buildings This book cover image released and gardens of Paris, but also

by Doubleday shows “Paris,” by the actual mood of the city under Edward Rutherfurd.

Nazi rule. Some of the characters respond heroically, another cynitime jumping, the author has to cally, leading to a familial reckredraw Paris again and again. oning that is both tense and He sometimes leans heavily on enjoyable to read.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

ENGAGEMENT

Boyd, Schreiner to wed in June TROY — The engagement of Adrienne Marie Boyd and Andrew Christopher Schreiner is announced by her parents, William and Kelly Boyd of Troy. Peter and Patricia Schreiner of Montgomery, Ala., formerly of Troy, are parents of the groom-to-be.

The bride-elect is a 2005 graduate of Troy High School, a 2007 graduate of the University of Akron with a bachelor’s degee in accountancy; and a 2011 graduate of Bluffton University with a master’s degree in business administration. She works at Emerson Climate Technologies as general accounting financial supervisor.

Her fiance is a 2004 graduate of Troy High School, a 2008 graduate of Case Western Reserve University with a bache-

lor’s degree in biology and chemistry, and a 2013 graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He will start a Case Western Reserve University Metro Health Internship in July 2013 and then Diagnostic Radiology Residency at the Cleveland Clinic in July 2014.

The wedding is planned for June 5, 2013, at the Outerbanks, N.C.

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Easy treats to make for Mom

BY JANET K. KEELER Tampa Bay Times The sweetest person you know deserves something equally sugary on Sunday, May 12.

That would be your mother and the occasion is Mother’s Day. A luxurious brunch and a vase full of tulips are perfectly acceptable, and so is breakfast in bed, especially when big hands help little hands and someone (not her!) cleans the kitchen.

But maybe cooking up a storm isn’t your bag and the wallet is a bit slim this year.

Still, that IOU idea, just like a pile of dirty dishes, will not get you in her good graces. More like hot water.

So what to serve the day’s reigning queen?

We’ve put together simple ideas for sweet somethings for Mom that run the gamut from chocolate delights to fruity concoctions. First, you need to figure out what her passion is.

Does she want something healthy before a super-long run? Does chocolate help her get through the day?

Maybe it’s a juicy mango or another tropical fruit that

sets her heart (and taste buds) aflutter.

Make a couple of treats and present them to her on a silver platter. Or a fancy paper plate, which doesn’t need to be polished or cleaned. Leave the kitchen the way you found it … or maybe in better shape.

It is her day, after all.

1. Sweet Tarts Thaw a package of frozen phyllo tart shells.

Fill with lemon curd (found in the jams-and-jellies aisle) and top with fresh berries.

2. Tropical Sundae Load a tall, pretty glass alternately with pineapple chunks, chopped toasted macadamia nuts and vanilla ice cream. Top with whipped cream and toasted coconut.

3. Decadent Dip Wash and trim ripe strawberries and offer them with a dip made of mascarpone or cream cheese mixed with honey.

4. Tiptop Topper Pile frozen waffles with chocolate whipped cream, chocolate shavings and raspberries. Buy chocolate whipped cream or make your own by sifting 1/2 cup

confectioners’ sugar and 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa together on wax paper.

While whipping 2 cups heavy cream, add sugarcocoa mixture. Whip until stiff peaks form, about 4 minutes.

5. Chocolate and Cherries Mix well 2/3 cup dried cherries, 2/3 cup bittersweet chocolate chips and 1 tube of refrigerated sugarcookie dough. Roll into 1tablespoon balls; place balls about 2 inches apart on cooking sheets lined with parchment paper. This will result in flat, 2-inch cookies. Bake for about 12 minutes in a preheated 350degree oven. Cool on wire racks.

6. Easy Turtles Place 15 square, waffle pretzels on a microwavable plate. Top each with an unwrapped caramel-filled Hershey’s Kiss and zap on high for 20 seconds. Before chocolate melts, press a pecan half into caramel. Let turtles cool on racks and store in airtight container or in fridge if chocolate needs to be set.

7. Ice-Cream Sandwiches

Sandwich Mom’s favorite ice cream between two of her favorite cookies.

For extra points, roll sides in coconut, chopped nuts or sprinkles.

8. Haystacks In a glass bowl, partially melt 6 ounces of semisweet chocolate chips in a microwave on medium heat.

Stir to melt completely and add a 3-ounce can of chowmein noodles. Stir well and drop small clusters on a baking sheet covered with wax or parchment paper. If she’s a peanut lover, add some to the chocolate/noodle mixture before shaping clusters.

9. Healthy Parfait Layer vanilla yogurt, berries and granola in a tall, fluted glass. Top with sunflower seeds.

10. Twix Shake Chop 1 cup of mini-Twix bars in a food processor.

They are easier to chop if they are partially frozen.

Add 2 cups (1 pint) vanilla ice cream and 1/2 cup chocolate syrup and process until blended. Add an additional 1/4 cup milk for a thinner shake. This makes enough for two.

Maybe Mom will share.

PUBLIC RECORDS: MARRIAGE LICENSES Benjamin David Yaney, 52, of 810 Manier Ave., Piqua, to Constance Anne Schiffer, 45, of same address.

Casey Joe Spurgeo, 29, of 430 Stichter St., Bradford, to Danielle Maria Thompson, 26, of same address.

Reuben John Angle, 39, of 9864 Horseshoe Bend Road, Ludlow Falls, to NaTasha Lynn Blair, 29, of same address.

Jacob Greer Wallace, 26, of 1360 W. Main St., Apt. 2, Tipp City, to Holly Christine Shepard, 30, of same address.

Cristopher Lee Dunlap, 27, of 1580 Cheshire Road, Apt. 4B, Troy, to Katherine Elizabeth Cooney, 26, of same address.

Jerimy Christopher Carico, 28, of 502 Virginia Ave., Troy, to

Jennifer Kay Hanvey, 29, of same address.

Justin Bryce Dunn Sr., 29, of 617 N. College St., Piqua, to Amanda Sue Pierce-Cox, 34, of same address.

Ryan Mirey Campbell, 28, of 1265 N. Portage Ave., Palatine, Ill., to Emily Louise Mercer, 29, of same address.

Michael James Hess, 37, of 908 W. Race St., Troy, to Angela Faye Sizemore, 27, of 1401 Trade Square West, Troy.

Darrell Frederick Lochtefeld, 36, of 5135 E. State Route 571, Tipp City, to Diane Denise Hornyak, 41, of 477 Mayfield Square West, Troy.

Zachary Steven Spoon, 23, of 206 S. Elm St., West Carrollton, to Rachel Leah

Hooper, 24, of 170 W. Evanston Rd., Tipp City.

William Kennard Bailey, 27, of 618 Miami St., Piqua, to Janet Kay Hart, 23, of same address.

Douglas Michael Kerrigan, 32, of 9983 N. County Road 25A, Piqua, to Tammy Kay Bair, 44, of same address.

Erick Robin Smith, 37, of 400 N. Parkway Drive, Piqua, to Ingrid Jolene Harper, 35, of same address.

Jason Clay Bramlette, 40, of 224 Manning St., Piqua, to Tiffany Marie Neves, 19, of same address.

Robert David Young, 47, of 1107 Nicklin Ave., Piqua, to Diane Louise Cassara, 45, of same address.

Andrew Michael Haney, 25, of 714 Willard St., Piqua, to Brook Leigh Cheney, 25, of same address.

John Dale Schwabenland, 58, of 927 W. High St., Piqua, to Michele Marie Liebherr, 46, of same address.

Justin Donald Eldridge, 20, of 611-A W. Walnut St., Tipp City, to Kaitlynn Ariana Yvonne Preston, 18, of 105 Cedar Drive, West Milton.

Dale Eugene Buckner Jr., 35, of 7565 W. State Route 571, Lot 69, West Milton, to Autum Johnel McGuffie, 36, of same address.

Alexander Clark Lyon, 25, of 5369 Cristo Drive NE, Rockford, Mich., to Maggie Louise Oda, 24, of 165 Tamworth Road, Troy.

Corey Michael Sprankle, 25, of 8680 Covington-Gettysburg, Covington, to Shannon Patricia Rench, 25, of same address.

Jason Eli Hansen, 37, of 2565 Ginghamsburg-Frederick Road, Tipp City, to Elizabeth Victoria Guenther, 28, of same address.

Michael David Malone III, 22, of 505 Crescent Drive, Apt. 3D, Troy, to Kathleen Cockrell, 26, of same address.

Stanley Terrell Bullock, 46, of 708 Covington Ave., Piqua, to Kelly Lynn Sutton, 41, of same address.

Travis Allen Reynolds, 21, of 1315 Covington Ave., Piqua, to Brittany Leigh Anderson, 20, of same address.

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Rate on 15-year loan hits record 2.56 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The average U.S. rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage fell to a new record low last week, and the rate on the 30-year fixed loan declined. Cheaper mortgages have encouraged more home-buying and refinancing.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for the 15-year fixed mortgage slipped to 2.56 percent. That’s the lowest on records dating to 1991.

It fell from 2.61 percent last week, the previous record.

The rate on the 30-year loan declined to 3.35 percent from 3.40 percent last week. That’s near the average rate of 3.31 percent reached in November, the lowest on records dating back to 1971.

Low mortgage rates have helped sustain a housing recovery that began last year. Home sales and construction are up from a year ago, and prices are rising in most markets.

The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes rose in March to the highest level in three years, the National Association of Realtors said earlier this week.

And home prices rose 9.3 percent in February compared with a year earlier, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index. That’s the biggest annual gain in nearly seven years.

Still, prices are surging because more buyers have fewer homes to bid on. And sales are rising in some markets hit hardest by the housing crisis because investors are scooping up homes before prices rise further.

Mortgage rates are falling because they tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield fell to 1.63 percent on Thursday the lowest this year.

The yield declines when demand for Treasurys increases. The Federal Reserve has been buying Treasury bonds since the fall. And in recent weeks, concerns that economic growth is slowing in the U.S. and abroad has led investors to shift money into safer assets, like Treasurys, and away from stocks.

BY MARY CAROL GARRITY Scripps Howard News Service When you hear the term “neutral decor,” do you envision a tan-on-tan-ontan room? If so, you are in for a fun surprise. A space done in neutrals can be much more creative and exciting than just layers of solids so staid they’re almost asleep. The secret is to use a few colors and patterns that play well in the sandbox with everyone else, yet are full of the kind of personality you need to give decor distinctive character.

To me, a neutral is any solid color or pattern that’s tone-on-tone or two-colored that looks good with just about everything. I recommend starting with a palette of neutrals you won’t grow tired of and can easily update. Here are four of my favorite out-ofthe-box neutrals.

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REAL ESTATE WATCH

Five housing trends for spring

BY POLYANA DA COSTA pose a challenge for firsttime homebuyers. bankrate.com “Multiple offers seem to be the norm these days,” Homeowners who endured years of declining says Patty Da Silva, owner home values will discover of Green Realty Properties in Davie, Fla. She says she that the game has changed in their favor this recently represented a seller who received more spring. Low mortgage than 15 offers in one rates are attracting more buyers. And the inventory weekend for a house in of homes for sale is shrink- Cooper City, Fla. Homeowners who are ing, giving sellers less competition and more con- behind on their mortgages may get a hassle-free trol of the situation.

Here are five additional opportunity to reduce housing trends this spring: their monthly payments.

The Federal Housing If you plan to buy a Finance Agency will home this spring, expect competition. Demand from require mortgage servicers to offer a streamlined homebuyers is growing modification program to faster than the supply of borrowers with loans homes for sale, according to data from the National owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Association of Realtors.

“It’s creating a little bit Mac, starting in July. The offers will be sent to homeof a shortage and a mismatch between supply and owners who are at least 90 demand,” says Jed Smith, days behind on their loans but no more than two managing director of years behind. To qualify, quantitative research for the National Association of borrowers must owe at least 80 percent of the Realtors. home’s value.

Buyers are encounterThe modification ing bidding wars in many parts of the country, Smith • See WATCH on C2 says. Competing offers

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A space done in neutrals can be much more creative and exciting than just layers of solids so staid they’re almost asleep. think of prints that replicate the coat patterns of wild animals, with all their power and energy, as neutrals, especially when they are re-created in subtle ways, like black and white or cream and tan.

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Count on one of the nation’s leading retail mortgage lenders for the exclusive programs and personal service you need to help meet your homeownership goals.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Jason Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer Preston, one lot, $49,900. & Ulrich Co. L.P.A. attorney in fact, Carol Gaston, John Gaston, Fannie Mae a.k.a Federal National attorney in fact to Elaine Chambers, Mortgage Association to David Lonny Chambers, one lot, Hale, Debra Hale, one lot, $77,900. $168,000.

Bruce Land, Cherie Land to Alan James Evans to Connie Hess, Kappers, a part lot, $54,000.

Ty Hess, one lot, $0.

Fannie Mae a.k.a Federal Nicholas Manson to David National Mortgage Association, McMaken, one lot, one part lot, Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss, $60,100. attorney in fact to Robert R. David Bollinger, Susan Bollinger Beckwith Jr., one lot, $109,000. to Jonathan McGraw, one lot, Niraj Varia, Sapna Varia to Mary $210,000.

Berger, one lot, $168,000.

Jodi McGraw, Jonathan McGraw UpNorth Homes Inc. to Elizabeth to Shawn Miller, Vanessa Miller, one Martin, one lot, $177,100. lot, $165,000.

McGovern-Willoughby Homes Donald Staley to Bank One, Ltd. to Miami Valley In-Ovations, N.A., J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., one lot, $148,500. successor trustee, one lot, $39,900.

Keystone Land Development Inc. David McLain, Terry McLain to to Katie Coning, Landon Coning, Estate of Carol Jean Petry, Steven one lot, $39,900.

Geise, administrator, one lot, $0.

Board of Trustees of the Troy Timothy Keister to Shanelle Miami County Public Library to Overholser, two lots, $0.

Nijanam LLC, one lot, $0.

Christopher Bridges, Lora TIPP CITY Sotzing a.k.a. Lora Bridges to Christopher Bridges, Lora Bridges, D.L. George Johnson, Rebecca apart lot, $0.

A. Johnson, power of attorney, Constance Bretland, trustee, Reogene Johnson to Sue Ewald, Raymond Bretland, trustee, two part lots, $38,500.

Bretland Family Revocable Trust to Vance Vair to Shelly Vair, one lot, Sharon Ann Stewart, one lot, $0. $53,200.

Willis Zunke to Willis E. Zunke MPC Building LLC to P & C Irrevocable Trust, Alan T. Zunke, Ventures LLC, a part lot, $170,000. trustee, one lot, $0.

Drucilla Bostic, Glenn Bostic to Jeffery Varvel, Vicki Varvel to Jeffery Coats, Cheryl Dennison, Fredrick Gillenwater, Sarah one lot, $155,000.

Gillenwater, two part lots, $169,00.

Stephanie Gallimore to Michael Carol Borowski, Clifford Gallimore, two lots, $0.

Borowski to Carol Borowski, trustee, Steven Heitbrink, Wendy Carol Borowski Revocable Living Heitbrink to Steven Heitbrink, Trust, one lot, $0.

Wendy Heitbrink, one lot, $0.

John Schneider, Lynne Schneider to Christian Lee, Lindsey PIQUA Lee, one lot, $297,000.

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Michael Partin, Rebecca Jean Partin Wright, 0.81 acres, $0.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Frances McIntosh, one lot, $0.

Elaine Cremeans, Rodney Cremeans, Clifford Willhoff, Franklin Willhoff, Nicole Willhoff, Tony Willhoff to Marie Schwieterman, Matthew Schwieterman, 5.167 acres, $154,900.

Larry R. Miller and Pauline Miller Revocable Trust Agreement, Larry Miller, trustee, Pauline Miller, trustee, two lots, $0.

Larry Miller, Pauline Miller to Allen Miller, Amy Miller, Jeff Miller, Thomas Miller, two lots, $0.

CASSTOWN Jason Taylor, Julie Ann Taylor to Jeffery Cron, Jodi Cron, three lots, $102,000.

HUBER HEIGHTS Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC., to NVR Inc., one lot, $30,500.

Carriage Trails at the Heights LLC, Dec Land Co. I LLC., to NVR Inc., one lot, $30,500.

Richard Wallace to Martin Johnson, Sue Johnson, one lot, $177,900.

CONCORD TWP.

PLEASANT HILL Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Ofori & Association PC to Shirley Rasor, two part lots, $0.

COVINGTON Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Daniel White, Kami White, one lot, $0.

LAURA Covington Savings and Loan Association to Beverly Mohler, Steven Mohler, one lot, $38,500.

WEST MILTON Jennifer McGuffey, Matthew McGuffey to Linda Roth, one lot, $90,000.

John Grosella, Nancy Grosella to Dianna Beard, Kenneth Beard, one lot, $84,900.

BETHEL TWP.

FLETCHER Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Bowanna Albers, Daniel Albers, one lot, $0.

Karen Rudsell, Richard Rudsell Heather Hammock, Eric Willis, to Jennifer Lee-Brown, two lots, $0.

Heather Willis to Eric Willis, Heather Martin Hardman to Brian Willis, one lot, $0.

Overhosler, two lots, $70,000.

Trust, Norma Jean Snyder Declaration of Trust, Norma Jean Snyder, successor trustee, to Marilyn Angle, Reynold Angle, 30.063 acres, 41.314 acres, $321,200.

Diane Yount, Gregory Yount to Diane Yount, Gregory Yount, one lot, $0.

MONROE TWP. Brody Danner, co-trustee, Jason Danner, co-trustee, William Danner, co-trustee, Danner family Irrevocable Trust Agreement to Gary Danner, Susan Danner, one lot, $0.

PNC Bank, N.A., to Department of Housing and Urban Development, one lot, $0.

Easaw Thomas, Susy Thomas to Joshua Thomas, one lot, $0.

Security Lending LTD., SL Man Inc., General Partner to Hampton Group LLC, four lots, $1,033,000.

Chandrakant Patel, Dharmendra Patel, attorney in fact, Manjulaben Patel, Pritiben Patel, Rinal Patel, Sunilbhai Patel to Sycamore Ltd., one lot, $171,000.

Kristy McKibbin, Mark McKibbin STAUNTON TWP. to Kristy McKibbin, Mark McKibbin, one lot, $0.

Mayumi Kiefer, Steven Kiefer, David Harshbarger, Pamela Mayumi Robinson to Mayumi Kiefer, Harshbarger to David Harshbarger, Steven Kiefer, one lot, $0.

1.095 acres, $0.

Estate of Janet Ann Mouch, John E. Fulker, executor to JLE UNION TWP. Investments LLC, a part lot, $190,000.

Amy Kakos, Michael Kakos to Ashlie Mays, 2.4980 acres, 1.2490 ELIZABETH TWP. acres, $180,000.

Billy Atherton, Debra Atherton to Linda Dieperink, Martinus Wendy Houghton, 2.2783 acres, Dieperink, Linda Weatherhead to $312,000.

Jack Walker, Sandra Walker, 1.00 Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal acre, $0 National Mortgage Association, Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss, attorNEWTON TWP. ney in fact to Lacey Gehron, 1.0 acre, $73,900.

Paul Anderson, Sylvia Anderson to Paul Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, WASHINGTON TWP. 5.00 acres, $0.

NEWBERRY TWP. Estate of James Lloyd Partin to Linda Sue Partin Geyler, Mary Ann Partin Glantz, Eric Scott Partin, Village of Bradford, Ohio, to Gary Wayne Partin, James Brian Bradford DOHP VIII LLC, 0.988 Partin, Melissa Marie Partin, acres, $0.

James M. Snyder Declaration of Rebecca Jean Wright Partin, Robert

Linda Larger, Patrick Larger to Heather Redinbo, Nickolas Redinbo, one lot, $149,000.

MidFirst bank to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1.119 acres, $0.

Watch there are potential pitfalls ahead. Borrowers seeking low-payment mortgages will be charged for mortgage insurance for the life of their loans if they don’t get their Federal Housing Administration mortgages

by June 2.

The FHA requires borrowers to pay for mortgage insurance on FHA loans until the balance reaches 78 percent of the original value of the home.

■ CONTINUED FROM D1 reduces the loan’s interest rate and extends the loan term to 40 years.

Borrowers won’t be required to submit any financial documentation to the lender to get approval. The loan modification becomes permanent after three payments are made during the three-month trial period.

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For borrowers who plan to stay in their homes for less than 10

years, the new rules won’t make that much of a difference, says Cameron Findlay, chief economist at Discover Home Loans.

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Findlay says. “They can always refinance later — but who knows where rates are going to be 10 years from now?”

Cash-out refinances and home equity loans, which were popular during the housing boom, are slowly returning, along with the temptation to tap into equity.

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Another client is considering a cash-out refinance to pay off credit card debt.

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Basement reno caters to sports-loving family

BY CANDICE OLSON Scripps Howard News Service Elana and David have three 20-something kids with very different needs. Their eldest, Laurence, is in a wheelchair, and he needs space and special consideration when it comes to interior design. The other two children are off at college, but come home often to visit. The basement rec room should be a fun place for this sports-loving family to gather, but instead the room was as cold as the unused fireplace. A mishmash of furniture and a lack of purpose translated into an abandoned and lonely space.

I came up with a plan that scored with everyone — sort of a ”locker room luxe” design that had the home team cheering.

We ran into a couple of hiccups during the demolition — specifically, the uneven cement floor and the water damage we found around the fireplace. Once we corrected those problems, though, it was full speed ahead.

My design called for the creation of two distinct zones.

The first is a TV zone, with a comfortable couch upholstered in a durable and spill-resistant indigo fabric. The couch anchors this space, and is placed directly opposite the big-screen television, which is flanked with custom adjustable shelving units.

An oh-so-comfortable brown leather lounger with matching ottoman takes up residence between the TV and the new gas fireplace, still allowing plenty of room for Laurence to roll in and maneuver around.

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We reclaimed this rec room and created a sports haven that is a little more sophisticated than your typical man cave.

A simple wooden-topped coffee table with sturdy legs and a sports-themed side table will accommodate lots of game-day snacks. Recessed lighting in the ceiling gives overall illumination, while two sconces flank the couch.

A beautiful nickel pendant lamp hangs over the other zone, a games-table-slashconversation-nook with a couple of very comfy, creamy club chairs and a special adjustable table that raises enough to accommo-

date the arms of Laurence’s wheelchair. The wall behind the games table was covered with a bold, graphic-patterned grasscloth wall covering that has just enough texture and dimension to catch the light cast down from the recessed ceiling fixtures.

The wall covering provides a tasteful touch that the gals love.

And as for the accessories, they are all about the guys and their sports! Trophies, cups and hockey pucks all found their way into this space, but with a luxurious

twist. The result is a room where the family will be as comfortable sharing a pizza during a game as it will be inviting friends in for a glass of wine and a chat.

Speaking of beverages, Laurence requested a drinks dispenser in the rec room, so we installed a bar fridge in a custom built-in counter, nicely tucked away, and used blackboard paint above it to create a surface that is perfect for scorekeeping. This was custom framed with salvaged hockey sticks, which were

sanded down for a little rustic twist.

I can’t forget to mention the floor. Originally, I wanted to install a durable hardwood floor that would be easy for Laurence to navigate, while strong enough to resist scuffs from the wheelchair. But the basement floor wasn’t totally level, making it impossible to install wood. So we opted instead for vinyl flooring with a very realistic woodenplank look. It’s durable and flexible, and will stand up to many

Decor ■ CONTINUED FROM C1 lots of choices from the color wheel and it adds striking texture.

Stripes Whether they are subtle or strong, stripes are another unexpected neutral. I am also fond of ticking and use it over and over again in my home. There is something so perfect about this petite stripe. From a distance it looks like a solid, but the closer you get the more it

comes alive. It never steals attention from the main attraction you pair it with, yet it’s definitely not a snoozer wallflower.

Chevron stripes are electric yet they, too, are a neutral in my book. Surprised?

When I redecorated my guest bedroom, I had a pillow made of a dark blue and light blue chevron stripe.

When tossed in with the bedding ensemble, it feels like a solid, blending in perfectly with the mix of colors

and patterns in a backup role.

Checks and plaids Plaid and check fabrics deliver the best of both worlds: They are neutrals that give you a wonderful blank canvass to work with, yet they are intriguing enough to infuse the furniture with singular character. Windowpane plaids are sensational because the field is mostly solid but is broken up with a few threads in interesting col-

ors you can bring out in accent pillows.

Like ticking, small hound’s-tooth checks look solid from a distance, yet are full of intrigue when you see them close up.

Ratchet up the scale of the check, and the room gets more and more fun.

Strong solids None of us has any trouble thinking of solids as neutrals. But what about when the solids are superbright or bold? Do those

qualify? If they look great with lots of other colors and patterns, you bet they do!

Navy is one of my favorite solid neutrals. I can’t seem to get enough of this color, and through the years I’ve paired it with white, apple green, orange and coral.

Now, I’m loving it with red.

Teal is another solid that is stealing my heart because it seems to bring out the best in every color and pattern I toss at it, plus it’s just so darn fun all by itself.

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Look out your window and you will see one of Mother Nature’s favorite neutrals: green. That crazy girl mixes every shade of green together willy-nilly to create a palette that is vibrant and refreshing.

When Pantone picked emerald as the color of the year, I let out a cheer.

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Yards that go edible offer more than looks

BY JOE LAMP’L Scripps Howard News Service With the popularity of home vegetable gardening at an alltime high, the topic of edible landscaping has been sweeping the country the past few years.

As lot sizes shrink and more people migrate to urban environments, they turn to the only suitable place they have to grow their veggies — the front yard.

For years, I was party to the common misconception that the vegetable garden must go in back. This, of course, stems from the general assumption by many that food gardens are not known for their good looks.

True, left unkempt, they can grow quickly to take over whatever space they occupy, and then some. Most vegetable plants are annuals, living out their life in one season. In a matter of months, they go from lovely little beauties to gangly, gnarly beasts. That’s a slight exaggeration, but for many of you, it’s an image that resides in your head, recalled from personal experience.

But over the past couple of years, the notion of placing our food gardens front and center has been making headlines — mainly concentrating on the debate over digging up our lawns and replacing them with vegetables. In 2011, one Michigan woman was briefly threatened with substantial jail time — about 90 days — simply for having four raised-bed vegetable plots in her front yard.

The case made by the city of Oak Park was that her food garden did not meet the standards for “suitable live plant material.” Its interpretation of “suitable” was a nice grass yard with trees, bushes and flowers. The city eventually backed off.

I get the need to establish aesthetic standards of acceptability for the good of the neighbors and community, but four well-maintained, orderly vegetable beds should not draw such a reaction. Since then, a

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As lot sizes shrink and more people are migrating to urban environments, they’re turning to the only suitable place they have to grow their veggies — the front yard. wave of likeminded homeowners around the country have installed garden plots and raised beds in their front yards, too. Nearly all have the same reason: They want to grow their own food, and the front yard is their only consistently sunny spot in which to do so.

By applying the principles of traditional landscape design, but substituting edible plants into the mix, you can have a garden that has both form and function, especially with plant varieties available today - ones

that are bred specifically for compact size, improved disease resistance, ornamental appeal or all of the above.

My Chicago-area friend Shawna Coronado is one example. Her front-yard garden is filled with plants that are largely traditional food crops, such as tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, squash, beans and cucumbers.

They’re nicely arranged and mixed in with annual flowers, shrubs and other ornamental features. To the casual observer, this a lovely front-yard garden

and landscape. But for a particular neighbor in need, Shawna planted this edible garden in the only sunny space she had, in hopes of providing enough fresh produce to alleviate a significant part of a neighbor’s food budget. The plan was to provide the family with a steady supply of fresh produce through the season, and take enough strain off the grocery bill to help the friend’s family from losing its house. Not only were Shawna’s efforts successful in helping her neighbor remain a neighbor, but

the wood will swell and may twist or bow from its original shape. The wood windows in an older home are exposed to the Q: I recently purchased an extremes of humidity changes and can swell to the point that older home that sat all winthey will no longer open without ter without the water or the a great deal of effort. electricity on. Now that I’m Older-style windows that have trying to get things working a sash cord and counterweight again, I’m having trouble are so loose-fitting that they are with the older windows not not likely to be a problem. It’s opening, some sink faucets the wood windows that have a that have hot water but not cold, and doors that close on slide rail on either side of the their own right after they are sash that will become difficult to opened. Is this common? The open.

Over time, once the home is water thing really has me bugged because the water is occupied and is heated and cooled for comfort, the wood will turned all the way on under again shrink and the windows the sink.

A: When a home — old or new should operate freely. In the — sits empty and closed with no meantime, you can lubricate the side rails by rubbing the end of a heating or cooling, things begin to change in the structure of the wax candle or a bar of soap home. The wood framing was dry against each rail.

The doors close because the when the home was first occuwall where the door is hung is no pied, and over the years the moisture levels in the cells of the longer plumb. Try removing one of the hinge’s pins near the top of wood would have stabilized. the door, put the pin on a conWhen the wood starts to receive additional moisture from crete slab and tap it with a hammer to slightly bend it. Once the empty home’s environment,

reinstalled, the slight bend will give minor resistance to stop the door from self-closing.

When the water has been off for a long time, sediments build up inside the supply pipes and water heater. When the water is turned on, the sediment becomes loose and flows through the pipes to the faucet’s aerators or to a shut-off valve. The aerators can be cleaned by unscrewing the filter screens, washing the sediment out and reinstalling the aerators.

If you have hot water but no cold water, it is likely the sediment is trapped in the shut-off valve under the sink. The valve contains a threaded valve system with rubber washers that can be replaced. Shut off the water to the home, remove the cap nut of the valve and unscrew the threaded valve body. The washers are available at major home and hardware stores along with a complete threaded valve body.

shows and checked information on the Internet. Once I started my addition, a state inspector showed up and told me I had to have a permit. Is this true? I own the home and I didn’t ask for any inspections from the state.

Can they come on my property and stop my work?

A: A permit is required to ensure the public that the work being performed will be in line with state and local codes, and safe for the occupants of the home.

No, you do not have to allow anyone on your property, but the municipality has the authority to discontinue utility services to your property until you are in compliance with the codes.

The purpose of the permit is to ensure that the installation of the plumbing system is safe, healthy and will not affect your neighbors. Codes are set to minimum standards — and I would suspect since it is your own home you would want it to be above minimum standards.

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she also planted so wisely that no one else really knew this front-yard garden was comprised mostly of edibles. It was functional, “suitable” and, most importantly, sustaining, in ways far beyond what anyone knew.

And that’s a garden that’s far more beautiful than any strictly ornamental garden.

Joe Lamp’l, host and executive producer of “Growing a Greener World” on PBS, is an author and a paid spokesman for the Mulch and Soil Council.

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ture and foundation to prevent your home from falling down, for roofing to protect the home from the weather, for grading and drainage to keep water out of the foundation, for heating and cooling to ensure a comfortable, safe environment inside the home, for insulation to keep the energy use low and for electrical installation to prevent accidental shock and to prevent the home from burning because of a short or overload of the system.

So why wouldn’t you want someone in authority to check your work as it proceeds? It is expensive, unsafe and very difficult to make changes once a defect or fault is found after the work is completed. I would welcome the input from a local building authority.

Every job is different, and there is only so much you can learn from watching DIY shows, reading this column or from the library. The real-world experience of an inspector is invaluable.

There has been plenty of discussion about front doors — and how to make the outside part attractive and inviting to guests and passers-by. But little has been said about the inside of that door. Why not make it special and different, too?

Make the inside of your front door stand out by painting it a bold color.

Pick a color that works with your decor, or one that picks up a special color in the area of your door — such as one from the upholstery, or an interesting color in some artwork.

If you want to get really creative and your door has raised panels, you might consider painting just the panels a special color, or keep the panels neutral and give the rest of the

Make the inside of your front door stand out by painting it a bold color. Pick a color that works with your decor, or one that picks up a special color in the area of your door. door the color.

Then comes the foyer.

This is where guests get their first impression of your home. Make it special.

The entire foyer area could be painted a special color. If space permits, a plant of some sort should be used. If the space is narrow, choose a tall plant so you don’t crowd those who enter or leave through that area.

Then move on to other doors in the house.

Hallways that have several doors can be made interesting when you paint the hallway side of the doors in a bright color. That might be all you need. If the hallway is long, and there is a plain wall at the end, that wall should get attention — maybe with artwork, or

a grouping of mirrors.

Depending on the art or the mirrors, you might consider painting the wall behind a bold color, too.

Your front entrance and hallway would do well with an area rug. Yes, the rug should certainly have the color you’ve chosen for the door. If you can afford it, have a rug custom made to your specific colors and pattern of choice. If not, don’t worry because there are tons of rugs out there to choose from. You just have to do a little shopping.

Lighting is important in every room, including the entrance and the hallways.

An attractive chandelier at the entrance sets the tone for the house and illuminates the entrance to wel-

come guests. Be sure the chandelier has a dimmer switch so the light can match the mood. The hallway needs good lighting as well. Here you might be wise to bring in a lighting expert for ideas. A well-lit hallway is attractive and interesting.

Is your hallway extralong or extra-tall? If it’s extra-long, paint the wall at the end of the hall a dark color. The dark color will advance and give the impression of being close.

Is the hall ceiling high? A chair rail will help balance the look, and it could work even if the ceiling isn’t tall by adding character.

Mull over the possibilities and have fun with your choices.

Rosemary Sadez Friedmann, an interior designer in Naples, Fla., is author of “Mystery of Color.”

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KTH Parts Industries, Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts, located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening for an individual in our Equipment Support Group (ESG). KTH is a state-of-the-art robotic facility. The successful candidate will have the following: • Associate’s Degree in Electrical/Electronics or equivalent; • A working knowledge of PLC’s, robotics, and HMI controls; • Strong mechanical ability and knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, and automated systems; • Good working knowledge of computers and applications; • Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities; • Good mechanical abilities; • Good written and verbal communication skills; and • Experience in the related field KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and a team oriented manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates should send a resume to:

KTH Parts Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 940 St. Paris, OH 43072 Attn: Industrial Equipment Technician Recruiter or Email: kth.hr@kth.net KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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ENGINEERING ENGINEERING NEW NEW MODEL MODEL STAFF STAFF KTH Parts Industries, Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped 40038715 and welded auto parts located in St. Paris, Ohio, has an immediate opening for a member in our Engineering New Model Department. Job responsibility is to coordinate all activity related to New Model Development and Launch as well as mid model year design change activity. Job details include project management, trial event coordination, and constant communication with our Customer and Parent Company.

The successful candidate for this position should be a highly organized individual who can handle multiple projects as well as possess strong analytical skills and have excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Computer experience with Microsoft Office is required and Microsoft Project is preferred.

KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and team-oriented manufacturing environment. Qualified candidates should send a confidential resume including salary requirements to:

KTH Parts Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 940 St. Paris, OH 43072 Attn: Engineering New Model Recruiter KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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CROSSWORD ANSWERS Crown Equipment Corporation, a leading manufacturer of material handling equipment,

is currently seeking qualified candidates for the following positions at our New Bremen and Celina, OH locations.

Equipment Services Technician

Theater Lead Person

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PC Support Specialist - Temporary

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Ref # JDB6491 New Bremen, Ref # LJB002121 Celina

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Electrical / Plumbing Technician Ref # A005340 New Bremen, Ref # KAB006071 Celina

Crown offers an excellent compensation and benefits package including Health/Dental/Prescription Drug and Vision Plan, Flexible Benefits Plan, 401K Retirement Savings Plan, Life and Disability Benefits, Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Tuition Reimbursement, and much more!

For detailed information regarding these openings and to apply, please visit crown.jobs.

Select “Current Openings” and search by reference number above.

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ADMIN/ SUPPORT BD transportation is in need of a third shift admin and operations support person. Basic office, customer service, and driver support. Trucking experience not required but helpful.

Must have computer skills (Microsoft Office, etc.). Starting pay $10.00/hr. plus benefits.

Submit resume to BD transportation, Inc. P.O. Box 813 Piqua OH 45356 or call (937) 773-9280 Ext. 12 to leave a message.

NOTICE OF OPEN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION

The following examination for a position in the City of Troy, Classified Service, will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Troy Jr. High School cafeteria, 556 N. Adams St., Troy, Ohio.

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Qualifications: Completion of secondary education; good char40041471 acter background; demonstrable ability to perform physical labor; possession of a valid State of Ohio Commercial Driverʼs License or obtain and retain within 60 days of appointment.

Requirements: Pre-employment physical, including drug screening will be administered to certified applicants. In addition, the City may administer a job-related agility test, and/or a proficiency in driving test. As a condition of employment, employees must reside either in Miami County or in one of the following adjacent counties: Champaign, Clark, Darke, Montgomery, or Shelby.

Salary: 2013 salary is $17.10 per hour. This position carries a 130-working day probationary period.

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ESTATE AUCTIONS May 11, 2013, 9:00AM 40039828 Antiques-Collectibles-Furniture Household Goods-Tools-Guns

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650 N. Co. Rd. 25A Miami County Fair Ground, Troy, OH

HONDA SALES Voss Honda is currently seeking candidates for New and Used Vehicle Sales. We offer a competitive salary, full benefits including 401k, and the opportunity to grow with the area’s leading automotive organization. Automotive sales experience is preferred but we are willing to train the right individual. Please apply in person to Keith Bricker or Jay Haskell at: VOSS HONDA 155 S. GARBER DRIVE TIPP CITY, OHIO Equal Opportunity and Drug Free Workplace

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Darke County manufacturing company is seeking a Qualified Mechanical Technician for 3rd shift operations. This is a progressive, TS16949 certified, automotive supplier that lives lean manufacturing and J.I.T. production. Qualified candidate will perform constant evaluation, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs of production equipment in a maintenance team environment. 5 years minimum experience with mold machines mandatory.

Experience with robots and PLC’s is expected.

Send resume and salary requirements to: FPE HR Department 855 St. Rt. 121 New Madison, OH 45346 EOE

Furniture: Floral loveseat & sofa bed(2)matching recliners, lift chair, loveseat recliner, wing back chair, china cupboard, buffet, Maple table w/buffet,6 dining chairs, Duncan Fyfe drop leaf table w/hidden compartment & 7 chairs, Butcher block table, Blonde bedroom set, Lg. Oak Bed, Dressers, (6) end tables, Sm. cupboards, Bookshelves, desk & swivel chair, Computer table, glass shelf cabinet,(4) entertainment centers, Ornate room divider.

Antiques & Collectibles: Lg. Assort.(300)Comic books, Ertle toys, Marx train set, Dolls, promo cars, Fenton glass rooster, vases/hats, candle holders & more, Rookwood bookends, McCoy, Local Advertisement, Lg. Brass Horses, Horse bookends, Fireking nesting bowls, frosted hanging lamp, Carnival glass, Hummel Spice Rack, Bolivia clock, wood plane, Birdcage ,plate shelf, Walnut bookshelf, oak potty chair, walnut parlor table, sm. walnut table, Oak washstand, 1880's Walnut dresser, Silver items, Doorstops, Christmas bubble lights, cast iron toy stoves, Crystal vases, Walnut/Marble top dresser, Aladdin Lamp, Kellogg Oak wall phone, Lg. Round oak/claw foot table, Walnut bed & dresser, Ornate bed frame, wood school desk, Ladderback chair, walnut side chair, bentwood chair, cane bottom ladies rocker, wood frame mirrors, coat rack, Vin. Trunks, apple crate, wooden boxes, country cupboard, primitive cupboard, chalk board, Ad. Tin, kitchen scales, buttons, metal oil spouts, cast iron kettle, washbasin pitcher/bowl, ruby red, pfalzgraff, walnut drop leaf table, floor lamp, assort. glass paperweight collection, Coke items tins, hanging lamp, cards, ice bucket/glasses, clock, pen holder, radio, lunchbox, cookie jar, serving platters, bottles, table & chairs, Paintings lg. assort.(signed) some local Artist, Lawton Print signed, Horse sculpture (Auston Pro) Dressmaker's Form, Microscope, Vintage Troy Fire Alarm Box. Household Items: Blenders, Crockpot, Breadmaker, Deepfryer, Sets of knives, Flatware, Dishware, canister set, Dishes-syracuse china, homer laughlin, fireking, bavaria, Lg selection of candle holders, Vintage cookie cutters, Granite roasters, Floor lamps, table lamps, Linens, Longaberger baskets & Pottery, Singer portable sewing machine Tools: Battery charger, polisher, table saw, ladders, weed trimmer, workbench, cordless drill, hoes, shovels, rakes, extension cord, Craftsman riding mower, Elec. sanders, hand tools, lots of garden/yard tools.

Guns: Ruger No.1 Special Varminter w/scope, Weatherby Vanguard 30-06 w/scope, Cabella's Hawkins flintlock, Austin & Halleck .50 cal, Charles Daly 12-ga, Remington Model 5 .22 w/scope, Weatherby Patrician 12-ga,Ruger 10/22 carbine w/scope, Tula TOZ-122 (Russian).308 w/scope, Weatherby Mod PA-08 Upland 12 ga, Traditions Field 12 ga, Ruger Mod 77RS MKII .300 Win MAG w/scope, Rossi Wizard.22-250 w/scope, CZ 550 SafariMagnum.375 w/scope, Mauser M-98 w/bayonette, Browning A-Bolt Medallion.280 REM w/scope ,RW Arms Markarov 9x18mm, Cabella's 1858 Remington Pietta black powder .44 cal, Mosin-Nagant with holster, Smith & \Wesson Mod 19 .357 Combat Magnum 6" Nickle, rifle scopes. Gun Cabinet& related items.

Other Items of Interest: Patio Furniture: Wrought iron, wicker plant stand, (4)chairs, (1)rocker, (3)tables, (2)2x4 cushion chairs, floral ornate cushion sofa, bird bath, live animal trap, fishing poles & tackle, hot shooter basketball game, soft hot tub Auctioneers Comments: This a large (3) Estates Sale, this is only a partial list of items. There will be (2) rings going most of the day.

Vehicles: 1990 Geo Tracker (nice), 2003 Chevy Venture - 7 passenger Term of payment are cash or checks with proper ID no out of state checks.

This examination is being held to establish an eligibility list for an existing vacancy and possible future vacancies.

Persons having had military service may be eligible to obtain an additional 20% of their passing grade. Copy of Form DD-214 as proof of service and honorable discharge must be submitted with the application. Persons holding a CDL Class B or Class A may be eligible to obtain an additional 10% of their passing grade. Copy of Photo ID with current CDL Classification displayed as proof of licensure must be submitted with the application. Persons claiming veterans preference will not be eligible to receive CDL credit. A maximum 20% is allowable.

Blank forms for application may be obtained in the Human Resources Office at City Hall, 100 S. Market St., Troy, Ohio, or downloaded from our website at http://www.troyohio.gov. Completed applications including copies of a diploma and photo ID must be filed with the Human Resources Office no later than Friday, May 10, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Copies of diplomas, GED certificates, CDLʼs and/or DD214ʼs will not be accepted after that date.

The City of Troy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The City of Troy is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Any applicant requiring accommodation in order to take the exam must so notify the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission at 937-216-7805 no later than Friday, May 10, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.

By order of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Troy, Ohio.

Mary Lynne Mouser Secretary

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40039377 Due to pending retirement the Village of Versailles, Ohio is seeking qualified, professional candidates for the position of Fiscal Officer. The person appointed will report to the Mayor and will provide general administrative direction, shall perform the duties by law of the Village clerk and treasurer and any other duties consistent with the nature of the office that are provided by municipal order; performs related clerical and administrative duties, prepares and maintains records; prepares budget and issues payroll checks; handles finance and tax issues; maintains contract records and certifieds all funding; serves on various Village committees and attends all necessary meetings.

A complete job description is available by contacting the Village of Versailles Administrative Office at 937-526-3294 or www.versaillesohio.cc.

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We40037684 remember those who have passed away and are especially dear to us. On Monday, May 27, 2013, we will publish a special section devoted to those who are gone, but not forgotten.

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The Village of Versailles, Ohio is seeking qualified, professional candidates for the position of Income Tax/EMS Billing & Collections Administrator. The person appointed will report to the Fiscal Officer and will provide general administrative direction over income tax and emergency medical services (EMS) invoice and collection operations; receives, audits, and records tax return payments; and EMS invoices and payments; assists taxpayers; perform related clerical duties. A complete job description is available by contacting the Village of Versailles Administrative Office at 937-526-3294 or www.versaillesohio.cc.

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Qualifications are a high school diploma or general education degree (GED); any combination of education and/or income tax experience with office practice and procedures and bookkeeping; must have the ability to be bonded; and must possess a valid Ohio driver’s license.

Salary for the position is commensurate with experience.

Interested individuals are to submit a cover letter, resume and salary requirement by May 15, 2013 to Mary Ann Gump, Fiscal Officer, Village of Versailles, 177 North Center Street, P.O. Box 288, Versailles, Ohio 45380.

The Village of Versailles is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Name of Deceased:____________________ Date of Birth:_________________________

Date of Passing:_______________________ Number of verse selected :______________

Or write your own (20 words or less):______

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Only $16.50

To remember your loved one in this special way, submit a photo, this form and payment to:

Troy Daily News

John Doe

September 19, 1917 thru March 7, 2006 The memory of you will always be in our hearts!

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Qualifications are a secondary education or equivalent; two (2) years experience in administrative office practices and procedures in municipal government fiscal operations, or equivalent combination of training and/or experience; must meet the requirements to be bonded; and possess a valid Ohio driver’s license. Salary for the position is commensurate with experience.

In our hearts your memory lingers, sweetly tender, fond and true.

There is not a day, dear Mother/Father, that we do not think of you.

Thank you for loving and sharing, for giving and for caring.

God bless you and keep you, until we meet again.

Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure.

You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

Those we love we never lose, for always they will be, loved remembered, treasured, always in our memory.

It broke our hearts to lose you, but you did not go alone.

For part of us went with you, the day God called you home.

My heart still aches in sadness, my silent tears still flow.

For what it meant to lose you, no one will ever know.

Memory is a lovely lane, where hearts are ever true.

A lane I so often travel down, because it leads to you.

Oh how we wish he/she was here today, to see all the blessings we have.

Yet somehow you know that he/she is guiding us on our paths.

Tenderly we treasure the past with memories that will always last.

Remembering you on this day, comforted by so many memories.

In the hearts of those who loved you, you will always be there.

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever. .

Loved always, sadly missed.

Forever remembered, forever missed.

Suffer little children to come unto me.

Love always, Wife, Children, Family and Friends

or Piqua Daily Call Attn: In Loving Memory Attn: In Loving Memory 224 S. Market St. 100 Fox Drive, Suite B Troy, OH 45313 Piqua, OH 45356

Publishes in both Troy Daily News and Piqua Daily Call for $16.50.

Deadline for this special tribute is May 10,2013.

Please call (937) 498-5925 with any questions.

* Limit one individual per 1x3 space

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GENERAL LABORERS/ HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

DRIVERS

Miami County Bd of DD The following two jobs which are 20 hours per week have been combined to create one full time position equaling 40 hours:

Send resume to: Sidney Daily News Dept. 050213 1451 North Vandemark Rd Sidney, OH 45365

* Semi / Tractor Trailer * Home Daily * All No Touch Loads * Excellent Equipment * Medical Insurance * Eye & Dental Reimbursement * 401K Retirement * Paid HolidaysShutdown Days * Safety Bonus Paid Weekly * Minimum Age 23 * Class A CDL Required

Business / Strategic Management

Require good MVR and references

COMPLIANCE AND DATA MANAGER

Call Chambers Leasing (800)526-6435

The Council on Rural Services is seeking a highlyskilled Compliance and Data Manager to work from our central office location in Piqua to report on client progress and outcomes for participants enrolled in all Council on Rural Services programs as well as facilitate and manage agency wide data and processes that analyze department specific achievement indicators. Selected candidate will support the education focus and operations of the Agency by developing a working knowledge of State and Federal program performance standards. The ideal candidate must be energetic, hardworking, motivated, and reflect the leadership traits that support excellence throughout the programs.

Must be skilled in the use of computer software for spreadsheets and statistical analysis and the ability to access, analyze and present gathered information in visually compelling formats.

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Needed for local construction company. CDL license preferred. Competitive benefits and compensation package.

Qualified candidates must have a Bachelor’s Degree in statistical computing, data analysis, business administration or related field as well as six or more years of applied work experience in assessment, data collection and analysis. Supervisory experience is also highly desired.

Along with our excellent benefit package, we offer a minimum starting salary of $42,423

BARBERS, Accepting applications for barbers for established shop in business for 68 years, just North of Dayton, please call (937)838-6521 Developmental Disabilities Board Volunteer

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PRESCHOOL TEACHER ASSISTANT The Council on Rural Services is seeking Preschool Teacher Assistants to work 30-40 Hours per week at our Sidney, Troy or Piqua Kids Learning Place locations.

These positions require a CDA or Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, experience working with young children, the ability to lift a minimum of 40 lbs, and reliable transportation.

Wage scale is: $8.66 to $9.35 with CDA $9.67 to $10.44 with Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree To apply please visit our website at councilonruralservices.org or send cover letter and resume to Wendy Moorman at wmoorman@ councilonruralservices.org

Substitute Positions "Bus Drivers- CDL Required" & "Bus Aides" No phone calls please.

See website www.riversidedd.org TRI-COUNTY BOARD OF RECOVERY & MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

The Miami County Board of Developmental Disabilities, doing business as Riverside of Miami County, has an opening on its Board for the immediate family member of a person eligible for Board residential services. The Board sets policy and carries out its mission to empower children and adults with developmental disabilities to live, work and play as full members of the Miami County community. The Board meets monthly for two and a half to three hours.

Committee responsibilities may take additional one or two hours per month. Each Board member must also attend four hours of Board training every year.

A multi-county alcohol, drug addiction and mental health services board seeks two fulltime professionals to join its efforts in providing community outreach, training, education and communication within Miami, Darke and Shelby Counties.

If interested, please contact Mary Siegel by May 13, 2013 at (937)440-6050 for an application.

Will provide administrative support, communication and leadership to targeted programs such as the Family and Children First and NAMI.

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Apply in person 15 Industry Park Court Tipp City, OH Help Wanted General

SAND FOUNDRY ENGINEER Process Production Engineer is responsible for design, development, setup of product processes and equipment from Core making, Casting & Finishing, Quality. Directly involved in troubleshooting product processes. Works closely with quality in regard to ISR and/or PPAP requirements.

Design of tooling as well as providing estimating assistance for quoting. Working knowledge of TS16949 and ISO14001 environmental standards along with experience with CAD and SolidView Works. Help sustain and improve 5'S throughout facility and also would be willing to learn industrial time study to compare standard cost against actuals.

Qualified candidates must possess 3-5 years experience in Aluminum Sand Foundry environment. BS in engineering or related engineering field.

Please submit resume to: Reliable Castings Corporation Attn.: HR Manager 1521 W. Michigan Street P. O. Box 829 Sidney, OH 45365

Director of Community Resource Development Will lead the Board’s marketing and community outreach programs through a variety of social media platforms. Development of training programs designed to enhance worker retention throughout the tri-county area.

Program Coordinator

A Bachelors Degree in health education, communications, social work or a closely related field; two to four years of related experience; advanced computer skills and ability to prepare and present reports, outreach and training materials are required for both positions.

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PART TIME MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST Our growing practice is searching for a multi-talented person, who is well organized, a self starter, who enjoys challenge and responsibility. Experience working with the public, handling telephones, scheduling and typing a must. Hours are flexible.

Send resume with past experience and salary requirements to: Sidney Daily News Dept 0503MK Sidney Daily News 1451 N Vandemark Rd Sidney, OH 45365

2. Vehicle Operator (NonCDL)- Mon-Fri AM: 7:30-9:30 PM: 2:30-4:30

Also seeking:

For consideration, please send cover letter and resume to Wendy Moorman at wmoorman@ councilonruralservices.org

Clerical

1. Male Recreation Assistant- plans and participates in year-round recreational activities for children and adults.

Mostly evenings and weekend work.

The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services offers a competitive salary and benefit package that includes PERS. Resume must be received by 4:30 p.m. on May 17, 2013 to be considered. Resumes should be forwarded by mail or via email to; Mark McDaniel, Executive Director Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services 1100 Wayne Street, Suite 4000 Troy, OH 45373 mcdanielm@ mdsadamhs.mh.state.oh.us For detailed position descriptions visit our website at: mdsadamhs.mh.state.oh.us The Tri-County Board is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Troy, Ohio

Job Fair

Saturday, May 11th Hobart Arena 10:00 to 3:00 Troy’s world-class companies will be recruiting professionals, skilled and entry-level workers in manufacturing, health care, retail, restaurants, construction and more.

The Upper Valley Medical Center, Hobart, Clopay, UTC Aerospace, ConAgra, F & P America, and Crown Equipment are just some of the outstanding companies that will be at the event.

In addition, there will be many opportunities to learn about advanced education and training at the eight leading colleges and training institutions in the Dayton region.

The event is free. Bring your resume and your friends. Jobseekers can pre-register and learn more at: www.troyohiojobfair.com

email to: hr@reliablecastings.com

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Houses For Rent

Autos For Sale

CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Kings Chapel 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, $800 plus deposit (937)339-1339 PIQUA AREA, Candlewood, New Haven. 3 bedroom, $750 + deposit. Call (937)778-9303 days, (937)604-5417 evenings.

2005 FORD 500, good condition, well maintenanced, AM/FM/CD, AC, power everything, newer tires, $6000, (937)710-3907.

TROY, updated 2 bedroom ranch in Westbrook, 1 year lease, possible land contract, $775 (937)308-0679

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Busy OBGYN office seeking part time possible full time position. Certified Medical Assistant with 1 year experience required, preferably OBGYN experience.

Please fax resume and references to: (937)339-7842 Other GROUNDS KEEPER Full and part time opening for person to mow, maintain flowerbeds, plow snow and miscellaneous property maintenance.

Apply in person: 15 Industry Park Court Tipp City, OH WANTED:

CABINET MAKERS Some experience needed. Interested parties apply Monday-Friday between 3pm-5pm

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TRAILER, stove, new refrigerator, new air conditioner, new washer & dryer (optional), $7000 OBO. Call Steve (937)710-3668

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Pets CHOCOLATE LAB, 4 year old male, outside dog, free to good home, (937)448-6120.

Auto Classic /Antiques

LABRADOR RETRIEVER Puppies. AKC, born 2/28.

Chocolate & Yellow. Ready to leave mother on 4/27. Born and raised in our home. Parents on site. Males $300. Females $400, (513)393-0623.

PERSIAN/HIMALAYAN KITTENS, CFA registered brand new litter deposit required.

Serious calls only (937)2164515

1975 CHEVY CAPRICE CLASSIC Convertible, A1 condition!

350 V8 engine, 125k miles, $12,000 OBO. Call (419)628-4183

Farm Equipment

Robertson Cabinets Inc 1090 S. Main St. West Milton, OH 45383

Boats & Marinas PONTOON, 50 Mercury outboard, power anchor, trolling motor, big live well, depth finder. Life jackets/ trailer, accessories included, $4200, (937)214-4413.

Production/Operations Employment Wanted JOB WANTED: Looking for farm equipment operator position for spring planting season (prefer RED equipment.)

(937)503-0504.

Apartments /Townhouses 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts.

SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms Call for availability attached garages Easy access to I-75 (937)335-6690

TRENCHER, Case model 360 trencher with backhoe and blade.Only 2900 hours,good original condition.1994 model, Wisconsin engine. Parts book and owners manual included. (937)4891725

2000 YAMAHA jet boat, (2) 135HP engines, boat & trailer in excellent condition, engines have between 60-80 hours running time, boat cover, life jackets, water skis & tubes, can be seen at 808 North Miami Avenue, Sidney. Around back. Paid $23,000 new. Asking $9500. Will consider any offer, (937)638-2222.

Mopeds

ATVs /Dune Buggies 2009 HONDA Rancher, TRX420, automatic, Green, excellent condition, (937)5966861

www.hawkapartments.net 1,2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Troy ranches and townhomes. Different floor plans to choose from. Garages, fireplaces, appliances including washer and dryers.

Corporate apartments available.

Autos For Sale 1985 LINCOLN Continental, Sea foam green, carriage top, 56k, beautiful car inside and out, 1 owner, $7500, call (937)362-2261

2008 WILDFIRE MODEL WFH 250cc, 178 miles, showroom condition, 2 helmets and cover, $1450.

(937)448-0714

Remodeling & Repairs

A&E Home Services LLC

Visit www.firsttroy.com Call us first!

(937)335-5223

A simple, affordable, solution to all your home needs.

40037809• Drywall • Painting Roofing Plumbing • Remodels • Flooring

2 CAR garage, 2 bath, 3 bedroom. Kitchen appliances, dining room, laundry. Great area! $910. (937)335-5440

Eric Jones, Owner

Insurance jobs welcome • FREE Estimates

SPRING SPECIAL

DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $550/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

$700.00 off $6k or more on a roof & $150.00 roof tune up

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TROY, 2 Bedroom Townhomes 1.5 bath, 1 car garage, $725

For your home improvement needs

3 Bedroom, 1 bath, $675

40037629

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TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, no dogs, $500. (937)339-6776.

• Painting • Dr y wall • Decks • Carpentr y • Home Repair • Kitchen/Bath

937-974-0987

TROY TOWNHOUSE, 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. Bunkerhill $495 monthly, (937)216-5611

Email: UncleAlyen@aol.com

TROY, 1016 Fairfield, 3 bedroom, 2 car garage, central air, $93,000, Financing available, LESS THAN RENTING! www.miamicountyproperties.co m, (937)239-0320, (937)2391864,

Building & Remodeling

#Repairs 40037613 Large and Small #Room Additions #Basements #Kitchens/Baths #Siding #Windows #Doors #Garages #Barns

Condominiums SURFSIDE BEACH, SC, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, ocean view condo, pool, full kitchen & more! Select weeks for spring, summer and fall 2013. Call (937)469-1576.

Ask about our Friends & Neighbors discounts (937) 339-1902 or (937) 238-HOME Free Estimates • Fully Insured • 17 Years of Home Excellence

Production/Operations

PRODUCTION PRODUCTION WORKERS WORKERS

Or fax to: (937)492-1233

40040026 KTH Parts Industries, Inc., a quality oriented manufacturer of stamped and welded auto parts, located in St. Paris, Ohio has immediate openings for second shift Production Associates. The successful candidate must have a good work history and be able to work overtime—including Saturdays.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Help Wanted General

WATER/WASTEWATER PLANT OPERATOR II The Village of Versailles, Ohio is seeking qualified, professional candidates for the position of Water and Wastewater Plant Operator II. The person appointed will report to the Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant 40041446 Manager and will operate and monitor water and sewer treatment plants under direction of Plant Manager. A complete job description is available by contacting the Village of Versailles Administrative Office at 937-526-3294, or by visiting the Village of Versailles website at www.versaillesohio.cc The candidate will have a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and a valid Ohio Driver’s License. A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with a Class B endorsement must be acquired by the end of (6) six month probationary period. An Ohio EPA Water Supply Class II license and Ohio EPA Wastewater Works Class II license are preferred, a candidate with the ability to acquire an Ohio EPA Water Supply Class II license and Ohio EPA Wastewater Works Class II license within 24 months of appointment may be considered. Five years experience which evidences a comprehensive knowledge of water and wastewater treatment plant operations is preferred. The hourly rate of compensation range for the position is $17.32-$21.15 with the beginning hourly rate of compensation to be determined by the successful candidate’s qualifications and experience. The Village of Versailles maintains a Grade/Step Hourly Compensation Program and offers an excellent benefits and retirement program.

Please submit resume and cover letter to Rodd Hale, Village Administrator, Village of Versailles, 177 North Center Street, P.O. Box 288, Versailles, Ohio 45380 by 4:00 p.m. on May 17, 2013.

The Village of Versailles is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

KTH Parts offers a very attractive benefit package, competitive wage, and a team oriented manufacturing environment, including: I Starting wage of $15.17/hr. plus shift differential I Pay increases every 6 months over the next two years I Health care (Rx card), dental, and vision coverage I Defined benefit retirement plan I 401(k) plan I Perfect attendance bonuses (quarterly) I Paid holidays, vacations, and shut-downs Qualified candidates should send a resume to:

KTH Parts Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 940 St. Paris, OH 43072 Attn: Production Recruiter KTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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CURTIS PAINTING & HOME REPAIR

Call 937-236-5392

Interior/Exterior Painting Commercial/Residential Svc. Vinyl Siding & Soffet Drywall/ Plaster Repair Carpentry, and Basement Remodeling Services Available Fully Insured 21 Years Experience

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Gutter Repair & Cleaning Miscellaneous

Auctions

40039613Of quality brand name tools – cars

1002 N. Main St. Sidney, Ohio 45365

FURNITURE, Moving, nice items for sale, Couch's, beds, matching chair sets, big screen tv, stereo system with surround sound, (937)726-8029

Located at 2636 W Main Street, Troy, OH – west of Troy

MOTHER’S DAY, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 11AM SHARP COLLECTOR CARS: 1962 Falcon convertible (Futura); 1967 Dodge Charger; 1972 Triumph Spitfire convertible; 1981 Chevy side step short bed pickup; 1989 Chevy Camaro IROC – some restored and some with parts ready to be restored!

BODY SHOP TOOLS: Plasma cuter blue point MA 230 Snap On; Lincoln wire mig welder 180 up to 3/8”; body tools; misc DA palm sander plane; 9 Snap On air ratchets; engine stand; engine puller; welding helmets; 2000/3000 lb engine hoist; body shop lights; 7 pc body and fender set; Englo 200 PSI air compressor tank; DA 6” air body plane; DA 6” disc sander; 2 Borg/Warner auto tune up cabinets; torches; mobile anker set; plastic welding kit; gear puller; compression ga. kit; welding vice grips; torch kits; air drills; 3/8” air torque; air grinders/chisels/blower/bits; vac Blego kits; drum sanding kit; bearing press; Sunmec cylinder hone; collision repair kit – 4 ton capacity singer; porter cable power; creeper; cabinets; 110 BTU Reedy heater; Hobart wire welder 150; sand blasting sprayer; welding gloves; paint; brushes; compound and more!

ENGINE MOTORS: 5 motors with transmissions – 1973 – 302 engine, 36,000 miles – rare! 1973 rare 3 spd; 1969 rare 383 high output; 1980 305 Tuneport complete; 1995 350 4 bolt main spun bearings; 1980 305 motor and transmission; 1969 Ford automatic transmission; 1973 Ford Torino rims.

POWER TOOLS: Craftsman 12” band saw on stand; B&D chop saw; 10: 2.5 HP Craftsman radial ar saw; Troy Built 6.75 HP pressure washer 2550 PSI; Fire Storm B&D drill press bench model 25 spd; Makita 12” chop saw; 6” bench grinder on stand; Palm sander; power ball mini polishing tool; 3.25 wet/dry Craftsman vac; Dewalt – 4” grinder, circular saw, drill; Craftsman: bisket joiner, belt sander, heat gun, saber saw, sander, 2 staple guns, grinder; B&D: sander, jig saw, drywall screw drill; Ryobi: zip drill; Milwaukee: Drill, polishers, circular saw, hammer drill with case; Makita: sander, electric stapler, heat gun; Craftsman: soldering gun; Porter Cable: 2.4 ¼” sheet palm grip polishing sander; Bostich: air staple gun; air nailer; Task Force: 14” abrasive chop saw; air spray guns, plus more!

TIRES: 4 matching set Kelly 225x60xR15; 2 Kelly 195x65xR15; 2 Future Sport GLS 225x60xR15; 1 BF Goodrich 215x75xR15; 4 Uniroyals on rims 225x75xR15; 4 tires on stock rims; 4 tires off Chrysler Jeep.

STEEL & ANGLE IRON: tables; work benches; racks; flat steel; 45 pcs tubing 1:x1 ¼” x 22’; 7 pcs of square tubing 22’ long; 2x”2”; 4 pcs angle iron 6”x24’ long; 3”x6”x26” tubing; scrap iron.

SOCKET SETS: ½” drive – 1 5/16” – 2 ¼” Bonnie sockets; Craftsman 3/8”- 1 1/16” deep wells; standard and metric assorted sizes; short sockets; deep wells; air sockets; extension bars; ratchets; several flats.

Benches; cabinets; nuts; bolts; screws; nails; wiring; screwdrivers; pliers; cutters; hammers; tool boxes; wrenches; rivets; chisels; pipe wrenches; channel locks; crescent wrenches; gear puller; wire wheels; rubber mallets; sand paper; roll-a-round 11 dr Craftsman tool boxes; construction tools; large assortment of hand tools; hub caps; Harley Davidson signs; Triumph windshield; blue point; hose reels; coolers; squirrel cages; stackable washer/dryer; van seats; lg floor fan; C-4 transmission; car ramps; tarps; bottle; floor and hydraulic jacks; rims; tail pipes; batteries; 1932, 1935 and later years license plates; 28’ alum extension ladders; several extension cords; Reese hitch; jumper cables; florescent lights; extension rollers on stands; fire extinguishers; regulators; 2 wheel kids bike with training wheels; Chevy truck steering wheel; parts bins; vents; clamps; tool belt; straps; lots of carbulators; oil; filters; fuel pump; sprays; waxes; paint; dwell meter; Dremared tools; tube benders; rechets; impacts; open and boxes end wrenches; Richlane rivet gun kit; manuals; lug wrenches; time clock; ignition wrenches; Allen wrenches; tap & die set; surround sound; speakers; TV with VCR; saw horses; hold saw; Ryobi lamdin cutter; roof jacks; buffing wheels; seats; wire harnesses; shifters; portable air tank; 2 bifold ladders; distance measuring wheel; interior lucas; new JVC speakers; 4 dr file cabinet; cement frog; Dutch boy & girl; nativity scenes and lots more to be added!

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NOTE: We realize this is Mother’s day. Take mom out to lunch/dinner on Saturday and/or dinner after the sale. Sorry moms but we couldn’t work this sale into another day because of time frame.

Excellent brand name tools. Kent only bought high dollar tools and they all work! Don’t miss this lifetime collection of brand name tools. Vehicles sell at 2:30pm.

OWNERS:KENT FRANTOM

BOOKS, Boys and Girls books, Dave Dawson, Tom Swift Jr., Dana Girls, Vicki Barr, Connie Blair, Rick Brant, and others, English mystery Series, Blue Mask (AKA the Baron) by Anthony Norton (AKA John Creasy) Hardcovers 1930's1950's, Paper Backs 1960's, (937)492-0606 COMPUTER DESK, wood tone with file drawer, $30. 14" and 20" TVs. $15 each, (937)492-9863

LARGE PUBLIC AUCTION

TERMS: Cash or check with proper ID. $50 bank charge and $19 auctioneer fee plus subject to prosecution or any returned checks!

Go to auctionzip.com for photos and pictures, details.

DC SEAMLESS

REFRIGERATOR, Kenmore side by side, good condition, 25.7 cubic foot, white, works great, asking $250, (937)7788816 Small rabbit cage $25, and Lane cedar chest $175 (937)418-8195

Call today for FREE estimate

Fully Insured Repairs • Cleaning • Gutter Guard

TABLE, 4 chairs, china cabinet $60; patio furniture complete with umbrella $110; coffee table, 3 end tables $125; wooden desk, chair $60; entertainment center $25 (937)3356064 or (937)216-8199 UPRIGHT PIANO, Lester, $500. Frigidaire chest freezer, $100, diverson80@yahoo.com.

(937)552-9368.

40041088 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS

Handyman

BIG jobs, SMALL jobs

Paving & Excavating

Appliances, Brush, Rental Clean-outs, Furniture & Tires

40037643

Richard Pierce

COOPER’S GRAVEL Gravel Hauled, 40037668 Laid & Leveled Driveways & Parking Lots

875-0153 698-6135 MINIMUM CHARGES APPLY

937-845-0047 H • 937-875-0475 Cell 40037557

Only $21.75

2013 Ads Celebrate Your Special Graduate in our newspapers on May 23, 2013

DEADLINE IS 5:00 P.M., MAY 10, 2013 Please submit information along with a payment of $21.75 to: Troy Daily News or Piqua Daily Call Attn: Grad Ads Attn: Grad Ads 224 S. Market St. 110 Fox Dr. Suite B Troy, OH 45373 Piqua, OH 45356 If you would like your photo returned, please include a SASE along with your payment.

Please contact us at 877-844-8385 with questions.

Matthew Lyons

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Amy E. Walker, D.V.M. 937-418-5992 Mobile Veterinary Service Treating Dogs, Cats & Exotics

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Remodeling & Repairs

Senior Homecare Personal • Comfort

Home Improvement

J.T.’s Painting & Drywall 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS 40037842 • Interior/Exterior • Drywall • Texturing • Kitchens • Baths • Decks • Doors • Room Additions

LICENSED • INSURED

TOTAL HOME REMODELING Call Jim at 937-694-2454

BILL’S HOME REMODELING & REPAIR 40037374

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Need new kitchen cabinets, new bathroom fixtures, basement turned into a rec room? Give me a call for any of your home remodeling & repair needs, even if it’s just hanging some curtains or blinds.

Call Bill Niswonger

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Free Estimates / Insured

Tammy Welty (937)857-4222

Happy Ads / Birthday / Anniversary

PARKING LOTS

937-875-0153 937-698-6135 Pet Grooming

Health Care

Cleaning Service

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COOPER’S BLACKTOP PAVING, REPAIR & SEALCOATING 40037383 DRIVEWAYS

335-9508

Sparkle Clean New Construction Bonded & Insured

LICENSED • INSURED

TOTAL HOME REMODELING Call Jim at 937-694-2454

We haul it all!

Cleaning & Maintenance

Residential

• Interior/Exterior • Drywall • Texturing • Kitchens • Baths • Decks • Doors • Room Additions

Hauling & Trucking

~ Flexible Hourly Care ~ WOOD CHIPPER, 16.5hp, ~ Respite Care for Families ~ electric start, limbs up to 4-1/2 419.501.2323 or 888.313.9990 inch diameter, good shape, new knife, $1600, (937)216- www.visitingangels.com/midwestohio 40037454 0202

40037557 Commercial

937-335-4425 937-287-0517

J.T.’s Painting & Drywall

1-937-492-8897

SNOW BLOWER 22" 2 stage Yardman, only used 3 times, like new, cost over $500, will sell for $350 OBO (937)3320919

Larry L. Lavender Licensed in Favor of the State of Ohio • Clerks: Lavender Family

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NORDIC TRACK Treadmill E3200, like new. Paid $1400, asking $325 OBO (937)3320919 after 4pm

AUCTIONEER

Not responsible for accidents, thefts or typographical mistakes. Any statements made by Auctioneer on sale, may, supercede statements herein, believed to be correct, availability are NOT GUARANTEED BY AUCTIONEER. May I be of Service to You? Please Call ME!

Gutter & Service

40037368 Roofing • Windows • Shutters Coatings Soffits • Doors • Waterproofing Metal Roofs • Flat Roofing Seamless Gutters

FREE Estimates

Land Services

Del Gambrel

GRAVEL & STONE Shredded Topsoil Shredded Topsoil 40037487 Fill Dirt Dirt Fill

Driveways •• Excavating Excavating Driveways Demolition Demolition

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2003 TRAIL-LITE 22' hybrid trailer, 3 burner stove with oven, refrigerator with freezer, microwave, AC/furnace, sleeps 6, great condition! $8250, (937)676-2590.

10'x10' Patio Gazebo has new cover still in box, $100 (937)552-7786

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RVs / Campers

2003 DODGE RAM 1500 6Cyl, 2wd, automatic, power steering, air, cruise, 71,600 miles, excellent condition, asking $6500.

(937)726-7109 (937)492-5785

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that work .com

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Painting & Wallpaper

(937) 623-5851

TONEYS SEAMLESS 40037523 SPOUTING LLC Serving the Miami Valley Since 1952 Spring Special 10% off

WE DELIVER

• 5” & 6” Continuous Spouting • Roofing-Metal Edging • Vinyl & Aluminum Soffit & Siding

937-606-1122

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937-919-8929

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Since 1977 FREE ESTIMATES on Roofing, Siding, Gutters, Windows, Patio Covers, Doors Insured & Bonded

LAWN and LANDSCAPE SERVICES, 15 years experience, satisfaction guaranteed, lawn maintenance, mulching, landscaping projects. Call today for a free estimate. Will not be under bid, (937)570-1115

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MINI BIKE, 2 cycle, looks like small Harley, $250, (937)2160202

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M&S Contracting 40037636

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2007 HONDA Rebel, red in color, 2500 miles, like new, saddle bags and helmet, $2150. Call (937)418-3727.

BEDROOM SET, 5 piece Danish Modern, dresser, mirror, chest, brass headboard plus bed frame, excellent condition, $225. (937)498-9822

Landscaping

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2007 HARLEY Davidson Ultra Classic, black pearl, 22,400 miles, CB/CD/MP3, intercom, spoiler with LED lights, heatshield, highway pegs, $14,500, (937)773-8428.

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Construction & Building

40037643

Motorcycles

Baby Items

BABY ITEMS & furniture, tod2005 Cardinal, 5th wheel with dler bed, play yard for kids or 2 slides, excellent condition, puppies, HANDICAP ITEMS, well taken care of, asking collectible dolls & bears, good $14,500 (937)698-6289 condition and more! (937)3394233 Trucks / SUVs / Vans Furniture & Accessories

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2007 HONDA CH80 scooter, asking $1500 OBO. Call (937)418-2702

RVs / Campers

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Motorcycles

Mopeds

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Remodeling & Repairs

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937-573-4702

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Auctions

2000 Buick LeSabre-Pocket WatchHousehold-Shop Smith-Tools Furniture-Antiques

“Paul Wirrig” Moving AUCTION Sunday May 19th. 10:30 a.m.

40040066 715 Manier Street Piqua, Ohio Auctioneers: Justin Vondenhuevel CAI, Tom Roll and David Shields.

Apprentice Auctioneers Rick Reichenbacher DeLynn Cox

Piqua High School

2012 We are proud of you!

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Your Family

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Auctions

14 Long Guns-Comic Books-German 40040006 Bayonets-Vending Machine-ToolsFurniture-Antiques

“Ben Cantrill” PUBLIC AUCTION Sunday May 12th. 10:30 a.m.

909 Nicklin Street Piqua, Ohio Terms: All items to be sold to the highest bidder. Cash or Check. Credit Cards accepted with 3% buyer’s premium.

Auctioneers: Justin Vondenhuevel CAI, Tom Roll and David Shields.

Apprentice Auctioneers Rick Reichenbacher DeLynn Cox

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