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Voters share key issues The boys of summer The ping of the aluminum bats, the benches littered with sunflower seeds and discarded bubble gum wrappers and the distinct sound of ballfield chatter from the tiniest of voices can only mean one thing — it’s little league baseball season again. Troy Junior Baseball celebrated its opening day ceremonies April 28 at the Mark Knoop Baseball Complex. See Valley, Page

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Participants in the 2012 Relay For Life walk a Survivor Lap at the Miami County Fairgrounds Saturday.

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Lisa Kendall-Maxson had participated in Relay for Life in years past, but this weekend’s celebration of life and commitment to finding a TROY cure resonated like never before. The 30year-old wife and mother of three was diagnosed Aug. 1, 2011, acute with myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood cells. After two rounds of treatment, Kendall-Maxson was pronounced cancer-free in late September — coincidentally, on the same day she learned that a bone marrow transplant match had been found. At the Miami County Fairgrounds Saturday, she said she never expected to be walking the survivor lap at Relay for Life. “I posted a Facebook status this morning, saying a year ago, whoever would have thought we’d be out here doing this? I’ve come a long

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way. You never know,” KendallMaxson said. The nearly 24-hour relay — from 11 a.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. today — included different activities nearly every half hour, including a survivor lap, luminaria ceremony and presentation of awards.

Emcee Duane Bachman kicked off the ceremonies with a resounding, “Remember folks: we gotta find a cure for cancer.” Like many gathering at the fairgrounds this weekend,

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As a single mother, Tami DeHart was frustrated by the lack of affordable, stylish children’s clothing. “In this economy, we still want to dress our kids nicely,” said the 34-year-old mom of daughters Versaya, 4, and Amoriesa, 8 months. “I was talking to my friends, and they said the same.” She decided to do something about it. 1 On April 16, DeHart

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Supporters of Lisa Kendall-Maxson, including her daughter, Madison Maxson, wear “Team Lisa” T-shirts during Relay For Life of Miami County at the Miami County Fairgrounds Saturday.

COLUMBUS (AP) — A large and enthusiastic crowd gathered at a university Saturday to see President Barack Obama kick off what his campaign described as the first rally of his re-election bid, especially in a battleground state known for its critical stakes in November. Thousands of people filled the Jerome Schottenstein Center at The Ohio State University in Columbus to hear the president and first lady Michelle Obama speak. Several expressed support for the Democratic candidate despite criticism on how he’s managed the economy’s slow recovery. “He needs time,” said Donna Anderson, a 55-year-old consultant from Columbus who is focused on health care reform. “He inherited a mess. It’s going to take more than four years to see the results of what he’s doing. Nothing turns around overnight.” Anderson and others recognized the importance of Obama choosing to kick off his re-election bid in Ohio. He won the state in 2008, and it’s a swing state considered critical to winning the White House. “It’s a key state,” Anderson said. “He’s got to rally here and all over the state. The more he can get his word out, the better.” Merre Phillips, a selfemployed marketing specialist from Tiffin, said she was curious about seeing Obama in person. A big supporter of environmental issues including lessening reliance on foreign oil, she said she’s already decided she’s not voting for a Republican in November. “Obama still needs to earn my vote,” the 49-year-old said as she filled out a ticket form to enter the arena. Phillips, who came to the event with her boyfriend and his 15year-old daughter, said it was important for her to see the president. “I wanted to feel him connect with the average voter,” she said. “That connection is still important. That’s my reason for coming. To see he still gets it.”

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Relay • Continued from A1 Kendall-Maxson was surrounded by loved ones, including her husband, children, parents, sister, niece and nephew. Some wore gray “Team Lisa” shirts reading “Together we will fight; together we will win.” Kendall-Maxson also walked with Ray Phelps — who received treatment at the same time as her at Ohio State University — and his wife Carol. Kendall-Maxson’s mother, Bev Kendall, said tearfully, “We’ve been here before, but never thought for these circumstances.” Her father, Troy council member Tom Kendall, commented, “It means so much more this year. You never really know till it hits home.”

Kendall-Maxson said she feels relieved to be back home with her husband, Tom Maxson, and children, Madison, 6, Evan, 3, and Benjamin, 2. “I could have my three kids sitting in front of me fighting, and it wouldn’t faze me. Before it would have driven me crazy,” she said with a laugh, adding, “I’ve always been an upbeat, positive person, and this has made me even more so.” Organizers hope to raise $232,000 this weekend, topping last year’s amount of $217,000, said event chair Joyce Kittel, who has been relaying for eight years and organized the event for the first time this year. She particpates in honor of her father, a cancer survivor, and in memory of her

Say Love • Continued from A1 clothing, with larger toys and baby equipment lining the outside walls and storefront. Decorating the walls are professional-quality photos of her friends’ young children playing dress up. While DeHart accepts all clothing, anything deemed unfit will be given to Goodwill, Right to Life and other charity and women’s organizations. “I’d like to do a little of everything,” she said. Say Love does sell a few new items as well. “I have rompers and tutus like the high-end boutique ones, for much less,” DeHart said. Running the business is “all about family,” DeHart said. DeHart’s mom and sister come in every day to assist with the flow of merchandise, and her father helped set up the store, assembling

just last month grandfather. with angiosarcoHer favorite ma, a rare cancer part of the two-day of the blood vesevent is the lumisels. naria ceremony — Scheureman dedicated to sursaid she has been vivors and those thankful for the currently battling specialized care cancer — because of “the reflection SCHEUREMAN she and her relatives received, and and the solemness.” Shirley Shiltz walked she wished to honor those the survivor lap with people by participating. “The people who work Sherry Scheureman, both of whom battled breast can- with cancer seem especially cer and have been cancer- caring. It’s a different type free for 18 and 9 years, of person that provides that respectively. Shiltz’s daugh- care,” she said. More than 55 teams parter Sandy Estes also ticipated in Relay for Life. attended. For more information on Shiltz walked in recogAmerican Cancer nition of her brother and the two sisters who suffered Society, call 1-800-ACSor visit www. from cancer, while 2345 Scheureman honored her cancer.org. Next year’s event is slatgrandparents, cousin and father, who was diagnosed ed for May 4-5.

Obama racks and shelves. Her brother-in-law and five nephews also help out with tagging and organizing. When Versaya accompanies her mom at Say Love, she keeps busy by “playing store.” “She does this all the time,” DeHart said, as her 4-year-old selected a book, brought it to DeHart at the register, and paid for it with pretend money. She then sat down to read with DeHart’s mom Karen and Amoriesa. In the months to come, DeHart hopes to make the shop even more community- and familyminded by sponsoring a local family each month. She also would like to offer crafts on Saturday mornings before opening. hours are Store Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Continued from A1 Mrs. Obama spoke about education opportunities and senior citizen care before introducing her husband to the stage. Although the president didn’t discuss any issues specific to Ohio, he touched on several important issues including job recovery, health care reform, and education. It was the kind of speech that still moved Tara Windle, a public school teacher from London, Ohio, who voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to do the same in 2012. Windle, who’s focused on health care reform, wore a bright T-shirt with Obama’s face on it and two pins supporting his re-election campaign. “It’s the same message of hope,” she said. “Hope for this country. It brought tears to my eyes.” Obama, who has primarily focused his re-election campaign on the economy,

also addressed the critical youth vote by including points on student college debt. Max Berger, a 26-yearold group organizer with the Occupy Wall Street movement visiting from New York City, said he’s critical of Obama’s public comments on keeping interest rates down for Stafford student loans because it doesn’t fix anything. “It’s telling that Obama’s big initiative to reach out to young people is to not let things get worse,” he said. Still, Berger said he will vote for Obama in November because he feels he’s a better option than Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. “I was a huge fan of Obama,” he said. “I’ve been very disappointed over what’s happened the last four years. I think Obama knows he has a problem with young voters.”

New study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived naturally, babies that resulted from simple IVF, or in vitro fertilization mixing eggs and sperm in a lab dish had no greater risk of birth defects once factors such as the mom’s age and smoking were taken into account. However, birth defects were more common if treatment included injecting a single sperm into an egg, which is done in many cases these days, especially if male infertility is involved. About 10 percent of babies born this way had birth defects versus 6 percent of those conceived naturally, the study found. It could be that the extra jostling of egg and sperm does damage. Or that other problems lurk in the genes of sperm so defective they must be forced to fertilize an egg. “I don’t want to scare people,” because the vast majority of babies are born healthy, said the study’s leader, Michael Davies of the University of Adelaide in Australia. Couples could use simple IVF without sperm injection, freeze the embryos and implant only one or two at a time, he said. All of those can cut the chance of a birth defect. The study was published

online Saturday by the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a fertility conference in Barcelona, Spain. Health agencies in Australia paid for the research. More than 3.7 million babies are born each year through assisted reproduction. Methods include everything from drugs to coax the ovaries to make eggs to artificial insemination and IVF. Fertility treatments account for about 4 percent of births in Australia and as many as 8 percent of them in Denmark, where costs are widely covered, Davies said. In the United States, more than 60,000 babies were born in 2009 from 146,000 IVF attempts. About three-quarters of them used ICSI, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. ICSI was developed because of male infertility. But half the time, it was not done for that reason but to improve the odds that at least some embryos will be created from an IVF attempt. Many clinics do it in all cases. IVF costs around $10,000 to $12,000 per attempt and another $2,000 for sperm injection. The study used records on nearly 303,000 babies conceived naturally and 6,163 conceived with help in Australia from 1986 through 2002, plus records on birth defects detected by age 5. Researchers counted heart, spinal or urinary tract defects, limb abnormalities and problems such as cleft palate or lip, but not minor defects unless they needed treatment or were disfiguring.

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Bill Adkins of Troy watches as Miami County Park District crew leader Trevor Diegel releases fish into one of the ponds at Stillwater Prairie Reserve on Wednesday.

Stillwater Reserve ponds stocked with game fish BY MIKE ULLERY Ohio Community Media editorial@tdnpublishing.com A pair of ponds at the Miami County Park District’s Stillwater Reserve on State Route 185 received a boost to the fish population last week. More than 100 fish, along with a gallon of minnows, were split between

Urbana and brought them directly to Stillwater Reserve, where the Adkins’ were on hand to watch the release. “We use the parks constantly,” Bill Adkins said. “This is just an opportunity to give a little bit back.” This was the first fish release this year in any of the Miami County parks.

COVINGTON two fishing ponds, thanks to a donation by Bill and Cherie Adkins of Troy. The release included 80 hybrid bluegills and 40 largemouth bass game fish. Trevor Diegel, crew leader for the park district, picked up the fish from Freshwater Farms in

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Cold snap hurts grape crop CINCINNATI (AP) — A freeze that damaged Ohio vineyards has left grape growers and wine producers dealing with the loss of much of their crop and wine consumers facing the possibility of higher prices. The executive director of the Ohio Wine Producers Association says temperatures that dropped below freezing around the state for several hours last Sunday damaged anywhere from 30 percent to

75 percent of Ohio’s grape crops depending on the location. Donniella Winchell says this year’s crop will be significantly smaller and the possibility of more freezes over the next few weeks remains a concern.

For April, when most people file their tax returns, state tax receipts exceeded projections by $84 million. That pushed the state’s surplus revenue to $350 million this fiscal year. State Budget Director Tim Keen downplayed the strong showing, telling The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer that tax receipts were “modestly” above the estimates. The rising surplus has grabbed the attention of state lawmakers and pet spending projects. One option is additional state aid to schools and local governments.

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WEDNESDAY• THEATER OPENING: The Troy Civic Theatre will THURSDAY present “Ravenscroft,” by Community Don Nigro at the Barn in the • DINING FUNDRAISER: Park. A funny murder mysCalendar Help support wildlife at tery set in 1905, it pits Brukner Nature Center by Inspector Ruffing against dining between 6 a.m. to 9 CONTACT US five women in the desire to p.m. at Bob Evans, 1749 W. discover the cause of Main St., Troy. Bob Evans Patrick Roark’s death. Show will give 15 percent of is at 4 p.m. today. Tickets Call Melody patron’s bills when they are $12 at the door, or call present a flier, which can be Vallieu at 339-7700 for reservations. picked up at Brukner, to their 440-5265 to • DODGEBALL TOURserver at checkout. NEY: A dodgeball tournalist your free ment will begin at 1 p.m. at calendar WEDNESDAY the A.B. Graham Memorial items.You Center, Conover. Call • OPEN HOUSE: The Emalie at (937) 620-3832 can send Troy Lions Club will have an for more information. your news by e-mail to open house to explain a vari• WINGS AND vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. ety of volunteer opportunities STRINGS: WACO Aviation within its organization from Learning Center and Troy 6:30-8 p.m. May 9 at the Noon Optimists Club will Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, host the annual “Wings on Strings” family kite fly from noon to 3 p.m. at 301 W. Main St., Troy. All community-minded men and women are invited to come and Historic WACO Field, 1865 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. The community is invited to make learn about ways they can help the less fortunate of Miami County. The casual open and fly a kite, and materials are provided. Admission is free. For more information, call jouse is free and open to the public. A light meal will be served. For more information (937) 335-9226 or see the Lions website at lcdir@wacoairmuseum.org. • CHICKEN BARBECUE: Casstown Fire www.lionsdist13e.org/troy. For reservations, call (937) 335-9537. Department will have a chicken barbecue • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 4210 E. State of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Route 55, Casstown. The meal will include Troy Country Club. Jay Wackler with 1/2 chicken, coleslaw, applesauce, chips and a roll for a $7 donation, dine in or carry- Extreme Pedals and Paddles will speak. For more information, contact Kim Riber, vice out. All proceeds go to upkeep of equippresident, at 339-8935. ment. • ALUMNI LUNCHEON: The Staunton • BREAKFAST OFFERED: Boy Scout School alumni luncheon will be held at Troop No. 586 will serve an all-you-can eat 11:30 a.m. at Friendly’s in Troy. Organizers breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon for $6 at the invite anyone who graduated or attended American Legion Post in Tipp City. Items the school, and guests. For more informaavailable will be bacon, sausage, home tion, call Shirley at (937) 335-2859. fries, eggs, pancakes, waffles, sausage gravy and bixcuits, toast, cinnamon rolls, juice and fruit. THURSDAY • BLUEGRASS JAM: There will be a bluegrass jam session at 2 p.m. at the • FRESHMEN ORIENTATION: Covington American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N. Third High School will have freshmen orientation St., Tipp City. The feature band will be for current eighth graders at 6 p.m. in the Laurel Mountain, plus there will be an open commons at the high school. Topics will mike jam session. Bring your instruments, include scheduling, testing and extracurricuthere is free admission and refreshments lar activities. Students and their parents are will be available. encouraged to attend. • WAGON RIDES: Aullwood’s draft horse • TEA PARTY: The Troy Senior Citizens team, and Farmer John will take visitors for a Center will host a spring tea party from 1-3 relaxing tour of Aullwood Farm on a wagon p.m. The event will include tea and buscuits drawn by horse power from 1-2:30 p.m. This and games. is a great way to explore Aullwood Farm for • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovthe first time or to view it from a new perery walk for adults will be offered from 8-9:30 spective. Fees for the program are $1 per a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 person and non-members must pay admisAullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, edusion to the farm in addition to the wagon ride cation coordinator, will guide walkers as they fees. Each ride lasts about 30 minutes. experience the seasonal changes taking • WILDFLOWER WALK: An Aullwood place. Bring binoculars. Spring Wildflower Walk will be offered at • CENTER DEDICATION: The Aullwood 2:30 p.m. Aullwood’s wildflower trail is full of Farm Discovery Center dedication will be at colorful spring favorites such as columbine, 11:30 a.m. at the Aullwood Farm, 9101 jack-in-the-pulpit, wild geranium, Mayapple Frederick Pike, Dayton. The center is a place and more. An Aullwood naturalist will lead for hands-on learning as well as a community this relaxing wildflower walk at Aullwood. gathering place. This sustainable building and site showcases green practices and teaches by example. Tours will be given and light MONDAY refreshments served. • QUARTER AUCTION: A quarter auction to benefit Corinn’s Way will be offered at MAY 11 6:30 p.m. at Riverside, Troy. Doors will open at 6 p.m. One hundred items valued • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW between $25-$100 will be auctioned. Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, Individual paddles will be $1, and all-in pad- will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more infordles will be $25. Refreshments will be availmation, call 753-1108. able and those proceeds will benefit Special • DINNER OFFERED: The Pleasant Hill Olympics. For more information, contact VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Alicia Love at (937) 694-5318. Ludlow Falls will offer dinner from 6-7:30 p.m. • GOLF OUTING: The 2012 Troy Area for $7-$8 For more information, call (937) Chamber of Commerce Go For the Green 698-6727. golf outing will be held at the Troy Country • STEAK FRY: Sons of the American Club. Registration is $130 per player. Legion, Tipp City, will have a steak fry from 6Civic agendas 7:30 p.m. for $10. The meal will include baked • Monroe Township Board of Trustees will potato, roll and butter, salad bar and dessert. meet at 7 p.m. at the Township Building. • The Tipp City Council will meet at 7:30 THURSDAY p.m. at the Government Center. • The Piqua City Commission will meet at • AFTER PARTY: The Newton High 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. School class of 1962 will offer an after party • The Troy City Council will meet at 7 following the annual alumni banquet at the p.m. in the meeting room in Council Fayevores Banquet Center, 2334 S. State Chambers. Route 48, West Milton. Reservations are • The Staunton Township Trustees will required for the banquet, but not the after meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Staunton Township party. building. • SOCIETY AUCTION: The Tippecanoe • Covington Board of Public Affairs will Historical Society will have an auction at meet at 4 p.m. in the Water Department noon at the American Legion, 377 N. Third office located at 123 W. Wright St., St., Tipp City. Some items donated to the Covington. museum, such as duplicates, with ties to • The Potsdam Village Council will meet Tipp City, will be auctioned by Bob at 7 p.m. in the village offices. Honeyman. Some of the items are available for view on the website at auctionzip.com TUESDAY ID4502. The Tipp City American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will offer lunch items for sale. For more nformation, call Gordon at • TUESDAY SPECIAL: Post 88 will offer (937) 667-3051 or Susie at (937) 698-6798. hamburgers, cheeseburgers and onion rings • DAR MEETIING: The Piqua-Lewis for $2 each and french fries for $1 from 3-6 Boyer Chapter Daughters of the American p.m. at the post, 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy. Revolution will meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Cook’s choice of the day sandwich also will First Presbyterian Church, 20 S. Walnut St., be featured. Troy. 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ANALYSIS The Japan Times, Tokyo, on the Summit of the Americas: It is a sad commentary on the Sixth Summit of the Americas, the triennial gathering of 34 heads of state from North, South and Central America, when the outcomes of the summit are overshadowed by the misbehavior of U.S. President Barack Obama’s advance team and security detail. Then again, even that commentary might be preferable to focusing on the deep disagreements that make plain the distance between Washington and most of its Latin American interlocutors. Two issues dominated the meeting. The first was the ongoing exclusion of Cuba from the gathering. Most Latin governments prefer to have Cuba in attendance… His absence is a testimony to U.S. influence. Obama noted that “Cuba, unlike the other countries participating, has not yet moved to democracy … has not yet observed basic human rights.” But Mr. Castro is also the longest serving leader in the region and enjoys considerable support among the public and governments of many Latin American countries. His exclusion may gratify a powerful constituency in Florida, but it adds an asterisk to any declarations or outcomes that result from the meeting. The second issue is drug policy. The prevailing policy throughout the region is the “war on drugs” that has been pushed by the U.S. for over four decades, despite its minimal impact on prices or drug use. It has resulted in huge sums of money for drug dealers, while contributing to corruption throughout the hemisphere, fanning terrorism and militarizing many states. By just about every indicator, the war is being lost and demands reconsideration. Unfortunately, Obama, like most other U.S. political leaders, is unwilling to consider possible alternatives. Inflexibility in the face of repeated failure and the continued demand that other leaders adhere to the failed policy only undermined the credibility of the Summit of the Americas once again. Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on foreign direct investment: Saudi Arabia continues to ratchet up the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) that it brings in. Since December 2005, when the Kingdom became a full member of the World Trade Organization and began to open up its economy, more than $200 billion has been attracted from other countries. In 2011 alone, some $34 billion of outside funds were committed to Saudi projects. This is a testament both to the considerable opportunities that exist here for foreign investors and to the increasingly benign investment climate. Given the current inability of overseas interests to invest directly in the Saudi Stock market, the inward flow of foreign funds is all the more remarkable. The obvious question of course is why a nation as wealthy at Saudi Arabia, with in excess of $750 billion of its own money invested in other countries, should need foreign capital at all. The answer is that when an outside investor commits to direct investment — putting money into a project that is expected to grow and give returns — there is more than cash that is arriving in the Kingdom. Very often, the outside interest is a “strategic investor” who is already involved in the same sector elsewhere in the world. That foreign partner therefore also brings a whole range of expertise, as well as very probably technology transfer, which will add to the strength and diversity of our economy. … Outside the Arab world, the United States remains our largest foreign direct investor followed by France and Japan. There are, however, other significant FDI sources that we are yet to see build up. India is likely to be a prime source of investment, not least in information and communication technology, while the industrial power bases of China and Brazil are also producing increasingly sophisticated overseas investments. A great deal has been achieved but much remains to be done.

THEY SAID IT “We started Relay in February and then get really gung-ho in March. I bet we get several hundred that participate.” — Hobart ITW Food Equipment Group manager of administrative services Kathy Agenbroad, on the Miami County Relay for Life “They tell us it’s going to take about six months to remodel so we plan to relocate somewhere downtown until everything is redone.” — Troy Sports Center co-owner Fred Middletown, on the fire that gutted the store “I’m living proof of the power of prayer — when I was born, doctors didn’t think I would live. It’s all because of prayer that I’m here, healthy, today.” — Troy Christian High School student Matthew Koots at the National Day of Prayer event in Troy

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‘Greatest guitarists’ list had several gaping holes Making a list of the “best [insert anything here] ever” is an idiotic idea. All it will ever serve to do is make loud, angry people argue with each other. Much like starting up any kind of discussion about music — which is probably the most subjective topic in the world. So when magazines decide to combine the two things, the results are the very definition of predictable. And so it was that Spin magazine released its list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” earlier this week. And, much like Rolling Stone magazine’s list by the same name last year, Spin’s editors’ choices were met with a high level of scorn, derision and outright rage. And now it’s my turn to rip on them. Before even getting out of the 90s on Spin’s list, it becomes painfully obvious that the people choosing have only began listening to music at all two or three years ago, because they just haven’t learned what music is yet. In fact, the very first entry is a bad joke — Skrillex at No. 100. The very first sentence of the blurb about the techno-dubstep artist is, “Look, as far as we know, our asymmetricallycoiffed party pal has never held a guitar in his life.” I’m all for thinking

tar is not what alternative bands are known for. No matter what anyone’s personal feelings are toward him, putting Kurt Cobain in the top five is ludicrous. He’s known for the things he sang and the way he behaved offstage, not how well he played. Put the tablature to the solo in Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast in front of him, and he’d Josh Brown think it was a multiplication table. Sunday Columnist His fingers would bleed just listening to the sheer speed and brutality of outside the box, but the key part of any song on Slayer’s Reign in Blood that would be to still actually think. album. By naming someone who isn’t even a And Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore guitarist one of the greatest ever with and Lee Ranaldo as the best of all the instrument, Spin compromised time? Spin owes me a new laptop. any integrity (HA!) that its list might Since I spit my drink out all over it have had and negated everything because I couldn’t contain my laughthat followed. ter. And while I’ll give Spin credit for But this is what happens when one thing over Rolling Stone, it you let hipsters talk about the things showed more respect to heavy metal they like. guitarists — who should automaticalLuckily for them, I fixed the top ly be included on any such list few spots on their list: because they are hands down the No. 3: Dimebag Darrell, Pantera. most talented of any genre, playing Cut down before his time by a psythe most difficult songs by far — it chotic concert-goer in Columbus, completely left out the actual all-time Dime lived his life the way he played greats like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, his music — fast and hard. His riffs Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, Stevie were the very definition of metal, as if Ray Vaughn and so on. The magazine the sound itself could have the physiadmits that it “veered toward the cal qualities of steel. His solos were alternative canon.” the inventions of a mad genius — at Unfortunately, skill with the guione point, it was rumored that he had

recorded a song by playing with a half-full can of beer as a pick to make a truly unique sound. And even though he’s gone, his legacy will live forever. No. 2: Whoever is playing guitar for Ozzy Osbourne at any point in time. Randy Rhoads. Tony Iommi. Zakk Wylde. Those are just a few of the guitar gods that have played in bands that Ozzy has fronted over the years. There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the fact that Ozzy will always find the best guitarist alive to play with him (well, maybe not now that his wife Sharon makes all of his decisions for him …). No. 1: Jimi Hendrix. Rolling Stone at least had this right. There is absolutely no arguing that Hendrix is the single greatest guitar player ever to live. None. Don’t try. You’re wrong. And that’s not subjective or opinion or anything. That’s a fact. No one could make that thing do the things he did. And no one ever will. There you go, Spin. You’re welcome. And remember: when you inevitably list your greatest singers of all time, make sure you name people who actually sing. TDN Sports Editor Josh Brown appears Sundays. Skrillex? Sigh. Seems someone dropped the bass on Spin’s editors’ heads.

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Columbus, and TIPP CITY — Greg (Sue) W. Maynard Watkins of Watkins, age 84, Tipp City. He is of Tipp City, survived by six passed away grandchildren, Friday, May 4, Brad (Erin) 2012, at Good Watkins, Emily Samaritan Greer, Kevin Hospital in Greer, Zach Dayton, Ohio. Watkins, Jake He was born in Watkins and Tipp City on May WATKINS Maddie 2, 1928, to Walter Watkins; and and Nealie (Davis) one greatWatkins. grandchild, He graduated Pace. Also from Tippecanoe suriving are his High School in sister, Judy 1946. He served (Si) Cutcher of as a sergeant in Piqua, brother Charles the Army during the Watkins of Troy, stepKorean Conflict. He brother Jack (Rosie) retired from General Routsong of Florida, and Motors after 42 years of two stepsisters, Dee service. Maynard was active with (Kenny) Krimm and Lola the Tipp Senior Citizens, Richey, both of Dayton. He was preceded in Tippecanoe Masonic death by a sister, Dolly Lodge, Eastern Star, Antioch Shrine, American Springer, and two brothLegion Post No. 586 and ers, Terry and Bobby Dean Watkins, and a the VFW in Vandalia. He was an active member of daughter-in-law, Linda the Zion Lutheran Church Watkins. Visitation will be from 4and retired from the Tipp City Fire Department as a 8 p.m. Monday, May 7, at Frings and Bayliff Funeral captain after 25 years. Home, 327 W. Main St, Maynard was also Tipp City. Funeral servicinstrumental in making the Veterans Memorial in es will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at Tipp City a reality. Maynard loved his family, the Zion Lutheran golf and THE Ohio State Church, Tipp City, with Pastor Steve Gellatly offiBuckeyes! Maynard is survived by ciating. There also will be visitation one hour prior his wife of 58 years, Ramona (Miller), and four to the service at the children, Jill (John) Greer church. Contributions may be of Troy, Bryan (Ellie) Watkins of Hamilton, Kyle made to Needy Baskets in memory of Maynard. (Theresa) Watkins of

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Migrating birds draw birders Will Stacer of Livonia, Mich., left, and several other birders line the Magee Marsh Bird Trail near Toledo Saturday. Enthusiasts from across the country and beyond flock to the area to view the migration of thousands of songbirds each May.

Alliance hosts first River Summit BY BETHANY J. ROYER Ohio Community Media broyer@dailycall.com What began as an innocent question from a child turned into a three-year project for West Milton resident and videographer Tom Mayor — one that was showcased Thursday evening at the first-ever River Summit hosted by the Middle Great Miami River Watershed Alliance at the Fort Piqua Plaza. “I didn’t know we had a scenic river program three years ago,” said Mayor, whose son had asked for the meaning behind the state scenic river sign on the West Milton bridge. Unable to answer the question, Mayor dug into the issue to discover such facts as Ohio being the first state in the country to adopt a scenic rivers program in 1968. As a graduate from Wright State University with a bachelor of fine arts degree in motion picture production and looking for a large project to tackle, Mayor tied his passion for the river to his son’s question, with the result in a film titled, “Call of the Scenic River: An Ohio Journey.” Designed for both personal and educational use, “Call of the Scenic River” showcases the state’s rivers, their beauty and history, and the importance of maintaining its health. It has been shown across

PIQUA the state, including at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and a 30minute version is being shown every weekend at COSI in Columbus. Released on the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the film shows what Mayor emphasizes as a balance of protecting the water without pointing fingers or placing blame. “We’ve got to be all together on this,” said Mayor. “Tonight is a perfect example.” Collaboration was a key element to the Alliance’s first River Summit event, held to not only promote the area’s 155,000-acre watershed both in conservation and recreation but bring together like minds. Those included numerous water conservancy members who spoke on projects both past, present and in the future. Those members came from the Piqua CAC (Community Action Council), MGM River Alliance, Protecting our Water Ways (POWW), Miami County Soil and Water Conservation District, Pheasants Forever, The Conservationist, Honey Creek Watershed Group, Miami Conservancy District, Stillwater Rivershed and Men of the Mad River. Also in attendance were city leaders, business owners, farmers and concerned residents wanting to learn

COLUMBUS (AP) — A year ago, the most strenuous activity in which Nina Jackson engaged was “moving from my couch to my bed.” Or, put another way: “I wasn’t doing anything.” Jackson’s view of fitness changed, though, after she joined the Columbus chapter of Black Girls RUN! and began participating in club outings on Saturday mornings. Separately, she took park in the Metro Parks’ winterhike series and recently completed a 10-mile walk in Gahanna. “My energy level has increased, and my outlook is a lot more positive,” said Jackson, 51. “I just feel better, lighter, happier.” That is the mission of

Black Girls RUN! a national group founded in 2009 to provide peer support en route to improving the health of African-American women. The club has its roots in the fitness blog of friends Toni Carey of Norfolk, Va., and Ashley Hicks of New York who used the outlet to share their running experiences. The blog’s popularity inspired the formation of the club, which today has chapters in 60 cities nationwide and about 25,000 members. “It has grown tremendously,” said Carey, 28, who works in public relations. “Our members are so passionate.” The passion was on display in Columbus when about 150 club members were signed up for

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Saturday’s Cap City Half Marathon. As an event warm-up, the women arranged a hotel “meet and greet,” planned in part by Koritha Mitchell , 37, an Ohio State University professor who helped found the Columbus chapter in April 2011. “Koritha has been amazing, drumming up support about running in Columbus,” said Hicks, who works in marketing. “This will be a good chance for us to interact with other members from the Midwest and spread the word.” According to a 2010 report by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 78 percent of black women ages 20 and older are overweight or obese.

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Name That Nurse By Tresa Erickson

You eat right, you work out daily and you see your doctor regularly. So do a lot of other patients, which usually results in some time in the waiting room. Sometimes, you bring along a book, sometimes you page through the magazines at the office, and sometimes you just sit there with little to do. The next time you’ve waiting patiently to see your doctor and are looking for something to flex your brain muscles, try this quiz on TV nurses. 1) What TV nurse was nicknamed “Hot Lips”? 2) Who played Hot Lips? 3) Which of the nurses on Trapper John, M.D. went way back with Dr. McIntyre to his M*A*S*H days? 4) Who replaced the answer to #3 when actress Mary McCarty died? 5) What Trapper John nurse was nicknamed “Ripples”? 6) Who played Nurse Dixie McCall on Emergency? 7) How many nurses were routinely seen on Marcus Welby, M.D.? What were their names

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and who played them? 8) Who played Nurse Mary Benjamin on Nurse? 9) What was the name of Dr. Harry Weston’s nurse on Empty Nest? Who played the role? 10) How many nurses were featured in Nurses, the spinoff of Empty Nurse? 11) Which of the spinoff’s nurses had a germ phobia? 12) Which of the spinoff’s nurses was pregnant with Dr. Kaplan’s child by series end? 13) Who played Nurse Colleen McMurphy on China Beach? 14) Which of the nurses on Chicago Hope was married to Dr. Aaron Shutt? 15) Who played Nurse Maggie Atkisson on Chicago Hope? 16) What ER character started off their series run as a nurse and ended it as a doctor? 17) Who replaced the answer to #16 as head nurse? 18) Which ER nurse who left County General with twins in tow appeared on the series finale? 19) Which of the characters on That ’70s Show was a nurse? Who played the role? 20) Which of the nurses on Scrubs married Dr. Christopher Turk? 21) Which of the nurses on Scrubs died in a car accident? 22) Which of the characters on 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter was a nurse? Who played the role? 23) How many nurses were the focus of the series Mercy? 24) Which of the Mercy nurses had served in Iraq?

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25) Which of the Mercy nurses had just graduated? 26) Who plays the lead on Nurse Jackie? 27) Where in the hospital does Nurse Jackie Peyton work? 28) Who plays Zoey Barkow, a nursing student that works with Peyton? 29) Who plays the lead on HawthoRNe? 30) What is the lead character’s name? What was their name originally? Answers: 1) Major Margaret Houlihan of M*A*S*H, 2) Loretta Swit, 3) Clara “Starch” Willoughby played by Mary McCarty, 4) Ernestine Shoop played by Madge Sinclair, 5) Gloria Brancusi played by Christopher Norris, 6) Julie London, 7) Two, Consuelo Lopez played by Elena Verdugo and Kathleen Faverty played by Sharon Gless, 8) Michael Learned, 9) LaVerne Todd played by Park Overall, 10) Five, Annie Roland played by Arnetia Walker, Sandy Miller played by Stephanie Hodge, Julie Milbury played by Mary Jo Keenan, Gina Cuevas played by Ada Maris and Greg Vincent played by Jeff Altman, 11) Julie, 12) Gina, 13) Dana Delaney, 14) Camille Shutt played by Roxanne Hart, 15) Robyn Lively, 16) Abby Lockhart played by Maura Tierney, 17) Sam Taggart played by Linda Cardellini, 18) Carol Hathaway played by Julianna Margulies, 19) Kitty Forman played by Debra Jo Rupp, 20) Carla Espinosa played by Judy Reyes, 21) Laverne Roberts played by Aloma Wright, 22) Cate Hennessy played by Katey Sagal, 23) Three, Veronica Flanagan Callahan played by Taylor Schilling, Sonia Jimenez played by Jaime Lee Kirchner and Chloe Payne played by Michelle Trachtenberg, 24) Veronica, 25) Chloe, 26) Edie Falco, 27) Emergency room, 28) Merritt Wever, 29) Jada Pinkett Smith, 30) Christina Hawthorne, who was originally Nancy Hawthorne How did you do? Yearning for more? Try naming some other TV show nurses and the actors who played them. Who, for example, played nurses Haleh Adams and Malik McGrath on ER? That’s right. Yvette Freeman and Deezer D. What about the two nurses on Grey’s Anatomy who played the love interests of Dr. Derek Shepherd and Dr. Miranda Bailey, respectively? Yeah, Lauren Stamile played Rose and Daniel Sunjata played Eli.

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Nursing: The Health of a Nation This year’s theme for National work on the front lines and behind the Nursing Week is a continuation of the scenes. Not only do they assist physicians in campaign “Nursing: The Health of a administering direct care, they work to eduNation”. Without nurses, we would cate community members about hygiene, suffer through longer waits at our safe sex practices, disease control, and dispublicly funded health institutions, ease prevention. They are the front-line care our elderly and bed-ridden would be givers in hospital emergency rooms, medical forced to endure the agony of clinic clinics, learning institutions, and homes for waiting rooms, and our children and the elderly. teens would know a lot less about how In many of Canada’s remote northern to keep in good health. communities, often the only health care Sponsored by the Canadian practitioner who lives on-site and treats peoNurses Association, National Nursing ple is a registered nurse or nurse practiWeek is a celebration of those who The men and women who practise nursing are the front-line tioner. These women and men are all-in-one: work in public health clinics, hospi- healthcare providers in every community. they deal with emergencies, take care of vactals and clinics, and private and cination programs, educate the public about home-care organizations. CNA president Judith Shamian says it health and reproductive issues, and of course they often serve as is a time to “acknowledge and celebrate nursing — a profession in counsellor-friends to community members. which going above and beyond is a daily occurrence.” This year, let’s all find a way to recognize the nurses who work The CAN represents just over 145,000 registered nurses who hard to make our healthcare system accessible and efficient.

Nurse, Oh Nurse! By Tresa Erickson They check your blood pressure. They measure your height and weight. They listen to your heartbeat. They perform routine exams and sometimes even prescribe medication. They are nurses and they are responsible for many tasks in health care. there Fortunately, are hundreds of nurses of different types. Types of nurses in the United States include: • Licensed practical nurses. Nurses in this group typically have two years of training in nursing and have passed state and national boards. Many work under the supervision of physicians in offices, clinics and hospitals, while others work under the

supervision of registered nurses in longterm care facilities. Registered • nurses. Nurses in this group usually have a bachelor’s degree in nursing, plus many hours of clinical experience. They may practice nursing or perform any number of jobs from educators, managers and executives to therapists, mentors and researchers in a variety of settings. • Advanced practice nurses. Nurses in this group have a master’s degree or higher in nursing and may have addicertificates. tional They may practice as certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists or certified registered nurse anesthetists. • Doctorally prepared nurses. Nurses

in this group have a Ph.D. or another doctoral degree specializing in research and nursing. clinical Some practice nursing, while others teach and do research in the field of nursing. Although they are not technically considered nurses, there are other groups in health care that work alongside nurses and could be considered of nursing. part These include: • Nursing assistants. Individuals in this group may be certified and assist nurses in many ways from taking vital signs to providing hygienic care. Many work in hospitals and long-term care facilities. • Orderlies. Individuals in this group often help nurses transfer patients and

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Nurses’ Day & Week May 2012 Fair Haven would like to give a special thank you to the LPNs and RNs that serve here with us: Cathy Benesh, RN, DON Cara Abele, RN Mary Coleman, RN Cleo DeWeese, RN Brandi Glass, R Jennifer Hall, RN Chris Montague, RN Chris Morrison, RN Betty Moyler, RN Ashley Neal, RN Deidre Stanley, RN Robert Arnett, LPN

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assist them with other duties. • Technicians. Individuals in this group often perform duties typically associated with nursing, such as passing out medication or drawing blood. They may work as certimedication fied aides, phlebotomy technicians, surgical technologists and machine operators. Individuals who work in the field of nursing play many different roles. Whether a technician or a registered nurse, all are important and make vital contributions to health care and to the care of patients in general. They are heroes to many.

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9/11 defendants ignore judge at hearing GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that dragged into Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until more than seven hours into the hearing that prosecutors at the U.S. military base in Cuba began reading the charges against the men, including 2,976 counts of murder and terrorism in the 2001 attacks that sent hijacked jetliners into New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted 9/11 architect, and the four men accused of aiding the

9/11 conspiracy put off their pleas until a later date. Lawyers were still discussing trial dates Saturday night; another hearing was set for June 12. Earlier, Mohammed cast off his earphones providing Arabic translations of the proceeding and refused to answer Army Col. James Pohlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questions or acknowledge he understood them. All five men refused to participate in the hearing; two passed around a copy of The Economist magazine and leafed through the articles. Walid bin Attash was confined to a restraint chair when he came into court, released only after he promised to behave. Ramzi Binalshibh began praying alongside his defense table, followed by Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, in the middle of the hearing; Binalshibh then launched into a tirade in which he compared a prison official

to the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and declared that he was in danger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe they will kill me and say I committed suicide,â&#x20AC;? he said in a mix of Arabic and broken English. The detaineesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lawyers spent hours questioning the judge about his qualifications to hear the case and suggested their clients were being mistreated at the hearing, in a strategy that could pave the way for future appeals. Mohammed was subjected to a strip search and â&#x20AC;&#x153;inflammatory and unnecessaryâ&#x20AC;? treatment before court, said his attorney, David Nevin. It was the defendantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first appearance in more than three years after stalled efforts to try them for the terror attacks, in which hijackers steered four commercial jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a western Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 people were

killed. The defendantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; behavior outraged 9/11 family members watching on closed-circuit video feeds around the United States at East Coast military bases. One viewer shouted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon, are you kidding me?â&#x20AC;? at the Fort Hamilton base in Brooklyn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re engaging in jihad in a courtroom,â&#x20AC;? said Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon. She watched the proceeding from Brooklyn. A handful of people who lost family members in the attacks and were selected by a lottery to attend the proceedings watched in the courtroom. The Obama administration renewed plans to try the men at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay after a bid to try the men in New York City blocks from the trade center site faced political opposition. It

adopted new rules with Congress that forbade testimony obtained through torture or cruel treatment, and officials now say that defendants could be tried as fairly here as in a civilian court. Human rights groups and defense lawyers say the secrecy of Guantanamo and the military commissions, or tribunals, will make it impossible to defend them. They argued the U.S. kept the case out of civilian court to prevent disclosure of the treatment of prisoners like Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. Nevin said he believed Mohammed was not responding because he believes the tribunal is unfair. Jim Harrington, representing Binalshibh, said his client would not respond to questions â&#x20AC;&#x153;without addressing the issues of confinement.â&#x20AC;? Cheryl Bormann, a civilian attorney for bin

Attash, appeared in a conservative Islamic outfit that left only her face uncovered and she asked the court to order other women present to wear â&#x20AC;&#x153;appropriateâ&#x20AC;? clothing so that defendants do not have to avert their eyes â&#x20AC;&#x153;for fear of committing a sin under their faith.â&#x20AC;? Pohl warned he would not permit defendants to block the hearing and would continue without his participation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One cannot choose not to participate and frustrate the normal course of business,â&#x20AC;? Pohl said. Pohl brought translators into the courtroom to interpret the proceedings live once the men refused to use earpieces attempted to stick to the standard script for tribunals, asking the defendants if they understood their rights to counsel and would accept the attorneys appointed for them. The men were silent.

Buffett reassures Berkshire shareholders on health outlook OMAHA, Neb. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Warren Buffett worked to reassure shareholders that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis, and that Berkshire Hathaway is ready to replace the revered 81year-old investor when the need arises. Based on the questions Buffett got from the crowd of more than 30,000 at the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual meeting

in Omaha on Saturday, Berkshire shareholders are taking him at his word. Despite the fact that Buffett just disclosed the condition last month, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t face the first question about his health until well into Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questioning. Many of the questions at the meeting either focused in on technical aspects of

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sent a serious threat to his health. He plans to undergo radiation treatment in July, but the treatment should have little effect on his daily routine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I may have a little less energy, but that may mean I do fewer dumb things,â&#x20AC;? Buffett said jokingly. Still, the diagnosis is forcing shareholders to confront the fact that one day Buffett will no longer

be at the helm of the conglomerate, which includes an eclectic mix of companies. Buffett told shareholders in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual letter that the board has picked someone to succeed him as CEO if the need arises immediately, and it has two backup candidates. But Buffett hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t publicly identified his successor.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Two bodies have been found in Mississippi during the search for a missing Tennessee woman and her three children, but the identities are not known, authorities said Saturday. The bodies were found late Friday night or early Saturday morning in a residence associated with the man charged with abducting Jo Ann Bain and her children, FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said. The spokesman said authorities on the scene were not able to positively identify the bodies. He

would not say if the bodies were children. The missing girls are 8year-old Kyliyah Bain, 12year-old Alexandria and 14year-old Adrienne. They were last seen April 27 in Hardeman County, Tenn. The womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband reported her missing and her car was found abandoned. Adam Mayes, 35, is charged in Tennessee with abducting all four, but authorities are still trying to determine if Jo Ann Bain went with Mayes willingly. He was last seen Tuesday in Guntown, Miss. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been

described as a family friend. The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to the location of the missing victims and the arrest of Mayes. Siskovic said the bodies were found in a residence, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clear if it was a house, mobile home or apartment. He also wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure if the residence belonged to Mayes or an acquaintance of his. Siskovic said the bodies were found in Guntown, north of Tupelo. Lee County coroner Carolyn Green said

the bodies were found outside Guntown in Union County. Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again. The FBI says they were not immediately aware of Mayes having a criminal record. Authorities had said that Mayes could be in Mississippi but that he has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert on Saturday morning.

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Tipp tops Newton Staff Reports TIPP CITY — In a battle of two of the area’s best teams in Tippecanoe and Newton, the Red Devils were able to overcome five errors on defense to emerge with a 3-1 victory over the Indians on Saturday. After Newton scored in the first inning, Tippecanoe responded with a three-run third inning, which proved to be the difference in the game.

TIPP CITY CC Alvarez — who had two hits, a run and a stolen base — was the winning pitcher, while Kirsten Burden took the loss for Newton. For the Red Devils, Alex Dawes had a hit and two RBIs, Hannah Beck had a hit and an RBI, Darlene Reinhard and Cassie Gingerich each added a hit and a run. “This was a very good game,” Tippecanoe coach Charles Tackett said. “It was two hardnosed teams playing well against eachother. The run they scored in the first was unearned. Obviously we committed a lot of

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Troy’s Chris Schmitt serves during a first doubles match against Springboro Saturday at the Greater Western Ohio Conference tournament in Centerville.

Shining moment Trojans place third at GWOC tourney BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Some played for revenge. Or merely to prove themselves. Or even to prepare for what’s to come next week. No matter the personal motivation, though, every Troy Trojan got his moment in the sun — once it came out, at least.

The Indiana Pacers have looked like a team with enough talent to win in the playoffs. After wasting a big lead in Game 4 against the Magic, the Pacers showed they have the late-game toughness to win as well. See Page A12.

Dragons Lair DAYTON — Dayton’s bats couldn’t get rolling on Saturday, getting only three hits on offense in a 3-0 loss to Fort Wayne. Pitcher Tanner Robles took the loss, despite allowing only one earned run in five innings.

Finishes unbeaten in CBC play Staff Reports Tippecanoe’s foundation was a little shaken Saturday against Northwestern in the regular season finale. But the Red Devils got what they needed from a surprise source to finish the year undefeated in the Central Buckeye Conference. Sam Bollinger was forced to retire in the third set at first singles, but JV callups Doug

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CENTERVILLE After a constant early-morning drizzle postponed action for roughly three hours Saturday, all three Troy singles players and the first doubles team placed third, while the second doubles team rallied from an early setback to take fifth at the Greater Western Ohio Conference Gold Flight tournament at Centerville

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• HOLE-IN-ONE: Ted Dooley hit a hole-in-one at Homestead Golf Course Friday. The ace came on the 150-yard 13th hole using an 8-iron. • COACHING SEARCH: Tippecanoe High School is seeking to fill the position of varsity boys basketball coach. A letter of interest, resume and support material may be submitted to Matt Shomper, Athletic Director, 615 E. Kessler-Cowlesville Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371. Phone: (937) 6696364, Fax: (937) 667-0912, email: mshomper@tippcity.k12.oh.us. The deadline for application is May 11. • BASEBALL: Troy Post 43 American Legion baseball will be sponsoring an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 3-7 p.m. today at the Legion Hall on S. Market Street. Meals include salad bar, spaghetti, bread and beverage/coffee for $6.75 for adults and $4 for children. • WRESTLING: Shockwave Impact Wrestling is bringing in four-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) champion “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce for its show scheduled for tonight at the Shelby County Fairgrounds. “Scrap Iron” will be taking on Matt Conard in the main event Saturday. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the bell will ring for the first match at 7:30. Also on the card, Damien Daniels will wrestle a mystery opponent, Zac Vincent will meet Kozzmitude, Mr. Fitness Slim Trimmons will meet The Great Akuma, and Jerry O’Keefe will take on Eric Fallen. Scrap Iron is being flown in from California for the event. He’s expected to arrive Saturday at 3:30 p.m., and he will be putting on a clinic for all the workers, people already in the business, and the fans, showing how to perform different holds and maneuvers. Admission to the event is $8, with kids 5-and-under free. • BASEBALL: The Troy Post 43 baseball team is holding the 2012 Golf Scramble at Cliffside Golf Course in Tipp City on May 12. Check in starts at noon. A shotgun start will take place at 1 p.m. The fee is $65 a person. Proceeds go to the support of Troy Post 43 baseball. To learn more, contact Frosty Brown at (937) 339-4383 or at (937) 474-9093.You can also contact Frosty via email at ibrown@woh.rr.com.

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Troy’s Luke Oaks hits a backhand during a first singles match against Zach Berry of Springboro on Saturday.

Lehnkuhl and J.D. Woodward battled their way to a three-set victory at second doubles, giving Tippecanoe (19-1, 16-0 CBC) the decisive win in a 3-2 victory. Bollinger lost 6-7, 5-7, 1-2 to Zach Wildofsky, finishing with a 17-3 record on the year. Freshman Michael Keller beat Dakota Hitt 6-1, 6-1 to finish a perfect 20-0 in the regular season at second singles, and Jacob Belcher blanked Mason Stalder 6-0, 6-0 at third singles to finish 18-1. “It’s been a good season for singles,” Tippecanoe coach Von Clendenen said. “They’ve been the backbone of our team.

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Fantastic finish I’ll Have Another wins Kentucky Derby LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — I’ll Have Another didn’t seem to have the goods to win the Kentucky Derby. Sold as a yearling for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew and stuck in an outside post no horse had ever won from — not exactly a blueprint for success at Churchill Downs. But with the finish line in sight, the chestnut colt overtook highly regarded Bodemeister in AP PHOTO the final furlong Saturday to Jockey Mario Gutierrez rides I'll Have Another past make a name for himself and Bodemeister ridden by Mike Smith (6) to victory in the 138th rider Mario Gutierrez. Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday in I’ll Have Another stormed out Louisville, Ky. of post No. 19 — the first winner

from there in 138 runnings of the Derby — and bided his time back in mid-pack while Bodemeister set a blistering pace on a hot, muggy afternoon. “He’s an amazing horse. I kept telling everybody, from the first time I met him, I knew he was the one. I knew he was good,” Gutierrez said. “I said in an interview, even if they allowed me to pick from the whole rest of the field, I would have stayed with him, 100 percent, no doubt about it.” Gutierrez, making his Derby debut at 25, got his chance to

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Santana gets first win in 20 months Mets pitcher lifts team to a 4-3 win over Diamondbacks NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty months and a major shoulder surgery later, Johan Santana is a winner again. The Mets’ ace finally got some run support from his teammates, toughing out seven innings Saturday to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 and snap New York’s four-game losing streak. Mike Nickeas and Andres Torres each hit a two-run single to back the two-time Cy Young Award winner, whose last victory came against Atlanta on Sept. 2, 2010, before his injury wiped out last season. “It’s always good to get that first one out of the way,” Santana said. Santana (1-2) allowed nine hits but gave up only three runs, striking out five and walking one in his longest outing since the surgery. “I wouldn’t say he had his most outstanding stuff, but he battles as good as anybody,” said Nickeas, his catcher. “Later in the game he actually got better.” Daniel Murphy went 4 for 4 for the second four-hit game of his career and the Mets’ bullpen bounced back with two scoreless innings after blowing a late lead Friday night. The Diamondbacks got a runner to second in both the eighth and ninth but couldn’t score the tying run. Frank Francisco struck out slugger Justin Upton with a runner on second to end it. “We had a lot of pressure on them all day just couldn’t get the hit,” Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. The Mets had scored just four runs in Santana’s first five starts this year but matched that total in the fourth inning Saturday. Down 1-0, New York loaded the bases with one out on two singles and a walk. Nickeas singled in two runs, chasing rookie Patrick Corbin (1-1), who won his debut Monday at Miami. The 22-year-old lefty allowed four runs on five hits and two walks with two strikeouts in 3 1-3 innings. Santana bunted the run-

ners over to second and third against Josh Collmenter, and Torres’ twoout single gave New York a 4-1 lead. In his previous start Sunday, Santana left with a 4-0 cushion at Colorado before New York’s bullpen squandered it. Nationals 7, Phillies 1 WASHINGTON — Gio Gonzalez allowed one run over seven innings and Washington hit a seasonhigh three home runs in the win over Philadelphia. Jayson Werth hit a threerun drive, Chad Tracy connected with a man on and Ian Desmond had a solo shot for the Nationals, who have won seven straight over the Phillies dating to last year. Gonzalez (3-1) gave up four hits, struck out seven and walked one. Acquired last December in a trade with Oakland, the left-hander has a 1.72 ERA in six starts this season and has yielded only three runs over the last 27 innings. Philadelphia starter Vance Worley (2-2) gave up five runs and 11 hits in six innings. Dodgers 5, Cubs 1 CHICAGO — Chris Capuano threw seven shutout innings and drove in two runs to lead Los Angeles past Chicago. Capuano (4-0) held Chicago to three hits and struck out seven, extending his scoreless innings streak to 18 2-3. His two-run double in the second gave him his first RBIs since Aug. 24, 2007. Cubs starter Chris Volstad (0-4) fell to 0-9 over 17 starts dating to July 10. He allowed four hits and five runs over five innings, walking three and striking out one. The first-place Dodgers avoided their first threegame losing streak of the season. Giants 5, Brewers 2 SAN FRANCISCO — Madison Bumgarner shut down Milwaukee for seven innings and added an RBI double to win his eighth

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New York Mets’ Johan Santana (57) delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks Saturday in New York. straight home start as San Francisco snapped a fourgame skid. Buster Posey and Brett Pill added RBI hits in a three-run sixth inning against Randy Wolf to give Bumgarner (5-1) all the support he needed. The Brewers got NL MVP Ryan Braun back in the lineup after he missed Friday’s series opener with a sore right Achilles and he hit a solo homer in the eighth inning. The Giants had not led a game at any point during

their recent skid and struggled early against Wolf (2-3), putting just one runner in scoring position in the first four innings. Astros 8, Cardinals 2 HOUSTON — Chris Johnson hit his first career grand slam, Bud Norris continued his dominance of St. Louis and Houston won its fifth straight for the first time since late 2010. Jed Lowrie added a tworun home run for the Astros, who hadn’t won five straight since Aug. 22-26, 2010.

Norris (2-1) limited the Cardinals to one unearned run on three hits over six innings to improve to 7-2 in 11 career starts against them. Left-hander Jaime Garcia (2-2) was charged with six runs on four hits in six innings for the Cardinals, who lost their season-worst third straight. Garcia walked four and struck out two. Orioles 8, Red Sox 2 BOSTON — Mark Reynolds hit a three-run

homer, Jason Hammel continued his strong start this season and Baltimore extended Boston’s recent home struggles. Adam Jones added a two-run homer for Baltimore, which won its 10th in the last 12 games, and Hammel (4-1) held the Red Sox scoreless until he gave up two runs in the seventh. Adrian Gonzalez had three hits for Boston, which lost its fourth straight and has dropped nine of its last 10 games at Fenway Park. The Orioles knocked out starter Aaron Cook (0-1) after 2 2-3 innings and built an 8-0 lead after three. Cookwas making his first start after Josh Beckett was skipped due to soreness. White Sox 3, Tigers 2 DETROIT — Adam Dunn hit a two-run homer deep into the right-field seats off Jose Valverde in the ninth inning to lift Chicago over Detroit. Dunn hit a 422-foot drive off Valverde (2-1) for his eighth homer this season and Paul Konerko also went deep for the White Sox. Nate Jones (1-0) got the win and Addison Reed came on to strike out Austin Jackson with runners on second and third for the final out. It was Reed’s first career save. Detroit’s Delmon Young went hitless in his first game back from a seven-day suspension following his April 27 arrest in New York. Royals 5, Yankees 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Felipe Paulino came off the disabled list to toss six shutout innings, Billy Butler drove in three runs and Kansas City beat New York. Paulino (1-0) retired 11 straight to start the game and did not allow a ball out of the infield until Raul Ibanez singled with one out in the fifth. Paulino gave up only four hits and walked two while striking out six in his first start of the season. Butler doubled in the first and again in the fifth, each time driving in Alex Gordon, who matched a career high with four hits. Gordon also drove in a run with a double in the sixth.

McDonald, Pirates edge Reds PITTSBURGH (AP) — Neil Walker ended a long home run drought, James McDonald put together another strong start and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Saturday night. Alex Presley also homered for Pittsburgh and Joel Hanrahan worked a perfect ninth for his fifth save in relief of McDonald (2-1), who gave up one run and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. He walked two and struck out seven. Cincinnati starter Mike Leake (0-4) remained winless but showed improvement after a rough opening month, allowing three runs and four hits in seven innings. He walked four and struck out four. Walker hadn’t homered since last September, but his two-run shot in the third gave McDonald an early cushion before Pittsburgh’s bullpen staved off a late Cincinnati rally. Joey Votto had two hits for the Reds, but Cincinnati was undone by some slick Pirates defense and solid work from McDonald. The 27-year-old righthander is beginning to harness his control, a problem that’s plagued him early in his career and made it difficult for him to pitch deep into games. He came in with 18 strikeouts combined in his last two starts including a career-high 10 in a victory over Atlanta on Monday and worked into the seventh inning both times, encouraging signs for a pitcher Pittsburgh consid-

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Cleveland Indians’ Asdrubal Cabrera barehands a ball hit by Texas Rangers’ Mike Napoli in the second inning Saturday in Cleveland. Napoli was safe at first base.

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Cincinnati Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco, left, waits as Pittsburgh Pirates’ Neil Walker (18) trots home to greetings from teammate Jose Tabata (31) after hitting a two-run home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Mike Leake in the third inning in Pittsburgh Saturday. ers a building block. McDonald cruised through six innings before running into trouble in the seventh when Jay Bruce tripled with one out and Scott Rolen followed with a single. Juan Cruz came on in relief and escaped further damage when Ryan Ludwick lined to center and Rolen was tagged out at second trying to advance. The Reds drew within one in the eighth against

Jason Grilli when Zack Cozart doubled home Devin Mesoraco. Grilli intentionally walked Votto, and Brandon Phillips struck out to end the threat. Hanrahan retired the side in order in the ninth as the Pirates continued their weird start. Save for a two-game slide in St. Louis earlier this week, Pittsburgh has alternated wins and losses in every game since April 18. Cincinnati, meanwhile,

had been surging. The Reds came in 7-3 in their last 10 games and moved over .500 for the first time in a month with a 6-1 victory on Friday. McDonald blunted Cincinnati’s momentum, though the Reds got a boost from Leake, who struggled so badly in April that he was bumped from his scheduled start last Thursday thanks to an earlier rainout that allowed manager Dusty Baker to juggle his rotation.

CLEVELAND (AP) Pinch-hitter Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer in the 11th inning to help lift the Texas Rangers to a 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night. Beltre didn’t start for the fourth straight game due to a tender hamstring, but hit a 1-0 pitch from Joe Smith (1-1) over the center-field wall for his fifth homer, snapping Texas’ three-game losing streak. Alexi Ogando (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings and Joe Nathan worked the 11th for his seventh save in eight tries.

Asdrubal Cabrera had four hits for Cleveland, which had a three-game winning streak stopped. It was Beltre’s third career pinch homer first in nearly 12 years. He also did it in 1998 and 2000 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Friday night, Beltre’s bid for a two-run pinch homer was thwarted by a leaping catch at the right-field wall by Shin-Soo Choo for the final out of Cleveland’s 6-3 win. Shut out Saturday for seven innings by Derek Holland, the Indians chased the left-hander and rallied to tie it at 2 in the eighth.

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■ National Hockey League

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Troy’s Seth Cothran hits a forehand shot. ■ CONTINUED FROM A9 High School — giving the team a third-place overall finish. “Four thirds and a fifth here — we can’t complain,” Troy coach Mark Goldner said with a smile. “And we could have had another third or fourth at second doubles easily, too.” Troy tallied 28 points on the day, three behind secondplace Butler (31). Springboro — the top-ranked team in the state — won with 43 points. And the turnaround began at first doubles. Chris Scmitt and Ben Thompson — polar opposites personality-wise on the court — were at the top of their game, making a statement with an 8-3 victory over Butler’s Ryan Helke and Lauren Jackson. To get there, they fought back from down 5-2 to knock off Beavercreek 8-6 in the first round and had Springboro on the ropes, leading 4-3 at one point, before falling 8-5. “We were fired up already after beating Beavercreek and scaring Springboro,” Schmitt said. “Yeah, it was definitely a … spirited … match,” Thompson said. That’s because Helke and Jackson had knocked off Schmitt and Thompson 6-1, 6-3 in their meeting during the regular season. And it was obvious from the start that the Trojan duo was playing for more than just to save face. Helke and Jackson are the top-seeded doubles team in the Division I Sectional tournament, which begins Wednesday, while Schmitt and Thompson are seeded No. 4. Schmitt let his feelings be known after every point, growling in frustration after every lost point and pumping his fist and emphatically high-fiving his teammate after each point one, fueling the team’s momentum with his emotion. Thompson, meanwhile, was unshakably calm throughout, instead showing his excitement with some added oomph behind his serve and ground strokes. And at one point during a changeover — after Troy had turned a slim 3-2 edge into a 5-2 lead — Schmitt leapt over the net in his excitement, earning a talking-to from Goldner before the match continued. “Yeah, he’s (Thompson) pretty chill out there, and I’m a little more … eccentric,” Schmitt said. “We just really wanted to beat them. We wanted to show who was better.” “We played our worst match of the year the first time we played them,” Thompson said. “It was a windy day, and we just played like crap. It was definitely nice (to win so convincingly).” Another Trojan had payback on his mind — freshman Luke Oaks at first singles. Oaks obliterated Centerville’s Jack Brendlinger 8-2 in the opening round and dismantled Miamisburg’s Rafael Hidalgo in the third-place match 8-1, avenging two regular-season

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Washington Capitals center Brooks Laich (21) and New York Rangers left wing Carl Hagelin (62) crash into the net during the second period of Game 4 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup secondround playoff series Saturday in Washington.

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Troy’s Reid Wynkoop hits a return shot on Saturday. losses in the process. He hit his only stumbling block in the semifinal, falling 8-2 to Springboro’s Zach Berry — one of the top players in the state. “It was fun to go out and turn two losses from earlier in the season into wins,” Oaks said. “This time I was ready to fight from the start. I definitely finished the season better than I started.” And at second singles, Reid Wynkoop also had a pair of easy matches but ran into trouble in the semifinal. He took down Northmont’s Taishi Sakai 8-1 in the first round before falling to Butler’s Justin Kopronica — the No. 3 singles seed in the upcoming sectional tournament — 8-4 in a match that was closer than the score indicates. But with Wynkoop down 6-4 and trying to fight off a game point, Kopronica mishit a ball off the top of his racket’s frame, sending it high into the air. It somehow came down on Wynkoop’s side inbounds, though, and shortly after in the rally Wynkoop hit the top of the net chord — and couldn’t get a friendly bounce, showing that it was just Kopronica’s day. “I kind of got that feeling, too,” Wynkoop said. Wynkoop — who then took his frustration out on Centerville’s Jon Garber, taking a 7-0 lead, closing the match out with an ace and winning 8-1 to claim third place — will find himself in a familiar position during the sectional, teaming up with Oaks to take on the doubles bracket. Oaks and Wynkoop are the No. 2 seed. Last season, Wynkoop and Ashlin Stoltz teamed up for the sectional after playing singles all year — and won the title. “I did it last year, playing with Ashlin, and we ended up winning it,” Wynkoop said. “I’m feeling pretty good about it. I’m playing hot right now

and Luke’s playing really well. I think we’ll do well at doubles.” “I’m looking forward to teaming up with Reid,” Oaks said. “We’re looking to get a No. 1 going to district and hopefully make it to state.” At third singles, Sean Cothran went back and forth between opponents’ playing styles, beating counterpunchers in his first-round and final match handily but falling to Springboro powerhouse Ryan O’Gara 8-0 in the second round. Cothran worked to take down Miamisburg’s Darren Grierson 8-1 to start his day in a match filled with long rallies. And he finished his day much the same way, knocking off Beavercreek’s Peter Xue 8-4. “I knew I just needed to play the same game (against Xue) that I did against Miamisburg,” Cothran said. “At the start, I wasn’t used to it anymore (after facing O’Gara). But after a while, I focused, started driving the ball and pushing him around the court. “And I was happy that I was able to finish the match, too. I won the final game at 40-15 instead of going five deuces like I did against Miamisburg.” Cothran took fourth place at second doubles at last year’s GWOC meet.

“It was my goal all offseason to play singles this year,” Cothran said. “I worked hard and did everything coach asked, and got my chance. And I got one place better than last year. It feels good.” The second doubles team of Ian Stutz and Matt Alexander had a rough match to start the day, eventually falling 8-6 in a tiebreaker to lose 9-8 to Beavercreek, but they rebounded and hammered Lebanon 8-2 to reach the fifth-place match — where they quickly fell behind 6-0 to Northmont’s Aryel Solis and Yong Jae Lee. They then tore off eight straight games, rallying to win 8-6 and finish fifth — which proved to be key in holding off Centerville for third in the team standings. “We just decided we weren’t going to lose,” Alexander said. “We stayed positive all day. We figured since we didn’t win our first match, we’d go for fifth. And that’s what we got.” “We just didn’t want to make it two losses in one day,” Stutz said. This is a positive way to end the season,” Goldner said. “It shows we’ve improved from the beginning. The kids have really worked hard all year.” No matter what motivated them to do it.

started getting noticed on the West Coast, especially after winning the Santa Anita Derby. Still, he was largely a mystery to the record crowd of 165,307, who didn’t know 15-1 shot I’ll Have Another or the jockey had the right stuff until the 20-horse field turned for home. That’s when Gutierrez, who moved up between horses around the final turn, positioned his colt not far from the rail and

set him down to run. I’ll Have Another overhauled a tiring Bodemeister to win by 1 1-2 lengths. He paid $32.60, $13.80 and $9. He ran 1 1-4 miles in 2:01.83. Bodemeister, trained by three-time Derby winner Bob Baffert, was second and returned $6.20 and $5.60 as the 4-1 favorite. Dullahan was a neck back in third and paid $7.20 to show. O’Neill didn’t waste any

time vowing that I’ll Have Another will go on to the Preakness in two weeks. “Maryland, here we come baby!” he said. I’ll Have Another made his way to the starting gate accompanied by his stable pony, Lava Man, another cheap purchase turned into a career winner of more than $5 million by O’Neill. The trainer has made his name predominantly in Southern California,

Troy’s Ben Thompson hits a backhand shot during a match Saturday in Centerville.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Back a few seasons ago, when Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Green were helping the Washington Capitals finally start to emerge from years of rebuilding with a go-go, attacking style, the team promoted its high-scoring core group with the slogan “Young Guns.” These days, the Capitals are succeeding in the playoffs with a more conservative, defensiveminded style and it still never hurts when the best of the best put the puck in the net. Defenseman Green’s slap shot on a power play with 5:48 left in regulation was the go-ahead goal, and Ovechkin and Backstrom scored Saturday, too, lifting the Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the top-seeded New York Rangers that tied their Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece. When the bygone marketing tag was mentioned in the loud Capitals locker room afterward, the 26year-old Green repeated the reporter’s words, saying with a wry smirk: “‘Young Guns’? Not so young anymore. But we needed to step up.” According to STATS LLC, it was the 13th time in their Capitals careers all were first-round draft

picks that Ovechkin, Backstrom and Green scored in the same game, but first in any postseason. Washington’s record in those games? Not surprisingly, 13-0. That trio last tallied together on Oct. 30, 2010, STATS said. “People have been talking about (how) we need to step up,” said Backstrom, who missed 40 games in the regular season with a concussion and hadn’t scored since Game 2 of the opening round against Boston. “If you work hard, good things happen to you, somebody told me.” Ovechkin made it 1-0 about 12 minutes into the game with a 40-foot slap shot after Rangers rookie Chris Kreider accidentally sent the puck to the two-time NHL MVP’s stick. In the second period, Ovechkin’s skates left the ice as he delivered a high hit to defenseman Dan Girardi, a play that resulted in a charging penalty against the Russian wing and could draw attention from the league office. “My head’s kind of there,” Girardi said, “and he hits it.” Ovechkin, treated for a bloody upper lip in the third period, said he was trying to protect himself and thought he caught Girardi in the shoulder, not the head.

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Tennis ■ CONTINUED FROM A9 Doubles has been kind of up and down, as we’ve had to change the lineup a lot for various reasons.” At first doubles, Adam Southers and Joe Coughlin lost to Jeremy Sigler and Ken Snyder 7-5, 6-4. But Lehnkuhl and Woodward knocked off Mason Bale and Zach Pettigrew 6-3, 46, 6-3 at second doubles in their first varsity action to seal the win for the team. Tippecanoe — which had already clinched the

CBC title outright — officially kicks off its first season in the Division I Sectional tournament Wednesday after years playing in D-II, although a couple of players will play preliminary matches before then. Keller tasted defeat for the first time this season, losing to Butler’s Kyle Teague in a third-set tiebreaker 8-6. And Belcher will face troy’s Matt Alexander on Monday.

■ Horse Racing

Derby ■ CONTINUED FROM A9 ride I’ll Have Another after trainer Doug O’Neill and owner J. Paul Reddam just happened to see him win a race at Santa Anita in Southern California. It was another chapter in his unusual route to the Derby winner’s circle. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a jockey, getting on quarterhorses in Veracruz, Mexico, at 14. After a stint in Canada, he eventually

although he’s won three Breeders’ Cup races. One of his best horses, Steviewonderboy, was the winter favorite for the 2006 Derby before being sidelined by injuries early that year. A hot pace was anticipated from speedster Trinniberg, although surprisingly it was Bodemeister under jockey Mike Smith who blazed to the front and forced Trinniberg to take a back-

seat. In the late afternoon heat, Bodemeister set impossibly fast fractions. He ran the opening quartermile in 22.32 seconds and the half-mile in 45.39. “I told Mike, ‘Look, if he breaks great and feels like running, we can win it,” said Baffert, who had a heart attack in Dubai five weeks ago. “That’s the only time I’ve run second where I’ve been happy because he ran his race.”

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■ Auto Racing

Logano first at Nationwide event

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Joey Logano holds up the trophy as he celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday in Talladega, Ala.

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Joey Logano nipped Kyle Busch at the finish line Saturday to win the Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway to give Toyota its 200th win in NASCAR. The race was marred by a late accident that sent Eric McClure to an Alabama hospital by helicopter, but NASCAR officials said he was awake and speaking to medical personnel. And, after the finish, Danica Patrick intentionally wrecked Sam Hornish Jr. on the cool down lap. It was apparent retaliation for Hornish squeezing Patrick on the last lap; he said he had a flat tire, but she wasn’t buying the excuse from her for-

mer IndyCar colleague. Meanwhile, Logano was celebrating his sneaky victory over Busch, his teammate in the Sprint Cup Series. “I haven’t seen one yet that’s predictable at Talladega,” Logano said. “I just got him right at the line. I was super pumped.” The multi-car accident that collected McClure brought out a 19-minute red flag, and Busch restarted as the leader with two laps to go in the race. Logano went off in third, and immediately pulled onto the back of Busch’s bumper. He stayed in line and pushed Busch around the track as the two teamed to hold off the tandem of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Cole Whitt. Stenhouse and Whitt never

pulled alongside of Busch and Logano in an attempt to pull them apart, and it gave Logano the chance to make his move. “Was hoping (Whitt and Stenhouse) would get up alongside of us and we’d have to drag race it and Joey would have to push me to the checkered,” Busch said. “They couldn’t quite get up alongside and it gave the opportunity for Joey to win.” Logano pulled out as they exited the final turn, and nipped Busch by .034 seconds at the finish line. Logano said after he was nervous he hadn’t timed the move correctly. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I went too soon,’ ” said Logano, who gave Toyota its milestone

win. The automaker has 42 wins in the Sprint Cup Series, 67 in Nationwide and 91 in the Trucks Series. “We were in the right position. You have to position yourself for the end of these things. I thought we were in the right position there for a while. Kyle knew it was coming. I know he knew it was coming.” Because NASCAR during the offseason banned driverto-driver radio communication, Stenhouse wasn’t able to make a plan with rookie Whitt for the final restart. “I knew I was going to push Cole,” Stenhouse said. “If I could have talked to Cole, I could have told him what I thought to do but it is his first situation there.”

■ NBA

■ Golf

Pacers edge Magic in OT

Simpson leads at Quail Hollow

Indiana blows big lead, escapes with 101-99 win ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Indiana Pacers have looked like a team with enough talent to win in the playoffs. After wasting a big lead in Game 4 against the Magic, the Pacers showed they have the late-game toughness to win as well. George Hill hit a pair of free throws with 2.2 seconds left in overtime to help Indiana survive squandering a 19-point fourth quarter lead and beat the Orlando Magic 101-99 on Saturday to take a 3-1 lead in the first-round series. David West scored 26 points, including 12 in the third quarter and four in overtime for Indiana. Danny Granger added 21 points. The Pacers won their third straight game and will try to close out the Eastern Conference series Tuesday in Indianapolis and get out of the opening round for the first time since 2005. “They did a great job of coming back,” said Granger, who returned to the game in the fourth quarter after spraining his right knee in the third. “That was a momentum win. They had a lot of momentum going. We’re lucky to get out of here.” Indiana coach Frank Vogel echoed that fortunate feeling, but said he also likes being in the spot his team is in now. “Yeah, it’s a good place to be,” he said. “We feel like we can get a win on our home court. It’s tough to get a road win anywhere against anyone in the playoffs. To come in here in a tough environment and get two, it just speaks volumes of our guys’ resiliency.” Orlando had a final chance to tie the game in

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Indiana Pacers’ Roy Hibbert, left, loses his grip on the ball as he is guarded by Orlando Magic’s Ryan Anderson during the first half of Game 4 of an NBA firstround playoff basketball series Saturday in Orlando, Fla. the closing seconds, but Glen Davis’ fade away jumper bounced off the side of the rim. Jason Richardson led the Magic with 25 points and Davis added 24 points and 11 rebounds. The Magic now head to Indiana staring at the possibility of their second consecutive first-round postseason exit as they continue their tumble since Dwight Howard’s season-ending back surgery late in the regularseason. Including the regular-season, Orlando is 511 without the all-star center. Only eight teams have been able to wipe out 3-1 deficits in NBA history, the last being Phoenix against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2006. Clippers 87, Grizzlies 86 LOS ANGELES — Chris Paul had 24 points

and 11 assists and highflying Blake Griffin added 17 points for the Los Angeles Clippers, who beat the Memphis Grizzlies 87-86 Saturday only after Rudy Gay missed a jumper just before the buzzer. The Clippers won their first home playoff game in six seasons to take a 2-1 series lead in the Western Conference playoffs. Paul hit a fadeaway jumper with 2:02 left for an 82-80 lead. On the next possession he had a no-look bounce pass to Griffin coming in off the baseline for a monster slam. Trailing 86-80 after two free throws by Paul, Gay hit a 3-pointer with 12.9 seconds left, Memphis’ first field goal since 7:10. After Los Angeles missed three of four free throws, Gay hit another 3-pointer with

8.9 seconds. Eric Bledsoe missed two more free throws, Gay got a good look but missed. Thunder 103, Mavericks 97 DALLAS — James Harden scored 15 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter as Oklahoma City rallied for a 103-97 victory Saturday night to sweep the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs. The Thunder trailed by 13 points with 9:44 left before Harden scored seven in a row, and nine in a 12-0 run over the next 3 minutes. Oklahoma City finally took the lead, and kept it, after Russell Westbrook stole the ball from Dirk Nowitzki and passed to Serge Ibaka for a twohanded slam that made it 92-91 with 5:17 left.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The cheers Webb Simpson heard Saturday at Quail Hollow were all for him. Simpson, who lives about a mile away from the golf course, emerged from a crowded leaderboard with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole. He finished with a 3-under 69 for a one-shot lead in the Wells Fargo Championship. Simpson, who played the opening two rounds with crowd favorite Tiger Woods, was among seven players who had a share of the lead at some point in the third round. One of them was Rory McIlroy, who can return to No. 1 in the world this week. McIlroy was slowed by a three-putt late in his round, but still had a 66 and was among those two shots behind. Five players were tied until Simpson made his birdie, and finished with a solid par to reach 14-under 202. Ryan Moore (68) and D.A. Points (69) were one shot behind, though nothing was settled on a steamy afternoon except for Simpson atop the leaderboard and a lot of his neighbors loving it. Ten players were separated by four shots going into the final round, with McIlroy and another 23year-old sure to command a lot of the attention. Rickie Fowler, trying to win for the first time on the PGA Tour, played in the group ahead of McIlroy and they matched birdies for much of the round. Fowler had a 67 and was three shots back. Nick Watney, the 36hole leader, missed three birdie chances inside 15

feet over the last seven holes, and then took bogey on the 18th when his drive tumbled into the creek. Watney had to settle for a 72 and joined McIlroy at 12-under 204 Stewart Cink, another player in that five-way tie, took four putts from the front of the 18th green for double bogey and shot 71. Even so, he was only three back as he tries to win for the first time since the 2009 British Open at Turnberry. Geoff Ogilvy finished right after the leaders teed off, and despite a bogey from the creek on the 18th, he shot 65. Ogilvy figured it would at least get him within range, but as the wind picked up and the course became much tougher late in the day, the former U.S. Open champion wound up only four shots behind. Phil Mickelson ran off four straight birdies late in his round. He and Lee Westwood had 68s and were nine shots back. Simpson has the crowd on his side, and it wasn’t hard to figure out. Watney blasted a beautiful drive on the par-5 15th, followed by a fairway metal into the wind to the fringe for a twoputt birdie and a share of the lead. Walking off the green, he looked back at the crowd clapping wildly for Simpson making birdie to join him atop the leaderboard. “It’s like playing with Phil,” Watney said. “Visiting team.” Watney wasn’t at all bitter about this. After all, he is stay with Simpson this week. They have a deal that low score takes out the garbage, a chore that falls to Watney.

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Roundup ■ CONTINUED FROM A9 errors, but we still did what we needed to do to win the game. “Alvarez against Burden — two of the better pitchers in the area — hooking up,” Tackett added. “It was a great game.” With a bye in the first round, Tippecanoe (19-5)

begins tournament play on Thursday in Tipp City, awaiting the winner of the Urbana-Bellefontaine game. As for Newton, it will take on Bethel on Thursday. Newton100 000 0 — 1 3 0 Tipp.003 000 x — 3 7 5 K. Burden and L. Burden. Alvarez and Kostyal. WP — Alvarez. LP — K. Burden. Records: Tipp 19-5.

■ College Football

Ohio State football team loses one of top recruits By the Associated Press A top high school football prospect backed off his commitment to Ohio State late Friday in part because of his family’s concern a convicted sex offender was interacting with players and recruits. The father of Alex Anzalone, a Wyomissing, Pa., native ranked among the country’s top linebackers, told the Reading Eagle “something is just not right at Ohio State.”

Charles Eric Waugh, 31, of Ashland, Ky., who in 2008 pleaded guilty to five counts of possession of underage sexual content, has recently contacted via Twitter dozens of OSU players, coaches, and recruits, including Anzalone. Waugh also met several recruits at the Buckeyes’ spring game last month and posed for a picture with Anzalone and others that has since appeared on the Internet.

Anzalone’s father, Sal Anzalone, told the Reading Eagle the photograph sealed his son’s decision to look elsewhere. “You don’t want your son to go to a place where there’s a potential issue [like this],” Sal Anzalone told the newspaper. “You expect the staff to have some sort of control on how things are handled with recruits when they visit. This is ridiculous.” A man who answered

the phone at the home of Waugh’s family in Kentucky declined to comment and hung up when asked for his name. A message left at Anzalone’s home was not returned. Several players initially seemed amused by Waugh’s Twitter messages, many of them inspirational sayings sent under the handle, “BdubsTriviaGuru.” On April 22, the day after he committed to

OSU, Anzalone shared a message from fellow Buckeyes recruit Ezekiel Elliot with his followers on Twitter. Elliott wrote, “@BdubsTriviaGuru has to be my favorite buckeyes fan hands down!!!” But the communications stopped last week when OSU’s compliance department sent its athletes an email warning of Waugh. “We strongly recommend that you take the steps to block his access

to your Twitter and Facebook accounts,” the email stated. After first-year coach Urban Meyer enjoyed a raft of early recruiting successes, Anzalone is the second player to de-commit from OSU in the last week. Lewis Neal, a defensive end from North Carolina, made his decision public Monday. On Friday, Elliott wrote on Twitter, “Today has not been a good day at all.”

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Tampa Bay 19 8 .704 18 9 .667 Baltimore 16 11 .593 Toronto 14 13 .519 New York 11 15 .423 Boston Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 14 11 .560 13 13 .500 Detroit 13 14 .481 Chicago 9 17 .346 Kansas City 7 18 .280 Minnesota West Division W L Pct Texas 18 9 .667 Oakland 13 14 .481 11 17 .393 Seattle 10 17 .370 Los Angeles NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 18 9 .667 Atlanta 16 11 .593 14 13 .519 New York 13 15 .464 Philadelphia 12 14 .462 Miami Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 16 11 .593 Cincinnati 13 13 .500 Houston 13 14 .481 12 15 .444 Milwaukee 12 15 .444 Pittsburgh 10 17 .370 Chicago West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 18 9 .667 Arizona 14 14 .500 San Francisco 13 14 .481 12 13 .480 Colorado 9 18 .333 San Diego

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Str Home Away W-6 13-1 6-7 W-4 8-4 10-5 W-4 8-7 8-4 L-1 7-6 7-7 L-4 4-9 7-6

GB WCGB — — 1½ 2½ 2 3 5½ 6½ 7 8

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

Str Home Away L-1 5-8 9-3 L-1 8-9 5-4 W-1 5-9 8-5 W-1 2-11 7-6 W-1 3-8 4-10

GB WCGB — — 5 3 7½ 5½ 8 6

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

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

GB WCGB — — 2 — 4 — 5½ 1½ 5½ 1½

L10 5-5 6-4 5-5 5-5 5-5

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

GB WCGB — — 2½ ½ 3 1 4 2 4 2 6 4

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

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

GB WCGB — — 4½ ½ 5 1 5 1 9 5

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Detroit 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Cleveland 6, Texas 3 Baltimore 6, Boston 4, 13 innings Tampa Bay 7, Oakland 2 N.Y. Yankees 6, Kansas City 2 Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 0 Minnesota 3, Seattle 2 Saturday's Games Baltimore 8, Boston 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 2 Texas 5, Cleveland 2, 11 innings Kansas City 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Oakland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 9:10 p.m. Sunday's Games Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 0-0) at Detroit (Porcello 2-2), 1:05 p.m. Texas (Darvish 4-0) at Cleveland (Jimenez 2-2), 1:05 p.m. Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 2-1) at Boston (Buchholz 3-1), 1:35 p.m. Oakland (Milone 3-2) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 1-1), 1:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 1-4) at Kansas City (Hochevar 2-2), 2:10 p.m. Toronto (Hutchison 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Williams 2-1), 3:35 p.m. Minnesota (Blackburn 0-3) at Seattle (Noesi 1-3), 4:10 p.m. Monday's Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m., 1st game Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Texas at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Boston at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. Detroit at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Games Chicago Cubs 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 4, Philadelphia 3, 11 innings Arizona 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Houston 5, St. Louis 4 Atlanta 9, Colorado 8, 11 innings Miami 9, San Diego 8, 12 innings Milwaukee 6, San Francisco 4 Saturday's Games L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Washington 7, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Mets 4, Arizona 3 San Francisco 5, Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 Houston 8, St. Louis 2 Atlanta at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. Miami at San Diego, 8:35 p.m. Sunday's Games Arizona (Cahill 2-2) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 3-1), 1:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Latos 1-2) at Pittsburgh (Morton 1-2), 1:35 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 1-3) at Houston (Happ 2-1), 2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Harang 1-2) at Chicago Cubs (Wood 0-0), 2:20 p.m. Atlanta (Beachy 2-1) at Colorado (Nicasio 2-0), 3:10 p.m. Miami (Nolasco 3-0) at San Diego (Wieland 0-4), 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Marcum 1-1) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-2), 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 3-1) at Washington (Zimmermann 1-2), 8:05 p.m. Monday's Games N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Miami at Houston, 8:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Pirates 3, Reds 2 Cincinnati Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi Cozart ss 4 0 1 1 Tabata 3 1 1 0 Stubbs cf 4 0 1 0 Walker 2b 4 1 2 2 Votto 1b 3 0 2 0 McCutchen 3 0 1 0 Phillips 2b 3 0 0 0 Alvarez 3b 2 0 0 0 Bruce rf 4 1 1 0 McGehee 3 0 1 0 Rolen 3b 3 0 1 1 G.Jones rf 3 0 0 0 Ludwick lf 4 0 0 0 J.Cruz p 0 0 0 0 Mesoraco c3 1 1 0 Grilli p 0 0 0 0 Leake p 2 0 1 0 McLouth ph0 0 0 0 Heisey ph 1 0 0 0 Hanrahan p0 0 0 0 Arredondo p0 0 0 0 Barmes ss 4 0 0 0 Barajas c 3 0 0 0 McDonald p2 0 0 0 Presley lf 1 1 1 1 Totals 31 2 8 2 Totals 28 3 6 3 Cincinnati .................000 000 110—2 Pittsburgh.................002 000 10x—3 DP_Cincinnati 1, Pittsburgh 4. LOB_Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 7. 2B_Cozart (8), Votto (12), Tabata (5). 3B_Bruce (1). HR_Walker (1), Presley (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Leake L,0-4 . . . . . . . .7 4 3 3 4 4 Arredondo . . . . . . . . .1 2 0 0 2 2 Pittsburgh Ja.McDonald W,2-1 6 1-3 6 1 1 2 7 J.Cruz H,4 . . . . . . .2-3 0 0 0 0 0 Grilli H,6 . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 1 1 1 2

Hanrahan S,5-5 . . . . .1 0 0 0 0 0 Umpires_Home, Ron Kulpa; First, Jim Wolf; Second, Derryl Cousins; Third, Alan Porter. T_2:36. A_33,019 (38,362). Rangers 5, Indians 2, 11 innings Texas Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi Kinsler 2b 6 0 2 1 Brantley cf 5 1 2 0 Andrus ss 4 0 2 0 Kipnis 2b 5 1 1 0 Hamilton 4 0 1 0 Cabrera ss 5 0 4 1 Young 1b 5 0 0 0 Santana 1b4 0 0 0 Murphy lf 2 0 0 0 Hafner dh 4 0 0 0 Gentry ph-cf1 0 0 0 Choo rf 5 0 1 0 N.Cruz rf 5 2 1 0 Duncan lf 3 0 0 0 Napoli c 5 1 2 0 Damon 1 0 0 0 Moreland 4 1 3 1 Hannahan 3 0 0 0 Gonzalez 4 0 0 0 Marson c 4 0 0 0 Beltre ph 1 1 1 3 B.Snyder 3b0 0 0 0 Totals 41 512 5 Totals 39 2 8 1 Texas.......... ... 010 100 000 03—5 Cleveland..........000 000 020 00—2 DP_Texas 2, Cleveland 3. 8, Cleveland 7. LOB_Texas 2B_Moreland (4), Brantley (7), A.Cabrera (8). HR_Beltre (5). CS_Kinsler (4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Texas D.Holland . . . . . . .7 1-3 5 2 1 3 6 Adams BS,1-2 . . . .2-3 1 0 0 0 1 Ogando W,1-0 . . . . . .2 1 0 0 0 2 Nathan S,7-8 . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 0 2 Cleveland D.Lowe . . . . . . . . . . . .6 9 2 2 2 1 Hagadone . . . . . . . . .2 1 0 0 0 1 Pestano . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 0 2 J.Smith L,1-1 . . . . . . .2 1 3 3 3 0 PB_Napoli. Umpires_Home, CB Bucknor; First, Angel Campos; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Dale Scott. T_3:12. A_21,307 (43,429). Saturday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore . . .017 000 000—8 10 1 Boston . . . . .000 000 200—2 8 0 Hammel, O'Day (7), Patton (8), Lindstrom (8), Gregg (9) and Wieters; A.Cook, Mortensen (3), Atchison (7) and Saltalamacchia. W_Hammel 4-1. L_A.Cook 0-1. HRs_Baltimore, Ad.Jones (7), Mar.Reynolds (2). Chicago . . . .000 000 102—3 6 1 Detroit . . . . . .020 000 000—2 9 1 Floyd, N.Jones (8), H.Santiago (9), Reed (9) and Pierzynski; Scherzer, Benoit (8), Valverde (9) and Avila. W_N.Jones 1-0. L_Valverde 2-1. Sv_Reed (1). HRs_Chicago, Konerko (6), A.Dunn (8). NewYork . . . .000 000 100—1 8 1 Kansas City .200 012 00x—5 8 0 Kuroda, Rapada (5), Eppley (5), Logan (6), F.Garcia (7) and Martin; F.Paulino, Mijares (7), K.Herrera (7), Collins (9) and Quintero. W_F.Paulino 1-0. L_Kuroda 2-4. HRs_New York, Martin (3). NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia .000 100 000—1 5 0 Washington .000 041 20x—7 15 1 Worley, Savery (7), Contreras (8) and Ruiz; G.Gonzalez, Mattheus (8) and Ramos. W_G.Gonzalez 3-1. L_Worley 2-2. HRs_Washington, Werth (3), Desmond (4), Tracy (2). Los Angeles .030 020 000—5 6 1 Chicago . . . .000 000 001—1 5 2 Capuano, Belisario (8), J.Wright (9) and Treanor; Volstad, L.Castillo (6), Marmol (8), Bowden (9) and Soto. W_Capuano 4-0. L_Volstad 0-4. Arizona . . . . .010 020 000—3 10 0 NewYork . . . .000 400 00x—4 9 0 Corbin, Collmenter (4), Breslow (7) and H.Blanco, M.Montero; J.Santana, Parnell (8), F.Francisco (9) and Nickeas. W_J.Santana 1-2. L_Corbin 11. Sv_F.Francisco (6). HRs_Arizona, R.Roberts (2). Milwaukee . .010 000 010—2 8 1 San Francisco000 013 01x—5 10 1 Wolf, M.Parra (7), Dillard (8), Loe (8) and Kottaras, Lucroy; Bumgarner, Mota (8), Ja.Lopez (8), S.Casilla (9) and H.Sanchez. W_Bumgarner 5-1. L_Wolf 2-3. Sv_S.Casilla (5). HRs_Milwaukee, Braun (8). St. Louis . . . .100 000 010—2 6 0 Houston . . . .400 200 02x—8 6 1 J.Garcia, J.Romero (7), Boggs (8) and Y.Molina; Norris, W.Wright (7), W.Lopez (7), Davi.Carpenter (8), Abad (9) and J.Castro. W_Norris 2-1. L_J.Garcia 2-2. HRs_Houston, C.Johnson (3), Lowrie (4). Midwest League Eastern Division Lansing (Blue Jays) South Bend (D-backs) Bowling Green (Rays) Great Lakes (Dodgers) West Michigan (Tigers) Dayton (Reds) Fort Wayne (Padres)

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING Noon FOX — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Aaron's 499, at Talladega, Ala. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NHRA, Southern Nationals, at Commerce, Ga. (same-day tape) COLLEGE SOFTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — Texas at Oklahoma GOLF 8 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Open de Espana, final round, at Sevilla, Spain (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. 7 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Insperity Championship, final round, at The Woodlands, Texas (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. FSN — Cincinnati at Pittsburgh 2 p.m. TBS — N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City 2:10 p.m. WGN — L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs 8 p.m. ESPN — Philadelphia at Washington MOTORSPORTS 8 a.m. SPEED — MotoGP World Championship, at Estoril, Portugal 1 p.m. SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, at Estoril, Portugal (same-day tape) 2 p.m. SPEED — FIM World Superbike, at Monza, Italy (same-day tape) 11 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at Sonoma, Calif. (same-day tape) NBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ABC — Playoffs, first round, game 4, Chicago at Philadelphia 3:30 p.m. ABC — Playoffs, first round, game 4, Miami at New York 7 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 4, Atlanta at Boston 9:30 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 4, L.A. Lakers at Denver NHL HOCKEY 3 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 4, St. Louis at Los Angeles 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 4, Philadelphia at New Jersey

MONDAY HOCKEY 1 p.m. NBCSN — IIHF World Championships, pool play, United States vs. Slovakia, at Helsinki MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. WGN — Chicago White Sox at Cleveland 7 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. TNT — Playoffs, first round, doubleheader, possibilities include: game 4s San Antonio at Utah, Memphis at L.A. Clippers, or game 5, Dallas at Oklahoma City (if necessary) NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, teams TBA 10 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference semifinals, teams TBA SOCCER 2:55 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Wigan at Blackburn Lake County (Indians) 11 17 .393 9 Western Division W L Pct. GB Wisconsin (Brewers) 18 11 .621 — 16 13 .552 2 Beloit (Twins) Quad Cities (Cardinals) 15 13 .536 2½ Kane County (Royals) 14 15 .483 4 Burlington (Athletics) 13 15 .464 4½ Cedar Rapids (Angels) 13 16 .448 5 Clinton (Mariners) 11 17 .393 6½ Peoria (Cubs) 11 17 .393 6½ Saturday's Games Kane County 7, Beloit 4 Clinton 4, Burlington 0 Fort Wayne 3, Dayton 0 Lansing 2, West Michigan 0 Great Lakes 6, South Bend 1 Wisconsin 4, Cedar Rapids 3 Peoria at Quad Cities, 8 p.m. Bowling Green 2, Lake County 0 Sunday's Games Fort Wayne at Dayton, 2 p.m. Great Lakes at South Bend, 2:05 p.m. West Michigan at Lansing, 2:05 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Wisconsin, 2:05 p.m. Kane County at Beloit, 3 p.m. Burlington at Clinton, 3 p.m. Peoria at Quad Cities, 3 p.m. Lake County at Bowling Green, 3:05 p.m. Monday's Games Peoria at Quad Cities, 12 p.m. Fort Wayne at Dayton, 7 p.m Great Lakes at South Bend, 7:05 p.m. West Michigan at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Kane County at Beloit, 7:30 p.m. Burlington at Clinton, 7:30 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Wisconsin, 7:35 p.m. Lake County at Bowling Green, 7:35 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers vs.Washington Saturday, April 28: NY Rangers 3, Washington 1 Monday, April 30: Washington 3, NY Rangers 2 Wednesday, May 2: NY Rangers 2, Washington 1, 3OT Saturday, May 5: Washington 3, Rangers 2, series tied 2-2 Monday, May 7: Washington at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 9: NY Rangers at Washington, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: Washington at NY Rangers, TBD Philadelphia vs. New Jersey Sunday, April 29: Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 3, OT Tuesday, May 1: New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 1 Thursday, May 3: New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 3, OT, New Jersey leads series 2-1 Sunday, May 6: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 8: New Jersey at Philadelphia, TBD x-Thursday, May 10: Philadelphia at New Jersey, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: New Jersey at Philadelphia, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix vs. Nashville Friday, April 27: Phoenix 4, Nashville 3, OT Sunday, April 29: Phoenix 5, Nashville 3 Wednesday, May 2: Nashville 2, Phoenix 0 Friday, May 4: Phoenix 1, Nashville 0, Phoenix leads series 3-1 Monday, May 7: Nashville at Phoenix, 10 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 9: Phoenix at Nashville, TBD x-Friday, May 11: Nashville at Phoenix, TBD St. Louis vs. Los Angeles Saturday, April 28: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 1 Monday, April 30: Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 2 Thursday, May 3: Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 2, Los Angeles leads series 3-0 Sunday, May 6: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 3 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 8: Los Angeles at St. Louis, TBD x-Thursday, May 10: St. Louis at Los Angeles, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: Los Angeles at St. Louis, TBD

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND (x-if necessary) (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago vs. Philadelphia Saturday, April 28: Chicago 103, Philadelphia 91 Tuesday, May 1: Philadelphia 109, Chicago 92, series tied 1-1 Friday, May 4: Philadelphia 79, Chicago 74, series 2-1 Sunday, May 6: Chicago at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 8: Philadelphia at Chicago, TBD x-Thursday, May 10: Chicago at Philadelphia, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: Philadelphia at Chicago, TBD Miami vs. NewYork Saturday, April 28: Miami 100, New York 67 Monday, April 30: Miami 104, New York 94 Thursday, May 3: Miami 87, New York 70, Miami leads series 3-0 Sunday, May 6: Miami at NewYork, 3:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 9: New York at Miami, TBD x-Friday, May 11: Miami at New York, TBD x-Sunday, May 13: New York at Miami, TBD Indiana vs. Orlando

Sunday, May 6, 2012 Saturday, April 28: Orlando 81, Indiana 77 Monday, April 30: Indiana 93, Orlando 78 Wednesday, May 2: Indiana 97, Orlando 74 Saturday, May 5: Indiana 101, Orlando 99, OT, Indiana leads series 3-1 x-Tuesday, May 8: Orlando at Indiana, TBD x-Friday, May 11: Indiana at Orlando, TBD x-Sunday, May 13: Orlando at Indiana, TBD Boston vs. Atlanta Sunday, April 29: Atlanta 83, Boston 74 Tuesday, May 1: Boston 87, Atlanta 80 Friday, May 4: Boston 90, Atlanta 84, OT, Boston leads series 2-1 Sunday, May 6: Atlanta at Boston, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 8: Boston at Atlanta, TBD x-Thursday, May 10: Atlanta at Boston, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: Boston at Atlanta, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio vs. Utah Sunday, April 29: San Antonio 106, Utah 91 Wednesday, May 2: San Antonio 114, Utah 83, San Antonio leads series 2-0 Saturday, May 5: San Antonio at Utah, 10 p.m. Monday, May 7: San Antonio at Utah, TBD x-Wednesday, May 9: Utah at San Antonio, TBD x-Friday, May 11: San Antonio at Utah, TBD x-Sunday, May 13: Utah at San Antonio, TBD Oklahoma City vs. Dallas Saturday, April 28: Oklahoma City 99, Dallas 98 Monday, April 30: Oklahoma City 102, Dallas 99 Thursday, May 3: Oklahoma City 95, Dallas 79, Oklahoma City leads series 30 Saturday, May 5: Oklahoma City 103, Dallas 97, Oklahoma City wins series 4-0 L.A. Lakers vs. Denver Sunday, April 29: L.A. Lakers 103, Denver 88 Tuesday, May 1: L.A. Lakers 104, Denver 100 Friday, May 4: Denver 99, L.A. Lakers 84, L.A. Lakers lead series 2-1 Sunday, May 6: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 8: Denver at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Thursday, May 10: L.A. Lakers at Denver, TBD x-Saturday, May 12: Denver at L.A. Lakers, TBD Memphis vs. L.A. Clippers Sunday, April 29: L.A. Clippers 99, Memphis 98, L.A. Clippers lead series 1-0 Wednesday, May 2: Memphis 105, L.A. Clippers 98 Saturday, May 5: L.A. Clippers 87, Memphis 86, L.A. Clippers leads series 21 Monday, May 7: Memphis at L.A. Clippers, TBD x-Wednesday, May 9: L.A. Clippers at Memphis, TBD x-Friday, May 11: Memphis at L.A. Clippers, TBD x-Sunday, May 13: L.A. Clippers at Memphis, TBD

AUTO RACING NASCAR Nationwide-Aaron's 312 Results Saturday At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Joey Logano, Toyota, 122 laps, 117.9 rating, 0 points, $42,645. 2. (12) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 122, 125.5, 0, $40,100. 3. (2) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 122, 92, 42, $39,193. 4. (11) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 122, 100, 41, $34,318. 5. (33) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 122, 124.2, 0, $23,100. 6. (31) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 122, 97.8, 0, $20,525. 7. (7) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 122, 95.8, 0, $27,793. 8. (13) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 122, 85.4, 36, $25,143. 9. (20) Kenny Wallace, Toyota, 122, 93.5, 36, $24,918. 10. (1) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 122, 100, 35, $25,568. 11. (18) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 122, 89.5, 34, $24,268. 12. (8) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 122, 67.7, 33, $24,143. 13. (17) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 122, 90.8, 32, $23,968. 14. (27) Erik Darnell, Chevrolet, 122, 63.2, 30, $23,818. 15. (26) John Wes Townley, Toyota, 122, 71, 0, $24,868. 16. (23) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, 122, 54.1, 28, $23,568. 17. (5) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 122, 93.4, 28, $23,443. 18. (15) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 122, 67.5, 27, $23,293. 19. (16) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 122, 100.8, 26, $23,168. 20. (9) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 121, 61, 0, $17,075. 21. (28) Timmy Hill, Ford, 117, 45.5, 23, $23,043. 22. (3) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, accident, 116, 98.9, 0, $16,250. 23. (10) Michael Annett, Ford, accident, 116, 91.3, 21, $22,568. 24. (14) Tayler Malsam, Toyota, accident, 116, 69.1, 20, $22,418. 25. (43) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Ford, accident, 116, 61.2, 19, $16,075. 26. (34) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 116, 63.2, 18, $15,850. 27. (29) Eric McClure, Toyota, accident, 116, 62.7, 17, $21,993. 28. (19) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, accident, 113, 73.8, 17, $21,868 29. (21) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 113, 53, 15, $21,718. 30. (36) Josh Richards, Ford, fuel pump, 85, 62, 14, $15,325. 31. (35) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, 82, 36.6, 13, $14,975. 32. (30) Tim Andrews, Ford, overheating, 64, 35.6, 13, $14,900. 33. (6) Brad Sweet, Chevrolet, accident, 62, 65.5, 11, $21,333. 34. (25) Jason Bowles, Toyota, accident, 32, 59.7, 10, $21,298. 35. (38) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, accident, 29, 48.3, 9, $14,790. 36. (22) Brian Scott, Toyota, accident, 29, 62.9, 8, $21,198. 37. (24) Johanna Long, Chevrolet, overheating, 18, 41, 7, $21,163. 38. (42) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, vibration, 12, 30.9, 6, $14,661. 39. (32) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration,

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9, 33.7, 5, $14,525. 40. (40) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, electrical, 9, 30.5, 0, $14,425. 41. (39) Chase Miller, Chevrolet, vibration, 8, 28.5, 3, $14,380. 42. (41) Scott Speed, Chevrolet, ignition, 2, 28.8, 0, $14,345. 43. (37) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, clutch, 1, 27.4, 1, $14,284. NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Aaron's 499 Lineup After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 191.623. 2. (22) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 191.111. 3. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 191.039. 4. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 190.981. 5. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 190.772. 6. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 190.586. 7. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 190.586. 8. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 190.476. 9. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 190.245. 10. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 190.2. 11. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 190.17. 12. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 190.14. 13. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 190.072. 14. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 190.064. 15. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 189.959. 16. (26) Josh Wise, Ford, 189.959. 17. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 189.906. 18. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 189.864. 19. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 189.797. 20. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 189.785. 21. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 189.691. 22. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 189.68. 23. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 189.601. 24. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 189.556. 25. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 189.477. 26. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 189.354. 27. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 189.331. 28. (32) Terry Labonte, Ford, 189.182. 29. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 189.1. 30. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 189.073. 31. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 189.051. 32. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 189.021. 33. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 188.984. 34. (10) David Reutimann, Chevrolet, 188.902. 35. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 188.63. 36. (97) Bill Elliott, Toyota, 188.171. 37. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 188.012. 38. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 187.625. 39. (23) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota, 186.71. 40. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 186.293. 41. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, Owner Points. 42. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, Owner Points. 43. (33) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 186.528. Failed to Qualify 44. (49) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 186.296.

GOLF PGA-Wells Fargo Scores Saturday At Quail Hollow Club Course Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,469; Par: 72 Third Round Webb Simpson .............65-68-69—202 Ryan Moore ..................65-70-68—203 D.A. Points.....................66-68-69—203 Rory McIlroy..................70-68-66—204 Nick Watney..................68-64-72—204 Rickie Fowler.................66-72-67—205 Stewart Cink .................65-69-71—205 Geoff Ogilvy..................71-70-65—206 George McNeill.............70-68-68—206 John Senden ................66-68-72—206 Ben Crane.....................70-64-73—207 Jonas Blixt.....................68-73-67—208 Richard H. Lee..............70-69-69—208 Seung-Yul Noh..............68-70-70—208 Robert Garrigus............69-72-68—209 Patrick Reed .................66-74-69—209 Brian Davis....................66-74-69—209 Tommy Gainey..............68-72-69—209 Jason Day.....................70-70-69—209 Jeff Overton ..................68-71-70—209 David Toms ...................74-65-70—209 Martin Flores.................68-70-71—209 Tom Gillis.......................73-68-69—210 Sean O'Hair ..................72-69-69—210 Camilo Villegas.............71-70-69—210 James Driscoll ..............71-70-69—210 Spencer Levin...............72-68-70—210 Ben Curtis.....................69-70-71—210 Jonathan Byrd ..............69-69-72—210 Phil Mickelson...............71-72-68—211 Lee Westwood..............71-72-68—211 Kyle Reifers...................70-72-69—211 Martin Laird...................72-70-69—211 J.B. Holmes...................71-71-69—211 Carl Pettersson.............69-72-70—211 Sung Kang....................71-70-70—211 Billy Mayfair...................67-71-73—211 Robert Karlsson ...........71-67-73—211 Johnson Wagner ..........71-66-74—211 Heath Slocum...............69-67-75—211 Hunter Haas..................68-68-75—211 Kevin Stadler.................68-74-70—212 Brendon de Jonge........67-73-72—212 Roberto Castro.............68-72-72—212 John Merrick .................70-68-74—212 Rocco Mediate .............68-69-75—212 Arjun Atwal....................68-69-75—212 Will Claxton...................71-72-70—213 Troy Matteson ...............74-69-70—213 Cameron Tringale .........69-74-70—213 Josh Teater....................69-73-71—213 Jim Furyk ......................71-71-71—213 J.J. Henry ......................73-69-71—213 Brian Harman ...............67-74-72—213 Ryuji Imada...................69-72-72—213 Kevin Chappell..............72-71-71—214 Brendan Steele.............71-72-71—214 Dicky Pride....................69-72-73—214 Andres Romero ............70-71-73—214 Chad Campbell.............72-71-72—215 Ken Duke ......................72-71-72—215 Jimmy Walker................69-73-73—215 Chris Kirk ......................75-67-73—215 Brandt Jobe ..................72-70-73—215 Sang-Moon Bae ...........69-69-77—215 Alexandre Rocha..........68-75-73—216

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Riverboat resumes nostalgic cruises American Queen travels Mississippi, Ohio rivers HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the wide Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine through a slice of Americana that harks back to Mark Twain and the history, culture and commerce of the 19th century. Inside the six-level steamboat, passengers enjoy tea time in the ladies’ parlor, rousing musical shows in the Grand Saloon, lessons on river history, and fourcourse meals in an antebellumstyle dining room. With the relaunching of a vessel called the American Queen, steamboat travel has returned to the Mississippi and Ohio rivers for the first time since 2008. The boat, the largest of its kind in the world, was christened Friday in Memphis as it left for a sevenday cruise. The 418-foot-long boat, which carries 436 passengers, stopped in Henderson, Ky., Monday, then sailed on to Louisville along the Ohio River for a steamboat race marking the Kentucky Derby before a final stop in Cincinnati. Future cruises will go all the way to Pittsburgh and St. Paul, Minn.; some routes include stops in New Orleans and St. Louis. “I find myself inspired by the quiet, still majesty of a river of this size, and I appreciate the insight that they’ve given us for the contribution that these rivers have made to America,” said Jim Ahrenholz, 69, an experienced cruise traveler from Illinois who took the trip with his wife Cathy. The American Queen and its sister boats the Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen carried passengers up and down the Mississippi for decades, continuing a tradition that began in the early 19th century, when steamboats replaced keelboats as the main source of transportation and commerce on the river. Towns sprouted along the route as the early boats carried cargo like cotton, tobacco and sugar from Louisiana to

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In this April 27 photo, passengers on the American Queen steamboat take in the view as they sit on rocking chairs as the vessel moves up the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tenn. The American Queen is the largest steamboat in the world, carrying 436 passengers. The 418-foot-long vessel is taking tourists on long-distance trips on the Mississippi for the first time since 2008, when its previous owner ceased operations. riverboat travel along the Mississippi stopped four years ago, when the company that owned the American Queen ceased operations. The boat was later bought for $15.5 million by the Great American Steamboat Co. and underwent a $6 million refurbishment. The company is banking on the expectation that passengers from around the world will be drawn to these nostalgic trips. Large port cities such as New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis, along with smaller stops like Natchez and Vicksburg in Mississippi, are also hopeful that the boat will bring tourists to sightsee, shop and spend money during port calls or before they board. But this is not a trip for cruisers on a budget. Depending on the trip length and type of cabin, rates range from $995 a person to more than $8,000 for the most luxurious accommodations, though the price covers meals, snacks, coffee, soda, beer and wine with dinner, some shore excursions in larger ports, and one night at a land hotel.

Minnesota and back. The ballad “Ol’ Man River” from the 1927 musical “Showboat” lamented the backbreaking hardships of black dockworkers. Before the Civil War, the heavy cargo lifting was often done by slaves. The river was also the site of several Civil War battles, with Confederate and Union ironclad ships battling for control of the strategically vital artery. Author Mark Twain, who was born Samuel Clemens, took his pen name “Mark Twain” from a term used on the river to measure water depth. Twain grew up in a river town, Hannibal, Mo., is best known for his classic novels, “Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” But he also wrote a memoir of his years as a steamboat pilot called “Life on the Mississippi.” Riverboats even turned up in late 20th century pop music, with singer Tina Turner famously belting out “Rollin’ on the river” as she sang “Proud Mary” in tribute to a “riverboat queen.” But long-distance, city-to-city

At those prices, even passengers enjoying the 19th century decor and timeless, scenic views of homes, farms and small towns along the riverbank won’t mind suspending their disbelief for modern amenities. The boat has an exercise room, swimming pool, comfortable beds and flat screen TVs in every room, with small touches like shower gel in private bathrooms. The trip that began in Memphis was the American Queen’s third revenue-producing voyage since it went back in service in April, though it was its first cruise following a formal christening by the boat’s godmother, Priscilla Presley. The ex-wife of the late rock-and-roll icon Elvis Presley, who lived in Memphis, launched the voyage with the traditional smashing of a champagne bottle. On board were a mix of media, investors and regular travelers, many of them experienced cruisers. American Queen’s decor includes deep burgundy carpets, regal staircases and ornate chandeliers. Some staterooms have

loveseats with curved armrests or stained glass windows covered by heavy curtains. In the Grand Saloon, the dark wooden dance floor, theater-style balconies and large stage host games like bingo during the day and nightly shows featuring Big Band music or a Mark Twain look-alike spinning tales of life on the Mississippi. The main dining room has high ceilings, circular stained glass windows, chandeliers and gold drapes. The Mark Twain Gallery has mahogany-colored cabinets, antique-style couches and chairs and intricatelydesigned lamps. A Chart Room is manned by a “Riverlorian” who can answer questions about the Mississippi River and Southern history. Food on the Memphis-toHenderson leg was good to excellent, with Natchez-born chef Regina Charboneau offering a menu heavy on fresh Southern fare. Breakfast and lunch are buffet-style; 24-hour snack service is available in a section of the boat called Front Porch of America, complete with rocking chairs and bench swings. Highlights were a New Orleansstyle jazz brunch with shrimp, grits and crab cake eggs benedict, a three-course dinner featuring duck breast with orangecurrant sauce and dessert beignets, and excellent beef brisket po’ boys served at an outdoor bar-restaurant called the River Grill. Three bars stay open late into the night. The Engine Room Bar has dark wood chairs, portholes with a view of the paddlewheel and a piano-banjo duo. A piano player also sings in the Captain’s Bar. Cruise officials acknowledge that some kinks remain to be worked out. The company also has pledged to reserve 70 percent of jobs on the boat and in the company’s Memphis headquarters for local residents as part of a deal with Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr., who helped secure a $10 million loan from the city and $15.5 million in private investment for the venture, said Krida. The boat is expected have an economic impact worth tens of millions of dollars in Memphis alone. A marketing blitz to advertise trips to travel agents and the public begins Monday.

April Bloomfield cooks in pursuit of perfection BY MICHELE KAYAL Associated Press April Bloomfield harbors a deep fear that keeps her from joining the ranks of tattooed top chefs. But it’s not the needles that bother her. “I’m so scared it wouldn’t come out perfect,” she says of getting a tattoo. “And I’d have to look at it for the rest of my life.” “Perfect” is a big thing for Bloomfield, the Britishborn chef credited with AP PHOTO/ECCO launching America’s gasIn this undated image, tropub craze. Known for British chef April Bloom- being obsessive and utterly field is shown. undistractable, her bold,

brilliantly executed food redolent of pig and fat, washed vibrant with salt, lemon and spices has redefined perceptions of British fare and elevated “pub grub” to new heights. Bloomfield was just 29 when she was hand-plucked by Mario Batali and rock-nroll restaurateur Ken Friedman to open The Spotted Pig in New York’s West Village in 2004. Since then “The Pig” as it’s known to fans of its meticulously achieved casualness, has been joined by two more restaurants under Bloomfield, all of them star magnets with lines regular-

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ly out the door. And yet, the woman who presides over the stove at that most unusual of animals, a Michelin-starred pub, remains unconvinced that she’s made it. “I still worry that I could be better,” she says. “That’s where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.” Raised in the working class city of Birmingham, England, Bloomfield came to cooking when her plans to be a policewoman fell through. Her passion, discipline and earnest determination immediately set her

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most important mentor. “She wasn’t ambitious in a status way, but to really be a better cook.” At The Pig, Bloomfield serves up crispy pig’s ear salad and a char grilled burger with Roquefort, but it is the gnudi tender sheep’s milk dumplings topped with fried sage that cause universal swooning. Her other restaurants include the John Dory Oyster Bar, where she turns her attention to seafood, pairing chili- and cilantro-spiked mignonette with brisk oysters and stuffing squid with chorizostudded paella.

apart and won her spots in some of London’s best kitchens. She cooked at Kensington Place and with chef Simon Hopkinson at Bibendum. She learned the gastropub style under chef Adam Robinson at The Brackenbury and spent four years at London’s iconic River Cafe, where she rose to sous chef. Through all this, Bloomfield was the only one who ever worried she wasn’t good enough. “She wanted to learn, she wanted to push herself,” says Ruth Rogers, chef-owner at River Cafe and perhaps Bloomfield’s

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The boys of summer Troy Junior Baseball opens season BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com The ping of the aluminum bats, the benches littered with sunflower seeds and discarded bubble gum wrappers and the distinct sound of ballfield chatter from the tiniest of voices can only mean one thing — it’s little league baseball season again in Troy. Troy Junior Baseball celebrated its opening day ceremonies April 28 at the Mark Knoop Baseball Complex. The season will continue through most of the summer. Troy Junior Baseball is open to boys and girls ages 5-15. There are no tryouts and all are invited to participate. According to Troy Junior Baseball’s website, www.troyjuniorbaseball.com, “TJB 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.” Troy Junior Baseball features five different leagues — T-Ball (ages 5-6), J-Minor (ages 7-8), Minor (ages 9-10), Major (ages 1112) and Teener (ages 13-15). 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 got 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 had originally donated the land to the Miami County Park District, which turned down the gift because it lacked the staff to 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.

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IT HAPPENED YEARS AGO BY PATRICK D. KENNEDY For the Troy Daily News

a quiet morning in France as he listened to the ceremony on the radio. (Columnist’s Note: When King Edward VIII abdicated it caused quite a controversy in England, especially since he left because of love. For many people this was romantic, but for a duty first nation it was a travesty. If you would like to read more about the circumstance and specifically about Wallis Simpson, “That Woman,” then the public library has a new book by that title. The current sovereign, Queen Elizabeth was just a girl when her father was crowned King George VI.)

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25 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1987 • BETHEL TOWNSHIP — Two semi-retired men who have had a dream for a couple of years may see the dream take full flight in the next few weeks. Don Dick of Bethel Township and Wayne Preston of Springfield have already begun converting a large tract of land on the south side of State Route 571 between Rudy and Pisgah Roads into a regulation 18-hole golf course. Further plans envision a condominium and a single-family housing development along the course, but these still need to be approved by the township trustees at the end of the month. The former farm property is a perfect setting for the development and golf course, according to the owners, who contend the development is needed if the golf course is to be viable, but they also have alternative plans if the trustees decide not to allow the condominum or dwellings. The recent situation with Huber Heights weighs on the minds of several people in the township and, whether legitimate or not, the concern is that the housing could become a “Huber Heights North.” Whatever direction things go, the men are hoping to have the golf course ready by next spring. • TROY — Longtime educator Charles Hormell Jr. has been chosen as the grand marshal for the 1987 Strawberry Festival parade. Mr. Hormell is a well-known personality in Troy from his many years in education, civic activities, volunteering at Troy football games, visiting the sick in hospitals, serving as chaplain at the senior’s center, guiding new residents to the city on tours and, of course, his signature handle bar mustache and goatee. Festival assistant chair Mike Beamish stated Mr. Hormell was chosen because of his “outstanding community service and numerous achievements” over several decades. (Columnist’s Note:

75 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1937 • TROY — Richard’s Chapel in this city has received the beautiful gift of a painting for the church building. The work is a reproduction of “The American Spirit” by Professor Charles H. Johnson of Wilberforce University. The original, which is at Wilberforce, is valued at $5,000 and depicts Jesus Christ in negro spitituals. Charles Henry Johnson was born in Ashland, Ohio, in 1874. As a young man he became a member of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in an attempt to help others by spreading Christ’s teachings. The church is pleased to have this painting for their building.

Charles Hormell was one of the beloved teachers of my childhood. I was privileged to attend Heywood Elementary while he was principal. He was always friendly, energetic and a good listener. He also loved history and was an enthusiastic tour leader of a school field trip to the Johnston Farm when it opened. He was one of those people who will never be replaced.) 50 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1962 • MIAMI COUNTY — Fallout shelters are in the news again. In light of the Cold War, preparedness continues to be a key component of the government’s activity on the federal, state and local levels. It was learned yesterday that only 19 of the original 77 structures designated as possible fallout shelters are considered structurally sound enough give sufficient protection in the event of a nuclear attack. These 19 facilities would be capable of holding only 4,679 people. The buildings are located in Troy (8), Piqua (9), Washington Twp. (1) and Springcreek Twp. (1). The survey initially considered amost 300 buildings in Miami County. It was stated a number of other buildings were structurally fit, but lacked proper ventilation needed for a large gathering. In order to provide more facilities, it was announced there would be federal funds available for any building owner willing to have the work done to properly fit the requirements. (Columnist’s Note: Although there was no panic, one can only imagine

some of the thoughts of residents as they did the math. At the time of this report there were approximately 72,000 people residing in the county.) • BETHEL TOWNSHIP — Sparks from a wind-blown trash fire were the cause of a fire at a home on New Carlisle Road in eastern Bethel Township. It caused about $5,000 damage to the garage, breezeway and an upper bedroom of the home, but the work of the fire departments from New Carlisle, Bethel Township and Tipp City kept the main part of the home from any serious damage. The house and garage have wood shingles and siding and when sparks landed they had enough “strength” in them to ignite the wood and start the blaze. Chief Baker, of New Carlisle, commented that the wind caused the fire, but it also helped contain the fire once it started. If the wind had been blowing from another direction, then it is doubtful the residence could have been saved. 75 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1937 • LONDON, ENGLAND — A grand display and pageantry brought some good news to England as it crowned its 40th monarch today (May 12) in Westminster Abbey. King George VI was crowned as the sovereign of the United Kingdom. After Edward VIII abdicated the throne and the rumbling of war in the European air, this was an event that many people could celebrate and enjoy. King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for love, was said to be enjoying

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146 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1866 • TROY — The completion of the Baptist church is being pushed along nicely and with assistance from many members and friends it is sure to be completed very soon. (Columnist’s Note: This is the old Baptist church building on West Franklin Street. The church was organized in 1834 and they constructed the church building, which now houses La Bella Viaggio, in 1855, but did not thoroughly complete it. In 1866, they completed the interior which had not been finished during the initial construction in 1855.) Patrick D. Kennedy is archivist at the Troy-Miami County Publc Library’s Local History Library, 100 W. Main St., Troy, 335-4082.

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100 Years Ago: May 6-19, 1912 • MIAMI COUNTY — President Howard Taft will make campaign visits to Troy, Piqua and Tipp City next Monday (May 20). He will arrive in the Border City about 12:10 and will probably speak at May’s Opera House. He will leave Piqua and arrive in Troy at approximately 1:25 and will be met by the Hon. Thomas B. Kyle. The party will make its way down East Main Street to the Public Square and, weather permitting, will address Trojans from a constructed stand. Following the meeting here, the president then will travel to Tipp City to address our neighbors to the south. Since it is the last week of the campaign, there is sure to be much interest in the chief executive’s visit to the county. • TROY — Interested men of Troy have organized the Troy Automobile Club. With the expansion and growing interests in the automobile, may area men felt it was time for such a club and therefore organized the group with the following officers: Walter Bowyer, president; Ed Bowers, secretary and John Fulkerson, tresurer. These are some of the leading men of this community and the club is sure to be profitable and useful.

fever” and have organized a baseball club to play other like clubs from the area. While they are light in regard to size, they will, with practice, present strong competition for any opposing team. The club will go to Piqua on Wednesday to take on the rival high school boys in two games. (Columnist’s Note: Speaking of baseball, congratulations to the Troy High School baseball team for their “newly minted’”conference championship. A great season in which I and my son Aedan enjoyed watching the games whenever we could.) • TIPPECANOE CITY — Approximately five years ago, a warrant for the arrest of Wheeler Linn was issued, charging him with stealing Chris Myers’ horse from Tippecanoe City. Apparently, Linn thought people might have forgotten his deed and made a visit to the area. He was spotted, arrested and put into the hoosegow. On Tuesday, Calvin Moore of Indiana, after looking over all the prisoners, indentified Linn as the man who stayed at his home and had a horse with him and was ‘heading west’ on the same day Myers horse was stolen. It doesn’t look good for Mr. Linn.

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Is your child’s temperament a good fit? Tailor childrearing style to deal more effectively with problems NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a concept that parents may not be familiar with, but experts say it can explain a lot about family conflicts: Is your child’s temperament a good “fit” with yours? For example, a stubborn child who’s a chip off the old block might have a lot of showdowns with an equally stubborn mom or dad. But contrasting temperaments don’t necessarily assure good results: A determined child might overwhelm an overly flexible parent. Many personality traits like these are inborn, but “temperaments can also be colored by the environment in which children are raised,” said child psychologist Brian Daly, who teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia. That means parents who take a step back to consider their child’s personality traits may be able to tailor their childrearing style to deal more effectively with problems. Much of the research on child temperament is based on the New York Longitudinal Study, in which psychiatrists Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess followed a group of children from birth to adulthood beginning in 1956. Thomas and Chess, who were married, found that children’s personalities could be put in three basic categories: easy, difficult, and slow to warm up. They also identified nine other variables that measured behaviors and traits like willfulness, moodiness, activity levels, distractibility, attention span, and regularity in sleep, hunger and other biological functions. One finding from their research was that a good “fit” between children and parents results when adult expectations, values and demands are in accord with a child’s natural capacities and

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This image shows the cover of the 1999 book “Goodness of Fit” by child psychiatrists Drs. Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess. Their research showed that a good “fit” between children and parents results when adult expectations, values and demands are in accord with a child’s natural temperament, capacities and behaviors. behaviors. Their last book, published in 1999, was called “Goodness of Fit.” (Thomas died in 2003, Chess died in 2007.) But their theory was not just a way of letting parents off the hook by blaming kids for personality traits they could not control. The takeaway for parents was that conflicts resulting from a poor fit between parent and child might be ameliorated if childrearing practices could be changed. The theory has withstood the test of time, with psychologists and other experts who work with children

and parents still using some of these concepts today. Resa Fogel, a psychologist who practices in Montclair and Teaneck, N.J., was one of the children in the original study. “When I was little, they came to my house all the time and interviewed and watched me,” said Fogel. “They were the nicest people. I thought they were another set of grandparents.” She became interested in psychology, an interest that was fueled when she got a job assisting Thomas in his research at New York University. She used some of the original studies for her dissertation, which looked at how children with difficult temperaments end up behaving. “You would think people with difficult temperaments are automatically very hard people to be around,” she said. “I showed that if there’s a goodness of fit between the environment and the person, then even if you have a difficult temperament, you’re not going to necessarily misbehave. In other words, there’s hope for people who are tough.” Difficult children “are going to be harder” for parents, she acknowledged, “but you have to have the right way of handling it. That’s what goodness of fit is. It’s like a puzzle you put together.” Arthur Robin, director of psychology training at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, said one common problem he encounters is a child with ADHD or “a very hyper-impulsive child” who has “a passive, depressed, lethargic mom. The child is going to get to do anything he or she likes because the mom is not going to have the energy level to set down some structure.” Another common problem is “a

very rigid, willful child and a highly flexible parent,” Robin said. “The parent is going to go with whatever the child wants. The child is going to end up really spoiled or have a strong sense of entitlement.” Sometimes problems are rooted in the temperament of the parent, not the child. “If a parent is extremely moody, and a child is not very even-tempered, the child is going to get really upset and scared, and may develop in an introverted manner because they can’t deal with the extremes of parent moodiness,” Robin said. With willfulness, Robin says, he tries to recast the trait as “determination” and encourages parents to channel it into “positive activities to move the child ahead.” Teenagers might be encouraged “to fight for some kind of cause, or sometimes parents can get them to spend a lot of time on creative pursuits, so it’s not all channeled into conflicts with parents.” Music or artistic pursuits may be an especially good outlet for moody children, Robin said. Daly said he often encounters families where parents have no problems with one child but a lot of problems with the other. “One child is very well-behaved and fits their parenting style,” he explained. “You could say the child’s temperament is a good match or fit. They rave about that child; the child is responsive and respectful.” But with the other child, the parents may feel that they’re “constantly butting heads. There may be temper tantrums, digging in heels, but without an appropriate result. A lot of times parents have certain values and it can be hard to adjust those values to

meet the temperament of the child.” Daly said parents who are just as stubborn as their kids often get into standoffs because “neither will give ground.” In these cases, it may not work to take a hard line approach of, “if you can’t comply with this, then you’re going to get in more and more trouble.” It also pays to pick your battles carefully. When a little girl couldn’t get out of the house without a tantrum over what to wear, Daly counseled her parents to let her choose her own outfits even if they weren’t quite as coordinated as the parents wished. With teens, said Robin, if they’re “sneaking out in the middle of the night,” you have more important things to focus on than whether their room is clean. “The stuff that isn’t worth fighting about, let it drop,” Robin said. Therapists may be able to identify new ways to approach recurring conflicts. In one case, Fogel counseled a mom to keep a journal of her son’s meltdowns. She soon realized he was getting upset whenever he had to put his shoes on. Turned out he had fine motor coordination problems that made shoe-tying difficult. Fogel says it’s important to include the child as a participant in any effort to change, and that parents should remember, when disciplining children, “You’re disciplining to teach.” Another thing to keep in mind when a child’s personality presents challenges, Fogel said: “This is the temperament she was born with; this is how she acts, this is how you act. You try to find a way to make things better but there’s no magic answer, there’s no formula.” That, she added, is “the hard part.”

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milk. Wednesday — Chicken tenders with sauce, roll, green beans, fruit, milk. Thursday — Walking taco with meat sauce, lettuce, cheese and sauce, California blend vegetables, fruit, milk. Friday — Sausage pattie with cheese on bun, smiley potatoes, fruit, milk. • MILTON-UNION HIGH SCHOOL Monday — Popcorn chicken, roll, broccoli, fruit, milk. Tuesday — Cheeseburger, french fries, fruit, milk. Wednesday — Chicken fryz, roll, corn, fruit, milk. Thursday — Cheese quesadilla with salsa, California blend vegetables, fruit, milk. Friday — Pizza stix, green beans, mixed fruit, mik. • NEWTON SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken patty sandwich, french fries, sidekick, milk. Tuesday — Crispito, cheese stick, mixed vegetables, mixed fruit, milk. Wednesday — Trio sub (elementary), Subway style sub (high school), green beans, Fritos, diced pears, milk. Thursday — Chicken

fryz, whole wheat dinner roll, carrots, diced pears, milk. Friday — Stuffed crust pizza, pasta salad, corn, applesauce, milk. • PIQUA SCHOOLS Monday — Chicken fingers, french fries, green beans, peaches, dinner roll, milk. Tuesday — Macaroni and cheese, corn peaches, butter bread, milk. Wednesday — French toast sticks, sausage, waffle fries, juice, applesauce, milk. Thursday — Fish sandwich, tater tots, coleslaw, cherry crumble, milk. Friday — Taco Max Snax, potato wedges, corn, pears, milk. • PIQUA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Monday — Breakfast sandwich, hash browns, juice cup, coffee cake, milk. Tuesday — Chicken nuggets, corn, dinner roll, choice of fruit, milk. Wednesday — Cavalier pizza sandwich, mixed vegetables, choice of fruit, Jell-O, milk. Thursday — Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, butter bread, choice of fruit, milk. Friday — Nachos and

cheese, green beans, choice of fruit, milk. • ST. PATRICK Monday — Ham and green beans, potatoes, cheese stick, PB&J sandwich, apple slices, milk Tuesday — Hamburger with cheese, french fries, pineapple, pudding, milk. Wednesday — Chicken fingers, salad, grapes, milk. Thursday — Pizza, corn, mixed fruit, pretzel rod, milk. Friday — Hot dog, macaroni and cheese, peas, Rice Krispie treat, peaches, milk. • TROY CITY SCHOOLS Monday — Mini corn dogs, green beans, fruit, Bug Bite snacks, milk. Tuesday — Chicken nuggets, dinner roll, mashed potatoes with gravy, fruit, milk. Wednesday — Sausage, mini pancakes, juice, fruit, milk. Thursday — Cheeseburger on a bun, baked beans, fruit, milk. Friday — Grilled chicken on a wheat bun, steamed broccoli, fruit, milk. • TIPP CITY HIGH SCHOOL Monday — Chicken nuggets, steamed corn,

choice of fruit, wheat roll, milk. Tuesday — Speaghetti with meat sauce, fresh salad, choice of fruit, garlic bread, milk. Wednesday — Cheeseburger on a bun, baked potato, choice of fruit, milk. Thursday — Pizza pocket, steamed green beans, choice of fruit, milk. Friday — Macaroni and cheese, fresh celery, choice of fruit, wheat roll, milk. • UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER Monday — Spicy chicken or mac and cheese, tater tots, assorted fruit, multi-grain bun or roll, milk. Tuesday — Spaghetti or veggie lasagna, spinach salad, assorted fruit, milk. Wednesday — Pizza or quesadilla, glazed carrots, assorted fruit, milk. Thursday — Soft taco or chicken fajita, black beans and brown rice, lettuce, tomato, salsa, assorted fruit, milk. Friday — General Tso chicken or popcorn chicken, fried or sweet brown rice, oriental veggies, assorted fruit, milk.

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The Troy Area Chamber of Commerce and the Troy Strawberry Festival Offices Due to damage from the fire at the 405 Building, we have temporarily relocated to 315 Public Square, Suite 216 (above BakeHouse Breads.) If you need to reach us, please call 937-339-8769. We will have limited internet access during this period.

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TROY — A single parent support group will be offered bi-weekly May 10 through Oct. 25 at St. Patrick Parish Center, Room 3, 444 E. Water St. Hours will be 6:30-8 p.m. every other Thursday. Single & Parenting is a video seminar, combined with support group discussion of the materials presented. It is not necessary to attend every session; however, participants will want to review topics to make sure they don’t miss one they wish to attend. Child care will be provided upon request. There is no charge for the workbooks, thanks to a grant from the Troy Foundation. Contact Pat Smith at 335-2833, Ext. 105, or rsmith3055@aol.com for information or registration.

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This undated image provided by Rock City in Lookout Mountain, Ga., shows Rock City's famous Swing-A-Long Bridge, with views of Chattanooga, Tenn., which is 6 miles away, in the background. Rock City is celebrating its 80th year.

Rock City ‘authentic and rare’ Natural attraction celebrates 80 years CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — It’s been advertised on barns and billboards across much of the country. It’s a natural wonderland with a rock formation called “fat man’s squeeze.” And it’s been mentioned in a country song. Rock City, a cultural and scenic capstone near Chattanooga with endurance like few other tourist attractions, is celebrating its 80th anniversary. About 400,000 visitors annually come to see the 200-millionyear-old rock formations, enjoy scenic vistas and walk among 400 native plant species on 90-minute self-guided tours along a stone path. On the site are a 100-foot high waterfall, a 1,000-ton balancing rock, a swinging bridge and the “fat man’s squeeze” challenging visitors to maneuver between imposing boulders. For the youngsters, there are concrete gnomes, a rock climbing wall and statues of storybook characters. The 14-acre family-owned attraction atop Lookout Mountain, Ga., six miles from downtown Chattanooga, has survived the Great Depression, World War II, area pollution and the recent Great Recession. “We combine natural beauty with incomparable gardens, views and wonders,” says Andrew Kean, Rock City’s president and chief operating officer. And it’s used an unconventional advertising campaign without corporate muscle: Barns, billboards and bird houses proclaim the commanding invitation “See Rock City.” “We’ve had a phenomenal amount of outdoor advertising,” Kean says. Much of the promotion focuses on the intrigue that on a clear day, visitors can see Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama from Rock City’s Seven States Flag Court. “It’s unparalleled,” Kean says. Pressed about the validity of the claim, he acknowledged on a recent overcast Friday, “Today will not be the best.” Rock City opened in 1932 to give Depression-era families a diversion. Bill Chapin, CEO, is a third-generation descendant of founders Garnet and Frieda Carter. There is no big corporation behind it; no multiple sites like theme parks. Even without such

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This undated image provided by Rock City Gardens, Lover's Leap, one of the well-known scenic spots along the attraction's Enchanted Trail is shown at Lookout Mountain, Ga. Rock City is celebrating its 80th year. trappings, it’s been named one of America’s iconic places by National Geographic. “We have a lot of freedom to change, and not to change,” Kean says. Rock City’s opening followed other natural attractions across the country. Mount Rushmore National Memorial was created in 1925. Grand Canyon National Park opened in 1919 and Niagara Falls State Park in 1903. Rock City also is a historic site: The 1863 Civil War “Battle Above the Clouds” was fought on the mountain. And the country’s first patented miniature golf course was created on the mountain in the late 1920s. But Rock City is by no means mired in the 1930s. It uses social media Facebook and Twitter to stay current. Country singer Jason Aldean honored the site by mentioning it by name in his recent song “This I Gotta See.” And there’s a Starbucks on the property and two electric car charging stations. It also competes with Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 110 miles to the northeast, for the tourism dollar, though at an elevation of around 1,700 feet, it is far below the 6,643 feet at Clingmans Dome, the highest peak in the Smokies.

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This 1996 photo provided by Rock City Gardens shows an advertisement for the attraction painted on the side of a barn in Cumberland County, Tenn., one of 900 barn ads originally painted by Clark Byers beginning in the 1930s. Nevertheless, Rock City has held its own as “an authentic and rare experience,” Kean says. The attraction is perfectly positioned as a stopping-off point for vacationers heading to or from Florida on Interstate 75 or 24. It’s a half-day’s drive from Atlanta, Nashville and Birmingham and is regarded as a doorway to the deep South. Ruby Falls, another highly promoted tourist draw, is nearby. Rock City is reached by driving up a narrow, winding road.

Photo opportunities abound: In addition to the views and rock formations, there is rushing water, caverns, cardinals, finches and a small herd of white fallow deer under a canopy of shade trees. The attraction also survived Chattanooga’s reputation in the mid-20th century as one of the country’s most polluted cities. The air is cleaner now thanks to strict regulations, and Chattanooga, surrounded by mountains and ridges, now calls

itself “the scenic city.” Nearly half of Rock City’s attendance is repeat business, much of it generational. Donna Thomas of Cleveland, Tenn., said she first visited Rock City when she was 8 or 9 years old. “Later I took my own children there so they could see seven states at once,” she said. Now her daughter has her own memories of the site because her husband proposed to her there. Rock City’s most effective and lasting advertising has been painting barns and displaying billboards and red-and-black birdhouses around much of the South, Southwest and Midwest with the phrase “See Rock City.” Some 900 barns have been painted through the years, beginning in 1936. An estimated 70 still exist. There are three dozen or so billboards just on the 2-hour drive between Nashville and Chattanooga. Television advertising is limited. The billboards replaced the barns when interstates supplanted U.S. highways in traffic volume. The bird houses succeeded many of the billboards when the 1965 Highway Beautification Act controlled outdoor advertising, including some signs. “We’ve adapted,” Kean says. “It’s still effective.”

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Clark Gregg’s 5 favorite sci-fi movies which, like the best sci-fi, uses an alternative, near-future reality to provide a unique perspective on who we are now. Mike Cahill’s powerful direction of a clever, haunting script by the movie’s beautiful, unknown lead, Brit Marling, along with an emotional but restrained performance by William Mapother, make this a deeply resonant film about grief and redemption. • “Alien” (1979): This belongs at the top of about five different lists, including best thriller and best horror film, as well. Ridley Scott did so many things right here from the grimy, lived-in world of the Nostromo mixed with H.R. Giger’s eerily seductive design to the perfect cast and Sigourney Weaver’s bad-ass per-

BY SANDY COHEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After popping up in cameos during the credits of Marvel films as the authoritative, eye-patch-wearing Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson steps fully into his role as the head of peaceagency keeping in “The S.H.I.E.L.D. Avengers.” He assembles the supercrew of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, the Incredible Hulk and Hawkeye as part of his “Avengers Initiative” to help fight Thor’s brother, Loki, who threatens to wipe out humanity. The film hits U.S. theaters Friday. “It’s great to stand there and look around and go OK, these guys are actually here so we do have the Avengers,” Jackson said during a recent interview. “(Director and writer) Joss (Whedon) is so savvy about the genre and how to flesh characters out so it’s not just a set piece fest of stuff blowing up and people chasing each other… There’s sadness, there’s joy, there’s fear, there’s all this stuff that goes into making this film that makes it sort of special, way more special than it could have been.” Jackson will reprise his

character in the next “Captain America” film, which starts shooting in January, but he’s unsure of Nick Fury’s fate beyond that. Could his origin story be in the works? “I have no idea,” he said. “I had a nine picture deal, I’ve only done five of them, so I guess so. It’s possible.” The 63-year-old actor took a break from working with Quentin Tarantino on “Django Unchained” to promote “The Avengers.” And while he stayed mum on the project (“It’s another non-disclosure thing”), he said he has no problem shifting gears from Tarantino’s dramatic Western tale to the superhero world. “It’s like this: When I go to work in the morning, I’m this guy. And when I come out of the makeup trailer and I have a big scar on my face and a patch on my eye and I’ve got a whole goatee, I’m a whole new person. I don’t even have to think about it,” he said. “And when I go to work for Quentin, the same thing happens: I go in the makeup trailer and I come out another guy. “It’s a whole other mind state … If I’m not sitting there looking in the mirror at my character, I don’t have to worry about it.”

fect piece of wired-action pie. • “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968): Stanley Kubrick at his visionary finest. My dad took me to see this when I was about 9 and I was changed forever. Kubrick’s visceral and prescient take on such themes as artificial intelligence, extraterrestrials and their role in human evolution was adapted with novelist Arthur C. Clarke from one of his short stories. From the astonishing first act at the dawn of man to the hallucinatory, largely non-verbal climax, the film takes more risks than any 10 studio films made today. I watch it over and over and always experience something different. • “Blade Runner” (1982): Holy crap, I love this movie. I’ve

seen it countless times in all its incarnations, read Phillip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” on which it’s loosely based and never flip past it on cable. I love the futuristic neonoir tone, the moody Vangelis score and the pitch-perfect performances by the entire cast, especially Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah and, above all, the young, Brando-esque Rutger Hauer. His turn as the murderous replicant Roy Batty on a desperate, all-too-human quest to prolong his artificially shortened life in a rain-soaked, post-apocalyptic, 21st century Los Angeles always breaks my heart. There may be a few logic issues here and there, but the whole thing is so damn sexy that you don’t even care.

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In this film image released by Disney, Thor portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, are shown in a scene from “The Avengers.”

Fulfilling the hype ‘Avengers’ hits big screen with a blast BY CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Film Reviewer

The hype has been building for years and it couldn’t possibly be more deafening at this point. After a series of summer blockbusters that individually introduced Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America, all these characters come together alongside several other friends and foes in “Marvel’s The Avengers.” And with director and co-writer Joss Whedon, they couldn’t be in better hands. He’s pulled off the tricky feat of juggling a large ensemble cast and giving everyone a chance to shine, of balancing splashy set pieces with substantive ideology. Stuff gets blowed up real good in beautifully detailed 3-D in “The Avengers” the area in and around Grand Central Terminal, for example, gets obliterated beyond recognition in an AP PHOTO/DISNEY, ZADE ROSENTHAL exhausting, climactic batIn this film image released by Disney, Samuel L. tle but the film as a whole Jackson portrays Nick Fury in a scene from Marvel’s is never a mess from a “The Avengers.” The film will be released on May 4. narrative perspective. Whedon keeps a tight rein on some potentially unwieldy material, and the TOP ITUNES result is a film that simultaneously should please purists (one of which he is) Top Albums: iTunes’ Official Music as well as those who aren’t Charts for the week ending 1. “Blunderbuss,” Jack necessarily comic-book afiApril 30, 2012: White cionados. He also stays Top Songs: 2. “Up All Night,” One true to the characters 1. “Somebody That I Direction while establishing a tone Used to Know,” Gotye 3. ” Hard 2 Love,” Lee that’s very much his own. 2. “Payphone (feat. Wiz As he did with the recent Brice Khalifa),” Maroon 5 horror hit “The Cabin in 4. “21,” ADELE 3. “Call Me Maybe,” Carly the Woods,” which he co5. “Club Life, Vol. 2 Rae Jepsen wrote and produced, Miami,” Tisto 4. “We Are Young,” Fun. Whedon has come up with 5. “Boyfriend,” Justin 6. “Small Town Family a script that’s cheeky and Bieber Dream,” Josh Abbott Band breezy, full of witty banter 6. “Work Hard, Play 7. “Making Mirrors,” and sly pop-culture shoutHard,” Wiz Khalifa Gotye outs as well as self-refer7. “What Makes You ential humor, one that 8. “The Wanted,” The Beautiful,” One Direction moves with an infectious Wanted 8. “Wild Ones (feat. Sia),” energy that (almost) 9. “Love Is a Four Letter Flo Rida makes you lose track of its 9. “Starships,” Nicki Minaj Word,” Jason Mraz two-and-a-half-hour run10.”Hands All Over,” 10. “Glad You Came,” ning time. The Wanted Maroon 5

The back-and-forth between Robert Downey Jr.’s glib Iron Man and Chris Evans’ old-school Captain America is electric, while Downey’s more low-key, philosophical exchanges with Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk help give the film some intellectual heft. Actually, Downey damn near runs away with this whole thing, a tough feat to pull off in a cast full of personalities who are literally larger than life; it just goes to show once again how irresistibly charismatic he can be with the right kind of writing. But the film’s vibe is never smug or off-putting; these are still comic book heroes full of all the torment and introspection you’d expect. And for a movie that’s violent as hell, “The Avengers” ends up being an earnest plea for peace. As in the best of its predecessors, the original “Iron Man” from 2008, it’s a reminder that a summer blockbuster can be glossy and entertaining but still have meatier matters on its mind. And we haven’t even gotten to the plot yet: It’s your basic bad-guy-wantsto-take-over-the-world kinda thing. But even Whedon seems to recognize what a hackneyed premise that is, so he has a little fun with it. The preening, effete Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the bitter brother of hunky demigod Thor (Chris Hemsworth), descends to Earth from Asgard, which still has a distinctly ’70s cheesiness about its twinkly sci-fi aesthetic. Once here, he steals the Tesseract, the cosmic blue cube that gives its bearer unlimited power, or some such. The no-nonsense Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., which had been entrusted with the safety of said

cube, springs into action to reacquire it by assembling a dream team of superheroes and other sundry bad-asses with specialized skills. Nick gets help in this endeavor from his right-hand man, Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg, once again bringing some welcome deadpan humor to this outlandish scenario). Besides Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, The Hulk’s services are needed because the Tesseract exudes a radiation that will help track it, and The Hulk despite the threat of his gigantic, green volatility knows a little something about gamma rays. (Ruffalo, stepping into the Bruce Banner role that Eric Bana and Edward Norton played previously in the past decade, brings a sense of wry bemusement and appealing selfdeprecation to this dangerous and misunderstood character.) There’s also master assassin Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and super spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). But because these are superheroes with super powers, they also have super egos. And so a great deal of time is spent having them talk a lot of trash and square off against one another to prove who’s toughest. There’s Iron Man vs. Thor, Thor vs. The Hulk, Hawkeye vs. Black Widow and so on. While they might seem like filler, these showdowns allow

each character to have his or her time in the spotlight, and they do build genuine tension. They also happen to represent the adolescent fantasies of every geek in the audience. So in theory, everyone’s happy. Eventually they will all have to come together for one epic battle against their shared enemy in Midtown Manhattan, home of Iron Man Tony Stark’s latest dazzling architectural creation, his eponymous high-rise, and a cool place in general to stage massive movie destruction. Much of the gadgetry is cleverly detailed, as you’d expect Tony Stark has devised stunningly efficient ways to get his metal suit on and off but “The Avengers” is at its strongest in its quieter, simpler moments when people are actually talking to each other. The dialogue sparkles as brightly as the special effects; these people may be wearing ridiculous costumes but they’re well fleshed-out underneath. And so in every regard, this movie truly fulfills its hype. “Marvel’s The Avengers,” a Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout and a mild drug reference. Running time: 143 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

Troy Civic Theatre Presents:

"Ravenscroft" SCHEDULE SUNDAY 5/6 ONLY MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3-D ONLY (PG-13) 12:50 2:40 4:10 6:10 7:30 10:50 PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3-D ONLY (PG) 11:30 1:50 6:45 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 2-D ONLY (PG-13) 11:15 9:35 THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (R) 12:15 3:30 6:30 9:50

THE RAVEN (R) 11:20 1:55 4:30 7:05 10:05 PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 2-D ONLY (PG) 4:20 9:10 SAFE (R) 10:30 THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) 11:45 2:25 5:05 7:45 10:20 CHIMPANZEE (G) 12:00 2:15 4:50 THREE STOOGES (PG) 7:55 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) 12:40 3:55 7:15 10:40

May 4, 5, 6, 11 & 12 Curtain: Fri. & Sat. 8:00p, Sun. 4:00p Call: 339-7700 For Ticket Reservations Barn in the Park Across from Hobart Arena

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formance. I also love the way Scott keeps the alien unseen for so much of the gut-churning build up, then delivers one of the most terrifying creatures ever seen on screen. I still can’t watch this one after about 8 p.m. • “The Matrix” (1999): The ultimate popcorn movie. I accompanied a friend to the premiere with no idea what I was walking into and had about as much fun as I’ve ever had in a movie theater. Spectacular, mind-bending premise which provides the seductive setting for a story delivered with style and precision and more shell casings than all the “Rambo” movies combined. The sequels never quite lived up to this promise, but I can’t hold that against this per-

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s a little movie called “The Avengers” coming out this weekend. You might have heard something about it. Among its impressive ensemble cast is Clark Gregg, returning from previous Marvel movies as Agent Coulson, Nick Fury’s nononsense, right-hand man at S.H.I.E.L.D. In all his copious free time this week, Gregg was kind enough to choose his five favorite science fiction films. Here they are in his own thoughtful words, with the last being most favorite. He’s got good taste: • “Another Earth” (2011): I saw this at Sundance in 2011 and was completely mesmerized by its low-budget, idea-driven premise,

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DATES TO REMEMBER TODAY • DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixthgrade. • COSA, an anonymous 12-step recovery program for friends and family members whose lives have been affected by another person’s compulsive sexual behavior, will meet in the evening in Tipp City. For more information, call 463-2001. • AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open. • AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. • AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs. • AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. • Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion . • Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville. • Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy. • Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons. Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building. For more information, call 667-1069, Ext. 21. • A Spin-In group, practicing the art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358. MONDAY • Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City. • 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. • Zumba $5 sessions will be offered at 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Community Cnter, Troy. Call 3352715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The discussion is open to the public. • AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy. • AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). • AA, West Milton open discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible. • Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. • Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. • Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699. • TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. New members welcome. For more information, call 335-9721. • Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401. • Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m. • Parenting Education Groups will

meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and age-appropriate ways to parent children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program. • Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door. • Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public. Must currently be in therapy. For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 • Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273. • Pilates for Beginners, 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus. • Al-Anon, “The Language of Letting Go, Women’s Al-Anon,” will be at 6:45 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, Franklin and Walnut streets, Troy. Women dealing with an addiction issue of any kind in a friend or family member are invited.

how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information. • Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion. • Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua. Open discussion. • Public bingo, license No. 010528, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m. Instant tickets also will be available. • Public bingo — paper and computer — will be offered by the Tipp City Lumber Baseball organization from 7-10 p.m. at the West Milton Eagles, 2270 S. Miami St., West Milton. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the sponsorship of five Little League baseball teams. For more information, call 543-9959. • DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 440-1269 or Debbie at 3358397. • Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

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• 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, is $6 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s. • The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy. Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989. • The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 339-1564. • 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

• Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The Friends and Neighbors Club of Miami County, a women’s nonprofit and social organization doing charitable work in the Troy area, meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the TroyHayner Cultural Center. For more information, contact Joanne at jrosenberglvspopcorn@hotmail.com. • A teen support group for any grieving teens, ages 12-18 years in the greater Miami County area is offered from 6-7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers. Crafts, sharing time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal. • Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more information. • Mothers of Preschoolers, a group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to information from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from 6:158:30 p.m. Single, married, working or stay-at-home moms are invited. Children (under 5) are cared for in MOPPETS. For more information, contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074. • The Miami Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more information, call 778-1586 or visit the group’s Web site at www.melodymenchorus.org. • Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people. For more information, call 335-8814. • AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room. • AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion is open. • AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discussion (participants must have a desire to stop drinking). • Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Group, Presbyterian Church, corner North and Miami streets, Sidney. • AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Open discussion. • An Intermediate Pilates class will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Women’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and

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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 TippMonroe Community Services at 6678631 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 Temple of Praise Ministries will serve hot lunches from noon to 2 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday at 235 S. Third St., Tipp City. • The Troy Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. For more information, call 335-1923. • A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465. THURSDAY • Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The Generations of Life Center of Hospice of Miami County will offer a friendship luncheon at local restaurants on the second Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Locations vary, so interested parties can call the office at 573-2100 for details. This is a social event for grieving adults who do not wish to dine out alone. Attendees order from the menu. • An open parent-support group will be at 7 p.m. at Corinn’s Way Inc., 306 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • Parents are invited to attend the Corinn’s Way Inc. parent support group from 7-8:30 p.m. each Thursday. The meetings are open discussion. • Friendship Luncheons are offered the second Thursday at different locations in the county. The luncheons are casual dining experience that allows adults to come together for food and fellowship. Call the Generations of Live Center at 335-5191. • Tipp City Seniors gather to play cards prior to lunch every Thursday at 10 a.m. at 320 S. First St., Tipp City. At noon will be a carry-in lunch and participants should bring a covered dish and table service. On the third Thursday, Senior Independence offers blood pressure and blood sugar testing before lunch. For more information, call 667-8865. • Best is Yet to Come open AA meeting, 11 a.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. • AA, Tri-City Group meeting will take place 8:30-9:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of the former Dettmer Hospital. The lead meeting is open. For more information, call 335-9079. • AA, Spirituality Group will meet at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Troy. The discussion is open. • Health Partners Free Clinic will offer a free clinic on Thursday night at the clinic, 1300 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Registration will be from 5:30-7 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The clinic does not accept medical emergencies, but can refer

patients to other doctors and can prescribe medication. Call 332-0894 for more information. • Narcotics Anonymous, NAIOU, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. • Preschool story hours will be from 10-11 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. at the Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. • Weight Watchers, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City. For more information, call 552-7082. FRIDAY • An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The Tri-County Suicide Prevention Coalition will meet at 9 a.m. the second Friday in the conference room of the Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health, Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Troy. Use the west entrance to the fourth floor. • AA, Troy Friday Morning Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. The discussion is open. • AA, open discussion, 8 p.m. in the Salvation Army, 129 South Wayne St., Piqua. Use parking lot entrance, held in gym. • Narcotics Anonymous, Clean and Free, 8 p.m., Dettmer Hospital, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. Open discussion. Fellowship from 78 p.m. • A Pilates Intermediate group matwork class will be held from 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 Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • A singles dance is offered every Friday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Christopher Club, Dixie Highway, Kettering, sponsored by Group Interaction. The dance is $6. For more information, call 640-3015 or visit www.groupia.org. • Christian Worship Center, 3537 S. Elm Tree Road, Christiansburg, hosts a Friday Night Bluegrass Jam beginning at 7 p.m. each Friday. Homemade meals are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants may bring instruments and join in. A small donation is requested at the door. For more information or directions, call 857-9090 or 631-2624. SATURDAY • The Miami County Farmers Market will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind Friendly’s restaurant through October. • Instructional boxing (fundamentals and techniques) classes will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs. • The West Milton Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., West Milton, will offer a free clothes closet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday. Clothes are given to those in need free of charge at this time. For more information, call (937) 6984395. • Weight Watchers, 1431 W. Main St., Church of the Bretheren, Troy, at 10 a.m. For more information, call (800) 374-9191. • Recovery Too Al-Anon meetings are offered at 8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, main campus, Room 117, S. County Road 25A, Tipp City. • AA, Men’s Meeting will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the new First Lutheran Church, corner of Washington Road and State Route 41. The meeting is closed (members must have a desire to stop drinking). • AA, Troy Winners Group will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy for discussion. The meeting is open. • AA, Troy Beginners Group meets at 7 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy. This is an open discussion meeting. • Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, meeting at 9 a.m., weigh-in at 9:30 a.m. • Pilates for Beginners (Introduction), 9:15-10:15 a.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441. • Narcotics Anonymous, Saturday Night Live, 8 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 W. Water St., Sidney. • Relapse Prevention Group, 5:30-6:45 p.m. at The Avenue, Room 504, at Ginghamsburg Main Campus, 6759 S. County Road 25A. • The Next Step, a worship celebration for people on the road to recovery, 7 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Main Campus Sanctuary, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. • Yoga classes will be offered from 10-11 a.m. at the First United Church of Christ, Troy. The public is invited.

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Sunday, May 6, 2012

BOOK REVIEW SUNDAY CROSSWORD

Bethenny Frankel makes a splash BY BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press “Skinnydipping” (Touchstone/Simon and Schuster), by Bethenny Frankel: Bethenny Frankel has worn many hats in her rise to success. The reality TV star and self-help author also has designed everything from sangria to shapewear … so why not novelist? In her new book, “Skinnydipping,” Frankel takes the advice “write what you know” seriously with a thinly veiled protagonist who closely resembles herself. The story mirrors Frankel’s own journey, so while it’s hardly groundbreaking fiction, her affable doppelganger will likely amuse and inspire young female fans. Faith Brightstone is a college grad who ditches her family problems in Manhattan to follow her dreams of fame and fortune in Hollywood: “One day, I vowed, I would belong in first class, and people would wonder who I was … kissing my fullypaid-for Manolos.” A wannabe actress, Faith learns quickly that she’s much better being herself. She stumbles through L.A. adventures, dating the wrong men and struggling to pay her bills with various entertainment and hospitality jobs, building her resume and her confidence for her big break. Taken for granted by both employers and lovers, Faith decides she’s over L.A. and heads back to New York to figure out what’s next in her quest to make a name for herself. She’s eventually tapped by producers of a reality TV contest run by a domestic diva named Sybil Hunter. As Frankel did on Martha Stewart’s version of “The Apprentice,” Faith becomes a fan favorite and finally gets closer to the good life she covets. When Faith’s not cracking wise, the dialogue is stilted. The L.A. chapters are teeming with trophy wives, producer couches, drug parties and an overall obsession with looks, status and money. There are several implausible plot points and a predictable ending. But the pace moves as fast as a Hollywood rumor, and the voice of Faith is all Bethenny. She’s plucky, hardworking and streetsmart, but often raunchy and inappropriate. You never know what she’ll say next, but you don’t want to miss a zinger. You cannot help but root for imperfect Faith. She trusts the wrong people and makes bad decisions but learns from her mistakes and continues to believe in herself. Like the persona Frankel reveals on her reality TV shows and in her books, Faith has a tough exterior but reveals sensitivity and insecurity underneath the bravado. At some points it seems Frankel is using Faith to work through her own personal issues. Admitting she wanted to be an actress for the wrong reasons, Faith says, “I wanted it … for the attention and love I never got as a child.” When Faith has the opportunity to marry a rich, handsome man and pay off her debts and settle down, she breaks off the engagement because she wants to succeed on her own. It’s that message of empowerment that appeals to many young women. Frankel has a knack for tapping into how women feel about themselves and their place in the world.

ACROSS Food fish 1. 5. Orzo, e.g. 10. Mexican painter — Kahlo 15. Peel 19. Port city in Yemen 20. Hoard 21. Bulldoze 22. Genus of maples 23. Siesta: 2 wds. 25. Bluffer at cards: Hyph. 27. Captivate 28. Footless 30. Covered a certain way 31. Domed recess 32. Surrounded by 34. “Norma —” 35. Muslim mystics 38. Scrams 39. Overwhelms 43. Wild indigo 44. Lab compounds 46. — B’rith 47. Fine sand 49. Cutting remarks 50. Handgun: Hyph. 54. Eau-de- — 55. Promise of a kind 56. Bullock 57. Pure schmaltz 58. Break away 60. Made affluent 62. Softer anagram 64. Bent 65. The heavens of old 66. Decorative plants 67. Rattle 69. Fundamental 71. Leftovers 73. Makes a jangling noise 76. Brunch choice 78. Legendary creature 79. Strand 80. Poetic time of day 81. One of twelve: Abbr. 82. Old Spanish money: 3 wds. 85. Kind of saxophone 86. “Waiting for the Robert — —” 88. Shape 89. Loamy deposit 90. The sierra, a fish 91. Mise- — - — 93. Mantilla 95. Young fish 96. Kind of lettuce 97. Downpour 99. Junket 101. Weather phenomena 104. Ski jump 105. Certain contract 109. Kind of hat for cowboys: Hyph. 111. Really happy: 3 wds. 113. Gobble 114. Like a towelette 115. Crumb of a guy 116. Angered

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DOWN 1. Yegg’s target Ruler of Asgard 2. 3. Remaining 4. Viscera 5. Game pieces 6. Priest’s vestment Healthy upstairs 7. 8. Tut-tut 9. Indic language 10. Natural catastrophes 11. Splits 12. “— Told Every Little Star” 13. Skillful 14. Hay fever, rose fever, etc. 15. Some drawings 16. Yearn 17. Kind of organ 18. Misjudge 24. Yelps

26. Two-toed sloth 29. Cap-a- — 32. Furniture wood 33. Projecting pieces for mortises 35. — Hawkins Day 36. Marriage 37. Skating maneuver: 2 wds. 38. Sacked 40. Part of NPR: Abbr. 41. All-terrain vehicle: Hyph. 42. Chute 44. — — drop of a hat 45. 1980’s sitcom 46. Drills 48. Started golfing (with “off”) 51. A water sign 52. Bugles 53. Incentive to buy 56. Lug 59. Outlay 61. Swash letters: Abbr. 62. Exploits 63. Parts of kites 66. Let go 68. Discloses 69. Paleontologist’s find

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Soap plant Biked Kingpin Fashionably out of style Hair net Relative of a postmark Stertorous sound Age Support for a Union Authorize Goes with Part of AFL-CIO: Abbr. Biases Magna — laude “Star Trek” captain Notched Arkansas river city Woodwinds Feed Hold sway Flavoring for gin Short tail Razor name Witnessed Remnants Hoover’s org. Kindled Why —?

Son publishes his mother’s book

War II changes everything. Different versions of the manuscript received complimentary rejection letters from publishers, but two years ago, Presley decided to put the book to rest. She said she was sick of it, couldn’t look at it anymore, and she gave copies to her son, Robert Presley, and her

daughter, Jan Tiffin, an English teacher at Carbondale Community High School. “They’ve been hearing about (the book) almost their whole lives,” Presley said. “It’s just like one of the family — the poor relation in the family.” Then, recently, Presley

was shocked when her son told her he was self-publishing her book. “Secrets and White Lies” is now available in local bookstores and from online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. “I was amazed,” Presley said. “I didn’t even think he’d read it.”

Presley lived the tough life shared by many Southern Illinoisans during the Great Depression. She didn’t see an indoor bathroom until she was in seventh grade. Her mother died when she was 9. Presley was forced to quit school and go to work when she was 16. Throughout her upbringing and despite her family’s poverty, Presley was fascinated with books and the craft of writing. When she was growing up her family only had two books in their house other than the Bible because they couldn’t afford to buy any more. But Presley read any book she could get her hands on, whether it was from her school’s library or the small Works Progress Administration library in Cobden, and she went to great lengths to nurture her passion to write. “I was about 8 or 9 when I realized I wanted to be a writer,” Presley said. “We were poor, and we could barely afford paper and pencils and tablets for school. I would take paper the meat came wrapped in and cut it, sew it together and make pages and write on that.”

Amanda Quick (Putnam) 6. “The Lost Years” by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) 7. “Guilty Wives” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 8. “The Shoemaker’s Wife” by Adriana Trigiani (Harper) 9. “Unnatural Acts” by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

10. “Sacre Bleu: A comedy d’Art” by christopher Moore (Morrow) HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Drift” by Rachel Maddow (Crown) 2. “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake” by Anna Quindlen (Random House) 3. “Prague Winter” by Madeleine Albright (Harper)

4. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier” by Ree Drummond (William Morrow Cookbooks) 5. “Imagine” by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 6. “The Blood Sugar Solution” by Mark Hyman, M.D. (Little, Brown) 7. “The Presidents Club”

by Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy (Simon & Schuster) 8. “Weeknights with Giada” by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter) 9. “The 17 Day Diet” by Dr. Mike Moreno (Free Press) 10. “Let’s Pretend That This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)

BY BRENT STEWART Associated Press MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — For 20 years on her tax returns, Pauline Cagle Presley has listed “writer” as her occupation. And despite Presley’s inner assurance that writing was her vocation, the 87year-old Cobden native took great satisfaction this tax season in presenting her accountant a copy of her first published novel, “Secrets and White Lies.” “It’s overpowering,” Presley said of the reality that her book was finally finished and available for others to read, “but somewhere in me I’m not surprised.” “Secrets and White Lies” is the product of more than 50 years of work. It began as a series of short stories in the 1950s and evolved throughout the subsequent decades mirroring Presley’s own development as an author. Set in the Great Depression and narrated by its main character, Willa Mae “Willie” Langston, “Secrets and White Lies” is a coming-of-age novel full of family secrets and community scandals until World

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In this photo taken April 16, Pauline Cagle Presley, 87, talks about her book “Secrets and White Lies” at her home in Murphysboro, Ill. The book is the product of more than 50 years of work. It began as a series of short stories in the 1950s and evolved throughout the subsequent decades — mirroring Presley’s own development as an author.

BESTSELLERS HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Wind Through the Keyhole” by Stephen King (Scribner) 2. “The Innocent” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 3. “Calico Joe” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. “The Witness” by Nora Roberts (Putnam) 5. “Crystal Gardens” by

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sunday, May 6, 2012

PUBLIC RECORDS: MARRIAGE LICENSES Tyler Kendall Helton, 28, of 20 Rockleigh Ave., West Milton, to Angela Christine Osborne, 25, of same address. Oscar Tzitzihua Alvarez, 20, of 1525 McKaig Ave., Apt. 3, Troy, to Cierra Jade Erin Baker, 20, of same address. Todd Andrew Smith, 40, of 2900 Rugged Hill Road, Casstown, to Krystal Renee Hammond, 30, of 2964 Myers Road, Springfield. Todd Jay Hutson, 50, of 11 W. Main St., Fletcher, to Cynthia Ann Hutson, 53, of 540 Peterson Road, Troy. William Daniel Myers, 31, of 2190 Pleasant View Drive, Troy, to Coleen Melissa Stringer, 30, of same address. Thomas J. Wadino, 30, of 8283 N. Montgomery

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County Line Road, Englewood, to Kimberly Ann Manger, 32, of same address. William Daniel Young, 30, of 631 W. North St., Piqua, to Amber Nichol Cruikshank, 27, of same address. Timothy Dale Farmer, 43, of 1231 Bantas Creek Road, Eaton, to Pamela Kay Picard, 43, 4830 Scarff Road, New Carlisle. Brian Michael Marcus Turner, 20, of 3218 N. State Route 589, Casstown to Morgan Cheyenne Plantz, 18, of same address. David Brandon Fitch, 21, of 1705 South St., Piqua, to Chelsea Elizabeth Mays, 22, of 503 Harney Drive, Piqua.

Shafers plan anniversary party Walshes wed 50 years ago BRADFORD — The children of Bill and Ruth Ann Shafer would like to annunce their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married on Feb. 17, 1962, in Bradford. They are the parents of seven children, Sherry Wackler of Covinton, Jeanie Whittaker of Sevierville, Tenn., Tina Gilmore of West Milton, Mike Shafer of Covington, Lisa Shafer of Bradford, Angie Watren of Pleasant Hill and Michelle Reck of Bradford. They also have 15 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grand-

daughter. At the time of their anniversary, they were in Frostproof, Fla. Since they have retired they spend six months out of the year there. The Shafers are going to celebrate their anniversary from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at the Immaculate Conception Hall, 401, E. Walnut St., Bradford, and invite their friends to join them.

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TROY — Tom and Ruth Fessler Walsh of 1690 S. Forest Hill Road, Troy, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on May 26, 2012. They were married at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Oakwood. Cards will be appreciated.

Vow renewals more popular

NEW YORK (AP) — When Letty Abraham of Sylvan Lake, Mich., married her husband, Mark, almost 22 years ago, she was determined not to make a fuss. It was her second marriage and she didn’t want to go overboard. “I had a big wedding the first time … My second wedding I was over that, and I wanted it more small and intimate. We got married in Las Vegas. We had family and friends there but it wasn’t a really big deal,” she said. Still, it was important to International Airport. the couple to make their Madonna is the home union special, so they made school director at Troy a plan early on to renew Christian High School. Clint and Madonna cel- their vows. Fast forward 10 years, ebrated with a cruise to the Eastern Caribbean in and they were saying “I still do” on a trip to Maui, February. Hawaii. At that ceremony, Abraham let herself cry.

TIPP CITY — Clint and Madonna Corwin of Tipp City are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. They were married May 15, 1982, in Dayton. Their children include Emily (Corwin) and Justin Howard of Miamisburg, Ben Corwin of Lexington, Ky., Rebecca Corwin of Nashville, Tenn., Robert Corwin of Pittsburgh, Pa., Thomas Corwin of Tipp City and William Corwin of Tipp City. Clint is an air traffic control front line manager at the Dayton

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She and her husband were so happy with their second wedding to each other that they decided to do it again at the 15-year mark as well. “We’ll probably do it again at 25,” she laughed. Recommitting to a relationship through vow renewals is becoming more popular, said Susan Southerland, president of Just Marry!, Inc. wedding planners in Orlando, Fla. “In the last three to five years they’ve become extremely popular. We’ve always done one or two throughout the year, but all of a sudden it’s become a huge request.” For one thing, it’s a great way to reconnect. Kathryn Quinn of East Mich., is Lansing, approaching her 11-year anniversary. She and her husband recently renewed their vows on a trip to the Virgin Islands. They traveled with three other couples and all four renewed their vows on the beach on Valentine’s Day. “I’m so glad we did it,” she said. “This was our first trip away from our children. It was at a beautiful location. The vow renewal was meaningful, and gave us a chance away from our daily life to really celebrate our time together and be grateful for our relationship.” Sometimes, a vow renewal is not only a reminder of how far a couple has come, but a memory to cherish. Winifred “Wini” Brunston of Lancaster, Calif., lost her husband last year. She enjoys looking back to their 35th anniversary, in 2004, when they renewed their vows in the same small church where they got married. The same couple who stood up with them back then resumed their duties. Brunston feels marriage vows mean more over the years because “after being together after all that time you really know each other,” and “it lets the spouse know you still love them enough to marry them again.” Anja Winikka, editor of the wedding website TheKnot.com, believes one reason for the spike of interest in vow renewals is that some celebrity couples have done it. Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott filmed their vow renewal for their reality TV show. Holly Robinson Peete tweeted photos after she and former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete recently celebrated their 17-year anniversary by renewing their vows on top of the Empire State Building in New York. “You hear about it, and just like any trends in the wedding industry and in decor and fashion, celebrities certainly do influence us in that way,” says Winikka. Southerland says she recently helped a couple who renew their vows every year. “It’s always a surprise, and the husband plans it,” she said.

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Dress up the table for a Mother’s Day feast BY MARY CAROL GARRITY Scripps Howard News Service One great way to celebrate Mother’s Day is with an exciting new tabletop, complete with the season’s hottest new styles and colors. Here’s a quick glance. Aqua and green apple These perky colors are like a shot of vitamin B-12. Start with a set of basic white dishes, then add gobs of character by working in and apple-green aqua accents through the glassware, votive holders and napkins. Too cute for words. Marigold Marigold is still hot, hot, hot this year. But if you want to take a different path with it, display this zesty color in a more serene setting. Pick cream as its partner, not other bright hues. A goldand-cream quilt will give your tabletop scene a romantic feel, especially if you add cloches to cover each place setting (a great idea if you’re dining outside — keeps out the bugs!) I really like marigold paired with grass-green. Create an earthy, natural tone on your table by using green majolica plates and twiggy wicker-plate stands with gold dishes and yellow and green napkins. It looks fresh and clean, but also restful and rustic. Silver and white If you want a table that’s sleek and cool yet elegant, try one of my favorite color combinations for this season: silver and white. Just dress up white dishes by adding highgloss silver accents. Try using a silver temple jar and pillar candlesticks in the centerpiece and place silver votive holders on each place setting. If you want a simpler, softer look, use weather-gray accents instead of polished silver. Red, white and blue What could be more appealing than our national colors mixed together in one

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A gold-and-cream quilt gives this tabletop scene a romantic feel, as do the cloches covering place settings. exciting, yet original, tablescape? It’s fun and patriotic, without being a cliche. The color palette of red, white and blue doesn’t always have to be bold to be effective. Snappy red dishes, dotted with blue accents, make me catch my breath with their delicacy and vibrancy. Pink, light blue and tan If you’ve never thought of

yourself as a fan of light blue and pink, it’s time to reconsider this color palette of your youth. Reinterpreted by today’s gifted dish designers, pastels are oh-so-cool! They connect someplace deep within me, and tan is anything but neutral when used artfully in a creative dish design. Linens, at last This year, I was dazzled by

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How long to close? Some home-sale transactions close quickly, while others can take months. Two significant factors that affect most home sales are inspections of the property and financing the purchase. Inspections should be done within the first couple of weeks after the offer is ratified, i.e., accepted by both buyer and seller. Usually, the day after ratification is day one of the contingency and closing time periods. This may vary from one location to the next. When transactions fall apart soon after ratification, the cause is usually something discovered during the buyer’s inspections. It’s a good idea for sellers to get presale inspection reports so that the buyers have as much information

Dian Hymer For the Miami Valley Sunday News about the property as possible before they make an offer. Most home inspection reports make recommendations to consult other specialists such as a roofer, furnace contractor, drainage specialist or engineer. Few sellers have these additional inspections done. Even if they do, the buyers might want a second opinion. Inspections are also somewhat subjective. One inspector might

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS lot, $43,900. Edward Weaver, Elizabeth Weaver to John E. Fulker, Roger Collins to Paul Wolfrum, trustee, four lots, $0. Verna Wolfrum, one lot, $12,600. Fifth Third Mortgage Company Robert W. Rohlfs, Tonia Rohlfs to Derek McCuistion, 0.256 to Federal National Mortgage acres, $0. Association, one lot, $104,700. Maryellen Nilsen, Richard PIQUA Nilsen to Timothy Tittle, Victoria Tittle, a part lot, $199,000. Bac Home Loans Servicing, Pioneer Property Solutions LP, Countrywide Home Loans LLC to Janet Larck, Timothy Servicing LP to Larck, one lot, $15,000. Secretary of Housing and Matthew Abuayed, Rebecca Abuayed to Jackie Boyd, one lot, Urban Development, one lot, and one part lot, $0. $222,000. Phyllis Fitzwater to JP Morgan Gail Garman, Timothy Garman to Elayne Cass, Matthew Chase Bank, N.A., two part lots, $52,000. Cass, one lot, $167,000. Clarence Ford to Kay Manson, Joshua Bledsoe, Justine Larry Manson, two lots, $0. Bledsoe to Larry Pickering, Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal Renate Pickering, one lot, National Mortgage Association, $119,000. Lerner, Sampson, and Rothfuss, Bret Renbarger to Gary attorney in fact to Margaret Brewsaugh, a part lot, $35,600. Lester, one lot, $29,000. Ursula Hinnegan, successor Barbara Coulter Shuff, Tommy trustee, Wilma Van Nostrand Shuff to Barbara Coulter Shuff, Revocable Living Trust Agreement to Susan Kessler, one Tommy Shuff, one lot, $0. Estate of William F. Rees to lot, $79,000. Tim Knott to Deborah Meade, Patria Rees, one lot, $0. Joseph Nuckles to Federal Marvin Meade, one lot, National Mortgage Association, $162,500. New Carlisle Federal Savings one lot, $386,000. Byron Downey to Fannie Mae Bank to Alecia Drouhard, Todd a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Drouhard, one lot, $197,000. Anthony Shappie, Mi Soon C. Association, one part lot, $38,000. Shappie to Brett Weger, Karen Bruce Amundson, Caroline Weger, one lot, $77,000. Amundson to Renee Jones, a Brandi Anders to Aaron part lot, $56,000. McElfresh, one lot, $0. Michael Treon, Ranae Treon to Barbara Sturwold to Eric Skidmore, Megan Skidmore, one Robert Jordan, one lot, $162,000. lot, $164,500. Alecia Langston, Ricky Barbara Hodson, Michael Langston to Michael Treon, one Hodson to Barbara Hodson, trustee, Michael Hodson, trustee, lot, $125,000. Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal $0. Kristina Fields, Larry Fields to National Mortgage Association, Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss, Kristina Fields, one lot, $0. attorney in fact to Ed Patterson, Joshua Hosbrook, Mandy Chris Rehfus, a part lot, $7,500. Hosbrook to Federal National Daryl Boyd, Margaret Ann Mortgage Association, one lot, Boyd to Jason Tipton, one lot, $60,000. $87,000. Brandi Smith, Philip Smith to Daniel Kern, Sheryl Kern to Secretary of the Department of Sue Teach, two part lots, Veterans Affairs, one lot, $0. $32,000. Sharon Fitzpatrick, William Frantz Family Trust Under Fitzpatrick to Michelle Fitzpatrick, Agreement, James F. Hemmert, William Fitzpatrick, $0. trustee to Gary Huff, Janet Huff, Joan M. Beck, executor, one lot, $105,000. Estate of Dorothy Sue Casteele Robin Hetzler, Robin Wenrick to Gary Morgan, two part lots, to Benjamin Ray Hetzler, $0. $115,000. Secretary of Housing and Nottingham Development Inc. to Anthony Scott, Katy Scott, one Urban Development to Marc

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Sherry, one lot, $0. Sharon Dawson to Federal National Mortgage Association, two part lots, $46,000. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Nicole Hutson, one lot, $154,900.

BRADFORD Estate of Clarence Denver Greer, Brenda McDonald, executor to Logan E. Looker, one lot, one part lot, $38,000. Joshua Collins to Kimberly Collins a.k.a. Kimberly Goetz, one lot, $0. Laura Hoehamer, Robert Hoehamer, Laura House, Scott House to Bank of New York, trustee, Bank of New York Mellon, Cwalt, Inc., two part lots, $0. Zollinger’s Inc. to Anthony W. Cockerham, custodian FBO, Pensco Trust Company, Pensco Trust Company Custodian FBO Anthony W. Coke, a part lot, $129,000. Nexdor, Ronald Shafer to Heather Maxwell, James Maxwell, a part lot, $0. Estate of Howard Shafer, Nexdor, Gloria Shafer to Heather Maxwell, James Maxwell, a part lot, $0.

CASSTOWN Margorie Takabayashi to Ralph Stonerock, a part lot, $37,000.

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TIPP CITY Brenda Thomas, George Thomas Jr. to Timothy Crego, one lot and one part lot, $0. Donald Schend, Donna Meyer Schend to Donald Schend, Donna Meyer Schend, one lot, $0. Jacqueline Haney, Larry Haney to Indian Creek Fabricators Inc., one lot, $330,000. Virginia Dowd to Virginia Dowd, Mary Susan Kuntz, one lot, $0. Mara Back, Gerald Demers, Mara Demers to Mara Back, Gerald Demers, Mara Demers, one lot, $0.

WEST MILTON Angie Parson to Anita Pollard, David Pollard, one lot, $26,000. Armata Keller to Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Association, 0.029 acres, 0.243 acres, 0.233 acres, $78,000. Odell Edmonds, Tonya Edmonds to Trustees of Union Township, Miami County, two part lots, $1,000.

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Roberta Rike, William Rike Jr. to William Rike Jr. Trust, Rike Family Trust, a part tract 14.5530 acres, $0. Barbara Ely, Virginia Schmidt to William Rike Jr., a part tract, 14.5530 acres, $30,000. Robert Smith to Covington Church of the Brethren trustees, 3.732 acres, $0. Angela M. Magill, Kevin Robert Magill to Bank of America N.A., successor, Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, LaSalle Bank, N.A., trustee, U.S. Bank, N.A., trustee, successor, 1.79 acres, $66,000.

NEWTON TWP. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Lerner, Sampson, and Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Amy Laughman, Gene Laughman, 0.682 acres, $41,000.

BETHEL TWP. Kent Miller to Heidi Miller, Kent Miller, 1.955 acres, $0. Joseph Ogle, Kandace Ogle to Joseph Ogle, $0.

CONCORD TWP. Stephen Bowser to Deutche Bank Trust Company Americas, trustee, 2.069 acres, $94,700. Michael Perkins to Larry Courtney, Michael Perkins, $0. Scott Investments of Troy LLC to Scott Properties of Troy LLC, 2.002 acres, $0.

Toby Lee Duffey to Lance Kelch, four part lots, $12,500. Garry Fessler to Larry Gearhardt, a part lot, $25,000.

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SPRINGCREEK TWP. Jerrod Blacke to Jerrod Blacke, Regina Blacke, 2.00 acres, $0. Leon Helton, Patricia Ann Helton to Federal National Mortgage Association, $72,700.

STAUNTON TWP. Chad Monnin, Jennifer Monnin to Chad Monnin, Jennifer Monnin, 10.002 acres, $0.

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Gary L. Weaver to RALI 2006QS2, U.S. National Association, trustee, one lot, $88,000. NVR Inc. to Aaron Baughman, Amber Baughman, one lot, $192,800. Inverness Group, Inc. to George Amburgey, Kristin Amburgey, one lot, $216,300. NVR Inc. to Herbert Mullens, Stacy Mullens, one lot, $242,500. Brian Dils to Amy Dils, one lot, $0.

ELIZABETH TWP. Fannie Mae a.k.a. Federal National Mortgage Association, Lerner Sampson and Rothfuss, attorney in fact to Jullian Purtee, 10.001 acres, $199,000.

James C. Manning to Jim’s Dairy Bar Inc., 0.321 acres, $0. Norma Helstern to Carol Huffman, Michael Huffman, a part tract 0.949 acres, $85,000.

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MONROE TWP. Mary J. Wolfe to Hane Rental Properties LLc, 0.861 acres, $0. Beth Bruce, Douglas Bruce to James Cockrell, Peggy Cockrell,

James D. Apple, Mamie Sue Apple to James D. and Mamie Sue Apple Irrevocable Trust, Jacquelyn Holfinger, trustee, $0.

Hymer • Continued from C1 say a roof needs to be replaced; another might say it has a few years of life left as long as it is properly maintained. Transactions fall apart because the buyer and seller can’t come to an agreement on inspections, which means the sale doesn’t close, the house goes back on the market and the buyers renew their home search. If the inspection issues are worked out satisfactorily, the next major hurdle that could delay your sale, or crater it, is the loan contingency. Cash buyers bypass this rigorous process; however, they do need to provide the sellers with evidence that they have sufficient liquid funds to close the sale. All-cash deals can close whenever the buyers and sellers agree, after all inspection issues are resolved. Closing can occur in a week or two. Some all-cash buyers include an appraisal contingency in their contract to confirm that they’re not paying over market value. In this case, it would take longer to close because an appraiser would need to visit the property and work up an appraisal report. If the property didn’t appraise for the purchase price, the buyer might be able to back out and have the deposit returned. Both buyer and seller would start all over again. However, if they negotiated a resolution, the sale could close quickly and would take far less time than it does to close a sale involving a mortgage. HOUSE HUNTING TIP: Purchase contracts include contin-

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This position plans, designs, and supports manufacturing processes analyzing the layout of equipment, workflow, assembly methods, and work force utilization in addition to various other levels of tasks associated to this role. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor degree in an Engineering, Technical or Scientific discipline or equivalent experience, 3-7 yrs experience in a manufacturing environment, strong working knowledge of PLCs, experience with AutoCad and Microsoft Office programs, and experience with Lean principles and continuous improvement. We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental, life, 401(K) and many others. For confidential consideration, forward resume in Word format with salary history and requirements to:

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Quality Assurance Coordinator Select-Arc, Inc., the manufacturer which sets The Standard of Excellence in Tubular Welding Electrodes, is expanding and seeking a Quality Assurance Coordinator for our headquarters in Fort Loramie, Ohio. This position, which reports to the Quality Manager, is responsible for all aspects of effective implementation of ISO 9001, Military, Automotive, ASME and other industry / customer Quality Management Systems requirements. This person should have good communication skills and the ability and the experience to interface with all functions of the organization, including customer and supplier interaction. Multi-Plant Quality System experience is a plus. The candidates should be capable and willing to grow and develop within the organization to assume higher level responsibility for the quality function. Select-Arc prefers candidates who meet the following requirements: • CQM, CQE or CQA (IRCA) Certified • Certified or be willing to achieve IRCA Lead Auditor Certification • A minimum of 5 years experience, preferably in a welding related industry • Degree in Welding Technology or Engineering related discipline • Literate in Word, Excel, Access, Power Point and Quality Data Analysis Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package are offered. E-mail (mseitz@select-arc.com) , fax (888-5115217) or mail resume to Melvin Seitz, Quality Manager at Select-Arc, Inc., 600 Enterprise Dr., PO Box 259, Fort Loramie, OH 45845. No Phone Calls, Please. Select-Arc, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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MACHINISTS TOOLS, large selection. Toolboxes, surface plate, height stand, mics, indicators, too much too list. Will separate. (937)726-5761

WALKER folds and adjusts, tub/shower benches, commode chair, toilet riser, grabbers, canes, Elvis items, collector dolls, doll chairs, more (937)339-4233

STATIONARY BIKE, Weslo 605, $50. Will deliver locally (937)339-7732

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DESCRIPTION : BEING A 1 STORY FRAME CONSTRUCTED HOME WITH A FULL UNFINISHED BASEMENT BEING 3 BEDROOMS W 1 FULL BATH WITH LIVING ROOM AND EAT IN KITCHEN, WITH A DETACHED 2 CAR GARAGE AND SMALL STORAGE SHED, BEING SITUATIED ON APROX . 45 ACRE LOT JUST MINUITES FROM THE INTERSTATE AND SHOPPING. AUCTION TERMS: PROPERTY BEING OFFERED SUBJECT TO CONFORMATION OF THE HEIRS, MINIUM OPENING BID OF $ 40,000. AFTER THAT PROPERTY WILL SELL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, The Real Estate sells "as is" with no warranty written or implied by the Seller, the Broker, or the Auctioneer. There are no Buyer contingencies for financing, inspections, or otherwise. Therefore all prospective Buyers must complete all due diligence BEFORE you bid to purchase this Real Estate. Ownership and possession will be transferred and delivered to the Buyer at closing with a good deed, no financial liens, encumbrances, or delinquent Real Estate taxes. Deposit & Closing: In order to register to bid to purchase this Real Estate ALL prospective Buyers MUST bring and present a valid State of Ohio photo ID and a bank certified cashiers check at the time of auction registration or before the date & time of this Auction made payable TO McVETY REALTY in the amount of $5000.00 which will be your good faith down payment if you are the successful high bidder. All checks will be returned to all nonwinning bidders immediately after the conclusion of this auction. The Buyer must settle in full and close on, or before, 30 days after the date of the Auction. ALL SALES ARE FINAL AND DEPOSIT IS NON REFUNDABLE AGENCY: Auctioneer is a seller’s agent. DISCLAIMER: All information in this brochure was derived from sources believed to be correct, but is not guaranteed. All property dimensions are only approximations. Buyers shall rely entirely on their own judgment and inspection of property and records. Any other terms and conditions will be announced day of auction and will take precedence over printed material and any previous STATEMENTS 937-778-8017 ANTHONY M. BAYMAN 937-606-0536 REALTOR ASSOCIATE OF MCVETY REALTY PIQUA OHIO 45356

Southeast of Tipp City, OH

MONDAY, MAY 14, 10:00 AM COUNTRY ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Very lg wooden louvered barn vent; steel trimmed wooden storage unit; butchering table; HD work bench; wooden 20 position chicken nest; meal grinder; milk can; old wooden windows & doors, plus full porch railing; steel wheels; mowing scythes; two man tree saw; 2 draw knives; brass knob hames; Favorite “Radiant” & “New Dixie” stoves; Ben Franklin free standing stove; 5 oak church pews & other furniture; old style dental chair; lg porch swing; G. Becker wall clock & others; variety of glassware; Nylint Army “Cannon” truck; Big Bang toy cannon; plus other small toys; CI Sharecropper penny bank; chrome oil lamp & others; printer’s tray; wooden mail box; bottle; jars; etc. PLUS: CVA Gamester Hawken 50 cal, octagon barrel black powder rifle; The American .38 cal revolver; Indian Ridge hand made knife & tooled leather sheath; machete w/ leather sheath. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: NICE miniature banjo; violin; Lyric accordion; brass coronet; Yamaha G-55A guitar; Hammond spinet piano. HOME FURNISHINGS & HH GOODS; SNAPPER RIDING MOWER, SNOW BLOWER, TOOLS, ETC: Snapper 8 HP riding mower; 5 walk behind mowers incl JD 14SZ; Hahn 24” snow blower; 3 pt field disk; 3 pt work platform; pull spreader; Poulan chain saw; table saw; air compressor; Reddy propane 35,000 BTU heater; hedge trimmers; power hand tools & others; Radio Shack metal detector; Hallicrafters short wave radio; signal generator; chicken wire; Model T jack; motors; farm fuel tank on stand; black plastic pipe; wire pet kennels; etc. AUTO: Opel GT, 1971, 2 seat sports car in the rough, known as the “Poor Man’s Corvette” w/ 113,676 miles. BOATS: Older Galaxy I/O fiberglass closed bow boat w/ 120 HP MercCruiser outdrive & rough interior on a good Highlander trailer. Fiberglass 12’ fishing boat; 2 trolling motors; few rods & reels. NOTE: We’re in the country back the farm lane by the old barns with an interesting mix of merchandise that should peak your interest. Check www.stichterauctions.com for photos & details.

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MAY 6-12, 2012

Full-Time (7pm – 7am) Experienced CCU nurses needed to provide professional nursing care to patients utilizing the nursing process, following established policies and procedures and correlated with and in support of the medical plan of care. Nursing degree from an accredited school of professional nursing and at least one year of ICU or CCU experience preferred.

Nursing: The Health of a Nation They are the front-line care givers in hospital emergency rooms, medical clinics, learning institutions, and homes for the elderly. In many of Canada’s remote northern communities, often the only health care practitioner who lives on-site and treats people is a registered nurse or nurse practitioner. These women and men are all-in-one: they deal with emergencies, take care of vaccination pro-

grams, educate the public about health and reproductive issues, and of course they often serve as counsellor-friends to community members. This year, let’s all find a way to recognize the nurses who work hard to make our healthcare system accessible and efficient.

The men and women who practice nursing are the front-line healthcare providers in every community.

RN SUPERVISOR

Apply on-line at www.wilsonhospital.com or send resume to the Human Resources Department, Wilson Memorial Hospital, 915 W. Michigan St., Sidney, OH 45365

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mary Rutan Hospital currently is seeking dynamic, take-charge candidates for the following positions: Registered Nurses

FULL TIME 3RD SHIFT

Family Birth Center – Full Time – 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. BCLS, ACLS, and NRP required.

SpringMeade HealthCenter, a 99 bed Long Term Care facility has a rare job opportunity for an experienced full time, 3rd shift, RN Supervisor, with long term care experience and leadership experience.

ICCU – Full Time – 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. BCLS and ACLS required.

Director of Emergency Room Registered Nurse, Baccalaureate degree, TNCC, ACLS, BLS, PALS, and a minimum of three years experience in an emergency room setting are required. Detailed job requirements are available on our website: www.maryrutan.org under Career Opportunities.

If you would like to be considered for this position, please stop in and fill out an application at:

Mary Rutan Hospital offers an exceptional salary and benefits program along with opportunities for personal and professional growth.

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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.

Must have a current Ohio nursing license, basic life support and advanced cardiac life support certifications. We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefit package including medical, dental, vision, long term disability, life insurance and a generous 401(k).

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TROY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION City Building 100 South Market Street Troy, Ohio 45373 NOTICE OF OPEN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The following examination for a position in the City of Troy, Classified Service, will be held Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at Troy Jr. High School cafeteria, 556 N. Adams St., Troy, Ohio. CLERK This examination is being held to establish an eligibility list for vacancies as they exist for the position of Clerk.

1997 FORD COACHMAN CATALINA RV New Price, 460 gas engine, slide-out, 34 feet, dual air, generator, 26K original miles, newer tires. (937)773-9526

2006 CHEVROLET IMPALA LT interior, silver, Cloth great shape, new brakes, runs great. Asking $7800 (937)684-0555

CHIHUAHUA, Free to good home. 6 year old female, up to date on shots and spayed. Good with children and other pets. (937)552-9094. POMERANIAN PUPPIES, for sale, 13 weeks, 2 males, 5 females, have shots, (937)916-5931 leave message, will show after 7pm

Qualifications: Completion of secondary education; basic knowledge of office practices and procedures; demonstrable skill in word processing and typing/data entry. A speed/accuracy test for the position will be given at the time of interview. Ability to type with accuracy at 60 wpm is required. Residency: employees must reside in Miami County or in one of the following adjacent counties: Champaign, Clark, Darke, Montgomery, Shelby. Certified applicants will be required to undergo a postoffer medical examination to include a controlled substance test and background investigation. Salary: Based on the 2012 salary scale Clerk: $14.20 per hour; following a minimum 6 months satisfactory service, salary may advance to $15.05; following an additional minimum 6 months satisfactory service, salary may advance to $17.57. All persons previously having had military service may be eligible to obtain an additional 20% of their passing grade. A copy of Form DD-214 as proof of service and honorable discharge must be submitted with the application. Blank forms for application may be obtained in the Human Resources Office, first floor of City Hall, 100 S. Market St., Troy, Ohio, or downloaded from our website at http://www.troyohio.gov. Completed applications, including a copy of a high school, college, or GED diploma, must be filed with the Human Resources Office no later than Friday, May 18, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

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1999 CHEVY TAHOE LT 2-tone grey body, great shape, must see. Rebuilt tranny, new parts (have receipts). Can email pics. (402)340-0509

2007 PONTIAC SOLSTICE Black on black. 5 speed 38,150 transmission. miles. Excellent condition! $16,000. (937)492-3000

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875 Storage GARAGE/ STORAGE 10' x 20'. $65 monthly. (937)778-0524

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1993 CHEVY van, blue, runs great! $1500. obo call (937)875-2021

899 Wanted to Buy 2003 Pontiac Sunfire, Silver, new brakes, rotors, front struts, Good on gas, 2.2 liter, 103,000 miles, $6,000 firm, after 4pm (937)622-1300

CASH PAID FOR JUNK CARS AND TRUCKS. Free removal. Get the most for your clunker call us (937)732-5424.

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2010 KAWASAKI NINJA 250R SPECIAL EDITION New condition, only 1700 mi. New Yoshimura exhaust, great gas mile, purchased at Rehmert's. A great graduation gift! $3000 OBO. (937)489-3560

2002 HONDA 1800 GOLDWING Illusion blue, 31,000 miles, Has CB radio, intercom, cruise control, etc., too many extras to list, $11,000. Call Steve. (937)726-7998

The City of Troy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The City of Troy is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Applicants requiring accommodation in order to take the exam must so notify the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission at 937-339-7805 no later than Friday, May 18, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

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8675 N. Co. Rd. 25-A Piqua, Ohio 45356 I-75 North to Exit 83

800-947-1413

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2775 S. County Rd 25-A Exit 69 off I-75 N. Troy, OH 45373

866-504-0972

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2343 W. Michigan Ave. Sidney, Ohio 45365

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Chrysler Dodge Jeep

1280 South Market St. (CR 25A) Troy, OH 45373

Evans Volkswagen 7124 Poe Ave.

2343 W. Michigan Ave. Sidney, Ohio 45365

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(866)816-7555 or (937)335-4878

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INFINITI

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CHRYSLER

Jim Taylor’s Troy Ford Exit 69 Off I-75 Troy, OH 45373

Ford Lincoln Mercury

339-2687

2343 W. Michigan Ave. Sidney, Ohio 45365

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866-470-9610

Exit 59 off I-75. Dayton, OH

One Stop Auto Sales

Volvo of Dayton

8750 N. Co. Rd. 25A Piqua, OH 45356

7124 Poe Ave. Exit 59 off I-75 Dayton, Ohio

937-606-2400 www.1stopautonow.com

937-890-6200 www.evansmotorworks.com

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