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Organisms on dock could be troublesome When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents. One floated up on a nearby island.Two have not been seen again. But one made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach. See Page 9.

Lehman grad to be on the Tony Awards Steph Wilberding, a 1993 graduate of Lehman Catholic High School, will appear Sunday on the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS-TV at 8 p.m. The daughter of Larry and Donna Wilberding, of WILBERDING Piqua, has been performing for 11 years and is currently portraying Prudy Pingleton in a production of “Hairspray” aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas.

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Suicides rise among troops Suicides are surging among America’s troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation’s decade of war. The 146 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 148 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 percent more — according to Pentagon statistics obtained by The Associated Press.

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INSIDE TODAY Advice ............................7 Arts.................................6 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................10 Comics ...........................8 Deaths ............................5 Stephen D. Hamm William J. Green Henderson Lee Sr. Debra Edminson Dortha L. Gingrich Horoscopes ....................8 Movies ............................6 Opinion ...........................4 Sports...........................15 TV...................................7

OUTLOOK Today Mostly sunny High: 82° Low: 55° Saturday Mostly sunny High: 85° Low: 58°

Panetta: Patience with Pakistan ‘reaching limits’ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure on Pakistan Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “we are reaching the limits of our patience” with a nominal ally that continues to provide a safe haven to al-Qaidalinked militants.

It was the latest sign that the U.S. is now getting tougher with Pakistan after years of muting criticism and looking the other way on the premise that an uneasy friendship was better than making the nuclear-armed counSTAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER try an outright enemy. As U.S. forces Pie eating contest chairman Matt Watkins, left, encourages competitors — including Teresa draw down in neighboring Huelskamp — Saturday during a pie eating heat at the 2012 Troy Strawberry Festival. Huelskamp won Afghanistan, the Americans appear to the heat in the competition. be pushing Pakistan harder than ever before to squeeze insurgents who find sanctuary within its borders.

Panetta, in the Afghan capital, told

Staying … or going?

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Research planned before deciding next festival site

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Covington man faces prison time

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com trawberry Festival manager Heather Dorsten said she’s been overwhelmed with TROY the amount of positive remarks about the downtown location of this year’s festival.

Now what?

For 35 years, the Troy Strawberry Festival was held on the Great Miami River levee. Due to the reconstruction of the Adams Street Bridge, this year’s festival was moved to downtown Troy.

Dorsten said the decision on whether to keep the festival downtown or move it back to the levee won’t be made until considerable research and discussion has been done. The Troy Area Chamber of Commerce has the final word on where the festival takes place.

“Everybody has been thrilled,” Dorsten said. “It’s been one complaint to 25 positive comments about the downtown festival — it’s been overwhelmingly positive.”

Dorsten said she plans to send out a survey to downtown residents, businesses and to all the clubs and organizations to gain feedback about the downtown venue.

“All the feedback from the downtown businesses has been extremely positive so we want to know how they felt about the

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20-year-old charged in molestation case Staff report Troy Strawberry Festival patrons find a seat on the lawn of the TroyA Covington man arrested on two Miami County Public Library during this year’s festival held downmolestation charges last week had his town. preliminary hearing continued in Dorsten said she also has had municipal court Thursday. feedback from arts and craft venMichael L. Heaton, 20, was dors that was very positive. arraigned on two counts of gross sexu“From word of mouth, they all al imposition last week, but his prelimloved it,” Dorsten said. inary hearing was continued in order Dorsten also said the downfor him to undergo a forensic mental town venue provided a swift tear evaluation in order to tell whether he down of the tents and vendors is competent to stand trial. with accessibility out of the area.

If convicted of the third-degree A time lapse video of the set up felonies, Heaton faces 10 years in and tear down is available on the prison, in addition to being required to location,” Dorsten said. “There would have to be an in-depth dis- festival’s Facebook page from a register as a sex offender in the county web cam set up on the Square. cussion to still have it downwhere he resides, works or receives an “It’s amazing to see,” Dorsten town.” education for at least the next 15 years, said. “The weather was absolute- possibly longer.

Dorsten said the plan always ly perfect this year and for our has been to move the festival Court documents indicate Heaton clubs and organizations to have back to the levee next year but allegedly committed the offenses on been running out of food on said every possibility would be May 29 and the Miami County discussed until a final decision is Saturday was amazing.”

Sheriff’s Office took Heaton into cusDorsten said more meetings made, most likely in the fall. tody following an investigation. and planning will continue to “I’m so thrilled for everyone The forensic mental evaluation take place to maybe incorporate involved,” Dorsten said. should take more than a month to comDorsten said more volunteers both venues in future festivals. plete at which time a new date will be “We’ll just have to wait and would be needed for next year to scheduled for Heaton’s preliminary see because the levee is a wonhelp with security as well as hearing. He remains in custody at the derful place, too,” Dorsten said. shuttle bus services.

Miami County Jail on a combined $20,000 bond.

Branching out Yellow Tree Yoga helping create healthy lifestyles

BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@tdnpublishing.com

Mary Borton has seen her yoga experience come full circle. She attended her first Complete weather class nearly 14 years ago with information on Page 9. her friend Anita Lamka.

“She was looking for relaxHome Delivery: ation techniques to help con335-5634 ceive a child and asked me to Classified Advertising: try yoga with her,” Borton (877) 844-8385 said. “It worked.”

This year, on Jan. 28, Borton opened her own yoga studio, Yellow Tree Yoga at 6 74825 22406 6 103 E. Main St. in Troy, where

TROY Lamka now attends classes.

“It’s good for the mind and clarity, and is also good exercise. I like it all,” Lamka said.

Borton was trained five years ago to become a yoga instructor by Elizabeth Silas, who owned Movement Yoga and Pilates in Troy at the time. She then was certified

by Yoga Alliance, an international professional organization.

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Certified yoga instructor Mary Borton of Yellow Tree Yoga conducts stretching movements in her studio Thursday in Troy. Yellow Tree Yoga is located at 103 E. Main Street in downtown Troy.

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Friday, June 8, 2012

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BUSINESS ROUNDUP • The Troy Elevator The grain prices listed below are the closing prices of Thursday.

Corn Month Bid Change May 6.2800 + 0.0675 N/C 12 5.0550 + 0.1600 J/F/M 13 5.2300 + 0.1700 Soybeans Month Bid Change May 14.0100 + 0.3975 N/C 12 12.8400 + 0.3950 J/F/M 13 12.9800 + 0.3750 Wheat Month Bid Change May 6.4700 + 0.1300 N/C 12 6.4700 + 0.1300 N/C 13 6.7350 + 0.1450 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

• Stocks of local interest Values reflect closing prices from Thursday.

Symbol Price Change AA 8.55 -0.09 24.88 -0.08 CAG CSCO 16.58 -0.11 EMR 46.41 +0.47 F 10.55 -0.02 FITB 12.74 +0.08 104.78 -0.81 FLS GM 21.85 +0.02 GR 125.89 +0.24 ITW 55.86 +0.57 JCP 24.65 -0.23 80.60 +0.37 KMB KO 74.28 -0.33 KR 21.74 -0.21 LLTC 29.62 -0.51 MCD 88.38 -0.28 MSFG 11.24 -0.26 PEP 67.68 +0.19 PMI 0.31 0.00 SYX 11.84 -0.32 TUP 53.56 -0.15 USB 29.58 -0.12 VZ 41.64 -0.13 WEN 4.53 +0.01 5.87 -0.06 WMT 6

Texas considers 85 mph speed limit (AP) — HOUSTON Transportation officials in Texas are testing a new 41-mile segment of highway to see whether it would be safe to post the state’s first 85 mph speed limit, setting it on a path to have the highest posted speed limit in the U.S. The Texas Department of Transportation is considering the move on a portion of state Highway 130 that would run

Kansas family killed in crash JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas businessman, his wife and their four children were killed when their small plane crashed into a swampy area of central Florida on Thursday, and word quickly spread to their hometown where the family was known for their charitable work and always having a house full of neighborhood kids.

The single-turboprop, fixed wing plane was heading home to Junction City from the Bahamas when it broke apart and went down about 12:30 p.m. in the Tiger Creek Preserve, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida.

Deputies reached the area by helicopters but it was clear there were no survivors, the sheriff’s office said.

The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known, though parts of the plane were found nearly 3 miles away, investigators said.

Ron Bramlage, a prominent businessman in Junction City who owned Roadside Ventures LLC, was piloting the plane. The his wife 45-year-old, Rebecca, 43, and the couple’s children Brandon, 15; Boston, 13; Beau, 11; and 8year-old Roxanne died.

“It’s just a horrific loss,” Junction City Mayor Pat Landes said, adding that the couple supported many local projects and provided college scholarships.

The family was well known in town and at Kansas State University, where the basketball stadium is named for Ron Bramlage’s grandfather.

north-south between Austin and Seguin, a town just east of San Antonio, spokesman Mark Cross said Thursday.

The agency is looking at the toll road’s topography, checking what speed most drivers are traveling on existing parts of the highway and ensuring the access points and cross-sections would still be safe with an 85 mph speed limit, Cross said.

If Texas decides to go this route, that segment of road would have the highest posted speed limit in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In 2011, the Texas Legislature upped the maximum speed limit from 80 mph to 85 mph, but only for future highways.

Right now, only sparsely popu-

lated areas of West Texas have roads with 80 mph speed limits.

Some roads in Utah also have 80 mph speed limits, but most highways in the U.S. top out at 75 mph.

There are no longer roads in the United States that have no speed limit, like Germany’s autobahn.

The idea behind increasing the speed limit is to relieve congestion on state roads.

Pakistan • CONTINUED FROM 1 reporters he was visiting Kabul to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown. But he used a press conference to strike across the border instead, saying the Pakistani government needs to do more and soon to root out the alQaida-linked Haqqani terrorist network. repeatedly Panetta emphasized U.S. frustration with attackers crossing the border from Pakistan. It is essential that Pakistan stop “allowing terrorists to use their country as a safety net in order to conduct their attacks on our forces,” he said alongside Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.

“We have made that very clear time and time again and we will continue to do that, but as I said, we are reaching the limits of our patience,” Panetta said.

The U.S. clearly wants Pakistan to take on the Haqqanis before the bulk of U.S. troops have left the region by the end of 2014.

After that, the Afghans would have more trouble contending with the militants, who carry out largescale attacks in Kabul and elsewhere.

In Washington, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference that the U.S. needs to continue working with Pakistan, despite frustrations.

“It’s our view that those Haqqani, notably, the Haqqani network, is as big a threat to Pakistan as it is to Afghanistan and to us, but we haven’t been able to find common ground on that point. So that’s been very frustrating,” he said.

He added that the U.S. is “extraordinarily dissat-

isfied with the effect that Pakistan has had on the Haqqanis,” but also mindful that Pakistan has taken on other insurgent groups at great cost to their own troops.

“There may be an increasing realization within the U.S. government that we have a few more years to really go after this problem and time is running out,” said Jeffrey Dressler, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.

Panetta’s remarks capped a week of some of the boldest language and actions by the administration against its stated ally.

Just a day before, he stood in the capital of Pakistan’s arch rival, India, and declared that drone strikes against terror suspects would continue, dismissing Pakistan’s claims of sovereignty by noting that U.S. sovereignty was jeopardized by terrorists as well.

A senior U.S. official acknowledged Thursday that the recent increase in drone strikes on insurgents in Pakistan targeting mostly al-Qaida but other militants as well is partly a result of frustration with Islamabad. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations.

And earlier this week, NATO sealed agreements to ship tons of supplies out of Afghanistan through northern and western countries, bypassing Pakistan, which has kept its borders closed to NATO trucks in response to the killing of 24 Pakistani troops by NATO forces.

Perhaps most pointedly, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was not invited until the last minute to the NATO summit that President Barack Obama hosted in Chicago last month, and did not get the

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private meeting with the U.S. leader that he wanted.

Obama also publicly thanked Central Asian nations and Russia for recent help in war supply.

He did not mention Pakistan’s years of help doing the same thing before the gates were closed last fall.

The United States has given Pakistan billions of dollars in aid to support both its government and the fight against Islamist militants. The Pakistani military has battled insurgents who attack Pakistani targets but has largely avoided taking on insurgents like the Haqqanis whose sights are set across the border.

The Haqqanis, who also have ties to the Taliban, have emerged as perhaps the biggest threat to stability in Afghanistan.

They have been blamed for several attacks on Americans including last year’s assault with rocketpropelled grenades against the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul.

Panetta said the U.S. continues to see Haqqani fighters moving from Pakistan into Afghanistan to attack American forces most recently on June 1 when he said they detonated a truck bomb and then tried to storm Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost province.

For more than three decades the group, now led

by Jalaluddin Haqqani, has maintained headquarters in Pakistan’s Miran Shah district of North Waziristan. Pakistan has denied aiding the Haqqanis, and the Pakistani military has refused to carry out an offensive in the North Waziristan tribal region, saying it would unleash a tribal-wide war that Pakistan could not contain.

The increasingly public U.S. frustration with Pakistan comes as Afghanistan’s security appears to be worsening.

The Afghan government is slated to take control of security countrywide by the end of 2014, but American claims of

Afghan-led military operations and Afghan-secured provinces are looking more dubious as the country’s summer fighting season swings into gear.

The U.N. said Wednesday was the deadliest day for Afghan civilians since the beginning of the year. More than 40 people were killed in a combination of insurgent attacks and a NATO airstrike that villagers say hit a house full of families gathered for a wedding.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai cut short a trip to China to rush back to Kabul after the attacks.

He condemned NATO for failing to provide an explanation for the 18 bodies — most of them women and children — that villagers had piled into vans to show officials as proof that the dead were civilians.

A NATO forces spokesman said they were investigating the allegations but had no reports so far of civilian deaths from the airstrike, which had targeted a local Taliban leader in Baraki Barak district of Logar province.

A deal signed in April was supposed to resolve the issue by putting the Afghan government in charge of such operations.

But Karzai’s statement put all the responsibility for Wednesday’s strike on NATO. The fighting also continues to take the lives of NATO troops.

On Thursday, a NATO service member was killed in a bomb attack in the south, the international military coalition said without providing further details.

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen, has to withdraw 23,000 American troops by the end of September, leaving about 68,000 U.S. military personnel in the country.

Once the 23,000 U.S. troops depart, Allen is expected to review how the fighting season is going and then will begin to put together an analysis for Obama on how troop withdrawals will proceed next year.

Yoga flowing style linking breath and movement.

After teaching at sever- Doing yoga has made her al local facilities, Borton dramatically happier and decided to open healthier, she her own studio. says.

“I wanted to “Sometimes open a space people refer to where I could conit as meditanect people in this tion in motion,” community with she explained. other people that “It can be promise healthy relaxing and lifestyles,” she rejuvenating at said, adding, “It the same time.” was really impor- BORTON No experience tant for me to be is necessary for downtown.” joining a class, she guaranShe promotes local foods tees: “If you can breathe, co-op Stone’s Throw you can do yoga.”

Market and also particiBorton is working on pates in Fulton Farms’ getting her prenatal certifiHappy Box program, in cation, in the hopes of which organic produce is adding prenatal classes. delivered to the studio.

She would also like to have Lia Scarince, member- an immersion program for owner of Stone’s Throw those seeking a deeper Market and a student in study of yoga.

Borton’s class, said she The studio will be a part appreciates her dedication of Troy Streets Alive in to endorsing healthy downtown Troy on June 15, lifestyles. collaborating with reflexol“Yellow Tree Yoga is a ogist Terri Slough, Dan great place to discover how Lawrence of Healthy yoga can make you feel Habits, LLC and Stone’s more connected to your Throw Market. She’s also own body and mind while planning to have an outat the same time connect- door yoga practice in coning you with the body and junction with the farmers energy of this great com- market June 23. munity,” Scarince said.

For a schedule of classes Borton teaches vinyasa at Yellow Tree Yoga, visit yoga, which is a moving, yellowtreeyoga.com.

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TODAYSATURDAY • GARDEN SHOW: The Lost Creek Garden and Antique Show will be from 6-8:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 1058 Knoop Road, Troy.

The event will include flowers, herbs, plants, antiques, vintage garden accessories, artisans and more.

Food also will be available.

Admission is $5. For more information, call (37) 3351904 or email acornstudio1@frontier.com.

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SATURDAY-SUNDAY • DOG COMPETITION: The Southern Ohio Flying K9s will host the “Buckeye Bash” Disc Dog Competition at Kyle Park in Tipp City. Talented canines athletes and their handlers will come from all across the U.S. and Canada to compete in a canine disc World Championship Qualifier. Teams will be bringing their best tricks to the field to try and secure an invitation to the Ashley Whippet Invitational World Championship. The competition will include various divisions in events like freestyle flying disc and toss and catch. Events begin at 9 a.m. each day.

SATURDAY • MASONIC BREAKFAST: The Troy Masonic Lodge will offer a community breakfast from 7:30-10 a.m. at the Masonic Lodge dining room, 107 W. Main St., Troy, on the second floor (use elevator or steps).

• STRAWBERRY STROLL: A Strawberry Stroll, a 5K and 10K walk on sidewalks with little difficulty for children in strollers or wagons, will begin at 8 a.m.

Sign ups will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Water and hard candy will be available at the start and finish. Restrooms also will be available. The stroll will begin at Hobart Welding Institute, 400 Trade Square. For more information, call Ray Holmes at 3396433.

• FISH FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer an all-you-can-eat fish fry and smelt dinner with french fries, baked beans and applesauce for $8 from 5-7 p.m.

• DISCOVERY DAYS: Outdoor fun for the family will be from 2-4 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center. Participants will explore the woods, stomp in the streams and meet the center’s wildlife ambassadors. Bring your curiosity as participants escape the heat and enter the cool, dark forest on a treasure hunt for “life under that log.” Preregistration is requested, but not required.

The event is free for BNC members, entrance admission applies for non-members.

• DAR MEETING: The Piqua-Lewis Boyer Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 10:30 a.m. at Buffalo Jacks in Covington. Participants will be ordering from the breakfast menu.

Make a reservation to Kathy Thompson if attending. The speaker will be Tonia Edwards, state corresponding secretary, on “Indian Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes.”

• BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be offered from 8 a.m. to noon at Ginghamsburg Church, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City. Anyone who registers to give will receive an “iFocus, iChange Local Lives, the Power is in Your Hands” T-shirt and be registered to win a Ford Focus. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidonate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE or make an appointment at www.DonorTime.com.

• CAMPERS SPAGHETTI: A campers spaghetti supper and silent auction will be offered from 4-7:30 p.m. at the First United Church of Christ, 120 S. Market St., Troy, sponsored by the youth campers. The meal will consist of spaghetti, sauce or alfredo sauce, bread, applesauce, brownies and a drink. The meal is a free will offering and all proceeds go to help cover the cost of camp.

• TENDERLOIN DINNER: The VFW No. 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer a Big T tenderloin for $5 beginning at $2.

• SLOPPY JOES: The Sons of the American Legion, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City,

DAR members attend state conference

the Columbus Airport Marriott Hotel in Columbus.

Regent Kathy Thompson of Urbana; • BUTTERFLY second vice Regent Brenda Cooper of New RELEASE: A memorial but- Carlisle; treasurer Bonnie Lair of terfly release will be at 7 Englewood; state librarian Glenda p.m. at the Troy-Hayner Thompson of Union; American history Cultural Center. The memori- chairman Dee Smith of Dayton; genealogial service will include the cal records chairman Teri Okrutny of Tipp reading of names, followed City; and Danielle Brackman of Dayton by the release of live butterserved as voting delegates to the conferflies. Contact Hospice of ence.

Miami County’s Generations Recording secretary Becky Miller of of Life Center at (937) 573Troy; registrar Jane Gilbert of West 2100 to make a reservation and to purchase butterflies, which are $10 Milton; Americanism and conservation chairman Lora Larck of Tipp City; and each.

Arlene Hetzer of Urbana served as alter• BREAKFAST OFFERED: The nates.

American Legion Auxiliary, 377 N. 3rd St, Piqua-Lewis Boyer Chapter members Tipp City, will offer a full all-you-can-eat giving reports to the conference as state breakfast from 8-11 a.m. for $6. Items available will be eggs your way, bacon, officers and chairmen included Glenda sausage, pancakes, waffles, sausage Thompson, state librarian; Teri Okrutny, gravy, biscuits, home fries, juice, fruit and Children of the American Revolution state sweet rolls. chairman; Bonnie Lair, genealogical • CREEKIN’ FOR CRITTERS: The records state chairman; Jane Gilbert and Miami County Park District VIPs will hold Danielle Brackman, president general’s its “Creekin’ for Critters” program from 2-4 project state co-chairmen; and Brenda p.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Cooper, Ohio DAR news online state chairRoss Road, south of Tipp City. Come play man. Teri Okrutny was recognized for her in the woods and explore the creek. A natservice to the National Society DAR as the uralist will be on-hand to help participants East Central Division vice chairman of the discover what tiny animals are living there.

Lineage Research Committee and to the Snacks will be served by the VIP’s. PreNational Society C.A.R. as senior national register for the program online at Recording Secretary. Brenda Cooper was www.miamicountyparks, email to regisrecognized for her service to the National ter@miamicountyparks.com or call (937) Society C.A.R. as senior national historian.

335-6273, Ext. 104. The event is free. For

Call Melody Vallieu at 440-5265 to list your free calendar items.You can send your news by e-mail to vallieu@tdnpublishing.com.

• FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108.

• DINNER OFFERED: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls will offer dinner from 67:30 p.m. for $7-$8 For more information, call (937) 698-6727.

• BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be offered from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Miami County YMCA, 3060 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Anyone who registers to give will receive an “iFocus, iChange Local Lives, the Power is in Your Hands” T-shirt and be registered to win a Ford Focus. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidonate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388GIVE or make an appointment at www.DonorTime.com.

will service Red Devil (sloppy joe) sandwiches with chips and dills from 6-7:30 p.m. for $5.

• BAT CHAT: “A Chat About Bats” workshop will be offered from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Marie S. Aull Education Center, 1000 The Distinguished Service Award was COLUMBUS — Members of the PiquaAullwood Road, Dayton. Call Lewis Boyer Chapter of the Daughters of presented by the Ohio Society Daughters Aullwood at 890-7360 to reg- the American Revolution recently attend- of the American Revolution to Eldean ister and for fee information. ed the 113th annual state conference at Gilbert for his devoted service to the Ohio

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more information, visit the Miami County Park District’s website at www.miamicountyparks.com.

COLLEGE BRIEFS

Bluffton University

MONDAY

BLUFFTON — Several local students recently took part in cross-cultural experi• DISCOVER SOUTH AFRICA: Jim ences through Bluffton University.

Beckman will share his experiences on the This experience fulfilled Bluffton’s first Cheepers! Birding on a Budget South undergraduate cross-cultural requirement African tour taken in October 2011 at 7 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center. Take a tour that must be completed before graduation.

Students can either complete a cross-culturof this amazing country with Beckman, exploring its breathtaking scenery, amazing al experience or take six credit hours in one foreign language. wildlife and abundant birdlife through phoLocal students who recently completed tographs and stories. this requirement include: • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be offered from 3-7 p.m. at the Covington • Kathryn Heffner, the daughter of Dave Eagles, 715 E. Broadway, Covington. and Eileen Heffner, visited Iceland, May 9Anyone who registers to give will receive 24. She and other Bluffton University stuan “iFocus, iChange Local Lives, the Power dents visited Hofoi House — the Reykjavik is in Your Hands” T-shirt and be registered city call where Ronal Reagan met Mikhail to win a Ford Focus. Individuals with eligiGorbachev in 1986 — and the Imagine bility questions are invited to email canido- Peace Tower, Yoko Ono’s memorial to John nate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE or Lennon. Students learned about political make an appointment at and social pursuits and new energy techwww.DonorTime.com. nologies of the neutral island country.

• SOCIETY TO MEET: The Covington Heffner is a senior at Bluffton, where she Newberry Historical Society will meet is majoring in sports management. She is a Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fort Rowdy graduate of Troy High School.

Museum, 101 Pearl St. For more informa• Tyler Wright, the son of Tim and Lisa tion, call (937) 473-2270. The public is Wright, participated in a cross-cultural always invited. experience in Chicago, May 16-June 6. He • BAKED POTATO: The Tipp City American Legion will offer a loaded baked and other Bluffton University students potato/salad bar for $6 from 6-7:30 p.m. lived in apartments in a diverse neighborCivic agendas hood and volunteered for three days at an • Covington Village Council will meet at agency within their major through the 7 p.m. at Town Hall.

Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture.

• The Police and Fire Committee of Wright is a junior at Bluffton, where he is Village Council will meet at 6 p.m. prior to majoring in math education with a minor in

the council meeting.

• Laura Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the Municipal building.

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

• The Union Township Trustees will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Township Building, 9497 Markley Road, P.O. Box E, Laura.

Call 698-4480 for more information.

DAR in recognition for the many hours put into the Memorial Barn at the historical Christian Walschmidt Homestead property. The grounds consist of the House, Civil War Museum, and Memorial Barn which will eventually host the Welcome Center. The ongoing project also included a new kitchen and cupboards.

The barn displays include a Conestoga wagon, president Garfield’s surrey, a Civil War hospital wagon and old tools.

Upcoming events include an ice cream social planned for noon to 5 p.m. June 17.

The house is open every Sunday through the end of October from 1-5 p.m. See www.waldschmidthouse.org for directions, hours of operation and history of this historical location, which is owned and maintained by the Ohio Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Christian Walschmidt Homestead also is on FaceBook. Eldean’s wife, Jane Gilberts; daughter Arlene Hetzer, and granddaughter, Danielle Brackman, also attended the conference and are members of the chapter.

Membership in the DAR is open to any woman at least 18 years of age who can prove direct, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in the achieving of American independence between the years 1775 and 1783. To learn more about the Daughters of the American Revolution, visit the National Society’s website at www.dar.org and the Ohio Society’s website at www.ohiodar.org.

coaching. He is a graduate of Troy High School.

• Jessica Deeter, the daughter of Roger and Stephany Deeter, traveled to Colombia, May 9-30. She spent time living in Bogota with host families and studying the practices of church organizations. Students became acquainted with organizations such as Justapaz and Christian Peacemaker teams and stayed near the coast for two or three days to experience more of Colombia’s beauty. Deeter is a junior at Bluffton, where she is majoring in youth ministry and recreation. She is a graduate of Troy High School.

• Samantha Wildow, the daughter of Steve and Cathy Wildow, visited Jerusalem, May 7-24. She and other students stayed in hotels and in Palestinian homes and met Israeli and Palestinian people. Students on this trip had the opportunity to experience the Scriptures come alive as they visited biblical and other historical sites. Wildow is a junior at Bluffton, where she is majoring in English and writing. She is a graduate of Tippecanoe High School.

Anderson University ANDERSON, Ind. — Anderson University has announced its deans list for the spring semester of the 2011-12 academic year. Troy resident Megan M. Stasiak has been named to the list.

To be named to the dean’s list, a student must earn a semester grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0.

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Museum announces summer hours

Pleasant Hill and Newton township history, will be open from 3-7 p.m. every Monday, during its summer hours.

The museum is located above the PLEASANT HILL — The Oakes Oakes Beitman Library, 12 N. Main St., Beitman Museum, which focuses on Pleasant Hill.

TUESDAY • BOOK SWAP: Come join others at 6 p.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library and swap books from your collection for free. A limit of three books may be swapped per class.

• WELL OF HOPE: A Well of Hope Ministries meeting will be from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ, fellowship hall, 10 W. Monument St., Pleasant Hill. The meeting will be for information and conversation with Zipporah and Nathaniel from Kenya regarding the program’s shoe donations. Refreshments will be provided.

• PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS: A six week photography class will begin at the A.B. Graham Memorial Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route 36, Conover. Classes will be on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.

Call the center at 368-3700 or Carol Laughman at 368-3982 for details.

Civic agenda • The village of West Milton Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers.

WEDNESDAY • STAUNTON LUNCHEON: The Staunton School Luncheon will be at 11:30 a.m. at Friendly’s in Troy. All graduates and anyone who has attended the school is invited to bring a friend and attend. For more information, call Shirley at (937) 3352859.

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EDITORIAL Calgary (Alberta) Herald on the sentencing of Osama bin Laden’ tracker: The sentencing of a doctor in Pakistan who helped track down Osama bin Laden is proof there’s an element in the Pakistani elite that still supports extremists.

A tribal court in Khyber, a lawless district full of extremists, sentenced surgeon Shakeel Afridi for treason, after he agreed to collect DNA for the U.S. to verify the presence of bin Laden.

Instead of being sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason, Afridi should have been hailed as a national hero.

“What Dr. Afridi did is the furthest thing from treason. It was a courageous, heroic and patriotic act which helped to locate the most wanted terrorist in the world — a mass murderer who had the blood of many innocent Pakistanis on his hands,” U.S. senators Carl Levin and John McCain said in a joint statement.

The move threatens to further harm relations between Pakistan and the West, especially the U.S. which provides billions of dollars in foreign aid to Pakistan.

It’s tragic that Afridi has been left to lanAs I guish in a prison, where he is said to be sick, See It weak and depressed. The U.S. government ■ The Troy should wield its heavy hammer of foreign aid, Daily News to pressure Pakistan to act. welcomes Pakistan needs to arrange an immediate columns from pardon and Afridi’s release. our readers. To If Pakistan doesn’t act quickly, the U.S. submit an “As I should seriously reconsider funding such a See It” send regime, which has received $18 billion from the your type-writU.S. since 2001. ten column to: The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, ■ “As I See It” on Japan’s nuclear program: c/o Troy Daily It has been almost a full year since Germany News, 224 S. chose to return to the path of phasing out Market St., Troy, OH 45373 nuclear power.

The country’s goal is to close all of its 17 ■ You can also e-mail us at reactors by 2022. And its industry and society editorial@tdnpu are all moving toward that same goal, creating blishing.com. new jobs and businesses on the way.

■ Please Japan can learn much from Germany’s include your full example: to act promptly based on a clear-cut name and telegovernment goal and plan, and seize the fruits phone number. of those labors.

What symbolizes Germany’s change is the action taken by its industry.

Germany’s major utilities, E.ON AG and RWE, canceled their participation in Britain’s nuclear plant construction project, despite the fact they had already set up a joint venture. The decision was made as they took into account the rising construction costs and the mounting risks involving the nuclear power industry. In line with government policy toward electricity deregulation, they also separated their power distribution sections within Germany.

German electronics titan Siemens has also ceased its involvement in nuclear power. The company is starting to transform itself into a “green” company, investing in R&D for new power grids and power storage, as well as in offshore wind farms.

Siemens no doubt decided to pursue these measures on expectations of profits.

The economic effects of the spread of renewable natural energy, such as wind, solar and biomass, deserve close attention.

According to the German government’s estimates, natural energy created 380,000 jobs, including work in the manufacturing to distribution services.

Germany is stimulating its economy and society by setting a firm goal for the phase-out of nuclear power and deftly combining that with a support program for renewable energy. That is the kind of invention and action that Japan needs.

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Festival should stay downtown To the Editor: I have attended nearly every Strawberry Festival since it started. I just wanted to say that the 2012 festival was THE BEST EVER! The weather was perfect — no lightning strikes and no intense heat.

But the real star was the location in downtown Troy. My husband and I have attended many festivals in other downtown areas and wondered what all the fuss was about this year regarding the temporary move. We attended this past weekend in order to see

for ourselves how it worked out, traffic-wise, with the Adam Street Bridge being closed.

It just couldn’t have been any better. With the wide streets, you could actually spread out to get into the booths easier. I heard no complaints from attendees, vendors or downtown merchants we visited. One vendor told me it was his very first Strawberry Festival and he didn’t even know where the levee was, but he sure hoped the festival stayed downtown in the future.

He said he’d never had an easier time setting up at a festival before.

I overheard two ladies from out of town wondering what

the SPECTACULAR building was across the street from them. I apologized for eavesdropping and told them it was the Hayner Cultural Center. I explained what it was used for in the past and what takes place there now. Out of towners were generally interested in our downtown.

We saw so many strollers and wheelchairs that weren’t having a difficult time maneuvering. No mud! No big hills to walk down or back up!

Fantastic! Please keep it downtown in the future!

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Oh deer … I guess I’ll just have to carrion The beginning of my first summer out here in the country sure is costing me a lot of doe, er, I mean dough.

Up until this point, I’ve had a wonderful time watching the rabbits being chased by my little border collie and watching a robin build its nest on my front porch. I even witnessed a possum slowly lumber through the yard one early morning.

So far, my parents have gotten the brunt of the raccoon-fest in their barns. I find myself face-to-face with another black and white creature at my place.

I got my first up close and person visit from our own “Pepe Le Pew” when my beloved dog mistook the bushy tailed skunk for a cat hiding under a pine tree. I hope he’ll never make that mistake again. Amen.

The other night I rescued my darling dog as he fought the mist that still hung in the air when I saw him rolling around in the grass. I kept wondering why it smelled like burnt plastic, but one close whiff of my newly adopted canine friend, I knew he’d been sprayed.

So then I stayed up for hours trying to bathe the stench out of his fur and out of my back porch. I stole baby shampoo from Evan and wiped his eyes until the wee hours of the morning. I even dumped an entire can of tomato juice and rubbed it in

Melanie Yingst Troy Daily News Columnist his fur to combat the unpleasant odor.

Yet, now my dog smells like an Italian meatball at a skunk farm.

We’ll get through this together though my friend. I won’t let you down. So I got the dog a new collar, a new leash and a free lesson on leaving the mysterious things under pine trees alone.

Also, I’ve been battling the beasts inside my home as well. For a week or two I decreased the surplus of ants and centipedes that creeped me out.

All in all, I’m not really a wuss when it comes to nature’s creatures.

I love most animals — except when they cost me hundreds of dollars.

On Memorial Day weekend, I went against the grain and decided I was going to take it easy and just enjoy a nice quiet Saturday night visiting with an old friend that lives

— Randy and Denise Miller Casstown

up the road a few miles since she came back in town for the holiday.

On a beautiful Saturday evening, we sat out on the picnic table for hours sharing story after story.

Deciding to wrap up our visit before midnight (and this is early for me folks), I called it a night and said my farewells.

On my way home, just a few miles away, it hit me. Well, it struck me. No, not an idea or an epiphany.

A deer hit my car. Let me clarify. I didn’t hit the deer. It hit me. Right smack in the passenger door. They say “Nothing runs like a deer,” well, nothing dents your door like one either.

Oh sure, Bambi survived. We should probably change the old adage of “I felt like I got hit by a truck” to “I felt like I got hit by a doe, a deer, a female deer.”

Despite being 30 years old, the very first though that popped in my head is the same thought that always hits me whenever something destructive and expensive happens to me: My Dad is going to kill me.

Not that my father had anything to do with this incident, and understood that this was clearly out of my control and of course I was going to eat the costs of this repair like any 30 year-old adult would do. Yet, no matter what the situation is, the first thing that comes to my mind in

times like this is: Jim is going to kill me. Heck, I’ll probably be in a nursing home and wreck my motorized wheelchair and my first thought in my 96 year-old head will still be: My Dad is going to kill me.

OK, so I did get some sympathy from family and friend, including my dad. Acts of God usually cultivate some sympathy. Thank you friends.

So this week I went to the insurance adjuster who calmly told me how much my insurance company would be ripped off by the body shop.

I just signed my name and hopped in my rental car trying to out-run the dents and damages I left behind.

As the car rental guy showed me the ropes of my powder blue vessel, he asked if I was interested in the rental company’s insurance policy.

Now I’ve read every money saving tip there is out there, and usually I would have waived the forms, but knowing my luck, I didn’t want to take any chances.

So the start of my summer so far really stinks. So folks, be careful out on the roads and watch for the bucks that make you part with your, well, bucks. (Zing!)

“Twin” Melanie Yingst appears on Fridays in the Troy Daily News. She’s got animal magnetism.

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STEPHEN DUANE HAMM service as a machinist.

Stephen Duane “Butch” “Hambone” He played on the Dayton Progress Hamm, age 63 went to be with the Lord softball team and the bowling on June 6, 2012. league; enjoyed drag racing Steve was a fighter and his Ford Falcons at Tri-State and at last fight was with cancer.

Kil-Kare in the early 1980s; He was preceded in death was an avid NASCAR and by his mother, Virginia Dale Earnhardt enthusiast; a Reynolds (Frederick) Hamm; Pittsburgh Steelers fan; and a father, Berta Lee Hamm; and follower of the Just-in-Time sisters, Deborah Donaldson band. and Dianna Lester.

He loved the American eagle, He is survived by his wife, and was a member of the Carol and her nephew, Ben Eagles Lodge No. 321 in Steele; son, Jon Hamm of HAMM Beavercreek.

Florida; granddaughter, Angel Most importantly, Steve had found the Lynn Hamm; daughter, Wendy Hensley Lord on April 20th of this year. of Florida; grandson, Joshua Earl Funeral services will be at 1 p.m.

Stemple; granddaughters, Candace AP PHOTO June 9, 2012, at Newcomer Saturday, Hensley and Brandy Lynn Marie Dylan Young, 18, poses for The Associated Press as a vehicle cruises by, Funeral Home, 4104 Needmore Road, Hensley; sister, Roberta (Melvin) Duwel Wednesday, in North Arlington, N.J. Young, a senior at North Arlington High, was in with Pastor Tim Hamilton officiating. of Clayton; a cousin who was like a a fender-bender accident caused by being distracted while texting and driving. brother to him, Gary Plank of Kentucky; Interment to follow at Riverside Cemetery in Troy. and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, The family will receive friends from 5-8 nieces and nephews.

He graduated from Troy High School in p.m. Friday, June 8, 2012, at the funeral home.

1966 and had previously worked at In lieu of flowers, donations may be Hobart Manufacturing, Tube Products made to the Hospice of Dayton. and Ohio Press Steel.

To send a message of condolence, He retired from Federal Signal (formerATLANTA (AP) — More than half of high. please visit www.NewcomerDayton.com. ly Dayton Progress) after 22 years of Still, the numbers aren’t really surhigh school seniors admit they text or prising, said Amanda Lenhart, a senior email while driving — the first federal WILLIAM JORDON GREEN statistics on how common the dangerous researcher at the Pew Research Center SIDNEY — William Jordon Green, 22, He was learning to play the guitar and in Washington. She studies how teens habit is in teens. keyboard. of Sidney, died at 12:20 a.m. Thursday, use technology.

An anonymous national survey conWilliam was involved in the ROTC Drill June 7, 2012, at The Ohio State Medical A typical teen sends and receives ducted last year found that 58 percent Team when he was in high Center, Columbus. about 100 text messages a day, and it’s of high school seniors said they had school.

He was born Nov. 7, 1989, the most common way many kids comtexted or emailed while driving during He attended many competithe previous month. About 43 percent of municate with their peers. Even during in Piqua, to Paul Green of tions.

Troy and Dorothy and Joe short car rides it’s not uncommon for high school juniors acknowledged they William was an avid football Gutierrez of Sidney. They surmessages to be coming in and for teens did the same thing. fan, especially OSU football. vive.

“I’m not surprised. I’m not surprised to respond, she said.

Funeral services will be at 10 William is also survived by “A lot of teens say ‘Well, if the car’s at all,” said Vicki Rimasse, a New Jersey a.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2012, woman whose son caused a fender ben- not moving and I’m at a stoplight or I’m his paternal grandparents, at Piqua Pentecostal Church, William and Joyce Green of stuck in traffic, that’s OK,’” said der earlier this year after texting in Piqua, with the Rev. Gary Troy; two sisters and brotherLenhart, who has done focus groups traffic. She made him take a safe-driWagner and the Rev. Mark in-law, Paula and Scott Dean with teens on the topic. ving class after the mishap.

Hina co-officiating. Burial will folof Piqua and Holly Green of Other teens acknowledge they know “I felt like an idiot,” said her 18-yearGREEN low in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. it’s not safe, but think it is safer if they Sidney; and many aunts and old son, Dylan Young.

Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Monday uncles. hold the phone up so they can see the “It caused me to be a lot more cauHe was preceded in death by one sis- at the church. road and text at the same time, she tious,” said the high school senior, Arrangements have been entrusted to ter, Nellie Angela Green; and one uncle, although he conceded that he still texts said.

Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua.

David Pike.

The CDC survey didn’t ask whether behind the wheel.

Memorial contributions may be made William graduated from Piqua High The Centers for Disease Control and high school students’ texting was done to Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, 646 School in 2008. while the vehicle was moving or Prevention released the survey results W. High St., Piqua, OH 45356 to help He was a member of Piqua Thursday. Some earlier studies had sug- stopped. The survey is conducted every defray the funeral expenses.

Pentecostal Church, Piqua. two years, but this was the first time it gested teen texting while driving was Condolences may be expressed to the William was very musically inclined. He asked about texting while driving. common though perhaps not quite so family at www.melcher-sowers.com. sang and played drums at his church.

CDC: Older teens often text behind the wheel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides are surging among America’s troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation’s decade of war.

The 146 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 148 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 percent more — according to Pentagon statistics obtained

by The Associated Press.

The numbers reflect a military burdened with wartime demands from Iraq and Afghanistan that have taken a greater toll than foreseen a decade ago. The military also is struggling with increased sexual assaults, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and other misbehavior.

Because suicides had leveled off in 2010 and 2011, this year’s upswing has caught some officials by surprise.

The reasons for the increase are not fully understood. Among explanations, studies have pointed to combat exposure, post-traumatic stress, misuse of prescription medications and personal financial problems.

Army data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk of committing suicide, although a substantial proportion of Army suicides are committed by soldiers who never deployed.

The unpopular war in Afghanistan is winding down with the last combat troops scheduled to leave at the end of 2014. But this year has seen record numbers of soldiers being killed by Afghan troops. There also have been several scandals involving

U.S. troop behavior.

The active-duty suicide total through May 27 compares to 125 in the same period last year, a 17 percent increase. And it’s more than the 129.6 suicides that the Pentagon had projected for this period based on the trend from 2001-2011. This year’s January-May total is up 24 percent from two years ago, and it is 15 percent ahead of the pace for 2009, which ended with the highest yearly total thus far.

Suicide totals have exceeded U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan in earlier periods, including for the full years 2008 and 2009.

The suicide pattern varies over the course of a year, but in each of the past five years the trend through May was a reliable predictor for the full year, according to a chart based on figures provided by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.

The numbers are rising among the 1.4 million active-duty military personnel despite years of effort to encourage troops to seek help with mental health problems.

Despite those efforts, many in the military believe that going for help is seen as a sign of weakness.

Kim Ruocco, widow of Marine Maj. John Ruocco, a helicopter pilot who hanged himself in 2005 between Iraq deployments, said he was unable to bring himself to go for help.

“He was so afraid of how people would view him once he went for help,” she said in an interview at her home in suburban Boston.

Liberals want more from Obama PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — They are Vaughan isn’t sure whether she’ll vote trying to be hopeful, but the Democratic for Obama a second time and probably Party’s most passionate voters are strug- won’t donate money as she did during his gling to hide their frustration with first campaign.

President Barack Obama.

She refuses to support Republican chalRepublicans may attack the lenger Mitt Romney, but is president as a big-government libconsidering writing in anotheral, but many liberals meeting er candidate in protest.

Thursday at Netroots Nation — an The sentiment is not annual convention likened to “a unique among the 2,700 peogiant family reunion for the left” — ple gathered on the first day argue that Obama hasn’t fought of this three-day convention. hard enough for progressive prioriMore than a dozen liberals ties on taxes, health care and the interviewed here indicated economy. Even more problematic some level of frustration with for the president is this: With the the president, despite wideelection just five months away, some OBAMA spread praise for his recent are threatening not to donate money decision to support gay maror time or even vote in November for the riage and ongoing push to scale back miliman who overwhelmingly ignited their tary action in the Middle East. passions and captured their imaginations Most plan on voting for Obama, but four years ago. their varying levels of enthusiasm could “I want to be happy with him,” said spell trouble for a president whose 2008 Democrat Kristine Vaughan, a 45-year-old victory was fueled by a massive network of school psychologist from Canton, Ohio. grass-roots volunteers and small-dollar “But I am finding that he has suc- donors. cumbed to the corporate influence as much Polls show the president locked in a as everyone else. I think he has so much tight race that’s likely to be decided in sevpotential to break out of that, but overall he eral swing states where he scored narrow has been a disappointment.” victories four years ago.

HENDERSON LEE SR. BRADFORD — Henderson Lee Sr., 62, of Bradford, died Monday, June 4, 2012, at his residence.

He was born in Barbourville, Ky., on March 27, 1950, to the late Caleb and Lilly May (Lawson) Lee. On March 14, 1970, in Piqua, he married Peggy Young. She survives.

Henderson is also survived by three sons and daughterin-law, Henderson Lee Jr. of Bradford, James and Monica LEE Lee of Houston, Ohio, and Joseph Lee of Bradford; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Samuel and Carol Lee of Troy and David Lee of Piqua; five sisters and brothers-in-law, Annie and Winston Roberts of Piqua, Wanda and Ranzie Gambill of Houston, Ohio, Emma and Chuck Wilkinson of Piqua, Bonnie Hampton of Piqua and Jean Cassel of Piqua; and six grandchil-

dren, Jacob Lee, Shania Lee, Natasha Lee and Zachary Lee, all of Bradford, Caleb Huber, Sidney and Kenny Mincer, Versailles.

He was preceded in death by one sister, Estelane Dozier.

Henderson worked for BFGoodrich in Troy for 27 years.

He proudly served his country as a member of the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, June 11, 2012, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with Pastor Simon Young officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua. Full military honors will be provided by The Veterans Elite Tribute Squad.

Friends may call from noon until 1 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

DEBRA L. EDMINSON Brandon and Cameron; great-grandchilMASSILLON — Debra L. Edminson, 61, of Massillon, died unexpectedly due dren, Xaidyn and Bryton; mother, Phyllis to complications from surgery and went Darrah of Massillon; sister, Darcie Darrah of Bucyrus; brother, Doug home to be with the Lord on Thursday, (Christine) Darrah of Toledo; June 7, 2012, while surroundaunts, Ruth Crone of Massillon ed by her loving family. and Mary Jayne Lewis of Born on Aug., 16, 1950, to Massillon and numerous Phyllis and the late Merle nieces, nephews, aunts, Darrah Jr., Debra was a uncles, cousins and friends. member of St. Paul’s Funeral services will be held Lutheran Church in Massillon at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Paul’s and was active in the church Lutheran Church, 127 Cherry council and with the restoraRd. NE, Massillon, with Pastor tion committee.

Rhonda Gallagher officiating.

She enjoyed crafts, reading, Burial will follow at Rose Hill gardening and sewing. Debra Memorial Gardens. worked for more than 20 years EDMINSON Friends may call at Atkinson Feucht at Kent State University, Stark Campus book store and was a member of Quota Hare Funeral Home, Massillon Chapel, from 5-8 p.m. Sunday, and one hour and the Massillon Woman’s Club. prior to the funeral service at St. Paul’s Other than her father, grandparents, Alice and Merle Sr.; Lucille and Charles from 12-1 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made in Debra’s name to the A. Schultz preceded her in death.

Boys and Girls Club of Massillon or to She will be greatly missed by her lovthe American Cancer Society. To share a ing husband of 43 years, Robert D. Edminson; daughter, Melissa M. May of fond memory of Debra or to sign the online guestbook please visit www.atkinMassillon; son, Robert D. Edminson Jr. of Massillon; grandchildren, Ryan, Kodie, sonfeucht.com

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Dorotha L. Gingrich TROY — Dorotha L. Gingrich, 95, of Troy, Ohio, passed away at 12:40 p.m.

OBITUARY POLICY In respect for friends and family, the Troy Daily News prints a funeral directory free of charge.

Families who would like photographs and more detailed obituary information published in the Troy Daily News, should contact their local funeral home for pricing details.

Thursday, June 7, 2012, at Troy Care & Rehabilitation Center. Services are pending at Baird Funeral Home, Troy.

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Director, co-writer and co-star Alex Ross Perry’s film is shot in grainy, 16mm black and white, which results in images that are at once harsh and dreamlike. His characters, an obnoxious brother and sister (Perry and co-writer Carlen Altman), make no apologies for their behavior and almost seem to thrive on offending everyone they meet, yet they’re oddly intriguing. Their banter, a rapid-fire brand of sniping and mutual humiliation, has the free flow of improvisation but actually was tightly scripted. And just when it seems that these characters have finally let their guard down and allowed their truest selves to shine through, they do something that most people in the audience will find deplorable and even sickening. “The Color Wheel” won’t be for everyone, that’s for sure, but its daring is undeniable. Altman’s character, JR, is a flaky, aspiring newscaster who enlists her brother, Perry’s Colin, to help her move her stuff out of the apartment of her former boyfriend, who also happens to be her former professor. And so they embark on a road trip from suburban Pennsylvania to Boston in her beat-up Honda Accord, but as in most movies with this kind of structure, the destination isn’t as important as the discussions and encounters that take place during the journey itself. That’s about the only conventional element here. Unrated but contains language and adult situations. 83 minutes. Three stars out of four. — Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic LOLA VERSUS: Greta Gerwig is fighting for love, struggling for happiness, striving for harmony. What she’s really up against, though, are the contrivances piled on by the filmmakers of this aggravating indie romance. The film deals with relationships in standard-issue Sundance style, ostensibly smarter and more genuine than what flows from the Hollywood rom-com pipeline yet just as shallow at heart. Writer-director Daryl Wein and co-writer and co-star Zoe ListerJones, a real-life couple themselves, manage some clever episodes in their year in the life of a New York woman newly dumped. While Gerwig is an earnest, often adorable mess as Lola, the people around her are just urban types: the supportive, sharp-tongued friend (Lister-Jones); the hunky fiance (Joel Kinnaman) who needs distance; the sensitive male best pal (Hamish Linklater) who’s clearly in love with Lola. Wein and Lister-Jones weave this bunch into a romantic mush of self-absorption, a round robin in which everyone sleeps around with one another then whines over the complications that arise. Debra Winger and Bill Pullman have a few engaging moments as Lola’s hippie-dippy parents. But Lola’s friends are all so measured, so affected. The quips and rejoinders Lister-Jones and Wein write for them are too whip-smart for their own good, the filmmakers laboring for hip and loose but delivering something feigned and calculated. R for language, sexuality and drug use. 86 minutes. Two stars out of four. — David Germain, AP Movie Writer MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED: Ben Stiller’s Alex the

lion provides a review so we don’t have to. Halfway into the third animated tale about New York City zoo animals on their overseas adventures, Alex tells some new circus friends that their act was not too entertaining for families “because you were just going through the motions out there.” So, too, for this latest sequel, which goes through a lot of motions — explosions of action and image so riotously paced that they become narcotic and numbing. With Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, creators of the first two “Madagascar” flicks, joined by a third director in Conrad Vernon (“Shrek 2”), the filmmakers just cannot stop stuffing things, to the point of distraction, into “Europe’s Most Wanted.” The result: A cute story about zoo animals running off to join the circus becomes overwhelmed by a blur of color and animated acrobatics. The pictures certainly are pretty, but the filmmakers apparently are unwilling to risk the slightest lapse of audience attention, so they put the movie on fast-forward and let centripetal force hurtle viewers along from start to finish. Joining Stiller are returning voice stars Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer, plus newcomers Frances McDormand, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain and Martin Short.

PG for some mild action and rude humor. 92 minutes. Two stars out of four. — David Germain, AP Movie Writer PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING: In theory, the idea of Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Elizabeth Olsen playing three generations of women in the same family should be delightful, or at least well-acted. In reality, veteran director Bruce Beresford’s dramedy squanders the abilities of these usually fearless, formidable actresses with material that’s entirely predictable and a high sap factor that belongs on cable television. Before we arrive at such mawkishness, though, we must slog through some seriously sitcommy humor: generational clashes, fish-out-of-water antics and tired hippie-culture cliches. Fonda brings her typically radiant screen presence to what could have been a wild, fun role: She plays Grace, a free-spirited grandma living in a ramshackle Woodstock, N.Y., farmhouse where she grows her own pot and gets frisky with the neighbors. Her uptight Manhattan lawyer daughter, Diane (Keener), naturally is the polar opposite. Somewhere in the middle in terms of temperament and interests is Diane’s college-student daughter, Zoe (Olsen). When Diane’s husband (a barely there Kyle MacLachlan) abruptly announces he’s divorcing her at the film’s start, she packs up Zoe and her teenage son, Jake (Nat Wolff), for a road trip upstate to visit granny, from whom she’s been estranged for the past 20 years.

Hijinks, highly convenient love interests and heavy symbolism are waiting for them there. R for drug content and some sexual references. 96 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. — Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED: In his feature directing debut, Colin Trevorrow manages the tricky feat of moving subtly and seamlessly among several different genres within a relatively short period of time.

With a low-budget intimacy, his film begins life as an oddball road-trip comedy, then turns unexpectedly romantic before becoming a genuinely paranoid, sci-fi thriller. It also provides a welcome showcase for Aubrey Plaza in a rare leading role as Darius, a sullen intern at a Seattle magazine who becomes the reluctant participant in a pseudojournalistic investigation. The clever premise from screenwriter Derek Connolly finds Darius and two of her co-workers — cynical reporter Jeff (Jake Johnson) and fellow intern Arnau (Karan Soni) — traveling to find the person who placed an intriguing classified ad. “Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke,” it reads in part. “Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed.” They track down Kenneth (Mark Duplass), a loner grocery store clerk, in a small, coastal Washington town, then attempt to infiltrate his life to get to the bottom of this bizarre story. What’s lovely is that while Kenneth is a misfit and more than a little out-there, the movie never makes fun of him. Well, the mullet and the jean jacket are played for kitschy laughs, but Duplass brings an earnestness and a sweetness that make the character surprisingly complex and compelling. R for language including some sexual references. 85 minutes. Three stars out of four. — Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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Lehman grad to appear on Tony Awards Sunday Tracy Turnblad’s best friend, Penny,” Wilberding said in an email she sent from a coffee shop in port Tuesday.

“There will be a set piece that looks NEW YORK, N.Y. — Steph like the inside of a house that I will Wilberding, a 1993 graduate of be standing on with Jim J. Bullock Lehman Catholic High School, will appear Sunday on the Tony Awards who plays Edna Turnblad, Tracy Turnblad’s mom. The set piece will broadcast on CBS-TV at 8 p.m. be moving and we will The daughter of Larry say our lines of dialogue and Donna Wilberding, of from there.”

Piqua, has been performWilberding has been ing for 11 years and is floating aboard ship in currently portraying the musical since Prudy Pingleton in a proJanuary, but she perduction of “Hairspray” formed on the ship in aboard the Royal “Hairspray” first from Caribbean cruise ship, September 2010 to May Oasis of the Seas.

2011. She also appears in As the only cruise line an improvisational show, to feature fully-licensed WILBERDING “Throw Me a Line.”

Broadway productions, “It’s very similar to the popular Royal Caribbean International will TV show, ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway,’” partner with the Tony Awards to she said. include a live broadcast from the The cast will appear live, by middle of the Caribbean Sea, where satellite. the line’s Oasis of the Seas’ cast of “I will have a lot of friends and “Hairspray” will perform a showstopping number in the ship’s Opal family watching, as well as some Theater as part of the Tony Awards friends in attendance at the Tony’s.

It’s an amazing feeling to think I’ll program, according to a Royal be performing for them somewhere Caribbean press release. in the middle of the Caribbean and “I play a few different comedic roles in the show, but my main role they’ll be seated at the Beacon Theatre in New York City,” is Prudy Pingleton, the mother of

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Wilberding said.

The actress has performed in offBroadway and off-off-Broadway productions, as well as workshops and readings of new plays. She has appeared in “Oliver,” “Music Man,” “Funny Girl” and “Mame,” among others, at regional theaters. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Ind., in 1997.

This will be her first appearance on the Tony broadcast.

“And I couldn’t be more excited!” she said. “As artists, we do what we love and love doing it. Big events like this are just icing on top of the cake!”

Royal Caribbean International is the only cruise line to feature fullylicensed Broadway shows.

“Just like the Tony Awards, Royal Caribbean is committed to bringing Broadway to new audiences around the world. We are thrilled with this new partnership, which is a natural extension of Royal Caribbean’s strong commitment to engaging entertainment,” said Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of the Broadway League and Heather Hitchens, executive director of the American Theatre Wing, who produce the Tony Awards.

AP predicts Tony Award winners NEW YORK (AP) — There’s “Follies” and then there’s folly. The first is a winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical that wowed Broadway this season. The other is how you can characterize any attempt to handicap Sunday’s Tony Awards. But here goes.

BEST MUSICAL Will win: “Newsies.” Should win: “Once.”

This is the battle of extremes — the stripped-down, bittersweet magic of “Once” versus the pump-you-up appeal of classic razzle-dazzle in “Newsies.” Both are a great night out, just different.

Both came from movies and only “Newsies” has new songs written specifically for the stage, giving it an edge with Tony voters. But “Once” just makes you feel, well, good. As for the other contenders, “Leap of Faith” doesn’t have a chance since it’s already closed, and “Nice Work If You Can Get It” is a fun romp, but not as strong as its cousin “Anything Goes.”

BEST PLAY Will win: “Clybourne Park.”

Should win: “Clybourne Park.”

Bruce Norris’ sly, edgy gem has the same heat on it that Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities” had when it opened in the winter. That doesn’t make it better, just fresher.

Both plays prove Broadway is putting on great American works again.

The oh-so-cool “Peter and the Starcatcher” and the naughty “Venus in Fur” are inventive and bold, but not broad enough to tickle everyone.

REVIVAL-PLAY Will win: “Death of a Salesman.”

Should win: “Death of a Salesman.”

Arthur Miller’s masterpiece is timely and there is so much to like — the recreated original set and music, the directing of Mike Nichols and the performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Linda Emond and Andrew Garfield — that even if one part leaves you cold, the others

will not. The revival of Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man” was also timely and had the season’s most insane collection of talented stage actors ever assembled, but it attacked your head. Miller’s play took your guts.

REVIVAL-MUSICAL Will win: “Follies.” Should win: “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”

The only thing certain in this category is that the two revivals from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber — “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” — will cancel each other out, leaving the prize between a proud, confident Stephen Sondheim revival against the show he denigrated before it opened. That was uncool, especially when the re-imagined opera turned out to be rather stunning as a musical. But Sondheim’s dirt-throwing may make Tony voters squeamish, leaving “Follies” the win. “I Loves You, Porgy,” indeed.

ACTOR-PLAY Will win: Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Death of a Salesman”).

Should win: James Corden (“One Man, Two Guvnors”).

That sounds insane, right? A deeply affecting Willy Loman losing to a British clown? But, if you recall, Hoffman’s performance wasn’t universally cheered, while Corden’s has been. Corden might be brimming with humor as much as Hoffman is stalked by sadness, but in terms of MVP, imagine taking Hoffman out of “Death of a Salesman.” Now imagine “One Man, Two Guvnors” without Corden. Miller’s play would still float, but the farce would likely sink.

ACTRESS-PLAY Will win: Someone who deserves it. Should win: Tracie Bennett (“End of the Rainbow”).

Sorry, but anyone trying to find sunlight among the five women in this category is doomed. Like last year, it’s just too hard. Nina Arianda is painfully delicious in “Venus in Fur,” Tracie Bennett is insanely good

in “End of the Rainbow,” Stockard Channing is brilliantly brittle in “Other Desert Cities,” Linda Lavin is arch and hysterical in “The Lyons,” and Cynthia Nixon was heartbreaking in “Wit.” No offense to any of them, but Bennett’s performance is the complete package — acting, singing and descending into pill-popping madness. Perhaps the wisest course is to abandon the attempt and cheer the sheer strength of women on Broadway.

ACTOR-MUSICAL Will win: Steve Kazee (“Once”).

Should win: Norm Lewis (“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”).

This category is also pretty wide open, with the veteran Danny Burstein of “Follies” and the up-andcoming Jeremy Jordan of “Newsies” leading most polls.

But Burstein may lose votes to his “Follies” co-star Ron Raines, and it may be too soon this year for the talented Jordan, who undoubtedly will have many Tony ceremonies to come. The effortless ease in which Steve Kazee played the aw-shucks hero in “Once” acts against him, especially against Norm Lewis, who shuffles across the stage and belts out his songs in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” from a deep, vulnerable place. But Kazee should benefit by riding his musical’s winning Tony wave.

ACTRESS-MUSICAL Will win: Audra McDonald (“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”). Should win: Audra McDonald.

Audra McDonald is this year’s Sutton Foster — the clear leading candidate. But Jan Maxwell in “Follies” was astonishing and she’s an honorable silver to McDonald’s gold. McDonald has four Tonys already, but never for a lead actress.

That will change Sunday and deservedly so. She is graceful and tender and strong — and simply the best thing about Catfish Row. Tony voters will sing “I Loves You, Bess.”

Fonda not taking glam attention seriously NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t get Jane Fonda wrong. The 74year-old actress got a thrill when she wowed the fashion crowd at France’s Cannes Film Festival in a form-fitting, twotone Stella McCartney gown.

“It’s very nice at my age to have glamour attention — something I missed out on when I was younger so it’s nice to be getting it now,” she says.

But the two-time Academy Award-winner says she can’t take it too seriously: “It goes as fast as the walk on the red carpet does, it’s over and real life comes back.”

Fonda spoke in an interview Monday to promote her new independent film, “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding” that debuts in limited release and on Video On Demand Friday.

Fonda is also taking on a recur-

ring role as a media executive in Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama “Newsroom,” and has signed on to play former first lady Nancy Reagan in the Lee Daniels film “The Butler,” due out next year.

In “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding,” Fonda plays Grace, a hippie grandmother living in Woodstock, N.Y., who is reunited with her estranged daughter Diane, an uptight New York lawyer played by Catherine Keener. Fonda and Keener say their desire to work with each other was one reason both signed on for the film.

Keener, who has garnered Oscar nominations for her roles in “Capote” and “Being John Malkovich,” admits to being a bit awed when meeting her costar, saying “That was just cool for me.”

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This May 16, 2012 file photo shows actress Jane Fonda arriving for the opening ceremony and screening of “Moonrise Kingdom” at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France.

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Don’t try to handle the problem on your own Dear Annie: I am an 18year-old guy, and my parents are splitting up. I don't know the full story, but things are getting somewhat awkward around the house. We try to live normally, but the silence hurts. I'm trying to deal with it and put up a good front until graduation, but it's hard.

When I am with both of my parents in the same room, it's too quiet. One of us will try to initiate a conversation, but it cuts off after a few minutes. My father is military and will be deploying shortly after I graduate. Everyone right now seems to be on edge. I have no way to talk about this with anyone.

I've heard it's always worse before it gets better, but it seems that there is no end to the silence. How do I associate with both of my parents and not have any "divorce talk"? — Tom Dear Tom: Your parents may believe they are making it easier for you by not discussing the situation. Or they may fear that talking about it will create a cascade of bitter words, arguing and crying, and they are hoping to spare you. But you do need to talk to someone. It would help enormously. Do you have a favorite teacher, coach, neighbor or friend's parent? What about a grandparent, aunt or uncle? The military also offers counseling for family members. Try Military One Source (militaryonesource.mil) and ask for help.

Dear Annie: I've been dating "Ben" for five years, and I consider it a serious relationship.

We see each other often and are in touch by phone daily.

Ben likes to ride his motorcycle and frequently stays out quite late on Saturday nights. I often don't figure this out until 9:00 p.m. or later, when he hasn't returned any calls or texts.

He claims he doesn't hear the phone while riding, which I understand, but why can't he return my call when he takes a break? Or tell me before he goes that he won't be back earlier?

It's not that we make specific plans for Saturday night, but there's usually a casual "call me and we'll do something later" plan. It upsets me that he doesn't include me on these Saturday night jaunts, doesn't communicate to me what he's doing and doesn't seem to care that I sit home alone on a Saturday night because it's too late to make other arrangements.

I've talked to him about it, but it makes no difference. I admit that it wouldn't bother me as much if he did this on Monday nights. Am I overreacting? — An Avid Reader Dear Avid: Unless there are definite plans, you should assume Ben is not coming.

There's no point sitting alone at home waiting for someone else to call.

Arrange to do something with your friends on Saturday nights.

It will keep you occupied, and Ben will probably find you much more interesting if you aren't waiting around for him.

Dear Annie: This is in response to "Sleepless in Seattle," who isn't sure about letting her 11-year-old son have any association with her gay neighbor.

My son's father walked out on us a month before the baby was born. I now live with my toddler at my parents' house, along with my gay brother and his partner of 10 years.

I could not be more grateful and amazed at the amount of love they have for my child. We are so unbelievably lucky to have such mature, wonderful men in his life, with values and a commitment to my son that his heterosexual biological father lacks in every way. There is never a moment where I think my son is in danger from being around his uncle because of his sexual orientation. — Disgusted in N.Y. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Friday (‘95) Chris Tucker, Ice Cube.

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Forget Paris Billy Crystal. (:20)

Hard to Hold (‘84) Rick Springfield.

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Here a fix for that yellow linoleum problem Dear Heloise: I have a linoleum floor, and I notice that under the throw rugs, the floor is turning yellow.

Is there any way to get the yellow out? I have tried bleach, but it does not work. Thank you.

— Irene, via email Sorry to say, there is no magic hint to “remove” the yellow stain.

The yellowing is caused by a chemical reaction between the rubber backing on the rug and the linoleum. Flooring experts suggest not using rubber-backed rugs on linoleum floors because of this.

Try looking for rugs without the rubber backing. Also, watch what else you put on linoleum.

Hints from Heloise Columnist Rubber feet and wheels from things like bar stools and rolling carts can stain as well. — Heloise EXTRA CHARACTERS Dear Readers: When typing a text message or email on most smartphones, there’s a way to get the accent marks you need.

When typing, hold down the

letter you need, and a pop-up bubble will appear with all the special characters.

Don’t have a smartphone? You can still get accents and special characters by scrolling through.

Keep pushing the button with the designated letter. If you keep going, you will get to the letters with the accents. — Heloise TRAVEL HINT Dear Heloise: When an unaccompanied child is flying to visit relatives, stick a large piece of decorative adhesive shelf liner on the outside of the child’s luggage.

Give the child a piece of that same contact paper to hand to the relative, or email the relative

a photo of the contact paper. The relative can identify the child’s luggage much easier by matching the decorative contact paper.

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Usually these are just thrown in a junk drawer. If you have a closet or other room with a pull string for a light, attach one of these to the string.

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FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE BLONDIE

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DENNIS THE MENACE

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ARLO AND JANIS

HOROSCOPE Friday, June 8, 2012 Two separate individuals who have proved lucky for you in the past could be even more so in the year ahead.

It’ll be worth it to stick with them through any tough times, because when the trouble passes, you’ll be in clover once more.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — New channels are likely to be opened, enabling you to add to your resources. It won’t be luck that makes it happen, it’ll be a whole lot of elbow grease.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A powerful desire to explore fresh avenues of self-expression could be extremely strong within you. However, if you’re going to indulge, measure both the good and bad aspects.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll feel better about yourself if you first complete what you have on the drawing board before launching a new endeavor. Rewards for doing so are at hand — don’t get off course.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — An interesting development having to do with your social life could be looming.

Chances are it will involve someone you’ve wanted to meet for quite some time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Make it a point to elevate your expectations regarding what you’d like to get out of your job or career. Don’t allow selfdoubt to cause you to believe that your goals are unattainable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Although you’re in a cycle where you’re likely to be something of a visionary, if you hope to make your dreams a reality, you must still be pragmatic about what you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you’ve been contemplating an investment, don’t make any moves without first consulting a friend who is an expert and has effectively advised you previously.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — An alliance in which you’re now involved has mutual benefits to share, but you must nurture it properly if you want it to continue to offer its bounty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Although at times you might have temporarily experienced some disenchantment with your work, you’ve never felt impelled to change jobs. Once again any career problems will pass.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Go with the flow, but don’t depend on a new social contact to help you advance a commercial endeavor. It could be unsettling if your acquaintance fails to deliver.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Although your patience at times might be pushed beyond its breaking point, you won’t give up on whatever it is you’re doing — mostly because you can see the results in your mind.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Because you’re smart enough to not let your optimism cloud out reality, success will be yours. You realize that accomplishments come from seeing things and people for what they are.

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................81 at 3:31 p.m.

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TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Friday, June 8, the 160th day of 2012. There are 206 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 8, 1972, during the Vietnam War, a South Vietnamese Air Force jet dropped napalm onto the village of Trang Bang. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut (oot) captured the image of a screaming 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc (fahn thee kihm fook), as she ran naked and severely burned from

the scene of the explosion along with other victims.

On this date: • In A.D. 632, the prophet Muhammad died in Medina.

• In 1845, Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn.

• In 1861, voters in Tennessee approved an Ordinance of Secession passed the previous month by the state legislature.

• In 1912, the ballet “Daphnis et Chloe,” with music by Maurice

Ravel, choreography by Michel Fokine and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in the title roles, was premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris.

• Today’s Birthdays: Former first lady Barbara Bush is 87.

Actor-comedian Jerry Stiller is 85.

Comedian Joan Rivers is 79.

Actress Millicent Martin is 78.

Actor James Darren is 76. Actor Bernie Casey is 73. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 72. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 70.

Musician Boz Scaggs is 68.

Officials concerned about creatures on tsunami dock By the Associated Press When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents.

One floated up on a nearby island. Two have not been seen again. But one made an incredible journey across 5,000 miles of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach.

Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast.

“This is a very clear threat,” said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore., where the dock washed up early Tuesday. “…It’s incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next.”

State officials organized a group of volunteers Thursday to scrape the dock clean of marine organisms, bag them and dispose of them inland, said Chris

Havel, spokesman for the state Department of Parks and Recreation, which is overseeing the fate of the dock.

Biologists have identified one species as a marine algae, known as wakame, that is native to Japan and has established in Southern California, but has not yet been seen in Oregon, he said.

While scientists expect much of the floating debris to follow the currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulation of millions of tons of small bits of plastic floating in the northern Pacific, tsunami debris that can catch the wind is making its way to North America.

In recent weeks, a soccer ball washed up in Alaska, and a Harley Davidson motorcycle in a shipping container was found in British Columbia, Canada.

How the dock float — 165 tons of concrete and steel measuring 66 feet long, 19 feet wide and 7 feet high — turned up on Agate Beach, a mile north of Newport, was probably determined within sight of land in Japan, said Jan Hafner, a computer programmer in the University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center, which is tracking the 1.5

million tons of tsunami debris likely floating across the Pacific.

That’s where the winds, currents and tides are most variable, due to changes in the coastline and the features of the land, even for two objects a few yards apart, he said. Once the dock float got into the ocean, it was pushed steadily by the prevailing westerly winds, and the North Pacific current.

“If you have leaves falling from a tree … one leaf will be moving in a slightly different direction from another one,” Hafner said. “Over time, the differences get bigger and bigger and bigger.

“Something similar is happening on the ocean.”

After it came ashore, the Japanese consulate was able to track down the origin of the dock float from a plaque bolted to it commemorating its installation in June 2008.

Deputy Consul Hirofumi Murabayashi said Wednesday from Portland, Ore., that it was one of four owned by Aomori Prefecture that broke loose from the port of Misawa on the northern tip of the main island during the tsunami.

Akihisa Sato, an engineer with Zeniya Kaiyo Service, the dock’s Tokyobased manufacturer, said the docks were used for load-

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A man looks at the massive dock with Japanese lettering that washed ashore on Agate Beach Wednesday, in Newport, Ore. ing fish onto trucks. One of them turned up several weeks later on an island south of Misawa, but the other two remain missing.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to redouble its efforts to track the debris, saying something as big as the dock could pose a danger to ships at sea.

NOAA’s tsunami marine debris coordinator, Ruth Yender, said if the Pacific were shrunk to the size of a football field, something like the dock would be the size of a human hair, making it very difficult to monitor, even from satellites.

The dock tested negative for radiation, which was to be expected if the dock broke

loose before the nuclear power plant accident triggered by the waves, said Havel.

Chapman said the dock float was covered with masses of algae, kelp, barnacles, mussels and other organisms. One square-foot area weighed nine pounds.

“This is a whole, intact, very diverse community that floated across from Japan to here,” he said.

“That doesn’t happen with a log or a thrown-out tire. I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Of particular concern was a small crab that has run wild on the East Coast, but not shown up yet on the West Coast, and a species of algae that has hit Southern California, but not Oregon.

The starfish, measuring about three inches across, also appears to be new to U.S. shores.

“It’s almost certainly true that most of the things on this have not been introduced to this coast yet,” Chapman said. “We’re going to see more of these things coming.”

Tom Cleveland, a housekeeping supervisor at nearby beachfront condominiums, said people curious to see it have been jamming up traffic at a beach parking lot.

“Everybody and their brother has been here looking at it and checking it out,” Cleveland said. “Obviously, we knew things would be coming our way, but I didn’t expect anything this size.”

January/May temperatures hottest on record in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The average daily temperature for the first five months of 2012 has been the hottest on record in Oklahoma, and drought is creeping back into the state a year after a summer that broke national and state records for heat, an official with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey said Wednesday.

The January-May statewide average of 56.3 degrees was 5.2 degrees above normal in records that date to 1895, said Gary McManus, associate state clima-

tologist.

The average daily temperature for spring, the months of March, April and May, according to the Climatological Survey, was also the warmest on record at 65.1 degrees, 6 degrees above normal and more than 2 degrees above the previous mark for spring of 62.9 degrees set in 2006.

“As we’re entering summer, the heat and the possible return of drought is probably the biggest concern right now,” McManus said.

Severe to extreme drought conditions were reported in the Oklahoma Panhandle and far northwestern and southwestern Oklahoma by the U.S. Drought Monitor. The eastern two-thirds of the state were rated as abnormally dry.

Rain that began falling earlier in the week was expected to continue through Thursday, according to the National Weather Service, helping somewhat ease the drought conditions.

“The one great equalizer we have to combat that summer

heat is rainfall. If we can keep that rainfall up we could avoid the excessive temperatures this summer,” McManus said.

The weather service’s Climate Prediction Center rated as equal the chance that rainfall would at least reach normal levels. Forrest Mitchell with the weather service in Norman said more precipitation than last year is expected.

“That’s a hint that perhaps that while temperatures may be above normal, it won’t be as severe,” Mitchell said. “That doesn’t mean we won’t have 100-

degree days. Maybe it won’t be over such a widespread area.”

In July 2011, Oklahoma racked up the country’s highest monthly average temperature ever, 89.1 degrees, according to the Climatological Survey. The average temperature for the summer, 86.5 degrees, was the hottest in state history. Also, the record for number of days with temperatures 100 degrees or above was broken when Grandfield topped triple digits 101 times to best the 86 days set in Hollis in 1956.

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-900 JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA vs.

Shaun E. Newman, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-009780 Also known as: 111 Bruce Drive, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($85,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Andrew C. Clark, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012 2290264

PIQUA OR Troy, Senior living, clean quiet safe, 1 bedroom, $459 includes water, ask about studio apartment at $369, (937)778-0524 TIPP CITY, 2 bedroom townhouse near I75, $540, 1.5 Bath, stove, refrigerator, garbage disposal, w/d, A/C, No Dogs. (937)335-1825 TROY, 1 & 2 bedroom , very clean, appliances, AC, water paid, no pets, 1 year lease plus deposit. Starting $460, 1309 Trade Square West (937)339-6736 or (937) 286-1199

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-363 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Roy Thompson, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-005810 Also known as: 214 East Walnut Street, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Colette S. Carr, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012 2290270

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-156 Chase Home Finance, LLC vs.

Donald R. Moore aka Donald Rexel Moore, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Lostcreek, County of Miami and State of Ohio Parcel Number: F10-016600 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 785, Page 620 Also known as: 8090 East State Route 55, Casstown, Ohio 45312 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Fifteen Thousand and 00/100 ($115,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Christopher J. Mantica, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO

TROY, large 3 bedroom, water and trash paid, NO PETS, $600 plus deposit, (937)845-8727

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TROY, 2nd floor, 1 bedroom, appliances, A/C. No pets. $425 includes water.

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TROY, Westbrook, 1/2 double, 3 bedroom. $650 month plus deposit. 1 year lease no pets, non smoking, (513)478-9913 WEST MILTON Townhouse. 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. $475 monthly, Ask about free Gift, (937)216-4233

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COVINGTON, 699 North Pearl Street, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 8am-? First time garage sale, too much to list

NASHVILLE, UCC Recreation Park (on Rt. 571 two miles east of West Milton), June 7 & 8, 9am-5pm, June 9, 9am-2pm. Church garage sale and bake sale.

Toys, clothing, collectibles, and holiday items.

PIQUA, 1311 Maplewood Drive, Friday, Saturday, 8am-2pm, Furniture, household goods, medical equipment, Hill-Rom electric hospital bed, 2 lift chairs, roll top desk, tools, everything priced to sell, Cash Only!

TIPP CITY, 1305 Ginghamsburg Frederick Road. Friday and Saturday this week and next week 9am-4pm. A lot of items!!!! Many antiques: dressers, library tables, furniture, mirrors, pictures, fence. Holiday items, quilts and comforters, Pottery Barn and William Sonoma items.

TROY, 1004 North Dorset Road, Saturday 9am-?

Collectable sale gold ages of Ford, 25 different models, mini United States lighthouses 51 different ones, and many more items.

TROY 1145 Crestview Dr. Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9-1. 3 FAMILY SALE!!! Something for everyone. Tools, fishing equipment, furniture, housewares, crafts, lawn equipment, etc. Saturday all sales are half price.

TROY, 120 Fox Harbor Dr. Saturday Only!

9am-3pm. Multi family, Adult & baby clothing, household miscellaneous, tv, futon, books & etc

PIQUA, 1423 West Grant Street (off McKinley), Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 9am-5pm. Three Family! Baby thru teens, fish tank, color TV, VCR, Pack-n-Plays, bassinet, car seats, high chairs, walkers, swings, porta crib, riding lawn mower, miscellaneous.

PIQUA, 6333 Troy-Sidney Road, Thursday NIGHT 6pm-9pm Friday 7am-6pm, HUGE BARN SALE! 2500 square foot filled with thousands of items to numerous to list!

Tools, clothes, toys, antiques, collectibles, furniture, electronics, mowers, Everything must go!

Priced Cheap!

PIQUA, 6360 Newberry Washington, Thursday and Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-12pm, Children clothing, adult clothing (all brand name), truck tires, Exersaucers, Fisher Price basketball hoop, toys, shoes, car seat, home decor, small wood benches, Boyd's Bears.

TROY, 1315 Brookside Drive (off of Westbrook Lane), Friday and Saturday, 9am-2pm.

Three family sale. Kitchen and household items, mini refrigerator and TV, women's clothing, and lots of good stuff.

TROY, 1475 Hunter Court, Thursday thru Saturday, 9am-4pm. LARGE GARAGE SALE! Lots of boys baby clothes, toys, gas grill, dining room table/ chairs, job site tool box paintball gun & accessories, Xbox Kinect, household decor.

TROY, 1486 Michael Drive, Thursday 9am-6pm, Friday 9am-2pm.

Four family sale, Barbie items, clothes, fountain, pictures, hedge trimmers, bicycles, books, and much more.

TROY, 1660 Woodlawn Drive (cross from Clopay St. Rt. 55), Thursday & Friday, 8am-3pm. Broyhill furniture, old dolls, chipper shredder, exercise equipment, oriental rug, linens, purses, children's shoes, miscellaneous.

HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Indenture Trustee for People's Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-1, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-1 Plaintiff, -vsUNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, FIDUCIARIES, DONEES, AND DEVISEES OF MARY A. JOHNSON et al.

Defendants.

LEGAL NOTICE Unknown Heirs, Beneficiaries, Fiduciaries, Donees, and Devisees of Mary A. Johnson, whose last place of residence is unknown, will take notice that on May 7, 2012, HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Indenture Trustee for People's Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-1, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-1 filed its Complaint in Case No. 12 CV 00287 in the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373, seeking foreclosure and alleging that the Defendant Unknown Heirs, Beneficiaries, Fiduciaries, Donees, and Devisees of Mary A. Johnson has or claims to have an interest in the real estate described below: Permanent Parcel #: G15-002170 Property Address: 318 South Second Street, Tipp City, OH 45371 The Defendant named above is required to answer on or before the 6th day of July, 2012.

HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Indenture Trustee for People's Choice Home Loan Securities Trust Series 2005-1, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-1 SHAPIRO, VAN ESS, PHILLIPS & BARRAGATE, LLP Lindsay Niehaus Esq., Attorney at Law Attorney for Plaintiff-Petitioner 4805 Montgomery Road, Suite 320 Norwood, Ohio 45212 (513) 396-8100 2284496

TROY TOWNHOUSE, 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. Stephenson Drive. $475 monthly, (937)216-4233.

Garage Sale

Case No.: 12 CV 00287 Judge: Christopher Gee

5/25, 6/1, 6/8-2012

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SIDNEY, 529 North Vandemark Road (behind Rent-a-Center), Friday & Saturday 9am-4pm, Huge moving sale! All new items, Melissa & Doug, toys, puzzles, garden decor, bird feeders, Many many new puzzles, all sizes, greeting & playing cards, wallets, life is good & funny t-shirts, windchimes, much more!!

SIDNEY, 609 Ann Place, Friday, 9am-3pm & Saturday, 8am-Noon. Men's, women's & girl's clothes, Barbies, stuffed animals, American Girl, kids books and movies, Boyd's Bears, picture frames and more! Everything must go!!!

TIPP CITY, 3349 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Thursday and Friday, 8am-5pm, furniture, collectable's, antiques, electronics , TV's, household items, sports items

555 Garage Sales/Yard Sales TROY, 2455 Swailes Road, Thursday and Friday, 9am-5pm. Riding lawn mower, end tables, couch, TVs, table and chairs, girls vanity, fountain, circular saw, girls clothing. Too much to list.

TROY, 302 Lincoln Avenue, June 8th & 9th 8am-5pm. Fish tank with cabinet all supplies. Boys clothes newborn to 5, lots of baby items and toys, too much to list. Come see!

TROY, 309 W. Water St., Friday, Saturday, 9am-2pm, electronics, XP computer, TV, DVD's, turkey fryer, cook books, Housewares, stuffed animals, lamps, plus other items TROY, 324 West Water Street, Thursday and Friday, 9am-3pm.

Wicker twin bed, youth bed, lots of toys, books, tapes, boys clothes 5-8, girls 2-4, women's 6-16, pack-nplay, Thomas things, lots of miscellaneous, curtains, and pictures.

TROY, 548 Mumford Drive, Thursday and Friday 9am-6pm & Saturday 9am-noon.

The Divas sale is back, lots of great stuff, new and nearly new clothes, decor items, Longaberger baskets, stampn-up, much , much more.

TROY, 713 East Canal (in rear). Friday and Saturday 9am-3pm.

Furniture, household items, holiday, books, craft supplies, collectable's, candles, glassware, Plus size clothes, office supplies, stuffed animals, shutters, lawn chairs, fish tank, and much more.

TROY 880 Meadow Lane, Saturday, 8am-4pm. Epic Garage Sale! Antiques, collectibles, toys, clothes, plus size maternity, tools, house goods, furniture, electronics, baby & kids items, man cave things and so much more! This is a sale that you don't want to miss!

TROY, 960 South Market Street, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 12pm-5pm. Lots of miscellaneous items, more put out on Monday, free puppies and kittens.

TROY 2314 Merrimont Drive, Thursday, 7am-6pm; Friday, 7am-Noon; Saturday, 7am-Noon.

HUGE SALE - 6 families, exercise equipment, art work, Asian artifacts, new items, decorations: adults & kids, TVs, bedding, guitars, FREE box, furniture: dining room, twin bed, couch, chairs, king headboard, canning jars, cosmetics, jewelry, art supplies, snorkeling, golf: adult and jr. clubs, sports, crafts, camping, kitchen, some toys. Lifetime of miscellaneous.

Come see to believe!

TROY 2400 Troy-Sidney Rd. (Just north of Duke Park) Thursday and Friday 9-5. Lots of miscellaneous items.

TROY, 668 Barnhart Road, Friday, Noon-5pm, Saturday, 8:30am-? Electric range, chest freezer, household items, books, miscellaneous.

TROY, Laurel Tree Court, Friday only, 9am-5pm.

Great junk and good clean clothing!

TROY, North Point Court (multiple houses), Friday and Saturday, 9am-4pm.

Children's toys, clothes, household items, too much to list TROY/TIPP CITY, 160 Wisteria Road, Saturday, June 9th, 9am-4pm. Moving Sale - Furniture, Vera Bradley bags, bicycle, decor items, board games, puzzles and lots of miscellaneous items, too numerous to mention. I'd rather sell it than move it.

WEST MILTON 117 Bruce Drive Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10-3. Cedar chest, school desk, cradle, Indian drum, dolls, toys, saddles, Halls and McCoy dishes. Many items.

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305 Apartment

580 Musical Instruments

583 Pets and Supplies

583 Pets and Supplies

586 Sports and Recreation

WOODGATE APARTMENTS, 1433 Covington, 1 bedroom, very quiet. $406 monthly, Special $299 deposit if qualified, (937)773-3530, (937)418-9408

DRUM SET in good condition. $500. For more information or any questions call (937)295-2596

CAT, sweet, to good home, black, neutered, declawed, up to date shots, good with other cats, free, (937)570-9122

KITTENS, Friendly & frisky, gorgeous, long and short hair, all colors, Litter box trained, Free to good homes only, (937)473-2122

PISTOL, Rock Island 9mm, with case, manual, excellent condition, $395 (937)846-1276

MINI DACHSHUND puppies, short haired. First shots. Reds and piebald.

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Males, $200.

Females, $225.

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BUYING ESTATES, Will buy contents of estates PLUS, do all cleanup, (937)638-2658 ask for Kevin

320 Houses for Rent 2 BEDROOM brick in Piqua, full basement, and patio room, no pets. Call (937)339-2039 or (937)570-3422.

3 & 4 BEDROOM houses available, Piqua, $ 8 5 0 - $ 9 5 0 , (937)778-9303 days, (937)604-5417 evenings.

802 SOUTH Clay Street, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 2 car garage, no pets. Metro accepted. $595 month, deposit, application required. (937)335-2877 NORTH PIQUA, 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, near 1-75, 2931 Delaware Circle, small yard, $880 monthly, reference required, (937)778-0524 PIQUA, 923 Falmouth, 3 bedroom, 1 Car garage, stove refrigerator, no pets, $675, (937)418-8912

400 - Real Estate For Sale 425 Houses for Sale INVESTMENT PROPERTY, Multi Unit, Rental, Troy addresses, private owner, For information, PO Box 181, Tipp City, OH 45371

500 - Merchandise

510 Appliances AIR CONDITIONER, window style, works good, $75 (937)418-4639.

560 Home Furnishings ARMOIRE, very solid wood, rustic finish, bottom and top doors open. Can be used for storage, entertainment center, etc.

Can email/ text photos, $200. Call (937)538-8601 BED, Queen size solid maple with 1 year old box springs & mattress, with set of sheets & comforter, excellent condition, $240, (937)524-2748 DINETTE SET, chairs $200; brand new stainless dishwasher, $200; outdoor table and chairs, miscellaneous chairs, tables, mirrors, art.

Call mornings only (937)335-4610 or (937)308-8687

570 Lawn and Garden RIDING MOWER, Ariens, only used once, bought for $1386, will sell for $1186. (937)339-0162 RIDING MOWER, Craftsman 44 inch, just serviced, new battery, runs very good, $500 OBO, (937)538-6083.

577 Miscellaneous CEMETERY PLOTS, Miami Memorial Park, Covington, Ohio, includes 2 lots and 2 vaults, Christus Section. sell at 1980 price, (937)773-3623.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: 1998 18hp 42" cut Craftsman riding mower with hydrostatic drive. with new accessories, $500 obo. 17" rear tine self propelled Craftsman tiller, $500 obo. Kenmore flat-top electric stove with self-cleaning oven, (Black), $300. Firestorm table saw, $150 obo, 16" Craftsman chainsaw, $100 obo. 14" Poulan Pro chainsaw, $50 firm. Hand power tools including: rip saw, drills, battery operated sander, $75/all. Filing cabinet, $25. 30 gallon fish aquarium with stand and gravel, $50. Call or text: (937)638-8572 (937)489-3392.

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TREADMILL, Really good condition, $70, (937)492-6323 TURBO OVEN New Flavorwave Turbo Oven, as seen on TV. Includes accessories.

Perfect for quick meals. Originally $193, asking $95.

(937)492-0986 TV 36 inch, Sony Triniton.

Excellent picture. Not a flat screen. $50.

(937)335-3646 WATERING MACHINE, portable, $30. Dresser $25. Microwave/ stand $20. TV stand, $15. Fancy bantam chickens, $10 pair/ $6 each, (937)693-6763.

KEYBOARD in excellent condition. $100. For more information or questions call (937)295-2596 PIANO, Yamaha.

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KITTENS free to good inside home. See at Ryan's Bait Store 2017 South County Road 25-A. (937)335-0083

YELLOW LAB puppies, Adorable, ready for new home within the next 1-2 weeks. (937)371-2459

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Junk cars/ trucks, running/ non-running. I will pick up.

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925 Legal Notices PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to Section 5705.30 of the Ohio Revised Code the Staunton Township Trustees, Miami County, Ohio will hold a public hearing for the adoption of the proposed and estimated year 2013 Annual Tax Budget at 7:15 p.m.

Monday, June 18, 2012, prior to the commencement of the regular meeting. The public is invited to provide written and oral comments on the budget which is on file for inspection. The budget will be presented for adoption during the regular meeting held at the township building, 2510 Cathcart Road, Troy, Ohio.

Staunton Township Board of Trustees Dale Bartel, Chairman Jeff Cron Norman Osting Michael DeWeese, Fiscal Officer 6/8/2012

925 Legal Notices

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 09-945 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Shannon S. Sykes, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-012280 Prior Deed Reference: Deed Book 722, Page 369 Also known as: 430 Forest Avenue, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Five Thousand and 00/100 ($55,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Christopher J. Mantica, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-575 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Todd Brandenburg aka Todd A. Brandenburg, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Bethel, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: A1-080705 Also known as: 6405 Studebaker Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Seventy Five Thousand and 00/100 ($75,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

C. Scott Casterline, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-084 PNC Bank, NA vs.

Brian J. Horst, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-055582 Also known as: 1056 South Nutmeg Square, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty Three Thousand Three Hundred and 00/100 ($83,300.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Canice J. Fogarty, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

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2288434

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-748 PNC Bank, N.A. vs.

Scott T. Hess, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-010860 Also known as: 653 Winding Way, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Seventy Thousand and 00/100 ($70,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Canice J. Fogarty, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-508 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

Spencer L. Griswold, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-056236 Also known as: 1314 Saratoga Drive, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($58,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Jeffrey R. Jinkens, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-346 Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs.

Lance R. Leveck, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D08-020610 Also known as: 306 Summit Avenue, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Seven Thousand and 00/100 ($57,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Lindsay Niehaus, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-522 JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA, successor by merger to Chase Home Finance, LLC successor by merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation vs.

Christina M. Richhart, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the Village of Laura, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L36-001810 Prior Deed Reference: Deed Book 724, Page 492 Also known as: 114 Pike Street, Laura, Ohio 45337 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Sixty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($69,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Jeffrey A. Tobe, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-176 U.S. Bank, NA vs.

Edith Fay Wilmoth, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the Township of Monroe, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G12-056880 & G12-056900 Prior Deed Reference: Judgment and Final Decree of Divorce, Book 565, Page 436, Filed 02/24/1983 Also known as: 7650 South County Road, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than twothirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Robert R. Hoose, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-175 Fifth Third Mortgage Company vs.

Mary M. Skinner, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-012343 Also known as: 1119 Larrel Lane, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Eighty Two Thousand and 00/100 ($82,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

George J. Annos, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-147 Bank of America, NA vs.

Michael A. Trimbach, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-012920 & L39-012918 Also known as: 310 & V/L West Frederick-Garland Road, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Ninety Thousand and 00/100 ($90,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

George J. Annos, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-159 Fifth Third Mortgage Company vs.

Christine D. Spitler, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Township of Newton (now Village of Pleasant Hill), County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: I26-006400 & I26-006406 Also known as: 700 North State Route 48, Pleasant Hill, Ohio 45359 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Forty Thousand and 00/100 ($140,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kriss D. Felty, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 12-040 The Bank of New York Mellon vs.

Michael C. Brokschmidt, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on June 27, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of West Milton, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: L39-002910 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 756, Page 876 Also known as: 319 North Jay Street, West Milton, Ohio 45383 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Thirty Nine Thousand and 00/100 ($39,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Ryan F. Hemmerle, Attorney 5/25, 6/1, 6/8-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-705 U.S. Bank, NA vs.

Michael C. Melvin, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on June 27, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, towit: Situated in the Township of Lostcreek, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: F10-036989 Prior Deed Reference: Fiduciary Deed, Volume 36, Page 454 Recorded March 6, 2002 Also known as: 3730 Rugged Hill Road, Casstown, Ohio 45312 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 ($150,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Robert R. Hoose, Attorney 5/25, 6/1, 6/8-2012

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-314 GMAC Mortgage, LLC vs.

Kara C. Engle, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on June 27, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Tipp City, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: G15-009100 Also known as: 216 North Third Street, Tipp City, Ohio 45371 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($108,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Andrew C. Clark, Attorney 5/25, 6/1, 6/8-2012

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2286202

SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 11-867 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. vs.

Phillip Diehl, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 3, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the Village of Pleasant Hill, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: I26-001000 Also known as: 10 North Long Street, Pleasant Hill, Ohio 45359 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at Fifty Eight Thousand and 00/100 ($58,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Kelly A. Spengler, Attorney 6/1, 6/8, 6/15-2012 2288426

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SHERIFF’S SALE MIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 10-1082 BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP vs.

William T. Allmond, et al Pursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in the above name cause to me directed by the Court of Common Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at Public Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on July 11, 2012 at 10:00 o’clock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit: Situated in the City of Troy, County of Miami, and State of Ohio Parcel Number: D45-002518 Prior Deed Reference: Volume 787, Page 737 Also known as: 780 Governors Road, Troy, Ohio 45373 A full legal description may be obtained in the Office of the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.

Appraised at One Hundred Seventy Five Thousand and 00/100 ($175,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time of sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance and recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.

Matthew I. McKelvey, Attorney 6/8, 6/15, 6/22-2012 1996 JAVELIN BASS BOAT Model 379T. 1995 Evinrude 130 motor, 17.9 long, trailer included. 2 fish finders, hot foot, trolling motor, 2 tarps. $6200.

(937)538-1114

1996 SEA RAY 18.2 foot. Model 175BR, Mercruiser 3.0L motor, Shoreland'r trailer.

Cover and accessories included. Excellent condition! $8500.

(937)394-3151

805 Auto 1994 LINCOLN Continental, runs good, $1500, 602 Boal Avenue, Piqua 2003 BMW Z4 3.0i Roadster, low miles, 64,000, 6 cylinder, 6 speed, red exterior, black leather interior, Pirelli Runflats, (937)307-3777.

2003 PONTIAC Sunfire, Silver, new brakes, rotors, front struts, Good on gas, 2.2 liter, 103,000 miles, $5500 firm, after 4pm (937)622-1300

880 SUV’s 1993 CHEVY Suburban, 288,000 highway miles, good condition, regularly maintained and serviced, new Michelin tires & shocks, remote start, $2500, (937)497-0972

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2000 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SLE

1999 CHRYSLER SEBRING Sharp, chrome wheels, runs great, good gas mileage. $5500 or best offer.

(937)526-3308

1999 CHEVY TAHOE LT 2-tone grey body, great shape, must see! Rebuilt transmission, new parts (have receipts).

Can email pics.

(402)340-0509

2002 OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 98,000 miles, black, leather interior, CD, A/C, Onstar, 7 passenger, very well maintained, super clean. $6000 OBO. (937)335-5058

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TODAY’S TIPS

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• GOLF: The Troy Football Alumni Association is sponsoring a golf tournament July 21 at the Troy Country Club. It is a four-man scramble with a 2 p.m. shotgun start. The cost is $75 per person, with proceeds from the event to go to the Troy Football Alumni Association scholarship fund. Spaces are limited. For more information or to register, contact Chris Madigan at madigan-c@troy.k12.oh.us or (937) 332-3805.

• BASEBALL: The Troy Recreation Department is sponsoring its annual baseball clinix at the Legion Field at Duke Park. Session One, often referred to as “Baseball School,” runs June 11-15, as well as June 19-20.

Times are: ages 8-10, 9 a.m.; ages 1114, 10 a.m.; ages 15-18, 11 a.m.

Registration is available at Hobart Arena.

• BASKETBALL: Newton High School will host a basketball camp June 11-14. For boys in grades 3-7 as of Sept. 2012, the camp will run from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and will cost $50. For boys in grades 8-12, camp will run from 1-3 p.m. and cost $30. For more information, call Steve Fisher at 6762002.

• BASKETBALL: The Red Devil Basketball Youth Camp will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 11-14 at Tippecanoe High School. The camp is for boys who will be in grades 6-8 next year.

The cost is $70 before June 1 and $75 after June 1. Skill instruction, games, Tshirt and string bag are included in the fee. For more information, e-mail dlpittenger@tippcity.k12.oh.us.

• COACHING SEARCH: Troy Christian High School is looking for a girls head varsity basketball coach.

Interested parties can contact Athletic Director Mike Coots at mcoots@troychristianschools.org.

• SOCCER: The free jersey deadline for the PYSA/Challenger British Soccer Camp is June 8. Sign up this week to take advantage of the offer.

You can still register for camp after June 8, as the camp week is set for July 23-27. Complete details can be found at www.piquayouthsoccer.com.

Nealeigh clutch in 6-6 tie Knocks in 4 in Post 43’s final tuneup before tournament

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com When given chances, Troy Post 43 waited until the fourth and seventh innings to get the big hit.

As it turned out, the team needed to make good on one or two more of its opportunities.

Colton Nealeigh hit a basesclearing three-run double to cap off a four-run fourth inning Thursday night that gave Post 43 a 4-2 lead at the time, but the Kalamazoo Maroons — who had scratched a run together here and there throughout the game — retook the

TROY lead with three in the top of the fifth.

But Nealeigh struck again in the bottom of the seventh, driving home the game-tying run with a one-out single, and both coaches decided not to play extras with the Veterans Appreciation Tournament starting today and running all weekend, leaving the game to end in a 6-6 tie.

“We called it after seven. We both went through some of our young pitchers tonight, and we both felt like we should save some pitching for the weekend,” Troy

coach Frosty Brown said.

Nealeigh was Mr. Clutch for Post 43, going 4 for 5 in the game with a pair of doubles and four RBIs. “He was just a one-man gang,” Brown said.

And Post 43 needed a performance like that to keep pace with the talented Maroons — particularly after all of the missed chances throughout the game.

Troy left the bases loaded twice in the first four innings — including in that four-run fourth — and left at least one runner stranded in scoring position in every inning.

All told through six, Post 43 left 13

runners on through the first six innings — nine of those in scoring position.

Kalamazoo, meanwhile, scored its first six runs all with two outs.

A one-out walk and a pair of stolen bases in the first hurt Troy after a two-out RBI single by Chris Mangus made it 1-0. And in the third, Joey Nate led off with a single and was bunted to second, and Johnny Nate hit a two-out double off the base of the fence in left to make it a two-run game.

Post 43, on the other hand, loaded the bases with one out in

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Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) is fouled by Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem on a shot during the third quarter in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Thursday in Boston.

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SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Legion Baseball Veterans Tournament Troy Post 43 vs. Hillsboro (7 p.m.)

Troy Post 43 vs. Beverly (9 p.m.)

Heat hold off elimination

SATURDAY Legion Baseball Veterans Tournament Troy Post 43 vs. Ann Arbor (7 p.m.)

Troy Post 43 vs. Kalamazoo II (9 p.m.)

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Cincinnati Reds’ Jay Bruce (32) rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run off Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Kevin Correia (29) in the second inning Thursday in Cincinnati.

BOSTON (AP) LeBron James had 45 points and 15 rebounds, overwhelming the Boston Celtics and leading the Miami Heat to a 98-79 victory Thursday night that forced a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals.

Pushing away elimination right along with every defender who tried to stop him, James shot 19 of 26 from the field and finished four points shy of his playoff career-high while playing 45 minutes, not sitting down until the victory was long secured.

Dwyane Wade added 17 points for the Heat, who need a victory in Game 7 on Saturday in Miami to return to the NBA finals.

Rajon Rondo had 21 points and 10 assists for Boston.

The streak ends Pats cut ■ NFL

Chapman gives up 1st earned run of season in loss

Tigers trip up Indians, 7-5 Derek Lowe allowed seven runs and nine hits in his return to Michigan, and the Indians fell 7-5 to the Detroit Tigers on Thursday.

Detroit avoided a three-game sweep and beat Cleveland for the first time in six meetings this year.

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Dragons Lair DAYTON — Dayton tied the score with a run in the bottom of the ninth and won it with another in the 11th Thursday night, winning for the fourth straight time, 4-3 over Lake County at Fifth Third Field.

The Dragons rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Michael McKenry was prepared for the ultimate fastball.

Pittsburgh’s reserve catcher caught up with one of Aroldis Chapman’s blink-of-an-eye fastballs and ended the reliever’s season-long streak of not allowing an earned run, hitting an RBI double in the 10th inning Thursday night for a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Chapman (4-1) hadn’t allowed an earned run in a clubrecord 24 appearances covering 29 innings. He came in to start the 10th with a 0.00 ERA and gave up a leadoff double by Clint Barmes only the eighth hit off the left-hander all season.

McKenry, batting only .193, knew what was coming next.

“He’s a special guy with a special arm,” McKenry said.

“You’ve got to prepare for the 100 mph fastball. You can’t think about anything else.”

The catcher’s double to right

field off a 99 mph pitch allowed the Pirates to pull out a game they almost let get away.

“McKenry hit a real good pitch,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “If you catch up to Chapman’s fastball, you’re going to hit it hard somewhere.”

McKenry also had a sacrifice fly for a 4-3 lead in the seventh, but closer Joel Hanrahan (3-0) blew a save for only the second time this season, giving up a leadoff homer to Ryan Ludwick in the ninth.

Chris Resop got his second major league save, allowing the Pirates to take two of three in the series against the NL Central leaders. Resop got Ludwick on a called third strike with two runners aboard, completing Pittsburgh’s ninth win in 12 games.

This one might have been the best of all.

“Probably as satisfying a win as I’ve had since I’ve been here for the ballclub,” manager Clint

Hurdle said.

McKenry figured in the Pirates’ biggest moments in a back-and-forth game.

His sacrifice fly in the seventh took advantage of Gold Glove second baseman Brandon Phillips’ blunder.

Phillips turned his back to the infield after getting an out at first on a sacrifice, allowing Jose Tabata to go from first to third on the play. McKenry drove him in.

Pittsburgh’s bullpen ranks second in the NL to Cincinnati’s and had blown only three save chances, fewest in the league.

Ludwick hit Hanrahan’s first pitch into the upper deck to tie it. Hanrahan came into the game 15 of 16 in save chances, having converted 10 in a row since his other missed opportunity on May 8.

The Pirates’ bench erupted when McKenry came through again in the 10th to regain the lead and end Chapman’s streak without allowing an earned run.

Ocho FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) The New England Patriots have released wide receiver Chad Ochocinco.

The former Chad Johnson spent one unproductive season with the team, even though the Patriots went to the Super Bowl.

He had 15 receptions for an 18.4yard average and one touchdown, but rarely was a key part of the offense.

Ochocinco, who played 10 seasons for Cincinnati before joining the Patriots. In seven seasons, he had seven 1,000-yard receiving years and a high of 97 catches.

Ochocinco tweets Thursday: “Thoroughly enjoyed the oppurtunity to play for the “Patriot” organization… fans were … wicked awesome, I wish all of you the best…”

His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, says he is “in the process of gauging interest from potential teams.”

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Tigers avoid sweep, top Tribe DETROIT (AP) — The inside of Casey Crosby’s locker was drenched, and the Detroit left-hander’s Tshirt was a bit wet too after the traditional beer shower celebrating his first career win.

“It was the best feeling in the world,” the 23-year-old rookie said.

Miguel Cabrera homered, Brennan Boesch broke out of a slump with a pair of hits and Crosby pitched into the sixth inning to earn his first major league victory,

helping the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians 7-5 Thursday.

Cleveland nearly rallied from a 7-1 deficit but, with the Tigers leading by two, the Indians left the bases loaded in the seventh and two on in the eighth.

“It was a good series overall, but seven was just too many for us today,” Cleveland manager Manny Acta said. “Our offense did a great job of battling back.

We had a couple times where we just needed one

■ Tennis

more hit.”

Detroit avoided a threegame sweep and beat the Indians for the first time in six meetings this year.

Crosby (1-1) allowed three runs and five hits in 5 1-3 innings. Jose Valverde pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 13 chances.

Derek Lowe (7-4) allowed seven runs and nine hits in five innings.

Crosby is in Detroit’s rotation because of an injury to Doug Fister, and he was sharper after a rough outing

against the New York Yankees in his debut last week. The Tigers gave him plenty of support, scoring four runs in the first and three in the fourth.

“There’s a lot of things going on in your debut.

You’ve got family, you’ve got friends, you’ve got people congratulating you all the time,” Crosby said. “This was a lot better. I knew it was going to happen, I knew what I was going to expect going into this start so it was definitely a positive thing.”

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Detroit Tigers’ Don Kelly (32) disrupts Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis from completing a double play in the eighth inning in Detroit Thursday.

■ Tennis

The long road home Sharapova back at No. 1 in rankings, reaches French final

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Novak Djokovic celebrates winning his quarterfinal match against Jo-Wilfried Tsongae at the French Open in Roland Garros stadium in Paris Tuesday.

Djokovic seeks 27th straight major win PARIS (AP) — A year ago in the French Open semifinals, Roger Federer put a stop to Novak Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak.

That also was the last time Djokovic lost at any Grand Slam tournament.

When the two men meet at the same stage at Roland Garros on Friday, 16-time major champion Federer once again stands in Djokovic’s way, with even more at stake. This time, Djokovic will be seeking a 27th consecutive major match victory, which would leave him one shy of becoming the first man in 43 years to win four Grand Slam titles in a row.

“I will try to be out there believing I can win,” said the No. 1-ranked Djokovic, who won Wimbledon in July, the U.S. Open in September, and the Australian Open in January. “There is no (real) favorite.”

The other semifinal Friday features someone else pursuing history: No. 2 Rafael Nadal, who faces No. 6 David Ferrer, is hoping to earn a record seventh French Open trophy, which would break a tie with Bjorn Borg.

Nadal is 50-1 at Roland Garros, the only loss coming in the fourth round in against Robin 2009 Soderling.

“How discouraging is it to play Nadal on this surface? … When Borg played, in my day, he was like the human backboard.

He was faster than everyone, fitter than everyone, and you couldn’t get a ball by the guy,” said seventime Grand Slam champion John McEnroe, whose rivalry with Borg is among the best. “I saw guys get exhausted in the first set. … It’s like the same thing when you play Nadal.”

Nadal has won all 15 sets he’s played in Paris this year.

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Players, owners agree not to offer Braun opinion NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and its players’ association decided there will be no written decision in the case overturning Ryan Braun’s drug suspension, while also changing the rules that allowed the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder to get his 50-game penalty thrown out.

MLB and the union announced changes to their drug-testing agreement Thursday in the wake of the Feb. 23 decision by arbitrator Shyam Das to overturn the suspension that followed a positive test by Braun, the NL MVP. As part of the deal, the sides agreed privately that

Das will not issue a written opinion in the case, two people familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sides’ decision not to announce the lack of a written decision.

Braun’s side argued his urine sample was handled improperly because the drug collector kept it at home from Saturday, Oct. 1, until the following Monday, when he took it to a Federal Express office for shipment to the testing laboratory outside Montreal. The drug policy stated that the sample was to have been delivered to a FedEx office immediately.

PARIS (AP) — Wind blew in her face, kicking up flecks of clay, and Maria Sharapova stood at the baseline, knowing she needed one more point to reach her first French Open final and return to No. 1 in the rankings.

She rotated her right shoulder, the one surgically repaired 3 years ago, and served a fault.

Gulp.

Her next try found the mark: a second-serve ace at 104 mph that landed in a corner. It was a fitting way to close out a 6-3, 6-3 victory over No. 4-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the semifinals at Roland Garros on Thursday, a fitting way to announce that Sharapova is once again at the height of her powers and at the top of her sport.

“It’s a long road back; it’s a long process. It’s a lot of days of frustration and uncertainty, not knowing if you’ll ever get there, not knowing how much you want it, not knowing whether (there) would be a moment like that for you again,” Sharapova said at her news conference, the WTA’s glass vase signifying her No. 1 status sitting inches away.

“So there’s definitely a lot of tough things you have to go through to get to this point. But when you get here, and you look back at the things that you did, and the work that you put in, and the toughest days that you can remember, it’s all really worth it.”

On Saturday, the second-seeded Russian will face 21st-seeded Sara Errani of Italy for the French Open title. It’s the only major tournament Sharapova hasn’t won; she can become the 10th woman to complete a career Grand Slam.

“I was in a position a few years ago where I didn’t quite know if I would ever be here again on this stage, playing professionally. And not just at that, but at a level to get to No. 1 in the world and a first Roland Garros final for me,” Sharapova said. “So a very special day, no doubt.”

Errani felt the same way.

Playing in her first Grand Slam semifinal, she beat reigning U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur of Australia 7-5, 1-6, 6-3.

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Maria Sharapova returns in her semi final match against Petra Kvitova at the French Open in Roland Garros stadium in Paris Thursday. accustomed to making it this far,” said Errani’s coach, Pablo Lozano, who held his 10-month-old son while cheering in the stands. “For us, every day brings a new surprise.”

Indeed, it’s been quite a two weeks for Errani, who will play in the women’s doubles final on Friday with Roberta Vinci against Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova.

Entering this tournament, Errani was 0-28 against women ranked in the top 10. But she beat No. 10 Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals, then No. 6 Stosur on Thursday and those upsets were preceded by victories over two past French Open champions, 2008’s Ana Ivanovic and 2009’s Svetlanta Kuznetsova.

Did she ever doubt she could beat the best?

“It’s not a question of believing or not believing,” Errani said. “I don’t think about that. I just think about playing. I just think about going on court and giving my all. And whatever happens, happens. I’ve never thought, ‘I can’t beat

someone in the top 10.’”

Errani never made it past the third round at a major tournament until getting to the Australian Open quarterfinals in January, and attributes her surge this season to switching to a racket with a longer handle. At only 5foot-4, she found she couldn’t counter the power that a lot of the game’s elite and taller players, like the 5foot-8 Stosur, generate from the baseline.

“My arms wouldn’t get longer,” Errani joked, “so I got a longer racket.”

The start of her semifinal was delayed by rain for more than an hour, so Errani listened to music and took a nap on a couch.

She came out a bit edgy, losing the first two games, but quickly turned that around, even though plenty of her serves came in at about 70 mph. Unable to overwhelm foes, she beats them with tactics, finding all the right angles.

“She uses what she’s got.

She gets the most out of herself, I guess,” said Stosur, whose 48 unforced errors were more than

twice as many as Errani’s total. “Without being able to hit too many winners, she does what she does very well.”

Hitting winners is not a problem for Sharapova. On a wet and blustery day, she managed 15 five more than Kvitova.

But it wasn’t easy for Sharapova to make her way back after having her shoulder fixed in October 2008.

Aside from the hours of rehab, she was forced to adjust her service motion, a work-in-progress that still leads to double-digit double-fault totals.

“The day that I got shoulder surgery, I knew (serving) was something I’m going to be working on and trying to get back for a very long period of time,” she said. “I mean, it was the most painful shot for me before I had to get surgery, and I knew that it could have still been painful after. It certainly was for a period of time.”

Sharapova, of course, would be thrilled to grab her first trophy at Roland Garros.

run from 7:30-9:30 a.m. June 25-28 for the first session and July 16-19 for the second, and both will cost $60. Registration forms can be found at MiltonUnion Middle School, the Milton-Union Public Library or from any of the high school coaches. The deadline to register is the Wednesday before the session being registered for.

For more information, contact Sharon Paul at 698-3378 or Steve Brumbaugh at 698-3625.

• OFFICIATING CLASSES: The West Central Ohio Football Officials Association will conduct a training program for individuals interested in becoming licensed high school football officials. The training class will be sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

Classes will be held on Monday and Thursday evenings Aug. 630 at the Upper Valley JVS Applied Tech Center in Piqua.

There will be a $75 fee which

covers all materials. Students will be able to work games this fall. Interested individuals should contact Russ Thayer (937-335-0715) or Mark Thompson (937-658-1880).

Registration must be completed

by July 30.

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

Tips ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 • SOFTBALL: Celina’s fall softball league is now accepting registrations forms. The league will start on Aug. 19 and will play five weekend doubleheaders. The league is open to girls in grades 3-12. The league will be divided into three different leagues: grades 3-5 will play in a machine pitch league, 6t-8 will play in the junior high division and 9-12 graders will play in the high school division. The

cost is $100 for high school and junior high players and $60 for grades 3-5. The deadline to register is Aug. 1. Registration forms can be printed out at www.thundercamps.com.

Questions should be directed to Joe Hoying at 419-834-1282, John Hendricks 765-348-6413, or by email at celinafallleague@hotmail.com.

• TENNIS: West Milton will host tennis camps at the junior high, junior varsity and varsity

levels this summer, with two sessions apiece. The junior high camp sessions will be from 11 a.m. to noon June 1821 and June 25-28 for the first session and July 9-12 and July 16-19 for the second, with both sessions costing $45. The junior varsity camp will run from 9:30-11 a.m. June 18-21 and June 25-28 for the first session and July 9-12 and July 16-19 for the second, with both costing $60. The varsity camp will

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB Baltimore 32 25 .561 — — 32 25 .561 — — Tampa Bay 31 25 .554 ½ ½ New York 30 27 .526 2 2 Toronto 29 28 .509 3 3 Boston Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB Chicago 32 25 .561 — — 30 26 .536 1½ 1½ Cleveland 26 31 .456 6 6 Detroit 24 31 .436 7 7 Kansas City 22 34 .393 9½ 9½ Minnesota West Division W L Pct GB WCGB Texas 33 25 .569 — — Los Angeles 29 29 .500 4 3½ 26 32 .448 7 6½ Oakland 26 33 .441 7½ 7 Seattle NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB Washington 32 23 .582 — — Atlanta 32 25 .561 1 — 32 26 .552 1½ ½ New York 31 26 .544 2 1 Miami 28 31 .475 6 5 Philadelphia Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB Cincinnati 31 25 .554 — — Pittsburgh 29 27 .518 2 2½ St. Louis 29 28 .509 2½ 3 26 31 .456 5½ 6 Milwaukee 24 32 .429 7 7½ Houston 19 38 .333 12½ 13 Chicago West Division W L Pct GB WCGB Los Angeles 37 21 .638 — — San Francisco 33 25 .569 4 — 27 30 .474 9½ 5 Arizona 24 32 .429 12 7½ Colorado 19 39 .328 18 13½ San Diego AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday's Games Cleveland 9, Detroit 6 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1 Baltimore 2, Boston 1 Minnesota 4, Kansas City 2 Toronto 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Seattle 8, L.A. Angels 6 Oakland 2, Texas 0 Thursday's Games Detroit 7, Cleveland 5 Oakland 7, Texas 1 Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Yankees 3 Boston 7, Baltimore 0 Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday's Games San Francisco 6, San Diego 5 L.A. Dodgers 6, Philadelphia 5 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 2, Miami 1 Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 4, Houston 3 Milwaukee 8, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 6, Colorado 1 Thursday's Games L.A. Dodgers 8, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 1 Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 10 innings San Francisco 8, San Diego 3 Atlanta 8, Miami 2 Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 4, 10 innings St. Louis at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Game San Diego (Volquez 2-5) at Milwaukee (Marcum 4-3), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Game San Diego at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Game San Diego at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE Friday's Games Kansas City (Hochevar 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Bedard 3-6), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 4-6) at Baltimore (Arrieta 2-7), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 3-4) at Cincinnati (Latos 4-2), 7:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 4-2) at Miami (Nolasco 6-3), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 6-1) at Boston (Doubront 6-2), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Drabek 4-6) at Atlanta (Beachy 5-4), 7:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-2) at Minnesota (Walters 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Houston (W.Rodriguez 4-4) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 4-5), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 2-3) at St. Louis (Westbrook 4-5), 8:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 6-4) at Colorado (White 2-3), 8:40 p.m.

Oakland (Milone 6-5) at Arizona (D.Hudson 2-1), 9:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Eovaldi 0-2) at Seattle (Millwood 3-5), 10:10 p.m.

Texas (M.Harrison 7-3) at San Francisco (Zito 5-2), 10:15 p.m.

Saturday's Games Chicago Cubs at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.

Texas at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 4:05 p.m.

Washington at Boston, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago White Sox, 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Cleveland at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, 7:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at N.Y.Yankees, 7:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Miami, 7:15 p.m.

Oakland at Arizona, 10:10 p.m.

Sunday's Games N.Y. Mets at N.Y.Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Miami, 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.

Washington at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.

Texas at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Oakland at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Detroit at Cincinnati, 8:05 p.m.

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

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Away 18-14 13-15 13-16 17-20

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

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

Str L-1 W-1 W-1 W-2 L-1 L-2

Home 16-11 16-11 13-11 14-16 18-13 12-15

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

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Umpires_Home, Bill Welke; First, Chris Guccione; Second, Tim Tschida; Third, Mike Muchlinski.

T_3:07. A_23,106 (42,319).

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2B_A.Cabrera (15), Kipnis (5), (7), Boesch (10).

Jo.Lopez HR_Mi.Cabrera (13). SB_Kipnis (14).

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WP_D.Lowe, Crosby.

Umpires_Home, Gerry Davis; First, Phil Cuzzi; Second, Manny Gonzalez; Third, Greg Gibson.

T_2:51. A_40,851 (41,255).

Thursday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas . . . . . . .000 100 000—1 4 0 Oakland . . . .101 400 10x—7 7 0 Darvish, Scheppers (6), M.Lowe (8) and Napoli; McCarthy, Balfour (8), Blevins (9) and K.Suzuki. W_McCarthy 5-3. L_Darvish 7-4. HRs_Oakland, Crisp (1), Moss (1).

Tampa Bay . .012 200 002—7 10 1 NewYork . . . .010 000 011—3 6 2 Price, W.Davis (6), McGee (8), Jo.Peralta (8), Howell (9), Rodney (9) and Lobaton; Sabathia, Eppley (8), Rapada (8), Wade (9) and C.Stewart, Martin. W_Price 8-3. L_Sabathia 7-3.

HRs_New York, Martin (6).

Baltimore . . .000 000 000—0 4 2 Boston . . . . .222 000 01x—7 9 1 Matusz, Mig.Gonzalez (3), Gregg (7), O'Day (8) and Wieters; Buchholz and Shoppach. W_Buchholz 6-2.

L_Matusz 5-6.

Toronto . . . . .030 000 000—3 7 0 Chicago . . . .100 002 001—4 9 1 H.Alvarez, Oliver (8), Frasor (8), Cordero (9) and Arencibia; Peavy, Thornton (7), N.Jones (8), Reed (9) and Pierzynski. W_Reed 1-1.

L_Cordero 1-3. HRs_Chicago, Rios (6).

NATIONAL LEAGUE NewYork . . . .000 020 100—3 10 0 Washington .000 000 001—1 5 0 Dickey, Parnell (8), F.Francisco (9) and Thole; Wang, Gorzelanny (6), Mic.Gonzalez (9) and J.Solano.

W_Dickey 9-1. L_Wang 1-2.

Sv_F.Francisco (15). HRs_New York, Duda (10). Washington, Zimmerman (3).

Los Angeles .000 103 004—8 12 2 Philadelphia .003 000 000—3 10 3 Harang, J.Wright (7), Sh.Tolleson (9), Belisario (9) and Treanor; Hamels, Savery (7), Qualls (9), Valdes (9) and Schneider, Ruiz. W_Harang 5-3.

L_Hamels 8-3.

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 12:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Pocono 400, at Long Pond, Pa. 2 p.m. SPEED — Formula One, practice for Canadian Grand Prix, at Montreal 3:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, "Happy Hour Series," final practice for Pocono 400, at Long Pond, Pa. 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — IRL, IndyCar, pole qualifying for Firestone 550, at Fort Worth, Texas (same-day tape) 9 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Craftsman Truck Series, WinStar World Casino 400, at Fort Worth, Texas BOXING 10 p.m. ESPN2 — Super middleweights, Kelly Pavlik (382-0) vs. Scott Sigmon (22-3-0), at Las Vegas COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon ESPN2 — NCAA Division I playoffs, super regionals, game 1, teams TBD 3 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I playoffs, super regionals, game 1, teams TBD 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Division I playoffs, super regionals, game 1, teams TBD 9 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I playoffs, super regionals, game 1, teams TBD CYCLING 3 p.m. NBCSN — Criterium du Dauphine, stage 5, Saint Trivier-sur-Moignans to Rumilly, France (same-day tape) GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Nordea Masters, third round, at Stockholm (same-day tape) Noon TGC — LPGA, Wegmans Championship, second round, at Pittsford, N.Y. 3 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, St. Jude Classic, second round, at Memphis, Tenn.

6:30 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, The Tradition, second round, at Birmingham, Ala. (same-day tape) HORSE RACING 5 p.m. NBCSN — NTRA, Brooklyn Handicap and Jaipur Stakes, at Elmont, N.Y. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m. FSN — Detroit at Cincinnati MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees or Detroit at Cincinnati 8 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs at Minnesota SOCCER 11:30 a.m. ESPN — UEFA, Euro 2012, group phase, Poland vs. Greece, at Warsaw, Poland 2:30 p.m. ESPN — UEFA, Euro 2012, group phase, Russia vs. Czech Republic, at Wroclaw, Poland 7 p.m. ESPN — Men's national teams, World Cup qualifier, United States vs. Antigua & Barbuda, at Tampa, Fla. TENNIS 11 a.m. NBC — French Open, men's semifinals, at Paris Chicago . . . .000000 120 0—3 7 2 Milwaukee . .000101 010 1—4 6 1 (10 innings) Garza, Camp (7), Russell (8), Corpas (8), C.Coleman (10) and K.Hill; Wolf, Veras (7), Fr.Rodriguez (8), Axford (9) and Kottaras, M.Maldonado.

W_Axford 1-2. L_C.Coleman 0-1.

HRs_Chicago, LaHair (12). Milwaukee, Aoki 2 (3).

San Francisco211 000 211—8 15 4 San Diego . . .003 000 000—3 9 1 M.Cain, Affeldt (8), S.Casilla (8) and Posey; Marquis, Brach (7), Hinshaw (8), Ohlendorf (9) and Jo.Baker.

W_M.Cain 7-2. L_Marquis 0-1.

Sv_S.Casilla (15). HRs_San Francisco, Posey (7), Pagan (5), G.Blanco (3).

Atlanta . . . . . .000 002 114—8 9 0 Miami . . . . . . .000 010 010—2 9 0 Minor, Durbin (6), Venters (7), O'Flaherty (8), C.Martinez (9) and McCann; Buehrle, Cishek (7), Choate (8), Webb (8), Mujica (9), Da.Jennings (9) and Hayes. W_Minor 3-4. L_Buehrle 5-6. HRs_Atlanta, Prado (4), Heyward 2 (8), Bourn (6). Miami, Reyes (1), Stanton (14).

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

W 41 32 31 30 28 28 27 25

L 18 28 29 30 31 32 33 35

Pct. GB .695 — .533 9½ .517 10½ .500 11½ .475 13 .467 13½ .450 14½ .417 16½

W L Pct. GB Wisconsin (Brewers) 37 23 .617 — Beloit (Twins) 35 25 .583 2 Kane County (Royals) 32 28 .533 5 Quad Cities (Cardinals) 29 31 .483 8 Peoria (Cubs) 28 32 .467 9 Burlington (Athletics) 27 32 .458 9½ Cedar Rapids (Angels) 26 34 .433 11 Clinton (Mariners) 22 37 .373 14½ Thursday's Games West Michigan 11, Fort Wayne 2 Dayton 4, Lake County 3, 11 innings South Bend 6, Great Lakes 5 Lansing 5, Bowling Green 4, 11 innings, comp. of susp. game Bowling Green 2, Lansing 1 Kane County 4, Quad Cities 1 Beloit 4, Burlington 3 Peoria 2, Cedar Rapids 0 Clinton 2, Wisconsin 1 Friday's Games Fort Wayne at West Michigan, 7 p.m.

Lake County at Dayton, 7 p.m.

Bowling Green at Lansing, 7:05 p.m.

Quad Cities at Kane County, 7:30 p.m.

Beloit at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Great Lakes at South Bend, 7:35 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Peoria, 8 p.m.

Clinton at Wisconsin, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Great Lakes at West Michigan, 7 p.m.

Bowling Green at Dayton, 7 p.m.

South Bend at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m.

Lake County at Lansing, 7:05 p.m.

Quad Cities at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Kane County at Peoria, 7:30 p.m.

Clinton at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m.

Beloit at Wisconsin, 7:35 p.m.

AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup Leaders Through June 3 Points 1, Greg Biffle....................................486 2, Matt Kenseth................................485 3, Dale Earnhardt Jr. .......................476 4, Denny Hamlin..............................464

5, Jimmie Johnson ..........................453 6, Martin Truex Jr. ............................441 7, Kevin Harvick...............................440 8, Tony Stewart ................................407 9, Kyle Busch...................................406 10, Clint Bowyer...............................405 11, Brad Keselowski........................400 12, Carl Edwards.............................390 13, Ryan Newman...........................366 14, Kasey Kahne.............................365 15, Paul Menard ..............................364 16, Joey Logano..............................350 17, Aric Almirola ..............................329 18, Jeff Burton .................................322 19, Marcos Ambrose.......................321 20, Juan Pablo Montoya .................312

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers 4, Ottawa 3 Washington 4, Boston 3 New Jersey 4, Florida 3 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 1 St. Louis 4, San Jose 1 Phoenix 4, Chicago 2 Nashville 4, Detroit 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 3 New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix 4, Nashville 1 Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 0 CONFERENCE FINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE New Jersey 4, NY Rangers 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles 4, Phoenix 1 STANLEY CUP FINALS Wednesday, May 30: Los Angeles 2, New Jersey 1, OT Saturday, June 2: Los Angeles 2, New Jersey 1, OT Monday, June 4: Los Angeles 4, New Jersey 0 Wednesday, June 6: New Jersey 3, Los Angeles 1, Los Angeles leads series 3-1 x-Saturday, June 9: Los Angeles at New Jersey, 8 p.m. x-Monday, June 11: New Jersey at Los Angeles, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, June 13: Los Angeles at New Jersey, 8 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (x-if necessary) (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Philadelphia 4, Chicago 2 Miami 4, New York 1 Indiana 4, Orlando 1 Boston 4, Atlanta 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 4, Utah 0 Oklahoma City 4, Dallas 0 L.A. Lakers 4, Denver 3 L.A. Clippers 4, Memphis 3 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Boston 4, Philadelphia 3 Miami 4, Indiana 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City 4, L.A. Lakers 1 San Antonio 4, L.A. Clippers 0 CONFERENCE FINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami vs. Boston Monday, May 28: Miami 93, Boston 79

Friday, June 8, 2012 Wednesday, May 30: Miami 115, Boston 111, OT Friday, June 1: Boston 101, Miami 91 Sunday, June 3: Boston 93, Miami 91, OT Tuesday, June 5: Boston 94, Miami 90 Thursday, June 7: Miami 98, Boston 79, series tied 3-3 Saturday, June 9: Boston at Miami, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City 4, San Antonio 2 Sunday, May 27: Spurs 101, Thunder 98 Tuesday, May 29: San Antonio 120, Oklahoma City 111 Thursday, May 31: Oklahoma City 102, San Antonio 82 Saturday, June 2: Oklahoma City 109, San Antonio 103 Monday: June 4: Oklahoma City 108, San Antonio 103 Wednesday, June 6: Oklahoma City 107, San Antonio 99, OKC wins series 42 FINALS Oklahoma City vs. Miami-Boston winner Tuesday, June 12: Miami-Boston winner at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m.

Thursday, June 14: Miami-Boston winner at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 17: Oklahoma City at Miami-Boston winner, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, June 19: Oklahoma City at Miami-Boston winner, 9 p.m. x-Thursday, June 21: Oklahoma City at Miami-Boston winner, 9 p.m. x-Sunday, June 24: Miami-Boston winner at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, June 26: Miami-Boston winner at Oklahoma City, 9 p.m.

GOLF St. Jude Classic Scores Thursday At TPC Southwind Memphis, Tenn.

Purse: $5.6 million Yardage: 7,239; Par 70 (35-35) First Round a-denotes amateur Jeff Maggert .........................35-31—66 John Merrick.........................33-33—66 Arjun Atwal ...........................33-34—67 Jeff Overton..........................33-34—67 J.J. Henry..............................34-33—67 Seung-Yul Noh .....................32-35—67 Robert Allenby......................35-33—68 Rory McIlroy .........................35-33—68 Padraig Harrington...............35-33—68 Chad Campbell ....................36-32—68 Ken Duke..............................34-34—68 Davis Love III........................34-34—68 Y.E.Yang ...............................34-34—68 John Daly..............................33-35—68 Lee Janzen...........................35-33—68 J.J. Killeen.............................34-34—68 Troy Kelly...............................35-33—68 Kevin Stadler ........................35-34—69 Bryce Molder........................33-36—69 Fredrik Jacobson..................32-37—69 Tim Clark ..............................33-36—69 Kevin Kisner..........................35-34—69 Luke Guthrie.........................35-34—69 Skip Kendall..........................35-34—69 Charles Howell III.................33-36—69 Paul Stankowski...................34-35—69 Danny Lee............................36-33—69 Chris Riley ............................38-32—70 Dustin Johnson ....................35-35—70 Gavin Coles..........................34-36—70 Troy Matteson.......................35-35—70 Steve Flesch.........................36-34—70 Boo Weekley ........................34-36—70 Joe Ogilvie............................34-36—70 Mathew Goggin....................37-33—70 Nick O'Hern ..........................34-36—70 Sean O'Hair..........................36-34—70 Jason Bohn ..........................37-33—70 J.B. Holmes...........................35-35—70 Tim Petrovic..........................35-35—70 Chris Couch .........................35-35—70 Omar Uresti..........................35-35—70 Kyle Thompson ....................34-36—70 Gary Christian ......................36-34—70 Zack Miller ............................34-36—70 Duffy Waldorf........................38-33—71 Brendon de Jonge ...............36-35—71 Roland Thatcher...................36-35—71 Shaun Micheel .....................38-33—71 Brett Wetterich......................35-36—71 Shane Bertsch .....................36-35—71 Spencer Levin ......................35-36—71 Patrick Sheehan...................34-37—71 Sung Kang............................36-35—71 William McGirt......................33-38—71 Dustin Morris ........................34-37—71 Nathan Green.......................36-35—71 Kyle Stanley..........................35-36—71 Bill Lunde..............................37-34—71 Kelly Kraft..............................36-35—71 Edward Loar.........................36-35—71 Steve Wheatcroft..................36-35—71 Matt McQuillan .....................34-37—71 Joe Durant............................34-38—72 Robert Gamez .....................37-35—72 Tommy Gainey .....................36-36—72 Hunter Haas.........................37-35—72 Robert Karlsson...................35-37—72 Marco Dawson.....................36-36—72 George McNeill ....................38-34—72 Martin Laird ..........................36-36—72 Heath Slocum.......................36-36—72 Cameron Beckman..............35-37—72 Stuart Appleby......................36-36—72 Neal Lancaster.....................36-36—72 Craig Barlow.........................37-35—72 Billy Horschel........................37-35—72 Ryo Ishikawa ........................37-35—72 John Peterson ......................36-36—72 Kyle Reifers...........................34-38—72 Daniel Chopra ......................36-36—72 David Hearn .........................36-36—72 Woody Austin .......................37-35—72 Bart Bryant ...........................36-36—72 Brian Gay..............................36-36—72 Henrik Stenson ....................34-38—72 Jhonattan Vegas...................35-37—72 Greg Owen...........................35-37—72 Kent Jones............................36-36—72 Bob Estes.............................36-36—72 Martin Flores ........................36-36—72 Miguel Angel Carballo .........37-35—72 Will Claxton...........................34-38—72 Alexandre Rocha .................36-36—72 Matt Jones............................37-36—73 Scott Stallings.......................39-34—73 John Rollins..........................36-37—73 Frank Lickliter II ....................37-36—73 Billy Hurley III........................34-39—73 Champions-Regions Tradition Scores Thursday At Shoal Creek Birmingham, Ala. Purse: $2.2 million Yardage: 7,234; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Bill Glasson...........................34-32—66 Dan Forsman .......................34-32—66 Fred Funk .............................33-34—67 Bernhard Langer..................35-33—68 Brad Bryant ..........................33-36—69 Russ Cochran ......................35-34—69 Tom Lehman ........................34-35—69 Bruce Fleisher......................36-33—69 Morris Hatalsky ....................35-35—70 Kirk Triplett ............................35-35—70 Gary Hallberg.......................35-35—70

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Jeff Sluman ..........................36-34—70 Larry Mize.............................35-35—70 Wayne Levi...........................35-35—70 Joey Sindelar........................36-34—70 Mike Goodes........................36-34—70 Tom Jenkins .........................35-36—71 Peter Senior..........................36-35—71 Olin Browne..........................37-34—71 Mike Reid..............................38-33—71 Fulton Allem .........................37-35—72 Andrew Magee.....................37-35—72 Hale Irwin..............................37-35—72 Corey Pavin ..........................36-36—72 Keith Fergus .........................34-38—72 Chien Soon Lu .....................35-37—72 Eduardo Romero .................36-36—72 Loren Roberts ......................38-34—72 Steve Pate ............................38-35—73 Jim Gallagher, Jr. .................38-35—73 Jim Thorpe............................37-36—73 Hal Sutton.............................35-38—73 Mark McNulty .......................37-36—73 Brad Faxon...........................34-39—73 Fred Couples........................35-38—73 Jay Haas...............................36-37—73 Mark Brooks.........................36-37—73 Fuzzy Zoeller........................38-35—73 Scott Simpson......................35-38—73 Larry Nelson.........................35-38—73 Rod Spittle............................37-36—73 Michael Allen........................38-35—73 Mark Calcavecchia...............37-36—73 Andy Bean............................39-35—74 Bruce Vaughan.....................38-36—74 Roger Chapman ..................37-37—74 Bob Tway ..............................37-37—74 Bobby Clampett....................38-36—74 Denis Watson .......................39-35—74 LPGA Tour-Wegmans Championship Scores Thursday At Locust Hill Country Club Pittsford, N.Y. Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 6,534; Par 72 (35-37) First Round Ryann O'Toole......................35-34—69 Beatriz Recari.......................34-35—69 Giulia Sergas........................33-36—69 Na Yeon Choi........................33-37—70 Paula Creamer.....................34-36—70 Jeong Jang...........................34-36—70 Cristie Kerr............................32-38—70 Ai Miyazato...........................34-36—70 Mika Miyazato ......................36-34—70 Se Ri Pak..............................36-34—70 Sandra Gal ...........................35-36—71 Lorie Kane............................35-36—71 Candie Kung.........................34-37—71 Mo Martin .............................35-36—71 Suzann Pettersen.................35-36—71 Jenny Shin............................35-36—71 Shanshan Feng....................34-38—72 Marcy Hart............................34-38—72 Brittany Lang ........................36-36—72 Maude-Aimee Leblanc ........35-37—72 Stacy Lewis ..........................36-36—72 Sydnee Michaels..................36-36—72 Inbee Park ............................36-36—72 Christine Song......................34-38—72 Sun Young Yoo......................35-37—72 Karlin Beck ...........................37-36—73 Dori Carter............................35-38—73 Taylor Coutu .........................36-37—73 Sophie Gustafson ................35-38—73 Jennifer Johnson..................37-36—73 Jimin Kang............................36-37—73 I.K. Kim..................................36-37—73 Meena Lee ...........................35-38—73 Amelia Lewis ........................33-40—73 Stephanie Louden................35-38—73 Jennifer Rosales ..................37-36—73 So Yeon Ryu.........................35-38—73 Alison Walshe.......................35-38—73 Christel Boeljon....................35-39—74 Sandra Changkija ................36-38—74 Katie Futcher........................37-37—74 Hee-Won Han ......................35-39—74 Mina Harigae........................34-40—74 Mi Jung Hur..........................38-36—74 Pat Hurst...............................37-37—74 Jessica Korda.......................38-36—74 Belen Mozo ..........................35-39—74 Haru Nomura........................36-38—74 Anna Nordqvist.....................36-38—74 Angela Oh ............................36-38—74 Gerina Piller..........................35-39—74 Morgan Pressel....................36-38—74 Lizette Salas.........................35-39—74 Kris Tamulis ..........................33-41—74 Lexi Thompson.....................38-36—74 Momoko Ueda......................37-37—74 Mariajo Uribe........................38-36—74 Karrie Webb..........................36-38—74 Michelle Wie .........................37-37—74 Heather Bowie Young...........36-38—74 Irene Cho..............................36-39—75 Chella Choi...........................37-38—75 Tanya Dergal ........................38-37—75 Wendy Doolan......................38-37—75 Jodi Ewart.............................36-39—75 Katherine Hull.......................37-38—75 Karine Icher..........................38-37—75 Eun-Hee Ji............................38-37—75 Tiffany Joh ............................37-38—75 Catriona Matthew.................39-36—75 Kristy McPherson.................33-42—75 Na On Min............................38-37—75 Becky Morgan ......................35-40—75 Azahara Munoz....................35-40—75 Miami Shores Ladies 9-hole League Gross, Net, Putts June 5 First Flight M. Fry..................................................45 J. Rhoden ...........................................34 J. Rodenburg......................................18 Second Flight G. Shafer ............................................55 L. Griman............................................40 P. Halterman.......................................16 Third Flight D. Alcorn.............................................54 C. Bright..............................................33 L. Newbright .......................................18 Fourth Flight J. McDonald .......................................55 C. Krieder ...........................................33 A. Overholser .....................................20

TENNIS French Open Results Thursday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $23.47 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Women Semifinals Sara Errani (21), Italy, def. Sam Stosur (6), Australia, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3.

Maria Sharapova (2), Russia, def.

Petra Kvitova (4), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles Men Semifinals Max Mirnyi, Belarus, and Daniel Nestor (1), Canada, def. Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace (14), Italy, 6-3, 6-4.

Women Semifinals Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova (7), Russia, def. Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (5), Czech Republic, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.

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■ National Hockey League

Kings look to win Cup in 5

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Los Angeles Kings Dwight King, left, and teammates Dustin Brown, rear, and Trevor Lewis watch the closing seconds of play against the New Jersey Devils in the third period during Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday in Los Angeles.

SHORT HILLS, N.J. (AP) — Darryl Sutter contorted his face in a display of disbelief and disgust, and let out an incredulous laugh shortly after the Los Angeles Kings failed in their initial attempt to claim the franchise’s first Stanley Cup title.

The monotone coach seemed stunned Wednesday night when he was asked about his club’s “problem” in Game 4s of the playoffs. The Kings, 15-3 in the postseason, are the first team to grab a 3-0 lead in four straight series in a year but only one of those matchups ended in a sweep as Los Angeles dropped three Game 4s at home.

The latest setback came in a 3-1 defeat on Wednesday night at the hands of the Devils, who forced a Game 5 back in New Jersey on Saturday night. Sutter couldn’t

believe that a failure to sweep was now the standard of being a problem.

“Awesome,” he said sarcastically. “Close out a series in Game 4? It’s the Stanley Cup finals.”

That ended the brief three-question news conference. Sutter felt no reason to stick around any longer to entertain any talk that his surging team has any issues at all, other than it had to make one more long road trip.

Sutter was still miffed Thursday morning before the Kings headed East.

“Continue to play the way we’re playing. That’s why you play series,” he said of his club’s mindset.

“Unfortunately, we have some spoiled people that think that everyone wins 16 in a row or something. A little confusing to me.”

The Kings are heading back into their true comfort

zone the road. It is there that they have already set records with 10 straight victories in this postseason, and 12 playoff wins in a row, dating to last year.

With one more win away from L.A., the Kings will also set the mark with 11 road wins in a single playoff.

“We feel comfortable on the road,” said forward Anze Kopitar, who leads the Kings with eight goals and 19 points in the playoffs. “It’s unfortunate we couldn’t close it (Wednesday) night. But we’ll try to do it on Saturday.”

The Kings are 1-3 in Game 4s with a chance to end a series, but they are 30 in the ensuing Game 5s, so Los Angeles is fully prepared to short-circuit any hopes the Devils have of becoming the second club to dig out of an 0-3 hole in the

finals and win the Stanley Cup. “Elimination games … the teams you play against are there for a reason,” forward Justin Williams said Thursday. “It’s not supposed to be a sweep all the time. You’re not supposed to win every game.

“That’s when their character comes out, when their backs are against the wall.

They played a great game, battled hard. We just didn’t quite have enough.”

While the Kings have proven to be a resilient bunch and the most formidable No. 8 seed in NHL playoff history, a Thursday flight to New Jersey didn’t exactly follow the script they had planned. Another cross-country trip after missing a chance to lift the Cup in front of the home fans, who have waited 45 years to celebrate such an event, is hardly ideal.

■ National Basketball Association

■ Legion Baseball

Redefining Thunder

Post 43

OKC completes major turnaround by earning Finals trip OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At the beginning of the video the Oklahoma City Thunder play before their starting lineups are announced, there’s a message on the scoreboard.

RESILIENCY. IT DEFINES OUR TEAM. That was especially true during the Thunder’s comeback from an 18-point deficit Wednesday night to beat the San Antonio Spurs and clinch a spot in the NBA finals. But that’s only the final step in a remarkable turnaround.

It was only three seasons ago that Oklahoma City’s new team was 3-29 and just hoping to avoid the worst record in NBA history.

“You can look at it as a negative, but I think as a group and as an organization, we’ve seen some light, and we’ve seen that one day we’d be at this moment, and one day we’d have an opportunity to win a championship,” said Russell Westbrook, who may best personify the transformation by turning himself from a rookie struggling with turnovers into an All-Star.

Back when Scott Brooks was hired as coach around Thanksgiving 2008, his first task was trying to get the team to be competitive in the fourth quarter. Now, opponents can’t seem to put the Thunder away when it comes to crunch time.

“Even back then, we weren’t losing games. I was telling the guys we were learning how to win games, and there’s a big difference between that because we had guys that worked every day and it gave me hope that when we were down they were still prac-

AP PHOTO

Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant (35) celebrates after the Thunder closed out the San Antonio Spurs after Game 6 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday in Oklahoma City. ticing, still working hard,” Brooks said.

All that hard work paid off with the franchise’s first shot at the title since 1996 as the Seattle SuperSonics.

The team’s only NBA title came in 1979 back in Seattle.

The Thunder will host Game 1 of the finals Tuesday night, against either Boston or Miami.

“I’m not as excited as I thought I’d be,” said Nick Collison, the only holdover who played in Seattle except for Kevin Durant.

“I think we all know we have more work to do. I don’t think any of us dreamt about making it to the finals. I think we all dreamt about winning it.”

Oklahoma City has gotten this far with a youthful core featuring homegrown first-round draft picks Durant, Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka

that has blended with a trio of veterans who already have championship rings Kendrick Perkins, Derek Fisher and Nazr Mohammed.

To get to the finals, Oklahoma City had to go through the only three teams to win the West since 1998 Dallas in the first round, the Los Angeles Lakers in the conference semifinals and then San Antonio.

“It’s almost like a Hollywood script for OKC in a sense. … Those three teams represent 10 of the last 13 championships, and now they’re going to go to the finals and play either Boston or Miami, and that’ll be 11 of the last 13 championships,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

“I don’t know if anybody has ever had a run or gone through a playoff playing those kinds of teams. It’s

just incredible, and I think it’s pretty cool for them.”

The Thunder have made a steady progression since rallying to finish 23-59 that first season in Oklahoma City. After adding Harden and Ibaka, who was kept overseas for an extra year of development, the club made the playoffs and lost in the first round to the eventual champion Lakers.

Last year, the Mavericks knocked out Oklahoma City in the West finals before also going on to win it all.

“We’ve been through a lot, not just this year but first getting here, moving to Oklahoma City and losing and then the way we lost in the playoffs,” said Durant, who has won the past three league scoring titles. “We’ve been through a lot. We don’t call each other family just to say it.

We really believe in that.”

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 the bottom of the first after a single by Nick Antonides and a pair of full-count walks. But a strikeout and a grounder to the pitcher later, and the inning was over with no harm done.

Bryton Lear and Dylan Cascaden were left on first and second in the second inning after Ryan Konkle got a strikeout to end the threat, and after a one-out double by Nealeigh and a two-out infield single by Dereck Dunham that put runners on the corners, Konkle induced a grounder to short to again escape unscathed.

But Troy was far from done.

“We come from behind well,” Brown said. “But right now we’ve got to get some of our guys hitting with some authority. We’re probably leaving more runners on than we normally do. But our lineup is hard to make it all the way through without someone hurting you.”

And Thursday, that someone was Nealeigh.

Ian Nadolny drew a one-out walk to kick off the fourth, Dylan Cascaden followed with an infield single and Antonides drove in Troy’s first run with another single. After a walk to Garrett Mitchell loaded the bases, Nealeigh cleared them all by yanking a double to left-center to make it 4-2 Troy.

After a flyout for the second out, Dunham hit a slow roller down the first base line that never rolled foul and actually hit off the bag, surprising everyone in the field for a single, and Devin Blakely walked to load the bases again. But A flyout to center kept Kalamazoo within striking distance.

And in the fifth, the Maroons struck. Jake Bivens hit a two-out RBI

single, then a wild pitch brought in the tying run and Johnny Nate gave the lead back to Kalamazoo with another RBI single.

And with two outs in the top of the sixth, Glen McClain ripped the first pitch he saw over the fence in left to make it a 6-4 game.

Troy got one run back in the bottom of the sixth as D.J. Hemm scored on a wild pitch. But with runners on second and third, reliever Jordan Tillman record a pair of punchouts to end the threat.

But after Antonides shut the Maroons down in the seventh, Dylan Cascaden led off Troy’s half of the inning with a walk, then Mitchell and Nealeigh hit back-to-back singles, with Nealeigh’s tying the game — which was where things wrapped up.

“Our young pitchers did a pretty good job tonight,” Brown said. “Reid Ferrell worked the first four against some really good hitters and only gave up two runs. Nick Sanders had a rough fifth inning but pitched a good sixth inning. And Nick got a couple of strikeouts and shut them down in the seventh.”

Post 43 kicks off its Veterans Appreciation Tournament run tonight at 7 p.m. against Hillsboro — the start of a full weekend of quality baseball.

“We feel good about the guys we’ve got starting (pitching) this weekend,” Brown said. “There are a lot of very, very good teams in this tournament, though. A lot of teams that know how to play the game and play it well.”

Kal 101 031 0 — 6 8 0 Troy 000 401 1 — 6 10 1 Konkle, Tillman (5), McClain (6) and McClain, Mangus (6).

Ferrell, Sanders (5), Antonides (7) and Nadolny. 2B — Johnny Nate (K), Nealeigh 2 (T). HR — McClain (K). Records: Troy Post 43 9-3-1.

■ Horse Racing

Luck, breeding, distance make Triple try tough NEW YORK (AP) — The Triple Crown.

Three races in a fiveweek span at varying distances on different tracks.

So tough only 11 horses have won it, none in 34 years, by far the longest gap ever.

Now it’s your turn to try, I’ll Have Another, on Saturday at the Belmont Stakes.

“You need the racing luck,” suggests Bob Baffert, the only trainer to lose the Belmont three times with horses that won the first two legs.

It’s tougher these days because of changes in breeding, full fields of 20 horses in the Kentucky Derby, more foals and an increased emphasis by owners and trainers on the sport’s three biggest races.

I’ll Have Another, an

average-sized chestnut colt, appears to have rebounded well after two hard races in the Derby and Preakness, with the most exhausting still to come. He’ll run 1 1-2 miles around Belmont’s oval with 11 rivals gunning to keep history from happening.

Before Affirmed swept the 1978 Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont, 25 years had passed between Citation in 1948 and Secretariat in 1973.

Ask trainers and jockeys what makes winning the Triple Crown so difficult, and no one can agree on a single factor.

Real Quiet had no luck in 1998, when a nose separated him from racing immortality. The year before, Baffert watched from the stands as Silver Charm lost by three-quar-

ters of a length. In 2002, War Emblem nearly fell to his knees when the starting gate sprang open, and Baffert knew right then the colt was doomed. He straggled home in eighth place, beaten 19 1-2 lengths by a 70-1 shot.

“Everybody is trying to take their little shot at you,” Baffert said.

When Sir Barton became the first horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 1919, the phrase Triple Crown hadn’t been invented. And he wasn’t even the most popular horse of his era; that mantle belonged to Man o’ War, who won nine of his 10 starts as a 2year-old but didn’t run in the Derby the next year.

Sir Barton had just two opponents in the Belmont, which was then run at 1 3-8

miles. His winning time of 2:17 2-5 was an American record.

After him, the Triple Crown was won in bunches.

Three horses accomplished the feat in the 1930s, four did it in the ’40s, and three more pulled it off in the ’70s. The current 34year drought began after Affirmed outdueled Alydar to sweep the series in 1978.

In 1930, Gallant Fox won the Preakness, which was run a mere eight days before the Kentucky Derby.

The bay colt easily won the Derby, but wasn’t the favorite in the Belmont.

Even so, he led wire to wire, and by then, the Triple Crown moniker was attached to the three races.

The Belmont took a toll on War Admiral in 1937.

A son of Man o’ War, he won by three lengths but

not without theatrics. He acted up at the start and repeatedly crashed through the gate, delaying the race for almost nine minutes.

Then he stumbled at the start and sliced off a piece of his right front heel, leaving behind a trail of blood. He came up lame, but returned to racing that fall.

In 1943, Count Fleet had just two opponents in the Belmont, and he crushed them both. He won by 25 lengths, a record that stood until Secretariat’s 31length victory in 1973.

Breeding has changed over the years, with speed replacing stamina as the top priority.

“Back in the ’70s we were still breeding horses to race them and so much of the industry now is concentrated on sales,” said Penny Chenery, who owned

Secretariat. “And so you breed a precocious, goodlooking, early speed horse who isn’t equipped to go a mile and a half, or to run three hard races in five weeks.”

Another reason a Triple is so difficult is the greater emphasis on the series.

Owners know that a winner of any of the race, much less all three, can command huge prices in the breeding shed, while trainers can burnish their credentials with multiple wins.

A lot more horses are eligible for the Triple Crown these days, too.

There were just 2,128 foals the same year as Sir Barton; 32,187 thoroughbreds were born three years ago, and only 20 of those earned enough money to qualify for the Kentucky Derby.