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Theft suspects appear in court Women accused of stealing from organizations they served BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com

Check out this week’s iN75 El Sombrero creates a rest stop for cyclists along the new bike path in Troy. Goffena Furniture’s tent sale is going on now in Sidney. Also, don’t miss Annie Oakley Days or the new art exhibits opening at the TroyHayner Cultural Center and Bear’s Mill.

First Lady visits Ohio Michelle Obama promoted her husband in the electoral battleground state of Ohio on Tuesday as a president for opportunity and economic fairness, and making progress that could slip away if he isn’t re-elected. She highlighted President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul as helping people get needed treatment and avoid financial ruin from bills. She told a boisterous crowd of about 1,800 people at the Dayton Convention Center that he also is trying to ensure college education opportunities and a stronger middle class. See Page 9.

Correction An article published July 18 in the Troy Daily News regarding county maintenance workers investigated for thefts inaccurately stated items were seized by authorities from the homes of three workers who remain on paid administrative leave. Items were seized only from the homes of Jarrod Harrah, the county’s former facilities and safety director, and Bruce Ball, a team leader. The TDN apologizes for the error.

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Two women, both accused of stealing money from the organizations they once served, faced a judge in common pleas court

Monday in unrelated cases, the first involving Piqua Catholic Schools and the second involving Troy Main Street. Antoinette M. Lawson, 54, formerly of Piqua and now residing in Crestview, Fla., received a community control sanction term of five

TROY years since her crimes were not punishable with prison time, according to state law. However, Judge Christopher Gee ordered she serve 60 days in jail and he provided a warning that, should she not complete her probation successfully, she faces 17 months in prison. Lawson, convicted of the crime

in May, stole approximately $114,000 from from the parent teacher organization at Piqua Catholic Schools over a four-year period when she acted as a school volunteer. She was indicted by a Miami County grand jury Dec. 3 with the fourth-degree felony and she faces a prison sentence of between six to 18 months in prison.

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Pepper’s trial date changed BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com A West Milton man accused of beating his roommate to death had his trial date again rescheduled in common pleas court Monday — and could still be continued to a later date, the county’s prosecutor said. Donald R. Pepper, 53, has had his trial date continued STAFF PHOTO/DAVID FONG b e f o r e Aunt Kathy Pencil, niece Ali Rice and sister Wendy Rice share memories Monday of Army Pfc. Jeffrey Rice, who and folwas killed July 19 while serving in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. Rice was a 2007 lowing a Troy High School graduate. p r e t r i a l PEPPER conference in the case Monday, it was decided the man’s trial will take place in midSeptember before Judge Christopher Gee. Miami County Prosecutor Gary Nasal said a four-day aggravated murder trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 18, but also warned the trial date could be pushed back even farther since he anticipates additional pretrial motions being filed in the case. Pepper, who was BY DAVID FONG • See PEPPER on Page 2 Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com

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Sandy Wheelock stared down at the tiny figure standing in front of her, clad from head-to-toe in a black ninja costume. From behind the black ninja mask, with eyes beaming, came a muffled voice: “I checked everything out, Mom. Everything is OK.” “He would always wear that little ninja costume with a wooden spoon tucked in his belt because I didn’t like guns,” Wheelock said. “He would play outside and when he would come in, he would tell me, ‘I checked everything out, Mom. Everything is OK.’ He was always worried about protecting me. His whole life, that’s how he was — he was always worried about protecting his mom and his sisters.” That was more than 15 years ago, when Jeffrey Rice was a young man

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Department of Defense has yet to reveal any details regarding his death. growing up in Troy. On July 19, “All they will say is that they still Army Private First Class Rice, 24, have to do the investigation and the lost his life while serving in autopsy,” Wheelock said. “I really BY WILL E SANDERS Afghanistan as a part of Operation don’t know any details — and I don’t Ohio Community Media Enduring Freedom. Early Sunday think I want to know any details.” wsanders@dailycall.com morning, Wheelock was at Dover Air While details of his death may be Force Base in Delaware to greet her unknown, those who knew Rice best Answering to a court son’s body as it arrived from the are willing to offer plenty of details summons after posting his Middle East. Funeral services still bond last month, a West • See SOLDIER on Page 2 Milton man accused of rapare pending and the United States ing a 5year-old girl made his first appearare on vacation, so it’s a ance in slower time for them.” common Two Troy restaurants — pleas court “We aim to raise money TROY for charities in the area La Piazza and The Monday for and also to promote local Caroline — are participat- his arraign- JOHNSTON each meal sold during the restaurants because it’s a ing in the Greater Dayton- ment. week-long event goes to slower time for them the area event. Steven A. Johnston, 46, La Piazza, located entered a plea of not guilty local charities YMCA, last week of January and Harvest of Hope and the the last week of July,” at 2 N. Market St., is offer- to one count of rape, a firstMVRA scholarship fund, Zahora explained. “The hol- ing a three-course meal for degree felony punishable said MVRA Executive idays are a really busy time $25.12, starting at 4:30 p.m. with sex offender registraDirector Amy Zahora. for establishments and on weekdays and 4 p.m. tion and up to 10 years in Another Restaurant then it’s slower after the Friday through Sunday. prison. Week is hosted in late first week of January. And January every year. then in July, a lot of people • See CHARITY on Page 2 • See ARRAIGNED on 2

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Pepper • CONTINUED FROM 1 arraigned on the charge May 30, has pleaded not guilty to the aggravated murder. Pepper has been charged with the April 13 slaying of James R. Wolf, 65, of 1177 Debron Road, West Milton, which is where the two men lived. Mr. Wolf suffered head trauma, which caused his death, authorities said. The crime was initially reported as a “lawn mower accident,” but authorities later learned otherwise through their investigation. Pepper remains jailed on a $1 million bond.

Charity • CONTINUED FROM 1 “We’ve done the menu before, and I think one of the reasons we ran it again was the positive feedback,” said manager Emily Goodin, adding that the meal options are slightly tweaked from a previous Restaurant Week menu. Steve Smith, owner of The Caroline at 5 S. Market St., said about 120 people dined at the restaurant Monday, which was fairly typical for a weeknight, and he expected traffic to pick up this weekend. Though the American fare restaurant was open Monday when it’s normally closed, it

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Court Full restitution has been ordered in the case. During her sentencing hearing Lawson apologized for her actions and stated she was ashamed. Her indictment states she committed the thefts starting in 2007 and it continued through 2001. In a press release issued by Piqua Catholic schools earlier this year, members of the Piqua Catholic community “were saddened to learn that a trusted volunteer” was

allegedly behind financial discrepancies found by other members of the PTO and school officials. Also appearing in court Monday was Michelle Dubbs, 37, of Troy, who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from Troy Main Street organization earlier this year. The organization is a non-profit that promotes the economic revitalization of downtown Troy. Dubbs, who no longer holds her position with the organization, entered pleas of no contest and was found

guilty of one count of theft and seven counts of forgery at a change of plea hearing. All of her charges are fifth-degree felonies that each carry a prison sentence of between six to 12 months in prison. She remains out of jail on a recognizance bond, but is next due back in court for her sentencing hearing on Sept. 9. According to her indictment, Dubbs committed the theft throughout 2011 and committed the forgeries on May 11, June 27, Aug. 11, Sept. 13, Sept. 14, Sept. 23, Nov. 22 and Dec. 8, 2011.

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would call me when he was in the bathroom,” Wheelock said. “It always sounded like he was talking from inside a tin can. A lot of times he would say, ‘I can’t tell you where I am or what I’m doing right now.’ Sometimes I would hear a round of gunfire and he’d say, ‘I’m OK; I’m OK.’ Then the phone would go dead for about 20 minutes. I was scared to death. I waited and waited and then he would call back. I would tell him, ‘I know that was gunfire.’ He would say, ‘No, that was just some guys fooling around.’ But I knew it was gunfire. But that was just Jeff — he didn’t want his mom to worry about him. He was always more concerned about me. He was very loving, very sensitive and very protective. “I wasn’t as worried about him the second time he went back. You let your guard down a little bit … then the worst can happen.” And it did. This past Thursday, Wheelock was greeted at her front door by a pair of army officials who let her know her son had died while in Afghanistan. “I didn’t open the front door right away, because I thought, ‘Nobody ever rings the doorbell here; they always just come in through the garage.’ When I looked at the window, I couldn’t see anyone because they were standing off to the left,” Wheelock said. “It was like a movie. I gasped and said, ‘Is he OK? Is he OK?’ I didn’t want to let them in, but I had to know if he was OK or not. It was a chaplain and a young man who was just as scared as he could be. They told me they needed to come in and that I should sit down. It was like in the movies — I just kept backing away like it would somehow go away, but it didn’t go away.” As she sat at her kitchen table — the same one at which her son devoured so many of his meals — Monday morning recounting her son’s life, she read over an email he had sent her. Tears filled her eyes as she read the email — it would be the last one she ever received from her son. The closing read: “one last thing i really really miss you and i love you mom. write you soon”

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Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade in Fort Hood, Texas. His natural curiosity for taking things apart and putting them back together, coupled with his welding background, served him well when he was shipped off to Afghanistan in January 2009. Rice served as a field engineer in Kandahar, Afghanistan. “If bridges were blown up or whatever, he would rebuild them,” Wheelock said. “It was a dangerous job. A lot of times he was dealing with bombs.” Wheelock knew her son was putting his life in danger and feared for his safety. Rice, however, always was quick to try to put his mother at ease. “I was scared. I was frightened when he went over,” Wheelock said. “But he would always tell me, ‘I’ll be OK, Mom.’ He was so proud of what he was doing. I knew that’s what he wanted to do. On the inside, I didn’t want him to go, but I wasn’t going to stand in his way.” Rice would spend nearly two years in Afghanistan before returning home in December of 2010, just in time for the holidays. He immediately wanted to return to the Middle East, but, as usual, was concerned about his mother, particularly following his father’s death several years earlier. Once he got the green light from his mother, though, he signed up for another tour of duty. “He wanted to go back (to Afghanistan),” Wheelock said. “He wanted to make a career out of (the army). He was worried that I would always be alone, but when I got married (to Dick Wheelock in 2010), he knew I would be well taken care of. So he went back in February for the last time. He volunteered to go back. He had to sign up and got chosen to go. A group of people was furious that he got to go back again because he had already gone.” In February of this year, Rice was again deployed to Afghanistan. Every chance he got, he would call or email his mother to let her know how he was doing. And no matter how much his mother worried about him, Rice would always worry about his mother that much more. “It’s funny, but a lot of times he

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passed away in 2007. “Jeff was always there to help me with his dad,” Wheelock said. “He loved playing football — when he was a little kid, that’s all he wanted to do was play football — but when his dad got sick, he quit football to help take care of his dad. If you’ve ever seen the movie ‘The Blind Side,’ that was how Jeff was. He wasn’t the fastest kid, but he was never going to let the other kid get around the corner. If they told him not to let that kid get around the corner, he wasn’t going to let that kid get around the corner. He was unbelievably strong. But he wanted to be here with his dad.” His junior year, Rice, a Troy High School student, began taking classes in Piqua at the Upper Valley Joint Vocational School, which has since been renamed the Upper Valley Career Center. He studied welding, which his mother said seemed a natural fit. “It was unbelievable how he could take things apart and put them back together,” Wheelock said. “He was always taking things apart. I would come home and there would be parts left over from what he had taken apart. I’d find pieces and parts that didn’t go with anything. He’d always say, ‘Don’t worry about it, Mom. I got it put back together. Those are just leftover parts.’” His welding skills were enough to earn him a scholarship to the Hobart School of Welding following his high school graduation in 2007, but by then he already had decided to pursue his lifelong dream of entering the military. “He always wanted to be in the service,” his mother said. “That’s all he ever wanted to do. It was all he ever talked about. He wanted to join the army and protect people.” Following graduation, Rice worked briefly at Speedway, the Troy Bowl and for his aunt’s FedEx business. On Sept. 22, 2008, at the urging of close friend and fishing partner Tom Bigelow, with whom Rice worked at the Troy Bowl, Rice entered the United States Army. Rice was assigned to the 20th

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about his life. His mother remembers him as a voracious eater who would devour her homemade Rice Krispie treats by the pan and consume packages of Ramen noodles by the halfdozen. She said he “loved fishing, looking at the stars through this big telescope he had and drinking beer.” Much more than any of that, however, RICE the people in his life — particularly the women in his life, his mother, aunt, sisters and nieces — remember him as someone who always put family first and looked to protect his loved ones. “He was a big teddy bear,” said his aunt, Cathy Pencil. “He loved his sisters, he loved his nieces and especially his mother.” Even while stationed in Afghanistan, Rice would frequently call and write to check up on his nieces, Ali, Kristen and Makayla. He would often chide them about their grades and ask whether they had a boyfriend. “He was a big dude, but he was a softy,” niece Ali Rice said. Rice also grew up loving football. He played his first two years in high school and, entering his junior season in the fall of 2005, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Rice appeared ready to assume a starting role along the offensive line for a powerhouse Troy team that had just been to the playoffs the year before. “He was a great kid who had all kinds of potential,” former Troy football coach Steve Nolan said. “He was a very hard-working kid and he didn’t mind being physical. There was no doubt going into his junior year that he was going to be someone we were going to count on.” Just before the season started, however, Rice gave it all up to help take care of his family. Rice’s father, Bruce, had suffered a stroke in 2003. He never recovered from the stroke and Rice quit football to help take care of his ailing father. His father

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Lepore will high• FARMERS MARKET: light and guide particican send The Miami County pants through the fundayour news by e-mail to Farmers Market will be mentals of energy. He open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. also will explore conin Friendly’s parking lot. cerns with using tradiFood, includes locally tional energy resources grown fruits and vegetaand solutions with alterbles, baked goods, honey, Indiana melnative energy. Call 339-0502 to register ons and more. There is plenty of parkin advance. ing. • QUARTERLY MEETING: The quar• DINNER AND DANCE: A cancer terly Miami County LEPC meeting will benefit for Peggy Manning-Ruffner, who be at 4 p.m. at the Miami County suffers from stage 4 lymphoma, and Communication Center, 210 Marybill needs help with medical expenses, will Drive, Troy. be from 4 p.m. until midnight at the • PULLED PORK: American Legion Post No. 43, 622 S. Market St., will have Staunton Grange Hall, 1530 N. Market St., Troy. A spaghetti dinner will be a smoked pulled pork dinner from 57:30 p.m. The dinner includes the pulled offered from 4-7 p.m., and snacks will be available for a fee. Four to five counpork with scalloped potatoes and try bands will perform. Tickets are $10 coleslaw, for $8. for adults and $5 for children 10 and • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning disyounger. For those who cannot attend, covery walk for adults will be offered donations may be made at any Fifth from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Third Bank in Peggy’s name. Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. • MONTE CARLO NIGHT: Monte Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will Carlo Night, to benefit The Leukemia guide walkers as they experience the and Lymphoma Society, will be offered seasonal changes taking place. Bring from 6-11 p.m. at the Troy Elks ballbinoculars. room, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Tickets are $10 per person and include a pizza FRIDAY buffet from 6-8 p.m. and two drink tickets. Games, raffles, prizes and more • SUMMER CONCERT: Troy’s also will be part of the event. Summer Concert Series will continue • DOLLAR SALE: Anna’s Closet, Troy, with Dennis Stroughmatt and Creole will have a $1 sale for all hanging Stomp. This band plays Creole Zydeco, clothes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds cajun and blues music. The performbenefit New Path Ministries, an outance will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Prouty reach arm of Ginghamsburg. Plaza in downtown Troy. Guests should • FISH AND WINGS: American Legion bring chairs or blankets for seating. The Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer fish rain location is Troy Christian High and wings, french fries or macaroni and School, 700 S. Dorset Road. Visit cheese, coleslaw and dessert from 6www.troymainstreet.org or call 339-5455 7:30 p.m. for $7. the day of the concert for location information in the event of rain. SUNDAY • MOM AND BABY: A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for breast• BREAKFAST SET: An all-you-canfeeding mothers will be from 9:30-11 eat breakfast will be served at the a.m. at the Farmhouse located northAmerican Legion Post No. 586, Tipp west of the main hospital entrance of City, by the Sons of the American UVMC. The meetings are facilitated by Legion from 8-11 a.m. Items available the lactation department. Participants will include bacon, eggs, sausage, can meet other moms, share about sausage gravy, home fries, pancakes, being a new mother and learn more waffles, biscuits, white and whole wheat about breastfeeding and their babies. toast, juices and cinnamon rolls for $6. For more information, call 440-4906. • MUSICAL PICNIC: A musical picnic, • SEAFOOD DINNER: The Pleasant Red Barn Melodies, will be from 4:30Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. 6:30 p.m. at Lost Creek Preserve. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a Participants will be able to sit in the three-piece fried fish dinner, 21-piece fried shrimp or a fish/shrimp combo with shade of the old oak trees next to the 1832 barn and enjoy the sounds of french fries and coleslaw for $6 from 67:30 p.m. Frog legs, when available, will music by the Russia Jammers, Rum River Blend, Fiddlers Carl and Damion be $10. Phillis, Mystic Flutes and Tribal Drums, • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington John DeBoer and Megan Osmon. An VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., open mic session will be offered at the Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 end of the event. Free food will be prop.m. For more information, call 753vided by the Volunteers in Parks. 1108. • BENEFIT DINNER: The Tipp City MONDAY American Legion, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will host a benefit dinner from 67:30 p.m. The menu will include beef • NOON OPTIMIST: The Troy Noon and noodles, mashed potatoes, green Optimist will meet at noon at the Tin beans, rolls and butter and dessert bar. Roof restaurant, 439 N. Elm St., Troy. The price will be $7 per person and The speaker will be Melissa Kleptz of $3.50 for children. Proceeds will benefit The Troy Foundation. the statue for the veteran’s park. • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be • SCHOOL SUPPLIES: Miami County offered from 3-7 p.m. at the Tipp City Children’s Services staff will be collectUnited Methodist Church, 8 W. Main St., ing school supplies and monetary dona- Tipp City. Anyone who registers to give tions from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Troy will receive an “iFocus, iChange Local Wal-mart. For more information, call Lives, the Power is in Your Hands” T335-4103. shirt and be registered to win a Ford Focus. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidoSATURDAY nate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE or make an appointment at • 4-H BARBECUE: The annual 4-H www.DonorTime.com. barbecue will be offered from 4-10 p.m. at the Miami County Fairgrounds, Troy. The menu will include beef and pork sandwiches, hot dogs, pies and cakes, ice cream and drinks. A talent show will begin at 6 p.m., followed by a disc jockey from 8-10 p.m. A horse show will begin at the horse arena at 9 a.m. Proceeds will benefit 4-H activities in the county. • CHURCH CARNIVAL: Alcony Grace Church, 1045 S. Alcony Conover Road, Troy, will offer a church family carnival from noon to 5 p.m. The event will include games and food served picnicstyle. Free-will donations will be accepted for the events, and proceeds will go toward purchasing a chair lift for the church. The rain date is 4-7 p.m. Aug. 18. • FARMERS MARKET: Downtown Troy Farmers Market will be from 9 a.m. to noon on South Cherry Street, just off West Main Street. The market will

Fair king, queen to be crowned Contest set during annual barbecue The Miami County Fair King and Queen contest will again be prior to the fair in the Duke Lundgard Building on the north end of the fairgrounds. The contest will be at 1 p.m. July 28. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. Selection of a Fair Prince and Princess also will be part of the contest. Preliminary interviews were held July 14. All contestants will be announced at the contest. Three boys and 10 girls are vying for the king/queen crowns. Four boys and five girls are vying for the prince/princess crowns. The emcee for the event will be Dee Mahan, past executive director for Family Connection of Miami County. The king candidates are Derek Gaier, son of Dan and Deb Gaier, sponsored by Families Are Forever 4H Club; Corey Shiltz, son of Steve and Jennifer Shiltz, sponsored by Concord Odds and Ends 4H Club; and Austin Webb, son of Stewart and Monica Webb, sponsored by Elizabeth Livestock 4-H Club. The queen candidates include Lindsay

Brookhart, daughter of Jeff and Teri Brookhart, sponsored by Elizabeth Livestock 4-H Club; Kayla Broughton, daughter of Ed and Cathy Broughton, sponsored by Lostcreek Cloth and Clovers 4-H Club; Allison Ingle, daughter of Andy and Tricia Ingle, sponsored by Stitchin’ Sisters 4-H Club; Cassandra Ingle, daughter of Andy and Tricia Ingle, sponsored by Ears To Tails 4-H Club; Emily Johnson, daughter of Jim and Kris Johnson, sponsored by Farrow to Finish 4-H Club; Victoria King, daughter of Daniel and Susan King, sponsored by Families Are Forever 4-H Club; Kristina Parke, daughter of Brian and Shon Parke, sponsored by Premier Livestock 4-H Club; Autumn Taylor, daughter of Tim and Loretta Taylor, sponsored by Indian Creek 4-H Club; Samantha Troy, daughter of Nicole Troy, sponsored by Concord Odds and Ends 4-H Club; and Melissa Wilmoth, daughter of Steven and Brenda Wilmoth, sponsored by All About Animals 4-H Club. The prince and princess candidates are: Luke Brunke, son of Tony and Wendy Brunke, sponsored by Farrow To Finish 4-H Club; Quentin Webb, son of Stewart and Monica Webb, sponsored by Elizabeth Livestock 4-H Club; Dustin Winner, son of Doug and Jackie Winner, sponsored by Union

Township Meat Producers 4-H Club; Adam Shiltz, son of Steve and Jennifer Shiltz, sponsored by Concord Odds and Ends 4H Club; Kat Brandenburg, daughter of Todd and Heather Brandenburg, sponsored by Bethel Bunnies and Livestock 4-H Club; Maryn Gross, daughter of Matt and Amanda Gross, sponsored by Elizabeth Livestock 4-H Club; Brooklyn Larck, daughter of Ed Larck and Christina King, sponsored by Families Are Forever 4H Club; Madison Maxson, daughter of Tom and Lisa Maxson, sponsored by Ham and Lamb 4-H Club; and Sable Plantz, daughter of Amita Snyder, sponsored by Lostcreek Cloth and Clovers 4-H Club. The newly crowned king and queen, along with the prince and princess, will reign over the fair and will assist with presenting awards to participants from the numerous shows and events that take place throughout the week. The king and queen also will represent the Miami County Fair at high profile events and parades throughout the year. The Junior and Senior Fair Board members want to wish all the candidates good luck and extend a warm invitation to everyone to come and support these young men and women at 1 p.m. July 28. This event will kick off the 2012 Miami County Fair, to be held Aug. 10-16.

Hayner receives grant TROY — The TroyHayner Cultural Center staff has announced that they have received a mini-grant from the Ohio Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used to promote the opening of OHC’s traveling exhibit “Images of the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of Ohio,” and to help fund Hayner’s rephotography contest, “Then and Now — How Do You See It? A Rephotograph of Miami County.” The opening of the “Images of the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of Ohio” exhibit is Thursday. In keeping with the theme of the 1930s, the

TROY Hayner’s ballroom will be turned into a jazz club, with The Dwight Lenox Trio playing music from that era. A short gallery talk and a tour of the exhibit will immediately follow the music. The opening is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating, reserva-

tions will be taken for either the 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. set. Call or email Nancy Hutchins at 339-0457 or at nhutchins@troyhayner.org to make reservations. The Hayner is located at 301 W. Main St., Troy. For more information, visit www.troyhayner.org or call 339-0457.

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Criteria set for Tipp open enrollment students BY JOHN BADEN For the Troy Daily News editorial@tdnpublishing.com Due to financial cutbacks, Tipp City Exempted Village Schools will not be accepting any open enrollment students unless they attended and finished the previous school year in Tipp. Student Brittany Schulte was informed of the decision by Dr. John Superintendent Kronour at Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of education meeting. Schulte, who will be a senior this fall, was at the meeting with her mother, Martha Smith, and her stepfather, Darion Smith. Schulte previously attended Tipp schools from the fifth grade up to the start of her junior year of high school. Two weeks into her junior year, her family moved to Huber Heights, which meant that Schulte could no longer attend Tippecanoe High School. She spent the fall at Wayne

High School and left because she â&#x20AC;&#x153;didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel at homeâ&#x20AC;? and found the teachers to be less helpful than teachers at Tipp. In the spring, she went to school at Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe without attending Tipp in previous years, I would not have the self-discipline and learning abilities to handle OHVA,â&#x20AC;? Schulte said. Despite getting advanced education from OHVA, Schulte said that the school â&#x20AC;&#x153;did not reach the expectationsâ&#x20AC;? she received from Tippecanoe High School. With her final year of high school coming up, her family has recently moved to Vandalia to give Schulte the opportunity to attend Tipp her senior year through open enrollment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would mean everything to me to be able to graduate from Tippecanoe High School with all the teachers and friends I have made, who I have been drawn close to and have helped

seeking open enrollment at the Tipp Foundation grants school. The board also accepted two â&#x20AC;&#x153;Believe me,â&#x20AC;? Kronour said. grants from the Tipp me throughout the years,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the financial times that Foundation. weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to be able to The foundation gave Schulte said. $1,367.75 to L.T. Ball Superintendent Dr. John say weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to take more.â&#x20AC;? Intermediate School toward a Kronour responded that the Make-up procedures fifth grade trip to Victoria high school is not accepting senIn other action, the board Theatre. iors on open enrollment due to Tipp City Schools also the cutbacks in staff and the passed a resolution to use online lessons to make up for received $3,000 toward their insize of each classroom. The only exemption is if the enrollment snow days and other calamity school suspension program. This will go toward the high student attended and finished days. Kronour said that it is the school and can also go towards the previous school year at exact same policy from last the middle school as well. Tipp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We stated right up front school year, which wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t used. Upcoming dates that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no guarantee year This plan is more of an alternaOn Aug. 1 at 6 p.m., the Tipp to year that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be tive to making up school on holable to accept open enrollment idays and weekends and would City Board of Education will students,â&#x20AC;? Kronour said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only go into effect if the school have a special meeting work only guarantee to be able to missed more than a week of session at the board office to discuss contingency strategies attend Tipp Schools is if you classes. According to the resolution, in case the levy does not pass. live within the Tipp boundlessons would be created by the The following day, there will aries.â&#x20AC;? While he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t promise schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff and posted on the be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Levy Open Forumâ&#x20AC;? at 7 anything, Kronour said that he schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website in May if need- p.m. at L.T. Ball Intermediate would go back and look at class ed. School. sizes and see if room could be Students will be given two The next board of education made to accommodate Schulte weeks to complete the lesson meeting will be held at 7 p.m. and a couple of other seniors after the posting date. Aug. 27.

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

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on China-Japan Senkaku Islands dispute: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has confirmed the central government plans to buy three of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea that belong to Okinawa Prefecture. We hope the move will lead to stable control of the uninhabited islands by the government and mark a first step toward eased diplomatic tensions with China and Taiwan, which claim sovereignty over them. The planned nationalization of the islands will undoubtedly provoke an angry response from China and Taiwan. But the long-term purpose of the move is to rein in unnecessary provocative acts by putting the islands under state control to avert dangerous unforeseen incidents. We urge China to make a cool-headed response to the government’s plan. It is indisputable that the Senkaku Islands, which are under Japan’s effective control, are Japanese possessions. The central government has leased the three islands from the owner and bans private citizens from landing on them. When Japan and China negotiated an agreement to establish formal diplomatic relations in 1972, the governments of the two countries became aware of the possibility of a territorial dispute over the islands. But China showed a willingness to shelve the issue, and no diplomatic row broke out over the islands for some time. However, the issue has become a diplomatic sore point between the two countries in recent years because of China’s naval expansion in the region and increased activities by Chinese boats in waters around the islands. Our hope is that the government will take this opportunity to acknowledge that there is a territorial dispute over the islands so that both sides can hold candid talks over the issue with an open mind. Los Angeles Times on the fiscal cliff: Congressional Republicans threw a fit after Sen. Patty Murray, DWash., said Democrats should let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for everyone, at least temporarily, if the GOP doesn’t agree to end them just for upper-income Americans. House Speaker John A. Boehner, ROhio, even suggested that Democrats were willing to “hurt jobs and tank our economy” over the dispute. Boehner has some experience with that — his House Republicans pushed the country to the brink of default last year rather than strike a deal with Democrats on a debtceiling increase. Perhaps the public has heard enough hyperventilating by Washington pols to know better than to take it seriously. But the trouble with the current set of House Republicans is that, given the choice between compromising and hurting the economy, they’ve been choosing the latter. At issue is what to do about the so-called fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, 2013, when a number of temporary tax cuts expire and significant across-the-board spending reductions kick in. If those happen as scheduled, the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke have warned, the country could be thrown back into recession. Lawmakers have plenty of time to reach agreement on a multiyear plan to pare the deficit through spending cuts and tax increases, as several blue-ribbon groups have recommended. Boehner’s troops in the House — whose antics on the debt ceiling led to the first downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in history — don’t seem interested in bargaining, however. Instead, they’ve been passing uncompromising bills to address the fiscal cliff that have no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Boehner wants people to overlook the fact that extending tax cuts that pile on more debt will hurt the economy too. But the biggest threat is that lawmakers will spend the rest of the year posturing instead of hammering out a grand bargain that not only avoids the cliff, but assures the public that Washington can put its fiscal house in order.

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Thank you for your support To the Editor: The Miami County Safety Council would like to recognize the following companies for

The sponsorship went their gracious sponsorship at towards the event, as well as, our 6th annual Safety Fair, the Safety Scholarship at which was held on June 14, 2012: Captor Corporation, DAP, Edison Community College. Harmony Systems and Service, — Mayme Larson Inc., Manpower of Troy, Miami County Safety Polysource and SEWCouncil Eurodrive, Inc.

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I’m taking a temporary break from technology One day after deactivating my Facebook, I’m still going strong. Sort of. Monday I decided to take the plunge and delete myself from the cyber world (only temporarily — let’s be real) after becoming frustrated with my increasingly ridiculous amount of time spent online. The longest I’ve gone without Facebook was a mere eight days, during college. That’s a long time for a Facebook addict, people. One of my friends actually congratulated me — after the fact, via Facebook, of course — saying he was beyond stunned that I had stayed away that long. Touché. Now I have more time to spend trolling around on Pinterest for inspirational quotes, tweeting about what I ate for lunch, and YouTube-ing hilarious videos of cats playing the piano/chasing a ball/cuddling with puppies. Hooray! But really. Do you ever just want to escape from technology and completely unplug and unwind? Sometimes I like escaping from the world of texting and chatting on the phone, too. Saturday night, my phone died and my charger was nowhere in sight. At first, I was anxious. What if a friend texts me and then gets

Natalie Knoth Troy Daily News Columnist annoyed when I don’t respond and then refuses to be my friend anymore? Oh, the horror! But after a few hours passed, I actually felt … relieved. No more interruptions. No more scurrying around to respond to a light on a screen. It felt nice. Peaceful even. I thought I had left my charger at work, but when I drove there Sunday morning, I didn’t find it plugged in under my desk or hidden under the cheetah-print Snuggie I keep for days the temperature drops below 75 degrees. Frustrated, I then ran some errands in the afternoon, putting off going home to search for it, because — gasp! — what if was gone for good? I already knew from past cell-phone’s-dead trauma that Radio Shack and AT&T no longer sell my charger because

my phone is archaic in the era of the iPhone. Anyway, I later found the charger at home … sitting right on top of a magazine rack by my bedroom door. And I have to admit, despite the anxiety spent wondering when/if I’d ever be able to turn on my phone again, it was a bit of a relief having no texts to respond to and no phone calls to return. Why do I feel I’m SO important in the “Call Me Maybe” age that I have to be available at all hours of the day? It’s completely silly. (Note: my boss called me three times about a story while my phone was off. Oops. Maybe there are some times when you should always be reachable …) As for Facebook, I’m enjoying my mini-hiatus.While I love keeping up with friends, Facebook also can quickly turn into borderline excessive and downright creepy behavior. Have you ever flipped through wedding photos of a couple you’ve never met? Caught yourself about to say something you would know only by creeping on said person on Facebook? Felt jealous of other people’s woohoolife-is-fantastic-the-sun-is-alwaysshining statuses? Yup. Been there, done that. And that’s precisely why I’m

taking a little break, maybe focusing on my own life a bit, outside of boasting or complaining for others to see. Perhaps I’ll read some more books, go for a run or clean my room instead of falling prey to another social networking site. (Though my Twitter usage has spiked since Monday.) Don’t get me wrong — technology is wonderful for keeping in touch with family members and old friends. I’ve been using “Gchat” (chatting through Google mail) to keep in touch with my old roommate MaryBeth, who’s been running a summer camp in Ghana, and catching up with long-lost friends via Skype never fails to make my day. Still, nothing beats hanging out in person — or getting a “care package” in the mail, as my friend Kait sent me a couple weeks ago, enclosing a handwritten card, book, magazine and other goodies. But in all honesty, I’ll probably be back on Facebook the second a friend asks me, “Did you see that so-and-so got engaged?” or “Check out her pictures from Friday night!” At least I tried to stay away. Natalie Knoth’s column appears every other Wednesday in the Troy Daily News.

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dren, Megan and Alexander VanAlphen, TROY — Charles A. Christian, 88, of Troy, Ohio, died Saturday, July 21, 2012, Sarah Distler, Zachary Knox, Jacob Philipot, Cimantha Veale, Makenzie Day, at Koester Pavilion of Troy. Ginnabeth Day, Easton Day and He was born June 9, 1924, in Madeline Groff; one great-greatPotsdam, Ohio, to the late granddaughter, Ellie Distler. E.A. and Carrie (Miller) He was a U.S. Army Veteran Christian. serving in World War II and a In addition to his parents member of the Franklin Masonic he was preceded in death Lodge No. 14 F & AM of Troy. by his wife of 66 years, He was a tool and die maker Mary Ellen (Mohler) with Laughter Corp. in Dayton. Christian on Feb. 25, 2009; A memorial service will be at and a sister, Joy Sweitzer. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday July 25, Mr. Christian is survived 2012, at the Baird Funeral home by sons and daughters-inin Troy with Pastor Andy Perry laws, Doug and Sandy officiating. Military honors will folChristian of Troy and Bill and CHRISTIAN low. Masonic Lodge services will Julie Christian of Sidney; be at 7:15 p.m. daughters, Beverly Christian Friends may call on the family of Marion, Ind., and Connie from 5-7:15 p.m. prior to services. Christian and friend Jane NAIM A. BALTA Private interment will take place at Hunt of Troy; five grandchilIn addition to his parents, he was preBOCA RATON, Fla. — Naim A. Balta, Sugar Grove Cemetery. dren, Kimberly Sizelove and MD, 83, formerly of Piqua, passed away ceded in death by a brother and two sis- Adrian VanAlphen of Memorial contributions may be peacefully July 16, 2012, at Hospice by ters. made to the Alzheimer’s Association or Greenwich, R.I., Melinda Sizelove of Dr. Balta graduated from medical the Sea, Boca Raton, Fla. to Brukner Nature Center. Hamilton, Christopher and Julie school in Istanbul, Turkey, before coming Sizelove of Falls Church, Va., Kelli and He was born Sept. 10, 1928, in Friends may express condolences to to the United States, where he Istanbul, Turkey, to the late the family through www.bairdfuneralMike Day of Dallas, Ga., and Beth and did his internship and residency Mehmet and Muzaffer Don Groff of Oakwood; great-grandchil- home.com. in obstetrics and gynecology at Balta. Dixie Hospital in Hampton, Va. He married Frances G. Fred A. Tamplin Sr. and Washington Hospital Center, (Cameron) Balta on May Washington, D.C. 25, 1963; she survives. He was a career truck driver, having PIQUA — Fred A. Tamplin Sr., 76, of Dr. Balta, who had an office at Other survivors include driven for Piqua Milling, General Piqua, died at 12:01 a.m. Monday, July 145 Sunset Drive, Piqua, prachis son, Jeffrey Naim Balta Highway Express and retired from 23, 2012, at Good Samaritan Hospital, ticed obstetrics and gynecology of Piqua and a grandson, Central Transport. Dayton. in Miami County for many years Jacob Naim Balta of Fred was a co-founder of the He was born Sept. 19, before retiring in 1996. Sidney. Shawnee Reunions, and 1935, in Piqua, to the late Services were held at The He later married Gloria BALTA enjoyed riding motorcycles, Herbert Eugene Sr. and Gardens, Boca Raton, Fla. on Ceo Balta, who also surwoodworking, and time spent Helen Elizabeth (Hughes) Wednesday, July 18, 2012. vives. Also surviving are her daughter with his family, grandchildren Tamplin. Memorial contributions may be made and son-in-law, Gloria and John Roggio and great-granddaughter. He married Kay O. Schulz to Hospice by the Sea, Attn.: Fund and grandson, Anthony Roggio, of Port He was a loving husband, on Dec. 19, 1958, in Piqua; Development, 1531 W. Palmetto Park Saint Lucie, Fla.; and a son, Frank Ceo dad, grandpa and great-papaw. she survives. Road, Boca Raton, FL 33486, in memoand sons Avery, David and Brian of A funeral service to honor his Other survivors include two ry of Dr. Balta. Email donate at hbts.org. Atlanta, Ga. life will be conducted at 10 a.m. children, Terri (Ronnie) Friday, July 27, 2012, at the Robbins of Piqua and Rusty FUNERAL DIRECTORY TAMPLIN Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral (Diana) Tamplin of Piqua; six Home with the Rev. Jack Chalk grandchildren, Brittany July 28, 2012, at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Robbins, Jacob Robbins, • Vesta Nankivell officiating. Burial will follow in WEST MILTON — Vesta Nankivell, 88, Home, Troy. Fletcher Cemetery, where full miliAaron (Amy) Tamplin, Amber of West Milton, passed away Monday, tary honors will be conducted by (Zach) Kemp, Alex Tamplin and • Robert Lee Dickerscheid July 23, 2012, at Good Samaritan the Veterans Elite Tribute Squad. Austin Tamplin; a great-grandWESTERVILLE — Robert Lee Hospital, Dayton. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. daughter, Lilliana Willcox; and Funeral services will be Friday, July 27, Dickerscheid, 88, Westerville, Ohio, forThursday at the funeral home. a sister, Mary Ann (Harry) Wilson of 2012, at the Hale-Sarver Family Funeral merly of Sidney, Ohio, died at his resiMemorial contributions may be made Piqua. dence on Thursday, July 19, 2012. Home, 284 N. Miami St., West Milton. He was preceded in death by a grand- to the American Heart Association, Robert will be cremated and his ashes son, Joshua Robbins; two sisters, 15120 Collections Center Drive, will be scattered per his request. • Cindy ‘Cookie’ Feldner Chicago, IL 60693; or the American Carolyn Haney and Linda Bodey; and There will be no funeral, memorial or PIQUA — Cindy “Cookie” Feldner, 58, Lung Association, 4050 Executive Park two brothers, Herbert Eugene Tamplin viewing. of Piqua, and formerly of New Jersey, Drive, Suite 402, Cincinnati, OH 45241. Jr. and Ben Tamplin. Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral passed away Monday, July 16, 2012, in Condolences to the family also may be Mr. Tamplin attended Piqua and Home in Sidney is handling the funeral Cleveland, Ohio. Staunton Schools and served in the U.S. expressed through jamiesonandyannucarrangements. Memorial services will be Saturday, ci.com. Navy from 1954-1957. grandparents, Herbert and Gienett Manning. She was a graduate of Troy High School and of the nursing education program at Miami Jacobs. Peggy attended Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City and was formerly employed with Dayton Daily News. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at Ginghamsburg Church, South Campus ARK with John Jung officiating. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. Memorial contributions may be made to the Peggy Manning Ruffner Memorial Fund, care of Fifth Third Bank. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

West Milton resident, 25, found guilty in sex case BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com An ex-singer of a locally known metal band who authorities say used his fame and a Facebook account to meet and have sex with underage girls entered no contest pleas to a pair of sex-related felonies in common pleas court Monday. Derek A. Brunsveld, 25, of West Milton, was found guilty of two counts of unlawful sexual conduct involving a minor by Judge Robert Lindeman during a

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Lorraine M. Sweetman She was preceded in death by two LEBANON — Lorraine M. Sweetman, sisters and one brother. 85, of Lebanon, Ohio, formerly of Lorraine was a member of St. Piqua, died at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua. 22, 2012, at Otterbein Nursing Home, She was a homemaker. She was a Lebanon. loving mother and grandmother. She She was born in Bronx, N.Y. on Jan. loved to spend time with her children 12, 1927, to the late Theodore and and grandchildren. Helen Riempp. Mass of Christian Burial will On Sept. 27, 1950, in be at 11 a.m. Saturday July Yonkers, N.Y., she married 28, 2012, at St. Boniface George Sweetman Sr. He Church, Piqua, with the Rev. preceded her in death Dec. Fr. Angelo Caserta as 9, 1989. Celebrant. Lorraine is survived by Burial will follow in Miami two sons and daughters-inMemorial Park, Covington. law, George and Kathy Friends may call from 6-8 Sweetman Jr. of Piqua and p.m. Friday at MelcherPaul and Stacy Sweetman Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua. of Lebanon; one daughter SWEETMAN Prayers will be at 6 p.m. and son-in-law, Anna and Friday at the funeral home. Scott Beaney of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Memorial contributions may be made six grandchildren, Doug Sweetman of to American Cancer Society, Piqua, Eric Sweetman of Piqua, Southwestern Regional Office, 2808 Patrick Sweetman of Lebanon, Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH 45206. Rachael Sweetman of Lebanon, Condolences may be expressed to Arthur Sweetman of Lebanon and the family at www.melcherAbigail Sweetman of Lebanon; and sowers.com. three great-grandchildren.

Minnie Koewler SIDNEY — Minnie Koewler, 93, of 3003 W. Cisco Road, passed away at 9:50 p.m. Sunday, July 22, 2012, at the Dorothy Love Retirement Community in Sidney. She was born Oct. 28, 1918, in Shelby County, Ohio, the daughter of the late Elwood and Leatha (Herring) Pence. She was married to Wilbur C. Koewler, who preceded her in death Dec. 17, 1989. She is survived by one son, James Koewler and his wife Nancy of Sidney; three daughters, Mrs. Bruce (Sandra) Motter of Vandalia, Kaye Koewler of Greenville and Mary Koewler of Michigan; eight grandchildren; 18 greatgrandchildren; and one brother, Waldo Pence of Tipp City. She was preceded in death by one son, John Koewler; three brothers,

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TROY — Peggy A. Manning Ruffner, 47, of Troy, Ohio, passed away at 2:55 p.m. Saturday, July 21, 2012, at her mother’s residence. She was born March 12, 1965, in Troy, to Patricia A. (Lacey) Manning of Troy and the late Lawrence Eugene Manning. She is survived by her husband, Danny Ruffner; two sons, Michael Epley of Troy and David Epley of Piqua; two brothers, Jeffrey Manning of Troy and Todd Manning of Piqua; stepfather, Jack Manning; and three granddaughters, Katiana, Savannah and Leah. Peggy was preceded in death by her father, Lawrence in 1992; one brother, Terry Lee Manning in 2007; grandmother, Betty Hannah in 1991; and step

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Dear Annie: I am an attractive 30-something female who began experiencing thinning hair in my late 20s due to a thyroid disorder. Many women have the confidence to accept their hair loss and do nothing to hide it. I admire that. However, for me, it contributes to embarrassment, low self-esteem and a lack of confidence. When I started wearing wigs several years ago, I could only afford synthetics, but found some affordable, realistic ones. The problem? There have been a handful of times when people — namely co-workers and guests at social gatherings — have come right out and asked me, in the company of others no less, whether I wear a wig. Their tactlessness never fails to stun me, and the only response I can muster is, "Why do you ask?" The most common response is, "It always looks too perfect." More appalling is when people touch or tug on my hair without my permission to "see if it's real." Sometimes people ask where I get my hair done, which I know is an attempt to find out whether I wear a wig. I fear that one day someone will pull it off. I don't like to lie, so I usually change the subject or act distracted. I have perused hair loss forums on the Internet for advice and have found that many women are very open about it as a means to educate others. I'm not like that. My experience has been painful and personal. Other than my doctor, I never have admitted to anyone that I wear a wig. It's no one's business. Why on earth are these people so fixated on my hair? How do I respond to these intrusive, thoughtless and insensitive people without raising any fuss? — Wigged Out in the U.S.A. Dear Wigged Out: What colossal nerve. Even if your wig is more obvious than you think, it does not excuse such terrible behavior. We know you don't want to disclose your hair loss, but it might be quite liberating and certainly would put an end to the anxiety you are experiencing over discovery. Until then, however, feel free to respond to these idiots with wide eyes and a shocked expression, saying, "I'm sure you didn't intend to be so rude." Then walk away. Dear Annie: My son is getting married, and my husband and I are paying for the rehearsal dinner. My mother is adamant that all out-of-town guests be invited. My son and his fiancee prefer to keep the guest list to the wedding party, parents and grandparents. Otherwise it risks becoming too large. And if we include outof-towners from our side, we also have to include those from the bride's side. Is it normal protocol to invite out-of-town guests to the rehearsal dinner? Could we invite only some of them? — Rehearsal Blues Dear Blues: If there are large numbers of out-of-town guests, you do not need to invite them to the rehearsal dinner, although you should provide some type of refreshment when they arrive, either in their hotel rooms or by way of a hospitality suite. If there are people traveling a great distance who are special to the family, you may invite them individually, but we don't recommend including most of the groom's side and none of the bride's. Dear Annie: As for egregious etiquette errors, how's this one? At the end of a wedding shower, a guest who had brought no gift stood up and said, "I am giving a special gift to the bride: She doesn't need to send anyone here a thank-you note." And we never received any acknowledgement for our generous present. — Miffed Guest Dear Miffed: How charming. A smart bride would have ignored that "gift." 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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Try burger building with your own personal twist Dear Readers: Summer is in full swing, and that means barbecues, picnics, camping and visits to parks. These usually include hamburgers and hot dogs. Here are a couple of hints to help make a better burger, and with a twist: • Add taco seasoning to the meat, then add Monterey Jack or jalapeno cheese. Serve with salsa, jalapeno slices, guacamole or sour cream as condiments. • Add a dry ranch or Italian dressing mix to the meat. Serve with blue-cheese crumbles, roasted garlic and red onions. • Add bits of Italian sausage, Parmesan and minced garlic to the meat. Serve with tomato

Hints from Heloise Columnist sauce or pesto and mozzarella cheese. Give one (or all) of these a try! If you have a special “recipe” you would like to share, please send it in, and I’ll try to print some of the most unusual. — Heloise CARROT HINTS Dear Heloise: I have always

wondered if carrots should be peeled before eating. — Sonya D. in Cincinnati Well, this is a question that does not have a definitive answer. If you are eating a raw carrot, scrubbing the carrot well under running water and peeling should suffice. If the carrots are certified organic, the peel can be left on. It is recommended by major producers of carrots to always wash and peel carrots before eating; the only exception is organic carrots or baby carrots (which are actually regular carrots, peeled and cut down to a small size). Since most of the vitamins

are not in the skin, peeling does not really affect the nutrition. Another interesting carrot hint: More vitamin A is released when you cook carrots than when you eat them raw! — Heloise EASY OPEN Dear Heloise: This hint saves time and avoids a mess when opening cans of refried beans, thick (condensed — Heloise) soups, tomato paste, etc. After removing the top, turn the can upside down in a bowl. Using a bottle opener, puncture the bottom of the can. The contents of the can will slide right out. — Liz S., via email

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, July 26, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Even though you’re tempted to settle wills, inheritances, shared property and insurance matters, postpone this kind of thing until next week. (Or Saturday at the earliest.) TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You simply will have to go more than halfway when dealing with others today, because the Moon is opposite your sign. This is no big deal. Just be your charming, gracious self. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Attend to business as usual at work today. Avoid making important decisions or major expenditures until next week. Just carry on. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This is a fabulous, playful day! You’re interested in the theater, the arts and sports. Romance might be promising. Enjoy playful activities with children. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a pleasant, down-home day. Enjoy interactions with family members. However, do not shop for home and family, and do not buy real estate today or tomorrow. (Wait until Saturday.) VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an easygoing day with others; however, do not sign important documents or make important decisions. Postpone this sort of thing until next week. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be very careful in financial matters today. This is a poor day for important decisions, especially with cash expenditures. Shop for nothing other than food. (This restriction applies to tomorrow as well.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a pleasant day; however, you might be a bit more emotional than usual. Just kick back and relax. Don’t get too excited about anything. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) You will enjoy working behind the scenes or working alone today, because you need a bit of privacy. Don’t commit to anything important. Just stick to your routine. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’ll enjoy the company of others, especially in group settings. It’s fine to discuss anything and get data, but don’t agree to anything important before Saturday. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Some aspect of your private life probably will be made a bit public today. Be aware that people in authority will discover whatever it is. (Hopefully, you have nothing to hide.) PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Enjoy a getaway trip somewhere or some minor travel. Discussions with people from other countries and different backgrounds will interest you as well. Your curiosity is aroused, and you’re open to learning new things. YOU BORN TODAY You’re direct in your speech and your actions when you go after what you want. You have a deep understanding of society and what is going on around you, which is why you are timely and influential. You can be personally influential within your own family as well. In fact, your year ahead will focus strongly on partnerships and close relationships. Birthdate of: Carl Jung, analytical psychiatrist; Mick Jagger, musician; Sandra Bullock, actress. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Warm and pleasant High: 85° Low: 64°

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday.............................83 at 1:08 a.m. Low Yesterday............................69 at 12:28 p.m. Normal High .....................................................84 Normal Low ......................................................64 Record High ......................................103 in 1934 Record Low.........................................50 in 1906

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m..............................0.81 Month to date ................................................1.86 Normal month to date ...................................3.36 Year to date .................................................16.30 Normal year to date ....................................24.67 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: • In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank. • In 1898, the United States invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. • In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. • In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. • In 1956, the Italian liner

(AP) — Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 207th day of 2012. There are 159 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.

Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 people were killed. • One year ago: The NFL Players Association executive board and 32 team reps voted unanimously to approve the terms of a deal to end a 4-month lockout. • Today’s Birthdays: Actor Matt LeBlanc is 45. Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson is 45. Rock musician Paavo Lotjonen (Apocalyptica) is 44. Actor D.B. Woodside is 43. Actress Miriam Shor is 41.

First lady in Ohio; says campaign about choices DAYTON (AP) — Michelle Obama promoted her husband in the electoral battleground state of Ohio on Tuesday as a president for opportunity and economic fairness, and making progress that could slip away if he isn’t re-elected. She highlighted President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul as helping people get needed treatment and

avoid financial ruin from bills. She told a boisterous crowd of about 1,800 people at the Dayton Convention Center that he also is trying to ensure college education opportunities and a stronger middle class. “Everyone in America should do their fair share, which means teachers and firefighters shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,”

she said. Before she left Ohio, she stopped by the campaign’s Dayton office and joined people making calls seeking volunteers for door-to-door campaigning and voter registration drives this weekend. “No, really. Really truly,” she assured one woman she called after identifying herself. “We’re going to spend a lot of time in Ohio,” she

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Everyone in America should do their fair share, which means teachers and firefighters shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. — Michelle Obama

told the woman. Among signs on the walls in the small room was one that showed the state with the heading: “It all comes down to Ohio.” Mrs. Obama stopped earlier at a suburban Columbus high school, exhorting people to keep things “moving forward.” She also made an unannounced stop at a nearby recreation center. She

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quizzed, hugged and played with children, but declined some older youths’ urging to do “the Dougie” dance. She explained later there was “no beat” to dance to. Mrs. Obama told a crowd of around 2,000 in a Westerville school gymnasium that the count She said the country is better off because of the passage of the Affordable

Care Act, the return of troops from Iraq and the auto bailout. “These are the choices that we face,” Mrs. Obama said. “Are we going to continue to change with regard to the progress that we’ve made, or are we just going to let everything we’ve worked so hard for just slip away? We can’t do that we have to keep moving forward, forward.” The pace of campaigning has been picking up in Ohio. The president and Vice President Joe Biden both made stops last week, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney made three stops in Ohio last Wednesday.

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Outdoor Enterprise is offering an excellent career opportunity for an experienced Construction/ Hardscape foreman. You will work in a positive, upbeat team atmosphere. We are a growing, visionary company offering a full time position and excellent compensation package. Please send your resume to:

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260 Restaurant KITCHEN HELP Full kitchen experience needed, Part time, Apply in person after 3pm Skippers Tavern & Grill 101 N. Miami Street West Milton, OH (937)698-6688

TIPP CITY, 2 bedroom townhouse near I75, $520-$540, 1.5 Bath, stove, refrigerator, garbage disposal, w/d, A/C, No Dogs. (937)335-1825

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MISCELLANEOUS water ski's, adult Lacross helmet, small car sports rack, $75 each, maple colonial hide a way sewing table, Weider weight bench/ weights $100 each, 4 old style, wood, tall kitchen chairs, $50 each, Vinotemp wine cooler $25 (937)478-2078

LIFT CHAIR. condition. (937)606-2106

WORK BENCH, antique oak, 40" X 78", 2 drawers, photos available, $75 firm, (248)694-1242 Piqua

577 Miscellaneous

Excellent $275.

580 Musical Instruments PIANO and bench, Kimball low profile, upright, full keyboard, excellent condition, (937)773-3054

SPEAKERS, 2 Peavey SP118 subwoofers $300, 2 Yamaha SM15H2 Monitors $300, 1 Peavey SP5G $115, Carvin 1542 Monitor $120, (937)418-0347

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305 Apartment 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts. SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday

TROY, 2 bedrooms, quiet cul-de-sac, 3475 Lilac Lane, Apt. A. NO PETS! $475/month. Metro accepted. (937)603-1645 TROY, 531 Stonyridge, 2 bedroom, stove, refrigerator, NO PETS. $450 month, $450 deposit. (937)418-8912. TROY, Nice 3 bedroom duplex. Appliances, washer/ dryer hook-up. $700 plus deposit. No pets. (937)845-2039 TROY, spacious 3 bedroom, on Saratoga, appliances, AC, attached garage, $650. includes water. (937)203-3767.

TIPP/TROY, duplex 3 bedroom, 2 baths, spacious, appliances, garage, Close to I-75, $850, (937)267-1099 TROY, lease to own, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 1650 sq. ft., excellent condition and location $1025/month, equity deposit (937)469-5301

330 Office Space OFFICE SPACE: 320 West Water Street, Piqua, 2700 sq. ft., high visibility, ground floor, ample parking. (937)773-3161.

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DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt. PIQUA, 414 S Main, large 2 bedroom, stove refrigerator $400 monthly, (937)418-8912 TIPP CITY, 1 bedroom, with appliances, a/c, water paid, no pets, $385 plus deposit, (937)216-1950. TROY, quiet 3 bedroom, no stairs (937)845-8727

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COVINGTON, 9415 West US 36. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8am-6pm, HUGE ADOPTION FUNDRAISER, Different sale, to help bring home our 4 year old girl with special needs from India, Furniture, antiques, bikes, housewares, baby items, clothing name brand all sizes, kids scooter, kitchen chairs, tables, linens, pictures, Lots of books, baked goods, glassware, barstools, Longaberger, lamps, Christmas items, much more!

LUDLOW FALLS 7801 Fenner Rd. Thursday & Friday, 9am-5pm, Saturday, 9am-2pm. Moving sale! Household goods, cookbooks, linens, few antiques, some small tools, Longaberger baskets, lots of good stuff.

425 Houses for Sale

TROY, 2 bedroom townhomes, $695, 3 Bedroom double $675, 1 bedroom apartment $450

(2) EFFICIENCY, 1 upstairs and 1 downstairs, unfurnished. Located in downtown Troy overlooking river. Utilities paid, Metro accepted, no pets. $425/month + $425 deposit. (937)339-1500 (after hours leave message.)

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TIPP CITY, 1/2 DOUBLE, 2 bedroom, 1 car garage, washer dryer hookup. $595 month (937)667-6055

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320 Houses for Rent

TROY, nice home on Forrest Lane, priced for quick sale (937)552-9351

2 BEDROOM, downstairs, stove, refrigerator, heat included, no pets, $550, 626 Caldwell, (937)418-8912

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510 Appliances DRYER, Kitchen Aide. Cream color. Good condition. Works great! $65 (937)778-8286

560 Home Furnishings COUCH & LOVESEAT, Broyhill, green, good condition, $425 OBO (937)335-6840

FURNITURE, breakfast table, Dining room table/ buffet, Lazy Boy sofa/ recliner, love seat, sofa table/ end tables, game table (937)308-3440 LOVESEAT and COUCH set, dark brown, good condition. Hotpoint washer, barely used. Same price $250 (937)570-9382. MICROWAVE/TV CART, solid oak, has drawer and enclosed shelf for storage, 20d x 30w x 36h, custom made $125 (937)339-7453 REFRIGERATOR, Amana 19 cubic foot, white $125 (937)676-2590

PIQUA, 3111 Tecumseh Circle, Friday & Saturday 8am-1pm, Like new babyyoung girl clothes, gymnastics leotards, toys, books, lots of American Girl and Bitty Baby dolls & accessories in Brand new condition, household & miscellaneous items PIQUA, 5870 North Washington Road, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm, tools, antiques, furniture, mattress, cargo trailer, auto parts, electronics, clothes, books, miscellaneous household items, punching bag, foosball game, kitchen items, Too much to list!!!! TIPP CITY, 849 Stonehenge Drive Thursday and Friday 9am-6pm, and Saturday 9am-noon Antiques, collectable's,baby furniture, toys, kid clothes, 1940's Coke machine, neon signs, gas station and advertising items, china, cut glass, glider rocker, baby crib, artwork, large work bench, decorations, and much more TIPP CITY, 1039 Lancaster, Thursday through Saturday, July 26-29, 9am-5pm. Furniture, antiques, instruments, baby & toddler items and much more! TIPP CITY. 6475 Country Estates Drive (25A, West on Evanston, July Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 9am-5pm. Teacher retiring. 30 years of stuff. 1000+ student books: 10¢, Hundreds of prepared lessons, classroom management items, arts and crafts.

TROY, 1062 Stonyridge. Thursday 9am-4pm Clothes for boys 10-14, juniors, girls, women, infants 6-12 month, stroller, TVs and stand, loveseat, seasonal/country decoration, and lots more TROY 110 East Canal Street Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8am-6pm Large Multi Family, Baseball cards, NASCAR collectable's, antiques, furniture, dishes, tools, toys, books, fishing equipment, knives, jewelry, clothes, and much more, something for everyone TROY, 1208 Charleston Court. Friday and Saturday, 9am-6pm. EXTRA LARGE SALE! Tools, clothes, toys, kitchen appliances, rabbit cage, linens, Precious Moments Figurines, lawn equipment, Lots more!!

TROY, 1711 South Forest Hill Road, Friday noon-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, brass candlestick holders, candles, crystal knick knacks, paintings, some furniture, Longaberger baskets, lamps, mirrors, old lighted/ mirrored beer signs, cross country skis, ready to downsize!

TROY, 1731 Laurel Creek Dr., Thursday, Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 9am-3pm, Precor 515e ski-machine, Star Wars figures and toys, games, Legos, some furniture, 60's- 80's LP records, turn table with speakers, tools, Christmas items, much more!

TROY 1820 Laurel Creek Drive (Shenandoah), Thursday only, 8am-2pm. Boys clothes 0-3 months up to size 8. Crib and mattress. Holiday decorations. Storage bins for playroom. Ladies suits size 12. TROY, 3724 Fieldbrook Court Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 9am-dark 36" TV with big solid cabinet and storage space, dormitory refrigerator, baby clothes, music boxes, knickknacks, aquarium with stand

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TROY 2517 Foxchase Court West Saturday only 9am-2pm Clothes, new shoes, basketball jersey, kitchen appliances, new toys and much more TROY, 3760 North Piqua Troy Road, July 26, 27 & 28. Garage sale.

TROY, 404 West Canal Street, Saturday, 9am-4pm. Annual Yard Sale with more families added. We've cleaned out everything! Antiques, 2 old dressers, old cradle, shelves, old picture frames, Vera Bradley, Longaberger, Boyd bears, music boxes, housewares, nice women's clothes XL-3X, lots of miscellaneous. TROY 535 South Ridge Avenue Saturday only 9am-2pm Weight bench and weights, household items, Precious Moments, and collector plates TROY, 614 Michigan Avenue (in the alley), Thursday & Friday, 8am-? Garage Sale - Multi Family. Name brand boys/ girls clothes, medical scrubs, household decorating items, too much to list. TROY, 621 South Walnut Street, Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm Good fishing equipment, Mitchell 300 reels, and lots of miscellaneous TROY, 736 Branford Road, Saturday, 9am-5pm, Table saw, leaf blower, small grill, tools, Housewares, boys clothing 2T-14, men's, missy, JR, women's clothing (all excellent condition) lots of good miscellaneous! TROY, 811 Gearhardt, Friday & Saturday, 8amNoon. Three family! Very large sale!! Lots of baby items. TROY, 954 North Dorset Road, Thursday and Friday 8am-4pm. Moving sale, Kimball organ, new Whirlpool washer, table and chairs, desk, women's clothes, household items, Christmas decorations WEST MILTON 1050 Princeton Rd. Thursday and Friday July 26th and 27th 9-5. Saturday July 28th 9-2. NASCAR items, dresser, desk, dishwasher, plenty of clothing, collectible Boyd's bears, and small appliances. WEST MILTON, 4680 South Kessler-Frederick Road, Thursday, July 26, 9am-5pm and Friday, July 27, 9am-4pm. It's back that huge garage sale from last year - remember it? The one with all the baby and kids clothes and shoes, baby strollers and furniture, etc. Adding this year juniors clothes and shoes, toys and miscellaneous household items. This is a garage sale you won't want to miss. Men there are no tools, etc.

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Miami County Agricultural Society Memberships on Sale

Memberships in the Miami County Agricultural Society are now on sale at the Miami County Fairgrounds Secretaryʼs office. The cost is $25.00.

Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, June through August. From September through May, the office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. Wednesday through Friday.

Memberships may be purchased each year beginning December 1st and go off sale at 5:00 p.m. the Thursday before the fair – this year August 9, 2012.

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NOTICE OF DRAWING OF JURORS

In accordance with section 2313.20 of the Ohio Revised Code, notice is hereby given that the jurors of the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio for the 2012 September Term will be drawn at the Data Processing Office, Safety Building, 201 W. Main Street, Troy, Ohio at 9:00 a.m., Monday the 6th day of August, 2012. Richard J. Fraas Barbara Bollenbacher Jury Commissioners 7/25/2012

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Miami County Agricultural Society Notice of Election

Polls will be open from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on August 13, 2012 at the Secretaryʼs Office. MCAS members must bring signed membership card to vote.

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Any resident of Miami County 18 years of age or older and a member of the Miami County Agricultural Society may run for the office of Fairboard Director. Eligible candidates must file a petition at the Secretaryʼs office at least 7 days before the election(to be held Monday, August 13, 2012). The petition must have a least 10 signatures of current MCAS members.

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The following applications and/or verified complaints were received, and the following draft, proposed and final actions were issued, by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) last week. The complete public notice including additional instructions for submitting comments, requesting information or a public hearing, or filing an appeal may be obtained at: http://www.epa.ohio.gov/actions.aspx or Hearing Clerk, Ohio EPA, 50 W. Town St. P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216. Ph: 614-644-2129 email: HClerk@epa.state.oh.us

RESOLUTION NO. R-29-2012 RESOLUTION DECLARING THE INTENT AND RESOLVE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TROY, OHIO TO ENACT UNIFORM PROVISIONS IN THE CITY OF TROY, OHIO TAX ORDINANCES UPON REVISION OF CHAPTER 718 OF THE OHIO REVISED CODE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY Adopted 7-2-2012 Intent of City upon State Legislature amending Tax Code

FINAL ISSUANCE OF OAC CHAPTER 3745-31 MODIFICATION TO PERMIT-TO-INSTALL AND OPERATE

MCAS Filing Requirements for Fairboard Director Candidates

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Copy of entire language available at City Hall

RETTERBUSH FIBERGLASS CORPORATION 719 LONG DR PIQUA, OH ACTION DATE: 07/06/2012 FACILITY DESCRIPTION: AIR IDENTIFICATION NO.: P0109404 Chapter 31 modification to allow for an increase in VOC emissions from reinforced plastic composites manufacturing operations.

By Troy City Council CITY OF TROY, OHIO ORDINANCE NO. O-18-2012 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTENTION TO LEVY A TAX IN EXCESS OF THE TEN MILL LIMITATON FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FOR THE CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE CITY OF TROY, OHIO, AND TO OFFSET AND TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSE OF PROVIDING PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF TROY, OHIO, INCLUDING THE EXPENSE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE MIAMI COUNTY HEALTH ORGANIZATION (SECTIONS 5705.03, 5705.05, AND 5705.19[A] OF THE OHIO REVISED CODE)

APPLICATION RECEIVED FOR AIR PERMIT

HARTZELL PROPELLER, INC COMPOSITE 620 WASHINGTON AVE. PIQUA, OH ACTION DATE: 06/29/2012 FACILITY DESCRIPTION: AIR IDENTIFICATION NO.: A0045134 Renewal of an existing operating permit for manual spray booth

Adopted 7-2-2012 Placing on ballot tax levy to pay Public Health Services for Troy citizens

7/25/2012

Copy of entire language available at City Hall

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583 Pets and Supplies

805 Auto

BORDER COLLIE Puppies. Beautiful black & white. 1st shots. $150 each. (765)874-1058

1995 OLDSMOBILE, 1 owner. 95,000 miles. Runs great! Good condition. REDUCED PRICE!!!! (937)497-7220

CHOCOLATE LAB, full blooded 2 year old male, all shots current, neutered, free to good home. Call (937)573-6500. DACHSHUND AKC registered miniature puppies, 1 male, 2 females, born May 14th. $375 females, $350 males. (419)375-1316 FISH TANK 29 gallon, With stand, good condition, Has lid with light, $100, (937)418-3258 FREE KITTENS to good home, been treated at vet for fleas, wormed and had shots (937)216-2708 and (937)329-6591

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: 12 CV 00355 Judge: Christopher Gee

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-WL1 Plaintiff, Daniel L. Hare, et al. Defendants. LEGAL NOTICE

Unknown heirs, the devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, and assigns of Daniel L. Hare, and the unknown guardians of minor and/or incompetent heirs of Daniel L. Hare (if any), will take notice that on May 25, 2012, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006WL1 filed its Complaint in the Court of Common Pleas, Miami County, Ohio, Case No. 12 CV 00355. The object of, and demand for relief in, the Complaint is to foreclose the lien of plaintiffʼs mortgage recorded upon the real estate described below and in which plaintiff alleges that the foregoing defendants have or claim to have an interest: Parcel number(s): D08-032570 Property address: 1115 East Canal Street, Troy, OH 45373

The defendants named above are required to answer the Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last publication of this legal notice. This legal notice will be published once a week for three successive weeks.

Kelly A. Spengler Attorney for Plaintiff Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 7/18, 7/25, 8/1-2012

Better Business Bureau 15 West Fourth St. Suite 300 Dayton, OH 45402 www.dayton.bbb.org 937.222.5825 This notice is provided as a public service by A newspaper group of Ohio Community Media

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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: 12 CV 244 Judge: Robert J. Lindeman

To VTC LIQUIDATION, INC, FKA VULCAN TOOL CORPORATION FKA VULCAN TOOL COMPANY, whose last known place of residence/ mailing, is 1212 Streng Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45223, you will take notice that on June 5, 2012, the Petitioner, City of Tipp City, Ohio filed an Amended Petition For Appropriation of Interest in Real Property and Immediate Possession of Real Property against you in the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, 201 W. Main Street, Troy, Ohio 45373, being Case No. 12 CV 00245 praying for immediate possession and a fee simple interest and temporary construction easements and permanent construction easements for the public purpose of opening, widening, straightening, changing the grade, and improving streets for the municipality in the following described real property, to wit:

Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, -vs-

Donald L. Baldwin, et al. Defendants. LEGAL NOTICE

Donald L. Baldwin, whose last known address is 1614 Castlerock Drive, Houston, TX 77090 and Debbie M. Baldwin, whose last known address is 1614 Castlerock Drive, Houston, TX 77090, will take notice that on April 18, 2012, Wells Fargo Bank, NA filed its Complaint in the Court of Common Pleas, Miami County, Ohio, Case No. 12 CV 244. The object of, and demand for relief in, the Complaint is to foreclose the lien of plaintiffʼs mortgage recorded upon the real estate described below and in which plaintiff alleges that the foregoing defendants have or claim to have an interest:

Situate in the City of Tipp City, formerly Tippecanoe, in the County of Miami and State of Ohio, and described as follows, to-wit: Being part of Inlot numbered four hundred fifty-three (453) described as follows; Being nineteen (19) feet off the North side of said inlot.

Parcel number(s): C06-081132 Property address: 2077 Fenner Road, Troy, Ohio 45373

Also, part of Inlot number four hundred fifty (450) described as follows: Being thirty and five tenths (30.5) feet off of the North side of said inlot.

VTC LIQUIDATION, INC, FKA VULCAN TOOL CORPORATION FKA VULCAN TOOL COMPANY will further take notice that it is required to Answer said Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last publication of this notice

Kelly A. Spengler Attorney for Plaintiff Manley Deas Kochalski LLC P.O. Box 165028 Columbus, Ohio 43216 614-220-5611

DAVID J. CALDWELL Attorney for Petitioner P.O. Box 664 Troy, Ohio 45373 (937) 280-4264- telephone (937) 387-6503 – facsimile

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• FOOTBALL: The Troy Athletics Dept. is selling 2012 season football reserved seats, reserved parking passes and other 2012-2013 Athletics Dept. passes. Passes can be purchased in the High School Athletics Dept. office, or an order form explaining all of the purchasing options can be accessed on the school district website at www.troy.k12.oh.us and using the Athletics Dept. link. • SOFTBALL: The Cannon Fastpitch organization is conducting tryouts for 2013. The tryouts for 8u will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Aug. 11 and 18. Tryouts for 10u are on Aug. 11 and 12, then again on Aug. 18 and 19 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The tryouts for 12u are on Aug. 11, 12, 18 and 19 from noon to 2 p.m. 14u tryouts will be held on Aug. 11 and 12 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tryouts for 16u and 18u are scheduled for Aug. 11, 12, 18 and 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tryouts are going to be held at the Covington High School softball field. For additional information, contact Shon Schaffer at (937) 418-9651 or at crosscountycannons@yahoo.com. • SOCCER: Registrations are still being accepted for the Troy Recreation Department’s Youth Fall Soccer Program. The program is for youth entering grades 1 and 2. Practices begin in early August and games begin in early September. Register online now at http://activenet19.active.com/ troyrecdept/. Teams will be finalized within the next two weeks. For more information, please call the Recreation Department at (937) 339-5145. • WRESTLING: Troy High School will host a wrestling camp today and tomorrow in the high school wrestling room/auxiliary gym. The camp will have two sessions per day, one from 9:30-11 a.m. and the other from 2:30-4 p.m., and participants need to have transportation arranged for the time between sessions. It will be open to wrestlers in grades 6-12, and registration will be done at the door prior to the first session. The cost is $25, which includes a T-shirt. Checks can be made payable to the Troy Wrestling Parents Association. • PHYSICALS: Newton High School has made plans to offer all student-athletes grades 6-11 the chance to receive their required annual physical for the 2012-13 school year. Dr. Kent Booher will provide his services beginning at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 in the high school locker rooms. The charge will be $15. Call 676-2002 to schedule an appointment and pick up the paperwork, which require parental signature.

Emmert hopes PSU penalties send message

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Slow. Toothless. Tone deaf to the real problems in college sports. The NCAA has heard such criticisms for years. In punishing the Penn State football program with an unprecedented series of sanctions, President Mark Emmert said he hopes the NCAA has served notice that a win-at-allcosts mentality in major college football won’t be tolerated. This has been a theme for the former University of Washington president since he got the job in October 2010 and scandal after scandal hit the headlines, from Auburn to Miami and State

College, Pa. Yet the NCAA does not plan to overhaul its procedures for handling potential infractions. Emmert made it clear that the $60 million fine, four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions and more were put together largely by himself and a handful of NCAA leaders because Penn State and serial child molester Jerry Sandusky presented a unique situation. In other words, few can imagine anything like this happening again. “This is a statement about this case,” Emmert said. There was no need for the

NCAA to investigate what rules were broken, a process that can take months or years. Penn State handed over the results of its investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and didn’t dispute the facts. Emmert said the decision to bypass the infractions committee and let the NCAA Executive Committee and its Division I Board of Directors decide on the penalties was not a sign of a change in the way future proceedings will go, but a sign that no investigation was necessary. “This was just a singular case that we all hope we don’t face again,” he said.

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Joe Paterno’s family criticized the NCAA and Penn State after the sanctions were announced. “The NCAA has now become the latest party to accept the report as the final word on the Sandusky scandal,” the family said. “That the president, the athletic director and the Board of Trustees accepted this unprecedented action by the NCAA without requiring a full due process hearing before the Committee on Infractions is an abdication of their responsibilities and a breach of their fiduciary duties to the University and

■ See PENN ST. on 14

■ NFL

Not an ordinary rookie Weeden signs contract as Browns prepare for camp

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Cincinnati Reds’ Drew Stubbs loses the ball to a bad bounce, giving Houston Astros’ Chris Johnson a double in the fourth inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Houston.

Stubbs to the rescue Reds outfielder hits go-ahead homer in 9th to seal win HOUSTON (AP) — Drew Stubbs hit a go-ahead homer as the Cincinnati Reds rallied for three runs in the ninth inning against Francisco Cordero and beat the Houston Astros 4-2 Tuesday night, tying their longest winning streak of the year at six. The NL Central-leading Reds sent Houston to its eighth straight loss. Cordero got his first save chance since being acquired in a trade with Toronto last week. Stubbs hit a tworun homer for a 3-2 lead and Xavier Paul added an RBI single. AP PHOTO During the game, the last-place Astros announced they had traded Cincinnati Reds’ Xavier Paul (26) steals second base as pitcher Wandy Rodriguez to Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve (27) loses the ball in the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Houston. Pittsburgh.

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Brandon Weeden once dreamed of wearing blue Yankees pinstripes. He settled for a logo-less orange helmet. Despite a high-powered right arm that got him drafted out of high school in the second round by the New York Yankees, Weeden’s baseball career fizzled out in the low minor leagues, where hitters weren’t fooled by a 95 mph fastball that sometimes left the ballpark at an even higher rate of speed. “I gave up some bombs,” he said. The Browns, who have spent 13 years searching for a franchise quarterback, are counting on Weeden delivering a different kind of long ball. Although he hasn’t officially been declared Cleveland’s starter, and Colt McCoy remains on the roster, Weeden will begin training camp this month as the Browns’ presumptive No. 1 quarterback, a soon-to-be 29-year-old rookie they believe could finally end years of futility for a onceproud organization that has yet to make the Super Bowl and a loyal fan base out of patience. “We know he knows how to compete,” said second-year coach Pat Shurmur, whose future could hinge on Weeden’s success or failure. Selected the with No. 22 overall pick in April’s draft much earlier than predicted Weeden, impressed the Browns’ coaching staff and teammates during offseason minicamps with his accuracy and intellect. He displayed a nice touch on short tosses and showed off his long-range capability by launching a few 60-yard throws. He looked and acted the part,

■ See BROWNS on 16

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New look camp Rookies in spotlight as Bengals begin play

Cunningham bunt lifts Tribe to victory Aaron Cunningham bunted home the go-ahead run with a suicide squeeze as the Cleveland Indians beat Detroit 3-2, moving within three games of the AL Central-leading Tigers on Tuesday night. Travis Hafner tripled with one out in the seventh inning off Doug Fister (4-7) and Lou Marson ran for him. See Page 14.

U.S. crushes Spain in exhibition game Gold medal at stake or nothing at all, the U.S. Olympic basketball team was bringing its best Tuesday. Being back on the Dream Team’s turf required it. See Page 16.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A white-topped tent is anchored at the entrance to the Cincinnati Bengals’ practice field. Workers are cleaning seats inside Paul Brown Stadium, getting ready for a franchise first. The team opens training camp this weekend without leaving home. The Bengals spent their first 44 training camps at Wilmington College and Georgetown College, small schools that were more than an hour’s drive away from Cincinnati. They preferred having their players in an isolated environment. The slimmed-down training camp schedule mandated by the AP PHOTO new collective bargaining agreeBengals quarterback Andy Dalton passes during practice on ment prompted them to change. June 12 in Cincinnati. The Bengals hold their first practice at The Bengals were one of only a training camp this Friday in Cincinnati. dozen teams that held training

camp away from team headquarters last year. “It’s new and different for us, but not for most teams in the league,” owner Mike Brown said on Tuesday. “We have better facilities here than we could find anywhere else. Training camp anymore has dwindled down to just three weeks. We used to leave for training camp after the July 4 holiday and come back after Labor Day weekend. Three weeks it seems we no sooner get there and it’s time to come back. “I think it’s good for that reason and most of all, we can reach out to our fans. They don’t have to drive far; they can watch us downtown. All those things are good.” The Bengals hope that by holding camp at their stadium

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Squeezing out a victory

Penn St. ■ CONTINUED FROM 13 the 500,000 alumni.” In Dallas, former Stanford athletic director and new Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby also wondered about whether the college sports governing body should be stepping into a criminal matter. “I don’t know that it is absolutely clear on what basis this becomes an NCAA issue,” he said at football media days. “Having said that, there are certainly elements of our constitution and bylaws that go right to the heart of ethics, and clearly there are some ethical issues here. Perhaps the lesson that will be taken away from it is that things can get pretty far afield when there are people running the show that don’t ever get frank feedback and don’t ever have anybody push back against them in terms of re-centering their decision processes.” North Carolina State coach Tom O’Brien said the NCAA had effectively made Penn State a “I-AA school” by reducing the number of scholarships. “We’re in a new era, obviously, and a new stage,” he said of the NCAA. “One of the things the NCAA did when they came to our meetings was that they showed what penalties in the past were and what penalties were going to be in the future, and the penalties in the future were multiple times what the penalties in the past were.” Too much so, according to some Penn State alumni. “It’s ludicrous. It’s punishing all the wrong people,” said Brad Benson, a former Penn State and New York Giants player. “The NCAA is way out of line with this. It’s an overreaction. It’s a kneejerk reaction. I think the statue should have come down. I’m for it. They can take the games, take the wins away. That’s fine. There’s no future in the past anyway. But to punish the university now? How does this work for the new coach? What’s fair about this for him? It’s absolutely crazy.” He added: “This is the problem when the NCAA tries to become part of the judicial system. This should have been handled by the courts.” Emmert said the NCAA executive committee has taken action on its own previously when it decided it wouldn’t award predetermined championships such as basketball regionals to South Carolina because of an NAACP boycott over a Confederate flag on the statehouse grounds and when it decided it would ban schools with American Indian mascots and images it considered “hostile and abusive” from postseason play pending name changes. Emmert said in an interview with The Associated Press that he doesn’t think any comparisons can be made between the penalties Penn State received and what any other schools might face in the future. Yet he said he hopes the case will serve as a warning to other NCAA members. “One of the grave dangers stemming from our love of sports is that the sports themselves can become too big to fail, indeed, too big to even challenge,” Emmert said. “The result can be an erosion of academic values that are replaced by the value of hero worship and

Cunningham bunt helps Tribe beat Tigers, 3-2 CLEVELAND (AP) — Aaron Cunningham bunted home the go-ahead run with a suicide squeeze as the Cleveland Indians beat Detroit 3-2, moving within three games of the AL Central-leading Tigers on Tuesday night. Travis Hafner tripled with one out in the seventh inning off Doug Fister (4-7) and Lou Marson ran for him. Marson took off running as Cunningham, a defensive replacement hitting .175, dropped a bunt in front of the plate. Fister quickly got the ball and tried to shovel it to catcher Alex Avila. It rolled away, Marson scored, and Cunningham took second on the error. Miguel Cabrera’s tworun homer off reliever Joe Smith (6-2) tied it at 2 in the top half. Chris Perez pitched the ninth for his 28th save in 30 chances. Cleveland is 6-1 against the Tigers. Perez has saved each win. Five have been by two runs or fewer. Vinnie Pestano pitched a scoreless eighth for Cleveland, which is 29-3

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Detroit Tigers’ Prince Fielder, left, tags out Cleveland Indians’ Michael Brantley in the fourth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday in Cleveland. Brantley tried to advance to third base on the play. when the right-hander and Perez have been in the same game. The Indians are 20-45 in all other games. Johnny Damon had an RBI single in the second inning and Carlos Santana singled home a run in the fourth for Cleveland. Smith thought he had thrown a third strike past Quentin Berry to end the top of the seventh with that 2-0 lead. TV replays showed his 3-2 pitch was over the heart of the plate, but

umpire Marvin Hudson judged it to be a tad high. Cabrera then drove a 2-0 pitch over the wall in center for his 24th homer. Great hustle by Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder helped douse the Indians’ rally in the fourth. With runners on first and second and none out, Santana singled between first and second, driving home Jason Kipnis. Right fielder Brennan Boesch scooped up the ball and threw toward home, but

Fielder cut off the throw and fired to third baseman Cabrera, getting Michael Brantley in a rundown. Fielder then sprinted across the diamond to backup Cabrera, took a return throw from shortstop Jhonny Peralta and tagged out Brantley trying to reach third with a headfirst slide. Hafner struck out and Damon grounded out to end the inning. Jimenez allowed seven singles over six scoreless innings.

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Big 10 landscape shaken by PSU fallout By the Associated Press The fallout from the sanctions that leveled Penn State’s football program resounded far beyond Happy Valley on Monday. The sweeping penalties rewrote the past, present, and future of the Big Ten, producing a dramatically changed landscape for conference rivals like Ohio State. Record books will be rearranged — the Buckeyes are now outright league

champions in 2005 and 2008. Opportunistic coaches will poach PSU players and recruits permitted to migrate without penalty. And the fall of a traditional power will warp the balance of the conference’s two divisions for years to come. It was just last year that OSU and Penn State were paired as the two marquee programs in the Leaders Division. Now, while the games on Saturdays are trivial in comparison to the child sex-abuse scandal that

rocked the nation, a new reality is clear. “There is a very significant competitive impact,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Monday. He called the scandal “as damaging as any set of actions or activities that I’ve been involved with in my 33 years as commissioner.” And as a result, Penn State will suffer consequences not approached since SMU’s football program received the so-called “death penalty” and was shut down in 1987.

For Ohio State, though, the result is significantly less competition from a top rival inside and outside the lines. That begins today. The modern recruiting world is merciless, and OSU may join the feeding frenzy. Firstyear coach Urban Meyer convinced four Penn State commits to switch their pledges to the Buckeyes in his first recruiting class. Now, all PSU players and recruits are effectively free agents.

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school’s credit rating, suggesting the price of the sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine and other penalties imposed by the NCAA. Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm said it had been reviewing its connection to Penn State since the arrest of retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last November. The insurance company said it will pull ads from broadcasts of Nittany Lion home games but continue to advertise during Penn State’s away contests. “We will not directly support Penn State football this State Farm year,” spokesman Dave Phillips said Tuesday. “We just feel it was the best decision.” State Farm had no immediate information on how much money is at stake. With Penn State’s oncesterling reputation in tatters, the university could face an exodus of sponsors unwilling to have their brands linked to scandal, said Kevin Adler, founder of Chicago-based Engage Marketing Inc. Adler said he would advise current sponsors to pull out of their deals with Penn State, adding that most contracts have morality clauses giving advertisers an out. “I think the public perception is pretty clear and definitive at this point. That brand is damaged beyond the point of short-term repair. It is the sponsorship partner’s obligation first and foremost to look after the health of their own brand,” Adler said. “None of the sponsors owe Penn State anything.” So far, though, Penn State appears to be hanging on.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Monday's Games Cleveland 3, Baltimore 1 Texas 9, Boston 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 4 L.A. Angels 6, Kansas City 3 N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 1 Tuesday's Games Cleveland 3, Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Oakland 7, Toronto 2 Boston at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Wednesday's Games Minnesota (Blackburn 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 7-7), 2:10 p.m. Kansas City (Hochevar 6-8) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 12-1), 3:35 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Nova 10-4) at Seattle (Iwakuma 1-2), 3:40 p.m. Detroit (Scherzer 9-5) at Cleveland (D.Lowe 8-8), 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Price 13-4) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 2-1), 7:05 p.m. Oakland (Griffin 2-0) at Toronto (R.Romero 8-6), 7:07 p.m. Boston (Beckett 5-8) at Texas (D.Holland 6-5), 8:05 p.m. Thursday's Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 12:35 p.m. Oakland at Toronto, 12:37 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday's Games Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 7, Milwaukee 6 Miami 2, Atlanta 1 Washington 8, N.Y. Mets 2, 10 innings Cincinnati 8, Houston 3 L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3 Arizona 6, Colorado 3 San Francisco 7, San Diego 1 Tuesday's Games Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 7, Milwaukee 6 Atlanta 4, Miami 3 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Cincinnati 4, Houston 2 St. Louis 8, L.A. Dodgers 2 Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Wednesday's Games Washington (Strasburg 10-4) at N.Y. Mets (Hefner 1-3), 12:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Dempster 5-4) at Pittsburgh (Correia 7-6), 12:35 p.m. Atlanta (Hanson 10-5) at Miami (Nolasco 8-8), 12:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Estrada 0-4) at Philadelphia (Worley 5-6), 1:05 p.m. San Diego (Marquis 3-5) at San Francisco (Lincecum 4-10), 3:45 p.m. Cincinnati (Bailey 9-6) at Houston (B.Norris 5-8), 8:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Harang 7-5) at St. Louis (Lohse 10-2), 8:15 p.m. Colorado (Francis 2-2) at Arizona (Cahill 8-8), 9:40 p.m. Thursday's Games L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 1:45 p.m. Pittsburgh at Houston, 8:05 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Reds 4, Astros 2 Cincinnati Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Cozart ss 5 1 1 0 Altuve 2b 4 0 2 0 Stubbs cf 4 1 3 2 Gonzalez ss 3 0 1 0 B.Phillips 2b 4 1 2 0 S.Moore 1b 4 0 0 0 Bruce rf 2 1 0 0 C.Johnson 3b4 1 2 0 Rolen 3b 4 0 1 0 Maxwell rf 4 1 1 2 Paul lf 5 0 3 2 B.Francisco lf 4 0 1 0 Frazier 1b 5 0 1 0 Schafer cf 3 0 0 0 Mesoraco c 3 0 0 0 M.Downs ph 1 0 0 0 Heisey ph 1 0 0 0 C.Snyder c 3 0 0 0 Hanigan c 0 0 0 0 Harrell p 2 0 1 0 Leake p 3 0 0 0 Martinez ph 1 0 0 0 Ludwick ph 1 0 0 0 W.Lopez p 0 0 0 0 Chapman p 0 0 0 0 Cordero p 0 0 0 0 Fe.Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 4 11 4 Totals 33 2 8 2 Cincinnati .................000 001 003—4 Houston ....................000 200 000—2 E_Rolen (6), S.Moore (3). DP_Cincinnati 1. LOB_Cincinnati 12, Houston 5. 2B_B.Phillips (18). HR_Stubbs (10), Maxwell (10). SB_B.Phillips (8), Paul (1). CS_Stubbs (5), Altuve (6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Leake W,4-6 . . . . . . . .8 7 2 2 1 6 Chapman S,18-22 . . .1 1 0 0 0 3 Houston Harrell . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 7 1 1 3 6 W.Lopez H,9 . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 1 1 Cordero L,0-1 BS,1-12-3 3 3 3 2 0 Fe.Rodriguez . . . . .1-3 0 0 0 0 0 WP_Cordero. Umpires_Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Fieldin Culbreth; Third, Lance Barksdale. T_2:59. A_15,908 (40,981).

Indians 3, Tigers 2 Cleveland Detroit ab r h bi ab r h bi A.Jackson cf 5 0 2 0 Choo rf 3 0 0 0 Berry lf 4 1 1 0 A.Cabrera ss 4 0 3 0 Cabrera 3b 4 1 1 2 Kipnis 2b 4 1 1 0 Fielder 1b 4 0 1 0 Brantley cf 4 0 1 0 D.Young dh 4 0 2 0 C.Santana c 3 1 2 1 Boesch rf 4 0 1 0 Hafner dh 3 0 1 0 Jh.Peralta ss 2 0 0 0 Marson pr-dh 0 1 0 0 D.Kelly pr 0 0 0 0 Damon lf 2 0 1 1 R.Santiago ss0 0 0 0 Cunningham lf0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 Kotchman 1b 3 0 1 0 Avila c Infante 2b 4 0 1 0 Hannahan 3b3 0 0 0 Totals 34 2 9 2 Totals 29 3 10 3 Detroit .......................000 000 200—2 Cleveland..................010 100 10x—3 E_Fister (2). DP_Detroit 3, Cleveland 2. LOB_Detroit 9, Cleveland 4. 2B_A.Cabrera (22), Kipnis (13), C.Santana (17). 3B_Hafner (2). HR_Mi.Cabrera (24). SB_A.Jackson (10), Berry (15). CS_Kipnis (4). S_Cunningham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Fister L,4-7 . . . . . . . . .7 9 3 3 1 4 Coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 0 0 Cleveland Jimenez . . . . . . . . . . .6 7 0 0 2 4 J.Smith W,6-2 BS,2-2 1 1 2 2 1 0 Pestano H,28 . . . . . . .1 1 0 0 1 0 C.Perez S,28-30 . . . .1 0 0 0 0 0 WP_Jimenez. Umpires_Home, Marvin Hudson; First, Brian Runge; Second, Tim McClelland; Third, Ted Barrett. T_2:42. A_23,637 (43,429). Tuesday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay . .000 021 000—3 6 0 Baltimore . . .000 100 000—1 3 0 Hellickson, McGee (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9) and Lobaton; W.Chen, O'Day (7), Gregg (8) and Wieters. W_Hellickson 5-6. L_W.Chen 8-6. Sv_Rodney (28). HRs_Tampa Bay, Conrad (2). Baltimore, Ad.Jones (23). Oakland . . . .020 000 500—7 9 0 Toronto . . . . .001 000 001—2 8 0 Blackley, Scribner (8), J.Miller (9) and D.Norris; Cecil, Beck (7), Happ (7) and Arencibia. W_Blackley 3-2. L_Cecil 2-3. HRs_Oakland, D.Norris (3). Toronto, Snider (2), Arencibia (16). NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago . . . .100 022 000—5 7 0 Pittsburgh . . .000 100 000—1 5 1 Maholm, Marmol (9) and Soto; Ja.McDonald, J.Hughes (7), Lincoln (8), Meek (9) and Barajas. W_Maholm 9-6. L_Ja.McDonald 10-4. HRs_Chicago, S.Castro (9), A.Soriano (19). Pittsburgh, G.Jones (14). Milwaukee . .100 001 130—6 12 0 Philadelphia .100 000 06x—7 7 1 Greinke, Veras (8), M.Parra (8), Loe (8) and M.Maldonado; Cl.Lee, Schwimer (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W_Schwimer 1-1. L_Loe 4-4. Sv_Papelbon (22). HRs_Milwaukee, Braun (27), Greinke (1), C.Gomez (7), Ar.Ramirez (11). Philadelphia, Kratz (3). Washington .000 104 000—5 11 1 NewYork . . . .010 000 010—2 3 1 G.Gonzalez, Mattheus (8), S.Burnett (8), Clippard (9) and Flores; Dickey, Acosta (7), Edgin (8), R.Ramirez (9) and Nickeas, Thole. W_G.Gonzalez 135. L_Dickey 13-2. Sv_Clippard (17). HRs_Washington, LaRoche (17). New York, Valdespin (7). Atlanta . . . . . .101 100 100—4 7 0 Miami . . . . . . .120 000 000—3 6 1 T.Hudson, O'Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and D.Ross; Buehrle, LeBlanc (6), Gaudin (7), H.Bell (9) and J.Buck. W_T.Hudson 9-4. L_LeBlanc 1-1. Sv_Kimbrel (29). HRs_Miami, Reyes (6). Midwest League Eastern Division Lansing (Blue Jays) Bowling Green (Rays) Fort Wayne (Padres) South Bend (D-backs) West Michigan (Tigers) Great Lakes (Dodgers) Lake County (Indians) Dayton (Reds) Western Division

W 19 18 18 16 16 15 15 11

L 11 12 12 14 14 15 15 19

Pct. GB .633 — .600 1 .600 1 .533 3 .533 3 .500 4 .500 4 .367 8

W L Pct. GB Clinton (Mariners) 17 13 .567 — Burlington (Athletics) 16 14 .533 1 Kane County (Royals) 16 14 .533 1 Quad Cities (Cardinals) 16 14 .533 1 Beloit (Twins) 13 17 .433 4 Wisconsin (Brewers) 13 17 .433 4 Peoria (Cubs) 11 19 .367 6 Cedar Rapids (Angels) 10 20 .333 7 Tuesday's Games No games scheduled Wednesday's Games West Michigan at Lake County, 7 p.m. Bowling Green at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m.

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Lyoness Open, first round, at Atzenbrugg, Austria MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh 8 p.m. ESPN — L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis FSN — Cincinnati at Houston OLYMPICS 10:30 a.m. MSNBC — Women's soccer, Britain vs. New Zealand, at Cardiff, Wales Noon NBCSN — Women's soccer: LIVE: United States vs. France, at Glasgow, Scotland; Cameroon vs. Brazil, at Cardiff, Wales; SAME-DAY TAPE: Japan vs. Canada, at Coventry, England NBC SOCCER — Women's, LIVE: United States vs. France, at Glasgow, Scotland; Colombia vs. North Korea, at Glasgow, Scotland; SAME-DAY TAPE: Britain vs. New Zealand, at Cardiff, Wales; Japan vs. Canada, at Coventry, England; Cameroon vs. Brazil, at Cardiff, Wales; Sweden vs. South Africa, at Coventry, England 2:30 p.m. MSNBC — Women's soccer, LIVE: Colombia vs. North Korea, at Glasgow, Scotland; SAME-DAY TAPE: Sweden vs. South Africa, at Coventry, England SOCCER 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League/Serie A, exhibition, Liverpool vs. AS Roma, at Boston 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 — MLS/Premier League, All-Star Game, MLS All-Stars vs. Chelsea, at Chester, Pa.

THURSDAY GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Lyoness Open, second round, at Atzenbrugg, Austria (same-day tape) Noon ESPN2 — The Senior British Open Championship, first round, at Ayrshire, Scotland 12:30 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, Children's Hospital Invitational, first round, at Columbus, Ohio 3 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Canadian Open, first round, at Ancaster, Ontario 6:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA, Evian Masters, first round, at Evian-les-Bains, France (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis or Tampa Bay at Baltimore (12:30 p.m. start) 8 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Washington at Milwaukee or Pittsburgh at Houston OLYMPICS 6:30 a.m. TELEMUNDO — Men's soccer, Mexico vs. South Korea, at Newcastle, England; Honduras vs. Morocco, at Glasgow, Scotland; Brazil vs. Egypt, at Cardiff, Wales; United Arab Emirates vs. Uruguay, at Manchester, England 7 a.m. NBCSN — Men's soccer, LIVE: Honduras vs. Morocco, at Glasgow, Scotland; Mexico vs. South Korea, at Newcastle, England; United Arab Emirates vs. Uruguay, at Manchester, England; Britain vs. Senegal, at Manchester, England; SAME-DAY TAPE: Belarus vs. New Zealand, at Coventry, England NBC SOCCER — Men's, LIVE: Honduras vs. Morocco, at Glasgow, Scotland; Mexico vs. South Korea, at Newcastle, England; United Arab Emirates vs. Uruguay, at Manchester, England; Britain vs. Senegal, at Manchester, England; SAME-DAY TAPE: Spain vs. Japan, at Glasgow, Scotland; Gabon vs. Switzerland, at Newcastle, England; Brazil vs. Egypt, at Cardiff, Wales; Belarus vs. New Zealand, at Coventry, England 9:30 a.m. MSNBC — Men's soccer, Spain vs. Japan, at Glasgow, Scotland; Gabon vs. Switzerland, at Newcastle, England; Brazil vs. Egypt, at Cardiff, Wales Dayton at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. Beloit at Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Wisconsin at Kane County, 7:30 p.m. Quad Cities at Clinton, 8 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Peoria, 8 p.m. Thursday's Games West Michigan at Lake County, 7 p.m. South Bend at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m. Dayton at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. Bowling Green at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Beloit at Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Wisconsin at Kane County, 7:30 p.m. Quad Cities at Clinton, 8 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Peoria, 8 p.m.

SOCCER Major League Soccer All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA New York 11 5 5 38 37 29 Sporting K.C. 11 6 4 37 26 19 Houston 9 5 7 34 31 25 D.C. 10 7 3 33 34 27 Chicago 9 7 4 31 22 22 Columbus 7 7 4 25 18 19 Montreal 7 13 3 24 30 42 New England 6 9 5 23 25 25 Philadelphia 6 10 2 20 20 21 Toronto FC 5 11 4 19 24 36 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA San Jose 13 5 4 43 44 27 Real Salt Lake 12 7 3 39 33 26 Vancouver 9 6 7 34 25 26 Seattle 8 5 7 31 25 21 Los Angeles 9 10 3 30 38 35 Chivas USA 6 8 5 23 13 21 Colorado 7 13 1 22 27 30 FC Dallas 5 10 7 22 25 30 Portland 5 11 4 19 19 35 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Wednesday's Games New York 1, Chicago 0 Chivas USA 1, Portland 0 Toronto FC 2, Colorado 1 Montreal 2, New England 1 Houston 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 Vancouver 2, Los Angeles 2, tie San Jose 2, FC Dallas 1 Saturday's Games New York 2, Philadelphia 0 Columbus 1, D.C. United 0 Sporting Kansas City 0, New England 0, tie Houston 3, Montreal 0 FC Dallas 5, Portland 0 Los Angeles 3, Chivas USA 1 Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado 0 Sunday's Games Vancouver 2, San Jose 1 Wednesday, July 25 Chelsea at MLS All-Stars, 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 27 Vancouver at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m. Saturday, July 28 Houston at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m.

New York at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at FC Dallas, 8 p.m. Columbus at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. Seattle FC at Colorado, 9 p.m. Chicago at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. Chivas USA at Portland, 11 p.m. Sunday, July 29 New England at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association At a glance All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Pct GB W L Connecticut 15 4 .789 — Indiana 10 7 .588 4 Atlanta 9 10 .474 6 Chicago 8 9 .471 6 New York 6 12 .333 8½ Washington 4 14 .222 10½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 15 4 .789 — San Antonio 13 5 .722 1½ Los Angeles 15 6 .714 1 Seattle 9 10 .474 6 Phoenix 4 15 .211 11 Tulsa 3 15 .167 11½ Olympic break, plays continues Thursday, Aug. 16

GOLF World Golf Ranking Through July 22 1. Luke Donald ...............Eng 2. Tiger Woods...............USA 3. Rory McIlroy .................NIr 4. Lee Westwood............Eng 5. Webb Simpson ..........USA 6. Adam Scott .................Aus 7. Bubba Watson ...........USA 8. Jason Dufner .............USA 9. Matt Kuchar ...............USA 10. Justin Rose...............Eng 11. Graeme McDowell .....NIr 12. Zach Johnson..........USA 13. Hunter Mahan .........USA 14. Steve Stricker ..........USA 15. Ernie Els....................SAf 16. Dustin Johnson .......USA 17. Phil Mickelson..........USA 18. Martin Kaymer ..........Ger 19. Louis Oosthuizen ......SAf 20. Rickie Fowler ...........USA 21. Jason Day .................Aus 22. Charl Schwartzel.......SAf 23. Francesco Molinari......Ita 24. Brandt Snedeker .....USA 25. Sergio Garcia............Esp 26. Bill Haas ..................USA 27. Keegan Bradley.......USA 28. Ian Poulter ................Eng 29. Bo Van Pelt ..............USA 30. Peter Hanson...........Swe 31. Paul Lawrie ...............Sco

9.81 8.45 8.41 7.89 6.47 6.27 6.23 5.87 5.75 5.47 5.38 5.31 5.26 4.90 4.81 4.71 4.52 4.50 4.43 4.39 4.31 4.28 4.17 4.14 3.97 3.80 3.77 3.75 3.70 3.68 3.53

32. Nick Watney.............USA 33. Nicolas Colsaerts ......Bel 34. Jim Furyk.................USA 35. John Senden.............Aus 36. K.J. Choi.....................Kor 37. David Toms ..............USA 38. Martin Laird...............Sco 39. Carl Pettersson ........Swe 40. Thomas Bjorn...........Den 41. Fredrik Jacobson .....Swe 42. Bae Sang-moon ........Kor 43. G. Fernandez-CastanoEsp 44. Rafael Cabrera Bello Esp 45. Mark Wilson.............USA 46. Alvaro Quiros............Esp 47. Simon Dyson............Eng 48. Geoff Ogilvy ..............Aus 49. Jonathan Byrd .........USA 50. Kevin Na ..................USA 51. Aaron Baddeley ........Aus 52. Branden Grace..........SAf 53. Anders Hansen ........Den 54. Ben Crane ...............USA 55. Robert Karlsson.......Swe 56. Kyle Stanley.............USA 57. Michael Thompson..USA 58. Alexander Noren......Swe 59. Marcel Siem..............Ger 60. Padraig Harrington.......Irl 61. Robert Rock .............Eng 62. Greg Chalmers .........Aus 63. Jamie Donaldson......Wal 64. Ryo Ishikawa.............Jpn 65. Matteo Manassero......Ita 66. John Huh .................USA 67. Retief Goosen ...........SAf 68. Rory Sabbatini ..........SAf 69. Miguel A Jimenez.....Esp 70. Robert Garrigus ......USA 71. Johnson Wagner .....USA 72. Hiroyuki Fujita............Jpn 73. Spencer Levin .........USA 74. Ryan Moore.............USA 75. George Coetzee........SAf

3.53 3.42 3.33 3.25 3.24 3.21 3.07 3.04 3.02 2.82 2.74 2.72 2.70 2.69 2.68 2.67 2.63 2.61 2.59 2.55 2.53 2.46 2.44 2.41 2.40 2.31 2.28 2.28 2.23 2.17 2.15 2.12 2.11 2.08 2.08 2.08 2.07 2.07 2.07 2.05 2.05 2.03 2.02 1.99

LPGA Money Leaders Through July 15 Money .......................................Trn 1. Ai Miyazato.................12 $1,059,331 2.Yani Tseng ..................12 $1,016,059 3. Na Yeon Choi..............13 $975,525 4. Stacy Lewis ................14 $941,860 5. Azahara Munoz..........14 $933,125 6. Shanshan Feng..........11 $854,463 7. Sun Young Yoo............14 $676,823 8. Amy Yang....................12 $657,671 9. Mika Miyazato ............11 $541,780 10. So Yeon Ryu.............13 $518,757 11. Suzann Pettersen ....14 $477,162 12. Inbee Park................13 $436,741 13. Hee Kyung Seo........14 $426,494 14. Brittany Lang............14 $418,484 15. Sandra Gal...............14 $372,162 16. Angela Stanford .......14 $366,152 17. Jiyai Shin ....................8 $334,453 18. Cristie Kerr................13 $326,463 19. I.K. Kim .....................11 $317,388 20. Candie Kung ............14 $310,360 21. Lexi Thompson.........12 $309,043 22. Jenny Shin................14 $307,854 23. Paula Creamer.........13 $305,972 24. Anna Nordqvist ........14 $302,241 25. Eun-Hee Ji ...............13 $299,149 26. Karrie Webb .............13 $295,551 27. Brittany Lincicome ...13 $275,110 28.Vicky Hurst ...............14 $268,133 29. Katherine Hull ..........14 $253,702 30. Morgan Pressel........14 $249,573 31. Se Ri Pak....................8 $243,236 32. Meena Lee...............14 $237,417 33. Hee Young Park .......14 $232,303 34. Giulia Sergas............10 $224,506 35. Chella Choi...............14 $222,728 36. Jessica Korda...........10 $218,900 37. Karin Sjodin..............11 $205,590 38. Julieta Granada........14 $197,849 39. Karine Icher..............11 $187,939 40. Caroline Hedwall......13 $174,029 41. Mina Harigae............14 $160,676 42. Katie Futcher............14 $158,028 43. Ilhee Lee...................10 $157,128 44. Jodi Ewart ................11 $154,027 45. Nicole Castrale...........9 $149,128 46. Catriona Matthew.....10 $147,765 47. Hee-Won Han ..........14 $141,134 48. Jennifer Johnson......12 $135,475 49. Sophie Gustafson....14 $131,698 50. Beatriz Recari ..........14 $131,520

AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leaders Through July 15 1. Matt Kenseth ...........................707. 2. Dale Earnhardt Jr....................691. 3. Greg Biffle................................667. 4. Jimmie Johnson......................656. 5. Denny Hamlin..........................628. 6. Kevin Harvick...........................622. 7.Tony Stewart............................618. 8. Martin Truex Jr.........................617. 9. Clint Bowyer ............................614. 10. Brad Keselowski....................613. 11. Carl Edwards ........................567. 12. Kasey Kahne.........................547. 13. Kyle Busch.............................545. 14. Ryan Newman ......................536. 15. Paul Menard..........................534. 16. Joey Logano ........................ 533. 17. Jeff Gordon ...........................524. 18. Marcos Ambrose ..................495. 19. Jeff Burton.............................493. 20. Jamie McMurray ...................486. 21. Juan Pablo Montoya .............452. 22. Aric Almirola ..........................447. 23. Bobby Labonte......................408. 24. A J Allmendinger...................400. 25. Kurt Busch.............................386. 26. Regan Smith .........................377. 27. Casey Mears.........................358. 28. Mark Martin...........................341. 29. David Ragan .........................322. 30. David Gilliland .......................311. NASCAR Nationwide Points Leaders Through July 22 1. Elliott Sadler ........................675. 2. Austin Dillon ........................664. 3. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ............656. 4. Sam Hornish Jr. ..................633. 5. Justin Allgaier......................597. 6. Michael Annett ....................569. 7. Cole Whitt........................... 550. 8. Mike Bliss ............................491. 9. Danica Patrick .....................443. 10. Brian Scott.........................430. 11. Joe Nemechek..................421. 12. Tayler Malsam ...................412. 13. Jason Bowles....................391. 14. Mike Wallace.................... 386. 15. Jeremy Clements............. 384. 16. Erik Darnell .......................308. 17. Timmy Hill..........................272. 18. Johanna Long ...................270. 19. Eric McClure .....................251. 20. T.J. Bell...............................241. 21. Brad Sweet........................218. 22. Ryan Truex ........................204. 23. Josh Richards ...................198. 24. Danny Efland.....................190. 25. Kenny Wallace....................183

TRANSACTIONS Tuesday's Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES_Signed OF Henry Urrutia to a minor league contract.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned LHP Matt Talley to Kannapolis (SAL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Traded RHP Jose De La Torre to Boston for INF/OF Brent Lillibridge. DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned 2B Danny Worth to Toledo (IL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced the retirement of C Jason Kendall. MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated 1B Justin Morneau from the paternity list. NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated OF Dewayne Wise for assignment. SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned 1B Justin Smoak and RHP D.J. Mitchell to Tacoma (PCL). Assigned RHP Danny Farquhar to Tacoma. Recalled OF-DH Mike Carp from Tacoma. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reinstated OF Sam Fuld from the 60-day DL. Optioned RHP Brandon Gomes to Durham (IL). Transferred 3B Evan Longoria to the 60-day DL. Assigned RHP Matt Nevarez to Charlotte (FSL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated INF John McDonald from the 15-day DL. Designated INF Ryan Roberts for assignment. HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned C Jon Carnahan to the Gulf Coast Astros. NEW YORK METS — Selected the contracts of RHP Manny Acosta and RHP Matt Harvey from Buffalo (IL). Optioned OF Lucas Duda and RHP Pedro Beato to Buffalo. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with OF Jarrad Page on a minor league contract. International League CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS — Added OF Jared Mitchell and C Damaso Espino from Birmingham (SL). Sent OF Justin Greene and RHP Dan Remenowsky to Birmingham. Carolina League WINSTON-SALEM DASH — Added RHP Jon Bachanov from Birmingham (SL). Promoted C Miguel Gonzalez to Birmingham. American Association AMARILLO SOX — Signed OF Derrick Pyles. EL PASO DIABLOS — Released RHP Freddy Flores. GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released RHP Steve Matre. LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHP Robert Romero. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Traded C Tyler Goodro to Amarillo to complete an earlier trade. SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS — Released RHP Mike Meyer and OF Dan Barbero. Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Marc Rutledge. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Released RHP D.J. Ponder. FREEDOM — FLORENCE Released INF Esteban Meletiche, RHP Scott Moviel and OF Chad Sheppard. Signed LHP Brett Choban. NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Traded INF K.C. Judge to Schaumburg for INF J.B. Brown. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Maxx Catapano. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Signed F Tornike Shengelia. CHICAGO BULLS — Signed G Marco Belinelli. ROCKETS — HOUSTON Announced the Chicago Bulls did not match the Rockets three-year offer sheet to C Omer Asik. NEW ORLEANS HORNETS — Signed C Anthony Davis and G Austin Rivers to three-year contracts. NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed G Pablo Prigioni. PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F-C Maurice Harkless and C Arnett Moultrie. WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed G A.J. Price. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed S Adrian Wilson to a contract extension through the 2015 season. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed RB Trent Richardson and QB Brandon Weeden. DETROIT LIONS — Named Elizabeth Parkinson senior vice president of marketing and partnerships. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Named Ed Policy vice president and general counsel. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed G Brandon Brooks. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed T Kevin Murphy. Waived T Darrion Weems. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed coach Mike Tomlin to a five-year contract. Signed G David DeCastro to a four-year contract. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB David Jones. Placed CB Chase Minnifield on the waived/injured list. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Signed D Jay Harrison to a three-year contract extension and F Zach Boychuk to a one-year, two-way contract. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed D Rya Murray to a three-year, entry-level contract. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Matched Philadelphia's 14-year offer sheet to D Shea Weber. American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed D Brennan Evans to a one-year contract. PEORIA RIVERMEN — Named Dustin Flynn trainer. ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Agreed to terms with F Mathieu Roy. READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Chris Langkow. COLLEGE BETHEL (MINN.) — Named Andrew Rock men's and women's track and field coach. HOUSTON — Named David Hyte assistant volleyball coach. MICHIGAN — Suspended DE Frank Clark after authorities say he took a laptop from a campus dorm room. NJIT — Named Brian Guiliana baseball coach. RADFORD — Named Ryan Connolly assistant baseball coach and Matt Mack volunteer assistant baseball coach. SYRACUSE — Named Brendon Knight women's assistant ice hockey coach.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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Bengals ■ CONTINUED FROM 13 and practice field across the street, fans will get more excited about a team coming off only its third winning season in the last 20 years. The Bengals went 9-7 in the regular season and gained a wild card berth when the rest of the competition melted down in the closing weeks. They lost to Houston in the playoffs, leaving them 0-3 in the postseason since their last playoff win in1990. Cincinnati still has a lot of work to do in winning

back fans. Six of the eight games at Paul Brown Stadium failed to sell out last season and were blacked out on local television, even though the team was in the playoff chase. The six blackouts were the most in the league. The NFL eased its blackout rules after the season, allowing teams to set a lower threshold of ticket sales for a game to count as a sellout. They can count a game as sold out if only 85 percent of the stadium is full. In his first public com-

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ment on the new rule, Brown said Tuesday that he won’t lower the threshold for a sellout at the Bengals’ 65,500seat stadium, which opened in 2000 and was funded primarily by a local sales tax increase that also covered a Reds ballpark. “If you think back to when they passed the sales tax to finance the stadiums, they did it so people could come downtown to the stadiums and watch games,” Brown said. “They didn’t do it so people could sit at home and watch games on televi-

sion. They could have done that without a new stadium. “So I think it is best for us and when I look around the league, I can see most teams staying with the old rule.” Ticket sales are up from a year ago, when the team was coming off a 4-12 season and the NFL was in the midst of a lockout. The Bengals started winning fans back with a playoff push led by thenrookie quarterback Andy Dalton and receiver A.J. Green. The spotlight will be on rookies again starting at the

opening practice on Friday. The Bengals need to find a receiver to complement Green. Third-round pick Mohamed Sanu from Rutgers can earn significant playing time. Cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, the 17th overall pick in the draft, will get a chance to win a starting job across from Leon Hall. Hall is returning from a torn Achilles tendon that has limited him during offseason workouts. Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer said on Tuesday that Hall is expect-

ed to pass his physical exam before the first practice and line up as a starter. “I’m hoping I see him real early in camp the first day,” Zimmer said. “He hasn’t been (medically) cleared yet.” The secondary is the biggest question on defense. The Bengals have stocked up on veterans who struggled with other teams, hoping they can get something out of them in Zimmer’s defense. “Are we the most talented in the league? No,” Zimmer said. “But we have a lot of intangibles.”

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Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden passes during practice at the NFL football team’s headquarters on June 5 in Berea, Ohio. The rookie quarterback signed a four-year, $8.1 million contract on Tuesday, one day before he and Cleveland’s other first-year players have their first practice of training camp.

Browns ■ CONTINUED FROM 13 which didn’t surprise former Oklahoma State teammate Justin Blackmon. “He’s got a strong arm and makes great decisions and he knows how to put the ball in the right spot at the right time,” said Blackmon, Weeden’s primary target in college now with Jacksonville. “I wouldn’t trade him for anyone. He can throw the ball from sideline to sideline and with lots of velocity and speed. He can put it there. He knows how read the coverage and makes smart decisions. “He loves to compete.” Shurmur has been adamant in saying he won’t hand Weeden the starting job, but the Browns didn’t take him in the first round to sit on the bench or groom him for the future. Not at his age, and the Browns are confident he’ll be ready when they open against Philadelphia on Sept. 9. “Instead of waiting and rolling the dice just a little bit and seeing another way to go, we said, ‘Let’s not run the risk and take Brandon at No. 22,’” said Browns president Mike Holmgren.

“We’re very excited to have him. How he’s different than all the other quarterbacks that were drafted ahead of him or behind him is his age and maturity.” Weeden had better be the right pick. The Browns can’t afford to waste any more time that they already have in stabilizing the game’s most important position. Since 1999, Cleveland has had 16 different quarterbacks start games. On Tuesday, the Browns signed Weeden to a deal worth $8.1 million, including a $900,000 roster bonus. The first three years and part of the fourth year are guaranteed. It’s imperative the Browns get Weeden as many reps as possible during camp, which is why it’s likely the team will move McCoy, who has gone 5-16 in two seasons as a starter, before they get too deep into the summer. Weeden must also quickly develop chemistry with Cleveland’s receiving corps, now a little deeper after the team selected former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon in the recent NFL supplemental draft.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Gold medal at stake or nothing at all, the U.S. Olympic basketball team was bringing its best Tuesday. Being back on the Dream Team’s turf required it. Carmelo Anthony came off the bench to score 23 of his 27 points in the first half, and the Americans beat Spain 100-78 in a rematch of the gold-medal game and possible preview of the next one. LeBron James added 25 and Kevin Durant had 13, including 10 in the first 3 minutes of the third quarter to help the U.S. break open the teams’ final exhibition game before heading to London. “We knew that this was a big game,” U.S. guard Chris Paul said. “When Coach K talked to us, he told us this was probably the biggest game here in Barcelona since the ‘92 team was here, so we approached it like that and it was a good win for us.” The teams played a memorable gold-medal game four years ago, the Americans pulling away for a 118-107 victory after leading by only four points with under 2 minutes left. This one turned out much easier once the U.S. controlled the final three quarters. “It was a good test for us tonight, but the exhibition games are over, the friendlies are over and we look forward to the real challenge of going to London,” James said. Pau Gasol scored 19 points and Oklahoma City forward Serge Ibaka, a native of the Republic of Congo who became a Spanish national last year,

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Carmelo Anthony, center, of the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team, goes up for a shot against Pau Gasol of the Spain Men's Senior National Team, right, and Serge Ibaka, left, during an exhibition match Tuesday in Barcelona, Spain. had 16. Both teams have been weakened by injuries, with the U.S. missing Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard and Chris Bosh, all key contributors in Beijing, along with Derrick Rose. The Spaniards are without point guard Ricky Rubio, and All-Star center Marc Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro and Rudy

Fernandez have battled injuries this year. They’re still the best two teams in the world and favored to meet again in the Aug. 12 gold-medal game. Spain would have a different look, as Marc Gasol was held out of this one while recovering from a left shoulder injury and backup point guard Sergio Rodriguez also sat out.

It may not matter if the Americans play like this in the games that count. Spain’s players said Monday that while they would try to win this tuneup, the bigger priority was preparing for London. The Americans responded that the Spaniards, playing in front of their home fans, would be compelled to go all out in hopes of a victory.

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