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Masonic Temple seeks city loan Stained glass needs repairs

BY RON OSBURN Staff Writer rosburn@tdnpublishing.com

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The Troy Masonic Temple took the first step in obtaining a $45,000 city loan to make repairs to the three large stained glass windows on the front of the building.

The city of Troy Downtown

Loan Committee on Thursday recommended approval of a 30-year Downtown Building Repair loan at 1 percent interest, with interest-only payments for the first two years. The Masonic board has

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The Troy Masonic Temple is seeking a $45,000 city loan to repair the three stained glass windows at 107 W. Main St.

Goodrich Corp. is sold to UTC

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REMINDERS

Final market downtown today The final Downtown Troy Farmers Market of the season is from 9 a.m. to noon today.

Vendors set up on South Cherry Street, just off West Main Street. There is plenty of free parking on site; enter off West Franklin Street. Contact Troy Main Street at 339-5455 for information or visit www.troymainstreet.org.

RC fly-in today The annual “RC” Barnstormers WACO Fly-In takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Historic WACO Field, 1865 S. County Road 25-A. For more information, contact Bob Hines of the WACO “RC” Barnstormers at 778-4220.

OUTLOOK Today Showers likely High: 64° Low: 54° Sunday More rain High: 65° Low: 48°

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It’s business as usual for the approximately 700 employees at the Goodrich plant in Troy days after United Technologies Corp. announced Wednesday it has reached agreement to purchase Charlotte-based Goodrich Corp.

Goodrich Corp. supplies systems and services to the international aerospace and defense industry, with about 27,000 employees worldwide and estimated 2011 sales of $8 billion. Its products include aircraft landing gear, engine components, wheels and brakes and electrical power systems.

The company operates its Wheels and Brakes division from a Troy plant located on the grounds of the original WACO Aircraft Co., off Peters Road.

The plant’s 700 workers

have been informed of the sale, but there have been no immediate production or personnel changes, Troy Goodrich plant spokesperson Valerie Francis said Friday.

“No changes. It’s business as usual,” said Francis, who was out of the Troy office on business and replied to a Troy Daily News query via e-mail.

United Technologies Corp. is a multinational business conglomerate based in Hartford, Conn., that, among other things, makes elevators and air conditioners. It acquired Goodrich for $127.50 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of $18.4 billion, including $1.9 billion in net debt assumed,

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Signs of China slowdown add to dim global outlook

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SHANGHAI (AP) — Signs that the powerhouse Chinese economy is slowing have spooked global markets and sharpened fears that the world economy will not escape another recession, so much so that a small, preliminary survey of Chinese manufacturers contributed to a global stock STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER market plunge this week.

Students at Miami East High School, including Colin Hawes, above, drove their tracHowever, analysts said tors to school Friday. The school recognized National Farm Safety and Health Week Friday that the dramatic with several events this week. fallout from a preliminary reading of HSBC’s index of

Palestinians submit U.N. statehood bid

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If nothing else, the market rout that began Thursday and continued Friday reflects how much the rest of the world is relying on China, one of the few big economies that is

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lence and failure of will.

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

Corn Month Price Change 6.3850 - 11.50 Sept O/N 11 6.3850 - 11.50 Jan 12 6.3700 - 11.00 O/N 12 5.3350 - 11.00 Beans Sept 12.1300 - 25.00 New Crop 11.9300 - 25.00 Jan 12 12.2900 - 25.25 S/O/N 12 11.8300 - 26.25 Wheat Sept 6.0100 + 7.00 Jan 12 6.2500 + 8.00 J/A 12 6.3300 + 5.25 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

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

10.07 -0.04 AA CAG 23.62 -0.03 CSCO 15.61 +0.28 DPL 30.17 +0.09 EMR 42.33 +0.35 F 9.86 +0.24 FITB 9.84 +0.24 FLS 74.64 -0.51 GM 21.00 +0.76 GR 121.75 +1.15 ITW 42.66 +0.58 25.53 +0.15 JCP KMB 69.97 +0.77 KO 67.42 -0.40 KR 21.78 +0.05 28.65 +0.59 LLTC MCD 87.37 +1.38 MSFG 8.38 +0.02 PEP 60.34 -0.58 0.20 +0.01 PMI SYX 12.08 +0.18 TUP 55.63 +1.17 USB 23.21 +0.30 VZ 35.88 +0.29 WEN 4.88 +0.05 WMT 50.80 +0.52 • Real Estate NEW YORK (AP) — It's no secret that Bank of America wants to put its mortgage-related woes behind it. But it appears that a key $8.5 billion settlement with large investors is playing a role in pushing many more people into foreclosure.

The number of homes across the country that received an initial default notice — the first step in the foreclosure process — jumped 33 percent in August from July, the foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac reported last week. It was the largest monthly increase since August 2007, right after the housing bubble had burst.

Now a preliminary analysis reveals the largest escalation of foreclosures came from Bank of America. Just in California, default notices sent by Bank of America soared 96 percent in August from the previous month.

— Staff and wire reports

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Loan • Continued from A1 pledged the 104-year-old temple building, located downtown at 107 W. Main St., as collateral.

A city staff report said the four-story Temple building — home to the the Franklin Lodge No. 14 — has an assessed market value of $394,300 and is paid off in full.

The Temple currently is repairing 32 smaller windows on the building, with the $27,500 project funded by private donations and a $20,500 Community Development Block Grant grant.

Temple members Arthur Haddad and Dick Klockner, who attended

are reinstalled, “to help protect the stained glass,” Haddad said.

Francis said the Temple is in the process of raising money for repairs to the building’s heating and air conditioning systems, and repairing the windows is “key” to the success of that project. He estimated the Temple’s monthly income at about $4,000, with about half of that from rent from a retail furniture store on the building’s first floor.

The Temple recently opened up its second floor to the Miami Valley Veterans Museum, which has pledged to renovate their portion of the floor

the meeting with board president Fred Francis, said they intended to proceed with repairing the stained glass windows until bidding revealed a much higher cost than expected.

The Temple came to the city because the Temple is using its available resources for the other windows and for renovations to the second and fourth floors, Haddad said.

Two of the stained glass windows currently are boarded up. Haddad said while the windows are being repaired, the temple will install storm windows in the spaces. The storm windows will remain after the stained glass windows

in exchange for free rent.

Francis said tentative plans discussed have the museum trading its renovations efforts for the free rent for the first two years, which is why the committee granted interest-only loan payments for the first two years.

Haddad said the Franklin Lodge No. 14 was founded in Troy in 1812. The stained glass windows are dedicated to founding member Asa Coleman, the first Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 14.

• The motion to recommend approval of the Masonic loan included a recommendation to shift $400,000 from the city’s

Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund to the DBR fund. The shift will even out the balances of both funds, according to Troy Development Director Jim Dando, who administrates the loan funds.

The shift will accommodate the two DBR loans recommended for approval Thursday — the $45,000 Masonic loan and a $151,700 loan to P&C Ventures LLC for the former Knapke building purchase.

Both loan recommendations made Thursday will be referred to a council committee for review and recommendation to the full council.

Goodrich • Continued from A1 according to the Reuters news agency.

United Technologies Corp., worth $69 billion on the stock market, expects to issue $4.6 billion in new shares and take on about $15 billion in debt to fund the deal.

“United Technologies expects to finance the transaction through a combination of debt and equity issuance. The equity component is expected to approximate 25 percent of the total. The closing is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory and Goodrich shareholder approvals,” Reuters said.

Following completion of the sale, United Technologies is expected to have worldwide sales of approximately $66 billion based on projected 2011 results.

Marshall Larsen, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Goodrich, will become chairman and chief executive officer of a combined UTC Aerospace Systems business unit. The senior leadership team of the combined business will be located in Charlotte, N.C. Technologies United Corp’s chief Louis Chenevert said the company acquired Goodrich to improve UTC’s existing defense and aerospace presence. He said United Tech will merge its Hamilton Sundstrand aircraft electronics arm into Goodrich and call the new division United Technologies Aerospace STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER Systems, with Larsen at the helm.

— By Ron Osburn, Troy Daily News, with informa- Miami East High School junior Jimmy McNulty starts the engine of his tractor Friday tion from Reuters new after school. The school held its annual Drive Your Tractor to School Day Friday. service.

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Economy • Continued from A1 expanding at a rapid clip, to stave off recession.

HSBC’s preliminary survey, released about a week before the final survey is due, showed a twomonth low of 49.4. That followed an August reading of 49.9, and anything under 50 indicates that activity is contracting.

Coming alongside weak indicators from other major economies, the data prompted panicked selling by global investors afraid that governments hamstrung by debt crises, inflation and unemployment may be unable to avert a recession.

But the HSBC survey is only a monthly snapshot, ill-suited to indicate long-term trends, said Xianfang Ren, chief China economist for IHS Global Insight.

It also is heavily weighted toward exporters, which are bound to be feeling cautious given the current global outlook, and is not a reliable measure of the broader economy, said CLSA analyst Andy

Rothman. An official manufacturing index that surveys a bigger number of companies is due around the end of September.

“If you look at other measures of what’s happening in China … everything is cooling down, but not dramatically, and there’s still strong growth,” Rothman said.

Most forecasters expect economic growth of above 9 percent this year and between 8.5 percent and 9 percent next year.

Still, what’s clear is that China’s role in powering world growth is significant.

That’s especially so for nations such as Australia that are heavily dependent on China’s voracious demand for the minerals they export, and for export-reliant countries in Asia including Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. The Conference Board forecasts China will account for about a third of the increase in global GDP this year.

Yet despite China’s rising power, experts say its economy is still not big or strong enough to fully

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compensate for meltdowns elsewhere, since its own investment and spending is only one-sixth that of the European Union and United States.

“From a global perspective, China’s domestic demand is still way too small to offset the impact of a recession” in Europe and the U.S., Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) economist Ma Jun said in a report.

To make up for a 3 percentage point drop in growth in those economies, China would have to grow by 18 percent this year, he says.

“This is mission impossible.”

Some worry that China’s economic planners in their zeal to reduce inflation from near threeyear highs could overshoot by cooling the economy too much. August’s inflation figure of 6.2 percent, down from 6.5 percent in July, suggests that Beijing’s inflation battle may be yielding results that would allow it greater leeway for policies aimed at keeping growth on track.

A drop in global demand for China’s exports could also wallop its economy, as it did in 2008, though domestic factors such as consumer spending and investment in infrastructure are increasingly driving growth.

Most economists still downplay any risk of a socalled “hard landing” in China that would darken the global outlook.

• Continued from A1 years of Israeli occupation. International reservations about the move has had the perhaps unintended effect of reenergizing international efforts to seek a negotiated settlement.

After Abbas submitted his formal application, international mediators called on Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations and reach an agreement no later than next year.

The “Quartet” the U.S., European Union, U.N. and Russia urged both parties to draw up an agenda for peace talks within a month and produce comprehensive proposals on territory and security within three months.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the proposal “represents the firm conviction of the international community that a just and lasting peace can only come through negotiations between the parties.” But similar plans have failed to produce a peace agreement in the past, and it was how the two sides could bridge their huge differences and resume talks.

And the Quartet statement was radically different from what diplomats had been hoping to draft since it became clear that Abbas would not back down. U.S. and European officials had been trying to craft a statement that

would itself outline parameters of the negotiations, including a reference to borders being based on the 1967 lines and affirm Israel’s identity as a Jewish state.

Instead, the Quartet focused on proposing deadlines for steps the two sides should take.

World sympathy for the Palestinian cause was evident from the thunderous applause that greeted Abbas as he mounted the dais in the General Assembly hall to deliver a speech that laid out his grievances against the Israeli occupation and why he felt compelled to take his appeal directly to the United Nations.

In a scathing denunciation of Israel’s settlement policy, Abbas declared that negotiations with Israel “will be meaningless” as long as it continues building on lands the Palestinians claim for that state.

Invoking what would be a nightmare for Israel, he went so far as to warn that his government could collapse if the construction persists.

“This policy is responsible for the continued failure of the successive international attempts to salvage the peace process,” said Abbas, who has refused to negotiate until the construction stops. “This settlement policy threatens to also undermine the structure of the Palestinian National Authority and even end its existence.”.

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at 5:30 p.m. for $6 per person. and will include four pieces of chicken, fries, coleslaw and a roll. At 7 • MUM FESTIVAL: The p.m., there will be an Tipp City Mum Festival will C o m m u n i t y “Elvis and I” show featurbe offered throughout the ing Elvis, Reba, Miss Calendar weekend and will include Piggy and Cher impersonmusic, events, food and ators.

There is no charge CONTACT US arts and crafts at Tipp City for the Park. A car cruise in will entertainment.Sunday be from 4-10 p.m. today on • CRUISE IN: The secMain Street in downtown ond annual Cruise In For Call Melody Tipp City. A parade will be A Cure will begin with regVallieu at at 10 a.m. Saturday also in istration from 10 a.m. to 440-5265 to downtown. For more infornoon at Koester Pavilion, mation, visit www.tippcitylist your free on the campus of Upper mumfestival.org.

Valley Medical Center, calendar • ANNIVERSERY Troy. Registration is $15 items.You SERVICES: The congreand all proceeds will benecan send gation of the Apostolic fit The Alzheimer’s Church of Jesus Christ, your news by e-mail to Association’s Memory 1624 N. County Road 25vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. Walk. Participants can A, Troy, will celebrate the come dressed in clothing 13th pastoral anniversary from the 1950s and ’60s. of Dt. Charles A. Carnes To pre-register, call 440Sr. and his wife, Rose Mary Carnes.

5149 or 440-5103 or email Services times will be 7 p.m. today, 4 p.m. cleydig@adcarehealth.org or Saturday and noon Sunday, each day elaineb@adcarehealth.org. with a visiting pastor. Anointed ministry • FAMILY QUEST: The Miami County and special music also will be part of Park District will have “Bird Binocular each service.

Vision” program from 1-4 p.m. at Charles• APPLE FEST: Apple Fest will be ton Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday of Tipp City. A naturalist will be on duty. and Sunday at Aullwood Farm, 9101 Binoculars and training will be provided.

Frederick Pike, Dayton. Food, children’s Pre-register for the program by sending an activities, musical entertainment, unique email to register@miamicountyparks.com crafts, wagon rides and farm animals will or call 335-9730, Ext. 115. be part of the event. Admission will $4 • FLUTE WALK: The Miami County per adult and $3 per child.

Park District will hold its Legend Flute Walk “Night Songs” from 7-9 p.m. at TODAY Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. Enjoy soft, meditative Native American Flute music on a • GARAGE SALE: The Zion Lutheran casual walk around Lost Creek Reserve.

Church, corner of Main and 3rd streets, For more information, visit the park disTipp City, will hold its annual Mum trict’s website at Festival garage sale from 8 a.m. to noon www.miamicountyparks.com.

Saturday. Proceeds will go to support • REUNION MEETING: The Troy High many non profit agencies. For more inforSchool class of 1962 will meet at 7 p.m. mation, contact Deb Keppel at 667-2228. in the second floor meeting room of the • FARMERS MARKET: The final Troy-Hayner Cultural Center.

Downtown Troy Farmers Market of the • BARTENDER’S BREAKFAST: An 2011 season is today from 9 a.m. to all-you-can-eat breakfast will be offered noon. Vendors set up on South Cherry from 8:30-11 a.m. at the Troy VFW Post Street, just off West Main Street. The No. 5436, Troy. market includes fresh produce, breads, • FISH OR TENDERLOIN: The artisan cheeses, baked goods, maple American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, syrup, flowers, crafts, jewelry and enterwill serve a fish, fries and coleslaw dinner tainment. There is plenty of free parking or Texas tenderloin sandwich, fries and on site; enter off West Franklin Street. coleslaw from noon to 6 p.m. in a tent in Contact Troy Main Street at 339-5455 for the parking lot, for $6. Hot dogs also will information or visit be available. www.troymainstreet.org.

• CANAL JUMPERS: The Tippecanoe • WACO FLY-IN: The annual “RC” Canal Jumpers will offer vintage base ball Barnstormers WACO Fly-In takes place beginning at 10 a.m. throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Historic at Tipp City Park.

WACO Field, 1865 S. County Road 25-A. For more information, contact Bob Hines of the WACO “RC” Barnstormers at 778MONDAY 4220.

• STEAK FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW • HEALTH FAIR: The Miami County Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, YMCA will host an active older Ludlow Falls, will offer a T-bone steak din- adult/Silver Sneaker Health Fair from 9 ner with salad, baked potato and a roll for a.m. to noon at the Piqua Youth Center. $11 from 5-8 p.m.

Free screenings will be offered for hear• MELODY MEN: The Melody Men ing, BMI, weight, blood pressure, heart chorus of the Barbershop Harmony rate and blood glucose. The event is free Society will offer its annual show, with this and open to the public. Free refreshments year’s theme “Halloween Howls,” at 1:30 will be offered and guests will be entered and 7:30 p.m. in the Troy High School to win the dozens of door prizes available. auditorium. Guests will include the Hot Air For more information, call Kaci Harpest at Buffoons. For tickets or information, con440-9622. tact Russ Hermes at (937) 667-6750 or • CHOIR PRACTICE: The Troy visit the website at www.melodymenchoStrawberry Festival will have choir pracrus.org. Presale ticket prices are $12 tice at 7:30 p.m. at First Lutheran Church. each or $15 each if purchased on the day For more information or to join, call 335of the show. Limited preferred seating, at 5767 or come to practice. $17, also is available. Awards will be preCivic agendas sented at 2 p.m.

• Tipp City Board of Education will • RUMMAGE SALE: The Troy Gospel meet at 7 p.m. at the board office, 90 S. Tabernacle, 336 Ellis St., will have a free Tippecanoe Drive. Call 667-8444 for more rummage sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For information. more information, call 335-3150 or 450• Covington Village Council will meet 1226. at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.

• POT PIE DINNER: A chicken pot pie • The Covington Street Committee will dinner will be from 4-6:30 p.m. at Troy meet immediately following the regular View Church of God, 1770 N. County council meeting.

Road 25-A, Troy. The dinner will include • Brown Township Board of Trustees chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes, green will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township beans, corn, tossed salad, dessert and Building in Conover. drink. Adult meals will be $6, children 4-12 • The Union Township Trustees will years will be $4 and children 3 years and meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Township under are free.

Building, 9497 Markley Road, P.O. Box E, • GARAGE SALE: The Troy VFW Post Laura. Call 698-4480 for more information.

5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, will have a garage sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2220 TUESDAY LeFevre Road, Troy.

• FISH FRY: An all-you-can-eat fish fry • TEAM SOCIAL: Relay For Life of will begin at 2 p.m. at the Troy VFW Post 5436, 2220 LeFevre Road, Troy. Meals will Miami County will host a team social and meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Hobart Corp., 701 be $7.

S Ridge Ave, Troy. Teams will be able to • FISH OR TENDERLOIN: The register for the 2012 Relay and learn American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, about many new events that are being will serve a fish, fries and coleslaw dinner planned. Anyone is invited to attend and or Texas tenderloin sandwich, fries and learn how they can join the fight against coleslaw from noon to 8 p.m. in a tent in cancer. For more information, contact the parking lot, for $6. Hot dogs also will Joyce Kittel at JoyceKittel@gmail.com or be available. visit Relay’s website at • MEATLOAF OR LIVER: AMVETS www.relayforlife.org/miamicounty. Those Post No. 88, Troy, 3449 LeFevre Road, interested may leave a message for more Troy, will offer a meatloaf of liver and information at (937) 524-2214. onions dinner from 5:30-8 p.m. Carry outs • BOARD MEETING: The Miami will be available.

County Park District will hold its board • TOONS IN TIPP: View cartoons from meeting at 9 a.m. at the Lost Creek the 1930s to 1990s on the Opera House Reserve Cabin, 2645 E. State Route 41, at 7 and 9 p.m. Bring your own lawn chair east of Troy. and concessions will be available.

• LAS VEGAS DAY: The Troy Eagles, Civic agendas 225 N. Elm St., will offer a Viva Las • The Newberry Township Trustees will Vegas Day featuring Monte Carlo games meet at 7 p.m. at the Township Building, from 1-7 p.m. A chicken dinner will begin 7835 Ingle Road.

United Way works with local schools The Tipp City Area United Way recently partnered with Bethel High School and Tippecanoe High School for “football night.” Both schools spoke about the Tipp City Area United Way. Tipp City Superintendent Dr. John Kronour and Bethel Superintendent Jeff Cassell both conducted the presentation. Tippecanoe High School’s event was Aug. 26 and Bethel High School’s event was Sept. 9. The cheerleaders at both schools tossed Tipp City Area United Way Live United footballs into the crowd “It is such an honor to partner with our local schools,” said Rick Mains Jr, campaign chair. “Their support means a lot to us.

We are hoping that together we can get the word out about our United Way and the importance of annual campaign giving.”

“The best way to put children on the path to productive, successful adulthood is through twogeneration strategies that both help parents move their families ahead economically and help ensure their young children’s health, development and educational success. The schools understand this and agree that by investing through the United Way, you are giving to a comprehensive approach that helps move families and their children ahead,” said Deb Carr, executive director of the Tipp City

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Tippecanoe High School cheerleaders tossed out Tipp City Area United Way Live United footballs at the Aug. 26 football game.

TIPP CITY Area United Way. “Nationally, one in four households with children struggle to afford enough food for themselves and their families in 2010. In Ohio, the rate of food hardship is 26.3 percent of households with children, and 16.6 percent of households without children, we rank 20th in the nation.

Our United Way realizes this and has allotted more funding so our local food pantries can stay stocked with food for those in our community who would go hungry without it,” said Carolyn Kiser, co-campaign chair.

Every gift stays locally

to help those who need it most in the community.

Those with questions regarding the United Way or the campaign, who need an informational brochure or who would like to facilitate a company campaign at their workplace, call Deborah Carr at 669FUND. Community members also may help with the community effort by sending your donation to the Tipp City Area United Way, P.O. Box 95, Tipp City, OH 45371. Credit card donations and more information may be obtained through the website at www.tipp cityauw.org.

If you are going through a difficult time and need assistance, contact the office for help.

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Church accepts donations TROY — The Troy Christian Church is accepting items for its annual clothing giveaway through Sunday, Sept. 25.

Items accepted are new and gently used clothing, toys, bedding and infant accessories, according to Don and Karen Eberle, church members who are heading up the ministry this year.

Clothing can be dropped off at Troy Christian Church, 1440 E. State Route 55. For more information, call the church office at 335-8731, or send email to

office@troychristian church.org.

All clothing collected will be offered free to the community at the church’s annual clothing giveaway, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at the church. The giveaway is offered to the public and is first-come, first-served.

City pride and a $1,000 scholarship are at stake.

Anyone who can’t make this date, also can donate on Monday, Oct. 3, at the US Bank in Piqua, 200 N. College. Trojans should just be sure to vote for Troy.

Anyone 17 years or older and weighing at least 110 pounds can donate at the locations Blood drive listed above, and 16-yearolds can donate by having Monday in Troy their parent sign the Blood Donor Permission form TROY — The annual found at http://www.

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Contact us David Fong is the executive editor of the Troy Daily News. You can reach him at 440-5228 or send him e-mail at fong@tdn publishing.com.

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PERSPECTIVE

“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 Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer on confidence in government: There’s a lot more to this country than politics, and Americans’ belief in themselves and their government is not on the wane.

That conclusion might be drawn from the results of a recently released Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll.

The poll of 1,000 adults conducted Aug. 18-22 found that 63 percent believe the U.S. government is doing a good job of making sure we feel “safe, secure and free.” That is up 9 percentage points from a year ago.

Even more — 72 percent — approve of the government’s performance in addressing both foreign and domestic threats. Only 53 percent believed so in 2010.

That statement of confidence in the nation’s capacity to protect us is in sharp contrast to the majority of poll respondents who expressed little or no confidence in the ability of politicians to effectively address serious issues such as health care and government spending.

In other words, we still have a lot of faith in the military and other government workers to look after the country’s best interests despite cynicism toward our elected leaders and their motives.

And we still believe in our own ability to help, with 70 percent of those polled saying they volunteer in order to try and make things better for their fellow Americans.

Americans’ can-do spirit is far from defeated.

Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., on uninsured motorists: Most of us can rattle off a long list of negative effects from the economic downturn — from devalued real estate to diminished 401Ks. But these days there is always room for one more.

The Insurance Research Council reports that with the recession, the number of uninsured drivers has been on the rise, and that increases the cost of auto accidents for everyone who pays for insurance.

After declining for four straight years, the percentage of motorists with no insurance rose to 14.3 percent in 2008 and dropped slightly to 13.8 percent in 2009.

Because of the range of laws governing auto insurance, some states feel the impact more than others.

For example, the rate in West Virginia is lower than the national average at 11 percent. But Tri-State drivers can’t take much comfort in that because the rates in Kentucky and Ohio are 18 percent and 16 percent, respectively.

States in our region would do well to go to school on the tougher requirements in Massachusetts, Maine and New York, where the percentage of uninsured drivers is around 5 percent, even during hard times.

The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on Medicare: The other night, the leader of one of America’s great political parties came forth with a big “but” that ought to be noticed.

“But,” the president said in his speech to Congress, “here’s the truth.”

And he then talked about Medicare.

It’s been little-noticed that Barack Obama was saying some things that many in his own party don’t want to hear about Medicare.

“Millions of Americans rely on Medicare in their retirement. And millions more will do so in the future,” Obama said. “They pay for this benefit during their working years. They earn it. But with an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program.”

That kind of statement ought to be welcomed by Republicans, some of whom have been pilloried for saying similar things and backing a toughon-Medicare budget resolution.

Of course, some of the same GOP members had dubiously trashed Obama’s health care bill last year as anti-Medicare, too.

The “but” was important, a political path to changes in Medicare to make it more sustainable before the financial tidal wave of baby boomer retirements breaks the health care system for everyone.

We would like to see more times when national leaders call for practical solutions that avoid the name-calling that brings politics down to the level of the elementary schoolyard.

LETTERS

Hobart put on a great concert To the Editor: I recently read a letter to the editor in the Troy Daily News from someone who was upset with the security at the Kellie Pickler concert at Hobart Arena.

Let me share my personal

experience with the security at Hobart Arena ...

I found the security, staff and everyone involved with the concert to be extremely accommodating.

My family and I had a wonderful experience. While I am sorry one person had a bad experience, I know everyone I talked to really enjoyed both the con-

cert and the time they had in Troy that evening.

Personally, I can’t wait to get back for another concert at Troy’s Hobart Arena.

Thank you to all involved for making it an excellent experience.

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Longing for those black and white days I’ve technically been an adult for a good eight years now.

Since April 14, 2003, I’ve legally been eligible to vote, I could get a license without taking those pesky driver’s education classes, I could enlist in the army and buy a pack of cigarettes while purchasing scratchoff lottery tickets if I wanted.

I conquered a lot of firsts at the ripe old age of 18. I travelled out of the continental United States for the first time, moved into my first dorm room, had my first college boyfriend, skipped my first college class and for the very first time in my life, I didn’t have anyone to answer to (well, except for my softball coaches, my professors, a handful of nuns and the incredibly strict catcher on my softball team).

I was free.

When you first head off to college, move out of home, get your first apartment — you feel like you’re on top of the world.

It’s easy to feel like you don’t need anyone anymore, because you’re legally an adult in every sense of the word.

But in reality, you’re not really.

Amanda Stewart Troy Daily News Columnist At 26 years old, I’ve conquered even more firsts since crossing several off my list at 18. I’ve graduated from college, gotten my first “big girl” job, left my first “big girl job,” relocated, got married, had a baby, lost my grandparents, bought two cars, got my first place, legally drank alcohol, went to Canada, watched my best friends get married (held one’s hand as she got divorced), watched my brother become a dad, watched as one of my cousins became a mother and another deployed to Afghanistan.

Things are different now — now that I’m really an adult.

In college my worries were simple; would I be able to force

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myself to roll out of bed for an 8:30 a.m. class? Would I get to be the starting pitcher for my softball team? What did I want to drink on Friday night?

Now I face bigger issues: when is the right time to lay down the money and purchase a home? When is the right time to have a second child? Should I even be having one? What will Pearyn be when she grows up?

What do I want to be when I grow up?

I’m a different person and adult than I was in my young age.

Nothing is as black and white as it used to be.

Ask a college student their opinion on abortion, the death penalty, religion, getting married or having babies. Chances are they’ll have an answer for you, regardless if it’s one you want to hear, one you disagree with completely or one that doesn’t make any sense to you — it does to them.

I feel like we’re these radical versions of ourselves at 18. We get a small glimpse of what we have to look forward to, but we’re still too young and dumb

to really know what’s in store for us.

I used to be completely for the death penalty and as prochoice as they came. And then I grew up and I became a mom. I have a new appreciation for the frailty of life; I have a new respect for bringing one into the world.

I’m a wife.

I realize marriage is filled with only grey territory. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows; sometimes it’s not even forever.

It’s two people pledging to try to love each other forever, but there’s no guarantee that you’ll make it, no guarantee that they’ll be holding your hand at the end of the day, there’s just a lot of faith.

They say as we grow up we lose our ability to hope, believe and just have faith in things.

But with a world of only grey and no black and white, I don’t really see how we can make it through the day without a little of all three.

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Cincinnati house marks 1811 quakes it withstood Exhibit opens today CINCINNATI (AP) — In the wee hours of Dec. 16, 1811, an earthquake jolted many of Cincinnati’s 2,500 residents from their slumber.

In the words of a Cincinnati newspaper called Liberty Hall: “It shook the houses, rocked the furniture, opened several partition doors that were fastened with falling latches and threw down bricks from the tops of some chimneys.”

This was the first in the greatest series of earthquakes in United States history. The other two earthquakes largest occurred on Jan. 23 and Feb. 7 of 1812. Many aftershocks also caused damage.

Cincinnati was fortunate to be far enough from the earthquake’s epicenter in New Madrid, Mo., that the newly established frontier town suffered no casualties or major damage.

But within the New Madrid seismic zone of southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas and parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, the earthquakes caused an undetermined number of deaths and enordamage.

They mous uprooted trees, caused landslides and floods and sank boats on the Mississippi River.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of these earthquakes, the Betts House in Cincinnati’s west end one of the few buildings in the region that existed when those earthquakes struck will host an exhibit called “The Big Shake How the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes Rocked the Ohio River Valley.”

The exhibit opens to the public today.

It will display newspaper articles and letters from that period to tell the story of these earthquakes in the words of people who

witnessed them.

There will be plenty of material on hand to explain the nature and impact of earthquakes and offer a history of earthquakes in the Ohio. A model seismograph, shaketable demonstrations and a topographical map of Cincinnati will be used to illustrate the science ideas behind earthquakes.

Greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky received a real-life demonstration on Aug 23 when an earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors through this region that shook buildings and created a scare. The Virginia quake had a magnitude of 5.8, much smaller than the three major ones in the New Madrid zone in 1811 and 1812. All three had magnitudes of at least 7.0.

The Betts House, the oldest brick house in Ohio still on its original site, survived the 1811 earthquake without any noticeable damage. But the brick summer kitchen building in back of it had extensive damage.

“We don’t know exactly what happened, but we think the chimney probably collapsed into the structure,” Julie Carpenter, Betts House executive director, said.

A new summer kitchen was built the next year and was attached to the house.

“People who lived on hilltops in Cincinnati slept through the earthquakes because their houses were on bedrock,” Carpenter said.

Amateur scientists of the day advanced all kinds of theories about the cause of the earthquakes. One even attributed them to the eruption of a volcano in North Carolina. Some religious people viewed the earthquakes as ominous signs of the Apocalypse.

George Heinrich Crist,

who lived near the present location of Louisville, Ky., wrote in a Jan. 23, 1812, letter about the death of his daughter in one of the earthquakes.

“We lost our Amandy Jane in this one a log fell on her,” he wrote. “A lot of people thinks the devil has come here. Some thinks that this is the beginning of the world coming to a end.”

Cincinnati’s two newspapers, Liberty Hall and the Western Spy, accused each other of publishing inaccurate news accounts of the earthquakes.

No one knows how many people were killed in the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes. Because the New Madrid zone was sparsely populated frontier territory with few newspapers, some deaths were never reported, Carpenter said.

If the same series of earthquakes occurred today in the New Madrid zone, they would kill 3,500 people, injure 86,000 and damage more than 700,000 buildings, according to the U.S. Geological Society.

About 2 million people would require temporary shelter and 2.6 million households would be without electrical power.

Economic losses would total $200 billion to $300 billion.

Cincinnati, being just outside the New Madrid seismic zone, would suffer some building damage in a recurrence of the 18111812 quakes, said J. Barry Maynard, a University of Cincinnati geology professor who is helping the Betts House with its earthquake exhibit.

“We would see a fair amount of damage to houses and other buildings that aren’t built very well,” he said. “A lot of chimneys would fall.”

The greatest potential for injuries would come from falling bricks and stone cornices and trim and other unreinforced masonry, Maynard said.

AREA RELIGION BRIEFS grade.

The imPACT program will be on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-7:45 p.m. beginning Oct. 5 and will include Bible stories, games, music, snacks and more.

For more information or to pre-register, call (937) 676-2802.

TROY — Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, will provide a hot lunch to the public at noon Sept. 25, and the last Sunday of every month.

There is no charge for the lunch, but donations Share-A-Meal will be accepted. Anyone with a need is invited to offered Oct. 1 attend.

TROY — The First For more information, contact the church office at United Church of Christ, corner of Market and 335-7747.

Canal streets, Troy, will offer its monthly Share-AGarage sale Meal from 11:30 a.m. to continues today 12:30 p.m. Oct. 1.

The meal will include a TIPP CITY — The Zion hot meal featuring ham, Lutheran Church, corner green beans with corn, of Main and 3rd streets, glazed carrots, cake and Tipp City, will hold its beverages. Share-A-Meal, annual Mum Festival which is the first Saturday garage sale from 8 a.m. to of each month, is a pronoon today. Proceeds will gram to reach out to the go to support many noncommunity by providing profit agencies. nourishing meals to anyAnyone who would like one wishing to participate to donate items for the while giving them an garage sale may bring opportunity to socialize them to the church with others in the commubetween 9 a.m. and noon nity. or 4-6 p.m. Sept 19-22.

Use the Canal Street For more information, entrance where the church contact Deb Keppel at 667is handicapped accessible.

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Evangelists to visit

PLEASANT HILL — First Brethren Church, 210 N. Church St., wants to “imPACT” the lives of children with “Jesus!

Praise, Ask, Confess & Thanks.”

A kick-off registration will be Sept. 28 and will include free hot dogs, chips, cookies and a drink.

Participants will be able to play corn hole and hillbilly golf.

This is a free program for children age 3 (potty trained) through sixth

BRADFORD — Evangelists, the Rev. and Mrs. Bill McCoy will visit Bradford Pilgrim Holiness Church, 138 W. Church St., Oct. 4-9.

Special singing also will be by Mr. and Mrs. Travis Hatfield and family.

There will be a 7 p.m. nightly program Tuesday through Saturday. On Sunday, a 9:30 a.m.

Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship and 6 p.m. evening worship is planned.

For more information, call (937) 448-2554.

Pot pie supper planned TROY — The First United Church of Christ, corner of Market and Canal streets, Troy, will offer its annual pot pie supper from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Oct. 8.

The supper will include chicken and pot pie, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, green beans or corn for $7.50 and $3 for those 10 and younger.

Proceeds will benefit local non profit agencies.

Use the Canal Street entrance, where the church is handicapped.

Awana set to begin COVINGTON — Opening night for Awana will be at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Friendship Community College, 5850 W. State Route 41, Covington.

Cubbies will be for children 3-5 years old, Spark for those kindergarten through second grade and T & T for third through sixth grade students. The programs consist of game times, handbook time, singing and a Bible story.

For more information, call Pastor Eugene Oburn at (937) 473-2128.

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OBITUARIES

Larry G. Miller Miller in 1986; and two brothers, Jack and Dale Miller.

Larry is survived by his children, Karen and husband, Gary Stanley, Jerry and wife, Lori Miller, Gary Miller, Doug and wife, Lora Miller, all of Bradford; 11 grandchildren, Kristen and Bryan Stanley, Daniel and Travis Miller, Kylie, Zachary and Addison Miller, Courtney and Katelyn Miller, Cailin and Damion Litten, all of Bradford; brother, Freddie Miller of Piqua; sister, Ruby Fenstermaker of Bradford; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Tom and Nina Ingle of

BRADFORD — Larry G. Miller, age 70, of Bradford, passed away Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at the Wayne Hospital, Greenville. Larry was born in Miami County on Jan. 26, 1941, to the (late) Chalmer and Velma (Sargent) Miller, was a graduate of Bradford High School, Class of 1959; was a dairy farmer for 55 years; Farm Bureau member and trustee for 25 years; and 4H Adviser-Darke County Holstein Club for 25 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Carolyn S. (Ingle)

Conover; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Bradford, with Pastor John Shelton officiating. Interment will be in Harris Creek Cemetery, Bradford.

The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Darke County 4H Dairy Committee.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

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

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

Singer Vesta Williams found dead EL SEGUNDO, Calif.

(AP) — Big-voiced R&B diva Vesta Williams, perhaps best-known for her 1980s hits “Don’t Blow A Good Thing” and “Congratulations,” has been found dead of a possible drug overdose in a Southern California hotel room, coroner’s investigators said Friday. She was 53.

Williams was found dead at 6:15 p.m.

Thursday in an El Segundo hotel room, Los Angeles County coroner’s Capt. John Kades said.

An autopsy will determine the cause of death. A toxicology examination will take six weeks to be completed, Kades said.

Mary Vesta Born Williams on Dec. 1, 1957,

to a disc jockey in Coshocton, Ohio, she had hits with “Once Bitten Twice Shy,” ”Sweet, Sweet Love” and the torch song “Congratulations,” where she emotionally bids goodbye to her ex, about to marry someone else, on his wedding day.

Williams also appeared in movies and on television.

She was a saloon singer in the Mario Van Peebles movie “Posse” and she had a recurring role on the television situation comedy “Sister, Sister,” playing actress Jackee Harry’s best friend Monica.

Harry tweeted her condolences: “…just received truly devastating news: R&B great, and my friend of many yrs, Vesta

Williams ((at)vesta4u), has passed away. (hash)RIPVesta” Williams diminutive frame belied her powerful, soulful pipes. Her initial success in the music industry came as a background singer for artists ranging from Chaka Khan, Anita Baker and Sting. But she would eventually establish her career with release of her first album, “Vesta,” in 1986.

Over the years, she had hits including “Once Bitten Twice Shy,” ”Sweet, Sweet Love” and her signature torch song “Congratulations.”

Williams continued to make albums, and was a regular performer on the concert circuit.

Park revives premier fall racing event LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When Turfway Park scratched its premier fall racing event last year, it was another sign of the tough times that had befallen the northern Kentucky race track, where the amount of prize money has tumbled in recent years.

Now the Kentucky Cup Day of Champions is back, and the five-race series set for Saturday has picked up a sponsor for the first time WinStar Farm, a prominent horse farm in Kentucky’s bluegrass region. The five races carry total purses of $600,000.

“To have it come back … is just a real shot in the arm for all of us here at Turfway in terms of getting back on that national stage in the fall,” Turfway Park President Robert N. Elliston

said in an interview this week.

The Florence track nestled in the Cincinnati suburbs hopes to re-establish the Kentucky Cup series as a popular destination for trainers preparing their horses for the Breeders’ Cup. The Kentucky Cup, run since 1994 except for a brief hiatus, has compiled a long honor roll of thoroughbreds that competed, including the winners of seven Breeders’ Cup races a list topped by Cat Thief, winner of the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The feature race in the series the $200,000 Kentucky Cup Classic was last run in 2009, as were the Kentucky Cup Distaff and Kentucky Cup Sprint. They are back in the fold on Saturday’s card at Turfway,

as are the Kentucky Cup Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies races, last run in 2008.

Despite the event’s comeback, the track’s problems haven’t disappeared.

“It’s a bit of a positive sign,” said Kentucky-based trainer William “Buff” Bradley, who has a horse entered in the Juvenile Fillies race. “Still, there’s a lot of things that need to be done in Kentucky racing to get it going again.”

Turfway’s biggest hurdle is its purse sizes, which have fallen behind those at tracks in states that supplement prize money with proceeds from casino-style gambling. It’s a basic economic principle — larger purses attract more and better horses, which lure more bettors.

pioneer mother of the covered wagon days is one of 12 that were installed by the DAR more than 80 years ago. A Madonna of the Trail monument was placed in each state the old National Road passed through on its way from Maryland to California.

plant while on a sightseeing vacation and he called the company Monday asking for help with his proposal.

She accepted.

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Statue moved to park SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Ohio’s statue commemorating the nation’s first cross-country road has a new home in a western Ohio park.

Officials say the Madonna of the Trail statue will be more accessible in the new National Road Commons park in downtown Springfield. The Springfield News-Sun reports the 5-ton figure was moved this week from its old spot along U.S. route 40 on the city’s west side, where the Daughters of the American Revolution says it was hard to view safely.

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CINCINNATI — Faculty members are staging the first strike in the more than 40-year history NEWELL, W.Va. — An of Cincinnati State Ohio man whose girlfriend Technical & Community College. owns a variety of colorful The union for nearly Fiesta dinnerware came 200 instructors at the twoup with an appropriate year college says the strike way to propose to her.

Jim Wierwille proposed began at 7 a.m. Friday. to Jill Lowry on Thursday Union spokeswoman Pam Ecker says dozens of teachat the Homer Laughlin ers set up pickets outside China Co. in Newell. The couple had stopped at the entrances to the college.

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SERVICES TIPP CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST 6460 S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City Minister Robert Vincent Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Bible classes, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Tue. — 10 a.m. to noon The Golden Years; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible classes.

BRUSH CREEK CHURCH OF GOD 6370 S. Kessler-Frederick, Tipp City Pastor David Hixon; Phone: 6986327 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship Service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study.

FULL GOSPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD

COMMUNITY GRACE BRETHREN 2261 S. Miami St., West Milton Phone: 698-4048 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Awana.

COVINGTON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 101 N. Wall St., Covington Pastor Michael Yingst Sun. — 8:30 a.m. Wake Up With God, coffee and juice; 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.

FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH PLEASANT HILL 210 N. Church St. Corners of Church and Walnut Streets, one block West of Newton Hall. www.FirstBrethren.com Phone: 676-2802 Pastor Lynn Mercer Sun. — 9 a.m. fellowship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship celebration; Fri. — 7 p.m.

Senior High at The Barn, noon senior luncheon (second Fri. of each month, location varies); Sat. — 7:30 a.m. men’s breakfast (every other Sat., location varies), 7 a.m. Jr. High at the Barn (First and Third Sat.).

GETHSEMANE FELLOWSHIP BRETHREN IN CHRIST Corner Rts. 40 & 201, Brandt Pastor Dale McCabe Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service, 6:30 p.m. services; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. service.

GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 7240 S. Peters Road Phone 667-3476 Pastor Daniel Fullen Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship.

HIGHLAND BRETHREN IN CHRIST 7210 S. Jay Road, West Milton (937) 698-3300 Pastor Todd Hammond Sun. —10 a.m. worship and children’s programs.

PIQUA CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 525 Boal Ave., Piqua Phone: 773-6342 Pastor Larry Lutz Parsonage phone: 773-0404 Sun. — 9:25 a.m. Sunday worship, 10:45 a.m. Sunday school, Bible study, men’s fellowship, women’s fellowship, junior and high school youth group, adults Young of Heart Group.

PLEASANT HILL BRETHREN IN CHRIST CHURCH Corner of Hill and Church streets John Weaver, Pastor Accessible for the handicapped Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service.

TROY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 1431 W. Main St., Troy Pastor Sheila Shumaker Handicapped accessible Nursery care available Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:40 worship service; Mon. — 7 p.m. H.U.G.S. Support Group; Tues. — 7 p.m. Welcome Home AA group; Wed. — 7:15 p.m. Spirit of Recovery Support Group; Thu. — 7 p.m. NAIOU Support Group and choir practice.

WEST CHARLESTON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

4817 State Route 202, Tipp City Interim Pastor Irv and Nancy Heishman Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. worship service.

WEST MILTON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 918 S. Miami St., West Milton Pastor Jerry Bowen

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212 S. Mulberry St., Troy (937) 732-1057 Pastor Al Banister Sunday — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. night service; Wed. — 7 p.m. night service.

NEW HORIZON CHURCH OF GOD MOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY 527 N. Market St., Troy Pastor Joe Hill Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. youth night/adult Bible study.

PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF GOD Main Street Pastor Scott Deane Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school; Wed. — 7 p.m. evening program for adults and children of all ages.

SNYDER ROAD CHURCH OF GOD Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. evening, 6 p.m. youth service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study, 7 p.m. youth service.

TROY FIRST CHURCH OF GOD 924 Troy-Urbana Road Pastor Michael Calhoun Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. mid-week service.

TROY VIEW CHURCH OF GOD 1770 N. County Road 25-A, Troy Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer, Bible study.

Pastor Marc Frey 849-9374 www.peaceofoursavior.net Pre-school 8:30-11 a.m. Mon.Fri. Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:45 a.m. Sunday school.

REDEEMER LUTHERAN, LC-MS County Road 25-A and Mason Road, Sidney Phone: 492-2461 Pastor Ken Castor Sat. — 5:30 p.m. worship Sun. — 9 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school and Bible class.

ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 200 E. Bridge St.., Covington The Rev. Stephen Nierman, pastor Phone: 473-2170 Sun.— 9 a.m. church service.; Wed. — 7 p.m. choir practice.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH 248 Wood St., Piqua Phone: 773-3284 The Rev. Ronald A. Shreffler Web address: www.stjohnpiqua.org Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Christian education for all ages, 10:30 a.m. worship service.

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 14 W. Walnut St., Tipp City Pastor Steven J. Gellatly Phone: 667-3110 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10 a.m. worship; Sat. — 5 p.m.

Christian gathering.

METHODIST

BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2505 E. Loy Road, Piqua The Rev. David C. Ramming CATHOLIC, ROMAN Parsonage Office: 335-6596 Sun. — 9 a.m. worship service, ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 10:15 a.m. Sunday school; Mon — CATHOLIC 10 a.m. UMW meeting, bring a sack 753 S. Hyatt St., Tipp City lunch; Wed. — 6-7:30 p.m. CTC (end The Rev. R. Marc Sherlock of Season), 7:30 p.m. CTC program.

Masses — Sat. at 5 p.m.; Sun. at CASSTOWN UNITED 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Holy Days, Vigil, 7 METHODIST CHURCH p.m., Nursery — 10 a.m. Mass.

102 Center St., Casstown ST. PATRICK CATHOLIC The Rev. David C. Ramming 409 E. Main St., Troy Parsonage Office: 335-6596 Fr. James S. Duell Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday www.stpatroy.org school, 10:45 a.m. worship service.

Masses — Sat. at 5 p.m.; Sun. at CHRISTIANSBURG UNITED 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Holy days METHODIST CHURCH at 7 a.m., noon and 7 p.m.

Corner of 3rd and Monroe Confessions — Sat. at 4-4:30 p.m.

Streets, Christiansburg ST. TERESA CATHOLIC Pastor - Mark Atterhold 6925 W. U.S. Route 36, EPISCOPAL Sun. — 8:45 a.m., 10 a.m.

Covington Services.

Phone: 473-2970 TRINITY EPISCOPAL FIRST UNITED METHODIST Fr. Jim Simons CHURCH 110 W. Frankllin St., Troy Masses — First and Third Sat. at 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy Senior Pastor — Rev. David 5 p.m.; Sun. at 7:30 and 10:30 a.m.

Phone: 335-7747 Leckrone TRANSFIGURATION trinitychurch@trinitytroyohio.net Rev. Mic Mohler, associate pasCATHOLIC CHURCH www.trinity-troy.disohioorg tor 972 S. Miami St., West Milton Handicapped accessible.

Phone: 335-2826 Father John MacQuarrie, pastor Sun. — 8:15 and 10:30 a.m.

Web site: troyfumc.org Masses — Saturday at 5 p.m., Holy Eucharist, 9:15 a.m. Sunday Sun. — 8:15 and 10:45. a.m. traSunday at 7:30 and 10:20 a.m.; forum, 10:15 a.m. Christian formaditional worship services, 9:05 and Daily Mass: Mon., Wed., Thurs. and tion for children, last Sunday of 10:35 a.m. contemporary worship Fri. at 8:15 a.m.; Mass:Tues. at noon. month at noon: free community service, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, Benediction — Thurs. at 7 p.m. lunch, open to the public; Wed. — 7 nursery care provided for all servicConfessions: Sat at 3:30-4:30 p.m. p.m. evening prayer. es, First Kids preschool and extendSACRED HEART PARISH ed care, 10:35 a.m. First Place con476 N. Scott St., New Carlisle LUTHERAN temporary worship; Mon., Wed. and Revs. Michael L. Bidwell and Friday — 1:30-3 p.m. First Place Paul Vieson.

BRANDT EVANGELICAL Food Pantry.

Deacon, Robert Kozlowski LUTHERAN FLETCHER UNITED Sat. — 5 p.m. Mass; Sun. — 9 a.m.

6870 E. St. Rt. 40, Brandt METHODIST and 11:30 a.m. Mass; Mon., Tues., Phone: 845-0450 205 S. Walnut St., Fletcher Thu. and Fri. — 8:30 a.m. Mass; Rev. David Jarvis-Schroeder 368-2470 Wed. — 9:30 a.m. Mass.

Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, 10 Pastor Andy Perry a.m. worship. www.fletcherchurch.org CATHOLIC, OTHER FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH Sun. — 8:15 and 10:45 a.m. wor(NALC) ship services, 9:30 a.m. Sunday ANNUNCIATION NATIONAL 2899 W. Main St., Troy school; nursery care and children’s CATHOLIC CHURCH Phone: 335-2323 church available; Wed. — 7 p.m.

OF AMERICA Pastor Ric Barnes prayer group.

The Rev. Father Norman J. www.flctroy.com HOFFMAN UNITED Szylakowski Handicapped accessible and METHODIST Phone: 339-9249 hearing assistance 201 S. Main St., West Milton E-mail: anncca@aol.com Sun. — 8 a.m. traditional worship Phone: 698-4401 hometown.aol.com/normski274. service, 9:15 a.m. Sunday school Pastor Justin Williams Sun. — 1 p.m. Mass (Holy classes for all agess, nursery availSun. — 9 a.m. Sunday service.

Eucharist), Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) one-half able, 10:30 a.m. contemporary wor- GINGHAMSBURG CHURCH ship service, nursery available Dr. Michael Slaughter, senior hour prior to Sunday Mass or by FRIEDENS EVANGELICAL pastor arrangement (meeting at a facility LUTHERAN 6759 S. County Road. 25-A, Tipp rear classroom of Trinity Episcopal 11038 W. Versailles Road City Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy).

Covington Phone: 667-1069 Phone: 526-4849 Worship: Sat. — 5 p.m. and 7 CHURCH OF CHRIST Pastor Keith Falk p.m.; Sun. — 9, 10:15 and 11:30 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday worship. a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST GOOD SHEPHERD GREENE STREET UNITED IN CHRISTIAN UNION LUTHERAN METHODIST CHURCH 5020 Panhandle Road, 1209 S. Miami St.,West Milton 415 W. Greene St., Piqua Christiansburg Pastor Melvin Musser Phone: 773-5313 857-9362 Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday Pastor Lisa Ellison Pastor Jeremy Olson school, 10:30 a.m. worship.

Child care provided Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN Handicapped accessible school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m.

517 McKinley Ave., Piqua www.greenestreetumc.com cell groups Phone: 778-9325 Sunday — 8 and 10:30 a.m. worWed. — 6:30 p.m. prayer and The Rev. William Ritchie ship services; 9:15 a.m. — church praise.

Sun. — 10 a.m. worship service, school for all ages MID-COUNTY CHURCH 11 a.m. Sunday school. Bible McKENDREE UNITED OF CHRIST Buddies — 2-3:30 p.m. the second METHODIST 1580 N. Dorset Road Saturday of each month One mile south of St. Rt. 41 on Minister Ralph Royse PEACE OF OUR SAVIOR Dayton Brandt Road Sun. — 9 a.m. Bible classes, 10 LUTHERAN CHURCH Pastor James Leighty a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Wed. 1025 Cliffside Drive, New Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday — 7 p.m. Bible study.

Carlisle school, 10:30 a.m. worship service.

Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship.

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p.m. worship Wed. — 7 p.m. midweek prayer.

FREE BAPTIST 8 S. Main St., Christiansburg Jeff Ferguson Sun. — 11 a.m. worship and children’s church.

GRACE BAPTIST 1400 N. Market St., Troy Phone: 339-2019 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship services, 6 p.m. growth groups and Grace Youth; Wed. — 6:40 p.m. AWANA, 7 p.m.

Prayer and Praise.

GRACE BAPTIST 2500 St. Rt. 48, Ludlow Falls APOSTOLIC Phone: (937) 698-4342 Pastor Dale Scott APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF Sun. — 11 a.m. morning service, JESUS CHRIST 10 a.m. Sunday school, 6 p.m.

1624 N. County Road 25-A, Troy evening service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible Pastor Charles A. Carnes study.

Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, LAURA FIRST BAPTIST 11:30 a.m. worship, 6:30 p.m. servJust Off St. Rt. 571 on Haworth ice; Tue. — 10 a.m. prayer; Thu. — 7 Road p.m. mid-week worship service.

Pastor Rick Mowry OPEN ARMS APOSTOLIC Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST school, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. wor4075 S. Tipp Cowlesville Road, ship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study.

Tipp City LENA BAPTIST Pastor Bob Bell 8050 N. Church St., Conover Sun. — 10 a.m., Sunday Interim Pastor Ed Sollenberger school/worship; 6 p.m., worship; Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday Wed. — Midweek service, 7 p.m. school, 10:30 a.m. Worship service 7 TROY APOSTOLIC TEMPLE p.m. education prayer meeting.

625 N. County Road 25-A, Troy MAIN STREET BAPTIST Pastor Richard A. Workman 11191 W. State Route 571, Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, Laura 6 p.m. Sunday celebration; Wed. — 7 Pastor Ron Evans p.m. Bible study.

Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. age group Bible studies; Wed. ASSEMBLY — 7 p.m. mid-week worship, 7 p.m.

OF GOD children’s hour; Thu. — 8 p.m. men’s prayer encounter.

VICTORY ASSEMBLY OF NEW LIFE BAPTIST GOD MINISTRIES 4645 S. County Road 25-A 1001 County Road 25-A, Troy Phone: 667-0763 339-2992 Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday morning Pastor Joseph Baldwin meet and greet with coffee and Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday church snacks, 10:30 a.m. morning service; school, 11 a.m. worship services; Wed. — 7 p.m. Missionettes, Royal Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Rangers, adult Bible study. and Bible study.

ABUNDANT LIFE PIQUA BAPTIST ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1402 W. High St., Piqua 661 N. County Road 25-A, Troy 773-4583 Phone: 339-4769 www.piquabaptist.com Pastor Nathan Bacorn Donald Wells, senior pastor; Sun. — 10:15 a.m. Worship.

Daniel Helms, director of family ministries BAPTIST Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, CALVARY BAPTIST 5 p.m. Word of Life for children and 1045 Monroe Concord Road teens; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible studies Phone: 335-3686 for adults and youth, God’s Kids Pastor Jason Barclay Choir; Young at Heart — third Thu. of Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday each month; Lydia Circle — third school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m.

Sunday night service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Tue. of each month.

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH prayer meeting.

232 S. Wayne St., Piqua CENTRAL BAPTIST Phone: 773-0619 115 Staunton, Piqua Bishop Ted C. Willis Jr, c/o Pastor Randy Satchwell Pastor Cheryl Willis Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday Sr. Deacon S. Taylor school, 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. servSun. — 10-10:30 a.m. intercesice; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer, Bible sary prayer, 10:30-11 a.m. prayer study and kid’s programs. and worship, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. worCHARITY BAPTIST ship service; Mon. — 6-8 p.m. men’s 667-9167 meeting; Wed. — 6:30-8:30 p.m.

445 Evanston Road, Tipp City Bible study and prayer service.

Pastor Dan Williams TROY BAPTIST TEMPLE Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday 691 E. Staunton Road school, 10:45 a.m. worship, 6 p.m.

Phone: 339-3207 service; Wed. — Kids Club for boys Pastor David Mulvaine and girls ages 4-12, 7:30 p.m., adult Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday Bible study and prayer, 7:30 p.m. school, 10:45 a.m. morning worship, CORNERSTONE BAPTIST 6 p.m. evening worship; Wed. — 7 1879 Staunton Road, Troy p.m. prayer, ministries for all ages, 440-6900 Frontline Clubs, Teen Youth S.A.L.T., cbctroy.org adult Bible study.

Pastor Matt Harbour TROY FREEWILL BAPTIST Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday 2482 S. County Road 25-A school, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worPastor Dwight Stump ship service; Wed. — 6 p.m. in-home Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, mid-week Bible study (call church for 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. Sunday more information) evening service; Thu. — 7 p.m.

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BAPTIST SBC UNION BAPTIST Pastor Phillip Delorme 1885 E. Peterson Road 1601 South St., Piqua Pastor Dale Adkins 773-6469 (937) 335-1045 Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship; Wed. — school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 7 p.m.

6:30 p.m. Awana.

Service; Wed. — 6:30 p.m., Awana FIRST BAPTIST clubs, 7 p.m. adult Bible studies.

53 S. Norwich Road, Troy ZION BAPTIST Phone: 339-3602 711 W. Franklin St., Troy www.fbctroy.com Rev. Paul L. Cooper Jr. Senior Pastor Dale R. Christian Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday Pastor Douglas R. Magin Sun. — 8:30 a.m. Early Worship school, 11 a.m. worship service, first Sunday Baptizing and Holy Services, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school and adult Bible fellowships, 11 a.m. Communion; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Bible worship, 6 p.m. worship service, 7:15 study, 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting; Thu. p.m Youth - TGIF; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. — 6:30 p.m. choir rehearsal.

FBC Family Ministry Night; Fri. — 10 BRETHREN a.m. Ladies Bible study.

FIRST BAPTIST BRADFORD CHURCH OF 8233 W. Covington-Gettysburg THE BRETHREN Road, Covington 120 W. Oakwood St., Bradford Phone: 473-5347 Pastor Dan Scalf Pastor Jim Thacker Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. service. service; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer and CHURCH OF THE Bible study.

BRETHREN FIRST BAPTIST 300 E. Monument, Pleasant Hill 6533 Tipp Cowlesville, Tipp City Nick Beam, Pastor Sun. — 10 a.m. worship celebraSun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday tion, 11:15 a.m. Sunday school, 7 school, 10:30 a.m. worship service.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a brief list of regularly scheduled events in Miami County.

If you have changes to regularly scheduled meetings, call 440-5265. Special events and other activities that change frequently should be written up separately and sent to Melody Vallieu, c/o The Troy Daily News, 224 Market St., Troy, OH 45373. E-mail: vallieu@tdnpublishing.com.

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POTSDAM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 12 S. Main St., P.O. Box 124, Potsdam Phone: 947-1438

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TROY DAILY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM Continued From Page 7 Pastor Pamela A. Hitchcock Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship.

RICHARDS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 831 McKaig Ave., Troy Phone: 335-8814 Pastor David Richey Choir director Brenda Coleman Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school for adults, 10:30 a.m. worship; Mon.-Thur — 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., free lunch program for community; Wed. — 11:45 a.m. worship service; Thurs. — 1 p.m.

Bible study.

TIPP CITY UNITED METHODIST 8 W. Main St., Tipp City Phone: 667-2318 Pastor Dan Glover Sun. — 9 a.m. traditional service, 10:30 a.m. contemporary service; 9 and 10:30 a.m. children’s and adult discileship opportunities. Child care available from 9 a.m. to noon.

THE FAMILY OF GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 9411 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua Phone: 773-8232 www.thefamilyofgrace.com The Rev. Mike Carnevale, lead pastor Sun. — 8:15 a.m. traditional service, 10 and 11:15 a.m. contemoporary services, 10 a.m. Sunday school for all ages.

CHRISTIANSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Grafton Dialton Road, St. Paris Pastor Mark Atterhold Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. service.

NAZARENE TIPP CITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE St. Rt. 571 & I-75 Phone: 667-6586 Pastor Bradley Warkentine Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service, 6 p.m. evening service; Tues. — 8 a.m. Men’s Bible study; Sat. — 7-11 a.m. youth recreation center.

TROY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Pastor Jeff Rollison 1200 Barnhart Road, Troy Corner of W. Market St. and Barnhart Road (937) 339-3117 www.troynaz.net Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship service, 11 a.m. in-house education classes, 6 p.m. small groups in homes; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. adult Bible study; Sat. — 9 a.m. Men’s Bible study.

WEST MILTON CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 151 W. Baker Road, West Milton Pastor Charles W. Meinecke Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m.

Sunday Night Ministries; Wed. — 7 p.m. Kids’ Club, Teens Get Together, adult Bible study.

PRESBYTERIAN COVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN 30 North Pearl St. (937) 473-5263 Pastor Greg Krutz Sunday — 10 a.m. worship service with children’s service.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 20 S. Walnut St., Troy Dr. Richard B. Culp, pastor www.fpctroy.org Sun. — 8:30 a.m. chapel worship service, 9:15 a.m. Chancel choir rehearsal, 9:30 a.m. church school for youth and adults, 11 a.m. sanctuary worship service, 2 p.m. gold outing, 5 p.m. PYC meets, 7:45 p.m. nominating committee meeting; Mon. — 9:30 a.m. Serendipity Bible study, 7 p.m.

Prayer Shawl meeting; Tues. — Capital campaign meetings, 5 p.m. prayer meeting, 6 p.m. exercise class, 7 p.m. leadership training meeting, 7 p.m. Stephen Ministry; Thurs. — 9 a.m. Tipp City Coffee group, 6 p.m. exercise class, 6:15 p.m. golf outing, 7 p.m. Hobart Urban Nature walking group.

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school for junior and senior high, 11-11:30 a.m. Sunday

school for 2 year olds through sixth grade; Mon. — 7 p.m. Shawl Ministry meeting.

RELIGION a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. evening service, 6 p.m. Patch Club — three years through grade six.

CELEBRATION OF LIFE 4100 Benfield Dr., Kettering, Phone: 298-1376 The Rev. Eunice Chalfant Sun. services: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

— child care available at both services, junior church available at 11 a.m. service only. Music: Kenny Rice of the Hathaways.

CENTER FRIENDS 8550 W. St. Rt. 571, W. Milton Pastor, Kerry Baker Phone: 698-3114 Church Phone: 698-5964 Parsonage Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship. Nursery provided.

Sunday — 10 a.m. services; Wed. — 6 p.m. Life groups.

FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CHURCH

5850 N. State Route 41, Covington 473-2128 COVINGTON UNITED Pastor Eugene Oburn CHURCH OF CHRIST Sunday — 9:30 a.m. morning 115 Pearl St. worship, 10:50 Bible study; Mon. — Pastor Rev. Howard Storm 6:30 p.m. AWANA; Wed. — 6:30 p.m.

Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 11 TRUTH. a.m. Sunday school. Handicap GOSPEL OF ABUNDANT accessible, nursery available.

LIFE CHURCH FIRST UNITED CHURCH 801 N. Market St., Troy OF CHRIST Phone: 524-6485 120 S. Market St., Troy Eric Burns, pastor www.firstucctroy.org Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday Interim Minister the Rev. school, 11 a.m. morning worship; Stephanie Haines Mon.-Thu. — Noon, prayer; Wed. — Sat. — 5 p.m. worship; Sun. — 9 CERTAIN TRUTH 6 p.m. Bible study; Thu. — 7 p.m. a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. wor- MINISTRIES Women’s fellowship every first and ship; Mon. — 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. GED; Meeting at the Troy Rec Center, third fellowship; Every third Fri. — 7 Tues. — 5 p.m. Circles of Hope; Wed. 11 N. Market St., Troy p.m. monthly youth activity; Sat. — 9 — 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. GED, 6:30 p.m.

Pastor Tim Kinder a.m. Men’s fellowship.

WOW for Kids; Thurs. — 7 p.m. choir (937) 216-6384 GRACE FAMILY WORSHIP rehearsal; Sat. — 11:30 a.m. ShareSunday — 10:30 a.m. worship.

CENTER A-Meal, 5 p.m. worship (chapel).

1477 S. Market St., Troy LOSTCREEK UNITED CHRIST LIGHT UNITY Pastor Howard Collier CHURCH OF CHRIST PRAYER CIRCLE Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday 7007 Troy-Urbana Road, Baird Family Center school, 11 a.m. Sunday morning Casstown 527 N. Market St., Troy worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible class, Pastor Jason Egbert Pastor Lisa Davis 7 p.m. Youth Bible Blast www.lostcreekucc.org Sun. — 7 p.m. Services.

HEARKEN UNTO THE KING (937) 857-9638 CHRIST MISSIONARY MINISTRIES Sun. — 9 a.m. adult Bible study, FREEDOM Pastor Tamara and Apostle 10 a.m. Sunday worship and chil602 W. Main St. Christopher Evans dren’s Sunday school.

200 S. Monroe St., Troy Pastor Tom Holley 332-8018 NASHVILLE UNITED Sunday — 10 a.m. prayer, 11 Sun.— 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, CHURCH OF CHRIST 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship, 5 a.m. worship service; Tues. — 6:30 4540 W. State Route 571, West p.m. youth, 5 p.m. new comers; Wed. p.m. prayer, 7 p.m. Bible study; Wed. Milton, corner of State Route 571 — 7 p.m. service.

— 6:30 p.m. Youth Rearching Youth and Wheelock Road.

CHRISTIAN CHAPEL service.

698-5867 or (937) 541-1041 Pastor Jessie Tipton HEARTLAND CHURCH Rev. Lynn Labs Ginghamsburg Meeting in One Call Now buildSun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, ing 10:30 a.m. worship service.

10:45 a.m. worship, 6:30 p.m. serv(937) 332-0041 PLEASANT HILL UNITED ice. www.TakeHeart.us CHURCH OF CHRIST CHRISTIAN FAMILY Pastor Ron Ecklebarger, 10 W. Monument St. FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY Associate Pastor Tracy Bodey Pastor Craig Showalter 1575 W. State Route 571, Tipp Sunday — 10:30 a.m. Sunday Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday City service. school; 10 a.m. Worship service Minister John F. Shroyer HERITAGE TEMPLE ST. JOHN’S UNITED Sun. — 10:30 a.m. morning felPastor Rod Dysinger CHURCH OF CHRIST lowship, children’s fellowship; Wed. Phone: 381-5186 130 S. Walnut St., Troy — 7:30 p.m. Bible study.

Contact information: The Rev. Dr. Keith Wagner e-mail to Handicapped accessible, nursery CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER PIQUA heritagetemple@yahoo.com or visit available Cinemark Miami Valley Cinemas the Web site at www.heritagetemSun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, ple.frewebsites.com 1020 Garbry Road 10:30 a.m. worship; Mon. — Singles: KOINOS CHRISTIAN Piqua, OH 45356 Tues. — 7 p.m. visitng ministry; FELLOWSHIP (937) 381-9753 Thurs. — 7 p.m. choir; Sat. — 7:30 722 Grant St., Troy joldham@clcdayton.org a.m. men’s community prayer breakPastor Johnathan Newman www.clcpiqua.com fast at First Presbyterian Church.

Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship celePIQUA CONGREGATIONAL Pastor James Oldham CHRISTIAN UNITED CHURCH Sunday — 10 a.m. worship serv- bration.

LAURA CHRISTIAN OF CHRIST ice Pastor Curtis F. Duncan 421 Broadway, Piqua CHURCH OF JESUS Sun. — 9:30 a.m. service, 10:30 Pastor William Hewitt 421 Wood St., Piqua a.m. Sunday school. Nursery providSun. — 9:30 a.m. adult Sunday Pastor Brian T. Hamilton ed. school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 4 p.m.

773-4004 LIGHTHOUSE HOLINESS Chells. www.churchofjesuspiqua.com UNITED CHURCH OF Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, CHAPEL Affiliated with Wesleyan Holiness CHRIST 11 a.m., worship service 108 S. Main St., West Milton Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Prayer; 7 p.m. Association of Churches 213 E. Water St., Troy Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, Bible study.

Phone: (574) 601-7758 10:40 a.m. church.

COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH UNITED PENTECOSTAL 1427 W. Main St., Tipp City 667-2710 SAFE HARBOR MINISTRIES Pastor Jeff Seekins 2464 Peters Road, Troy Pastor Tim Board, associate Phone: 773-1096 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday www.safeharbortroy.com school; 10:30 a.m. worship service; Pastor Simon Young nursery and children’s programs Sun. — 11 a.m. celebration serv- throughout the morning; ice and Kidz Church; Thu. — 7 p.m.

Wednesday — 6:30 p.m. family Christian development. night service for kids, teens and adults.

OTHERS LUDLOW FALLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH ALCONY GRACE Corner of Oak and Vine St. 1045 S. Alcony Conover Road Ludlow Falls Pastor Stephen Marcum Phone: 698-3823 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday The Rev. Jerry Collins school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m.

Sun. — 9:15 a.m. morning woryouth fellowship, first and third Sun., ship.

7 p.m. Sunday evening service; Wed. CORNERSTONE LIFE — 7 p.m. prayer meeting.

CHURCH BAHA’I FAITH 8527 N. County Road 25-A, Please contact 669-7962.

Piqua BIBLE MISSIONARY Pastor Ken Van Hoose 1003 E. Canal St. Sun. — 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.

Pastor Robert Lewis service; Wed. — 7 p.m. service.

Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, COVE SPRING CHURCH 10:30 a.m. worship, 7 p.m. worship; 5705 E. Walnut Grove Road Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer meeting.

Pastor Evan Garber CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH Sun. — 9:30 a.m. church school, NON-DENOMINATIONAL 10:30 a.m. worship hour.

Corner of St. Rt. 571 and Red COURTS OF PRAISE River-West Grove Road Open Bible Church Phone: 676-3535 410 N. Elm St., Troy Pastor Bill Cornett Pastors Richard and Bonita Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10 Pierce UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Justin N. Jessup, pastor Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. evening worship; Wed. – 7 p.m. worship, midweek prayer meeting.

LIVING HOPE WORSHIP CENTER 505 McKaigAve. Pastor — Linda Spicer Sun. 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship.

NEW CARLISLE SEVENTHDAY ADVENTIST 501 Dayton-Lakeview Road Elder Willis Adams Sat. — 9:15 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sabbath school.

REDEMPTION GOSPEL MINISTRIES 111 E. Canal St., Troy Pastor Michael J. Miles II Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. Morning worship. Tue. — 6 p.m. Bible Study.

SKYVIEW WESLEYAN 6995 S. Peters Road, Tipp City Pastor John Hughes, Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship service, nursery provided; Wed — 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7 p.m. Bible study.

SPIRIT LIFE CHURCH 8527 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua ST. JAMES COMMUNITY 702 Sherman Ave. Pastor Vickie L. Evans Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. celebration; Wed. — 6 p.m.

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STILLWATER COMMUNITY 7900 W. Sugar Grove Road, Covington Pastor Ralph Schaafsma Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. AWANA Club, Cubbies: Preschool Sparks: K-2nd grades, Truth & Training: 3rd -6th grades, Junior Varsity: 7th-9th grades SUGAR GROVE BIBLE 7875 S. Kessler-Frederick Road Tipp City (in Frederick) Phone: 698-4478 Pastor Larry Sneed Sun. — 9:30-10 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45-11:45 a.m. special music & worship service.

SYNAGOGUE ANSHE EMETH Monthly worship services; for dates or more information call 5470092.

TEMPLE OF PRAISE MINISTRIES 200 S. Monroe Ave., Troy Bishop — Roy L. Pirtle Phone: 573-9829 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. morning worship, 5:30 p.m. evening worship Sunday night every other week; Thu. — 7 p.m. Bible study THE CHRISTIAN WORSHIP CENTER One mile north of Christiansburg 3537 S. Elm Tree Road Cell Phone: 360-6046 or

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Home Phone: 788-2710 Pastor Jim Fannin Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning worship, 7 p.m. service; Wed — 6:30 p.m. teens.

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 475 W. Loy Road Phone: 773-3392 Grant Armstrong, bishop, 3397509 Sun. — 9-10:15 a.m. Sacrament meeting, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Sunday school, 11:15 a.m.-noon Priesthood meeting, Relief Society; Mon. — Family home evening; Wed. — 7 p.m. young women and young men activity night.

THE LIVING WORD FELLOWSHIP CENTER 947 North Market St. Pastors Gilbert and Phyllis Welbaum Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study, youth fellowship.

TROY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1440 E. State Route 55 www.troychristianchurch.org Pat McWhorter, Children’s Minister Caleb Christman, Student Minister Rob Campbell, Interim Worship Leader Sun. — 9:30 and 10:50 a.m. worship, children’s programs at both services.

Call 335-8731 about adult small groups and teen cell groups.

TROY GOSPEL TABERNACLE Long and Ellis streets Pastor Erv Holland Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, Sunday evening services 6 p.m.; Wed. — 7 p.m. Prayer meeting at Bible Study.

UPPER ROOM WORSHIP CENTER 203 N. 4th St., Tipp City Phone: 667-5585 www.theur.net Senior Pastor Greg Simmons Sun. — 11 a.m. Sunday worship celebration, followed by adult, youth and children’s ministries; Friday — 7 p.m. Celebrate Recovery, 12-step Christian program for hurts, habits and hang-ups.

Various small groups meet throughout the week UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH 1400 Seidel Parkway, Piqua (937) 778-8822 E-mail: uvcc@uvcc.org Web site: www.uvcc.org Sunday celebrations at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m.

WEST MILTON FRIENDS 47 N. Main St. Pastor Kerry Baker Phone: 698-2846 or 698-4549 Sun.— 9:30-10:30 a.m. worship.

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Pope praised Martin Luther in landmark visit ERFURT, Germany (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI made a landmark visit Friday to the monastery where Martin Luther studied before splitting from the Catholic Church centuries ago and launching the Protestant Reformation.

In a sign of how far relations have improved between the two churches in recent decades, the pope praised Luther for his “deep passion and driving force” in his beliefs. He didn’t announce any concrete steps to achieve greater unity among Christians, as some had hoped.

During an ecumenical service held in the monastery’s stone chapel, with soaring stained glass windows that date from even before Luther prayed here in the early 1500s, Benedict acknowledged there was talk ahead of the visit that he would come bearing an “ecumenical gift.”

But the pontiff told an audience including representatives of Germany’s Lutheran Church that such a belief was “a political misreading of faith and of ecumenism.”

Leaders from both sides of the church were quick to underline that the pontiff’s mere presence in the heartland of the

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Reformation was a key signal to how vastly relations have improved.

“It must be recalled that the pope has come to this monastery in Erfurt as a gesture that is an indication that he is fully aware of its meaning,” said Thies Gundlach, a deputy in the German Lutheran Church.

Nevertheless, expectations from the Lutherans remain high, as the community looks ahead to celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Castle church in nearby Wittenberg demanding change in the Catholic church that ultimately led to a split. German Lutheran leader Nikolaus Schneider told the pope “it is time to take real steps for reconciliation” and suggested Catholics join Protestants in marking the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

The pontiff started the day in Berlin with a private Mass and meetings with leaders from Germany’s Muslim community. He met with Jewish leaders on Thursday, before celebrating a Mass in Berlin that attracted some 70,000 faithful from across the nation and beyond.

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Seek some counseling, then come up with a game plan Dear Annie: I discovered that my 55-year-old husband of 35 years was texting, calling and receiving calls from a 27-year-old woman for a period of nine weeks.

Sometimes there were 200 texts in a day. I'm pretty sure she was sexting him, but I can't prove it.

When I confronted him, I discovered he was also having breakfast, lunch and dinner with her and sometimes going to her apartment for coffee. Even if there was no sex involved, it was wrong. I was sad, angry and devastated.

We talked about it, and he mentioned some things he needed me to change, and I agreed. He says he never touched her and promised to stop contacting her altogether.

Six months later, I found out she was still calling him. They also went shopping together, and she was seen in his car. He still says he didn't do anything wrong because there was no sex. I am beside myself. I am living with a liar.

I love my husband and want to stay married. He says the same, but how can we stay together when he won't take responsibility for what he has done? My husband has always been the most honest person I know, so this is completely out of character for him. He's also grossly overweight and bald. But he's financially successful, and this woman has money problems.

Please tell me how to get through to him. — Want Her Out of Our Lives Dear Want: You assume that this woman is only interested in your bald, overweight husband because of his money. You could be right. But he is interested in her for other reasons, and that is what you need to address. He is besotted and has no intention of leaving her alone. Even a temporary midlife crisis can damage your marriage permanently. Get some counseling — with or without him — and figure out your next step.

Dear Annie: My friends and family believe I am wealthy and at times have asked for loans that are never repaid. I am generous with people and have given money when it matters — once to get a family member into a treatment facility and another time to help someone who needed to sell their home.

My husband and I have saved and invested during our entire marriage, and I am continuing to do so in retirement. Now I have money challenges myself and really don't want to loan money, nor do I enjoy talking about someone else's financial problems. How can I tell people I don't want to discuss their bills and would rather have a different conversation? — Not Mrs. Gotrocks Dear Mrs.: By saying so and then changing the subject. It's OK to tell them, "I wish I could help you, but I am no longer in a position to do so. How are the kids?"

Dear Annie: Like "No Signature, Please," I also grew up with an abusive father and a mother who allowed it to happen.

I was in counseling for many years, and one counselor put things into perspective for me. He said I should think of my father as mentally ill.

This attitude allowed us to remain in touch for the remainder of his life and permitted my children to have a great relationship with him — one of the best gifts I could have given them.

Dad passed away 20 years ago. I can now look back and say that I am glad I was able to forgive him.

Now I am responsible for my elderly mother's care.

I sometimes have to remind myself that I am a better person because I am doing my best to protect her, although she never protected me. — Another No Signature, Please Dear Another: Bless you for choosing to take the high road.

You have obviously become a stronger person because of it.

Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Two ideas are worth more than a buck Dear Readers: Fifty years of Hints From Heloise in newspapers around the world! This week marks the anniversary of this column’s very first week of newspaper syndication by King Features Syndicate. My mother, the original Heloise (1919-1977), started writing her column in Hawaii when my father (and our family) was stationed there (1958-1962) with the Air Force. I thought it would be fun to revisit some hints printed in that first year to see how they hold up today. The following hint is one that I just love!

Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for more! — Heloise (the daughter, 2011) TWO IDEAS

Hints from Heloise Columnist Dear Heloise: One of my favorite ideas: If two people each had a dollar and exchanged them ... they would still have only a dollar each. On the other hand, if they exchanged ideas, they would have two ideas! — Doris Bond (1961) PET PAL Dear Readers: Joleen V. of

Keizer, Ore., sent a picture of her adorable Shih Tzu, Cuddles, who is 5 years old and a bit tired after playing with her new birthday toy, a stuffed cupcake. To see Cuddles and our other Pet Pals, go to www.Heloise.com and click on “Pets.” — Heloise DRY TOWELS Dear Heloise: I use a standing tree-style coat rack in my guest bathroom for overnight guests and their towels. Long ago, I sewed loops on my towels at the middle, along their lengths, for when I use them at the gym.

These loops will ensure that the towels don’t hit the floor, and they will air out more quickly. — Laura G., Springfield, Mo.

HELP! Dear Heloise: Almost all men think your column is only for women. Wake up, guys! I’ve been reading the paper for many years.

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HOROSCOPE Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 In the coming months, you’re likely to do far better in ventures or endeavors where partners or co-workers play limited roles. It’s likely to be a case of too many hands spoiling the pot. Do as much as you can unassisted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You should take care not to place your trust or confidence in someone who is always ready to gossip about absent friends. You can take bets that you’ll be his or her next victim.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Allowing your goals to exceed your capabilities could turn your efforts into nothing but a huge, major frustration.

Objectives you establish for yourself must be realistic and doable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — What starts as a casual discussion about an important subject could quickly become an argument with someone of a drastically different mind than you. Don’t take anything that seriously.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Unless there is parity right from the start, the greater burdens in a joint endeavor will fall on you. As soon as you figure this out, the chances for success are slim to none.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Just because your logic doesn’t perceive anything wrong doesn’t mean you shouldn’t follow your instincts, especially if they are consistently warning you that something smells fishy.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Be orderly and take things a step at a time when it comes to your work. A failure to be methodical and systematic could deprive you of the success you are seeking.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Don’t get in the middle when a couple of your friends disagree over something that is meaningless, even if you’re asked to mitigate the issue. Stay out of it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — If you hope to succeed, you need to guard against throwing in the towel just when victory is in sight. You need to stay the course and hang on to your towels if you ever hope to win.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re just asking for trouble if you take it upon yourself to correct friends or tell them things about themselves that they don’t want to hear. Play the game well by playing nice.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — There is every reason for you to expect to profit through traditional methods.

Conversely, thinking you can gamble a little in hopes of making a killing could dash all possibilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you have to deal with someone who always gives you a bad time, be smart and use an intermediary. It will probably be the only way you can avoid another confrontation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can avoid being victimized by a skillful manipulator by keeping your ego firmly in check. Unless you do so, he or she can use you by appealing to your inflated view of yourself.

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Congress hits impasse as deadline nears WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a week away from a possible government shutdown, lawmakers boxed themselves into a new budget impasse Friday.

With Congress’ approval ratings already at an all-time low, a tit-for-tat over disaster aid left Republicans and Democrats and the House and Senate in a faceoff that’s all too familiar to millions of Americans. Deep partisan disputes pushed the government to the edge of a partial shutdown in April, and to the brink of a debt ceiling crisis in late July.

On Friday, the Democraticcontrolled Senate blocked a Republican House bill that would provide stopgap federal spending, plus aid for people battered by hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters. The legislation also calls for $1.6 billion in spending cuts to help defray the disaster costs.

Democrats say it’s unprecedented and unfair to require

spending cuts to accompany badly needed emergency aid.

They are especially unhappy that the GOP measure would tap clean-energy programs credited with creating jobs.

Republicans say that with a $14 trillion-plus national debt, business-as-usual spending is no longer acceptable.

With elections coming, congressional Republicans suggest voters will find it outrageous that Democrats wouldn’t accept a mere $1.6 billion in spending cuts. Democrats are betting voters will find it petty and manipulative to let tornado and hurricane victims wonder if federal aid will be denied because lawmakers want to cut aid to automakers.

The parties’ feuding earlier this year prompted a rating agency to downgrade the government’s credit-worthiness, which sent shock waves through financial markets. Legislation finally did make it to passage to

raise the debt limit and stave off potential default.

This time, it’s possible that Congress will find a last-minute way to avoid a shutdown of many federal agencies when the fiscal year ends next Friday. The Senate plans to vote Monday on a Democratic bill that would not require spending offsets to release new money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA, drained by several severe storms, could run by next week, officials said.

In the Senate, however, GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is confident Republicans will block the Democrats’ counter-move with a filibuster. It takes 41 votes to sustain a filibuster in the 100member Senate, and the Republicans hold 47 seats.

If the GOP succeeds, the Senate could accept the House Republican bill it rejected on Friday. Or legislative leaders

could try to negotiate their way past the logjam. Congress was not scheduled to be in session next week, and House leaders said they don’t plan to call their members back to Washington.

The governors of four hurricane-damaged East Coast states including the Republican governors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania said in a statement that “federal assistance for the victims of storms and floods should be beyond politics.”

If the disaster relief agency runs out of money, the most immediate hardships could be felt by storm victims who need assistance checks to continue stays in motels and other temporary housing. Disaster victims could also face delayed aid for crucial repairs of house and structural damage, said FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen.

She said the disaster relief fund contained no more than $175 million, which is already

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committed to aiding victims of Hurricanes Irene and Lee and the heavy flooding across the Eastern seaboard.

Lawmakers are quarreling over deeply held principles but a minuscule amount of money in an annual discretionary budget of more than $1.3 trillion.

Early Friday, the House voted mostly along party lines for a spending bill to keep the government operating through Nov. 18. It provided $3.7 billion in new disaster assistance, partly offset with cuts in two loan programs that finance technological development.

House Democrats balked because the cuts included $1.5 billion for an Energy Department program that subsidizes low-interest loans to help car companies and parts manufacturers retool factories to meet new fuel economy standards. Democrats said it would cost up to 10,000 jobs.

Obama lets states opt out of federal education rules WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly everyone agrees the fix needs fixing. The No Child Left Behind law that was supposed to improve American education has left schools grumbling at being labeled “failures,” state officials fuming and complaints everywhere about required testing.

But President Barack Obama’s response on Friday — he’s allowing states to opt out — is starting a new round of heated arguments.

There are questions about whether letting states bypass unpopular proficiency standards will help the nation’s schoolchildren.

And, even as states clamor to use the new waiver option, some lawmakers say Obama is inserting politics in what had been a bipartisan approach to education.

At the White House, the president said he was acting only because Congress wouldn’t. He decried the state of U.S. education and called the “No Child” law a legacy of signature President George W. Bush’s presidency an admirable but flawed effort that ended up hurting students instead of helping them.

Obama’s announcement could fundamentally affect the education of tens of millions of children. It will allow states to scrap a key requirement that all children show they are proficient in reading and math by 2014 if those states meet conditions such as imposing their own standards to prepare students for college and careers and setting evaluation standards for teachers and principals.

Kids will still have to take yearly tests in math and reading, although the administration says the emphasis will be more on measuring growth over time.

The impact on school kids could vary greatly depending on how states choose to reward or punish individual schools. Under No Child Left Behind, children who attend schools deemed failures after a set period of time are eligible for extra tutoring and school choice. Under the president’s plan, it’s up to states granted waivers to decide if they will use those same remedies.

A majority of states are expected to apply for waivers, which would be given to those that qualify early next year.

State officials have long complained that if they had more flexibility, they could implement positive changes.

Now, they will have to step up and prove it.

“This is really going to change things because it really does put responsibility squarely on the states,” said Amy Wilkins, a vice president at Education Trust, a nonprofit that seeks to raise achievement standards in schools.

Officials from Kentucky, Idaho, Wisconsin and Colorado were among those expressing support for the president’s plan on Friday.

“I look forward to the federal government narrowing its role in education and allowing Tennessee the flexibility to abide by its own rigorous standards,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, said at the White House event.

But Rep. John Kline, RMinn., who chairs the House Education Committee, wrote in an editorial Friday published in The Washington Examiner that the plan “could mean less transparency, new federal regulations and greater uncertainty for students, teachers, and state and local officials.”

‘All My Children’ ends with cliffhanger NEW YORK (AP) — Tissues were on hand but there were few tears among two dozen soap opera fans gathered to watch “All My Children” sign off from ABC on Friday after more than 40 years.

That’s because the screen faded to black with a gunshot and a cliffhanger — an indication that the story may not be dead, even if the television series is.

ABC has licensed the story to a production company that is hoping to keep the “All My Children” going online after the first of next year.

Carolyn Hinsey, author of “Afternoon Delight: Why Soaps Still Matter,” organized a watching party at a Manhattan sports bar as a message to television executives who apparently think soap operas don’t matter anymore.

Two of ABC’s three daytime dramas, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” were canceled this year. That leaves only four soaps on network television, with “General Hospital” the only one on ABC when “One Life to Live” formally leaves in a few months.

TV executives consider soaps a losing cause, more expensive to produce than talk or reality shows and with a dwindling audience as more women work and their tastes change, even though the ratings for ABC’s two canceled programs have jumped in recent months.

“The soap fans are still there,” said Marie White, who drove in from Baltimore for the party.

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■ High School Football

• SENIOR BUS: As in years past, there will be a bus service to away football games for Troy football fans ages 55 and older. For more information, call 335-7742.

• GOLF: The fifth annual Troy High School Baseball Scramble will be held Saturday at Miami Shores Golf Course with an 8 a.m. shotgun start. The cost is $65 per golfer, and it gets you golf, lunch and door prizes. Interested golfers contact coach Ty Welker at welker-t@troy.k12.oh.us.

• BOWLING: Youth bowling leagues now forming at Brel Aire Lanes in Piqua. The season starts at 10 a.m.

Oct. 1, but please come at 9:30 a.m. to sign your kids up. Another signup will be held from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at Brel Aire. For more information, call Craig Miller at 615-0729.

• HOCKEY: Registrations are now being taken for the Troy Recreation Department Youth Hockey Initiation Program. The program is for the beginning hockey player ages 5-8. It’s an instructional program focused on basic hockey skills and includes one practice per week beginning this week. Rental equipment is available through the Jr. Hockey Parents’ Association. Please contact the Recreation Department at (937) 3395145 for more information. Register online now at www.hobartarena.com/registration_ho bart_arena.html.

• SOCCER: The Troy High School boys and girls soccer teams are planning a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts fundraiser event at the Troy-Piqua football game this year. Players will be helping to sell 400 dozen glazed donuts for $5 per box at various exits as fans leave Troy Memorial Stadium after the Troy-Piqua game on Oct. 7.

The proceeds will help pay for new soccer uniforms.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Football Troy Christian at Lehman (at Piqua HS) (7 p.m.)

Girls Golf Tippecanoe at St. Angela Merici Invite (1:30 p.m.)

Boys Soccer Tecumseh at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

Indian Hill at Tippecanoe (3 p.m.)

Brookville at Milton-Union (1 p.m.)

Newton at Lehman (1 p.m.)

Kenton Ridge at Piqua (TBA) Girls Soccer Troy at Lebanon (4 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Indian Hill (3 p.m.)

Newton at Lehman (11 a.m.)

Yellow Springs at Troy Christian (11 a.m.)

Fairborn at Piqua (TBA) Volleyball Troy at Centerville (12:30 p.m.)

Miami East, Lehman at Piqua Invitational (9 a.m.)

Covington, Bethel at Minster Invite (9 a.m.)

Dixie/Tri-Village at Newton (10 a.m.)

Yellow Springs at Troy Christian (12:15 p.m.)

Cross Country Troy Invite (9:30 a.m.)

Tippecanoe at Lancaster Invite (noon) Milton-Union at Bellbrook Invite (9 a.m.)

Miami East, Newton at George Rogers (9 a.m.)

Covington at TBA (TBA) Bethel, Troy Christian at Versailles Invite (9:30 a.m.)

Piqua, Lehman at Sidney Invite (9 a.m.)

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Troy’s Isaiah Williams runs the ball against the Beavercreek defense during Friday night’s win.

Taking them by surprise Aggressive late drive leads to Troy’s game-winning score

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com Steve Nolan even caught his players by surprise.

Up 28-21 with less than four minutes to play in the game, conventional wisdom — and Troy football history — dictated the Trojans would run the ball in an attemptto work the clock.

That’s when Troy quarterback Cody May dropped back to pass and hit receiver Ian Dunaway with a 25-yard pass. Two plays later, Marcus Foster ripped off a 24-yard touchdown run, putting

BEAVERCREEK Be sure to catch Sunday’s Troy Daily News for more on the Troy-Beavercreek game, as well as full box scores from all of Friday night’s action. the Trojans up 35-21.

Troy would hold on for a 35-28 win over a Beavercreek team that refused to quit Friday at Beavercreek High School. With the win, Troy improved to 4-1, while Beavercreek fell to 3-2.

“I was surprised,” said May, who finished the game completing 8 of 12 passes for 140 yards and one touchdown. “But I was happy I had another chance to make a play.”

Dunaway, who caught five passes for 103 yards — none of them bigger than that final catch — was equally in shock to find out the Trojans would be throwing the ball late in the game.

“I was so suprised, I lined up on

Troy’s Chris Blair (44) makes a tackle on a Beavercreek player Friday night. the wrong side of the field,” he said Dunaway, who also had a 9yard touchdown catch earlier in the game. “Then I didn’t think Cody was going to get the pass off.

I saw a whole bunch of guys closing in on him. Put he got it off and I just went up and grabbed it.”

It was a stark departure from Nolan’s typical coaching philosophy. In his three decades at Troy,

milking a lead by running the ball has been his forte.

“I don’t think anybody expected it,” Nolan said. “But what could we do? They were stuffing us on the run. We had to get another score there, because we couldn’t stopBeavercreek all night.”

As Nolan had predicted, Beavercreek did get the ball back and — after a long kickoff

returned — marched 59 yards to score with just 1:22 to play, cuttingTroy’s lead to 35-28. Nick Zimmer recovered his third onside kick of the game on the ensuing kickoff, however, icing the game for the Trojans.

Troy appeared to have the game wrapped up midway through the fourth quarter when, with Beavercreek driving, Beaver quarterback Justin Weaver made an errant option pitch, putting the ball on the turf. Trojan cornerback Seth Perdziola scooped the ball up on one bounce and raced, untouched, 78 yards for a touchdown, putting the Trojans up 28-7 with 9:12 to play in the game.

“I saw the play coming my way,” Perdziola said. “The quarterback tried to pitch to the halfback, but the halfback never knew it was coming. I got it on the first bounce and just took off.”

That appeared to be all the Trojans would need.

Appearances, however, proved to be deceiving.

The Beavers went 74 yards in less than two minutes, cutting the Trojans’ lead to 28-14.

Troy got the ball back, went nowhere and had to punt.

Beavercreek then went 83 yards in just 1:05, cutting Troy’s lead to 2821 with 4:04 left to play.

Zimmer recovered his second onside kick of the night, setting up the play from May to Dunaway.

All told, the two teams combined to score 35 points in the fourth quarter.

At halftime, the game was tied, 7-7.

“Beavercreek is a good team — give them credit,” Nolan said.

“They never quit, which we knew they wouldn’t. It was a dogfight

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East executes Big 2nd half leads to 41-10 Viking win

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com

Stewart has a chance in Chase Tony Stewart picked “idiot” as his word of the week at Chicagoland Speedway, where he used it to describe some of his rival racers and, kind of, himself.

The two-time NASCAR champion went into the first round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship certain that only seven drivers could contend for the title this year.

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After a lackluster first half, the Miami East Vikings simply did what they’d been trained to do.

Kept on believing.

After being held to only 83 yards of offense and trailing the Bees 10-6 after the first half, the Vikings (4-1, 4-0 Cross County Conference) executed their gameplan to perfection, scoring on their first five possessions of the second half and pulling away

BRANDT late for a 41-10 victory at Bethel.

“Our guys just believe in what we’re doing and competed at a high level in the second half,” Miami East coach Max Current said. “We knew we’d be in a war with Bethel tonight, but we felt that we could we could wear them down in the second half. We put some serious pressure on them, and our guys executed in the second half.”

And Kevin McMaken,

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Neinas takes the reins of fractured Big 12 12 to work, not just sit around until his successor is picked. He is not going to be considered a candidate for the permanent job.

“I am not a caretaker.

My mission is to bring the conference closer together and move forward and make progress in all areas,” Neinas told The Associated Press on Friday, adding he expects to be on the job six months or longer.

Neinas was Big Eight commissioner from 1971 to 1980. He left for the College Football Association, a confederation of schools that fought to take control of TV rights away from the NCAA. Oklahoma and Georgia had sued the NCCA over the

By the Associated Press Needing someone strong and savvy to mend the Big 12, the league has turned to a former Big Eight commissioner who also helped usher in the era of college football as big business.

Chuck Neinas, who is known across the college landscape as a smart consensus builder, will take over the Big 12 as interim commissioner on Oct. 3.

The Big 12 dumped former commissioner Dan Beebe on Thursday in a mutual agreement after the conference nearly fell apart for the second time in 15 months.

The 79-year-old Neinas said he is going to the Big

issue and federal courts ruled in favor of the schools, putting them in charge of negotiating television contracts that are now valued in the billions.

TV rights are NEINAS also at the center of the Big 12’s attempt to patch itself back together.

The nine remaining schools Texas A&M is planning to leave in 2012 have agreed in principle to give their TV rights to the conference for the next six years. That would essentially handcuff the schools to the Big 12 by making

them leave behind their TV rights and money if they break away or are poached by another league.

No contracts have been signed and the proposal needs approval of at least some school governing boards around the Big 12.

Beyond his business acumen, Neinas said it is his job to help mend hurt feelings in a league where he has many long relationships.

“I would like to see the same kind of atmosphere that we had in the Big Eight. It was family,”

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Neinas said.

After the CFA disbanded, Neinas founded a consulting firm that helped many of the Big 12’s biggest names land their jobs. His search firm helped Texas hire football coach Mack Brown and helped Oklahoma hire both football coach Bob Stoops and athletic director Joe Castiglione.

Neinas also hired current Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds as an assistant commissioner in the Big Eight in 1977.

Steven Hatchell, who was the first Big 12 commissioner when the league was formed in 1996 and is now president of the National Football

Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, has known Neinas since 1971.

He called him “ideal for what needs to be done.”

“He’s smart, intuitive and very experienced on these types of things,” Hatchell said.

Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer said Neinas is “respected by everyone” and has the skills to bring the biggest and smallest programs in the league in line.

“I see all these games on television every Saturday and I think about this: They wouldn’t be on television if it hadn’t been for us and for Chuck Neinas and Georgia taking on Goliath (NCAA),” Switzer said.

■ Golf

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Adam Scott watches his eagle putt attempt on the ninth green during the second round of the Tour Championship Friday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

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Ohio State running back Jordan Hall (7) runs for a first down as Miami Hurricanes linebacker Ramon Buchanan (45) defends during the first half Sept. 17 in Miami.

Bracing for the worst Everyone down on OSU except for Colorado COLUMBUS (AP) — On message boards and call-in shows, you can hear the dread, the disappointment and the discouragement from Ohio State fans.

A painful 24-6 loss at Miami last Saturday night has the Buckeyes faithful expecting the worst. Even though eight games remain on the schedule, and key suspended players will be returning soon, some fans are girding for a debacle.

They predict the program’s first losing season since 1988.

But not everyone sees impending gloom and doom for the Buckeyes.

Colorado coach Jon Embree, who brings his Buffaloes to Ohio Stadium on Saturday, benefits from being removed from the situation. He thinks the fans are overreacting.

“I know people are down on them around their program,” he said. “But to me, it is more that they have been so successful and they have done so well. And all

of a sudden they lose a game and it is supposed to change? I don’t see it.”

It’s appropriate that Ohio State’s coach is named Fickell. Buckeyes fans have been known to show their fickle nature.

Former coach John Cooper once cracked, “They’re with us, win or tie.”

That’s not to say that the Buckeyes don’t have problems. The quarterback job is an open sore after an abysmal passing performance (4 of 18, 35 yards, one interception) in the loss to the Hurricanes. True freshman Braxton Miller will get his first collegiate start against the Buffaloes, with Joe Bauserman backing him up.

But the Miami loss wasn’t all the fault of Bauserman or Miller. The wide receivers were covered like a fallen tent in a wind storm. The defense gave up a 54-yard run on its first play, and then surrendered touchdown passes to cap the first two pos-

sessions.

Ohio State (2-1), still awaiting three suspended starters’ return in two more games, has a lot of cracks and breeches to fix.

The Buckeyes are aware of what is being said about them. But they haven’t stopped believing.

“That’s how fans are,” offensive lineman J.B. Shugarts said. “Some fans are bandwagon fans, some fans aren’t. But Buckeye Nation is loyal for the most part and we’ve got some of the best fans in the country.

I would just tell them to have faith, this is Ohio State.”

He’s not the only one who thinks the school colors should remain scarlet and gray instead black.

“People are used to winning around here and so are we,” center Mike Brewster said. “They don’t take losing lightly and neither do we. That’s why we’re going to continue to keep getting better every day and make sure we

come out Saturday playing well.”

Interim coach Luke Fickell has stressed bouncing back to his charges.

“They know how you feel. It’s not like I’m going to hide my emotions from them,” he said. “But you have to move on. You got to take it a day at a time. If you try to look two or three or four weeks down the road where are you going to be at at this time? to me that’s when you kill yourself. It’s that every single day trying to focus on that day, having some patience with it, finding ways to get better, see yourself getting better as a team in everything that you do.”

Colorado (1-2) comes in with some momentum that it hopes to build on, a 28-14 victory over rival Colorado State last week Embree’s first win as a head coach at any level. Next week, the Buffaloes debut in the Pac12 or whatever the name or number of the conference might be by then.

Scott leads at Championship ATLANTA (AP) — Adam Scott is playing well enough win the Tour to Championship. With a little help, he could win a lot more.

Scott figured he was too far back in the FedEx Cup at No. 19 to have a realistic chance at the $10 million bonus. His main concern was heading home to Australia after this week with the crystal trophy from the Tour Championship.

His chances have changed, even if his focus hasn’t.

Scott finished birdiebirdie for the second straight day on the tough closing holes at East Lake, allowing him to recover from a rugged start for a 5under 65 on Friday and a one-shot lead over K.J. Choi.

He hit a 9-iron from a divot on the 17th to 7 feet, then hit a 3-iron into about 10 feet on the par-3 18th to finish at 8-under 132 and head into the weekend of the FedEx Cup finale with increasing possibilities.

“I’ve got to win, and I imagine Webb (Simpson) must have to finish pretty low to give me a chance,” Scott said of the FedEx Cup. “That’s all I know. I just figured if I win this week, I’ll be happy no matter what.

I’ll finish what I think has

been a really good season.”

Choi also had a 65 and will be in the final group Saturday with Scott.

Two shots behind were Luke Donald, the No. 1 player in the world and No. 4 in the FedEx Cup, who had a 68; and Jason Day, who was paired with Scott on a balmy afternoon and shot 67.

Bubba Watson had the low round of the day at 64 and was three shots behind with a pair of Presidents Cup hopefuls, Bill Haas and Keegan Bradley, and Hunter Mahan. Bradley, who had a two-shot lead, bogeyed two of his first five holes and never quite recovered in his round of 71.

Scott, who won the Tour Championship at East Lake in 2006 the year before the FedEx Cup was created, also had a scrappy start with three bogeys on the opening six holes.

“I was pretty annoyed at myself, but I’m playing too good to let myself flip away at the moment,” he said.

Scott proved that by running off four straight birdies, then adding another on No. 12 with a deft shot from a fairway bunker to about 8 feet that put him ahead of Day, who only six holes earlier had been five shots clear of Scott.

■ National Basketball Association

NBA postpones camps, cancels 43 preseason games NEW YORK (AP) — The lockout has started doing real damage to the NBA’s calendar.

Players won’t report at the usual time. The preseason won’t start as scheduled.

And more cancellations could be necessary without a new labor deal soon.

Out of time to keep everything intact, the NBA postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games Friday because it has not reached an agreement with players.

All games from Oct. 9-15 are off, the league said.

Camps were expected to open Oct. 3.

“We have regretfully reached the point on the calendar where we are not able to open training camps on time and need to cancel the first week of preseason games,” Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “We will make further decisions as warranted.”

The players’ association did not comment.

NBA.com’s schedule page, which has a banner across the top listing the number of games on each day, was changed Friday

morning to read “0 Games” for each date until Oct. 16, when there are four games.

Those could be in jeopardy, too, without an agreement by the end of this month or very early October.

The league scrapped the remainder of its preseason schedule on Oct. 6 in 1998, when the regular season was reduced to 50 games.

That remains the only time the NBA has lost games to a work stoppage.

The cancellations were inevitable after Thursday’s meeting between owners and players ended without

a collective bargaining agreement. Both sides still hope the entire regular season, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, can be saved.

The league locked out the players on July 1 after the expiration of the old labor agreement. Owners and players still haven’t agreed on how to divide revenues players were guaranteed 57 percent under the previous deal or the structure of the salary cap.

The next talks aren’t scheduled, but both sides said Thursday they hope to meet again next week

though the window could be limited because of the Jewish holiday. They probably need a deal by the middle of October to avoid canceling real games.

Asked Thursday if he thought things were far enough along to still believe that was possible, Commissioner David Stern said: “I don’t have any response to that. I just don’t. I don’t know the answer.”

According to NBA policy, ticket holders for canceled games will be refunded the cost of the ticket plus 1 percent interest.

The NBA had long prepared for a shortened or canceled preseason, declining to schedule exhibition games overseas for the first time since 2005 also when a labor pact was set to expire.

Still, the hope had been to find a way to negotiate a deal in time that would allow the ball to be tipped as scheduled in Detroit and Orlando on Oct. 9, the first of five games that night.

Realistic chances of that passed in recent days, given the expectation of about two weeks from a deal in principle to a completed agreement.

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SPORTS

Saturday, September 24, 2011

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■ High School Football FRIDAY NIGHT ROUNDUP

Tippecanoe Remains Undefeated TIPPECANOE — Tippecanoe gave Ben Logan a healthy dose of its three-headed monster in the backfield Friday, as Jacob Hall, Nick Fischer and Cameron Johnson — who provided the Red Devils with big-yardage gains on multiple occasions — all scored touchdowns in a 21-15 win.

Hall’s touchdown run from eight yards out in the first quarter and gave Tipp an early lead before

Fischer added another score from one yard away to give the Devils a 14-0 lead. Cameron Johnson scored Tipp’s last touchdown in the fourth on a 7yard pass from Ben Hughes.

Ben Logan scored all 15 points in the fourth quarter, scoring on a blocked punt, safety and a 40-yard run by its quarterback — but it was too little, too late.

“Any win is a big a big win,” Tippecanoe coach Charlie Burgbacher said.

“This puts us at 5-0, so we will keep working and get ready for next week.”

Bulldogs Come From Behind MIDDLETOWN — Madison scored 19 unanswered points on MiltonUnion following Jake Finfrock’s touchdown run on Milton’s first play from scrimmage that had given the Bulldogs a 7-0 lead.

But the Milton defense responded — and its offense came alive, outscoring Madison 28-0 over the rest of the game to cruise to a 35-19 win.

“We couldn’t even stop them in the first half— I’m not even sure if they punted,” Milton-Union

coach Bret Pearce said.

“It was long drive after long drive. But in the second half, our defense stepped up, and that was key.”

The Bulldogs roared back to a 21-19 lead by halftime behind long touchdown runs by Finfrock. Quarterback Cody Hollon also threw for a score to Clay Minton, while Tyler Brown’s touchdown scamper capped off the Milton comeback victory.

Covington Tops Tri-County North

■ TDN Game of the Week

COVINGTON — For the third straight week Covington faced a serious contender in the Cross County Conference title race.

And for the third straight week, Covington emerged unscathed.

The Buccaneers steamrolled Tri-County North — a team that turned heads with a lopsided defeat of Bethel in Week 4 — by a score of 35-7 Friday at Smith Field.

The Bucc defense pitched a second half shutout after leading 21-7 at half. Isaiah Winston had 14 carries for 154 yards and two touch-

downs, while fullback Alex Baskerville had 18 carries for 116 yards and two TDs, as well.

Trent Tobias put Covington up 7-0 early in the first quarter on a 14yard run.

Tigers Trounce Railroaders BRADFORD — Ansonia jumped out to a 16-8 halftime lead over Bradford, and the Tigers cruised to a 30-16 win from there Friday night.

No further information was provided at time of press.

■ High School Football

Vikes/Bees

Bethel’s James Pelphrey (28) is tackled by Miami East’s Michael Fellers after intercepting a pass Friday.

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■ Major League Baseball

Pirates outlast Reds in 4-3 win PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ryan Ludwick’s single in the bottom of the ninth drove in the winning run and the Pittsburgh Pirates came back from a blown save in the top of the inning for a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.

Ludwick’s fly ball to deep center field fell for a single and scored pinchrunner Chase d’Arnaud from second after pinchhitter Jason Jaramillo had doubled to left with one out.

Garrett Jones homered for the first time in more than a month for Pittsburgh (70-87), which reached 70 wins for the first time since 2004.

The Pirates had been a strike away from that elusive 70th victory, but closer Joel Hanrahan hit Todd Frazier in the hand with a

98 mph fastball, the eighth pitch of a dramatic at-bat with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth.

The blown save was Hanrahan’s fourth save in 43 opportunities.

Paul Janish had two hits and an RBI and Joey Votto had his 99th RBI for the Reds.

A year after winning the National League Central title, Cincinnati (76-81) is assured of its 10th losing season in the past 11 years.

Ryan Doumit had two hits and an RBI and Andrew McCutchen added two hits for Pittsburgh, which won for the second in its past seven games overall and second time in its past seven home games.

Pirates starter Jeff Locke was on a pitch limit and was lifted after 4 2-3

innings when his 80th pitch became an RBI double by Votto.

That left two men on, but Daniel Moskos got Jay Bruce to strike out swinging to end the inning.

Making his third career start, Locke was charged with one run, six hits and two walks.

Janish had an RBI single off Chris Leroux in the sixth, but Chris Resop, Tony Watson and Jason Grilli combined for two scoreless innings.

Pinch-hitter Chris Heisey started Cincinnati’s ninth with an infield single and Brandon Phillips followed with a single. After a fielder’s choice and a strikeout, Phillips and Drew Stubbs pulled off a double steal. Bruce was intentionally walked and Frazier was hit by the pitch.

Jones homered for the first time since Aug. 21 after Doumit led off the second with an infield single. Jones’ homer to rightcenter off Edinson Volquez was his 16th and traveled an estimated 458 feet.

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Troy’s Marcus Foster breaks free on a long run Friday at Beavercreek.

Trojans ■ CONTINUED FROM B1 from beginning to end.

At no pointdid we feel comfortable with our lead, no matter how much we got up.”

While May and Dunaway spearheaded the Trojans offensive attack most of the night, halfbacks Foster and Isaiah Williams also got in their fair share of carries. Foster carried the ball 15 times for 125 yards — his best rushing total of the season — and a

pair of touchdowns, while Williams chipped in 11 carries for 71 yards and a touchdown.

Ultimately, however, it was the pass — not the run — that sealed thevictory for the Trojans.

“That’s the challenge of coaching,” Nolan said. “You do what you have to do. You have to go with what works. If the run isn’t there, you have to throw the ball.”

No matter who it catches by surprise.

■ Major League Baseball

Thome goes deep in Indians’ victory CLEVELAND (AP) — Jim Thome gave Cleveland fans one more memory, and so did Carlos Santana, whose pinch-hit homer leading off the bottom of the ninth gave the Indians a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Thome went 3 for 4 with three RBIs, including a two-run homer, the 604th of his career, on a night he was honored in pregame ceremonies.

Santana, batting for Lou Marson, drove the first pitch from Matt Capps (4-7) over the wall in right center for his 26th homer, giving Cleveland its 17th home win in its final at-bat.

Chris Perez (4-7) pitched one perfect inning as Cleveland pulled out a dramatic

win for Thome, who has said he will wait until the offseason to announce whether or not he wants to return for a 22nd season in 2012.

Fans sat through a steady rain to salute Thome before the game, then gave the 41-yearold designated hitter a rousing ovation his first time up.

The cheers increased when he lined a runscoring double into the left-field corner, a twoout hit that got Cleveland within 2-1.

Matt LaPorta, who had three hits for Cleveland, tied it at 2 with an RBI double in the second.

Chris Parmalee’s tworun single in the first off Indians starter Justin Masterson gave the Twins a 2-0 lead.

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Bethel’s Jon Ellerbrock is tackled by Miami East’s Dalton Allen during the first half Friday at Bethel. found Reed Pelphrey for a first down, then Ellerbrock hit Austin Staggs on a 10yard slant over the middle to put the Bees on top 7-0.

Miami East answered on its first drive of the second quarter. Michael Fellers took a pitch around the left side and cut through a gaping hole in the line, winning a foot race to the end zone and going 36 yards untouched — but a blocked extra point kept Bethel ahead, 7-6.

After a punt by Garlough died at the 2-yard Miami East’s Dalas Thompson (52) stuffs Bethel’s Reed line, the Bethel defense held Pelphrey (32) on a run Friday night. and gave the Bees the ball at the Miami East 47. penalties, but we can’t fight 35 unanswered points after Ellerbrock showed his back from 70-80 penalty the Vikings recovered a escapability again, scram- yards — especially when Bethel fumble, scoring on a bling to his right and elud- they’re taking touchdowns 20-yard pitch. ing a pair of sacks then cut- away.”

Bethel had four threeting all the way back to the Snyder kicked off the and-outs and a lost fumble opposite side of the field for second half with a bang, on its first five possessions what appeared to be a 53- taking the same kind of of the second half — and the yard touchdown — but a pitch that Fellers had Vikings cashed in. chop block penalty wiped scored on 35 yards for a “We played with good those points off the board, touchdown to make it 12-10, emotion in the second half,” forcing Bethel to settle for a then after a Bethel three- Current said. “In the first 29-yard Garlough field goal and-out, Snyder capped off half, we kind of played with with 16 seconds left, giving a nine-play, 60-yard drive some bad emotions. When the Bees a 10-6 lead at the with a 3-yard touchdown we made mistakes, we got break. reception and a two-point down and mad, had some Bethel finished the game run to make it 20-10. negative emotions. But in with 11 penalties for 85 Miami East led 27-10 at the second half, we didn’t yards, and even though the end of the third after worry about our mistakes. they got points after it, the McMaken’s 24-yard burst We just executed.” wiped-out touchdown really through the middle, and Miami East faces hurt the Bees. after a bad snap on a punt Covington in a matchup of “We had a lot of penal- gave the Vikings the ball on the two top teams in the ties tonight that we hadn’t Bethel’s 2-yard line, he took CCC next week, while had all year,” Clendening it in on the Vikings’ first Bethel travels to Twin said. “They were aggressive play after. Fellers made it Valley South.

SPRINGFIELD

■ CONTINUED FROM B1 Michael Fellers and Josh Snyder were the primary executioners.

Fellers had the Vikings’ only score in the first half on a 36-yard touchdown run, as well as their final one on a 20-yard run, Snyder had the first two scores of the second half — a 35-yard run and a 3-yard pass from Colton Bowling — and McMaken was the workhorse, carrying the ball 21 times for 87 yards and touchdown runs of 24 and 2 yards.

“We just got our composure and played football like we know we can,” Current said. “The guys have improved this season by competing every down.

We never take a play off, and we always stick together.

“Our execution up front and in some other areas wasn’t quite there in the first half. But in the second half, the line was executing its blocks better, the backs were executing better — and we tackled better on defense.”

The Bees (2-3, 1-3) simply didn’t have the horses to keep up.

“Injuries and a lack of depth really hurt us tonight,” Bethel coach Brad Clendening said. “We had 13 kids out on Monday that weren’t eligible to play, so we were really depleted. I thought we outplayed them in the first half, but it was a different ballgame in the second half.”

Bethel captured the momentum early in the first half. James Pelphrey picked off a Bowling pass, giving the Bees a short field to work with at the Viking 28. On third-and-13, Jon Ellerbrock escaped the Miami East pass rush and

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14 September 24, 2011

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Brand New CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will have the Diet Mountain Dew brand on his car starting with next year’s Daytona 500.

The new paint scheme for NASCAR’s most popular driver was unveiled Wednesday.

Diet Mountain Dew replaces the Pepsi-owned brand AMP Energy that has been featured on the car since 2008. AMP will remain on the car next season as an associate sponsor.

Pepsi is the primary sponsor for Earnhardt in 20 races each year. The National Guard has the other 16 events.

The Mountain Dew brand has a strong history in NASCAR. It was most notably the primary sponsor of Hall of Fame driver Darrell Waltrip during his 1981 and 1982 championship seasons.

NASCAR SPRINT

NATIONWIDE SERIES

FORMULA ONE

INDYCAR

Sylvania 300 Site: Loudon, N.H. Schedule: Saturday, practice (Speed, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.); Sunday, race, 2 p.m. (ESPN, 1-5:30 p.m.).

Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway (oval, 1.058 miles).

Last year: Clint Bowyer won the Chase opener, taking the lead when Tony Stewart ran out of gas with a lap left.

Last race: Brad Keselowski raced to his third Nationwide victory of the season, easily holding off Carl Edwards at Chicagoland Speedway.

Next race: OneMain Financial 200, Oct. 1, Dover International Speedway, Dover, Del.

Singapore Grand Prix Site: Singapore Schedule: Saturday, practice, qualifying (Speed, 1011:30 a.m.); Sunday, race, 8 a.m. (Speed, 7:30-10 a.m., 35:30 p.m.).

Track: Marina Bay Street Circuit (street course, 3.148 miles).

Last year: Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso raced to his second straight victory and fourth of his five 2010 wins.

Last race: Scott Dixon won the Indy Japan 300, and Will Power finished second to take the points lead from Dario Franchitti with two races left.

Next race: Kentucky Indy 300, Oct. 2, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Ky.

S P R I N T

Big Donation CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bank of America Charitable Foundation is giving $1 million to education programs as part of a series of school initiatives linked to the bank’s sponsorship of the October race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Nearly two dozen nonprofits in the Charlotte area will split the money.

Bank of America is also sponsoring the Students at the Speedway program, which connects success in the motorsports industry with success in school.

TOP 10 RACERS: Sprint Cup 1. Kevin Harvick 2,054 2. Tony Stewart 2,047 3. Carl Edwards 2,044 4. Kurt Busch 2,043 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr.2,041 6. Brad Keselowski 2,040 (tie) Ryan Newman 2,040 8. Jimmie Johnson 2,038 9 Kyle Busch 2,035 10. Matt Kenseth 2,030 Nationwide Series 1. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.986 2. Elliott Sadler 972 3. Reed Sorenson 939 4. Aric Almirola 922 5. Justin Allgaier 905 6. Jason Leffler 859 7. Kenny Wallace 813 8. Steve Wallace 791 9. Brian Scott 778 10. Michael Annett 772 Camping World Truck Series 1. James Buescher 621 2. Austin Dillon 618 3. Johnny Sauter 615 4. Timothy Peters 601 5. Ron Hornaday Jr. 574 6. Matt Crafton 572 7. Joey Coulter 569 8. Parker Kligerman 567 9. Cole Whitt 566 10. Todd Bodine 556

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152 Red Bull Layoffs Coming LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Red Bull Racing expects to layoff 152 employees when it shutters operations in December.

Red Bull Racing filed a notice this week as part of North Carolina’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that the layoffs were expected by Dec. 17, 2011. Red Bull is a two-car team that entered NASCAR in 2007. The Austrian-based energy drink company both owns and sponsors the team, which presently fields cars for Kasey Kahne and Brian Vickers.

Kahne is moving to Hendrick Motorsports next season, and Vickers is in the final year of his contract.

Red Bull says the closure is permanent.

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Tony Stewart celebrates as he climbs out of his race car in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. Monday.

‘Total bumbling idiot’ Stewart finds self in running for Chase title CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tony Stewart picked “idiot” as his word of the week at Chicagoland Speedway, where he used it to describe some of his rival racers and, kind of, himself.

The two-time NASCAR champion went into the first round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship certain that only seven drivers could contend for the title this year. The way Stewart figured it, he was among the five drivers who had no shot at winning the Chase.

Asked what would happen if he actually did win the title, Stewart confidently said, “I’ll declare I’m a total bumbling idiot.”

It seems now as if Smoke might have been sandbagging just a little bit.

Stewart picked up his first win of the season Monday at Chicagoland.

The victory snapped a 32-race losing streak, extended his record to 13 consecutive years with at least one win, and, most important, rocketed him seven spots in the standings to second.

He goes to New Hampshire this weekend for Round 2 of the Chase trailing leader Kevin Harvick by

seven points.

He still wanted to hedge his bets in a subdued postrace news conference, but was willing to admit his Stewart-Haas Racing team has picked it up a bit over the last three weeks. It would be an understatement to say he was terrible at Bristol, where he finished 28th, down three laps from the leaders.

But since then, he was third at Atlanta, seventh at Richmond and then won at Chicago.

“I’ve had a miserable year, but the last three weeks we’ve really started coming into it,” Stewart said.

That’s bad news for the competition since SHR dominated New Hampshire in July. He and teammate Ryan Newman combined to lead 167 of the 301 laps, and Newman led Stewart to a 1-2 sweep for SHR. Statistics show he’ll likely have another strong run Sunday: In 25 career starts at Loudon, Stewart has two wins, 15 top-10s and an average finish of 12.0.

But, Stewart will have to make sure he’s not his own worst enemy.

He’s been grumpy of late, and while

the temperamental driver’s mood swings don’t usually raise eyebrows, his fixation on enforcing on-track etiquette could derail his title run.

It backfired on him earlier this season at Sonoma, where Brian Vickers intentionally wrecked Stewart as payback for Stewart’s enforcement earlier in the race. At the time, Stewart insisted he was not going to back off.

“I’m going to stay the course on it,” Stewart said. “I’m just to the point where I’m fed up with some of the way some of these guys are racing each other. If we miss the Chase because of it, so be it. There’s 42 guys out there, and they know how I race, they know what I expect. And I don’t race them that way, I don’t block guys and I’m not going to block guys. But if they block me, they will suffer the consequences.”

His rage flared up again Monday, when as the in-race reporter for ESPN, he referred to some “idiots” on the track and vowed to put an end to their lack of manners. Moments later, he bulldozed to the top of the track and stormed into the lead with an aggressive but impressive pass.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Helio Castroneves is not done lashing out at IndyCar steward Brian chief Barnhart, saying the official has “lost it” and is a “serious problem” to the series.

Furious with Barnhart’s decision to punish him after Sunday’s race in Japan, Castroneves has decided to go all out against the official and is not mincing words to express his disappointment.

The rant started with several strong-worded posts on his Twitter page after the race in Motegi, then became even stronger in a column published by a Brazilian newspaper on Tuesday.

“IndyCar has a serious problem and it’s called Brian Barnhart,” was the title of Castroneves’ column in the Metro newspaper.

“I acknowledge that (Barnhart) has done a lot for the series, but he has definitely lost it,” the three-time Indy 500 winner said. “It’s impossible to accept the decisions of a race director who is inconsistent, who issues different punishment to identical situations and who is condescending with some and harsh with others.”

Castroneves called “absurd” Barnhart’s decision to move him from seventh to 22nd place in the Japan race after he made a pass under yellow on the last lap. The driver acknowledged his overtaking maneuver was illegal, but said he should’ve received a one-spot penalty instead of being sent to the back of the field among those on the lead lap.

Castroneves said similar situations in the past prompted more lenient punishment from IndyCar. “Why does the race director do something like this when it comes to Castroneves but acts differently when it comes to other drivers?” the Brazilian wrote in his column.

Barnhart defended his decision and said there had not been any similar incidents of passing under a local yellow on a road course.

He said Castroneves was likely trying to draw a parallel to when the series reset the order under caution at Indy at the end of the last two races there, but said it wasn’t the same situation.

“It’s comparing apples and oranges,” Barnhart said in an email to The Associated Press. “As far as I know, since we have been road racing this was the only example of a blatant disregard of a local yellow, combined with a direct order from race control, that we have ever experienced.”

Bad breaks have hounded Hamlin all season long CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The first sign this wasn’t going to be Denny Hamlin’s year probably came before the season even started.

A bizarre mechanical issue sent Hamlin’s car sliding through the infield grass as he was getting up to speed on his qualifying lap for the Daytona 500. It was the first in a series of broken parts, bad luck and botched opportunities that have made this the worst season of his six-year career.

But the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship was supposed to be a fresh start.

Not so much.

Hamlin’s championship pursuit got off to a disastrous start Monday at Chicagoland Speedway, where he limped to a 31stplace finish. On a day when several title contenders were stuck with poor finishes after running out of gas on the final lap, nobody had it worse than Hamlin.

He went into Chicago ranked last in the 12-driver

field and left in the same spot. But he began the day only 12 points behind the leaders and now he’s a whopping 41 points behind Kevin Harvick.

Hamlin knew the gravity of his situation when he left the track, and he uncharacteristically declined to comment because, really, what was there for him to say?

A day later, he tried to put a positive spin on the road ahead.

“Obviously, not the way we wanted to start the

Chase,” Hamlin said Tuesday in quotes provided by his public relations representative.

“But we’re going to do our best to dig out of this.

We still have some good tracks for us coming up, and you never know what can happen.”

Indeed, he does.

Hamlin shifts to Round 2 of the Chase this weekend at New Hampshire, where his 7.2 average finish is best among active drivers. Also on the schedule is Martinsville (four

wins), Texas (swept last season) and Homestead (2009 victory).

The turnaround time this week is tight, but Hamlin needs to pick himself up and take the first steps toward climbing out of this huge hole. He can do it, too, if he follows the very words he spoke last week, before the Chase began.

“I know that everything that goes on from this point forward is a bonus for us,” he said. “Normally, we would not have a shot at a championship.”

SCOREBOARD

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division L Pct W 95 61 .609 x-New York 88 68 .564 Boston 86 71 .548 Tampa Bay 80 77 .510 Toronto Baltimore 66 91 .420 Central Division L Pct W 91 66 .580 x-Detroit 78 78 .500 Cleveland 76 81 .484 Chicago 69 88 .439 Kansas City Minnesota 60 96 .385 West Division W L Pct 91 66 .580 Texas 85 71 .545 Los Angeles 70 86 .449 Oakland 66 91 .420 Seattle NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct x-Philadelphia 98 58 .628 89 68 .567 Atlanta 76 80 .487 Washington 74 82 .474 New York Florida 71 86 .452 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 92 65 .586 86 70 .551 St. Louis 76 81 .484 Cincinnati 70 87 .446 Pittsburgh 69 87 .442 Chicago Houston 54 102 .346 West Division W L Pct 90 66 .577 Arizona San Francisco 84 72 .538 78 77 .503 Los Angeles 70 86 .449 Colorado San Diego 68 88 .436

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x-clinched division AMERICAN LEAGUE Thursday’s Games Minnesota 3, Seattle 2 Oakland 4, Texas 3 Baltimore 6, Detroit 5 Cleveland 11, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay 15, N.Y. Yankees 8 Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 3, 12 innings Friday's Games Detroit 4, Baltimore 3, 11 innings Cleveland 6, Minnesota 5 Boston at New York, ppd., rain Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 5, Seattle 3 Kansas City 11, Chicago White Sox 1 Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Minnesota (Duensing 9-14) at Cleveland (D.Huff 2-6), 1:05 p.m., 1st game Boston (Lester 15-8) at N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 11-8), 4:10 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-13) at Texas (Ogando 13-8), 4:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Guthrie 9-17) at Detroit (Verlander 24-5), 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Diamond 1-5) at Cleveland (Talbot 2-6), 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Kansas City (Teaford 2-0) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 7-12), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (R.Romero 15-10) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 11-7), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Moscoso 8-9) at L.A. Angels (J.Williams 3-0), 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Baltimore at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m., 1st game Minnesota at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 6:30 p.m., 2nd game Monday's Games Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday's Games N.Y. Mets 8, St. Louis 6 Washington 6, Philadelphia 1 Houston 9, Colorado 6 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Francisco 2 Friday's Games Atlanta 7, Washington 4 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia at New York, ppd., rain Colorado at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee 4, Florida 1 Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Atlanta (Beachy 7-2) at Washington (Wang 3-3), 1:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (R.Lopez 6-6) at St. Louis (Lohse 14-8), 1:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 14-9) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 8-13), 1:10 p.m., 1st game Cincinnati (Tr.Wood 6-5) at Pittsburgh (Lincoln 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Hammel 7-13) at Houston (Happ 6-15), 7:05 p.m.

Florida (Sanabia 0-0) at Milwaukee (Greinke 15-6), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 1-2) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 12-6), 7:10 p.m., 2nd game San Francisco (Surkamp 2-0) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 20-4), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 11-10) at San Diego (Harang 13-7), 8:35 p.m.

Sunday's Games Atlanta at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Colorado at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Florida at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 2:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Monday's Games Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota . . .202 000 100—5 9 0 Cleveland . . .112 001 001—6 11 2 Pavano, Dumatrait (7), Capps (9) and Butera; Masterson, Herrmann (5), R.Perez (6), J.Smith (7), Pestano (8), C.Perez (9) and Marson. W_C.Perez 47. L_Capps 4-7. HRs_Minnesota,

Parmelee (3). Cleveland, Thome (15), C.Santana (27).

Baltimore . . .102 000 00000—3 110 Detroit . . . . . .200 010 000 01—4 90 (11 innings) Simon, Ji.Johnson (9), Eyre (10), Z.Phillips (11) and Wieters; Porcello, Coke (8), Benoit (9), Valverde (10), Perry (11) and Avila. W_Perry 1-0.

L_Eyre 2-2. HRs_Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (27).

Toronto . . . . .003 011 000—5 6 0 Tampa Bay . .000 000 001—1 3 2 Morrow, Carreno (8), L.Perez (9) and Arencibia; Price, C.Ramos (7), D.De La Rosa (8), Howell (9) and Shoppach.

W_Morrow 11-11. L_Price 12-13.

HRs_Toronto, K.Johnson (3).

Seattle . . . . . .000 003 000—3 4 0 Texas . . . . . . .021 200 00x—5 9 0 A.Vasquez, Lueke (4), J.Wright (7), Ruffin (8) and Olivo; M.Harrison, D.Oliver (7), Uehara (7), M.Adams (8), Feliz (9) and Napoli. W_M.Harrison 149. L_A.Vasquez 1-5. Sv_Feliz (30).

HRs_Texas, A.Beltre (29), J.Hamilton (25), Gentry (1).

Kansas City .012 420020—11 18 0 Chicago . . . .000 000 100—1 2 2 Chen, Mazzaro (9) and S.Perez; Z.Stewart, Ohman (5), Frasor (7), Thornton (8) and Pierzynski. W_Chen 12-8. L_Z.Stewart 2-6. HRs_Kansas City, Hosmer (19), S.Perez (3), A.Escobar (4), Francoeur (20).

Chicago, Konerko (31).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati . . .000 011 001—3 11 0 Pittsburgh . . .021 000 001—4 8 0 Volquez, Chapman (6), LeCure (8), Bray (9), Masset (9) and R.Hernandez, Mesoraco; Locke, Moskos (5), Leroux (6), Resop (7), Watson (7), Grilli (8), (9) and Doumit.

Hanrahan W_Hanrahan 1-4. L_Bray 5-3.

HRs_Pittsburgh, G.Jones (16).

Atlanta . . . . . .300 030 001—7 11 0 Washington .010 002 010—4 12 1 T.Hudson, C.Martinez (6), O'Flaherty (7), Venters (8), Kimbrel (9) and McCann; Strasburg, Balester (5), Severino (5), Maya (7), H.Rodriguez (9) and W.Ramos. W_T.Hudson 16-10.

L_Strasburg 0-1. Sv_Kimbrel (46).

HRs_Washington, Werth (20).

Florida . . . . . .000 100 000—1 7 0 Milwaukee . .010 000 03x—4 8 1 Volstad, Hensley (8) and J.Buck; Gallardo, Fr.Rodriguez (8), Axford (9) and Lucroy. W_Fr.Rodriguez 6-2.

L_Hensley 6-7. Sv_Axford (44).

HRs_Milwaukee, Fielder (35), Braun (32).

FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 2 0 01.000 73 Buffalo 2 0 01.000 79 N.Y. Jets 2 0 01.000 59 Miami 0 2 0 .000 37 South W L T Pct PF Houston 2 0 01.000 57 Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 19 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 40 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 26 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 48 Cincinnati 1 1 0 .500 49 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 44 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 31 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 1 1 0 .500 58 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 45 Denver 1 1 0 .500 44 Kansas City 0 2 0 .000 10 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 2 0 01.000 50 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 51 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 62 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 42 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 64 Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 47 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 44 Carolina 0 2 0 .000 44 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 2 0 01.000 72 Detroit 2 0 01.000 75 Chicago 1 1 0 .500 43 Minnesota 0 2 0 .000 37 West W L T Pct PF San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 57 Arizona 1 1 0 .500 49 St. Louis 0 2 0 .000 29 Seattle 0 2 0 .000 17 Sunday's Games New Orleans 30, Chicago 13

PA 45 42 27 61 PA 20 46 29 61 PA 33 41 46 35 PA 58 52 45 89 PA 35 51 48 44 PA 55 61 47 58 PA 57 23 42 48 PA 44 43 59 57

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 10 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Singapore Grand Prix 11:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, "Happy Hour Series," final practice for Sylvania 300, at Loudon, N.H. 1 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Whelen Modified Series, at Loudon, N.H. (same-day tape) 3 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, F.W. Webb 175, at Loudon, N.H. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon ABC — National coverage, Notre Dame at Pittsburgh ESPN — North Carolina at Georgia Tech, Kansas St. at Miami, LSU at West Virginia, or teams TBA ESPN2 — Cent. Michigan at Michigan St. or E. Michigan at Penn St. FSN — SMU at Memphis VERSUS — Cornell at Yale 3:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Colorado at Ohio St. or teams TBA CBS — National coverage, Arkansas at Alabama ESPN — Florida St. at Clemson, Kansas St. at Miami, or LSU at West Virginia ESPN2 — Regional coverage, Colorado at Ohio St., Oklahoma St. at Texas A&M, or teams TBA FSN — California at Washington VERSUS — FCS, Florida A&M vs. Southern U., at Atlanta 7 p.m. ESPN — Florida at Kentucky or Vanderbilt at South Carolina ESPN2 — Vanderbilt at South Carolina or Florida at Kentucky 7:30 p.m. VERSUS — Nebraska at Wyoming 8 p.m. FX — Missouri at Oklahoma 8:07 p.m. ABC — National coverage, LSU at West Virginia, Florida St. at Clemson, or Oklahoma St. at Texas A&M 10:15 p.m. ESPN — Southern Cal at Arizona St. or Oregon at Arizona ESPN2 — Oregon at Arizona or Southern Cal at Arizona St. GOLF 1 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, TOUR Championship, third round, at Atlanta 2 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour, TOUR Championship, third round, at Atlanta TGC — European PGA Tour, Austrian Open, third round, at Atzenbrugg, Austria (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. WGN — Chicago Cubs at St. Louis 4 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, Boston at N.Y. Yankees or teams TBA 7 p.m. FSN — Cincinnati at Pittsburgh 8 p.m. MLB — Teams TBA SOCCER 7:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Everton at Manchester City Tennessee 26, Baltimore 13 Tampa Bay 24, Minnesota 20 Detroit 48, Kansas City 3 N.Y. Jets 32, Jacksonville 3 Buffalo 38, Oakland 35 Washington 22, Arizona 21 Pittsburgh 24, Seattle 0 Green Bay 30, Carolina 23 Cleveland 27, Indianapolis 19 Dallas 27, San Francisco 24, OT Denver 24, Cincinnati 22 Houston 23, Miami 13 New England 35, San Diego 21 Atlanta 35, Philadelphia 31 Monday's Game N.Y. Giants 28, St. Louis 16 Sunday, Sep. 25 Houston at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Denver at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Miami at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at St. Louis, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 4:15 p.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 4:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 26 Washington at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

The AP Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 17, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: ..............................Record Pts Pv 1. Oklahoma (37)......2-0 1,471 1 2. LSU (14) ...............3-0 1,424 3 3. Alabama (7) ..........3-0 1,402 2 4. Boise St. (2) ..........2-0 1,309 4 5. Stanford ................3-0 1,212 6 6. Wisconsin..............3-0 1,170 7 7. Oklahoma St.........3-0 1,092 8 8. Texas A&M............2-0 1,043 9 9. Nebraska ..............3-0 911 11 10. Oregon................2-1 899 12 11. Florida St. ...........2-1 896 5 12. South Carolina....3-0 891 10 13. Virginia Tech........3-0 830 13 14. Arkansas.............3-0 781 14 15. Florida.................3-0 669 16 16. West Virginia.......3-0 579 18 17. Baylor..................2-0 521 19 18. South Florida ......3-0 496 20 19. Texas...................3-0 402 23 20. TCU.....................2-1 273 23 21. Clemson..............3-0 272 NR 22. Michigan .............3-0 266 NR 23. Southern Cal ......3-0 260 NR 24. Illinois..................3-0 106 NR 25. Georgia Tech ......3-0 59 NR Others receiving votes: Michigan St. 42, Auburn 29, Houston 25, Miami 23, Iowa St. 19, Utah 19, Ohio St. 16, Maryland 15, Mississippi St. 14, Missouri 10, Arizona St. 9, Notre Dame 8, San Diego St. 8, Vanderbilt 8, Georgia 7, FIU 4, California 3, Navy 3, North Carolina 2, Tennessee 2.

Ohio High School Football Scores Friday Ada 48, Bluffton 44 Akr. Garfield 28, Akr. North 0 Akr. Manchester 63, Can. Timken 28 Akr. SVSM 17, Akr. Hoban 14 Alliance 49, Can. South 21 Alliance Marlington 35, Salem 7 Arcadia 30, Van Buren 20 Archbold 51, Swanton 0

Ashland Crestview 27, New London 13 Attica Seneca E. 41, N. Baltimore 6 Aurora 52, Orange 15 Avon Lake 28, Middleburg Hts. Midpark 0 Bay Village Bay 24, Vermilion 14 Beachwood 19, Independence 0 Bedford 12, Warren Harding 7 Bellevue 55, Tol. Waite 6 Bellville Clear Fork 17, Lexington 15 Beloit W. Branch 35, Carrollton 24 Berea 26, Amherst Steele 14 Berlin Center Western Reserve 46, Lowellville 6 Blanchester 35, Williamsburg 12 Bloom-Carroll 35, Lancaster Fairfield Union 12 Bowling Green 26, Sylvania Northview 14 Brookfield 34, Newton Falls 19 Brookville 28, New Lebanon Dixie 20 Brunswick 35, Garfield Hts. 34 Bucyrus Wynford 48, Crestline 7 Burton Berkshire 58, Richmond Hts. 8 Caledonia River Valley 60, Galion Northmor 6 Can. Cent. Cath. 45, Bedford Chanel 12 Can. Glenoak 21, Austintown Fitch 10 Can. McKinley 22, Massillon Jackson 14 Canal Fulton Northwest 28, New Philadelphia 7 Canfield 21, Day. Dunbar 7 Cardington-Lincoln 19, Delaware Buckeye Valley 17 Carlisle 53, Day. Northridge 13 Casstown Miami E. 41, Tipp City Bethel 10 Centerville 55, Springboro 17 Chagrin Falls 48, Chagrin Falls Kenston 28 Chardon NDCL 24, Tol. Rogers 0 Chesterland W. Geauga 18, Perry 10 Cin. Anderson 40, Cin. NW 21 Cin. Clark Montessori 47, Cin. Christian 0 Cin. Hills Christian Academy 22, Cin. Country Day 6 Cin. Indian Hill 10, Cin. Mariemont 7 Cin. La Salle 28, Cols. Watterson 3 Cin. Madeira 49, Cin. Finneytown 26 Cin. Moeller 27, Cin. St. Xavier 24 Cin. N. College Hill 20, Cin. Summit Country Day 0 Cin. Princeton 26, Hamilton 20 Cin. Sycamore 28, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 25 Cin. Turpin 42, Milford 3 Cin. Walnut Hills 31, Cin. Winton Woods 28 Cin. Withrow 49, Cin. Hughes 0 Cin. Wyoming 42, Reading 0 Clarksville Clinton-Massie 72, Washington C.H. Miami Trace 7 Clayton Northmont 40, Lebanon 33 Cle. Benedictine 42, Cle. Cent. Cath.

18 Cle. Hay 44, Cle. Lincoln W. 0 Cle. JFK 8, Cle. John Marshall 0, OT Clyde 54, Castalia Margaretta 7 Coldwater 36, Versailles 19 Collins Western Reserve 14, Monroeville 0 Cols. Beechcroft 50, Cols. Whetstone 14 Cols. Briggs 60, Cols. Africentric 20 Cols. Brookhaven 35, Cols.

Northland 14 Cols. Hamilton Twp. 49, Circleville 6 Cols. Linden McKinley 28, Cols.

Centennial 20 Cols. Ready 23, Coal Grove DawsonBryant 22 Cols. St. Charles 41, Cols. Crusaders

Saturday, September 24, 2011 28 Arlington 56, Cols. Upper Worthington Kilbourne 21 Cols. Walnut Ridge 53, Cols. South 0 Columbia Station Columbia 35, Medina Buckeye 6 Columbiana 33, Canfield S. Range 8 Columbiana Crestview 49, New Middletown Spring. 0 Convoy Crestview 46, Lafayette Allen E. 7 Copley 14, Macedonia Nordonia 6 Coshocton 41, Uhrichsville Claymont 14 Covington 35, Lewisburg Tri-County N. 7 Creston Norwayne 61, Rittman 7 Crown City S. Gallia 36, Reedsville Eastern 7 Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 22, Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 18 Day. Carroll 3, St. Bernard Roger Bacon 0 Day. Christian 73, Day. Jefferson 22 Day. Meadowdale 22, Day. Ponitz Tech. 2 Defiance Tinora 20, Sherwood Fairview 14 Delaware Hayes 24, Mt. Vernon 13 Delphos St. John’s 35, St. Henry 10 Dover 62, Tol. Woodward 0 Dresden Tri-Valley 55, Crooksville 0 Dublin Coffman 76, Galloway Westland 0 Eastlake N. 13, Painesville Riverside 11 Eaton 26, Day. Oakwood 0 Elida 35, Lima Shawnee 7 Fairborn 54, Sidney 14 Findlay 31, Tol. Cent. Cath. 7 Findlay Liberty-Benton 41, CoryRawson 14 Fostoria 13, Tontogany Otsego 9 Franklin Furnace Green 25, Fayetteville-Perry 18 Fredericktown 28, Danville 26 Fremont Ross 40, Lima Sr. 17 Fremont St. Joseph 44, Kansas Lakota 24 Ft. Loramie 41, Bronson, Mich. 0 Gahanna Lincoln 17, Lancaster 0 Galion 37, Bucyrus 7 Garrettsville Garfield 35, E. Can. 15 Genoa Area 38, Millbury Lake 7 Girard 55, Warren Champion 16 Goshen 28, Batavia Amelia 21 Grafton Midview 34, Rocky River 14 Granville 28, Newark Licking Valley 21 Green 27, Lodi Cloverleaf 20 Greenville 27, Paulding 20 Grove City 24, Groveport-Madison 21 Grove City Christian 42, Cin. College Prep. 14 Hamilton Ross 25, Morrow Little Miami 17 Hamler Patrick Henry 41, Metamora Evergreen 14 Hanoverton United 17, Lisbon David Anderson 7 Harrison 34, Trenton Edgewood 13 Hicksville 68, Antwerp 0 Hilliard Bradley 45, Cols. Franklin Hts. 12 Hilliard Darby 42, Grove City Cent.

Crossing 0 Hilliard Davidson 33, Thomas Worthington 0 Holgate 42, Defiance Ayersville 41 Hubbard 46, Cortland Lakeview 25 Hudson 26, Cuyahoga Falls 7 Huron 38, Sandusky St. Mary 12 Ironton 6, Gallipolis Gallia 0 Greeneview 14, Jamestown Cedarville 0 Jeromesville Hillsdale 42, Dalton 12 Johnstown-Monroe 56, Loudonville 35 Kent Roosevelt 35, Mogadore Field 21 Kenton 36, Ottawa-Glandorf 20 Kings Mills Kings 30, Cin. Glen Este 0 Kirtland 24, Cuyahoga Hts. 12 LaGrange Keystone 20, Brooklyn 14 Lakewood 20, Medina 15 Leavittsburg LaBrae 19, Campbell Memorial 14 Leipsic 41, Arlington 7 Lewistown Indian Lake 22, Bellefontaine 21 Liberty Center 34, Wauseon 0 Lima Bath 37, Van Wert 8 London Madison Plains 14, Greenfield McClain 7 Louisville Aquinas 48, Hudson WRA 21 Loveland 13, Cin. Mt. Healthy 7 Lucasville Valley 41, S. Point 8 Madison 28, Chardon 3 Mansfield Madison 27, Wooster 26 Mansfield Sr. 21, Orrville 14 Mantua Crestwood 19, Norton 12, 2OT Maple Hts. 36, E. Cle. Shaw 6 Maria Stein Marion Local 26, Anna 14 Marietta 14, Warsaw River View 9 Marion Elgin 28, Sparta Highland 27 Marion Harding 27, Shelby 21 Mason 44, Fairfield 6 Massillon Tuslaw 21, Wooster Triway 7 Massillon Washington 27, Akr. Firestone 13 Mayfield 14, Stow-Munroe Falls 7 McComb 58, Vanlue 0 McDonald 13, Leetonia 7 McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 28, Ridgeway Ridgemont 12 Mechanicsburg 14, S. Charleston SE 6 Mentor 49, Parma 0 Middlefield Cardinal 32, Newbury 14 Milan Edison 28, Sandusky Perkins 27 Milford Center Fairbanks 63, DeGraff Riverside 0 Millersburg W. Holmes 35, Ashland 31 Mineral Ridge 32, E. Palestine 29 Minerva 29, Louisville 26 Minford 41, Oak Hill 12 Minster 27, New Bremen 7 Mogadore 45, Atwater Waterloo 13 Monroe 18, Germantown Valley View 14 Mt. Orab Western Brown 48, BethelTate 7 N. Bend Taylor 20, Cin. Deer Park 19 N. Lewisburg Triad 21, Spring. NE 14 N. Olmsted 21, Westlake 14, OT N. Ridgeville 40, Willard 0 N. Robinson Col. Crawford 41, Lucas 14 N. Royalton 30, Elyria 14 Napoleon 56, Holland Springfield 7 New Albany 45, Pataskala Watkins Memorial 22 New Carlisle Tecumseh 10, St. Paris Graham 6 New Lexington 53, McConnelsville Morgan 0 New Richmond 33, Batavia Clermont NE 7 New Washington Buckeye Cent. 41, Mt. Blanchard Riverdale 6 Northwood 46, Gibsonburg 0 Norwalk 24, Delta 0 Oak Glen, W.Va. 14, Lisbon Beaver 8 Oak Harbor 28, Port Clinton 7

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Oberlin Firelands 20, Oberlin 0 Olmsted Falls 27, BrecksvilleBroadview Hts. 16 Ontario 41, Upper Sandusky 14 Orchard Lake St. Mary, Mich. 42, Cols. DeSales 21 Pandora-Gilboa 40, Dola Hardin Northern 23 Parma Hts. Holy Name 14, Parma Padua 7 Eastwood 52, Pemberville Bloomdale Elmwood 0 Perrysburg 21, Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 0 Philo 24, New Concord John Glenn 14 Plain City Jonathan Alder 41, London 7 Plymouth 28, Ashland Mapleton 13 Point Pleasant, W.Va. 42, McArthur Vinton County 7 Poland Seminary 10, Niles McKinley 7 Portsmouth 31, Chillicothe 24 Portsmouth W. 21, Chesapeake 7 Ravenna 35, Akr. Coventry 7 Ravenna SE 63, Windham 0 Richmond Edison 21, Rayland Buckeye 20 Rockford Parkway 36, Ft. Recovery 35, OT Rocky River Lutheran W. 28, Sheffield Brookside 0 Rootstown 41, Peninsula Woodridge 14 Rossford 28, Elmore Woodmore 26 Salineville Southern 40, N. Jackson Jackson-Milton 13 Sandusky 56, Tol. Bowsher 12 Smithville 45, Apple Creek Waynedale 0 Spencerville 42, Columbus Grove 38 Spring. Kenton Ridge 20, Spring. NW 7 Spring. Shawnee 35, Spring.

Greenon 13 Steubenville 22, Youngs. Ursuline 17 Strasburg-Franklin 35, Magnolia Sandy Valley 0 Streetsboro 42, Akr. Springfield 27 Strongsville 35, Parma Hts. Valley Forge 0 Struthers 40, E. Liverpool 0 Sugarcreek Garaway 56, Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 6 Sullivan Black River 34, Fairview 14 Sylvania Southview 45, Maumee 27 Tallmadge 35, Medina Highland 21 Thornville Sheridan 34, Cambridge 14 Tiffin Columbian 46, Tol. Start 14 City Tippecanoe 21, Tipp Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan 15 Tol. Ottawa Hills 48, W. Unity Hilltop 30 Tol. Whitmer 35, Tol. St. John’s 7 Toronto 22, Valley Wetzel, W.Va. 8 Twinsburg 48, Lyndhurst Brush 27 Uniontown Lake 42, N. Can. Hoover 14 Urbana 62, Riverside Stebbins 16 Vandalia Butler 34, Miamisburg 7 W. Carrollton 30, Oxford Talawanda 19 W. Lafayette Ridgewood 41, Malvern 20 W. Salem NW 35, Doylestown Chippewa 7 Wadsworth 42, Richfield Revere 0 Wahama, W.Va. 61, Waterford 8 Wapakoneta 21, Defiance 7 Warren Howland 50, Carrick, Pa. 0 Washington C.H. 43, Hillsboro 12 Waynesfield-Goshen 20, Lima Perry 7 Wellington 35, Lorain Clearview 12 Wellston 33, Proctorville Fairland 15 Wellsville 14, Sebring McKinley 7 Wheelersburg 33, Ironton Rock Hill 8 Whitehall-Yearling 15, Heath 8 Wickliffe 26, Painesville Harvey 19 Willoughby S. 36, Hunting Valley University 21 Willow Wood Symmes Valley 28, McDermott Scioto NW 17 Wilmington 35, Norwood 0 Wintersville Indian Creek 21, Bellaire 0

BASKETBALL WNBA Playoff Glance All Times EDT CONFERENCE FINALS Eastern Conference Indiana vs. Atlanta Thursday, Sept. 22: Indiana 82, Atlanta 74 Sunnday, Sept. 25: Indiana at Atlanta, 3 p.m. x-Tuesday, Sept. 27: Atlanta at Indiana, TBD Western Conference Minnesota vs. Phoenix Thursday, Sept. 22: Minnesota 95, Phoenix 67 Sunday, Sept. 25: Minnesota at Phoenix, 5 p.m. x-Tuesday, Sept. 27: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD

AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup Top 12 in Points 1. K.Harvick ...............................2,054 2. T.Stewart ................................2,047 3. C.Edwards .............................2,044 4. Ku.Busch ...............................2,043 5. D.Earnhardt Jr. ......................2,041 6. R.Newman.............................2,040 7. Bra.Keselowski ......................2,040 8. J.Johnson ..............................2,038 9. Ky.Busch ................................2,035 10. M.Kenseth............................2,030 11. J.Gordon..............................2,029 12. D.Hamlin ..............................2,013 NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

GOLF Tour Championship Scores Friday At East Lake Golf Club Atlanta Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,319; Par: 70 Adam Scott.........................67-65—132 K.J. Choi .............................68-65—133 Jason Day...........................67-67—134 Luke Donald.......................66-68—134 Bubba Watson....................71-64—135 Bill Haas .............................68-67—135 Hunter Mahan ....................67-68—135 Keegan Bradley..................64-71—135 Jason Dufner......................66-70—136 Fredrik Jacobson................70-67—137 Brandt Snedeker................68-69—137 Geoff Ogilvy........................69-68—137 Matt Kuchar........................67-70—137 Aaron Baddeley .................68-69—137 David Toms.........................73-65—138 Steve Stricker .....................68-70—138

16 • Troy Daily News • Classifieds That Work • Saturday, September 24, 2011

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100 - Announcement

125 Lost and Found FOUND! Beagle. Found on McKaig Avenue this past Sunday.

(937)573-9340

235 General C&C Mill Machinist 3-5 years experience.

Must do own setups and read blue prints. Will train Machinist trainee.

Must be motivated with good work ethics, math skills & mechanically inclined. Must pass drug & physical.

Send resume to:

FOUND, Chainsaw on 25A by Floral Acres Tuesday 9-13-11, Call Dave to describe (937)875-0176

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LOST: Ladies diamond, WalMart or Red Lobster area.

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TELEMARKETERS NEEDED NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Easy, fun work environment, Fill out application at: 71 Foss Way, Troy

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To advertise in the Garage Sale Directory Please call: 877-844-8385

Employment Plus is currently taking applications for the position of Assembler for a local Troy manufacturer. Positions are for 2nd and 3rd shift,must be able to train on 1st.

Applicants must be able to operate automated machines to produce a quality part, meet production targets and perform daily maintenance on the machines.

Ability to lift 10-15 lbs. regularly, follow safety instructions and have good communication skills. Must pass a preemployment drug screen.

These positions are temp-to-hire.

Interested applicants should contact: Employment Plus 7089A Taylorsville Rd. Huber Heights, OH (937)237-8514 FAX: (937)237-8519

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555 Garage Sales/Yard Sales

ANNA COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE! Sales in and outside of Anna. Friday 9-6, Saturday 8-2.

Furniture, appliances, wedding items, dining room tables, glass dinette set, wood chipper, lawn mowers, Wagner Ware, 3200 watt generator, pig collection.

TROY, 2555 Blackmore Court. Friday & Saturday 9-4. Oak bedroom set, desk, table and chairs, lamps, paintball, military, Wii, DJ equipment, bikes, keyboard, GI Joe toys, beer pong and ping pong tables, sofa bed, young men's and women's clothes, miscellaneous household.

COVINGTON, 22 West Broadway. Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9-6. 3 FAMILIES! Christmas items, regular and plus size clothes, figurines, antiques, bicycle, antique stove, lots of miscellaneous.

PIQUA, 202 Cedarbrook Dr., Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 9am-5pm. Moving Sale. Lots of tools, fine china service for 16, household items, Singer sewing machine in cabinet, lawn and garden tools, clothing, leather loveseat. No early birds!

PLEASANT HILL, 2285 North Rangeline Road.

Friday & Saturday 9-?

MULTI FAMILY SALE. 2 sets encyclopedias, model railroad magazines, raft with trolling motor, couch, chop saw, lots and lots of miscellaneous.

TIPP CITY, 556 West Dow Street, 9/22 & 9/23, 8am-4pm and 9/24 8am-9:30pm & 11:30am-4pm.

MultiFamily: Dishwasher, tools, kids clothes & toys, bird houses, camping, patio furniture, riding lawn mower, lemonade, much more!

TROY, 1109 Scenic Court. Thursday & Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-noon.

Furniture, surround sound, movies, music, books, games, puzzles, clothing, lots of miscellaneous!

TROY, 1291 York Lane.

Friday, 8am-6pm & Saturday, 8am-1pm. Large garage sale! Antique bassinet, pick up truck with hard cover, miscellaneous furniture, Playstation, XBox video game system with games, baby swing, bouncy seat and many miscellaneous items and clothing.

TROY, 1493 Sussex Road (corner of Sussex and Dorset). Friday & Saturday 9-5. Tools, compressor, weed eaters, cherry hutch (glass doors), golf club carry case & bags, books, picture frames, small appliances. Many Items!

TROY, 2370 & 2405 Rockingham, 1961 Laurel Creek (Shenandoah multi family), Saturday, 8am-2pm. Clothes, furniture, golf clubs, figure skates, wooden swing set and much more.

TROY, 2625 North Lytle (off Eldean). Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm. Welding rods, clothing, furniture, exercise equipment, tools and lots of miscellaneous.

TROY, 660 Garden Place.

Thursday & Friday noon-5, Saturday 9-noon.

Sofa, 2 chairs, 2 washers, dryer, cast iron skillets, miscellaneous.

TROY, 724 South Ridge Avenue. Saturday Only 9-5.

MULTI-FAMILY! Clothes, collectibles, kitchen-ware, linens, baby items, much more. No Early Birds.

TROY, 940 Dartmouth Road (Westbrook), Friday, 9am-5pm, Saturday, 9am-4pm. Boys clothes to 4T, Vera Bradley, mens Eddie Bauer leather coat, backpack leaf blower, crib mattress, lots of toys, video rocker, potty chair, Disney videos, Lightning McQueen toddler bedding, scrapbooking, miscellaneous, most under $2.

TROY, VFW - 2220 LeFevre Road. Saturday Only 9-1. Dishes, trailer jacks, holiday items, miscellaneous.

Zion Lutheran Church In Tipp City is looking for a Qualified Organist or Keyboarder to provide music for worship services and choir rehearsals.

for MIAMI & SHELBY COUNTIES

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CNC MACHINIST

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Contact: Zion Lutheran Church Office at 937-667-3110 from 9am to 12pm weekdays

PARTS COUNTER SPECIALIST Koenig Equipment Anna OH

HR ASSOCIATES

(937)778-8563 IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

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Apply: 15 Industry Park Ct., Tipp City, (937)667-1772

877-844-8385 We Accept

We are looking for a Parts Counter Specialist to assist customers with the purchase of replacement parts required to properly maintain their agricultural equipment.

Other duties include helping clients manage their parts expense through our stocking programs and handling machine down requests in an urgent manner.

We seek a personable self-starter who has a solid memory for both customers and parts.

Customer service experience in a parts environment and attention to detail skills are job requirements. Experience with John Deere equipment is preferred.

~DEPENDABLE~ Home Health Aides Needed in Miami County. Must have High school diploma or GED, have 2 good job references, and be career oriented. STNA or 1 year experience a must.

Every other weekend required.

Previous applicants need not apply.

SERIOUS INQUIRIES CALL BRANDI:

235 General

235 General

Sales/Marketing Local nursing/rehabilitation facility is seeking an experienced sales person. Ideal candidate will have 3-5 years experience in long term care sales, be a self- starter, aggressive in their ability to seek referral sources and developing rapport with physicians and hospital discharge planners.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills a must. Send resume and salary history to Alan Peczkowski Covington Care Center 75 Mote Drive Covington, OH 45318 Apeczkoski@adcarehealth.com

235 General

WANTED WANTED We are looking for drivers to deliver the Troy Daily News on Daily, Sundays, holidays and on a varied as needed basis.

Drivers must have: Valid drivers license Reliable transportation State minimum insurance

Please call 937-440-5263 or 937-440-5260 and leave a message with your name, address and phone number.

Your phone call will be returned in the order in which it is received.

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255 Professional

DRIVERS Immediate positions for full time drivers.

Dedicated routes home daily. Full benefits including 401K, dental and vision.

Paid vacations and holidays. CDL Class A Required. 2 years experience. Good MVR. Call (419)305-9897 DRIVERS WANTED

HOME DAILY, ACT FAST! • • • •

Great Pay Local Runs Off 2 days per week Health and 401K Must live within 50 miles of Tipp City, OH. Class A CDL with Hazmat required.

866-475-3621

300 - Real Estate

For Rent

305 Apartment

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

280 Transportation

(937)339-8200

For more information on the position or to submit a resume, visit: koenigequip ment.com/ contact/careers

275 Situation Wanted HOUSEKEEPING: Residential, commercial, mother/ daughter team.

Let us clean for you.

(937)214-7487, (937)214-4610

245 Manufacturing/Trade

TROY, 4309 East State Route 41. Thursday & Friday 9-6, Saturday 9-3.

Queen bed, rockers, antiques, crocks, jewelry, Christian books & music, stamps, magazines, Robo Raptor, Furbys, 101 Dalmations, bird cage, rabbit cage. FREE PILE!!

TROY, 5244 State Route 718 (2 miles past Concord School). Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9-5. Furniture, clothes, dishes, jewelry, outboard motor, water softener, reloader & supplies, lots of miscellaneous.

POLICY: Please Check Your Ad The 1st Day. It Is The Advertiser’s Responsibility To Report Errors Immediately.

Publisher Will Not Be Responsible for More Than One Incorrect Insertion. We Reserve The Right To Correctly Classify, Edit, Cancel Or Decline Any Advertisement Without Notice.

240 Healthcare

Hard hat plant. Training provided.

Competitive wage, 401(k), insurance.

TROY, 2884 Wooden Lane. Saturday Only 9-4.

Large sale with household items, clothing, kid's books, computer electronics, miscellaneous.

TROY 4635 Troy Sidney Rd. Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm, Barn Sale, multi family, tools, antiques, old magazines, gas kitchen range, single captains bedroom set, full size iron beds, wooden dining room table & chairs, Household items to numerous to mention

Troy Daily News

ORGANIST OR KEYBOARDER

E-MAIL:

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has openings in the Housekeeping Department Ideal candidates must be team oriented, with a great attitude.

APPLY IN PERSON 987 E. Ash Street BEHIND MALL

255 Professional

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom, Houses & Apts.

SEIPEL PROPERTIES Piqua Area Only Metro Approved (937)773-9941 9am-5pm Monday-Friday 1,2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS Troy and Piqua ranches and townhomes. Different floor plans to choose from. Garages, fireplaces, appliances including washer and dryers.

Corporate apartments available.

Visit www.1troy.com Call us first!

(937)335-5223

INSURANCE LIFE & HEALTH We are looking for a dedicated insurance professional to expand our policy holder base.

We provide classroom & field training, $1,200-$1,500 weekly income potential plus bonuses, advancement, stock ownership, and lifetime renewal income.

Call 440-292-6360 for a personal interview.

MOVE IN SPECIALS TROY, 2 bedroom townhomes, 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, ca, w/d hook up, all appliances, $685 1 Bedroom $400 2 Bedroom, 1 bath, $495 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, House, $850

(937)216-5806 EversRealty.net

255 Professional 260 Restaurant

Compliance and Data Manager The Council on Rural Services is seeking a highly-skilled, experienced Compliance and Data Manager to report on client progress and outcomes for participants enrolled in all Council on Rural Services programs as well as facilitate and manage agency wide data and processes that analyze department specific achievement indicators. Selected candidate will support the education focus and operations of the Agency by developing a working knowledge of State and Federal program performance standards. The ideal candidate must be energetic, hard-working, motivated, and reflect the leadership traits that support excellence throughout the programs. Must be skilled in the use of computer software for spreadsheets and statistical analysis and the ability to access, analyze and present gathered information in visually compelling formats.

Qualified candidates must have a Master’s Degree in Statistical Computing, Data Analysis, Business Administration or related field as well as thorough knowledge of data collection and analysis. Applied experience in assessment, statistics, and research methodology and supervisory experience is also highly desired.

Along with our excellent benefit package, we offer a minimum starting salary of $45,489 To apply please visit our website at www.councilonruralservices.org or send cover letter and resume to wmoorman@councilonruralservices.org 2221086

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for part time positions at Subway inside Circle K 3519 S. County Rd. 25A, Troy.

270 Sales and Marketing ✶ ✶✶ ✶✶ ✶✶ ✶✶ ✶✶ ✶✶

OUTSIDE SALES Troy Marriott Hotels is currently Looking for an Outside Sales Professional!

If you are a high energy self starter with a passion for meeting people and providing exceptional customer service, you may be what we're looking for Salary commensurate with experience

2 BEDROOM luxury townhouse for rent in Piqua, $540 monthly.

(937)985-1661 2 CAR garage, 2.5 baths, 2 bedroom. Kitchen appliances, dining room, laundry. Great area! $885.

(937)335-5440 3 BEDROOM townhouse with garage, fenced yard, $695 (877)272-8179 DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt.

FIRST MONTH FREE! 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms Call for availability attached garages Easy access to I-75 (937)335-6690 www.hawkapartments.net

Julie.isely@ceres development.com

MCGOVERN RENTALS TROY 2 BR duplexes & 2 BR townhouses. 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, fireplace, Great Location! Starting at $625-$675.

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305 Apartment

305 Apartment

305 Apartment

NEWLY DECORATED 3 & 2 bedroom apartments, Troy.

NO PETS. (937)778-1993 or (937)238-2560.

PIQUA, 2140 Navajo Trail, 3 bedroom townhouse, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, 1850 square feet, $975 month, one month's deposit. Available Sept.

15. (937)335-9096.

TIPP CITY. Luxury 2 bedroom, 1 car garage, C/A dishwasher, refrigerator, range, W/D hookup, cathedral ceiling. No pets. $650 monthly.

(937)216-6408

SEEKING mature individual to share lovely home in Huber. $495.

Utilities, cable, internet.

Penny (937)671-4518

TROY, 2 bedrooms, quiet cul-de-sac, 3470 Lilac Lane, Apt. A. NO PETS! $475/month.

Metro accepted.

(937)603-1645

PIQUA, Parkridge Place.

Roomy 2 bedroom, 1.5 baths, central air, washer/ dryer stackable, $500.

(419)629-3569.

TIPP/ TROY, new: carpet, tile, appliances, ceiling fans, lighting! SUPER CLEAN! A must see! No dogs. $525 (937)545-4513.

TROY, Clean, quiet, safe 1 bedroom. Senior approved. No pets. $450 (937)778-0524

305 Apartment

305 Apartment TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, No dogs $475. (937)339-6776.

TROY, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, appliances, CA, water, trash paid, $425 & $525 month. $200 Deposit Special!

TROY TOWNHOUSE, 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. Stephenson Drive. $475 month, Lease by 10-1, FREE GIFT, (937)216-4233.

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WEST MILTON Townhouse. 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath. $475 month, Lease by 10-1, FREE GIFT, (937)216-4233.

(937)673-1821

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2006 CHEVY SILVERADO LT

Extended cab, two wheel drive, 40,900 miles, automatic, 5.3 ltr. V8, ARE hard shell top, Ziebart Rhino liner. Asking $17,800.

(937)339-4434

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PAVING, REPAIR & SEALCOATING DRIVEWAYS PARKING LOTS

2217931

937-875-0153 937-698-6135

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(937)492-7199

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937-974-0987 Email: UncleAlyen@aol.com

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Mobile Veterinary Service Treating Dogs, Cats & Exotics

• Roofing • Windows • Kitchens • Sunrooms

• Spouting • Metal Roofing • Siding • Doors

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645 Hauling

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Residential Commercial Industrial

• Baths • Awnings • Concrete • Additions

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I am a debt relief agency. I help people file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code. 2214300

875-0153 698-6135

715 Blacktop/Cement

937-573-4702

Cleaning Service

COOPER’S GRAVEL

1983 YAMAHA 750 VIRAGO

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www.buckeyehomeservices.com

Sparkle Clean

• Specializing in Chapter 7 • Affordable rates • Free Initial Consultation

Red with white vinyl top, 6 cylinder, automatic, PS, new tires, and interior. Excellent condition. Locally owned, 50K miles. $5200 OBO. (937)335-7642

1986 GEORGIE BOY RV

715 Blacktop/Cement

660 Home Services

937-620-4579

1975 CLASSIC FORD GRANADA

Excellent condition! Only 6100 miles. $1750 OBO. (937)493-4633

Amy E. Walker, D.V.M. 937-418-5992

640 Financial

Emily Greer

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FREE ESTIMATES • Painting • Drywall • Decks • Carpentry • Home Repair • Kitchen/Bath

Candy apple red, excellent condition! Good tires, AM/ FM radio. Local owner. $5200.

(937)492-4410

715 Blacktop/Cement

BOARDING KENNEL

Horseback Riding Lessons

1963 CHEVROLET CORVAIR

1-866-700-8897 TOLL FREE

COUNTRY SIDE

For your home improvement needs

635 Farm Services

Bankruptcy Attorney

(937)339-2273

1-937-492-8897

675 Pet Care

or (937) 238-HOME

Roofing, remodeling, siding, add-ons, interior remodeling and cabintets, re-do old barns, new home construction, etc.

Gravel Hauled, Laid & Leveled Driveways & Parking Lots

1002 N. Main St. Sidney, Ohio 45365

in the Sidney Plaza next to Save-A-Lot

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V8, 93 engine, 7317 miles since update. Black cherry color, drivers side electric seat, automatic, electric front windows. Steel body. Asking $30,000 OBO.

Gutter & Service

1684 Michigan Ave.

Ask about our Friends & Neighbors discounts

•30x40x12 with 2 doors, $9,900 •40x64x14 with 2 doors, $16,000 ANY SIZE AVAILABLE!

DC SEAMLESS 2220750

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• Adults & Children ages 5 & up • Gift Certificates Available • Indoor and outdoor arena.

• Major Credit Cards Accepted Flexible Schedule Nights & Weekends 937-778-1660 www.sullenbergerstables.com

1934 FORD 4 DOOR

710 Roofing/Gutters/Siding

(937) 473-2847 Pat Kaiser (937) 216-9332

30 YEARS EXPERIENCE in the collection field.

Available on as-needed basis.

Fees based on receivables collected.

CURTIS PAINTING & HOME REPAIR Interior/Exterior Painting Commercial/Residential Svc. Vinyl Siding & Soffet Drywall/ Plaster Repair Carpentry, and Basement Remodeling Services Available Fully Insured 21 Years Experience

•Refrigerators •Stoves •Washers & Dryers •Dishwashers • Repair & Install Air Conditioning

2216962

All Types of Interior/Exterior Construction & Maintenance

2207902

APPLIANCE REPAIR

Handyman Services

625 Construction

Aluminum, with 9.9 mercury outboard; Minnkota electric motor; on Highlander trailer. $1600 (937)339-1146

700 Painting

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655 Home Repair & Remodel

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600 - Services

13 FOOT SEA NYMPH

35ft, AC, PS 90% Rubber, runs great, very clean, 80k miles, asking $5500.

Call (937)726-4902

Stone

TICON PAVING

New or Existing Install - Grade Compact

Free Estimates

Asphalt

Piqua, Ohio 937-773-0637

Install - Repair Replace - Crack Fill Seal Coat

2215668

1989 RANGER 362V Bassmaster Classic, $5000.

(937)572-9045

All signs lead to you finding or selling what you want...

1990 JAGUAR XJ6

Silver, 18-inch wheels, classic, good running condition, needs some cosmetics. $3500 OBO. (937)778-4078

RICK WITHROW WITHROW RICK (937) 726-9625 726-9625 (937)

1993 LINCOLN TOWN CAR EXECUTIVE SERIES

everybody’s talking about what’s in our

New tires, family owned, very good condition, 106,462 miles, very good gas mileage. $3000.

(937)773-5093

classifieds 937-492-ROOF Roofing, Windows, Siding, Fire & Water Restoration

BILL’S HOME REMODELING & REPAIR

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Need new kitchen cabinets, new bathroom fixtures, basement turned into a rec room? Give me a call for any of your home remodeling & repair needs, even if it’s just hanging some curtains or blinds.

Call Bill Niswonger

335-6321

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660 Home Services

Red, 181k miles, 4 speed with overdrive, good tires, good condition. $1650.

Since 1977

LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED

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1994 FORD EXPLORER XLT

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53k miles, ready for the road. $6200.

(937)492-4059 or (937)489-1438

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315 Condos for Rent

320 Houses for Rent

320 Houses for Rent

545 Firewood/Fuel

577 Miscellaneous

583 Pets and Supplies

805 Auto

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, refreshing newly renovated condo, new carpet & paint, large kitchen with open family room and fireplace! Attached 2 car garage, private backyard, appliances included, $825 monthly, (937)773-5761.

OPEN SUNDAY, September 25, 3-5. By owner, 445 Wilson Road, Troy. 5 acres, beautiful custom built, only 6 years old.

TROY For rent 2506 Inverness. 3 bedroom 1 bath, fenced yard, AC, Rent $715 monthly. For sale $88,900. Payment $700 per month. Owner financing.

Will Co-Op. (937)239-1864 Visit Miamicountyproperties.com

SEASONED FIREWOOD, $150 cord, $80 half cord, stacking extra.

Miami County deliveries only.

(937)339-2012

HOSPITAL BED, $150.

Adult potty chair, $20, walkers, canes, $10 each.

Lift chair, $75. Leather teal chair and footstool, $25. (513)850-3570

DACHSHUND 2 1/2 years old. Free to good home.

Email for further info. rachelhughes1982@hotmail.com

1997 LEXUS ES300.

178k miles, $5900. Excellent condition. All power.

Exterior color Oyster, leather seats, sunroof, alloy wheels.

(937)698-4758

320 Houses for Rent

PIQUA, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 car garage, 421 Street, $550 Summit monthly, $250 deposit, (937)214-0431.

330 Office Space

1604 BROOKPARK, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, gas heat, AC, small patio, no pets, (937)506-8319.

2 BEDROOM house, new carpet, carport, CA. $500 month. 1012 Manier Ave. (937)418-2520 PIQUA 3 BEDROOM, 2 story with garage, 1007 Greene St., Piqua. Near school and shopping. CA, gas heat, NO appliances. Renter responsible for: utilities, normal maintenance, lawn care. One month deposit, first months rent upon signing agreement. NO PETS or Metro! References required with rent application. $650 Month.

Send replies to: PO Box 920, Piqua, OH 45356 c/o Rental Mgr. Include phone number and where you can be reached.

PIQUA, 516 New Street.

2 bedroom double, $375 month, $250 deposit.

(937)214-0431 TIPP CITY, 2 bedroom house, garage, fenced yard, washer/ dryer hookup. $650. (937)667-6055 TIPP/TROY, 3 bedroom duplex, 2 baths, spacious, refrigerator/ stove, garage, Close to I-75. $850.

(937)470-3794

DOWNTOWN SIDNEY across from courthouse, professional office space, 3 offices, handicapped bathroom, 1260 sq. ft., AC, large reception area, $650 month, (937)489-9921

For Sale 425 Houses for Sale

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Central air/heat. Washer/dryer hook-up. $530 monthly plus deposit.

(937)339-0445

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Picture it Sold Please call: 877-844-8385 1997 FORD COACHMAN CATALINA RV

460 gas engine, slide-out, 34 feet, dual air, generator, new tires, 26K original miles.

(937)773-9526

LAWN TRACTOR, Huskee, 18.5 horse power, 48" mowing deck & 46" snow blade, runs great, $325. Call (937)773-7696.

BAR STOOLS. 2 high back, upholstered, light oak finish, $50, (397)335-5528.

METAL. Wanting anything that contains metal.

Will haul away for FREE. Call (937)451-1566 or (937)214-0861

DINETTE SET, 7 piece.

Round clawfoot table with extension leaf, 4 chairs, buffet and hutch. Medium oak finish. Excellent condition, $525, (937)335-5528.

POND, 250 Gallons, 18 inches deep, 7 foot round, new water pump, waterfall, fish, plants & winter heater, $250 (937)506-8309

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER, good condition. $50.

(937)773-9673

400 - Real Estate

TROY - Nice, newer 1/2 duplex home, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, (937)875-0595.

560 Home Furnishings

ONLY $100,000 for this impressive 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 story. 2 car garage.

New: kitchen floor, cabinets, counters, appliances. 1st floor master. Updated roof, windows, HVAC. Call Karen Ollier (937)545-3244.

500 - Merchandise

ROCKING CHAIR, table, 4 chairs, end table with drawers, entertainment center, free standing oak closet, race car toddler bed with mattress.

(937)335-8548

REWARD for the return of iron kettle with stand from 614 West High Street.

(937)778-8427 or (937)214-0884 SPRUCE TREES, Fresh dug Norway Spruce, White Pine, 3 feet-4feet $45-$60 each, planting available, (419)582-3505

570 Lawn and Garden LAWNMOWER, John Deere, 6hp Kawasaki engine, self propelled model JE75, Very good condition, $400 Firm (937)638-2358

GIANT SCHNAUZER, female, 9 months, shots up to date, spayed, microchipped, high energy dog!

Indoor home only, fenced yard, $350, (937)710-4203.

LAB PUPPIES, Parents on premises. 5 males, 1 female, $300 Females, $250 Males. ( 9 3 7 ) 6 3 8 - 2 7 8 0 (937)638-2781 PIT BULL puppies, females $150. Nice coats and markings.

Call (937)638-4038 or (567)712-1887 PUPPIES: Bichon Frise, Shi-chon, malti-poo, Carin Terrier, Schnoodle, Lhachon, Pug/Pom Mix. $100 and up. (419)925-4339

ORGAN, Theater Lowry console, in excellent condition, mahogany finish.

With two Leslie cabinets.

Make offer.

(937)773-2217

COMPUTER SET, Windows XP, loaded, CDROM, DSL Internet, USB. 90 day warranty on parts, $100. (937)339-2347.

545 Firewood/Fuel

CALENDAR, Miami County Quilt Barn 2011. $12 each, tax included.

Great gift idea. Call Bert Hensel (937)307-7032

FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up.

(937)596-6622 or (937)726-2780

CLOTHING, nice men's (L-XL), women's (size 9-10). (937)773-7504

515 Auctions

515 Auctions

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1997 GMC 1500

4.3 Vortex, V-6, 121,775 miles, excellent condition, original owner. $5000 OBO (937)335-2845

PIANO, Black and pink, antique Baby Grand. Asking $600 OBO. Needs tuned. (937)524-9114

CARPORT, All American Steel, 12 foot wide, 21 foot long, 8 foot high, brand new, call (419)738-4280 anytime

TREADMILL, Precor 9.2S, very good condition.

Displays: distance, time, speed, calories, incline, walking & running courses. Moving, must sell. Will consider all reasonable offers. $250 OBO. Call (937)570-8123.

592 Wanted to Buy CASH, top dollar paid for junk cars/trucks, running or non-running. I will pick up.

Thanks for calling (937)719-3088 or (937)451-1019

800 - Transportation

River Valley GUN & KNIFE SHOW

BOXER PUPS, AKC fawn, 3 males, 2 females, tails docked, dew claws removed, dewormed, parents on site, ready 9/25. $325, (419)852-8361.

Sat., September 24th 8:30-3:00 pm Sidney Shelby Co. Fairgrounds Call : 937-418-2179

1985 HONDA GOLD WING INTERSTATE with extras, second owner for 12 years. Moving, make offer. 27,000 miles, perfect condition. $4500 (937)416-6983 2001 LEHMAN-HONDA VALKYRE TRIKE with Eagle trailer & extras.

Built 2001 Honda VanWert. 8,700 miles. Original owner, have all receipts. $15,500 firm.

(937)416-6983 2004 TOMO Moped, Red, with bi-turbo, $550, 2006 Tomo Moped, yellow, with bi-turbo, $550 (937)773-8740

860 Recreation Vehicles GOLF CART 1994 Ez-go, 1 year old battery, charger, key switch, lights, back seat, winter cover. $2300 OBO (937)332-6925

583 Pets and Supplies BEAGLE PUPPIES Mom and dad are great rabbit hunters, Would make nice family pets. ADORABLE! First shots, $50 each.

(937)726-6089

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WEATHER

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Today

Tonight

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TODAY IN HISTORY 1788 — After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph.

1789 — Congress passes the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing a strong federal court system with the powers it needs to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and federal law.

The new Supreme Court will have a chief justice and five associate justices.

1862 — President Abraham Lincoln suspends

the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer.

1929 — The first flight using only instruments is completed by U.S. Army pilot James Doolittle.

1947 — The World Women's Party meets for the first time since World War II. 1956 — The first transatlantic telephone cable system begins operation.

1957 — President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal

troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated high school.

1960 — The Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

1969 — The "Chicago Eight," charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot, go on trial for their part in the mayhem during the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention in the “Windy City.”

Hospital drug shortages deadly, costly TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way.

An Associated Press review of industry reports and interviews with nearly two dozen experts found at least 15 deaths in the past 15 months blamed on the shortages, either because the right drug wasn’t available or because of dosing errors or other problems in administering or preparing alternative medications.

The shortages, mainly involving widely-used generic injected drugs that ordinarily are cheap, have been delaying surgeries and cancer treatments, leaving patients in unnecessary pain and forcing hospitals to give less effective treatments. That’s resulted in complications and longer hospital stays.

Just over half of the 549 U.S. hospitals responding to a survey this summer by the Institute for Safe

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This Aug. 29 photo shows a board listing drugs in short supply at the University of Utah Hospital, in Salt Lake City. At hospitals across the country, “scoring drugs” has taken on a new meaning. Hundreds admit buying medicines at exorbitant prices from “gray market” dealers taking advantage of, and possibly exacerbating, a record shortage of life-saving prescription medicines.

Medication Practices, a patient safety group, said they had purchased one or more prescription drugs from so-called “gray market vendors” companies other than their normal wholesalers. Most also said they’ve had to do so more often of late, and 7 percent

reported side effects or other problems.

Hospital pharmacists “are really looking at this as a crisis. They are scrambling to find drugs,” said Joseph Hill of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

A hearing on the issue was set for Friday before the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Food and Drug Administration is holding a meeting Monday with medical and consumer groups, researchers and industry

representatives to discuss the shortages and strategies to fight them.

The FDA says the primary cause of the shortages is production shutdowns because of manufacturing problems, such as contamination and metal particles that get into medicine.

Other reasons: Companies abandoning the injected generic drug market because the profit margins are slim.

Producing these sterile medicines is far more complicated and expensive than stamping out pills, and it can take about three weeks to produce a batch.

Making things worse, companies don’t have to notify customers or the FDA that they’ve stopped making a medicine. That means neither FDA nor competitors can fill the gap in time.

Only a half-dozen companies make the vast majority of injected generics. Even if other companies wanted to begin making a generic drug in short supply, they’re discouraged by the lengthy, expensive process of setting up new manufacturing lines and getting FDA approval.

Theft of prescription drugs from warehouses or during shipment.

Secondary, “gray market” vendors who buy scarce drugs from small regional wholesalers, pharmacies or other sources and then market them to hospitals, often at many times the normal price.

These sellers may not be licensed, authorized distributors.

Hospitals that buy scarce medicines from the “gray market” are taking a gamble.

The drugs may be stolen and hospitals can’t always tell whether a medicine was properly refrigerated as required for many injectable drugs or whether it’s past the expiration date, said Michael R. Cohen, a pharmacist and president of the institute. Either way, the active ingredient might have degraded and the drug might not work well or could harm the patient, he said.

Cohen attributes at least 15 recent deaths to drug shortages based on reports by medical personnel, but says many deaths and injuries go unreported.

Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet GENEVA (AP) — Physicists on the team that measured particles traveling faster than light said Friday they were as surprised as their skeptics about the results, which appear to violate the laws of nature as we know them.

Hundreds of scientists packed an auditorium at one of the world’s foremost laboratories on the SwissFrench border to hear how a subatomic particle, the neutrino, was found to have outrun light and confounded the theories of Albert Einstein.

“To our great surprise we found an anomaly,” said Antonio Ereditato, who participated in the experiment and speaks on behalf of the team.

An anomaly is a mild way of putting it.

Going faster than light is something that is just not supposed to happen, according to Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity. The speed of light 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) has long been considered a cosmic speed limit.

The team a collaboration between France’s National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research and Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory fired a neutrino beam 454 miles (730 kilometers) underground from Geneva to Italy.

They found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. That’s sixty billionth of a second, a time no human brain could register.

“You could say it’s peanuts, but it’s not. It’s something that we can measure rather accurately

with a small uncertainty,” Ereditato told The Associated Press.

If the experiment is independently repeated most likely by teams in the United States or Japan then it would require a fundamental rethink of modern physics.

“Everybody knows that the speed limit is c, the speed of light. And if you find some matter particle such as the neutrino going faster than light, this is something which immediately shocks everybody, including us,” said

Ereditato, a researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Physicists not involved in the experiment have been understandably skeptical.

Alvaro De Rujula, a theoretical physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside Geneva from where the neutron beam was fired, said he blamed the readings on a so-far undetected human error.

If not, and it’s a big if, the door would be opened to some wild possibilities.

The average person, said De Rujula, “could, in principle, travel to the past and kill their mother before they were born.”

But Ereditato and his team are wary of letting such science fiction story lines keep them up at night.

“We will continue our studies and we will wait patiently for the confirmation,” he told the AP. “Everybody is free to do what they want: to think, to claim, to dream.”

He added: “I’m not going to tell you my dreams.”

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