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Obama, Romney using ruling Health care action to help set core backers in election DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both are using the Supreme Court decision upholding the federal health care insurance requirement, loved by liberals and hated by conservatives, to rally core supporters in the most competitive states in the presidential race.

Reds top Padres 4-2 This is exactly the way the Cincinnati Reds wanted to play. After struggling for much of their longest road trip of the season, the Reds erupted to win the final three games of the swing heading into the All-Star break. All-Star Jay Bruce and Ryan Ludwick hit consecutive home runs, leading Johnny Cueto and the Reds past the San Diego Padres 4-2 Sunday.

Yet while each side may be benefiting from groundswells of volunteers and money, the ruling seems unlikely to sway the legions of undecided voters who are focused heavily on the economy — not on the health care debate that has raged in this country for years. As a result, Republicans and

Democrats alike say how the health care ruling influences a race that polls show is close will depend on how the campaigns use it to ramp up activity in the dozen or so states that Obama and Romney are contesting most aggressively. “Whoever gets the organizational advantage … that’s the real impact of the decision,” said Jesse Harris, who led Obama’s 2008 early vote effort in Iowa. “In a state like this, that could be decisive.” A week after the decision,

Democrat Obama’s campaign is pointing to swollen ranks of campaign volunteers, in places like Iowa and Michigan, who have been emboldened to protect the health care overhaul now that it has been declared the law of the land. Opponents had argued that the requirement that all individuals to buy health insurance was a constitutional overreach. “The law I passed is here to

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Portman one of few names to run with Romney Borgnine dies at age 95 He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined. Yet Ernest Borgnine won a woman’s love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonelyhearts roles in “Marty,” a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts. Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95, worked to the end. One of his final roles was a bit part as a CIA records-keeper in 2011’s action comedy “Red” fittingly for his age, a story of retired spies who show that it’s never too late to remain in the game when they’re pulled back into action. See Page 7.

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He takes the phrase “fiddlin’ around” to a whole new level. And, through his music, has entertained thousands of people in Miami County and beyond. Troy resident Carl Phillis — who celebrates his 90th birthday today — has spent the last 81 years of his life enjoying — and sharing — the sounds that come from his beloved fiddles. The oldest of seven children, Phillis said he TROY began taking violin lessons at age 9 through the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music while attending the Swift Run School, a one-room school house in Piqua. “Dad finally said, ‘We’ll let you go until we run out of money,’” said Phillis, a grand marshal for Troy’s Veteran’s Day parade several years ago. Then the Great Depression hit. “By then I had gotten 75 lessons in, and that was more than enough to learn the basics,” said Phillis, who volunteers for Hospice of Miami County. By age 13, Phillis had decided being a concert violinist was not for him — he wanted to play the same bluegrass music performed at square dances held on their farm

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outside Piqua. That same year he said he scraped up $20 and purchased his first fiddle — one that he continues to play today. Phillis, who said he enjoys all music, except hard rock — would later attend Piqua High School and play snare drum and violin — often taking a ribbing from classmates. “I took some needling in high school,” Phillis said of his love of playing bluegrass. “They called me a hillbilly.” After graduating, he married Betty Gump in 1940, and formed his first band, Buckeye Ramblers, in 1941, and played with them until he went into the Navy for two and a half years. He was stationed in the Aleutian Islands and had a band called the Attu Ice Cubes that entertained the troops. “We had to have something to do,” he said, simply. After his discharge, he came home and joined the band, Clover Valley Boys. They played regularly around the area and landed a steady job playing at a night club in Lima. His wife Betty and her sister, Dorothy, started singing together and won a talent show sponsored by a radio station in Dayton. They were known as the Sunshine Sisters and joined with the group. They had a radio show from 1947-1950 at WPTW and barn dance shows once a month at the former Schines Theater.

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A pivotal point in Phillis’ life came in 1948, when he was named the Ohio State Champion Old Time Fiddler and was eligible to compete in the national contest. He then was voted the No. 3 best fiddler in the nation at the Kentucky State Fair. He had offers to go professional, but decided with a wife and two children, Carl Jr. and Linda — who he affectionately refers to as “crum grinders” — to take a secure job with Hobart Brothers. He would work there for 47 years before retiring as the superintendent of the Welding Division in 1987. By 1949, he was playing square dance and round dance music known as 50-50 dance music and had learned to play the saxophone. They were booked steady at the Moose Lodge and had to join the musician’s union. They changed their name to Clover Valley Combo and changed their style of music.

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — He may be on Mitt Romney’s short list for vice president, but Sen. Rob Portman said Saturday that he did not travel to New Hampshire to meet with the prospective Republican nominee. The Ohio Republican told reporters that he hasn’t visited Romney’s New Hampshire vacation home — just 40 miles from where Portman headlined a state GOP fundraiser Saturday night — and has no plans to meet with Romney before he leaves New England. “I’m here mostly on a college tour with my daughter,” he said. “I have no plans” to PORTMAN meet Romney. Romney is in the final days of a weeklong New Hampshire vacation. He was largely focused on his family but also huddled at times with top advisers as the campaign considers announcing a running mate earlier than previous presidential contenders. Portman wouldn’t say whether he’s being vetted as a potential running mate, but his status as a top candidate is clear. The first-term senator fits Romney’s desire for a qualified team player who won’t overshadow him. Portman, who serves as Romney’s Ohio campaign chairman, said he doesn’t expect to meet with the former Massachusetts governor in the coming days, but will speak at “a couple of events” in Boston to benefit the campaign today. He said his goal is to help “raise money for the

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stay,” Obama said to applause in Ohio this week. Republican challenger Romney says the anger on the right has boosted fundraising in presidential battlegrounds, with millions in small-dollar contributions pouring in from conservatives who see the former Massachusetts governor as the last hope for getting the law repealed. “What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare,” Romney said last week in response to the ruling. Americans across the country, and in the most hotly contested

states like Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Virginia remain skeptical about Obama’s signature policy accomplishment. Several polls taken in the last year in key states show narrow majorities opposing the law and supporting its repeal. After reacting to the Supreme Court decision, both candidates quickly shifted their public rhetoric back to the economy — voters’ No. 1 issue. Meanwhile, their campaigns began using the ruling to fire up supporters online and in key states in hopes of signing up more volunteers and encouraging donations. In Michigan, callers at the phone bank in Obama’s Detroit campaign office and volunteers registering voters at nearby bus stops touted the ruling.

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Said John Hardy, a Detroit office volunteer, “It’s energized some people who support the president but were on the fence about helping.” Thousands of Iowans responded to a donation link included on a fundraising email from Obama’s campaign and, in what Iowa campaign activists say is an unprecedented figure, at least 1,000 people also responded favorably to Obama’s Iowa Facebook page after the ruling. “People are pretty darned excited,” said Nancy Bobo, a Des Moines Democrat and Obama campaign volunteer. In Nevada, where Obama is in a tough fight with Romney over a state economy that’s struggling to overcome double-digit unemployment, Democrat John Bruce Krausman said the ruling gives him

a bit more confidence that Obama can win. “It means for the country that we can move forward,” Krausman said. The ruling has served as a rallying point for Republicans, too. Iowa Republican John Stineman characterized it as “a gift to Republicans” and added: “You could tie a bow around it.” After the decision, Romney’s campaign reported signing up 1,500 new volunteers in swing-state Virginia last Saturday despite deadly thunderstorms that knocked out power to more than a million residents the night before. Republicans, who have the edge over Obama in fundraising, also pointed to the money that has rolled in since the court’s June 28 decision.

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The 2013 budget was adopted by Monroe Township Trustees at their July 2 meeting with estimated resources equaling $2,135,290. This is a decrease of $166,851 from the 2012 estimated resources of $2,302,141. The board also approved bill payment thus far this month totaling $73,097.72, and accepted the financial status report ending June 2012 and the bank reconciliation for May 31, as presented by the township fiscal officer. Residents are reminded the township’s monthly recycling event will be from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, at the Michaels Road maintenance facility. The only accepted recyclables include tin, aluminum, glass, plastic, paper and cardboard. In response to recent calls by residents in the unincorporated areas of Monroe Township about debris and downed brush caused in recent storms, individuals are advised that Miami County Recycling Center is accepting such items for a fee. This recycling area is located on North County Road 25-A, just past the Miami County Fairgrounds in Troy. The township staff has been steadily cleaning up multiple township roadways and township properties from fallen tree limbs and debris blown down during this weekend’s heavy wind and rain storms. Meetings noted as being

held in the township building next week include the Monroe Township Water and Sewer District at 6 p.m. today in the township’s meeting room; the Miami Soil and Water Conservation District from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, in the township meeting room as a follow-up on a tile repair issue; and the Miami County Sanitary Engineers meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the basement of the township building about a storm water/sanitary sewer issue in Evanston Estates. In reports it was noted that the Miami Soil and Water Conservation District will station an information tent at the Miami County Fair in August and one at the Tipp City Mum Festival in September to provide information about the joint efforts of Monroe Township and their agency regarding water quality issues. Also, after a recent water quality mailed survey was deemed low in participation, another survey was sent out on the email address list by Tipp Monroe Community Services. Additionally noted are future plans by Community Services to offer a fall term public education and involvement program entitled “How to Flush Your Well to Maintain Clean, Healthy Drinking Water.” A date will be announced later. The next trustees’ meeting is set for 7 p.m. July 16.

Phillis — who has recorded playing with 14 different bands throughout the years — continues to play and is now a Piano and drums were added and they included pop music, polkas, waltzes member of Rum River Blend, with Chris and Linda Tatarian, and in a band called and big dance band types along with God’s Country. He also continues to persquare dancing. Betty — who Phillis form at area nursing homes, churches, would later care for at home until her festivals and the Miami County Fair, death from Alzheimer’s disease in 1999 — became the the vocalist for the group. where he got to meet fellow fiddler The band played for more than 25 years Charlie Daniels a few years ago. Crowd favorites often requested — often playing two to three nights a include “Black Mountain Rag” and week within a 200-mile radius of Troy. “Orange Blossom Special,” he said. Carl Jr., who is deceased, followed in “I told Linda (Tatarian), when my his father’s footsteps, and had his own arthritis just gets too bad and they aren’t band, The Ramblers, which Phillis also played in. The father-son duo eventually getting jobs because of me anymore, just to let me know,” Phillis said jokingly. started a band together called Country The longtime musician, who also Aires. Of his eight granddaughters, 18 great- retired in 2011 as a professor of bluegrandchildren and 14 great-great-grand- grass fiddle music at Sinclair College in Dayton, said he will continue to play children, none caught Phillis’ musical until he no longer can. bug for playing the fiddle, he said. “Music is universal,” Phillis said. “I However, a great-great-nephew takes lessons every other week from Phillis, much just get a kick out of playing good music and having people listen to it.” to his pleasure.

List • CONTINUED FROM A1 campaign and also doing whatever I can to help the victory effort.” Portman is a longtime congressman who served as a trade representative and top budget official in the George W. Bush admin-

we had deficits that we would die for today.” He has played an active role in several presidential campaigns, most recently as the debate partner for the 2008 GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain. “I want to help in any way I can,” he said.

More schools moving toward utilizing same sex classrooms MIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) — Robin Gilbert didn’t set out to confront gender stereotypes when she split up the boys and girls at her elementary school in rural southwestern Idaho. But that’s exactly what happened, with her Middleton Heights Elementary now among dozens of public schools nationwide being targeted

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by the American Civil Liberties Union in a bitter struggle over whether single-sex learning should be continued. Under pressure, single-sex programs have been dropped at schools from Missouri to Louisiana. “It doesn’t frustrate me,” Gilbert said of the criticism, “but it makes the work harder.” While Gilbert’s school is believed to be the only one in Idaho offering single-sex classes, the movement is widespread in states like South Carolina, which has more than 100 schools that offer some form of a single-gender program. Single-sex classes began proliferating after the U.S. Education Department relaxed restrictions in 2006. With research showing boys, particularly minority

boys, are graduating at lower rates than girls and faring worse on tests, plenty of schools were paying attention. In 2002, only about a dozen schools were separating the sexes, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, an advocacy group. Now, an estimated 500 public schools across the country offer some allboy and all-girl classrooms. Proponents argue the separation allows for a tailored instruction and cuts down on gender-driven distractions among boys and girls, such as flirting. But critics decry the movement as promoting harmful gender stereotypes and depriving kids of equal educational opportunities.

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• SOCIETY TO MEET: FRIDAY The Covington Newberry Historical Society will Community meet at 7 p.m. at the Fort • CONCERT SERIES: Rowdy Museum, 101 Troy’s Summer Concert Calendar Pearl St. For more inforSeries continues with The mation, call 473-2270. Fries Band at 7:30 p.m. on CONTACT US • BOOK SPINE Prouty Plaza in downtown POETRY: Looking for a Troy. The Fries Band is an new creative writing exeracoustic-driven band that cise? Learn about the focuses on vocal harmonies Call Melody endless possibilities with to reproduce the sounds of Vallieu at book spine poetry at 6:30 the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. 440-5265 to p.m. at the Troy-Miami Guests should bring chairs County Library. The poetor blankets for seating. The list your free ry workshop group will rain location is Troy Christian calendar browse the bookshelves High School located at 700 items.You in the library and S. Dorset Road. Visit rearrange the spines of www.troymainstreet.org or can send book titles to create new call 339-5455 the day of the your news by e-mail to poetry. Play with the concert for location informavallieu@tdnpublishing.com. tion in the event of rain. sounds of words and select books on a sug• MOM AND BABY: A gested theme or create Mom and Baby Get Together your own. When particisupport group for breastpants are finished, staff will take photos feeding mothers will be from 9:30-11 a.m. of the poems and post them on the webat the Farmhouse located northwest of the site. main hospital entrance. The meetings are • NOON OPTIMIST: The Troy Noon facilitated by the lactation department. Optimist will meet at noon at the Tin Roof Participants can meet other moms, share restaurant, 439 N. Elm St., Troy. The about being a new mother and learn more speaker will be Kirt Wright of the Troy about breastfeeding and their babies. For D.A.R.E. program. more information, call 440-4906. • LOADED POTATO: The American Legion Post 586, Tipp City, will offer a JULY 13-15 loaded baked potato for $3.50, salad bar for $3.50 or $6 for both from 6-7:30 p.m. • ART SHOW: Thirty-three exhibitors • BOE MEETING: The Miami East will take part in the sixth annual art show in Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. at the activity center at Hoffman United the high school. Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Civic agendas Milton, Friday through Sunday. A silent auc• The Tipp City Parks Advisory tion, open to the public and featuring Committee will meet at 7 p.m. at the Tipp pieces provided by the artists, will take City Government Center. place during the preview party on Friday, • Covington Village Council will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The bidding will end at at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. 8 p.m. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. • The Police and Fire Committee of Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Village Council will meet at 6 p.m. prior to the council meeting. JULY 14-15 • Laura Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the Municipal building. • BLUEGRASS GOSPEL EVENT: A • Brown Township Board of Trustees bluegrass gospel event will be from 11:30 will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Building in Conover. Sunday, with a church service from 9-10 • The Union Township Trustees will a.m. at 4530 N. Rangeline Road, meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Township Building, 9497 Markley Road, P.O. Box E, Covington. The event will be under a large tent with food concessions on site. For tickLaura. Call 698-4480 for more informaet information and performers, visit tion. www.rangelinegrass.com. Participants are asked to bring lawn chairs. TUESDAY • BIRTHDAY PARTY: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will host its quarterly birthday party at 6 p.m. Members with birthdays in July, August and September will be recognized. Birthday cake will be provided, as well as table service. Come and offer congratulations and bring a covered dish to share. The celebration, usually held on the third Tuesday, has been moved to the second Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. Civic agendas • The village of West Milton Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers.

WEDNESDAY • STATE OF HOSPITAL: The joint chambers of Covington, Piqua, Tipp City and Troy will offer a The State of the Hospital/Health Care luncheon at noon at the Piqua Country Club, 9812 Country Club Road, Piqua. Registration will be at 11:30 a.m. The cost is $15 per person, payable at the door. Reservations are required by calling 339-8769. Speakers will include Tom Parker, president and CEO of UVMC, and Brian Bucklew, president and CEO of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. The speaker will be Doug Christian speaking on “Forgotten Communities of Miami County.” For more information, contact Kim Riber, vice president, at 339-8935. • STAUNTON LUNCHEON: The Staunton School alumni luncheon will be at 11:30 a.m. at Friendly’s Restaurant in Troy. Anyone having graduated or attended the school is invited to attend. • BOE MEETING: The Newton Local Board of Education will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. in the Newton School Board of Education Room.

THURSDAY • CLASSMATE LUNCH: The classmates of the 1961 Piqua Central High School will meet for lunch at 12:30 p.m. at The Backyard Bistro, 1876 Commerce Drive, Piqua. Participants will order from the menu. Spouses or significant others also invited to attend, and no reservations are required. • COMMITTEE MEETING: The Fort Rowdy Gathering will have a committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Covington City Building. • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be offered from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will guide walkers as they experience the seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars. Civic agenda • The Lostcreek Township Board of Trustees meet at 7 p.m. at Lostcreek

JULY 14 • FARMERS MARKET: Downtown Troy Farmers Market will be from 9 a.m. to noon on South Cherry Street, just off West Main Street. The market will include fresh produce, artisan cheeses, baked goods, eggs, organic milk, maple syrup, flowers, crafts, prepared food and entertainment. For free parking, enter off West Franklin Street. Contact Troy Main Street at 339-5455 for information or visit www.troymainstreet.org. • WATER HABITS: Summer Discovery Days, “Wild Water Habitats” will be from 2-4 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center. Participants will stomp in the creek to find some quick crayfish and take a trip to the pond to discover some noisy amphibians. Be sure to bring a sense of adventure, quick reflexes and a change of clothes and shoes. Preregistration is requested, but not required. The event is free for BNC members, BNC entrance admission for non-members. • COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: The monthly Masonic community breakfast will be offered from 7:30-10 a.m. at the Masonic Lodge dining room, 107 W. Main St., Troy, second floor (use elevator or steps). Meals are by donation. • MUD VOLLEYBALL: A co-ed mud volleyball tournament will be at 10 a.m. at the A.B. Graham Memorial Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route 36, Conover. Call 368-3700 for entry fees and other information. Concessions will be open for the event. • INSECT WALK: Join an Aullwood naturalist at 2:30 p.m. for a leisurely walk to discover some of the many fascinating insects that live there. The center is located at 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. • BUTTERFLY CENSUS: Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton, will have its butterfly census from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in cooperation with the North American Butterfly Association.Counters will meet at the Marie S. Aull Education Center. Admission is free for event participants though there is a fee of $3 (for those 13 and over) payable to the North American Butterfly Association to cover administrative costs. Wear appropriate clothing and bring a brown bag lunch.

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The 2012 Vectren Dayton Air Show wrapped up Sunday at Dayton International Airport. Above, Ethan Hamilton, 11, of Oxford, checks out a replica machine gun in the nose of a B-25 Mitchell bomber on display at the air show. Ethan was attending the show with his father, Doug, for the fourth time. At right, pilot Gene Soucy and wingwalker Teresa Stokes perform for Sunday’s crowd. Below, air show patrons were treated to the annual United States Air Force Heritage Flight, featuring a P-51 Mustang and an F-4 Phantom. STAFF PHOTOS/JIM DAVIS

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Olivet Nazarene University BOURBONNAIS, Ill. — Olivet Nazarene University recently released its dean’s list for the spring 2012 semester. Troy residents named to the list include: Jade Green, Lindsey Kirchner, Amy Price and Hannah Scott. To qualify for inclusion on the dean’s list, a student must have been enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student and must have attained a semester

JULY 15 • VIEW FROM THE VISTAS: Come discover Brukner Nature Center’s vista bird life from 2 4-4 p.m. Enjoy a homemade cookie and a hot cup of bird-friendly coffee and join members of the BNC Bird Club as you learn to identify our feathered friends. • FULL BREAKFAST: The American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 586, Tipp City, will serve a full breakfast for $6 from 8-11 a.m. Items available will be eggs, bacon, toast sausage, pancakes,waffles, sausage gravy, biscuits, hash browns, juices, fruit and cinnamon rolls. • INSECT WALK: Join an Aullwood naturalist at 2:30 p.m. for a leisurely walk to discover some of the many fascinating insects that live there. The center is located at 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton.

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Oxford College ATLANTA, Ga. — Troy resident Giles Hinders has been named to the merit list of Oxford College, the twoyear liberal arts division of Emory University for the 2012 spring semester. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the previous semester to be named to the merit list.

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Cricket Facts • Crickets have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae and are similar to Grasshoppers • The antennae are called feelers • Crickets are characterized by their hopping movements and short jerky runs • Only the male crickets chirp • The wings of the males have a large vein with a row of "teeth," (like a comb does) The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing • There are approx. 900 species of crickets • Crickets stats and facts – Colors: Black, red, brown, green – Length: 15mm - 25mm – Habitat: Field, meadows – Lifespan: Less than 1 year – Diet: Crickets are omnivores eating insects, fungi and plants • Crickets chirp at different rates according to the species and to the temperature of their environment • Crickets chirp at higher rates the higher the temperature is • Crickets are scavengers! • Crickets can bite humans! • Predators of Crickets include the Tortoise, Salamander, Frogs, Lizards, and Spiders • The most famous cricket is Jiminy Cricket in the Disney movie of Pinocchio • They have good senses of hearing and sight • Crickets have wings - but most of them do not fly! • Their chirps of the males are used to: – Court females – Repel other males

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Facts about Crickets organic materials, as well as decaying plant material, fungi, and seedling plants. Habitat Crickets live under rocks and logs in meadows, pastures and along roadsides. Many are nocturnal. Predators Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small rodents and lizards are cricket predators. Interesting Behaviors To attract mates, males produce a sound made by rubbing their forewings against each other. The resulting chirping sound is picked up by the female's ears on her front legs. The chirp sounds are different for each species so that individuals can find their own species. Females lay eggs in the soil with their ovipositor. IMPACT ON THE ECOSYSTEM Positive Crickets break down plant material, renewing soil minerals. They are also an important source of food for other animals. Negative Crickets may injure seedlings and large numbers can be destructive. Males songs can be quite loud.

Appearance (Morphology) • Brown to black • Front wing varying in length, covering half to entire abdomen • Antennae about as long as distance from head to end of abdomen • Wings held flat over body • Hind wings folded and hidden under leathery front wings Adult Males and Females Female with long ovipositor (ventrally attached) in rear (may appear as two pieces); both sexes have cerci (segmented, tail-like appendages attached dorsally). The wings are fully extended over the abdomen. Some species may not have wings. Immatures (different stages) Immatures look like adults, but do not have fully developed wings. Older nymphs may show development of wing pads. The female's ovipositor begins to show before it is an adult and increases in length with each successive molt. NATURAL HISTORY Food Crickets are omnivores and scavengers feeding on

COLLECTING LIVE INSECTS Where to Collect Field crickets live in leaf litter, under or near logs or around damp places in gardens. In parts of the country, crickets can be pests and are abundant in homes, barns and gardens. If you need lots of crickets, you may wish to purchase them from a pet store. Check with the pet store to find out when the shipment arrives so that they will be fresh and healthy. Crickets can be purchased from: Berkshire Biological Supply Company, The Biology Store, Carolina

Biological Supply Company, Connecticut Valley Biological Supply Co., Inc., and Fluker's Cricket Farm, Inc. How to Collect To collect crickets in the field, have the container ready. Your hand is the best tool to grab the cricket. Gently cup your hands around the cricket. If you don't want to touch the cricket, use a plastic container and allow the cricket to jump into the container. Quickly place the lid on before it jumps out. If it's in the house, you can place a glass over it and slide a piece of paper underneath.

Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers, and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There are about 900 species of crickets. They tend to be nocturnal[1] and are often confused with grasshoppers because they have a similar body structure including jumping hind legs. Crickets are harmless to humans. Cricket Chirping – The sound emitted by crickets is commonly referred to as chirping; the scientific name is stridulation. Only the male crickets chirp. The sound is emitted by the stridulatory organ, a large vein running along the bottom of each wing, covered with "teeth" (serration) much like a comb. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing. As he does this, the cricket also holds the wings up and open, so that the wing membranes can act as acoustical sails. It is a popular myth that the cricket chirps by rubbing its legs together.

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Newspapers In Education The Ghost in the Courthouse Statue Written by Bill Bailey Illustrated by Michelle Duckworth Chapter 15 A tough old bird bites back STORY SO FAR: Sheriff Matlock's posse sneaks into The Jefferson Times office, hoping to kill Jake, Holly, and Donnie. But Donnie has used a trick to encourage his mom and Jake to leave the building. Next, Donnie stages a series of scary surprises for the intruders, using an audio recorder, strings, and his vocal impersonation of Felix. The posse tries a trick. The sheriff raises his hands to show he's unarmed, while Clint hides in Donnie's stuffed animal closet with a gun. Kneeling on the bricks behind the building, Donnie holds a fistful of strings, planning an ambush of his own. With his hands high in the air, Sheriff Matlock winked at Judge Lulu, who stood nervously in a corner of the room. The sheriff smirked, proud of the trap he'd set. He was too full of himself to notice the strings that ran from the closet where Clint was hiding. From underneath the closet door, they ran across the floor, out the back window, and into my clenched fist. I jerked a string that was attached to the pull ring coming out of Grizzly's belly. Grizzly was perched just behind Clint inside the closet, and now he let out a deep roar, made louder by the walls of the closet. "GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" "Ahhh!" Clint yelped as he jumped from the closet. As he swung around, shooting his pistol back toward the sound, I pulled on another bundle of strings, and the animal kingdom erupted in sound. Zip the weenie dog barked, X-Ray the cat hissed, and Bertie the Bird cawed his crazy laughter right at Clint. Another tug, and Cowboy Bill kicked in, "Go fer yer gun, ya sorry sack of a sidewindin' sapsucker." I reached in through the open window and threw a handful of snappers that I had saved from last July 4th hard at the floor. They crackled like rapid gunfire. Clint's terrified eyes grew large as he dove for the floor, holding onto his toupee with one hand and his gun with the other. Judge Lulu and the sheriff hit the floor right next to him. On their six knees, they crawled together into the editor's office in the middle of the building, like they were doing a tornado drill. Judge Lulu pulled the door shut behind them, making it where I could no longer see them. I had to hustle. I scampered up a ladder to the roof and peered down through the skylight into the editor's office. Just inside the room's door stood the posse. And across the room sat a man in a tall swivel chair, facing away from the posse. All they could see were his white hair and a thin arm resting on an armrest. I had taken out one of the skylight's removable glass panes earlier, when I was preparing for the posse's visit. Now, I reached for a bundle of strings that I had run to the roof and took a deep breath. I threw my friendly, old-guy voice down through the skylight and over to the man in the chair. "Sheriff, Clint, Lulu – so good to see you after all this time. I know you must've missed me – your old pal, Editor Elder." The posse was too shocked to speak. I nudged them with some folksy, old-timer talk. "Not so much as a howdy-do after all this time, friends? You act like you've seen a ghost."

"G-George, that really you?" Clint asked. "Indeed it is, old buddy," I said. "Fit as a fiddle." "But I mixed the poison myself," Judge Lulu whispered. "It was enough to kill a horse." "Shut up, Lulu," the sheriff hissed. "Lucky for me, I'm not a horse, Lulu – just a tough old bird," my old geezer voice said. "But next time, could you sweeten it up? That poison sure made my coffee taste awful bitter." "I'm, uh... so relieved you're alive," the sheriff said. Taking Clint's revolver, the sheriff inched toward the man in the chair. "This is really good news. Isn't it, Clint?" "Uh, yes, wonderful," Clint answered. Then the sheriff's voice began to harden. "A tough old bird, are ya? Too tough for our poison, huh? Then how 'bout eatin' some bullets – you old buzzard!" He opened fire into the back of the chair. Blam, blam, blam! I snatched hard on a string, and the chair swung around. Facing the posse was a white-haired skeleton wearing a suit – it was Jake's "Ol' Bag a' Bones- just as I had staged him." I pulled another string a few times quickly, and Ol' Bag of Bones' teeth clacked open and shut, as his grotesque skull appeared to speak. "Tsk, tsk, tsk," I voiced from above. "That is no way to treat a friend!" With a group-shriek, they took off, falling over each other. I could hear them tearing down the hall toward the front office. In the darkness, I hurried to the front of the roof and peeked over the ledge, just in time to hear the jangle of the doorbell. I watched the posse burst from the front door – and into the bright glare of car headlights. Stepping from behind the lights, with their guns drawn, were the Jefferson City Police. "Drop your weapon!" Police Chief Banks said. Slowly, the sheriff did so. "Charlie, what you doing here?" The sheriff's voice sounded confused and his usual swagger was gone. He looked like a little kid with his hand caught in a cookie jar. "Sheriff Matlock!? Well, I should ask you the same thing," said Chief Banks. For a few seconds, Sheriff Matlock stood there dazed, looking around at Clint and Judge Lulu. They mirrored his stunned, guilty expression.

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Thinking quickly, the sheriff forced a smile and tried to sound matter-of-fact, "Well, ya see, Charlie, I got a call sayin' they'd heard the sound of gunfire coming from The Times office. Since me and my buddies were in the neighborhood, I figured we'd check it out." "We got that call, too," said Chief Banks. "But you know, crime inside the city is my jurisNext diction. time, you might let me know what's going on. When you all came running out of The Times like that, with that gun in your hand, I thought you were the thieves. That is, until I got a good look at you." The sheriff gave a big fake laugh, like that was the funniest thing he'd ever heard. Clint and Lulu laughed, too, but they sounded pretty nervous. "We were chasin' after the robbers, Charlie," the sheriff said. "But it looks like they got away. I think we scared 'em off before they could take anything." "Then I ought to be thanking you, instead of giving you grief," Chief Banks said, walking up and patting the sheriff on

the shoulder. I felt sick at my stomach. The police chief was eating out of the sheriff's crooked hands. And if I spoke up, there was no way Chief Banks would take the word of a kid against three grown-ups – especially when one of them was the sheriff. I was desperate. Even though it seemed hopeless, I had to try. So I took a deep breath and yelled down from the roof, this time using my own voice for a change. "Chief Banks, they weren't trying to catch robbers. They were trying to kill my mom and me and Jake – like they did Mr. Elder." Suddenly, all their eyes were on me. The posse still appeared to be horror-struck by the haunted house – in fact, too stunned to put together that I had anything to do with it. "That's ridiculous!" the sheriff exclaimed, his eyes wide with fake amazement. "Charlie, that newspaper's done nothin' but print lies and cause trouble ever since that Jake fella showed up. Now they're tryin' to make us out to be the bad guys. And besides... he's just a kid!" I could tell from the look on the police chief's face that he was falling for the sheriff's tricks. I looked down across the dark courthouse lawn to Felix's statue. Not knowing if he could even hear me, I mouthed into the breeze, "What would you do, Felix?" A second later I heard a faint whisper. "You can do theese, Donnie. You have practiced a long time – for just theese moment!"

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Expect the debate over immigrants to heat up As the presidential campaign heats up so will the debate over the role of immigrants in our economy and our communities. That has been an ongoing conversation in Lewiston-Auburn for the past 10 years and a hot-button topic in southwestern border states for decades. But the controversy will likely get louder as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama debate two current subjects. First, in 2010 the Arizona Legislature passed the toughest anti-illegal immigrant law in the land. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a controversial provision of the law allowing police officers to ask people for immigration status documentation. But the court also struck down two other provisions allowing police to arrest and hold illegal immigrants and another section that would have prevented illegal immigrants from seeking jobs. Second, the DREAM Act would give conditional permanent residency to people who arrived illegally in the U.S. as minors. They could eventually obtain citizenship by fulfilling certain military obligations or by obtaining a college degree. To be clear, much of the upcoming debate will be over illegal immigration. Too often, however, many Americans seem hostile to immigrants in general. Two recent reports, however, suggest immigrants will be critical to sustaining our economy as our native-born population ages. The Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York State research group, reported June 14 that more than one sixth of small business owners in the U.S. were not born here. The data is drawn from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey. Those immigrant-owned small businesses, with fewer than 100 employees, employ 4.7 million Americans and had total receipts of $776 billion. A host of studies have found that immigrant Americans are more likely to be entrepreneurs than native-born Americans and to seek Small Business Administration loans. The SBA reports immigrants are twice as likely as native-born Americans to start a small business. One study in 2008 found that half of Silicon Valley start-ups are founded by immigrants. New arrivals from other lands are particularly over-represented in the high-growth industries requiring mastery of STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. What’s more, 76 percent of patents from America’s top universities have a foreign-born inventor. While immigrants are over-represented in hard sciences, they are, as the study notes, “more likely to be found on Main Street than in a technology park.” Thirty-seven percent of restaurant owners are immigrants, as are 49 percent of grocery store owners and 54 percent of laundry and dry cleaning firm owners. That finding is reinforced by a broader report released in March by the Brookings Institute showing immigrants are clustered in both high-skill and low-skill jobs in our economy. As more Americans obtain high school degrees, technical training and higher education, immigrants are filling jobs in agriculture, in manual labor and as maids and restaurant workers.

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Picture this: A chronicle of your life Start with an inverted reflection on a strip of acetate that is infused with a silver halide layer. Immerse this in a witch’s brew of chemicals and there you have it. A memory. A second’s hesitation on the precipice of time. A picture. My mother, bless her intrepid soul, motivated by either a sense of history, family pride, or unrelenting boredom compounded by limited closet space, has undertaken the task of transferring 40 years’ worth of photographs onto volumes of compact disks. She recently made me a present of Chapter One. My family is sort of a picturehappy group. One of my fondest childhood recollections involves three generations gathered around a loudly humming projector and a cracked curling screen, lamenting and laughing over images of a distant us. The verbal barbs inspired by the hair, the clothes, and the missing teeth were almost always sharper than the focus. We called it “Give-A-Show” and thought it was wonderful. Watching ‘Give-A-Show” become a rite of passage for prospective mates. If they could sit through an evening of this without ending up with a perilously elevated blood-alcohol level, they were in. Of course, after sitting through an evening of this, many of them decided they didn’t want in. Good riddance. And now I have my very own copy. I

Marla Boone Troy Daily News Columnist just hope those who wish me ill never get hold of it. These pictures reaffirm some immutable truths. I have always had bad-looking knees but now I have proof they used to work well enough to fold my legs up underneath me. My older sister has always been thinner but I have always had a better tan. Orthodontics was invented just in the nick of time. Those first-day-of-school scenes brought back what a terrific seamstress my mother was. No one else had anything remotely like our homesewn dresses. Sturdily buttoned little bodices topped softly gathered skirts trimmed in rickrack or ribbon. They fit beautifully and lasted forever, which may be the fashion definition of a double-edged sword. Well towards the beginning of the CD is a picture of me in a mouse costume with a long dragging tail.

Stitched by my mother, worn by me, and tripped over by the rest of the cast, this was my costume for my first-grade play. The only thing I remember about the play (except for most of my 29 classmates stepping on that tail) was that I sang a solo about an injured baby mouse. I wasn’t very good, but I was loud. There was not, for a variety of reasons, a dry eye in the house. Mother didn’t clothe just us. In the backgrounds of the pictures, I saw sofas sheathed in slipcovers she created and windows hung with draperies that never knew a department store shelf. The up and down of the needle on her trusty Singer was the metronome of the house and its output was prodigious. I thought about referring to our home as “Tara” when I noticed a dress I wore in a photograph strongly resembled the curtains in the background of one taken years earlier. But Scarlett O’Hara had to impress only Rhett and the Yankees. We had to pass muster with our grandmother. Grandmother had strongly held notions about how we should stand when we had our pictures taken. Her idol was a woman who was apparently famous for something else but who subsequently made her living selling stoves and refrigerators. This woman’s legacy is that she stood prettily and properly while she sold them.

The stance Grandmother insisted upon involved having one foot splayed out at a 45-degree angle and the other foot situated at a 90-degree angle to that foot with the heel of the second foot backed firmly against the arch of the first foot. We got more coaching about the mechanics of foot placement than an army of Chinese acrobats. In every picture ever taken of my family, you will see all the female feet arrayed identically in this pattern. Not one of us has ever sold an appliance. Many of the shots in the latter part of the CD chronicle the wonderful places my parents visited, just the two of them, while we kids stayed home with the dreaded Aunt Alma who inflicted her sugar-free jelly and Poly-grip flavored kisses upon us. In each picture from far-flung exotic locations, my parents are smiling hugely and my mother’s feet are arranged in the Grandmother-prescribed manner. They obviously had a great time because there is a memorable photo of them taken somewhere in Europe. Sure, there is also the usual snap of the Eiffel tower, but this one captures them sitting on a radiator in their underwear soaking their feet in the bathroom sink. (Mother … I’ve told you … that’s what the bidet is for.) As gifts go, this one was picture perfect.

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Ed Brumbaugh Brumbaugh of Dayton; sisTROY — Ed ters and brothers-in-law, Brumbaugh, 80, of Troy, Alice Sue and Bob Ohio, passed away Saturday, July 7, 2012, at Middlestetter of Arcanum; Linda and Jerry Sherick of his residence. He was born on June 5, Florida; grandchildren, Jason Brumbaugh, Lydia 1932, in West Milton, (fiance, Heath Boyes) Ohio, to Aubrey and Strode and Susan (Bashore) Micah Strode; Brumbaugh. stepgrandHe is survived daughter, by his wife of 59 Jessica (Mike) years of marThompson; riage, Ruth Ann great-grand(Young) daughter, Brumbaugh; his Syriha. son and daughIn addition to ter-in-law, Jim his parents, he and Nancy was preceded in Brumbaugh of BRUMBAUGH death by one Casstown; daughsister, Shirley Wehrley; ter and son-in-law, Diane AP PHOTOS and one brother, Calvin and Tim Beckman of In this Oct. 11, 2010, file photo, cast member Ernest Borgnine, right, and his Brumbaugh. Greeley, Colo.; brothers wife, Tova, arrive at a special screening of the film "Red" in Los Angeles. Ed was a 1950 graduate and sisters-in-law, Herb of Milton-Union Schools. and Barbara Brumbaugh He was a member of the of Covington; Marvin and First United Methodist Dorothy Brumbaugh of Church, Troy, Troy Laura, and Betty

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children; five great-grandPIQUA — James E. children; and a sister, Collins, 80, formerly of Hannah L. Kingrey of 824 Covington Ave., Piqua. Piqua, died at 3:07 a.m. He was preceded in Sunday July 8, 2012, at death by a sisthe home of his ter Henrietta daughter. Hahn. He was born Mr. Collins April 21, 1932, in was a 1950 Piqua, to the late graduate of Henry J. and Piqua Central Maudie Marie High School (Moyer) Collins. and retired in He married 1998 from the Donna J. Barber city of Piqua as on Jan. 23, 1960, the parks and in Beavercreek; COLLINS recreation superand she survives. visor following 23 Other survivors years of employinclude three daughment. ters, Candace He had been a (Richard) Deitering member of Greene of Piqua, Cathy Street United (Mark) Landis of El Methodist Church and the Paso, Texas, and Kelly Warren Masonic Lodge Collins and her special No. 24. friend Terry Reaver of He was a United States Dade City, Fla.; six grand-

Army veteran having served during the Korean War in the 101st and 82nd Airborne. In addition to his family, he loved to fish and play golf. A service to honor his life will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with Pastor Rick Mowry officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery where full military honors will be provided by the Veterans Elite Tribute Squad. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with a Masonic service at 7 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County Inc., P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Condolences to the family may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

Martha R. Ramelmeyer In this April 4, 1963, file photo, Ernest Borgnine acts in a scene for ABC-TV's "McHale's Navy." romance with a wallflower in “Marty,” adapted from Paddy Chayefsky’s television play. Borgnine won the best-actor Oscar, and the film picked up three other awards, including best picture. It turned out to be Borgnine’s only Oscar nomination, yet it was a starmaking part that broke him out of the villain mold. Borgnine went on to roles in such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” ”The Wild Bunch,” ”The Flight of the Phoenix,” ”The Poseidon Adventure” and “Escape from New York,” but after “Marty,” the veteran sailor’s most memorable character appropriately came with the title role of the 1960s TV comedy “McHale’s Navy” and its big-screen spinoff. Mischievous con man McHale, commander of a World War II PT boat manned by misfits and malcontents, was far closer in spirit than shy Marty or savage Fatso to the real Borgnine, who had a cackling laugh and a reputation as a prankster. Despite his big-hearted nature, Borgnine was typecast as a thug from the start, playing bad guys in a series of Westerns including Randolph Scott’s “The Stranger Wore a Gun,” Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden’s

“Johnny Guitar” and Gary Cooper’s “Vera Cruz” and Victor Mature and Susan Hayward’s historical saga “Demetrius and the Gladiators.” Borgnine was playing another nasty character opposite Spencer Tracy in “Bad Day at Black Rock” when he auditioned for “Marty.” In a 2004 interview, Borgnine recalled that Chayefsky and “Marty” director Delbert Mann thought of him as an actor whose lone screen specialty was to “kill people.” No one knew Borgnine could act at all himself included until he came home from World War II after his 10-year Navy stint. He enlisted in 1935, was discharged in 1941, then re-enlisted when the war began, serving on a destroyer. As he contemplated what to do after the war, Borgnine’s mother suggested acting. “She said, ‘You always like getting in front of people and making a fool of yourself, why don’t you give it a try?’” Borgnine recalled last year, shortly before receiving his SAG lifetime honor. “I was sitting at the kitchen table and I saw this light. No kidding. It sounds crazy. And 10 years later, I had Grace Kelly handing me an Academy Award.”

Hug triggers officer’s gun, kills woman DETROIT — A woman celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday was fatally shot Sunday when she hugged an offduty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer’s service weapon to fire, according to police and her mother. Adaisha Miller would have turned 25 on Monday, according to her mother, Yolanda McNair. The shooting happened at an outdoor social gathering about 12:30 a.m., said police Sgt. Eren Stephens.

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It happened on the city’s west side. According to Stephens, the woman “embraced the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to accidently discharge.” The bullet punctured Miller’s lung and hit her heart, and she died at a hospital. Stephens said the Detroit officer will remain on administrative duties while authorities investigate the shooting and report their findings to the Wayne County prosecutor. The officer’s name was not

released. “For this to happen to her, whether they want to call it freak accident or mistake in judgment, it should have never happened to my child, and there’s nothing I can do to get her back,” McNair told WDIV-TV. McNair said her daughter was out to mark her upcoming birthday. “All she wanted to do was enjoy the weekend for her birthday,” the mother said. “She had every right to enjoy turning 25 and look beyond that.”

PIQUA — Martha R. Ramelmeyer, 83, of Piqua, died at 1:10 p.m. Friday, July 6, 2012, at Piqua Manor Nursing Home. She was born in Piqua on Sept. 16, 1928, to the late Herschel and Tina (Foster) Nicodemus. On July 29, 1948, at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua, she married William E. Ramelmeyer. He preceded her in death. Martha is survived by two daughters and son-inlaw, Kathleen and Donald Larger and Kristina Reed, all of Piqua; one son and daughter-in-law, William

and Patty Ramelmeyer Jr, Piqua; one sister, Virginia Kaufman of Cincinnati; two brothers and sistersin-law, David and Nancy Nicodemus of Trenton, and Ezekiel and Ann Nicodemus of St. Marys; 10 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Walter Nicodemus, Thomas Nicodemus and Edgar Nicodemus; and one sister, Manon Lemmon. Martha graduated from Piqua High School. She was a loving home-

maker. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 10, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with Pastor Gary Wagner officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua. Friends may call from 10-11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melchersowers.com.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Marlin Schaurer COVINGTON — Marlin Schaurer, of Covington, passed away Sunday, July 8, 2012, at his home.

Services are pending, and arrangements are in care of Jackson-Sarver Family Funeral Home, Covington.

DEATHS OF NATIONAL INTEREST • Charles E. Roemer IISHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Charles E. Roemer II, former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ first top appointed official, is dead. He was 89. Roemer’s son, Charles E. “Buddy” Roemer III, was a Louisiana congressman and governor and ran for the Republican presidential nomination. The elder Roemer, known as “Charlie” and “Budgie,” managed former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ first campaign. His family says he chose Edwards as a civil rights candidate. The family’s obituary says Roemer died in his sleep Saturday, after 10 years with Alzheimer’s disease. Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Homes says Roemer will be buried privately at 10 a.m. Tuesday, with an 11 a.m. memorial service at First United Methodist Church of Shreveport. • Lionel Batiste NEW ORLEANS — Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant band leader of the Treme (truh-MAY) Brass Band and the face of the Treme neighborhood’s bicentennial has died. He was 81.

Band leader Benny Jones Sr. says Batiste was ill about a month before his death on Sunday. He says funeral arrangements are incomplete. Jones says Batiste had been with his band since it was formed in 1995, but had played bass drum since childhood. Clarinetist Michael White says Batiste, known as “Uncle Lionel,” used his drum to stay afloat in the floods after Hurricane Katrina. The “Treme 2012” poster is a photograph of Batiste. Toni Rice of the Multicultural Tourism Network says the group is donating part of poster sales to help with Batiste’s medical and funeral costs. Influential Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saud dies • Mohammed bin Saud RIYADH, Saudi Arabia

— Saudi Arabia says a senior prince and former defense minister has died. The 78-year-old Prince Mohammed bin Saud was not in line for the Saudi throne, but wielded influence as part of a council of royal family members that helps select the heirs to rule the oil-rich Western ally. The official Saudi Press Agency says Mohammed died Sunday, but gave no other details. Mohammed served as defense minister in the early 1960s and managed to retain political significance after his father King Saud was forced from the throne in 1964. Mohammed also served as governor of Al Baha province in southwestern Saudi Arabia from 1986 to 2010.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined. Yet Ernest Borgnine won a woman’s love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonelyhearts roles in “Marty,” a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts. Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95, worked to the end. One of his final roles was a bit part as a CIA records-keeper in 2011’s action comedy “Red” fittingly for his age, a story of retired spies who show that it’s never too late to remain in the game when they’re pulled back into action. “I keep telling myself, ‘Damn it, you gotta go to work,’” Borgnine said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press. “But there aren’t many people who want to put Borgnine to work these days. They keep asking, ‘Is he still alive?’” And yet people put him to work and kept him working from his lateblooming start as an actor after a 10-year Navy career through modern times, when he had a recurring voice role on “SpongeBob SquarePants,” became the oldest actor ever nominated for a Golden Globe and received the lifetimeachievement award last year from the Screen Actors Guild. Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at his side, said spokesman Harry Flynn. With his beefy build and a huge orb of a head that looked hard enough to shatter granite, Borgnine naturally was cast as heavies early on, notably as Sgt. Fatso Judson, the brute who beat Frank Sinatra’s character to death in 1953’s Pearl Harbor saga “From Here to Eternity.” More bad guy roles followed, but Borgnine showed his true pussycat colors as lovesick Marty Piletti, a Bronx butcher who, against all odds and his own expectations, finds

Fraternal Order of the Eagles; Troy Fish & Game Club and Troy Senior Citizens. He was retired from Hobart Brothers Co., Troy, after 45 years of service and 38 years of service with the city of Troy at Hobart Arena. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with the Rev. Dave Leckrone officiating. Interment to follow in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

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Offer different suggestions for your parents to spend time with your kids Dear Annie: Let me say that I am grateful my parents are alive and well enough to enjoy their grandchildren. However, they expect to be included in everything involving their grandchildren. Each of my children plays a sport (sometimes two) in addition to school plays and recitals. This adds up to multiple events every week. If my parents find out that my sister or I neglected to invite them to something, we get the cold shoulder, and our father won't talk to us for weeks. Annie, the parents of our children's classmates have become our friends. They comprise our social group, and I simply don't want my parents to butt into this part of our lives. My folks crave conversation, but don't have the best social skills. They are retired, have no friends, aren't involved in anything and create their schedule around their grandchildren's events, saying they "need to be there for them." But our children truly don't care whether their grandparents are there. They like to see them in the audience on occasion, but otherwise find their constant presence intrusive. Please don't tell me to encourage my parents to seek out new friends and get involved in other things. It's too late for that. And they do not respond well to suggestions from their children. If they truly want to be a part of their grandchildren's lives, I wish they would spend time with them instead of watching from the bleachers. We'd love it if they would introduce the kids to experiences they might not otherwise have, teach them something and share memories with them. Is there anything we can do? — Frustrated in the Midwest Dear Midwest: Tell your parents what you told us — that you want them to spend individual time with the kids, creating memories that will last forever. Offer some suggestions. But please don't banish them from your children's school and sports events. These things provide structure and purpose for your parents. There is no need to be embarrassed by their social skills. Your friends understand. Dear Annie: My brother-in-law has been living with us for nine months. He's been unemployed for a year. "Ralph" does some work around the house and uses his food stamps for many of his meals, but he's hit the end of his unemployment benefits. Ralph will not take just any job. In fact, he turned one down, saying it was too hard for him at his age. He's 61. He simply wants to wait until he's 62 and then retire. How do we get him to move out? Ralph won't even go for free medical care. He hasn't paid us anything for his upkeep and ignores our message to find a job or go on welfare. He is draining our extra funds. We don't want him on the street, but we'd like him to be more independent. Any suggestions? — Peeved and Had Enough Dear Peeved: Ralph apparently believes he's so close to retirement that he is entitled to sponge off of others until he gets there. Are there any other family members or friends who might take him in and give you a break? Unless your husband makes it clear to his brother that he can no longer stay rent-free at your home, this will continue, with no guarantee that he will suddenly move out when he's 62. Talk to your husband and decide what type of deadline you are willing to give, and stick to it. Dear Annie: "An Independent Wife" said a previous writer should not expect her husband to call every night when he's out of town on business. Instead, she should find her own interests to keep her occupied. My husband travels, too, and unfailingly calls me every night. I am thankful to be married to a man who believes our relationship is important enough to warrant a daily call, if only to tell me he loves me and to "hug my pillow" for him. — Virginia Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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