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W.Va family finds hope in Piqua Couple brings their three sons to Hahn-Hufford Center for a summer ‘Boost Up’

BY AMY MAXWELL For the Daily Call pdceditorial@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA - Summertime can be a time for school age kids to rest and rejuvenate before starting another school year. One family decided to do as much as they could with the time given to them this summer to repair some problems they were experiencing.

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Scott Wade helps his son Wesley, 6, across the monkey bars while his twin brother Walter, 6, waits his turn Thursday at the Hahn-Hufford Center of Hope, 1306 Garbry Road, Piqua. Both Wesley and Walter have ADHD. One of the many neurodevelopmental activities the center has to offer, the monkey bars aid in developing hand motor skills required to do tasks such as holding a pencil.

Virginia, heard about the Hahn-Hufford Center of Hope located in Piqua from a colleague in the same Mary Kay Cosmetics sales unit as herself and decided to give it a try.

Christy has three boys Oliver, age 8, and twins Wesley and Walter, age 6.

“Despite having to live away from home leaving my husband back home and having to put some of my business on hold, I thought it would be worth it,” Wade said.

The Wades participated in Hahn-Hufford’s six week Summer Boost-Up Program as well as additional therapies offered at the Rehab Center.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect, I felt almost hopeless as there are no places locally in West Virginia that offer the neurodevelopment program that Hahn-Hufford does,” Wade explained. “When I would seek help I would typically get responses like, ‘you need counseling, behavior

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The Wade family of West Virginia participates in a neuro-developmental exercise together Thursday at the Hahn-Hufford Center of Hope in Piqua. therapy and maybe medicine’ or ‘nothing’s wrong, they are just normal boys.’” But Christy knew what their family was experiencing wasn’t normal.

Oliver had been diagnosed with autism and Christy started noticing some reading comprehension delays and social issues especially while playing with other kids.

“His aggression seemed to be getting worse and he even punched a hole in the

wall, all while getting taller and stronger so I needed to get the aggression under control,” Wade said. “He also was starting to be made fun of by his ‘friends’ because of his outbursts and aggression, I knew I needed to get help.”

Walter had experienced a speech delay and was also experiencing behavioral problems. “The past See Hope/Page 2

Local teen wins grand champ title at state fair

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com FLETCHER — It’s a handshake that Colin Gump likely will never forget.

Judge Cade Wilson, of Brownwood, Texas, shook 17 year-old Colin Gump’s hand selecting him as the exhibitor of the 2013 Ohio State Fair grand champion market lamb on Wednesday, July 24.

“I was speechless to be honest,” said Gump when asked about his clean sweep of the junior fair market lamb events.

Gump, 17, a junior at Miami East High School, had a list of goals he hoped to accomplish at the Ohio State Fair with his market lambs. This year, he managed to check off both the showmanship and market lamb winners off his list, bringing home the royal purple banner and the showmanship trophy.

Gump said it came as a complete shock and surprise to win the “best of the best” in junior fair market lambs in the state of Ohio.

“I was really excited — I never thought this was

going to happen,” he said.

Gump’s lamb, weighing 127 pounds, won its crossbreed division, putting him in the grand champion drive with more than 30 other champions in the show ring at the Ohio State Fair on July 24.

“Honestly, I didn’t think my lamb was going to be big enough to win,” Gump said. “I was just happy to win my class.”

Gump said it has always been one of his goals to win at the state fair.

Yet, the reality of being PROVIDED PHOTO the exhibitor of the Ohio Colin Gump, 17, of Fletcher, shakes hands with Ohio State Fair Judge Cade Wilson, of Brownwood,Texas, after being selected as the exhibitor of the 2013 Ohio See Champ/Page 2 State Fair Grand Champion Jr. Fair market lamb on July 24.

Royalty crowned to reign over Miami County Fair

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

grew up showing sheep together and now will spend fair week as the 2013 Miami County Jr. Fair MIAMI COUNTY —It’s King and Queen. fitting that Cassandra “She kind of talked me Ingle and Travis Sloan in to it,” said Sloan after he was tapped as Index the 2013 Classified ...............12-13 M i a m i Opinion ..........................4 County Jr. Comics ........................15 Fair King on Entertainment ...............5 Saturday at State...............................7 the fairObituaries......................2 grounds.

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“We show sheep together every year,” said 2013 Miami County Jr. Fair Queen Cassandra Ingle. “I thought it would 6 2 7 4 8 2 5 8 2 1 0 1 be neat if we both were

king and queen together.”

It’s the friendship made through 4-H that Ingle said she enjoys the most about the county fair.

“I feel like 4-H helped me become the person I am today and taught me life long skills along the way,” Ingle said.

Ingle, a freshman nursing student at Wright State University, lives on a farm near Covington and shows market lambs and a sewing project. “I love all the great friendships you make at the fair.

It’s a fun way to meet peoPROVIDED PHOTO The royal court for the 2013 Miami County Fair includes, front row, left to right: ple outside of school.”

Prince Sam Westfall, Queen Cassandra Ingle, King Travis Sloan and Princess Nigella Reck.

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Continued from page 1 State Fair grand champion is still sinking in days later.

“It’s just been surreal,” he said.”Everybody has been really nice and supportive.”

When I went in, I tried not to do anything different and my lamb cooperated,” he said. Gump said all of Wilson’s comments were positive as he moved through his class and division to the grand championship ring.

“He didn’t say anything bad about him in the class,” Gump said.”So when he shook my hand I couldn’t believe it.”

Gump not only exhibited the best overall lamb at the state fair, but he also won the overall senior showmanship at the state level.

“That was my first goal from the start was to win state showmanship,” he said. “It was really neat to win. I was pretty pleased with that.”

Gump said he has “mixed emotions” about being part of the sale of champions, which broke last year’s record with a total of $329,550 among all the winners. Last year’s Ohio State Grand Champion market lamb brought $46,000. Exhibitors receive some of the money, with the rest

going to the fair’s Youth Reserve Program for scholarships and other programs.

“I’m looking forward to being in the sale of champions, but he also was my showmanship lamb that I spent a lot of time with,” Gump said. “But it’s a good problem to have.”

Gump said he selected the lamb in March from local breeder Jim Johnson of Team Johnson in Casstown with help from his dad Kevin.

“Dad and I both picked him out,” Gump said. “We knew he was one of the better black-faced lambs we had ever had, but we didn’t know he was that good.”

One of the highlights of winning was being interviewed by Dale Minyo of Ohio Ag Net and the Ohio Country Journal.

“I liked the interview,” he said. “That was pretty neat.”

Gump will be in the Sale of Champions ring at the Ohio State Fair at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 at the WCOL Celeste Center at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus.

To see Gump’s interview with Dale Minyo moments after he was selected as the winner of the grand champion lamb, visit www.ocj.com. For more information, visit www.ohiostatefair.com.

Hope Continued from page 1 few years in school he has done well in academics but yet has gotten in trouble for his aggression and has hit a few kids at school.

Daily he was getting mad and would stay mad for a long time and be hurtful calling people ‘stupid’ just to be mean and smile about it which didn’t help our family dynamic,” Christy said. “He also had little to no fear of dangerous things like getting hurt, running out in front of cars or running away in stores. We had tried several medications for ADHD since age two which resulted in more aggression.”

Wesley’s main issues were the lack of safety awareness as well along with hyperactivity. The Wades again tried several medications for Wesley all with significant side effects and also participated in family behavior therapy.

Christy also struggled with her own ADHD diagnosis.

“I needed to have discipline and order for the boys but was inconsistent,” she said.

The boys participated in the Summer Boost-Up Program for ages 6-12, which worked on visual motor integration, receptive and expressive language skills and overall mobility which is an indicator of an increased level of neurological development and organization. They also participated in other programs at the center including a neurodevelopment program and education, aquatic therapy and neurofeedback.

Hahn-Hufford’s Nicholas School Principal Holly Felver has been overseeing the Summer BoostUp Program. “We were able to see many gains with all three boys, they demonstrated improvements with attention, focus, sensory, social skills, fine and gross motor skills and overall behavior,” Felver said. “We truly enjoyed working with

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the Wade boys over the six weeks and hope they continue on their path of improvements.”

Christy has seen many significant improvements upon completion of the program last week. “Oliver’s behavior has been amazing, he has starting saying things like, ‘Ok, I won’t let it bother me’ and this morning he just said to his brother out of the blue, ‘I love you, Walter,’” she said.

“He is able to tell us more what he wants and needs which is so helpful.”

Christy said Oliver even says he feels better and happier.

Walter has also said he feels better and he seems to be more aware of dangers and willing to listen better. The same is true for Wesley in relation to awareness of dangers and Christy said he has been more loving and nice and the boys have been working together more as a team.

Christy even participated in some of the programs at the center and says it has helped her have more organized thinking and better consistency as well as improving her discipline for the boys.

Christy wanted to do something to celebrate all of the accomplishments they had made upon completion of the program. The Wade’s last day at the center was on Thursday and they headed back to West Virginia on Friday but took a side trip and stopped in Columbus for a night so she could take the boys to the COSI Children’s Museum.

“We had our first family day ever yesterday at COSI without drama or embarrassing moments,” she said. “Last night, we all laughed together as a family. That’s so worth it.

Something we have not had in a super long time.”

Christy hopes others will find the same hope that the center has given back to her family. “I hope people know what a blessing the Hahn-Hufford Center for Hope is. The staff is very passionate and caring, yet strict,” she said. “I wish we lived closer so we could continue to go. I do have more hope.”

For more information on the Hahn-Hufford Center for Hope, call 773-7630 or visit www.rcnd.org.

PIQUA — Martha J. Stover, 86, of Piqua, died at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, J u l y 2 7 , 2013, at the Upper Va l l e y Medi c a l Center.

S h e w a s b o r n STOVER April 14, 1927, in Shelby County to the late Leslie and Leona (Hook) Carroll.

Survivors include eight children, Stephen Stover of Piqua, Dana (Sue) Stover of Wisconsin, Yvonne (Jerry) Waters of Sidney, Sherry (Carl) Newcombe of Virginia, Brenda (Steve) Allenbaugh of Piqua, Sandy Reck of Sidney, Allen (Brenda) Stover of Ohio, Lori (Steve) Reynolds of Pennsylvania; 19 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Paul (Colleen) Carroll of

Charlene Ann Hess

Florida; and a sister Clara Mae Schnur of Illinois.

She was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. Stover worked at the former Wilson Accounting office in Piqua and retired from Dean Meyer Accounting services of Piqua. She was a wonderful homemaker.

She enjoyed gardening, sewing, playing the organ and loved spending time with her family, particularly her many grandchildren.

A service to honor her life will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, at Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home with Pastor Christine E. Mertz officiating.

Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy, to be provided to the family, may be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

MINSTER — Charlene Ann Hess, 75, of 11535 Eilerm a n R d . , M i n s t e r, passed away S a t u rd a y , J u l y 2 7 , 2013, HESS at 3:55 p.m. at Auglaize Acres Nursing Home in Wapakoneta. She was born May 30, 1938, in Piqua, the daughter of the late Cecil Koontz and Mildred (Howett) Shroyer. She was married to Thomas Robbins who preceded her in death in November 2010.

She is survived by five children, Deb Albers and husband Buck of Ft. Loramie, Jaylene Seigel and husband Mike of New Bremen, Rob Robbins and wife Barb of Ft. Loramie, Robert Robbins of Minster, and Rod Robbins and wife Michelle of Anna; four brothers, Douglas Shroyer and wife Carolyn of Cuyahoga Falls, Dale Shroyer of Troy, Glen Shroyer and wife Cheryl of Cincinnati, Rosemary Brown, and and Larry Shroyer and Kathryn Bundschuh; as wife Marilyn of Kansas; well as an infant brother, Herbert, in 1918.

Mrs. Powell was a 1939 graduate of Piqua Catholic High School and was a TROY — Virginia Lee member of the Union BapReynolds, 66, of Troy, tist Church of Troy. In addition to being a wonderful passed away 6:11 a.m. homemaker, wife and Saturday, July 27, 2013, at mother she retired in 1984 Wilson Memorial Hospital from Enpo Pump Company in Sidn e y . as an assembler.

A service to honor her S h e life will begin at 1 p.m. w a s Wednesday, at Jamieson b o r n & Yannucci Funeral Aug. 4, Home with Pastor Dale E. 1946 in Adkins officiating. Burial K n o t t , will follow at Forest Hill Ky. to Cemetery. Visitation will be the late from 12-1 p.m. Wednesday Goebel at the funeral home. In lieu a n d REYNOLDS of flowers, Memorial con- H e t t i e tributions may be made to (Caudell) Reynolds.

Virginia is survived by the Alzheimer’s Associatwo sisters and brother-intion, 31 W. Wipp Road, law, Lucille Hall of Troy, Dayton, OH 45459. Guestbook condolences and ex- Deronia and Herman pressions of sympathy, to Lewis of Michigan; one be provided to the family, brother, Guy Comer of may be expressed through Ashland, Ky.; and several jamiesonandyannucci.com. nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded

Virginia L. ‘Ginny’ Powell PIQUA — Virginia L. “Ginny” Powell, 91, of Piqua, died at 8 a.m. Satu r d a y, July 27, 2013, at J o r dan’s L i f e C a r e Center o f Bridgman, M i c h . POWELL S h e was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Piqua to the late Frank and Gertrude (West) Mullinix. She married Gene D. Powell July 4, 1941, in Piqua; he preceded her in death June 26, 1974.

Survivors include a son, Ted G. Powell of Walnut Creek, Calif.; a brother-inlaw James, Miller of Bridgman, Mich.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She also was preceded in death by a son, Craig D. ”Butchie” Powell in 1953; four sisters; Mildred O’Rock, Pauline Miller,

Virginia Lee Reynolds

Radio/TV personality ‘Kidd’ Craddick dies ASSOCIATED PRESS Radio and TV personality David “Kidd” Kraddick, the high-octane host of the “Kidd Kraddick in the Morning” show heard on dozens of U.S. radio stations in national syndication, has died at a charity golf event near New Orleans, a publicist said.

Kraddick was 53.

The Texas-based radio host whose program is syndicated by YEA Networks, died at his Kidd’s Kids charity function in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna on Saturday, said publicist Ladd Biro in releasing a statement on behalf of YEA Networks.

“He died doing what he loved,” said Biro, of the public relations firm Champion Management, speaking by telephone with AP early Sunday.

He said he had no further details on the death.

The “Kidd Kraddick in the Morning” show is syndicated by YEA Networks and heard on more than 75 Top 40 and Hot AC radio stations and is a leader among most-listened-to contemporary morning programs, Biro noted. He added the program is also transmitted globally on American Forces Radio Network. The show’s cast is also seen weeknights on the nationally syndicated TV show “Dish Nation,” he added.

“All of us with YEA Networks and the “Kidd

one sister, Candy Morgan and husband Pat of Troy, 10 grandchildren, Melanie Grillot and husband Chad, Jaquie Siegel, Chris Siegel and wife Laura, Greg Albers and wife Jamie, Christy Carroll and husband Dan, Aaron Albers and wife Joyce, and Wes, Trevor, Tanner and Tayler Robbins; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Jack and Gordon Shroyer.

Mrs. Hess retired from Crown Lift in New Bremen as a machinist. She enjoyed fishing, gardening, working with flowers, and loved spending time with her grandkids.

In keeping with Mrs. Hess’ wishes, her body will be cremated. Her final resting place will be at Furrow Cemetery in Ft. Loramie. Private services will be held at a later date at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are in the care of Cromes Funeral Home & Crematory, 302 S. Main Ave., Sidney.

Guestbook condolences and expressions of sympathy may be made to Charlene’s family at www.cromesfh.com.

Kraddick in the Morning” crew are heartbroken over the loss of our dear friend and leader,” the network statement said. “Kidd devoted his life to making people smile every morning, and for 21 years his foundation has been dedicated to bringing joy to thousands of chronically and terminally ill children.”

The statement said the cause of death would be released “at the appropriate time.” Many fans of the show posted condolences and messages of mourning on a Facebook page devoted to the show. One Texas radio station ran photographs on its website of Kraddick.

“Oh Man, I just heard Kidd Kraddick died! He’s my childhood dj. What a sad day. His poor family.

He was always nice 2 me from the beginning,” tweeted singer Kelly Clarkson.

Richie Tomblin, the head golf professional at the Timberlane Country Club Saturday, described Kraddick as looking ill when he showed up.

“He came out and he borrowed my golf clubs and went out to the driving range,” Tomblin told AP when contacted by phone. “It’s kind of a freaky situation. He came out. He practiced a little bit. He hit the ball at the first tee and wasn’t feeling good and after that I didn’t see him.”

in death by two brothers, Raymond and Rankin Reynolds; and two sisters, Kathryn Miller, and Myleta Reynolds.

Virginia was a member of the Church of Christ in Tipp City. She formerly worked at RT Industries, Troy. She enjoyed watching religious programs on television, shopping, and going out to eat.

A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy, with Pastor Bob Vincent officiating. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. Visitation will be Wednesday at the funeral home from 10-11 a.m. one hour prior to the service. Condolences may be left for the family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.

John R. Schwytzer ARCANUM — John R. Schwytzer, 72, passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013, at Village Green Nursing Home, Greenville. He was born March 7, 1941, in Dayton, to his parents Walter C. and Frances C. (Quakenbush) Schwytzer.

John graduated from Randolph High School Class of 1959. He retired as a sheet metal worker and was a 53 year member of the Sheet Metal Workers Local 24.

He will be missed and remembered by his children, John (fiancé Susan) Schwytzer of West Milton, Kelly Lofino of Englewood, Lori (Gary) Bradley of West Milton, Martin Schwytzer of West Milton; grandchildren Brittney, Matthew, Nina, Joseph Jr., Justin, Cody, Mason,

Mitchell; great-grandchildren Lily Rice, Damian Landers, Lilly Schwytzer; sisters Roseanne (Darrell) Siebert of West Milton and Marian (Hank) Mote of Union City.

He was preceded in death by his son, Nick Schwytzer; his parents; half-sister, Barbara Ann Urich; half-brother, Lawrence E. Urich; brother, Walter C. Schwytzer.

Visitation will be held 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at HaleSarver Funeral Home, 284 N. Miami St., West Milton. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to State of the Heart Hospice, 1350 N. Broadway St., Greenville, OH. Online memories may be left for the family at www.halesarver.com

Death notices SIDNEY — Betty Lou Bevans, 85, 3003 W. Cisco Road, Sidney, passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013, at 9:50 p.m. at Dorothy Love Retirement Community. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Cromes Funeral Home and Crematory, 302 S. Main Ave., Sidney.

SIDNEY — James L. Dembski, 79, of Sidney, went home to be with the Lord Sunday, July 28, at 8:46 a.m. in his residence. Arrangements are pending at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua.

PIQUA — Rita L. Gallagher, of Piqua, died at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the Kobacker House of Columbus. Her funeral arrangements are pending through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

ENGLEWOOD — Carma R. Merkert, of Englewood, passed away at 5:12 p.m. Sunday at Hospice of Dayton. Arrangements are pending through FisherCheney Funeral Home in Troy.

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Loving strangers, courting votes epublicans have long portrayed themselves as the party of faith, and religious practice is a reliable indicator of political behavior. Among voters who attend worship services more than once a week, 63 percent backed Mitt Romney last fall, while 36 percent supported President Obama. For those who never darken a church door, the numbers were exactly reversed.

On immigration reform, however, House Republicans are badly out of the step with the leaders of two religious groups that strongly backed Romney: white Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants. Many of these clerics vigorously support giving undocumented immigrants a clear path to citizenship, but GOP legislators have stoutly resisted a Senate-passed measure that would create such a path.

So far, political and economic arguments have failed to sway these House Republicans. Maybe a little Bible study will help them see the light.

Even many Republicans think their House brethren are clinging to a position that’s both morally indefensible and politically irrational. The shopworn metaphor of a circular firing squad doesn’t quite capture their suicidal impulse. They seem intent on burning themselves at the stake.

Most attention has focused on the political repercussions. More than 70 percent of Hispanics and Asians voted Democratic last year. In an increasingly nonwhite STEVE AND COKIE ROBERTS country, alienating the fastest-growing segment of Columnist the voting population smacks of supreme stupidity.

The economic arguments are equally compelling. Immigrants generate jobs, income and growth, and House Republicans are angering a business community that desperately wants legalization.

The religious dimension of this debate has been largely ignored, however, and that’s highly unfortunate.

Doing good should count as much as winning elections or earning profits.

The Roman Catholic Church in this country was built by immigrants, so its receptivity to newcomers is wellknown and long-standing. One example -- the presidents of more than 90 Catholic colleges recently wrote to Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (both practicing Catholics): “Catholic teaching values the human dignity and worth of all immigrants, regardless of legal status. We remind you that no human being made in the image of God is illegal.”

Evangelicals have been far slower to embrace the immigrant cause. As Jenny Yang of the National Association of Evangelicals noted recently in the Washington Post, evangelicals were “the most anti-immigrant” religious denomination as recently as 2006.

That view was revised in part by “a more careful and thoughtful reading of Scripture,” Yang wrote. There are almost 100 references to immigrants in the Old Testament alone, but the most persuasive verse is from Deuteronomy: “You shall love the stranger, for you were once strangers in the land of Egypt.”

Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a ferocious foe of immigration reform, said on Univision that “legal Americans do not have a moral obligation to solve the problem” of the 11 million undocumented strangers now living here. But the Bible contradicts him.

Two evangelical leaders, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Mat Staver, wrote on the Fox News website: “Our agenda is driven not by the Donkey or the Elephant but by the Lamb. ... We believe that Scripture provides principles that compel us to advocate for reforms to immigration policy.”

There is a practical motive here as well. Catholics have always depended on immigrants to fill their pews -- Poles, Irish, Italians -- and today many of their parishioners are Hispanics and Asians, particularly Filipinos.

But now evangelical churches are depending on the same source of recruits. Rodriguez argues that deporting illegals would mean “deporting the future of American Christianity.”

Professor John Green of the University of Akron, an expert on evangelicals, told the Arizona Republic: “A lot of this simply has to do with the sense among many evangelical leaders that the immigrant community, particularly the Hispanic community, is very important to the future of evangelical churches, that the missionary opportunities are very large.”

It’s not just where these newcomers worship; it’s what they believe. Rodriguez and Staver point out that “in reality, most Latino voters are social conservatives” who would consider voting Republican, but for them, immigration policies “trump all other issues.” If social conservatives really want to advance their ideas in the political marketplace, they must “earn a hearing” with immigrants by embracing immigration reform. If they “kill such policies,” they will endanger their own agenda.

Pass the matches.

“Respect the law” is a profound Biblical admonition; so is “love the stranger.” Religious leaders are telling House Republicans to put love before law, to temper justice with mercy. That’s good moral advice. And good political advice, too.

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Morally right and good economics D.C. city council for little more than six months, helped by a presmonths into his sectigious local lobbyist, ond term, President David W. Wilmot, who reObama returned to the ceives a retainer of theme of his presidency, $10,000 a month. Waland perhaps his entire poMart wants to build six litical career: carrying out stores in the District, the promise made in the which major retailers, preamble to the ConstituDONNA BRAZILE preferring the wealthier tion. The president wants suburbs, have shunned for to refocus our attention on Columnist years. the economy and helping That would seem to be good news. Exmiddle-class families because that’s the moral imperative of our Founders: to pro- cept Wal-Mart underpays its employees.

A study by the state of Ohio found that mote the general welfare.

From the day he took office, Obama’s “15,484 Wal-Mart workers and dependgoal has been economic restoration, the ents received Medicaid benefits in June foundation of social stability. But certain 2009, and 12,872 Wal-Mart workers and segments of Congress don’t understand dependents got food stamps.” The state that the equation “We the people” means representative who commissioned the policies that strengthen opportunity for study, Youngstown Democrat Robert the most people and support those most Hagan, extrapolated that Ohio taxpayers in need. “We the people” does not refer to shelled out $67 million for Wal-Mart eman oligarchy of the increasingly super- ployees.

It gets worse. Wal-Mart publicly suprich amassing more and more of the ported Obamacare, then this year kicked country’s wealth for themselves.

Despite some media whining, Obama’s thousands of its employees off its health ideas are not new ideas. He is proposing plans by demoting them to part-time emwell-thought-out programs to restore eco- ployees. All employees hired after Janunomic progress for the working and mid- ary 2012 who work under 30 hours a dle classes, based on fundamental week, will lose Wal-Mart’s health plan. principles. “This country offered you a For many, that means the state will pick basic bargain,” he said this week at Knox up the tab.

Enter the D.C. Council, which saw a College. It offered “a sense that your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages need to provide for its citizens who have and benefits, the chance to buy a home, to no union representation. The council save for retirement and, above all, to passed a “living wage” bill that will apply to large corporations without unions, like hand down a better life for your kids.”

Unfortunately, we’ve come to expect Wal-Mart. Businesses with more than $1 congressional Republicans to obstruct billion in income yearly, and over 75,000 progress and undermine efforts “to pro- square feet of retail space, must pay their vide for the general welfare.” Thus it was employees $12.50 per hour.

Wal-Mart threatened to cancel three of not surprising that Republican leaders announced their intention to stonewall its planned stores not yet in development, the president’s plans to better the econ- and might pull the other three under conomy, and also to reverse all the public struction, if the living wage bill passes.

The council refused to be intimidated, benefits from laws already enacted.

The Republican chairman of House Ap- and passed the bill 8 to 5.

But the bill is opposed by Mayor Vinpropriations, Rep. Harold Rogers, announced bills to shoot down Obama’s cent C. Gray. To override a veto -- if Gray major economic initiatives. They slash vetoes the bill -- requires nine votes. Two the budgets for various departments from of the council members who opposed the 30 to 50 percent. “These are tough bills,” bill are running for mayor, and likely Rogers said. “His priorities are going have no desire to alienate the big corponowhere.” Republicans have pledged to rations and developers who bankroll shut down the government come October, campaigns. It’s going to be a tough sell to unless Obama agrees to completely de- convert one of the other three.

Obama said at Knox College: “This fund Obamacare.

“This is as serious a challenge on fiscal growing inequality isn’t just morally matters as I’ve ever seen,” Democratic wrong; it’s bad economics. When middleclass families have less to spend, busiHouse Whip Steny Hoyer said.

But what we are seeing that we nesses have fewer customers. When haven’t expected is support for what may wealth concentrates at the very top, it can be called privatized financial oligarchy at inflate unstable bubbles that threaten the economy. When the rungs on the ladthe local level.

For example, Obama wants to increase der of opportunity grow farther apart, it the minimum wage, which hasn’t been undermines the very essence of this countouched for four years (making him the try.”

Unfortunately, it seems that for now first president in decades in whose term there’s been no increase.) This disregard Washington’s mayor is not sure what side -- even disdain -- for the working poor re- he might end up fighting for. flects what Obama calls a “winner-takeDonna Brazile is a senior Democratic all economy where a few do better and better, while everybody else just treads strategist, a political commentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a water.”

The nation’s single largest employer, contributing columnist to Ms. Magazine Wal-Mart, has courted the Washington, and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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Public officials can be contacted through the following addresses and telephone numbers: ■ Lucy Fess, mayor, 5th Ward Commissioner, ward5comm@piquaoh.org, 773-7929 (home) ■ John Martin, 1st Ward Commissioner, ward1comm@piquaoh.org, 773-2778 (home) ■ William Vogt, 2nd Ward Commissioner, ward2comm@piquaoh.org, 773-8217 ■ Joe Wilson, 3rd Ward Commissioner, ward3comm@piquaoh.org, 778-0390 ■ Judy Terry, 4th Ward Commissioner, Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at ward4comm@piquaoh.org, 773-3189 ■ City Manager Gary Huff, ghuff@pistevecokie@gmail.com. quaoh.org, 778-2051

■ Miami County Commissioners: John “Bud” O’Brien, Jack Evans and Richard Cultice, 201 W. Main St., Troy, OH 45373 440-5910; commissioners@comiami.oh.us ■ John R. Kasich, Ohio governor, Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 644-0813, Fax: (614) 466-9354 ■ State Sen. Bill Beagle, 5th District, Ohio Senate, First Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 466-6247; e-mail: SD05@sen.state.oh.us ■ State Rep. Richard Adams, 79th District, House of Representatives, The Riffe Center, 77 High St. 13th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215, (614) 466-8114,

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid a surge of anti-gay violence and repression in several countries, the United Nations’ human rights office on Friday launched its first global outreach campaign to promote tolerance and greater equality for lesbians, gays, transgender people and bisexuals.

Called Free & Equal, it’s an unprecedented effort by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to change public attitudes around the world on issues that have bitterly divided the U.N.’s own member states.

The multi-pronged campaign — announced at a news conference in Cape Town, South Africa — will include videos and publicservice announcements distributed through social media, a new website, a series of fact sheets, and engagement by celebrities well-known in different regions of the world.

“Changing attitudes is never easy... It begins with often difficult conversations,” said Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights. “And that is what we want to do with this campaign. Free & Equal will inspire millions of conversations among people around the world and across the ideological spectrum.”

There were multiple reasons for choosing South Africa as the news conference venue. It is Pillay’s home country, and is a leading nation on a continent where discrimination and violence against LGBT people is widespread.

In Cameroon, for example, two men were sentenced to prison this week for gay sex, and a gay rights activist was tortured and killed earlier this month in an attack his friends suspect was related to his activism. South Africa, in contrast, does not criminalize homosexuality and allows same-sex marriage, yet is plagued by extensive anti-gay violence, including frequent rapes of lesbians.

However, the new awareness campaign will extend worldwide, reflecting the challenges faced by gays in many countries.

In Russia, President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law that will impose hefty fines for holding gay pride rallies or providing information about the gay community to minors.

In Haiti, gay-rights leaders say their community has been targeted by a recent series of threats. In Montenegro, several hundred people on Wednesday attacked the Balkan nation’s first-ever gay pride rally, throwing rocks and bottles at activists while some yelled, “Kill the gays.”

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Way, way off Broadway, stars work without reviews

BY MICHAEL HILL Associated Press POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Even with stars like Steve Martin and Greg Kinnear showing up each summer, the Powerhouse Theater season is more un-Broadway than off-Broadway.

The program at Vassar College attracts writers, directors and actors eager to develop new works in a collegial, cloistered setting 70 miles north of Manhattan. No bigcity distractions, no theater reviewers. And paparazzi don’t come to Poughkeepsie too often.

“It’s very much like theater camp for grown-ups,” actress and writer Jennifer Westfeldt, a Powerhouse regular, said with a laugh. “But it’s also very much kept to the original vision they had for it, which was to provide a safe haven for artists, and writers in particular, to develop their work.”

The 29th season of Powerhouse Theater wraps ups this weekend after eight weeks of rewrites, rehearsals, readings and productions.

As in past years, the program has drawn a mix of established names and lesser-known artists. All stay in student housing on campus and all share the goal of developing new material.

With its walled campus and treelined walkways, Vassar provides a sort of quiet, close-knit incubator for the largely New York City-based crowd. A few evenings ago, actress Mozhan Marno was able to take a short stroll to that night’s showing of the play she wrote. Nearby, the young cast of a superhero musical took a break from a stage reading to lounge in the setting sun and swat at a whiffle ball. Far from critics and everyday distractions, people here compare Powerhouse to working in a bubble.

And they like it that way.

“Especially with the advent of the Internet age, widespread critical commentary can be damaging to

something when it’s still cooking,” said Powerhouse artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer. “What we provide here is the feedback from an artistic community and from an audience.”

Pfaelzer works for the not-forprofit New York Stage and Film, which started Powerhouse in 1985 in collaboration with Vassar to serve artists developing new plays.

Part of her job is reading about 300 scripts a year and winnowing it down to the 15 to 20 that will be presented in a full production or a reading.

The judgment-free atmosphere here annually attracts a good number of big names. Playwright John Patrick Shanley had a play on the main stage in 1985 early in his career and has since brought about a dozen plays here, including the first public reading of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner “Doubt.”

Martin came here this summer for “Bright Star,” a musical he worked on with singer/songwriter Edie Brickell. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote “In the Heights,” brought his “The Hamilton Mixtape,” a hiphop retelling of the life and death of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

Other Powerhouse acting alumni include Ethan Hawke, Frances McDormand, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, who graduated Vassar in 1971.

Westfeldt has acted in shows here over the years and did a staged reading of her movie “Friends With Kids.” This summer, she rushed from a performance of her current Manhattan gig “The Explorers Club” at New York City Center to catch “Bright Star” at Vassar.

“It’s become my creative home away from home,” she said.

Powerhouse also selects dozens of apprentices each summer for an intensive program of classes and performances. Most are college students. They put on plays that require little tweaking — “Agamem-

non” and “As You Like It” were two this year — but still get to cross paths with the professionals. Acting apprentice Lizzy Lincoln, 21, of Round Rock, Texas, recalled the inspiration of staying in the same building as the young cast of professionals there for a musical.

“We came home from the close of ‘Agamemnon’ and there were people in the parlor just singing with beautiful, beautiful Broadway-trained voices, improvising music,” she said.

The bucolic setting has led some to conclude Powerhouse is a place where artists escape the city in the summer for a few weeks of coddling — a notion participants scoff at.

Patrica Wettig, who has acted on TV and film for decades, said she worked as hard at Powerhouse as anywhere.

“It’s not just ‘Oh, lets come here and slap everybody on the back because aren’t we great for doing creative projects.’ The attention is very, very much on the work and trying to get it to be the best that is can be,” said Wettig, who will have her play “Yellow Kingdom” read on Sunday.

Marno, whose film credits include “Charlie Wilson’s War,” said that as her play “When the Lights Went Out” was being readied for the main Powerhouse stage, she would start her day with a couple hours of rewrite, head to rehearsals for six hours, and then end the day with a discussion of the developing work with director Kate Whoriskey.

Ultimately, Marno hopes to get the play from here to New York City, following the trajectory of other works like “Doubt.” For now, she’s happy to have a place to nurture her play.

“There are so many beautiful trees and you can get lost. You turn the corner, and you’re in a fireflyridden meadow,” she said “It’s very poetic and very atmospheric and I was not at all distracted.”

Long delay makes ‘Edward Sharpe ...’ worth wait NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The new self-titled album from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is late. Way late. More than a year overdue.

Frontman and producer Alex Ebert wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I’m just glad we didn’t put it out all the way back then because so much developed since then,” Ebert said.

“Not just the difference a year makes but the difference even an hour makes.

We were in the studio while taking a break from mixing

when I came up with this song ‘Life Is Hard.’ Songs developed at sort of the last minute.”

Some of the 12 songs on the band’s third album, reTuesday, were leased recorded more than 18 months ago with the music that would eventually appear on the California-based folk-rock band’s 2012 release, “Here.”

Ebert had so much music, he considered making “Here” a double album. Then he thought he’d release the material a few months later as a

second album. But summer came and went. Seasons ticked away.

These were eventful times for the band, which has a sliding lineup that usually numbers more than 10 around founders Ebert and Jade Castrinos. “Here” opened at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the band played to larger and larger audiences in bigger and bigger venues. This was driven in part by the popularity of “Big Easy Express,” Emmett Malloy’s documentary that landed a

Grammy Award for the Zeros, Mumford & Sons and Old Crow Medicine Show, and the open-armed nature of their music, which lends itself to large-crowd sing-alongs.

All the while Ebert continued work on the album.

“The work was very, very sort of diligent and 16-hoursa-day sort of work. At least 12,” he said in a phone interview. “There was very rarely a day off. So it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, let’s take our time.’ It just wasn’t ready yet and stuff kept evolving.”

■ Contract Bridge — By Steve Becker

Famous hand

In 1998, Rita Shugart of California, Andy Robson and Tony Forrester of Great Britain and Geir Helgemo of Norway won the Reisinger Board-aMatch Teams. An article in this space at that time pointed out that for Shugart in particular, the victory was a stunning accomplishment, since she was the first woman since Helen Sobel in 1957 to win the grueling three-day, sixsession contest.

The feat was all the more remarkable in that the Shugart team consisted of only four players rather than the usual five

or six, so that all four had to play every board of the event with no substitution.

As if to prove this achievement was no fluke, the same foursome then went on to capture the 1999 Reisinger, winning by the near-record margin of eight boards!

In today’s deal from the final, Shugart (North) and Robson displayed excellent judgment to reach the fine contract of three diamonds, which East not unreasonably doubled after his partner had opened and taken a second bid.

Shugart’s decision to pass three diamonds rather than return Robson to hearts proved decisive, as three hearts would have failed by at least one trick.

Robson won the club queen with dummy’s ace and played the A-K and another heart, ruffing with dummy’s eight. East overruffed with the queen and returned a club to South’s king, and Robson ruffed another heart, establish-

ing his last heart as a trick.

East could have overruffed dummy’s deuce with the five (which would have held South to his contract), but he discarded instead, hoping declarer might eventually lose control of the hand.

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Grandmother’s empty house needs family’s full attention DEAR ABBY: My grandmother made the decision to move to an assisted-living facility two years ago. She left most of her belongings in her farmhouse, which has sat empty since then. Her health is fine, so she should be around for many years. It has already been decided that my dad will inherit the house, but he doesn’t want to live there anytime soon because of the location. (It’s way out in the country.)

I’m afraid the house is going to become unlivable if it sits for years without utilities or anyone taking care of it. Dad mows the grass, but that’s about it, and all of Grandma’s belongings are collecting dead flies. Nobody seems to care but me. Dad has three siblings, and between them there are nine grandchildren. How do I get my family to take care of Grandma’s house?

— CONSCIENTIOUS IN KANSAS CITY, KAN. DEAR CONSCIENTIOUS: Your father may be inheriting the house, but is he also inheriting all of the contents? If the answer is no, there should be a family discussion about the disposition of the furniture, clothing, linens and any possible heirloom items.

I agree with you that nothing good can happen to the house if no one is paying attention. It’s an invitation to theft or vandalism. The house should be cleaned and dusted.

The furniture should be covered with sheets to keep it as free of dust as possible. Someone should check the place at least once a month.

If no one else in the family is willing to step up to the plate and help out, because you are conscientious, it looks like you’re elected. If it’s too much for you, perhaps a caretaker could be hired to watch over, or possibly live in, the house.

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This has been working out fine except for one thing. Joe has a longtime girlfriend, and he has been spending some nights at her house. (She lives alone.) We haven’t forbidden this because he’s an adult, and I worry that if we say no he will move in with her. However, we are not comfortable with his spending nights there.

Part of our objection is we don’t like the example it sets for his 13-year-old sister, but aside from that we don’t think it’s a good idea, although we can’t say why. We know they’re sexually active regardless of who sleeps where. Are we old-fashioned, or is it reasonable to ask him not to spend the whole night with his girlfriend?

— OLD-SCHOOL PARENT

DEAR OLD SCHOOL: Because you have misgivings about your son spending the night at his girlfriend’s, you and your husband should talk to him about it together. Although he is an adult, I agree that what’s going on sends a wrong message to his younger sister who, unless you talk to her about your family values, will think this is acceptable.

You should also take time to think through why you are uneasy about what your son is doing. If it has anything to do with worry about an unplanned pregnancy, your husband might be able to get through to him better than you can. If he intends to complete his college edDEAR ABBY: My son, ucation, becoming a father “Joe,” is 19, a high school could slow him down, if graduate living at home not end it. with his dad and me until he leaves for college next Dear Abby is written by year. He will be paying his Abigail Van Buren, also tuition, and we are charg- known as Jeanne Phillips, ing him a token rent and was founded by her ($100/month) while he’s mother, Pauline Phillips. not in school. He eats din- Write Dear Abby at or ner with us most nights, www.DearAbby.com and I usually do his laun- P.O. Box 69440, Los Angedry. He has a part-time les, CA 90069.

Aretha Franklin, Bo Jackson to receive MLB honors NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin and Bo Jackson will be honored at the 2013 MLB Beacon Awards Luncheon next month.

Major League Baseball announced Thursday that Franklin and Jackson will receive awards on Aug. 24 at the Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile before the annual Civil Rights Game. The White Sox will host the Rangers in this year’s game.

Filipino singer and “Glee” actress Charice will perform at the event.

Past recipients of MLB Beacon Awards include Hall of Famers Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Ernie

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Restoration of Lock no. 1 begins

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN Staff Writer pspeelman@civitasmedia.com

LOCKINGTON — After more than 30 years of hoping and eight years of planning, politicking and fund raising, restoration of Lock No. 1 has begun here. It’s a project that will take almost a year to complete and will cost $2.5 million.

The locks, which were built in the 19th century to ferry boats through a 67foot rise and fall in the Miami and Erie Canal,

began to deteriorate in 1913 when regular use of them stopped. The wood flooring between the stone walls dried out and rotted, causing the rock walls to lean inward and crumble.

Thanks to a federal transportation enhancement grant meant to prehistorical serve transportation systems and an Ohio Historical Society (OHS) grant of state capital funds to the village of Lockington, Lock No. 1 of the Miami and Erie Canal will be painstakingly dismantled and put back together

Nimer welcomed to Bruns family business PIQUA — Bruns Realty Group and Bruns General Contracting Inc. have announced the addition of Beau Nimer, Commercial REALTOR®, to the Bruns family of businesses.

Nimer will play an intricate role in developing relationships and growth for Commercial Real Estate and General Contracting sales in the Cincinnati and Dayton areas.

Nimer has a background in purchasing and customer service at Manufactured Assemblies Corporation in Vandalia, and most recently, inside sales at Kloeckner Metals in Sharonville.

Nimer received his degree in marketing and international business from The University of Cincinnati and his real estate education through Hondros College.

NIMER While Nimer grew up and has maintained his strong ties and connections in Tipp City, he currently resides in Cincinnati with his wife, Sheila.

“Being a close friend to the Nimer family, I’ve been able to watch Beau grow up from a kid to a polished young professional,” said Mike Caughell, executive vice president and general manager for Bruns Realty Group and Bruns General Contracting Ing. “Everything he represents from his work ethic to his positive attitude is exactly what we are looking for in Bruns family of business. I couldn’t be happier about adding him to our team.”

again with new mortar and on a concrete floor.The federal grant of $1.9 million funds 80 percent of the project.

The state monies, $615,534, fund the remaining 20 percent. The state appropriation was approved by the Ohio General Assembly. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is managing the contract for the work. It has been awarded to Spieker Construction, of Perrysburg.

“It’s really just getting started,” said ODOT project engineer Carrie Koesters, of St. Henry, about how it was going. Fred Smith, of Columbus, manager of Architectural Services at OHS and the project architect, said that the timeline calls for fast, but careful, work into November, “or as long as the weather holds,” and then a resumption in April.

May 15, 2014, is the target completion date, according to Spieker project superintendent Frederick Keller, of Sidney. Officials from Washington, D.C., and Columbus were in Lockington Monday to review the dismantling plan.

Keller and his crew of eight people demonstrated how they will label, move, and reset each of the 1,250 large stone blocks and the tons of rubble that comprise the locks.

“We’ve already dug 100 tons of dirt, 2,000 cubic yards,” Keller said. Much of that was effort was not part of the lock restoration. The crew dug a giant hole in which the Lockington Volunteer Fire Department buried a 30,000-gallon water tank Thursday. J.R. Edwards Excavating, of Sidney, has the subcontract for earth-moving.

The large stones in the walls of the lock are called face rock or dimension stones. Each weighs about 500 pounds. The tons of small rocks on the outside of the face rocks are called rubble. After installing additional shoring between the lock’s walls, Keller’s crew began moving the rubble. It was covered in decades, if not centuries, of

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Years of work, planning and politicking has resulted in restoration of Lock No. 1 in Lockington. dirt, and all of it will be washed clean before it is replaced during reconstruction.

“We move five (vertical) feet of rubble and then five feet of face stone (along the entire length of the lock),” Keller said. Then the process starts again on the next five feet.

There are 20 vertical feet altogether. The crane to move face rocks is due Monday. The layers of face rock are called courses. The top course has been labeled “A,” the second course, “B” and so on.

There are 17 courses.

Choice One Engineering, of Sidney, designed a massive grid which has been marked out on the lawn behind the locks. As each stone is removed, it will be placed into the grid.

Allison Nickolai, of Piqua, the administrative assistant on the project, was busy marking the stones of the top course Tuesday.

“When all the blocks are gone, and someone wants stone NE13, I should be able to go right to the grid and find it,” she said.John Hemp has been photographing the placement of stones.

Poster-size enlargements have been mounted to the inside walls of the work trailer for reference, so when workers are in the site office, it seems they are sitting in the bottom of the

canal. They are surrounded by the panoramic photos.Because there is a possibility that excavators may unearth items of historical importance, ODOT or OHS archaeologists are onsite everyday.

“We haven’t found much that is important yet,” Keller said. “Just some trash from the 1913 flood, a rusted tin can and a bottle.”

What workers have found is mortar that is much harder to take apart than they expected. Most of the stones are held together by 180-year-old mortar, which comes apart easily.

“We found that somewhere after 1900, they repaired the east side of the top of the lock,” Keller said.

“That mortar is still hard and holding the stones together really well.”

He has not led before any restoration project that required such careful attention to detail. Every rock is measured as well as labeled.

“If one were to break as we moved it, we’d have to know what we needed to replace,” Nickolai said.

To prepare, Keller traveled to Williamsport, Md., to talk with people who had restored Lock No. 44 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal system there in 1998.

The Miami and Erie Canal opened from Toledo to Cincinnati in 1845 and Lockington, then called Lockport, became a boom

town. The canal was the main thoroughfare for passengers and freight. Canal boats would back up when they got to Lockington because there were so many locks to go through. It could take as long as six hours to get from one end of the village to the other.

So, boatmen and passengers would disembark to while away the time in Lockington’s saloons, taverns, brothels and shops.The locks had been built by mostly German, French and Irish immigrants, many of whom settled in Lockport.

It was they who constructed the massive side walls of limestone blocks weighing 500 pounds apiece. It was they who laid the white oak planks at the bottom of the trenches. The wood held the blocks in place and the wood wouldn’t rot as long as there was water in the locks.Residents of Lockport wrote that, soon, their town would be as populous as Cincinnati.

That was not to be. By 1860, railroads replaced mule trails and the locks in Lockington ferried mostly local farmers’ grain harvests to elevators downstream.

There are conflicting reports about just when all traffic ceased in Lockington but all historians agree that the 1913 flood destroyed the canal.

The site now belongs to the OHS.

New Hot Head Burritos to open in Sidney

BY PATRICIA ANN SPEELMAN Staff Writer pspeelman@civitasmedia.com

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SIDNEY — The Hot Head Burritos restaurant that will open in Sidney next month will be the fruition of more than two years of effort to establish a presence in Shelby County.

Franchisor and owner Cynde Wiley, of Kettering, and franchisee Pam Sommer, of Covington have planned a mid-August opening and are accepting applications for employment on the website, www.hotheadburritos.com.

Sommer plans to begin onsite interviews in about two weeks and will hire 20 employees. The fast-casual restaurant, as Wiley calls it, will offer burritos, nachos, tacos, quesadillas, bowls and kids’ meals ranging in price from $4.29 to $6.99. It will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Mondays through Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

“We’ve wanted to be in Sidney for a couple of years,” Sommer said, “but we couldn’t find (a good place). So, we went and put stores in other locations and then circled back around.”

She and her husband operate four other Hot Head Burrito franchises and several Subway shops.

“We are thrilled to be in Sidney. It works well for our footprint,” Wiley said.

“We get a good workforce and loyal customers.”

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Pam Sommer, of Covington, and Cynde Wiley, of Kettering, post a sign on the door of a new Hot Head Burritos restaurant that will open in Sidney in August.

Wiley is the owner of the chain. Sommer is the franchisee of the Sidney store. for the chain because, as a native Texan, she missed good Mexican food when she moved to Ohio.

“If it weren’t for Chipotle (another Mexican restaurant chain), I wouldn’t be here,” she said. “I’d been going to Chipotle and enjoying their food, but it wasn’t consistent.

I thought, ‘Someone’s got to be able to make Mexican food taste the same. We (Wiley and her husband) had Subways, so I was already in the food industry.

So one day, I said, ‘I can do this. I can make these recipes.’”

She developed all of them in her home kitchen and opened the first restaurant in 2007.

“We found a place and I dragged my husband through the first two years,” she laughed. “It was challenging to build it from the ground up.”

Their shared Subway connection was what brought Wiley and Som-

mer together. Wiley invited Sommer to eat at the first Hot Head Burritos. Sommer liked the food and said, “When you’re ready to franchise, call me.” Sommer likened the experience to a Subway with Mexican food. The chain really took off, Wiley noted, when AOL.com named it one of the top up-and-coming restaurant chains.

“Our website crashed, we had so many hits. We only had two locations open. It was then we decided to look into franchising.”

Sommer was their first franchisee, opening a restaurant in Troy in 2009.

There are now 47 stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana and North Carolina, 23 of them franchises. Another eight will open during 2013, including some in Michigan and Florida. Sommer hopes to open additional burrito shops, too, but she’ll stick to the I-75/I-70

corridor.

“The things that make us unique are these: family friendly, variety of toppings, we allow for a lot of customization, 14 sauces to choose from. People think, because of the name, that we only serve spicy hot food. That’s not true,” Wiley said.

“There’s mild to wild,” Sommer added.

The local eatery will seat 46 people and renovation of the site (it last served as a Quiznos restaurant) is going smoothly, she said.

“The city already has been good to us,” she noted.

Her email box has been flooded with employment applications. “We try to make it a fun atmosphere to work in,” Sommer said.

Wiley also wants customers to be happy. “It’s a good healthy meal. We want them to go away feeling good about what they bought,” she said.

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Amanda Berry surprises concert crowd ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — One of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade made her first public appearance at a concert featuring the rapper Nelly a day after her abductor pleaded guilty to kidnap and rape charges.

Amanda Berry showed up at the daylong RoverFest concert in Cleveland on Saturday night, walking on stage with her family and waving at the cheering crowd. Wearing sunglasses and dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt, Berry smiled broadly while acknowledging the applause, but she didn’t address the crowd. Nelly called Berry back to the stage after his music set.

The appearance came a day after Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver, pleaded guilty to 937 counts in a deal that will send him to prison for life without parole, plus 1,000 years.

Berry, now 27, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight disappeared between 2002 and 2004 when they were 16, 14 and 20 years old. They escaped in May when Berry kicked out part of a door and called to neighbors for help.

Shane French, the host of the syndicated talk radio show Rover’s Morning Glory on WMMS in Cleveland, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Sunday that he was surprised when Berry showed up at the annual festival.

French, who goes by the name Rover on radio, said he had issued an im-

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Amanda Berry (inset and left center, above) one of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade, makes a surprise appearance at the RoverFest concert in Cleveland on Saturday night. Berry appeared at a public event for the first time since her rescue, a day after her abductor pleaded guilty in the case.

The rapper Nelly called Berry back to the stage after his music set. promptu invitation on his show a few weeks ago but didn’t know she was listening.

“I just said that she had 10 years of partying to make up for and she should come,” French said.

He said he was surprised when security guards told him Berry had arrived.

French said Berry at first refused to go on stage but then agreed and asked if he would go with her.

“She didn’t say why she decided to come, but some of her family members told me they listen to my show every day and had been to RoverFest in the past,” French said.

He said a couple of the women with Berry cried, overcome by the crowd’s cheers for Berry.

“I didn’t see her cry, but I think she was pretty overwhelmed by the response that the crowd gave her,” he said of Berry.

“She just seemed to be having a great time.”

French said he hasn’t invited her to appear on his radio show.

“I figured that when she want to tell her story, she’ll make the arrangements, and it would have been pointless to even ask,” French said.

Castro, 53, who was arrested and jailed shortly after the women escaped, was accused of raping and beating the three repeatedly. He also fathered a 6year-old daughter with Berry, authorities say.

The women said they were relieved by the conviction and looking forward to the end of the

legal proceedings.

Each said she had been kidnapped after accepting a ride from Castro, who had remained friends with DeJesus’ family and attended vigils over the years marking her disappearance.

Castro was accused of restraining the women, sometimes chaining them to a pole in a basement, to a bedroom heater or inside a van. The indictment included two counts of aggravated murder related to accusations that he punched and starved one of the women until she miscarried.

Earlier this month, the three women offered thanks on YouTube for emotional and financial backing they’ve received since going “through hell and back.”

Bracelet monitoring system not centralized COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio’s programs for monitoring offenders with electronic bracelets are divided between a small state effort for about 1,000 inmates and county-by-county systems for an unspecified number of individuals.

Attempts to create a centralized system haven’t been discussed, but there might be merit to the idea, said Sara Andrews, director of the state’s Adult Parole Authority, a division of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Many of the devices for Ohio offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes such as theft are passive, meaning someone has to fail to check in before an alert is sent.

Other systems can send immediate alerts for more serious offenders that trigger search notices for authorities.

In January in Columbus, a 15year-old boy was charged with a juvenile delinquency count of murder after authorities said he shot and killed another 15-year-old while vi-

State Briefs Commission to visit Wright-Patt WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of a national commission studying the U.S. Air Force to see if structural changes are needed will visit Ohio military bases this week seeking information.

The commission says members will visit WrightPatterson Air Force Base near Dayton today. They also plan to collect information at Air National Guard bases including Springfield, Rickenbacker and Mansfield-Lahm during their three-day Ohio stop.

Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor is among officials scheduled to speak at an open hearing Tuesday at the Statehouse in Columbus. Other state and local officials also were invited to submit statements.

The commission was mandated by Congress to help determine if and how Air Force structure should be changed to best fulfill its mission. The report and recommendations are due to the president and Congress on Feb. 1, 2014.

Cincinnati partners with Nextdoor CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati hopes to strengthen its neighborhoods by partnering with an online social networking website.

Mayor Mark Mallory recently announced the partnership with San Francisco-based Nextdoor. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the co-founder of the free, private website says it helps residents of more than 16,000 neighborhoods nationwide talk about neighborhood issues. Residents only have access to their neighborhood's page and can post about local events, safety and other issues.

Police and some departments under the city manager will be able to post emergency notifications and other information on individual Nextdoor sites within the city.

At least 40 of the 70 websites that Nextdoor considers part of Cincinnati have signed up.

Interim police Chief Paul Humphries says the partnership will allow police to direct crime information to the affected community.

olating conditions of his electronic monitoring. Two days before the killing, a warrant had been issued for Jesean Callender’s arrest for being out of range several times earlier in the month.

Andrews said the state is hopeful it has the proper mechanisms in place to avoid such incidents. Patrol: Drug-related arrests up Callender’s monitoring was overDAYTON (AP) — The Ohio State Highway Patrol seen by a judge in Franklin has reported more drug-related arrests and seizures County. Only numbers provided by in Ohio in the first half of this year compared with the the state were analyzed for this first six months of 2012. story.

Recently released patrol statistics show troopers made 4,728 drug arrests January through June for an 18 percent increase over the same period last year.

The Dayton Daily News reports that is a rise of 42 percent compared to the average number of arrests from 2010 through 2012.

Continued from page 1 During the intermis- County Jr. Fair King ers 4-H Club.

Seizures of prescription pill stimulants, depressants sion, Allison shared how Derek Gaier shared how The 2013 Miami The Ingle household she represented Miami he learned a lot about County Jr. Fair Court in- and hallucinogens also rose substantially the first half now has two members of County Fair and placed in livestock during last cludes: King’s Court: of the year over the three-year average. Total heroin fair royalty. Last year, sis- the top 15 at the Ohio year’s reign.

Fourth runner-up, Riley arrests rose 100 percent compared with the 2010-2012 ter Allison was crowned State Fair’s Queen con“I’m a non livestock guy Pickrel, son of William average.

Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston says the increased arrests the 2012 Miami County test. so I really had no clue and Leah Pickrel; third Jr. Fair Queen. r u n n e r - u p , and seizures stem from greater drug trafficking and “It’s a family afDan Boden- stronger efforts to stop it.

Mini-royalty crowned to help king and queen fair,” said Cassanmiller, son of Every royal court needs a prince and princess to help the fair king Mark dra with a laugh. and Boy gives $1,000 to shelters The top five King and queen during fair week.

Brenda BoCANTON (AP) — A 5-year-old Ohio boy who won Sam Westfall, 7, was crowned prince and Nigella Reck, 8, was crowned d e n m i l l e r ; and Queen contestthe money in a magazine contest has donated $1,000 ants shared their princess at Saturday’s festivities. second run- to children's shelters.

Westfall proudly donned his fair prince baseball cap, but struggled to ner-up, Judd thoughts about Warner Parker of Jackson Township near Canton keep his royal sash on straight while he waiting on stage. what they thought Thompson IV, donated the money to the Canton YWCA to benefit “My favorite thing about the Miami County Fair is all the rides — eswas the biggest son of Judd children living in the agency's two family shelters. challenge facing pecially the spaceship one,” Westfall said. “Just having fun at the fair is III and His mother, Jennifer, says her son won the money my favorite thing.” youth today.

S u n n y through a contest sponsored by Family Fun Magazine.

Westfall is the son of Clay and Cyndi Westfall. He is participating in T h o m p s o n ; Ingle shared that His winning idea was recycling discarded crayons and she feels the youth the sheep and showmanship contests at the Miami County Fair. first runner- donating them to needy children.

Westfall will be escorting his royal counterpart Princess Nigella Reck up, today don’t take adJustin Agency executive coordinator Dee Krauter tells The to various royal duties during fair week. vantage of programs Parke, son of (Canton) Repository the donation and the boy's help Eight year-old Reck said she can’t wait to pass out ribbons at the fair. Brian like 4-H to get more and are awesome and amazing.

“I like the rabbits the best out of all the animals,” she said. involved in their Shon Parke.

His mother says Warner, hearing some children Reck is the daughter of Alex and Renee Reck. She will be participat- Q u e e n ’ s communities. don't have crayons, had suggested doing something “I wish more peo- ing at the fair with Cloverbuds.

Court: Fourth about it. ple would get more runner-up involved in 4-H,” Ingle “Spending the week of what all the livestock kids Emily Johnson, daughter said. “There are great op- fair meeting new people do with their animals,” of Jim and Kris Johnson; portunities out there to and going to all the differ- Gaier said. “It blew my third runner-up, Lorie get involved in programs ent events was great,” Al- mind how complicated Romie, daughter of Brian like 4-H.” lison said. “I participated things work.” and Wanda Romie; second Sloan shared that peer in the Ohio’s (State Fair Ingle is the daughter of runner-up, Krissy Parke, pressure is one of the Queen’s contest) and met Andy and Tricia Ingle of daughter of Brian and biggest challenges facing 70 really great girls, all Covington. She is a mem- Shon Parke; first runneryouth. representing their ber of he Ears to Tails 4-H up Kara Wise, daughter of “There is a lot of pres- county’s fair. It was a Club. Sloan is the son of Leroy and Kay Wise. sure to conform to your unique opportunity for Todd and Delane Sloan.

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Korean divide lives on 60 years after end of war PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) — Some Americans call it the “Forgotten War,” a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it.

The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten.

Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive

celebration Saturday for a holiday it calls “Victory Day” — even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty.

Signs and banners reading “Victory” line the streets of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The events are expected to culminate with a huge military parade and fireworks, one of the biggest extravaganzas in this im-

poverished country since leader Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011.

Here at the border in Panmunjom, the war never ended. Both sides of the Demilitarized Zone are heavily guarded, making it the world's most fortified border, and dividing countless families with sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, on the other side. The North Koreans consider the pres-

ence of 28,500 U.S. troops in South Korea a continued occupation.

In some ways, war today is being waged outside the confines of the now-outdated armistice signed 60 years ago.

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Sixty years on, as both Koreas and the United States mark the anniversary Saturday, there is still no peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The two sides don't even agree on who started the war.

Outside the North, historians say it was North Korean troops who charged across the border at the 38th parallel and launched an assault at 4 a.m. on June 25, 1950.

North Korea agrees that war broke out at 4 a.m. — but says U.S. troops attacked first. A photo offered as proof at a Pyongyang war museum shows U.S. soldiers advancing, rifles cocked, as they run past the 38th parallel.

“The real history is that the U.S. started the war on June 25, 1950,” Ri Su Jong, a 21-year-old guide at a flower show in Pyongyang, said Tuesday. “They first attacked our country, and we quickly counterattacked.”

Ri, whose grandfathers both fought in the war, said she was taught that the North Koreans marched into Seoul three days later, “liberating” South Korea from U.S. forces. A panoramic diorama at the war museum shows soldiers hoisting the North Korean flag in a sea of fire and de-

struction.

As North Korean troops advanced further south, the U.S. retaliated with bombing campaigns that left both Seoul and Pyongyang in rubble.

“The U.S enemy engineered the war, boasting of the advantage of their air power, flying normally 500 or 700 flights, sometimes up to 1,000 flights a day, both on the front and in the rear,” said North Korean Maj. Gen. Kim Sung Un, a war veteran who is now 84. “All the factories and workplaces ... were reduced to ashes.”

Then came the counterattack.

Dick Bonelli was a 19year-old from the Bronx, a self-professed troublemaker, who was shipped off with the U.S. Marines to fight in a country he never knew existed. He arrived in September 1950 with the amphibious assault known in as the “Inchon Landing,” the surprise attack that helped the U.S.-led U.N. forces push the North Koreans back.

Bonelli later took part in one of the most costly fights of the Korean War: the 17day winter campaign in the mountainous region of the North then known by its Japanese name, the Chosin Reservoir. Several thousand were killed in combat, and thousands more died of frostbite.

“I tried for 30 to 40 years to forget it all,” Bonelli said in Pyongyang on Thursday, an American flag pinned to his blazer.“Who wants to remember that? It's war. It was terrible.”

In all, the fighting took more than 1.2 million lives.

More than 500,000 North Korean troops died, along with 183,000 Chinese who fought alongside them. On the other side, 138,000 South Koreans were killed, and 40,670 more from the U.N.-led force, including 36,900 Americans. Civilian deaths totaled almost 374,000 in South Korea and are unknown in the North.

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LIMA — Locos Express will be having tryouts for the 2014 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U, and 17U teams at Simmons Field (home field of Lima Locos) on the following dates: Aug. 11 from 1-3 p.m. for 13U, Aug. 11 from 4-6 p.m. for 14U, Aug. 18 from 1-3 p.m. for 15U, Aug. 18 from 4-6 p.m. for 16U, Aug. 18 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. for 17U. Locos Express is a nonprofit subsidiary of the Lima Locos that is dedicated to the development of youth baseball. The Express select teams will be competing in tournaments after the end each school’s 2014 spring baseball year.

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Greg Barnes, of Pitsburg, Josh Elleman of Huber Heights, Chris Newsome of Tipp City and Austin Teel of Beavercreek, l-r, react to a birdie Register for tryouts at putt that Teel sank during the 7th annual Ben Hinger Memorial Golf Scramble at Echo Hills on Saturday. www.limalocos.net/locosexpress/tryout-registraPIQUA — More than 100 golfers braved a tion. steady rain to take part in the 7th annual Registration is reBen Hinger Memorial Golf Scramble at quired. .

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BY JOE RESNICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The game within the game was a highly anticipated showdown between South Korean countrymen ChinSoo Choo and Hyun-Jin Ryu in their first confrontation in the major leagues.

Choo,the Cincinnati Reds’ center fielder,walked his first time up before grounding out to first base and striking out against the Los Angeles Dodgers’ left-hander. Ryu held the Reds to just two hits Saturday night, including a home run by Jay Bruce, in a 4-1 victory punctuated by Skip Schumaker’s tiebreaking two-run homer against Bronson Arroyo.

It was the 300th home run given up Arroyo (9-8), including a career-high and major league-worst 46 in 2011.The 14-year veteran right-hander was charged with three runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings, after going 4-0 with a 2.30 ERA in his previous six starts against Los Angeles.

He was coming off a complete-game 11-0 victory at San Francisco on Monday.

“This is not an easy lineup to navigate through, and they were hitting him pretty good,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “But it wasn’t about how Bronson looked.It was how Ryu made us look.

We didn’t score any runs other than Jay’s home run and we managed only two hits.”

It wasn’t difficult for Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis to notice before the game how much Ryu’s preparation was intensified by Choo’s appearance at the top of the Reds’ lineup.

“He was very serious before the game, very intense,” Ellis said. “I mean, he’s usually very quiet before he pitches, but more so today.

I’m sure Choo was on his mind. I mean, it’s a big deal.

Choo is one of his best friends and one of his baseball idols.

So with him facing him in America in an atmosphere like this, and also playing in front of a huge TV audience back in Korea,it’s pretty neat to know you’re a part of that.

It was really cool to seer those guys match up. You could hear the crowd on every pitch and every swing.”

Ryu (9-3) had nine strikeouts, all in a span of 13 batters. The first came against Joey Votto, who took a called third strike after Chris Heisey hit his first triple of the season with two out in

two-base error.

Dodgers left fielder Carl Crawford, who made a brief visit to an emergency room on Saturday to get checked on for a high temperature, was held out of the lineup.

Manager Don Mattingly replaced him with Schumaker, who came in with more plate appearances (53) and hits (18) against Arroyo than anyone else on Los Angeles’ roster.

Schumaker came through in the fifth, driving Arroyo’s 1-0 pitch to center field for his second home run of the season and a 3-1 Dodgers lead after a leadoff single by Mark Ellis.

“Skip’s battled me hard for years,” Arroyo said. “We just went down and away with a hard pitch. I thought he would be trying to pull the ball to get a guy on second base, but he stayed right through it and hit it to deadcenter. I really didn’t think Skip had that kind of pop in him, but he did today.”

Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his 14th save, helping the Dodgers increase their NL West lead to 1 1/2 games over Arizona.

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Cincinnati Reds center fielder Shin-Soo Choo, of South Korea, catches a fly off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ A.J. Ellis in the eighth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles Saturday. The Dodgers won, 4-1. the third.

“That’s the first time we’ve seen Ryu, and he looked pretty good,” Baker said.“He had a great changeup, threw an occasional breaking ball, and his fastball looked even faster after the changeup.”

The Dodgers opened the scoring in the first on a twoout double by Hanley Ramirez, but the Reds tied it in the second when Bruce drove Ryu’s 2-0 pitch into the right field pavilion for his 22nd home run. Since the start of the 2010 season, Bruce leads all left-handed batters with 42 homer against lefty pitchers — including eight this season.

“I think it’s helped him being around Joey Votto, and seeing how Joey hits lefties,” Baker said. “Most guys, I think, have trouble with lefties because they don’t see

them (enough). I mean, it’s hard enough to find a righthanded batting practice pitcher that can throw strikes — and it’s almost impossible to find a lefty to do it.

But we’ve got two of them — Mark Berry and Ronnie Ortegon. And we always travel with one, so I think that helps a lot.

“That’s something that Barry Bonds always did in San Francisco,” added Baker, who watched Bonds homer 125 times against lefties during the 10 seasons he managed baseball’s career home run leader.“We always had a left-hander throwing to Barry in batting practice. So I took a page out of Barry’s book, and I’d like to give Barry credit for that.”

Bruce, the Reds’ right fielder, also threw out Yasiel Puig at first base in the fifth

after the overaggressive rookie made a wide turn on his single toward the line.

The play immediately followed Schumaker’s homer. It was catcher Devin Mesoraco who made it possible, hustling up the line and taking the throw at the bag.

“It looked like a great play, which is was.But that’s what he’s supposed to do,” Baker said.“He’s supposed to follow the runner down to first — not that everybody does it all the time. But Puig keeps you on your toes with his hustle, and it brings out the best in you.”

In Thursday night’s series opener, Puig made a similar wide turn around first on a single to center and ended up at third base after Choo threw the ball past first baseman Joey Votto and the ball ended up in the stands for a

New York beats MLS-leading Real Salt Lake 4-3 HARRISON, New Jersey (AP) — Dax McCarty headed in the winner four minutes into extra time to lift the New York Red Bulls to a 4-3 win over Major League Soccer leading Real Salt Lake on Saturday.

Fabian Espindola scored twice for New York — both from penalties — with the second coming with just two minutes remaining in regulation. Tim Cahill, who recovered from a knee injury suffered early in the game, also scored for the Red Bulls.

Alvaro Saborio scored all three goals for Real Salt Lake, which lost its second straight match.

Philadelphia’s second-half substitute Antoine Hoppenot scored in the 85th minute to give the Union a 1-0 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps.

At Toronto, Andrew Wiedeman scored in the third minute of stoppage time to give Toronto FC a 2-1 win over the Columbus Crew and its first home victory in more than a year.

The winner came just six minutes after Jonathan Osorio drilled home a left-footed equalizer from just inside the penalty area in the 87th minute.

Dominic Oduro scored in the 17th minute for the Crew.

New England midfielder Diego Fagundez scored his second goal in as many matches to lift the Revolution to a 2-1 victory over D.C. United.

Dimitry Imbongo also scored for the Revolution, while Luis Silva found the net for D.C. United.

Blake Smith scored in extra time as Montreal ended a five-game winless streak by beating Sporting Kansas City 1-0, and Hendry Thomas and Dillon Powers scored in the Colorado Rapids’ 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Galaxy.

In other games, the San Jose Earthquakes edged the Portland Timbers 2-1 and the Chicago Fired drew 1-1 with the Houston Dynamo.

NOTES:Arroyo has given up a franchise-record 238 home runs since joining the Reds in a March 2006 trade from Boston for Wily Mo Pena. ... Reds RHP Jonathan Broxton, on the disabled list since June 15 with an elbow strain, threw 20 pitches during early batting practice.

But Baker was noncommittal when asked about the best-case scenario for the former Dodger closer’s return....

Votto’s consecutive game onbase streak ended at 38 after he went 0 for 3. That left Ramirez with the longest active streak in the majors at 35.

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Jose Veras got the final five outs for his 19th save in 22 chances.

The Astros, who had lost 21 of their previous 26, won for just the second time since July 12.

All three homers came off Josh Johnson (1-7), who lost his career-worst fifth straight start.

ATHLETICS 3, GELS 1

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Derek Norris had a pinch-hit two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh, leading Oakland to its second straight win and fifth in the last seven.

Jed Lowrie also drove in a run for the A’s and Coco Crisp added two hits.

Tommy Milone (9-8) allowed four hits over seven innings, allowing one run. He walked four and struck out six.

Josh Hamilton hit a booming home run for the Angels, who lost their second straight and five of seven overall.

Grant Richards, making his first start since April 30, allowed three hits in five scoreless innings. Scott Downs (2-3) entered the game in the seventh after Dane De La Rosa got Chris Young to hit into a fielder’s choice. The A’s countered with Norris, who promptly delivered his first career pinch hit.

TWINS 4, MARINERS 0 SEATTLE (AP) — Brian Dozier and Justin Morneau homered, Samuel Deduno pitched seven scoreless innings and Minnesota got its fifth shutout of the season.

The Twins have won four of their last six games and are 6-3 since the All Star break.

Deduno (7-4) allowed three hits, walked three and tied his season high with six strikeouts. He has thrown seven innings in each of his last three starts, winning all three.

Brad Miller and Kyle Seager each had two hits for Seattle, which has lost three of four.

Aaron Harang (5-9) threw 105 pitches in five innings, the ninth time in 17 starts he has gone five innings or less.

Harang gave up one run on three hits in five innings, struck out five and walked two.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Archer threw a twohitter for his second shutout in three starts, outpitching Ivan Nova and leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 1-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday Kelly Johnson had an RBI single off Nova (4-4) in the sixth to help the AL Eastleading Rays improve to 24-5 since June 23, when they were in last place.

Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said before the game Archer (6-3) embraces the big moments,and he sure did at Yankee Stadium. The 24-year-old rookie with a INDIANS 1, CaptainAmerica lunchbox in RANGERS 0 his locker never threw more than 14 pitches in an inning CLEVELAND (AP) — and needed just 97 overall — Michael Bourn homered to 67 for strikes — for his sec- lead off the first inning for ond career complete game. the only run of the game,and Justin Masterson took a ASTROS 8, BLUE shutout into the eighth inJAYS 6 ning, outdueling Texas’ Yu Darvish in Cleveland’s win.

TORONTO (AP) — Chris Masterson (12-7), an Carter hit a three-run home American League All-Star, run, Justin Maxwell and struck out eight and allowed Matt Dominguez added solo five hits in 7 2-3 innings. shots and Houston snapped That was enough to beat a three-game losing streak. Darvish (9-5),who struck out Dallas Keuchel (5-5) 11 and held the Indians to pitched a season-high 7 1-3 three hits in six innings. innings to end a six-start Darvish’s only mistake winless skid. He allowed six came on his second pitch of runs and 10 hits, walked one the game when Bourn lined and struck out six for his first a drive over the right field victory since June 16. wall.

BASEBALL STANDINGS National League The Associated Press

Boston 7, Baltimore 3 Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco 0

N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers 4, Cincinnati 1

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Cleveland 1, Texas 0 East Division W Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Central Division W St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee West Division W Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco

L 59 51 49 46 39

Pct 45 54 55 55 63

GB .567 .486 .471 .455 .382

— 8½ 10 11½ 19

Monday’s Games St. Louis (Westbrook 7-4) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 10-4), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 10-5) at Atlanta (Beachy 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Hefner 4-8) at Miami (Ja.Turner 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

L 62 61 59 47 43

Pct 39 41 46 55 60

GB .614 .598 .562 .461 .417

L 55 54 50 47 46

Pct 48 50 55 58 57

GB .534 .519 .476 .448 .447

— 1½ 5 15½ 20

Milwaukee (Lohse 7-7) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 6-9), 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 10-4) at San Diego (O’Sullivan 0-2), 10:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m., 1st game

— 1½ 6 9 9

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m., 1st game San Francisco at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Washington 4, N.Y. Mets 1

Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta 2, St. Louis 0

Colorado at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit 10, Philadelphia 0

N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh 7, Miami 4

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:35 p.m., 2nd game

East Division W Tampa Bay Boston Baltimore New York Toronto Central Division W Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago West Division W Oakland Texas Seattle Los Angeles Houston

Detroit 10, Philadelphia 0 Kansas City 1, Chicago White Sox 0

L 62 62 58 54 47

Pct 42 43 47 50 56

GB .596 .590 .552 .519 .456

— ½ 4½ 8 14½

L 58 55 50 45 40

Pct 45 48 51 56 61

GB .563 .534 .495 .446 .396

— 3 7 12 17

L 61 56 49 48 35

Pct 43 48 55 54 68

GB .587 .538 .471 .471 .340

— 5 12 12 25½

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay 1, N.Y. Yankees 0

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay (Price 5-5) at Boston (Doubront 7-4), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 2-8) at Cleveland (McAllister 4-6), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 5-5) at Texas (Garza 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Rogers 3-4) at Oakland (Griffin 9-7), 10:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Houston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 7:08 p.m.

Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Houston 8, Toronto 6 Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Oakland 3, L.A. Angels 1 Milwaukee 7, Colorado 5

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m., 2nd game

San Diego 12, Arizona 3

Cincinnati at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Toronto at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Minnesota 4, Seattle 0 N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

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Kyle Busch celebrates after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Saturday.

BY DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Busch had a commanding lead wiped out with one ill-timed caution.

He snagged it back just in time to extend his dominant run in the Nationwide Series — and seal his latest win with a kiss.

Busch was the newest driver to kiss the bricks, leading 92 of 100 laps Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

He turned his baseball cap around, dropped to his hands and knees, and planted a big one on the bricks.

How’d they taste?

“Like bricks,” he said.

Busch even gave the bricks a celebratory slap.

Not bad after a late scare off a restart dropped him to third with six laps left and nearly turned Brian Scott into the surprise winner.

Busch fell back after some hard racing with Joey Logano that almost wiped out his near-flawless racing. But his No. 54 Toyota was the fastest car all day and he roared back to take the lead with three laps left. He won for the eighth time in 15 races this season.

He took his usual bow before he grabbed the checkered flag. Then, off to the bricks.

“It’s Indianapolis. It’s pretty awesome to be able to win here, whether you are driving Nationwide or Cup, sports cars, Formula One, MotoGP, anything,” he said. “It’s pretty cool, this place, with the history and all the automobiles that have raced on this surface and the surfaces before it.

And all the fans who have been here over the years, it’s awesome.”

Crew chief Adam Stevens became choked up atop the pit box. That’s what winning at Indy can mean, even in the secondtier NASCAR series.

It was the wave of emotion Scott wanted to feel.

Scott, who has never won a Nationwide race in 128 starts, briefly took the lead and was in position to become the upset winner.

He just couldn’t hold off Busch. Few can in Nation-

At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, Ind. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 100 laps, 150 rating, 0 points, $69,625.

2. (11) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 100, 110.4, 43, $58,444.

3. (13) Joey Logano, Ford, 100, 107.4, 0, $40,050.

4. (6) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 100, 109.7, 41, $41,453.

5. (15) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 100, 105.8, 0, $31,575.

6. (10) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 100, 98.3, 0, $28,000.

7. (9) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 100, 118.4, 0, $26,575.

8. (18) Kevin Swindell, Ford, 100, 82.4, 36, $33,128.

9. (19) Michael Annett, Ford, 100, 85.8, 35, $31,628.

10. (39) Travis Pastrana, Ford, 100, 75.2, 34, $31,603.

11. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 100, 76.1, 33, $29,953.

12. (7) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 100, 87.1, 32, $29,703.

13. (4) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 100, 87.6, 31, $30,428.

14. (8) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 100, 78.9, 30, $29,078.

15. (38) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 100, 62.4, 29, $29,828.

16. (3) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 100, 105.3, 29, $30,953.

17. (22) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 100, 71.1, 27, $28,553.

18. (5) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 100, 83, 26, $28,403.

19. (16) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 100, 82.5, 25, $28,203.

20. (23) Kyle Fowler, Ford, 100, 53.6, 24, $28,753.

21. (20) David Starr, Chevrolet, 100, 60.2, 0, $27,928.

22. (30) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 100, 59.5, 22, $27,803.

23. (24) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 100, 62.3, 21, $27,653.

24. (25) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 99, 57.4, 0, $21,100.

25. (29) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 99, 45.2, 19, $27,953.

26. (12) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 99, 73.8, 0, $20,975.

27. (26) Johanna Long, Chevrolet, 98, 50.2, 17, $27,253.

28. (28) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 98, 41.8, 16, $27,178.

29. (27) Tanner Berryhill, Toyota, 98, 38, 15, $20,650.

30. (37) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 98, 42.5, 14, $27,303.

31. (36) Eric McClure, Toyota, 95, 35.3, 13, $26,903.

32. (35) Ken Butler, Toyota, transmission, 90, 33.1, 12, $26,778.

33. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 81, 38.9, 11, $26,718.

34. (2) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, overheating, 64, 92.8, 10, $26,683.

35. (31) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, overheating, 59, 38.2, 9, $26,617.

36. (21) Mike Bliss, Toyota, engine, 41, 57.3, 8, $25,008.

37. (34) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, electrical, 7, 34.1, 0, $18,545.

wide. He has a record 59 Nationwide wins in 259 starts.

“I should have won here last year but I messed up, I almost messed up again and gave it away,” Busch said. “I was able to persevere there to get it back.

Such a great race car.”

Busch won from the pole and gave Toyota its first NASCAR win at Indianapolis and second ever at the track.

Scott had a career-best second-place finish. Logano was third. Brian Vickers finished fourth and picked up a $100,000 bonus from series sponsor Nationwide as the highest finishing driver in the “Dash 4 Cash” program.

Scott said he was “just praying” to pull away from Busch and reach Victory Lane.

“I feel like he was able to get by me because I was a a little too cautious on corner entry,” Scott said. “I’d give anything to rewind, go back and be able to do it again.

It’s great to have a secondplace finish, but it’s frustrating to be so close and have to sit there and watch the other team celebrate.”

Busch said he had “no friends” on the final restart following a debris caution when he got scraped by Logano. His easy ride turned into a hard, final push.

“Brian got by me, and I had to go to work,” Busch

said. “Had to put the driver hat on to run him down and get back past him. He was doing a lot of blocking, running a line we don’t usually run to take the air, which is what you are supposed to do.”

None of the top four drivers in points entering the race finished better than 12th. Sam Hornish Jr. had engine failure and finished 34th to lose his grip on the lead. He blamed debris in the grill for the blown engine.

Austin Dillon was 12th but that was enough to grab the points lead. It was a big week for Dillon after he won the Truck Series race on the dirt at Eldora Speedway.

38. (40) David Green, Toyota, transmission, 6, 31.3, 6, $18,461.

39. (32) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, rear gear, 6, 31.5, 5, $18,300.

40. (33) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 4, 30.3, 4, $18,190.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 134.610 mph.

Time of Race: 1 hour, 51 minutes, 26 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 2.141 seconds.

Caution Flags: 4 for 18 laps.

Lead Changes: 6 among 4 drivers.

Lap Leaders: K.Busch 1-29; T.Bayne 30-31; K.Busch 32-64; B.Vickers 65-67; K.Busch 68-94; B.Scott 95-97; K.Busch 98-100.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 4 times for 92 laps; B.Scott, 1 time for 3 laps; B.Vickers, 1 time for 3 laps; T.Bayne, 1 time for 2 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. A.Dillon, 656; 2. R.Smith, 650; 3. E.Sadler, 643; 4. S.Hornish Jr., 642; 5. B.Vickers, 628; 6. J.Allgaier, 621; 7. K.Larson, 612; 8. B.Scott, 610; 9.

T.Bayne, 592; 10. P.Kligerman, 589.

“Wish we could have got a little bit more,” Dillon said. “We’ve got to have a better day than today to win the championship.

We’ll keep fighting hard and hopefully we’re holding that Cup at the end of the year.”

Sports Digest A-ROD AT 38 NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez’s corner locker in the New York Yankees’ clubhouse is filled with four cardboard boxes of bats, a dozen jerseys, a dangling athletic supporter, two baseball caps and four books. Whether he uses the stall again remains to be seen. Rodriguez, who turned 38 Saturday, is something of a cornered man himself these days. The Yankees consider him a major annoyance, referring to him as Mr. Rodriguez three times in a recent news release. By Ron

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rett’s reasoning in an interview with the team’s flagship NFL radio station that the Hall of Fame game against Miami is HOUSTON — Houston a week too early for his firststar running back Arian Fos- team players. By Schuyler ter, who started training Dixon. camp on the physically unable to perform list with a ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — calf injury, is expected to ad- The Mile High musical chair dress his health as the Tex- has finally stopped at Jack ans continue training camp. Del Rio, who returned for a Foster was injured at the be- second season with the Bronginning of organized training cos after his six predecessors activities. By Kristie Rieken. as Denver’s defensive coordiOXNARD, Calif. — Tony nator were one-and-done, Romo could sit for the pre- leaving the team to install a season opener, using Dallas new scheme every summer Cowboys coach Jason Gar- since 2007. By AP Pro Foot-

ball Writer Arnie Stapleton. ditionalists balked at the thought of stock cars at IndiAP Photos. anapolis Motor Speedway. years later, CINCINNATI — Corner- Nineteen back Dre Kirkpatrick sealed NASCAR is set to stage its off receiver Cobi Hamilton 20th race at the historic and got in position to break Brickyard. By Auto Racing up the long pass. The first- Writer Jenna Fryer.AP Phoround pick is showing the tos.

Cincinnati Bengals what they missed last year, when UNCASVILLE, Conn. — he sat out training camp and With star rookies Elena most of his rookie season Delle Donne and Brittney with a knee injury. By Joe Griner sidelined by injuries, Kay. Maya Moore and Candace Parker are among the headAUTO RACING liners at the WNBA All-Star Game. Longtime star Tina INDIANAPOLIS — Tra- Thompson is making her last

All-Star appearance before retiring at the end of the season. Starts 3:30 p.m. By Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg SWIMMING: BARCELONA, Spain — Ryan Lochte has put his reality TV career on hold.Time to get back to swimming.The American star hopes to compete in seven events at the world championships, despite extracurricular activities that limited his training time at the pool since the London Olympics.

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C LLASSIFIEDS ASSIFIED ASSIFIEDSS Millions respond to Egypt’s army call

BY TONY G. GABRIEL Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Called out by the army, the largest crowds in 2 1/2 years of upheaval filled Egypt’s streets Friday, while ousted President Mohammed was formally placed under investigation on a host of allegations including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Morsi’s supporters also turned out, but in vastly smaller numbers, showing no signs of backing down. The demonstrations in Cairo remained mostly peaceful into the night, but five people were killed and two dozen injured in the city of Alexandria, officials said.

Late Friday night, police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Morsi supporters in Cairo a possible sign of a new intolerance for marches that block city streets.

The announcement by prosecutors of the investigation against Morsi, which is likely to pave the way to a formal indictment and eventually a trial, was the first word on his legal status since he was deposed by the military July 3. Since then, the Islamist leader has been held incommunicado in a secret location.

Both sides tried to show how much public support they enjoy.

But the millions who turned out for the pro-army demonstrations overwhelmed the streets in multiple cities in Egypt, including some that rarely seen any rallies since the 2011 uprising.

Throngs of people turned out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and in other cities, answering a call by army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah elSissi, who urged them to give him a mandate to stop “potential terrorism� by supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Portraits of the smiling el-Sissi in sunglasses dominated the crowd in Tahrir and one near the presidential palace across town.

Posters with his picture were emblazoned with the words “the love of the people,� and demonstrators wore small photos of him around their necks or carried a picture of his face on an Egyptian onepound note.

Security was heavy after elSissi vowed to protect the rallies from attacks by rivals. Tanks guarded one entrance to Tahrir and police were stationed at other parts. “The army is here to protect the people. They don’t lie,� said Ezzat Fahmi, a 38-year-old in the crowd. He said el-Sissi called the rallies “so the entire world can see that the Egyptian people don’t want the Brotherhood anymore.�

El-Sissi’s plea came at a time where the political standoff with Morsi’s supporters showed no sign of resolution. It raised speculation that he may be planning a crackdown on the toppled president’s allies, who have held a sitin outside the Rabaa

al-Adawiyah Mosque in Cairo and near daily rallies elsewhere in the capital for three weeks.

The rallies have often turned violent, with more than 180 people killed this month. The Morsi supporters and opponents blame each other for the bloodshed, and people in both camps have been seen carrying weapons.

The unrest, as well as claims that Islamist groups are stockpiling weapons and escalating attacks against troops in the Sinai, were used by the country’s new military-backed rulers as a basis for demanding popular support.

The interim leader, Adly Mansour, told the private TV station al-Hayat that his government seeks to include everyone, but it will not accept lawlessness, blocked roads and attacks on state institutions. He urged the pro-Morsi protesters to go home, promising they won’t be pursued or arrested. “I can’t negotiate with whoever has committed a crime. But those who were duped or those who want to belong to Egyptian society, we welcome them,� he said.

But he added: “The state must interfere (against lawlessness) firmly.�

Not long after the speech, police moved in quickly to break up a crowd of Morsi supporters marching on a main overpass in Cairo.

Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim told a private TV station that the sit-in at the Rabaa mosque will be removed by legal means. He did not elaborate but said residents of the area have filed police reports against the encampment.

El-Sissi deposed Morsi after four days of huge protests by millions of Egyptians demanding the removal of the country’s first freely elected president following months of disagreements between him and the largely secular opposition.

The accusations against Morsi are connected to a prison break during the 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Gunmen attacked the Wadi el-Natroun prison northwest of Cairo, freeing inmates, including Morsi and about 30 other figures from the Muslim Brotherhood. The prosecutors allege Morsi and the Brotherhood worked with Hamas to carry out the break, in which 14 guards were killed.

Egypt’s MENA news agency said Morsi was being investigated over allegations of collaborating with Hamas “to carry out anti-state acts, attacking police stations and army officers and storming prisons, setting fire to one prison and enabling inmates to flee, including himself, as well as premeditated killing of officers, soldiers and prisoners.�

In recent months, a court in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia has heard testimony from prison officials and intelligence officers indicating Morsi and his Brotherhood colleagues were freed

when gunmen led by Hamas operatives stormed the prison.

Morsi supporters called the investigation politically motivated.

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Ahmed Aref said the move showed “the complete bankruptcy of the leaders of the bloody coup.�

Brotherhood officials have said they escaped when local residents broke into the prison to free their relatives and that they had no knowledge of it ahead of time.

Hamas has consistently denied any involvement in the jailbreak.

A spokesman for the militant group, Sami Abu Zuhri, condemned Morsi’s detention order as “an attempt to drag Hamas into the Egyptian conflict.�

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki expressed deep concern about reports of Morsi’s detention. “I can’t speak to the specific charges. But we do believe that it is important that there be a process to work toward his release,� she said. “Clearly, this process should respect the personal security of him and take into account the volatile political situation in Egypt and that’s where our focus is. We have conveyed publicly and privately that his personal security and treatment is of utmost importance.�

MENA said Morsi has now been formally detained for 15 days pending the completion of the investigation. It did not say whether he would now be moved to a facility where he could receive family visits.

The head of the prison authority, Maj. Gen. Mostafa Baz, said he has not yet received orders for Morsi’s transfer to any of his facilities. The news agency indicated that Morsi has already been interrogated.

Egyptian institutions lined up behind el-Sissi’s call for Friday’s pro-military rallies, reflecting the extent of antagonism against the Brotherhood’s hold on power in the past year.

State TV and most of the private broadcasters showed the pro-army rallies in various cities around Egypt, including aerial footage provided by military helicopters. Nationalist songs and parts of el-Sissi’s speech in which he called for support were played throughout the day.

On Friday evening, TV networks stopped running soap operas that are wildly popular during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In a further show of support, church bells rang out during evening prayers when hundreds of thousands of protesters broke their Ramadan fasts. Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Belbawi participated in the rally held outside the presidential palace.

A giant banner stretched across an entrance to Tahrir Square, the cradle of the 2011 uprising. It read: “The people, the source of all power, mandate the army and police to purge terrorism.�

Three tanks guarded another street leading into the square, and helicopters swooped overhead. “We have no parliament. Today is a quick referendum to support el-Sissi against the Brotherhood, whose members are terrorists,� said Mohammed el-Shaer, who stood in Tahrir holding a portrait of the general in a golden frame.

El-Shaer held the hand of his 10year-old daughter, who was dressed in a military fatigues.

He called the rally a “popular referendum� on el-Sissi.

In eastern Cairo, tens of thousands of Morsi supporters at the Rabaa mosque sit-in chanted against el-Sissi and vowed to continue their push for the president’s reinstatement. Others marched through some neighborhoods of Cairo.

Their rallies were mostly covered on TV by Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr, and pro-Morsi activists emailed journalists videos and links to a live feed. “When I first heard el-Sissi’s call I was anxious,â€? said 39-yearold Sayed el-Rawi, protesting outside the mosque. “But today, we saw that his speech encouraged more people to go down in the streets. ‌ They won’t be able to break up the sit in.â€?

The rival demonstrations are only deepening the country’s divisions since Morsi’s fall.

Clashes and fistfights broke out between both camps in Alexandria, with five people killed and 24 injured, according to health official Ibrahim elRoubi. Skirmishes also broke out in the Mediterranean coastal city of Damietta and a Cairo neighborhood that left 18 injured, Health Ministry spokesman Khaled el-Khateeb said.

It remains unclear what steps the military is planning after Friday’s show of strength — whether it would try to break up sit-ins by Morsi supporters or attempt to arrest more than a dozen Brotherhood figures who have warrants against them.

On the front page of the stateowned Al-Akhbar newspaper, the word “wanted� in English was plastered across photos of a number of Brotherhood leaders and allies who are facing warrants.

Many of them are believed to be taking refuge at the Rabaa alAdawiyah sit-in.

The prosecutors’ announcement on Morsi also could signal a greater move to go after the Brotherhood in courts. Besides Morsi, five other senior figures from the group have been detained.

Hassan Mohammed, a 30-year old teacher who came from southern Egypt to join the pro-Morsi rally, remained steadfast. “Even if we are going to die, me and my family, we won’t leave this place before our president comes back. Even if it takes seven years. We are ready to be martyrs in the name of religion and the nation,� he said.

Pope’s slum visit impressive but little impact

BY JENNY BARCHFIELD Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The day before Pope Francis visited Marizete Marques’ slum, the 62year-old retired maid cleaned her humble home until her hands hurt.

She wanted it to sparkle for the pontiff, despite the fact that like many shantytown residents, she’s not even Catholic.

Marques had already converted from the Catholicism she was born into to an evangelical congregation, following many residents in the Varginha slum, an impoverished sliver of land between two putrid waterways full of raw sewage. For the past decade she’s been an active member of her local Assembly of God church, attending services, prayer groups and other functions six days a week.

While Brazil remains the world’s largest Catholic country, the number of Catholics here dwindled in recent decades as legions of mostly poor people left the church for Pentecostal and evangelical congregations that are seen as offering concrete, hands-on help in improving their lives. In 1960, 90 percent of Brazilians were Catholics, according to census data. Today, Catholics account for just over 60 percent of the population in this country of 195 million.

Observers said that Varginha, which has four evangelical

churches and two Catholic ones, was strategically chosen as the site of Thursday’s papal visit in a bid to help staunch the tide of conversions.

But while local residents, Catholic and evangelical alike, said that Francis’ visit was a big success, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd of thousands despite a cold rain, they also said it would take more than his quick trip to slow the growth of the Pentecostal congregations.

The pope no longer plays any role in Marques’ spiritual life, but she said she was thrilled about the visit, which saw Francis visit a local Catholic church, make a speech on a rain-soaked soccer pitch and pay a courtesy call to a family home. “I knew that there was no chance that my house would be the one the pope would visit, but I wanted it to be neat and clean as a sign of respect for him,�

Marques said, adding that she’d watched the pope’s visit from her church’s rooftop. “It was marvelous to have him here, a sheer joy for all of us residents, whatever our faith.�

But asked whether seeing the pope in the flesh might nudge her back into the Catholic fold, she was categorical. “No way. A true Christian would never do that,� said Marques, a striking black woman with bone-white hair pulled back into a bun. “The pope struck me as a good man, a humble man,

but that’s no reason for me to abandon the church I’ve pledged my life to.�

Anriete Matos, a 37-year-old manicurist who converted to an evangelical church about 20 years ago, said she thought the most lasting legacy of the visit would be more material than spiritual, referring to the handful of minor infrastructure projects local officials rushed to finish ahead of the pope’s arrival. “This community has been completely abandoned by City Hall for a very long time,� said Matos, as she sat atop a 2-foothigh slab of concrete in front of her door that helps keep water out of her house during frequent floods. “So it was great that they did a few things, like patching up most of the holes in the asphalt, putting in a bit of sidewalk and trimming the trees for the pope, even if we suspect it was just a one-time thing.�

As she spoke, a group of barechested, bare-footed boys chased after a lame horse with protruding ribs down the street as motorcycles buzzed by. A stray dog hustled after a rat near a crumbling building that Matos said had once served as a community center before it was abandoned and then occupied by crack addicts. A young man with links to the Red Command drug gang walked up and down the street, eyeing outsiders intensely. The heavily armed Red Command

had ruled Varginha for decades and was pushed out in January under the government’s slum “pacification� program. “I saw people who I know are evangelicals, people from my own church out there waiting for the pope and screaming and crying when the pope came by. I must say I was a bit surprised,� said Matos, who has struggled to provide for her two children since the sudden death of her husband two years ago. “But for however charismatic the pope is, I don’t think you’re going to see a lot of people going back to the fold. Anyone who does end up leaving the evangelical churches was probably having doubts and would probably have left anyway.�

A self-defined “lapsed evangelical,� Edna Idarrah Correa said she would be shocked to learn that even a single member of any of Varginha’s evangelical congregations left because of the pope. “I know from experience, having broken with the church, just how hard it is to leave,� said the 25-year-old makeup artist, who shares her narrow cement-block home with her non-practicing Catholic husband. “At the end of the day, the fact that you find the pope nice is just not going to be enough motivation for anyone to go through the work of leaving the church.�

The visit might not even have sufficed to get Catholics back to Mass regularly.

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Newspaper Knowledge Establish a calendar of future local events, and then collect the stories about those happenings after they occur.

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-The first postage stamps did not come with a sticky back.

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The other name for stamp collecting is philately (filllattell-lee). That is why, a stamp collectors is also called a philatelist (fill-lat-tell-list).

There are many kinds of philately. Aside from stamps, others collect post cards, and envelopes called postal stationery.

Collecting stamps according to the theme or subject on the stamp design is called topical stamp collecting. Stamp collecting for kids is sometimes called youth philately.

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Like there are many colors in a rainbow, there are also lots of postage stamps to collect. New stamp collectors should keep these in mind: Regular stamps Regular issue stamps are the ones that you usually see on envelopes. These stamps are also called definitive stamps and they are used to pay regular mail.

Commemorative stamps The commem stamps are bigger than the definitive stamps.

These stamps are made so we can remember important people and special events. Commemorative postage stamps are issued for only a short time.

Special stamps Holiday stamps are postage stamps that are made during special occasions every year. Examples of these stamps are Love stamps during Valentines and the Christmas stamps every Yuletide season.

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Centering -A term often used to refer to the positioning of the stamp within its perforation.

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Face Value - The actual denomination that is printed on the stamp.

Gum - See Adhesive.

Hinge - used in stamp albums to attach a stamp to the album page.

Imperforate - Stamps without perforations.

Margin - This the area outside the area of the stamp design. This area should be equal with the design of the stamp centered within the stamp. In most cases, the more equal the margins are, the higher the value of the stamp.

Perforations - The holes or cuts between stamps that make it easier to tear the stamps in a sheet apart.

Philately - The study of stamps.

Postmark - This is the marking that the post office puts on a stamp once it’s been used so it can’t be used again. Trying to mail an item with a used stamp is against the law.

Reprint- Stamps that are reprinted by the post office with the same design as an earlier stamp.

Stock Book - Or stock page. A place to store your stamps that has a plastic or glassine cover which holds the stamp in place, but also allows you to see the stamps.

Tongs - Tweezers with rounded tips used for handling stamps.

Watermark - A mark or emblem on the stamp that is made by thinning the paper.

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