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WASHINGTON — An extra cup or two of coffee may be OK after all. More eggs, too. But you definitely need to drink less sugary soda. And, as always, don’t forget your vegetables. Recommendations Thurs-

Panel: Coffee OK, but cut red meat, sugar

Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Caleb Martin, Tyler Oliver, Erica Hirsch, Brian Henninger, Amber McAdoo.

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day from a government advisory committee call for an environmentally friendly diet lower in red and processed meats. But the panel would reverse previous guidance on limiting dietary cholesterol. And it says the caffeine in a few cups of coffee could actually be good for you.

The committee also is backing off stricter limits on salt, though it says Americans still get much too much. It’s recommending the first real limits on added sugar, saying that’s especially a problem for young people. The Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments will take those recom-

mendations into account in writing final 2015 dietary guidelines by the end of the year. The guidelines affect nutritional patterns throughout the country — from federally subsidized school lunches to food package labels to your doctor’s advice. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “it is by no

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Inside ROAD RAGE ARREST: Police arrested a teenager Thursday in the road rage killing of a Las Vegas mother./Page 3 STANDING FIRM: Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Thursday defended his assertion that President Barack Obama does not love America./Page 7

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PAY RAISE: Walmart, the largest private employer in the country, said that it will increase wages for a half-million employees./Page 7 BOWING OUT: The HomerCenter girls’ basketball team was ousted from the playoffs Thursday when the Wildcats lost to Bishop Guilfoyle, 68-45./Page 13 EXPERIENCED HOST: Actor Neil Patrick Harris is poised to add the Oscars to his list of hosting gigs when the show airs Sunday./Page 21

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WARM UP with the Gazette’s Leisure section this Sunday and read about budget beaches, such as Bottom Bay on the Caribbean island of Barbados, where winter-weary travelers can find respite from the deep freeze using a minimum of cold cash.

Session gathers public input for university district plan By SEAN YODER

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A bit of snow tonight. Snow, 1-3” tomorrow. See Page 2.

For young readers SCHOOL NEWS: Penns Manor celebrates National Future Farmers of America Week; and ICTC holds its first dance in more than 10 years./Pages 18-19

Deaths Obituaries on Page 4 CONRAD, Helen D., 87, Smicksburg COON, Barbara L., 73, Punxsutawney RANKIN, Emily A., 89, Indiana PATTERSON, Carol E., 75, Indiana SIBO, Madelyn E., 97, Indiana WIGGINS, Beulah M., 98, Indiana WINDOWS, Dorothy J. (Rocco), 67, Indiana

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means over” with the release of the report. The government will take comments on the advice before distilling it — and possibly changing it — into final guidelines for consumers. Even with the changes, the report sticks to the basic message of the previous Continued on Page 10

Residents were asked to choose which community projects are a top priority for them at Thursday night’s final Indiana Community University District Workshop. The community university district is composed of Indiana Borough, White Township, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Indiana County. It focuses on how the three areas of borough, campus and township interact and what can be done to improve the experiences of residents while retaining the qualities that make Indiana unique. While there were some projects that received more votes than others, the larger trends stayed the same as during previous workshops in September and October. More than 100 people signed in to the event during the open Continued on Page 12

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A WORKSHOP at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex on Thursday highlighted plans for the Indiana Multimodal Corridor study, Indiana Community-University District plan and other related projects. David and Jennifer Rairigh, owners of Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home in Indiana, looked at preliminary designs.

Mission to retake Mosul detailed By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The operation to retake Iraq’s second-largest city from Islamic State militants will likely begin in April or May and will involve about 12 Iraqi brigades, or between 20,000 and 25,000 troops, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday. Laying out details of the expected Mosul operation for the first time, the official from U.S. Central Command said five Iraqi Army brigades will soon go through coalition training in Iraq to prepare for the

mission. Those five would make up the core fighting force that would launch the attack, but they would be supplemented by three smaller brigades serving as reserve forces, along with three Peshmerga brigades who would contain the Islamic State fighters from the north and west. The Peshmerga are Kurdish forces from northern Iraq. The official said there also would be a Mosul fighting force, largely made up of former Mosul police and tribal forces, who would have to be ready to go back into the city once the army

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units clear out the Islamic State fighters. Included in the force would be a brigade of Iraqi counterterrorism forces who have been trained by U.S. special operations forces. The brigades include roughly 2,000 troops each. The official was not authorized to discuss the operation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the U.S. will provide military support for the operation, including training, air support, intelligence and surveillance. The official said there has been no decision Continued on Page 12 Home Made Restaurant: Friday, Lenten Specials. Saturday, Stuffed Flank Steak. Sunday, Beef Brisket

State police have charged a Blairsville man in connection with a stabbing incident involving a bayonet on Feb. 7 in White Township. Larry A. DiBiase, 64, faces felony charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and misdemeanor charges of simple assault, conspiracy to commit simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and conspiracy to recklessly endangering another person, according to court documents filed on Tuesday. DiBiase suffered serious injuries in the attack after police said Kenneth Pierce Jr., 19, turned the bayonet on his attacker during a dispute over a drug deal at an apartment at Poets Village. Investigators said DiBiase entered the apartment between 7 and 7:30 p.m., grabbed Pierce’s throat, shoved him against a refrigerator and hit him in the face. The fight continued into Pierce’s dining room, where he was thrown against the wall and DiBiase drew the bayonet, police said. Pierce told state troopers that he then grabbed the bayonet, gained control of the weapon and stabbed DiBiase in the abdomen. DiBiase left the scene and collapsed at an apartment belonging to Christopher Cook, 45, according to police. He was later taken to Allegheny General Hospital by medical helicopter. A representative from AGH said DiBiase was no longer a patient as of this morning but could not say when he was discharged. Cook, who police said traveled with DiBiase to the Poet’s Village apartment, was charged with a felony count of conspiracy to aggravated assault, and misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. A preliminary hearing is set for Monday. DiBiase was arraigned on Wednesday. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday at 3:15 p.m. in front of Magisterial District Judge Susanne Steffee.

Snowden: U.S., U.K. stole code to listen in By KEN DILANIAN

AP Intelligence Writer

WASHINGTON — Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide, according to the documents given to journalists by Edward Snowden. A story about the documents posted Thursday on the website The Intercept offered no details on how the Quality Furniture, Lamps, Accessories, Carpet. Executive House Furniture. (724) 465-2695

intelligence agencies employed the eavesdropping capability — providing no evidence, for example, that they misused it to spy on people who weren’t valid intelligence targets. But the surreptitious operation against the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phone data chips is bound to stoke anger around the world. It fuels an impression that the NSA and its British counterpart will do whatever they deem necessary to further their surveillance prowess, even if it means stealing information Continued on Page 12 Nap’s Weekend Special: Whole Roasted Trout. Indiana’s Cookin’ April 14!

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Almanac Statistics for Indiana County Jimmy Stewart Airport through Thursday High/low 7°/-6° Normal high/low 41°/19° Record high 69° (1948) Record low -7° (1978) Snowfall Thursday 0.1” Month to date (normal) 8.4” (8.4”) Season to date (normal) 40.4” (34.7”)

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Erin Ketchum, 21, of Lititz, was cited by borough police with violating the borough’s noise ordinance on Sunday at 1:22 a.m. at 742 Locust St.

Public drunkenness Borough police charged Dylan J. Tyme, 21, of Durango, Colo., with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after police said he became physical at Indiana Regional Medical Center on Saturday at 1:52 a.m. Police said they arrested Tyme for public drunkenness in

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the 500 block of Philadelphia Street. When they took him to the hospital, police said, he began screaming profanities and kicking hospital equipment.

Vehicles damaged Someone threw eggs at two vehicles overnight between Feb. 13 and Saturday in the 600 and 700 blocks of Grant Street, according to borough police.

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Criminal mischief State police in Kittanning said David A. Plavi, 30, of Rural Valley, damaged a vehicle along Brown Road on Feb. 4 by cutting two of the tires. Police said Plavi then got into an argument with the victim, which turned physical. Plavi was charged with criminal mischief and harassment

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Tools taken State police in Punxsutawney said

PLUMCREEK TOWNSHIP, AMRSTRONG COUNTY One person suffered minor injuries in a vehicle accident involving a Freightliner on

Wednesday along Route 422 near Cherry Run Road, according to state police in Kittanning. Police said George J. Straka, 34, and Terry L. Black, 50, of

THURSDAY • 11:58 a.m.: Vehicle accident, Route 954, Center Township. Homer City fire department, Citizens’ Ambu-

lance and state police dispatched. • 1:34 p.m.: Automatic fire alarm, Adams Street, Clymer Borough. Clymer fire department and Clymer Borough policedispatched. • 3:07 p.m.: Carbon monoxide alarm, Route 119,

Lawrence Lucero, one of only two officers who managed to escape in the opening hours as inmates rushed the control center at the Penitentiary of New Mexico on Feb. 2, 1980. Lucero recalled seeing one man being dragged away with a belt around his neck. Another had his head bashed in while Lucero and another correctional officer watched helplessly from behind bullet-proof glass that the inmates eventually shattered with metal pipes. “The fire, the screams, the torturing of people, it’s just something not even a movie could prepare you for. It’s just something beyond this

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LOTTERY tools were taken from a case that fell off the back of a truck on Thursday along Route 119. Police said Jorge I. Castillo, of Mifflin, and Jason M. Briggs, of Beavertown, left a job site at the Dollar General along Route 119 and forgot to close the tailgate to the truck, causing a black case full of Dewalt tools to fall off onto the road. The victims realized a short time later the toolbox was missing and returned to the scene. The victims found the case but the tools were gone.

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Theft State police in Indiana said they are investigating an incident where someone cut a chain-link fence at a Penelec substation along Power Plant Road and stole spools of copper wire on Jan. 19 at about 3:30 a.m. Police said they have video surveillance footage of the suspects. Anyone with information related to the crime is asked to call state police at (724) 3571960.

Imler, were both traveling east along Route 422 at 6:31 p.m. when Straka lost control of his Ford F150 and spun out of control on the snowy road. Black was unable to

stop his Freightliner Century or avoid Straka’s vehicle and the two collided, injuring Straka. Police said Straka was not treated by EMS or taken to a medical facility.

Center Township. Coral-Graceton fire department dispatched. • 3:43 p.m.: Gas leak, Crooks Road, South Mahoning Township. Plumville fire department dispatched. • 10:11 p.m.: Gas leak, Sky-

line Drive, Rayne Township. Marion Center fire department dispatched. • 11:08 p.m.: Vehicle accident, Fleming Road, Armstrong Township. Indiana fire department, Citizens’ Ambulance and state police dispatched.

Bill would compensate officers in prison riot ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A dozen guards were held hostage 35 years ago during one of the nation’s deadliest prison riots. Some were brutally beaten and sexually assaulted as rioting prisoners killed 33 of their fellow inmates during a clash that included beheadings, amputations and burned bodies. Now, New Mexico lawmakers are considering compensation for those correctional officers who are still alive and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee heard the emotional account of

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world,” said Lucero, who was 25 at the time. Now nearly 60, Lucero has nightmares of inmates coming to attack him and he can’t forget the smell of burning flesh. His wife, Isabel, testified that she too has had to deal with the effects the riot had on her husband. Fueled by a combination of overcrowding and poor conditions, the riot lasted 36 hours. It led to extensive reforms within the state’s prison system. Democratic Rep. Eliseo Lee Alcon said the correctional officers who were swept up in the riot should have been compensated

years ago. He and other lawmakers apologized to Lucero and said the officers should have never had to experience something like that. Alcon estimated only five or six of the former correctional officers are still living. The House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the bill after making several changes to simplify the compensation process. The measure calls for setting aside $1.5 million for the effort. Last year, the Senate unanimously passed a memorial recognizing the tragedy and expressing a commitment to criminal justice reform.

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Drug mishap burns man PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man is hospitalized in critical condition after police say he accidentally lit himself and a home on fire while getting high on drugs. Police say the 29-yearold suffered second- and third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body in the fire early today in the city’s Kensington section. They say officers found the man on fire and running from the home around 12:30 a.m.

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ALLENTOWN (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The arctic cold has killed at least two Pennsylvania residents. A coroner said Raymond Sokalsky, 86, died Thursday morning in Allentown as a result of hypothermia. The Morning Call reported that sanitation workers found Sokalsky lying outside his home about 4 a.m. It was 13 degrees at the time. Sokalsky was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours later. In central Pennsylvania, meanwhile, a coroner ruled Thursday that Shamokin, Northumberland County, woman died of hypothermia along with existing medical conditions. Ellen Jackson, 66, died in a hospital emergency room on Monday.

ERIE (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A western Pennsylvania prosecutor said he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring charges against a police officer involved in an on-duty crash that killed an 87-year-old woman on Thanksgiving. Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri said Wednesday it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clear from evidence and witness statements which driver ran a red light and caused the accident. Daneri told the Erie Times-News that one witness reported seeing Officer John Popovic cruiser go through the stop signal. Two others said it was Dorothy Baginski Lamisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chevrolet Cavalier. The Erie woman was pronounced dead at a hospital about six hours after the crash. A coroner ruled the death accidental.

Crates of chickens fly out of truck NESCOPECK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pennsylvania State Police are crying fowl after crates of live chickens hurtled off a tractor-trailer on a Pennsylvania highway and the birds flew the coop. The feather-ruffling incident happened at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 80 in Nescopeck Township, near Berwick in Luzerne County. State police said about 500 chickens fell from the truck. Police and Department of Transportation workers spent about an hour gathering up the fowl, some living and some dead.

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Tough Mudder sues over name ALLENTOWN (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The company behind the popular Tough Mudder obstacle course race series has sued a Pennsylvania man who started a race for kids called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mini Mudder.â&#x20AC;? The Morning Call of Allentown reported that Tough Mudder Inc. of New York City filed a federal lawsuit this week against Barry Dobil, of Upper Macungie Township near Allentown, claiming trademark infringement. Tough Mudderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suit demands that Dobil stop using the name Mini Mudder.

LAS VEGAS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Police took an important step toward solving the mystery surrounding the killing of a Las Vegas mother outside her home, arresting a teenage neighbor who had a history with the family that reached a boiling point the night of the shooting. Erich Nowsch, 19, was arrested on suspicion of murder Thursday after SWAT teams surrounded his home a block away from the residence of victim Tammy Meyers. Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Tomaino said detectives believe Nowsch was the gunman. He was arrested on a murder warrant, but has not been formally charged. Tomaino said police are seeking a second suspect. Police and the family of the victim have characterized the case as a road rage altercation that escalated into the deadly encounter a week ago. The exact circumstances of the fight remained unclear, but the family knew the suspect, said Robert Meyers, the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband. He said Tammy Meyers took on a nurturing role for Nowsch, giving him money and food and urging him to dress properly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know this boy,â&#x20AC;? Robert Meyers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you this before. He knew where I lived. We knew how bad he was but we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know he was this bad.â&#x20AC;? The case has received significant attention since police initially said Meyers was killed by an angry driver who followed her

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ERICH NOWSCH, 19, was lead by police officials from a car to police headquarters for questioning in Las Vegas on Thursday. home after she gave her teenage daughter a driving lesson. She was removed from life support on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day as police hunted for a suspect, and donations for her funeral costs quickly poured in to a fundraising site. The sympathy morphed into skepticism and the fundraising site was shut down after police revealed that Meyers was not followed home, and instead dropped her daughter off and picked up her 22-year-old son, armed with his 9 mm handgun, to try to confront the driver who had frightened her earlier. They went looking for the driver, followed the vehicle and eventually went home. The silver car then showed up outside the Meyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home and a shootout occurred, police said. The mother was shot in the head outside the home.

Wolf delays search for open records head By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

HARRISBURG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gov. Tom Wolf is holding off on a search for a permanent director of the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records while a state court considers whether he had legal authority to fire the last one. Wolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers said in court filings this week, ahead of a Commonwealth Court hearing next month, that he has delayed the national search â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of respect for the expedited judicial process.â&#x20AC;? Lawyers for the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, which represents Wolf and the Department of Community and Economic Development in the case brought by Erik Arneson and the state Senate Republican caucus against

the Democratic governor, said the judges would be amending the Right-toKnow Law if they protect Arneson from being removed by Wolf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Principles of separation of powers require that the General Assembly act by statute, not the courts by decree, to override the power that the constitution accords to the governor to remove gubernatorial appointees at his pleasure,â&#x20AC;? Wolfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyers argued. Another new filing, by the Office of Open Records, which is the third defendant, argued that the court should remove it from the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The issue in this case is concerned solely with the right and power of Gov. Wolf to remove the executive director of the OOR,â&#x20AC;? the agency said.Wolf fired Arne-

son shortly after taking over from Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who had named Arneson to the job in mid-January. In their filings, Arneson and the Republican caucus said the Legislature intended in a 2009 rewrite of the Rightto-Know Law, which created the office and its director, to make them independent of the governor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Legislature did not at

once intend to transfer quasi-judicial powers and authority from the executive branch to the Office of Open Records for the purposes of creating a truly unique ... independent administrative agency, while at the same time leaving the leader of that independent body subject to the mercy and whims of the governor,â&#x20AC;? wrote lawyers for Arneson and the Senate Republicans.

Brandon Meyers, 22, said this week he fired back to protect his family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone can think what they have to think,â&#x20AC;? he said at a Tuesday night vigil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did it for a reason. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do it for anyone I love.â&#x20AC;? Melissa Mours, who lives next door to the suspect, said several people showed up at her neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house this week and knocked on the door, including at least one Meyers family member. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still not clear if Nowsch was driving the car involved in the altercation with the family. Mours said she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think he had a car or drove. Earlier, as authorities worked to coax the suspect to surrender, Robert Meyers arrived and was emotionally distraught as he tried get close to the home that police had surrounded.

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Helen Conrad Helen D. Conrad, 87, Smicksburg, died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, at Punxsutawney Area Hospital. The daughter of Clayton Elkin and Essie (Miller) Elkin, she was born on Nov. 16, 1927, at her grandfather’s (John Rippie Elkin) farm, North Mahoning Township. She graduated from Punxsutawney High School in 1945. She married her lifetime husband, James W. Conrad — who survives — on March 20, 1948. She lived on the same farm her entire life. She was a member of the Salem Lutheran Church in Smicksburg, where she was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the church choir, and a member of the Ladies Group. She was a pianist, seamstress, homemaker and a farmer. She enjoyed large plots of vegetable growing and preserving the vegetables along with fruits and home meats. She loved the land, trees and flowers. She loved all of God’s creations. She loved her cats and dog and most of all she loved her family. In addition to her husband, surviving relatives include four children: a son, Larry J. Conrad and wife Karen, of Smicksburg; and daughters Sandra Alabran and husband Glen, of Smicksburg; Margaret “Peggy” Repine and husband Thom, of Treasure Lake; and Drinda White and husband Dennis, of Smicksburg; an adopted daughter Karen Ann Hendershott, of Smicksburg; six grandchildren: Josh Conrad and wife Emily; Michele Ojo-Ade and husband Ade; Tammy Bowers and husband Jeff; Robby

Alabran and Marina Bolinger and her son Augie; Joanna Black and husband Scott; and Justin White and wife Kiniesha; two stepgrandchildren, Thom Repine and Heidi McGeary; six greatgrandchildren: Owen, Miles and Henry Conrad; Remi Ojo-Ade; Jace White; and Kylie Bowers; two stepgreatgrandchildren, Amber and Wyatt McGeary; and special caregivers Jodi Bish and Angela Ferringer. She was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother Alta Conrad Elkin; and two sisters, Ella Mae Condron, of Smicksburg, and Ruth Dare, of Bridgeton, N.J. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Deeley Funeral Home, Punxsutawney. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home with Pastor Maureen Seifried officiating. Interment will be in Smicksburg Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made, in memory of Mrs. Conrad, to the Salem Lutheran Church of Smicksburg or to the Punxsutawney Area Hospital. Online condolences may be made at www.deeley funeralhome.com.

Barbara Coon Barbara L. Coon, 73, of Punxsutawney, passed away Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Coon was born Nov. 7, 1941, in Pittsburgh, a daughter of the late Jay E. Stiteler and Florence (Kirkpatrick) Stiteler. Barbara was a member of the Smicksburg Lutheran Church. She enjoyed camping in Clarion, quilting, sewing, crafts and cooking. She was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. She is survived by her husband, Ronald “Skip” L. Coon, of Punxsutawney. In addition to her husband, Skip, she is survived by her sons: Randy L. Coon and wife Tina, of Punxsutawney; and Kevin A. Coon and wife Jennifer, of Virginia; a daughter,

Tami J. Horner and husband Greg, of Reynoldsville; grandchildren Vanessa and Alex Coon; Ryan Horner; and Nichole and Ashley Coon; and a great-grandson, Bentley. She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Jessica Coon; a brother, Ronald Stiteler; and her twin brother, Larry Lee Stiteler. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the McCabe Funeral Home in Punxsutawney. A funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home with the Rev. Arlene Schweitzer officiating. Interment will follow at Smicksburg Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at mccabefuneral homes.com.

Carol E. Patterson Carol Elizabeth Patterson, 75, of Indiana, died Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, at Indiana Regional Medical Center. The daughter of Jessie Glenn and Sabina (Snyder) Ruffner, she was born Dec. 20, 1939, in Indiana. Carol was employed by Halldin Publishing Co. for many years prior her retirement. She enjoyed watching soap operas, crocheting, traveling with her daughter Nola, and her cats. Carol was a loving and happy woman whose life was devoted to her family members, whom she loved all unconditionally. She will be deeply missed by her children. Surviving is her husband, Charles; children Debra Erb, Nola (John) Green and Jeffrey Patterson, all of Indiana; grandchildren Cory Edward Erb, of Sagamore; David Green, of Indiana; Jonathan Green and his companion, Sasha Loverso, DuBois; Brandon James Green and wife Stephanie, of Indiana; and Tyreese Patterson, Indiana; stepgreat-grandchildren Haleigh and Justin Roycroft, of Indiana; great-granddaughter Lilly Maelynn Green, due in May; sisters Barbara Jean Uber, of Cherry Tree, and Betty (Mike) Smith, of New Castle, Ind.; and

many loving nieces and nephews. Carol was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Larry Ruffner. As per Carol’s request, funeral arrangements will be private. There will be a memorial luncheon March 7 at the home of her daughter, Nola Green. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home to assist with funeral expenses. The family would like to thank all those who came to visit mother at IRMC and the entire staff of IRMC, especially Wayne, an ICU nurse. www.lefdahlfuneralhome. com

Emily Acsa (Cunningham) Rankin, 89, of Indiana, formerly of Blairsville, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, at Indiana Regional Medical Center. The daughter of Wells and Acsa (Kennedy) Cunningham, she was born Jan. 4, 1926, in Blairsville. Mrs. Rankin was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Blairsville, Mizpah Bible Class, Grannies of the Church, Fiery Red Hats of Blairsville, Historical Society of the Blairsville Area and a former member of the Mountain View Squares. She enjoyed camping and traveling to the beach and was an excellent cook, especially known for her pies. She worked for the Blairsville-Saltsburg School District as a bookkeeper for 15 years, retiring in 1984. Surviving are her husband of 65 years, H. Perry Rankin, whom she married Oct. 21, 1949; five daughters: Nora Ellen Rankin (Chris Welborn), of Tucson, Ariz.; Yvonne Coleman (Terry), of South Park; Debbie Beneigh (Jeffrey), of Greenville, Ind.; Betty Jo Loobey (Gene), of Middletown; and Ann Pandullo (Mark), of Indiana; seven grandchildren: Kris-

ten, Courtney and Patrick Coleman; David and Nicole Beneigh; and Larry Loobey (Rachel) and Luke Loobey; two great-granddaughters, Kaitlin Coleman and Kenzie Adkins; and a brother, Dan Cunningham, of Saltsburg. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Richard Cunningham and Earle Cunningham; and three sisters, Marjorie Lintner, Isabel McPhilimy and Nora Stairs. The family will receive friends from noon to 2 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Shoemaker Funeral Home Inc., 49 N. Walnut St., Blairsville. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Blairsville United Presbyterian Church, 137 N. Walnut St., Blairsville, with the Rev. Timothy R. Monroe officiating. Interment will be in the Blairsville Cemetery, Blairsville. Memorial contributions may be made to Blairsville United Presbyterian Church or to a charity of your choice. To view the online obituary, sign the guest registry or send condolences, visit www.shoemakerfh-monu ments.com.

Madelyn E. Sibo Madelyn E. Sibo, 97, of Indiana, wife, mother of five and poet, passed away in loving arms at Indian Haven Nursing Home on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. A member of St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church, Madelyn had lived in Indiana since 1947 with her husband, Mike, who died in late 2014. Beautiful and energetic, Madelyn was known for her sense of humor and playfulness. Madelyn was born Madelyn Elaine Orlosky on April 19, 1917, in Lane’s Mills, near Brockway. She was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Paul and Anna (Costion) Orlosky. Not expected to live, she was carried in her grandparents’ wagon in a spring blizzard to nearby DuBois for a hurried baptism. A lover of books and avid student, Madelyn was always the top student in her class in elementary school. She also graduated first in her class from Brockway High School. A neighbor, recognizing Madelyn’s intellectual ability, offered to pay her way through college. However, the death of Madelyn’s father in the depths of the Great Depression forced her to take work at the local glass factory to support her mother and four younger siblings. After her marriage, Madelyn began to study at Indiana Business School. But children soon claimed her time. She enjoyed being a mother. She woke her children with a song or rhyme and the smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, which were tucked into their lunches. She often entertained them by reciting poems that she had written or had memorized at school. For her 90th birthday, her children published a volume of her poems.

Later in life, Madelyn became an enthusiastic traveler. She and her husband enjoyed visiting their children and grandchildren. Madelyn also made several annual trips with friends. Madelyn is survived by five children: Barbara (John) Mayes, of Oak Park, Ill.; Michael Sibo, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Daniel (Kathleen) Sibo, of Laingsburg, Mich.; Margaret (Steven) Price, of Midlothian, Va.; and Amy Sibo, of Annapolis, Md. She had nine grandchildren: Elizabeth and Carter Mayes; Robert (Selcen) Sibo; Michael (Jennifer) Sibo; Stephen, Justin and Christian Sibo; and Emily Price; and David Sibo. She had four great-grandchildren: Sophia, Jillian and Chloe Sibo, and Tiffany Benson-Sibo. In addition, she is survived by her dear sister, Jean Rittenhouse, of Brockway. Madelyn and Mike were also blessed with many dear and devoted friends whom they loved deeply and who became part of their extended family. In addition to her husband, Madelyn was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters: Helen Orlosky, Margaret Lankard and Josephine Rittenhouse; and five brothers: John, Robert, James, Philip and Paul Orlosky. Friends will be received from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Indiana. Friends and family are also invited to a rosary service that will begin at 2:45 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Monday at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church, Indiana. Final interment will be at St. Bernard Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.rbfh.net.

Police: Worker killed colleague day after prank FRANCONIA (AP) — Police say a worker at a suburban Philadelphia meat rendering plant has been charged with fatally stabbing a colleague a day after the co-worker yanked a chair out from under him as a prank. Peter Atem, 32, has been charged with first-degree murder in the Wednesday death of 25-year-old Danny Vazquez, who was killed at the MOPAC plant in Franconia Township. His last words

were: “Tell my wife I love her.” Police say witnesses saw Atem stab Vazquez. It wasn’t clear Thursday if Atem had hired an attorney. Police say they found Atem hiding in a shed with self-inflicted stab wounds, along with a note that said “See you in hell. Life for life.” He was taken to a hospital, where he had surgery. He remained hospitalized Thursday.

ICCAP to distribute food The Indiana County Community Action Program will distribute food next week at the following locations:

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS CARLSON, G. Elwood, 11 a.m., Hollidaysburg Church of the Brethren (Stitt and Stevens Funeral Home) CONRAD, Helen D., 11 a.m., Deeley Funeral Home, Punxsutawney COUGHENOUR, Robert A., 3 p.m., Richard C. Stuart Funeral Home, Armagh HEBERLING, Clair Bert, noon, John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, Indiana SHELTON, Timothy W., 2 p.m., Cookport Baptist Church, Cookport (Rairigh Funeral Home Ltd., Hillsdale) SPRINGER, Elda J., 11 a.m., Bethel United Presbyterian Church, Clyde (Robinson-Lytle Inc., Indiana)

TUESDAY Young Township: Iselin Community Church, 1 to 3 p.m. (rescheduled because of inclement weather)

WEDNESDAY Green Township: Commodore Fire Hall, 10 a.m. to noon

THURSDAY • Grant Township: Calvary Bible Church, 2712 Pine Vale Road, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. • United Area: Brush Valley Fire Hall, 9 to 11 a.m. People registering for the first time should arrive at the pantry a half-hour before the end of the pantry. Contact the ICCAP food bank at (724) 463-7440 with any questions.

Beulah Wiggins Beulah M. Wiggins, 98, of Indiana, formerly of Marion Center, passed away Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, at St. Andrew’s Village. She was born in 1916 in South Mahoning Township, to Crea and Mae Weaver Lydic. Beulah was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Plumville and the Indiana Hospital Alumni Association. A graduate of the Indiana Hospital School of Nursing, she was employed for 19 years as an RN at Indiana Hospital. She was a resident of South Mahoning Township for 48 years. She enjoyed quilting and was a volunteer at St. Andrew’s Village. Beulah is survived by one son and two daughters: Warren C. and wife Carolyn, of Northbrook, Ill.; Karen S. Grant and husband Charles, of Chicago; and Rebecca J. Wareham and husband Barry, of Littlestown; six grandchildren, seven great-

grandchildren; two sisters and one brother: H. Louise Lydic, of Erie; Beryl C. Lydic and wife Sally, of Home; and Sara Mae Steele and husband Bruce, of Dayton. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles L. Wiggins; her son Russell J. Wiggins; one greatgrandson, Nathan Wiggins; and siblings Bernice L. Steele, Thelma E. Haldin, Clifford W. Lydic, G. Claribel Elkin and Lucille A. Brink. Friends will be received from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Church of Plumville with the Rev. Kathryn Ward Stear officiating. Private interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. www.bowserminich.com

Dorothy J. Windows Dorothy J. Windows (Rocco), 67, of Indiana, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. She was born in Indiana in 1947 to Richard and Mary (Strickland) Windows. She was a proud Nanny of four granddaughters. She enjoyed fishing, baking, cooking and most of all spending time with her family. She is survived by her husband, Anthony J. Rocco, of Indiana; a son and two daughters: Anthony L. Rocco and wife Stacy; Bonita Rocco; and Lisa Rocco, all of Indiana; four granddaughters: Justine, Larissa and Alexi

Rocco, and Isabella Farina; a brother, Robert Windows, of Levittown; and two sisters, Carol Vlaszac, of Indiana; and Barbara Eubanks and husband Ricky, of Eupora, Miss. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Richard Windows. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 510 Pellis Road, Greensburg, PA 15601. The Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana has been entrusted with the arrangements. www.bowserminich.com

Supervisors open bids for road repair materials By CHAUNCEY ROSS

BURRELL TOWNSHIP

BLACK LICK — The Burrell Township supervisors and their street crew workers have plans for fixing area roads when the weather breaks. But the township may need to play catch-up before getting on to the planned improvement projects. The supervisors opened suppliers’ bids for road materials at the board’s monthly business meeting Wednesday, and accepted prices offered by six vendors. The supervisors planned to work on Marshall Heights Road and Susan Drive, but probably will give priority to potholes and other problems that cropped up in recent weeks. “A lot of this will be used to fix the roads that the winter destroyed,” said supervisor Chairman Larry Henry. “This winter has been tough with the swinging temperatures, the ups and downs. So that will be where we’ll do most of our work this year.” The recent drop in oil and petroleum prices appeared to work in the township’s favor, as the low bid for an asphalt product called “superpave” came in at $55.85 a ton, compared to the price of $83.15 a ton that the township paid for asphalt in July. As for the rest, “there were no surprises, the prices are about what I expected they would be,” Henry said. Derry Construction Co., of Derry Township, was the only company that bid on supplying the “superpave” asphalt. The supervisors accepted low bids from Suit-Kote, of Cortland, N.Y., for asphaltrelated materials; from Compass Minerals America, of Overland Park, Kan., for road salt; from Hanson Aggregates, of Torrance, for various supplies of stones; from HeiWay LLC, of Sarver, Butler County, for patching material; and from Davis Trucking, of Route 119, Burrell Township, for hauling materials from the suppliers’ plants. In other business, the supervisors received an independent auditor’s review report of Burrell Township Library finances. The review by McCall Scanlon & Tice, LLC, of Kittanning, is smaller in scope than a formal audit and does not express an opinion of the library’s finan-

cial position, according to a cover letter with the report. The report shows the library with $41,476 of assets on Dec. 31, 2013. The supervisors also received notice from Pennsylvania Department of Transportation that five municipal roads have been randomly chosen for a traffic count survey from March through June. The five count points are among 7,200 selected by PennDOT to generate a statistically reliable representation of traffic levels on 78,000 miles of municipal roads in the state. Results of the traffic count will be reported to the Federal Highway Administration for use in allocating federal funding to the states, PennDOT reported. “The traffic counters are not being set up for any road project or speed trap,” according to PennDOT’s letter to the township. The supervisors expressed some mild concern that the traffic count sites — Country Lane, Turner Drive, Old Indiana Road, Bells Mills Road and Palmer Road — are not heavily traveled roads. The supervisors also reported that the board ratified a nonbinding resolution to transfer portions of South Liberty Street in Blairsville from state to municipal control. The board tabled the issue at the Jan. 21 meeting and approved it at a special meeting on Jan. 28, stipulating that they agreed to take early steps in the process so they could get an estimate of the cost for needed repairs. At the special meeting, the supervisors also approved a motion to not accept ownership of the township portion of South Liberty Street until PennDOT fully explains what would be required of the township. PennDOT has proposed that Blairsville Borough and Burrell Township accept the responsibility to maintain the street, which has not been given high priority on the state’s maintenance program. The resolution calls for the township to take control of exactly 0.169 mile of the street, known as State Route 2001, from segment 0010/ 0000 to 0010/0891.

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Terrorism summit held in Washington By PETER BAKER

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SHELDON SILVER, New York State Assembly speaker, was indicted Thursday on fraud charges.

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Assemblyman indicted on fraud, extortion charges By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — A federal grand jury in Manhattan voted Thursday to indict Sheldon Silver on the fraud and extortion charges that were the basis of his arrest last month, and led to his ouster as speaker of the State Assembly. Silver was arrested Jan. 22 on a five-count criminal complaint that detailed two alleged bribery and kickback schemes in a case that has upended Albany. The three-count indictment, handed up in the U.S. District Courthouse in Manhattan, charged Silver with mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion under the color of official right. Two charges in the complaint — a mail fraud conspiracy count and an extortion conspiracy count — were not included in the indictment. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment on why the counts had been dropped. The indictment of Silver, 71, a Manhattan Democrat who had served as the powerful Assembly speaker for two decades, suggests there is little prospect of plea discussions at this stage in the case, and moves the matter toward a possible trial. He remains a member of the Assembly. Silver’s lawyers, Joel Cohen and Steven Molo,

said in a statement that their client was not guilty. Silver is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday before Judge Valerie E. Caproni of U.S. District Court. She will preside over the case. The accusations underlying the remaining three counts in the indictment hew closely to those detailed in the criminal complaint. They outline what prosecutors said were two schemes through which Silver used his office to obtain nearly $4 million in corrupt payments from two law firms over the past 15 years. The indictment claims that Silver steered real estate developers to a small law firm that paid him kickbacks disguised as “referral fees.” It also alleges that he directed state grants to a doctor who referred asbestos claims to Weitz & Luxenberg, a law firm where Silver was listed as “of counsel.” Silver was entitled to receive 33 percent of the firm’s share of any recovery on behalf of those clients. The real estate law firm was not named in the complaint or the indictment, but people briefed on the case identified it as Goldberg & Iryami. Silver, according to the charges, “repeatedly took actions and used his official position to prevent the public, investigators and others from learning about his corrupt arrangements.” HOMER CITY, 12 N. Main St., Suite 4

Obama endorses Emanuel in Chicago By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama on Thursday offered a hearty White House embrace to his friend and former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is running for re-election as mayor here and faces voters next week. “Before Rahm was a bigshot mayor, he was an essential part of my team,” Obama told a crowd of students and teachers at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy, with the mayor sitting nearby. “I could not be prouder of him and the extraordinary service that he’s provided.” Officially, Obama traveled to Chicago to designate the city’s Pullman area a national monument. The company town built by the founder of the Pullman Co. railroad empire was one of the nation’s first planned industrial communities and is considered a historic location threatened by economic blight and neglect. The designation will help preserve the factories and other buildings on the 203acre site, where many African-Americans lived while working as porters, waiters and maids on the railroad’s luxury cars, and helped begin a labor and civil rights movement. But Obama’s action is also a potential boon to the election efforts of Emanuel, who is eager to boost his support among the city’s black voters so that he can capture more than 50 percent of the vote and avoid a runoff. The mayor, like other politicians and community leaders in Chicago, had fought for years on behalf of the Pullman area.

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WASHINGTON — As he sought to rally the world behind a renewed attack on terrorism, President Barack Obama argued on Thursday that force of arms was not enough and called on all nations to “put an end to the cycle of hate” by expanding human rights, religious tolerance and peaceful dialogue. But the challenge of his approach was staring him right in the face. His audience of invited guests, putative allies in a fresh international counterterrorism campaign, included representatives from some of the world’s least democratic and most repressive countries. The three-day White House conference on violent extremism that Obama wrapped up on Thursday provided a case study in the fundamental tension that has bedeviled the U.S. struggle with terrorism since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. While Obama has concluded that radicalism is fueled by political and economic grievance, he has found himself tethered to some of the very international actors most responsible for such grievances, dependent on them for intelligence and cooperation to prevent future attacks. “There is a very profound conceptual disagreement about whether the best way to counter violent extremism is through human rights and civil society or through an iron fist,” said Marc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University. The Obama administration wants “to project the human rights side, but you look at the people they’re working with and fighting alongside, and there’s a lot more to it than that.” Elisa Massimino, president of the advocacy group Human Rights First, attended Thursday’s meeting and was struck by the juxtaposition of rhetoric and reality: “We’re sitting in that room with representatives of gov-

ernments that are part of the problem,” she said. “If the president believes what he’s saying, then the actions that these governments are taking are undermining our supposedly shared agenda.” “That has to stop,” she added, “or we can have summits every month,” but “we’re not going to win.” A case in point was Egypt, whose foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, was among those given featured speaking roles on Thursday. Although Egypt’s military has reasserted its primacy and is cracking down on dissent, it has also been one of America’s staunchest collaborators in hunting down terrorists in a dangerous region. Just this week, in retaliation for the killings of Egyptian Christians, Egypt launched an airstrike against Islamic State forces in Libya, briefly, at least, taking on an offshoot of the group that the U.S. has been bombing in Iraq and Syria. Critics say the terrorism

fight has simply enabled autocratic regimes to go after their political foes without worrying about U.S. disapproval. Egypt’s leaders, for instance, have moved to stifle the Muslim Brotherhood, the opposition group they deem too radical. “It is futile to distinguish between bad terrorists, which must be defeated, and good terrorists, which can be accommodated,” Shoukry said. Marwan Muasher, the former foreign minister of Jordan who is now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said he worried that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, was becoming a rallying point for the disaffected. “People who are not happy with the establishment sometimes find in ISIS a counterforce for reasons that might be associated with ideology or might not,” he told a meeting separate from the White House event. “There is

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promulgator of all that’s right, a welcome guest in the home. We want to build up, not tear down, to help, not to hinder; and to assist every worthy person in the community without reference to race, religion or politics. Our cause will be the broadening and bettering of the county’s interests.”

The cost of decline in unions Crash sends up a warning flare A L ike many Americans, I’ve ances for flawed corporabeen wary of labor tions. unions. Full-time union Many Americans think stagehands at Carnegie Hall unions drag down the econoearning more than $400,000 my overall, but scholars disa year? A union hailing its de- agree. American auto unions fense of a New York teacher are often mentioned, but who smelled of alcohol and Germany’s car workers have passed out in class, with even a strong union, and so do the principal unable to rouse Toyota’s in Japan and Kia’s in her? A police union in New South Korea. York City that has a tantrum In Germany, the average and goes on virtual strike? autoworker earns about $67 More broadly, I disdained per hour in salary and beneunions as bringing corrup- fits, compared with $34 in tion, nepotism and rigid the United States. Yet Gerwork rules to the labor mar- many’s car companies in ket, impeding the economic 2010 produced more than growth that ultimately makes twice as many vehicles as a country strong. American compaI was wrong. nies did, and they The abuses are were highly profreal. But, as unions itable. It’s too glib wane in American to say that the life, it’s also inproblem in the U.S. creasingly clear sector was just that they were unions. doing a lot of good Or look at Ameriin sustaining midcan history. The dle class life — espeak years for pecially the priunions were the vate-sector unions 1940s and ’50s, that are now dwinwhich were also dling. some of the fastestMost studies growing years for suggest that about the United States one-fifth of the inever — and with crease in econom- Nicholas Kristof broadly shared writes a column ic inequality in prosperity. Historifor The New York America among cally, the periods Times. men in recent when union memdecades is the rebership were highsult of the decline in unions. est were those when inIt may be more: A study in equality was least. the American Sociological Richard B. Freeman, a HarReview, using the broadest vard labor expert, notes that methodology, estimates that unions sometimes bring imthe decline of unions may portant benefits to industry: account for one-third of the They can improve morale, rise of inequality among reduce turnover and provide men. a channel to suggest produc“To understand the rising tivity improvements. inequality, you have to unExperts disagree about how derstand the devastation in this all balances out, but it’s the labor movement,” says clear that it’s not a major Jake Rosenfeld, a labor expert drag. at the University of Washing“If you’re looking for big ton and the author of “What negatives, everybody knows Unions No Longer Do.” they don’t exist,” Freeman Take construction workers. said. A full-time construction Joseph Stiglitz notes in his worker earns about $10,000 book “The Price of Inequaliless per year now than in ty” that when unions were 1973, in today’s dollars, ac- strong in America, produccording to Rosenfeld. One tivity and real hourly comreason is probably that the pensation moved together in proportion who are union- manufacturing. But after ized has fallen in that period 1980 (and especially after from more than 40 percent to 2000) the link seemed to just 14 percent. break and real wages stag“All the focus on labor’s nated. flaws can distract us from the It may be that as unions bigger picture,” Rosenfeld weakened, executives somewrites. “For generations now times grabbed the gains from the labor movement has productivity. Perhaps that stood as the most prominent helps explain why chief execand effective voice for eco- utives at big companies nomic justice.” earned, on average, 20 times I’m as appalled as anyone as much as the typical workby silly work rules and er in 1965, and 296 times as $400,000 stagehands, or much in 2013, according to teachers’ unions shielding the Economic Policy Instithe incompetent. But unions tute. also lobby for programs like Lawrence F. Katz, a Harvard universal prekindergarten labor economist, raises conthat help create broad-based cerns about some aspects of prosperity. They are pushing public-sector unions, but he for a higher national mini- says that in the private sector mum wage, even though that (where only 7 percent of would directly benefit mostly workers are now unionized): nonunionized workers. “I think we’ve gone too far in I’ve also changed my mind de-unionization.” because, in recent years, the He’s right. This isn’t someworst abuses by far haven’t thing you often hear a been in the union shop but columnist say, but I’ll say it in the corporate suite. One of again: I was wrong. At least in the things you learn as a jour- the private sector, we should nalist is that when there’s no strengthen unions, not try to accountability, we humans eviscerate them. are capable of tremendous Contact Kristof at Face avarice and venality. That’s book.com/Kristof, Twitter. true of union bosses — and com /NickKristof or by mail at of corporate tycoons. The New York Times, 620 Unions, even flawed ones, Eighth Ave., New York, NY can provide checks and bal- 10018.

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huge column of fire them reportedly ablaze. shot skyward — then Tank cars tumbled down the fanned out in all direc- Kanawha River’s sloping tions at once, becoming a bank — a potential environmassive fireball that seemed mental disaster — and at to hover over tiny Mount least one was in the water. Carbon, which is just downNo one died, officials reriver from Boomer, W.Va., ported. Only one person which is officially a “census- was injured. Houses were designated place” of 813 ablaze. Days later experts people. were not sure Suddenly, Monhow much of day afternoon’s winthe train’s cargo ter sky glowed a of North Dakota nightmarish firecrude had bright orange — spilled into that and well into the proud, wide wanight it remained a terway. But offimassive warning cials had wisely flare, visible to folks rushed to shut miles away. Officials off the intake ordered hundreds valves that to evacuate their pumped tomorhomes. Witnesses row’s drinking told reporters the water into the usual things (“Like nearby treatan atomic bomb” ... ment plant. “wrath-of-God”). First responBut massive as it Martin Schram is ders, once again, was, the fiery warn- a veteran had rushed to do ing flare couldn’t their jobs. And Washington quite be seen by the journalist, author the feds were on one not-quite-astheir way, offiand TV nearby resident cials from U.S. documentary who most needed to executive. His transportation see it and heed it. agencies and column is He was just 350 also Washingdistributed by miles east of that ton’s EnvironMcClatchywintry inferno, mental ProtecTribune News working at his desk tion Agency, Service. in his home-office who had been that has lots of winadvising the feldows but no corners. low in the corner-less office It would be a while before about a related matter. he’d get word that a CSX President Obama has a freight train pulling 109 fully paper on his desk that is loaded oil tank cars (the very much about potential newest safer-designed type) oil-carrying train wrecks, had derailed and exploded even though it never menin a snowstorm at about tions that. It is the Keystone 1:20 p.m. Monday, not so far Pipeline XL bill, delivered to away in rural West Virginia. his desk by the new RepubliSome 25 tank cars had ca- can-controlled Senate and reened in all directions, 20 of House. Keystone Pipeline XL

MARTIN SCHRAM

WITHOUT THE Keystone XL, the State Department said, TransCanada Corp. will likely ship oil by rail to Oklahoma to funnel it into an existing pipeline to the Gulf, or via train all the way to the Gulf, or maybe to the Atlantic or Pacific coasts.

would construct a pipeline extension that would carry an especially dirty form of crude oil from its tar-sand origins in Canada to U.S. refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Keystone’s advocates — Republicans, a number of Democrats and importantly, many labor unions — emphasize that constructing the pipeline extension will create thousands of jobs. They don’t talk much about the fact that these jobs will last two years, then vanish, creating perhaps a mere 35 to 50 permanent jobs. Keystone’s opponents, including Obama’s EPA and many environmental activist groups, warn about damage from leaks and also climate changing effects from the way the oil is initially captured. But they don’t mention very much a State Department assessment that oil production would likely continue, even if the pipeline isn’t built, with the crude shipped mostly via rail. Without the Keystone XL, the department said, TransCanada Corp. will likely ship oil by rail to Oklahoma to funnel it into an existing pipeline to the Gulf, or via train all the way to the Gulf, or maybe to the Atlantic or Pacific coasts. No wonder ordinary folks hardly know what to think.

They’re being conned left and right. President Obama has vowed to veto the Keystone Pipeline. But I think vetoing it would be a mistake. Oil transported by rail is just one derailment away from being an environmental disaster of unacceptable proportions. In the end, I’m persuaded by the experts who say rail shipments pose a far greater danger to the environment than transporting the oil through a state-of-the art pipeline. In 2012, an estimated 40 times more oil was transported by rail than in 2008. And frankly, I’m persuaded most by recent orange-sky warning flare events: • July 2013: A railroad tank car exploded in Quebec, killing 47 people. • December 2013: A derailment in North Dakota spilled 475,000 gallons of oil. • February 2014: A derailment near Pittsburgh spilled 4,000 gallons of oil — it was the 10th derailment in North America in a year, according to Bloomberg News. This week’s fearsome fireball over Mount Carbon, just downriver from Boomer, should both warn and enlighten us all to an oil transport truth that’s hard to refute ... and harder to ignore. martin.schram@gmail.com

Newsman wrong on God-given rights “The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

t isn’t often that a member of the media reveals the philosophy behind his political ideology, but last week CNN anchor Chris Cuomo outed himself. In an exchange with Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore about Moore’s refusal to adhere to a federal appellate judge’s order to ignore the state constitution and begin granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Moore said “Our rights contained in the Bill of Rights do not come from the Constitution, they come from God.” Cuomo disagreed: “Our laws do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man.” Obviously, Cuomo flunked civics. Does he really believe that man is responsible for bestowing rights, and can therefore take those rights away as he sees fit? That a right bestowed today by a governing body of mere mortals can be invalidated by another body, say, following an election? That my rights and yours are as fluid as quicksilver and dependent on who sits in the big

chair in Washington? understood this. Blackstone It is not a new debate, but was a contemporary of a debate worth renewing. America’s Founders, who reThe framers of the Consti- ferred to him more than any tution clearly understood other English or American that in order to put certain authority. It wasn’t until the rights out of the reach of middle of the last century government, that the Supreme whose power they Court began repuwished to limit, diating Blackstone those rights had and started making to come from a law and creating place government rights. could not reach. As noted on the Thomas Jefferwebsite Blackstone son understood Legal Fellowship, this well enough “Blackstone called to write in the this concept (of enDeclaration of Indowed rights) ‘ultra dependence that vires,’ which means our rights to “life, it is beyond the auliberty and the thority of man to pursuit of happiwrite a law that vioness” are “enlates God’s law. dowed by our Blackstone also Creator.” He said that law is Cal Thomas added in the next writes a fixed, it is uniform, sentence that the column and it is universal. purpose of govIt does not change distributed by ernment is to “sebased on who the Tribune Media cure these rights.” president is, or who When govern- Services. holds judicial posi-

CAL THOMAS

ment believes it can create or take away rights, it becomes a god unto itself and potentially endangers those rights. The only way to preserve them for ourselves and our posterity is to acknowledge they come from a higher place. The English jurist, William Blackstone, who once studied in American law schools,

tions. It is the same law for everyone at all times and in all places.” The distinction between manmade law and laws that emanate from God is critical. Did civil rights legislation grant rights to AfricanAmericans, or did they already possess those rights and government merely got around to recognizing

them? Is not the authority Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. frequently appealed to higher than any court or Congress? If those rights were granted by government, the day might come when the cultural winds and public opinion shift and they could be taken away by the same institution that granted them. If they were endowed, then government has no right to create or remove them. Man enacted laws sanctioning same-sex marriage. Judge Roy Moore argues that a higher law, including for human relationships, should prevail, a higher law that man cannot impeach. I believe he’s right. Secular progressives believe in a “living Constitution” that constantly “evolves” to serve the people. The Founders (and Blackstone) believed the people are best served when they conform to laws established by God. One doesn’t have to believe in God for this to work, but the alternative potentially puts the rights of everyone in peril should one group, or class, fall out of favor. This is why Chris Cuomo is wrong about the source of our laws and Judge Moore is right. tcaeditors@tribpub.com

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Car bomb kills scores in Libya TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A massive car bombing struck an eastern Libyan town under control of the country’s internationally recognized government, killing at least 30 people today, an army spokesman said. But there were conflicting reports on the blast in Qubba, about 19 miles from the city of Darna, a stronghold of Libya’s branch of the Islamic State group, which has been gaining a foothold in this North African nation, far from the battlefield of Iraq and Syria. According to army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi, the car bomb exploded next to a gas station in the town as motorists lined up to fill their tanks. The explosion also wounded scores of people, Hegazi said.

Flu claims 700 in India NEW DELHI (AP) — Health authorities are working to ensure remote hospitals in northern and western India had adequate medical supplies for a flu outbreak that has claimed more than 700 lives in 10 weeks. More than 11,000 cases have been reported since mid-December with most of the cases being reported from a number of states. Federal health minister J.P. Nadda asked people to remain alert and not panic as the numbers climbed. At a meeting Thursday, top health officials were told to ensure that medicines were freely available and 24hour help lines were set up.

Blasts kill four at Somalia hotel MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — One person rammed an explosivesladen vehicle into the gate of a hotel in Somalia’s capital, and another went through the gates and blew himself up, killing at least four people today, including the mayor and a legislator, officials said. The country’s deputy prime minister was also among those wounded by the bombings at the Central Hotel near the presidential palace, police official Capt. Mohammed Hussein said. Al-Shabab, an Islamic insurgent group, claimed the responsibility for the attack, according to the group’s radio station, Andulus. Omar Ali Nor and Mogadishu’s deputy mayor, Mohamed Aden, are among the dead, said lawmaker Mohamed Ali, who could not give an exact death toll.

Police dog fired after biting two COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police dog is being kicked off the force after biting a doughnut shop worker and an officer in separate incidents. Officials say 4-year-old Renzo had been with the Coconut Creek Police Department for more than a year. The Belgian Malinois bit an officer in November while tracking a suspect. Last week, he burst out of a patrol car and bit a Dunkin’ Donuts worker in the calf. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that Renzo and Officer Carl DiBlasi went to the doughnut shop Feb. 11 to meet a police sergeant. The sergeant approached the patrol car and began to pet Renzo. The dog lunged at her and DiBlasi struggled to restrain him. Renzo broke away and bit the worker, who was nearby. The retired dog will now live with DiBlasi.

Ukraine: Rebels still pressing attacks

WINTER KEEPS ICY GRIP ON U.S. By The Associated Press The bitter cold that has gripped the Eastern U.S. is showing no sign of letting up before the weekend as records for low temperatures were broken today. The National Weather Service says the newest band of Arctic air could plunge parts of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic into deep freezes that haven’t been felt since the mid-1990s. Temperatures and wind chills on Thursday dipped near zero or below in the Midwest, Northeast and even the South — where people are unaccustomed to the weather-related road hazards, school cancellations, and runs on supplies. The cold snap followed snow and ice storms earlier in the week. The low temperatures caused much freezing and refreezing of snow, ice and roads. Weather forecasters warn that more sleet and freezing rain will be possible in the coming days. Here’s a look at the latest weather and the effect it is having around the country:

SO YOU THINK IT’S COLD? Temperatures dropping close to zero where you are? That’s nothing to folks in Embarrass, Minn. On Thursday, the community reported a temperature of 41 below zero — without the windchill factor. Forecasters say that’s the lowest recorded temperature in northern Minnesota this winter. Elsewhere in Minnesota, it was 31 below zero in Ely and Fosston, and 28 below at Bemidji. The National Weather Service issued a wind-chill advisory for parts of the state.

By JIM HEINTZ

Associated Press

TOM PEEL/Gazette

Our forecast SATURDAY 5-8 inches of snow High: 34 Low: 30

SUNDAY Snow showers High: 33 Low: 1

MONDAY Partly sunny and colder High: 11 Low: -3

Source: AccuWeather

temperature dipped to 2 degrees. The record was 4 degrees, set in 1979.

lan posted on Facebook: “Suspect is a blonde female last seen wearing a long blue dress and is known to burst into song ‘Let it Go!’ “As you can see by the weather, she is very dangerous.” But they soon posted another message, advising residents to take the weather seriously, all kidding aside.

SNOW BUDDIES

RECORD-BREAKING Bitter cold temperatures have shattered decades-old records in Washington and Baltimore. The National Weather Service said the low today was 6 degrees at Reagan National Airport, just across the Potomac River from Washington. That beats the record of 8 degrees, set in 1896. At Baltimore’s airport, the

Roger Retana, an exchange professor from Costa Rica, headed to class this morning at IUP.

WARRANT OUT FOR ELSA The cold might not bother Disney’s Queen Elsa, but it’s wreaking enough havoc in Kentucky that police announced a joke warrant for the “Frozen” character’s arrest. Police in the rural town of Har-

In southeastern Virginia, a program helps residents shovel out if they can’t do it themselves — but it says it needs volunteers. Virginia Beach-based Operation Blessing operates the “Snow Buddy” program and has set up a mobile command center. With parts of Virginia under nearly a foot of snow, the team has received more than 100 requests. Priority is given to the elderly, sick, disabled and single mothers.

Walmart to increase wages By HIROKO TABUCHI

New York Times News Service

Walmart, the largest private employer in the country, said Thursday that it would increase wages for a half-million employees as it reported its first rise in shopper traffic in more than two years. The retail giant, which has been criticized for continuing to pay some employees the bare legal minimum, said that all of its U.S. workers would earn at least $9 an hour by April. That would mean a raise for about 40 percent of its workforce, to at least $1.75 above the federal minimum wage, the retailer said. Competitive and political pressure for higher wages has been building, with other major businesses, several states and cities

raising the minimum wage far beyond the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Walmart’s move follows in the footsteps of retailers like Gap and IKEA, which both took steps last year to keep pay above federal minimum wage level, in an effort to lessen turnover and attract more lower-wage workers. But even their higher pay falls short of compensation offered by the likes of Costco, known to offer wages closer to $20 an hour. And taking a cue from a movement among fast-food workers for better pay, a Walmart workers’ advocacy group has demanded that the retailer pay at least $15 an hour to its 1.4 million-strong employees. For years now, protesters have demonstrated outside Walmart stores for higher pay and better hours.

Christine L. Owens, executive, director of the National Employment Law Project, credited the persistence of workers and supporters for influencing the outcome. Walmart said that after the hike, the average full-time hourly wage will be $13 an hour, up from $12.85 an hour, while the average part-time hourly wage will be $10 an hour from $9.48. While the retailer’s announcement Thursday generated considerable positive publicity, only about 6,000 of its workers make the federal minimum wage. The company also said that by February 2016, hourly workers would earn at least $10. Walmart’s workforce of 1.4 million is split evenly between full-time and part-time workers, it said, and that ratio will not change.

KIEV, Ukraine — Separatist rebels fired on Ukrainian positions nearly 50 times in the past 24 hours and Russia is sending more tanks into Ukraine despite a cease-fire that was supposed to take effect five days ago, a Ukrainian military spokesman said today. The report, which came a day after the Russianbacked rebels captured the key rail hub of Debaltseve, raises the question of whether weeks of high-level diplomacy aimed at producing a cease-fire and peace plan for eastern Ukraine simply allowed the rebels to redouble efforts to grab more territory. The village of Kurakhovo, west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, was hit by fire from Grad rockets and the village of Berdyansk, near the key port city of Mariupol, was hit overnight by ar- “STARTING at tillery and mortar fire, night, they would Lt. Col. Anatoliy Stelfire at us just to makh said today. He said Russia was stop us from still moving military equipment into sleeping. They Ukraine, including 10 did this all tanks brought into night.” Novoazovsk, near Mariupol. Concerns have risen Ukrainian soldier that the rebels are still gunning to take Mariupol, a government-held city on the Sea of Azov between mainland Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed last March. Taking the city could allow the rebels to create a land bridge between Russia and Crimea, which now have no direct links. On Thursday, the rebels celebrated their victory over Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve, a key transport hub linking the two largest rebel strongholds. Rebel fighters roamed the town’s debrislittered streets, laughing, hugging and posing for photos, although the death of one fighter when his vehicle hit a land mine was a reminder of dangers still lurking. Ukrainian soldiers who made it out of Debaltseve alive on Thursday described weeks of harrowing rebel shelling, followed by a chaotic, hasty retreat. Ukrainian officials said 13 soldiers had been killed, 157 wounded in the fighting, with 90 taken prisoner and 82 missing — but the shell-shocked soldiers themselves spoke of many more casualties. “Starting at night, they would fire at us just to stop us from sleeping. They did this all night,” a Ukrainian soldier named Andrei said Thursday after fleeing Debaltseve. “Then in the morning, they would attack, wave after wave. They did this constantly for three weeks.” The war in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 5,600 people and forced over a million to flee their homes since fighting began in April, a month after Russia annexed Crimea. French and German leaders, who oversaw marathon peace talks last week between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, signaled Thursday they were determined to salvage the cease-fire agreement and keep the two sides talking despite the fall of Debaltseve. Meanwhile, a parliamentary report has accused the British government and European diplomats of “sleepwalking” into the crisis. In a report published today, the House of Lords’ EU Committee said it found a “catastrophic misreading” of mood by Europe ahead of the standoff between Russia and Western countries. The committee said Britain “has not been as active or as visible as it could have been” in trying to resolve the crisis, and that foreign ministries in Britain and other European countries were poorly equipped to draw up an “authoritative response.” It also said that for too long the EU had been optimistic about Russia’s democratic development, and as a result Europe failed to realize the depth of Russian hostility when the EU opened talks on Ukraine in 2013.

Giuliani stands by remarks about Obama By MAGGIE HABERMAN

New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Barack Obama does not love America and said that his criticism of Obama’s upbringing should not be considered racist because the president was raised by “a white mother.” Giuliani’s remarks about Obama — made at a New York fundraising event for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin on Wednesday night and first reported by Politico — set off an uproar. “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said at the event. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t

brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.” Critics suggested Giuliani’s description of Obama’s upbringing reflected a prejudiced view that Obama was different from other Americans. In an interview, Giuliani dismissed the criticism and said he was describing the worldview that had shaped Obama’s upbringing. “Some people thought it was racist — I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people,” Giuliani said in the interview. “This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.” Giuliani said his remarks Wednesday night were in re-

sponse to a question about what kind of president he would like to see elected in 2016. He responded, he said, by telling the audience that he wanted a leader who was Obama’s opposite. “I want an American president to raise our spirits again, like a Ronald Reagan,” he said. Giuliani said he also objected to the president’s comments about the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast this month, in which Obama said that during the Inquisition, people had “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” “Now we know there’s something wrong with the guy,” Giuliani said of the president. “I thought that one sort of went off the cliff.” The White House declined to comment.

JOHN MINCHILLO/Associated Press

“I WANT an American president to raise our spirits again, like a Ronald Reagan.” Rudolph Giuliani,

former mayor of New York

Family

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Close but no cigar

PARSE MEETING

ENGAGEMENT Angela L. Miller, of Ford City, and Craig J. Krejocic, of Ford City and formerly of Homer City, have announced their engagement. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Don and Lynn Miller, of Ford City. She is a 2010 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in business management. She is employed as the business manager at Troy Alan Buick in Kittanning. The future groom is the son of Karen Krejocic, of Homer City, and the late Ron Krejocic. He is a graduate of Homer-Center High School

By PHILIP GALANES

New York Times News Service

QUESTION: I have been close with a family member since she was a little girl. She is now the mother of two young children. I am also a mother, so I know how time-consuming that is. But I don’t understand why she has time to post on Facebook but doesn’t have time to answer my emails. I have tried commenting on her posts, but that doesn’t work, either. I am a baby boomer, and she is a Gen X-er. Can you explain what’s going on? — Anonymous ANSWER: Take a peek at the great letter writers in history. Keats created gems, as did my brother from camp (“Come get me now!”). But their output was minuscule compared with the load of emails, texts, tweets and posts we muscle through these days. It doesn’t sound as if you expect immediate responses, which is good. And strictly speaking, writing someone a friendly social note does not compel her to reply. If it did, Joni Mitchell and I would be trading love letters daily. Still, you and your relative were close, so I wish she was responding. She probably does, too, and feels guilty every time a new email from you appears. But in prioritizing her responsibilities (and fun), you are not making the cut. (Sad but true.) You could probably guilt her into replying by letting her know your feelings are hurt. But where’s the joy in that? Write to her periodically, keeping the line of communication open. But tell her you know how busy she is, and she should respond only when she has time. This way, when her life quiets down and she wants to reach out, she will do so with an open heart. It may not be on your timetable. But who’s to say it should be? (Notes: Texting seems to elicit speedier, if two-worded, replies from youngsters of all ages. And business emails are a different kettle of fish.) QUESTION: I believe that many people who work minimum-wage jobs are not sufficiently compensated for their labor. Often, I want to give these workers $10 or $20 because they are probably struggling to make ends meet. But I worry that may demean them, as if I were pitying them. Any thoughts? — Joe, Baltimore ANSWER: It’s fine to question our kindly impulses. But don’t tie yourself in knots. Most of us have pulled shifts at minimum wage or known folks who have. You’re right: It is grinding work and nearly impossible for those trying to support families. The trick here is identifying, person to person, with the worker you want to help (while minimizing any resemblance you bear to the Dowager Countess of Grantham). Say: “I know firsthand how hard it is to live on minimum wage. Will you split this $20 with the rest of your crew?” The worker will accept it or not. This is no solution to income inequality, but it would be hard to mistake your helping hand for pity. QUESTION: I received an email on behalf of friends who are expecting a baby, directing me to a website where you can sign up to bring them a meal, buy them one at a local restaurant or hire a chef to make them dinner after the baby is born. I am annoyed by this. I already gave them a gift. If I want to do more, I don’t think I should be pressured into it by email. I also don’t want to be a bad friend. Am I being ridiculous? — Anonymous ANSWER: Ridiculous? No. But easily susceptible to guilt, I’m afraid. I am no fan of mass, gift-grabbing emails. It would be one thing if you had asked the parents-to-be if they had registered for baby gifts; the link would make sense. But you’ve already gifted them. So, press delete and move along.

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ANGELA MILLER and CRAIG KREJOCIC and is employed as a derrickhand at Falcon Drilling. The wedding is being planned for Aug. 1, 2015, at Grace Presbyterian Church in Kittanning.

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MEMBERS OF the Pennsylvania Association of Retired State Employees recently met at the Rustic Lodge, White Township. Pictured, from left, are Michele Rapach, PARSE president; Richard Robert, treasurer; speaker Lynn Herman, PARSE government relations adviser; state Sen. Don White, member; and Thomas Buerkle, PARSE southwest regional vice president.

Teacher continues the art of primitive rug hooking By ALMA GAUL

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BETH ANNE SMILEY worked on a primitive hooked rug in the barn studio of her home. for the breed of dogs the couple owns), teaching classes and selling kits with designs and materials. Her studio is a large room inside an 1860s stone barn on their Davenport acreage. Stepping inside reveals a feast for the eyes. In the middle of the room is a large wood table, and around the walls are antique shelves stacked with folded wool fabric in rich jewel tones — purples, reds, greens and blues. With some of the fabric, Smiley “over-dyed” it herself to create a greater variety of shades. When Smiley began making rugs, “100 percent wool was not there,” she said. “I’d go to Goodwill and get Pendleton clothing (Pendleton Woolen Mills is a familyowned company based in Oregon) and pull it apart and dye it.” Nowadays there is much more of a selection. Hooked rugs might be compared with quilts in that they use fabric to make a utilitarian item that is also beautiful. But unlike quilting, rug hooking isn’t very widespread in the Quad-City region. An Internet search reveals that people practice it here and there across the country, but “I think it’s still kind of under-the-radar around here,” said Lynn Gingras-

Taylor of the Figge Art Museum in downtown Davenport. Cindy Pippert, the owner of the Naked Sheep Yarn Shop in Milan, agreed, saying, “It’s almost a lost art.” But the craft is attracting interest. As the Figge’s creative arts coordinator, Gingras-Taylor has invited Smiley to teach at least two sessions of rug hooking, and they are “are always a go,” Gingras-Taylor said. And attendance has been picking up at Smiley’s studio, which is open for classes on Saturdays as well as by appointment. “The process isn’t that hard. It’s the color-planning” that is the challenge, Smiley said.By that she means determining which colors of wool to use to create the design. Through the years, Smiley has made about 50 rugs. Several were in a display two years ago at the Quad-City International Airport in Moline, Ill., an exhibit organized by Rock Island-based Quad-City Arts. She displays many of them on the walls of her home as some people do with quilts. But she also uses them on her floors, as intended. They can’t be washed in a machine, but wool naturally repels dirt and can be kept presentable with vacuuming and spot-cleaning.

SCHOLARSHIP The Evergreen Garden Club is pleased to offer two $1,000 scholarships for 2015. They are available to graduating high school seniors and students of accredited colleges and universities. Applicants must be legal residents of Indiana County and carry a grade-point average of 3.25. Applicants should demonstrate intent to obtain undergraduate or graduate studies in one of the following or closely related fields: agriculture, agronomy, biology, botany, civic planning, earth sciences, environmental studies or environmental health studies, forestry, horticulture, land conservation, land

AUCTION: The Twolick Valley Rod and Gun Club Benefit Food Auction will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at Morningstar Ministries, Starford Road, Starford. The auctioneer will be Charlie Fisher. For more information, call Patti at (814) 421-1539 or Susie at (724) 254-4078.

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DAVENPORT, Iowa — A length of burlap-colored linen is stretched taut across a square wooden frame on a pedestal. In one hand, Beth Anne Smiley holds a thin strip of colorful wool under the linen, and in the other hand she holds a hook on top. With a deft motion, she pokes the hook into the linen, catching the wool strip underneath and pulling it up to form a little loop. She repeats this motion over and over, creating rows of loops. And by changing the colors of fabric and following a pattern drawn on the linen, a design emerges on the cloth — a flower, a horse or a chicken. Smiley is doing primitive rug hooking, a craft brought to the eastern United States in the mid-1800s. It is different from the perhaps more familiar latch rug hooking done with yarn that is knotted. At first, primitive rug hooking was practiced mainly by the poorer classes, but it grew into an art form prized by all, Smiley explains. People used established patterns as well as those of their own making, and they used their creations as blankets and wall hangings as well as their original on-thefloor purpose. Smiley, a second-grade teacher at Davenport’s Adams School, has liked hooked rugs since she saw one in a friend’s house when she was a little girl. Smiley and her husband Barry are huge collectors of primitive folk art, including hooked rugs, and about 15 years ago she decided to try to learn how to make them herself. She took classes from a woman in Pennsylvania and, in time, Smiley became so accomplished that the woman suggested Smiley begin teaching the art. In 2012, Smiley founded Wheaten Woolens (Wheaten

BASKET PARTY: The New Florence Community Library will hold its annual basket party fundraiser March 1 at Antiochian Village, Route 711, eight miles south of New Florence, toward Ligonier. Doors open at 12:30 p.m., and the drawing starts promptly at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. There will be table seating for everyone. Light refreshments will be served. To donate a basket or purchase advance tickets, call the library at (724) 235-2249.

management, landscape architecture, landscape design, plant pathology, turf grass management, water conservation or wildlife science. Applications are available from high school guidance counselors, major department offices, dean’s offices and/or financial aid departments of Indiana County high schools and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Applications can also be obtained from the Evergreen Garden Club by emailing rellimac62@gmail.com. The Evergreen Garden Club Jane Dole Memorial Scholarship honors its founding member and commemorates her civic and charitable contributions to

Gladys Leithold will celebrate her 92nd birthday on Sunday. She grew up in the Butler area and enjoyed playing hop-scotch and jump-rope at school. Later she worked in mushroom mines. She has enjoyed embroidery throughout her life. Gladys was married to Arnold Brana, who is now deceased, for 30 years. She later married Vic Leithold. She has one daughter, Gladys, married to Frank Spramelli.

GLADYS LEITHOLD She also has three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and five greatgreat-grandchildren. Cards can be sent to Gladys at Crystal Waters Personal Care Home, 4639 Route 119 Highway North, Home, PA 15767.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Bob Beckwith, Creekside • Robert Grube, Indiana • Randy Himes, Black Lick • Keith Isenberg, Marion Center • Barbara Mack, Indiana • Kathryn Malenich, Heilwood • Albert Mano, Commodore • Maggi Sarver, Blairsville • Dennis Smith, Glen Campbell • Natalya Walker, West Lebanon The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!” To have a name added to the list, call (724) 465-5555, ext. 265. If you leave a message, be sure to spell out the first and last name of the person celebrating their special day and remember to tell us the day and the town where they live. Messages left with incomplete information will not be run on the list.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES the community. The second scholarship offered in 2015 is the Evergreen Garden Club Memorial Scholarship in honor of members Ethel Badiali, Helen Kunkle and Marjory Lynn, who passed in 2014. Each of these members made significant contributions to the Evergreen Garden Club over the years. This scholarship is possible due to the success of Tinsel Time 2014. It is the club’s way of saying “thank you” to the guests, vendors, merchants and businesses that helped make the fundraiser a success. One application is entry to both scholarships and must be postmarked by May 20.

• Submissions may be mailed to The Indiana Gazette, 899 Water St., Indiana, PA 15701; faxed to (724) 465-8267; or emailed to family@indianagazette.net. For more information, call (724) 465-5555, ext. 265, or visit http://bit.ly/IGsubmissionguidelines • For coming events, reunion and anniversary announcements, items must be submitted at least one week prior to the requested date of publication. Information is run in the order received. • All submissions must be typed and must include a daytime phone number. The Gazette will not accept handwritten submissions. • All submissions are subject to editing for space and content. • Wedding anniversaries are accepted beginning with the 25th and in increments of 5 years thereafter until the 40th, after which they may be submitted annually. • Only first and second baby birthdays will be accepted. • High school reunions are accepted starting with the 25th and in increments of 5 years thereafter. • For baby birthdays and for births, if the child’s parents have different last names, signatures of both parents must be provided.

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British band to headline jazz festival The New Mastersounds, from Leeds, England, will headline this year’s Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz & Blues Festival on May 23. “The New Mastersounds have absorbed a half-century of jazz, R&B, soul, blues and funk, and created a sound that is entirely their own,” Corbin Krug, chairman of the festival’s Music Selection, Programming, and Application Committee, said in a release. “For over 15 years they have been playing high-energy, sold-out shows all over Europe, Asia and the U.S. We’re very excited to welcome them to the Westsylvania stage.” More information about The New Mastersounds, and musical samples, are available on the Westsylvania festival’s website. The steering committee is also pleased to announce the launch of its 45-day Patron Campaign. With a goal of raising $6,000, the campaign offers a variety of rewards for individuals who become patrons at levels from $35 to $2,500. “Last year we raised over $6,000 from 83 individual donors,” said Fundraising Committee chairperson and Indiana Arts Council Executive Director Rebecca Slak. “We hope to build on that

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ALPHA DELTA KAPPA, an international honorary sorority for women educators, initiated four new members from the Indiana Area and Homer-Center school districts at a dinner ceremony Thursday at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Oak Room. From left are new members Lori Laverick, Donna Sabbia, Jillian Fu and Tanya Hirsch. Locally, ADK awards a $750 scholarship to a female student attending IUP in the field of education. According to ADK, the group provides members with opportunities for personal and professional growth, and is dedicated to educational excellence.

Report: Eat less red meat, sugar Continued from Page 1 guidelines in 2010: Eat more fruits and vegetables and whole grains; eat less saturated fats, salt and sugar.

EGGS ARE OK The report says dietary cholesterol now is “not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” This follows increasing medical research showing the amount of cholesterol in your bloodstream is more complicated than once thought. The committee says available evidence “shows no appreciable relationship” between heart disease and how much dietary cholesterol you eat, but it still recommends eating less saturated fat. As in previous years, the report advises limiting saturated fats to 10 percent of total calories. The panel doesn’t give a specific recommendation for how much cholesterol — or eggs — a person may eat.

WATCH THE ADDED SUGAR Added sugars should be around 200 calories a day — about the amount in one 16ounce sugary drink, says the advisory committee, which is made up of doctors and nutritionists. The recommendation is part of a larger push in recent years to help consumers iso-

late added sugars from naturally occurring ones like those in fruit and milk. Added sugars generally add empty calories to the diet. Americans now get about 13 percent of their calories from added sugar, or 268 calories a day, the committee says. Older children, adolescents and young adults generally take in more. The committee recommends 10 percent, which is “a target within reach,” says Miriam Nelson, a Tufts University professor of nutrition who served on the panel. Sugary drinks should be replaced with water instead of those with low-calorie sweeteners; there’s not enough evidence those drinks can help with weight loss, the committee advises.

A SOFTER APPROACH ON SALT Sodium adds up quickly. A turkey sandwich and a cup of soup can average about 2,200 milligrams. That’s just under the committee’s recommendation of 2,300 milligrams a day for all people, even those most at risk for heart disease. The 2010 dietary guidelines had recommended those at risk for heart disease limit sodium to 1,500 milligrams. The new report said lowering to that amount can still be

helpful for some. But the new advice follows a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine that said there is no good evidence that eating less than 2,300 milligrams a day of sodium offers benefits. With the average American eating more than 3,400 milligrams daily, the panel recommends at least trying to reduce sodium intake by 1,000 milligrams a day if the goals are unattainable. Alice Lichtenstein, a member of the panel and a professor at Tufts University, said the new recommendation “puts the focus where it should be.” Get sodium intake down, and fine-tune the numbers as more evidence comes in.

A HEARTY ENDORSEMENT FOR COFFEE The report looks at caffeine for the first time, and says coffee is OK — even good for you. The panel says there is strong evidence that 3 to 5 cups a day can be part of a healthy diet, and there’s consistent evidence that it’s even associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The advice comes with some caveats — don’t add calories with cream, milk and added sugars. The report also advises against large-size energy

drinks that are popular in the marketplace, and it recommends pregnant women limit caffeine to two cups of coffee a day.

EAT A PLANT-BASED DIET The panel recommends eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. A plant-based diet is “more health promoting and is associated with less environmental impact” than the current U.S. diet, which is high in meat. The report stops short of telling people not to eat meat, saying “no food groups need to be eliminated completely to improve sustainability outcomes.” Overall, the panel advises a diet lower in red and processed meat, and in a footnote says lean meats can be part of a healthy diet. The North American Meat Institute criticized the report, saying the health benefits of lean meat should be “a headline, not a footnote.” The meat recommendations in particular may prompt pushback from Capitol Hill. Last year, Congress noted the panel’s interest in the environment and directed Vilsack “to only include nutrition and dietary information, not extraneous factors” in final guidelines.

Penns Manor schedules kindergarten registration Kindergarten registration for the Penns Manor Area School District is scheduled from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. March 19 at the elementary school, 6003 Route 553. Children being registered must be 5 years old before Aug. 26, the first day of the 2015-16 school year. Elementary faculty will be present to conduct a de-

Members of the Indiana chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) organization will meet for their monthly luncheon at Hoss’s Steak & Sea House on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. Following lunch, the monthly meeting will begin at 12:30 p.m. The president and legislative officer will highlight relevant issues for retirees, and any upcoming legislation that might have an impact on the active federal workforce and retirees will be presented. Organizers encourage members to attend and bring a new member or their spouse.

Residents urged to sign up for alerts BLAIRSVILLE — Officials in Blairsville Borough are urging residents to sign up for the borough’s emergency communications alerts after a recent natural gas situation. Last week, officials were unable to communicate that gas had been shut off to Blairsville residents after a system failure. According to Emergency Management Coordinator Ron Hood, one of three natural gas regulators within the Peoples Natural Gas lines froze on Feb. 6, causing additional load to be placed on the second regulator. The second regulator tripped and shut down “because there was more demand for gas than normal.” Though Blairsville residents were not in any danger, Hood said, there was a need, because of low temperatures, to

get the service restored quickly to residents who rely on gas-powered heat. Many residents were unaware of the reason behind the gas shut-off because they had not signed up for alerts from the municipal authority, he said. As a municipal authority, Hood said, Blairsville was mandated by the Department of Environmental Protection to get “some sort of system that would call our customers when we would have line breaks and boil-water alerts,” among others. This program, in Blairsville, is the SwiftReach program. “It blasts out on whatever (device) you check when you sign up for the service,” Hood said. The SwiftReach program allows users to sign up for emails, text messages, phone calls or all three. “It’s important to know if your services are going to be

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ountless times in his Inside Indiana column, Bill Hastings would highlight the notable deaths in our area, serving as a farewell to those who did so much for their community and to provide some comfort to surviving family members and friends. And with Bill’s passing last week, it is with a heavy heart that the time has come for us to do the same for him. So it is with the line that he typed week after week, year after year, that we will begin our tribute to Bill, a man who used this column to tell the stories of our lives.

OUR RECENT obituaries included William B. “Bill” Hastings, 84, of Indiana, who passed away Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Described by Gazette publisher Michael Donnelly in a news obituary as a serious newsman who cared about the community, Bill’s career in journalism spanned nearly seven decades at The Indiana Gazette. Beginning as a high school sports writer in 1945, and returning in 1953 after being drafted into the Army, he worked his way through various titles, including county editor, associate editor, news editor and managing editor. He witnessed many dramatic local and national events in his years, and knew everything about Indiana that you ever needed to know. His life was dedicated to the news and to the community. And his demeanor reflected that. Part of his success in the journalism business was what Gazette staff writer Chauncey Ross described in Bill’s news obituary as his “uncommon ability to strike a balance between being a friend and doing business.” Our deepest condolences to wife Elizabeth “Bette” Anne; son William Robin and wife Susan; stepgrandson Stephen P. Solo and wife Kimberly; and stepgreat-granddaughter Scarlett Solo. Bill, you were a men-

tor, colleague, friend and true gentleman. Rest in peace.

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FAMILY AND friends are not the only ones to remember Bill and all he stood for. Condolences from readers are pouring in via email, social media, phone calls and letters to the editor. The Indiana County community is collectively mourning the loss. Some of the touching excerpts: • “You were a kind and gentle man with a heart of gold. May God bless the Hastings family at this time and always.” — Vonnie Anderson, Indiana • “Read his column every Friday. He will be missed.” — Mary Gazda Grafton, Clarksburg • “His column was a highlight of the Gazette, he ended the work week with positive news. Mr. Hastings, you will be missed!” — Judith Fulton Lunchuck, Indiana • “Great guy who helped connect so many with news of hometowners wherever they lived.” — Yvonne Hudson, Pittsburgh

son; Gerald Gress, Susan Brumbaugh, Brent Brumbaugh, Leora and Michaela Rankin Center Township: Joe, Mandy and Joey Gorton; Tom McCoy Clymer: Sam Clark Coral: Jerry, Cindy and Evan Bertig; Jackie Coldak; Marianne and Dennis Housholder; Vince Lazor; Paul Smith; Eva Yancy; Logan Dellafiora; Leslie and Keylee McCormick Creekside: Roger Frick Grafton: Eddie Sobota Homer City: Ron Fallara, Bob Campbell Indiana: Tom Donaldson, Darhl Empfield, Jim Baker, Matt Byerly, Mark Corte, Don Huey Penn Run: Scott Stancombe Plumville: Tim, Micah and Matthew Wilson White Township: Chris Cousins; Sue and Fred Maize; Ben Walters

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County to the accomplishments of natives who have moved away and connecting people to community events such as benefit dinners and festivals was a staple of Bill’s column, one that he believed was of the utmost importance. The intent of his column, he once said, was to reach the ordinary man and tell his story. “If you’re going to put the name of the governor in the paper, try to follow it up with the name of a regular guy who deserves a little plug,” he said. “Little things like that are the real valuable items, but you can’t find them every day.” So as we say goodbye, we remember the joy it brought Bill to tell the story of the ordinary man, in snippets such as the following:

GOOD NEIGHBORS Add these people to your list of good neighbors, the folks who plow out driveways and shovel sidewalks during recent snowstorms: Atwood: Bob and Camilla Atkin-

CONDOLENCES, CONTINUED Other obituaries this week included T. Claude Davis Jr., 87, of Indiana, who passed away Saturday. Claude is remembered as an Indiana Borough police officer, where he served 28 years and was one of the first officers with a K-9 unit, according to his obituary. Claude took a passionate interest in blood donation to American Red Cross, was a volunteer VA van driver and enjoyed traveling, camping and hunting. He is survived by his wife, T. Rowene Stiles Davis, of Indiana, and their daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

TRIVIA TIME Question: What is a fun way to spend an evening with friends? Answer: Beth Israel Synagogue’s 11th annual trivia night. There is still time to join the fun, organizers say, for the event that’s always a sellout. This year’s trivia competition will be held March 7 at the Eagles Club in Indiana, where host Gerry Pfeffer

Snowden: U.S., U.K. stole code to listen in Continued from Page 1 from law-abiding Western companies. The targeted company, Netherlands-based Gemalto, makes “subscriber identity modules,” or SIM cards, used in mobile phones and credit cards. One of the company’s three global headquarters is in Austin, Texas. Its clients include AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint, The Intercept reported. The Intercept offered no evidence of any eavesdropping against American customers of those providers, and company officials told the website they had no idea their networks had been penetrated. Experts called it a major compromise of mobile phone security. Gemalto said in a statement Friday it could not immediately confirm the reported hack and “had no prior knowledge that these agencies were conducting this operation.” The company said it “will devote all resources necessary to fully investigate” the reported hack. A spokeswoman for Sprint Nextel said Thursday that her company had no comment on the report, while a spokeswoman for T-Mobile said her company was referring reporters to Gemalto and declined further comment. In addition to SIM cards, Gemalto is a leading maker of encryption systems for other business and industrial uses, including electronic payment processing and “smart” key cards that businesses and government agencies use to restrict access to computers or other sensitive facilities. “Their SIM cards would be used by most of the major telecom operators,” said Linley Gwennap, principal ana-

lyst at the Linley Group, a Silicon Valley tech research firm. The NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the past, former agency officials have defended using extra-legal techniques to further surveillance capabilities, saying the U.S. needs to be able to eavesdrop on terrorists and U.S. adversaries who communicate on the same networks as everyone else. The NSA, like the CIA, breaks the espionage and hacking laws of other countries to get information that helps American interests. Still, the methods in this case may prove controversial, as did earlier Snowden revelations that the NSA was hacking transmissions among Google’s data centers. The Intercept reported that British government hackers targeted Gemalto engineers around the world much as the U.S. often accuses Chinese government hackers of targeting Western companies — stealing credentials that got the hackers into the company’s networks. Once inside, the British spies stole encryption keys that allow them to decode the data that passes between mobile phones and cell towers. That allows them to ungarble calls, texts or emails intercepted out of the air. At one point in June 2010, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, as its signals intelligence agency is known, intercepted nearly 300,000 keys for mobile phone users in Somalia, The Intercept reported. “Somali providers are not on GCHQ’s list of interest,” the document noted, according to the Intercept. “(H)owever, this was usefully shared with NSA.”

Mosul mission detailed Continued from Page 1 made yet on whether to send in some U.S. ground troops to help call in airstrikes. Islamic State militants overtook Mosul last June, as the group marched across large sections of Iraq and Syria, sending Iraqi forces fleeing. At this point, officials estimate there are between 1,000 to 2,000 Islamic State insurgents in the city. Military leaders have been talking about retaking Mosul for some time, but they have said they won’t launch the

operation until the Iraqi troops are ready. The official said they wanted to retake the city in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in. “But by the same token, if they’re not ready, if the conditions are not set, if all the equipment they need is not physically there and they (aren’t) trained to a degree in which they will be successful, we have not closed the door on continuing to slide that to the right,” he said.

will offer eight rounds of “mindbending, always stimulating and often amusing” questions, according to organizers. And menu coordinators Millie Glinsky and Marcy Wilson say the evening’s food includes “outrageous desserts and the newly featured ‘healthy corner.’” Registration begins at 6:30 p.m., with games starting at 7. Participants are encouraged to sign up early, as the event is limited to 150 people. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased from synagogue members or by calling Cari Meil at (724) 4222065 or Shari Baumler at (724) 3882979.

SOUP’S ON In observance of Lent, Zion Lutheran Church at Sixth and Church streets in Indiana will host community soup luncheons for the next five Tuesdays. The luncheons will be held each Tuesday from noon to 1:15 p.m. Three different soups, including an option for vegetarians, will be offered, as well as Carol Guba’s artisan bread and dessert. Takeout is available. Those who dine are asked to make free-will offerings to benefit the church’s food pantry. Soups on the menu this week are vegan gingered carrot, broccoli cheese and anytime turkey chili.

HAPPY FEET Indiana Regional Medical Center’s annual Day of Dance to encourage good health is set this year for Feb. 28 at the Indiana Mall. The event will offer the opportunity to dance and enjoy music, and officials will provide health screenings and advice on simple ways to stay healthy. It will also showcase IRMC’s new “germ fighting robot,” which eliminates germs “20 times more effectively than standard chemical cleaning,” according to promotional information.

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Pennsylvania’s online program for a Master of Arts in Criminology degree, which was recently named among the top 10 online graduate criminal justice programs by U.S. News & World Report. Factors measured for the honor included admissions selectivity, faculty credentials and student support services, according to a news release. Robert Mutchnick, chairman of the criminology department, called it an honor to be recognized.

TIME TO CELEBRATE To mark its five-year anniversary, Indiana Area Celebrate Recovery will host an open house Thursday at Homer City United Methodist Church. Guest speakers include Mike Krafick, certified recovery specialist supervisor at Armstrong-IndianaClarion Drug and Alcohol Commission, and Craig Faish, crisis hotline coordinator for Armstrong and Indiana counties. The program starts at 7 p.m. All are welcome.

SHOP TALK AT SIX The new Dollar General store along Main Street in Plumville will hold a grand opening celebration Saturday, giving the first 50 adults a free $10 gift card and the first 200 adults a free tote bag, beginning at 8 a.m. … Clymer Slovak Club will host a fish fry today that is open to the public and starts at 5 p.m. … Gas prices in the Indiana area today were averaging $2.39 a gallon, compared to $2.41 statewide and $2.27 nationwide (www.pennsylvania gasprices.com).. … Willie, our exshoeshine boy, recalls one of his buddy Bill Hastings’ favorite sayings this week: “There’s not much to see in these small towns, but boy what you can hear!” Good evening! This column is compiled by Gazette staff writer Margaret Harper. Items for publication can be emailed to mharper@indiana gazette.net.

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NANCY REICHARD, left, of Indiana, selected wine with the help of Jean Shepherd during a wine-tasting event Thursday at the Indiana Social Center. Raspberry Acres, of Blairsville, supplied the wine.

Session gathers input for plan Continued from Page 1 house stage from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. Fewer stayed for the small group discussion and voting stage, but there were still about three teams of 10 members each. Workshop-goers were asked to place blue dots on maps next to the ideas they thought were of highest priority. There are two major intersections that don’t sit well with residents and students. The intersection of Oakland Avenue with 13th and Maple streets was cited as a place that needs transformation, with people complaining that pedestrian travel there is difficult and dangerous. The other intersection is Wayne Avenue and South Seventh and Locust streets. There were complaints about traffic patterns and pedestrian safety there, too. SmithGroupJJR, an archi-

tectural and engineering firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich., identified the main concerns in the downtowncampus interface as a poor pedestrian experience, inconsistent building patterns and gaps and a lack of landscape/parking lot design. Possible routes for a multimodal bike path were also on display for the public. The two main options right now, if implementation were to be approved by the relevant government bodies, are Philadelphia Street or Gompers Avenue starting at Eighth Street to Twolick Drive, with both routes having the same end points. The bike trail would be extended through the southern parts of the IUP campus parallel to Wayne Avenue, then continue on to Pratt Drive starting at the KCAC up to Eighth Street. People were also in favor of the idea of “pocket parks” and more street benches where people could relax

outside along Philadelphia Street, but there are currently no recommendations on where these could be built. Farther out in what was referred to as the suburban district in White Township, the highest priority was a transit hub or exchange. Here, all public transportation routes would converge on one point, and there can even be a switch between modes of transportation such as local buses to Greyhound buses. Revamping the area around the Wayne Avenue and Hospital Road intersection was also popular. The suggestion was to develop the empty commercial space there. Overall, Raykes said, he was pleased with the participation in Thursday’s workshop, and in all of the ICUD events over the past several months. “What was interesting about this particular workshop was that somehow we

created an environment in which people were talking the minute they came through the door. ... Everybody was talking,” he said. Raykes asked that anyone with further comments or suggestions should contact him by phone or email at the county planning office. Soon, SmithGroupJJR will have a final draft of its recommendations to hand over to the ICUD steering committee, which consists of two members each from the four participating bodies. Those recommendations will have to implemented individually as each governing body sees fit, though there are some projects that cross over municipal lines. “I think what’s exciting about this particular project is we’re going to have a set of recommendations specific for every partner that gives us a mandate in terms of what to do next,” Raykes said.

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Alvarez getting lots of attention Slugger wins arbitration case as he prepares for move to first By The Associated Press BRADENTON, Fla. — The first workout of spring training is designed for pitchers and catchers. When the Pirates opened camp on Thursday, much of the attention was focused on first baseman Pedro Alvarez. The opening day third

baseman in each of the past four seasons, Alvarez is moving to first base. “I feel very good about it. Very positive,” Alvarez said after a short morning workout. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to go out there and

compete over there. I’m taking it day by day, taking in as much as I can to learn the position.” Alvarez arrived in Florida on Wednesday to attend his arbitration hearing in St. Petersburg. Robert Herzog, James Oldham and Dan Brent awarded him a raise from $4.25 million to $5.75 million on Thursday rather than the Pirates’ offer of $5.25 million.

The second overall pick in the 2008 amateur draft, Alvarez has made all but five of his 547 career starts at third base. In 2013, he hit 36 home runs to tie Arizona’s Paul Goldschmidt for the NL lead. Alvarez batted .231 last year and hit 18 home runs. He made 25 errors raising his three-year errors total at third base to 79. In mid-August, he was replaced by Josh Harrison as the everyday third baseman. Continued on Page 17

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PEDRO ALVAREZ took a throw at first base during a workout Thursday in Bradenton, Fla.

DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS: Bishop Guilfoyle 68, Homer-Center 45

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Crosby fights, Pens fall Late goal beats Fleury at home By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

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JULIA BUGGEY, one of only three seniors on the Homer-Center roster, showed her disappointment Thursday night when the Wildcats lost to Bishop Guilfoyle in the District 6 Class A quarterfinals at Bishop Carroll High School.

Young ’Cats bow out, look ahead By JUSTIN GERWICK

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EBENSBURG — A young Homer-Center squad got its first taste of some high-level playoff competition Thursday in the District 6 playoffs. The Wildcats stuck with powerhouse Bishop Guilfoyle throughout the first half until the Marauders unleashed a flurry of third-quarter field goals and ran away from the Homer-Center squad. A 26-point burst in the third quarter gave the Marauders enough of a gap to cruise to a 6845 victory in the quarterfinals of the Class A playoffs, at Bishop Carroll High School. It was the second year in a row in which the Wildcats were eliminated from the playoffs in the second round. Last season, the Wildcats lost to Portage, 56-38. This season’s varsity squad entered the postseason without much playoff experience. The Wildcats’ 16-player roster featured four freshmen, seven sophomores, two juniors and three seniors. Despite their young makeup, the sixth-seeded Wildcats were able to blaze through most of their regular-season competition and

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“I’M VERY PROUD of (these girls). No one thought we would be more than a .500 team this year, and we ended up 17-7. So, I am very proud of them.”

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Homer-Center coach nabbed second place in the Heritage Conference, beating conference foe Penns Manor in the first round on Monday. “I’m very proud of (these girls),” said Homer-Center coach Tom Lasher. “No one thought we would be more than a .500 team this year, and we ended up 17-7. So, I am very proud of them. They played hard, they worked hard, and they did what had to be done.” Third-seeded Bishop Guilfoyle (19-4) entered Thursday’s game with much more playoff experience than the Wildcats. Continued on Page 15

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HOMER-CENTER’S Abby Yancy tried to drive around Bishop Guilfoyle’s Brayley Lewis.

Despite the closing of every school district in the county today because of the cold and snow, all District 6 playoff basketball games involving area schools will be played as scheduled, district officials announced today. Both Blairsville teams, as well as the Saltsburg, Homer-Center and Ligonier Valley boys’ teams will be in action tonight. Also, the Indiana boys’ playoff game, against Highlands at 8 p.m., at Fox Chapel High School, will be played as scheduled. See Page 15 for a complete playoff schedule.

PITTSBURGH — Frustrated and fed up, Sidney Crosby encouraged Brandon Dubinsky to drop the gloves. The Columbus Blue Jackets center and frequent tormentor of the Penguins star eagerly obliged. The fight was a draw. The game was not. Dubinsky’s stick —and not his fists — provided the technical knockout. Dubinsky poked a pass from Matt Calvert by a sprawled Marc-Andre Fleury with 2:17 remaining to lift the Blue Jackets to a 2-1 win over the erratic Penguins on Thursday night. Columbus’ third short-handed goal of the season came after Pittsburgh’s seventh and final giveaway. Blake Comeau turned it over at center ice and the Blue Jackets quickly pounced. Calvert raced down the left side and fed Dubinsky as Comeau bowled over Fleury. Dubinsky had little trouble tapping in his seventh goal of the season. “It feels great to beat these guys, in their building especially,” Dubinsky said. “I just really liked how we stuck with it for 60.” Scott Hartnell also scored for Columbus. Curtis McElhinney stopped 29 shots as the Blue Jackets won their second straight. Columbus needs a massive surge over the final quarter of the season to get within earshot of the playoff chase, but it looked every bit Pittsburgh’s equal for three periods — even if the Penguins hardly look like themselves lately. “You could tell that we were focused tonight and there was a commitment from the group going out and doing the right things,” Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. Continued on Page 17

Junior, Johnson take top spots in Daytona duels Harvick, Patrick bicker over crash By JENNA FRYER

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica and Denny provided the dust-up. Hendrick Motorsports delivered another sweep.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson swept the Budweiser Duel races Thursday night to give Hendrick Motorsports a 1-2-3 start for the Daytona 500. Jeff Gordon had already won the pole the season-opening race, and the rest of the field was locked in through the pair of 150-mile qualifying races. Danica Patrick was in the second race and needed to finish 15th or better to guarantee a spot Sunday. She

was sitting pretty, too, until her second incident with Denny Hamlin in two days damaged her car and put her in danger of missing the field. Her Stewart-Haas Racing team worked frantically on rapid repairs and she restarted 18th with two laps to go. She was pushed all the way around Daytona International Speedway by teammate Kurt Busch to finish 10th and make the 500. Continued on Page 17

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SIDNEY CROSBY fought with Brandon Dubinsky during Thursday night’s game in Pittsburgh.

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IUP MEN (21-5) at PITT JOHNSTOWN (12-12) When and where — 3 p.m. Saturday, UPJ Sports Center. About IUP — The Crimson Hawks hold third place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division. They are 15-5, one game behind Gannon (16-4), a half-game behind Mercyhurst (16-5) and two games ahead of Slippery Rock (13-7). They are 9-5 against PSAC West teams with wins over Gannon (64-54), Seton Hill (82-64, 71-56), Clarion (87-72), Pitt Johnstown (88-73), Edinboro (79-69), California (69-45, 64-56) and Slippery Rock (69-61) and losses to Slippery Rock (75-71), Gannon (61-56, OT), Mercyhurst (65-62, 58-55) and Edinboro (79-77, OT). About Pitt Johnstown — The Mountain Cats are tied for the sixth and final PSAC West playoff spot at 9-11. They are tied with California and trail Edinboro (10-11) by a half-game. They are 6-8 against PSAC West teams with wins over Clarion (82-77), Seton Hill (83-61, 71-62), Gannon (65-57), Slippery Rock (77-59) and California (56-52) and losses to Slippery Rock (79-71), California (74-65), Mercyhurst (73-60, 81-72), IUP (88-73), Edinboro (77-61), Clarion (82-77) and Gannon (66-36). Last meeting — IUP won at home, 88-73, on Jan. 21. Five IUP players scored in double figures, led by Devante Chance (19), Jeremy Jeffers (18) and Daddy Ugbede (16). A.J. Leahey scored 19 and Nate Snodgrass had 17 for Pitt Johnstown. All-time series — IUP leads 34-16. Coaches — IUP: Joe Lombardi (ninth season, 194-75. Pitt Johnstown: Bob Rukavina (26th season, 417-294). Broadcast — WQMU-FM 92.5 and www.u92radio.com. Next — IUP plays host to Clarion at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. IUP Probable starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 3 Devante Chance 5-10 Sr. G 15.3 3.9 22 Shawn Dyer 6-0 Gr. G 12.8 5.5 23 Brandon Norfleet 6-5 Jr. G 12.0 4.2 11 Jeremy Jeffers 6-6 Sr. F 8.4 3.0 21 Devon Cottrell 6-7 Jr. C 3.8 4.5 Key reserves 44 Daddy Ugbede 6-6 Jr. C 11.1 4.4 10 Tevin Hanner 6-5 Jr. F 6.2 3.3 1 Manny Yarde 6-4 So. G 3.3 2.0 Pitt Johnstown Probable starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 33 A.J. Leahey 6-7 So. F 14.0 7.0 15 Matt Palo 6-5 Sr. G 13.3 4.3 50 Ian Vescovi 6-9 Sr. F/C 11.8 7.8 11 Rich Audu 6-3 Jr. G 7.4 2.9 3 Nate Snodgrass 6-1 Jr. G 7.2 1.7 Key reserves 23 Dale Clancy 5-10 Fr. G 8.0 1.8 14 Jake Laravie 6-1 So. G 6.2 1.0 5 Levi Masua 6-6 Fr. F 2.1 0.5 Team per game averages IUP PJ 74.5 Points scored 74.0 61.5 Points allowed 71.8 .483 Field goal percentage .463 .388 3-point field goal percentage .420 .767 Free throw percentage .739 .404 Field goal percentage defense .447 .329 3-point field goal percentage defense .321 +3.4 Rebounding margin -1.4 15.4 Assists 14.9 13.0 Turnovers 15.3

IUP WOMEN (22-2) at PITT JOHNSTOWN (10-14) When and where — 1 p.m. Saturday, UPJ Sports Center. About IUP — The Crimson Hawks, ranked ninth in NCAA Division II, are tied for first place with California at 18-2 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division and can finish no worse than second. They are 12-2 against PSAC West teams with wins over Seton Hill (73-64, 71-56), Pitt Johnstown (79-60), Clarion (85-56) Slippery Rock (73-48, 86-77), Edinboro (86-60, 91-81), Gannon (74-51, 74-53) and Mercyhurst (65-45, 81-59) and losses to California (71-66, OT, 76-45). About Pitt Johnstown — The Mountain Cats, who snapped a seven-game losing streak by beating Mercyhurst on Wednesday, are one of three teams vying for the fifth and sixth playoffs spots out of the PSAC West. They are tied for fifth with Seton Hill at 7-13 and lead Slippery Rock (6-14) by one game. They are 4-10 against PSAC West teams with wins over Clarion (95-84), Slippery Rock (71-65), Seton Hill (78-67) and Mercyhurst (77-70) and losses to California (83-60, 79-64), Gannon (67-64, 69-58), Mercyhurst (87-72), IUP (79-60), Edinboro (86-75), Clarion (75-67), Slippery Rock (88-78) and Seton Hill (83-77). Last meeting — IUP won at home, 79-60, on Jan. 21. Ashley Stoner and Lindsay Stamp scored 24 points apiece. Nicole Carman scored 20 and Kelsey Sleighter 18 for Pitt Johnstown. All-time series — Pitt Johnstown leads 34-12. Coaches — IUP: Tom McConnell (second season, 40-12). Pitt Johnstown: Mike Drahos (second season, 20-31). Broadcast — WQMU-FM 92.5 and www.u92radio.com. Next — IUP plays host to Clarion at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. IUP Probable Starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 3 Lindsay Stamp 5-10 Sr. G 19.6 8.4 0 Ashley Stoner 6-1 Sr. F 13.9 6.6 12 Leslie Stapleton 5-10 Jr. G 9.7 3.3 5 Marita Mathe 5-7 Sr. G 9.3 4.5 24 Amy Fairman 5-10 Sr. G 7.3 3.3 Key reserves 15 Zhané Brooks 5-10 Jr. F 6.7 5.5 10 Marina Wareham 5-3 Jr. G 3.2 0.6 14 Alexis Aiken 5-8 Jr. G/F 2.2 1.6 22 Lisa Burton 5-9 Sr. G 2.2 1.6 30 Megan Smith 6-0 Fr. G/F 1.8 2.3 Pitt Johnstown Probable Starters No. Player Ht. Yr. Pos. ppg. rpg 11 Kelsey Sleighter 5-7 Sr. G 15.4 4.1 30 Nicole Carman 5-10 Sr. F 13.3 7.6 10 Olivia Rizzo 5-5 Jr. G 5.9 3.2 32 Leah Hansen 5-7 Jr. G 5.0 1.7 40 Olivia McCabe 6-0 Fr. F/C 4.4 3.4 Key reserves 1 Jasmine Harper 6-0 Jr. F/C 16.3 9.3 33 Kayla DeCriscio 5-7 Jr. G 7.4 1.8 35 Nicole Corcoran 5-8 Fr. G 2.3 1.2 34 Jamie Tabon 5-10 So. F 2.1 1.5 45 Agnese Aramina 6-1 Jr. F/C 2.0 2.6 Team per game averages IUP PJ 78.0 Points scored 76.5 59.0 Points allowed 79.8 .461 Field goal percentage .415 .374 3-point field goal percentage .351 .699 Free throw percentage .730 .373 Field goal percentage defense .546 .288 3-point field goal percentage defense .298 +10.1 Rebounding margin +1.9 19.0 Assists 15.6 14.3 Turnovers 21.3

From staff and wire reports Pitt rallied from an 11point deficit in the final 6:26 of regulation to force overtime and then outscored Virginia 10-5 in the extra five minutes for a 68-63 victory in a college women’s basketball game Thursday night. Pitt (18-8, 8-5 ACC) trailed 51-40 with 6:26 remaining in regulation and then outscored the Cavaliers (15-11, 5-8) 18-7 down the stretch. Pitt’s Brianna Kiesel scored a game-high 23 points for her 14th game this season with 20 or more points. Stasha Carey scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds, and Chelsea Welch added 11 points. Sarah Imovbioh led Virginia with 18 points and 18 rebounds.

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KYLE WILTJER looked to drive on Pacific’s Gabriel Aguirre during Gonzaga’s victory on Thursday night.

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Wiltjer scores 45 in Gonzaga’s win By The Associated Press Kyle Wiltjer scored 45 points for Gonzaga’s highest-scoring game in 54 years and the third-ranked Bulldogs tied a school record with their 20th straight win, 86-74 over Pacific on Thursday night. Gary Bell Jr. added 12 points as the Bulldogs (27-1, 15-0 West Coast Conference) used another strong shooting night to roll to a victory. Gonzaga, which leads the nation in shooting at 52.7 percent, made 60 percent of its shots, keyed by a 15-for-22 night by Wiltjer, who went 7-for-10 from 3-point range. T.J Wallace scored 19 points, David Taylor added 18 and Ray Bowles had 13 for the Tigers (10-17, 2-13), who have lost eight straight games. Wiltjer scored 18 of Gonzaga’s 22 points during a 12-minute stretch in the second half. He hit a 3-pointer in the closing seconds to give him 45 points, the most by a Bulldogs player since Frank Burgess scored a schoolrecord 52 on Jan. 26, 1961. NO. 7 ARIZONA 87, USC 57: Kaleb Tarczewski scored 15 points, Stanley Johnson added 13 in another strong all-around game and Arizona jumped on Southern California early. Arizona (23-3, 11-2 Pac-12) did what it was supposed to at home against the conference’s last-place team, overwhelming the Trojans with a slew of dunks and easy baskets. The Wildcats led by 18 at halftime and didn’t let up to win their 35th straight home game. Johnson had seven rebounds and six assists, and Tarczewski finished with 10 rebounds. Malik Martin had 15 points to lead USC (1016, 2-12).

NO. 9 UTAH 47, OREGON STATE 37: Dakarai Tucker scored 11 points as Utah handed Oregon State its first home loss in 15 games. Delon Wright added nine points, nine rebounds and five assists for the Utes (21-4, 112 Pac-12). Malcom Duvivier scored 12 points for the Beavers (16-10, 7-7). Both teams scrambled and scrapped on defense, making for a low-scoring affair. Seven minutes in, Utah was up 5-4. The Utes had five shots and four turnovers at that point, while the Beavers were shooting only 2-for-9. Utah led 16-14 at the half. NO. 16 MARYLAND 69, NEBRASKA 65: Melo Trimble scored 26 points, including a pair of pivotal 3-pointers down the stretch, and Maryland squeezed past Nebraska in the first-ever meeting between the teams. Dez Wells and Jake Layman each scored 14 for the Terrapins (22-5, 10-4 Big Ten), who were locked in a tie game with 5:38 left before Trimble took over. Maryland has won its last three games by a total of 11 points and is 8-0 in games decided by six points or fewer. NO. 21 SMU 67, TEMPLE 58: Nic Moore scored 18 points, and SMU rallied from 10 points down in the second half to snap Temple’s seven-game winning streak. Ryan Manuel hit a tying 3-pointer and added another to cap a 7-0 run that broke a 52-52 tie and sent American Athletic Conference-leading SMU (22-5, 13-2 AAC) to its 20th win in 22 games. SMU outscored the Owls 156 in the final four minutes. Will Cummings had 14 points to lead Temple (19-8, 10-4).

Layup Labor By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer

Supposedly the easiest shot in basketball, the layup isn’t always a gimme. In fact, only a little more than half of shots described as layups in college basketball end up going through the hoop. Most are contested by one or more defenders, and even the ones that aren’t don’t go in all the time. Just ask Perry Ellis, who missed a breakaway lay-in at the buzzer in Kansas’ one-point loss to West Virginia on Monday night — after, of course, a layup by the Mountaineers. Lots of players around the country could empathize with Ellis — none more than Furman’s Stephen Croone, who on a single possession of a November game against Duke botched a fastbreak dunk and two uncontested layups. No, those shots from 0 to 3 feet from the basket are not to be taken for granted. Not all layups are the same. Misses are understandable when they come in traffic against a good defense. The ones that churn in the guts of coaches are the wide-open misses, particularly when the shooter goes for style points and doesn’t use the backboard. “You don’t want to go to a high school game and watch pregame layups. Oh, my goodness, that will drive you crazy,” Quinnipiac coach Tom Moore said. “They’ll do the two-line layup drill, and you’ll watch them shoot 50 percent. It’s a spin, it’s a flick. No one is out there

MEN CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ST. 53, ST. FRANCIS 50: Brandon Peel scored 15 points on 7 of 12 shooting and added 10 rebounds and four blocks to help lead Central Connecticut State past St. Francis. Khalen Cumberlander added 14 points and Faronte Drakeford had 13 points for the Blue Devils (4-24, 2-13 Northeast Conference), who won for just the second time in 19 games. Central Connecticut State led the entire second half and by as much as 10 midway through. St Francis battled back over the final minutes, however, and had an opportunity to tie on the final possession, but Ollie Jackson’s 3-pointer missed at the buzzer. Earl Brown scored 15 points to lead the Red Flash (14-12, 8-7), who shot just 38 percent from the field. SACRED HEART 80, ROBERT MORRIS 76: Evan Kelley scored 18 points, pulled down seven rebounds, and added three steals to help lead Sacred Heart past Robert Morris. After a Rodney Pryor layup for Robert Morris tied the game at 70 with 2:21 left, Sacred Heart (1315, 7-8 Northeastern Conference) scored six of the next seven points. Cane Broome finished with 16 points for the Pioneers and Tevin Falzon added 13 points and 18 rebounds, including nine on the offensive end. Pryor finished with a career-high 31 points to lead the Colonials, (13-14, 96), who shot 52.7 percent from the field but were plagued by 20 turnovers.

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making sure kids are doing layups the right way.” Failure to convert more difficult layups can be frustrating, too. Notre Dame must still regret what, according to the official play-by-play sheet, were misses on 20 of 25 layups in a six-point loss to Virginia last month. After his team beat Michigan by 10 points in overtime, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo lamented 10 missed layups, including several easy ones. “You’re not going to be a great team if you miss those,” Izzo said, adding that he planned to emphasize layups at the next practice. As of midweek, Minnesota was making a nation-best 74.3 percent of its layups, with Iowa State and Wyoming the only other teams at 70 percent or better, according to Jeff Haley, who runs the website Hoop-Math.com. Forty teams were making fewer than half, with Morgan State last, at 43.9 percent. The numbers Haley provided excluded dunks and tip-ins. The rate across Division I is 55.3 percent. It’s 57.9 percent in the NBA, according to STATS. Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt said it’s harder to make layups at the college level than in the NBA because defenses can pack the lane. The NBA has rules preventing defenses from doing that. “Somebody on the outside thinks a young man should have made a layup,” Shyatt said, “but if the player was attacking the basket and saw some large man near the basket, that’s an affected

play.” Shyatt credits his players’ recognition of their strengths for the Cowboys’ high layup percentage. The 6-foot-9 Derek Cooke Jr. is shooting 75 percent from the field, with most of his attempts close to the basket, and his teammates know how to get him the ball. Quinnipiac’s layup accuracy is second-worst in the nation, at 45.3 percent. The Bobcats are second nationally in offensive rebounding, and Moore said their effort to get to the glass can lead to occasionally wild shots close to the hoop. Rich Stoner, who runs a New Jersey basketball training facility for players grade school-aged and older, said young players don’t spend enough time honing the skills to make some of the tougher short shots. The two-line layup drill accomplishes little, Stoner said, because those halfspeed uncontested shots almost never come up in games. Youth coaches, he said, should emphasize drills that force players to create ways to get to the basket against live defenders and through contact. Kids also should play more 1-on-1, he said. Of course, there always will be missed layups. And some will hurt more than others, like that one by Kansas’ Ellis, who caught a baseball pass in stride and laid the ball off the back of the rim and out as time ran out, leaving the Jayhawks with a 62-61 loss. “I just missed it, man,” Ellis said.

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THREE BOWLERS rolled 300 games this season at Mohawk Lanes. Frank Piraino Jr., left, accomplished the feat twice, on Dec. 17 and Jan. 28; Nathan Blystone, center, did it on Feb. 6; and Mike Yankuskie recorded a 300 on Oct. 8. It was Piraino’s eighth career 300 game.

LOCAL SCOREBOARD DISTRICT 6 PLAYOFFS (Seeds in parentheses) CLASS A BOYS Quarterfinals Thursday’s Games Bishop Guilfoyle (9) vs. Bishop Carroll (1) at Hollidaysburg J.H.S., ppd. Portage (3) vs. Moshannon Valley (6) at Altoona Field House, ppd. Today’s Games Ferndale (4) vs. Saltsburg (5) at Central Cambria H.S., 6 p.m. Homer-Center (2) vs. St. Joseph’s at Central Cambria H.S., 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Bishop Guilfoyle (9) vs. Bishop Carroll (1) at Hollidaysburg Senior H.S., 1 p.m. Portage (3) vs. Moshannon Valley (6) at Penn Cambria HS, 2:30 p.m. CLASS AA BOYS Quarterfinals Thursday’s Games Cambria Heights (16) vs. Central Cambria (9) at Hollidaysburg H.S., ppd. Bishop McCort (14) vs. Bellwood-Antis (6) at Bishop Carroll H.S., ppd. Today’s Games Blairsville (4) vs. Mount Union (5) at Hollidaysburg H.S., 7:30 p.m. Ligonier Valley (10) vs. West Branch (2) at Hollidaysburg J.H.S, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Cambria Heights (16) vs. Central Cambria (9) at Hollidaysburg J.H.S., 1 p.m. Bishop McCort (14) vs. Bellwood-Antis (6) at Central Cambria H.S., 2:30 p.m. CLASS A GIRLS Quarterfinals Thursday’s Games Bishop Guilfoyle 68, Homer-Center 45 Portage (4) vs. Juniata Valley (5) at Altoona Field House, ppd. Bishop Carroll (2) vs. Saltsburg (7) at Hollidaysburg J.H.S., ppd. Today’s Game Blairsville (1) vs. Claysburg-Kimmel (8) at Hollidaysburg H.S., 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games Portage (4) vs. Juniata Valley (5) at Penn Cambria H.S., 1 p.m. Bishop Carroll (2) vs. Saltsburg (7) at Hollidaysburg Senior H.S., 2:30 p.m. CLASS AA GIRLS Quarterfinals Thursday’s Games Tyrone 46, Penns Valley 40 Central (4) vs. Westmont (5) at Central Cambria HS, ppd. Today’s Games Bwllwood-Antis (2) vs. Southern Huntingdon (7) at Hollidaysburg Junior HS, 6 p.m. Bishop McCort (1) vs. Central Cambria (9) at Richland HS, 7 p.m. Saturday’s Game

Central (4) vs. Westmont (5) at Central Cambria HS, 1 p.m.

WPIAL PLAYOFFS CLASS AAAA BOYS

First Round North Allegheny 42, Penn-Trafford 36 Bethel Park 80, McKeesport 73 Chartiers Valley 64, Butler 39 Upper St. Clair 61, Latrobe 59 Fox Chapel 49, Pine-Richland 35 Hempfield 65, Gateway 56 Mount Lebanon 77, Norwin 60 North Hills 48, Plum 42 Quarterfinals Saturday’s Games North Allegheny vs. Bethel Park at North Hills, 2:30 p.m. Fox Chapel vs. Hempfield at Norwin, 2:30 p.m. Chartiers Valley vs. Upper St. Clair at Baldwin, 2:30 p.m. Mount Lebanon vs. North Hills at North Allegheny 1 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Quaker Valley 80, Brownsville 42 Seton-LaSalle 57, Shady Side Academy

Quarterfinals Saturday’s Games Aliquippa vs. Bishop Canevin at West Allegheny, 2:30 p.m. Greensburg Central Catholic vs. Neshannock at Peters Township, 2:30 p.m. Lincoln Park vs. Quaker Valley at Ambridge, 2:30 p.m. Seton-La Salle vs. Sacred Heart at Canon-McMillan, at 2:30 p.m.

CLASS A BOYS

Preliminary Round Serra Catholic 67, Geibel Catholic 38 First Round North Catholic 63, Winchester Thurston

CLASS AA BOYS

Preliminary Round Ford City 52, Frazier 50 Laurel 76, Waynesburg 50 Avonworth 67, Chartiers-Houston 46 Shady Side Academy 61, Riverside 53 First Round Aliquippa 61, Ford City 26 Bishop Canevin 63, Apollo-Ridge 54 Greensburg Central Catholic 61, Laurel Lincoln Park Charter 66, Avonworth 41 Neshannock 71, Washington 69 Sacred Heart 72, Charleroi 36

BOYS

DISTRICT 5 TOURNAMENT Class AA Semifinal Chestnut Ridge 54, Everett 39 DISTRICT 9 TOURNAMENT Class AA First Round Brockway 43, Karns City 42 Redbank Valley 54, Brookville 46

GIRLS

DISTRICT 9 TOURNAMENT Cameron County 45, Port Allegany 38 Venango 47, Smethport 27

THURSDAY’S BOX SCORE BISHOP GUILFOYLE 68, HOMER-CENTER 45

Homer-Center — 45 E.Worcester 0 5-6 5, Yancy 1 0-2 2, Al.Newhouse 4 0-0 8, Leysock 6 0-0 14, J.Buggey 6 2-4 16, M.Buggey 0 0-2 0, Totals 17 7-14 45 Bishop Guilfoyle — 68 Adams 4 2-2 10, Audley 5 0-0 10, Benzel 13 4-5 32, Scipioni 2 0-0 6, Taddei 3 0-0 6, Lewis 1 2-4 4, Totals 28 8-11 68 Homer-Center 15 9 7 14 — 45 Bishop Guilfoyle 10 17 26 15 — 68 3-point field goals: Benzel 2, Scipioni 2, Leysock 2, J.Buggey 2.

CLASS AAAA GIRLS

Brenda Blystone 181-193-192-566, Ellen Blazavich 223-182-161-566, Fanny Patterson 197-556, Michele Housholder 185-531, Carla Muir 187-528, Sue Moran 196-524, Lois Clark 202-523, Christine Holmes 182-498, Ruth Shields 182-497, Bernie Sgro-Hodak 196-496

CLASS AAA GIRLS

Preliminary Round Ringgold 77, Greensburg Salem 57 Ford City 50, Ellwood City 40 Beaver 58, Derry 14 South Park 64, Hopewell 51 McGuffey 68, Deer Lakes 44 First Round Beaver Area 51, Hampton 36 Blackhawk 60, Ringgold 40 Chartiers Valley 46, Ford City 31 Elizabeth Forward 54, Mt. Pleasant 43 McGuffey 64, Indiana 54, OT South Fayette 66, Ambridge 43 South Park 52, Mars 34 Trinity 46, Belle Vernon 45 Quarterfinals Saturday’s Games Blackhawk vs. Trinity at North Allegheny, 2:30 p.m. Beaver Area vs. vs. Chartiers Valley at Baldwin, 1 p.m. McGuffey vs. Elizabeth Forward at North Hills, 1 p.m. South Fayette vs. South Park at CanonMcMillan, 1 p.m.

CLASS AA GIRLS

Preliminary Round West Shamokin 43, Charleroi 32 Frazier 56, Apollo-Ridge 53 Washington 46, Shenango 39 Freedom 43, Brentwood 38 Beth Center 59, Avonworth 45 First Round Seton-LaSalle 65, West Shamokin 36 Neshannock 39, Shady Side Academy

CLASS AAA BOYS

Preliminary Round Laurel Highlands 47, Montour 43 Highlands 89, West Shamokin 55 Knoch 45, Greensburg Salem at Hampton 37 Southmoreland 50, West Allegheny 44 First Round Mars 90, Laurel Highlands 54 Ambridge 84, Uniontown 69 Highlands 77, West Mifflin 76 Indiana 57, Central Valley 48 Beaver Falls 68, Knoch 51 South Fayette 77, Steel Valley 58 Hampton 77, Southmoreland 48 New Castle 80, South Park 64 Quarterfinals Today’s Games Mars vs. Ambridge at North Hills, 8 p.m. Highlands vs. Indiana at Fox Chapel, 8 p.m. Beaver Falls vs. South Fayette at North Allegheny, 8 p.m. Hampton vs. New Castle at Geneva College, 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY’S SCORES

Jeannette 66, Riverview 42 Vincentian 82, Imani Christian 55 Cornell 67, Jefferson Morgan 55 Sewickley Acad. 60, Serra Catholic 50 Eden Christian 60, Clairton 46 Monessen 76, St. Joseph 47 California 46, Union 44 Quarterfinals Today’s Games Sewickley Academy vs. Eden Christian at North Catholic H.S., 8 p.m. North Catholic vs. Jeannette at Gateway H.S., 8 p.m. Monessen vs. California at Charleroi H.S., 8 p.m. Vincentian vs. Cornell at West Allegheny H.S., 8 p.m.

First Round Bethel Park 51, Hempfield 36 Pine-Richland 56, McKeesport 43 Norwin 66, Plum 48 Shaler 63, Upper St. Clair 38 Penn-Trafford 45, Seneca Valley 43 Penn Hills 65, Mount Lebanon 42 North Allegheny 67, Latrobe 21 Baldwin 34, Gateway 28 Quarterfinals Today’s Games Penn-Trafford vs. Penn Hills at Gateway , 6:30 p.m. Bethel Park vs. Pine-Richland at North Allegheny, 6:30 p.m. North Allegheny vs. Baldwin at North Hills, 6:30 p.m. Norwin vs. Shaler at Fox Chapel, 6:30 p.m.

Carlynton 52, Frazier 22 Sacred Heart 65, Washington 34 Burrell 60, Freedom 19 Chartiers-Houston 54, Mohawk 37 Greensburg Central Catholic 64, Beth Center 33 Bishop Canevin 53, Riverside 21 Quarterfinals Today’s Games Seton-LaSalle vs. Neshannock at Genva College, 8 p.m. Carlynton vs. Sacred Heart at West Allegheny 6:30 p.m. Burrell vs. Chartiers-Houston at North Catholic, 6:30 p.m. Greensburg Central Catholic vs. Bishop Canevin at Charleroi, 6:30 p.m.

CLASS A GIRLS

First Round Vincentian 69, Winchester Thurston 40 Imani Christian 53, Aliquippa 39 North Catholic 67, Ellis School 36 Jefferson Morgan 53, Cornell 42 California 63, Sewickley Academy 37 Quigley Catholic 66, St. Joseph 45 Riverview 47, Fort Cherry 28 Serra Catholic 54, Geibel Catholic 28 Quartefinals Saturday’s Games Vincentian vs. Imani Christian, at West Allegheny, 1 p.m. North Catholic vs. Jefferson Morgan at Peters Township, 1 p.m. California vs. Riverview at Norwin, 1 p.m. Quigley Catholic vs. Serra Catholic at Ambridge, 1:30 p.m.

Friday, February 20, 2015 — Page 15

BOWLING

MOHAWK LANES HOME CARE ADVANTAGE LADIES

COFFEEBREAKERS

Connie Redinger 171-180-190-541, Darlene Bence 192-533, Mary Ann Fedinick 184-527, Debra Coughanour 167-460, Kay Bara 170-457, Beth Yankuskie 165-428, Shirley Friday 148404, Dolly Black 150-403

THE OVER THE HILL GANG

Men: John Carr 147-195-190-532, Bill Sibolboro 171-476, Terry Stiffler 162-433 Women: Flo Wilderson 173-164-152, Arvilla Koren 181-475, Kate Farren 159463, Diana Shearer 156-433, Jackie Albenze 140-410, Sue Shaffer 111-269, Dot Brendlinger 114-197

SATURDAY YABA

Boys: Branden Bosley 162-167-210539, Brian Knupp 208-531, Devin Manners 192-529, Daniel Nealen 193-506, Jordan Hoover 171-490, Matthew Moran 179-474, Shane Moran 183-447, Michael Glasser 172-425, Kevin Plowcha 167-423, Zack Hartman 152-409 Girls: Kayla Bosley 164-121-190-475, Haley Dunmire 153-387, Nikki Bondra 101-274, Brittney McDivitt 104-274

FRIDAY NIGHT MIXED

Men: Todd Hadden 258-236-234-728, Mike Yankuskie 279-720, Nathan Blystone 279-676, Justin Barkey 235-635, Scott Jeffries 235-634, Greg Malloy 234-625, John Trunzo Jr. 216-618, Ben Murdick 227-609, Harry Malloy 224-575, Justin Cook 227-572 Women: Joelyn Dalesandro 241-220222-683, Mary Malloy 203-577, Amy Lucas 266-574, Lisa Gregersen 198-529, Emily Barkey 208-513, Fallon Lyons 180507, Penny Bork 188-488, Teri Curtis 184483, Maribeth Warner 180-482, Robin Lyons 180-467

Continued from Page 13 Last season, the Marauders won another District 6 Class A championship — their eighth in a row — and they made it to the semifinals of the PIAA tournament before being ousted by Vincentian Academy. “Bishop Guilfoyle is just one of the teams that’s always in the playoffs,” said Lasher. “They’re always a high seed and they’re always a very good team. They’ve beaten us a number of times and we just haven’t been able to put together a game good enough to beat them.” Bishop Guilfoyle plays the winner of Saturday’s matchup between No. 2 Bishop Carroll and No. 7 Saltsburg in the semifinals. The Wildcats played well enough to grab a lead in the first quarter before things went awry. Homer-Center grabbed its first lead of the game, 5-3, when Alexis Leysock nailed a 3-pointer. The Wildcats followed that up by outscoring the Mauraders 10-7 to close out the quarter with a 15-10 lead. Leysock scored five of her 14 points in the first quarter. But Bishop Guilfoyle’s Lili Benzel began to heat up in the second quarter as the Marauders made their comeback, scoring seven of her team’s 17 points to help her team grab a 27-24 lead entering the half. Benzel, who came into the game averaging just under 20 points per game, finished with a gamehigh 32 points. Benzel made her biggest impact in the third quarter. The Marauders opened the second half with a 13-0 run, and by the time Lasher called a timeout at the 6:52 mark, the game had already begun to slip away. The Marauders extended that game-changing run into a 26-7 burst. Benzel scored 13 of her 32 points in the third quarter. The Marauders’ secondhighest scorer, Macy Adams, added six of her 10 points in the quarter. “They just shot the lights out of the ball, and we couldn’t match it,” said Lasher. “Everything they threw up (in the second half) went in. They made more shots than they missed, and we were just the opposite. That’s pretty much the story.” Homer-Center’s Julia Buggey did her best to keep the Wildcats in the game in the fourth quarter, scoring five of her team-high 16 points, but the gap was already too wide. “Unfortunately, we’ve always had a kind of flat third quarter this year,” said Buggey. “Even at halftime we were talking about how we have to break that habit. We’ve got to come out, we’ve got to be ready to go. The points added up quick within the first two minutes of the third quarter, and that threw us off a little bit.” Buggey, a senior, believes the young Wildcats have a

TOWNSHIP TEN PIN

Brian Adair 266-247-215-728, Jim Nealer 277-698, Scott Muir 244-690, Rick Adair 226-644, Joe Dean 207-643, Scott Muran 223-634, Tyson Ellenberger 235630, Doug Lockard 245-629, Travis Redinger 248-627, David Raymond 244623

WYOTECH

John Young 227-253-188-668, Tim Hickie 212-552, Zack Crawford 180-505, Justin Hickie 173-505, Braedon Bressert 174-499, Welton Evans 175-494, Joe Bullano 188-483, Joseph Pontin 202-459, Chris Norway 221-448, Conner Orton 165-447

WEDNESDAY AM FRIENDS

Lee Smead 188-151-164-503, Carol Rayko 181-487, Karen Jones 205-485, Carla Grube 170-463, Vickie Slomski 175448, Marge Burkley 158-439, Linda Malin 157-439, Robin Haines 188-436, Julie Rado 158-434, Lenore Dreisbach 147-432

WENDY’S/CLARK CLASSIC

Bob Clark Sr. 267-190-666, Jack Smicklo 234-656, Paul Williams 222-625, Mike Lucas 220-624, Mike Ward 259-605, Mark Battestilli 214-591, Dennis Snyder 210-572, Andy Clemons 213-572, Chad Corle 246-566, Todd Spicer 192-560

MARION CENTER LADIES

Mary Ann Bunyak 202-195-225-622, Betty Kessler 171-477, Clara Chambers 180-471, Eulamae Stuchell 169-463, Eva Lingenfelter 157-451, Brenda Ross 199433, Marsha Pikel 167-432, Patsy Kosic 148-390, Bea Burns 164-389, Loretta Forsythe 140-371, Jackie Albenze 135-371

“THE MORE EXPOSURE they get, it’s definitely going to benefit them in the future. I definitely think playing this caliber of basketball at such a young age, when almost the entire team is freshman and sophomores, will help them be ready by the time they are seniors — probably more so than I am.” Julia Buggey,

Homer-Center senior

bright future. “The more exposure they get, it’s definitely going to benefit them in the future,” said Buggey. “I definitely think playing this caliber of basketball at such a young age, when almost the entire team is freshman and sophomores, will help them be ready by the time they are seniors — probably more so than I am.” While Homer-Center is a young group, it is not the only team in the Heritage

Conference that trots out an inexperienced squad. Lasher knows that his team will continue to see tough competition ahead. “It’s good experience for them,” said Lasher. “I think we are going to get better. But most all the teams in the Heritage Conference are very young. Going forward I expect us to do well, but everyone else is going to have everyone back. So, it’s going to be interesting. It’s going to be fun.”

1955 - 2015

LADIES TEN PIN

Marsha Pikel 191-180-177-548, Clara Chambers 178-520, Cindy Sisko 170-456, Avanell Lezanic 147-433, Eileen Ward 148-412, Roberta Little 145-395, Eulamae Stuchell 144-391, Wendy Everett 154389, Judy Holliday 140-385, Nancy Fisher 150-384

TERI ENCISO/Gazette

HOMER-CENTER’S Alexis Leysock, above, center, got tangled up with Bishop Guilfoyle’s Lili Benzel, left, and Anna Audley, and the Wildcats’ Emily Worcester, below, left, below, looked to drive against Tessa Crider.

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Sports

Page 16 — Friday, February 20, 2015

The Indiana Gazette

Scoreboard SCHEDULE High school basketball games listed at 6 and 6:30 p.m. are junior varsity start times, with varsity to follow; all other times are varsity start times.

TODAY

BASKETBALL

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

WPIAL Class AAA playoffs At Fox Chapel High School Indiana vs. Highlands, 8 p.m. District 6 Class A playoffs At Central Cambria High School Saltsburg vs. Ferndale, 6 p.m. Homer-Center vs. St. Joseph’s, 7:30 p.m. District 6 Class AA playoffs At Hollidaysburg Senior High School Blairsville vs. Mount Union, 7:30 p.m. District 6 Class AA playoffs At Hollidaysburg Junior High School Ligonier Valley vs. West Branch, 7:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

District 6 Class A playoffs At Hollidaysburg Senior High School Blairsville vs. Claysburg Kimmel, 6 p.m.

SWIMMING

COLLEGE MEN AND WOMEN

PSAC Championships At Grahan Aquatic Center, York IUP participating

WRESTLING

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

WPIAL Class AA Championships At South Fayette High School Indiana, W.Shamokin, Derry participating, 5 p.m.

SATURDAY BASKETBALL COLLEGE MEN

Pitt at Syracuse, noon IUP at Pitt Johnstown, 3 p.m. Penn State at Northwestern, 3 p.m.

COLLEGE WOMEN

IUP at Pitt Johnstown, 1 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

District 6 Class A playoffs At Hollidaysburg Senior High School Saltsburg vs. Bishop Carroll, 2:30 p.m.

SWIMMING

COLLEGE MEN AND WOMEN

PSAC Championships At Grahan Aquatic Center, York IUP participating

WRESTLING

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

WPIAL Class AA Championships At South Fayette High School Indiana, W.Shamokin, Derry participating, 10 a.m.

ON AIR Subject to change

TODAY

AUTO RACING 11 a.m. — NASCAR: Sprint Cup, practice for Daytona 500, FS1 12:30 p.m. — NASCAR: Xfinity Series, practice for Alert Today Florida 300, FS1 2 p.m.— NASCAR: Sprint Cup, practice for Daytona 500, FS1 3:30 p.m. — NASCAR: Xfinity Series, final practice for Alert Today Florida 300, FS1 4:30 p.m. — NASCAR: Truck Series, pole qualifying for Nextera Energy Resources 250, FS1 7:30 p.m. — NASCAR: Truck Series, Nextera Energy Resources 250, FS1 BASKETBALL 6 p.m. — High school boys: District 6 Class A playoffs, quarterfinals, Saltsburg vs. Ferndale, WQMU-FM 92.5 6 p.m. — High school girls: District 6 Class A playoffs, quarterfinals, Blairsville vs. Claysburg Kimmel, WLCY-FM 106.3 7 p.m. — College: Cleveland State at Green Bay, ESPN2 7 p.m.— College: Hartford at Albany, ESPNU 7:30 p.m. — High school boys: District 6 Class A playoffs, quarterfinals, HomerCenter vs. St. Joseph’s, WCCS-AM 1160 7:30 p.m. — High school boys: District 6 Class AA playoffs, quarterfinals, Blairsville vs. Mount Union, WLCY-FM 106.3 8 p.m. — NBA: Cavaliers at Wizards, ESPN 8 p.m. — High school boys: WPIAL Class AAA playoffs, quarterfinals, Indiana vs. Highlands, WDAD-AM 1450 9 p.m. — College: Iona at Marist, ESPNU 10:30 p.m. — NBA: Spurs at Warriors, ESPN GOLF 5 p.m. — PGA: Northern Trust Open, second round, Golf 11:30 p.m. — LPGA: Women’s Australian Open, third round (same-day tape), Golf

SATURDAY

AUTO RACING 10:30 a.m. — NASCAR: Sprint Cup, final practice for Daytona 500, FS1 Noon — NASCAR: Xfinity Series, pole qualifying for Alert Today Florida 300, FS1 3:30 p.m. — NASCAR: Xfinity Series, Alert Today Florida 300, FS1 BASKETBALL Noon — College: Minnesota at Wisconsin, ESPN Noon — College: UMass at VCU, ESPN2 Noon — College: Oklahoma at Texas Tech, ESPN News Noon — College: Seton Hall at St. John’s, Fox Noon — College women: Iowa State at West Virginia, Root 1 p.m. — College women: IUP at Pitt Johnstown, WQMU-FM 92.5 1 p.m. — College: Florida at LSU, CBS 1 p.m. — College: Kansas State at Baylor, ESPNU 2 p.m. — College: Miami at Louisville, ESPN 2 p.m. — College: Iowa State at Texas, ESPN2 2 p.m. — College: West Virginia at Oklahoma State, ESPN News 2 p.m. — College: Dayton at Duquesne, NBC Sports 2:30 p.m. — High School girls: Saltsburg vs. Bishop Carroll, WLCY-FM 106.3 2:30 p.m. — College: Villanova at Marquette, Fox 3 p.m. — College: IUP at Pitt Johnstown, WQMU-FM 92.5 3 p.m. — College: Penn State at Northwestern, ESPNU 4 p.m. — College: Clemson at Duke, ESPN 4 p.m. — College: TCU at Kansas, ESPN2 4 p.m. — College: Drexel at Northeastern, NBC Sports 6 p.m. — College: Virginia Tech at NC State, ESPN2 7 p.m. — College: Auburn at Kentucky, ESPN 7:30 p.m. — College: Tennessee at Mississippi, ESPNU 8 p.m. — College: Georgia at Alabama, ESPN2 9 p.m. — College: UCLA at Arizona, ESPN 9:30 p.m. — College: Cincinnati at Houston, ESPNU 10 p.m. — College: Gonzaga at Saint Mary’s, ESPN2 GOLF 5:30 a.m. — PGA European: Indiana Open, third round (same-day tape), Golf 1 p.m. — PGA: Northern Trust Open, third round, Golf 3 p.m. — PGA: Northern Trust Open, third round, CBS 9 p.m. — LPGA: Women’s Australian Open, final round, Golf HOCKEY 8 p.m. — NHL: Penguins at Blues, Root, WQMU-FM 92.5 10 p.m. — NHL: Kings at Sharks, NBC Sports MOTORSPORTS 7 p.m. — AMA Supercross, FS1

BASKETBALL

GOLF

COLLEGE THURSDAY’S SCORES MEN

AREA BOX SORES CCSU 53, ST. FRANCIS 50

EAST Bryant 66, Wagner 65 CCSU 53, St. Francis (Pa.) 50 Canisius 69, Siena 63, OT Delaware 70, UNC Wilmington 59 Monmouth (NJ) 63, St. Peter’s 58 Mount St. Mary’s 82, LIU Brooklyn 65 Niagara 55, Fairfield 53 Old Westbury 95, St. Joseph’s (LI) 89 Rider 94, Quinnipiac 83 Sacred Heart 80, Robert Morris 76 St. Francis (NY) 70, Fairleigh Dickinson 54 Yeshiva 75, Farmingdale 56 SOUTH Bellarmine 95, St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 71 Belmont 66, E. Kentucky 61 Brescia 85, Asbury 74 Chattanooga 74, Mercer 61 Coastal Carolina 81, Campbell 57 FIU 60, Rice 56 Florida Gulf Coast 54, Kennesaw St. 53 Freed-Hardeman 73, Lyon 36 Georgetown (Ky.) at Pikeville, ppd. Georgia St. 79, South Alabama 51 Jacksonville 83, N. Kentucky 75, OT King (Tenn.) 80, Limestone 50 Lee 92, Mississippi College 85 Louisiana Tech 83, Charlotte 82, OT Louisiana-Lafayette 64, Texas St. 42 Martin Methodist 102, Bethel (Tenn.) 93 Maryland 69, Nebraska 65 Memphis 75, UConn 72 Middle Tennessee 90, Marshall 51 Mississippi 71, Mississippi St. 65 North Alabama 93, Union (Tenn.) 70 North Florida 93, Lipscomb 78 North Texas 79, FAU 72 Old Dominion 64, Southern Miss. 38 Randolph 72, Emory & Henry 63 SC-Upstate 73, Stetson 54 Spring Hill 73, Kentucky St. 52 The Citadel 62, Furman 56, OT Troy 65, Georgia Southern 62 UAB 71, W. Kentucky 66 UCF 69, Tulane 55 Union (Ky.) 91, Bryan 63 Wofford 77, UNC Greensboro 62 MIDWEST Concordia (Mich.) 93, Kuyper 83 Dayton 68, Saint Joseph’s 64 Grand Valley St. 71, Saginaw Valley St. 70 Hillsdale 74, Ferris St. 73 Iowa 81, Rutgers 47 Lake Superior St. 71, N. Michigan 55 Malone 86, Wayne (Mich.) 81

ST. FRANCIS (14-12) Harmon 1-7 0-0 3, G. Brown 4-9 0-0 9, E. Brown 5-10 3-3 13, Jackson 4-11 0-0 11, Drinnon 1-3 0-0 2, Whyatt 2-2 1-1 5, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Millaud-Meunier 2-2 1-2 7, Major 0-5 0-0 0, Thompson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 19-50 5-6 50. CCSU (4-24) Drakeford 5-12 3-4 13, Peel 7-12 0-0 15, Cumberlander 6-9 0-0 14, Laney 2-5 00 4, Mobley 3-10 0-0 7, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Andrade 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-49 3-4 53. Halftime—CCSU 34-30. 3-Point Goals—St. Francis (Pa.) 7-26 (Jackson 37, Millaud-Meunier 2-2, G. Brown 1-4, Harmon 1-6, Thompson 0-1, E. Brown 0-1, Major 0-5), CCSU 4-9 (Cumberlander 2-4, Mobley 1-2, Peel 1-2, Andrade 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—St. Francis (Pa.) 27 (Drinnon 9), CCSU 32 (Peel 10). Assists—St. Francis (Pa.) 10 (Whyatt 3), CCSU 18 (Cumberlander 5). Total Fouls— St. Francis (Pa.) 10, CCSU 9. A—1,101.

Milwaukee 71, Ill.-Chicago 60 N. Dakota St. 57, IUPUI 48 Oral Roberts 81, Nebraska-Omaha 78 Purdue 67, Indiana 63 SIU-Edwardsville 75, SE Missouri 72 UT-Martin 75, E. Illinois 73, OT SOUTHWEST Centenary 86, McMurry 85 Hardin-Simmons 102, Concordia-Austin 98 Mary Hardin-Baylor 76, Texas-Dallas 75 SMU 67, Temple 58 Sul Ross St. 69, LeTourneau 55 Texas-Arlington 81, Appalachian St. 68 UALR 70, Arkansas St. 57 FAR WEST Arizona 87, Southern Cal 57 BYU 75, San Diego 62 CS Bakersfield 64, Chicago St. 51 Cal Poly 65, Cal St.-Fullerton 54 Cent. Washington 80, Alaska-Anchorage 67 E. Washington 78, S. Utah 75 Gonzaga 86, Pacific 74 Grand Canyon 64, Texas-Pan American 59 IPFW 63, Denver 47 Montana 88, Idaho St. 77 N. Arizona 72, Idaho 65 NW Nazarene 67, Alaska Fairbanks 56 New Mexico St. 51, Utah Valley 38 Pepperdine 64, Santa Clara 55 Portland St. 80, North Dakota 70 Sacramento St. 66, N. Colorado 59 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 68, Portland 51 San Francisco 72, Loyola Marymount 45 Simon Fraser 103, St. Martin’s 87 UC Davis 65, Long Beach St. 58 UC Irvine 75, Hawaii 60 UC Riverside 64, UC Santa Barbara 62 Utah 47, Oregon St. 37 W. Washington 73, W. Oregon 50 Weber St. 74, Montana St. 71

WOMEN EAST Baruch 65, Mount St. Mary (NY) 35 Elon 74, Northeastern 73 Hofstra 62, Towson 48 La Salle 47, Rhode Island 45 Mount St. Vincent 111, Yeshiva 51 Pittsburgh 68, Virginia 63, OT Quinnipiac 82, St. Peter’s 52 Siena 66, Manhattan 51 Syracuse 73, Boston College 51 SOUTH Bellarmine 61, St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 50 Bethel (Tenn.) 67, Martin Methodist 49 Bryan 71, Union (Ky.) 57 Drexel 63, Coll. of Charleston 52 Florida Gulf Coast 71, Kennesaw St. 60 Florida St. 81, Clemson 38 Freed-Hardeman 77, Lyon 54 Georgetown (Ky.) at Pikeville, ppd. Georgia St. 69, South Alabama 54 Guilford 73, Emory & Henry 71 Jacksonville 76, N. Kentucky 62 James Madison 85, UNC Wilmington 49 LSU 64, Georgia 52 Lee 74, Mississippi College 53 Limestone 57, King (Tenn.) 56 Louisiana Tech 71, Charlotte 61 Louisiana-Lafayette 64, Texas St. 41 Louisville 69, Virginia Tech 49 Loyola NO 66, Mobile 53 Middle Tennessee 74, Marshall 48 Mississippi 51, Auburn 46 NC State 68, Miami 65 New Orleans 76, SE Louisiana 64 North Carolina 83, Wake Forest 45 North Florida 57, Lipscomb 54 Notre Dame 71, Georgia Tech 61 SIU-Edwardsville 77, Austin Peay 62 Southern Miss. 70, Old Dominion 53 Stetson 92, SC-Upstate 66 Tennessee 77, Alabama 56 Texas A&M 81, Kentucky 69 Troy 99, Georgia Southern 93, OT Union (Tenn.) 97, North Alabama 84 Vanderbilt 76, Florida 75, OT W. Kentucky 59, UAB 51 MIDWEST Albion 69, St. Mary’s (Ind.) 61 CS Bakersfield 83, Chicago St. 57 Culver-Stockton 63, Missouri Valley 54 Ferris St. 69, Hillsdale 49 Grand Valley St. 71, Saginaw Valley St. 70 Green Bay 87, Valparaiso 45 IUPUI 76, N. Dakota St. 65 Maryland 81, Wisconsin 70 N. Michigan 69, Lake Superior St. 49 North Dakota 76, Portland St. 45 Northwood (Mich.) 96, Michigan Tech 90 Oral Roberts 68, W. Illinois 61 UMKC 62, Seattle 61 Wayne (Mich.) 81, Malone 74 Youngstown St. 79, Milwaukee 73 SOUTHWEST Concordia-Austin 59, Hardin-Simmons 51 Grand Canyon 75, Texas-Pan American 63 Houston Baptist 67, Incarnate Word 64 LeTourneau 60, Sul Ross St. 57 Lubbock Christian 86, St. Edward’s 70 North Texas 74, FAU 55 Rice 80, FIU 59 South Carolina 73, Arkansas 56 Stephen F. Austin 71, Lamar 60 Texas-Arlington 55, Appalachian St. 45 Texas-Dallas 93, Mary Hardin-Baylor 68 UALR 63, Arkansas St. 61 Wayland Baptist 81, John Brown 55 FAR WEST Cal St.-Fullerton 74, Cal Poly 60 E. Washington 88, S. Utah 67 Gonzaga 80, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 72 Idaho 78, N. Arizona 43 Montana 69, Idaho St. 51 Montana St. 60, Weber St. 49 N. Colorado 78, Sacramento St. 76 New Mexico St. 67, Utah Valley 62 Pacific 80, Portland 78 San Francisco 87, Loyola Marymount 75 Santa Clara 84, Pepperdine 66 Texas Woman’s 64, E. New Mexico 62 UC Davis 83, Long Beach St. 66 UC Riverside 71, UC Santa Barbara 65

SACRED HEART 80, ROBERT MORRIS 76 ROBERT MORRIS (13-14) Reed 6-17 3-4 16, Stewart 3-9 4-7 11, Minnie 3-6 0-0 7, Pryor 12-16 4-4 31, Tate 2-3 0-0 4, Gomis 1-2 0-0 2, Frederick 1-1 0-0 2, Bennett 1-1 1-2 3. Totals 29-55 1217 76. SACRED HEART (13-15) Broome 4-9 5-6 16, Kelley 7-14 4-4 18, Gaetano 1-6 4-4 7, Barnett 4-5 3-4 11, Falzon 6-12 1-3 13, Allen 3-4 1-2 7, Robinson 0-2 0-0 0, Glowiak 2-10 0-0 6, Nowicki 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 28-64 18-23 80. Halftime—Sacred Heart 29-27. 3-Point Goals—Robert Morris 6-12 (Pryor 3-4, Stewart 1-2, Minnie 1-3, Reed 1-3), Sacred Heart 6-23 (Broome 3-6, Glowiak 2-9, Gaetano 1-5, Kelley 0-1, Robinson 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Robert Morris 32 (Pryor, Tate 7), Sacred Heart 39 (Falzon 18). Assists—Robert Morris 10 (Stewart 6), Sacred Heart 19 (Gaetano 6). Total Fouls—Robert Morris 16, Sacred Heart 15. A—281.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Atlanta 43 11 .796 — d-Toronto 36 17 .679 6½ d-Chicago 34 20 .630 9 Washington 33 21 .611 10 Cleveland 33 22 .600 10½ Milwaukee 30 23 .566 12½ Charlotte 22 30 .423 20 Miami 22 30 .423 20 Brooklyn 21 31 .404 21 Boston 20 31 .392 21½ Detroit 21 33 .389 22 Indiana 21 33 .389 22 Orlando 17 39 .304 27 Philadelphia 12 41 .226 30½ New York 10 43 .189 32½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Golden State 42 9 .824 — d-Memphis 39 14 .736 4 d-Portland 36 17 .679 7 Houston 36 17 .679 7 L.A. Clippers 36 19 .655 8 Dallas 36 20 .643 8½ San Antonio 34 20 .630 9½ Oklahoma City 29 25 .537 14½ Phoenix 29 25 .537 14½ New Orleans 27 26 .509 16 Denver 20 33 .377 23 Utah 19 34 .358 24 Sacramento 18 34 .346 24½ L.A. Lakers 13 40 .245 30 Minnesota 11 42 .208 32 d-division leader Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City 104, Dallas 89 L.A. Clippers 119, San Antonio 115 Today’s Games Indiana at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Orlando, 7 p.m. Toronto at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Miami at New York, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Cleveland at Washington, 8 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Denver at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Utah, 9 p.m. Boston at Sacramento, 10 p.m. San Antonio at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

AUTO RACING NASCAR DAYTONA 500 LINEUP After Thursday qualifying race Sunday At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 201.293 mph. 2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 201.135. 3. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet. 4. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200.187. 5. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 193.241. 6. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 197.837. 7. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 197.968. 8. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 197.477. 9. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 194.995. 10. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 190.678. 11. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 197.994. 12. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 193.282. 13. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 199.867. 14. (44) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 194.978. 15. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 193.133. 16. (66) Mike Wallace, Toyota, 192.509. 17. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 193.299. 18. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 196.532. 19. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, 194.012. 20. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 197.959. 21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 198.325. 22. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 198.177. 23. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 195.3. 24. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 197.976. 25. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota. 26. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 195.346. 27. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 196.554. 28. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 194.452. 29. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 195.588. 30. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 196.962. 31. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 197.507. 32. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 196.816. 33. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 197.2. 34. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 190.517. 35. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200.214. 36. (83) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 198.22. 37. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 197.256. 38. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 197.243. 39. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.357. 40. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 198.212. 41. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 197.946. 42. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. 43. (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, Past Champion. Failed to Qualify 44. (62) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 197.828. 45. (29) Justin Marks, Toyota, 194.675. 46. (30) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 190.791. 47. (26) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 195.004. 48. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet,

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EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 58 37 16 5 79 154 130 Islanders 59 39 19 1 79 193 165 Tampa Bay 60 36 18 6 78 195 160 Rangers 56 34 16 6 74 178 141 Detroit 56 32 14 10 74 163 143 Washington 59 32 17 10 74 176 147 Pittsburgh 58 32 17 9 73 163 146 Boston 57 28 20 9 65 150 149 Florida 57 26 19 12 64 141 157 Philadelphia 58 24 23 11 59 155 170 Ottawa 56 23 23 10 56 159 160 Columbus 56 26 27 3 55 149 173 New Jersey 57 22 26 9 53 126 155 Toronto 58 23 30 5 51 162 178 Carolina 56 20 29 7 47 127 154 Buffalo 58 17 37 4 38 108 197 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 58 39 13 6 84 177 137 Anaheim 58 35 16 7 77 170 164 St. Louis 57 37 16 4 78 179 141 Vancouver 57 33 21 3 69 163 151 Chicago 58 35 18 5 75 174 134 Calgary 58 32 22 4 68 168 150 Winnipeg 60 30 20 10 70 166 162 San Jose 60 30 22 8 68 170 172 Los Angeles 57 27 18 12 66 159 151 Minnesota 57 29 21 7 65 158 154 Dallas 58 27 23 8 62 181 185 Colorado 58 24 23 11 59 150 165 Arizona 58 20 31 7 47 131 194 Edmonton 59 17 32 10 44 139 199 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Thursday’s Games Vancouver 5, N.Y. Rangers 4, SO Buffalo 3, Philadelphia 2, SO Florida 3, Montreal 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 5, Nashville 2 Columbus 2, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 5, Winnipeg 1 San Jose 5, Dallas 2 Today’s Games Vancouver at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Toronto at Carolina, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Boston at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Colorado at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 9 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Saturday’s Games Islanders at Washington, 12:30 p.m. Nashville at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Winnipeg at Toronto, 7 p.m. Columbus at Montreal, 7 p.m. Florida at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Thursday At The Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,349; Par: 71 (35-36) Partial First Round (a-amateur) Retief Goosen 32-34—66 Vijay Singh 34-32—66 Nick Watney 30-36—66 James Hahn 32-34—66 Daniel Summerhays 34-32—66 Derek Fathauer 33-33—66 Carlos Ortiz 31-36—67 Justin Thomas 33-35—68 Alex Cejka 31-37—68 Geoff Ogilvy 32-36—68 William McGirt 35-33—68 Pat Perez 32-37—69 Jordan Spieth 31-38—69 Brendon Todd 33-36—69 Morgan Hoffmann 36-33—69 Ryan Moore 35-34—69 Graham DeLaet 35-35—70 K.J. Choi 33-37—70 Hideki Matsuyama 33-37—70 Scott Stallings 35-35—70 J.B. Holmes 36-34—70 Michael Putnam 34-36—70 Paul Casey 35-35—70 Tony Finau 33-37—70 Alex Prugh 33-37—70 Danny Lee 36-34—70 Padraig Harrington 35-35—70 Angel Cabrera 36-34—70 Bubba Watson 35-35—70 Dustin Johnson 33-37—70 Matt Every 35-35—70 Matt Jones 35-35—70 Jason Kokrak 35-36—71 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 35-36—71 Ricky Barnes 35-36—71 Sergio Garcia 35-36—71 Fred Couples 35-36—71 Charl Schwartzel 36-35—71 Sang-Moon Bae 36-35—71 D.A. Points 33-38—71 Jhonattan Vegas 35-36—71 Erik Compton 33-38—71 Justin Hicks 36-35—71 Brian Stuard 36-35—71 Bryce Molder 34-37—71 Billy Hurley III 34-37—71 Charles Howell III 33-38—71 Jim Furyk 35-36—71 Seung-Yul Noh 34-37—71 George McNeill 35-36—71 Carl Pettersson 35-36—71 Cameron Tringale 36-35—71 Charlie Beljan 37-35—72 Andres Gonzales 33-39—72 Harris English 34-38—72 Davis Love III 34-38—72 Luke Guthrie 38-34—72 Andrew Svoboda 34-38—72 Carlos Sainz Jr 36-36—72 Jonathan Randolph 36-36—72 Hudson Swafford 36-36—72 Kevin Streelman 35-37—72

LPGA AUSTRALIAN OPEN Thursday At Royal melbourne Melbourne, Australia Purse: $1.2 million Yardage:6,741; Par: 73 (35-38) First Round (a-amateur) Ilhee Lee 34-34—68 Ariya Jutanugarn 35-34—69 Lydia Ko 34-36—70 Min Seo Kwak 34-36—70 Alena Sharp 34-36—70 Paz Echeverria 34-37—71 Charley Hull 35-36—71 Ha Na Jang 35-36—71 Gwladys Nocera 36-35—71 Brooke Pancake 34-37—71 Melissa Reid 34-37—71 Marina Alex 36-36—72 Rebecca Artis 35-37—72 Chella Choi 34-38—72 Tiffany Joh 34-38—72 Katherine Kirk 36-36—72 Jessica Korda 35-37—72 Min Lee 36-36—72 Ryann O’Toole 33-39—72 Marion Ricordeau 36-36—72 Ayako Uehara 34-38—72 Mariajo Uribe 33-39—72 Holly Clyburn 38-35—73 Julieta Granada 34-39—73 Rachel Hetherington 35-38—73 Sydnee Michaels 35-38—73 Ai Miyazato 35-38—73 Mika Miyazato 36-37—73 Ju Young Park 36-37—73 Sophie Walker 36-37—73 Karrie Webb 35-38—73 Amy Yang 36-37—73 So-Jin Baik 36-38—74 Karlin Beck 37-37—74 Danah Bordner 36-38—74 Katie Burnett 32-42—74 Na Yeon Choi 36-38—74 Shanshan Feng 37-37—74 Jenny Gleason 34-40—74 Lorie Kane 34-40—74 Christina Kim 35-39—74 Catriona Matthew 35-39—74 Maria McBride 37-37—74 Haru Nomura 34-40—74 Garrett Phillips 34-40—74 Jennifer Song 37-37—74 Kelly Tan 37-37—74 Alison Walshe 35-39—74 Cheyenne Woods 36-38—74 Mallory Blackwelder 36-39—75 Adriana Brent 37-38—75 Anne-Lise Caudal 35-40—75 Valentine Derrey 34-41—75 Mina Harigae 36-39—75 Maria Hernandez 37-38—75 Karine Icher 35-40—75 Therese Koelbaek 37-38—75 Mi Hyang Lee 38-37—75 Seon Hwa Lee 36-39—75 Chloe Leurquin 36-39—75 Lisa McCloskey 36-39—75 Kristy McPherson 36-39—75 Gerina Piller 36-39—75 Beatriz Recari 38-37—75 Marta Sanz Barrio 37-38—75 Kelly W Shon 36-39—75 Marianne Skarpnord 36-39—75 Kris Tamulis 35-40—75 Kylie Walker 35-40—75 a-Christine Wolf 37-38—75 Christel Boeljon 35-41—76 Carly Booth 37-39—76 Dori Carter 37-39—76 a-Ssu-Chia Cheng 36-40—76 Simin Feng 36-40—76 Sophie Gustafson 38-38—76 Eun-Hee Ji 38-38—76 Jennifer Johnson 38-38—76 Minjee Lee 36-40—76 Camilla Lennarth 39-37—76 Pernilla Lindberg 36-40—76 Becky Morgan 37-39—76 Jenny Shin 39-37—76 Amy Anderson 37-40—77

PGA EUROPEAN Indian Open Thursday First Round At Delhi Golf Club New Delhi First Round Siddikur Rahman Richard T. Lee Shiv Chowrasia Chapchai Nirat Joakim Lagergren Mithun Perera Kalem Richardson Thanyakon Khrongpha Scott Barr Danny Chia Prayad Marksaeng Lionel Weber Mikko Korhonen Jazz Janewattananond Carlos Del Moral Matthew Fitzpatrick S. Chikkarangappa Shubhankar Sharma Chiragh Kumar Marcus Fraser Peter Lawrie Paul Peterson

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OREGON QUARTERBACK Marcus Mariota answered questions at the scouting combine for nearly 15 minutes on Thursday.

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Bosh undergoes testing MIAMI (AP) — Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat underwent testing at a hospital to assess a medical issue related to the area around his lungs, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. Bosh and the team were expecting to have a better grasp of the situation today, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the player nor the team had disclosed any specifics publicly. It was unclear if Bosh was admitted to the hospital, or simply underwent testing.

PENGUINS SUMMARY BLUE JACKETS 2, PENGUINS 1

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Columbus 1 0 1 — 2 Pittsburgh 0 1 0 — 1 First Period—1, Columbus, Hartnell 14 (Wennberg, Tyutin), 17:43. Penalties— Perron, Pit (high-sticking), 1:03; Adams, Pit (interference), 12:16. Second Period—2, Pittsburgh, Malkin 22 (Martin, Despres), 8:58. Penalties— Boll, Clm (roughing), 11:38; Downie, Pit (roughing), 11:38; Dubinsky, Clm, major (fighting), 14:10; Crosby, Pit, major (fighting), 14:10; Foligno, Clm (roughing), 18:34. Third Period—3, Columbus, Dubinsky 7 (Calvert, Tyutin), 17:43 (sh). Penalties— Bennett, Pit (slashing), 8:34; Lapierre, Pit (high-sticking), 8:56; Connauton, Clm (tripping), 16:10. Shots on Goal—Columbus 11-8-11— 30. Pittsburgh 7-13-10—30. Power-play opportunities—Columbus 0 of 4; Pittsburgh 0 of 2. Goalies—Columbus, McElhinney 10-9-1 (30 shots-29 saves). Pittsburgh, Fleury 2613-6 (30-28). A—18,597 (18,387). T—2:24. Referees—Dave Lewis, Steve Kozari. Linesmen—Brian Murphy, Matt MacPherson.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns’ three pointguard experiment is over. The Suns pulled off three trades, sending Goran Dragic to the Miami Heat and Isaiah Thomas to the Boston Celtics on trade deadline day. That left Eric Bledsoe as the lone member of the point guard trio remaining with Phoenix. In the third trade, the Suns sent a third point guard, rookie Tyler Ennis, who rarely plays, to the Milwaukee Bucks, along with forward-center Miles Plumlee. That trade brought the most significant acquisition, guard Brandon Knight from the Bucks. Dragic’s brother, Zoran, also went to the Heat. Phoenix acquired Marcus Thornton as part on the Thomas trade. The Suns get three draft picks in the deals. • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For 12 years in Minnesota, Kevin Garnett gave the Timberwolves something they didn’t have before he arrived and haven’t had since he left — an identity. Now the Old Wolf who put the franchise on the map is coming back to the place it all began. And it won’t be for just one final victory lap. The Timberwolves sent forward Thaddeus Young to the Brooklyn Nets for Garnett, the beloved icon who will be tasked with tutoring a young and impressionable nucleus in hopes of ending a playoff drought that will reach 11 straight years this season. • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks traded guard Pablo Prigioni to the Houston Rockets for guard Alexey Shved and two second-round picks, taking another veteran off their roster. The Knicks will get one of the picks in 2017 and the other in 2019. Prigioni averaged 4.7 points in 43 games this season, sitting out some as the Knicks turned to younger players. • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder traded Reggie Jackson to the Detroit Pistons and acquired Enes Kanter from the Utah Jazz. Detroit sent guard DJ Augustin, forward Kyle Singler and a 2019 second-round draft selection to the Thunder, and a 2017 second-round pick to the Jazz. The Thunder traded center Kendrick Perkins, forward Grant Jerrett, the draft rights to Tibor Pleiss and a protected 2017 first-round pick to Utah. Oklahoma City also acquired forward Steve Novak from the Jazz. • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans traded a protected 2016 second-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Ish Smith, a 2015 protected second-round pick, the rights to forward Latavious Williams and cash considerations. The Pelicans then waived Smith.

TRANSACTIONS THURSDAY’S MOVES BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Angel Nesbitt, Jose Valdez and Drew VerHagen, LHPs Blaine Hardy and Kyle Ryan, C James McCann, INFs Jose Iglesias and Dixon Machado and OFs Wynton Bernard, Daniel Fields and Steven Moya on one-year contracts. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Franklin Morales on a minor league contract. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP David Aardsma on a minor league contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Traded F Tayshaun Prince to Detroit for F Jonas Jerebko and G Gigi Datome. Acquired G Isaiah Thomas from Phoenix for G Marcus Thornton and a 2016 first-round draft pick to Phoenix. DENVER NUGGETS — Traded G Arron Afflalo and F Alonzo Gee to Portland for F Thomas Robinson, F Victor Claver and G Will Barton and a protected 2016 firstround draft pick. Traded C JaVale McGee, a protected 2015 first-round pick and the draft rights for F Chukwudiebere Maduabum to Philadelphia for the draft rights to G Cenk Akyol and cash considerations. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed F James Michael McAdoo for the remainder of the season. MIAMI HEAT — Acquired G Goran Dragic and G Zoran Dragic from Phoenix for C Justin Hamilton, F Danny Granger and first-round draft picks in 2017 and 2021. Traded G Norris Cole, F Shawne Williams and C Justin Hamilton to New Orleans for G-F John Salmons. MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Traded G Brandon Knight and G Kendall Marshall and Los Angeles Lakers’ protected 2015 firstround draft pick to Phoenix for G Tyler Ennis and F Miles Plumlee and acquired G Michael Carter-Williams from Philadelphia for draft picks. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Traded F Thaddeus Young to Brooklyn for F-C Kevin Garnett. NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Traded a protected 2016 second-round pick to Oklahoma City for G Ish Smith, a 2015 protected second-round pick, the rights to F Latavious Williams and cash considerations. Waived G Ish Smith. NEW JERSEY NETS — Traded C Kevin Garnett to Minnesota for F Thaddeus Young. NEW YORK KNICKS — Traded G Pablo Prigioni to Houston for G Alexey Shved and second-round draft picks in 2017 and 2019. OKLAHOMA CITY — Traded G Reggie Jackson to Detroit for G DJ Augustin, F Kyle Singler and a 2019 second-round draft pick and Detroit sent a 2017 second-round pick to Utah. Traded C Kendrick Perkins, F Grant Jerrett, the draft rights to Tibor Pleiss and a protected 2017 first-round pick to Utah for C Enes Kanter and F Steve Novak. SACRAMENTO KINGS — Traded G Ramon Sessions to Washington for G Andre Miller. FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed P Tom Hornsey. NEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed OL Dallas Reynolds. COLLEGE CHATTANOOGA — Announced defensive line coach Marcus West will also be assistant head coach, receivers coach Will Healy will also be the passing game coordinator and linebackers coach Rusty Wright will also be the special teams coordinator. GEORGIA TECH — Suspended men’s basketball G Chris Bolden for the remainder of the regular season and one game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. LOUISVILLE — Reinstated men’s basketball G Chris Jones from his suspension.

Raiders, Chargers plan to share LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers are planning a shared stadium in the Los Angeles area if both teams fail to get new stadium deals in their current hometowns, the teams said in a joint statement, adding another layer of complexity to a possible NFL return to the region. The proposed $1.7-billion stadium would be in Carson, 15 miles south of downtown Los Angeles and home to the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team. The statement says the teams have tried and failed for years to find stadium solutions in Oakland and San Diego, and without new agreements in those cities their hands will be forced. The plan creates the odd prospect of divisional rivals suddenly sharing a home field, and of Los Angeles having two NFL teams after going two decades with none. • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Marcus Mariota looked comfortable on center stage. He had the deliberate walk, the calm demeanor and the perfect answers. All the Oregon quarterback has to do now is prove he can thrive in the NFL. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner spent roughly 15 minutes answering questions at the NFL’s annual scouting combine, using a no-frills approach to show why he should be the No. 1 pick in the draft. Mariota threw for 4,454 yards with 42 touchdowns and had four interceptions in 2014, leading Oregon to the national championship game. He won the Heisman Trophy, was voted The Associated Press and Walter Camp player of the year and took home the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the Maxwell Award and the Dave O’Brien Award. However, there are concerns about how well quarterbacks in spread offenses fare when they move to the NFL.

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Patrick, Harvick bicker Continued from Page 13 “There’s a lot of stressing out. Obviously, for my team and everybody, but mostly for (sponsors), it made me nervous, too,” she said. “This is the biggest race of the year and they need to be in it.” The tension spilled over after the race when she confronted Hamlin and they differed on what occurred. She was already in her backup car because of an incident in Wednesday’s practice, and she believed Hamlin spun her Thursday. It led to a heated argument, with Hamlin at times appearing to try to calm Patrick, and he finally seemed exasperated when he covered his face with his hands. “He cut across my rear bumper and pulls the back end around,” Patrick said. “I get being close. But he’s been going to my left rear and it just gets it light. I don’t want to have these issues, but if we’re going to have these issues then we’re going to have to deal with them. We can’t be putting ourselves out of our race at someone else’s expense and nothing’s happened to him.” Tony Stewart, her car coowner, entered the fray and instructed Hamlin to watch the video. “What do you want me to do, Tony? Not race close?” replied Hamlin, adamant that Patrick’s car was too loose and he didn’t touch her. He maintained the spin was an aerodynamic issue. “I try to treat everyone as equal,” Hamlin said. “If you’re in this Cup series, you deserved your way here and you can handle a lot of situations. I just got close to her and her car got loose again. I just tried to explain that, ‘Danica, oh, it’s you, I’ve got to stay away two feet because your car is loose?’ “I guess I just have to give more room because once I get close enough to her, her car just gets out of control.” When Hamlin and Patrick were finally separated, Busch was waiting to congratulate her. He did it by cupping her face with both hands; Busch has been accused by an exgirlfriend of domestic assault, and he has maintained he merely cupped her face. “It shouldn’t go unsaid, Kurt was there for me,” Patrick said. “Without Kurt, I wouldn’t have finished where I did.” Meanwhile, the Earnhardt and Johnson wins were anticlimactic. Gordon and Johnson swept the front row Sunday in the first round of qualifying. Then Earnhardt, the defending Daytona 500 winner, won the first duel to take the third starting spot. “We’ve had a great car all week,” Earnhardt said. “I’m so glad to get through the duel in one piece because I know how good this car is. We’re going to have a fun day on Sunday.” Gordon, the four-time NASCAR champion, finished second in the duel and was followed by Joey Logano, Stewart and Clint Bowyer. Johnson easily won the second duel, leading Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle across the finish line. “That car is bad first,” Johnson said. “I’m stoked for my teammate to win the first duel. We won the second, and Jeff and I have the front row locked down. It’s been an awesome week for all our Hendrick Motorsports cars.” Racing their way into the Daytona 500 through the two duels were: Cole Whitt, Michael Annett, JJ Yeley, Michael McDowell, Ty Dillon, Landon Cassill, Ryan Blaney, Reed Sorenson, and Mike Wallace. Dillon. the grandson of team owner Richard Childress, and Blaney, son of former Cup driver Dave Blaney, will be making their Daytona 500 debuts.

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BOBBY LABONTE hit Danica Patrick from behind during Thursday’s practice run for the Daytona 500.

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NHL ROUNUP

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Six tied for lead at Northern Trust By The Associated Press

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PREDATORS LEFT WINGER Taylor Beck, left, tried to get to the puck as the Islanders’ Thomas Hickey checked him during Thursday’s game in New York.

Islanders slow down streaking Predators By The Associated Press Nick Leddy had a goal and two assists, Jaroslav Halak tied the team record for wins in a season, and the New York Islanders cooled off the NHL-leading Nashville Predators with a 5-2 win on Thursday night. Brian Strait, John Tavares and Johnny Boychuk scored in the first for the Islanders, who snapped Nashville’s six-game winning streak with their sixth victory in seven games. Tavares has at least one goal in each of his last four games. Leddy and Josh Bailey scored 1:39 apart in the third period to break open a one-goal nail biter. Halak made 30 saves for his 32nd win. Filip Forsberg and James Neal scored for the Predators. Pekka Rinne had a rare off night, allowing five goals on 40 shots. The Islanders lost center Mikhail Grabovski for the game with 11:21 left in the first when he was leveled by a shoulder from Eric Nystrom. A stretcher was brought onto the ice, but Grabovski skated off on his own after being down for several minutes. He sustained an unspecified upper-body injury. SHARKS 5, STARS 2: Andrew Desjardins scored two second-period goals, and San Jose held on for the win. Antti Niemi made 37 saves for the Sharks, who had lost two straight. The victory vaulted them into a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference with Calgary, tied for third in the Pacific Division. The Stars had won four of their previous five games. They fell six points behind Calgary and San Jose in the race for the final wild-card berth. Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored the Sharks’ first goal. Patrick Marleau and Tommy Wingels scored into an empty net after Dallas cut a 3-0 deficit to 3-2 on goals by Trevor Daley and Erik Cole. CAPITALS 5, JETS 1: Nicklas Backstrom scored two second-period goals and had an assist, and Washington won for the fourth time in five games. Capitals star Alex Ovechkin added his league-leading 38th goal and an assist. Troy Brouwer had an empty-net goal and an assist, and John Carlson also scored. Backstrom, who has 16 assists in his past 16 games, moved into a tie with Chicago’s

Patrick Kane atop the NHL scoring list with 63 points. Ovechkin, celebrating his bobblehead night, extended his point streak to six games, and Braden Holtby stopped 19 shots. Toby Enstrom scored for Winnipeg, which had won four of five, and Ondrej Pavelec made 28 saves. CANUCKS 5, RANGERS 4, SO: Alexandre Burrows and Radim Vrbata scored in the shootout, and Vancouver stopped New York’s four-game winning streak. Henrik Sedin scored twice for the Canucks, including a tying tally on a rebound with 2:00 left in regulation after Vancouver pulled goaltender Ryan Miller. Miller finished with 30 saves, and he stopped Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan in the shootout. Shawn Matthias and Bo Horvat also scored as Vancouver snapped a five-game losing streak against the Rangers dating to January 2011. Stepan, Rick Nash, Martin St. Louis and Carl Hagelin scored for the Rangers. Cam Talbot made 24 saves, but he was beaten on both shootout attempts. PANTHERS 3, CANADIENS 2, SO: Dave Bolland scored in the sixth round of the shootout, lifting Florida to the road victory. Tomas Fleischmann and Steven Kampfer scored in regulation for the Panthers (26-1912), who won their second game in a row to start a five-game trip. Brendan Gallagher scored both of Montreal’s goals in the second period. The Canadiens (37-16-5) outshot the Panthers 39-21 and blew a 2-0 lead. SABRES 3, FLYERS 2, SO: Brian Flynn scored the clinching goal in the shootout, leading Buffalo to a rare win. Nicolas Deslauriers and Brian Gionta scored in regulation for Buffalo, which won for just the fourth time in the last 27 games. The Sabres improved to 7-2 in shootouts. Jakub Voracek and Ryan White scored for Philadelphia, which fell to 2-7 in the tiebreaker. After Voracek tallied on Philadelphia’s first shootout attempt, Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds and Sean Couturier came up empty. Ray Emery stopped Zemgus Girgensons and Tyler Ennis after Gionta scored in the tiebreaker. But Flynn deked past Emery to win it for Buffalo.

Penguins fall to Blue Jackets Continued from Page 13 Evgeni Malkin picked up his 22nd goal for Pittsburgh. Fleury was brilliant at times while making 28 saves, but couldn’t stop the Penguins from losing for the fourth time in their past six games. Crosby was held without a point for the 24th time this season and the eighth time in the last month. The two-time MVP has a history of run-ins with Dubinsky, and it bubbled over in the second period. Dubinsky came in to hit Crosby in the corner and Crosby took exception. They grabbed each other’s jersey and swung several times, with Crosby landing a right hand that brought a massive roar. Crosby would have preferred a massive spark. At the moment there’s none to be found in Pittsburgh, which has lost four of six and fell into fourth place in the Metropolitan Division after Washington topped Winnipeg. The Penguins are 7-11-4 against division opponents this season. “It’s something we’ve got to fix,” Crosby said. “We’ve got time but we have to fix it.” The teams met in a spirited playoff series last spring, the Penguins surviving after six taut and highly entertaining games. Columbus hoped it would become a springboard to greater things, but it hasn’t happened. A groin injury to top goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky hasn’t helped. Neither has an offense that struggles to produce goals. It’s an issue now plaguing the seemingly high-powered Penguins. Pittsburgh couldn’t keep Alexander Ovechkin in check during a 3-1 loss to Washington on Tuesday, a game marred by a slash to the back of Kris Letang’s leg by Ovechkin that did not result in a penalty.

The Penguins spent the last 20 minutes trying to retaliate, only to gift the Capitals the win by going two men down with five minutes to go. Given 48 hours to regroup, Pittsburgh didn’t exactly look over it. The Blue Jackets dominated the first period. Only some sublime play by Fleury kept the Penguins in it before Hartnell broke through. McElhinney kept Pittsburgh at bay, including a marvelous glove save on Crosby from right post, before Malkin chipped in a rebound midway in the second period to tie it. Crosby’s dust-up with Dubinsky and a terrific kill of a lengthy 5-on-3 by the Penguins appeared to give Pittsburgh momentum. The power play, a strength in the fall that has turned into an enigma over the winter, ended up costing Pittsburgh yet again. The winning play started innocently enough with Comeau backhanding a pass at center ice just out of Malkin’s reach. Columbus’ Fedor Tyutin flicked a short pass to Calvert to start the 2-on-1 that became a 2-on-0 when Comeau plowed into Fleury. Dubinsky exalted while the Penguins sulked back to center ice wondering when their funk will end. “The inconsistency in the team is the thing that concerns me,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston said. “The details to the game (have) to be there every night and (they are) not right now.” NOTES: The Penguins went 0-for-2 on the power play and are now 0 for their last 21 with the man advantage. ... Dubinsky’s short-handed goal was just the third by Columbus this season. ... Pittsburgh plays at St. Louis on Saturday.

Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh, among the top five players in the world a decade ago, were part of a six-way tie for the lead in the Northern Trust Open in what amounted to “throwback Thursday” at Riviera. The 51-year-old Singh, who plays the occasional Champions Tour event, picked up four birdies on the back nine for a 5-under 66, his lowest opening round on the PGA Tour since the 2012 McGladrey Classic. The three-time major champion and former world No. 1 has not won since 2008. Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion who turned 46 this month, was slowed by a pair of sloppy bogeys early on the back nine until he made a pair of late birdies to join Singh at 66. Goosen hasn’t won since 2009. They played in the game group with 28year-old Brian Harman, who shot a 78. Pebble Beach runner-up Nick Watney, competing for the fifth straight week, kept up his form with an eagle on the opening hole on his way to a 66. James Hahn, Daniel Summerhays and Derek Fathauer joined them in the lead as an overcast morning turned into mild sunshine, typical of the weather on this wondrous West Coast Swing. Fathauer was the only play-

er at 66 who played in the afternoon, when the already difficult greens had a bit more bounce with approach shots and bump on the putts. WOMEN’S AUSTRALIAN OPEN: South Korea’s Ilhee Lee shot a 5-under 68 in calm morning conditions at Royal Melbourne to take a one-stroke lead in the Women’s Australian Open. Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn was a stroke back. New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, playing her second tournament as No. 1 player in the world, was another stroke back at 70 along with Canada’s Alena Sharp and South Korea’s Kwak Min-seo. The 17-year old Ko made a 25foot eagle putt on the par-5 14th. Defending champion Karrie Webb, a five-time winner, had a 73. INDIAN OPEN: Defending champion Siddikur Rahman and three-time runner-up Shiv Chowrasia each shot 6-under 65 for a share of the Indian Open lead. Canada’s Richard Lee, Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat and Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren also shot 65 in the first round on Delhi Golf Club’s Lodhi Course. Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez opened with a 70. The tournament is part of the European Tour for the first time.

Alvarez beats Bucs in arbitration Continued from Page 13 Alvarez played five games at first base before a season-ending foot injury. “It’s important to try to learn as much as you can from every instance, good or bad,” Alvarez said. “I would like to think every day I’m learning more and continuing to grow as a player and a person.” Manager Clint Hurdle said during the winter meetings that he envisioned Alvarez as Pittsburgh’s starter at first. After the stress fracture in his foot healed, Alvarez spent the offseason working out his home near Nashville, Tenn. “It was repetition, trying to catch as many ground balls as I could,” Alvarez said. “No different than the work I put in when I was playing third. The more work I put in, the more comfortable I feel.” Pittsburgh planned to monitor Alvarez’s workload for the first few days of camp to ensure he is over his injury. Hurdle plans to create some simulated games to get Alvarez extra fielding practice. “First base is a position where there’s going to be action, but you might not always get a ground ball or have to make a backhanded play in games,” Hurdle said. “There’ll be a lot of work SPORTS PROGRAMS on TV tonight

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Spirit Week celebrated with variety of activities By RACHEL COVATO and KAYLA CHAMBERS CLYMER — On Feb. 9-13, there were some interesting characters walking around Calvary Baptist Academy. Why you ask? It was Spirit Week! The juniors and seniors were given the task of coming up with exciting ideas for Monday through Friday and they were as follows: Movie Character Monday, where everyone chose their favorite movie character; Totally Elderly Tuesday, where everyone came in dressed like Grandma or Grandpa; Work World Wednesday, when everyone got to show off what they want to be when they grow up; Throwback Thursday, when each student picked their favorite era from the past and dressed accordingly; and Fandamonium Friday, the day everyone got to compete to see who has the most school spirit. The juniors and seniors picked a winner for each day — the student they collectively felt did the best job portraying their character for the day. The winner for Movie Character Monday was Troy Rattigan, dressed as Peter Pan. For Totally Elderly Tuesday,

CALVARY BAPTIST ACADEMY the best dressed grandpa was Colin Oaks, his outfit complete with a walker made of PVC pipe, created by none other than ... his grandpa! Work World Wednesday was won by a little girl who wants to be a gas well worker, Laken Smith. On Throwback Thursday, there were lots of different eras represented, from medieval knights, to cowboys, to even the 1980s, but the winner for this day dressed in a pink poodle skirt like the 1950s girls — Kayla Chambers. Fandamonium Friday brought the last winner for the week, highlighting the one who showed the best school spirit by dressing all in school colors. The winner for the day was Noah Meckley. Each winner received a free hot lunch voucher at the pep rally. Spirit Week finished with a pep rally before the basketball game on Friday. There were contests for half-court shots, foul shots, dunking the basketball, running monsters and a special announcing of the basketball

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THE STUDENTS at Calvary Baptist Academy celebrated Spirit Week from Feb. 9-13. Each student chose their favorite movie character for Feb. 9. From left are Caleb Martin as Woody; Isaiah Sharp as Indiana Jones; Hannah McConnell as Cinderella; Brittany Prugh as Rapunzel; Rachel Covato as Minnie Mouse; and Joel Knupp as Gru. team members. The winners of the contests received as much candy as they could fit in their hands. There was also a poster

contest during the week. Each class created their own poster showing their school spirit. The winner of this contest, Diane Burbank’s upper

elementary class, will receive a pizza party. Spirit Week is a week that the students look forward to each year.

It’s a week they can be goofy about, but have fun at the same time. Oh, and one last thing ... GO PATRIOTS!

Festivities mark National Future Farmers of America Week By ALEX BERKAVICH KENWOOD — National Future Farmers of America Week was celebrated across the country this week. Thousands of FFA members celebrated the week in many different fashions. Penns Manor Area High School celebrated each day with different activities as

well as a weeklong collection of nonperishable food items like canned fruit and vegetables, dry pastas and cereals. These will all be donated to the local community kitchen held at the Penn Run Outreach Center. On Monday, the FFA chapter announced daily agriculture and FFA facts to inform students about all of the ele-

PENNS MANOR ments of the field of agriculture. Tuesday morning, members of the FFA Week Committee arrived at the school early to hold a teacher appreciation breakfast. Later in the day, the FFA scavenger hunt began.

The annual muddiest vehicle competition was held and judged on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, older students who are part of the FFA will spent a day at a local farm to participate in “Give a Farmer a Hand Day.” Continuing their day of helping others, they visited Beacon Ridge Nursing Home to spend time with residents

by reading and bringing in pets. Sixth-grade classes were exposed to the FFA and agricultural fields on Thursday when the FFA Week Committee gave each class a presentation. After school on Thursday, FFA members volunteered at the Penn Run Outreach Center for the local commu-

nity kitchen. Penns Manor ended the week with the annual FFA Week assembly. FFA Week is all about students being exposed to the elements of the field of agriculture and the opportunities that the field affords. Penns Manor enjoyed an eventful and successful FFA Week this year.

Seniors receive honors for their outstanding abilities By KAREN MACK

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ERICA HIRSCH and Tyler Oliver have been honored as United High School’s latest Students of the Month.

ARMAGH — United High School recently honored two more seniors of the month — Erica Hirsch and Tyler Oliver. Hirsch was excited to be chosen for this honor. She said, “I believe I deserve this because I put my best effort into everything that I do and I am always ready to help anyone who needs it.” Hirsch is a cheerleading and volleyball team captain, president of the French club, senior class secretary, and a member of student council. She believes that forming friendships and bonding with classmates through sports, activities and other school events is the best part of high school. Her favorite class is competitive team sports. Hirsch said, “It’s so much

UNITED fun. I get to hang out with Mr. Cullen Stokes and all of my friends.” Hirsch’s favorite teacher, Molly Flanagan, said, “Hirsch is very hard-working. She is meticulous about her work. She gives everything she does 100 percent effort.” Hirsch also has advice for upcoming seniors: “Be yourself. Don’t worry about what people say or think of you. At the end of the day, your opinion is the only one that matters.” Hirsch is looking forward to making memories in her last few months in high school and then beginning the next chapter of her life at Slippery Rock University. She said, “I want to go to Slippery Rock for their great physical therapy program. I

went through six months of physical therapy and it changed my life. I would like to have the same impact on someone else’s life one day.” Regarding his award, Oliver said, “I feel very honored to have been chosen for Senior of the Month. I think I earned this because I have maintained an honor roll status throughout high school, while also achieving in athletics.” This year Oliver has been involved in varsity wrestling. He believes that his experiences on the football and wrestling teams have been the best part of his high school experience, and his favorite class is human physiology because of the content and class material. Oliver’s favorite teacher, Tom Whitcomb, said, “Oliver is a dedicated and hardworking student. He excels aca-

demically and athletically. He is truly a pleasure to have in class.” Oliver’s advice for upcoming seniors is, “Do your work, but try to have fun at the same time.” Oliver is looking forward to participating in the state wrestling tournament and then graduating. Oliver said, “After graduation I’ll be looking forward to starting my college experience at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). I chose UPJ because of wrestling opportunities I’d have there. I’m hoping to pursue a career in the medical field so I can provide a helpful service to people once I’ve graduated.” Undoubtedly, these seniors of the month symbolize hard work and dedication and are an inspiration to their classmates and underclassmen.

Recruiters visit school to offer a look at career choices By TESSA ANKENY and BRIANNE GUZMAN

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PURCHASE LINE — The Army recruiters that visit Purchase Line High School about once a month with a table set up in front of the cafeteria are not at the school to intimidate or annoy students — they are here to help students. United States Army Staff Sgts. Christen Nieves and Jason Saad were invited to Purchase Line High School and Purchase Line Elementary School to talk to several classes Feb. 5 as part of the guest speakers arranged by librarian Dennis Preisser and his partnership with the Red Dragon Foundation. The purpose of these guest speakers was to inform the students at Purchase Line about some of the 150 career choices that the Army has to choose from after students graduate. Saad and Nieves admit that being in the military is not something that is right for everyone. Nieves said the Army builds self-esteem. “You’re stronger physically and mentally than you think you are,” she said. “If you aren’t a little bit adventurous, it’s not for you.” She informed students that the medical requirements

are high and legal issues may be a barrier to enlisting. Students may be interested in a military career, but their parents may have been influencing choices without even knowing it. “You might be on board and your parents aren’t,” Nieves said, but part of her job as a recruiter is to talk to parents about joining, too. A career in the Army is a full-time commitment. “I take this off” at home, said Saad, pointing to his uniform, “but I don’t take off what I do.” As a recruiter, he often spends time at home in the evenings texting recruits during time that could be spent in family activities. Saad and Nieves have nine schools that they visit, Purchase Line being one of them. They come to the school to help students. They can help students with many things like college expenses and also bonuses of up to $20,000, just for enlisting. A day in Army life starts out as physical training, which is from 6 to 6:30 a.m. Saad and Nieves are at the office until 9 a.m., then they visit the schools they have to go to for the day. They like to interact one on

INVITATIONAL HELD

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U.S. ARMY STAFF SGTS. Jason Saad and Christen Nieves were invited to Purchase Line High School and Purchase Line Elementary School to inform the students about careers in the Army. They recently answered questions from students at the elementary school. one. They feel that they may intimidate students in the way they are dressed and appear in the school. Students see a uniform and put a wall up. “The recruiters were great speakers. I enjoyed the time they gave to educate on the Army,” said junior Cara Edwards. “After I’ve heard everything today, I’ve actually considered joining.” Thursdays are their days when students can have more of a one-on-one with

them at the Indiana County YMCA, where Saad and Nieves train with students and help students prepare for what they are going to be getting into. Here students can ask questions and get to know people who want to do some of the same things they do. Students can come and bring a friend who is interested so that it may not be so awkward when they’re getting to know about the people and Army.

Both Saad and Nieves agreed: “It’s what you make of it.” They have fun with the students that show up and they have pizza nights where they get to relax and chill out with the people who attended. Students can get more information from them when they come back or stop in to the guidance office, where Saad and Nieves have pamphlets and contact information.

Invitational is an event unique to Purchase Line Junior High School. This event includes the junior high boys’ basketball tournament and a dance similar to the homecoming dance. When asked how long it’s been a tradition, Steve Woodrow, athletic director, said, “It’s always been done since I’ve been around.” Invitational is also Varsity Club’s biggest and usually most successful fundraiser. The support of the ticket sales helps with the purchasing of the varsity jackets. Woodrow, also the adviser of Varsity Club, said, “We’re always very happy to be associated with this event.” The Invitational court features five freshmen girls voted on by the freshman class. They are (freshmen escorts in parenthesis): Megan Faught (Melvin Sanchez); Marlee Fridley (Brady Smyers); Brittany Jennings (Micah Kurka); Sierra Stiffler (Isaac Hughes); and Madelyne White (David Stephenson). “It’s a great group of girls,” said Woodrow. When Kurka was asked why he agreed to escort Jennings, he said, “She’s my best friend and I’m happy to go with her, and I hope I’ll have a fun time.” Continued on Page 19

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Valentine’s Day lollipop sales aid Spanish Club By MARISA HENDERSON HOMER CITY — Coming back from the long Valentine’s Day weekend, you could have seen Homer-Center High School’s Spanish Club students walking around with bags of lipshaped lollipops for Valentine’s Day. Spanish Club does the Valentine’s Day lollipop sale every year and proceeds from the sale benefit the club’s annual field trip, which is usually to see a ballet in Pittsburgh. However, the field trip is yet to be planned for this year. “This fundraiser is a ‘sweet’ way to raise money for the Spanish Club. It’s been very successful every year,” said Mary Fletcher, Spanish Club treasurer. The Mock Trial team has also been hard at work this week and last week as they prepared to present their Defense and Prosecution case for this year’s Mock Trial competition. The competition took place at the Greensburg courthouse on Tuesday. The Defense had a trial on Feb. 10, which they won. Whether the team advances

HOMER-CENTER or not is based on the results of Tuesday’s trial, which will be announced at a later time. “Mock Trial takes a lot of time and dedication to prepare for,” said Amber McAdoo, a junior Mock Trial member. “It’s like practicing for months for basketball and then only playing two games. So it’s very important to us that we win on our only two chances to show what we’ve accomplished the past few months through practice. Our Mock Trial adviser, Christina Bruno, is very dedicated and really pushes us. She puts in as much effort as we do to make us as prepared as possible.” Lindsey Caylor said, “It takes a lot of hard work and focus to be a part of the Mock Trial team but it is all worth it when you actually get to court. It is so surreal to be up there and experience it all. It’s the real deal. You’re making objections, you’re entering evidence and responding to courtroom procedures just like a real attorney would.” Mike Steffee, Rob Worces-

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HOMER-CENTER High School’s Mock Trial team members posed for a photo with their coaches and adviser. Pictured are, front row, from left, team members Adam McCombs-Hilliard, Madison Smith, Rachel Worcester, Lindsey Caylor, Amber McAdoo and Anthony Breznican; and second row, coaches Rob Worcester and Mike Steffee; team members Rick Orr, Josh Sasala and Taylor Palmer; adviser Christina Bruno; and coach Scott Smith. ter and Scott Smith coach the Mock Trial team. The PA Bar Association, Young Lawyer’s Division, sponsors the high school Mock Trial competitions annually. Trials are held in a real courtroom with an actual judge and a jury made up of

lawyers and other legal professionals. “This year’s case is a homicide. It centers around the pledging into an academic society and results in the death of a pledge after she falls from planking,” said Christina Bruno, of her team.

“In all Mock Trial cases, the genders remain neutral and arguments can be made from either side, which is what makes it so challenging. When preparing the case, teams strategize their approach but never know what their opposing teams’ strate-

gies will be. That’s why it’s so important to be able to critically think and respond in the spur of the moment when in court. I couldn’t be more proud of my team and coaches for the professionalism and dedication that they’ve shown to this year’s case. They’re an amazing group of people.” The members of the team are McAdoo, Caylor, Adam McCombs-Hilliard, Madison Smith, Josh Sasala, Rick Orr, Rachel Worcester, Anthony Breznican and Taylor Plamer. In other Homer-Center news, the high school chorus, under the direction of Joy Wilson, was chosen to sing the national anthem at the Altoona Curve game on May 17. A group of students from the chorus auditioned last week at the Indiana Mall to represent Homer-Center and learned on Tuesday they were selected. That’s all for Homer-Center news this week, but don’t forget to tune in next week to find out the results of the Mock Trial competition and read more about what the students have planned as we begin the second half of the third quarter.

Annual Battle of the Faculties exceeds expectations INDIANA By LORRAINE YERGER The Indiana Area School District dual team of Eisenhower and Ben Franklin elementaries was crowned victor of the 24th annual Battle of the Faculties on Feb. 13 in the high school gymnasium. The fundraising event was organized by the IHS Key Club and raised nearly $12,000 for the local charity Hopeful Hearts. Hundreds of students from all four elementary schools, the junior high and the senior high packed into the high school gymnasium to watch their teachers and staff compete in a variety of spirited group games, ranging from the classic 3-point basketball shot contest to scooter relays. The school that won the most events, a score carefully tallied by Key Club members, won the rotating Battle of the Faculties First Place Games trophy, along with 365 days of bragging rights. While Eisenhower/Ben Franklin won the First Place Games trophy and the Best Team Spirit Award, the East

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BRIAN HENNINGER and Paul Wingerter, Indiana Area Senior High School teachers, participated in the hula hoop relay event at the Battle of the Faculties on Feb. 13. Pike/Horace Mann team earned the Team Fundraising Award by raising the most money. The event was chaired by Key Club executive board members Kylie McKirgan, Pat Snyder, Ryan Watters and

David Zimmerman. “Battle of the Faculties is a great event with loads of support from every school; it’s a special feeling to have been able to help coordinate an event that raised so much money for an outstanding

cause!” said Watters. General Key Club members also attended the event, arriving over an hour early to prep the gymnasium and staying even longer afterward to clean up. “It was intense and a lot of

work. I’m glad we were able to raise so much money,” said general Key Club member Gabby Groman, who logged several hours at the event. For the first time, a new team system was employed for Battle of the Faculties. Due to the elementary realignment, students switch schools every few grades. As such, Horace Mann and East Pike formed a single team and Eisenhower paired with Ben Franklin. This way, students who have recently switched schools can still cheer for their former teachers. Battle of the Faculties had a tightly organized itinerary, kicking off the night with a 10-person scooter relay. Next up was the plunger ring toss, in which one team member places a (probably sterile) plunger on top of his or her head. Nine other team members attempt to toss as many rings onto the handle of the plunger in 60 seconds. While Battle of the Faculties features classic athletic competitions such as the volleyball bump or basketball shoot contest, the event also never fails to provide stu-

dents with ample opportunities to watch their teachers willingly and good-naturedly look like fools. A prime example of this is the stocking race. Each team is given a nylon stocking with a ball in the foot end. One by one, team members must place the waist of the stocking on their head, run to the opposite end of the gym and swing their neck around to knock over a water bottle with the ball before running back and transferring the stocking to their next team member. The Key Club also operated the concession stand during the event, contributing all revenue toward the fundraising total. “Making hot dogs was one of the most frantic things I’ve ever done for the school,” said freshman Key Club member Jacob Kovalchick. “It was an amazing night.” All fun and games aside, the 24th annual Battle of the Faculties raised nearly $12,000 for charity. This, even more than the novelty of seeing teachers place plungers on their heads, justifies the hours of work by Key Club and its advisers.

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A VALENTINE’S DAY dance was held Feb. 13 at the Indiana County Technology Center.

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By MORGAN JOHNSTON The Indiana County Technology Center’s SkillsUSA officers organized a dance for Valentine’s Day on Feb. 13. It was the first dance held at the ICTC in more than 10 years and it was a huge success. The SkillsUSA officers created a committee to organize the social event, which was an opportunity to gather the students from both morning and afternoon sessions together. The dance took months of

planning by the committee, which organized every detail of the event. They also created a promotion campaign to get students excited for the dance. The committee had to find a DJ, plan the day of the dance and the activities that would take place during the event, and also arrange for decorations. The students who attended the dance were allowed to enjoy a chocolate fountain, punch bar and also a photo

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booth that was made and manned by students in Digital Media Technology. DJ services were provided by DJ Ben Jammin’ (Benjamin Crawford of Computer Systems Technology). The students enjoyed a fun-filled night of dancing, laughing and socializing with other students from the seven sending districts of the ICTC. Overall it was an entertaining night organized by the students of the ICTC and a great way to break those winter blues.

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WESTOVER — Last week, Harmony High School student Nicole Elli advanced to PMEA Region III Band at Altoona Area High School. She was the first student in about eight years to advance to Regional Band. After auditions on Feb. 11 and after spending the night in a hotel, the 184 students met their guest conductor, Dr. Bradley Genevro, and began to prepare their music. Dr. Genevro works at Mes-

siah College as a director of bands and also is the director of the Philadelphia Wind Symphony. He earned Masters of Music Performance and Bachelor of Science in music education degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has worked with various ensembles and bands all over the United States and even in China. The students practiced all day Feb. 12 and 13, stopping

to enjoy performances by the directors’ jazz band and the horn ensemble from Penn State University. The concert took place at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13, and the band played eight pieces, including “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Salute to PMEA.” The band also played “Amor De Mi Alma,” “A Solemn Place,” “Danzon No. 2,” “Esprit de Corps,” “Suite of Old American Dances” and “On the Mall,” which had the audience clapping and singing along.

Recruiters visit high school Continued from Page 18 Coached by Jeremy Bracken, guidance counselor, and Dylan Fettermen, the junior high boys’ basketball team consists of (with their numbers in parenthesis) seventh-graders Hunter Antisdel (22), Jacob Barnett (24), Kyle Day (13), Cullen Goncher (35), Jacob Himes (34), Giovanni Scott (33), Kyle Smith (14), Charles Voskoyan (32) and Adam Woods (11); eighthgraders Dominique Campbell (23), David Fyock (21), Bryce Knepp (12), Daniel Kramer (25), Connor McCoy (15), Devin Smith (31), Kaleb Yarger (30) and

Cameron Yoder (10); and ninth-grader Logan Chilcote (41). The first game of the tournament was Marion Center versus Homer-Center on Feb. 13. The second game was also Feb. 13, with Purchase Line against Penns Manor. The tournament originally scheduled to conclude Feb. 14 was postponed due to weather, and will be played tomorrow. The first game Saturday is the consolation game, meaning the loser of the two games previous — Marion Center vs. Purchase Line — play at 6 p.m. The firstround winners — Penns

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Manor and Homer-Center — will then play for the Invitational tournament title at 7:15 p.m. The Invitational court is presented at halftime of the championship game. There will be a dance following the game, also rescheduled from last week. “I think it is a good opportunity for our junior high students to socialize and have fun,” said Brad Dubetsky, physical education teacher and ninth-grade class adviser. Come to support junior high boys as they play in the Invitational tournament. The cost is $1 for students and $3 for adults.

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Harris poised to add Oscars to list of hosting gigs By SANDY COHEN

AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — Neil Patrick Harris might use his job as Oscar host as a way to meet his favorite stars. “I have, essentially, an allaccess pass to the theater,” Harris said during a recent interview. “So I love being able to stand there and say hello to people I’ve never met before. I’m very easily star-struck, so it’ll be very exciting to shake hands with celebrities.” Harris has hosted the Emmys twice and the Tony Awards four times — and has won both awards. At 8:30 p.m. Sunday on ABC, he takes on his first Oscar show.

The multitalented entertainer took a few minutes between rehearsals to talk with The Associated Press about his plans for the big night. AP: How is preparing to host the Oscars different from the Tonys or Emmys? Harris: I want to make sure my content is inclusive of everyone watching, and more people watch the Oscars than any other awards show probably combined. I have more filters probably, in terms of content. ... The Oscars — it’s ritual for many people. They see it every single year, and all around the world. So I want to be a little classier and try to be a bit more mainstream while trying to maintain a

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS ... first-time Oscar host wink and a nod to those in the know. AP: You watched all the

past Oscar hosts as part of your research. Who stood out for you, and who would you most like to emulate? Harris: My initial answer would probably be Billy Crystal. I was just the right age to be so taken by movies as an idea, and he had such joy and exuberance about the world of film. ... But as I’ve done more research, I’m even more impressed now by the older-school generation of Johnny Carson, Bob Hope and their ability to stand in one place and make (people) feel comfortable just in their demeanor. Because it’s a very classy night — everyone’s in their tuxedoes and fancy dresses — so I’m hoping to make it feel like an A-list dinner

party that you get to come and attend. AP: How nervous are you? Harris: Well, my job as host is to not be nervous when the show is happening. But I think, in life, being nervous about something that’s forthcoming is very helpful, whether it’s an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you’re too calm and confident, then I think you aren’t executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder. AP: What are you most excited about for the evening? Harris: I’m hoping that we come in just under five

hours. If we can beat that mark, then I feel like it’s a success. AP: Have you prepared for the possibility of Kanye West coming onstage? Harris: I think the security at “Saturday Night Live” is still holding him in his seat there from last (week’s) show. So, fingers crossed, he’s detained in New York City. No, nothing would make me happier than something as random as that, as Kanye West deciding to participate in the show in some way. That’s why you want to watch the Oscars. We hope for things to happen that you’ll only experience by watching it. ... The crazier the better, as far as I’m concerned.

Curious wife finds a surprise in husband’s medical records DEAR ABBY

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR ABBY: I recently started working at the hospital where my husband receives his primary care. One afternoon, out of curiosity, I accessed his medical records. In his file it was noted that he is high risk for STDs. In fact, he was treated for two different ones some years back.

I have been tested for STDs during all my annual physicals, and the results were always negative. I think it’s because we often go for weeks without any sexual contact. What should I do with this information? How do I talk to him about it without letting him know that I’m aware of his medical history? — CONCERNED IN MASSACHUSETTS DEAR CONCERNED: Unless you claim to be clairvoyant, I don’t see how you can discuss this without admitting you accessed his medical records, which is against the law. Be prepared for him to be irate, because the best defense is a strong offense. You are lucky your husband hasn’t given you an STD. By all means talk with him about this, if only to find out whether you have sex so infrequently because he’s hav-

ing relations with other people. Now that you know what has been going on, you have some serious thinking to do about staying in this marriage. DEAR ABBY: I had an abusive boyfriend who, I realized later, had abused his wife and children. After we broke up, my close friend and neighbor asked me if I’d mind if she went out with him. I initially said no, but after thinking about it, I thought how could she? She knew how he had treated me, pushing, shoving and isolating me from my friends. I had words with her about it, and she said she wasn’t there, so she didn’t know if it really happened. What kind of a woman wouldn’t support me? He is over there often, and I live right next door. I am furi-

ous with her. Do I have a right to be? — ALICE IN NEW MEXICO DEAR ALICE: Your friend must be desperate for male companionship, or incredibly naive in failing to recognize that what happened to you (and the man’s former wife) won’t also happen to her. Please don’t waste your time being angry. You are lucky to be rid of your abuser and should be grateful you realized he was one before he caused you physical harm. DEAR ABBY: A woman I know has a husband who is deployed. I would like to send her a card offering support and love, to tell her how thankful I am for both of their sacrifices in the service of our country. Can you assist with wording and other ideas on how I can be supportive? She lives

far away, so this will all be long distance. I don’t want to come across wrong or say something that could offend. I ran across an article the other day on what not to say to military wives, and I’m afraid I may have committed a faux pas and don’t want to do it again. — CIVILIAN IN IOWA DEAR CIVILIAN: If you think you “may” have committed a breach of etiquette,

pick up the phone, call the woman and offer an apology. Explain that you read an article about what not to say to military wives, and hope you didn’t offend her. Offer to stay in touch — if that’s what she would like — so you can let her know she and her husband are in your thoughts, and let her suggest other ways you might be helpful even though you are geographically distant.

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Today is Friday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2015. There are 314 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 20, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 72, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health. (The case involved a Swedish immigrant, Henning Jacobson, who refused to pay a $5 fine for refusing to be vaccinated against smallpox; the Court upheld the right of states to penalize individuals who rejected vaccinations, but did not say they could be forcibly vaccinated.) On this date: In 1792, President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office. In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever. In 1915, the Panama Pacific International Exposition opened in San Francisco (the fair lasted until December). In 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. strategic bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as “Big Week.” In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Rabinowitz, ruled 5-3 that authorities making a lawful arrest did not need a warrant to search and seize evidence in an area that was in the “immediate and complete control” of the suspect. In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft. In 1965, America’s Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the moon, as planned, after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface. In 1971, the National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for

about 40 minutes. In 1987, a bomb left by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski exploded behind a computer store in Salt Lake City, seriously injuring store owner Gary Wright. Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun. In 1998, Tara Lipinski of the U.S. won the ladies’ figure skating gold medal at the Nagano Olympics; Michelle Kwan won the silver. In 2003, a fire sparked by pyrotechnics broke out during a concert by the group Great White at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others. Ten years ago: Israel’s Cabinet gave final approval to the government’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton traveled to Lampuuk, Indonesia, ground zero of tsunami devastation, where they promised survivors that more help would come. Jeff Gordon won his third Daytona 500. Allen Iverson was selected MVP of the NBA All-Star game, helping

the Eastern Conference to a 125-115 victory. Death claimed actress Sandra Dee at age 62; musical actor John Raitt at age 88; and counterculture writer Hunter S. Thompson at age 67. Five years ago: Alexander Haig, a soldier and statesman who’d held high posts in three Republican administrations and some of the U.S. military’s top jobs, died in Baltimore at 85. Floods and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira claimed more than 40 lives. Today’s Birthdays: Gloria Vanderbilt is 91. Actor Sidney Poitier is 88. Auto racing Hall of Famer Bobby Unser is 81. Actress Marj Dusay is 79. Jazz-soul singer Nancy Wilson is 78. Auto racing Hall of Famer Roger Penske is 78. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 74. Hockey Hall of Famer Phil Esposito is 73. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is 73. Movie director Mike Leigh is 72. Actress Brenda Blethyn is 69. Actress Sandy Duncan is 69. Rock musician J. Geils is 69. Actor Peter Strauss is 68. Rock singer-musician-

producer Walter Becker (Steely Dan) is 65. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is 64. Country singer Kathie Baillie is 64. Actor John Voldstad is 64. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 61. Actor Anthony Stewart Head is 61. Country singer Leland Martin is 58. Actor James Wilby is 57. Rock musician Sebastian Steinberg is 56. Comedian Joel Hodgson is 55. Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is 52. Rock musician Ian Brown (Stone Roses) is 52. Actor Willie Garson is 51. Actor French Stewart is 51. Actor Ron Eldard is 50. Model Cindy Crawford is 49. Actor Andrew Shue is 48. Actress Lili Taylor is 48. Singer Brian Littrell is 40. Actress Lauren Ambrose is 37. Actor Jay Hernandez is 37. Actress Chelsea Peretti (TV: “Brooklyn NineNine”) is 37. Country musician Coy Bowles is 36. Actress Majandra Delfino is 34. Singer-musician Chris Thile is 34. Actress-singer Jessie Mueller is 32. Actor Jake Richardson is 30. Singer Rihanna is 27. Actor Jack Falahee (TV: “How to Get Away with Murder”) is 26.

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NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Rules and Regulations, the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act, the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act as amended, and the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act as amended, notice is hereby given that Rosebud Mining Company, 301 Market Street, Kittanning, PA 16201, has made application to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to transfer ownership of the existing CMAP# 32841602, known as Clymer Tipple, related NPDES Permit (PA0092631), and CMAP# 32850701, related NPDES Permit (PA0213683) known as Clymer Refuse Disposal Site from AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC, One Energy Place, Latrobe, PA 15650. This transfer is to be “Change in Ownership” only. No other revisions to the permit are proposed. The Clymer Tipple facility consists of 47.6 acres and is located in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County. The site is located 1 mile north of Clymer on the east side of S.R. 403. The permit area extends approximately 2,300 feet south of T-653 and 1,500 feet east of the Contrail line which runs parallel to PA Route 403. The permit area can be located on the USGS 7 1/2 minute Clymer Quadrangle Map. The Clymer Tipple facility will discharge treated water to Unnamed Tributary to Dixon Run and Dixon Run. The Clymer Refuse Disposal Site consists of 143.8 acres in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County. The site is located 1 mile north of Clymer on the east side of S.R. 403 and is contiguous to the Clymer Tipple facility mentioned above. The Clymer Refuse Disposal Site can be found on the USGS 7 1/2 minute Clymer and Commodore Quadrangle Maps. The Clymer Refuse Disposal Site will discharge treated waste water/treated mine drainage water into an Unnamed Tributary to Dixon Run, Dixon Run, and an Unnamed Tributary to Buck Run. A copy of the application is available for public inspection and copying for a fee, by appointment at the PA Department of Environmental Protection, District Mining Operations, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423. Written comments, objections, or a request for an informal conference may be submitted to the PA Department of Environmental Protection, District Mining Operations, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423, no later than thirty (30) days following the final (4th) publication date of this notice and must include the person’s name, address, telephone number, and a brief statement as to the nature of the objection(s). 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6

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NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Rules and Regulations, the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act, and the Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act as amended, notice is hereby given that Rosebud Mining Company doing business at 301 Market Street, Kittanning, PA 16201, has applied to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to transfer ownership of the existing, non-activated, Coal Mining Activities Permit No. 32011301, known as the Palmerton Mine, along with the related NPDES permit (PA0235636) from Amfire Mining Company, LLC to Rosebud Mining Company. This transfer is a “Change of Ownership” only. No other revisions to the permit are proposed. The existing permit consists of a 1065.5 acre underground site along with 48.5 acres for the surface facility site. The permit area is located in Burrell Township, Indiana County and is bounded on the west by Blacklick Creek, on the south by U.S. Route 22, on the east by the towns of Palmerton and Fairfield Heights, as shown on the USGS 7½ minute Bolivar Quadrangle Map. A copy of the permit application is available for public inspection and copying for a fee, by appointment, at the California District Mining Office of the Department of Environmental Protection, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423. Written comments, objections, or a request for a public hearing or informal conference may be submitted to the PA Department of Environmental Protection at the aforementioned address no later than 30 days following fourth and final publication date of this notice. 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), MARY JOAN CARL AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1374 PAGE NUMBER 252 TAX PARCEL #23-003-904 421 CHURCH STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC VS MARY JOAN CARL CS# 10698 CD 2014 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: GREGORY JAVARDIAN (215) 942-9690 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE ESTATE NOTICE Letters Testamentary for the Estate of THEODORE R. SHAFFER late of 5111 Millstone Road, Glen Campbell, Indiana County, PA, have been granted to Scott A. Mohney of 3147 Airport Road, Punxsutawney, PA 15767. Persons indebted to or having claims against the estate should present them to the Executor or counsel. Jeffrey Lundy, Esquire LUNDY & LUNDY 219 East Union Street PO Box 74 Punxsutawney, PA 15767 2/13, 2/20, 2/27

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), CASEY & MICHELLE SISAK AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CENTER COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1370 PAGE NUMBER 618. TAX PARCEL #12-034-419 ALSO KNOWN AS: 2556 ROUTE 119 HIGHWAY SOUTH, HOMER CITY, PA 15748 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF LSF8 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST C/O CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC. VS CASEY SISAK & MICHELLE SISAK CS# 11432 CD 2014 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: MARGARET GAIRO (215) 790-1010 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), SHANE M. HUTCHINSON AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2007-174356. TAX PARCEL #23-003-606.00..-000 122 SOUTH 6TH STREET, INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA S/B/A TO CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC VS. SHANE M. HUTCHINSON CS# 11891 CD 2009 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: PAUL CRESSMAN (215) 563-7000 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), RONALD P. & LINDA R. BORING AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CENTER COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1221 PAGE NUMBER 390. TAX PARCEL #12-042-101 ALSO KNOWN AS: 179 COY STREET, HOMER CITY, PA 15748 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF CITIMORTGAGE, INC., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER WITH ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. VS RONALD P. & LINDA R. BORING CS# 11025 CD 2014ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT W. WILLIAMS (856) 482-1400 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), MICHAEL R. CRYTZER & HOLLY K. ADAMS AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREEN COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2012-231984 TAX PARCEL #20-002-170.01..-000#51229 6180 ROUTE 240 HIGHWAY EAST A/K/A 6180 ROUTE 240 HIGHWAY, CHERRY TREE, PA 15724-6715 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF WELLS FARGO BANK NA VS MICHAEL R. CRYTZER & HOLLY K. ADAMS CS# 11554 CD 2014 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ADAM H. DAVIS (215) 563-7000 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION. BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON FEBRUARY 27, 2015 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANT(S), PAULA J. SCHMIDT, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF STEVEN SCHMIDT A/K/A STEVEN E. SCHMIDT, DECEASED HAILEY SCHMIDT, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF STEVEN SCHMIDT A/K/A STEVEN E. SCHMIDT, DECEASED JOCELYN SCHMIDT, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF STEVEN SCHMIDT A/K/A STEVEN E. SCHMIDT, DECEASED SHELBY SCHMIDT, IN HER CAPACITY AS HEIR OF STEVEN SCHMIDT A/K/A STEVEN E. SCHMIDT, DECEASED UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AND ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR ASSOCIATIONS CLAIMING RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST FROM OR UNDER STEVEN SCHMIDT A/K/A STEVEN E. SCHMIDT, DECEASED AND ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAYNE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1631 PAGE NUMBER 528. TAX PARCEL #35-035-105 ALSO KNOWN AS: 153 HEMLOCK STREET, INDIANA, PA 15701-8486 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF GMAC MORTGAGE LLC VS PAULA J. SCHMIDT ET AL. CS# 12191 CD 2011 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ADAM H. DAVIS (215) 563-7000 NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on MARCH 29, 2015. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date. ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 2/6, 2/13, 2/20

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NOTICE THE SUPERVISORS OF PINE TOWNSHIP WILL HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING ON MARCH 2ND, 2015 AT 7:00 P.M. AT THE PINE TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING THE ENACTMENT OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE #49. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE PARTICIPATION OF PINE TOWNSHIP IN THE PSATS UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION GROUP TRUST PURSUANT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION LAW. The full text of Proposed Ordinance #49 and the Trust Agreement are on file for inspection during regular business hours at the Pine Township Office. Pine Township 2nd Class Jennifer Lindahl Secretary 2/20

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NOTICE ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE JAMES A. HORCHAK, ESQUIRE Attorney for the Estate of Gabrielle Diamond Sleasman, deceased QuatriniRafferty, P.C. 550 East Pittsburgh Street Greensburg, PA 15601 Letters of Administration on the Estate of Gabrielle Diamond Sleasman, deceased, late of Burrell Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, having been granted to the undersigned, by the Register of Wills of Indiana County, at No. 32-14-0606, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to said estate to make immediate payment, and to those having claims against the same to present them to the undersigned, duly authenticated for settlement. 2/13, 2/20, 2/27

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NOTICE MATTHEW T. BUDASH ESQUIRE (EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE) Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Mike Lanfrankie, a/k/a Mike Lanfrankie, Sr., late of Conemaugh Township and County of Indiana, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said estate are requested to present them duly authenticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to be indebted are requested to make prompt payment. Doreen L. Lanfrankie a/k/a Doreen L. Fabin PO Box 30 Kent, PA 15752 2/20, 2/27, 3/6

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Dutch Acres, Indiana School District -lots starting at $28,500 with all Public Utilities. Call 724-388-1335 or dutchacres34@ gmail.com OTTELIA Estates, Indiana School District -lots starting at $47,000 with all Public Utilities. Call 724-388-1335 or otteliaestates34@ gmail.com STERLING HILLS Development, Indiana - Lots starting at $25,000 with Public Utilities. Call (724) 349-4914.

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Commercial space avail. next to campus Call (724) 465-7252 Happy Birthday Baba Bernat 2/20/22 - 3/29/14 Our daily calls, Just to say Hi! Our Chinese lunches, Soup & coconut cream pie. Your jokes & our laughter everywhere you roamed. Oh how we miss you, God called you home. That candle you kept to celebrate our lives, will be lit for you to Celebrate your Life! XXOXXO Stolla!!! Brad, Beverly, Missy, Josh, Grant, Jace, BJ and Heather.

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1 BDRM, $385 & $425 plus gas & elec. No pets, Non smoking. Located N. of Indiana. 724-465-8521 2/3 BDRS, available for Spring 2015, next to campus. (724) 349-0152 or runcorental@verizon.net AFFORDABLE / CLEAN Utilities included Call (724) 599-4725

INDIANA: near IUP starting at $400/mo. 1 bedroom, furnished, all utilities plus Dish TV & high speed internet included. For Information or to schedule an appointment Phone (724) 471-2140

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BLAIRSVILLE: 2 story, 2nd floor. 2 bdrm., W/D, stove, fridge. No pets. $450 + util. & $300 sec. Call (724) 309-9465

IN TOWN 2 bdrm unit. Rent incl. gas heat, a/c, water, hot water, garbage, sewage & off street parking. 6 mo. lease, no pets. Call (724) 349-5880 INDIANA BORO: 2 bdrm, W/D hookups, 1 car garage. No Pets. $595 + utilities. Sec Dep & References. Call Tom Moreau (724) 388-1785 KENT(JACKSONVILLE): 2 Bdrm Apartment close to Indiana, $500/mo water, sewage & garbage included Call (724) 422-2998 NICE 2 bdr, 1 bath in Boro. Off street parking, on site laundry, pet friendly. $725/mo all utiliites incl. (412) 289-1300 ONE Bedroom. A/C, low traffic, laundry on-site, parking. No pets. One year lease. runcorental@verizon.net (724) 349-0152

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3 bedroom, $600/mo plus sec. water & sewage incl. Available 3/1. Call (724) 762-8965 ELDERTON BORO, Nice 2 bedroom, 1 car garage, $575/mo plus utilities. (724) 840-2683 Homes & Apartments Good News Realty (724) 599-4725 INDIANA Between Malls, Nice 2 bedroom ranch, $825/mo. plus utilities. (724) 840-2399 SMALL Two bedroom house in Indiana Boro. $550/mo. plus utilities. (724) 349-2392

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ATTRACTIVE 2 bedroom, Black Lick, Non smoking, no pets. $475/mo. (724) 388-3337 INDIANA: 2 bdr, $450/mo. Includes water, sewage & garbage (724) 388-0685 WHITE STATION, 2 Bedroom, $400/mo. Water & sewage included. Phone (724) 639-3870

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If you have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license & auto insurance, call Roque. (724) 465-5555 ext 254

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If you have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license & auto insurance, call Roque. (724) 465-5555 ext 254

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Walking Carrier Needed to deliver newspapers daily (7 days a week). •Blairsville Boro North Side North Spring North Liberty North Walnut (Approx. 40 papers) Start immediately If you are at least 12 years old, and you have dreamed of owning your own business. Call Joe (724) 465-5555 ext 222.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Entertainment and good times should be scheduled. Get out with friends and enjoy an event that will enrich your mind and relationships. Be sure not to leave anyone out. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Complete a project or take care of a responsibility that’s holding you back. Once you finish what needs to be done, it will be easier to take on projects you enjoy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Get involved in community affairs. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, and you can make valuable contributions. Making new acquaintances will lead to interesting opportunities. COPYRIGHT 2015 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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new hobby. Procrastination will lead to all sorts of missed opportunities. VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — A safe investment will be a source of financial security. Don’t risk your savings on an untested commodity. Plan to make money using careful analysis in conjunction with a trusted financial adviser. LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Creativity and finding solutions are highlighted today. Indulge in something that frees your imagination and shows your unique flair if you want to attract interest. Romance is on the rise. SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — You will be amazed at the things you can do when you put your mind to it. If you challenge your intellect and expand your talents, you will get the best of any opponent.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Walking Carrier Needed to deliver newspapers daily (7 days a week). •Dayton Area (Approx. 30 customers) Start immediately If you are at least 12 years old, and you have dreamed of owning your own business. Call Joe (724) 465-5555 ext 222.

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CAREER Opportunity with an established Indiana area business. Work in a fast-paced team environment. You will be challenged to quickly and effectively react to resolve customer issues as well as communicating with those who are responsible to ensure customer satisfaction. Box 2855 c/o The Indiana Gazette P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701.

CLEANER

Needed in the Black Lick area. Evening shift, part-time, must past back ground check and drug test. Call 304-599-8711 for more information. PBS is an EOE.

Indiana Country Club Seeking part-time

Housekeeper for A.M. shift Please apply within:

495 Country Club Road Indiana, PA 15701

Currently seeking a Garbage Truck Driver for the Indiana Area. Will have Daily Routes. Must Have: Class B License and 2 years experience. Hugill Sanitation Call: 814-277-6050 ext. 103 Send Resume to Email: trash_trucks@ hughes.net

DRIVERS

Small Local Trucking Company looking for Class A CDL Drivers. Call 724-349-7455 or apply at 23 Campbell Lane, Indiana. FINANCIAL COORDINATOR Part-time bookkeeping and accounting duties for non-profit agency. Quick Books and Excel proficiency, accuracy, good communication skills required. Experience with multiple funding streams helpful. Minimum of Associate’s Degree in accounting / finance or related field; 3-5 years experience. Call 724-349-1821, between 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. for more information. E.O.E. INDIANA AREA Fuel / Wash / Move Package Cars M - F / 6P - 10P $8.25/hr. Call (724) 972-0198 Ext. 4508

IndiGO is Hiring!

IndiGO has an immediate opening for a CDL Class B and P endorsement Bus Operator. $16.02 per hour EOP. We are located at 1657 Saltsburg Avenue in Indiana Pa. Find out what IndiGO has to offer stop in or call, 724-465-2140. Previous applicants are encouraged to re-apply. IndiGO is an EOE.

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PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANTS HOME HEALTH

The Visiting Nurse Association of Indiana County is accepting applications for Physical Therapy Assistants to provide services in the home setting. For more information call 724-463-6340.

PLANT/OFFICE DUTIES. Part Time Position.

Must be dependable, detail oriented, have basic computer and math skills, capable of lifting up to 40 lbs, process valid PA drivers license and reliable transportation. Some weekends required. Will train. Apply in person at 899 Water St, Indiana, PA. 15701

CROSSWORD Bridge, and Sudoku puzzles.. They are a popular part of the Gazette’s daily Classified section If you do not subscribe to the Indiana Gazette, it’s easy to start a subscription. Just phone (724) 465-5555 and ask for Circulation.

TRUST. It’s the reason 42% of area residents read The Indiana Gazette on a daily basis. Classifieds give you affordable access to those loyal readers. To place a Classified ad phone (724) 349-4949. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Monday Friday.

Tobacco-Free Program Coordinator

The Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission is seeking a Tobacco-Free Program Coordinator for full-time employment. This position is responsible for oversight of tobacco prevention and cessation services in Armstrong and Indiana Counties. The home office would be in Armstrong County but will include some travel in Southwestern PA. Duties will include program planning, program coordination with chronic disease healthcare providers, facilitation of tobacco cessation classes with worksites, tobacco presentations, evaluation, and invoicing. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree required in Education, Social or Behavioral Sciences, or related field. Applicant should be proficient in Microsoft programs. Candidate must have or be able to obtain Act 33/34 clearances and must be a nontobacco user. Interested candidates submit letter of interest, resume and salary requirements by February 23, 2015 to: cbence@aicdac.org or

Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission, Inc. P.O. Box 238 10829 U.S. Rte 422, Shelocta, PA 15774 Attn: Deputy Director

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In The Indiana Gazette Circulation Department. Duties include data processing and customer service work, light dock work and newspaper delivery. Must be available for various hours 7 days a week. Interested candidates may send resume or letter of interest to: The Indiana Gazette Circulation Dept., P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701 via e-mail: rseckar@indiana gazette.net, Or stop at the Gazette for an application for employment. CLASSIFIED shoppers are smart consumers . Our classified staff will help you make your ad consumer friendly. Just call (724) 349-4949.

ACTION - Classified Action ads get results at little or no cost to you. Classified Action ads are a great way to sell items when you are downsizing or to sell items that you no longer use. Place your ad in the Gazette Classifieds and get some Action. Phone (724) 349-4949 for details on this exciting advertising opportunity.

Receptionist / Administrative Assistant Part time, 25-30 hours, proficient in Microsoft Word, Publisher and Excel. Send resume to: Graystone Church 640 Church St. Indiana, PA 15701 or email: cbothell@graystonepc.o rg By March 5th. SECRETARY / TREASURER Rural Township seeking FT secretary/treasurer to perform all municipal administrative duties must have excellent bookkeeping and organizational skills. Send resume and three references to: Conemaugh Township Municipal Office 16980 Rt. 286 Hwy W, Saltsburg, PA 15681.

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Part-Time 3 Weekdays, 7am-4:30 pm. Will train. Must be reliable with good telephone skills. Email resumes to: Indianaselfstoragecenter @gmail.com. Or mail to 1749 Wilson Ave, Indiana, PA. 15701.

PERFORMANCE INCENTIVIES & OVERTIME POTENTIAL

Immediate openings for Satellite TV installers in the Indiana Area! No experience necessary, we will train you and pay you while you train! We have an IRA available, Company supplied vehicle & tools. GREAT POTENTIAL. Visit www.seeworld.biz or email resume to careers@seeworld.biz See World Satellites Call 800-435-2808 EOE TODDLER TEACHER Grand Beginnings Children’s Center, Inc. full time Toddler Teacher. Must have degree, CDA or experience working with children. Drop off rusume at 98 S. Ben Franklin Rd or Call (724) 463-1984 TUTOR for Pre-Cal. Pay is $20.00 per hour. Please call with references. (724) 479-0989

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Assistant Girls Track Coach (One-Year only Temporary) Varsity Volleyball Coach Assistant Varsity Volleyball Coach Jr. High Girls Volleyball Coach Jr. High Girls Assistant Volleyball Coach United School District is currently accepting applications for the above positions for the 2014-2015 school year. They are looking for an Assistant Girls Track Coach. This is a temporary one-year supplemental position. Applicant must have coaching experience or direct supervision with running and field events and the PIAA rules and regulations. An emphasis on techniques for the throwing events is preferred. For the 2015-2016 school year they are accepting applications for the above volleyball coaching positions. Applicants must have knowledge of volleyball and PIAA rules and regulations. Prior coaching experience preferred. Please submit a letter of interest, resume, support staff application, Act 24, Act 34, Act 114, Act 151 clearances, Act 126 Mandated Child Reporting Training Certificate, Act 168 Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release Form, and three letters of reference. All applicants must also have a current TB test (within the last three months) Deadline to submit application package is March 3, 2015. Only complete application packages will be accepted. If you have any questions, please inquire at the Superintendent’s Office. Submit to: Dr. Barbara L. Parkins, Superintendent United School District 10780 Rte 56 Hwy. East, Armagh, PA 15920 814-446-5615 Ext. 3301 E-mail: bparkins@unitedsd.net EOE

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COINS: 1909 $5 Indian Gold PC, 1878CC Morgan & Other Old Silver Dollars, Halves & More - All Sold First! GUNS: Winchester MDL 12 GA. Pump, 303 British w/ Scope, Remington MDL 7600 280 Rem. Pump, Gun Ammo, Bayonet, Pocket Knives, Bear Compound Bows, Snow Shoes, Mounted Deer Heads, Keen Kutter Meat Grinder, Cast Iron Dutch Oven & Pans, Old Carpenter Tools, Fishing Tackle Boxes w/Old Wooden Lures, 1940’s Hoosier & Porcelain Top Kitchen Table, Morris Rocker, Oriental Flatware Cabinet w/Mother of Pearl Inlay, Jadite Pancho & Thunder Colt w/Boxes, Ladies Fur Coats, Jewelry, Ruby, Dep. Glass, LG Standing Pottery Vase, Dakine Snowboard, Sports Cards & Memorabilia, Wheelbarrow & Other Hand Tools, Household & More. auctionzip.com For Photos TERMS: Cash or PA Check w/Proper ID. 6% Sales Tax AUCTIONEER: COL. RICH NOVOSEL

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CHAISE lounge chair from Douds. beautiful, excellent condition, peach color, 5’ 9” long x 40” wide. $300. obo. Call (724) 422-5040 OVERSIDE twin medical mattress $30 Call (724) 433-7259

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WILLIAMS Appliance, 30 years. Selling quality new & used. (724) 397-2761.

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ATTENTION... ADS FOR FREE PETS

Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home. The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who may sell your pet for research or breeding purposes. Please screen respondents very carefully when giving away your pet. Your pet will thank you! This message compliments of

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LOW Cost spay/neuter services for your companion animal. Dogs done by weight. Female cats $50, males $40 Call Action For Animals. (724) 539-2544

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Sports Equipment For Sale

SHELLS: 5 Boxes 7mm Remington rifle shells, $65 for all, OBO. (814) 749-7895 SIGNED Jerome Bettis rockie card $100 obo (724) 840-9697

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Miscellaneous For Sale

AIR HOCKEY Table full size, excellent condition. $225.00 obo. Call (724) 459-6757 COLLECTION of Football books, qty 34 from 1960’s on. plus 3 vhs tapes. Can send email of titles. $50 for all. Call (724) 422-1168

LAWN FARM

by Phillip Alder

RULES ARE NOT WITHOUT EXCEPTION A.C. Benson, an English author who was the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and whose father was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1882 to 1896, said, “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” In yesterday’s deal, declarer needed to finesse in clubs three times through his right-hand opponent. But since he had no other dummy entry left, that required, on the first round, leading the lowest club in the dummy that could win the trick. That is a reliable rule, but when a double finesse (two

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CONAIR Pro standing hair dryer, for shop or elderly. $70. Call (724) 349-3794

VCR: 4 head VCR with controls, good condition. $25. (724) 459-8861

LIONEL TRAIN: Transformer runs 2 trains, many accessories, some in original boxes plus track, $300. (724) 349-6881

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PURSES: 6 Handmade yarn purses. Well made with one handle. $10. each. (724) 463-0660 RADIATOR oil filled heater, no fumes, new. $75. obo (724) 422-5040

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BUYING Junk cars. Call us McCarthy Auto. (724) 349-2622

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Autos For Sale

2003 VOLTSWAGON Jetta TDI, New brakes & tires, needs inspected, 209K miles. $4,000 obo. (724) 464-9223

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Farm Equipment For Sale

MASSEY FERGUSON 210-4 4WD, 2 cylinder diesel , high lift, 3 point hitch, pto, excellent condition, like new tires, $5,500. Ph. 724-254-9416

FEBRUARY 26 @ 6:00 PM Quality Inn & Suites 1545 Wayne Avenue, Indiana PA

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WINTER coat: women’s gray tweed, Maurices. size 3. $10. Call (724) 840-6646

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Fuel & Firewood

Seasoned Split Firewood $85 half cord. Delivered. (724) 479-0845

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Machinery & Tools

SKIL Scroll Saw, table top, 16” w/ extra blades, $50. (724) 349-6881

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finesses in the same suit) is involved, a different approach might be needed. In this deal, West starts the defense against four spades with the club king and another club. After South ruffs at trick two, how should he continue? South’s jump to game is reasonable, given the big trump fit. Declarer has five potential losers: two hearts, two diamonds and one club. He has only eight top tricks: seven spades and one heart. So, to make his contract, South needs to find East with at least one heart honor and the diamond ace. But that might require leading three times from the dummy: to take two heart finesses and to lead toward the diamond king. With only two trump entries, care is required. Declarer should cash his spade king, lead a spade to dummy’s queen and play a low heart to his jack, not run the 10 or nine. West wins and leads the club queen. South ruffs, crosses to dummy’s spade ace, and runs the heart 10. When that wins, declarer can play a diamond toward his king to get home. COPYRIGHT: 2015, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

Household Goods

CHAIR & OTTOMAN: good condition, very comfortable, medium red color with floral design. 35”x32” $100 obo. Call (724) 422-5040

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