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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Kristin Bell, Doris Daskivich, Jesse Sam, BA Harrington, Barry Toldi Jr.

Inside QUICK SESSION: State lawmakers held an unconventional House session Tuesday that lasted just minutes, was not broadcast as usual and did not include a roll call./Page 3 VA ACCUSATIONS: The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to retaliate against whistleblowers despite repeated pledges to stop punishing those who speak up, employees say./Page 4 IN OPPOSITION: Hillary Clinton broke her longstanding silence over the Keystone XL pipeline, telling voters she opposes the project assailed by environmentalists./Page 7 COPYRIGHT INVALID: A federal judge has found that the song “Happy Birthday To You� is entirely in the public domain./Page 7 HOMELESS IN LA: Los Angeles officials on Tuesday declared a state of emergency on homelessness and proposed $100 million to reduce the number of people living on the streets./Page 8 19252015: Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra died Tuesday at age 90.

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U.S. welcomes Pope Francis

By NANCY BENAC and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Mustering all the pageantry the White House has to offer, President Barack Obama welcomed Pope Francis to Washington today and credited the pontiff for setting a moral example that is “shaking us out of our complacency� with his reminders to care for the poor and the planet.

The pope arrived before an adoring crowd of thousands and a nation that seemingly cannot get enough of the humble pontiff who is rejuvenating American Catholicism while giving heartburn to some of its conservatives.

With flags snapping, color guard at attention and a military band’s brassy marches playing, Francis stepped from his modest Fiat onto the South Lawn on a crisp fall morning that felt as optimistic as his own persona.

Pope and president stood on a red-carpeted platform bedecked with red, white and blue bunting to stand at attention for the national anthems of the Holy See and the United States.

Just before the pope arrived, Obama had tweeted to the Holy Father: “Welcome to the White House, @Pontifex! Your messages of love, hope, and peace have inspired us all.�

Obama, joking that his backyard is not typically so crowded, told the pope that the excitement surrounding his visit was a reflection of Francis’ unique qualities, mentioning “your huContinued on Page 12

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POPE FRANCIS stood with President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Malia Obama, right, upon arrival Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

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Rabbi, pontiff meet on interfaith exhibit

By KAYLA CIOFFO

kcioffo@indianagazette.net

A rabbi who celebrates high holidays at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Indiana had an audience with Pope Francis last week, just before the pope left for his historic trip to Cuba and the United States.

Rabbi Abie Ingber, executive director at the Center for Interfaith Community Engagement at

Xavier University in Cincinnati and a visiting rabbi, was at the Vatican to mark the closing of an exhibit that he co-created.

The exhibit, “A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People,� closed Friday after a brief stay in the Vatican’s Braccio di Carlo Magno Hall.

Created by Ingber and two of his colleagues, Dr. James Buchanan and Dr. William Madges, the exhibit spotlights the late pope’s

journey that led him to building a bridge between the Catholic and Jewish faiths. “We had always thought it would be really incredible if somehow the Vatican might bring in this exhibit to tell the story of the now St. John Paul II, and that all came into place this year,“ Ingber said during an interview at the Gazette.

About 12,000 people visited Continued on Page 12

RABBI ABIE I. INGBER

Police chase ends in death

Woman’s song goes viral on Facebook

By The Indiana Gazette

BURRELL TOWNSHIP — Investigators reported a Blairsville-area man died early today when he wrecked his car while fleeing from police.

Indiana County Coroner

Jerry Overman Jr. reported Ernest Edward McCleary III, 19, was thrown from the vehicle as it overturned into a cornfield along Campbells Mill Road near Pine Lane.

Blairsville Borough police had been in pursuit of McCleary’s car, and state police

at Indiana have taken over investigation of the incident.

A passenger, identified only as a 15-year-old girl, was sent to Indiana Regional Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, Continued on Page 12

By ELLEN MATIS

ematis@indianagazette.net

Annie Morgan has been waiting for her big break since she was about 9 years old.

The 25-year-old Mahaffey woman started writing her own music and playing the piano more than 15 years ago. She shares her music on her Facebook page, where about 14,000 users have followed her.

So, it came as quite a surprise to her when a song she wrote Sept. 14 went viral — with more than 4 million Facebook users playing it. “I wrote a song this past Monday (Sept. 14). I got in front of my piano and played and sang, thinking that I was going to share it with a couple of friends. I woke up the next morning and it had over 40,000 views,� Morgan said.

After sharing the video of the song, called “If You Could See Me Fly,� on the Indiana, PA, Flea Market page on the social network, the song blew up — now boasting more than 4 million views and counting. “It all started in Indiana,� she said. “I posted it ... and it

ANNIE MORGAN ... of Mahaffey had over 100 comments.�

The song was written, she said, from the point of view of a child looking down on her mom from heaven saying “I’m going to see you again.�

And while Morgan herself has not lost a child, she said that she “came close� to having a miscarriage at the beginning of her pregnancy with her daughter, Abigail, who’s now 15 months old. “I wrote the song from the perspective of anyone else that’s going through loss,� she said. “What if something happened to my daughter?

How would I feel? “The lyrics just started coming to me. ‌ As I was thinking about the lyrics, I started to cry and went to the piano.â€?

Once she started writing, Continued on Page 5

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STATE POLICE troopers investigated the scene of a fatal accident just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on Route 119 in East Mahoning Township.

Accident claims MC man

By The Indiana Gazette

EAST MAHONING TOWNSHIP — A Marion Center man was killed Tuesday afternoon when his speeding pickup truck hit a utility pole along Route 119 and rolled over several times, authorities reported.

Anthony Scalise, 29, was ejected from the truck as it hit a ditch and overturned near Willow Run Road, according to reports from state police and the Indiana County coroner’s office.

Troopers at Indiana reported Scalise’s southbound truck crashed a few minutes after 4 p.m. The 911 center dispatched police, paramedics and Marion Center firefighters to the scene at 4:06 p.m., according to the Indiana County Emergency Management Agency website.

Coroner Jerry Overman Jr. said investigators learned Scalise was driving to work, and officials believe the truck was traveling at a high speed.

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State prosecutors consider Kane’s suspension order

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HARRISBURG — The office of Pennsylvania’s attorney general began Tuesday trying to figure out how to comply with a state Supreme Court order to suspend her law license as it prepares to widen a pornographic email scan-

dal that has already spurred firings and resignations.

The court notified Kathleen Kane on Tuesday that her suspension will take effect Oct. 21, creating the unprecedented situation of leaving the state’s top law enforcement official without the ability to act as a lawyer, but still in charge of the 750-

employee office.

The office’s senior lawyers were examining which duties she would still be able to perform and which ones she would not, spokesman Chuck Ardo said.

The decision Monday by the five high court justices came barely a month after Montgomery County author-

ities charged Kane with perjury, obstruction and other counts for allegedly leaking investigative information to a reporter to embarrass two former state prosecutors and then lying about it.

State ethics enforcement lawyers had petitioned the court for the suspension.

They argued that Kane, in her

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own grand jury testimony, admitted authorizing the release of information that she should have known was protected by criminal records secrecy laws.

That allegation is also central to the criminal case against Kane.

Bruce Antkowiak, a former Continued on Page 5

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House session lasts minutes, no roll call taken

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers held an unconventional House session Tuesday that lasted just minutes, was not broadcast as usual and did not include a roll call.

The only business that occurred was to position two bills so that members can

Lawyers, labor help Democrats raise cash

vote later this week on the pair of Republican stopgap budget bills that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has threatened to veto.

At least half the 203 members were present, which is the minimum quorum required to conduct business, House Parliamentarian Clancy Myer said.

Because there was no roll call, he said, federal rules re-

Senate on party lines last week, is expected to occur Thursday.

“There was concern about the session at the end of the week preventing a number of members getting back to their districts in southeastern Pennsylvania because of traffic restrictions coming along with the pope,” House Democratic spokesman Bill Patton said. “That was some-

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Myer, who has been with the chamber for decades, said the last time he could recall a similar session was in the late 1980s, when he and two others were the only people present as the House moved bills into position for a conference committee.

House Republican spokesman Steve Miskin said attendance on Tuesday easily met the quorum standard.

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Myer said the cameras on the House floor, which could have helped document who was actually there, were not turned on because of the shortness of the session. He said that when no one challenges that at least 102 members are on the floor, it’s presumed that a quorum exists.

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By PETER JACKSON HARRISBURG — An infusion of cash from organized labor and Philadelphia trial lawyers helped Democratic candidates outpace Republicans in summer fundraising, setting the stage for a highstakes campaign for three open seats on Pennsylvania’s highest court, campaign finance reports filed Tuesday show. The Democratic candidates collectively took in $2.4 million during the 13-week period that ended Sept. 14, while the three Republican nominees received $334,000.

David Wecht led the field, raising $1.2 million to replenish a campaign bank account that had shrunk to less than $10,000 during the May primary campaign for the state Supreme Court.

Trailing Wecht were fellow Democrats Kevin Dougherty, who took in $664,000, and Christine Donohue, who received $563,000.

Wecht and Donohue are Superior Court judges based in Pittsburgh and Dougherty is a Philadelphia judge.

None of the other candidates raised more than $200,000.

Among the Republicans, Commonwealth Court Judge Anne Covey of Bucks County raised $175,000, Adams County Judge Mike George took in $81,000 and Superior Court Judge Judy Olson received $78,000.

The Democrats received generous support from labor groups and the Committee for a Better Tomorrow, a political action trust operated by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Wecht and Donohue reported contributions of $125,000 each from the trial lawyers’ group. Dougherty’s campaign committee did not make its full report available Tuesday, but spokesman Ken Snyder said Dougherty reported receiving the same amount.

Wecht received contributions of $100,000 from the Carpenters union in Philadelphia and more than $55,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to his report.

quire members who want to be paid for attending the session to submit a statement saying they were in Harrisburg.

Leaders agreed to the abbreviated session to help members avoid heavy traffic expected because of Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia this weekend.

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Trump plays Colbert’s straight man

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By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert showered thanks on Donald Trump, his “Late Show” guest.

“I want to thank you not only for being here but for running for president,” Colbert told the GOP front-runner Tuesday night. “I’m not going to say this stuff writes itself, but you certainly do deliver it on time every day.”

Colbert’s gratitude for Trump’s comic assistance was well-placed.

Peppering Trump with questions and wisecracks during his appearance, the CBS host reduced the usually domineering Trump to straight-man status, an unaccustomed role Trump performed with rare grace.

Bringing up Trump’s proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, Colbert offered his own mocking version of a way to bar illegal immigration: Two walls, and in between them a moat filled with fire and fireproof crocodiles. “Is that enough?” Colbert asked.

And focusing on Trump’s insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall, Colbert drew him into a roleplaying exercise — a phone call where “you’re you, and I’m the president of Mexico.”

Colbert noted that Trump is leading the field while he vows to finance his campaign out of his own pocket.

“The Republican Party has been a big pusher of the idea that money is speech, and you’re a $10 billion mouth,” said Colbert. “You’re their

JOHN PAUL FILO/Associated Press

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, joined host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday on the set of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” worst nightmare.”

“I think the establishment in the Republican Party probably isn’t that thrilled,” he agreed.

Trump repeated his contention, as a former heavy campaign donor, that candidates who accept major contributions are typically “owned” by those donors once in office.

“You gave them a big contribution and you want something and all of a sudden they’ve very receptive,” he said. If you didn’t make a healthy gift, “believe me, you get the cold shoulder.”

Colbert asked if Trump really wants to be president: “If you actually got the gig, would that be a step down

for you? You know what the pay is like, right?”

Trump replied that he is running “not because I want it, but because I think I can do a great job.”

When pressed on his past contention that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, Trump deferred.

“I don’t talk about it anymore,” he said.

But he was gung-ho for a game that called for guessing who in the past had made certain outlandish remarks: Trump or the comically conservative blowhard Colbert played for a decade as host of “The Colbert Report.”

Trump or Colbert?

“Medicare is like a nice pair of cufflinks. Nobody wears cufflinks anymore.”

“That’s you,” said Trump.

Correct.

Trump or Colbert? “It’s freezing and snowing in New York. We need global warming.”

“I think it’s you,” Trump hedged, “but it’s close to being me.”

It was Trump.

And finally: “The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”

“It’s not me,” said Trump after a pause. “It could be you.”

“It’s not me, either,” Colbert said.

“It’s Charles Manson.”

“Ooooo,” said Trump.

Whistleblowers: VA inspector general a ‘joke’

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to retaliate against whistleblowers despite repeated pledges to stop punishing those who speak up, a group of employees said Tuesday. One called the department’s office of inspector general a “joke.”

VA whistleblowers from across the country told a Senate committee that the department has failed to hold supervisors accountable more than a year after a scandal that broke over chronic delays for veterans seeking medical care and falsified records covering up the waits.

Shea Wilkes, a mental health social worker at the Shreveport, La., VA hospital, said agency leaders are “more interested in perpetuating their own careers than caring for our veterans.”

Wilkes, who helped organize a group known as “VA Truth Tellers,” said “years of cronyism and lack of accountability have allowed at least two generations of poor, incompetent leaders to plant themselves within the system,” harming medical treatment for veterans.

The informal watchdog group includes more than 40 whistleblowers from VA facilities in a dozen states.

“Until we are able to protect whistleblowers and potential whistleblowers, the true depth of the corruption within the VA will not be known,” Wilkes said, calling the VA’s office of inspector general a “joke.” The office has not had a permanent leader since December 2013.

Republicans and Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called the testimony appalling and urged President Barack Obama to appoint a perma-

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SHEA WILKES, of Shreveport, La., a licensed clinical social worker at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. nent inspector general at the minimum.

Sen. Ron Johnson, the panel’s chairman, said the appointment would be a “basic first step” to help ensure the office is transparent and independent. Johnson, R-Wis., said the VA “has a cultural problem” of retaliating against whistleblowers that must be fixed.

Dr. Carolyn Clancy, chief medical officer for the Veterans Health Administration, the agency’s health care arm, said the department’s responsibility to protect whistleblowers “is an integral part of our obligation to provide safe, high-quality health care. Retaliation against whistleblowers who have demonstrated the moral courage to share their concerns is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.”

But Johnson said the VA was not living up to those ideals. Whistleblower retaliation and abuse of authority by management at the Tomah, Wis., veterans hospital “created a culture of fear among the staff that compromised veteran care,” he said. If hospital leaders and the inspector general’s office had listened to whistleblow-

ers, Marine Corps veteran Jason Simcakoski “may have not been prescribed the lethal mixture of 13 different medications that killed him” last year, Johnson said.

The inspector general’s office completed an investigation of excessive opiate prescriptions at Tomah last year but closed the case without sharing findings with the public or Congress.

Five months later, in August 2014, the 35-year-old Simcakoski died in the hospital’s short-stay mental health unit from “mixed drug toxicity” that included taking 13 prescribed medications in a 24-hour period.

An investigation by the IG’s office discovered that psychiatrists did not discuss with Simcakoski or his family the hazards of a synthetic opiate he was prescribed, acted too slowly when he was found unresponsive and did not have anti-overdose medicine on hand. One physician who attended him was fired.

Sean Kirkpatrick, whose brother Christopher was a psychologist and whistleblower at the Tomah hospital, said his brother frequently told his family he

was concerned about the overmedication of many of his veteran patients.

Christopher Kirkpatrick killed himself in 2009. He had been fired after filing a complaint about narcotics abuse at the Tomah site.

An inspector general’s report in June 2015 noted the presence of marijuana in Kirkpatrick’s system and made other allegations about drug use. Sean Kirkpatrick called the report “beyond offensive and disturbing for our family,” adding: “VA acts as if it’s above the law, and it’s wrong.”

Johnson called the report on Chris Kirkpatrick deeply offensive and an indication that the IG’s office takes the agency’s side in reviewing whistleblower complaints.

“That sounds like a reprisal to me to a dead person,” Johnson said.

Linda Halliday, the acting inspector general, said she did not write the Kirkpatrick report and did not know who did. Halliday became acting IG in July after Richard Griffin retired.

The whistleblowers group and some Republican lawmakers criticized Griffin when his office issued a report that identified 40 patients who died while awaiting appointments at the Phoenix VA hospital, but said officials could not “conclusively assert” that delays in care caused the deaths.

Phoenix was the epicenter of the wait-time scandal that led to the resignation of former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and a new law overhauling the agency and authorizing billions in new spending.

Griffin also came under fire after USA Today reported last year that his office had declined to release 140 other reports on health care investigations across the country since 2006, including substantiated cases of veteran harm and death.

Girl, 16, charged in attack on 2 school guards

By JOE MANDAK Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — A 16year-old girl poured gasoline on two Pennsylvania high school security guards and unsuccessfully tried to ignite it using a grill lighter, police said Tuesday in announcing charges against the girl.

Wilkinsburg student Imani Knight-Brantley was jailed, unable to post $100,000 bail, after being arraigned Tuesday and charged as an adult with aggravated assault, risking a catastrophe, reckless endangerment and bringing a weapon onto school property.

Knight-Brantley carried a 2-liter soda bottle filled with gasoline and the lighter in

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her hooded sweatshirt before attacking the guards, Brandon Murray and Leah Pyle, on Monday morning, Wilkinsburg police said in a criminal complaint.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for KnightBrantley, who was interviewed by police while accompanied by her grandmother, the girl’s legal guardian, according to the complaint.

Although Knight-Brantley acknowledged pouring the gasoline on Murray — with some spilling on Pyle — she told police she had been provoked during a confrontation with Murray on Friday.

Murray told police he escorted Knight-Brantley from

school on Friday for using her cellphone, a rules violation. The school — one of the poorest in the Pittsburgh suburbs — has an afterschool food program and the suspect returned at the end of the day to eat before milling about when other students began fighting that afternoon, Murray told police.

Murray told police the girl became upset when he again escorted her from school property, told her she was being suspended and had to return Monday with her guardian. The girl screamed at him and threw an open milk carton, which hit him in the head, Murray told police.

Knight-Brantley told po-

lice she threw the milk at Murray only after he slapped a food tray she was holding, and that he also put her in a headlock and threatened to bite her.

She also told police that a friend overheard Murray using a crude term to describe her.

The girl said “this angered her and she could not wait to see Murray on Monday,” the criminal complaint said.

The girl’s grandmother told police that neither her granddaughter nor the school told her about the Friday confrontation.

OSA Global, the New Castle company that contracts to provide the school guards, did not immediately return a call for comment.

John Dennis Clifford Jr., 55, of Homer City, died Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville.

He was the son of John Sr. and Mary Joan Clifford and was born Aug. 17, 1960, in Marion, Ind. John was a loving husband, father and grandfather who shared his interests of hunting, fishing and golfing with his family and friends.

He is survived by his wife, Rhonda; three children: John D. Clifford III and his wife, Krista, of Ruffs Dale; Tyler Clifford, of Homer City; and Danielle Clifford, of Kent, Ohio; and two grandchildren, Evalina and John D. Clifford IV. He is also survived by his parents, John Sr. and Mary Joan Clifford, of Ravenna, Ohio; and three sisters: Laura Wickstrom and

her husband, Larry, of Johnstown, Ohio; Tawnya Blubaugh and her husband, Jeff, of Hiram, Ohio; and Tammy Vidler and her husband, Keith, of Sorrento, Fla. Several nieces and nephews also survive him.

Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City, where a memorial service will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Fred Chase officiating.

Memorials may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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U.S.: Military talks with Moscow tied to Syrian political path

By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter is still unsure of Russia’s military intentions in Syria but intends no further conversations unless Moscow agrees to participate in talks aimed at a political solution to the civil war, Carter’s spokesman said Tuesday.

Spokesman Peter Cook said Carter delivered that message to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a phone call last Friday to discuss Russia’s military buildup in Syria and how that connects — or interferes with — a U.S.-led coalition air campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Cook said Carter has not closed the door to further talks but sees no point in military discussions if Russia does not join the political track.

“Let’s see if we can actually reach an agreement to continue this dialogue and these conversations,” Cook said.

“Again, for this to move forward it’s not just a defense conversation that needs to take place, but we feel very strongly that there has to be a second component here and that is, again, a political resolution, a conversation on that front as well.”

Asked whether that meant there won’t be further military contacts with Russia on Syria unless Moscow agrees to political talks, Cook replied: “That was the message” from Carter.

Cook said Carter’s phone conversation with Shoigu was constructive but brought no clarity on what Moscow intends to do with the forces it has sent to Syria in recent weeks, including a substantial number of fighter aircraft, tanks, helicopters, support equipment and troops at an air base near the coastal city of Latakia. Russia is not part of the multinational coalition led by the U.S. that has been bombing IS targets in Syria since September 2014.

“It’s not clear exactly what Russia’s plans are,” Cook said.

Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia was only interested in con-

fronting the threat posed by the Islamic State group, which has established control over large swaths of Syria and Iraq to create what it calls an Islamic caliphate.

Kerry stressed that it remained unclear whether Russia would mount a defense of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who the U.S. believes must relinquish power.

Russia’s military buildup in Syria has perplexed the Obama administration and left it unsure how to respond.

In the afterglow of the Iran nuclear deal, which was hailed by the administration as an example of what can be achieved when Russia and the United States cooperate, U.S. officials had hoped for a change in Russia’s position in support of Syria, potentially even enlisting its assistance in moving Assad out.

Moscow’s latest actions, however, have taken many by surprise and further muddied efforts to fight Islamic State militants while trying to promote political transition in Syria.

Kerry said Tuesday that the administration still hopes Russia and Iran will play a positive role in Syria and back a political transition for the country.

“But if they are there to shore up Assad and to simply stand there in a way that provides Assad with a continued sense that he doesn’t have to negotiate, then I think it’s a problem for Syria and it’s a problem for everybody who wants to bring an end to this conflict which has gone on for too long now,” Kerry said.

Kerry said Russia’s military buildup in Syria appears initially intended to protect its existing assets and personnel on the ground. He added, though, that Moscow’s ultimate aim in Syria is not yet clear.

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that while Putin wants to shore up Assad, his thinks Putin’s immediate objective in Syria is to solidify a corridor on the Mediterranean coast between Latakia, home to a Russian air base, and Tartus where there is a Russian naval base — its only naval base in the Mediterranean.

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Senate blocks anti-abortion bill

By ANDREW TAYLOR and ALAN FRAM Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican effort to ban lateterm abortions on Tuesday as GOP leaders strained to avoid a government shutdown in eight days over the dispute — all against a tangled backdrop of presidential politics.

Up next, in the first of a series of choreographed steps, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a showdown vote for Thursday on stopgap legislation that would keep the government operating through Dec. 11.

But it would also block Planned Parenthood’s federal funds for a year, and Democrats are expected to block that measure, too, setting up subsequent votes on mustpass bills to keep the government open free of the dispute over Planned Parenthood and abortion.

Abortion politics is roiling Congress and the White House campaign as well. A number of Republicans, outraged over Planned Parenthood’s procurement of fetal tissue for scientific research, are demanding definitive action from GOP leaders.

“If Senate Republicans cannot defund Planned Parenthood right now, there is no point in calling them Republicans,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a candidate for the GOP nomination, tweeted last week.

President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats stand as the chief obstacles, with Democrats repeatedly blocking any legislation that undermines abortion rights.

“I just don’t think that there are 60 votes in the Senate for that approach, which will then say to the House that we really need a clean (funding bill) if we’re going to avoid a shutdown,” said moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked a GOP measure to prohibit most late-term abortions. The Senate voted 54-42 to move ahead on the legislation, but that fell six votes short of the 60 needed to crack a filibuster mostly led by Democrats.

Tuesday’s vote was the second time since this summer’s release of videos involving Planned Parenthood that Senate Democrats have derailed an abortion-related drive by the GOP. It was held less than 48

hours before a first-ever papal address to Congress by Pope Francis, who leads a Roman Catholic Church that rejects abortion.

Some Republicans were unwilling to back down in the face of the Democratic opposition.

“We should stand for our principles, and our principles should not be surrendering to the Democrats,” another presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, said Tuesday.

But some other Republicans insisted that an abortion fight that leads to a government shutdown would make no sense.

“I’m tired of the people on my side of the aisle who have been pushing this strategy, even though they know they don’t have the votes,” said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., up for re-election in a state Obama carried twice.

“Therefore, they can’t answer the question, ‘What’s the endgame for success here?’”

Ultimately, McConnell’s moves appeared aimed at delivering a temporary government-wide funding bill to the House, where abortion politics seems to have GOP leaders flummoxed.

GOP leaders in the House have staged several votes on

anti-abortion legislation, but the moves haven’t satisfied a handful of GOP hard-liners who are insisting that the must-pass budget measure include language stripping taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

McConnell has promised that a federal shutdown — which Republican leaders fear that voters would blame on the GOP — will not happen.

The showdown is reminiscent of a failed Cruz-led attempt two years ago to use a must-pass stopgap measure to try to block implementation of the health care law.

That led to a 16-day partial shutdown that GOP leaders are keen to avoid this time, especially as the presidential election draws closer.

Hanging over it all is the weakened political standing of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is under fire from some tea party conservatives who say he is not tough enough in battling Obama.

Some Republicans, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, have called on Senate Republicans to change Senate rules to make it easier to move legislation past Democratic filibusters.

Mahaffey woman’s song goes viral on Facebook Continued from Page 1 she couldn’t stop. It took her only 30 minutes to compose the entire song, she said.

And since posting the video, she’s received an outpouring of support from around the world.

“I’ve been receiving thousands of messages from people all over the United States,” she said, as well as internationally. “People have been sending me pictures of

their children who have passed on and telling their stories.”

“If You Could See Me Fly” became available on iTunes on Tuesday, and will also be available for purchase on Target Music, Spotify and Amazon. Morgan is available for booking by visiting her website, www.anniemorgan music.com. The song could be the next step in her professional music career.

“Right now it’s kind of a hobby. I’d like to make it a profession, but right now I work at a doctor’s office Monday through Friday.”

She said that she signed a record deal in August with Gold Rush Music Group based in Nashville. They’ve been working on her first album, but didn’t know that she was going to be writing or uploading “If You Could See Me Fly.”

“They were pleasantly surprised with the amount of recognition it’s been receiving,” she said.

The ultimate goal right now, she said, is to get on a morning or talk show, like “Ellen.”

“I want to sing a song for thousands of people. I’ve been wanting to touch people for as long as I can remember,” she said.

“That’s why I write.”

Continued from Page 1 federal prosecutor who runs the criminology program at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, said it will be extraordinarily challenging for the office to sort out what Kane can and cannot do. It also could give defense lawyers an avenue to challenge filings in cases against their clients, Antkowiak said.

Her private lawyers have not said whether they will appeal the court’s suspension order.

Kane, who won the office in 2012 in a landslide, maintains her innocence.

She has vowed to complete her term, which ends in January 2017, and has resisted calls to resign, including by her fellow Democrat, Gov. Tom Wolf.

In the meantime, Kane has ordered the release of thousands more pornographic emails discovered by her office to involve current and former employees there, Ardo said. The release of emails will not be limited to her perceived critics or redacted to shield the names of allies, he added.

“She will release them all,” Ardo said.

Kane’s office has gone to court to fight The Philadelphia Inquirer’s request seeking the release of the emails under Pennsylvania’s open records law.

Kane also has cited other reasons for not releasing the emails, including labor union agreements and a court order barring retaliation against current or for-

Accident claims MC man Continued from Page 1 Overman ruled that Scalise died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen. No autopsy was planned, but blood and tissue samples would be sent for toxicology testing, according to the coroner.

Word of the accident circulated within hours and tributes from his friends

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Scalise reported on his online profile that he grew up in McKees Rocks and graduated from Sto-Rox High School.

The coroner’s office reported funeral arrangements are incomplete.

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But those concerns have faded as the attorney general’s office has received more and more open records requests to release the emails, Ardo said.

Involved in the exchanges of pornographic emails are people in government or law enforcement outside of the attorney general’s office, including employees of the Pennsylvania State Police and Montgomery County, Ardo said.

He did not know whether the email chains involved any sitting state Supreme Court justices or investigators in the criminal case against her, he said.

Kane has said, however, that the criminal investigation into her was spurred by former state prosecutors who were afraid that she would reveal the existence of the pornographic emails. She also has maintained that releasing the emails will aid her defense against the criminal charges.Ardo said Tuesday that Kane’s decision to release the emails was not revenge for the suspension of her law license or the charges against her.

She has already released two troves of pornographic emails that were sent or received by 10 former members of the office who worked under her Republican predecessors, including several who were outspoken critics of hers.

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here is a movie I’m looking forward to seeing when it comes to Washington. It seems quite relevant to America today. It’s about what can happen in a democratic society when politicians go too far, when they not only stand mute when hateful words that cross civilized redlines suddenly become part of the public discourse, but, worse, start to wink at and dabble in this hate speech for their advantage.

Later, they all say that they never heard the words, never saw the signs, or claim that their own words were misunderstood.

But they heard and they saw and they meant. Actually, I don’t need to see the movie, because I lived it. And I know how it ends. Somebody gets hurt.

The movie is called “Rabin: The Last Day.” Agence France-Presse said the movie, by the renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai, is about “the incitement campaign before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin” and “revisits a form of Jewish radicalism that still poses major risks.” This is the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish radical.

“My goal wasn’t to create a personality cult around Rabin,” Gitai told AFP. “My focus was on the incitement campaign that led to his murder.” Sure, the official investigating commission focused on the breakdowns in Rabin’s security detail, but, Gitai added, “They didn’t investigate what were the underlying forces that Thomas wanted to kill Rabin. His murder came at Friedman writes the end of a hate campaign led by hallua column for The cinating rabbis, settlers who were against New York Times. the withdrawal from territories and the parliamentary right, led by the Likud (party), already then headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who wanted to destabilize Rabin’s Labor government.”

The film, AFP said, “relied on documents, photos and videos, particularly from the months before Rabin’s assassination, including those showing speeches from politicians such as Netanyahu at rallies against the Oslo accords, where Rabin was depicted in a Nazi uniform.”

I hope a lot of Americans see this film — for the warning it offers to those who ignore or rationalize the divisive, bigoted campaigns of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and how they’re dragging their whole party across civic redlines, with candidates saying, rationalizing or ignoring more and more crazy, ill-informed stuff each week.

Trump actually launched his campaign on June 16 with a message of polarization, saying: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. ... They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.

They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column gave him four Pinocchios, its highest rating for not telling the truth, noting: “Trump’s repeated statements about immigrants and crime underscore a common public perception that crime is correlated with immigration, especially illegal immigration. But that is a misperception; no solid data support it, and the data that do exist negate it.”

And then Trump insulted John McCain, saying he was only a war hero because he got captured, adding, “I like people that weren’t captured, OK?” McCain spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was repeatedly tortured and had his bones broken. As CNN reported, “Trump, meanwhile, received four student deferments and one medical deferment to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.” What does it mean to impugn a man who has sacrificed so much for his country? It means you can smear anyone.

Last week another redline was crossed. At a Trump town hall event, the first questioner began: “We got a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. We know he’s not even an American. But anyway. We have training camps brewing where they want to kill us. That’s my question. When can we get rid of them?”

Trump responded: “A lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to be looking into that and plenty of other things.”

Trump could have let the man ask his question and then correct his racist nonsense, without blocking his free speech, which is exactly what McCain did in a similar situation. Instead, he later said it was not his place to defend Obama. As someone who aspires to be president it is his place to defend the truth, but since Trump himself has been the source of so much birther nonsense about Obama, I guess that would be hard. Instead he tweeted: “Christians need support in our country (and around the world), their religious liberty is at stake! Obama has been horrible, I will be great.”

And then, like clockwork, Ben Carson saw Trump blurring another civic redline and leapfrogged him. Carson stated, “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”

So a whole faith community gets delegitimized and another opportunity for someone to courageously stand up for what’s decent is squandered. But it will play well with certain voters.

And that is all that matters — until something really bad happens. And then, all of it — the words, tweets, signs and boasts — will be footage for another documentary that ends badly.

THOMAS FRIEDMAN

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he Sept. 16 prime-time Republi- and 9.8 percent of the questions cencan debate at the Reagan Library tered on social issues. In other words, went on for three hours. The CNN the public’s No. 1 concern, jobs and the moderators asked more than three economy, tied for fourth place in the dozen questions on topics ranging questioning. from birthright citizenship to climate Among the other topics that took up change to the safety of vaccines. Of the the bulk of the debate time: Trump’s candidates, Donald Trump talked the suitability to handle the nation’s numost, taking up nearly 19 clear codes; whether Trump minutes, with Jeb Bush at is a serious candidate; nearly 16 minutes, and Ben whether Carson is a politiCarson, Carly Fiorina, and cian; whether Bush is a pupChris Christie at about 13 pet of donors; Russian minutes each. troops to Syria; the White Yet in all that time, with all House and China; Kim Davis those words spoken, the and gay marriage; Planned issue that remains the most Parenthood and a governimportant concern of voters ment shutdown; Bush and across America — jobs and women’s health; Fiorina’s the economy — received face; Trump and immigrascant attention. tion; Bush’s wife and immiRepublican pollster David gration; Carson and Winston has undertaken a birthright citizenship; Kaproject in which he analyzes sich, Fiorina, and attacks on all the questions at GOP deHillary Clinton; Bush’s fabates — he has already pubther’s foreign policy advislished a study covering all the Byron York is ers; Trump’s foreign policy 2012 sessions — and com- chief political advisers; Carson and the war pares those media-generated correspondent for in Afghanistan; Walker and questions with voter conthe Islamic State; Bush and The Washington cerns. Looking at the CNN the Supreme Court; Christie Examiner.

The debate, Winston says there and marijuana legalization; were 41 questions, with just Newspaper Bush and the Second four of them — a grand total Enterprise Amendment; Rubio and cliof 9.8 percent — related to Association mate change; Trump and jobs and the economy.

Carson and vaccines; a distributes his Polls regularly show that a column. woman on the $10 bill; and far higher number — bepossible Secret Service code tween 35 percent and 40 percent — of names for each candidate. voters name jobs and the economy as The questions were so far removed their most pressing worry for the com- from many voter concerns that one ing election. candidate, Chris Christie, stepped in to Winston found that 14.6 percent of bring economic issues up himself. the CNN questions related to a candi- During a squabble between Trump and date’s electability. Another 14.6 percent Fiorina about their business records, were questions that asked one candi- Christie interrupted, telling them, date about another candidate. An even “You’re both successful people. Con22 percent of the questions focused on gratulations. You know who’s not sucforeign policy and national security, cessful? The middle class in this coun-

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try who’s getting plowed over by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Let’s start talking about those issues tonight and stop this childish back-and-forth between the two of you.”

Pollsters have for many years asked Americans what they believe the most important issue facing the country today is. To look at some recent results, a Gallup survey this month found that 37 percent named economic problems as the most important issue, with other concerns in single digits. A Quinnipiac survey in July found that 37 percent named the economy as the most important issue, followed by health care at 13 percent and terrorism at 12 percent. A CNN poll at the same time found 40 percent named the economy, while 20 percent named health care and 12 named terrorism.

It is true that Republican audiences are more concerned about national security than Democratic ones, and the Reagan Library event was a Republican debate. But even among Republicans, the economy remains the top issue.

Winston found similar numbers after the first Republican debate, televised

by Fox News in August. According to Winston’s analysis of that two-hour debate, 10.4 percent of questions focused on jobs and the economy, while 25.0 percent focused on foreign policy and national security, 20.8 percent focused on electability, and 16.7 percent focused on social issues. Just 4.2 percent of the questions in the Fox News debate involved asking one candidate about another candidate.

The bottom line is that debate questions have often focused on issues that voters don’t list among their top concerns. And the CNN debate, with its heavy emphasis on questions concerning electability and other candidates, and its relative lack of discussion on economic issues, was a particularly telling example of that problem.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

County should admit error, move on This letter is addressed directly to the Indiana County commissioners and Timothy Barr, owner of Evaluator Services and Technology Inc. As a former resident of Indiana County, I have been watching the unfolding events regarding the tax reassessment with some interest.

While I am not directly affected, I know many people that are, and I have made some observations that I feel I need to share.

While you hammered this assessment out through the mind-numbing and taxmoney-wasting process that is our court system, I hear

horror stories of taxes going from being equal to a monthly mortgage payment to the cost of a house every year. Do you honestly think anyone living in this county can really afford that?

When you tax the farmers off their property, who is going to grow the food that you buy at the grocery store?

Contrary to some people’s beliefs, food doesn’t magically appear in little plastic bags on the shelf.

Food does not grow in housing developments or on land that has been abandoned because no one can afford to own it.

While you sort through the appeals process, thousands

IUP does excellent job on Sept. 11 ceremony In light of all of the negative incidents that have been troubling IUP recently, I would like to share a positive story.

On Sept. 11, I attended a ceremony in honor of all the victims of that day in 2001. They’ve been having this program for years.

It’s not the enormity of the ceremonies in New York, Washington, D.C., or Shanksville, but it is in no way any less of an event.

These people work very hard to hold this program and do an excellent job. The IUP band is awesome and so are the speakers.

This year they had a young lady named Erica (a

student) speak, and she was very powerful (as well as the other speakers).

A lot of people also may not realize that, thanks to the Kovalchick family, a part of the World Trade Center is on long-term loan for the IUP 9/11 monument. That alone will bring shivers down your spine.

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of county residents lie in bed at night wondering where they will be living next year through no fault of their own.

Is this your ultimate plan for Indiana County? A place where no business will move due to property taxes? A county that is full of empty lots and abandoned properties because no one can afford to own them? Nor can they sell them due to insane tax rates.

A county that is responsible for putting countless farmers, who spent their entire lives working the land so you can eat, out of their homes and land so you can build another housing de-

velopment we don’t need?

Here is my last thought, the one nobody says, but many think: When one is backed into a corner, is about to lose everything they have worked for due to the negligence or greed of others and feel they have nothing left to lose … well, ask the British about Lexington and Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775. It didn’t end well for them.

I ask you Indiana commissioners to put an end to the lunacy, admit it was a mistake and move on before you destroy the entire economy of Indiana County.

Brian Buchanan Avonmore

Jay Ambrose wrong; Trump deserves chance I take exception to the Jay Ambrose column of Aug. 15 as it appeared in the Gazette (“Trump followers may not get it”).

Talk about Trump’s ego, puhleeze! The politicians in D.C. and elsewhere just don’t have overinflated egos, do they?

And talk about being qualified for the world’s toughest and most complicated job. If the politicians running and being elected year after year are so quali-

fied for the jobs, why is the U.S. (and the rest of the world for that matter) in such a shameful mess?

Give Donald Trump a chance. At least he says what he thinks and probably 99 percent of it is the truth.

Can you say that about anyone else who is running for president? Maybe Jay Ambrose is the one who doesn’t get it!

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Egypt pardons 2 jailed journalists CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian president today pardoned two journalists for Al-Jazeera English and dozens of human rights activists, state media and the lawyer of one of the reporters said.

The two — Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohammed — were expected to be released later in the day.

The state-run MENA news agency said a third person from the case — which included multiple other defendants along with Australian journalist Peter Greste — was also pardoned but was not identified by name. Greste was deported earlier this year.

The three were sentenced to three years in prison last month for airing what a court described as “false news” and biased coverage.

There was no immediate comment from the AlJazeera network, which is based in Doha, Qatar.

Company to lower price of drug SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The company that sparked an angry backlash after it raised the price of a drug for treating a deadly parasitic infection by more than 5,000 percent says it will roll back some of the increase.

Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli told ABC News on Tuesday that the new price would make Daraprim more accessible, although he did not say what the new price for the drug would be.

A spokesman for Turing did not immediately respond to a request for details.

The company obtained rights to sell the drug, the only U.S.-approved treatment for toxoplasmosis, in August. It hiked the price overnight from $13.50 per pill to $750.

Turing had said it would use profits to improve the drug’s formulation and develop new, better drugs for the infection.

It also stressed that some patients can get financial aid from the company to obtain the drug.

Cannon recovered from sunken ship SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Marine archaeologists have recovered the fifth cannon from a Confederate warship that’s been at the bottom of the Savannah River since the Civil War, officials said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the 9,000-pound Dahlgren rifled cannon — the second of its type recovered from the CSS Georgia in recent months — was raised from the water last week.

Military officials said archaeologists are raising other relics from the ironclad as well, such as leather shoes, wrenches, ceramic bottles and an anvil.

The CSS Georgia is being recovered as part of a $703 million deepening of the Savannah harbor so larger cargo ships can reach the Port of Savannah.

Before the harbor can be deepened, the CSS Georgia has to be raised.

Taco Bell site offers beer, sangria CHICAGO (AP) — Taco Bell customers in Chicago can now have beer with their burritos and sangria with their soft tacos.

The chain opened a location that serves wine, beer, sangria and frozen mixed drinks in Chicago today.

It’s a first in the U.S. for Taco Bell, which is owned

by Louisville, Ky.-based Yum Brands Inc. A similar location will open in San Francisco later this month.

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A CHILD CRIED as his family waited in line today to get into a reception center for migrants and refugees in Opatovac, Croatia.

EU to hold emergency summit on migrant crisis

By LORNE COOK and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The deeply divided leaders of the European Union have been called to an emergency summit today to seek long-term responses to the continent’s ballooning migrant crisis, a historic challenge that EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc has failed dismally to meet so far.

Among the outstanding issues that Tusk, the summit’s official host, wants addressed: increasing assistance to EU member nations that are receiving the brunt of the migrant influx, and greater cooperation with non-EU countries in the Balkans and Turkey, which is now home to almost 2 million refugees — many of whom have fled Syria’s civil war.

Tusk, who recently visited the Middle East, also wants to discuss diplomatic efforts to end the Syria conflict. One issue, the EU president said, requires urgent attention: increasing contributions to the U.N.’s World Food Program to help it provide critically needed food supplies to 11 million people in Syria and the region.

“There is a long list of issues where we could blame one another, but it will not help us in finding a common solution,” Tusk said in a letter to EU presidents and prime ministers. “Today we must absolutely work out policies that we can implement in order to help each other.”

The EU’s executive arm is opening 40 new infringement cases against 19 member states for failing to implement the 28-nation bloc’s common asylum rules.

The European Commission says that elements of the asylum policy not

being implemented include legislation focused on speeding up asylum decisions, ensuring humane treatment of asylum-seekers and clarifying grounds for granting asylum.

Infringement notices have been sent to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Slovenia.

On Tuesday, the 28-nation EU took a modest step toward dealing with the issue by agreeing to relocate 120,000 asylum-seekers to ease the strain on Greece and Italy, which are on the front line of the migrant flood. But the decision bared the wide divisions that Europe’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II has spawned, with four eastern European countries — the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary — voting against it.

Even after the EU plan was adopted, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka denounced it as a “bad decision.”

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said today his country will try to block the deal in an EU court.

“We won’t implement this decision because we think it can’t work,” Fico said.

The man who chaired Tuesday’s meeting, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, said the figures were “accepted by the member states on a voluntary basis,” but the European Commission signaled that the dispute is far from over.

“A decision is a decision regardless of the way you voted,” its vice president, Frans Timmermans, said today. “The decision is legal, it’s valid and it binds all member states.”

The arrival of an estimated 500,000

people this year has forced countries to crack down on border security and prompted Hungary to build a razorwire fence.

Tensions are high among Balkans neighbors who not so long ago were at war, as Serbia and Croatia trade barbs over whether enough is being done to halt the flow of people seeking better lives in Europe.

Tusk said he recognized EU countries have “different experiences and perceptions” and that there are “no easy solutions.” But he said the bloc must reach agreement on a comprehensive strategy and sound migration policy to deal with a challenge that he said will last for years. The crisis, he said, is a test of Europe’s “humanity and responsibility.”

“The current ‘migration policy’ is a sum of despair of the victims fleeing war and persecution, of their determination in searching for a better life, of the cynicism of the smugglers, and too often, of the refugees’ and migrants’ tragic fate,” Tusk said.

Before the summit, the European Commission’s top official in charge of relations with the bloc’s neighbors said that he hoped that $1.12 billion could be drummed up for a “trust fund” to help Syrian refugees.

The official, Johannes Hahn, also said that the European Commission is in discussions with Turkey about freeing up some of the funds earmarked for that country’s EU membership process to use for dealing with the refugee influx there.

“We could raise up to 1 billion euros over the next two years for Turkey,” he said.

Associated Press writers Mike Corder in Brussels and Karel Janicek in Prague contributed to this report.

Judge: ‘Birthday’ copyright invalid

Future of VW CEO uncertain

By GEIR MOULSON and PAN PYLAS Associated Press

By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — In a gift to many musicians, moviemakers and other contentcreators, a federal judge has found that the song “Happy Birthday To You” is entirely in the public domain.

But the move could mean millions lost for the music publishing company that has been collecting on the copyright to one of the most widely sung songs in the world.

U.S. District Judge George H. King found Tuesday that the song’s original copyright, obtained by the Clayton F. Summy Co. from the song’s writers and bought for $15 million in 1988 by Warner/ Chappell Music Inc., only covered specific piano arrangements of the song and not its lyrics.

The basic “Happy Birthday” tune, derived from another popular children’s song, “Good Morning to All,” has long been in the public domain, and King’s decision, though it could be appealed, makes the entirety fair game

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she opposed building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, revealing her position on an issue that divides two Democratic constituencies — organized labor and environmentalists — and that she has long declined to address.

In announcing her opposition to the project, a litmus test for grass-roots environmentalists and which her rivals for the Democratic nomination had already opposed, Clinton said that the pipeline was “a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change.”

She declared her position during a campaign appearance in Iowa and on the day Pope Francis, who has challenged the world to act decisively on climate change, arrived in Washington amid a burst of attention. An aide to Clinton said that the campaign had briefed the White House before her announcement.

Clinton said that building the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, which would carry heavily polluted oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, was not “in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.”

Anticipating criticism from backers of the project that her opposition would cost construction jobs, she pledged to soon detail a clean energy policy that would put thousands of Americans to work repairing leaky existing pipelines and upgrading train tracks that carry oil by rail.

There are “a lot more jobs from my perspective on a North American clean energy agenda than you would ever get from one pipeline crossing the border,” she said.

Energy and policy experts have long said that the battle over Keystone XL is chiefly political, since the pipeline would have little effect on either climate change or the U.S. job market. A State Department analysis last year found the pipeline would not significantly add to carbon pollution, because the oil was already reaching refineries by other pipelines and by rail.

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor seeking the Republican nomination, said on Twitter that Clinton’s pipeline opposition means she “favors environmental extremists over U.S. jobs.”

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A GROUP OF kindergarten children sang “Happy Birthday” to Nelson Mandela in July 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa. for use. “‘Happy Birthday’ is finally free after 80 years,” Randall Newman, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, told the Los Angeles Times.

One of the co-plaintiffs, Ruypa Marya of the music group Ruypa & The April Fishes, also praised the decision as momentous, saying, “I hope we can start reimagining copyright law to do what it’s supposed to do — protect the creations of people who make stuff so that we can continue to make more stuff.”

Marya said she had paid Warner/Chappell $455 to include the song on a live album during which members of her band and audience sang the song to her the night before her birthday.

Warner/Chappell has said it doesn’t try to collect royalties from just anyone singing

the song but those who use it in a commercial enterprise.

“We are looking at the court’s lengthy opinion and considering our options,” Warner/Chappell said in a statement following Tuesday’s ruling.

King’s decision comes in a lawsuit filed two years ago by Good Morning To You Productions Corp., which is working on a documentary film tentatively titled “Happy Birthday.” The company challenged the copyright, arguing that the song should be “dedicated to public use and in the public domain.”

“Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the ‘Happy Birthday’ lyrics, defendants, as Summy Co.’s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the ‘Happy Birthday’ lyrics,” King concluded.

BERLIN — The future of Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn hung in the balance today as the company sought to contain the damage of an emissions-rigging scandal that could lead to fines and lawsuits against the German carmaker.

After falling by over a quarter in two days since the revelation Volkswagen had been trying to dupe U.S. testers for its diesel cars, the company’s share price recovered modestly.

It was up 3.4 percent at $128 after declines of 17 percent and 20 percent in the first two days of the week that saw around $28 billion wiped off the company’s market value.

So far, no one is known to have lost their job over the scandal that’s been raging round the company since the Environmental Protection Agency disclosed the company’s misdemeanors last Friday.

The person facing the most acute pressure is Winterkorn, whose contract was scheduled to be extended by two years through 2018 at a meeting

this Friday of the supervisory board.

But the events of recent days have raised questions over his future. German media were widely reporting that the board’s executive committee was meeting today to discuss the crisis.

The Environmental Protection Agency has said Volkswagen AG could face fines of as much as $18 billion.

Other countries, such as South Korea, have also ordered investigations into emission levels of VW cars and some law firms in North America have filed class-action suits.

On Tuesday, Volkswagen said 11 million of its vehicles worldwide contained the so-called “defeat device” that allowed the cars to beat the testers.

Its revelation was a stunning increase from the 482,000 cars previously identified by the U.S.’s Environmental Protection Agency.

Winterkorn said he was “endlessly sorry” and asked in a video message for “your trust on our way forward.”

However, that has done little to douse speculation about his future.

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Chinese president hopes for business treaty agreement

By GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE Associated Press

SEATTLE — When Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a meeting of some of the top names in Chinese and American business today, they may be most interested by what he says about progress toward a treaty between the nations that would provide a framework for broader investment in each other’s economy.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett and Jack Ma of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are among the 30 top executives attending a closed-door discussion being moderated by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has advocated for such a treaty.

All of the American CEOs participating signed a letter to Xi and U.S. President Barack Obama urging them to support an agreement.

Bilateral investment treaties provide the rules of the road for companies doing business in other countries, and can help ensure that the rights of foreign investors are protected and that foreign companies operate on a level playing field with domestic ones.

An agreement with China would open up more of that nation’s massive market to American companies, provide clearer rules for Chinese investment in the U.S., and create jobs on both sides, supporters say.

Such treaties “can be a powerful catalyst for more economic growth,� Evan Feigenbaum, vice chairman of the Paulson Institute,

which is co-hosting today’s meeting, said Tuesday.

Xi arrived in Seattle Tuesday for a three-day visit before he travels to the White House later this week. He’s expected to make brief remarks to the attendees before the session closes to the press.

Notable absences at today’s business discussion were representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Google. Those companies’ websites are blocked in China.

During a speech Tuesday evening Xi spoke about a variety of issues, including the need for a bilateral investment deal.

Early this summer, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew noted that the two sides had a long way to go in negotiating a bilateral investment treaty, but had agreed to narrow their respective lists of

sectors that would be exempted from foreign investment by this month.

At his policy speech Tuesday evening — attended by dignitaries like former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Penny Pritzker, Obama’s commerce secretary — Xi said China and the United States could work together to address cybercrimes, a problem that has sparked mutual tension.

Xi also said China would continue its policy of aggressive development to help more Chinese people “live a better life.�

Striking agreements to ensure continued robust international trade was a top priority, he said. “China will never close its open door to the outside world,� Xi said, according

to a translation of his remarks.

He said China was a staunch defender of cyber security, but it had also been a victim of hacking.

Acknowledging that China and the United States don’t always see eye to eye, Xi said China is ready to set up a joint effort with the United States to fight cybercrimes.

The issue of cyberattacks is a sensitive one between the two nations. American officials say hacking attacks originating from China are approaching epidemic levels.

As Xi spoke Tuesday evening, protesters gathered near the downtown hotel he was staying at, objecting to things like the country’s policies in Tibet.

Earlier Tuesday, meetings with governors from five U.S.

Plan proposed to end L.A. homelessness

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — It’s no secret to people who walk or drive the streets of Los Angeles that homeless people — tens of thousands of them — are everywhere.

On Tuesday, having looked at numbers showing the city’s homeless population has increased more than 10 percent over the past two years, officials announced they have decided enough is enough.

Mayor Eric Garcetti and several other elected officials stood outside City Hall — a few feet from several homeless people dozing on a lawn — to announce they plan to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and spend $100 million to eradicate it. “These are our fellow Angelinos,� the mayor said. “They are those who have no other place to go, and they are literally here where we work, a symbol of our city’s intense crisis.�

Six blocks away, on the city’s notorious Skid Row, thousands more live permanently in tents, makeshift cardboard shelters and sometimes just on the sidewalk itself. “If you walk five blocks south and one block over, you’ll enter the largest concentration of homeless in the country — about 4,000 homeless living in Skid Row,� said Councilman Jose Huizar, who co-chairs the City Council’s homelessness & poverty committee. “Unfortunately, that is just a small percentage of the city’s homeless population,� he continued. “Yes, 85 percent of the city’s homeless population lives outside of Skid Row, throughout the city.�

The emergency declaration and the funding will require action by the full City Council. Officials didn’t say exactly where the money will come from, but Council President Herb Wesson promised it would be found “somehow, some way.�

Huizar spokesman Rick Coca said afterward that officials anticipate it will come from the city’s general fund, adding “a more robust financial forecast for the city� is anticipated in the months ahead.

Council members said they hope to have a draft strategic plan on homelessness by December. The first rollout of funds — projected for Jan. 1, 2016 — would go toward permanent housing and shelter, according to Wesson’s office.

Garcetti had already announced plans Monday to release nearly $13 million in such newly anticipated excess tax revenue for shortterm housing initiatives. The bulk of that money would be dedicated to housing homeless veterans.

Alice Callaghan, a longtime advocate for the homeless on Skid Row, said the proposed funding would not be nearly enough to stop the loss of affordable housing, especially in rapidly gentrifying areas of downtown and on the city’s west side.

Skid Row itself has been touched in recent years by that gentrification as aging hotels and abandoned buildings have been turned into expensive lofts, condos and apartments. Upscale coffee shops and restaurants now compete for space with homeless shelters and flophouses on the area’s 50 square blocks. “A hundred million dollars won’t even buy all the homeless pillows,� Callaghan said,

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A MAN SORTED recyclable cans in Los Angeles on Tuesday. contrasting LA’s proposal with New York City’s $41 billion affordable housing plan unveiled last year. “A hundred million certainly won’t build much housing — and what we really have here is a housing crisis.�

Experts blame that crisis on several factors, including the long recession, the city’s

gentrification and its rapidly rising rents and home prices.

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Earlier this year, a study by the city’s top budget official found Los Angeles already spends $100 million a year to deal with homelessness — much of it on arrests and other police services —but its departments have no coordinated approach for addressing the problem. Without clear guidelines, departments instead tend to rely on ad hoc responses, according to the report by City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana.

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states and local Chinese officials produced the deal to work on clean energy. “We can be the core for our national leaders to learn from,� Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who has made five trips to China in five years, told his counterparts.

Xi’s visit comes a year after Xi and Obama announced their nations would cooperate to fight climate change. “These are the largest economies in the world, and we’re the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, so improving cooperation and collaboration is really a necessity,� said Brian Young, Washington state director of economic development for the clean technology sector. “Second, it’s a huge business opportunity. Both sides recognize the opportunity for job creation.�

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Cosby seeking defense lawyer for criminal probe

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press

THE REV. JOSEPH MAURIZIO ... convicted

Priest guilty of child sex charges JOHNSTOWN (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest accused of traveling to Honduras to molest poor street children during missionary trips was convicted on Tuesday of several charges.

Federal jurors convicted the Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr. of charges including three of four counts related to sex abuse of boys during trips to a Honduran orphanage.

Maurizio was accused of traveling abroad from 2004 to 2009 to have sex with three young boys, a charge known as sexual tourism. He also was convicted of possession of child pornography and illegally transferring money to a charity to help fund the trips. Jurors acquitted him of another count of traveling outside the United States for sex with a minor and two other counts involving the transfer of funds.

The 70-year-old priest, who has been suspended from Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish in Somerset County, showed no reaction as the verdict was read to the packed courtroom. He is scheduled to be sentenced in February.

The priest repeatedly denied the allegations.

His defense attorney presented testimony suggesting that interviewers can plant ideas that lead to false accusations.

During the trial, a key witness recanted on the stand, testifying he was never molested by Maurizio as a 14-year-old boy, but prosecutors argued that another youth had witnessed the abuse. Two other Honduran men testified that Maurizio abused them, one saying the priest offered him candy so the priest could fondle him and the other saying the priest asked to take his photo while he and another child, both about 14, were taking showers.

PHILADELPHIA — Comedian Bill Cosby is seeking to hire a criminal defense lawyer as suburban prosecutors revisit a 2005 sexual-assault complaint against him.

Lawyer Edwin Jacobs said late Tuesday that Cosby’s agents had contacted him in the past few days about a pending investigation in Montgomery County. Jacobs, who had represented Cosby in a review of another accuser’s complaint in New Jersey, said he referred Cosby’s agents to another high-profile Philadelphia-area lawyer.

That other lawyer did not return message seeking comment late Tuesday. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Tuesday on Jacobs’ involvement in the case.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Fer-

man wouldn’t confirm her office is reinvestigating the complaint by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. However, she said in a recent statement “prosecutors have a responsibility to review past conclusions ... when current information might lead to a different decision.�

Ferman’s predecessor, Bruce Castor, didn’t think the evidence was sufficient to charge Cosby with a crime in 2005. Since then, dozens of women have accused the “I Spy� actor of drugging and molesting them, echoing the accusations Constand first made public with her January 2005 complaint to police and her later civil lawsuit.

In the civil suit, Constand said she had met Cosby through her job with the women’s basketball program at Temple, where Cosby served on the board of

trustees. She said he befriended and mentored her.

But, in a January 2004 visit to his Cheltenham home, she said, he gave her three pills for stress and she later woke up with her clothes askew.

Cosby, in a sworn deposition released this year, acknowledged he had sexual contact with Constand in 2004 but said it was consensual.

Constand’s lawyer said Constand would cooperate in the new investigation if asked. “She’s a very strong lady,� lawyer Dolores Troiani said Tuesday. “She’ll do whatever they request of her.�

Troiani would not comment on whether Constand had been contacted by authorities this year. She and Constand can’t comment on the case as part of a confidentiality agreement that settled the case before trial.

The settlement came after Cosby, who is 78 years old and has been married for decades, gave a lengthy deposition in the case. Documents unsealed in June by the presiding judge, along with the deposition later released by a court reporting service, show Cosby admitted having a series of extramarital relationships with women, including some of those who now accuse him of sexual assault.

He also said he had obtained quaaludes in the 1970s to give to women with whom he hoped to have sex, “the same as a person would say, ‘Have a drink.’�

Cosby, who starred as Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show� from 1984 to 1992, maintained that the sexual activities were consensual and that none of the women took the quaaludes unknowingly.

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Castor, the former district attorney, in announcing he would not bring charges against Cosby in 2005, said both parties could be portrayed in “a less than flattering light.�

Last week, he said Constand had lodged more serious sexual-assault allegations in the civil lawsuit than she had divulged to police.

He recalled investigating the complaint as a potential misdemeanor. Yet the lawsuit included allegations of digital penetration, a potential felony, he said. “If the allegations in the civil complaint were contained with that detail in her statement to the police, we might have been able to make a case out of it,� said Castor, a county commissioner who’s running for another term as district attorney as Ferman gives up the post to run for judge.

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Couple’s open relationship may end up closing theirs DEAR ABBY: I am a 24-yearold woman and currently live with my boyfriend.

We have a child. Before we started living together, we discussed having an open relationship.

We realized how messy it can be, so we agreed on having a “free pass� with one person, one time. I have met that person; it is a woman.

At first, my boyfriend was OK with it.

But now that I’m ready to do it, he’s acting jealous.

I told him I would stand by his side if he changed his mind about me doing this, but I’m excited to experience this alone and not have him involved.

Help, please, Abby? — CARRY-

ING OUT THE PLAN IN CALIFORNIA DEAR CARRYING OUT: Your boyfriend may be feeling insecure because he is afraid of losing you. But this is what he agreed to — a “free pass� with one person.

If you feel you need to further explore your sexuality and he is unwilling to allow it, then it’s time to rethink your relationship with him because you may not be as suited to each other as you both thought.

And, by the way, the same may be true for him. If he needs someone who is a one-man woman, then you may not be it.

DEAR ABBY: My son “Pete� is a felon from an incident that cost him six years in a federal

penitentiary. He has one more year left on parole.

He married a professional “psychic� he met online who we believe has borderline personality disorder. There have been several instances of serious physical abuse toward my son.

He is constantly trying to adapt to her ever-changing moods to reduce these conflicts, to no avail.

Yesterday she smashed a coffee pot into Pete’s face, causing a 3-inch gash.

Then she took his guitar and smashed in the windows of his truck. When she’s not violent, she threatens to kill herself.

She recently moved here from the U.K. and must maintain a living situation with her hus-

band for at least a year to establish citizenship. Pete wants to stick it out for the sake of his wife’s daughter.

I think my son should call the police and make a report, but he is afraid of how she would and will retaliate. She knows his background and could accuse him of anything, if it comes down to a “he said/she said� situation.

I’m not sure what to do, Abby.

Any thoughts? — DESPERATE MOM IN MARYLAND DEAR DESPERATE MOM: For his own safety, your son should not continue living with someone as volatile as this woman.

Pete could be even more seriously injured in her next attack if he stays.

When she acts out again — notice I didn’t say “if� — I agree that he should call the police and make a report.

He should also go to an emergency room for treatment and to have his injuries photographed.

If his parole officer doesn’t know what has been going on, he or she should be informed. If Pete thinks his wife could harm her daughter, he should report it to child protective services.

He should never have allowed himself to be held hostage by her threats to kill herself, which is classic emotional blackmail.

This “citizenship� marriage has been a sham from the beginning, and your son should end it.

TODAY IN HISTORY

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23, the 266th day of 2015.

There are 99 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 4:21 a.m. Eastern time.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 23, 1952, in what became known as the “Checkers� speech, Sen. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif., salvaged his vice-presidential nomination by appearing live on television to refute allegations of improper campaign fundraising.

On this date: In 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, defeated the HMS Serapis in battle off Yorkshire, England; however, the seriously damaged Bon Homme Richard sank two days later.

In 1780, British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point to the British.

In 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.

In 1846, Neptune was identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

In 1908, an apparent baserunning error by Fred Merkle of the New York Giants cost his team a victory against the Chicago Cubs and left the game tied 1-1.

The Cubs won a rematch and with it, the National League pennant.

In 1939, Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London at age 83.

In 1955, a jury in Sumner, Miss., acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering black teenager Emmett Till. (The two men later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)

In 1957, nine black students who’d entered Little Rock Central High School in

Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

In 1962, New York’s Philharmonic Hall (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall) formally opened as the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “The Jetsons,� an animated cartoon series about a Space Age family, premiered as the ABC television network’s first program in color.

In 1973, former Argentine president Juan Peron won a landslide election victory that returned him to power; his wife, Isabel, was elected vice president.

In 1987, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., withdrew from the Democratic presidential race following questions about his use of borrowed quotations and the portrayal of his academic record.

In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter apparently burned up as it attempted to go into orbit around the Red Planet.

Ten years ago: Hurricane Rita, down to Category 3, steamed toward refinery towns along the TexasLouisiana coast, creating havoc even before it arrived; levee breaks caused new flooding in New Orleans, and 23 people were killed when a bus carrying nursing-home evacuees caught fire in Texas.

Embattled FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford abruptly resigned.

Puerto Rican nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Rios, wanted in a 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored truck, died during a gunbattle with FBI agents in Puerto Rico.

Five years ago: The U.S. delegation walked out of a U.N. speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he said some in the world had speculated that the U.S. staged the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an attempt to assure Israel’s survival. Congressional Republicans unveiled their “Pledge to America,� a strongly worded manifesto promising to return government to the people.

Teresa Lewis, 41, was executed by the state of Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and stepson to collect on a $250,000 insurance policy.

The children’s show “Sesame Street� announced it wouldn’t televise a taped segment in which the Muppet character Elmo sang with bustier-clad pop star Katy Perry.

One year ago: In the first international test for his climate-change strategy, President Barack Obama pressed world leaders at the United Nations to follow the United States’ lead on the issue. The U.S. struck the al-Qaidalinked Khorasan group with Tomahawk missiles and other ordnance near Aleppo in northwestern Syria based on fears it was planning terrorist attacks on the U.S. and Europe.

A man wearing his work uniform opened fire inside a UPS sorting facility in Birmingham, Ala., a day after he was fired from the company, killing two supervisors before committing suicide.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Julio Iglesias is 72. Actor Paul Petersen (TV: “The Donna Reed Show�) is 70. Actresssinger Mary Kay Place is 68.

Rock star Bruce Springsteen is 66.

Rock musician Leon Taylor (The Ventures) is 60. Actress Rosalind Chao is 58. Golfer Larry Mize is 57. Actor Jason Alexander is 56. Actor Chi McBride is 54.

Country musician Don Herron (BR549) is 53. Actor Erik Todd Dellums is 51. Actress LisaRaye is 49. Singer Ani DiFranco is 45. Rock singer Sarah Bettens (K’s Choice) is 43.

Recording executive Jermaine Dupri is 43. Actor Kip Pardue is 39. Actor Anthony Mackie is 37.

Pop singer Erik-Michael Estrada (TV: “Making the Band�) is 36.

Actress Aubrey Dollar is 35.

Tennis player Melanie Oudin is 24.

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A Blairsville patrol officer took chase of McCleary’s speeding car on Route 22 at 12:24 a.m., and kept the vehicle in sight as it sped away eastbound into Burrell Township, state police reported. At one point, McCleary headed east toward oncoming traffic on the westbound lanes of the highway.

The pursuit continued on several other roads, and officers saw the car begin to fishtail as it turned onto Campbells Mill Road, according to Overman’s report.

McCleary, of Yankee Hill Road, Blacklick Township, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:31 a.m.

State police reported McCleary suffered multiple injuries, and Overman said he would rule on the cause of death following an autopsy today at Forensic DX in Windber, Somerset County.

Troopers believe the use of alcohol contributed to the accident.

Overman said several empty beer cans were found in the wreckage.

The Shoemaker Funeral Home in Blairsville will handle funeral arrangements for McCleary, Overman said.

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ABOUT 50 students gathered this morning before school at Indiana Area High School for See You at the Pole, a studentinitiated global movement of prayer. The event is usually the fourth Wednesday in September, part of the Global Week of Student Prayer from Sunday to Saturday.

Seated at left is Eric Diewald, a pastor at Grace United Methodist Church.

Standing at center is GUMC Pastor Donovan Daniel, and at right is Nate Mack, a GUMC member who played guitar for the event.

U.S. welcomes Pope Francis during historic visit Continued from Page 1 mility, your embrace of simplicity, the gentleness of your words and the generosity of your spirit.”

The president singled out the pope’s call for focusing on the poor and the marginalized, including refugees fleeing war and immigrants in search of a better life. He also highlighted the pope’s call for protecting the planet and supporting communities vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The president also thanked the pope for his support for efforts to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

After opening remarks on the lawn, the two leaders were to head inside to the

Oval Office for a one-on-one meeting where each hoped to find common cause with the other on issues they hold dear.

The pope later in the morning was to speak to America’s bishops, an address that was highly anticipated given a certain disconnect between Francis’ focus on social justice and a merciful church and the culture wars that America’s bishops have waged in recent years over abortion and gay rights.

From the instant the whiterobed and grinning Francis landed in the U.S. on Tuesday, doffed his skullcap in the breeze and clambered into his charcoal-gray Fiat, his visit has electrified Washing-

ton, which can be jaded about the comings and goings of world figures.

Washington was the first stop on the pope’s six-day, three-city visit to the United States.

People of all faiths wanted to be a part of it, from the hundreds on hand for his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base late Tuesday to the clumps of spectators outside the Vatican’s diplomatic mission where the pope was staying to the throngs at the White House.

Kimberly Johnson, a 27year-old medical student who lives in Washington, said she arrived outside the security gates at midnight in order to be the first one let

into the sectioned-off viewing area that opened at 4 a.m.

“It’s not just that he’s the pope. He’s a cool pope,” Johnson said. “He’s bringing the Catholic Church into the 21st century and making it a more accessible faith.”

The pope took his time getting to the White House, stopping to greet schoolchildren who had gathered outside the Vatican’s nunciature. The children took selfies with the pope, hugged him and waved Holy See flags.

Thousands more were gathering for a morning parade on streets near the White House.

For all of the oh-wow enthusiasm attending the visit, the pope and the president,

with overlapping but farfrom-identical agendas, had serious matters to attend to.

Even before he arrived for his first U.S. visit, Francis was fending off conservative criticism of his economic views.

He told reporters on his flight from Cuba that some people may have an inaccurate impression that he is “a little bit more left-leaning.”

“I am certain that I have never said anything beyond what is in the social doctrine of the church,” he said.

As for conservatives who question whether he is truly Catholic, he added jokingly, “If I have to recite the Creed, I’m ready.”

Obama was anxious to add oomph to his own efforts to

combat climate change and fight income inequality, among other things, by finding common cause with the pope. But the two differ sharply on other issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

From Francis’ vantage point, his next stop after the White House was perhaps more critical. The 78-yearold pontiff was meeting with America’s 450-strong bishops’ conference at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Many U.S. bishops have struggled to come to terms with Francis’ new social justice-minded direction of the church. Nearly all were appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Visiting rabbi, pontiff meet on interfaith exhibit at Vatican Continued from Page 1 the exhibit, which opened at the Vatican in July, according to Ingber. Featuring photographs, videos and relics, it documents not only John Paul’s time as pope, but also his youth, when he was known as Karol Wojtyla, a boy from southwest Poland who, at the age of 19, witnessed the Nazi occupation of Poland and the persecution of the Jewish people firsthand, according to Ingber.

During the Holocaust, Wojtyla was separated from his best friend, Jerzy Kluger, who was Jewish. Unbeknownst to Wojtyla, Kluger survived the war and moved to Rome, where they later reconnected when Wojtyla was a bishop participating in the Second Vatican Council in 1965. A declaration was issued at the council to forge a mutual understanding between the two faiths and to apologize for the killing of Jews by Catholics over the years, including during World War II. “The Second Vatican Council (was held in) 1965 to formulate a new relationship between the Catholic church and the Jewish people,“ Ingber said, “and what it does accidentally is reconnect Jerzy Kluger and Karol Wojtyla.“ The two were inseparable from then on, Ingber said, and John Paul later mobilized the sentiments issued at the council, being the first pope to enter a synagogue and to visit and recognize the State of Israel.

Ingber had two visits with John Paul during his papacy, the first of which was in 1999, when Ingber was part of the installation of a 4-foot-tall menorah at the Vatican, which also happened to fall on Holocaust Memorial Day. Ingber was invited not only because he is a rabbi, but also because he is the son of Holocaust survivors. During this audience, he shared anecdotes with John Paul about his father being in a similar, yet completely different, situation during the time of the war. His dad was also 19, but was a Jewish boy from eastern Poland who was sent to a labor camp.

Ingber’s second audience with John Paul was in October 2004 and was arranged with the help of Kluger, who Ingber and his colleagues reached out to upon the suggestion of a visiting scholar, Dr. Yaffa Eliach, the photographer behind the Tower of Faces at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. In

this meeting with John Paul, they mentioned their desire to create an exhibit in honor of his 85th birthday and showed him a storyboard of their plans, but he unfortunately passed away on April 2, 2005, a little more than a month before the exhibit opened.

The exhibit saw a million visitors, Ingber said, during its 10-year run in 17 American cities and most recently at the Vatican. With its tour coming to a close, Ingber and his colleagues months ago reached out to Cardinal Kurt Koch, who is the head of the Pontifical Commission for Relationship to the Jewish People and was very active in getting the exhibit to the Vatican.

“He’s the pope’s right-hand man on Jewish affairs,” Ingber said.

They asked Koch to arrange an audience for them with Pope Francis, and his office delivered. Ingber, his partner, Kim Stalton, and his colleagues left for Rome on Sept. 14, where they planned to meet the pope at a general audience on Sept. 16 and to host a gala on Thursday held in honor of the exhibit.

“We felt hopeful that the Holy Father would welcome us at the general audience,” Ingber said, “and we were incredibly welcomed.”

The first words Pope Francis said to Ingber and his colleagues were “Happy New Year,” acknowledging that the Jewish community was in the midst of celebrating Rosh Hashanah, which began Sept. 13.

“That just shows how selfless he is,” Stalton said.

During the audience, they presented the pope with two gifts: a calligraphed text that said, “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in peace” and an oil-on-linen painting of the pope’s mother, painted by Cincinnati artist Holly Schapker.

“When he saw (the painting), his eyes just lit up,” Ingber said.

“Of all the gifts that he received, I think he loved that painting of his mother.”

Ingber and his colleagues hosted a VIP gala on Thursday night at Paul VI auditorium for 105 guests, including ambassadors, Vatican offi-

cials, leaders of Rome’s Jewish and civic communities and about 20 attendees from the United States. Cardinal Koch and Riccardo Di Segni, chief Rabbi of Rome, were the keynote speakers.

Also at the gala, the Rev. Krzysztof Marcjanowicz, archbishop of Krakow, Poland, accepted the exhibit as a gift that will permanently be on display at the St. John Paul II Center being built in Krakow. They hope to have it ready in time for World Youth Day in late July, Ingber said.

“Almost a century later, the story of Polish Catholics and Jews is being returned to Poland,” he said, referring to John Paul and his counter-

part, Kluger. “The two boys are back in Poland, but ironically they’re both buried in Rome.”

Ingber returned from his trip on Monday, just in time to celebrate one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar: Yom Kippur.

“We, as the Jewish congregation, feel so privileged and honored to have someone like Rabbi Ingber coming to Indiana to lead us during our high holidays,” said Millie Glinsky, of Beth Israel Synagogue.

“Our commitment to our faith and determination to remain a … synagogue in a small community is steadfast, and individuals like Rabbi Ingber help us to vali-

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The holiday began at sundown Tuesday, just hours after Pope Francis arrived in Washington, D.C., for his first visit to the United States. Following in John Paul’s footsteps, Francis has also thrilled Jewish leaders, even as some disagreements with him emerge over Palestinians and other issues, The Associated Press said.

The pope befriended the large Jewish community in his native Argentina, co-authored a book with an Argentine rabbi and frequently denounced anti-Semitism from the pulpit.

Pope Francis will be in the United States until Sunday.

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Ligonier Valley repeats as the Heritage Conference golf champs.

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NFL: Steelers at Rams, 1 p.m. Sunday

Backups figure to stay involved

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — The NFL’s secondleading rusher is about to lose his starting job.

The wide receiver who has already quadrupled his entire 2014 output remains a placeholder, at least for now.

And if DeAngelo Williams and Darrius Heyward-Bey are being honest, they’re cool with it. Then again, considering the guys they’ve been filling in for, they don’t really have a choice.

Williams will step aside for All-Pro Le’Veon Bell when Bell returns from a

two-game suspension on Sunday at St. Louis.

Heyward-Bey will almost certainly see his spot in the rotation change when Martavis Bryant ends his four-week leagueenforced absence next month.

While coach Mike Tomlin made it a point to thank Williams for his contributions — including 127 yards rushing in the opener and a franchise-recordtying three rushing touchdowns in last Sunday’s romp over San Francisco — Tomlin left little doubt Tuesday about

who will be in the backfield with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in St. Louis.

“I’m going to play Le’Veon Bell,” Tomlin said. “We’ll figure out (the workload) as we go. If 26 is available, we’re going to use him.”

Williams, who called Pittsburgh’s top-ranked offense “a beautiful puzzle,” made sure to take a bow after his three scores versus the 49ers.

Consider it a signature move, one that might have to be put on the shelf with Bell back in the fold.

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DON WRIGHT/Associated Press

STEELERS RUNNING BACK DeAngelo Williams ran over the 49ers’ Dontae Johnson during Sunday’s victory.

Legend passes

MLB: Pirates 6, Rockies 3

Yanks’ Berra dies at age 90

By MIKE STEWART Associated Press

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/Associated Press

THE PIRATES’ Aramis Ramirez pointed to the Pittsburgh dugout after hitting an RBI triple during the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game. Ramirez left the game in the sixth with tightness in his groin.

Win brings magic number to one Bucs can clinch playoff berth tonight

By MICHAEL KELLY

“When it’s official, it’s official,” Andrew McCutchen said long before San Francisco’s game DENVER — The Pirates chose ended. “If they happen to lose sleep over a potential chance to and we clinch tonight we can celcelebrate another trip to the ebrate tomorrow. I’d rather go to postseason. bed.”

The party would have Pirates manager Clint been put on hold anyHurdle met with some of way. the players after the game Starling Marte drove in and it was decided the two runs and Pittsburgh team wouldn’t wait closed in on its third around to find out its fate. straight playoff berth by “I brought the leaderbeating the Colorado ship council in here and Rockies 6-3 Tuesday they’re ready to go home,” night.

Hurdle said.

The Pirates reduced “We’ll figure it out from their magic number to there. If it happens, it J.A. one for securing at least happens. If it doesn’t, HAPP an NL wild card, but didwe’ll show up and win a n’t wait around at Coors Field to game tomorrow.” watch San Francisco’s game at All the Pirates need to wrap up San Diego. A loss by the Giants a playoff appearance is a victory would have put Pittsburgh in the tonight against Colorado. postseason.

Pittsburgh also kept pace with Instead of rooting on the NL Central leader St. Louis. The Padres, players showered and Cardinals beat Cincinnati to dressed in a subdued Pirates maintain a four-game lead over clubhouse while the Giants built the second-place Pirates, but a late lead during their 4-2 victo- Hurdle said his team isn’t looking ry. too far ahead.

Associated Press

NL CENTRAL STANDINGS Cardinals Pirates Cubs

W L 95 56 91 60 89 62

GB — 4 6

Reds Brewers

63 87 31½ 63 88 32

NL WILD CARD STANDINGS Pirates Cubs Giants Nationals

W 91 89 79 78

L GB 60 — 62 2 71 11½ 72 12½

“Our guys have great presence.

We’re in the moment,” he said.

“We’re not looking at yesterday, we’re not looking at the team behind us. We’re not looking at tomorrow or the team in front of us. We need to take care of our game.”

Pittsburgh scored in each of the first four innings against Chris Rusin to build a 6-3 lead.

Wilin Rosario’s solo homer in the third for Colorado cut it to 31, and RBI singles by Charlie Blackmon and Nolan Arenado made it 4-3 in the third.

Marte, who had an RBI double in the first, followed Aramis Ramirez’s run-scoring triple in the fourth with a single off the bag at third to restore Pittsburgh’s three-run lead.

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NEW YORK — The lovable legend of Yogi Berra, that ain’t ever gonna be over.

The Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his dizzying malapropisms as his unmatched 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, died Tuesday. He was 90.

Berra, who filled baseball’s record book as well as “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” died of natural causes at his home in New Jersey, according to Dave Kaplan, the director of the Yogi Berra Museum.

Berra played in more World Series games than any other major leaguer, and was a three-time AL Most YOGI Valuable Player.

For many, though, he BERRA was even better known for all those amusing “Yogi-isms.”

“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over” is among eight of them included in Bartlett’s.

“When I’m sittin’ down to dinner with the family, stuff just pops out. And they’ll say, ‘Dad, you just said another one.’ And I don’t even know what the heck I said,” Berra insisted.

Short, squat and with a homely mug, Berra was a Yankees great who helped the team reach 14 World Series during his 18 seasons in the Bronx.

“While we mourn the loss of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, we know he is at peace with Mom,” Berra’s family said in a statement released by the museum. “We celebrate his remarkable life, and are thankful he meant so much to so many. He will truly be missed.”

Berra served on a gunboat supporting the D-Day invasion in 1944 and played for the Yankees from 1946-63. His teammates included fellow Hall of Famers Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford.

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PAGE 17 • The Cubs’ Jake Arrieta threw a complete-game shutout for his 20th win of the season.

• The Yankees tightened the AL East race with a 10th-inning win.

KATHY WILLENS/Associated Press

FORMER YANKEES Derek Jeter, left, and Yogi Berra goofed around during a spring training game in 2008.

Vote could reflect golfers’ Cup opinion

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/Associated Press

JASON DAY celebrated his eagle putt on the 18th green during the second round of the BMW Championship on Friday.

ATLANTA — PGA Tour players might be voting on more than just their player of the year.

Depending on how the Tour Championship unfolds this week at East Lake, the vote could also be a referendum on how they view the FedEx Cup. No one thought this would even be a contest a month ago when the most significant part of the golf schedule ended at the PGA Championship.

Even with Jason Day finally breaking through for his first major title, this year

was all about Jordan Spieth. The 22year-old Texan won the Masters and U.S. Open among his four PGA Tour titles.

He missed the British Open playoff by one shot and played in the final group at Whistling Straits, where he was unable to make up a two-shot deficit against Day at the PGA Championship.

The only debate was where Spieth’s season ranked in PGA Tour history.

But that was the last great moment for Spieth. And it was just the start for the 27-year-old Australian.

Day began to overpower players and courses. He set a major championship

record to par (20 under) at Whistling Straits. He followed that with a six-shot victory at The Barclays, and then opened with rounds of 63-61 to blow away the field at Conway Farms for a six-shot victory in the BMW Championship.

That was his fifth win of the year — one more than Spieth — and Day went to No. 1 in the world ranking.

“I still think it’s him,” Day said on Sunday.

“But I’m hoping that I can go and win next week and get people talking about it a lot more.”

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Auto Racing

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The Indiana Gazette QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ... and maybe a few actual answers

SPEED FREAKS A couple questions we had to ask — ourselves Should they put the four Gibbs drivers in the Homestead finale and be done with it?

3 THINGS WE LEARNED AT CHICAGOLAND

Tapping the maples for syrup. One of the major industries in “Bostonland.” AP FILE From Chicago to rural New Hampshire? For the playoffs?

KEN'S CALL: Let's at least go through the motions first.

ROB'S RAMBLINGS: How about three and Ryan Newman. Come on, you have to root for Newman.

Yeah, I know, it's hard to get excited about the 1-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which just doesn't seem to arouse much passion among race fans.

But sometimes you have to cave to the marketing angle, and you know, Loudon is only about an hour or so from Boston.

Which non-Chaser, if any, wins one of the final nine races?

KEN'S CALL: I'm going with Greg Biffle.

ROB'S RAMBLINGS: Let's go out on a limb here. Kyle Larson gets first Cup win at Dover.

‘Bostonland’?

We're buying that one. Absolutely, if Chicago can actually mean Joliet, which is about 40 miles away, and you adjust by calling it Chicagoland, then why not?

Has anyone copyrighted “Bostonland”?

No? Even better!

You keeping up with the Xfinity Series points race?

KEN'S CALL: I know Jack Roush is. One of his cars is actually leading that thing.

ROB'S RAMBLINGS: Chase Elliott, agruably the best name for a driver, is just 28 points from the lead.

I'm rooting.

ONLINE EXTRAS news-journalonline. com/nascar facebook.com/ nascardaytona

Will Harvick calm down by Sunday?

Matt Kenseth holds the points lead after a fifth-place finish thanks to 12 bonus points he earned for his regular-season victories. USA TODAY SPORTS / MIKE DINOVO

1. Opportunity knocks A restart on Lap 263 of 267 shook up the entire race field, and it helped few drivers as much as Matt Kenseth. He spent most of Sunday's race trying to avoid going a lap down, but the late restart provided the opportunity for him to rally for a fifth-place finish and the Chase lead. "They got all bottled up on Turn 1, and I think I passed about eight of them on the first corner," Kenseth said.

2. The Grand Canyon of holes Reigning Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick starts this year's Chase in a ... well, actually a canyon. Contact from Jimmie Johnson's car following a Lap 135 restart caused some damage to Harvick's car that eventually led to a tire losing pressure, and Harvick wound up in a wall. He finished 42nd and would shove Johnson in a confrontation near Harvick's motor home after the race.

3. Newman again?

Yep, the Winless Wonder is back. If you recall, Ryan Newman missed last year's Chase title by about half a second after making the playoffs without a regular-season victory. We may have to start calling him Mr. Playoffs, because he's right back in the thick of things again this year — and again without a win.

Newman was 14th on the last restart, and passed 10 cars to wind up in fourth place.

— Rob Ullery, robert.ullery@news-jrnl.com

@nascardaytona

Questions? Contact Godwin Kelly at godwin.kelly@newsjrnl.com or Ken Willis at ken. willis@news-jrnl.com

SPRINT CUP POINTS 1. Matt Kenseth 2,052 2. Denny Hamlin 2,050 3. Carl Edwards 2,049 4. Kyle Busch 2,049 5. Kurt Busch 2,048 6. Joey Logano 2,048 7. Jimmie Johnson 2,045 8. Ryan Newman 2,040 9. Brad Keselowski 2,039 10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2,038 11. Martin Truex Jr. 2,035 12. Jeff Gordon 2,031 13. Jamie McMurray 2,028 14. Paul Menard 2,027 15. Clint Bowyer 2,025 16. Kevin Harvick 2,009 17. Aric Almirola 727 18. Kasey Kahne 697 19. Kyle Larson 656 20. Greg Biffle 634 21. Austin Dillon 604 22. Casey Mears 578 23. Danica Patrick 570 24. AJ Allmendinger 564 25. David Ragan 551 26. Tony Stewart 530 27. Sam Hornish Jr. 522 28. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 494 29. Trevor Bayne 489 30. Justin Allgaier 460

3 THINGS TO WATCH Kyle Busch comes into this next race perhaps as the favorite. Busch, who missed the front part of the season due to injuries, won in July at New Hampshire. New Hampshire has been a track that has been very good to Busch, too. He has finished in the top 10 in half of his starts here.

2. Brad's best New Hampshire may be Brad Keselowski's favorite track, at least as far as finishes go.

3. More shoving?

Kevin Harvick looks over the damage to his car after wrecking Sunday. Not a very good way to start the Chase playoffs. USA TODAY SPORTS / JASEN VINLOVE

Keselowski has seven top-10 finishes here in 11 starts and was the runner-up to Kyle Busch in July's race — which was not a bad performance since Busch was winning

If Kevin Harvick is out of contention early, you have to ask the question, "Will he strike back at JJ?" Harvick and Jimmie Johnson had a confrontation near Harvick's motor home after Sunday's race, which was triggered by contact following a Lap 135 restart. Sometimes these things are put aside once the next green flag falls. Sometimes not.

— Rob Ullery, robert.ullery@news-jrnl.com

KEN WILLIS’ PICKS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE Allmendinger DON'T BE SURPRISED IF: Allmendinger runs better than usual. He led 13 laps before settling for 13th in July at New Hampshire.

WINNER: Kyle Busch REST OF TOP 5: Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Jeff Gordon.

FIRST ONE OUT: JJ Yeley DARK HORSE: AJ

— Ken Willis, ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

FEUD OF THE WEEK

Harvick

Johnson

KEVIN HARVICK VS. JIMMIE JOHNSON: They bumped on the track, and nearly bumped some more in the RV lot after the race.

KEN WILLIS' TAKE: These are the emotions that keep the home fires burning if you're NASCAR. The Chase will bring plenty of hurt feelings. Just make sure the cameras are focused.

everything in sight (three of four races, to be exact). Keselowski actually led the most laps in that one.

1. Remember this guy?

Let's get this straight. If he'd wanted to fight with Jimmie in Joliet, he could've done it. But these guys simply don't fight. Too rich (i.e., soft) for that. And maybe that's a good thing. But still, an aggravated Kevin Harvick is always worth some entertainment points, and always worth a few extra horsepower, so look for him to contend this weekend.

WHAT’S ON TAP? SPRINT CUP: Sylvania 300 SITE: New Hampshire Motor Speedway TV SCHEDULE: Friday practice (NBCSN, noon ET), qualifying (4:30 ET); Saturday practice (CNBC, 9 a.m., 11:30 ET); Sunday race (NBCSN, 2 p.m. ET).

XFINITY SERIES: VisitMyrtleBeach. com 300 SITE: Kentucky Speedway TV SCHEDULE: Friday practice (NBCSN, 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m. ET); Saturday qualifying (4:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN); Saturday race (8 p.m. ET, NBCSN).

TRUCK SERIES: UNOH 175 SITE: New Hampshire Motor Speedway TV SCHEDULE: Friday practice (Fox Sports 1, 1:30 p.m., 3 ET); Saturday qualifying (FS1, 10 a.m. ET), Saturday race (FS1, 1 p.m. ET).

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken. willis@news-jrnl.com

WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE JOEY LOGANO Heading near the homeland this weekend

1

DENNY HAMLIN

KYLE BUSCH

KEVIN HARVICK

MATT KENSETH

CARL EDWARDS

BRAD KESELOWSKI

JUNIOR EARNHARDT

A nod to the current hot hand

Can compare limps with Hamlin

Driving angry (again)

New Hampshire weekends fit his style

Late-blooming as real contender

Looks like a maple syrup guy

Wins every few months; he’s due

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

JIMMIE JOHNSON

KURT BUSCH

Taking his turn in Harvick’s hive

Will wish he hadn’t let Chicago slip away

9

10

SPRINT CUP SCHEDULE AND RESULTS Feb. 14 — x-Sprint Unlimited (Matt Kenseth) Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 1 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) Feb. 19 — x-Budweiser Duel 2 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 22 — Daytona 500 (Joey Logano) March 1 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Jimmie Johnson) March 8 — Kobalt 400 (Kevin Harvick) March 15 — CampingWorld.com 500 (Kevin Harvick) March 22 — Auto Club 400 (Brad Keselowski) March 29 — STP 500 (Denny Hamlin) April 11 — Duck Commander 500 (Jimmie Johnson) April 19 — Food City 500 (Matt Kenseth) April 25 — Toyota Owners 400 (Kurt Busch) May 3 — Geico 500 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) May 9 — SpongeBob SquarePants 400 (Jimmie Johnson) May 15 — x-Sprint Showdown (Greg Biffle and Clint Bowyer) May 16 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (Denny Hamlin) May 24 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (Carl Edwards) May 31 — Dover 400, Dover, Del. (Jimmie Johnson) June 7 — Axalta “We Paint Winners” 400 (Martin Truex Jr.)

June 14 — Quicken Loans 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Kurt Busch) June 28 — Toyota-Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Kyle Busch) July 5 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) July 11 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. (Kyle Busch) July 19 — New Hampshire 301, Loudon, N.H. (Kyle Busch) July 26 — Brickyard 400 (Kyle Busch) Aug. 2 — Pennsylvania 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Matt Kenseth) Aug. 9 — Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Joey Logano) Aug. 16 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Matt Kenseth) Aug. 22 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. (Joey Logano) Sept. 6 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Carl Edwards) Sept. 12 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. (Matt Kenseth) Sept. 20 — MyAFibStory.com 400, Joliet, Ill. (Denny Hamlin) Sept. 27 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. Oct. 4 — AAA 400, Dover, Del.

Oct. 10 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 18 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 25 — Alabama 500, Talladega, Ala. Nov. 1 — Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500, Ridgeway, Va. Nov. 8 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 15 — Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500, Avondale, Ariz.

Nov. 22 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead x — non-points race

DID YOU KNOW? New Hampshire Motor Speedway is in Loudon, a town of 5,000-plus in Merrimack County. The town is named for John Campbell. Huh? Campbell was a Scottish soldier, leader of British forces during the French and Indian War — and fourth Earl of Loudoun. Not sure when they dropped that extra “u.”

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Ligonier repeats as champ HIGH SCHOOL GOLF

By The Indiana Gazette Ligonier Valley edged Homer-Center by one stroke to claim its second straight Heritage Conference Golf Tournament title on Tuesday at Chestnut Ridge Golf Course.

Ligonier Valley had four top-five finishers, including champion Jake Schott (78), and posted a team total of 335.

Homer-Center had no top-five finishers, but still managed to card a team total of 336. Northern Cambria and Blairsville finished in a tie for third (345), United placed fifth (358), and Saltsburg took sixth (409).

Northern Cambria’s Hunter Duriez fired a 79 and placed second. Ligonier Valley’s Al Vigliotti (82), Phil Cornell (83) and Brandon Silvis (83) finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively. Last year’s champion, Homer-Center’s Colin Moore, placed sixth with an 83.

United’s Kylee Surike shot a 96 to win the girls’ tournament for the second straight year. Homer-Center’s Abby Yancy placed second with a 99, and Northern Cambria’s Josie McKee finished third with a 106.

IHS SECURES PLAYOFF BERTH: Indiana shored up a spot in the playoffs and im-

proved to 10-0 by topping Greensburg Salem, 200-215, in a WPIAL Section 1AAA boys’ golf match Tuesday at Hannastown Golf Club.

The win set up a pivotal showdown with the only other unbeaten team in the section, Latrobe, today at Indiana Country Club. The match is a continuation of one that was postponed due to rain and lightning on Sept. 9.

“It’s nice to know going into our match with Latrobe that we’ve already wrapped up a playoff spot. It’s definitely a good feeling,” Indiana coach Dave Myers said.

Kyle Grube was the medalist and led Indiana with a 35. Ian Helsel fired a 36, Zach Schultz had a 49, C.J. Hughes posted a 40, and Frank Bevevino shot a 50.

INDIANA TRIO ADVANCES: Indiana’s Kyle Grube, Ian Helsel and C.J. Hughes advanced to the WPIAL Class AAA Division 1 boys’ golf semifinals by finishing under the target score of 80 at the Division 1 Section 1 qualifier Monday at Glengarry Golf Links.

Grube, the WPIAL Class AAA tournament runner-up last year, fired a 73.

Helsel shot a 77, Hughes carded a 78, Joey Bujdos had an 84, and Zach Schultz posted an 88.

“It wasn’t easy playing this tournament at Glengarry,” Indiana coach Dave Myers said. “We don’t play at that course in our section, and to make things more tricky, most of the pins weren’t placed near the middle of the greens. We didn’t have many kids from our section advance, but had the pins been in the middle of the greens, there would have been several more.”

The WPIAL semifinals will be held at either The Links at Spring Church or Butler’s Golf Course in Elizabeth at a date and time to be announced.

INDIANA’S EVERETT QUALIFIES: Indiana’s Logan Everett qualified for the WPIAL Class AA girls’ golf championships by finishing in a tie for fifth at the WPIAL Section 3-AA qualifier on Tuesday at Scenic Links of Westmoreland.

Everett carded a 42 in the first round and a 44 in the second to finish with an 86.

Gabby Groman, who didn’t advance, placed 11th with a 102. Groman was Indiana’s only other top-15 placewinner.

Jill Black and Christine Evans shot 120s, and Brooke Evans fired a 126.

Indiana sweeps third victory HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL

By The Indiana Gazette Indiana swept host Yough, 25-14, 2513, 25-19, in a WPIAL Section 3-AA girls’ volleyball match Tuesday.

Lauren Peightal led Indiana with 10 kills. Erin Fanning had eight kills, Rebecca Olechovski added seven kills, Shannon Ream chipped in six kills, and Bri Dillon racked up 28 assists.

Indiana won the junior varsity match, 2-0.

Indiana (3-2, 1-2 section) plays host to Southmoreland on Thursday.

MARION CENTER 3, BLAIRSVILLE 2: Host Marion Center edged Blairsville, 25-17, 25-20, 22-25, 16-25, 16-14, in a Heritage Conference match.

Morgan Glasser paced the Stingers with 13 kills and five digs. Hannah Peterson had seven kills and three blocks, Jackie Fetsko tallied four blocks, Trinity Ashbaugh had 11 digs, and Mia Oterson dished out 34 assists.

Marion Center won the junior varsity match, 25-17, 25-23.

Both teams play Thursday. Marion Center (1-3) visits Northern Cambria, and Blairsville welcomes Ligonier Valley.

PURCHASE LINE 3, HOMER-CENTER 0: Host Purchase Line stayed unbeaten in

Penns Manor won the junior varsity match, 25-22, 25-19.

Both teams play Thursday. Ligonier Valley (3-2, 2-2 conference) travels to Blairsville, and Penns Manor (2-2) plays host to Purchase Line.

the Heritage Conference by sweeping Homer-Center, 25-22, 25-7, 25-8.

Jordan Barr powered the Red Dragons with 15 service points, eight kills, seven aces and a block. Jaycelyn Fleming added 14 kills and two blocks, Allison Goodlin had 16 service points, Sarah Smith tallied five kills and a block, Mikhala Stover had 10 service points, and Carly Mumau added four kills.

Purchase Line won the junior varsity match, 25-17, 25-14.

Both teams play Thursday. Purchase Line (5-1, 4-0 conference) travels to Penns Manor, and Homer-Center plays host to United.

NORTHERN CAMBRIA 3, UNITED 1: Northern Cambria defeated United, 25-26, 2518, 25-19, 25-12, in a Heritage Conference match.

Mechin Flowers led United with six kills and seven blocks. Kaylee Keilman added 15 service points and seven digs, Daeva Simmons had 10 digs, and Haley Gajewski chipped in 25 assists.

Northern Cambria won the junior varsity match, 2-0.

Both teams play Thursday. United (04) visits Homer-Center, and Northern Cambria plays host to Marion Center.

LIGONIER VALLEY 3, PENNS MANOR 0: Host Ligonier Valley swept Penns Manor, 25-21, 25-17, 25-17, in a Heritage Conference match.

Kirsten Smith paced the Rams with 12 service points, nine kills and two aces.

Shelbi Shearer added seven kills and eight service points, Ava Kurtz had eight service points, and Halie Pahach and Rachel Horrell tacked on five blocks apiece.

WEST SHAMOKIN 3, DERRY 0: West Shamokin ran its record to 3-0 by blanking host Derry, 25-17, 25-21, 25-22, in a WPIAL Section 3-AA match.

For the Wolves, Katie Glover racked up 15 kills, Sierra Dailey had 36 assists, and Andrea Orlosky added nine kills.

Derry won the junior varsity match, 21.

West Shamokin travels to Greensburg Salem on Thursday.

Backups will stay in the mix Continued from Page 13 “The bow is classy and I like to consider myself a classy guy,” Williams said. “I wear tuxedo T-shirts. It says I’m a classy guy, but I’m here to party.”

Even if Williams returns to wallflower status for long stretches with Bell cleared, though a visibly humbled Bell — whose suspension resulted from his arrest on drug and DUI charges in August 2014 — made sure to downplay his impact after watching the 32year-old Williams turn back the clock.

“He played great, but that didn’t surprise me at all,” Bell said. “I’ve been watching him for a long time, so I thought he did everything I was expecting him to do and more. I’m glad to be able to come back and help him out a little bit.”

Bell finished second in the league in allpurpose yards in 2014 and trimmed his body fat to 4 percent during the offseason. He believes he’s in the best shape of his 23-year-old life and is easily one of the best receiving backs in the NFL. Yet Williams showed there is plenty of power left in his legs even after a decade in

the pros. His three short scoring runs against San Francisco highlighted his ability to find a crease at the goal line or create one on his own, something Bell is still working on.

“He showed he can come in and help this team,” Bell said. “We are different styles of runners, so I think they will use us both.”

And the Steelers figure to find a way to keep Heyward-Bey in the mix even after Bryant completes his suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.

Bryant spent the past two weeks working out away from the team, though Tomlin stressed Pittsburgh is “doing what’s appropriate under the circumstances” to make sure Bryant avoids further trouble.

In Bryant’s absence, Heyward-Bey has shown flashes of why Oakland took him in the first round in the 2009 draft. He atoned for a miscue against New England — when he failed to get both feet down in the end zone despite being wide open — by running a perfect post route for a 35-yard touchdown.

One sure way to keep Heyward-Bey — like Williams — in the mix on an offense that could be among the league’s most potent.

Vote could tell golfers’ opinions Continued from Page 13 The ballots will be emailed to PGA Tour players on Sunday night after the Tour Championship following what amounts to the last campaign stop at East Lake.

A victory for Day would give him six wins and a major. To put that into context, only four other players over the last 40 years have won six times in one season on the PGA Tour — Tom Watson (1980), Nick Price (1994), Vijay Singh (2004) and Tiger Woods (six times).

If he were to win, then it really would be a tale of two seasons.

Spieth dominated the important part of the year. Day thrived during the bonus time of the year.

The FedEx Cup is not hitand-giggle.

It starts with the top 125 players on the PGA Tour and, with the value of points quadrupled, whittles the field down to the top 30 at the Tour Championship who all have a mathematical shot at the $10 million bonus.

A vote for Day might indicate how much importance players put on the tour’s postseason.

The whole debate starts with the assumption Day will win the Tour Championship, and the rate he’s been going, that’s not a stretch.

Rickie Fowler said his main criteria would be victories, though not just any title. “Majors. Majors are big,” he said.

Spieth already has clinched the money title even if Day were to win the Tour Championship. And while Day is not far behind, Spieth still has the

LOCAL SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL GOLF BOYS

INDIANA 200, GREENSBURG SALEM 215

Indiana — 200 Kyle Grube 35, Ian Helsel 36, Zach Schultz 39, C.J. Hughes 40, Frank Bevevino 50 Greensburg Salem — 215 Jack Oberdorf 38, Matt D’Amico 40, Sam Sweeney 41, Justin Pellis 48, Zach Heater 49

AROUND THE AREA

By The Indiana Gazette

Indiana takes section match Indiana defeated Mount Pleasant, 2-1, in a WPIAL Section 1-AA boys’ soccer match Tuesday at Andy Kuzneski Field.

Matt Conjelko scored a goal and dished out an assist to lead Indiana. Logan Tshudy scored a goal, and Hunter Scherf played in goal.

Indiana won the junior varsity match, 3-2. Brandon Brocious scored two goals, Caleb Sipos added a goal, Connor Ballas and Evan Ray had an assist apiece, and Joe Wilson and Parker Scherf shared goaltending duties.

Indiana (6-3, 4-1 section) travels to Derry on Thursday.

Lenze, Zolocsik lead IHS to wins KITTANNING — Sam Lenze and Melanie Zolocsik set records to lead Indiana to a sweep of Armstrong in a WPIAL Division 2 Section 4 cross country meet Tuesday.

Lenze posted a schoolrecord time of 18 minutes, 27 seconds in a 22-38 victory. Rocco Fanella placed third (19:24), Joe Weaver took fifth (20:23), Joey Bujdos finished sixth (20:40), Evan Weaver came in seventh (20:40), Noah Roadman placed eighth (20:41), and Issac Evans took 10th (21:16).

Zolocsik recorded a course-record time of 22:32 in a 15-49 win in which Indiana took nine of the top 10 spots. Isabell McCabe placed second (22:56), Hannah Lenze took third (23:07), Maddie Todd finished fourth (23:38), Shaelyn Waltemire placed fifth (24:19), Kacey Raible took sixth (24:22), Megan Kester finished eighth (25:45), Tian Schiera came in ninth (26:16), and Sydney Wells placed 10th (26:24).

Indiana travels to the annual Crimson Hawk Invitational at IUP on Saturday.

Derry girls blank McGuffey DERRY — Derry blanked McGuffey, 5-0, in a WPIAL non-section girls’ tennis match Tuesday.

Maria Palombo, Natalie Sarnese and Katie Enos won in straight sets in singles play. The No. 1 doubles team of Juliet Tatone and Maddie Johnston won in straight sets, and the No. 2 team of Harlie Hudson and Emily Dominick followed suit.

Derry (8-2) travels to Highlands today.

MCJH teams improve to 5-0

HERITAGE CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT

Team standings 1. Ligonier Valley 335, 2. Homer-Center 336, 3. Blairsville 345, 3. Northern Cambria 345, 5. United 358, 6. Saltsburg 409 Top Boys 1. Jake Schott (LV) 78, 2. Hunter Duriez (NC) 79, 3. Al Vigliotti (LV) 82, 4. Phil Cornell (LV) 83, 5. Brandon Silvis (LV) 83, 6. Colin Moore 83 (HC) Top Girls Kylee Surike (U) 96, 2. Abby Yancy (HC) 99, 3. Josie McKee (NC) 106

MARION CENTER — The Marion Center seventhand eighth-grade and ninth-grade girls’ volleyball teams improved to 5-0 with wins over Blairsville on

Tuesday.

The Marion Center seventh- and eighth-grade team won, 25-23, 18-25, 154, and the ninth-grade team won, 25-13, 25-12.

Indiana wins 7th-grade game Indiana lost to Plum 2216, in a seventh-grade football game Tuesday.

Ethan Marcozzi scored on a 40-yard run, and Kade Duffee scored on a 1-yard run for Indiana. AJ Nickas and Roderick Jones scored on two-point conversions.

Indiana plays host to Altoona on Wednesday.

Cignetti earns PSAC honor IUP’s Natalie Cignetti has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference women’s volleyball athlete of the week.

Cignetti helped IUP go 31 last week. A sophomore, she totaled 64 kills, and had a .336 hitting percentage.

The Indiana High graduate had four straight double-digit kill matches, with a career-high 20 coming in a five-set win over Notre Dame (Ohio). She also totaled 11 aces and also had three blocks.

Hogan’s Heroes defeats MC Bank Hogan’s Heroes defeated Marion Center Bank, 11-0, in an Indiana Over-40 League baseball game Sunday.

Brent Truman and Kevin Schrecengost singled and doubled for Hogan’s Heroes. Mike Rearick, Brad Boyer, Ryan Fritz, Nathan Kovalchick and Tom Harley had two singles apiece, Jim Hogan, John Lattanzio, Todd Raible and Dan Hogan added two RBIs apiece, and pitchers Tony Sottile and Brian Sharp combined to rack up eight strikeouts.

For Marion Center Bank, Dave McFarland and Dave Fairman had two hits apiece, and Matt Morrow struck out four.

Training session set for umpires A Students of Today are Referees of Tomorrow program for high school softball umpires will be held on three dates in October in the Hadley Union Building on the IUP campus.

All three sessions will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. The first will be held Oct. 14 in the Conemaugh Room; the second will be held Oct. 21 in the Conemaugh Room; and the third will be held Oct. 27 in the Delaware Room.

For information, contact Allen Williams at (724) 4647387 or awump13@yahoo. com.

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lead in the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average.

History would seem to favor Spieth.

Since the Jack Nicklaus Award for the player of the year began in 1990, only one player won two majors in the same season without getting the award. That was Nick Faldo in 1990 and he wasn’t on the ballot because he wasn’t a PGA Tour member.

DERRY 5, MCGUFFEY 0

Singles Maria Palombo (D) def. Anja Eashbaugh, 6-1, 6-2 Natalie Sarnese (D) def. Emily Cole, 61, 6-3 Katie Enos (D) def. Hannah Shaner, 6-0, 6-2 Doubles Juliet Tatone and Maddie Johnston (D) def. Jenna May and Kayla Boxendell, 6-3, 6-0 Harlie Hudson and Emily Dominick (D) def. Victoria Bails and Lauren Raysick, 60, 6-0

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Cowboys get Cassel from Bills IRVING, Texas (AP) — Matt Cassel is headed to Dallas in a trade as the Cowboys try to bolster their depth at quarterback while Tony Romo is sidelined at least seven games because of a broken left collarbone.

The Cowboys acquired Cassel from Buffalo on Tuesday, sending a fifthround pick in 2017 to the Bills.

Brandon Weeden is expected to start Sunday at home against Arizona, but Cassel is a veteran with far more experience than the fourth-year pro.

Cassell has 71 starts in 90 games over 11 seasons, not counting the opener this year when he took the first snap for the Bills with Tyrod Taylor lined up at receiver.

• MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In an effort to create a family-friendly environment on game day, the Vikings announced on Tuesday that they will install lactation suites at their temporary home, TCF Bank Stadium, as well as in the new stadium set to open next season.

The Vikings say two Mamava suites for nursing mothers will be fully operational by the time the team hosts the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct. 18.

The Vikings also plan to have the pods in the new U.S. Bank Stadium.

Each 4-foot by 8-foot unit is private and mobile.

They are furnished with benches and an electrical outlet for plugging in breast pumps.

Rio won’t spend on ceremonies RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The opening and closing ceremonies for Rio Olympics and Paralympics will be low-budget productions compared to three years ago in London, or in Beijing in 2008.

The austerity reflects the reality of Rio’s Olympics, which open in just over 10½ months and are caught up in the economic and political upheaval besetting Brazil.

The country is mired in a recession, inflation has reached 10 percent and there are calls to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.

Fernando Meirelles, the Brazilian filmmaker and part of the creative team, estimated Tuesday that Rio will spend one-tenth what London did on four major ceremonies.

“I would be ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation; where education needs money,” Meirelles told reporters.

“So I’m very glad we’re not spending money like crazy.”

London is reported to have spent about 80 million pounds ($104 million at 2012 exchange rates) on the four ceremonies.

Meirelles, who directed the film “City of God,” said the budget for the ceremonies had always been tight, although Rio organizers have clearly been cutting in the last year.

UCLA player reinstated LOS ANGELES (AP) — No. 9 UCLA reinstated cornerback Ishmael Adams on Tuesday, ending the junior’s suspension at three games following his arrest on suspicion of robbery.

The Bruins (3-0) also learned they’ve lost starting cornerback Fabian Moreau for the season due to a foot injury.

Adams learned Monday that he won’t face felony charges after allegedly taking a phone during a fight with an Uber driver Aug. 30, and Bruins coach Jim Mora decided the suspension already served was sufficient.

The Los Angeles district attorney’s office has referred Adams’ case to the city attorney for possible misdemeanor charges.

Adams started every game in his first two seasons at UCLA, earning allconference honors last year. He also returned kicks for the Bruins.

Sports hours 8 to 11 p.m.

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JAKE ARRIETA, shown in this multiple-exposure photo, notched his 20th win of the season in the Cubs’ victory over the Brewers on Tuesday.

Great Jake

Cubs ace Arrieta gets 20th win

By The Associated Press Jake Arrieta became the first pitcher in the major leagues to reach 20 victories, Kris Bryant set the Cubs rookie record for home runs and Chicago inched closer to a playoff berth with a 4-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.

Arrieta (20-6) struck out 11, and Chicago reduced to three its magic number for making its first postseason in seven years. The righthander retired 14 in a row in one stretch in becoming the first Cubs pitcher to win 20 games since Jon Lieber in 2001.

Bryant, whose April 17 debut was one of the most anticipated in Chicago in years, hit a two-run homer in the third off Tyler Cravy (08) to give Chicago a 2-0 lead. It was Bryant’s 26th homer, besting Billy Williams’ mark in 1961. Bryant added a run-scoring double in the eighth.

Arrieta became the first Chicago pitcher since Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins in 1971 to win at least 20 games and strike out at least 200 in a season. He also lowered his ERA to 1.88, giving him a chance to become the Cubs’ first qualifying starter with a sub-2.00 ERA since Grover Cleveland Alexander had a 1.91 mark in 1920.

Arrieta also lowered his ERA to 0.86 since the All-Star break, which would be a major league record.

CARDINALS 3, REDS 1: John Lackey pitched seven strong innings, rookie Tommy Pham continued his productive hitting and St. Louis beat Cincinnati.

Lackey (13-9) allowed only a first-inning homer by Jay Bruce during his 16th quality start in 16 outings at Busch Stadium. The veteran right-hander struck out seven, walked none and lowered his home ERA to 1.97.

St. Louis improved to a major league-best 95-56. Steve Cishek worked the ninth to earn his first save for St. Louis.

Since moving into the lineup eight games ago, Pham has nine RBIs, eight extra-base hits and is batting .407.

BRAVES 6, METS 2: Rookie right-hander Matt Wisler stopped his nine-start winless drought and Atlanta stalled New York’s push toward the NL East title.

David Wright homered as the Mets lost for the fifth time in seven games. They held their 6½-game lead over Washington, whose loss to Baltimore cut New York’s magic number to six for clinching the division.

DIAMONDBACKS 8, DODGERS 0: Robbie Ray pitched six innings of three-hit ball, A.J. Pollock and Paul Goldschmidt hit back-to-back homers in the seventh, and Arizona beat Los Angeles.

The Dodgers lost their fourth straight game, equaling their longest slide of the season, and their magic number for clinching their third straight NL West title remained at seven.

The Diamondbacks have won the first two games of the four-game series after losing their previous nine at Dodger Stadium. But the Dodgers have aces for the next two — major league ERA leader Zack Greinke tonight and reigning NL MVP Clayton Kershaw on Thursday afternoon.

Ray (5-12) struck out seven, walked two and escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first inning.

GIANTS 4, PADRES 2: Rookie Trevor Brown’s RBI double was his first major league hit and Angel Pagan had a two-run home run for San Francisco, which beat San Diego to pull within six games of first-place Los Angeles in the NL West.

Time’s running out for the defending World Series champions, who have only 12 games left. They trail the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games for the second wild card spot. The Giants have beaten the Padres six straight times and eight of nine.

San Diego’s Tyson Ross (10-11) struck out 11 to tie his career high. That gave him a careerhigh 205 for the season. His previous high was 195 last year.

PHILLIES 6, MARLINS 2: Cody Asche hit two home runs to help Aaron Harang get his first victory in over a month as Philadelphia beat Miami.

It was Harang’s first win since July 30, a span of eight starts. Harang (6-15) pitched seven innings, allowing two runs and seven hits.

Darin Ruf homered and Freddy Galvis had three hits and drove in two runs for the Phillies, who announced before the game that Pete Mackanin would be their manager for the 2016 season, dropping the interim title he had since taking over for Ryne Sandberg on June 26.

Marlins starter Tom Koehler (10-14) allowed four runs, three earned, in five innings.

Miguel Rojas hit a two-run homer for the Marlins.

AMERICAN LEAGUE YANKEES 6, BLUE JAYS 4: Greg Bird hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and New York beat Toronto to move closer in the AL East race.

Bird connected off reliever Mark Lowe (1-3) for the rookie’s 10th home run in 34 games and third in the past three nights.

Andrew Miller (3-2) pitched two innings for the win and New York closed within 2½ games of first-place Toronto. The teams meet for the final time this season tonight.

TIGERS 2, WHITE SOX 1: Rajai Davis’ two-out triple in the 10th gave Detroit a victory over Chicago, one inning after the Tigers lost a combined no-hitter.

Blaine Hardy (5-3) got the win with a scoreless 10th.

The Tigers were two outs away from the first combined no-hitter in franchise history, but Neftali Feliz, making his debut as the Tigers’ closer, couldn’t finish it.

With one out, Tyler Saladino tripled to break up the no-hitter and Adam Eaton, who had broken up Detroit’s attempt at a perfect game by being hit with a pitch in the seventh, tied the game with a single.

RANGERS 8, ATHLETICS 6: Delino DeShields hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the sixth four batters after Mitch Moreland connected for a tying two-run homer, and Texas beat Oakland to increase its lead in the AL West.

Chi Chi Gonzalez (4-5) pitched two scoreless innings for the win in relief of starter Martin Perez as the Rangers moved two games ahead of Houston.

DeShields hit another sacrifice fly in the eighth, while Shin-Soo Choo and Adrian Beltre hit consecutive sacrifice flies in the fifth to aid the Texas comeback.

TWINS 3, INDIANS 1: Ervin Santana pitched strong into the eighth inning, Aaron Hicks and Brian Dozier each had two hits and an RBI from the top two spots in Minnesota’s lineup, and the Twins beat Cleveland to start a critical series for the AL wild card chasers.

Minnesota trails Houston by two games for the second wild card.

Santana (6-4) turned in his fifth straight stellar start, surrendering five hits, one run and one walk while striking out seven.

Kevin Jepsen struck out two in the ninth inning for his eighth save in nine tries since replacing Perkins as the closer.

Danny Salazar (13-9) took the loss.

MARINERS 11, ROYALS 2: Robinson Cano homered twice and drove in four runs and Hisashi Iwakuma (9-4) struck out a seasonhigh 10 as Seattle romped past slumping Kansas City.

The AL Central-leading Royals have dropped 12 of 17. Their magic number for clinching the division remained at three.

Cano and Kyle Seager each hit solo homers in the first inning. It was Seager’s 25th home run and his seventh in 23 games. Cano hit a three-run shot in a seven-run third. His next hit will be the 2,000th of his career.

ANGELS 4, ASTROS 3: Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back homers in the first inning and Los Angeles held on for an important victory over Houston.

The victory moved the Angels 2½ games behind Houston for the second AL wild card.

There was one on in the first when Trout launched his 40th homer into left-center to make it 2-0. Pujols’ 36th home run extended the lead to 3-0.

Houston cut the lead to 3-2 when Marwin Gonzalez and Chris Carter hit consecutive solo shots in the second inning.

Hector Santiago (9-9) allowed four hits and two runs in five-plus innings.

RAYS 5, RED SOX 2: Mikie Mahtook hit a tworun homer and Matt Moore recovered from a difficult start to strike out seven as Tampa Bay beat Boston.

Moore (2-4) allowed two hits and walked two in the first inning as Boston took a 2-0 lead.

INTERLEAGUE ORIOLES 4, NATIONALS 1: Ubaldo Jimenez pitched six gritty innings to earn his 100th career win and added an RBI single as Baltimore beat Washington in the opener of a series between teams fighting to remain in the playoff race.

Jimenez (12-9), 31, won his third straight decision for Baltimore, which began the night trailing three teams and six games back for the AL’s second wild card.

The Nationals remained 6½ games back of the Mets in the NL East. But New York’s magic number to clinch the division dropped to six.

Bryce Harper set the Nationals record for walks, getting three that upped his season total to 118.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 — Page 17

Yankees legend Berra dies at 90 Continued from Page 13 “No! Say it ain’t so. He was a good man, my former manager and friend! RIP Yogi,” former Yankees star Dave Winfield tweeted.

Lawrence Peter Berra, the son of Italian immigrants, got his nickname while growing up in St. Louis. Among his amateur baseball teammates was Jack McGuire, another future big leaguer.

“Some of us went to a movie with a yogi in it and afterwards Jack began calling me Yogi. It stuck,” Berra told the Saturday Evening Post.

He was a fan favorite, especially with children, and the cartoon character Yogi Bear was named after him.

Until recent years, he remained a fixture at Yankee Stadium and in the clubhouse, where the likes of Derek Jeter, Joe Torre and others in pinstripes looked up to the diminutive oldtimer.

In 1956, Berra caught the only perfect game in World Series history and after the last out leaped into pitcher Don Larsen’s arms. The famous moment is still often replayed on baseball broadcasts.

After his playing days, Berra coached or managed the Yankees, New York Mets and Houston Astros. He led both the Yankees and Mets to pennants.

In 1985, his firing as manager by the Yankees 16 games into the season sparked a feud with George Steinbrenner. Berra vowed never to return to Yankee Stadium as long as Steinbrenner owned the team.

But in 1999, Berra finally relented, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch of the Yankees’ season-opener.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of a Yankees legend and American hero, Yogi Berra,” the Yankees posted on Twitter.

Berra, who played in 15 straight All-Star Games, never earned more than $65,000 a season. He died on the same date, Sept. 22, as his big league debut 69 years earlier.

Growing up, he was anything but a natural.

Chunky and slow, Berra was rejected by his hometown St. Louis Cardinals after a tryout in 1943. But a Yankees scout recognized his potential and signed him.

He reached the majors late in the 1946 season and homered in his first game.

The next year, he continued to hit well, but his throwing was so erratic he was shifted to the outfield, then benched.

His breakthrough season came in 1948, when he hit .315 with 14 homers and 98 RBIs while improving his fielding. In 1949, he compiled a .989 fielding percentage and did not make an error in the All-Star Game or World Series.

“I don’t care who the hitter

is,” Yankees Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel told the New York Journal-American, “(Berra) knows just how he should be pitched to.”

Berra was the AL MVP in 1951, 1954 and 1955. He holds World Series records for most hits (71) and games (75).

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972.

“You never think of that when you’re a kid,” Berra said. “But egads, you gotta be somethin’ to get in.”

Among his boyhood friends was Joe Garagiola, who went on to a career as a major league player and broadcaster. In rejecting Berra at the 1943 tryout, the Cardinals signed Garagiola, another catcher, instead.

Berra was born in St. Louis on May 12, 1925, the son of Pietro, a laborer in a brickyard, and Pauline Berra. He grew up in “The Hill,” or Italian district, with three older brothers and a younger sister.

Berra was forced to drop out of school in the eighth grade and go to work to help support his family. He took jobs in a coal yard, as a truck driver and in a shoe factory.

He continued to play amateur baseball, which brought him to the attention of major league scouts.

In 1943, his first professional season with the Yankees’ farm team in Norfolk, Va., was interrupted by World War II. Berra married his wife, Carmen, in 1949. The couple met in their native St. Louis.

Carmen died in 2014. Yogi is survived by their three sons: Dale Berra, a major league infielder, who briefly played for his father on the Yankees in 1985; Tim, who played one season for the NFL’s Baltimore Colts; and Lawrence Jr. Berra published three books: his autobiography in 1961, “It Ain’t Over ...” in 1989 and “The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said” in 1998. The last made The New York Times’ bestseller list.

In 1996, Berra was awarded an honorary doctorate from the state university in Montclair, N.J., where he and his family lived. The university also named its baseball stadium for Berra. The adjoining Yogi Berra Museum opened in 1998.

The museum houses Berra memorabilia, including what he said was his most prized possession, the mitt he used to catch Larsen’s perfect game.

He tickled TV viewers in recent years by bringing his malapropisms to a commercial with the AFLAC duck. (“They give you cash, which is just as good as money.”)

His wife once asked Berra where he wanted to be buried, in St. Louis, New York or Montclair.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Why don’t you surprise me?”

Bucs can clinch berth tonight

downplay how nice that Continued from Page 13 “Today was just one of should be when it happens, those days that I fell behind (but) we do have a bigger hitters and didn’t make goal. We’ll definitely celepitches when I needed to,” brate if and when that time Rusin said. comes.”

“When I got behind in the Mark Melancon pitched count and had to force my- the ninth for his 49th save, self to throw a strike, I either tops in the majors. gave up hits or the Rusin (5-9), who balls bleeded has the only two through.

Things complete-game vicdidn’t fall my way.” tories for Colorado The Rockies had a this season, labored chance to cut into the through four innings. lead when they had He allowed six runs runners on first and on eight hits and third in the fourth, walked four. but J.A. Happ fanned Charlie Morton (9Brandon Barnes and 8) makes his eighth ARAMIS pinch-hitter Kyle career start against Parker to get out of Colorado tonight. He RAMIREZ the jam. is 2-2 with a 3.74 ERA Happ (6-2) left after walk- overall against the Rockies ing Rosario in the sixth. The but lost his only start against left-hander allowed three them this season. Christian runs on seven hits and struck Bergman (3-0) steps in for out eight. ailing lefty Jorge De La Rosa.

“He managed the game It will be Bergman’s 28th apvery, very well,” Hurdle said. pearance this season but “He didn’t let the game get only his second start. His last away from him and he walks one was April 14 at San Franout of there with one walk cisco. and eight strikeouts. Made NOTES: Ramirez left in the pitches when he needed to.” sixth with tightness in his left Happ, who came to the Pi- groin. Hurdle said Ramirez rates from Seattle on July 31, got hurt rounding second on agreed with the decision to his triple in the fourth input off celebrating as a team. ning. … Arenado exited with “Most teams in the posi- two outs in the top of the tion we’re in now expect to ninth. He hit his face on the win games and be in the dirt diving for an infield sinplayoffs,” he said. “Not to gle by Jordy Mercer.

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Family

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EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE Recently I walked into Amy and Justin’s kitchen and my jaw dropped. It was like I’d stumbled into the wrong house.

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CABINETS: Our friends refinished their existing cabinets (the doors and face frames) with the RustOleum Cabinet Transformations Kit, which costs about $75 and covers 100 square feet.

The thing that gave Amy and Justin the courage and confidence to tackle this project themselves was the Rust-Oleum promise of no stripping, no sanding, no priming and no special skills required.

While their cabinets are made of wood, this product will also transform melamine, metal and laminate cabinetry.

Of the three colors offered (white, espresso and cabernet), they chose espresso. There is no way anyone would look at these cabinets and say this looks like a DIY project done by novices who must have gotten in over their heads (what the average person would worry about, I’m sure).

A less expensive option would be to spruce up shabby cabinets with a coat of paint.

For the price, quality and durability you really can’t beat Behr Premium Plus Ultra Satin Enamel, $39 per gallon at Home Depot.

HARDWARE: Replacing the cabinet hardware can completely transform the look of cabinets — even if you do not refinish them first.

Cosmas makes a great oilrubbed bronze cabinet round knob for as little as $1.15 per knob in a pack of 25.

COUNTERS: Newly finished cabinets could enliven the countertops, but it’s more likely they will make them look tired and worn by comparison. Not to worry!

You may have some great options.

The folks at Rust-Oleum also manufacturer a counter Transformations Kit that will give old laminate countertops the beautiful look of natural stone (about $165 to cover 50 square feet or 20 linear feet). This RustOleum product is durable, made to last for many years.

Another option to consider is the Giani Granite Paint Kit that will transform cultured marble, ceramic tile and laminate countertops into the beauty of granite ($80 to cover 35 square feet). This waterbased product promises automotive-grade durability, too.

Once you have your cabinets and countertops looking good, you may decide to tackle the floor. Should you opt for something like Armstrong Coastal Living L3051 White Wash Walnut laminate flooring, expect to pay about $3.50 per square foot. The “lock and load” floating method of installation makes this kind of flooring another easy DIY project.

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Family Life Ministries will present Weekend to Remember, a life-changing event for couples wanting to strengthen their relationship with Christ and one another. Western Pennsylvania has two different locations and weekends to choose from: • Nov. 13 to 15, Pittsburgh Marriott North, Cranberry • Nov. 20 to 22, Double Tree by Hilton Pittsburgh, Monroeville The discount code: INDIANAIDO can be used to receive a discount of $99 from the total conference cost per couple.

Please remember to book your hotel room. The hotel cost can be discounted by using the Family Life block to book your room. Senior pastors, full-time associate pastors, active and reserve military people and their spouses are eligible for free conference registration (hotel fees still apply).

For more information, email Kevin and Heather Porter at Afteridoministry@gmail.com, visit Familylife.com/weekendtoremember or call (800) FL-TODAY to register.

BA HARRINGTON taught Josh McCoy, a senior safety science major from Marion Center, during a class Tuesday in her woodshop in Sprowls Hall.

IUP woodworking professor to speak at luncheon meeting Indiana University of Pennsylvania Department of Art faculty member BA Harrington, co-director of The Wood Center at IUP and assistant professor of woodworking, will speak at the Oct. 7 luncheon meeting of the Retired Faculty and Administrators of IUP. She will describe the university’s woodworking program and the center, which occupies an entire level of Sprowls Hall and provides

professional development for the emerging wood artist. Harrington will speak specifically on the center’s unique ability to process trees felled on campus due to disease, new construction or an act of nature, like the oak that fell in a windstorm this summer, into lumber for use in student projects.

Professor Emeritus Chris Weiland began this “Harvestto-Use” initiative in 2004

when the center purchased a Wood-Mizer portable bandsaw mill.

All faculty members and administrators retired from IUP are invited to the Rustic Lodge luncheon, which will begin at 11:45 a.m. Reservations are required and should be made as soon as possible with Sandy Burwell, the group’s secretary, at (724) 463-7759.

John Butzow is the organization’s president.

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LIZ SHAFER, who recently competed in an Iron Man competition, trained with her daughter Mary, 2, in Monroe, Mich.

Mom balances family with competitive distance running

By JEFF MEADE Monroe News

MONROE, Mich. — Life would seem to be busy enough without sports for Liz Shafer, of Monroe, Mich.

The 38-year-old has a husband and four children ranging in age from 11 to 2. She has home-schooled her kids for the past two years.

But Shafer also is an accomplished athlete who has run numerous marathons and half-marathons, including the Boston Marathon.

She recently took up iron man triathlons, competing in a half ironman contest in Muncie, Ind., this summer.

Her time for the 1.2-mile swim, 5.6-mile bike race and 13.1-mile run was 6 hours, 23 minutes.

“My husband says, ‘Why can’t you sit still?’” she said.

“I’m kind of a Type A, goaldriven person. I’m very active. I’m not a sit-still type.

“Somehow through the grace of God it all fits in. I’m very blessed.”

Shafer grew up in Paw Paw and ran track and cross country in high school. She got married in 1999 and lived in the Lansing area until moving to Monroe eight years ago when her husband, Mike, began working for DTE Energy.

The Shafers have two girls and two boys — Maddie, 11; Will, 8; Zeke, 7; and Mary, 2 — who all support their mother’s activities.

“I did my first endurance race in 2000,” she recalled. “I ran a 25K (15.6 miles), the Fifth Third Riverbank Run, kind of to stay in shape. Then I did a marathon.

Shafer ran the 2001 Detroit Free Press Marathon. She did the Chicago Marathon in 2002, then had a baby and

began taking grad classes.

She qualified for Boston, then suffered a stress fracture that required her to wear a boot for six weeks. Told she could only swim and bike while recuperating, she bought a bicycle and started training for her new hobby of triathlons.

She already had three children when she ran the Boston Marathon in 2011.

She ran a very impressive 3 hours, 38 minutes for the 26.2 miles.

“It went fantastic,” she said.

“It’s super hilly. The first half is all downhill. By mile 20, it seriously feels like someone hit your quads with a baseball bat. The atmosphere there is like nothing else.”

Less than two weeks later she was in California running the Big Sur International Marathon, giving her two marathons in 10 days.

She has run six marathons and many more halfmarathons. Then her husband suggested she compete in a half ironman contest.

“When I first started doing triathlons, I got some lessons at the Y,” she said. “It was a painful process, to say the least. Very slow. I had very terrible form.”

Now she has done seven sprint triathlons, one Olympic distance triathlon and now her first half ironman triathlon, the Half IronMan Muncie.

“There were almost 2,000 athletes out there,” Shafer said. “It was over six hours.

The kids went to grandma’s again. They were OK with that.”

Her husband frequently runs with her during workouts and travels to her competitions.

“My kids love it. They thought it was so cool that their mom was going to a half ironman this summer,” she said. “But somebody is usually watching them when I compete. For my own sanity and for my husband who is usually my support crew, it’s easier not to have the kids around.”

She actually had a certified triathlon coach — Jael Morgan, who is married to her husband’s college roommate — for the half ironman.

“My biggest thing was nutrition, making sure I had enough calories in during the race,” she said. “You pick an effort (pace) you know you can sustain for a very long time. Cycling is the toughest for me. I have the endurance for it, but it’s the leg strength.”

Six weeks into her training for the half ironman, Shafer’s back stiffened up, but she fought through it.

She trains twice a day before a big event, running in the early morning and again in the afternoon or evening.

“My husband and I run together,” she said. “I’m the talker.”

The Shafers are members of St. Michael’s Church in Monroe and stay busy with their children’s sports and activities. Maddie runs cross country at Trinity Lutheran and rides horses. Will and Zeke are in gymnastics and soccer.

“I love what I do,” Shafer said. “One of the biggest things I’ve learned is, always know your why. Why are you doing something?

“For one, I love it. Each race kind of has its own goal. It’s a talent that God has given me and I’m also determined to do it for my kids. They love it, too.”

TEEN VOLUNTEERING Teens, did you know volunteer service can transfer to work experience and looks great on your college application? Volunteering is fun because you get to decide to work in a field that interests you.

Interested in environmental work?

• Evergreen Conservancy can use your help with water monitoring and other environmental projects.

Minimum age: 16.

Contact (724) 471-6020 or (724) 463-8138.

Thinking about becoming a veterinarian?

• Indiana County Humane Society could use your assistance. Volunteers are needed to clean kennels, walk dogs and raise funds.

Minimum age: 18.

Contact Lisa Wier at (724) 465-7387.

• Four Footed Friends is looking for general office workers, animal care volunteers and dog walkers.

Minimum age: 18, younger with parental supervision.

Call (724) 349-1144.

Do museums interest you?

• Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County has positions available for library volunteers.

Minimum age: 12. Call (724) 463-9600.

Is the education field your passion? There are several places to get experience.

• Aging Services Inc. is looking for volunteers to help seniors with crafts, trips, computer training and special events.

Minimum age: 18.

Contact Jim McQuown at (724) 349-4500.

• Torrance State Hospital is asking volunteers to help their residents with tutoring, the library and special events.

Minimum age: 16.

Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

• Indiana Free Library is looking for teens to shelve books from 3-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Minimum age: 16.

Contact John Swanson at (724) 465-8841.

Thinking your field is medical or social work?

• Communities at Indian Haven has openings for teens to assist residents with activities, bring appropriate pets to visit, share craft ideas/skills, and join its adopt-a-grandparent program.

Minimum age: 13. Call (724) 465-3900.

• American Red Cross is looking for volunteers to help with blood drives and CPR/FA instruction.

Minimum age: 16, younger with parental supervision.

(18 for instructors).

Contact (724) 465-5678.

• VNA Family Hospice can use help in providing respite care for patients and families, doing errands for families, reading and other activities for patients.

Minimum age: 16 Contact Mary Edith Cicola at (724) 463-8711.

Busy with school and extracurricular activities? You can still volunteer.

Special event volunteers are needed for: • Indiana County Community Action Program Inc. (Care and Share Day, food collection days.) Call (724) 465-2657.

• Indiana County Humane Society (fundraising). Contact Lisa Wier at (724) 465-7387.

• Four Footed Friends. Call (724) 349-1144.

• Torrance State Hospital (Run for Mental Health, patient/family picnic, auction in October). Contact Donnalee Fleming at (724) 459-4464.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Kristin Bell, Homer City • Sidney Buckman Greiner, Patton • Marcie Chronosky, Indiana • Doris Daskivich, Indiana • Melissa Hoover, Homer City • Jordan Huey, Clymer • Maleah Orr, Creekside • Jesse Sam, Latrobe • Barry Toldi Jr., Kent 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.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Page 21

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heroes Rebornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; revives creator Kringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heroic saga

By FRAZIER MOORE

and I certainly was never a sci-fi writer. I never tried to hide that I was not of that world. I was a bit of an interloper in that world, as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very quick to admit to everybody.â&#x20AC;?

Kring on his reborn series:

AP Television Writer

TIME MARCHES ON

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroes,â&#x20AC;?

NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mystic, globe-spanning thriller, aired from 2006 to 2010, then was unceremoniously canceled.

Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroes Reborn,â&#x20AC;? airing as a 13episode limited series that debuts with a two-hour opener Thursday at 8 p.m.

As before, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a trippy meditation on unsuspecting individuals who, to their delight or dismay, have been vaulted to extraordinary levels of ability. But unlike the original series, their special status as so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evosâ&#x20AC;? is now known to the world, which views them with suspicion or worse, especially after a terrorist attack for which they are deemed to be responsible.

Jack Coleman returns from the original series, with newcomers including Ryan Guzman, Zachary Levi, Robbie Kay, Danika Yarosh, Henry Zebrowski, Rya Kihlstedt and Judi Shekoni.

Once again, Tim Kring, 58, serves as the creator and an executive producer.

Here are reflections from

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get that fifth season, I have always thought there was an unfinished nature to all of this. But time has really changed what that might be, and for the better, I think, now that we have the benefit of five yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; distance.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how many days our premiere is from the airdate of the final episode (Feb. 8, 2010), but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the exact time span since the story left off. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re treating this as if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the fifth season, but the 10th season, as though there were actually unseen seasons that took place in between.â&#x20AC;?

SMOOTH TRANSITION â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a brand-new writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; room, and that was very good, because I wanted this to be brand-new idea. I wanted to honor the previous show and its mythology: an indeterminate number of ordinary people around the world waking up to discover they have some sort of unique abilities, and layered on top of that, the idea that we always have to save the

Penn files $10M lawsuit against â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Empireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; co-creator

By The Associated Press NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sean Penn on Tuesday filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empireâ&#x20AC;? co-creator Lee Daniels over comments Daniels made comparing him to the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star Terrence Howard, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been repeatedly accused of domestic violence.

Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comments appeared online about a week ago in the entertainment publication The Hollywood Reporter in a story about the upcoming season of the popular Fox television show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That poor boy (Terrence) ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done nothing different than Marlon Brando or Sean Penn, and all of a sudden heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some ... demon,â&#x20AC;? Daniels said in the article. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sign of time, of race, of where we are right now in America.â&#x20AC;?

Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawsuit, filed in Manhattan civil court, says Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; statements were egregious and injured Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credibility and reputation personally, professionally and in his philanthropic activities.

Penn has won two best actor Oscars, for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mystic Riverâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Milk.â&#x20AC;? He has made a major humanitarian push in Haiti after it was devastated by an earthquake, cofounding the J/P Haitian Relief Organization.

But he also has a reputation for angry behavior.

In 2010, he pleaded no contest to vandalism after he kicked a celebrity photographer, but the case later was dismissed.

In the 1980s, he was in court in connection with fisticuffs and spitting. He beat a man he thought was trying to kiss Madonna in a nightclub, and he admitted driving recklessly and punching an extra on the set of the movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colors.â&#x20AC;?

His attorney Mathew Rosengart said the lawsuit isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just about Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sean has been the subject of numerous baseless attacks over the years, as the complaint provides, and this is

PEOPLE only the most recent example,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Daniels is the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Precious: Based on the Novel â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Sapphire,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Paperboyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Butler.â&#x20AC;?

The new season of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empire,â&#x20AC;? which he created with Danny Strong, starts tonight. â??â??â??

ALBANY, N.Y. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Celebrity chef Sandra Lee, 49, says she is cancer free and feeling good months after a double mastectomy.

The Food Network star shared the news Tuesday morning on ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Morning America.â&#x20AC;?

Lee was hospitalized last month and had to have additional surgery after struggling with infection following her original operation in May.

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KIKI SUKEZANE stars as Miko Otomo in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroes: Reborn,â&#x20AC;? premiering Thursday at 8 p.m. on NBC. world from something. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a broad premise, and I wanted this show to occupy a new stage. I had always wanted to tell the story of what happens in the world after the world discovers these people.â&#x20AC;?

NOT A COMIC BOOK GUY â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my 30th year as a writer in Hollywood. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Crossing Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was my 46th pay-

ing job as a writer. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heroesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was my 47th. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heroes Rebornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is my 50th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have written all kinds of things, and my taste as a writer sort of mirrors my tastes as a viewer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; extremely eclectic. In a long career, you get known for the things that succeed the most, but they reflect only a part of who you actually are. I never saw myself as pigeon-holed,

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ways talked about as an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;event series,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the purity of that lets the audience know thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clear beginning, middle and end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An origin story is almost always the most interesting story, and once a character has learned all that they need to know existentially about what is happening to them, and what it all means, those big questions end up being replaced by plot questions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which are not as powerful and exciting.â&#x20AC;? (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the original â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroesâ&#x20AC;? lost its focus, and a chunk of its audience, in its later seasons, Kring theorizes.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;A show like this wants to repopulate itself, to recast, and I think we proved that here by adding so many characters. There has literally been not a single conversation about extending â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heroes Rebornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beyond 13 episodes.

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NOTICE BID NOTICE Bolivar Borough is accepting bids for the new construction of a 30’x40’ pole structure storage facility (garage) to be located at 3rd and Lincoln Street in the Borough.

1. Bidders may obtain a set of drawings and project specifications manual from Robson Architectural Services, 1289 Clay Pike Road, New Florence, PA 15944 (724-676-2239) upon deposit of $50.00. Deposit is non-refundable.

2. Bidders shall CAREFULLY examine the documents and the construction site to obtain first-hand knowledge of the existing conditions and limitations.

3. Submit all questions about the drawings and project manual to the architect by e-mail with “Municipal Garage for Bolivar Borough” as subject to rdrobson08@gmail.com. Replies will be forwarded to all bidders of record as Addenda.

4. Bids shall be based on the products or manufacturers specified. No approval will be given to bidders prior to the bid date for substitutions or products.

5. Bids shall be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope and addressed to: Municipal Garage for Bolivar Borough Bid, Attn: Arch Dodson, PO Box C. Bolivar, PA 15923.

6. Bids must be received by 5:00 pm on October 18, 2015 and will be opened and read aloud at a special council meeting to be held at the Borough Municipal Building at 6:00 pm on October 19, 2015.

7. Successful bidders will be informed by Bolivar Borough representative.

8. Contractors shall provide proof a PA Workers Compensation Insurance and Liability Insurance with the bid.

9. Contractor shall provide an affidavit and release of liens to Bolivar Borough upon completion of the project.

10. The successful bidder must provide Performance and Payment bonds on the date of execution of the Contract as outlined in AIA Document A 107, subsection 17.4.1.

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NOTICE Buffington Township Bid Proposal Sealed proposals will be received by the Buffington Township Supervisors 2nd class of Indiana County at the Municipal Building, Route 403, 1 mile South of Strongstown, or by mailing them to 1010 Route 403 Hwy South, Homer City, PA 15748.

Bids accepted until 7:00pm on October 5, 2015 for the following: 1. 1991 Chevrolet 3500 Cheyenne dump truck, standard transmission, 4x4 dual rear wheel, mileage is 74,190, truck has weak engine and a bad frame. Minimum bid is $1,000.00 2. Trojan articulated rubber tire loader, 4 cylinder Detroit diesel engine, engine and transmission runs strong, weak brakes and steering, tires hold air but are dry rotted.

Minimum bid is $3,000.00 3. 1967 Oshkosh Truck, weak transfer case, bed is in bad shape, no spreader or plow, not road legal. Minimum bid is $1,000.00 All vehicles sold “as is” and can be viewed at the municipal building.

All bids will be considered, however, Supervisors have the right to reject any bid. Phone 814-749-0422.

9/23

NOTICE EXECUTORS’ NOTICE Thomas A. Kauffman, Esquire Attorney for the Estate NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Mary A. Rhea, deceased, late of Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, have been issued to the undersigned. Those knowing themselves to be indebted to the said Estate are requested to make prompt payment. Those having claims against the said Estate are requested to present proof of the same for payment.

Veronica Graham and Bertha Cecconi c/o Thomas A. Kauffman, Esquire 52 South Ninth Street Indiana, PA 15701 9/23, 9/30, 10/7

NOTICE Lock Away Self Storage at 5347 Route 56 Hwy., Brush Valley, Pa 15720 will be having a public sale Saturday, October 3, 2015 for the contents of Unit #22 - Kevin Kirkland, (renter) for non-payment of rent. Unit is very full.

The unit will be opened for inspection at 9:00 a.m. at Lock Away’s option, the entire unit contents may be sold as one purchase. All contents must be removed the day of the sale.

Payment will be made in cash only. Lock Away Storage has the option to refuse any or all bids.

9/23, 9/26

NOTICE MICHAEL J. SUPINKA, ESQUIRE SUPINKA & SUPINKA, PC Letters Testamentary of the Estate of KAY LUCILLE WESTON, late of the Township of Washington, Indiana County, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said estate are required to present them duly authenticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to be indebted are required to make prompt payment.

Rodney Q. Fleming 1059 Davis Road Home, PA 15747 9/16, 9/23, 9/30

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Public Notices

NOTICE NAME CHANGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS INDIANA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA NO. 11433 CD 2015 IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Daniel C. Stiver NOTICE AND NOW, on Petition of Daniel C. Stiver, the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has set a hearing on the Petition for the Change of Name of Daniel Stiver to Daniel Zaffuto, for October 14, at 1:15 pm in Courtroom No. 3 of the Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana, Pennsylvania, when and where all interested parties may appear and show cause, if any, why the request of the petitioner shall not be granted.

Daniel Clair Stiver 537 West Lebanon Rd. Saltsburg, PA 15681 9/23

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Sunshine Notices

NOTICE Pursuant to the “Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act”, the “Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act”, “Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act”, the “Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Rules and Regulations and Clean Streams Law” notice hereby is given that Rosebud Mining Company, 301 Market Street, Kittanning, PA 16201, has made application to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for renewing its existing coal refuse disposal permit 32733708 and related NPDES permit PA0215503 known as the Greenwich No. 1 Coal Refuse Disposal Area. The current permit was issued on July 10, 1985 and will expire on July 10, 2015. This renewal is for water treatment only and does not contain revisions to the existing operation. The receiving streams for the permit are Douglas Run and an Unnamed Tributary to Douglas Run. The operation is located in Green Township, Indiana County and Susquehanna Township, Cambria County.

The site permit area is 118 acres (79 acres coal refuse disposal and 39 acres support area) and is situated 0.25 miles northwest of the Village of Greenwich, between Township Road T-922 and SR 1016 (Greenwich Road), and can be located on the Barnesboro, PA 7-1/2 USGS topographic map.

A copy of the renewal application is available for public inspection, and copying for a fee, by appointment at the Department of Environmental Protection, California District Office, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423. Written comments, objections, or a request for public hearing or informal conference may be submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection, California District Office, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423 within 30 days from the date of the final publication 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).

9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30

NOTICE The Glen Campbell Borough Council is now accepting bids for snow removal and ashing in the Borough. The municipality will furnish salt and anti-skid. Bids must be in by October 5, 2015 at 7:30 PM. List of equipment to be used for plowing and ashing to be supplies with bid. A Certificate of Insurance must be furnished upon award of bid.

The Borough Council has the right to reject any or all bids.

Mail Bid to: Debbie Cessna/Secretary Glen Campbell Borough P.O. Box 43 Glen Campbell, PA 15742 9/17, 9/20, 9/23

Houses For Sale

NOTICE

The Burrell Twp. Supervisors will be holding Budget Workshop Meetings for the preparation of the 2016 Budget on the following dates: (Monday thru Friday)October 12th-16th-, 2015 from 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 321 Park Drive, Black Lick, PA. Helen Olechovshi, Sec./Tres.

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Memoriams

427 Hamil Rd, 4-5 bdrm 2.5 baths, on 1.5 acres, was $240,000 reduced to $170,000. Can be owner financed. (724) 599-4986 for an appointment.

CLOSING APOLLO HOUSING CENTER! Merging into Vandergrift location (4 miles away).

Too expensive to move show models. 2-Story, Cedar Log Home, Modulars, Double Wides & Singles. Come make the deal of a lifetime!!! Riverview Homes – Rte 56 Apollo (724) 478-1991 NEW 2015 MODULAR! 1,725 sq ft home by Pennwest. 3 Beds 2 Baths, Front Foyer, Luxury Mstr Bath, Heating System incl. $116,900 Riverview Homes, Rte 22 New Alexandria (724) 668-2297.

Benjamin E. Hill, Jr. 9/23/57 - 8/24/13 NOTICE Public Notice Notice is hereby given that Rosebud Mining Company doing business at 301 Market Street, Kittanning, PA 16201 has requested a Stage 3 (FINAL) bond release for the Smith No. 44 Mine, Surface Mining Permit Number 32070102 which was originally issued on October 11, 2007.

This release is being requested pursuant to the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act. The permit area includes 183.3 acres and is located on the properties of Daniel J. Kovalcik and the Pennsylvania Game Commission in Burrell Township, Indiana County.

The permit area is located approximately 0.5 miles east of the intersection of Palmerton Road and State Route 22 and is located both north and south of State Route 22. Bond release is being requested for $4,530 on 20.3 acres. Total bond currently being held is $4,530. The Stage 3 area has been revegetated for five years and is capable of supporting the post-mining land use.

Written comments, objections, or a request for a public hearing or informal conference may be submitted to the PA Department of Environmental Protection, Cambria Office, Bureau of District Mining Operations, 286 Industrial Park Road, Ebensburg, PA 15931 within thirty (30) days from the final (4th) publication of this notice. Any correspondence must include the person’s name, address, telephone number and a brief statement as to the nature of the objection(s).

Smith No. 44 Mine Stage 3 (FINAL) Bond Release 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! One can only imagine how you celebrate your birthdays now. We think of you everyday, your memories are so very precious to us.

Love from all who proudly called you son (punkin), husband , Dad, & friend

In Remembrance September 23, 1975 January 12, 2008

PUBLISHERS NOTICE: All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.”

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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Lots & Acreage For Sale

STERLING HILLS Development, Indiana - Lots starting at $25,000 with Public Utilities. Call (724) 349-4914.

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Chad P. Robbins “Soaring with the Angels” Always in our lives and our hearts.

Dad, Patti, Brothers and Sisters

Furnished Apartments

EFFICIENCY $385 + electric, 2 bdr $650 + electric, 9 month lease no pets, move in now. (724) 465-8521 before 9 pm.

HOMER CITY: 2bdr, w/d, handicapped accessible $550/mo. Call (724) 840-5717 or (724) 464-7816 INDIANA: Close to Indiana Mall, 3bdr, 2ba, w/d incl., newer appliances, all util. incl., $875/mo.

724-349-7234 / 355-2368

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God looked around his garden and He found an empty place. He then looked down upon this Earth, and saw your tired face. He put his arms around you and lifted you to rest. God’s garden must be beautiful, He always takes the best.

He knew you were suffering. He knew you were in pain. He knew that you would never get well on Earth again.

He saw that the road was getting rough, and the hills were hard to climb, so He closed your weary eyelids and whispered “Peace by Thine”.

It broke our hearts to lose you, but you didn’t go alone. For part of us went with you the day God called you home.

Sadly missed by all who knew and loved her, Husband, son, daughter, and families

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Lost & Found

LOST CAT: all black female answers to Kizzy, West Elm St area, Homer City. Call (724) 479-5113. Much Loved & Missed

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Special Notices

A Divorce $219 Total.

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Davis Divorce Law, Pgh. No Travel. Free Info.

1-800-486-4070, 24/7

PA DRIVERS: Auto-Insurance-Help-Line. Helping you find a Car Insurance Payment You can afford.

Toll Free 1-800-231-3603 www.AutoInsurance-Helpline.ORG

ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ BRIDGE ♥♣♠♣ ❂ Your Birthday THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

by Eugenia Last Projecting a positive image can have a huge impact on your career.

Become involved in groups that reflect your beliefs in order to make interesting and impressive connections. Your reputation will soar, and you will receive respect and rewards for your efforts.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Travel will be an eye-opener.

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to visit other countries or attend cultural events. The more you learn, the more you will be able to share with others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Family matters will be overwhelming. Seek out an experienced counselor if you are having trouble coping. Airing your feelings to a third party can take a load off your shoulders.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Get out and socialize.

You can be the life of the party, but your attentiveness to a casual acquaintance will make someone you love jealous.

Don’t neglect your partner.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — With the right information, you will make a profitable investment. Don’t get involved in joint ventures. You will experience less stress doing deals on your own. Trust in your judgment and resources.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Don’t let insecurity prevent you from turning over a new leaf. You have the unique ability to adapt to any situation. A change in direction will prove to be advantageous.

PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Steer clear of gossip. There is nothing to be gained by listening to or passing along false or damaging information. Get the real story before you voice your opinion.

ARIES (March 21April 19) — Make a deal, investment or major decision and don’t look back. Your instincts will be right on the money, and you will come out on top. Romance is heating up.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Protect your assets, and don’t let anyone coerce you into making a donation or loan.

Stick with people you respect and those who aren’t trying to get anything out of your friendship.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Your straightforward way of expressing yourself will enable you to effectively sell your ideas. Present your plans to an audience of influential people in order to get the support you need.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Prepare to act quickly if you want to take advantage of a tempting offer. The deal won’t be on the table for long. Do everything you can to strike while the time is right.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t lash out in anger just because you are upset, or a rift will form. Think before you speak, and voice your opinions without making insults or accusations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Don’t give up just because the people around you are being negative.

Present your ideas to those appreciative of you and what you have to offer. Don’t be afraid to try something new.

COPYRIGHT 2015 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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Unfurnished Apartments

2 BDRM 1 bath close to Indiana schools, appl. includ. $600/mo plus util.

No pets. (724) 349-1669

Theresa Bush September 23,1923 June 30, 2006

The Indiana Gazette

ATTRACTIVE, 1 bdrm unit, carpeting, appliances, air, on-site laundry, off st. parking. Rent incl water, garbage, sewage. No Pets. 10mo lease $475/mo (724) 463-1645 CLYMER, 2nd floor, 1 bdr, $490/mo, includes heat, water, sewage & trash, no pets ,no smoking. (724) 840-2315 CLYMER: Large 2 bedroom, $450/mo. includes utilities, (724) 422-3607 COLONIAL MANOR 1 bdr furnished. & unfurnished. 2 bdr unfurnished. Call for info.

(724) 463-9290. 9-4pm. colonialmanorindianapa .com COUNTRY setting, 2 bdr garage apt., $550/mo, includes heat & sewage, no pets. (724) 479-2294 DUPLEX in boro: 3 bdrm, 2 bath, lg yard, Indiana, off street parking, $750/ mo. 724-349-7040 lv msg HOMER CITY: Two bedrooms, no pets, Royal Oaks Apts.

Phone (724) 464-9708 after 4 p.m.

INDIANA: 2 bdr, 3mi past Walmart on 286 2W $485/ mo incl. water, sew., garbage, non smoking, no pets. 724-388-2023 INDIANA: Avail. now!

Clean, 2nd flr, 2 bdr, carpet, appl., Non smoking, No pets $500/mo + gas/ elec. (724) 465-6807 NEW 1 bdr, Indiana, $540/mo. incl sewage, garbage & water. No Pets. Call (412) 289-0382 SPACIOUS One bdrm, Indiana. $490 month incl. sewage, garbage & water. (412) 289-0382 SPACIOUS 1 bdrm, $560 + elec. Great location + lots of storage! Dishwasher, a/c, frig, stove, off-street pkg. No pets, ns. Call (724) 349-2638

Business Property For Rent

CLYMER: 2 office/ commercial space. Completely remodeled. (724) 254-9300, 8:30a.m.-Noon

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Houses For Rent

2 BEDROOM, 2 story in Homer City, partial utilities, $600/mo. plus $600 deposit (724) 465-8617 2 BEDROOM, 2 story in Homer City, partial utilities, $600/mo. plus $600 deposit (724) 388-0685 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 2 car garage, ask about 1 pet, $1,100/mo plus sec. dep.

Drew (724) 388-3405 ATTRACTIVE 3 bedroom. Indiana, $675/ mo. plus util., no smoking, no pets, Call (724) 388-3337 INDIANA Boro: 3 bedroom, $650 plus utilities.

No pets. (724) 422-3464

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Duplex For Rent

BEAUTIFUL new, lrg 1 bdr, spiral staircase, appliances, carpeting, wood & ceramic floors, $675 + electric. (724) 388-0532 WHITE TWP., Apartment in beautiful Georgetown condos, 2 bdr, 1.5 ba, shared garage & basement, w/d hook ups, $860 month + utilities. Call 724-840-9908

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Townhouses For Rent

IN Town, 651 N. Sixth St. 3 bdr, 2 1/2 bath. 1500 sq.ft. $1,100/mo. (724) 464-9997.

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Mobile Homes For Rent

2 BDR, W/D, AC, Gas heat, sec. lt. $550 + $250 sec. dep. No pets. Non Smoking. (724) 801-8240 2 BEDROOM, 10 mins. from downtown Indiana, 1 bath, country setting, Call (724) 875-8966 2 BEDROOMS, No pets. on private lot. 6 miles W. on 422. $500/mo. + sec. dep. & util.

724-354-2317

Mobile Homes For Rent

ALMOST New 3/2 bd/ba home w/carport. No pets. $850/mo. (724) 471-2113 HOMER Center School District, some utilities incl, for more details call (724) 541-3265 or (724)541-3200

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Mobile Homes For Sale

1984 Parkwood, 2 bdr, leased lot Tyson Farms, all appliances included, $3000 obo. Call (724) 479-3263 TYSON FARM: 3 bdr, 1ba, $4,000 move in today. Close by 9/30 & rec.

1/mo free rent. We also have others. Call (724) 349-7300

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Business Opportunities

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR Walking Carrier Needed to deliver newspapers daily (7 days a week).

INDIANA •Northview Trailor Ct. If you are at least 12 years old, and you have dreamed of owning your own business.

Call Donna (724) 465-5555 ext 204.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

by Phillip Alder

HE MAY WORK IT OUT; THWART HIM ANYWAY Lord Byron said, “I know that two and two make four — and should be glad to prove it too if I could — though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert two and two into five, it would give me much greater pleasure.”

This is another deal like yesterday’s, in which a defender partly needs to estimate the declarer’s ability. But it is more pleasurable to beat the contract when you can.

South gets to five clubs following the lengthy auction

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given. After West leads the spade ace, what should happen?

North’s two-spade cue-bid only showed a strong hand: at least a good twelve points opposite a balancing double.

His three-spade cuebid was an unsuccessful attempt to get into three no-trump if South had a spade stopper. When South couldn’t bid three no-trump, North settled into five clubs.

West cashes two top spades, East playing high-low to show his doubleton.

If West continues with the spade queen, South ruffs and pauses.

Dummy has 13 points and declarer has 15. There are only 12 missing, but West opened the bidding. He must have the club queen.

So,South cashes the club king and runs the club jack through North to make the contract.

A more resourceful West spots one chance for the defense — if East can produce the club four. At trick three, West leads a low spade and hopes that East will realize what is expected of him. If East ruffs with the club four, West will gain a trump trick for down one.

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Help Wanted

Belt move crew position requiring:

Experienced Underground Miner Certification In the states of WV, and/or PA. WV Mine Foreman Certification a plus.

Experienced with underground belt moves, conveyors, belt structure, and belt splicing For Immediate Consideration APPLY ONLINE: www.complincestaffingagency.com Or Fax Resume to: Email: careers@ complincestaffingagency.com Fax: (724) 514-7629 EOE, M/F/D/V A NEW group of people are looking at the Indiana Gazette classifieds every day.

Don’t you want them to see your ad? We can offer suggestions to give readers a reason to call you first. Phone us at (724) 349-4949.

Help Wanted

DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL Fayette Resources, a local non-profit agency, is seeking caring individuals to work with adults who have intellectual disabilities in the Indiana County Area.

Full Time and Part Time positions available.

Must be 18 years old, have a valid Pennsylvania driver license and dependable transportation. Excellent benefits package available and competitive wages. Act 33 & 34 clearances and pre-employment drug screening conducted upon job offer. Fayette Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All interested applicants may download an application online at www. fayetteresources .org or in person at Indiana West Shopping Plaza, Suite 900, 2440 Philadelphia St, Indiana, Pa 15801 or Call 724-464-5270.

There will be open interviews September 28th from 10pm to 3pm in the Indiana office listed above.

READ your ad the first day it appears. Call (724) 349-4949 if you see errors.

FULL-TIME STAFF SUPERVISOR AND SCHEDULER Community Resources for Independence, located in Indiana, is seeking an experienced Supervisor/Scheduler to be responsible for the recruitment, scheduling, and monitoring of home care staff. High school diploma or GED is required. Experience in supervision, computerized staff scheduling, and Microsoft Office is required. Interested candidates may contact Alyssa at 877.347.4121 or send resume to: CRI, Inc., Attn: HR/Indiana Position, 3875 E. State St., Hermitage, PA 16148.

EOE

Direct Care Full-time & Part-time Direct Care staff needed to work in a home environment with adults with intellectual disabilities in the Indiana, Homer City, & Elderton areas. Staff assist with their daily living needs & socialization skills. Great benefits include 100% employer paid medical, dental, & vision for full-time staff.

Apply on-line: www.lifesteps.net or call 724-283-1010.

Apply Online: Helping Individuals and Families with Life’s Changing Needs

EOE/ADA

www.lifesteps.net

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Help Wanted

Experienced Window/Door /Siding Installers Wanted

Spend your time working instead of chasing quotes! Must have own insurance, truck and tools. Must be willing to work hard to provide customers excellent service and workmanship.

Fax Work Experience to 724-256-5662 or email windowworldkibsales@ gmail.com

Force, Inc. has immediate openings for

Truck Dispatchers.

Candidates should have strong computer, organizational & communication skills & be detail oriented.

Competitive salary and full benefits package.

Apply on line at www. forceincorporated.com

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Help Wanted

NOW HIRING BUS DRIVERS! $$$

SIGN-ON BONUS $$$

No Experience Required!

FREE PAID training provided by STA. We want YOU to drive with us.

Call 724-349-3944 or stop in, 395 East Pike Rd., Indiana Terminal TODAY!

Help Wanted

LICENSED INSURANCE AGENT NEEDED The Thomas M. Frick Insurance Agency, is in need of a full time licensed insurance agent / CSR to join our staff.

Please send resumes to: 56 S. 6th St. Suite 100 Indiana, PA 15701 or email to: frick. insurance@gmail.com Loving families needed!

FCCY needs caring foster parents for children who can no longer live at home. 1-800-747-3807.

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Medical Assistant

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.

Needed.

Full Time or Part Time Please fax resume to: (724) 463-6111 PEOPLE read the Gazette classifieds every day. It’s a great place to advertise.

Phone (724) 349-4949 to place your ad.

Furniture Delivery & Warehouse Work.

Send resume to: Douds of Plumville.

Po Box 681, Plumville, PA 16246

Steven D. Reinoehl, Auctioneer • PA License #AU-003550L

PUBLIC AUCTION

Saturday, September 26, 2015 Time: 10:15 AM (Preview 9:15 AM) Location: On Farm Near Cookport

SERVICE ADVISER

Glenn Bush Ford Is Hiring!

Service Adviser Needed Immediately For Customer Satisfaction Oriented Shop • Hourly Pay • Benefits • Free Health Insurance • Vacation Prior Automotive Customer Service Experience Preferred Call Aaron 724.478.4113

GLENN BUSH FORD INC. HELP WANTED: Day’s Inn, Apply within. 1350 Indian Springs Rd, Indiana

Directions: — follow auction signs.

BOAT W/TRAILER, HIT & MISS ENGINES, TOOLS, GLASSWARE, COLLECTIBLES, FURNITURE 14ʼ Aluma craft boat w/trailer and Mercury engine, Stover hit & miss engine. Walsh garden tractor (hit & miss), Sim.Tractor Roto-tiller, Navy Arms Co. 44 Cal. Per.revolver; TOOLS: 3 HP Roto tiller, 2-man saws, wheelbarrows, leaf blower, garden tools, tool boxes, plumber snake, 1-ton chain hoist, ladders, Ryobi 15” & 10” miter saws, chains, electric grinder, sander/planer, 18V circular saw, Makita cordless angle drill, old scythe; FURNITURE: Secretary w/ chair, BR suite, overstuffed chair, oak couch table, Rocker/recliner, coffee table, Lane cedar chest, stainless steel table, decorated steamer chest, platform rocker, theater seats; GLASSWARE: Stemware, tureen, Cobalt blue, pattern glass, Lennox, Stoneware setting for 8, glassware; MISC:Limited edition tractor prints, Goebel Hummel collectible plates, Lennox wildlife plates, Limoge plates, lamps, Thomas jewelry box, Hummel bells, cameo plate, 1894-1994 Barnesboro book, hunting clothes, cooler, Shrade, Oldtime, Kabar Knives, outboard motor fuel tanks, fish LO-K-TOR, 2 bottle corkers, Radio Control G gauge train set, small copper still, collectible toy tractors, many antique tractor and engine books, lumber, rag rug, Franklin Mint collectible cars, much more!

Visit website, auctionzip.com, Auctioneer ID #1716.

Terms: Cash or local check. 6% sales tax will apply.

Auction held under tent.

Food and Rest Facilities Available

Phone: 724-349-2798

AUCTION Sat.,Oct. 3 @ 9 AM

102 S. Main St., Homer City, PA 15748 INSTALLERS

Local Security Company seeking reliable, hardworking professional installers to join our team.

Experience preferred but not necessary. Email resume to: dynamarkofwesternpa@ yahoo.com

DRIVERS

Our Company is seeking Class A CDL drivers with two year’s driving experience. Hard working and motivated is a plus!

We currently run with flatbed. Compensation is 23% of daily line haul.

Weekly pay avg. is $800$1,200. Background check and drug test required.

We mainly run the tri-state area so drivers can have weekends off.

Contact Ken at 724-801-8489 for further information.

REAL ESTATE (OFFERED FIRST): This large, two story commercial building has a basement and off-street parking.

The second level contains 5 well-maintained apartments, making this offering an excellent investment opportunity.

Plan to inspect by appointment, or the day of sale.

TERMS: 10% down, balance at closing. Sale will be subject to confirmation by seller. Call for property data & sale documents.

“This sale location is the SIPOS HARDWARE, formerly SUTTER HARDWARE established over 100 years ago.”

NOTE: After the Real Estate offering, we will be selling antiques and collectibles that have been hiding in the basement and corners of storage.

Watch For Details or Contact:

QUIC-SALE www.quic-sale.com

724-726-5462

Mark E. Dixon III • Realtor & Auctioneer Lic. #2410

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Special Services

TREE MONKEYS

4 Pair Men’s athletic shoes, size 11, asking $20 for all, Call (724) 286-9140

We Specialize In Hazardous Trees

GIRLS Clothes size 10-12; 5 bags at $20. each. (724) 465-5859

Professional Tree Service - Pruning and Removal - Stump Grinding Fully Insured

724-465-4083 Monday thru Friday 11am-4pm Apply in person.

ORGANIST/CHOIR DIRECTOR

Needed at Hebron Lutheran Church, Blairsville For information call (724) 459-8920 leave message.

School Board Member The Marion Center Area School District is accepting letters of interest for a school board member from Region I comprised of Canoe Independent Township, Grant Township, East Mahoning Township, and Marion Center Borough. A letter of interest and resume should be mailed to Marion Center Area School District; Attn: Marcia Conner, Board Secretary; PO Box 156, Marion Center, PA 15759.

Deadline for letter of interest is Monday, October 12, 2015.

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 TRUCK DRIVER Full or part-time. Covered Wagon/Low Boy. Current CDL Class A, Two years experience. Local work, Home most nights, some dedicated runs. Excellent Pay, Health benefits, Vacation & Holiday pay.

(724) 726-0500

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Work Wanted

Cleaning Services

LADIES Tops: bag of 30, large, extra large, $20 for all. (724) 463-0060

DJ Construction

SEVEN Men’s sports coats, size 44, all in very good condition, $10 ea.

(724) 726-5414

Amish Construction Specializing in: Flooring & Trim Siding | Soffit | Decks | Roofs Pole Buildings | Metal & Shingle

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Free Estimates • Fully Insured

814-427-2731 Reynoldsville, PA

HAULING Need your unwanted items hauled away. Call 724-463-8254.

DESCRIPTION brings results. Use adjectives in your classified ad.

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Seasoned Split Firewood $160 cord. Delivered & dumped. (724) 479-0845

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Building Supplies

INTERIOR Door, 32” wide X 77” high, $15.

(724) 349-2171

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Antiques

KING’S CROWN thumbprint stemware, Four 8 oz ruby red & crystal. $15 each or $50 for all. (724) 465-8252

Fuel & Firewood

Machinery & Tools

AC/DC Lincoln Welder, seldom used, $300. (724) 463-8824 GRIZZLY Top model Lathe, like new, Cost $1,200. Asking $600.

(724) 463-8824

Machinery & Tools

SKILLED Table Saw, like new, $160. Call (724) 910-4297 SNAP-ON rim clamp tire machine, used very little, $2,500 & Midrise 6,500 lb lift. $2,500. Call (814) 948-8778 Vintage Atlas portable battery charger, asking $45. Call (724) 422-7870

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Household Goods

20 Gallon Crock for saurkraut, good cndition, asking $120. Call (724) 254-2239 Black Storage Cabinet , 4 shelves, good condition, asking $80. Call (724) 993-7203 Complete Queen size Bedroom set, includes bed, dresser w/mirror, chest of drawers, night stand, $450 for all - bedding also. Call (724) 783-5095 Desk, 6 drawer, dark brown wood, good condition, $90, Call (724) 993-7203

GAMBLE

Norman Rockwell PrintTitled surprise Picture, 13.5 x 16.5 framed, asking asking $25. Call (724) 471-2344

Sat., Oct. 10 @ 9 AM

TABLE- Porcelian top from the 40’s, 39” x 25” Height 31”, all white with red handle on drawer, have photos. asking $25.

Call (724) 465-4350

AUCTION #28 Cedar St., Coral, PA 15731 (Rt. 119 South of Homer City, PA)

REAL ESTATE: (Offered First): Home and Large Garage on Lot PERSONAL PROPERTY: (After Real Estate): Households, Collectibles, Automobile, Shop Items, etc.

Watch for developing details, or contact:

QUIC-SALE www.quic-sale.com

724-726-5462

Mark E. Dixon III • Realtor & Auctioneer Lic. #2410

-ESTATE AUCTION-

SAT., SEPT. 26, 2015 Preview 9A.M. Sale 10A.M.

New Alex Firemens Club

THOMAS Kinkade Pine pencil canopy bed, queen size, good condition. $350. (724) 354-5272

Only Chem-Dry Carpet Cleaning uses “The Natural”® for a deep clean that’s also green and dries in 1-2 hours.

CALL BRENDA AT CHEM-DRY® OF INDIANA COUNTY

724-286-3044 Independently Owned & Operated Serving Indiana County For 26 Years!

Remodeling Services

HANDYMAN FOR HIRE, INC Home Remodeling, maintenance & repairs. handymanforhireonline.com

See us on Angie’s list.

724-465-0297 PA12963

PA# 1621

AN HONEST & REPUTABLE CONTRACTOR SERVING THE AREA FOR 28 YEARS! 7248402143 8147490584

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Household Goods

TWIN BED mattress & box spring, motorized to raise and lower head & feet. $100.

(724) 549-6312 TWIN White Headboard, trimmed in wood , excellent condition, asking $35, Call (724) 349-3452 Utica hot water boiler, natural gas, 100,000 btu, 18” w x 27” d x 32 3/4 h, asking $300. Call (724) 422-7450

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Appliances For Sale

CHEST Type Freezer, medium size, works good. $75.

(724) 762-9317 WASHER/DRYER: LG, large capacity, electric, brush aluminum, front loader. Sets on drawers used for storage. 2 yrs old. Pd $3600 asking $1600 obo.

412-491-8361

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

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PET trim clipper set made by Barber King, never used. $20 Call (724) 349-3681 PLASTIC Pet Carrying case, $25 obo. (724) 479-8745

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Garage Sales

BLAIRSVILLE: 143 Ridge View Ave & Hazel St, behind DQ. Fri 9/25 & Sat 9/26, 8-2, Multi-family!

8370 Rt. 22 West, New Alexandria, PA 15670 4 legal sawed-off shotguns (12 & 16 ga), house holds, collectibles, furniture, linens, embroidery & sewing supplies, vintage & new clothing, advertising, old metal trunk, plus more.

TERMS: Cash or Check w/ID. Food & restrooms. All items to be removed day of sale.

Dean C. Zug, Auctioneer AU-003497-L

PHONE 724-388-3429 EMAIL: zugauction@hotmail.com

CLYMER: Near Penns Manor H.S., 9/24, 9/25 & 9/26. 8-4pm. Fishing & camping supplies, tools, adult & boys size 7-12 clothes; outdoor cooking & kids books, lots more.

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LUZIER’S Lawn & Landscaping. Commercial & Residential. Offering fall clean up, pressure washing & all your landscaping needs. (724) 599-0730 or (724) 254-9782

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Clothing

SAT., SEPT. 26

9:30 A.M.

905 Main St., Marion Center PA

PEDDLE CARS TOOLS COLLECTIBLES ANTIQUES Caplock muzzle loading rifle 1/2 stock, Granddaughter’s clock, glass door, bookcase, mantle clock, Water Berry Regulator clock, Sellers oak kitchen cabinet, table top Victrola, R.R. signal light, carriage light, license plates, rear air pump, oil cans & bottles, numerous peddle cars-tractors-fire trucks, large assortment of toys, Chevy clock, old Chevy & Model A car parts, 4 Goodyear model A tires 4-755.00-19” cedar chest, kitchen table & 6 chairs, Delta 12” portable planer, Craftsman 10” table saw, Grizzly Go 538 oscillating spindle & 4” belt sander, B&S 8 hp 4000 watt generator, 14” wood cutting band saw, Craftsman 6” joiner, router-cabinet & stand, Pro-tech 10” miter saw, porter cable plate joiner, saw blades, old tools, soap box derby wheels, J.D. 110 lawn tractor & many other items coming from a carpentry & hobby shop.

Check auctionzip.com #1010 for photos.

Refreshments & restroom on grounds.

Real Estate Sold TERMS: Cash or check subject to confirmation. No out-of-state checks.

OWNER: Boots Belardinelli

Pete Stewart & Son Auctioneers & Realtors

724-463-0715 • Lic.# AU-000904-L

Don’t Miss The Deadline to Advertise Your Garage Sale!

For Ads running: •Tuesday through Friday call before 1pm the day before.

•For Saturday, call before 12 p.m Friday.

•For Sunday, call before 1 pm Friday.

•For Monday, call before 4pm Friday.

(724) 349-4949

INDIANA: Forest Manor, 5300 Ferguson Rd, Fri. 9/25 & Sat. 9/26, 9am-3pm, Multi Family sale , Boyds bears, holiday decor, ty beanie babies, baby boy clothes, antique christmas dishes, baby swing, home decor, variety of new & used items.

INDIANA: 2 Day Moving Sale, 369 North 5th Street, Friday 9/25 9am-3pm and Saturday 9/26 9am-12pm, antiques, gift’s, unique items, new items each day. No Early Birds Please.

INDIANA: 119 Crystal Dr. 9/25 & 9/26 8-2pm, girls/women’s clothing, lot’s of infant items, bassinet, pack n’ play, strollers, households.

INDIANA: (MiMi) 472 Hammersmith Dr., Thurs, Fri. & Sat. 9/24, 9/25, & 9/26, 9am-5pm, fabric, sewing & quilting, books, patterns, quilts, sewing machine, furniture, household items.

Starford: 29 Parker St., Thurs. 9/24 & Fri. 9/25 9am-4pm, bicycle, clothing, households, holiday , bicycle, tv, misc.

“A CALL FOR QUALITY”

REAL ESTATE AUCTION

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 @ 6:00 PM 252 Twolick Drive, Indiana, PA 15701 (Go East on Philadelphia St. to East Pike, right on Twolick Dr.)

House Contents Auction Starts @ 4:30 PM

AND

This is your opportunity to buy, at auction, a frame, split entry house with attached 2 car garage. First Floor has 3 BR’s, living room, dining room, kitchen and large bath.

The basement is divided into rooms including a kitchen area and half bath. There is a gas, Trane XE90 HE furnace, AC, gas HW tank, 100 amp breaker panel, public water and sewer. The yard area includes a gazebo and storage shed.

TERMS: $2,500 deposit, balance due by 11-10-15. Plan to inspect by appointment only or 1 hour before the auction. CALL TODAY! Photos @ auctionzip.com (ID #1496) CALL OR E-MAIL FOR A BIDDER’S INFORMATION PACKET Seller: William E. Elkin, POA for a Personal Care Home Resident Attorney: John H. Barbor

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724.465.5555

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Miscellaneous For Sale

BARBIE Play House with working door bell, 2 stools, 2 windows, excellent condition. $75. (724) 354-5272

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GAS Charbroil Grill, 3 burner w/side burner part stainless, good condition. $35. (724) 465-4065 GE DRYER: Electric, large capacity, white, good condition, $175.

(724) 459-9224 STARS WARS Metal lunch box with drink bottle and 3 Star Wars comic books dated 1978, set $60. (814) 371-7845

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Sports Equipment For Sale

Excercise bike , good working condition, asking $30. Call (724) 254-2343 Hoyt Flash Point Compound Bow, needs string, asking $50.00. Call (724) 463-8238 Jo-Jan multi fletcher, asking $50. Call (724) 463-8238 MANUAL Treadmill: Rock Fitness, very good condition, folds for storage, $25. (724) 357-9557 MARLIN .30-30 rifle with walnut stock and blue steel, asking $375. Call (724) 762-7710 Stanley Hips Broadhead Target, asking $50. Call (724) 463-8238

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Sports Equipment For Sale

Winchester deluxe 40 pc. gun cleaning kit, brand new, Gerber survival tool pack, brand new, Peltor Bullseye 9 hearing protector, brand new. Cobra walkie talkie 16 mi. range, brand new, Lg craftsman cooler on wheels, Prostaff Nikon binoculars asking $350 for all, Ph (724) 676-0118

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Miscellaneous For Sale

10 x 10 wooden shed, hip brook on it, ramp , 2 tone grey in color, 2 way barn doors, 2 yrs old, asking $1500 obo. Call (724) 349-0126 20 & 30 GALLON Fish tank with stand and accessories. $25. (724) 801-8750

THREE Steeler Game Tickets, Various games avail.Section 120, row P, seats 3, 4, & 5. asking $450/for all, Call (724) 459-9638

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Wanted to Buy

BUYING Junk cars. Call us McCarthy Auto. (724) 349-2622 GINSENG Buying at Dollar Store formally Andy’s 119 North Indiana from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays; Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13 & 27. Call after 7pm. (724) 322-1813

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Swimming Pools For Sale

Alum. Pool, Esther Williams, good cond.15 X 24 ft, 12 years old, needs liner, pump/filter/alum. deck & fencing/2 sets of steps includ., asking $1500.

Call (724) 349-4318 Leave message

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Parts & Accessories For Sale

10 inch Radial Arm saw, asking $65.00, Call (724) 422-3198

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Autos For Sale

2002 Chrysler Sebring, good condition, away at college must sell. asking $2200 obo. Call (724) 479-9842 or (724) 493-8182 2010 Chevy Aveo , 57k, good shape, green in color, great gas mileage, $6900 obo. Call (724) 471-2084 CHEAPIES ‘01 Neon $995.

‘02 Malibu $995.

‘05 Town & Country $1,595.

‘00 Mountaineer $1,595.

‘01 Mustang $1,795.

‘99 Chevy Ext. Cat. 4X4 $2095.

‘06 Aveo $2300.

‘96 Mustang GT Conv. $3,500.

Wertheimer’s Used Cars (724) 465-8421

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Motorcycles For Sale

2008 Wildfire Scooter, 250cc, full size, 4300 miles, adult owned, 100 miles per gallon, great for road or intown, asking $950 obo. Call (724) 422-7450

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Boating Needs

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ATV For Sale

06 ARTIC CAT Quad, model 400, high & low range with 4 wheel drive, 150 miles on it, perfect condition. $4,000. Phone (724) 479-2891 after 4pm

LAWN FARM

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Farm Products For Sale

NANCY’S PUMPKIN PATCH

Opening Sunday - 9/20 Pumpkins, gourds, Hay, corn stalks 9 am-6:30 pm 259 North of Brush Valley 724-479-9327 Pumpkins & Mums at 1225 Sawmill Rd, Punxsutawney, from Indiana 119 N. to Covode. Watch for signs.

Closed Sunday’s.

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12’ ALUMINUM BOAT, 6Hp Evinrude, nearly new trailer, $995. Fish locator & electric motor sold separately, (724) 463-8234

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Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

Gather Those Leaves Yard machine, 14.5 Hp w/bagger, 42” deck. $335. (724) 465-4065

3rd Annual Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

5K Run/Fun Walk Saturday, November 7th 2015 | 10AM Indiana County Hoodlebug Trail At Divine Destiny Church Parking Lot 207 Old Rte 199 HWY S. Indiana, PA

Registration Information Pre-Register by October 10th Fee: $18, shirt guaranteed Late Registration (Oct. 11 - Race Day) Fee: $20, shirt not guaranteed

Race Features The course consists of a fast, flat “out and back” course with 1 water station at half-way point. Post-race refreshments will be included.

Professional finish line and timing will be used as well as splits at mile 1 & 2 marker.

Find our registration form on indianaroadrunners.com under Local Race Schedule