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Who’s in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about these area people: Wally Cook, G. John and Mary Ann Stahlman, Sophia Loughry, Madison McGinnis.

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DEALS REACHED: California and New York are poised to become the highest-paid minimum-wage states in the country after governors reached deals with lawmakers to raise the lowest amount a worker can be paid to $15 an hour./Page 5 FOCUS ON THREATS: Dozens of world leaders assembling today for a Washington security summit are confronting a disparate array of modern-day threats, ranging from government actors like North Korea to murkier groups like the Islamic State./Page 7

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Deaths Obituaries on Page 4 BURTYK, Rachel Sally, 82, of Shelocta GEORGE, Edna Grace, 68, of Indiana JENNINGS, Melissa D., 46, of Blairsville LOWMASTER, Harley D., 24, of Glen Campbell LUNDY, Mary E. TRAINER, Mary Emma Barnhart, 92, of Pittsburgh WELLS, Joshua Clay, 27, of Home Late deaths PARDEE, Garrett Lee, 27, of Clymer SMITH, Dalvin, 85, of Spruce

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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders took the stage Thursday for a rally at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, where the attendance was estimated at 8,500.

Democratic candidates clash on issues of policy

By KEN THOMAS Associated Press

PURCHASE, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton gave a spirited defense Thursday of her campaign proposals and her lead in the Democratic primaries after she was disrupted by a group of Bernie Sanders supporters ahead of her home state’s primary, the same day Sanders rallied in Pittsburgh before a crowd of thousands.

A few minutes into Clinton’s remarks on the campus of Purchase College, about 20 Sanders supporters shouted, “If she wins, we lose,” and then began walking out. Clinton responded sharply, “The Bernie people came to say that. We’re very sorry you’re leaving,” as the crowd chanted, “I’m with her!”

At another point, Clinton grew angry when Eva Resnick-Day, an organizer with Greenpeace USA, asked her along the rope line whether she’d forgo contributions from the fossil fuel industry.

“I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies,” Clinton said in a video posted and later confirmed by Greenpeace.

“I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about that,” Continued on Page 4

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Wisconsin emerging as key battleground state

By SCOTT BAUER and JULIE PACE Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Next Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primary is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump’s march to their party’s nomination. One of his worst weeks of the 2016 campaign is colliding with a state al-

ready skeptical of his brash brand of politics.

A big loss for Trump in Wisconsin would greatly reduce his chances of securing the delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination before next July’s national convention. It could also offer new hope to rival Ted Cruz and outside groups that see Trump as Continued on Page 4

Senate candidate’s name stays on ballot, court rules

By RANDY WELLS

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Tony DeLoreto’s name will be printed on April 26 ballots in precincts in the 41st District.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough ruled after two days of hearings and examinations of DeLoreto’s nominating petitions that the Indiana restaurateur had obtained the minimum of 500 legitimate signatures to get his name on the ballot in the spring primary.

DeLoreto is the lone Democrat seeking a nomination for state senator in the 41st District. He is challenging incumbent Sen. Don White, the only candidate on the primary ballot for a Republican nomination.

The 41st District includes all of Indiana and Armstrong counties and parts of Butler and Westmoreland counties.

Two Armstrong County residents, James Swartz and Diane Emminger, who are registered Democrats, had filed objections to DeLoreto’s nominating petitions, Continued on Page 10

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WASHINGTON — U.S. employers notched another solid month of hiring in March by adding 215,000 jobs, driven by large gains in the construction, retail and health care industries.

Despite the jump, the Labor Department said today that the unemployment rate ticked up to 5 percent from 4.9 percent. But that increase includes some good news: More Americans came off the sidelines to look for work, though not all found jobs.

That is the fifth time in the past six months that the proportion of Americans working or looking for work has increased, an encouraging trend after that figure fell to fourdecade lows last year.

The increase in the work force “has been truly astounding — the strongest in over two decades, suggesting that the job market is finally pulling discouraged workers off the sidelines,” said James Marple, an economist at TD Economics.

The data suggests that employers remain confident enough in their business prospects to add staff, even as overall growth has slowed since last winter. Many analysts estimate that the economy grew at a 1 percent annual rate or below in the first quarter.

Continuing job gains indicate that employers may see the slowdown as temporary.

Steady hiring is also contributing to somewhat higher pay. Average hourly wages rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier to $25.43. Annual wage gains have improved since the early years of the recovery, but they are below a peak of 2.6 percent reached in December.

Sluggish wage growth has been a weak spot in the economy and a source of frustration for many workers since the Great Recession ended in 2009. Paychecks typically grow at a 3.5 percent pace in a strong economy.

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Study: ‘Hobbit’ fossils older than thought

By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

NEW YORK — It was a spectacular discovery: Fossil remains in an Indonesian cave revealed a recent relative of modern humans that stood about 3 feet tall. The creatures were quickly nicknamed “hobbits.”

With evidence that they had survived to just 12,000 years ago, the hobbits appeared to have been the last of our companions on the human branch of the evolutionary tree to go extinct.

Now, a decade after they made headlines, they’ve lost that distinction. New investigations indicate they evidently disappeared much earlier — about 50,000 years ago, before Neanderthals did, for example.

The new date raises speculation about whether hobbits were doomed by the arrival of modern humans on their island. But it doesn’t change much about their scientific significance, said Matt Tocheri of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

He and others wrote the new paper with three of the researchers who’d first reported the discovery in 2004.

The new paper was released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

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Veteran Miami officer named police chief in Ferguson

By JIM SALTER and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

FERGUSON, Mo. — A veteran Miami police officer with two decades of experience dealing with the media and community leaders will take over as police chief in Ferguson, hoping to help the St. Louis suburb heal as it rebounds after the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.

Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss was announced as chief Thursday, putting a black man in charge of a mostly white department that serves a town where African-Americans make up two-thirds of the residents. “This has been a long and strenuous process, but we believe Major Moss is the right choice,� Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said in a statement. “We understand the past 18 months have not been easy for everyone, but the city is now moving forward and we are excited to have Major Moss lead our police department.�

The 18-year-old Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson during a street confrontation on Aug. 9, 2014. The shooting prompted months of unrest that sometimes grew violent and helped spark the national Black Lives Matter movement.

A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to indict Wilson, who resigned in November 2014. But the Justice Department issued a critical report of Ferguson in March 2015, citing racial bias in policing and a municipal court system that made money at poor and minority residents’ expense.

Ferguson’s city manager, municipal judge and Police Chief Tom Jackson all resigned within days of the report. The Ferguson City Council just two weeks ago agreed to a settlement with the Justice Department that calls for major reforms in

DELRISH MOSS ... named police chief the city’s criminal justice system.

Moss said Thursday in a telephone interview he looks forward to working with all segments of the Ferguson community and also hopes to diversify the department. “The police department should be much more reflective of the community it serves. ... I certainly plan to hire more people of color, more women,� Moss said. “I’d like to hire people from Ferguson who are actually committed to what happens there.�

A news release from the city of Ferguson said City Manager De’Carlon Seewood made the final decision to select Moss. “Our officers have worked extremely hard to implement community policing and community engagement in their daily practices,� Seewood said in the release. “Mr. Moss is the right man for the job to continue those initiatives.�

Moss, 51, grew up in Miami’s inner-city Overtown neighborhood and as a teenager lived through rioting after white police officers fatally beat a black motorcyclist in 1980.

He also said he was mistreated by two police officers when he was a young teenager in Miami. He said he was about 14 and walking home from an afterschool job cleaning a bank when an officer pushed him against a wall, frisked him, searched his belongings “and no sooner than he ar-

rived he left,� Moss said. He said the encounter left him “scared and embarrassed� and is among the reasons he became a police officer. “He did nothing in that encounter to restore my dignity, or explain why he had treated me that way,� Moss said.

He joined Miami police in 1984, steadily rising through the ranks. He worked for a time in the homicide unit, according to his LinkedIn page, before taking over media and community relations 20 years ago.

The job entails handling the city’s media and working with community leaders, particularly in high-crime areas such as the Liberty City neighborhood, according to the department.

He was among 54 candidates for the top police job in Ferguson, a St. Louis County town of about 20,000 residents. Other finalists were Frank McCall Jr., chief of nearby Berkeley, Mo.; Mark Becker, a former FBI agent who recently resigned as police chief in East Chicago, Ind.; and Brenda Jones, who was fired as police chief in Pine Bluff, Ark., in 2013 but won a lawsuit alleging race and gender discrimination.

Moss was named to Miami Police Chief John Timoney’s executive staff in 2009 and promoted to major two years later. The Miami Herald reported his office is filled with plaques of appreciation from city leaders, activists and church elders. He is a member of the NAACP and president of the Police Athletic League, which works with young athletes.

Moss was scheduled to retire from the Miami department in September.

Andre Anderson, a black veteran of the police department in Glendale, Ariz., took over as six-month interim chief in Ferguson in July, and was expected to be a candidate for the permanent job. But he resigned early, leaving Dec. 2. He cited a desire to return to his family in Arizona.

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Man found dead on Megabus STATE COLLEGE (AP) — A man has been found dead in the bathroom of a Megabus headed from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and the driver said he had a needle stuck in his arm.

The Centre Daily Times reported the bus made a stop in State College on Thursday afternoon.

The bus driver said he opened the bathroom door and the 54-year-old Philadelphia man “fell out� with the needle in his arm.

The driver said the man seemed fine when he boarded. Patton Township Sgt. Shawn Albright said foul play isn’t suspected.

Police said the man was dead when they arrived.

They won’t identify him until his family is notified.

Megabus is a subsidiary of Paramus, N.J.-based Coach USA. It operates express intercity bus service with fares sometimes as low as $1. It hasn’t responded to requests for comment.

Robinson’s family gets apology PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is officially

apologizing to Jackie Robinson for the racism he faced in the City of Brotherly Love.

The City Council passed a resolution Thursday naming April 15 as a day to honor Robinson’s achievements and to apologize for his mistreatment while visiting Philadelphia in 1947.

April 15 is the day Robinson broke the color barrier by becoming the first modern-day black player in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In Philadelphia, Robinson was refused service by a local hotel and taunted by Philadelphia Phillies manager Ben Chapman, who, along with players, hurled racial slurs at Robinson each time he came to bat.

The 2013 biopic “42� highlights the hateful reception Robinson received in Philadelphia. The apology will be presented to Robinson’s widow, Rachel.

Baby eagle dies on nest cam HANOVER (AP) — A baby bald eagle has died just days after its hatching was livestreamed over a Pennsylvania Game Commission website.

The game commission an-

nounced Wednesday the eaglet that hatched Monday night has apparently died.

The baby bird was seen initially moving about the nest.

Its parents were feeding it but it later became limp in the streaming footage.

The commission said it won’t intervene in the situation. The bald eagle pair — near Codorus State Park in Hanover, York County — has a second, unhatched egg in the nest and officials say it appears to be viable.

The agency said the livestream “provides an opportunity to view wildlife in its natural setting. Sometimes, that may include scenes that are difficult to watch.�

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RICHMOND SWAT team members left a Greyhound bus station Thursday in Richmond, Va.

Police: Bus station gunman kills trooper; 2 others shot

By LARRY O’DELL Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — A gunman fatally shot a Virginia state trooper at a busy bus terminal in the capital city of Richmond before he was shot dead by two other troopers, police said. Two civilians were also shot but were expected to recover.

Trooper Chad P. Dermyer, 37, died Thursday after being shot multiple times, according to Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty. The civilians, both women, suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Flaherty said investigators don’t know what sparked the shooting. Dermyer had been participating with about a dozen other troopers in a training exercise at the bus station when a brief encounter with the gunman quickly turned violent, he said.

Dermyer was dressed in a fatigue-style uniform and was not wearing a protective vest, the superintendent said. “We’ve got a lot of evidence to sift through,� Flaherty said. The evidence, he said, included bags that could have belonged to the gunman.

The gunman’s identity was being withheld until his family could be notified.

A small army of law enforcement officers in tactical gear and dozens of cruisers and emergency response vehicles flooded to the station, in an area that includes a minor league baseball stadium and a variety of commercial establishments and restaurants.

Najee Wilson, 18, of Newark, N.J., said his bus was pulling up to the station when he heard three gunshots and saw people running out of the building. “We heard a lot of people

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe echoed her sentiments in a statement: “This is a loss that impacts us all. It should inspire prayers for the family, friends and fellow troopers who are mourning tonight, and gratitude for those who protect and serve.�

About 50 officers from the Richmond Police Department went to the bus station to assist state police, Chief Alfred Durham said.

He said law enforcement officers have become the target of “folks out there with evil intentions.� “It’s unfortunate these are the days we’re living in, where folks want to harm law enforcement,� Durham said. “We just want our officers to end their shifts and to go home to their families.�

Greyhound issued a statement Thursday afternoon saying the Richmond bus station would be closed “until further notice.�

Dermyer, the father of two children, was a native of Jackson, Mich., and a former Marine who had served on the force in Jackson and Newport News, Va., Flaherty said.

The most recent Virginia trooper to be killed in the line of duty was 27-year-old Trooper Nathan-Michael Smith, of Henrico. Smith was responding to a call for an officer in distress on Sept. 21 when patrol car crashed in Prince George County. He died at VCU Medical Center.

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screaming,� Wilson said. “It definitely was a scary experience.�

Wilson, who was en route to Atlanta, was among about 200 travelers waiting to board buses at a staging area set up a few blocks from the bus station after the shooting. Leigha Schilling, who was between stops on her bus trip from New York to South Carolina, said she was smoking a cigarette outside the station Thursday when she heard banging. She went back inside briefly and saw people lying on the ground and what appeared to be blood on the floor. A security guard ordered her to get on the floor, but she ran back outside, and then heard several shots, she said. “I was terrified,� she said. “I didn’t know what was going on.�

Vincent Smith was working at the U-Haul Moving and Storage facility next door to the Greyhound station when he heard sirens and saw police cars buzzing by.

An officer stopped in and ordered him and his coworkers to stay inside and lock the doors until told it was safe again, Smith said.

By late afternoon, he said he had been locked inside for about an hour and a half.

City Councilwoman Reva Trammell called it “the saddest day in the city of Richmond.� “State troopers doing their job and innocent people shot,� she said. “Why? This

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OBITUARIES Rachel Burtyk Rachel Sally Burtyk, 82, Shelocta, passed away Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at her residence.

The daughter of Horace and Alveretta (Scott) Reefer, she was born July 10, 1933, in Girty.

Rachel was a homemaker who also was employed by Hess’s Restaurant, Dean’s Diner and as a home remodeler. She was a gifted multiinstrumentalist musician and could play almost any instrument by ear. Her greatest passion was the love that she had for her cats. She rescued strays and provided them with shelter, health care and a home. A favorite hobby was making puzzles, and she did hundreds of them. She also enjoyed baking and cooking for the Mt. Zion Church functions, where she was a member and participated in many church dinners. She will be remembered as a loving sister, mother, wife, aunt, grandmother and greatgrandmother.

She is survived by her sister Lois Blose; a brother, Dr. Ronald (Donna) Reefer; children Mary Lou (William) Capone, Indiana, and John N. Georgianni, Indiana; stepchildren Darlene Palmer, Mike Burtyk, Cindy (Thomas) Foreman, Richard Burtyk deceased (wife Jan); grandchildren Shannon Strotman, Johnstown; Mathew Strotman, Shelocta; DJ Strotman, Indiana; Nicholas Capone, Indiana; Jerry Blatt Jr., Tammy Blatt Reed, Eric Palmer, Heather Burtyk Ballie, Thomas Foreman and

Jessica Foreman Kerr; greatgrandchildren Megan, Ethan and Paige Strotman; nieces and nephews Larry (Natalie) Reefer, Barbara (Chris) Foltz, James Blose, Kathy (Dr. James) Stiffler and Dr. Alan (Loraine) Reefer; special friends, Lucile Gallo, Edna Conrad and Corda Hill; and former husband, John Georgianni.

Rachel was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Charles Burtyk.

Friends will be received from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home in Indiana. Final visitation will be at 10 a.m. Monday. The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. in the Lefdahl Chapel. Interment will follow in the South Bend Cemetery.

A special thanks is given to her caregiver, Loretta Nicholson, Dr. Ramineni and his staff at the oncology center in Indiana, and Dr. Ruth Woolcock.

In lieu of flowers, it was Rachel’s wish that donations be made to her family to assist in the care of her beloved cats.

Richard D. Carbaugh Richard Day Carbaugh, 90, of Marion Center, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2016, peacefully at Indian Haven.

The son of Roland J. and Valerie (Day) Carbaugh, he was born Oct. 11, 1925, in Punxsutawney.

Mr. Carbaugh was a member of the Grove Chapel Lutheran Church and an associate member of Christ Lutheran Church, Lakeland, Fla. He was a World War II veteran, having served in the U.S. Navy Seabees and done a tour of duty in the South Pacific. He was also a lifetime member of the Navy Seabee Veterans of America, Island X-2, Lakeland, Fla., a member of John Jenxs Lodge #634 Free & Accepted Masons, Punxsutawney, and a lifetime member of VFW Post 1989 of Indiana.

Prior to his retirement in 1987 he had been employed

by the G.C. Murphy Company for 38 years and Ames Department Store Inc. for three years.

Surviving are his wife, Ida M. (Fetterman) Carbaugh, whom he wed Feb. 7, 1947; a daughter, S. Joyce Brinley, of Richmond, Va.; two grandsons, Paul C. and his wife, Tina, and Mason W. Brinley, both of Virginia; sister Sally Shingledecker, of Philipsburg; and loyal companion Crissy.

Preceding Richard in death were his parents; his daughter, Terri (Simm) McDowell; and sisters Phyllis Altman and Patricia Davis.

A memorial service will be conducted at the Grove Chapel Lutheran Church Saturday at 11 a.m., with Pastor Dave Wasemann officiating.

Arrangements are entrusted to the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home. www.lefdahlfuneralhome. com

Edna Grace (Brewer) George Edna Grace (Brewer) George, 68, of Indiana, passed away Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at her home.

She was born in 1948 in Indiana to James and Martha Kough Brewer.

Edna Grace was a member of the West Lebanon Church of God for more than 40 years.

She attended the Marlin, Red Lion and Kettering oneroom schools and graduated from Marion Center High School in 1966.

She was employed at Robertshaw Controls for 13 years, until leaving to raise her children.

Edna Grace is survived by her husband, Heber E. George III, Indiana; three daughters and one son: Melanie B. Storrs and husband William, Gloucester, Va.; Hillary E. Welteroth and friend Kevin Beecher, Indiana; Amanda D. George, Indiana; and Hank W. George and wife Susan, Junction City, Kan.; eight grandchildren: Kylie, Karlee, Tanner, Eli, Olivia, Kayden, Conway and Koltin; one sister and four brothers: Beatrice Burns and friend Ray Kellar, Creekside; Robert Brewer and wife Pamela, Indiana; David Brewer and wife Debra, Indi-

Melissa Dyann Jennings, 46, of Blairsville, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2016, at the home of her aunt Nancy Jennings.

The daughter of George Thomas Jennings and Diane (McConnaughey) Jennings Hershberger, she was born July 24, 1969, in Latrobe.

Melissa graduated from Blairsville High School in 1987 and from ICM School of Business and took classes at the University of Phoenix.

She worked for 10 years at WyoTech in Blairsville.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Blairsville and a former member of the youth group; former member of International Order of Job’s Daughters, Bethel #6 and Blairsville Chapter #166 Order of the Eastern Star; former member of The Quota Club of Blairsville, where she served as president from 2005-2007 and as District 3 governor from 2009-2011; and a member of the Blairsville Italian Club.

She loved to bake and going to the ocean. She also loved being with her family and many friends.

Melissa is survived two sons, Craig M. Uss, of Monroeville, and Zachary N.T. Uss, of Blairsville; her father and stepmother, Tom and Karen Jennings, of Blairsville; two brothers, Scott T. Jennings (Candace), of Clayton, N.C., and Kevin A. Jennings (Kristie), of Newton, N.C.; two stepbrothers, Vaughn R. Neuroh (Jen), of Yulee, Fla., and Keith P. Neuroh, of Apex, N.C.; a niece, Addison Jennings; a nephew, Aiden Jennings; maternal grandparents, Harold and Bertha (Cunkelman) McConnaugh-

ey, of Blairsville; aunts and uncles: Nancy R. Jennings, of Blairsville; Linda McConnaughey, of Comanche, Iowa; Colleen McConnaughey-Cunningham (James), of Pittsburgh; and Alan McConnaughey, of Stafford, Va.; and several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Diane, on June 25, 2013, and her paternal grandparents, George Thomas and Dorothy Janet (Freed) Jennings.

The family extends a special thank-you to Brett Crosby and Nancy Bly for their help.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Shoemaker Funeral Home Inc., 49 N. Walnut St., Blairsville. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, with Pastor Dan Cunkelman officiating.

Interment will be in Blairsville Cemetery, Blairsville.

To view the online obituary, sign the guest registry or send condolences, visit www.shoemakerfh-monu ments.com.

Harley Dawn Lowmaster Harley Dawn Lowmaster, 24, of Glen Campbell, died Thursday, March 31, 2016, in Plumville.

The daughter of William “Whoop” Leonard Lowmaster Jr. and Kimberly Dawn Yingling, she was born on July 11, 1991, in DuBois.

Harley attended First Baptist Church in Glen Campbell. She had attended Purchase Line High School and loved motorcycle riding.

Harley is survived by her parents, William “Whoop” Lowmaster Jr., of Glen Campbell, and Kimberly Dawn Yingling, of Timblin; her daughter, Alana Marlene Pangallo, of Glen Campbell; her three brothers: Dustin

Wooten, of Curwensville; Justin Lowmaster, of Burnside; and Adam Lowmaster, of Glen Campbell; her paternal grandmother, Marlene (Decker) Lowmaster, of Glen Campbell; her maternal grandmother, Sue (Clark) Yingling, of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

Harley was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Len Lowmaster Sr., and her maternal grandfather, Tom Yingling.

At the family’s request, there will be no services.

Arrangements are being made with the assistance of the Rairigh Funeral Home Ltd. in Hillsdale.

TOMORROW’S FUNERALS CARBAUGH, Richard D., 11 a.m., Grove Chapel Lutheran Church (John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home), Indiana FORNARI, Joseph M., 10:30 a.m., C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City GEORGE, Edna Grace, 2 p.m., Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana McCULLOUGH, Theodore J. “Stub,” 8:30 p.m., Kelly L. Corridoni Funeral Home Ltd., Avonmore

Mary E. Lundy Mary E. Lundy (nee Briggs), dearest wife of the late Robert T. Lundy, died Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Maryland.

She was the devoted mother of James I. Moser; Glenn E. Moser and his wife, Teresa; Mary E. Zempolich and her husband, Stephen; Joyce E. Ladd and her husband, Douglas; Diane M. Tuncer and her husband, Kemal; and Linda A. Wells.

She was the loving sister of Joseph Briggs, Susanne Marshall, Kathryn Viland and the late James Briggs and Margaret Vance.

She was the beloved grandmother of Jessica, Alysha, Lauren, Michael, Austin and Matthew Moser; Christo-

pher, Nicholas, Katherine and Stephanie Zempolich; Abigail, Mikayla and Kelsey Ladd; Megan and Ava Tuncer; and Olivia, Landon and Grant Wall.

A graveside funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Bernard Cemetery in Indiana.

Mary’s family asks that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to: The National Adrenal Diseases Foundation, 505 Northern Blvd., Suite 200, Great Neck, NY 11021. www.nadf.us.

Local service arrangements are through the RairighBence Funeral Home of Indiana.

Online condolences may be made at rbfh.net.

Mary Trainer Mary Emma (Emy) Barnhart Trainer, 92, passed away Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at the home of her daughter in Allentown.

She was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Bradford Woods. Her parents were Floyd Leroy and Kathryn Cullen Barnhart.

After graduation from Winchester Thurston School, Emy earned a B.S. degree from Indiana State Teachers College. She married James Otis Trainer in 1946 and spent 44 wonderful years with him until his death in 1990.

Emy was an active member of Christ Episcopal Church, where she served on the Vestry and was a member of the Altar Guild and the Episcopal Church Women.

In addition to caring for her family, she taught secondary science, history, physical education and health courses, was a probation officer for juvenile offenders and worked in the Acquisitions Department at Stapleton Library at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After retirement, she spent much of her time taking care of relatives and volunteering for Meals on Wheels.

In 1999, she moved to Sherwood Oaks Continuing Care Community in Cranberry Township, where she lived until going to Allentown. She had a passion for exploring new places, and her extensive travels took her to every continent except Asia. Emy loved reading, sewing, knitting and spending time with her family and dearly beloved pets.

She is survived by her daughter, Jamie Huett, and her husband, Barry, of Allentown; her son, Jim Trainer,

and his wife, Pat, of Lewisberry; six grandchildren: Jacquelyn Doran Cunningham and her husband, Michael James, of Westfield, N.J.; Jennifer Doran Merkel and her husband, Chris, of Coplay; Laura Zitelli Nichols and her husband, DJ, of Pittsburgh; Mark Zitelli and his partner Johathan Lewis, of Aspen, Colo.; Rebecca Trainer Yellets and her husband, Rick, of Lititz; and Brian Trainer and his wife, Robyn, Winona Lake, Ind.; and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her daughter, Mary Susan (Sue) Trainer Zitelli; two brothers, Jack Barnhart and William Barnhart; and a sister, Virginia Barnhart Fetter.

Visitation and the funeral will be private. The Rev. William Geiger and the Rev. Arthur Dilg will officiate at Christ Episcopal Church. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery. Bowser-Minich Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

The family kindly requests that memorial contributions be made in Emy’s memory to Christ Episcopal Church, 902 Philadelphia St., Indiana, PA 15701, or to your local hospice.

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She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother-in-law, Ernest Burns.

Friends will be received from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home in Indiana, and from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, where a funeral service will be held at 2 p.m., with the Rev. John Mark Henry officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. www.bowserminich.com

Joshua Wells Joshua Clay Wells, 27, of Home, passed away at his residence on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

The son of Gerry A. Wells and Susie Bothell, he was born July 12, 1988, in Punxsutawney.

Joshua enjoyed spending quality time with his brother and sisters. He had an outgoing personality and could make his friends laugh and smile with ease.

His interests also included playing cards, camping, cornhole toss, cooking and making his own recipes. He was self-employed with his brother, who was also his best friend.

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Joshua is survived by his parents, Gerry A. Wells and Susie Bothell, of Home; paternal grandparents, Lee M. and Agnus I. Wells, of Home; maternal grandparents, William J. and Joan E. Bothell, of Creekside; a brother, Gavin Wells, of Home; his two loving sisters, Celina Syktich, of Marion Center, and Mariah Syktich, of Home; and his extended family members.

Joshua was preceded in death by his great-grandparents.

Funeral arrangements will be private and under the directions of the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home.

Continued from Page 1 Clinton added, pointing her finger at the questioner. “I’m sick of it.”

The sharp exchanges came ahead of Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary and next month’s vote in New York, where Clinton is favored because of her deep ties to the state. The former New York senator holds a formidable lead among delegates but Sanders hopes a series of recent victories out West might turn into a springboard for a win in Wisconsin. It also offered a vivid example of Clinton’s gulf with some young Democrats, who have brought energy to the Vermont senator’s upstart bid.

Sanders campaigned in Pittsburgh ahead of Pennsylvania’s April 26 primary, joining activists with the United

Steelworkers union and the letter carrier’s union to criticize Clinton’s past support of certain trade deals.

Sanders called for “a moral economy, not an economy based on greed and selfishness,” a message that he has used in manufacturing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. Sanders said that even when factories don’t close, the trade agreements relegate workers in a “race to the bottom,” with corporations going to unions and forcing them to make concessions under threat of moving out of the country.

Sanders’ campaign said late Thursday he had raised more than $43 million in March.

Both campaigns face monthly fundraising deadlines at the end of the day.

The rally in Pittsburgh at

the David L. Lawrence Convention Center drew a crowd of about 8,000, according to the Sanders’ campaign. Many in attendance were collegeage voters, throwing their support behind him.

Clinton said she regretted that the young Sanders supporters “won’t listen to anybody else” and didn’t want to hear “the contrast between my experience, my plans, my vision, what I know I can get done and what my opponent is promising.”

Sanders “goes around telling young people that he’s going to give them free college. Well, I wish it were so,” Clinton said. She said the “fine print” of his plan would require governors to pay a significant share of the cost, an unlikely outcome in a state like Wisconsin, which is led

by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

“I just wish that there were an opportunity to actually talk and listen to each other because we’ve got to unite when this primary contest is over,” Clinton said.

Clinton’s team accused her rival’s campaign of “misleading voters with their attacks,” saying she’s never accepted funds from oil and gas industries companies or their political action committees. Both candidates, they said, have taken contributions from individuals who work in the industry.

“Assuming they don’t believe their own candidate is bought by the fossil fuel industry, they should stop the false attacks,” said spokesman Nick Merrill in a statement.

Wis. emerging as key battleground state Continued from Page 1 a threat to the future of the Republican Party.

“I think the whole country is looking to Wisconsin right now to make a choice in this race, and I think the choice Wisconsin makes is going to have repercussions for a long time to come,” Cruz said Thursday in an interview with Milwaukee radio station WTMJ. Trump’s view is rosier for his own campaign: “If we win Wisconsin, it’s pretty much over.”

But almost nothing has gone right for him since Wis-

consin stepped into the primary spotlight.

Even before he arrived, Trump was skewered in interviews with a trio of Wisconsin’s influential conservative talk radio hosts. On Tuesday, just hours before his first campaign stop, two-term Gov. Scott Walker threw his support behind Cruz, of Texas.

Much of the trouble that followed was of the Trump campaign’s own making.

Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, got slapped with a charge of simple battery for an altercation

with a reporter.

Then Trump was forced to walk back his assertion that women should be punished for getting abortions, a comment that managed to unite both sides of the abortion debate in fierce opposition to his statement.

“As soon as he stepped foot in Wisconsin the mask finally came off,” said state Rep. Jim Steineke, the Republican majority leader in the Wisconsin Assembly.

“Part of it is just the Wisconsin nice. We don’t take too kindly to people who act the way Donald Trump acts.”

GOP voter Linda Ruddy, a 48-year-old dental hygienist from Oshkosh, agreed.

“He’s rude. He’s arrogant.

He’s a loose cannon. He’s insulting to women,” Ruddy said.

A poll run by Marquette University Law School has shown Trump holding steady at around 30 percent in Wisconsin, a level of support that gave him a lead in the state last month.

But the latest survey released this week showed Cruz surging past the real estate mogul, topping him by 10 points.

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Calif., N.Y. poised to raise minimum wage to $15 “THE MINIMUM wage increase will be of national significance.

It’s raising the minimum wage in a way that’s responsible.�

By ALISON NOON and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and New York are poised to become the highest-paid minimum-wage states in the nation after governors for both reached deals with lawmakers to raise the lowest amount a worker can be paid to a record-shattering $15 an hour.

Gov. Jerry Brown said he will sign California’s new minimum-wage bill Monday in Los Angeles after it passed the Legislature on Thursday.

Across the country in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reached a tentative deal late Thursday with his state’s top lawmakers to also raise his state’s minimum wage to $15.

The actions in two of the nation’s most labor-friendly states come as the income divide has become a key issue across the U.S. in this presidential election year.

President Barack Obama, who first proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage in 2013, applauded the states’ actions and called on the Republicancontrolled Congress to “keep up with the rest of the country.� “California takes a massive leap forward today in the fight to rebalance our nation’s economy,� said Art Pulaski, executive secretarytreasurer of the California Labor Federation.

California’s current $10 an hour minimum wage is tied with Massachusetts for the highest among states. Only

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STATE SEN. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, left, one of the authors of a bill to raise California’s minimum wage, was hugged Thursday by Sen. Bill Huesco, D-San Diego, as the Senate voted to approve the bill.

Washington, D.C., at $10.50 per hour, is higher. New York’s minimum wage is $9.

Democrats who control both legislative chambers in California hailed the increase as a boon to more than 2 million workers. Brown, also a Democrat, said it proves the nation’s largest state can get things done and help people get ahead.

Republicans, however, echoed fears from business owners and economists that California’s annual increases — eventually tied to inflation — will compound the state’s

image as hostile to business.

Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, said the increase would force small business owners to make layoffs “with tears in their eyes,� ultimately resulting in less employment.

The increases would start with a boost from $10 to $10.50 on Jan. 1. Businesses with 25 or fewer employees would have an extra year to comply.

Increases of $1 an hour would come every January until 2022. The governor could delay increases in

times of budgetary or economic downturns.

The tentative deal reached

by New York officials Thursday would be phased in regionally. It would also eventually affect more than 2 million workers.

In New York City, the wage would increase to $15 by the end of 2018, though businesses with fewer than 10 employees would get an extra year. In the New York City suburbs of Long Island and Westchester County, the wage would rise to $15 by the end of 2022. The increases

are even more drawn-out upstate, where the wage would hit $12.50 in 2021 and then increase to $15 based on an undetermined schedule. “This minimum wage increase will be of national significance,� Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters Thursday. “It’s raising the minimum wage in a way that’s responsible.�

Cuomo had initially proposed a simpler phase-in: three years in New York City and six years elsewhere. The more gradual, nuanced approach was the result of negotiations with Republicans in the state Senate who worried such a sharp increase would devastate businesses, particularly in the upstate region’s more fragile economy.

Brown was previously reluctant to raise California’s base wage. He negotiated the deal with labor unions to head off competing laborbacked November ballot initiatives that would have imposed swifter increases without some of the safeguards included in the legislation.

Brown now says California’s fast-growing economy can absorb the raises without

the problems predicted by opponents.

About 2.2 million Californians now earn the minimum wage. The University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education projected the increase would have a ripple effect for those whose wages would increase to keep pace.

The researchers project it would increase pay for 5.6 million Californians by an average of 24 percent. More than a third of the affected workers are parents.

Latinos would benefit most because they hold a disproportionate number of lowwage jobs, the researchers said.

The right-leaning American Action Forum countered with its own projection that the increases could cost nearly 700,000 jobs.

The increases are projected to eventually cost California taxpayers an additional $3.6 billion annually for higher government employee pay.

The tentative deal New York officials reached also includes middle-class state income tax cuts starting in 2018. The cut would apply to New Yorkers with incomes between $40,000 and $300,000 and rates that currently range from 6.45 percent to 6.65 percent starting in 2018.

The rates would gradually drop to 5.5 percent by 2025.

Cuomo administration officials estimate the lower tax rates will save more than 4 million filers nearly $6.6 billion in the first four years, with annual savings reaching $4.2 billion by 2025.

Tesla Motors unveils more affordable Model 3 sedan

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Writers

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — It’s the car thousands of people were waiting for: Tesla Motors’ new, lower-priced Model 3 sedan.

Tesla unveiled the Model 3 on Thursday night at its Los Angeles design studio.

It doesn’t go on sale until late 2017, but in the first 24 hours that order banks were open, Tesla said it had more than 115,000 reservations.

Long lines at Tesla stores, reminiscent of the crowds at Apple stores for early models of the iPhone, were reported from Hong Kong to Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C. Buyers put down a $1,000 deposit to reserve the car.

At a starting price of $35,000 — before federal and state government incentives — the Model 3 is less than half the cost of Tesla’s previ-

ous models. Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the car will go at least 215 miles when fully charged, about double what drivers get from current competitors in its price range, such as the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3.

Prototypes shown Thursday night looked like a shorter version of Tesla’s Model S sedan.

The Model 3 has a panoramic glass roof and an elongated hood. Inside, it seats five adults and has the same large touchscreen dashboard as other Teslas. It also has Tesla’s suite of semiautonomous driving features, including automatic lane changing and lane keeping. Musk said it will accelerate from zero to 60 in less than six seconds.

Musk said the car is on schedule to go on sale at the end of 2017, eliciting a cheer from the crowd of around 800 people. Tesla has a history of missing deadlines for its

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THE MODEL 3 car from Tesla Motors has a starting price of $35,000, less than half the cost of Tesla’s previous models. vehicles to hit the market. “I do feel fairly confident it will be next year,� Musk said.

The Model 3 is the most serious test yet of 13-year-old Tesla’s ability to go from a niche player to a full-fledged automaker. It could be the car that finally makes electrics mainstream — or consumers could continue to be skeptical that electrics will

work for everyday use. In the U.S., they still make up less than 1 percent of annual sales.

Either way, the Model 3 is already changing the industry, spurring competitors to speed development of electric cars and improve their battery range.

General Motors Co. is set to start selling the Chevrolet

Bolt electric car at the end of this year. The Bolt will have a similar price tag and a 200mile range. Hyundai’s Ioniq, which has a 110-mile electric range and could match Tesla on price, goes on sale this fall. Audi will follow with an electric SUV in 2018.

Musk said last month he’s not worried.

He thinks the Model 3 will compete most directly with small luxury cars such as the Audi A4 and the BMW 3 Series.

Musk said Tesla will expand its stores and its fast-charging Supercharger stations globally in order to support the Model 3. He said the company plans to double its stores worldwide to 441 by the end of 2017, and it will double its Superchargers to 7,200. Tesla will also add thousands of its so-called destination charging stations at hotels and other locations.

Right now, Tesla sells two vehicles: The Model S sedan,

which starts at $71,000, and the Model X SUV, which starts at around $80,000. But a lower-priced car was Musk’s longtime goal. Musk said the Model S and Model X, along with Tesla’s first car, the discontinued Roadster sports car, helped Tesla make the money to invest in the Model 3. “We needed to figure out how we, as a tiny company with very few resources, could make a difference,� he said.

Tesla lowered the cost of the car, in part, by making cheaper batteries. The company previously assembled its battery packs with cells made in Japan by Panasonic Corp.

But Tesla and Panasonic are building a massive, $5 billion factory in Nevada which will supply batteries for the Model 3. Tesla says the scale of the factory will lower the cost of its battery packs by 30 percent.

Smithsonian to acknowledge allegations at new museum

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian now plans to acknowledge the sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby at its new AfricanAmerican history museum on the National Mall, which will display two items related to Cosby’s career in television and standup comedy.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens Sept. 24, will include the cover of a Cosby comedy album and a comic book from his pioneering TV drama “I Spy� as part of its exhibit on black entertainers and artists. Initially, the museum planned to include historical facts about the items without mentioning the allegations, drawing criticism from some Cosby accusers.

The museum’s founding director, Lonnie Bunch, said in a statement Thursday that the display would address Cosby’s alleged behavior, although he did not specify exactly how. “Like all of history, our interpretation of Bill Cosby is a work in progress, something that will continue to evolve as new evidence and insights come to the fore,� Bunch said. “Visitors will leave the exhibition knowing more

BILL COSBY ... embattled comedian about Mr. Cosby’s impact on American entertainment, while recognizing that his legacy has been severely damaged by the recent accusations.�

Through a spokeswoman, Bunch declined to comment further.

Dozens of women have accused Cosby, 78, of sexual abuse. Cosby was charged last year with drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University worker at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004, a case that is on hold amid an appeal. He also faces several civil lawsuits.

The Smithsonian Institution also has been criticized for its recent exhibit of Cosby’s personal art collection at a different museum.

The exhibit was funded almost exclusively by Cosby and his wife, Camille, in the form of a $716,000 gift, which

Smithsonian officials did not disclose until they were specifically asked about it by The Associated Press.

The museum’s director, who is close with the Cosbys, said last year that she would not have moved forward with the exhibit had she known about the allegations.

Cosby had no part in funding the new museum, and the two items that will be displayed were purchased on eBay, Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian spokeswoman, said earlier this week.

The decision to include them was made by the curator of the entertainment exhibit, Katy Kendrick, who said it was important to acknowledge Cosby’s contributions to American popular culture.

He was the first black actor to star in a network TV drama, and his comedy albums were enormously popular, winning six consecutive Grammy Awards. “This is not an exhibition that ‘honors or celebrates’ Bill Cosby but one that acknowledges his role, among many others, in American entertainment,� Bunch said in his statement. “Some people feel that the Smithsonian should eliminate all mention of Bill Cosby as a result of recent revelations. We understand but respectfully disagree.�

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Donald Trump and abortion

ust when you thought 2 million unintended pregDonald Trump couldn’t nancies, including almost say anything more 700,000 abortions, according shocking, he suggested that to the Guttmacher Institute. women who get abortions Yet Republicans try to deshould be punished. fund Title X, the traditional On MSNBC, he said abor- family planning program in tion must be banned and the United States. After inflathen “there has to be some tion, its funding level is less form of punishment” for than one-third what it was in women who manage to get 1980. abortions.

In truth, Trump’s stance — He declined to whatever it is — say what the punwould matter only ishment should if a more conservabe, dodging a tive Supreme Court question about revisited Roe v. whether it should Wade and some be “10 years” in states were allowed prison or someto ban abortion althing milder. But together. his comment Moreover, medraised the possibilical abortion, ity of following the achieved by taking lead of countries two kinds of pills, is like El Salvador, gaining ground on where women can surgical abortion be dragged off and is much more from a hospital to difficult to stop. In prison for getting particular, one of Nicholas Kristof an abortion. Inthe pills, misoprosdeed, rights tol, is very cheap, writes a column groups say that has other uses and for The New York women were is at least 80 perTimes. wrongly impriscent effective on its oned in El Salown in inducing an vador simply for having misabortion early in pregnancy. carriages.

The upshot is that early Trump doesn’t seem to abortions will be increasinghave thought deeply about ly difficult to prevent. the issue — what a surprise!

Trump’s comments about — and he departed from the punishing women are worth mainstream anti-abortion pondering because they reposition of targeting not flect the logical conclusion of women but abortion equating a fetus with any providers. As one person said other human being. on Twitter: “He’s a walking This penalizing approach cartoon parody of every left- has been tried before and ist accusation against Re- failed. A dozen years ago, I publicans.” went to Portugal to cover After the TV interview was such an effort. The police over and the backlash had staked out women’s health begun, Trump tried to back clinics, looking to arrest off his comment, saying in a women who appeared likely statement, “The doctor or to have just had abortions any other person performing based on being pale or seemthis illegal act upon a woman ing upset. Some 48 women would be held legally respon- and a 16-year-old girl were sible, not the woman.” prosecuted, along with acWho knows where that complices such as husbands, leaves us! boyfriends, parents and even One lesson is that Trump is a taxi driver who drove a an uninformed opportunist, woman to a clinic. but the episode does highThe women were humiliatlight two basic problems for ed at trial, their most intithe anti-abortion movement. mate gynecological history First, as long as the focus is revealed to the public. And on the fetus or on the claim the public was revolted. The of “protecting women,” women were all acquitted, many in the public are sym- and the public turned decipathetic to the anti-abortion sively in favor of abortion view. The moment the focus rights, by a majority of 79 to shifts to criminalizing 14 percent. women, sympathy shifts.

“Forbidding abortion doesAnti-abortion activists n’t save anyone or anything,” have generally taken a savvy Sonia Fertuzinhos, a memapproach over the years by ber of the Portuguese Parliaconcentrating on extreme ment, told me at the time. “It situations — such as late- just gets women arrested and term so-called partial-birth humiliated in the public abortions — and on legislat- arena.” ing obstacles that in practice The episode left many Porreduce access: Of the 1,074 tuguese both anti-abortion state restrictions on abortion and pro-choice. put in place after Roe v. Wade They were distressed by in 1973, more than one-quar- abortion, especially late in ter were enacted since 2010, pregnancies, but they were according to the Guttmacher aghast at the idea of proseInstitute. cuting young women for Many Americans are am- making wrenching personal bivalent on abortion. But choices. I think many AmeriTrump has now turned the cans feel the same way. attention back from the fetus So maybe Trump, in his to the woman. And remem- flip-flopping wavering about ber that 3 in 10 American women’s issues, can at least women get an abortion at remind us of a larger truth. some point in their lives.

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No copyright on hypocrisy

either political party can lay claim to purity when it comes to hypocrisy, but Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as others in her party, has taken hypocrisy to new depths.

While campaigning in Wisconsin before next week’s presidential primary, Clinton said that as president she would have a litmus test for any Supreme Court nominee.

“I would not appoint someone who didn’t think Roe v. Wade is settled law,” she declared.

Her nominee(s) would also have to show that they support overturning the Citizens United decision that established free speech rights for interest groups.

She added that while she believes the Senate should hold hearings and a vote on Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, she would have selected someone more like Justice Sonya Sotomayor because Clinton thinks her Hispanic heritage and underprivileged upbringing has brought a needed perspective to the high court.

What about the Constitution? It seems that for the left, the Constitution is only a temporary impediment until they can appoint judges who believe the founding document is more

elastic than a waistband and and consent.” can be stretched to fit their Denial is implied, but not agenda. written in the Constitution.

About Hillary Clinton’s What the Constitution does claim that Roe is settled law, not require is for the Senate was Plessy vs. Ferguson to hold hearings, or vote, on “settled law”? That 7-1 decia court nominee. sion in 1896 established At a Democrat town hall “the constitutionality of last month, Chuck Todd of state laws requirMSNBC asked ing racial segregaHillary Clinton tion in public facilabout President ities under the Obama’s statedoctrine of ‘sepament that he rerate but equal.’” It grets as a senator remained in force filibustering Jusfor nearly 60 years tice Samuel Alito’s until the 1954 nomination when Brown vs. Board of George W. Bush Education ruling was president. overturned it. Roe Todd noted that is 43 years old. By Clinton joined 24 the Plessy stanother Senate Dedard, should Roe mocrats in a filireally be considbuster against ered settled law?

Alito’s nomination As for Hillary and ultimately Clinton’s attacks on Cal Thomas voted against Republican senaAlito and Chief writes a tors who refuse to Justice John column schedule hearings Roberts. distributed by and a vote on Mer- Tribune Media Her response? rick Garland’s “You get to use Services. nomination, as a the rules.” senator from New Well, yes, and York, she took a contrary while not holding hearings position. on Judge Garland is not a In 2005, Sen. Clinton said rule, it might be considered the Senate had a right to re- on a par with a filibuster deject a president’s nominee: signed to delay and, on “I believe this is one of the some occasions, prevent a most important roles the vote.

Senate plays. This, after all, Add to this the policy of is in the Constitution. We are the Democratic Party leadasked to give advice and ership which has, according consent, or to deny advice to then-Senate Judiciary

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Committee Chairman Joe Biden, a lengthy and established “tradition against acting on Supreme Court nominations in a presidential year.”

Let’s also recall the words of the likely next Senate majority leader, Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who said in a July 2007 speech that the “presumption of confirmation” for any more nominees to the Supreme Court during the remainder of President Bush’s term should be reversed, because the court, according to Schumer, “is dangerously out of balance.” In short, not liberal enough.

The fabled goose and gander analogy seems to apply here, but many voters have proven to have short attention spans and an ignorance of history, which might explain why a recent Pew Research Center poll found that 46 percent of Americans surveyed want Judge Garland confirmed, while 30 percent oppose him.

If Pew surveyed those same people today and read them what Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer said then and now, how many would call them hypocrites?

How many would possibly change their minds about Judge Garland? I guess we’ll never know.

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ur global nuclear nightmare is tions reported Belgian officials’ fears back in the news, Page 1 and their nuclear plants are vulnerable prime time. And here’s what is after terrorists attacked their airport most frightening: America’s leading ex- and subway. Worse yet: For years, Belperts, former Sens. Sam Nunn and gians knew they had security lapses; Richard Lugar, the bipartisan partners yet they guarded their nuclear plants who led the world’s quarter-century only with private rent-a-cops until this battle to keep loose nukes and nuclear year. fuel out of terrorist hands — In 2014, a saboteur turned and repeatedly warned us to a valve in Belgium’s Doel do more or we’d someday renuclear plant, draining gret it! — have never looked 65,000 liters of oil; the turmore prophetic. bines overheated and shut This week, as the world’s down for five months. It leaders convened in Washinggets worse: Two years earliton for the final Nuclear Secuer, two workers at the same rity Summit of Barack plant quit, went to Syria and Obama’s presidency, they fought in an Islamic State spent days poring over a literbrigade alongside dozens ally terrifying choice of news from Belgium, including articles and expert reports: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who NEWSBREAK: The New York led the Paris attacks.

Times reported that “tons of There were a number of materials that terrorists could other nuclear facility secuuse to make small nuclear derity lapses: vices or dirty bombs remain Martin Schram is • This year, the computer deeply vulnerable to theft” de- a veteran system of the Belgian nuspite U.S.-led efforts to safe- Washington clear agency was hacked guard them. journalist, author and had to briefly shut EXPERT REPORT: “Prevent- and TV down. ing Dirty Bombs, Fighting documentary • In 2015, Belgians raided Weapons of Mass Disruption.” executive. His the apartment of a suspect A report by the Nuclear Threat column is tied to the Paris terrorists — Initiative, a group founded by distributed by and discovered videos of a Nunn and philanthropist Ted Tribune News senior official of a Belgian Turner in early 2001 to moni- Service. nuclear facility. tor security of the world’s • In 2013, at the Belgian weapons of mass destruction, research reactor in the city warned that the probability of terror- of Mol, two people climbed over faciliists exploding a dirty bomb with those ty’s fence, broke into a lab and stole materials was “much higher than that equipment. of an improvised nuclear device.” (A It was in 1991, when Nunn, a Georgia dirty bomb is an ordinary explosive, Democrat, discovered the Soviet packed with radioactive material that breakup meant Russia’s nuclear arsescatters when detonated and contami- nal could be poorly secured, he teamed nates large areas.) up with Lugar, the Indiana Republican.

NEWSBREAK: Many news organiza- Their Comprehensive Threat Reduc-

MARTIN SCHRAM

tion Act (best known as the NunnLugar program) funded efforts to secure Soviet nukes and other arsenals around the world so terrorists could not get them. When Nunn and Turner formed their Nuclear Threat Initiative, I called Nunn and said I wanted to write a book and work on a TV documentary about the danger of terrorists getting some of the world’s loose nukes. We figured our big problem would be convincing Americans it can happen here — but after Sept. 11 of that year, that was no longer our problem. “Avoiding Armageddon,” the book and PBS documentary series (I was managing editor; someone named Walter Cronkite was the narrator) recounted global security tales, beginning with a Russian nuclear thief who got away with stealing nuclear material — until he tried to sell it. It also detailed nuclear facility security problems and how to fix them. I never expected I’d be writing about identical security failures in 2016.

A decade ago, Lugar became a de facto mentor to a young freshman senator from Illinois. That was how Obama became a big believer in the Nunn-Lugar program that’s still safeguarding the world’s most vulnerable nukes. His belief in that program was one factor that seduced the Nobel folks (in a moment of embarrassingly prematurely adulation) to award its prize to Obama in the first year of his presidency.

And that brings up one final point: Oslo, we have a problem: Nunn and Lugar have never been properly thanked by the world they helped rescue from potential nuclear catastrophe. But this October, at award time, the Nobel Peace Prize committee can finally make things right. martin.schram@gmail.com

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Feds break up heroin ring ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Federal authorities say they’ve taken nearly 23,000 doses of heroin and 13 drug dealers out of circulation with the dismantling of a Philadelphia-to-Rochester trafficking operation.

U.S. Attorney William Hochul said investigators also seized more than $93,000 in cash and nine guns during a series of raids announced Thursday. In all, 10 addresses in the two cities were raided, along with a vehicle, during four days in March.

Authorities say a sixmonth investigation that included the use of multiple wiretaps revealed that a group of Philadelphia residents was using vehicles with hidden compartments to supply large quantities of pre-packaged heroin to Rochester-area contacts.

Law enforcement officers estimate the Rochester group was distributing in excess of $50,000 worth of heroin a week.

Summit focus: N. Korea, IS

By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Dozens of world leaders assembling today for a nuclear security summit will confront a disparate array of modern-day threats, ranging from government actors like North Korea to murkier groups like the Islamic State.

Frustration over the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles shadowed the final day of the summit, President Barack Obama’s last major push on denuclearization.

Though Obama planned to tout the Iran nuclear deal as evidence of progress, the absence of key players — especially Russia — underscored the lack of unanimity still confronting global efforts to deter nuclear attacks.

After six years of prodding

by Obama and others before him, the global stockpile of fissile material that could be used in nuclear bombs remains in the thousands of metric tons. What’s more, security officials warn that the

radioactive ingredients for a “dirty bomb” are alarmingly insecure in many parts of the globe.

“We have not only great urgency around the nuclear issue, but eliminating generally the scourge of terrorism,” Obama said during a meeting Thursday with French President Francois Hollande, as he reflected on recent attacks in Brussels and Paris.

Obama planned to review what’s been accomplished and what gaps remain during a news conference at the summit’s conclusion this evening.

Though Obama has held four such summits since taking office, there are no clear indications they will continue after his presidency ends early next year.

Ahead of the summit, fewer than half of the countries participating had agreed to secure their sources of radiological material, readily available in hospital, industrial and academic settings.

Concerns about substances like cesium or cobalt getting

in the wrong hands have escalated sharply following deadly attacks by IS, raising the disturbing prospect of a nuclear attack on a Western city.

In a twist on previous years, organizers scheduled a special session today to hone in on the threat posed to major urban areas by extremist groups that the U.S. has said are on the hunt for nuclear materials.

The White House said Obama and the other leaders would discuss a hypothetical scenario about a chain of events that could lead to nuclear terrorism.

Yet Obama planned to start off on an optimistic note, reviewing progress toward implementing the Iran deal along with other U.N. Security Council members that negotiated the agreement with the U.S. The White House hoped that session would illustrate constructive ways to stop nuclear weapons from spreading to countries that shouldn’t be trusted to possess them.

Critics of the deal have

blasted Obama for rewarding Iran by lifting sanctions and considering easing a ban on U.S. dollars being used in transactions with Iran. Despite Iran’s worrisome ballistic missile work, the U.S. has said that Tehran is meeting all its commitments to scale back its nuclear program under the deal.

As the summit opened Thursday, leaders trained their focus on North Korea, whose continued provocations have stoked concerns throughout the region.

Obama discussed steps to deter further North Korean missile tests during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In another session with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, he called for vigorous implementation of steppedup U.N. sanctions.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia, whose massive nuclear weapons stockpile is rivaled only by the U.S., refused to attend this year’s summit. Moscow scoffed at what it deemed U.S. efforts to control the process and

Central Japan shaken by quake

Suspect can be sent to France

TOKYO (AP) — An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 shook a wide swath of central and western Japan today. No tsunami warning was issued, and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake struck at 11:39 a.m. local time off the Pacific coast of Japan at a depth of 6 miles.

The epicenter was about 105 miles southeast of Osaka, and roughly 50 miles from where the leaders of the G-7 nations will meet for their annual summit in May. High-speed train service was briefly interrupted, and all the elevators in the 60story Abeno Harukas in Osaka stopped automatically, according to the building operator.

Nobody was trapped inside, and most of the elevators have since resumed operation.

CIA: Inert bomb material left on bus Inert explosives training material was found Wednesday on a Virginia school bus a week after the CIA used it in a police dog exercise, officials said.

The material was found inside the engine compartment of a public school bus in a Virginia suburb of Washington during routine maintenance, according to Kraig Troxell, spokesman for Loudoun County.

The CIA conducted the training from March 21 to 24 at a school in Ashburn, Va., during spring break, Troxell said. The bus was in service Monday and Tuesday.

The CIA said in a statement that the material was inadvertently left by the agency’s K-9 unit and it did not pose a danger to passengers. The training materials used in the exercises are “incredibly stable,” the agency said.

— Associated Press

Land mine causes home evacuations HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Police in Hot Springs have evacuated about 20 homes after a man mistook a Civil War-era land mine for a cannonball and took it home.

Police spokesman Cpl. Kirk Zaner said a Hot Springs man dug up what he thought was a cannonball near Danville. The man put the 32-pound land mine in the back of his pickup and drove about 65 miles home.

After researching pictures of Civil War-era weapons, the man called police to say he thought he found a land mine with a pressure sensor fuse. Zaner said the U.S. Air Force Bomb Squad X-rayed the device and found what could be explosives inside.

Police said as of about 4 p.m. Thursday that the bomb squad was looking for a place to explode the ordnance.

take power away from international agencies. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistani, another nucleararmed country, canceled his trip following a bombing that killed 72.

Decades after the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear war between superpowers has faded, replaced in part by concerns about IS and alQaida offshoots operating in North Africa and in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Last year, an Associated Press investigation revealed multiple attempts by smugglers to sell radioactive material to Middle East extremists.

After last year’s Paris attacks, authorities searching the apartment of two brothers linked to the attacks found video of a senior official at a Belgian nuclear waste facility. The brothers were part of the Islamic State cell that went on to strike Brussels on March 22. Both died in the attacks.

Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

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A PARTIALLY collapsed overpass in Kolkata, India, left more than 20 people dead and dozens injured Thursday.

Five detained for overpass collapse

By RISHI LEKHI and RISHABH R. JAIN Associated Press

KOLKATA, India — Police in India today detained five officials from a company building an overpass that collapsed onto a crowded Kolkata neighborhood, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 80.

A day after the collapse in the crowded area of the eastern city of Kolkata, rescuers cleared the crumbled concrete and twisted metal rods.

They had pulled 67 people alive.

“There is no possibility of finding any person alive,” said S.S. Guleria, deputy inspector general of the India’s National Disaster Response Force. Engineers are being consulted about a part of the bridge still hanging over the disaster area, after which workers will “slowly start dismantling this particular section to avoid any collateral damage to houses around it.”

The five employees who were detained worked for the Hyderabad-based IVRCL Infrastructure Co., which was contracted in 2007 to build the overpass. Police also sealed its Kolkata office.

The officials are being questioned for possible culpable homicide, punishable with life imprisonment, and criminal breach of trust, which carries a prison sentence of up to seven years, police said.

The partially constructed overpass had spanned nearly the width of the street and was designed to ease traffic through the densely crowded Bara Bazaar neighborhood in the capital of the east Indian state of West Bengal. Within hours of concrete being poured into a framework of steel girders on Thursday, about 300 feet of the overpass collapsed.

“I heard an explosion, a solid one,” said resident Rabindra Kumar Gupta, who had been home eating lunch.

“My apartment shook. The whole building shook. When I looked outside, there was a lot of smoke.”

Smashed yellow taxis, a crushed truck, destroyed rickshaws and the bloody legs of trapped people jutted from the fallen girders and concrete.

The construction company was far behind schedule for the overpass.

“We completed nearly 70 percent of the construction work without any mishap,” IVRCL official K.P Rao said Thursday. He was not among those detained today. “We have to go into the details to find out whether the collapse was due to any technical or quality issue.”

Police said 39 of the more than 80 people taken to hospitals were still being treated this morning.

As workers in yellow hard hats operated huge cranes, bulldozers and other equipment to clear the rubble and pry apart the concrete slabs

this morning, crowds of people waited anxiously to see if neighbors and friends had survived. The intersection had been a place where street vendors and service workers regularly plied their trades.

“There used to be a tailor who sat here on this corner.

We wonder about him. A cigarettes and tobacco vendor — we knew everyone who used to stay around this crossing,” resident Pankaj Jhunjhunwala said.

Rescuers also used dogs and special cameras to find people who were trapped, he said.

The operation is a “very, very challenging task,” said O.P. Singh, chief of the National Disaster Response Force.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Washington at the time of the collapse, said he was “shocked and saddened,” according to a message on his Twitter account.

Chicago teachers launch one-day strike

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press

CHICAGO — Chicago teachers took to picket lines this morning in an unprecedented one-day strike they say is aimed at getting lawmakers to adequately fund education and other programs in the nation’s thirdlargest district.

The walkout will close schools for nearly 400,000 students, who will have the option of spending the day at one of the more than 250 “contingency sites” Chicago Public Schools is opening at churches, libraries and school buildings.

“We’re going to win funding for our schools and we’re

going to fight until we get it,” Vice President Jesse Sharkey said at a news conference this morning outside one school. Behind him teachers and their supporters chanted “Fight for funding!” and waved protest signs.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rallied too, calling cuts to funding a “reckless disregard of children.”

Today’s actions also could foreshadow a longer strike over a new labor contract, which by law can’t occur for several weeks.

The Chicago Teachers Union last went on strike in 2012, shutting down schools for more than a week before reaching an agreement with

Mayor Rahm Emanuel. That contract expired in June, and the two sides have been negotiating for more than a year over a new one.

CPS, which faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit and billions more in pension debt, already has halted salary increases, ordered teachers to take three furlough days and imposed other cuts to schools.

It reached an agreement earlier this year with union leadership on a proposal that included salary increases.

But a larger union bargaining team rejected it, partly because it required employees to contribute more toward their pensions and health insurance.

The union and its allies say the only way to get a fair contract and improve struggling schools is to pressure lawmakers such as Emanuel and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner to approve new revenue, either through a tax increase or other changes.

Illinois is about to enter its 10th month without a state budget, and the state’s ongoing financial problems have led to severe cuts to social services and education.

While Sharkey acknowledged closing the schools could create difficulties for parents, he said it will be minor compared with the hardship the state will see “if we don’t have our public schools.”

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities agreed on Thurday that Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, can be extradited to France, where he has promised to cooperate in the investigation into the attacks that killed 130 people.

After his four-month flight from the law ended on March 18, Abdeslam officially confirmed that he will not fight his transfer back to Paris.

“The transfer is authorized,” a statement from the state prosecutor’s office said. Abdeslam’s lawyer, Cedric Moisse, said that is client “would like to cooperate with the French authorities. This is his will and this is the word he wants everybody to hear.”

Abdeslam is accused of helping to plan and execute the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people.

After crossing back into Belgium the day after the attacks, he was Europe’s No. 1 fugitive until Belgian authorities caught him, four days ahead of the Brussels attacks.

Belgian and French authorities will discuss when and how the transfer could occur, which was unlikely to be pushed through immediately.

It was unclear to what extent or whether Abdeslam would be needed in the investigation of the March 22 Brussels attacks, which killed 32 people.

In Paris, an official at the Paris prosecutor office said that Abdeslam, once transferred, will be immediately questioned by an anti-terrorist investigating judge and imprisoned.

Over a week after the March 22 attacks, soldiers searched a wooded and residential area close to the French border.

Federal prosecutors said the action is linked to the recent arrest in Paris of Reda Kriket, who is accused of participating in a terrorist group with plans for at least one imminent attack, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Kriket is believed to have traveled to Syria in 2014 and 2015 and made several trips between France and Belgium.

At least three other people are in custody in the case in Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Obama to host International Jazz Day concert

‘OLIVER!’ TO BE PERFORMED

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STUDENTS AT Blairsville High School will perform “Oliver!

The Musical� today and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Blairsville Middle-Senior School auditorium. Pictured in the photo at left are Adrian Escalona as Oliver Twist and Grant Distefano as Mr. Bumble the Beadle; and above, from left, Zach Hess as Bill Sykes, Zechariah Faulkner as Fagin and Abbi Stipcak as Nancy. All seats are reserved and tickets cost $8 per person.

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Hollywood helping to bring arts back to schools in Los Angeles

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Miles from the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the red carpet, Steve Shin belts out tunes on a piano scarred with nicks and love notes written in scratches, teaching children how to sing.

In scores of other middle schools, his students might have already learned how to read the notes on a scale.

But years of cuts have stripped arts classes from much of the Los Angeles district, leaving many children in the world’s entertainment capital with no instruction in music, visual arts, dance or theater.

When Shin arrived for the first day of class, he quickly realized many of his students were starting from zero. “A lot of them didn’t even know they were going to be in a music class,� he said.

Now the nation’s secondlargest school district is trying to enlist Hollywood studios to “adopt� schools and provide students with equipment, mentorships and training as a way to reverse the layoffs that have decimated the curriculum.

The financial picture is slowly changing.

The arts budget has grown to $26.5 million, about 40 percent higher than five years ago, but still a fraction of the $76.8 million sum that was once available for the arts. For the next school year, it will increase to $32.3 million.

In 2014, the district hired former TV writer and producer Rory Pullens as its executive director for arts education.

He has since hired an arts teacher at every school.

Pullens is convinced his work in a district that has 90 percent minority students will one day help diversify Hollywood — a widely discussed goal after the criticism of this year’s all-white list of Academy Award acting nominees.

He has already met with Paramount, Universal and dozens of other industry leaders to solicit help. “It is well within all of our powers, if we work together, to remedy that by really ad-

“IT SEEMED very strange hearing that our schools here didn’t have the type of equipment that we were using 20 and 30 years ago.�

Kelly Koskella,

president, Hollywood Rentals dressing the deep-rooted symptoms and not just trying to put in a couple remedies on the surface,� Pullens said.

The renewed push for arts education in L.A. comes as new federal education policies stir hope that schools will begin shifting more time and money toward classes such as dance and drama. In recent years, districts have focused on areas emphasized by the No Child Left Behind law, the 2001 law that required schools to meet annual targets for math and reading proficiency or face intervention. “We do see the pendulum swinging away from the stark focus on discipline and standardized testing toward a more well-rounded definition of what education should be,� said Scott Jones, senior associate for research and policy at the Arts Education Partnership.

Forty-four states require high schools to offer arts classes.

Forty-five states make the same requirement for elementary and middle schools.

But at many schools, policy doesn’t necessarily match up with course offerings.

The new federal law instructs schools to offer a balanced education that includes music and other arts.

In Los Angeles, school leaders are hoping a revised funding formula and industry engagement will rectify longstanding inequities in arts education.

When Pullens arrived, one of his first initiatives was to survey every school to find out what arts programs they had.

In a presentation last spring at a Hollywood mid-

3 to vie for ‘Idol’ crown LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three contestants are left to vie for the last “American Idol� crown.

Trent Harmon, of Amory, Miss.; Dalton Rapattoni, of Dallas; and La’Porsha Renae ,of McComb, Miss., were announced Thursday as the contenders.

MacKenzie Bourg, of Lafayette, La., was eliminat-

ed from Fox TV’s singing contest after receiving the lowest number of viewer votes among the final four. “American Idol� is ending its run next week after 15 seasons. The two-part finale, airing Wednesday and Thursday, will feature performances by past winners including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

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TEACHER Steve Shin sang with students recently during a music class at Stevenson Middle School in East Los Angeles. dle school with an aging auditorium, Pullens outlined the bleak findings: About 45 schools had no arts teachers and most had no alignment between elementary, middle and high school course offerings.

He called on Hollywood executives to pitch in and hired Alyson Reed, a dancer and actress whose credits include playing Ms. Darbus in “High School Musical,� to begin reaching out to industry contacts and coordinating donations.

Film and music studios have chipped in to help Los Angeles schools before, but their contributions tended to focus on the schools directly in their backyard: Warner Bros. has provided funding to improve auditoriums at Burbank schools.

Sony Entertainment Pictures has run career workshops at Culver City schools.

But the schools with the biggest needs are in less affluent neighborhoods.

Some studio leaders said getting involved with Los Angeles schools was difficult and bureaucratic.

Others were simply unaware of the depth of the district’s problems, Reed said.

Kelly Koskella, president of Hollywood Rentals, which will be donating studio equipment ranging from lights to fog machines, said he was stunned to learn many Los Angeles Unified schools lack even the kind of gear used in public schools in the mid-1970s.

“It seemed very strange hearing that our schools here didn’t have the type of equipment that we were using 20 and 30 years ago,�

Koskella said.

To date, the Los Angeles district has confirmed partnerships with Nickelodeon, Sunset Bronson Studios and Sunset Gower Studios.

Reed said she and Pullens have also had encouraging meetings with many others, including Disney, Sony and CBS and hopes more will be announced soon.

Most of the donations have not reached students yet. Reed said the district is still assessing how the equipment will be dispersed.

In Shin’s class, students get by with the bare minimum: an overhead projector displaying lyrics across the screen, two microphones and two standing lights placed in front of the class to make a stage-like performance space.

In a deep voice, Shin calls on students as if they’re performing in a real concert in front of their peers. On a recent afternoon, they sang everything from Mexican ballads known as corridos to angst-ridden songs by Adele.

Terry Quintero, 12, had never been in a music class before and now dreams of becoming a professional singer like one of her idols, Adele. When she’s singing, Terry said, she leaves everything that’s troubling her behind. “What matters right now,� she said, “is this class.�

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WASHINGTON — International Jazz Day, one of the world’s biggest celebrations of jazz, is coming to the White House.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, plan to host a blockbuster concert April 29 featuring Aretha Franklin, Al Jarreau, Sting, Herbie Hancock and many other established and upand-coming musical artists.

The show is to be televised by ABC the following day, on April 30 — the fifth anniversary of International Jazz Day. Scores of musical performances and educational and community service programs are also planned for across the District of Columbia, in all 50 states and 196 UNESCO and United Nations member countries, said Tom Carter, president of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. The jazz institute and UNESCO sponsor International Jazz Day. It was established to highlight jazz music as a unifying force for freedom and creativity.

The District of Columbia is where the famous jazz pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington was born, on April 29. 1899. The city is also known for its thriving jazz scene.

Previous host cities for International Jazz Day were Istanbul, in 2013; Osaka, Japan, in 2014; and Paris in 2015.

In 2012, programs were held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris; in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz; and at the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York City. “Jazz has been a uniting force and very unifying for people all over the world for the last century,� Carter told The Associated Press by telephone ahead of Wednesday’s official announcement of International Jazz Day. “It is the voice for many of those facing challenges around the world.�

Last year’s programming reached more than 2.8 billion people, he said.

Hancock, a UNESCO goodwill ambassador whose idea led to the creation of International Jazz Day, said jazz is a musical language that is understood worldwide.

An award-winning pianist and bandleader, Hancock said that, in the past, anyone who wanted to learn jazz had to travel to America. But “incredible� jazz musicians are

now everywhere, he said. “That really shows me the power of the music and the fact that it has reached every country on the planet,�

Hancock told the AP in a teleARETHA phone interview.

FRANKLIN Obama and the first lady are big music lovers and supporters of jazz. During a recent appearance at the South by Southwest AL JARREAU festival in Austin, Texas, Mrs. Obama said one of her grandfathers loved and collected jazz and that she would visit him on SatSTING urdays while growing up in Chicago “and I would just play music with him.�

The Obamas practically jumped at the chance HERBIE to bring the InternationHANCOCK al Jazz Day concert to the White House, Carter said. “They welcomed us with open arms,� added Hancock.

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Musicians turn out for tribute to David Bowie NEW YORK (AP) — A soldout Carnegie Hall audience joined a children’s chorus in a singalong to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” Thursday, a sweet end to a tribute concert that turned into a memorial through some bizarre timing.

Jakob Dylan, Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips and Heart’s Ann Wilson were among the artists who joined Bowie’s former collaborator Tony Visconti and other musicians who had performed with the late rock star.

“God bless David Bowie,” Dylan said after performing

the 1970s anthem “Heroes.”

Organizers of an annual benefit for music education that focuses on the work of a particular artist had decided last fall that Bowie would be featured for its 13th year.

They publicly announced it in January — just hours before Bowie’s family said the rock star had died on Jan. 10.

The concert sold out in two hours, demand so fierce that a second show was added for today at Radio City Music Hall.

After Bowie died, so many artists who were invited to perform said they wanted to

do it that organizers didn’t have enough room and had to turn some away, said Michael Dorf, who produced the show.

“We felt kind of awkward because we are usually so humbly grateful to anyone who wants to participate in this,” he said.

For much of the night, an enthusiastic, quick-to-its feet audience tried to will the performers into a better show than they gave. While some of Bowie’s best-known work was featured, there was an equal amount of more obscure songs from his career.

Legs pulled and tales told on year’s most foolish day DEAR READERS: I couldn’t let April Fools’ Day go by without featuring a few of the more colorful letters that have shown up in my mail recently: DEAR ABBY: I’m getting ready to undergo my firstever prostate exam. To be honest, I’m a bit nervous. What should I expect? Also, what’s the dress code for something like this? I’m thinking about wearing nice slacks and a collared shirt.

The docDear Abby is tor has written by been paAbigail Van tient and Buren, also kind. He known as hasn’t put Jeanne any presPhillips, and sure on me. was founded I want this by her mother, to be spePauline cial. I’m Phillips. thinking about bringing a bottle of wine.

After all, it’s only the first time once. Advice? — UNTOUCHED FROM THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DEAR UNTOUCHED: Your attire isn’t as important as your attitude. Just relax and let the doctor “handle” things. As to the wine, I have it on good authority that a nice bottle of cabernet sauvi-

DEAR ABBY

gnon goes well with a prostate exam if you drink enough beforehand.

DEAR ABBY: I recently got a wedding invitation in the mail. However, it was meant for the previous occupants who used to live here. My question is, would it be wrong for me to crash the wedding? After all, I did receive the invitation. I won’t make a fuss, and I’ll only be there for the free food. — LIKES GOOD DEALS IN MISSOURI DEAR LIKES: Like so many others.

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend won’t stop asking me to marry him. The first time he proposed, we were in the middle of a fancy restaurant.

It was very sweet. Naturally, I said yes.

He must have liked the way the restaurant patrons and staff applauded us. Since then, he has proposed to me at a basketball game, in a museum, at a crowded party and in five other restaurants.

When I tell him to stop, he says he loves me so much and wants everyone to know.

What can I do about him? I feel he’s turning me into a con artist. We’re no better than those people who tell servers it’s their birthday just to get a piece of cake. — ENGAGED IN DECEIT DEAR ENGAGED: Your fiance appears to like repeat performances. Now cross your fingers and hope he feels the same way about the wedding night.

DEAR ABBY: I love it when my husband mows the lawn.

He does it shirtless and in his cutoff jeans, and it really gets me going. I’m so turned on by his pasty white skin and beer belly, it’s hard for me to control myself.

Unfortunately, he has the same effect on other women in the neighborhood. I see them peeking through their curtains, staring at him. One woman sits on her porch with binoculars, blatantly ogling my man.

What should I do? I considered telling my husband to remain fully clothed when he does yard work, but that punishes him far more than it does them. — HUFFY HOOSIER DEAR HOOSIER: Silly girl.

With a husband so mesmerizing, think of the money you could make selling tickets!

DEAR ABBY: My dog Fred watches your column religiously. I don’t think he understands the written word, at least not completely. But he sure tries. He sits there and looks at it intently.

Sometimes he slobbers over the horoscopes — he’s a Pisces — but never on your column.

I read your column out loud to him, too. He always barks during the funny parts.

He’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen. Abby, I just wanted you to know you have a fourlegged fan out there. — ROSIE IN ROSWELL DEAR ROSIE: I’m “aarfully” touched to know that Fred’s a fan. Wishing you and Fred and all of my readers a Happy April Fools’ Day. — LOVE, ABBY

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Friday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2016. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fools’ Day. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The federally created Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail for short) began operations in the northeastern U.S. (it was taken over in 1999 by CSX and Norfolk Southern).

On this date: In 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House speaker.

In 1891, the Wrigley Co. was founded in Chicago by William Wrigley Jr. (Although the business initially sold soap and baking powder, it became known for its chewing gum.)

In 1924, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.

(Hitler was released in December 1924; during his time behind bars, he wrote his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf.”)

In 1933, Nazi Germany staged a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

In 1945, American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in capturing the Japanese island on June 22.)

In 1954, the United States Air Force Academy was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1962, the Katherine Anne Porter novel “Ship of Fools,” an allegory about the rise of Nazism in Germany, was published by Little,

Brown & Co. In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.

In 1972, the first major league baseball players’ strike began; it lasted 12 days.

In 1984, recording star Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., in Los Angeles, the day before his 45th birthday.

(The elder Gay pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and received probation.)

In 1986, “New Kids on the Block,” the group’s debut album, was released by Columbia Records.

In 1992, the National Hockey League Players’ Association went on its first strike, which lasted 10 days.

Ten years ago: Former hostage Jill Carroll arrived in Germany, where the freelance American journalist strongly disavowed statements she had recorded during her captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying she’d been repeatedly threatened. Two American pilots were killed when their Apache helicopter was shot down near Baghdad.

Five years ago: Afghans angry over the burning of a Quran at a small Florida church stormed a U.N. compound in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including four Nepalese guards. Jimmer Fredette was named The Associated Press player of the year after leading the nation in scoring and BYU to one of its best basketball seasons; Notre Dame’s Mike Brey was named coach of the year.

One year ago: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was charged with accepting near-

ly $1 million worth of gifts and travel from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political favors on the donor’s behalf; a defiant Menendez, maintaining his innocence, declared he was “not going anywhere.”

Eleven former Atlanta public school educators were convicted of racketeering for their role in a cheating scheme to inflate students’ scores on standardized exams. California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history. Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, died at her home in Spain; she was 75.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Jane Powell is 87. Actress Debbie Reynolds is 84. Actor Don Hastings is 82. Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro is 77. Actress Ali MacGraw is 77.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Rudolph Isley is 77. Baseball All-Star Rusty Staub is 72.

Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff is 68. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is 66. Rock musician Billy Currie (Ultravox) is 66. Actress Annette O’Toole is 64. Movie director Barry Sonnenfeld is 63. Singer Susan Boyle is 55. Actor Jose Zuniga is 54. Country singer Woody Lee is 48. Actress Jessica Collins is 45. Rapperactor Method Man is 45.

Movie directors Allen and Albert Hughes are 44. Political commentator Rachel Maddow is 43. Tennis player Magdalena Maleeva is 41. Actor David Oyelowo is 40. Actor JJ Field is 38. Singer Bijou Phillips is 36. Actor Sam Huntington is 34. Comedianactor Taran Killam is 34.

Actor Matt Lanter is 33. Actor Josh Zuckerman is 31. Country singer Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) is 30. Actor Asa Butterfield is 19.

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Janice, Madison, Katie, Art, fun fest ...

To whom it may concern — Local author Janice Dembosky, of Home, has published the sequel to her first book, “The Bond Woman: An Amish Woman in Love with a Man on the Outside,” marking her second book in less an a year, according to her publisher.

Dembosky will sign copies of the sequel, “The Covering,” at 10 a.m.

Saturday at Yoder’s Country Living near Smicksburg.

The fiction books follow character Hannah Miller, who in “The Bond Woman” is an Amish woman who leaves her family and community because of her love for a man on The Outside, according to the release. She has been cast out, with a curse put on her by an Amish bishop.

“The Covering” tells the story of what happens next to Hannah after “The Bond Woman.”

“Despite tangible blessings in her life, Hannah, with her Amish upbringing, fears the power of that curse on her and on those who dare to love her,” according to the release. “‘The Covering’ considers the question: Can curses be turned into blessings by a great power, the power of love?”

In the release, the book is described as “a fascinating story with unpredictable twists and turns of plot that will, again, keep the reader spellbound.”

While Dembosky incorporates firsthand observation and research in the book, she stresses it is fiction and “entirely the product of my imagination enhanced by research,” and that the books “neither

romanticize nor condemn the lifestyle of the Old Order Amish.”

Her books will be available for sale at the signing, and also on Amazon as a paperback or in digital format and at The Book Nook on Philadelphia Street in Indiana. Look for more signings at local libraries soon.

SPEAKING OF Smicksburg, the

spring open house is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Featuring everything spring, shops will offer merchandise such as flower pots, spring wines, decorative items and more.

There will be sales, refreshments and prize drawings, too.

If you can’t make it to the spring event, be sure to watch for details about Strawberry Saturday, set for June 11, and Peachy Saturday, on Aug. 6.

BUYING LOCAL Eat’n Park Restaurants have recently shown support to local communities and agriculture by purchasing 12 pigs at the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s Junior Livestock Sale in January, according to a news release.

Locally, a pig raised by Madison McGinnis, of Indiana, was purchased.

Madison is the daughter of Jason and Jayme McGinnis and is a member of Northern Livestock 4-H and Marion Center Future Farmers of America.

COOKIN’ FOR A CAUSE The annual Indiana’s Cookin’ show, sponsored by The Indiana

INSIDE INDIANA Gazette and with IUP’s Academy of Culinary Arts and Department of Food and Nutrition, is set for two shows Tuesday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, where demonstrations will focus on “Making it Easy.”

Tickets are $8 each and are available at the Gazette, KCAC box office, Valeski’s BiLo, Tate’s and www.indianagazette.com. Online tickets are $9.

Proceeds from the show benefit the food pantry at the Indiana County Community Action Program.

SPRING ‘CLEANING’ Yellow Creek State Park will host its annual Spring Thaw Trail Work Day from 10 a.m. to mid-afternoon Saturday.

Volunteers should meet at the park’s Day Use Area.

Participants are advised to bring gloves, snacks and drinks, and a favorite maintenance tool, such as a rake, shovel or rock bar.

Dress for the weather and be prepared to get dirty. If you want to join a trail ride after work, bring a bicycle.

Need more information? Call Lisa Meadows at (724) 357-7913.

BACK IN THE DAY Katie Gaudreau, public relations chairwoman for the Indiana County Historical Society, will take you back in time with a presentation set for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Indiana Free Library.

Gaudreau will discuss children’s artifacts from the society’s collection, such as baptismal gowns, jumpers, toys and even potties, and the importance and place of those items in the county’s history.

Refreshments will be served.

MEET AND GREET A “Meet and Greet” event for Art Halvorson, candidate for U.S. Congress in the 9th District, is set for 7:30 p.m. April 9 at the Rustic Lodge in White Township.

This event is free and open to the public. Organizers are asking attendees to bring questions for an open dialogue meeting and say Halvorson wants to hear about issues that concern area voters.

And, speaking of political events, the Federation of Democratic Women’s Annual Spring Banquet will take place Thursday at the Rustic Lodge, 2199 Oakland Ave. A social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., and dinner will be served at 6. Cost is $25 per person.

Meet Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, attorney general, auditor general, treasurer, state Senator and state representative, or their representatives.

Representatives will include Charles Vizinni, chairman of the Cambria County Solid Waste Authority and a member of the Drug and Alcohol Board, who will talk about Joe Sestak, candidate for U.S. Senate; and Elizabeth Goreham, the first female mayor of State College, who will talk about Katie McGinty, also a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

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WORKERS APPLIED stucco on the back of the hotel being built adjacent to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex in White Township, facing the IUP campus. The hotel, taking shape along Wayne Avenue, will be a six-story Hilton Garden Inn. It is expected to open in late summer.

Severe weather moves eastward Associated Press

ATLANTA — A severe weather system moved east toward the Carolinas today after setting off tornadoes that swirled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Tornadoes and isolated winds were possible through midafternoon today, according to the National Weather Service. Nearly 3,000 people in the Carolinas were already without power by early morning.

One tornado touched down in Eldridge in central Alabama around 8 p.m. Thursday. Another hit about hour earlier in Ardmore in the northern part of the state, according to emergency management officials Rita White and Harry Markham. There were no immediate reports of damage or any injuries, and the weather service said all tornado warnings had expired in Alabama.

In southeastern Louisiana, the Na-

tional Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes touched down, bringing down trees and power lines but causing no injuries.

An apparent tornado also damaged homes and downed trees near Columbus, Miss. Lowndes County Emergency Management director Cindy Lawrence said reports indicated at least a dozen homes were damaged near New Hope, between Columbus and the Alabama state line.

Lawrence said it was unclear whether anyone had been injured. She said emergency workers were responding by foot in some places because so many trees were blocking roads.

Eric Carpenter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pearl, Miss., said radar detected a tornado debris signature beginning about 6:20 p.m. The storm crossed into Alabama and wind damage was reported in the Millport area there.

More than 12,000 power outages in

the area were reported by 4-County Electric Power Association in Mississippi.

The slew of tornadoes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama came a day after at least seven people were injured when severe storms spawned multiple tornado touchdowns in northeastern Oklahoma.

The National Weather Service said it will investigate storm damage in Lamar County, Miss., that may have been caused by a tornado Thursday morning. Meteorologist Joanne Culin in Jackson said trees were down in two areas of Purvis and one crashed into a house. There were no reports of injuries.

Flood watches remained early today in parts of Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. A large part of Georgia could still see damaging winds and potential for tornadoes. And in Louisiana, a cold front could produce flash flood conditions tonight.

Economy adds 215,000 jobs Continued from Page 1 That frustration has spilled over into widespread demands for a higher minimum wage. California approved a measure this week to lift its minimum to $15 an hour by 2020, more than double the current federal minimum of $7.25. New York lawmakers have also agreed on a $15 minimum by 2018.

Heavy hiring by low-wage employers is likely one driver behind the demands for greater pay. Retailers added 47,700 jobs last month and have created 358,000 in the past year. Hotels and restaurants gained 26,000 jobs in March.

That hiring has been offset by some higher-paying positions. Construction firms added 37,000 jobs last month, likely aided by warmer weather. Finan-

cial services companies added 15,000 jobs and professional and business services, which include engineers, accountants and lawyers, added 33,000.

Manufacturing, which has been hit by slower growth overseas, posted another month of job losses. Mining, which includes the oil and gas drilling sector, also cut jobs. Low oil prices have cost that industry 185,000 since September 2014.

More jobs can help fuel consumer spending, which is a critical source of growth this year. Other potential drivers of the economy, such as exports and business investment, have weakened.

Consumer spending has faltered since last winter after healthy gains in 2015. Spending ticked up just 0.1 percent in February for the third month in

YOUR WEEKEND CALENDAR Luther Chapel Lutheran Church on Power Plant Road near Coral will offer a soup and sandwich sale and basket raffle from noon to 2 p.m.

Sunday.

Everyone is welcome.

The cost is $7 per person and $3.50 for children 6 and younger.

Takeout is available at $6 a quart for soup; bring your own containers.

This fundraiser benefits the Indiana/Jefferson Heifer Project, which helps provide food and incomeproducing animals to the world, according to organizers.

SHOP TALK AT SIX Don’t forget about this weekend’s Family Fun Fest, set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Indiana Mall with activities, information and more. …

Gas prices at most Indiana area service stations were running at $2.19 a gallon today, compared to $2.18 statewide and $2.07 nationwide (www.pennsylvaniagasprices. com). … Willie, our ex-shoeshine boy, says the ever-quotable Mark Twain summed up April Fools’ Day best: “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”

Good evening!

This column is compiled by Gazette staff writer Margaret Weaver. Email items for submission to mweaver@indianagazette.net.

Study: ‘Hobbit’ fossils older than thought

WORK IN PROGRESS

By JONATHAN LANDRUM JR.

DonGiovanni at donnadongiovanni@gmail.com. Reservations are nearly full.

a row. That tepid trend caused many economists to slash their growth forecasts.

Americans appear to be pocketing much of their savings from lower gas prices rather than spending them. The savings rate rose to 5.4 percent in February, the highest in a year.

Other economic data has been unusually mixed.

Several reports suggest that manufacturers may be stabilizing after a difficult 2015, when weak overseas growth and the strong dollar hurt production.

Meanwhile, Americans have pulled back a bit from home-buying. Sales of existing homes fell a sharp 7.1 percent in February, held back by a lack of available supply that has pushed up prices.

Continued from Page 1 The hobbits are formally known as Homo floresiensis, reflecting their home on the Indonesian island of Flores.

With small, chimp-sized brains, the hobbits had skulls that resembled Homo erectus, which lived in Africa and Asia.

But they also had long arms and short legs that harkened back to the much older evolutionary forerunners best known for the skeleton dubbed Lucy.

It’s not clear where they fit in the human family tree.

They may have descended from taller ancestors who shrank because of their isolation on the island. Some scientists have argued they were diseased modern humans rather than a separate species, but experts called that a minority view and several said the new dates make it less likely.

Hobbits evidently made the stone tools that were found along with skeletal remains in the Liang Bua cave. The new analysis says the remains are 100,000 to 60,000 years old, while the artifacts range in age from about 190,000 to 50,000 years.

Researchers revised the original age estimates after new excavations revealed

more about the geology of the cave. Sediments were sampled to date the artifacts and bones.

“I think it’s a terrific paper,” said Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who had no role in the research.

“They have done everything you can possibly ask.”

So did the arrival of modern humans spell the end for the hobbits, as is proposed for the demise of the Neanderthals in Europe and Asia about 40,000 years ago?

There’s no evidence that modern humans occupied Flores until long after the hobbits were gone. But they are known to have lived not far away, in Australia, some 50,000 years ago — right about the time the hobbits evidently disappeared.

“It is certainly suggestive,” said anthropologist Karen Baab of Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz., who studies the hobbits but didn’t participate in the new work.

Richard Roberts of the University of Wollongong in Australia, a study author, said in an email it is “certainly a possibility to be considered, but solid evidence is needed in order to demonstrate it. One thing we can be certain of, it will definitely be a major focus of further research.”

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

TUESDAY • Black Lick, Burrell Township: Black Lick Presbyterian Church, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Pine Township: Heilwood Volunteer Fire Department, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

• Blairsville Borough: Blairsville Presbyterian Church, noon to 1 p.m.

THURSDAY North Mahoning, South Mahoning West Mahoning townships, Smicksburg and Plumville boroughs: Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Plumville, 9 to 11 a.m. ❏❏❏ People registering for the first time should arrive a half-hour before the end of the pantry. Contact the ICCAP food bank at (724) 463-7440 with any questions about the program.

DeLoreto’s name to stay on ballot Continued from Page 1 raising allegations that the petitions contained material violations of Pennsylvania’s election laws.

Among other things, the petition challenging DeLoreto’s candidacy contended his petitions were signed by individuals who are not registered to vote or are not registered Democrats and that some of the information on the nominating petitions was entered by someone other than the person signing the

petition.

DeLoreto submitted nominating petitions with 724 lines and the objectors challenged 412 of the lines.

Philadelphia attorney Adam Bonin, representing DeLoreto, last week characterized many of the challenges as “trivial” and “ticky-tack.”

Bonin on Thursday said some of challenges involved issues such as the year being left out of dates and the use of common nicknames or initials in the signatures.

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Women accuse U.S. Soccer of wage discrimination “THE REALITY is that this team is more valuable to the USSF than the men’s team has been.

That’s what the facts show.”

Jeffrey Kessler, attorney

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer

Five stars from the World Cup-winning U.S. women’s national team have accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination in an action filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo maintain in the EEOC filing that they are paid nearly four times less than their male counterparts on the U.S. men’s national team, based on U.S. Soccer’s 2015 financial report. The filing

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Valentine voted player of the year

was announced Thursday in a statement from the law firm representing the players.

“The numbers speak for themselves,” Solo said in the statement. “We are the best in the world, have three World Cup Championships, four Olympic Championships, and the USMNT get paid more just to show up than we get paid to win major championships.”

The union representing the players is currently involved in a legal dispute with U.S. Soccer over the terms of their

collective bargaining agreement. The federation filed a lawsuit this year seeking to clarify that its contract with the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association runs through the Rio Olympics until Dec. 31.

The union maintains the memorandum of understanding agreed to in March 2013 can be terminated at any time. That case is pending.

Attorney Jeffrey Kessler, one of the attorneys representing the players, claimed that the tenor of the negotiations over the CBA created the need for

the women to act in hopes of ending what they say is the “discriminatory and unfair treatment” they have endured for years.

“The reality is that this team is more valuable to the USSF than the men’s team has been. That’s what the facts show,” Kessler said on a conference call with reporters. “And they would be justified in asking for more than the men are receiving. But the first step that they are seeking is equal treatment.”

U.S. Soccer issued a statement maintaining that its “efforts to be advocates for women’s soccer are unwavering.”

Continued on Page 14

NHL: Penguins 5, Predators 2

Staying Strong

By JIM O’CONNELL AP Basketball Writer

HOUSTON — The names Denzel Valentine and Buddy Hield have been virtually inseparable during college basketball’s postseason.

The national player of the year awards have gone to one or the other without anybody else getting any hardware.

Valentine was selected Thursday as The Associated Press’ Player of the Year, taking it in a DENZEL close vote over VALENTINE Hield.

Bill Self of Kansas was chosen the AP’s Coach of the Year with Xavier’s Chris Mack finishing second.

“We spent time together this summer at a basketball camp and we built a relationship,” Valentine said of his fellow BILL senior.

SELF “During the season we would give each other words of encouragement,” Valentine said.

“He was first person to text me when I got hurt and I thought that was pretty big time of him. He deserves everything he’s getting.”

Valentine, who missed four games after having minor knee surgery, received 34 of 65 votes from the national media panel that selects the weekly AP Top 25. Hield was the only other player to receive votes. Hield and Valentine were the only unanimous selections to the AP All-America team.

The 6-foot-5 Valentine led Michigan State (29-6) to a second-place finish in the Big Ten regular season and was the conference player of the year.

Continued on Page 12

PAGE 12 • George Washington wins NIT title.

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THE PENGUINS’ Conor Sheary was held up by the Predators’ Petter Granberg (8) as he was trying to get a shot off during the second period of Thursday’s game. A minor penalty was assessed on the play.

Kessel, Pens inch closer to playoff berth

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — Phil Kessel never gave up hope. Not through the early-season funk that cost former coach Mike Johnston his job. Not during those bumpy first weeks under Mike Sullivan, when the Pittsburgh Penguins tried to simultaneously learn new habits while trying to forget bad ones.

Consider the process nearly complete. Kessel is scoring. The Penguins are flying. The playoffs are beckoning.

Kessel scored twice and Pittsburgh moved within striking distance of a 10th consecutive postseason berth with a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on

Thursday night. Buried in 11th in Nick Bonino also scored for Pittsthe East when Johnston was fired burgh while Marc-Andre Fleury on Dec. 12, the Penguins stopped 22 shots to reach are now second in the 35 wins for the seventh Metropolitan Division and time in his career. can clinch a playoff berth “We had a tough time, tonight if Detroit loses in we couldn’t get consistenregulation to Minnesota. cy for a few months and “I think we always bethat hurt us,” Fleury said. lieved in here,” Kessel, “We were out of it for a who has 21 points (nine while. I thought it was goals, 12 assists) in his last also a good thing that we 22 games, said. “We alall figured it out and ways knew we had a good found a way to come back PHIL squad. We just kept on and win some games.”

KESSEL battling and proved it.”

James Neal and Ryan JoThe Penguins have won four hansen each had a goal and an asstraight and are 10-1 in their last sist for the Predators, who let a 11, nine of those triumphs with- chance to lock down a playoff out star center Evgeni Malkin. berth slip away once again.

Kris Letang, Patric Hornqvist and Nashville has dropped three

SPRING TRAINING: Pirates 13, Rays 8

Bucs break out hot bats early vs. Rays

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Matt Joyce, Francisco Cervelli and Sean Rodriguez homered in the first two innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Tampa Bay Rays 13-8 at spring training on Thursday.

Joyce capped a five-run first with a three-run shot off former teammate Jake Odorizzi. Cervelli led off the second with a towering shot off the Rays’ No. 3 starter, who lasted only two batters beyond that drive.

Rodriguez hit a grand slam off Steve Geltz, capping a fiverun second that put Pittsburgh up 10-1.

Odorizzi said he simply had a poor outing that he doesn’t expect to affect him when he makes his season debut Tuesday against Toronto.

“I’m not really too worried about it to be honest. ... Just an awful spring training start,” he said. “But you know the good thing is it gets erased in a couple of days and we start new. I’m not worried about it whatsoever.”

Kyle Lobstein, who will work out of the bullpen at the beginning of the season, started and allowed two runs and two hits in two innings for the Pirates, who played their final spring training game in Florida. They will fly to Indianapolis to close their exhibition schedule Saturday against the Cincinnati Reds.

Pittsburgh’s starters will play sparingly against the Reds, with most regulars not getting more than a couple at-bats.

Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle thinks the Pirates had a good camp.

“We maximized the work days,” Hurdle said. “The games are what the games are. We’re going to get out of here pretty clean health-wise, which is always a good thing.”

Odorizzi was charged with eight runs and six hits in one-plus inning. The right-hander also walked three and hit a batter while throwing 54 pitches, departing after all three batters he faced in the second reached base.

“Just glad it happened now,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.

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straight for the first time since a four-game slide from Jan. 5-12, blunting the momentum of a sixweek surge that thrust the Predators into the top wild-card position in the Western Conference.

“We didn’t have the jump and the pop that we needed in order to execute,” coach Peter Laviolette said. “Everything was a little slow. Our puck movement, our forecheck, faceoffs, everything was off, slow.”

Pekka Rinne stopped 25 shots before sitting out the third period in favor of backup Carter Hutton.

Like Pittsburgh, the Predators can earn a postseason bid without even playing tonight if Washington beats Colorado.

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Steelers add depth on D-Line

By The Associated Press

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PNC PARK grounds crew member Matt Gerhardt painted the field Wednesday in preparation for the seasonopening series against the Cardinals, beginning Sunday.

PITTSBURGH — Defensive end Ricardo Mathews has agreed to a oneyear deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers that will give the team needed depth next season.

Financial terms were not disclosed Thursday.

The 28-year-old Mathews had one sack and 14 tackles RICARDO in 16 games with San Diego in 2015.

MATHEWS He has four sacks in 80 career games with Indianapolis and San Diego.

The Steelers needed help along the line after nose tackle Steve McLendon signed with the New York Jets and Cam Thomas was not re-signed.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON’S Tyler Cavanaugh, the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, dribbled around Valparaiso’s Darien Walker during Thursday’s game at Madison Square Garden.

Seniors step up as GW wins NIT championship

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — George Washington coach Mike Lonergan held his young daughter in his arms near center court at Madison Square Garden, waiting to climb a ladder and cut down the net.

Now he can replace that one his buddy sent him weeks ago for good luck.

“It was in the locker room tonight,” Lonergan said after the Colonials beat Valparaiso 76-60 on Thursday for the school’s first National Invitation Tournament championship.

“I’m not a big motivation guy, but I’ll tell you, I felt that net before every game. And I told those guys, ‘We win, I’m wearing one of those nets. I don’t care what we do with the other one.’”

Kevin Larsen scored 18 points, Patricio Garino added 14 and fourth-seeded George Washington (28-10) set a school record for wins in a season with a dominant performance in the second half.

The Colonials won their fourth straight game against a higher-seeded team and sent three senior starters out with a tournament trophy, softening the sting of being rebuffed by the NCAA selection committee.

“It makes it feel a whole lot better,” Larsen said. “Like we said, we’d rather win the NIT than get bounced one-and-done in the NCAA Tournament. That’s been the mindset.”

Larsen, Garino and point guard Joe McDonald, part of Lonergan’s first full recruiting class at George Washington, walked off winners in their final college game. They arrived with the Colonials coming off a 10-21 season, but made the NCAA Tournament as sophomores.

“These guys, I wanted (them) to leave a legacy. We didn’t make the NCAAs (this year) and we were all heartbroken and it’s hard to bounce back, but they bounced back,” Lonergan said. “We played our best basketball end of March. I told them I wanted, instead of senior night, I wanted it to be senior month.

And that’s what it was.”

Junior forward Tyler Cavanaugh, the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, scored 12.

He averaged 19.4 points and nine rebounds in five NIT games.

McDonald had 13 points, eight rebounds and four assists with no turnovers for George Washington, which extended a one-point halftime lead to 19 late in the game. The Colonials went 22 for 26 at the foul line, compared to 6 of 6 for Valpo.

“We’re not there yet. I want to get to NCAAs and make a run, but this is a great stepping stone,” Lonergan said, with one of the two nets his team cut down draped around his neck.

“We’re an up-and-coming program that has great history,” he added. “So this is a big deal for our university, our players and our program, and I’m proud of these guys that helped put our program back on the map. But we are not where we want to be yet. We want to keep this thing growing.”

George Washington, which started players from Argentina, Denmark and Japan, used its 1-3-1 zone to hold Valparaiso star Alec Peters to two points in the second half. Peters finished with 15 and was the only double-figure scorer for the top-seeded Crusaders (30-7), who went 8 for 28 from 3-point range.

“It’s going to stick with us throughout the offseason,” Peters said.

The second unit helped GW rip off a 16-4 run early in the second half that pushed the advantage to 13. Valparaiso never got within single digits again.

“We made them look bad, so I give our guys credit, but that’s a heck of a team,” Lonergan said.

It was the first title in a national postseason tournament for the Colonials, who enjoyed much of the fan support among the crowd of 7,016. The school is located four blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and New York City is about a 225-mile trip up I-95. Some trains take less than three hours.

“NCAAs is always the goal, but we proved this year that you can make a lot of memories in this great tournament,” Cavanaugh said.

Neither team had reached the semifinals of the NIT before, and this was the first meeting between the schools.

“I told our guys, one game doesn’t define your season,” Crusaders coach Bryce Drew said. “We just seemed like we couldn’t really get a rhythm going.”

Warriors choosing to chase record instead of resting

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. — If anyone still doubted whether the Golden State Warriors were truly going to push for a record 73 wins instead of saving energy for the playoffs, that thought should now be put to rest for good.

Playing on the back end of a back-to-back on the road against a hungry team fighting for the playoffs, Stephen Curry played his most minutes since before Christmas, Draymond Green crashed hard to the floor in overtime and the Warriors (68-7) conceded nothing in a 103-96 win at Utah on Wednesday night that left them five wins away from breaking Chicago’s record of 72 wins with seven games left to play.

“It is something we want to do,” Green said. “We’ve spoken on this. It is no secret.”

After spending much of the season deflecting talk of breaking the mark set by the Bulls in 1995-96, the Warriors

are now embracing it.

Never was that more apparent than in Utah, when Curry played more than 42 minutes for his most playing time since a double-overtime win in Boston on Dec. 11, Green played nearly 43 minutes and Klay Thompson played nearly 39. The combined 124 minutes for Golden State’s three biggest stars were their most in any game this season.

Coach Steve Kerr, a member on the Bulls team that set the record, was a latecomer to the cause. After stressing the importance of rest for much of the season, he recently changed his tune and said if the players wanted the record, he’d play them as long as they were healthy.

“Our team wants it,” Kerr said. “They’ve made it pretty clear, so what we’re doing is listening to them and trusting them that if they’re injured, they’re going to let us know.

And if that’s the case, we’ll give them a rest. And if they feel like they’re perfectly capable of getting out there and

playing and that’s what they want to do, then that’s what we’ll do.”

What once was a hypothetical question about whether the record was in reach has become reality in recent weeks as the players have sensed how close 73 wins really are.

“We realize we can make history and that helps because it keeps you focused every game,” Thompson said.

“You don’t want to lose and get this far and not go for it.”

Making the decision slightly easier for Kerr is the fact that even with the increased intensity of the playoffs, the drawn-out postseason schedule will give the team plenty of rest.

“If the playoffs were compressed, I probably would be more apt to rest guys,” Kerr said. “The fact is, once the first round gets underway, it’s like days of rest.”

With the regular season ending in less than two weeks, that time is coming up soon.

Conference — Heritage Coach — John Bonatesta (fifth season) Last year’s record — 10-10 Starters returning — Logan Marino (OF), Scott Wagner (OF/P), Zack Lieb (DH/C), D.J. Olenchick (1B/3B/P), Scott Serafin (1B/3B/P), Adam Weiland (SS/P), Mac Novella (2B/P/SS) and Tyler Pershing (OF/INF/P).

Key additions — Logan Onkst (IF/OF/DH), Mark Marino (C/INF/OF/P), Quentin Burk (P/OF), Scott Yingling (3B/P), Garrett Nagle (1B/DH) and Nick Kirsch (2B/3B/OF).

Bottom line — The Colts hope to improve from last season’s .500 record. Eight returning starters should help Northern Cambria take the next step, but some uncertainty about starting pitching could cause a few bumps in the road.

“We are looking to work hard all season and get better each game,” Bonatesta said. “Pitching concerns me and we hope that we will be successful filling up the zone.”

SOFTBALL Conference — Heritage Coach — Kevin Krug (first season) Last year’s record — 6-12 Starters returning — Zoey Gailey (INF), Hannah Tibbott (INF), Taylor Trybus (OF), Megan Yuhas (P), Emily Pavelko (INF/OF), Caitlin Rippin (INF), Ashlee Parrish (C/INF), Breanna Lieb (OF/INF), Ann Marie Paterno (OF/INF) and Mallory Bernard (OF/INF).

Key additions — Nikki Bearer (INF/OF/P), Katie Yahner (P/INF/OF), Kaitlin Kudlawiec (P/INF/OF), Natalie Krug (INF), Noelle Scanlan (OF) and Paige Kirkpatrick (INF).

Bottom line — The Colts return an experienced squad led by pitchers Megan Yuhas (senior) and Emily Pavelko (junior). Northern Cambria hopes to rely on its defense and speed on the basepaths to make a run at a postseason berth.

“If everyone stays healthy and with the depth we have at pitching, we should do better than last year and compete for the conference title,” Krug said. “Our team defense and speed will hopefully be the difference.”

BOYS’ TRACK Conference — Heritage Coach — Fred Montanaro (4th season) Last year’s record — 8-1 Top returners — Robert Chappell (sprints/ relays), Robert Gobrecht (middle distance), Desmond Phillips (jumps/sprints), Michael Sclesky (throws), CJ Wiewiora (distance/jump).

Key additions — Alex Kopera (sprints/relays/long jump), Joseph Lechorick (middle distance/relays/javelin), Ryan Lanzendorfer (throws), Shane Salvia (pole vault).

Bottom line — The Colts suffered just one loss last season and hope to see continued success with the return of five veteran athletes.

GIRLS’ TRACK Conference — Heritage Coach — James Rocco (25th season) Last year’s record — 2-6 Top returners — Samantha Rocco (throws), Taylor Strong (distance), Emily Pavelko (jumps), Madison Farabaugh (sprints/hurdles), Katelyn Jones (distance), Sierra Gaston (sprints/hurdles) and Grace Happel (middle distance).

Key additions — Nicole Bearer (sprints/jumps) and Kate Yahner (sprints/jumps/pole vault).

Bottom line — With limited numbers and an inexperienced squad, Rocco looks for younger players to step up to help team improvement.

Rocco, however, has some hopes to see success in individual events, with Sam Rocco shooting for states in javelin and Taylor Strong likely to compete for school records in some distance events.

“We have some promising freshmen,” Rocco said. “Our major goal is to get them to improve to the point where they can make a real contribution.

We also expect our other inexperienced kids to make some serious individual improvements.”

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Conference — Heritage Coach — John Jones (sixth season) Last year’s record — 13-4 Starters returning — Brian Custer (P), Garrett Custer (3B), Hunter Mills (OF), Thomas Sibal (OF), Wyatt Stouffer (SS) and Nick Nepa (C).

Key additions — Sullivan Schueltz (2B), Jake Schott (INF), Austin Williams (OF) and Al Vigilotti (1B).

Bottom line — The Rams have a good core of returning starters with experience all over the diamond. Ligonier Valley will be led by veteran pitcher Brian Custer and expects to get contributions on the mound from Jake Schott, who missed all of last season with a knee injury.

The Rams will have to rely on some younger players to step up and fill the catching and outfield positions.

“Offensively, we should be fairly well-balanced one through nine,” Jones said. “Hopefully, this will give us a chance to be good on offense without having to worry about potential dead spots in the lineup.”

SOFTBALL Conference — Heritage Coach — Mark Zimmerman (16th season) Last year’s record — 12-5 Starters returning — Catou Cmar (OF), Kailee Lear (OF), Abigail Turcheck (OF), Nicole Turk (1B), Sara Klinchock (2B), Kari Kuhn (SS), Lexie Petrof (P) and Kelsey Stormer (DH).

Key additions — Abi Cmar (3B), Lindsey Stormer (C) and Mia Lynn (2B).

Bottom line — The Rams once again sport a young roster, with just one senior and three juniors. Ligonier Valley will rely on the arm of sophomore pitcher Lexie Petrof, who tossed a perfect game in the Rams’ season opener. The Rams advanced to the District 6 Class AA quarterfinals last season.

“We are, once again, a very young team,” Zimmerman said. “The influx of young players has brought competition within the team to all of the positions.”

GIRLS’ TRACK Conference — Heritage Coach — Albert Fiorina (32nd season) Last year’s record — 7-0 Top returners — Hannah Patrick (javelin), Olivia Miller (triple jump/long jump), Rachel Horrell (triple jump/long jump) Shelbi Shearer (discus), Rebekah Pleskovich (shot put), Kirsten Smith (high jump), Emma Ryan (hurdles), Olivia Morgan (middle distance) and Kacie Flickinger (middle distance).

Bottom line — The Rams are two-time defending Heritage Conference champions and have placed second in the United Invitational the past two seasons. Ligonier Valley returns a majority of its roster, including Hannah Patrick, who finished 13th in the javelin at the PIAA meet last season. The Rams have high hopes of continuing their dominance within the conference.

“We have 14 returning letterwinners and we have a solid foundation of talent,” Fiorina said.

“We are hoping to excel within the Heritage Conference once again this year.”

APOLLO-RIDGE VIKINGS

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Conference — WPIAL Section 3-AA Coach — Jon Kinnamon (second season) Last year’s record — 2-13 Starters returning — Mariah Laird (P), Kristen Foster (OF), Morgan Rihn (2B) and Teresa DeSimone (SS).

Key additions — Mollie Charlton (P) and Sidney Sheaffer (C).

Bottom line — The Vikings return six seniors and are expecting to build on the experience they gained last season.

“We are looking to be competitive every time out,” Kinnamon said.

BOYS’ TRACK Conference — WPIAL Section 7-AA Coach — Bob Desiderato (sixth season) Last year’s record — 4-3 Top returners — Joe Baustert (discus/shot put), Dillon Butz (100/200/long jump/4x100 relay), Justin Donelow (distance), Christian Havens (javelin/discus/shot put), Christian Schulze (hurldes/100/4x100 relay), Tim Viegas (distance/800), Alex Velesig (shot put/discus), Kane Kania (triple jump/pole vault/discus/javelin), Brynn Henderson (jumps/javelin), Devin Rametta (javeline/discus/sprints) and Waylon Murray (javelin/pole vault/distance).

Key additions — Matthan Eaton (middle distance/400), Brian Sprout (javelin/jumps), Brad Milko (sprints/jumps), Alex Gamble (sprints/pole vaults/jumps), Jacob Clark (throws), Dylan Zolonka (sprints) and Ryan Bias (sprints/relays).

Bottom line — Dillon Butz is the Vikings’ lone returning PIAA medalist, but a group of 15 freshmen athletes has fueled the squad with energy and excitement.

“Our captains are capable leaders,” Desiderato said, “and along with our skilled event coaches, we expect some big surprises this year.”

GIRLS’ TRACK Conference — WPIAL Section 7-AA Coach — Bob Desiderato (sixth season) Last year’s record — 4-3 Top returners — Jackie Rearick (discus/shot put), Megan Bonelli (javelin/shot put), Rachel Sprout (800), Bailey White (3200), Breanna Murray (middle distance/sprints), Paxton Fetterman (100/200), Caitlyn Galinac (shot put/discus), Ashtyn Baustert (sprints/high jump) and Katie Duff (shot put/discus).

Key additions — Cassady Peace (discus/shot put), Bianca Maginley (sprints), Morgan Huey (200/400) and Morgan Ashbaugh (shot put/ discus).

Bottom line — The Vikings’ roster size is lacking compared to past seasons, but ApolloRidge has hopes for another successful run.

“Our numbers are down a bit,” Desiderato said, “but we have excellent leadership and a cohesive team that will compete with the best in many events.”

• EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last of the spring sports previews. Previews were published based on information submitted by area coaches. Not all coaches submitted information.

Valentine beats out Hield as men’s AP college player of year Continued from Page 11 He averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.6 assists while directing the Spartans’ offense. He shot 44.7 percent from 3-point range and 85.3 percent from the free throw line.

The Spartans were ranked No. 1 for four weeks and finished second in the final AP Top 25. They lost to Middle Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“The last two weeks have been

tough and it’s hard to duck the tournament. It’s wherever you go,” said Valentine, the first Michigan State player to win the award. “You go into a restaurant and a game’s on. You just can’t duck it.”

Self was also AP Coach of the Year in 2009, becoming the eighth coach to win the award more than once.

John Wooden of UCLA won it five times and other multiple winners include Bob Knight, Roy Williams, Ray

Meyer and Guy Lewis.

He received 21 votes while Mack had 15 and Dana Altman of Oregon had 13.

“I would much rather be here with my team playing,” Self said. “This is great and there are dozens of people worthy of this award. But to be in that group (of multiple winners) is something I’ll always respect and treasure.”

The Jayhawks spent a total of five

weeks at No. 1 this season and won the Big 12 for the 12th consecutive season to move within one of UCLA’s record for consecutive titles. They were the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, losing to Villanova in the regional final.

“It was a great season. I don’t think you can call it a special season unless you get here,” Self said. “Looking back, I don’t think I could ever have a team sacrifice more or be more un-

selfish. It will always be one of my most special groups I’ve had.”

Both Valentine and Self said they would give up their awards to be on a team playing at the Final Four where they were presented their trophies.

“You want to get here,” Valentine said. “You talk about it all season and it’s what every team plays for.”

Voting was done before the NCAA Tournament.

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By The Indiana Gazette

Apollo-Ridge seeks basketball coach SPRING CHURCH — The Apollo-Ridge School District is seeking a varsity boys’ basketball coach for the 20162017 season.

Résumés, clearances, and letters of recommendation should be sent to: The Apollo-Ridge School District, P.O. Box 129 Spring Church, PA 15686, c/o Ray Bartha, Athletic Director.

The application deadline is Tuesday, April 12.

Apollo-Ridge loses baseball game FREEPORT — Freeport outhit Apollo-Ridge 11-3 and capitalized on seven errors to score a 12-1 win on Thursday in a WPIAL non-section baseball game that was shortened to five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

The Yellowjackets broke open a one-run game by scoring four runs in the top of the second inning and three runs in the third to take an eight-run lead, 9-1.

Brady Neal went 2-for-3 and scored the Vikings’ lone run.

Apollo-Ridge (0-2) plays host to St. Joseph on Monday.

Homer-Center camps scheduled HOMER CITY — A basketball camp and a shooting clinic will be held at HomerCenter High School in June.

The camp, focusing on the fundamental skills needed to become a successful player, will run from June 13 to 17 from 8 to 11:30 a.m. for boys and girls entering grades 3 through 6 and from 12:30 to 4 p.m. for boys and girls entering grades 7 through 12.

The clinic will run from June 20 to 24 from 8 to 10 a.m. for boys and girls entering grades 3 through 7 and from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for boys and girls entering grades 8 through 12.

Registration forms can be obtained at http://www. homercenterbball.com.

Registration can be completed at the door.

For information, call (724) 541-5555 or (724) 357-0738.

Alumni games set at Marion Center MARION CENTER — The junior class at Marion Center High School is sponsoring the Marion Center Alumni Basketball games Saturday, April 16.

Those interested in playing should call Karen Ryen at (724) 840-4130.

LOCAL SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL FREEPORT 12, APOLLO-RIDGE 1

Freeport — 12 Brestensky ss 5-2-2-0, DeCroo rf 4-33-0, Beale 3b 4-2-2-0, Pastorek 1b 4-1-00, Flemm lf 3-0-0-0, Kepple cf 4-0-0-0, Stefko c 3-1-0-0, Smith 2b 3-1-1-0, Hettica p 4-2-3-0, Totals 34-12-11-0 Apollo-Ridge — 1 Wingard ss 3-0-0-0, Neal c 3-1-2-0, Hill lf 1-0-0-0, Whager 3b 1-0-0-0, Rametta 3b 2-0-0-0, Sadler rf 2-0-1-1, Hreha 1b 20-0-0, Shaffor cf 1-0-0-0, Sowers 2b 0-00-0, Baum p 2-0-0-0, Totals 17-1-3-1 Freeport 243 12 — 12 11 1 Apollo-Ridge 100 00 — 1 3 7 2B — Beale, Smith W — Hettica 2 K, 4 BB. L — Baum 1 K, 1 BB.

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MOHAWK LANES HOME CARE ADVANTAGE LADIES

Brenda Blystone 170-200-290-660, Ruth Livingston 224-571, Julie Bowman 217-545, Sue Moran 206-541, Lois Clark 212-533, Cathy Chiplis 184-521, Bernie Sgro-Hodak 194-516, Ruth Shields 185510, Louise Miller 179-503, Erika Shimps 208-502

COFFEEBREAKERS

Penguins close in on playoff berth Continued from Page 11 “We’ve been doing this for 70-something games and obviously it’s all about getting in,” Nashville forward Filip Forsberg said. “It doesn’t matter if you win the last four or you lose the last four, as long as you get in. It’s all about getting in.”

The Penguins improved to an NHLbest 12-4 this month, a run made all the more impressive by their sometimes lifeless starts. Pittsburgh fell behind Buffalo by three goals in the opening period on Tuesday before roaring back for a 5-4 shootout victory thanks in large part to a career-high 35:14 from Letang, who finished off the rally with the deciding shootout goal.

There was no sleepy first period this time. Kessel converted a pretty cross-ice feed from Justin Schultz into an open net just 3:06 into the game. But Johansen tied it with a minute to go in the first after slamming a Neal pass from behind the net by Fleury.

Kessel gave the Penguins the lead for good with a sizzling wrist shot from the right circle that whizzed by Rinne’s right arm and into the top corner 2:29 into the second for his 25th of the season. Letang,

Eileen Ward 157-215-128-500, Chantel Sisko 174-495, Janet Mervine 167-476, Tammy Collazzo 180-475, Eulamae Stuchell 177-471, Marsha Pikel 188-464, Nancy Fisher 165-457, Bev Hadden 175436, Cindy Sisko 159-431, Carol Boyer 157-426

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By The Associated Press Giving away 10,000 toy rats to fans as they arrived at the arena was supposed to be a promotion for the Florida Panthers.

It turned into a problem instead.

The Panthers were penalized twice in the third period of Thursday's 3-2 win over the New Jersey Devils because fans were throwing the rats onto the ice despite warnings not to do so. New Jersey didn't score on either resulting power play, but that wasn't enough to keep Panthers star Jaromir Jagr from saying after the game that he wasn't pleased with the situation.

“I don't really agree with the penalties,” Jagr said after Florida moved back into first place and on the brink of clinching just the franchise's second playoff spot in the last 15 seasons. “We can always say, ‘Hey, it was New Jersey fans throwing them, we should have the power play.’ It's too important a game and it's going to be more important in the playoffs. I don't think we should get 2 minutes for that. I think the league should do something about it.”

Actually, the league did something about it — two decades ago.

The Panthers’ rat craze is a nod to the 1995-96 season, when as the oftrepeated story goes, Scott Mellanby killed a live one with his stick in the locker room of the team's former arena before going out and scoring two goals. The toy rats started flying in celebration in the games that followed, and after that season, the NHL changed its rules to say that teams could be assessed minor penalties for such outbursts.

In recent years at Panthers’ home games, the rats typically fly after wins. But with 10,000 of them handed out before the game Thursday, there was concern they might get

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PENGUINS GOALIE Marc-Andre Fleury made 22 saves in his 35th win of the season, the seventh time in his career he has reached that mark.

thrown early.

Jonathan Huberdeau scored twice as Florida moved back into first place in the Atlantic Division.

Jagr had a pair of assists and Al Montoya made 23 saves for Florida, which broke a tie with Tampa Bay for the division lead.

Mike Sislo and Blake Pietila scored for New Jersey, and Keith Kinkaid made 36 saves.

Jagr’s assist on the play gave him 60 points this season, marking the 18th time he had accomplished the feat.

HURRICANES 4, RANGERS 3: Victor Rask scored the go-ahead goal with 10:54 left, and Carolina rallied to beat New York in former captain Eric Staal’s return to his old home arena.

Jeff Skinner, Patrick Brown and Justin Faulk also scored for the Hurricanes, who trailed 3-2 after two periods. Ryan Murphy had two assists and Cam Ward made 24 saves.

Chris Kreider, Mats Zuccarello and Rick Nash scored for New York and Derek Stepan had two assists during a three-goal second.

Henrik Lundqvist finished with 24 saves for the Rangers, who fell to 272-2 when leading after two and fell one point behind the Penguins for second place in the Metropolitan Division standings.

ISLANDERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3: John Tavares scored twice and Anders Lee got a power-play goal 5:23 into the third period to lift New York over Columbus.

Thomas Hickey also scored for New York, which improved to 42-25-9. The Islanders have won three straight to get to 93 points and have solidified their grip on the first Eastern Conference wild-card berth.

New York is 24-9-4 in 37 games at Barclays Center this season, and four of the Islanders’ final six games are at their new home in Brooklyn.

STARS 4, COYOTES 1: Jamie Benn scored his 40th goal, Antti Niemi made 31 saves and Dallas beat Arizona to move two points ahead in the Western Conference race.

Dallas (103 points) pulled away from second-place St. Louis (101).

The Stars have four games remaining, and the Blues have five. The loss eliminated the Coyotes from playoff contention.

KINGS 3, FLAMES 0: Jeff Carter scored twice, Jonathan Quick made 21 saves in his fifth shutout of the season and Los Angeles reclaimed the Pacific Division lead with a win over Calgary.

The Kings moved one point ahead of idle Anaheim with their 46th win this season, tying the franchise record most recently set in their Stanley Cup-winning 2013-14 campaign.

Quick earned his 42nd career shutout, extending his own NHL record for American-born goalies. He also earned his 39th win of the season to match the franchise singleseason record he set in 2009-10.

CANUCKS 4, SHARKS 2: Jannik Hansen scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:03 remaining and Vancouver snapped a nine-game losing streak by beating San Jose.

Daniel Sedin and Bo Horvat scored in the first period and the Canucks rebounded after blowing another late lead to avoid matching the longest losing streak in franchise history.

Ryan Miller made 32 saves for Vancouver.

The Sharks lost for the 22nd time at home this season and will now likely have to open the playoffs on the road.

San Jose is five points behind Los An-

geles and four back of Anaheim in the Pacific Division.

CANADIENS 3, LIGHTNING 0: Rookie Mike Condon made 26 saves for his first NHL shutout and Montreal beat Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay started play tied with Florida for first place in the Atlantic Division at 93 points each. The Panthers beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Thursday night.

David Desharnais, Torrey Mitchell and Phillip Danault scored.

SENATORS 3, WILD 2: Cody Ceci got a goal with 3:57 left that deflected off two Minnesota players to help Ottawa beat the Wild.

Ceci’s ninth goal of the season bounced off Erik Haula and goaltender Devan Dubnyk’s skate. Erik Karlsson and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored, Craig Anderson made 23 saves and Ottawa won its second straight game a night after being officially eliminated from the playoffs.

Zach Parise scored his team-high 25th goal for Minnesota, which had its six-game winning streak snapped.

SABRES 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1: Cal O’Reilly and Johan Larsson each scored twice and Buffalo extended its home dominance over Toronto.

Buffalo built a 3-0 lead and Larsson capped Buffalo’s seventh straight home win over Toronto by scoring into an empty net in a meeting of two Atlantic Division rivals who have already been eliminated from playoff contention.

Brooks Laich scored for Toronto and Tobias Lindberg set up the goal in his NHL debut. The Maple Leafs acquired Lindberg in a multiplayer deal that sent captain Dion Phaneuf to Ottawa last month.

Chad Johnson made 25 saves for Buffalo.

IUP sets football schedule IUP ROUNDUP

By The Indiana Gazette IUP will play 10 football games in the upcoming season, including five at home on Frank Cignetti Field at George P. Miller Stadium.

All 10 are Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference opponents, including all seven from the West Division.

IUP starts the season with three consecutive road games, including the season opener at East Stroudsburg on Sept. 10. Games at Cheyney on Sept. 17 and Edinboro on Sept. 24 follow.

The home opener is Oct. 1 against Seton Hill in the annual Hall of Fame Game. The eighth annual Coal Bowl at California will follow on Oct. 8. Homecoming is Oct. 15 against Slippery Rock, and a home game against Clarion follows on Oct. 22.

IUP faces both Erie teams on consecutive Saturdays,

playing at Gannon on Oct. 29 and at home against Mercyhurst on Nov. 5.

IUP wraps up the regular season at home against Bloomsburg on Nov. 12.

FIELD HOCKEY: The IUP field hockey team received several academic awards recently, and a trio of Crimson Hawks were singled out for their exemplary work in the classroom.

IUP was one of 27 programs in NCAA Division II to earn the National Academic Team Award for having a team grade-point average of at least a 3.0.

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who logged another 28:50 of ice time, ended the Penguins’ 3-for-29 power play slump by calling for the puck at the point and drilling one past Rinne just past the game’s midway point.

Neal made it a one-goal game at the 14:24 mark of the second when he pounded a shot from the slot past Fleury, his former teammate.

The Penguins, however, just kept coming. Hornqvist parked himself in front of Rinne and stood there unfettered before deflecting home a slap shot by Trevor Daley to make it 4-2 late in the second.

Rinne stayed on the bench in the third period and the Penguins improved to 360 when leading after two by relying on Fleury and a steady forecheck that stopped the Predators from generating any sustained momentum.

NOTES: Penguins center Sidney Crosby had one assist to give him 599 in his career. ... Pittsburgh went 2-for-4 on the power play. The Predators were 0-for-4 with the man advantage. ... The Penguins play at the Islanders on Saturday afternoon and play their home finale against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday at 5 p.m.

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Cubs make big jump in salaries

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer

Practically neighbors, the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers illustrate baseball’s boom-bust cycle.

At Wrigley Field, the Cubs have boosted payroll by about $50 million this year in an effort to win their first World Series title since 1908.

At Miller Park, the Brewers overhauled their roster after finishing last in the NL Central and cut their big league player budget to under $60 million. That’s the lowest in the major leagues, according to a review of contracts by The Associated Press. Just eight of the Brew Crew make over $525,000, which is barely above the big league minimum.

They’re many rungs below pitchers Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and David Price, the first trio to reach $30 million in the same season.

Chicago is now among the biggest spenders, with an opening-day payroll in the $170 million range. After losing to the New York Mets in the NL Championship Series,

the Cubs went on a freeagent spending spree that added outfielder Jason Heyward, infielder Ben Zobrist and pitcher John Lackey to a roster that already included Jon Lester and young stars Kris Bryant and Kyle Schwarber.

The Pittsburgh Pirates’ payroll is at $98 million.

The Los Angeles Dodgers remain baseball’s biggest spender, but their openingday payroll of around $230 million will be a drop of $40 million from the record they set last year. And the total could climb, with Japanese pitcher Kenta Maeda alone able to earn $10.15 million in roster and performance bonuses.

The New York Yankees, who topped the majors in spending for 15 straight seasons before the Dodgers leapfrogged them a year ago, raised their opening payroll by $5 million to about $223 million.

Based on rosters as of Thursday, the average salary will rise about 4-6 percent to approximately $4.4 million, according to the AP’s projections.

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Pirates break out hot bats Continued from Page 11 “Just couldn’t quite make some mechanical adjustments. ... That’s going to happen sometimes. The important thing is he got his 50something pitches in, gets it out of his system, and he’ll be ready to pitch Game 3.�

Tim Beckham hit a two-run homer for Tampa Bay and finished with four RBIs. Lobstein was 3-8 with a 5.94 ERA in 13 games, including 11 starts, with Detroit in 2015. He is not part of the Pirates’ rotation, but could contribute as one of three lefties in the bullpen. “I think we’re going to

break with probably the most versatile bullpen� the Pirates have had in a while, Hurdle said. “Three lefties, that’ll be weird. And they’ve all got different skill sets.�

Odorizzi is Tampa Bay’s No. 3 starter behind Chris Archer and Drew Smyly. He was 9-9 with a 3.35 ERA in 28 starts last season. “Everybody’s pretty sharp,

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everybody feels good. That’s the main thing,� Odorizzi said of the four-man rotation the Rays will take into the season. “We all made it through healthy. That’s the first time I think we can say that in about three years. The way everybody’s been looking, feeling, just their attitudes, I think we’re in for a pretty special year.�

Continued from Page 11 “We are committed to and engaged in negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement that addresses compensation with the Women’s National Team Players Association, to take effect when the current CBA expires at the end of this year,� the statement said. “U.S. Soccer will continue to be an advocate on the global soccer stage to influence and develop the women’s game and evolve FIFA’s compensation model.�

The top players on the women’s team are paid about $72,000 a year by U.S. Soccer, along with bonuses, to play in a minimum of 20 exhibitions per year, the EEOC complaint says.

Conversely, the men are paid per match, with a minimum of $5,000 a game, and additional payments based on the opponents’ rankings and results.

The women have a potential to earn $99,000 if they win all 20 exhibitions, while their male counterparts would earn $100,000 minimum for appearing in the 20 games before the opponents and outcomes are figured in, and possibly as much as $263,320 a year if they win all of their games.

Citing another example of disparity, the complaint says that the women are paid $30,000 for making the World Cup team, while the men are paid $68,750 each.

U.S. Soccer maintains that the women’s team set up the compensation structure, including a guaranteed salary rather than a pay-for-play model like the men, in the last collective bargaining agreement. The women earn an additional salary because the federation pays their salaries in the National Women’s Soccer League.

tor other than sex,� said the complaint.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in on the issue on Twitter: “Wouldn’t want to face these women on the field or in the courtroom.

Every woman deserves equal pay.�

Landon Donovan, who played 14 seasons with the men’s national team, posted to Twitter: “USWNT absolutely deserve to be treated fairly in all ways. Important to remember that these issues are/can be collectively bargained.� He added: “Both USMNT and USWNT should be paid commensurate w/ the revenues they produce, not based upon what the other makes.�

The EEOC investigates claims of discrimination on merit. There is no timetable for resolution of the matter.

Federal law makes it illegal to discriminate against an employee because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. “This is a fight that we are going to have to continue to fight,� Solo said. “I don’t see it getting any easier, but it is something we are committed to. And it’s not just in the sports world, it’s everywhere you look.�

The U.S. women, who have already qualified for this summer’s Olympics in Brazil, are in Florida training for a pair of exhibition games against Colombia.

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The women’s national team players also receive other benefits, including health care paid for by the U.S. Olympic Committee, that the men don’t receive, the federation maintains.

USSF President Sunil Gulati said Thursday night that many factors are considered when it comes to player compensation, including the revenue the teams generate. “We think very highly of the women’s national team and we want to compensate them fairly, and we’ll sit down and work through that with them when all of this settles down,� Gulati said.

The U.S. women won the World Cup last year in Canada with a 5-2 victory in the final against Japan. The team earned a total of $2 million for winning the tournament, according to documents. The U.S. men’s team earned $9 million the year before at the World Cup in Brazil, where they were knocked out in the round of 16. The prize payouts came from FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, and not from U.S. Soccer.

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Some teachers using social media

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60TH ANNIVERSARY

By GRACIE SANDS and LIANA FU Chicago Tribune

These days, it’s hard to look at your phone without getting disapproving looks from teachers and parents. But what if tweeting was an assignment?

The push for more technological classrooms is obvious from things like smartboards to online textbooks. But is teaching on social media too far? There’s something personal about the presentation of our lives online; some say it should be disconnected from school. But if getting assignments over Snapchat works well, is it such a bad thing?

Some students find the interaction between students and teachers over social media to be forced or lame, but others see the benefits.

Barrington junior Nicole Kim said she earns participation points for tweeting articles.

“My teacher for AP U.S. history uses social media as a way for kids to help others by posting interesting articles,” Kim said.

“Some relate to what we’re learning, (and) others are just random, interesting ones about the world. Since I need participation points, I do post some articles that relate to our topic or just post some random ones to earn my points.”

Frequently tweeted articles mesh class content with current events, such as a recent tweet about the similarity between Bernie Sanders and Eugene V. Debs, an American political leader from the 1800s. Of course, tweeting about history outside of school isn’t something everyone enjoys, but it does connect the past with the present — an important part of history as a whole.

Barrington history teacher Robert Seidel, who uses Twitter to interact with his class, said technology is a valuable tool in his classroom.

“Today’s students come into my classroom dependent on technology in their personal lives, so it is important to embrace it in what I do to connect with them,” Seidel said.

“Using technology is not automatically engaging — that is, students are no longer engaged simply because a

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G. John and Mary Ann (Rushton) Stahlman, of Blairsville, formerly of Home, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on March 30, 2016.

A celebration with family will be given in their honor by their children: John and his wife, Gayle, of Washington, Pa.; Donald and his wife, Deb, of Blairsville; Thomas and his wife, Diane, of Indiana; Linda Peachey and her husband, Kirk, of Huntingdon; and Beverly Lydick and her husband, Robert, of Blairsville.

They are the proud grandparents of 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

THE PUSH for more technological classrooms is obvious from things like smartboards to online textbooks. teacher is using technology.

What matters most is how the teacher is using technology, and I have found that technology can help me increase the number of students who actively participate and engage in my course.”

Glenbrook South humanities and media teacher Scott Glass said he believes that social media, especially Twitter, can effectively connect students to the professional world and give them an opportunity to get their names out there as soon as they can.

Glass encourages this practice within his classroom because he believes it will give his students an advantage in the long run.

“I think students are sometimes surprised by how easy it is to connect with professionals,” Glass said.

“A simple Google search for any profession will turn up an array of individuals and organizations — nurses, engineers, educators, designers, etc. — who are active on platforms like Twitter. This ends up being an easy way to get a sense of the discussions taking place in a given field and even join in a conversation, perhaps in a way that colleges, businesses and organizations will take note of when they search for who applicants are online.”

Glenbrook South senior Grace Moran is currently in

Glass’ media collage class, and she said she enjoys it because it connects students in a way that would not be possible without the incorporation of social media. Moran explained that the course explores many different concepts and ideas through projects that are later posted in Glass’ Instagram for everyone to see.

“I really like his incorporation of social media because I think it’s easier to relate to our generation, and it’s easier to encourage us to discuss different ideas that we otherwise wouldn’t consider,” Moran said.

“The class is formatted to where we talk about different ideas and how different artists or creators have explored that idea. What we do is create ‘Mind Books’ where we create pages in it where we explain our thought process, so he will take some examples and post them on his Instagram which is a really cool way to connect with other people in the class.”

However, there are drawbacks to translating class work to social platforms.

Many teachers, including Seidel, believe that social media and technology in general can easily distract students but hope they can find a way to use it appropriately.

“For teachers and students, technology has become both

a powerful tool for learning and a potential distraction in the classroom,” Seidel said.

“Not only can it improve workflow, collaboration, communication and creation in infinite ways, it can also serve as an infinite distraction. Appropriately using technology in the classroom requires a measure of additional management from the teacher as well as a great deal of self-discipline from the students.”

Glass believes it’s extremely important for schools to teach students how to navigate social media because it’s becoming such an integral part of our daily lives. Because students are so used to learning from a mentor, he believes they will also need to be guided through the world of social media and the Internet because it could otherwise serve as a distraction.

“Social media is transforming our lives in general, including education,” Glass said.

“Whether it is Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook or something else, kids and adults are all in the process of figuring out the most beneficial ways to use these tools. As a teacher, I think part of my job is to help students understand how best to leverage these platforms as thoughtful learners and creators.”

BOOK BREAKFAST The New Century Club will host Carole Bencich, who will review Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread,” at 9:15 a.m.

Thursday in the community room of St. Andrew’s Village, White Township. Bencich is professor emeritus in the English department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

The book was short-listed for the Booker Prize this year. It tells the tale of a Baltimore family that constructs its lives around the stories they tell one another. Tyler excels at the psychology of family drama, and the intertwined relationships around which

CAROLE BENCICH people develop their lives.

A continental breakfast, donated by St. Andrew’s, will be served. Reserved, marked parking will be available at the end of the lot. The cost for nonsubscribers to the series is $5.

All proceeds benefit the Indiana Free Library.

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Sometimes the stench goes away for a short period of time; other times it smells like a combo of urine and Nok-out for awhile. But the full odor returns. Help! I can’t stand it. — Linda DEAR LINDA: Oh boy, this is bad. The offending odor soaked into the stuffing of those pieces of furniture.

Nok-Out has to penetrate successfully to reach every area that was infected. If the cat truly sprayed, is it possible that the spray went in all directions and you might need to expand the area of treatment?

I sent an SOS to Ted Price at Nok-Out asking him what he thinks your best bet is. I certainly know why you’re having this problem, but I’m not fully confident in a solution: The following is my correspondence with Ted. — Mary DEAR TED: Can you take a look at Linda’s cat odor problem, which is included in this column, and weigh in on how to use Nok-Out to eliminate this horrible odor once and for all? — Mary DEAR LINDA: Sure, Mary. I feel your pain, Linda! But

don’t worry: There is a permanent solution to this problem and I’m sure I can help.

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For example, I bought a used sofa and didn’t discover that it had a horrible musty odor until I put it into my living room. I sprayed it all over and it smelled better after drying, so I was happy. But a day or two later, that musty smell returned. I sprayed the couch again, with (predictably) the exact same result.

I put my thinking cap on and did a little homework. I learned that musty odors come from a fungus. In that moment I realized that I had sprayed the upholstery but the fungus was probably living deep in the stuffing. I knew I hadn’t made contact with the source of the odor.

I brought out my Nok-Out for a third time and sprayed that sofa heavily. The couch

soaked it all up like a sponge and took almost a week to dry. But when it did dry, the odor — and the fungus — were gone.

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This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014. To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

COMING EVENTS MEETING: The BPOE 931 Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday. New officers will be installed. Members are urged to attend.

DANCE: An Indiana Singles Dance will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 420 Philadelphia St., Indiana. A snack will be served at 7:30 p.m. Music will be provided

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For more information, call Bonnie at (724) 397-2672, Martha at (724) 840-4983 or Ed at (724) 422-2060.

DANCE: An old-time round, hoedown, square and polka dance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Towne Hall, Route 422, Elderton.

Music will be provided by the Ken Burkett Band. All ages are welcome. For more information, call (724) 548-1501.

CASH BASH: The sixth annual Creekside Volunteer Fire Company Cash Bash will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Creekside Fire Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Admission is a $10 donation.

Food and beverages will be available all evening. Those entering must have a ticket and photo identification.

Anyone younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Drawings will be held

every 20 minutes. No prizes will be less than $200. There is a $25 bonus if present on each drawing.

There is a $75 bonus if present on the last drawing.

The winner need not be present to win on main ticket.

There will be basket drawings, a mystery prize and walk-a-rounds.

The event is sponsored by the Creekside Sparks & Flames Drill Team.

If you see these people today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday: • Wally Cook, Homer City • Gladys Craig, Indiana • Aaron Elliott, Blairsville • Mike Fabian, Marion Center • Rob Fisher, Indiana • Samantha Gallo, Home • Linda Joiner, Homer City • Cindi Kordell, Indiana • Sophia Loughry, Indiana • Madison McGinnis, Indiana • Melodee Medsger, Indiana • Steve Meehan, Westmont • Hailie Poole, Punxsutawney • Beverly Russick, Indiana • Dakota Sapinsky, Indiana • Daryla Sigafoes, Blairsville • Sharon Trunzo, Homer City The Gazette would like to wish you a “Happy Birthday!”

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NOTICE NonDiscrimination Policy As a recipient of Federal finance assistance, Hillsdale Rehab and Nursing Center does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, or on the basis of disability or age in admission to, participation in, receipt of the services or benefits of any of its programs and activities or in employment therein, whether carried out by Hillsdale Rehabilitation and Nursing Center directly or through a contractor or any other entity with whom Hillsdale Rehabilitation and Nursing Center arranges to carry out its programs and activities. This statement is in accordance with the provision of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Regulations of the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to the Act, Title 45 Code of Federal Regulations Part 80, 84, and 91. (Other Federal Laws and Regulations provide similar protection against discrimination on grounds of sex and creed.) In case of questions concerning this Policy, or in the event of a desire to file a complaint alleging violations of the above, please contact: Hillsdale Rehab and Nursing Center Coordinator: Administrator Robert Bagdon. Telephone Number: 814-743-6613.

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NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Homer-Center School District is accepting sealed bids for Trash Removal and Recycling Services needed at the Homer-Center School District.

Bid specifications may be obtained from Gregory K. Cessna, Business Manager, Homer-Center School District, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Phone 724-479-3601).

Bids must be received at the Homer-Center School District Central Office by 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Bid opening is set for Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in the Board Room, Homer-Center School District, 65 Wildcat Lane, Homer City, PA 15748. The Homer-Center School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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NOTICE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS INDIANA COUNTY INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA Case NO: 10583 CD 2116 IN THE MATTER OF PETITION FOR A NEW TITLE OF A MOBILE HOME, filed by JAMIE ROUSH. The Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, Pennsylvania has set a hearing on this Petition for a new title for the date of April 18 at 2:00 pm, in Courtroom No. 3, 4th Floor of Indiana County Courthouse; Indiana, Pennsylvania. Interested parties may appear and show cause, if any, why the request of the Petitioner shall not be granted.

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NOTICE UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICT BID ADVERTISEMENT The United School District is requesting proposals for school food service management services. The Food Service Management Company will provide management services according to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations and guidelines, as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Education policies and guidelines.

Sealed Bids should be sent in an envelope marked “Food Service Management Bid” to: United School District, Business Office, 10780 Rte. 56 Hwy. East, Armagh, PA 15920.

All proposals must be submitted no later than 1:00 p.m. on April 21, 2016.

A walk-through meeting is scheduled for April 7, 2016 at 10:45 a.m. at United School District, Business Office, 10780 Route 56 Hwy. East, Armagh, PA 15920.

The United School District Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all proposals or to accept the proposal that it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in the best interest of the school district.

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NOTICE TO THE OWNERS OF PROPERTIES DESCRIBED IN PETITION NO. 10167 CD 2016 AND IN THIS NOTICE, AND TO ALL PERSONS HAVING TAX AND MUNICIPAL CLAIMS, MORTGAGES, LIENS, CHARGES AND ESTATES, EXCEPT SEPARATELY TAXED GROUND RENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE TAX SALE LAW. The following describes properties that will be sold to the highest bidder on Monday, May 2, 2016, at 10:00 A.M., said sale to be held at the Indiana County Annex Building, 827 Water Street, Indiana, PA 15701.

Properties to be sold to the highest bidder at said sale freed and cleared of all tax and municipal claims, mortgages, liens, charges and estates as listed in the petition, except separately taxed ground rents. The purchaser at such sale shall take and thereafter have an absolute title to the property sold, freed and cleared of all tax and municipal claims, mortgages, liens, charges and estates as listed in the petition, except separately taxed ground rents. The purpose of said sale is to provide for the collection of the amount of taxes owing on the properties being exposed for sale, together with interest and penalties thereon. The terms of said sale are cash or check at the time the properties are sold.

BIDDERS MUST BE REGISTERED WITH THE INDIANA COUNTY TAX CLAIM BUREAU BEFORE 4:00 P.M. ON FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016. NO REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE SALE. Armstrong Township: Shaffer, Harry G. Jr. Bumpass Construction Inc. 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Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 32-017-311.00..-000#29485 LOT 50X140 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1241-268 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Yount, David UX Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 42-036-206.00..-011#48387 Mobile Home Mibroda, Jeremy 12-005-102.00..-000#13061 AC=7.00 1 HO 1 GA OB Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 02-006-111.02..-038#49916 Mobile Home DB#1137-363 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Dotts, Rebecca J. Vir Dotts, William P. Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 32-017-312.00..-000#29486 LOT 50X140 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1241-268 42-036-206.00..-013#48376 Mobile Home Smith, Anthony Clymer Borough: Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 02-006-111.02..-074#00688 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Buterbaugh, E Dale UX Buterbaugh, Peggy J. Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 15-001-204.00..-000#15984 LOT 50X150 1 CB Dotts, William P. Jr. AL Dudek, Rebecca Marshall Pointe Real Estate 32-017-313.00..-000#29474 LOT 50X140 1 HO 42-036-206.00..-014#48375 Mobile Home DB# 1364-154 Wilcox, Brenda Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DB# 1035-286 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 02-006-111.02..-018#47096 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Buterbaugh, E Dale UX Buterbaugh, Peggy J. Johnson, Jack UX Johnson, Pamela 42-036-206.00..-016#48383 Mobile Home 15-001-206.00..-000#15985 LOT 50X150 Banks Township: DB# 1364-154 32-017-345.00..-000#29706 LOT 84X75 AV 1 HO Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Kephart, Tammy Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DO# 218617-2011 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 03-010-109.03..-001#52431 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal August 20, 2015 Conemaugh Township: 42-036-206.00..-018#48379 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Morrone, William F. AL Poole, Theresa Ann; Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Kraft, Chris Blairsville Borough Ward II: Zimmerman, Jackson; Zimmerman, Carolyn Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 16-020-140.04..-000#47975 AC=3.47 Mobile Home Campbell, Weston L. 32-003-120.00..-501#30005 9.00 AC COAL Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Marshall Pointe Real Estate 06-003-300.00..-000#03775 LOT 60X102 1 HO DO# 2014-250649 42-036-206.00..-021#00733 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DO# 216860-2011 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Creekside Borough: Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Steffish, Andrew P. Pine Township: Marshall Pointe Real Estate 17-001-234.00..-000#17779 LOT 102X120 1 HO Blairsville Borough Ward III: Baxley, Junior O’Neal UX Baxley, Elsie Mae 42-036-206.00..-022#38552 Mobile Home DB# 1205-84 Davis, Scott R.; Zajdel, Cynthia 33-022-454.00.-000#30430 LOT 40X106 1 HO Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 07-006-107.00..-000#04496 LOT 32X139 AV 1 HO, OB DB# 723-636 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1138-708 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Glen Campbell Borough: Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 42-036-206.00..-023#39824 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Davidson, John T. Jr. Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Rayne Township: 18-002-307.00..-000#18029 LOT 50X145 Pound, Stacy L. Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Bumpass Construction Inc. DO# 210238-2010 07-004-311.00..-000#05007 LOT 59X133 AV 1 HO 35-004-113.00..-502#32801 11.15 AC COAL Marshall Pointe Real Estate Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch August 21, 2015 DO#173325-2007 42-036-206.00..-024#39820 Mobile Home DO# 186832-2008 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Spellman, Alvin G. UX Spellman, Faith A. Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 18-004-205.00..-000#17863 LOT 50X160 1 HO Buffington Township: Marshall Pointe Real Estate **Mantini Properties LLC DO# 236808-2012 Bumpass Construction Inc. 35-002-122.00..-000#33619 1 CB 2.50 AC Fee 42-036-206.00..-025#48377 Mobile Home Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 09-011-101.00..-501#06662 70.00 AC COAL Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DB# 1623-66 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DO# 186823-2008 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Green Township: Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Marshall Pointe Real Estate Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Calvert, Brian K. AL Corrado, Annette A. 42-036-206.00..-030#50227 Mobile Home Saltsburg Borough: 20-032-429.00..-000#20153 LOT 50X130 1 HO 1 GA Burrell Township: Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Miller, Patricia DB# 1241-872 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Bayview Financial Property Tr. 36-003-308.00..-000#34108 LOT 60X150 1 HO Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 10-014-118.00..-000#08860 AC=0.64 1 HO Marshall Pointe Real Estate DB# 520-447 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DO#172598-2007 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 42-036-206.00..-031#48381 Mobile Home Ruddock, Curtis W. UX Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 20-035-136.00..-000#21185 LOT 70X120 1 GA Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Webb, Carl E. III DB# 1134-136 Braun, Chester R. Jr. Marshall Pointe Real Estate 36-002-514.00..-000#33985 LOT 60X87 1 HO Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 10-007-149.00..-000#09105 AC=0.42 1 HO 42-036-205.01..-000#39825 2.06 AC DB# 1164-961 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1109-314 DB# 1602-642 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Ruddock, Curtis W. 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Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 **Iezzi, Gary Robert Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 21-001-112.00..-000#22192 LOT IRREG AC=0.04 1 CB 10-004-104.00..-000#08038 AC=0.55 1 HO Marshall Pointe Real Estate East Wheatfield Township: DO# 213380-2010 DB# 1053-500 42-036-209.01..-000#39827 0.57 AC Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Boring, Tina M. Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DB# 1602-642 Indiana Law Journal August 20, 2015 40-012-127.02..-000#50459 AC=3.36 1 HO Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DB# 1317-378 Indiana Borough Ward IV: Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Krawcion, Donald J. Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 10-031-520.00..-000#08305 LOT F 82.52X150 1 HO 1 GA Stiffler, Ralph R. UX Stiffler, Susan A. Moses, Leo Jr. Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1121-104 25-003-642.00..-000#25905LOT F 54.71X67 AV 1 HO 42-045-706.00..-001#00998 Mobile Home Sheriff, Lori Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 DB# 903-781 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 40-013-156.00..-000#36457 AC=0.50 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DB# 1492-344 Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Canoe Township: Sias, Steve Daniel Sr. al Reely Elizabeth Ann Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 East Mahoning Township: 42-036-206.00..-003#48382 Mobile Home Bumpass Construction Inc. Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 11-010-103.00..-501#09697 80.00 AC COAL Miller, Lawrence UX Vindish, Linda M. 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Minemyer, Bobbie Indiana Gazette, Blairsville Dispatch - August 21, 2015 Young Township: 28-005-105.00..-501#26906 45.00 AC COAL 41-006-110.00..-002#38030 Mobile Home Indiana Law Journal - August 20, 2015 DO# 186828-2008 Deluca, Richard D. AL Deluca, Richard A. 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2 BDRM Country home.

Easy access! Eat-in-kit, new appl., in home laundry. Free gas heat, lawn mowing incl. NP, NS, 1st mo. rent + sec. dep. $550. (724) 422-5436 HOMER CITY: 80 Yankee Town Ave. 2 bdrms, well behaved pets acceptable, $625/mo. incl. sewage & water, 1 yr lease, Sec. Dep. $625. Ph. George 724-388-0606

RANCH, 2 Bedroom, garage, basement, yard, washer/dryer hookup central air, gas heat. $800/mo plus sec. dep., no pets, non smoking.

Near mall. Call between 9 am-6pm (724) 465-6563

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CLEAN 2 bdrm incl water & garbage. Range & fridge incl. No pets. (724) 549-8792 Houses For Sale

OPEN HOUSE April 3, 1-3pm

.01 miles off East Pike Road 85 Scenic Ave. Ranch Home, 4 bedroom, 3 bath home on corner lot! Hardwood and ceramic tile throughout.

Eating area off kitchen can be used as sitting room. $169,000. Norma White Realty (724) 349-1501. Call the listing agent Marion Sadler directly (724) 388-6870

PRICE REDUCED! White Twp: 3 bdr, 1.5 ba. ranch on dbl lot, 100’ X 163’.

Eat-in-kitchen, lg. rooms, & closets. C/A & hardwoods. Attached garage. $157,900.

(724) 464-0171

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IUP Art Dept.

Saturday April 2nd, 12 noon - 4p.m.

Strowls Hall/ Robertshaw Community Welcome!

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Furnished Apartments

AFFORDABLE College Apts near Campus. Small & Large groups accepted. Houses also available for rent. runcorental@verizon.net (724) 349-0152 BRAND NEW: 1 Bdrm Apt, ALL UTIL. INCL. internet & TV also. East Pike $695/mo No pets.

(724) 549-2059

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1 BDR in Graceton, $500/ mo. includes water, sewage & cable. (412) 289-2582 1 or 2 BDRS avaiable, can be furn or unfurn, $500/mo or $550/mo includes free heat, very clean. No pets, Non smoking. 724-254-4777 APARTMENTS and TOWNHOUSES, Blairsville, 1,2 & 3 bdrm, clean quality rental, sec. & 1st mo. rent. $400 & up.

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COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR RENT We currently have a very nice commercial office space available at three of our downtown Indiana buildings. At these locations, we would like to offer free rent until the streetscape work is finished on Philadelphia Street to anyone who signs a five year lease with us.

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LANDMARK EVENT STAFFING Is now hiring part-time event staff for both IUP’s Kovalchick Center and for campus events year-round. In addition, employees are eligible to work concerts at First Niagara Pavilion, Stage AE and Heinz Field, along with Steelers, Pitt and Penn State University football games. Interviews will be conducted at The Kovalchick Center on Tuesday April 5th from 10am to 4pm.To schedule an appointment please call Landmark at (412) 321-2707 M-F 10a-4p.

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The BHRS Case Manager will guide and assist individuals in gaining access to necessary medical, rehabilitative and social services. The BHRS Case Manager may coordinate and facilitate access to care while monitor service delivery. Job responsibilities may include, but are certainly not limited to the following: complete MA Packets, facilitate inter-agency meetings, attend meetings, obtain authorization from DPW/Managed Care, ensure clients are receiving prescribed hours, distribute case relevant information to direct care staff, utilizing Excel to update tracking sheets, and coordinate services with agencies, staff, and parents.

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by Eugenia Last Your dedication and compassion will encourage you to try to make a difference this year. Volunteer your services in order to meet people who will inspire you to do more.

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ARIES (March 21April 19) — Take part in a cause you believe in. Be the driving force behind a project. You can bring about change and make a difference. A chance meeting will help you advance.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Don’t let your emotions get in the way of practical thought and application. Gather information and make a concentrated effort to act based on facts instead of assumptions. Don’t let disappointment ruin your plans.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — Make a personal change that will boost your confidence. Sign up for a course or check out different philosophies or cultures. Trust your own judgment, not someone else’s.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — If you explore your feelings, you will come to realize what you need in your life or recognize the changes you must make in order to find happiness. The truth lies within.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — An emotional dilemma will pass quickly if you are compassionate. A romantic gesture will bring you closer to a loved one. Home improvements will add to your comfort.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Get involved in activities that put your energy to good use. You’ll avoid an emotional altercation with someone looking for answers if you are too busy to discuss such matters.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Memories will push you to reconnect with someone you used to enjoy spending time with. Attending a reunion will help put your life in perspective and allow you to appreciate what you have.

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PISCES (Feb. 20March 20) — Put in a call to someone who can shed light on a situation you don’t fully understand.

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Real Estate Transfers Richard L. Lichtenfels Sr. and Susan Lichtenfels to Lisa Sue Akers, East Wheatfield Township, $1 Michael W. Kennedy and Christina M. Rice to William Jarvie and Bridget Jarvie, Cherryhill Township, $180,000 William D. Jarvie and Bridget D. Jarvie to Ryan J. Turner and Jordan R. Turner, Cherryhill Township, $200,000 Dennis J. Montanti and Kelly S. Montanti to Gerald M. Matava and Caroline J, Scanga, East Wheatfield Township, $44,274.20 Stacy R. Fess and Harry D. Fess to Kevin D. Good and Carrie L. Monticue, Center Township, $25,000 Paul McCracken to David L. Stephens Est., Cherryhill Township, $2,075 David L. Stephens Est. to Kristi King and Ben King, Cherryhill Township, $40,000 Joseph L. Ball and Alissa B. Ball to Joseph L. Ball, White Township, $1 Nestor V. Peles TR by TR to Stephen N. Peles and Beth D. Peles, Montgomery Township, $1 Vincent A. Ugoletti and Mary W. Ugoletti to Vincent A. Ugoletti, Blairsville Borough, third ward, $1 Bradley Lawer and Lacey Lawer to Michele Stossel-Gigliotti, Clymer Borough, $91,500 F. Musser Holdings LP to Matthew D. Allison, Armstrong Township, $23,345 Lydia A. Gawlas to Lydia A. Gawlas, Deborah S. Gawlas and Rebecca L. Jones, East Wheatfield Township, $1 Helen Szynal, Thaddeus J. Szynal, Cheryl L. Szynal, Barbara A. Angelosanto AKA Barbara A. Badour and Dennis G. Badour to Mario J. Alexander and Angelo J. Alexander, Center Township, $12,000 Susan Kokolis to Brian T. Heiple and Norma J. Heiple, Center Township, $155,000

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(With only five losers, it would have been reasonable to make a control-bid.) Here, though, South, after making a four-club control-bid and hearing North cooperate with a four-diamond control-bid, signed off in four spades, announcing to partner, the opponents and the bartender that he did not have a heart control. As North lacked one as well, he passed.

West, not deaf to the auction, led the heart six.

East won with his jack (bottom of touching honors when playing third hand high), cashed his ace and king, then led his last heart. What should South have done?

Who had the spade queen?

The clue was East’s initial pass. If he had the spade queen as well as all those heart honors, he surely would have opened the bidding.

So South ruffed the fourth heart with his spade ace, then ran the spade jack through West. When the finesse worked, declarer took a second spade finesse, drew West’s last trump, and claimed.

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