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Budget plan would dip into fund balance

By CHAUNCEY ROSS

PURCHASE LINE — After nearly 45 minutes of debate and one failed motion, the Purchase Line school board passed its proposed budget Thursday for the next fiscal year with no tax increase, but $508,997 to be taken from the district’s fund balance.

Proposed budgets are not final but must be advertised for 30 days before they can be accepted by school boards in June before the end of the fiscal year. In June, Purchase Line could vote for a tax increase of up to about 3.6 percent before requiring the filing of exceptions or a referendum vote.

The original preliminary budget motion Thursday night called for the full 3.6 percent tax increase.

Total revenue was estimated at $17,630,546 and expenditures at $18,139.472. It was voted down 5 to 4 with Scott Beer, Michele Buterbaugh, Pamela Gardner, William Pearce and Kevin Smith voting against and Sandra Fyock, Scott Gearhart, Raymond Kauffman and Roy Markle voting in favor.

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GRACETON — The Center Township board of supervisors has endorsed a plan to extend municipal water service and make other improvements to the FMC Sports Complex near Homer City.

The supervisors on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting efforts by the Homer Center Area Athletic Booster Club to find outside funding for the upgrades.

The project could cost $250,000, but the township would pay no cash toward it, the supervisors said. The booster group plans to apply for a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development through the Pennsylvania Greenways Trails and Recreation Program, said supervisor Chairman John Bertolino.

The booster club notified the township this week of its efforts involving the Indiana County Center for Economic Operations and state Rep. Dave Reed.

The booster group would be required to pay 15 percent local funds to leverage a state grant.

That would be $37,500 from the booster club, if the project is approved for the full $250,000.

The plan calls for extending a 6-inch main water pipeline from the entrance to the sports complex to serve various points in the area, replacement of antiquated bleachers at the ball field and construction of a parking lot to accommodate hundreds of vehicles.

Although the township won’t contribute money to the project, Bertolino said the township may provide materials and labor as an Continued on Page 12

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STATE REP. Dave Reed was awarded the Boy Scouts Distinguished Citizen Award at a luncheon Thursday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

School directors forecast 1 mill tax increase

Scouts honor Reed at annual luncheon

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Area supporters of the regional Boy Scouts of America organization convened Thursday for an annual celebration of what the character-building program has done for local young people.

Leaders of the Laurel Highlands Council of the Boy Scouts presented the 16th Distinguished Citizen Award to state Rep. Dave Reed, a Homer City native who now represents most of Indiana County but also leads the Republican majority caucus in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Almost 170 former Scouts, parents of Scouts, leaders of Scouts and Scouts themselves attended the council’s 2016 William Penn Luncheon at the Kovalchick Convention & Athletic Complex at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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KENWOOD — The Penns Manor Area school board adopted its proposed budget for 2016-17 on Thursday. It calls for a tax increase of 1 mill at current values, or a little less than a quarter of its Act 1 index cap.

The proposed budget calls for expenses of $16,334,559 and revenues of $16,247,348. It will take $87,211 from district funds to balance the budget.

School districts are required to advertise a proposed budget for 30 days and pass a final budget before the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Penns Manor will vote on its final budget at a special meeting at 7 p.m. June 16.

The final millage number will be much lower after the district receives new certified values from the countywide reassessment, likely late this month.

Superintendent Daren Johnston said the proposed budget calls for the reduction of one elementary teaching position through attrition, but also returns art to all grade levels and physical education Continued on Page 4

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BILL HILLGROVE, a longtime regional sports commentator, served as the guest speaker.

Trump, Ryan say they’re committed to unity

By ERICA WERNER

AP Congressional Correspondent

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WASHINGTON — Straining to mend their party after months of chaos, Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan declared themselves “totally committed” to working together after a fencemending personal meeting on Thursday. Ryan praised Trump as “very warm and genuine,” and

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suggested that after initial hesitance he may well end up endorsing the GOP candidate for president.

“We will have policy disputes.

There is no two ways about that.

The question is, can we unify on the common core principles that make our party?” Ryan said. “And I’m very encouraged that the answer to that question is yes.”

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The surprisingly fervent show of unity capped a remarkable week

that began with Ryan, the GOP’s top elected office-holder and its 2012 vice presidential nominee, turning his back on his party’s presumptive presidential nominee just days after Trump had effectively clinched the nomination.

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San Francisco hotels do their part to save honeybees

By KRISTIN J. BENDER Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, there are more than 370 rooms inside and 100,000 bees buzzing above in rooftop hives outside.

Yes, honeybees.

Aware of the well-publicized environmental threats to honeybees that have reduced numbers worldwide, seven San Francisco hotels have built hives on their rooftops.

The sustainability effort also benefits the hotels as the bees produce honey for cocktails, food and spa treatments. It’s the latest in a series of environmental programs at hotels that includes low-flow toilets and aggressive recycling programs. “This is not about making money, it’s really about raising awareness about sustainability,� said Melissa Farrar, spokeswoman at the Fairmont in San Francisco. “There’s not one solution so we wanted to do our part to help. It’s part of the bigger effort for helping the planet.�

Farrar said the four hives on the rooftop garden support about 250,000 bees and produce about 1,000

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BEEKEEPER SPENCER MARSHALL checked a number of hives on a garden deck April 18 outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. pounds of honey each year.

In this foodie city, the honey is used in such things as the Clift’s Purple Haze drink with gin-infused lavender, honey syrup and lavender bitters, and their compressed wa-

termelon salad with lavender-infused honey and goat cheese. Honey is used in beer at the Fairmont Hotel, and the jars of the product are sold in the gift shop. At the W, they make honey ice cream.

The bee hives at hotels are not new, but the effort is growing every year.

Fairmont’s first beehives were built in 2008 at the company’s hotels in Toronto and in Vancouver in an effort to help combat

Colony Collapse Disorder.

Since then, dozens have been installed at Fairmonts from Seattle to China and Africa.

At the Clift, high above the city on the rooftop garden, 10 hives are buzzing with activity. Most guests don’t even know they are there.

But the fruits of their labor are evident in the cocktails and food. You won’t find the squeezable honey bear container in Chef Thomas Weibull’s kitchen. “Since we are chefs in California, we like to use a lot of things that are local,� he said, talking about his pork adobo appetizer with a honey glaze. “Ninety-five percent of our products are local and sustainable.�

The bees produced more than 70 pounds of honey last year and are on track to do much more this year.

The colony is expected to grow to 800,000 by next year, said General Manager Michael Pace.

His interest in bee hotels started last year when he took on the job of chairman of the Sustainability Committee for the Hotel Council of San Francisco. He spearheaded a larger effort between numerous local ho-

tels to put bees on their rooftops as well. There are now seven hotels from Nob Hill to Fisherman’s Wharf with rooftop hives.

At six of the hotels, the man who tends the hives is Roger Garrison, a waiter at the W San Francisco turned beekeeper.

At the W, Garrison, who seems to like serving bees as much as people, configured the boxy hives like miniature skyscrapers to mimic the city grid below, with the gold dome of City Hall in the distance.

Sometimes the job is painless. “Most of the time you just open the hives and everything is copasetic,� he said.

Other times, it’s not. He gets stung almost daily. “It’s like taking a daily vitamin,� he said.

But the payoff is big. Last year, the hotel produced 300 pounds of honey.

Garrison cares for and tracks the bees. He said they have a natural GPS system that allows them to fly up from the 32nd floor up to two miles daily to forage for pollen and find their way back to the hive. “There’s a lot of gardens in San Francisco that aren’t visible to the eye but are visible to bees,� he said.

Bidding on Zimmerman handgun surpasses $25 million

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press

MIAMI — Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin had gone well into the millions by this morning, though it was unclear if they were serious bids.

The website for United Gun Group began hosting the auction Thursday after another website, GunBroker.com, took down the auction saying it wanted “no part in the listing on our website or in any of the publicity it is receiving.�

Hours later, United Gun Group tweeted that it would post Zimmerman’s ad. The new link was post-

ed, along with a statement from Zimmerman. The site calls itself a “social marketplace for the firearms community.�

Bidding on the 9 mm KelTec PF-9 pistol began at $5,000. By this morning, the site showed bidding had surpassed $25 million with the leading bidder using the screen name “Racist McShootface.�

Critics called the auction an insensitive move to profit from the slaying.

Zimmerman had told Orlando, Fla., TV station WOFL that the pistol was returned to him by the U.S. Justice Department, which took it after he was acquitted in Martin’s 2012 shooting death.

Zimmerman’s listing said a portion of the proceeds

would go toward fighting what Zimmerman calls violence by the Black Lives Matter movement against law enforcement officers, combating the anti-gun rhetoric of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and ending the career of state attorney Angela Corey, who GEORGE led ZimZIMMERMAN merman’s prosecution.

The listing ended with a Latin phrase that translates as “if you want peace, prepare for war.�

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The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 took off from Phoenix Goodyear Airport about 3 a.m. Thursday. It landed without incident at Tulsa International Airport around 11:15 p.m., the Tulsa World reported.

It departed from northern California in the early hours of May 2 and landed at the airport southwest of Phoenix 16 hours later. Last month, it flew from Hawaii to California.

The globe-circling voyage began in March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and made stops in Oman, Myanmar, China and Japan.

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said he was defending himself when he killed Martin, an unarmed black 17-yearold, in a gated community near Orlando. Martin, who lived in Miami with his mother, was visiting his father at the time.

Zimmerman, who identifies as Hispanic, was acquitted in Martin’s February 2012 shooting death.

The case sparked protests and a national debate about race relations. The Justice Department later decided not to prosecute Zimmerman on civil rights charges.

Lucy McBath, the mother of another black teenager shot by a white man during an argument at a Jacksonville convenience store in 2012, said the auction reflected a “deplorable lack of

value for human life.� “I am deeply disappointed that the man who killed Trayvon Martin is trying to sell the very gun he used to cut that precious life short to raise money,� McBath said in a written statement.

The slaying of her son, 17year-old Jordan Davis, by Michael Dunn drew parallels at the time to the Zimmerman-Martin case.

Dunn told police he had felt threatened by Davis. Unlike Zimmerman, Dunn was convicted of murder.

Since Zimmerman was acquitted, he has been charged with assault based on complaints from two girlfriends. Both women later refused to press charges and Zimmerman wasn’t prosecuted. His estranged wife, Shellie Zim-

merman, also accused him of smashing her iPad during an argument days after she filed divorce papers. No charges were filed because of lack of evidence. They were divorced in January.

Orlando-based attorney Mark O’Mara has previously represented Zimmerman. A receptionist in O’Mara’s office said Thursday that he no longer represents Zimmerman and had no comment.

Martin’s parents declined to address Zimmerman’s actions in statements made through representatives.

Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, said through an attorney that she would rather focus on her work with the Trayvon Martin Foundation than respond to “Zimmerman’s actions.�

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OBITUARIES Wayne Dennis Bennett Wayne Dennis Bennett, 70, of Longs, S.C., formerly of Hampstead, N.C., and Brush Valley, passed away Thursday, May 5, 2016, at Lower Cape Fear Hospice Care Center in Wilmington, N.C. Wayne was born June 3, 1945, in Brush Valley, a son of William R. Bennett and Mary (Snyder) Bennett, of Brush Valley.

Wayne is survived by his wife, Patricia (McPherson, Brooks) Bennett; his mother, Mary (Snyder) Bennett, of Brush Valley; three children: Dennis Bennett and wife Laura, of Brush Valley; Steven Bennett and wife Becky, of Brush Valley; and Jennifer Stahl and husband Miles, of Armagh; two stepdaughters: Terri Brooks, of Wilmington, N.C., and Jodi Fahl and husband Frank, of Winston, N.M.; and one brother, William R. Bennett Jr., of Brush Valley.

He also is survived by six grandchildren and one great-grandchild in Pennsylvania as well as three stepgrandchildren and three stepgreat-grandchildren in Wilmington.

Wayne was preceded in death by his father, William R. Bennett Sr., and his beloved maternal grandparents, “Pup and Bancie” Snyder, of Brush Valley.

Wayne was a graduate of United High School. He was co-owner of B&W Coal Co. for 20 years until 1997, when he moved to North Carolina, where he worked for the City of Wilmington until he retired. Wayne was a long-time member of the Brush Valley and Hope Lutheran Churches.

He was a private pilot and a former member of the Unicom Flying Club of Indiana.

A private service will be held for the family.

Samuel Dalessio Sr. Samuel William “Muck” Dalessio Sr., 85, of Beyer, went to be with Our Lord and Savior Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at home surrounded by his loving family, friends and his special “special” hospice nurse Karen Hill and Chaplain Tom Spiker.

He was born on May 2, 1931, to Joseph and Elsie (Flora) Dalessio at his home in Beyer.

He graduated from Marion Center High School, and then served in the Korean War as an Army sergeant.

He received two Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze medals before his honorable discharge for serving his country.

Sgt. Dalessio was a member of the 45th Division Thunderbird Infantry Division, 180th Infantry Regiment, and Third Battalion.

He worked as a supervisor for Season All Industry of Indiana.

He was a member of St. Mary, Mother of God Church, Yatesboro; VFW Post 6555, Sagamore; Eagles Ambridge Post; and was a justice of peace in Indiana County for many years.

Muck was an avid sports player and fan. He played Plumville Lions baseball, softball for Beyer Aces, bowled for Sacred Heart Church and would golf every day if he could. He was the Tailgaters softball team’s biggest fan.

Samuel is survived by his wife, Betty (Parks) Dalessio, whom he married Nov. 12, 1955; three sons: Joseph Dalessio and fiancee Beverly Mantini, of Rochester Mills; Melvin Dalessio, of Beyer; and Samuel W. Dalessio Jr., of Beyer; a daugh-

ter, Becky Lipsie, of Smicksburg; a brother, Frank “Ducky” (Virginia) Dalessio, of Beyer; a sister, Virginia Work, of Sebring, Fla.; a grandson, JR Lipsie; three granddaughters, Jennifer Miller, Brianna Dalessio and Payton Elizabeth Dalessio-Fox; six great-grandchildren: Kelsie Lipsie; Joey and Brady Miller; and Mia Kay, Madison Jo and Maci James Lipsie.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a granddaughter, Michelle Lee Dalessio; a sister, Clotilda “Pitty” Crispen; and a brother, Joe Dalessio.

Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Sunday at Carson/Boyer Funeral Home Inc., 724 W. Main St. Rural Valley.

A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the St. Mary, Mother of God Church, Yatesboro, with the Rev. Douglas Dorula officiating.

Burial will take place in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Sagamore.

The family would like to thank the hospice staff from the bottom of their hearts. www.carsonboyer.com

Directors forecast 1 mill tax increase Continued from Page 1 for all elementary grades.

He said the district will also attempt to install two new elective technology education courses but that staffing for those may pose a challenge.

In other news, the district voted to reject a bid from K&K Plumbing for $189,650 for the installation of a new municipal water service system and the demolition and removal of the old system. The district received only one bid, according to Johnston.

The board then voted to have HHSDR Architects readvertise the project for a new municipal water system and for an alternate to the project to include demolition and removal of the old system, effectively splitting the tasks, Johnston said.

The board also voted to: • Approve its contribution to the Indiana County Technology Center at a cost of $316,129, an increase of $20,437 from last year.

• Approve the replacement of a storm inlet drain at the elementary school

through M.D. Sleppy Construction Inc. at a cost of $3,750. The company will also remove and install a new sidewalk outside the high school vocational agriculture area at a cost of $7,290, pave a pad outside the high school industrial arts room at a cost of $3,825 and install two new emergency exit doors at the elementary at a cost of $2,800.

• Approve an agreement with Fisher Caulking and Dampproofing to repair 1,540 square feet of exterior insulation and finishing at a cost of $8,008.

• Renew a standard software maintenance service agreement for ProSoft Financial products with Harris School Solution for one year at a cost of $10,519.62, an increase of $501.11 from last year.

• Approve a three-year contract with Waste Management for garbage pickup at a rate of $1,201.78 per month.

• Renew the one-year contract with Keystone Rehabilitation Services for athletic training services at a cost of $38,339.38.

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Linda D. Jones Linda Darlene Jones, 65, of Homer City, died Monday, May 2, 2016, at the Allegheny General Hospital.

The daughter of Raymond F. and Mildred E. (Zack) Rhine, she was born Aug. 30, 1950, in Indiana.

Linda will be remembered as an excellent homemaker who enjoyed growing flowers, cooking, baking and going to casinos.

She loved times spent with her grandchildren and her dog Ozzie.

Surviving is her husband, Michael Jones; children, Michelle (Brian) Lewis, of Indiana; Michael A. (Traci) Jones, of Rock Creek, Ohio; Jessica (Joseph) Blazauski, of Portage; grandchildren: Scott and Joey Lewis, of Indiana, and Logan, Morgan,

Austin and Laiken Jones, of Rock Creek; sisters: Betty Isenberg, of Indiana; Naomi Fee, of Indiana; Esther (Patsy) Bonnoni, of Indiana; Twila “Toots” (Walter “Leroy”) Filler, Blairsville; and Cheryl Ryan, Indiana; and a brother, James Rhine, of Homer City.

Preceding Linda in death were her parents; sisters, Idela Murdick and Diana Wantz; brothers, Donald Vernon and Wayne.

Friends and family will gather on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home with a memorial service immediately following in the Lefdahl Chapel with Pastor Robert Thornton, officiating. w w w. l e f d a h l f u n e r a l home.com

Rita V. Zaycosky Rita V. Zaycosky, 102, passed away Tuesday, April 26, 2016, in Stuart, Fla., at her daughter’s house. She would have been 103 at the end of June.

She was a member of St. Bernard of Clairvaux church, Indiana, and a lifelong member of its Catholic Daughters of America.

She was preceeded in death by her parents, George and Ana Metalonis, of DuBois, and siblings Joseph, Frank, Vincent, Albert, Marie and Sr. Mary Anne Metalonis.

She was the widow of Anthony J. Zaycosky and is survived by their three daughters: Joann Cutler

(Robert), Donna Van Pelt (Kenny) and Judith Brooks (William); two grandchildren, Heather Banks and Angela Edwards; and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by many friends and relatives who will miss her deeply.

A celebration of life was held today in Stuart. A Mass will be held at St. Joseph’s Church, 301 S. State St., DuBois, at noon on July 2.

Interment will follow at St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Bernard of Clairvaux church, Indiana, or to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Esther M. Wissinger Esther Maude Wissinger, 87, of Rapid City, S.D., died Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at Golden Livingcenter Prairie Hills.

The daughter of Vevan and Jennie (Shaffor) Laney, she was born May 18, 1928, in Indiana.

She married James Wissinger on Sept. 3, 1948.

She was formerly of Homer City and Indiana before moving to Rapid City in 1996.

Esther is survived by her son, Daniel and his wife, JoAnn; her granddaughter, Stacey and her husband, Todd Huntington; and her grandson, Jason, all of Rapid City; and her greatgrandson, Josh, Greeley, Colo.; a brother, William Laney, of Buffalo, N.Y.; and her sister, Lauranell and her husband, Clarence Evans, of Gowanda, N.Y. She was preceded in

death by her parents; a brother, Elmer Laney; and her husband on Feb. 18, 1996.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, June 15, at RairighBence Funeral Home. Inurnment will follow at Oakland Cemetery.

Online condolences may be made at rbfh.net

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Scouts honor Reed at luncheon Continued from Page 1 Pittsburgh broadcaster Bill Hillgrove, a fixture for almost a half a century on regional sports fans’ televisions and radios, was the guest speaker.

Indiana Area Senior High School student Jack Ferguson, an Eagle Scout who is just wrapping up his junior year, led off the program with reflections of his many years in Scouting.

Ferguson said he joined a Cub Scout pack in Shelocta and got immersed in programs such as the Pinewood Derby contest.

He went on to a Boy Scout troop in the Indiana area, where he earned his badges and completed the project required to achieve Eagle status. But it was more than about collecting badges and honors, Ferguson said. It was about growing up.

“As a younger Scout, you would do things like play with sticks and chase each other, and the older Scouts would yell at you and tell you that’s a bad idea,” Ferguson said. “As I went through the years … I was now the one yelling at the younger Scouts for chasing each other with sticks. It was a dramatic shift! So with that position came responsibilities.”

Ferguson said Scouting gave him opportunities, such as the chance to work for a summer at Camp Seph Mack, which in turn gave him chances to learn more valuable skills such as tolerance and leadership.

“The best part of being a Scout is not just going camping and fishing,” he said. “It’s getting older and watching the younger boys coming in and doing everything that you do — and noticing that as the troop changes, the spirit stays the same no matter what happens.”

Reed accepted the prestigious Distinguished Citizen

Award and told about his relatively brief but lifechanging experience in the Scouts.

“The Scouting program has been special to my family,” Reed said. He said he spent four or five years as a member in the Homer-Center schools and said developed some superior skills in knot-tying, or lashing, as a young Scout.

But Reed also said that his grandfather, Everett Reed, was a longtime Scoutmaster in the Indiana area.

“He is now 89 years old and … is a character! When I think of Scouting, I think of the experiences he had,” Reed said. “He is the type of guy who has done a lot of things in his life but normally, when he’s done with something, he’s done. He doesn’t relive it, he doesn’t talk about the old memories; he moves on to the next segment in his life, whatever it may be.

“But Scouting is the one thing that he still talks about that he has not participated in for years,” Reed said.

“He’ll talk about the camping trips, the trips to Canada, the trips to Mexico. He’ll talk about the Scouts he had and who he runs into in the community that he used to have in his troops way back when. He talks about their families and still remembers every aspect of their lives, and has followed them through the years.”

These days, Reed said, he gets to see Scouting from a different perspective. He has sat in on about 60 Eagle Scout ceremonies as a state legislator.

“The thing I remember most from those ceremonies is the bond between the family and the Scout,” Reed said.

“Now as a parent of a 7year-old, a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old, that means so very much more to me.

Scouting is about produc-

ing young leaders. It’s about keeping kids focused in the right direction, but it’s also about growing families,” Reed said. “It’s about building memories and bringing those people closer together.”

Reed said he looks at Scouting as an opportunity to build young leaders and bring families together, “a goal that we all share and it’s wonderful to see so many folks in this room who support that goal.”

Afterward, Reed said Scouting provided the values that made him a wellrounded individual.

“The total mind, body and spirit part of Scouting meant the most,” he said. “It stood out back then” among the other values that the program promoted, including academic discipline, teamwork and character building.

Reed said the Boy Scouts of America, like other family-oriented programs that have experienced a yearslong decline in membership, has had to adapt to changes in the way kids live their lives today.

“Part of the struggle is there are so many competing interests,” Reed said.

“Folks are balancing sports and school programs, and Scouting sometimes gets lost in the mix.

“But when you look at the issues facing Indiana County and society, like the drug problem, there’s no better resolution to the drug problem than young folks learning core values earlier in life so they don’t get into those sorts of situations.

“I think it’s an opportunity for the Scouting program to be part of that transformation in our community. That could be Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, just Scouting in general. You’re not hearing about Eagle Scouts getting arrested for dealing in drugs,

“So I think that character education aspect to Scouting can really play a key role.”

For the Distinguished Citizen Award, Reed received a cast bronze bell laden with symbols of Scouting, fashioned by the late metalworking artist John MeCombie.

As the keynote speaker, Hillgrove stirred guests’ memories with funny and touching tales of his days in the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pitt Panthers broadcast booths — and special off-air moments — with regional sports legends Myron Cope, Bob Prince, Dick Groat and Indiana’s Ray Goss, a longtime Duquesne University basketball play-by-play broadcaster.

Scouting was a part of Hillgrove’s life, he said, as a boy in the Garfield neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and he commended Ferguson for his achievement.

“Five in 100 make Eagle Scout,” Hillgrove said.

“Congratulations!”

Proceeds from the William Penn luncheon benefit the Scouting programs in Indiana County.

The money raised at the event is used to recruit, train and support more than 900 youth and adult members in Indiana County, and to grant scholarships and provide a number of outdoor programs through the year.

“The programs of the Boy Scouts of America strengthen family relationships, provide youths with caring adult mentors, instill a sense of civic pride and compassion through service to others, and build selfconfidence through recognition,” said Laurel Highlands Council President Bernie Lockard Jr. “Honoring individuals whose actions reflect those same values is truly an honor for our organization.”

Student advances to academic global finals An Indiana man has advanced to the global finals in an academic competition among students in petroleum engineering.

Michael Cavazza will present his paper for judging in September in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Cavazza’s presentation won in competition at Penn State University in March and placed first in the Eastern North America regional contest in April at Louisiana State University.

Cavazza, who ranked at the top of his class at Penn State, graduated May 6 as a Schreyer Scholar and received his degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering.

He graduated with highest distinction for achieving a gradepoint average of more than MICHAEL 3.96 and served as CAVAZZA the marshal for the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State’s commencement.

In an international contest sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Cavazza wrote his presentation on “Reducing Fresh-

water Consumption in the Marcellus Shale Play by Recycling Flowback with Acid Mine Drainage.” The final round of the contest brings together winners from 14 regions around the world for the International Student Paper Contest during the SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition from Sept. 26 to 28 in the Middle East.

Students submitted abstracts of their papers, then delivered formal presentations for judging by industry professionals and engineering faculty in the regional contests.

Cavazza and the other regional winners will have their papers published in

conference summaries and the SPE’s technical journal.

Cavazza, a 2012 graduate of Marion Center Area High School, excelled both academically and professionally in four years as an undergraduate student at Penn State. He received more than 20 academic merit scholarships and numerous awards.

Following graduation, Cavazza will begin his professional career as a petrophysicist with Shell Exploration & Production Company in Houston. Shell Exploration & Production Company is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest energy companies in the world.

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Passenger’s life still derailed after deadly crash

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Robert Hewett was texting his wife, Judy, about vacation plans from his seat in the front car of Amtrak Train 188 on May 12, 2015, headed home from a work trip when the car started to tip.

He remembers being thrown from his seat and hitting the luggage rack before crashing headlong into another passenger. When he regained consciousness, Hewett was on a pile of rocks, unable to move. First responders eventually found him and transported him to a Philadelphia hospital, where he would spend the next seven weeks in a medically induced coma.

On the anniversary of the derailment, Hewett said Thursday that the past year of his life — an endless series of doctors’ appointments, physical therapy

and nightmares — has been “terrible.� “I have pain 24/7,� he told reporters at a press conference through labored breaths, explaining that his rib cage has not fully healed and that his lungs cannot fully expand. “The two outcomes for me were paralyzed for life, or death.�

The 58-year-old BASF regional security officer spent another seven weeks in a rehabilitation center. He was among more than 200 people injured in the crash, which also killed eight people. The New York-bound Northeast Regional train entered a sharp curve at 106 mph — more than twice the speed limit — before careening off the tracks.

Next week, federal investigators are scheduled to meet to detail the probable cause of the derailment in Philadelphia.

They’ve said the evidence showed no issues with the

MATT ROURKE/Associated Press

AMTRAK CRASH survivor Robert Hewett embraced his daughter Emily, as his wife, Judy, looked on Thursday in Philadelphia. tracks, signals or the locomotive and they didn’t find

any signs that the train had been stuck by a rock or that

the engineer was using his cellphone.

The railroad has apologized for the crash and an emotional Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman told Congress afterward that Amtrak was responsible.

The train’s engineer has said he couldn’t explain why the train kept accelerating after he applied the brake. Hewett said he plans to watch the hearing on television from his home in New Jersey. He said no one from Amtrak, including the train’s engineer, has apologized or contacted him since the crash. “This was something that never had to happen,� he said. “His actions could have been easily prevented.�

Hewett said he won’t take the train anymore. Joined by his wife and daughter Thursday, he said he is hoping to reunite with the first responders who rescued him at a private ceremony in Philadelphia to mark the anniversary.

AG charges district judge with stealing $113,000 WYOMISSING (AP) — A judge in Pennsylvania stole more than $113,000 from his office and the volunteer fire company where he served as treasurer, the attorney general said Thursday.

Wyomissing District Judge Timothy Dougherty, 56, was supposed to surrender on theft charges, but was instead taken to Reading Hospital from his judicial office with an unspecified medical problem. A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press that Dougherty’s condition was still being evaluated.

Berks County President Judge Paul Yatron said he was told that Dougherty fell and hit his head and was taken away in an ambulance.

Yatron said he’s asked the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts to take action against Dougherty in the wake of the charges. But AOPC spokesman Art Heinz told the AP any change in Dougherty’s status would require a court order and suggested that the ball was in Yatron’s court.

The situation, unusual whenever a judge is criminally charged, is perhaps more unusual in Berks

where Dougherty has been a law enforcement fixture for decades.

Dougherty spent 17 years as a Cumru Township police officer and served as the township’s fire marshal before the state Senate appointed him district judge in 1998 to fill the remainder of his father’s term when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

But a 22-page grand jury presentment painted a picture of financial disarray and Dougherty’s apparently illegal attempts to rob Peter to pay Paul as his personal bank account was often overdrawn.

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HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania school districts that don’t seek bids on busing contracts might be spending millions of dollars more than necessary to get kids to and from school.

That’s according to Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, who said Thursday that lawmakers should require school districts to seek competitive bids for student transportation.

Since 2013, state audits have found 19 school districts in 11 counties that paid $54.8 million more for busing than they received in state transportation reimbursements. The reimbursements are based on a range of factors, including number of students, miles traveled and busing company costs.

The auditor general’s latest report says the Altoona Area School District hasn’t sought bids on its transportation contract since 2006. The district outspent its state appropriation by $3.3 million in just two school years.

Former Sandusky lawyer pleads guilty CARLISLE (AP) — An attorney who represented former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky at his sex abuse trial has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $750,000 from clients.

Pennlive.com reported Karl Rominger, 42, of Carlisle, pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Court on Thursday to charges of theft by decep-

money, but it was suddenly deposited a day before Dougherty was subpoenaed by the grand jury in October, the grand jury found.

Dougherty is also accused of taking nearly $98,000 from the Wyomissing Volunteer Fire Company, and that Dougherty struggled to pay his monthly bills, including his mortgage, when some of the money was found missing last year. A court employee told the grand jury that he loaned Dougherty $3,300 in April 2015 and that none of the money had been repaid by November.

State investigators said Dougherty eventually acknowledged stealing from the fire company’s savings account, but could not explain what he did with the money. “Dougherty said that he wished he could tell the agents that something ‘exciting’ happened with the money like ‘drugs or prostitutes’; however, he stated that it was just ‘life,’� the grand jury report said.

Dougherty doesn’t have an attorney listed in court records and nobody answered the phone at his judicial office.

Man apologizes for shooting woman

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Auditor: Schools should bid for busing

His court employees told a grand jury that Dougherty would often tell people paying fines or court costs in his office that “we like cash� and “cash is always good.�

An audit last year determined that Dougherty often waited weeks to deposit money paid to his court instead of daily as is required, and that more than $18,000 was unaccounted for at one point.

On Thursday, the attorney general charged Dougherty with stealing $15,251 from his office.

Dougherty told investigators he didn’t have that

WINDBER (AP) — A Pennsylvania man charged with attempted homicide and other crimes has apologized for mistakenly shooting the mother of his intended target and said in court testimony that his girlfriend had hired him to kill her ex-boyfriend.

Cortland Michalides, 22, testified Wednesday after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing on charges stemming from the March 20 shooting of Theresa McDonald.

Outside the courtroom, he apologized, telling reporters: “I am sorry that it happened that way.�

Michalides testified he shot McDonald in the jaw when she confronted him after he sneaked into her home in Windber during

tion and misappropriation.

Prosecutors said he took about $767,000 in client funds and spent it on casino gambling and other interests.

Sentencing is Aug. 4.

Sentencing guidelines call for nine to 16 months in prison.

Rominger voluntarily surrendered his law license and was disbarred last spring.

Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term.

Teacher accused of assaulting child PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh teacher has been ordered to stand trial on charges she pinned a 7year-old kindergartner to the floor with a chair after intervening in a student squabble.

The student from Pittsburgh Faison K-5 and a police officer testified at a Wednesday hearing for Danielle Anderson, 44.

According to testimony and video, the girl was squabbling with another girl over the chair when Anderson intervened and was pushed by the girl. Anderson then allegedly pushed the girl and used the chair to hold her down for a couple of seconds.

Defense attorney Paul Ellis says Anderson has been “ridiculously overcharged� with aggravated assault and other crimes.

He said the student assaulted Anderson, adding, “I don’t care what age you are. You don’t have a right to put your hands on a teacher.�

the night. He said he fired a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle at the first silhouette he saw in the house.

Somerset County prosecutors say McDonald’s son, Codi, was the intended target, and Michalides testified that his girlfriend, Heather Singer, 32, had hired him to kill Codi McDonald, her ex-boyfriend.

Singer’s defense attorney, Caram Abood, suggested she wasn’t as involved as Michalides claimed. “She didn’t pull the trigger,� Abood said, adding that Michalides’ “motivation was not hers.� “He had his own mind,�

Abood said. “Thank God he’s a poor shot.�

The bullet shattered McDonald’s jaw, injured her salivary glands and settled

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Michalides testified he went through with the shooting because he felt he needed to protect Singer; he didn’t say what the threat to her was. He said he heard McDonald scream and he ran from the house.

But when he got in the car,

Singer urged him to return to the house, and he refused, he testified. “You didn’t complete the job. Why didn’t you go and shoot him?� Michalides said Singer asked him.

The couple bought some cigarettes at a convenience store and drove back to McDonald’s house, but by then emergency crews had arrived so they left, he testified.

Michalides and Singer remain jailed awaiting trial.

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Drop dead, Congress says

n a moment, we’ll get to the Zika virus. First, remember how scathing Republicans were about President Barack Obama’s handling of Ebola in the fall of 2014?

They lambasted his reluctance to ban travelers from affected nations, with Paul Broun, a House member from Georgia then, even wondering if Obama had a “purposeful” plan to use Ebola to harm America.

Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative gadfly, suggested that Obama didn’t care if Ebola devastated the United States: “He wants us to be just like everybody else, and if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too.”

A Fox News contributor, Dr. Keith Ablow, suggested in a radio broadcast that Obama perhaps wanted America to suffer from Ebola because “his affiliations” are with Africa rather than with America.

Then there was Donald Trump.

After a New York physician, Craig Spencer, returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa and showed symptoms of the disease, Trump tweeted that if the doctor developed Ebola (he did), “Obama should apologize to the American people & resign!”

Trump added: “President Obama, you are a complete and total disaster, but you have a chance to do something great and important: STOP THE FLIGHTS!” That was a reference to what appeared to be the GOP strategy at the time: Let Ebola destroy Africa and much of the rest of the world, but try to seal off the Nicholas Kristof United States from infection. writes a column In the 2014 elections, Republican for The New York candidates ran hundreds of ads deTimes. nouncing the Obama administration’s handling of Ebola.

Meanwhile, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey forcibly confined Kaci Hickox, a nurse returning from West Africa, as she passed through Newark’s airport on her way to Maine. By quarantining her in a tent though she tested negative for Ebola, he complicated initiatives to send health workers to fight the disease in Africa.

In contrast, Obama’s approach was spectacularly successful. With crucial support from Britain and France, and heroic efforts by groups like Doctors Without Borders and Samaritan’s Purse, Obama deployed troops to West Africa and was able to pretty much extinguish the virus there, averting a global humanitarian and economic catastrophe.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had calculated that without an intervention there might be 1.4 million cases of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone by January 2015. From there it could have catapulted around the world, killing millions, entering the United States, devastating the global economy and becoming impossible to eradicate in some places.

That might have happened if someone like Trump or Christie had been in charge. It’s tragic that 11,300 West Africans died from Ebola, but the toll would have been incomparably higher — in Africa and in America — if not for Obama’s actions.

Hey, Trump, do you still think that Obama should resign for his handling of Ebola?

All of that is worth reviewing because congressional Republicans are now again trying to block a sensible effort to address a public health crisis, this time a Zika virus outbreak that is steadily moving to the continental U.S., bringing with it calamitous birth defects.

In February, Obama urgently requested more than $1.8 billion to address Zika, and Congress since then has done nothing but talk. Republicans have protested that the administration doesn’t need the money, that they have questions that haven’t been answered or that the request is vague. These objections are absurd.

Even Sen. Marco Rubio laid into his fellow Republicans a few weeks ago, saying: “The money is going to be spent.

And the question is, Do we do it now before this has become a crisis, or do we wait for it to become a crisis?”

Rubio is right. It’s always more cost-effective and lifesaving to tackle an epidemic early.

“I’m very worried, especially for our U.S. Gulf Coast states,” said Dr. Peter Jay Hotez, a tropical diseases expert at Baylor College of Medicine. “I cannot understand why a member of Congress from a Gulf Coast state cannot see this train approaching. It’s like refusing emergency preparedness funds for an approaching hurricane.”

We don’t know how badly Zika will hit the U.S. But, the first American has just died of it, and federal health professionals are debating whether to counsel women in Zika areas to avoid pregnancy — and to me, that sounds serious.

The larger mistake is that budget cutters have systematically cut public health budgets that address Zika, Ebola and other ailments. The best bargain in government may be public health, and Republicans have slashed funding for it while Democrats have shrugged.

“Special funds for public health preparedness have been cut by more than 30 percent over the last decade and hospital preparedness by more than half,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener of Columbia University and its National Center for Disaster Preparedness. “All of this leaves the country far more vulnerable than people realize to threats like a Zika outbreak — or whatever else the future has in store.”

He added, “We will pay a steep price for this particular shortsightedness.”

Contact Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/ NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

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North Carolina fights back

tanding on principle, not to gaging in a pattern or practice of dismention common sense, is so crimination against transgender state rare these days that when some- employees and both you, in your offione does it they make headlines. cial capacity, and the state are engagThat’s because you can quickly be la- ing in a pattern or practice of resistbeled a “bigot” if you oppose a lot of ance.” the sludge dumped on us by the secuIn a statement following the anlar left, and few can withstand the on- nouncement of the lawsuit, Gov. Mcslaught.

Crory said, “The Obama administraNorth Carolina’s Republican gover- tion is bypassing Congress by atnor, Pat McCrory, is unafraid. tempting to rewrite the law and set Last Friday, the Departrestroom policies for public ment of Justice sent him a and private employers letter warning that North across the country, not just Carolina’s House Bill 2, also North Carolina. This is now known as the bathroom bill, a national issue that applies violated the Civil Rights Act. to every state and it needs to The bill, which requires that be resolved at the federal transgender people use level,” meaning Congress public bathrooms that and the courts. match their birth certifiMcCrory added that cates, was swiftly labeled Washington is “telling every anti-LGBT, which was all government agency and DOJ needed to hear. The every company that emgovernment gave McCrory ploys more than 15 people until Monday to confirm that men should be allowed that North Carolina would to use a women’s locker not comply with or impleroom, restroom or shower ment HB2.

McCrory facility.” pushed back. On Monday, Cal Thomas The push and pull continhe filed a lawsuit against the writes a ues.

DOJ, targeting Attorney column If you are a woman readGeneral Loretta Lynch and distributed by ing this, how would you feel Principal Deputy Assistant Tribune Media about showering with a Attorney General Vanita naked man? If you are a Services.

Gupta. The suit, according man who has daughters, to ABC News, “accused the would you be OK with alDOJ of a ‘radical reinterpretation’ of lowing them to use a women’s restTitle VII of the Civil Rights Act and room knowing that a man could be in wrote that the federal government’s there? Target is fine with it, apparentposition was ‘a baseless and blatant ly. In a blog last week, the company overreach.’” stated that it welcomes “transgender The government’s letter, according team members and guests to use the to North Carolina Public Radio- restroom or fitting room facility that WUNC’s Jeff Tiberii, who obtained a corresponds with their gender identicopy, warned that “The state is en- ty.” Target stores are now the target of

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a boycott.

What about school gyms? Are you fine with having your daughter changing and showering with a boy who believes he’s a girl? What happened to the right to privacy, so revered by the progressive left?

Does the fact that we are even having this debate say something about the state of our culture and the attempts by secularists to undermine what remains of its creaking foundations, traditions and what used to be known as common sense? Who gets to decide? And on what is that decision based?

Are morals and ethics now up for grabs, depending on which group makes the most noise and promises the most votes? Perhaps Loretta Lynch and her deputy should lead by example and shower with a transgender male. Even better, how about first lady Michelle Obama? Media coverage could be discreet. I’m betting that neither Lynch nor the first lady would go that far. In fact, I suspect that very few on the left would want to live under many of the laws and dictates they like to impose on the rest of us.

Have we gone mad? The question all but answers itself.

Gov. McCrory has already directed state agencies to make reasonable accommodations to transgender people by installing single-occupancy restrooms. North Carolina also allows private companies to set their own bathroom policies, but that is not what the Obama administration wants. It wants to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” It’s one of the few promises the president has managed to keep.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

How to fix a news break

est Virginia’s Democrats were programs would raise just $15 trillion, trapped in a most undemocra- thus adding $18 trillion to the nationtic predicament in Tuesday’s al deficit, the analysts said. (Sanders’s presidential primary election: They policy director, Warren Gunnels, ishad to vote without being told of a sued a rebutting statement, saying: significant news development about “This study significantly underestithe most exciting Democrat in the mates the savings in administration, race. paperwork, and prescription What we have here is not drug prices that every major another tale about a dirtycountry on earth has suctricks campaign conspiracessfully achieved by adoptcy. But it is a case in which ing a universal health care our media watchdogs program.”) watched — but failed to News of the experts’ findbark. Even though at least ings hit Washington with a one famous watchdog did decibel wallop that regischase its tale around in tered little more than the circles for a couple of days. sound of silence. The news Here’s the news that appeared on the pages of most of West Virginia’s DeThe Washington Post on mocrats, among the naWednesday, the day after the tion’s most centrist and West Virginia primary. And it even conservative, never got there only barely, and in got to know before casting an exceedingly roundabout their ballots and giving fashion. Wednesday’s news Sen. Bernie Sanders a Martin Schram is story was printed at the botlandslide victory over a veteran tom of page A15 under this Washington Hillary Clinton. newsy headline: “Studies Sanders’ national health journalist, author fault Sanders on policy insurance proposal and and TV costs” and this sub-headhis various other domestic documentary line: “$18 trillion gap looms program reforms would executive. His even if the rich pay more, readd $18 trillion to the na- column is searchers say.” But further tional debt over a decade distributed by digging showed the identical — even after the wealthi- Tribune News story originally appeared est Americans pay the in- Service. online two days earlier, in creased taxes the Vermont the Post’s Monday Wonkblog populist has proposed to — under this bloggy, chatty finance his programs, according to headline: “Sorry, Bernie fans. His new studies by two respected non- health care plan is short partisan Washington think tanks. $17,000,000,000,000.” And in fact, all The analysis, jointly released on this insider news biz stuff becomes Monday by the Urban Institute and more wacky than wonky — for the the Tax Policy Center (a project of the Post’s newsprint pages actually did Brookings Institution and Urban In- cover the think tank analysis before stitute), calculated that Sanders’ pro- West Virginia’s vote — but not in a grams would cost $33 trillion over a news story. On Tuesday, the Post’s eddecade. But the tax increases Sanders itorial page gave its analysis of the has proposed in order to finance his news the paper hadn’t yet printed, in

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an editorial headlined: “Too good to be true” followed by this sub-head: “New reports show the economic dangers of Mr. Sanders’s plans.”

Time out! We need to reflect here on the dirty little reality about how our national news gets made and how the national news media’s agenda gets set. If a news development is displayed prominently on the front page of The Washington Post or The New York Times, the all-news cable networks (CNN, Fox, MSNBC) tend to discuss it among the chatteringheads that morning, midday and night. (Unfortunately, similar news ripples don’t usually result if the same excellent story is identically displayed on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald and so on.)

Had America’s news agenda focused on that $18 trillion deficit newsbreak Monday and Tuesday, West Virginia’s voters would have been far more knowledgeable when they were casting their ballots. But, since we are being honest here, we need to add all that new knowledge probably wouldn’t have made an election-changing difference. This doesn’t seem to be a year when facts and issues dominate citizen decisionmaking.

But at least we can end with a helpful media-baiting tip for all of you who are think-tank experts and crave attention for your wonky reports. Try using this press-agent’s template: “An analysis of the policies of Bernie Sanders, who was recently seen talking with a much-photographed blonde, shows his proposals could add $18 trillion to America’s deficit in the next decade.”

A day later, you can simply explain you’d seen Sanders debating his presidential opponent. martin.schram@gmail.com

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Navy officer fired over sailors’ detentions WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and were captured and held by Iran for about 15 hours.

In a statement Thursday, the Navy said it had lost confidence in Cmdr. Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of the squadron that included the 10 sailors at the time of the January incident. He was responsible for the training and readiness of the more than 400 sailors in the unit.

A Navy official said that Rasch failed to provide effective leadership, leading to a lack of oversight, complacency and failure to maintain standards in the unit. The official was not authorized to discuss the details publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

Rasch has been relieved of his command duties and reassigned, the Navy said.

Hezbollah commander killed

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group today mourned the killing in Syria of its top military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, who died in an explosion in Damascus — a death that is a major blow to the Shiite group, which has played a significant role in the conflict next door.

Badreddine, 55, had been the mastermind of the group’s involvement in Syria’s civil war since Hezbollah fighters joined the battle on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces against those trying to remove him from power, according to proHezbollah media. Hezbollah, along with Iran, has been one of Assad’s strongest backers.

But there was little information as to how he was killed. Hezbollah said the

attack occurred near the Damascus airport without giving details. The airport is close to the Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab where the group has wide presence and several military positions.

Hezbollah said several others were wounded in the blast and that it was investigating the nature of the explosion — whether it was the result of an air raid, missile attack or artillery shelling.

It didn’t say when the explosion happened, and Hezbollah’s media office said they also had no information about the timing of the attack. On Tuesday night, Hezbollah denied reports that Israel’s air force targeted a Hezbollah convoy on the Lebanon-Syria border.

The Beirut-based AlMayadeen TV, which is close to the Lebanese Shiite group, earlier said Badred-

MUSTAFA BADREDDINE ... military chief dine was killed in an Israeli airstrike but later removed the report.

Badreddine was one of four people being tried in absentia for the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The 2005 suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others was one of the Middle East’s most dramatic

political assassinations.

The trial is ongoing near The Hague, Netherlands. A billionaire businessman, Hariri was Lebanon’s most prominent politician after the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.

Hezbollah denies involvement in Hariri’s assassination and says the charges are politically motivated.

Badreddine’s death is the biggest blow to the militant group since the 2008 assassination of his predecessor, Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a bomb attack in Damascus. After that, Badreddine, known among the group’s ranks as Zulfiqar, became Hezbollah’s top military commander and adviser to the group’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Badreddine’s nom de guerre, Zulfiqar, was the name of double-headed sword of Imam Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s

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Café attack in Iraqi town leaves 13 dead BAGHDAD (AP) — A group of gunmen, including two suicide bombers, stormed a coffee shop in a town north of Baghdad early today, killing at least 13 people and wounding 15 there, Iraqi officials said.

Within hours, the Islamic State group posted a statement online claiming responsibility for the attack, which took place shortly after midnight Thursday in Balad, 50 miles north of the Iraqi capital.

The attack came on the heels of a two-day wave of bombings in Baghdad that killed nearly 100 people — attacks that have also been claimed by the Islamic State group.

According to Iraqi officials, three men armed with machine guns opened fire into the crowded Balad café and once police arrived at the scene, two of the attackers detonated their suicide vests.

3K checked bags miss flights in Phoenix PHOENIX (AP) — A screening system problem that caused more than 3,000 checked bags to miss their outbound flights in Phoenix has been fixed, officials with Transportation Security Administration said.

The baggage-screening systems at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport will be tested throughout the night in preparation for today’s scheduled operations, according to TSA spokesman Nico Melendez.

The problem began at about 6:45 a.m. and only affected Sky Harbor.

Julie Rodriguez, a Sky Harbor spokeswoman, said the problem existed in all three of the airport’s terminals.

It wasn’t immediately known how many of the airport’s 16 airlines were affected but Melendez said Southwest was significantly impacted.

Calvin Klein upskirt ad stirs outrage NEW YORK (AP) — The fashion photographer behind Calvin Klein’s racy new ad campaign isn’t bothered by the social media firestorm it has sparked.

London-based photographer Harley Weir told The Associated Press she’s “really happy” with the response.

The brand has posted several of Weir’s photos on Instagram and Twitter this week. The most-talkedabout shot is an upskirt photo of model Klara Kristin with the tagline, “I flash in #mycalvins.”

While many commenters on social media say they’re offended by the campaign, others say it’s simply risqué.

cousin and son-in-law and the Shiite sect’s most sacred martyr.

“The message is that a martyred commander has joined the convoy of martyred leaders,” Hezbollah Cabinet Minister Hussein Haj Hassan told The Associated Press. “He boosts us with his martyrdom with strength, glory, will and intention to continue the fight against the Zionist enemy and the takfiris (Sunni extremists) until victory is achieved, God willing.”

One of the group’s most shadowy figures, Badreddine was also known by aliases Elias Saab and Sami Issa.

He was only known to the public by a decades-old black-and-white photograph of a smiling young man wearing a suit until Hezbollah released a new image of him in military uniform.

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press

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A MASSIVE FIRE broke out today at a sprawling tire dump in Sesena, Spain, sending a spectacular cloud of thick black smoke into the air that was visible for at least 20 miles. Ten teams of firefighters were sent to try to put out the blaze, but it was still raging more than 10 hours after it started.

Authorities suspect someone intentionally started the fire before dawn, Sesena Mayor Carlos Velazquez said. Spain’s leading El Pais newspaper reported that the dump holds 110,000 tons of used vehicle tires.

Directive given to schools on transgender bathroom access

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina.

The guidance from leaders at the departments of Education and Justice says public schools are obligated to treat transgender students in a way that matches their gender identity, even if their education records or identity documents indicate a different sex.

“There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement accompanying the directive, which is being sent to school districts today.

In issuing the guidance, the Obama administration is wading anew into a socially divisive debate it has bluntly cast in terms of civil rights. The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina over a bathroom access law that it said violates the rights of transgender people, a measure that Lynch likened to policies of racial segregation and efforts to deny gay couples the right to marry.

The guidance does not impose any new legal requirements. But officials say it’s meant to clarify expectations of school districts that receive funding from the federal government. Educators have been seeking guidance on how to

“WE MUST ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence.”

John B. King,

education secretary comply with Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding, Education Secretary John B. King said in a statement.

“We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence,” King said.

Under the guidance, schools are told that they must treat transgender students according to their chosen gender identity as soon as a parent or guardian notifies the district that that identity “differs from previous representations or records.” There is no obligation for a student to present a specific medical diagnosis or identification documents that reflect his or her gender identity, and equal access must be given to transgender students even in instances when it makes others uncomfortable, according to the directive.

“As is consistently recog-

nized in civil rights cases, the desire to accommodate others’ discomfort cannot justify a policy that singles out and disadvantages a particular class of students,” the guidance says.

The administration is also releasing a separate 25-page document of questions and answers about best practices, including ways schools can make transgender students comfortable in the classroom and protect the privacy rights of all students in restrooms or locker rooms.

The move was cheered by Human Rights Campaign, a gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights organization, which called the guidelines “groundbreaking.”

“This is a truly significant moment not only for transgender young people but for all young people, sending a message that every student deserves to be treated fairly and supported by their teachers and schools,” HRC President Chad Griffin said in a statement.

The guidance comes days after the Justice Department and North Carolina filed dueling lawsuits over a new state law that says transgender people must use public bathrooms, showers and changing rooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate.

The administration has said the law violates the Civil Rights Act. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has argued that the state law is a “common-sense privacy policy” and that the Justice Department’s position is “baseless and blatant overreach.” His administration sued the federal government hours before the state itself was sued.

WASHINGTON — Congress is ready to start crafting compromise legislation addressing the nation’s opioid abuse crisis, which should be an easier lift than other issues facing lawmakers.

The reason: Both parties have an electionyear incentive to show they’re tackling a problem that’s killing people in America’s biggest cities and smallest towns.

The House approved three bills Thursday setting up federal grants and taking other steps to battle the drug epidemic, the last of 18 measures on the issue the chamber overwhelmingly passed this week. Members of both parties hailed the measures, though Democrats complained that none provided any money for the programs and anti-drug advocates called the bills a needed but modest first step.

“It’s a very important start, but we need dollars, we need statutory changes and we need sustained focus and attention,” said Robert Morrison, executive director of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors.

With the Senate approving its own version in March, lawmakers now hope to send President Barack Obama a compromise bill before Congress begins a long summer recess in July.

This week’s House votes contrasted with the partisan disputes that have hindered congressional efforts to address the Zika virus, Puerto Rican debt and the lead-poisoned water of Flint, Mich.

Government figures show the growing toll from misuse of opioids — addictive painkilling narcotics and heroin — which in 2014 killed nearly 29,000 people, triple the death rate of 2000. More than 2 million people were abusing prescription opioid painkillers and nearly 500,000 more were addicted to heroin in 2012.

Some states where the problem is worst are also home to competitive congressional races.

Among the bills’ sponsors are some lawmakers facing tough re-election campaigns, including GOP Reps. Frank Guinta of New Hampshire and Bob Dold of Illinois and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a chief sponsor of the Senate legislation.

“This problem is a problem for America.

This problem has exploded,” Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., said during the week’s debate.

Obama has proposed an additional $1.1 billion to address the problem.

The largest House bill, approved Thursday by a 413-5 vote, establishes grants worth $103 million annually over the next five years but provides none of the actual funds, leaving that for future spending legislation in which all federal programs will compete for funds.

The White House wrote in a statement to lawmakers that without money, the House bills “would do little to help the thousands of Americans struggling with addiction.”

The measures would create grants for programs bolstering law enforcement, monitoring prescriptions and training first responders to use anti-overdose drugs like naloxone.

It would be easier for some health care providers to administer overdose reversal drugs, anti-drug programs helping pregnant women and new mothers would be renewed, and curbs would be eased against partially filling some prescriptions — a way of reducing unused opioids available to drug abusers.

Marvin Ventrell, executive director of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, said the resources the legislation would potentially provide were inadequate but a step in the right direction.

Ventrell said the bills were “major in terms of message” because they were the first indications in years that Congress was moving toward addressing the issue.

Family

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POLKA CELEBRATION THE PUNXSUTAWNEY Area Groundhog Polka Club celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding April 17 with a dinner-dance at the American Legion in Rossiter. Among those in attendance were charter members, from left, Mary Spivak, Tressie Jackson, Verna Stewart, Evelyn Hillis, Margie Canton, Harry Betsa, Alice Cessna, Theresa Serian, Paul Wass and Loretta Ritta. The PA Express Band of Homer City played music for dancing. The next dance will be from 2 to 6 p.m.

Sunday at the American Legion, with music provided by The Vagabonds Band of DuBois.

Admission is $10 per person.

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ENGAGEMENT

CHRISTIAN HEILMAN and CARYN HUMISTON

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Designers offer advice for couples blending two homes into one

Christian Frederick Heilman, son of Fred and Pat Heilman, of Indiana, and Caryn Jennifer Humiston, daughter of John and Deborah Humiston, of Phoenix, N.Y., have announced their engagement.

The bride-to-be is a 2005 graduate of John C. Birdlebough High School, Phoenix, N.Y., and a 2009 graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego with a Bachelor of Arts degree in graphic design and a minor in business administration. She is employed as a graphic designer with Geller & Company in New York City.

The groom-to-be is a 2000 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School and a 2005 graduate of IUP with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications media.

He also completed courses at the New York Film Academy. He is the owner of CH Editorial in New York, a digital film editing company.

A wedding is being planned for fall 2016 in Cicero, N.Y.

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press

For couples setting up a new home together, it’s a challenge: how to merge two sets of stuff and two decorating styles into one space they both can love.

“Emotions get really high when it comes to your belongings if the person you’re choosing to spend the rest of your life with doesn’t love what you love,” says stylist Marianne Canada, host of the “HGTV Crafternoon” Web series.

In our increasingly design-savvy world, many people come to coupledom with a clear idea of how their home should look.

Even when couples try to accommodate conflicting tastes, they run into the space issue.

“Most of us just don’t have room for two full households together,” Canada says.

“You have to make some choices.”

Here, Canada and two other interior designers — California-based Betsy Burnham and Floridabased Laura Burleson — offer advice on mixing, matching and peacefully negotiating a merger of two homes.

CLAIM YOUR FAVORITES Each person probably has a few treasured pieces of furniture or art that they can’t imagine living without. Burnham suggests that partners agree to each keep perhaps three or four of these pieces in their shared home.

If one partner truly dislikes one of the other’s absolute favorites, consider changing the piece a little through painting or reupholstering.

Burleson cites one couple who disagreed over a set of cane-backed dining chairs.

The solution: lacquering the chairs in a dramatic shade of charcoal gray that matched a modern, concrete and brass dining table.

“It takes repurposing things like that for people to look at them in a new

Celebrating birthdays Thursday were: • Kenneth R. Brewer Sr., Marion Center • Don Owens, Indiana Associated Press

BUYING SOME new pieces of furniture together can help a couple tie together what they already have. way,” Burleson says. “It’s such a great exercise as a first compromise. And we all know marriage is based on compromise.”

Burham agrees, and says this creative approach can work with almost any piece of furniture: For example, “if she’s always had a floral chair she likes to read in,” says Burnham, keep it but recover it in a more neutral fabric that both partners agree on.

GO WITH THE CONTRAST Once those favorite pieces are chosen, Burnham suggests creating a clean slate by painting the walls a crisp white or a white shade with just a hint of color.

Then look at all the remaining furniture against this new backdrop as though you were shopping.

Rather than trying to group items that are similar, experiment with pairing those that contrast. All three designers say contrast can be the best part of décor. In fact, couples merging two households “have such a leg up, design-

wise,” says Burleson, because they can creatively mix and layer a wide range of décor into one stylish space.

“There are no two styles that can’t be combined to some degree,” says Canada.

And doing so can result in décor “that feels more collected and intentional.”

TRY NEW LOCATIONS As you assess your remaining furniture and accessories, consider placing things in rooms where they’ve never been.

“You don’t have to make that big leather recliner work in your traditional living room,” Canada says, even if that’s where it’s always been.

What about using it in your bedroom for latenight reading?

Small dressers can serve as end tables or sideboards, while end tables can be used as bedside tables. Living room seating can make a guest room cozier, while a small kitchen table can add extra dining space to a family room.

Burleson finds that older

clients marrying for the second time tend to be more open to embracing new locations for favorite things.

“There’s this element of, ‘It’s just stuff,’” she says.

SHOP TOGETHER Buying a few new pieces can tie together a couple’s shared décor and help both partners feel at home.

“Maybe they go shopping,” Burnham says, “and they find some great vintage rugs that neither one of them knew they loved.”

This includes accessories and artwork: Canada suggests buying one powerful piece of art to be a focal point in your newly shared space.

Couples may want to ask a friend or hire a designer to suggest specific new pieces that will tie their collective belongings together effectively.

And if they really can’t reach agreement, Canada says, “There’s no shame in selling your furniture and going out together and buying new pieces as a couple.”

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A shoemaker can save your sole (and heels ...)

To some people, a cobbler is a lovely fruit dessert best served warm. To others, it is a shoemaker who repairs shoes — an almost forgotten trade. But that’s changing.

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Many high-end cobblers, tailors and jewelers have seen a spike in business from frugal customers, thanks to a

EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE trend toward fixing goods rather than replacing them.

We’re quickly moving from a disposable society to one that’s learning to mend and make do. According to Randy Lipson, third-generation cobbler and owner of Cobblestone Shoe Repair in St. Louis, Mo., shoe-repair shops nationwide (of which there are reportedly only about 7,500 remaining — half as many as a decade ago) are reporting a 20 to 45 percent surge in business. Things are beginning to shift as consumers are learning to make do. And for many, that means getting shoes that fit fixed.

Not long ago, I seized an opportunity to sit down with Lipson and I learned a lot, not only about the value of repairing shoes rather than replacing them, but also the fact that a

shoe-repair shop does more than just repair shoes.

EC: Why should we use shoe repair?

RL: Footwear isn’t just part of your wardrobe; it is an investment. Spend your money wisely and the return will be more value for your dollar, more comfort, better foot health and even a sense that you are helping the environment.

EC: How do we know if shoes are worth repairing?

If they were cheap to start with, shouldn’t we just throw them away?

RL: Think comfort. If the shoes fit well, you’re probably better off repairing them. The materials we use to repair shoes are usually three to four times better quality than the original materials in the shoe. And we use the very same materials to repair a $50 pair of shoes and a $325 pair. Once repaired, they really will be better than new. We repair all kinds of shoes and

boots, even Birkenstocks.

EC: How can we know if a shoe-repair shop is any good?

RL: Ask to see an example of their work. A good cobbler is proud of the work he or she does. There should be lots of shoes waiting to be picked up that you can inspect.

EC: What are the typical shoe repairs?

RL: New heels and soles are what we do most, both for men’s and women’s shoes. And we do a complete recondition that includes repairing torn or weakened areas, replacing components that are wornout and bringing those shoes back to their glory.

EC: Can you do anything to restore the color and finish?

RL: Provided the shoes are made of leather, we can do wonders. And we do more than just apply shoe polish. What we do is similar to stripping the paint from a fine piece of furni-

ture and then completely refinishing it. We remove the top layers, then recondition the leather, restain and return the shoes to new condition.

EC: What does something like that cost?

RL: A simple repair, like for new heels, can run around $20 depending on where the shop is located.

A complete recondition can run as high as $100.

But if we’re talking about a $300 pair of shoes, that’s a great value because it means another 10 or 15 years for those shoes. When you think of the cost per wear, repairing shoes rather than replacing them becomes a great value.

They’re even better than new.

EC: Other than shoes, what items do you repair?

RL: We offer repairs on handbags, luggage, dog collars, belts (we shorten belts all the time, in a way that cannot be detected), and saddles and bridles,

too. If you have anything made of leather that needs some TLC, take it to a shoe repair shop.

EC: Where can we find reputable shoe repair shops in our local areas?

RL: You can find a national store locator on the Shoe Service Institute of America website. Just type in your location and you’ll be on your way!

A question to you, my readers: Do you know of a great shoe repair shop? Tell us about it! Give a shout out to your friendly neighborhood cobbler!

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, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www. creators.com.

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Friday, May 13, 2016 — Page 9

Brazil’s suspended leader vows fight

By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press

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POPE FRANCIS greeted participants in a special audience with members of the International Union of Superiors General Thursday in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.

Pope willing to consider women as deacons

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Thursday he is willing to create a commission to study whether women can be deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling openness to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men.

Francis agreed to a proposal to create an official study commission during a closed-door meeting with some 900 superiors of women’s religious orders in Rome for their triennial assembly.

Deacons are ordained ministers but are not priests, though they can perform many of the same functions as priests: preside at weddings, baptisms and funerals, and preach. They cannot, however, celebrate Mass.

Currently, married men — who are also mostly excluded from the Roman Catholic priesthood — can serve as deacons. Women cannot, though historians say women served as deacons in the early church.

The pope in no way signaled during a 75-minute conversation with the sisters that the church’s longstanding prohibition on women priests will change.

But asked if he would be willing to create a commission to study whether women could serve as deacons, Francis said he was open to the idea, according to the National Catholic Reporter and Catholic News Service, which had reporters in the audience hall. The publications quoted Francis as saying: “I accept. It would be useful for the church to clarify this question. I agree.”

Vatican Radio also reported on the pope’s comments.

Francis noted that the deaconesses of the early church weren’t ordained as they are today. But he said he would ask the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to report back on studies that have been

done on the issue, Catholic News Service said.

Francis also said he would ask another Vatican office that is in charge of the liturgy to explain more fully why women aren’t allowed to give a homily at Mass. Women can only preach at services where people do not receive Communion.

The Women’s Ordination Conference, which advocates for women priests, praised Francis’ willingness to create a study commission as a “great step for the Vatican in recognizing its own history.”

“Biblical evidence names several women deacons, working alongside men in the early Church including: Phoebe, St. Olympias, Dionysia, St. Radegund and St. Macrina,” the group said in a statement.

The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit author, said reviving women deacons would benefit the whole church.

“The female diaconate is not only an idea whose time has come, but a reality recovered from history,” he said in an email. “This is news of immense joy for the church.”

From the start of his pontificate, Francis has insisted that women must have a greater decision-making role in the life of the church, while reaffirming that they cannot be priests. He has

said repeatedly that he values the “feminine genius,” that there’s no reason why a woman couldn’t head certain Vatican offices and that the church hierarchy would do well to hear more from women because they simply see things differently to men. But history’s first Latin American pope has also hit a few sour notes with women, calling Europe an infertile “grandmother,” urging nuns not to be “old maids” and once terming new female members of the world’s leading theological commission as “strawberries on the cake.”

On Thursday, he drew applause as he spoke freely with the sisters, asking them to challenge him and lamenting how so often nuns find themselves working as “servants” for priests, bishops and cardinals in ways that “undervalue their dignity.”

The sisters cheered when he suggested that priests should instead pay local women to do the housework so that the sisters could teach, care for the poor and heal the sick, Catholic News Service said.

“I like hearing your questions because they make me think,” CNS quoted Francis as saying. “I feel like a goalie, who is standing there waiting for the ball and not knowing where it’s going to come from.”

BRASILIA, Brazil — The new acting president is calling for unity in Brazil, while the leader just suspended by the Senate is vowing to fight what she calls a coup, underscoring the deep political polarization in Latin America’s most populous nation.

The disparate visions came just hours apart in the same narrow hall in the presidential palace after the Senate voted 5522 Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, putting her vice president, Michel Temer, in charge.

Rousseff, whose popularity has plummeted amid the worst recession since the 1930s, is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large deficits in the federal budget. Opponents argue that damaged the country, but Brazil’s first female president called it a baseless case cooked up so elites who loathe her leftist Workers’ Party could snatch back power.

Temer moved quickly to announce a new Cabinet and said his government’s first priority is to get Brazil’s stalled economy going again. He also promised to support the widening investigation into corruption at the state oil company that has already ensnared leading politicians from a variety of parties and even implicated Temer himself.

Emerging a few hours

after the Senate vote, Temer said it was a sober moment and made a bid for peace with Rousseff, offering his “institutional respect” for her and recognizing the impeachment campaign has caused deep divisions.

“This is not a moment for celebrations, but oneof profound reflection,” he said during a DILMA swearingin cereROUSSEFF mony for his 22 Cabinet members.

“It’s urgent to pacify the nation and unify the country. It’s urgent for us to form a government of national salvation to pull this country out of the serious crisis in which we find ourselves.”

Temer said Brazil must get its economy back on track and deal with the government budget deficit.

“Our biggest challenge is to staunch the process of freefall of our economy,” he said. “First of all, we need to balance our public spending. The sooner we are able to balance our books, the sooner we’ll be able to restart growth.”

Rousseff warned that Temer plans to dismantle government social programs put in by her party that benefit around onefourth of the Brazilian population, but he insist-

ed the programs would be maintained and “perfected” under his leadership.

The economy has been predicted to contract nearly 4 percent this year after an equally dismal 2015, and inflation and unemployment are hovering around 10 percent, underscoring a sharp decline after the South American giant enjoyed stellar growth for more than a decade.

Although the specific impeachment charges against Rousseff are limited, the effort to remove her became as much a referendum on her leadership amid the economy’s slump and the revelation of a mammoth bribery scheme involving the state-run Petrobras oil company.

Rousseff was immediately suspended for 180 days pending a trial in the Senate. If two-thirds of the 81 senators vote to find her guilty, Temer will serve out the remainder of her term, which ends in December 2018.

A defiant Rousseff said the action was a coup cooked up by power-hungry opponents. She has said the “chief conspirator” was Temer, the longtime leader of the centrist Democratic Movement Party that is known less for a specific ideological stance than for its skill at backroom deal making.

In what many Brazilians think could prove to be her last speech as president, Rousseff said she wouldn’t give up.

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Judge sides with House Republicans against law

By SAM HANANEL and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In a setback for the Obama health care law, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the administration is unconstitutionally subsidizing medical bills for millions of people while ignoring congressional power over government spending.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer was a win for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal challenge in an effort to undermine the law.

If the decision is upheld, it could roil the health care law’s insurance markets, which are still struggling for stability after three years.

Collyer said her ruling would be put on hold while it is appealed.

The White House expressed confidence it would be overturned.

At issue is the $175 billion the government is paying to reimburse health insurers over a decade to reduce deductibles and co-payments for lower-income people.

The House argues that Congress

never specifically appropriated that money and has denied an administration request for it. Collyer agreed that the administration is exceeding its constitutional authority by spending the money anyway. She rejected the administration’s argument that the law authorizes the money automatically because the program is considered an “entitlement� like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

House Republicans launched the lawsuit in 2014 over Democrats’ objections. The GOP-led House had already voted dozens of times to repeal all or parts of “Obamacare,� but those efforts went nowhere, failing to overcome opposition from Senate Democrats and the president.

So the House turned its focus to tying up money spent on the law.

Republican House leaders asserted that the Obama administration couldn’t spend money that lawmakers refused to provide.

House Speaker Paul Ryan called the decision “an historic win for the Constitution and the American people.� “The court ruled that the administration overreached by

spending taxpayer money without approval from the people’s representatives,� he said in a statement.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that House Republicans ultimately would lose the case. “This suit represents the first time in our nation’s history that Congress has been permitted to sue the executive branch over a disagreement about how to interpret a statute,� Earnest said. “It’s unfortunate that Republicans have resorted to a taxpayerfunded lawsuit to refight a political fight that they keep losing,�

Earnest added. “They have been losing this fight for six years. And they’ll lose it again.�

The administration is expected to appeal Thursday’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where a majority of active judges have been appointed by Democrats.

Collyer was appointed to the district court by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

About 12.7 million people are covered through insurance markets created by President Barack Obama’s law. The disputed subsi-

dies help lower-earning customers afford out-of-pocket costs, such as annual insurance deductibles and co-payments when they seek medical care.

These subsidies, called “costsharing reductions,� are separate from the financial aid provided under the law to help people pay their monthly premiums, which would not be affected.

But that doesn’t make the costsharing subsidies any less important. Without them, millions of people may not be able to afford to use their health insurance.

Here’s why: The most popular policies are skinny plans with low monthly premiums but high deductibles and co-payments. The average annual deductible for a silver plan — the kind picked by about 7 in 10 customers — is nearly $2,900, according to the consulting firm Avalere Health.

Under the law, insurers have to provide cost-sharing assistance to consumers picking a silver plan who make up to two-and-a-half times the federal poverty level, which is $60,750 for a family of four.

The government is then required to reimburse insurers for

the cost of the subsidies. The administration maintains that’s automatically authorized, and it doesn’t have to go back to Congress for approval each year.

But Collyer rejected that argument, saying appropriating the money is up to lawmakers. “That is Congress’ prerogative,� Collyer wrote. “The court cannot override it by rewriting� the law.

If congressional approval is required, Congress’ GOP majority can just shut off the spending.

And if that happens, the administration says the only option insurers have would be to raise premiums significantly.

However, more insurers might just decide to bail out of the health law markets. Major companies already are struggling to make money on the program.

The White House had earlier argued that the House had no legal authority to pursue its lawsuit, but Collyer rejected that argument and allowed it to proceed.

In another case last year, the Supreme Court threw out a challenge to the law’s subsidies for premiums. The legal issues in that case were much different.

Ex-Massey Energy CEO reports for prison sentence

By JOHN RABY

Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship reported to a California prison Thursday to begin serving a one-year sentence for his conviction related to the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in four decades, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.

Spokesman Justin Long said Thursday evening that Blankenship was in custody at a federal facility in Taft, Calif. According to the Bureau of Prisons’ website, the low-security facility is operated by a private corporation.

Thursday was the deadline for Blankenship to report. Earlier in the day, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion by his attorneys requesting that Blankenship remain free while he appeals his conviction.

Blankenship’s attorneys filed an emergency motion with the appeals court Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors declined comment. An attorney for Blankenship did not immediately comment on the ruling. “Today we saw Don Blankenship go to federal prison where he belongs,�

Booth Goodwin, the former U.S. attorney who brought the case against Blankenship, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “It was a long road, but I am pleased to see him finally start to pay for his criminal conduct.�

Blankenship was sentenced April 6 to a year in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine, which exploded in 2010, killing 29 men.

The thought of Blankenship heading to prison was little satisfaction to Tommy

Davis, who lost three family members in the 2010 tragedy and worked at the mine that day himself. “It is what it is,� Davis said. “It really don’t mean a whole lot to me, because he didn’t get what he needed.

He wouldn’t even have went to prison if he’d done what he needed to do as a CEO. I would still be fishing with my son and my brother and hanging out with my nephew and still worked with 29 good men.�

But Gary Quarles, whose son Gary Wayne died at Upper Big Branch, felt differently. “I think it’s finally time he went to jail,� Quarles said. “I’m very happy about it.�

The appeals court previously set a May 31 deadline for initial briefs on Blankenship’s conviction appeal.

Federal prosecutors in Charleston had said allowing the 66-year-old Blankenship to continue his $1 million bail would be

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Avoiding stairs in fire drill Joan Rivers’ family gets out of hand in high-rise settles malpractice suit

DEAR ABBY

I have nightmares about these women standing in stairwells waiting for firemen to help them during a real fire. I have a call in to my local fire chief to see what he/she thinks I should do. Have you any thoughts on this matter? — WORRIED BUILDING MANAGER DEAR BUILDING MANAGER: Employees who are disabled need to know the evacuation plan in place for their safety. If others are taking advantage of the system set up for people with disabilities in order to avoid going down the stairs, it is unfair to everyone.

I took your question to Austin, Texas, Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and to Allan Fraser, senior building code specialist at the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Both expressed concern that you would create a “list,” because lists can become outof-date or misplaced and of no use when a fire occurs.

People quit, get fired, go on vacation, are home sick, etc., on any given workday.

The late chair of NFPA’s Disability Access Review and Advisory Committee Bill Scott — who was a wheelchair user — often said, “Everyone, regardless of their disability, has some responsibility to ensure his or her own safety.” Being

dependent on others for rescue can be a recipe for disaster.

NFPA offers a free Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People With Disabilities, available for download at www.nfpa. org/disabilities. Chief Kerr and Mr. Fraser recommend you get it. I hope you will take them up on the suggestion, and be a stickler for compliance.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a dad whose children are growing up fast, and our second will soon be out of diapers. Before that happens, I need to get clarity on public diaper behavior.

Often I find myself at a restaurant when it smells like it’s time to change the diaper.

Instead of running to the bathroom for a false alarm, I (and most parents I know) pull back the back of the diaper to check while we’re in the middle of the restaurant. Is this bad manners or considered to be practical behavior? — ON THE SCENT OUT WEST DEAR ON THE SCENT: Pulling back the diaper should not be necessary.

Experienced parents know what a clean and empty diaper looks and feels like.

Others just pick up their child to determine if he or she passes the “sniff” test. I suggest this is what you do until your child is out of diapers.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Friday, May 13, the 134th day of 2016. There are 232 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 13, 1916, one of Yiddish literature’s most famous authors, Sholem Aleichem, died in New York at age 57.

On this date: In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day).

In 1846, the United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico.

In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was inadvertently printed upsidedown, making them collectors’ items.)

In 1935, T.E. Lawrence was critically injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England; he died six days later.

In 1940, in his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill told Parliament, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. The musical play “The Pajama Game” opened on Broadway.

In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 1968, a one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters.

In 1973, in tennis’ first socalled “Battle of the Sexes,”

Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, Calif. (Billie Jean King soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.)

In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house; 11 people died in the resulting fire that destroyed 61 homes.

In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court, in 44 Liquormart v.

Rhode Island, unanimously struck down Rhode Island’s ban on ads that listed or referred to liquor prices, saying the law violated freespeech rights.

Ten years ago: Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton helped Tulane University in New Orleans celebrate its “miracle” commencement, nine months after Hurricane Katrina put two-thirds of the campus under water and scattered students to more than 600 schools nationwide.

Five years ago: Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in northwest Pakistan, killing 87 people in what the Pakistan Taliban called revenge for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi taunted NATO in an audio broadcast, saying he was alive despite a series of airstrikes and “in a place where you can’t get to and kill me.”

Sen. George Mitchell announced his resignation as the Obama administration’s special envoy to the

Mideast.

One year ago: The House voted 338-88 to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records and replace it with a system to search the data held by telephone companies on a case-by-case basis. (The measure was passed by the Senate, and signed into law by President Barack Obama.) Prosecutors and defense attorneys made their final appeals to the jury that would decide the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jurors began deliberating whether the Boston Marathon bomber should get life in prison or the death penalty. (The jury voted unanimously for death.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Buck Taylor is 78. Actor Harvey Keitel is 77. Author Charles Baxter is 69. Actress Zoe Wanamaker is 68. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 67. Singer Stevie Wonder is 66. Actress Leslie Winston is 60. Producer-writer Alan Ball is 59.

Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is 55. “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is 52. Rock musician John Richardson (The Gin Blossoms) is 52. Actor Tom Verica is 52. Country singer Lari White is 51. Singer Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 50. Actress Susan Floyd is 48. Contemporary Christian musician Andy Williams (Casting Crowns) is 44. Actress Samantha Morton is 39.

Rock musician Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) is 37.

Actor Iwan Rheon is 31. Actress-writer-director Lena Dunham is 30. Actor Robert Pattinson is 30. Actress Candice Accola King is 29.

Actor Hunter Parrish is 29.

Folk-rock musician Wylie Gelber (Dawes) is 28. Actress Debby Ryan is 23.

Frida Kahlo painting fetches record $8 million at auction NEW YORK (AP) — A painting by Frida Kahlo set a new auction record for the Mexican painter when it sold for $8 million at Christie’s sale of impressionist and modern art Thursday night.

Kahlo’s “Two Nudes in the Forest (The Land Itself ),” depicts two nudes in a dreamlike setting. It had been estimated to bring $8 million to $12 million and was shown in an exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden last year. The previous auction record for Kahlo was $5.6 million.

The small 1939 canvas was a gift for Kahlo’s friend,

film star Dolores del Rio. It last appeared at auction in 1989.

Works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and other perennial favorites also went up for sale.

The top lot of the sale was an iconic painting by Monet depicting his beloved water lily pond, which sold for $27 million.

It’s one of a sequence of 14 paintings the French impressionist artist created in 1918-1919. “Pond with Water Lilies” has been in the same collection for 20 years and was estimated to bring $25 million to $35 million.

The auction record for a Monet work is $80.4 million for another water lily picture.

“Seated Man,” a picture from Picasso's famous musketeer series, fetched $8 million, just matching its low presale estimate. Created in 1969, the colorful portrait of a swordsman was exhibited at the 1970 Avignon exhibition at the Palais des Papes.

There are a total of 52 works in the auction, including a portrait by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

His “Young Woman with a Rose,” painted in 1916, sold for $12.8 million.

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The family of comedian Joan Rivers, who died days after undergoing a routine endoscopy at a New York City clinic, has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against the facility, the family’s attorneys said Thursday.

The 81-year-old comedian and star of the show “Fashion Police” on E! died Sept. 4, 2014, days after she went in for a routine procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and stopped breathing. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in 2015 in state Supreme Court in Manhattan that alleged doctors performed unauthorized medical procedures, snapped a selfie with the comedian and failed to act as her vital signs deteriorated.

In announcing the settlement Thursday, Rivers’ attorneys said they were pleased that the case had been resolved, but declined to specify the amount of the settlement.

They wanted to “make certain that the focus of this horrific incident remains on improved patient care and the legacy of Joan Rivers,” attorneys Ben Rubinowitz and Jeff Bloom said in a statement.

Melissa Rivers said the settlement allows her to “put the legal aspects of my mother’s death behind me and ensure that those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility for their actions quickly and without equivocation.”

She said in the statement issued by her lawyers that she will continue working to ensure higher safety standards at out-patient surgical clinics.

The lawsuit had alleged that doctors at the clinic mishandled Rivers’ endoscopy and performed another procedure, known as a laryngoscopy, on

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Every year we perform a fire alarm test to determine that all our fire alarm systems work properly.

Employees in the building must evacuate in a timely manner.

Two years ago, Dear Abby is a very written by overAbigail Van weight Buren, also woman known as told me Jeanne she had a Phillips, and heart conwas founded by her mother, dition and could not Pauline make it Phillips. down the stairs during the drill.

I told her to proceed to the stairwell, have one of her co-workers give me her location and in the event of a fire I’d send a fireman up to get her. A year later, another obese woman told me she, too, couldn’t make it down the stairs. Word has gone out in the building.

Now 10 other women have asked to be added to the “list” so they won’t have to descend the stairs.

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Rivers’ vocal cords without consent. The suit claimed that an anesthesiologist expressed concern over what the procedure would do to Rivers’ ability to breathe, but was told she was being “paranoid” by the gastroenterologist performing the endoscopy.

The city’s medical examiner found that Joan Rivers died of brain damage due to lack of oxygen after she stopped breathing during the endoscopy. Her death was classified as a therapeutic complication. The classification is not commonly used; more deaths are certified as accidents, homicides, suicides or natural causes. Negligence was not suspected. Had it been, it would have been listed as a contributing cause. ❏❏❏ NEW YORK — RushCard, the prepaid debit card company owned by hiphop mogul Russell Simmons, agreed to pay at least $19 million to compensate its users who were impacted by the company’s multi-day outage last year.

The technical fiasco caused tens of thousands of RushCard customers, who are largely poor and minorities, to be unable to access their money for as long as two weeks. Complaints from the outage clogged up the company’s customer service lines for days.

According to the agreement filed in a New York court as part of a class-action lawsuit, RushCard will pay at least $100 to each user who could not access their funds. That amount can increase to up to $500 if the customer can document any losses they might have experienced due to the outage.

Including earlier fee reimbursements the company has made, RushCard

will have paid out more than $19 million, a company spokesman said.

“We are pleased to have reached this preliminary settlement which will resolve the claims of our cardholders,” Rick Savard, CEO of Unirush, the parent company of RushCard, said in a statement.

RushCard’s problems started in mid-October, when the company switched payment processors. The transition was botched, and resulting problems caused thousands of RushCard accounts to be frozen.

Many RushCard customers are low-income minority Americans who don’t have traditional bank accounts. Without access to their money stored on their RushCards, some customers told The Associated Press at the time they could not buy food for their children, pay bills or pay for gas to get to their jobs. ❏❏❏ NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Def Leppard? Meet the deaf Leopards.

The British rockers behind a string of hits in the 1980s and ’90s, including “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Photograph,” met Wednesday before their show near Little Rock with students from the Arkansas School for the Deaf. The school mascot?

The Leopards, of course.

The group posed for photos holding a replica of the school’s scoreboard and in front of a banner emblazoned with the band’s name. The band later posted them on social media with the caption “Arkansas Deaf Leopards and #DefLeppard.”

The meeting came about after an online petition.

Opened in 1867, the Arkansas School for the Deaf provides schooling and life skills training for deaf and hearing-impaired children, beginning at age 3.

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George, Darlene, movies, Relay for Life To whom it may concern — Indiana native George E. Hood Jr. is once again attempting to break a world record — this time in China — at the Second International World Cup Plank Challenge in Beijing.

Known for his attempts at world records in the categories of riding a stationary bicycle and holding the plank position, Hood already holds the current record for holding the plank at 5 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds, set in May 2015 in Oceanside, Calif.

Closer to home, Hood set the record for the weighted plank at 2 hours, 35 minutes and 35 seconds at the KCAC for the United Way of Indiana County in September. For that event, he held the position — which is similar to a pushup — with 40 pounds of weight on his back.

An ultra-endurance athlete, he holds nine world records, and throughout, his events have raised money for charity.

This is Hood’s second time in China for the cup event. He participated there in 2014 and set the record at 4 hours, 1 minute, which was beaten by Chinese rival Mao

Weidong in September of that year.

Weidong will challenge Hood at the event.

Officials from Guinness World Records will be onsite at the event to certify his record.

Hood has trained six to seven hours a day to prepare for the event, and unofficially broke the record in a training session in April.

“This is perhaps the biggest challenge of my life,” Hood wrote in an email.

Hood’s plank attempt will be streamed live via U-Stream at www.ustream.tv/channel/hoods-guinness-world-record attempt.

His attempt starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Shangri-La Hotel, which is 10 p.m. today here on the East Coast.

FROM TRASH TO TREASURE Before they left for the school year, some Indiana University of Pennsylvania students left behind hundreds of pounds of food and a number of household items, which were all put to good use.

Darlene Palmer, property manager for Philadelphia Square

INSIDE INDIANA Apartments, said the management company — which houses more than 450 tenants in five locations around town — asked those who were leaving to drop off unused food and other items at the office instead of throwing it away.

All told, the property management company took in 290 pounds of nonperishable food, which was donated this week to the Indiana County Community Action Program, Palmer said. Plus, a small truckload of household items — such as dishes, silverware, clothing and small appliances — was donated to Goodwill.

Employees even picked up larger items.

“It’s unbelievable what they throw away” at the end of the semester, Palmer said. The effort keeps would-be trash out of the dumpster and gets it “into the hands of people who need it.”

Palmer said she hopes to expand the effort next year by installing collection boxes at each of the

TOM PEEL/Gazette

THE STRUCTURE of the Indiana Fire Association’s new station in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street in Indiana is rising as the $2.4 million project advances. When it is completed in early 2017, the IFA will move from the borough-owned Water Street station to the new building, and the bay doors will open onto Philadelphia Street.

Purchase Line budget plan would dip into fund balance our survey results back yet and I thought that was our starting point,” she said.

Pearce said he voted to table the technology program “only because I don’t like the idea of our high school programs being weakened in order to strengthen a program in the elementary.”

“I feel that a tax increase right now really is not necessary only because we have so many variables that we don’t know yet,” Pearce said. “Our taxpayers are all running scared right now with that reassessment.”

He said due to the uncertainty with reassessment the board should consider balancing the budget through its general fund this year and examine the situation next year when the effects of reassessment will be better known.

Markle said the district has a limited amount of math, English and social studies teachers due to attrition in the last 12 years and that he is worried about scheduling problems and keeping class sizes low.

And while he said he wasn’t necessarily against using reserve funds to balance the budget this year, his primary responsibility is making sure students get the education they need to succeed in the future.

“When you have the chance to do it through attrition, that’s the time you do it,” Smith said. “You don’t furlough later, you worry about it now.”

He said other districts in the area

are reducing teachers and have managed to keep up with state standards.

When prompted by Fyock, business manager Abbey Romagna said if the district continuously paid to balance the budget from its reserves it would be down to $1 million by about 2020, assuming no changes in funding from the state.

Purchase Line has still not received all of its anticipated state revenues for the 2015-16 school year.

After the first motion failed, Pearce moved for another proposed budget with no tax increase with a second from Beer. It passed 7 to 2 with Fyock and Markle voting against.

It called for revenues of $17,551,471 and expenditures of $18,139,472 with $587,997 to be used from the fund balance. This would result in actual collection projections of $2,196,483, down from the levy in the first motion of $2,275,483, assuming an 85 percent collection rate.

Other taxes would also be assessed under the proposed budget: per capita, section 679 at $5; per capita Act 511 at $5; occupational privilege at $10; an earned income tax of 0.7 percent and real estate transfer tax of 0.5 percent.

New millage values for Indiana County were not available Thursday night. Romagna said she expected to receive official numbers sometime after May 25.

Supervisors approve plan for complex Continued from Page 1 in-kind service to help the booster club meet its required local match.

In other business Thursday, the supervisors opened suppliers’ bids to provide catch basins and pipes for the local road improvement work.

Pleasant Unity Supply, of Westmoreland County, and Chemung Supply Corp., of Elmira, N.Y,. submitted prices for the materials but

the supervisors did not read the figures aloud during the meeting.

The supervisors agreed to study the numbers and decide which prices to accept at their next meeting.

Bertolino and supervisors David Smyers and James Gatskie also urged township residents and other area motorists to exercise patience while driving in the Route 119 construction zone.

WALK-IN MOVIE Keystone State Park in Westmoreland County will offer Friday night walk-in movies May 27 through Sept. 2.

The park will offer a variety of family-friendly movies at the beach house.

The first movie is “Max.” The movies will be shown on a projector screen outside on the lawn. So grab your blankets and chairs and make sure that you dress for the weather. Arrive early to grab a spot.

Movies will start at 8:30 p.m., although that may vary depending on when it gets dark. Movies will not be shown in inclement weather. The concession stand will be open.

RELAY FOR LIFE Tonight kicks off the annual Relay for Life at the White Township Recreation Complex, where participants will walk the track and more as they raise money for the American Cancer Society.

As of Thursday, 39 teams and 514 participants have raised more

than $110,000.

Events kick off at 4 p.m. today and end at 4 p.m. Saturday.

YOUR WEEKEND CALENDAR The Indiana Lions Club will hold a benefit turkey dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Indiana Lions Health Camp on Health Camp Road, Armstrong Township.

The cost is $10 for adults and $4 for children younger than 12.

Takeout is available.

SHOP TALK AT SIX Gas prices at most Indiana area service stations were running at $2.45 a gallon today, compared to $2.40 statewide and $2.22 nationwide (www.pennsylvaniagas prices.com). … When the skies are overcast, Willie, our ex-shoeshine boy, recalls the quote from country singer Dolly Parton: “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

Good evening!

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

Trump, Ryan commit to unity

FUTURE FIRE HALL

Continued from Page 1 A tax increase was unpopular during public comment. Jane Stiffler said the board should consider those in the district who live on very little and that a tax increase should be held within reason. Chuck Ruffner said that because of the countywide property tax reassessment, many would lose their homes or property and that people can’t afford a tax increase.

Many of the board members, even some of those who voted in favor of the initial motion, expressed their hesitation at a tax increase. They then debated some recent decisions, such as opting not to reduce the number of teachers at the elementary through attrition, the pre-kindergarten program that was spiked due to lack of state funding and a tabled technology program at the elementary.

Smith said the board should be fiscally responsible and sensitive to the reassessment in Indiana County. He said they should have more closely considered reducing the number of teachers in the elementary through attrition and questioned why the board didn’t chose to move forward with the elementary technology program if it could help test scores.

Gardner said she wasn’t against the technology program at the elementary but did vote to table it Monday.

“We need that desperately, I agree, but we haven’t even gotten

locations before the students leave.

One of the southbound lanes has been converted to handle all northbound vehicles, creating bottlenecks and backups over a 1-mile stretch of road through the Lucerne Road intersection.

“Please be patient as the traffic pattern has totally changed,” Bertolino said. “There could be long lines and short tempers.”

Temporary traffic signals have been installed to control traffic.

Continued from Page 1 many conservatives in the course of a brutal primary season. He also has alarmed the Republican establishment with proposals including deporting millions of immigrants and barring Muslims from the country.

Yet in the days since, many GOP lawmakers — and voters themselves — have made peace with the reality that Trump is their candidate and therefore their only hope of defeating likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Although some in the GOP fear Trump could spell election disaster and cost Republicans control of the Senate and seats in the House, recent polls have shown a closer race, helping their comfort level.

Ryan himself insisted from the beginning that his only goal was real party unity. His allies in the House have predicted he will get behind Trump in the end, and on Thursday Ryan sounded like he was well on his way.

“We talked about what it takes to unify, where our differences were and how we can bridge these gaps going forward,” Ryan said, praising Trump’s “unparalleled” accomplishment in getting more votes already than any Republican presidential candidate in history — 10.9 million even before California and New Jersey vote in June.

The two discussed “core principles” including limited government, the Constitution, separation of powers and pro-life philosophy, Ryan said.

Asked whether he would be endorsing Trump a week after his refusal to do so shocked the GOP, Ryan said: “Yeah, I think this is going in a positive direction. And I think this was a first, very encouraging meeting.”

The two also issued a joint statement in which they pledged to work together to beat Clinton.

Trump, 69, and Ryan, 46, would make one of the oddest of political couples, one a brash and unpredictable billionaire with a malleable political philosophy and tendency to insult all comers, the other a wonky if telegenic Midwestern conservative dedicated to paring back entitlements and with a big-tent view of the GOP. Like many political partnerships this one would be driven by necessity and a common foe, Clinton, whose candidacy is proving a powerful incentive to Republicans of all kinds to bury their differences.

Trump also met with other House GOP leaders, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his top deputies, and senators were later full of praise and offers of help.

Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, issued a statement Thursday: “I am glad that Donald Trump and Speaker Ryan have started to open their lines of communication and develop a relationship as our party works together to stop Hillary Clinton. The 9th Congressional District and this nation cannot afford to have a third term of Barack Obama, and that’s exactly

“WE WILL have policy disputes. There is no two ways about that. The question is, can we unify on the common core principles that make our party? And I’m very encouraged that the answer to that question is yes.”

Paul Ryan,

speaker of the House

what Clinton would be.

“Like all Republicans, Speaker Ryan and Donald Trump share a strong desire to advance policies that reduce the size of government and encourage economic growth with our small businesses.

“I’m confident that over these next few months our party will fully unite behind Donald Trump and he will be the next president of the United States.”

Sen. John Cornyn said he invited Trump to come to Texas and offered to help him with Latino voters.

“I was fortunate enough to win the Hispanic vote in 2014.

I said I’d be glad to share with you my experience and observations because that’s an important part of the voters in 2016,” Cornyn said.

“I’ve always been impressed but I was really impressed today,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, adding they discussed the Supreme Court, an important issue for conservatives who’ve questioned whether they can trust Trump to appoint judges who would ratify their philosophy.

Even Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has called Trump a “nut job” and a “loser as a person,” softened his stance after speaking with the candidate by telephone Wednesday.

Graham, R-S.C., described the billionaire as funny and cordial and said he asked insightful questions about national security.

“He’s from New York. He obviously can take a punch,” said Graham, who waged his own unsuccessful bid for his party’s nomination. He said he still won’t endorse Trump but his barrage of “insults will stop.”

Trump, in a black SUV, slipped from one GOP power center to another on his fence-mending mission made necessary by his outsider status in a city that embodies insiders.

About a dozen protesters who oppose Trump’s immigration positions demonstrated at the front of the Republican National Committee building where the men met.

They chanted “Down, down with deportation. Up, up with liberation.”

The scene was similar outside Senate Republican campaign offices where Trump gathered later with McConnell and others. “The GOP is dead to our community,” said Deyanira Aldana, 21, a protester who is the child of Hispanic immigrants. “And Donald Trump is the final nail in that coffin.”

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Pressing Forward Revamped Pens, speedy Lightning set for showdown

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH — On the calendar, the gap between the last time the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning met and tonight’s Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals is less than three months.

Within the life span of a season, it seems a lot longer.

When the Lightning blew past the Penguins 4-2 on Feb. 20 — a victory that

earned Tampa Bay a sweep of its three-game season series with Pittsburgh — Steven Stamkos was still scoring goals, Matt Murray was still the Penguins’ third option in net and Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan’s midseason overhaul remained very much a work in progress.

Not anymore. Stamkos remains out indefinitely while dealing with a blood clot

while Murray has become a revelation in near lockstep with the Penguins’ evolution from enigmatic underachiever to Stanley Cup favorite. No wonder the Penguins couldn’t help but laugh when asked if they could remember what happened on that sloppy Saturday in midwinter when the Lightning built a quick three-goal lead and cruised.

“I couldn’t even tell you,”

Pittsburgh forward Phil Kessel said. “I don’t even remember when we played them last.”

It’s probably best to just block it out and press forward anyway at a time of year when short-term memory loss is an asset.

The Penguins wrapped up a 12-day high-wire act against rival Washington on Tuesday night when Nick Bonino tapped in the winner in overtime of Game 6. The Continued on Page 15

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Blairsville 13, Northern Cambria 3

Ready and Able

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TAMPA BAY’S Ben Bishop (30) celebrated with Jonathan Marchessault after finishing off the Islanders on Sunday.

Sharks have work to do San Jose ousts Predators, hopes to leave past behind

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer

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MAX HREBIK slid safely under the tag of Northern Cambria catcher Zack Lieb in Blairsville’s victory at WyoTech Park on Thursday.

Bobcats claim conference title

By JUSTIN GERWICK

jgerwick@indianagazette.net

BLAIRSVILLE — Heavy rains rolled in less than a half hour prior to game time Thursday at WyoTech Park, casting doubt on Blairsville’s ability to wrap up the Heritage Conference title with a win over Northern Cambria.

But just as Blairsville had cast aside the doubts that surrounded its young squad all season, the Bobcats weren’t ready to let this one obstacle get in the way of back-to-back championships.

So the two teams came together and spent more than an hour working on the field with rakes, brooms and more than 10 bags of drying agent to get into playable condition.

“We wanted to get this win and get the conference for ourselves,” Blairsville pitcher Ryan Shirley said.

“We did all we could to get this field ready.”

And somehow, the break in the routine and the two-hour delay weren’t enough to stop the Bobcats

“WE MADE IT a one-game season every day, and these kids kept working hard. It’s a little bit of a surprise, but seeing these guys work in the gym and work in the field makes it not so surprising.”

Mark Zerfoss,

Blairsville coach

from reaching their goal. Shirley limited the Colts to five hits, and the Bobcats wrapped up their second consecutive conference title and their third in three years with a 13-3 win over Northern Cambria. The game was shortened to six innings due to the mercy rule.

The hard work the Bobcats (15-3, 14-2) put into getting the field ready rang true of the diligence they showed as they worked as a team in a rebuilding effort following the gradu-

ation of five seniors from last season’s team into a squad that bested the other eight teams in the conference.

“After the first two weeks of practice, all of us coaches sat down and talked and we realized that the work ethic these kids had was very surprising,” Blairsville coach Mark Zerfoss said.

And when the Bobcats lost two games in a row to drop to 3-2 early in the season, Blairsville put some doubts to rest by winning 12 of its next 13 games to finish out the season.

“There was a lot of doubt,” Zerfoss said. “Any time you lose five starters to graduation, you always have in the back of your mind that you are kind of rebuilding. You try to transform some of these younger guys into good ballplayers. … We made it a one-game season every day, and these kids kept working hard. It’s a little bit of a surprise, but seeing these guys work in the gym and work in the field makes it not so surprising.”

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GOLF: The Players Championship

What a Day

World’s No. 1 player ties course record

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — One birdie led to two more before Jason Day even hit his stride, and his round kept getting better until the world’s No. 1 player was in the record book and in the lead Thursday at The Players Championship.

He putted for birdie on every hole.

His longest putt for par was 30 inches.

Day was as flawless as the morning conditions — summer heat, surprising calm. When he blasted out of a

tiny bunker within inches of the cup on his final hole, he had a 9-under 63, a two-shot lead and a fresh memory of the TPC Sawgrass.

His most recent round was an 81 last year to miss the cut. This one tied the course record.

“It just kept on building and building, this round, just one after another,” Day said. “It just got better and better.”

His opening day improved even more after he finished. The Stadium Course was so vulnerable, mainly Continued on Page 17

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JASON DAY shot a 63 in the first round of The Players Championship.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Game 7 win for a franchise haunted by playoff disappointments can help silence the skeptics. But the San Jose Sharks know they have plenty of more work to do before ending all those questions about their past.

The Sharks took another big step achieving that when they jumped on top of Nashville early in a dominant Game 7 win. Captain Joe Pavelski started the scoring early with his franchise record-tying ninth goal of the playoffs that helped send San Jose to its first Western Conference final in five years with a 5-0 victory over the Predators on Thursday night.

“There will be doubters until we go all the way,” said Logan Couture, who had a goal and two assists to set a franchise record with 11 points in the series.

“We’re used to it. If you’re a hockey player, you can’t let it bother you.”

Joel Ward, Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau also scored as San Jose shook off an overtime loss in Game 6 to reach the conference final for the fourth time in franchise history. San Jose will open the conference final on the road Sunday

against the St. Louis Blues.

Martin Jones made 20 saves for San Jose’s first playoff shutout in six years.

But it was San Jose’s biggest stars who really delivered. Pavelski got a power-play goal to open the scoring off a feed from Marleau. Couture had a backbreaking goal in the opening minute of the second period that made it 3-0.

Thornton added a power-play goal in the third period that sealed the win.

“That’s what we’re supposed to do,” Couture said.

“We’re supposed to go out there and lead this team and contribute offensively.

We did what we’re supposed to do.”

They just haven’t always done that come playoff time. While the Sharks have been one of the most successful regular-season teams for more than a decade, they are still seeking their first trip to the Stanley Cup final.

There were conference final losses in 2004, 2010 and 2011. Then came crushing seventh game defeats to rival Los Angeles in 2013 and ‘14. The last of those came after San Jose took a 3-0 series lead and left a cloud over the franchise for an entire season as the Sharks missed the playoffs in 2015.

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All is not well in Rio for Games The schedule was in a deep political crisis crowded to begin with, but that culminated Thursday here’s another event for in a vote to impeach anyone traveling to Rio this President Dilma Rousseff. summer for the Olympics: Meanwhile, a handful of Russian roulette with the golfers say they won’t be Zika virus. going to Rio, and a group of Win, and you get other athletes is a stress-free trip demanding that TIM home and some Russians be banned nice memories of DAHLBERG from competing the games. unless there is Lose, and you absolute proof that don’t even want to they are not doping. think about what There have been might happen to deep cuts in the you or your unborn security budget, child. adding to the fears The Olympics in that always exist Brazil always that terrorists will seemed like a target the world’s sketchy idea, even biggest sporting before anyone event. knew what the Zika Tim Dahlberg Add to that new is a sports virus was or the allegations of columnist for shenanigans in the terrible health The Associated bidding for the 2020 problems it can Press. Email: cause. Grandiose Olympics in Tokyo, tdahlberg@ap. the resignation last plans to clean up org.

Rio and its waters week of the head of never came to the 2018 Winter fruition, and an Olympics in South Korea, investigation by The and a report that Russian Associated Press showed athletes and doctors some athletes will be switched urine samples in competing for gold medals Sochi to escape detection in sewage-infested waters. and the Olympic Now, less than three movement is besieged on a months before the opening number of fronts. ceremony, the Brazilian Not that you would know economy is in shambles, it by the official — and with inflation rampant and incredibly tone deaf — unemployment on the rise. pronouncements coming The country is also mired Continued on Page 17

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Jim Meighan

Chris Edwards

INDIANA COUNTY

SPORTS HALL OF

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FAME

CLASS OF 2016

Garry Wurm

R.K. Shoemaker

Melissa Stewart CHRIS EDWARDS A standout pitcher at Indiana High School, Edwards was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1980 and played two seasons, one in the Gulf Coast League for rookies and one with Greenwood in the Class A South Atlantic League. He compiled a 6-4 record, including 3-0 in his second season. He remains a regular at Meadow Lane Golf Course, where he has won four club championships.

JIM MEIGHAN In all, Meighan has served as an assistant coach at Blairsville schools for more than 70 seasons combined in football, wrestling and track and field. He has coached football for 45 years and also served as an assistant in track and field and helped lead Blairsville to back-to-back District 6 championships. A 1964 graduate of Kiski Area High School, he was the school’s first three-sport letterman and a team captain in football, basketball and baseball. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2008.

BILL OTTO The Indiana resident is most recognized as one of the voices of Renda Broadcasting for more than 40 years and the public address announcer at IUP football and basketball games for more than 30 years. He also coached Little League baseball and has been a baseball umpire for more than 30 years.

R.K. SHOEMAKER A standout lineman at Blairsville High School in 1992 through ’94, Shoemaker went on

play on the offensive line at NCAA Division III power Mount Union College, which won three straight national championships and 54 straight games during his career.

The 54-game winning streak was an NCAA all-divisions record, which was surpassed only by Mount Union’s teams that won 55 straight in 2000 through 2003.

MELISSA STEWART The Indiana High School graduate won the PIAA Class AAA championship in the girls’ discus in 2002 and won three WPIAL championships, two in the discus and one in the shot put. She finished her career with four state medals and still holds the school records in the discus (136 feet, 1 inch) and shot (43-1½). The first IHS athlete to participate in the Penn Relays, she placed third in the discus in 2002. She went on to Duquesne University, where she holds the record in the discus (160-9) and was the Atlantic 10 champion in 2003 and the runner-up three times. She qualified for the NCAA championships in 2003 and the ECAC championships four times and was a two-time Academic All-American.

NICOLE SINCLAIR–TORRE A standout basketball player at Indiana High School, she topped 1,000 career points and rebounds and was the leading scorer and rebounder throughout her four-year career. She went on to play at Duquesne University, where she was an Academic All-American, the 2005 Atlantic 10 Academic Student Athlete of the Year and two-time

Nicole Sinclair–Torre

All-District selection. She finished her college career with 750 points and 700 rebounds.

GARRY WURM The Indiana County League standout signed as a free agent with Pittsburgh and played three seasons in the minor leagues with the Pirates and Los Angeles Angels organizations. He earned the Rolaids Relief Award with the Erie Sailors in 1990. He played at IUP from 1982 to ’86 and in the ICL from 1985 to present, most recently with West Lebanon, and has a .362 career batting average with more than 130 home runs and 550 RBIs and a 133-43 record as a pitcher. He played on teams that won nine titles and was a three-time playoff MVP and three-time Lovisa Award winner for the most home runs in a season. He is the head basketball and baseball coach at Blacklick Valley High School.

Honorees Tre Tipton, Apollo-Ridge track and field Duane Brown, Apollo-Ridge football Alison Simmons, Bates College rowing Sam Cunkelman, Homer-Center cross country Bob Rado, Homer-Center basketball Garet Weston, Indiana swimming Jon Appolonia and Kellen Short, Indiana tennis Katie McLaughlin and Kelsey Heckert, Indiana girls’ tennis Dylan Stapleton, Indiana basketball Leslie Stapleton, IUP women’s basketball Bill Packer, Penns Manor football

Ed Peterson, Marion Center softball Taya Whitfield, Marion Center track and field Greg Pack, Purchase Line girls’ volleyball Karen Conrad, Purchase Line cross country David Houser, Team USA archery Evan and Robert Henderson, University of North Carolina wrestling Scholar Athletes The Hall of Fame presents a $250 scholarship to two scholar athletes from each high school in the county. They are: Apollo-Ridge: Christian Havens and Mariah Laird Blairsville: Austin McLean and Allyson Smathers Homer-Center: John Capitosti and Elizabeth Ginter Indiana: Jacob Zilinskas and Logan Everett Marion Center: Erik Hicks and Hanna Beer Penns Manor: Beck Branton and Micayla Parfitt Purchase Line: Jonah Nichols and Ashley Goodlin Saltsburg: Tanner Yard and Kassidy Richards United: Noah Walls and Hannah Rensko Ticket Information The Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame annual induction banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, at the Rustic Lodge.

Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased at The Indiana Gazette.

Monday is the last day to purchase tickets. For more information, please call (724) 465-5555, ext. 266.

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Six qualify for WPIAL meet NORTH HUNTINGDON — Six members of the Indiana High School boys’ and girls’ track and field teams qualified in seven events for the WPIAL championships by placing in the top eight at the Class AAA central qualifier meet Thursday at Norwin High School.

Additionally, three Indiana relay teams placed in the top eight to advance.

The WPIAL meet will be held Thursday at Baldwin High School.

Jess Stever led the Indiana girls by winning the high jump (5 feet) and placing sixth in the long jump. Abby Myers, who placed third in the 400, ran on the fourthplace 1,600 relay team and the fourth-place 3,200 relay team. The 1,600 relay team also included Kacey Raible, Megan Kester and Maddie Redhead-Kriston, and the 3,200 relay team also included Melanie Zolocsik, Raible and Isabelle McCabe. McCabe also placed third in the 3,200.

Taylor Hudzicki won the high jump (5-9) to pace the Indiana boys. Sam Lenze finished second in the 1,600 and ran on the fourth-place 3,200 relay team, which also included Landon Coy, Joey Bujdos and Dominic Ciocca. Jeremy Adamson placed eighth in the pole vault.

Grube misses cut at qualifier BUTLER — Kyle Grube, a senior at Indiana High School, fired a 74 and finished three strokes behind the final qualifier at the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s U.S. Open local qualifying tournament at Butler Country Club on Thursday.

The final two qualifiers, Danny Yustin and Bo Andrews, fired 71s on the par70 course.

LOCAL SCOREBOARD HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL BLAIRSVILLE 13, NORTHERN CAMBRIA 3 Northern Cambria — 3 Novella 2b-p 3-1-2-2, Lieb c 3-0-0-0, M.Marino 3b-ss-2b 2-0-0-0, Serafin p-3b 3-01-1, L.Marino 3-1-0-0, Olenchick 1b 2-1-0-0, Weiland ss-p 3-0-1-0, Pershing cf 3-0-1-0, Wagner rf 2-0-0-0, Onkst pr 0-0-0-0, Totals 24-3-5-3 Blairsville — 13 Ri.Shirley c 4-3-2-1, McConnell 3b 2-2-1-1, Sunday ss 2-1-1-3, Olechovski 1b 5-0-1-3, Ry.Shirley p 3-0-2-0, Dirienzo rf 1-1-0-0, Moran 2b 4-1-2-1, Hrebik cf 2-2-0-0, Fetchko cf 1-1-0-0, B.Ratkus pr 0-2-0-0, Burkhardt pr 0-0-0-0, Totals 24-13-9-9 Northern Cambria 100 200 — 3 5 1 Blairsville 144 112 — 13 9 11 2B — Ry.Shirley.

W — Ry.Shirley 5 K, 2 BB. L — Serafin 2 K, 5 BB.

HOMER-CENTER 11, UNITED 3

United — 3 Sheriff ss 4-0-1-0, Neuner 3b 4-0-1-0, Baird 1b 4-0-1-0, Eritano 2b 0-0-0-0, Fabrizio dh 2-00-0, Burbus ph 1-0-0-0, Wolfe rf 3-1-0-0, Jarvis p 3-1-1-0, Duckworth 2b 3-0-1-1, Becker lf 3-01-0, Mack c 3-1-1-1, Totals 30-3-7-1 Homer-Center — 11 Alexander ss 1-1-0-0, Popovich ss 1-0-0-0, Davis rf 2-1-0-0, Moore rf 1-0-0-0, Cavalier 2b 3-1-1-0, Faris 2b 1-0-0-0, Lee 3b 2-1-0-0, Saiani ph 1-0-0-0, Arone 1b 3-2-1-2, Novak p 3-2-3-2, Orsargos lf 3-2-3-3, Alcon c 2-1-1-1, Bretz c 2-0-0-0, Bruner cf 3-0-1-2, Totals 2811-10-10 United 000 200 1 — 3 7 1 Homer-Center 600 500 x — 11 10 10 2B — Baird. 3B — Orsargos.

W — Novak 3 K, 0 BB. L — Jarvis 3 K, 7 BB.

HOLLIDAYSBURG 7, INDIANA 4

Hollidaysburg — 7 Storm ss 5-1-1-0, Peterson c 5-1-1-0, Servello cf-rf 2-2-1-1, Pugh 3b-p 4-1-3-0, Smith 1b 2-0-0-0, Nolan 2b 3-0-1-1, Hileman dh 4-1-1-0, Servello p-cf 4-0-0-0, Walters rf-p 3-1-2-0, Bossinger cr 0-0-0-0, Totals 32-7-10-2 Indiana — 4 Budash cf 4-0-0-0, Lorelli 3b 4-0-1-0, Schultz p-lf-1b 4-1-1-1, Shaffer ss 3-1-0-0, Jones rf 0-1-0-0, Allmendinger lf-p 2-1-1-0, Squiric p 1-0-0-0, Kromer c 3-0-2-0, Decker dh 1-0-0-1, Kanick ph 1-0-0-0, Palmer ph 1-00-0, Totals 24-4-5-2 Hollidaysburg 002 004 1 — 7 10 0 Indiana 000 200 2 — 4 5 2 2B — Servello, Pugh, Hileman.

W — Servello 4 K, 5 BB. L — Allmendinger 0 K, 2 BB.

DERRY 5, JEANNETTE 3

Derry — 5 Watt ss 2-1-2-0, Ulery 3b-p 4-1-0-1, Blystone dh 3-0-0-0, Siko 1b 4-0-1-1, Lynch p 0-0-0-0, Bauer cf 3-1-1-2, Chinchock p-3b 30-1-1, Stewart pr 0-1-0-0, Buterbaugh c 2-0-00, Weinell pr 0-0-0-0, Huffman lf 3-0-0-0, Polinsky rf 3-1-2-0, Klapchar 2b 0-0-0-0, Totals 27-5-7-5 Jeannette — 3 Elliott ss 3-1-1-0, Redman 2b 4-1-1-0, Hall c 3-0-0-0, Pompei p-3b 3-0-0-0, Tran cf 3-0-11, Horn rf 2-1-0-0, Malik p 0-0-0-0, Howard p 1-0-1-0, Billeck 1b 3-0-2-1, Yates pr 0-0-0-0, Cunningham 3b-p 2-0-1-1, Brown lf 3-0-0-0, Totals 27-3-7-3 Derry 210 010 1 — 5 7 2 Jeannette 011 010 0 — 3 7 1 2B — Watt 2. 3B — Cunningham.

W — Chinchock 0 K, 2 BB. L — Pompei 0 K, 3 BB.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL PENNS MANOR 14, PURCHASE LINE 4 Purchase Line 031 00 — 4 5 1 Penns Manor 603 5x — 14 8 2 2B — Lopez 2 (PM), Stover (PL), Ober (PL).

W — Parfitt 3 K, 2 BB. L — Ober 0 K, 6 BB.

Friday, May 13, 2016 — Page 15

Tigers beat IHS in regular-season finale HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP

By The Indiana Gazette Playoff-bound Indiana mustered just five hits, allowed five runs in the last two innings and dropped its regular-season finale, 7-4, to Hollidaysburg in a non-conference baseball game Thursday at Keystone Rehab Field.

The Tigers broke open a tied game by plating four runs on four hits, an error and a walk in the sixth inning to take a 6-2 lead.

The Indians scored two runs on three hits, including a solo homer from Zach Schultz, in the seventh to make it a threerun game, 7-4.

Chase Kromer went 2-for-3 for Indiana.

Taylor Squiric struck out five, walked two and allowed no earned runs in three innings of relief.

Indiana finished its regular season with a mark of 9-8. The WPIAL Class AAA playoffs begin Monday.

HOMER-CENTER 11, UNITED 3: Homer-Center’s Stephen Novak shined with his bat and his arm to lead the playoff-bound Wildcats to a lopsided win over visiting United in a Heritage Conference game.

Novak struck out three, walked none and allowed seven hits and one earned run in a complete-game win. He also went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Ryan Orsargos went 3-for-3 with a triple and three RBIs, and Alex Arone and Levi Bruner each singled and drove in two runs.

Homer-Center (13-5, 12-3 conference) travels to Marion Center on Monday.

DERRY 5, JEANNETTE 3: Derry halted a

three-game losing streak and finished its season on a winning note by outlasting host Jeannette in a WPIAL non-section game.

Nick Chinchok ripped an RBI single in the top of the fifth inning to give Derry a 42 lead. Jeannette scored a run an inning later to make the score 4-3, but Derry’s Josh Bauer answered in the seventh by belting an RBI single that capped the scoring.

Connor Watt doubled twice for Derry.

Ryan Polinsky went 2-for-3, and Bauer drove in two runs and swiped four bases.

Chinchock allowed three hits and one earned run in three innings of relief to get the win.

Joe Lynch pitched one inning of scoreless and hitless relief to earn the save.

Derry concluded its season with a record of 8-12.

SOFTBALL PENNS MANOR 14, PURCHASE LINE 4: Host Penns Manor plated six runs in the first inning and went on to beat Purchase Line in a Heritage Conference game that was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule.

Winning pitcher Micayla Parfitt struck out three and walked two in a five-hitter.

Parfitt and Abby Tomayko stroked two singles apiece, and Sarra Lopez drilled two doubles.

Mikhala Stover singled and doubled to pace the Red Dragons.

Penns Manor concluded its season with a record of 6-11.

Bobcats wrap up title Continued from Page 13 Both teams struck early, scoring a run apiece in the first inning. But Shirley found his footing after that, and the Bobcats’ bats continued to heat up.

Blairsville struck for four more runs in each of the next two innings and plated one in each of the fourth and fifth innings before enforcing the mercy rule with two runs in the sixth. The Colts (9-10, 9-7) managed just two more runs in the fourth inning.

But Blairsville’s runs didn’t come via doubles, triples or towering home runs. The Bobcats used eight singles, one double, 11 walks, three hit batsmen and multiple passed balls to work their way around the bases.

“It’s a big team effort,” Shirley said. “It’s not just one guy hitting a triple with people on base. It’s a team effort of singles and passed balls and running the bases well. It’s an effort all around of getting the people on and getting them in.”

Shirley helped himself out at the plate, stroking a single and a double. Dakota Sunday and Zach Olechovski each drove in three runs, and Ricky Shirley singled twice, drove in a run and scored three times.

Ryan Shirley took advantage of the offensive help, thwarting any rally the Colts tried

to stage. The left-hander struck out five batters and limited the Colts to three runs on five hits and two walks. He worked the strike zone for the full six innings, throwing strikes on 56 of his 77 pitches.

“I knew from Day One that we would have the pitching to go far,” Shirley said.

“Our underclassmen stepped up. The seniors led us last year, and we just took it right after them and kept it going.”

Pitching was a struggle from the beginning for Northern Cambria. Scott Serafin took the loss, allowing nine runs on five hits and five walks over two innings. Adam Weiland replaced him in the third inning and gave up five runs on four hits and six walks over 3 2-3 innings.

Mac Novella led the Colts with two singles, two RBIs and a run scored. Serafin stroked a run-scoring single.

Blairsville seems poised to make another playoff run. Last year, the Bobcats advanced to the District 6 championship game. This year’s version of the Bobcats hopes to at least equal that run.

“Hopefully we’ll get a decent seed and get a game or two here at home,” Zerfoss said.

“If we win one game or two games and get to Altoona, that will be nice. We’ll just take it one game at a time.”

PENGUINS PREVIEW

By The Indiana Gazette

EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS PITTSBURGH PENGUINS vs.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Records — Penguins: 48-26-8 (25-11-4 at home, 22-15-4 on the road, 8-3 in playoffs). Lightning: 46-31-5 (25-13-3 at home, 21-18-2 on the road, 8-2 in playoffs).

How they got here — The Penguins finished second in the Metropolitan Division and second in the Eastern Conference with 104 points and defeated the New York Islanders in five games and the Washington Capitals in six. The Lightning finished second in the Atlantic Division and sixth in the Eastern Conference with 97 points and defeated the Detroit Red Wings in five games and the New York Islanders in five.

Regular-season series — Tampa Bay won all three matchups and outscored the Penguins 15-9: 5-4 in overtime at home on Jan. 15, 6-3 in Pittsburgh on Feb. 5 and 4-2 in Pittsburgh on Feb. 20.

Coaches — Penguins: Mike Sullivan (first season, 41-23-5).

Lightning: Jon Cooper (third season 146-90-25).

Points leaders (in playoffs) — Penguins: Phil Kessel 12 points, Patric Hornqvist and Kessel five goals each, Nick Bonino nine assists. Lightning: Travis Johnson 13 points, Kikita Kucherov nine goals, Johnson nine assists.

Goalies (in playoffs) — Penguins: Matt Murray (21, 6-4, 178) .925 save percentage, 2.05 goals against average, 7-2 record.

Lightning: Ben Bishop (29, 6-7, 216) .938 save percentage, 1.89 goals against average, 8-2 record. Bishop is one of three finalists for the Vezina Trophy (best goaltender).

Key injuries — Lighting captain Steven Stamkos had surgery on April 4 to treat a blood clot in his right arm and was given an expected recovery time of one to three months. The center had 14 goals and 22 points in his last 21 games. Overall, he had 36 goals and 64 points in 77 regular-season games.

Tampa Bay has also been missing Anton Stralman, one of its top defensemen, who suffered a broken leg March 25. He scored four of his eight regular-season goals against the Penguins.

Left wing J.T. Brown (upper body) has not played since Game 2 of the first round. He had eight goals and 22 points in the regular season.

All three have returned to practice, but Cooper called their return “indefinite.”

Star power — The Penguins’ Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin combined for 15 points in the first round but only four in the second. The trio of Carl Hagelin, Bonino and Kessel led the way against the Capitals. Hagelin had a team-high seven points (3G-4A) in the second round, Kessel has a team-high 12 points (5G-7A) in the playoffs, and Bonino is tied for second with 10 points (2G-8A).

The Lightning line of Ondej Palat, Tyler Johnson and Nikita Kucherov led the against the Islanders. Kucherov is the NHL’s leading scorer in the postseason with nine goals and had a team-high 66 points (30G-33A) in the regular season. Johnson had a team-high 13 points (4G-9A) in the playoffs.

On the blue line — Victor Hedman (25, 6-6, 223) leads the Lightning. He was matched up against Islanders captain John Tavares in the second round and held him scoreless in the final four games. Three defensemen are at least 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds.

The Penguins’ Kris Letang (29, 6-0, 201) logged at least 30 minutes in four of five appearances against the Capitals and missed Game 4 with a suspension. He is one of only two defensemen in the second round averaging that much time. He has six points (1G-5A) in six of his last eight games.

Quotable — Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy on the speed vs. speed matchup: “The Washington Capitals tried to bully us.

They tried to come out and out-physical us and intimidate us. This will be a different element. These guys will play much more like us.

They’ll try to out-skate us and out-skill us.”

The Lightning’s Johnson: “To be this far your team has to be pretty good. You look at the lineup and they obviously have a lot of skill and we expect all that. But we feel like we have a lot of skill as well.”

Revamped Pens, Lightning set for finals Continued from Page 13 cathartic celebration sent Pittsburgh to the conference finals for the fourth time since 2008. Less than 72 hours later, they face the only team that’s been more dominant in the postseason.

The Lightning raced through the first two rounds of the playoffs, dropping one game each to Detroit and the New York Islanders. That’s remarkable, considering they’ve been without Stamkos and defenseman Anton Stralman, still recovering from a fractured left leg.

Stamkos is practicing, but the five-time All-Star hasn’t been cleared for contact. Stralman appears to be on the verge of returning, though coach Jon Cooper is in no hurry to announce his lineup, saying Thursday “it’s just pointless to talk about whether they’re going to play or not.”

Stralman scored four times against Pittsburgh during the regular season, though he’s not exactly ready to proclaim himself the miss-

ing ingredient as Tampa Bay tries to reach its second consecutive Stanley Cup final.

“I don’t think I ever scored a goal against the Penguins until this year, so I don’t know what that tells you,” Stralman said. “Stuff like that happens, just a fluke.”

Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay meeting with a spot to play for the Cup, however, is not. Shortly after fizzling against the Lightning in February, the Penguins put together a 14-2 surge to end the regular season they have carried into May. Tampa Bay’s speed and comfort in close games — the Lightning are 50 in one-goal contests in the playoffs — are a sign their long postseason run a year ago wasn’t just puck luck.

Some things to look for heading into what could be a wide-open two weeks (if necessary, of course): WELL-RESTED: Tampa Bay played 26 playoff games last spring, with the heavy workload eventually tak-

ing its toll in the Stanley Cup final, where the Lightning lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in six games.

They’ve been well-rested this time around. They had six days off before taking on the Islanders and earned a four-day break before facing the Penguins. Veteran center Brian Boyle welcomed the break but said it’s difficult to predict how it will impact this series. “It remains to be seen. Hopefully we’re rested and focused,” he said.

Tampa Bay lost Game 1 against the Islanders, then won four straight to advance.

BIG GOALIES: As of this morning, Sullivan had not yet named a Game 1 starter in net, though the 21-yearold Murray has made a compelling case to stay on the job even with Marc-Andre Fleury back from a concussion. The 6-foot-4 Murray outplayed Vezina Trophy finalist Braden Holtby in the last round, and now he’ll see 6-7 Ben Bishop at the other end of the rink. Bishop is

Sharks have work to do Continued from Page 13 But key offseason additions like Jones, Ward and defenseman Paul Martin and new coach Peter DeBoer helped San Jose make it back to the postseason this year where the Sharks knocked off Los Angeles in five games in the first round before surviving against the Predators.

“The core guys are still the same, but the core guys here are great,” DeBoer said.

“They have great habits, they’ve been well coached for a decade by the previous staff that was here. They’re not the problem. It was filling in behind them. We’ve got those type of people here now, and I think the guys at the top feel that and are feeding off it.”

Now the Sharks will face another deep team with a checkered playoff history. The Blues are in the conference final for the first time in 15 years and are seeking their first trip to the Stanley Cup since 1970. St. Louis made it to the final in each of its first three seasons only to get swept each time.

With a team led by talented forwards like David Backes and Vladimir Tarasenko, a

deep defense headed by Alex Pietrangelo and Kevin Shattenkirk and goalie Brian Elliott, St. Louis will provide a formidable test for San Jose.

“It never gets easier,” Pavelski said.

“These teams are all good right now, good goalies.”

The Predators pushed San Jose for six games, winning twice in overtime, but had little left in their second straight Game 7 on the road. Defensive miscues by Nashville’s two top defensemen, captain Shea Weber and Roman Josi, led to early San Jose goals as Pekka Rinne got little help from his teammates.

The Predators had just eight shots on goal in the first two periods and Rinne left after allowing goals to Thornton and Marleau early in the third period. The frustration boiled over as he slammed his stick against the post and tossed it aside after Marleau’s goal made it 5-0.

“That was childish and not the way you want to end the season,” Rinne said. “I wish I hadn’t have done that. Yeah, it was frustration. That’s the end of that stick.”

8-2 with a 1.89 goals against so far.

“He takes up a lot of the net,” Kessel said. “We’ve got to make him handle a lot of shots and get second opportunities on him.”

NOT-SO-DYNAMIC DUO: It’s a testament to the depth the Penguins have built around Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin that they handled the Capitals without much help (on the scoresheet at least) from their two franchise cornerstones. The former MVPs combined for just four points against Washington while the Penguins relied heavily on the trio of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Kessel to provide the punch that sent the Capitals home for the eighth time in nine playoff meetings with Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh general manager Jim Rutherford is hardly concerned about who puts the puck in the net, so long as it gets there.

“I don’t care if Matt Murray gets the goals,” Rutherford said.

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THE DODGERS’ Joc Pederson lost his helmet after swinging for a strike during the third inning of Thursday’s game in Los Angeles.

Yanks homer past slumping Royals

By The Associated Press Chase Headley, Starlin Castro and Didi Gregorius hit early home runs and the New York Yankees beat Kansas City 7-3 Thursday night, sending the World Series champion Royals to their 12th loss in 16 games.

Kansas City dropped three of four at Yankee Stadium.

Nathan Eovaldi (3-2) worked around eight hits in five innings, and overcame getting struck on the leg by Lorenzo Cain’s hard one-hopper at the outset.

Relievers Kirby Yates and Dellin Betances each followed with a perfect inning to hold a 5-3 lead. After the Yankees scored twice more, Andrew Miller worked a 1-2-3 eighth and Chasen Shreve threw a scoreless ninth.

Ian Kennedy (4-3) lost in his first game back in the Bronx since the Yankees traded him after the 2009 season.

RED SOX 11, ASTROS 1: David Price struck out 12, Mookie Betts had a three-run homer and Xander Bogaerts had a two-run shot to help Boston beat Houston for a season-high fifth straight win.

Jackie Bradley Jr. singled twice and extended his hitting streak to 18 games, tying the longest streak in the major leagues this season. Bogaerts had three RBIs. Thursday was supposed to be all about the first matchup between reigning Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel and Price, last year’s runner-up.

Boston’s bats ensured Price (5-1) easily took this one. He rallied after a slow start and allowed a season-low one run over 6 23 innings, lowering his ERA to 6.00.

Keuchel (2-5) gave up 10 hits and eight runs. He has allowed five or more earned runs in four of his last five starts, something he did only three times last year.

ORIOLES 7, TIGERS 5: Jonathan Schoop hit a tiebreaking two-run triple in the seventh inning, and Baltimore rallied from a fiverun deficit to beat Detroit for a fifth straight victory. Schoop’s triple was the only extrabase hit in the seventh-inning rally that included five singles.

Baltimore trailed 5-0 in the sixth. Detroit starter Mike Pelfrey allowed two runs in 5 13 innings, but the collapse of the Detroit bullpen left the right-hander winless in 15 starts since Aug. 12.

Vance Worley (2-0) worked two innings for the win.

NATIONAL LEAGUE DODGERS 5, METS 0: Clayton Kershaw tossed his second complete-game shutout this month, Yasmani Grandal hit a threerun homer and Chase Utley added a solo shot to help Los Angeles beat New York for a split of the four-game series.

Making his 250th career start, Kershaw (5-1) struck out 13 and walked one to win his third straight. He only gave up three hits. It was the left-hander’s fifth straight start with double-digit strikeouts, a club record.

The Dodgers jumped on Bartolo Colon (3-2) with four runs in the first inning. Their first run came on Justin Turner’s RBI single before Grandal homered off a 2-0 pitch into the right-field pavilion, making it 4-0 on his third homer of the season.

Chase Utley added a two-out homer in the second for a 5-0 lead.

GIANTS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 2: Johnny Cueto pitched seven strong innings, Zack Greinke had another rough outing at home for Arizona and San Francisco opened a fourgame series with a victory.

Joe Panik hit a two-run homer off Greinke, who fell to 1-3 in five home starts.

Cueto (5-1) allowed two runs and eight hits, striking out nine and walking two in a matchup of two of the highest-priced free agent pitchers last offseason. Cueto signed a six-year, $130 million contract, which was dwarfed by Greinke’s six-year, $206.5 million deal.

Greinke (3-3) gave up four runs and eight hits in six innings, raising his ERA to 5.26 in eight starts.

PADRES 3, BREWERS 0: James Shields had a season-high nine strikeouts in seven innings to lead San Diego.

Melvin Upton Jr. homered for the fourth time and had three hits, two RBIs and two runs for the Padres one day after San Diego swept a doubleheader at the Chicago Cubs.

Milwaukee’s Jimmy Nelson (4-3) pitched a season-high eight innings but lost for the second time in his last seven starts.

PHILLIES 7, BRAVES 4: Cameron Rupp hit a three-run double with two outs in the 10th inning and Philadelphia beat Atlanta.

Odubel Herrera matched his career high with four hits, including a triple off Jason Grilli (1-2) leading off the 10th.

Andrew Bailey (2-0) got the final out of the ninth, and Jeanmar Gomez pitched the 10th for his major league-leading 13th save in 14 tries.

Atlanta dropped to a big league-worst 825, including 2-17 at home.

INTERLEAGUE CARDINALS 12, ANGELS 10: Matt Holliday homered twice in two innings off Jered Weaver, Matt Carpenter homered as well and St. Louis held off a late rally to beat Los Angeles and complete a three-game sweep.

Holliday matched his career high with four hits to pace an 18-hit outburst by the Cardinals. Matt Adams and Yadier Molina added three hits apiece, and every Cardinals starter had a hit.

The Angels scored three runs in the ninth and had the bases loaded with one out, but Kevin Siegrist struck out Carlos Perez and got Shane Robinson to pop out to end the threat.

The Angels have lost six straight and 10 of their last 12.

Adam Wainwright (2-3) got the win despite allowing 11 hits and seven runs, six earned, in five innings.

World’s No. 1 player ties course record Continued from Page 13 because of receptive greens and no wind, that 29 players from the morning group shot in the 60s. A strong breeze finally arrived after Day was done, making it difficult for anyone to catch him.

“I don’t know what the guys were doing out there this morning, but I don’t think we saw the same golf course this afternoon,” Rory McIlroy said after a 72. “It was a little firmer, the wind got up a little bit and those guys made the course look awfully easy this morning.”

Jordan Spieth couldn’t say

PIRATES PREVIEW

PITTSBURGH (18-15) vs.

CHICAGO (25-8)

By CLIFF BRUNT OKLAHOMA CITY — Now that Kevin Durant is back, the Thunder have returned to a familiar place.

Oklahoma City beat San Antonio in six games to advance to the Western Conference finals for the fourth time in six years — and the fourth time in the past five seasons that Durant has been healthy.

San Antonio was expected to advance, especially after going 40-1 at home during the regular season to claim the No. 2 seed in the West. But the third-seeded Thunder won twice in San Antonio during the series, boosting their confidence heading into Game 1 against the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Monday night in Oakland.

Durant is still chasing his first NBA title, so he was able to put the Spurs series in its proper perspective.

“This wasn’t our championship,” Durant said after Thursday night’s clincher. “We were confident coming in here.

We’re just happy that we’re moving forward and have an opportunity to play again, and we’re excited about it.”

Durant is especially excited, considering where he was a year ago at this time. He followed his 2013-14 MVP season by missing most of last season with a broken bone in his right foot. The Thunder missed the playoffs, and Durant watched as Golden State’s Stephen Curry won the MVP award and an NBA title.

This season, Curry won the scoring title and another MVP award, while Durant bounced back to finish fifth in the MVP balloting.

If anyone can handle a shootout with Curry, it’s Durant. The four-time scoring champion struggled with his shot in the first-round series against Dallas but looked like himself against San Antonio. He averaged 28.5 points on 50 percent shooting in the series against the Spurs, scoring 41 points in Game 4 and 37 in Game 6.

The Warriors won a record 73 games in the regular season, but Durant made it clear the Thunder like where they stand after beating the Spurs, who posted one of the best regular seasons in NBA history. The Thunder lost Game 1 at San Antonio 124-92, but rallied to win four of the next five games.

“We weren’t in this position for nothing,” Durant said. “I think throughout the season, we stood by who we were as a team. We were mixing different lineups, so that helped out as well.”

The grind of the San Antonio series could serve the Thunder well against Golden State.

Though the Thunder won the series 4-2, four of the games were battles.

Friday, May 13, 2016 — Page 17

the same. He played with Day and couldn’t keep up.

In his first tournament since losing a five-shot lead at the Masters, Spieth dropped three shots over his last five holes and labored to a 72. He ended with a double bogey on the par-5 ninth when it took him five shots to get down from a bunker behind the green.

“I hit two fantastic shots,” Spieth said, “and then not really sure after that.”

Masters champion Danny Willett, rusty from a month of being home with a newborn son and a green jacket,

opened with a 70.

There were 40 rounds in the 60s and 82 rounds under par, the most at The Players since 1993. Even so, Day was eight shots better than the average score of the strongest and deepest field in golf.

“Tee to green was pretty decent — was actually really good — and then once I got on the green, I felt like I could hole everything,” he said.

Shane Lowry became the first player to shoot 29 on the back nine. He was in the group at 65 that included Justin Rose and Bill Haas.

Ernie Els, who just last month started the Masters with a six-putt quintuple bogey, ran off six birdies and an eagle to lead the group at 66.

Rose looked at the pin positions and had a good feeling, especially on the island-green 17th. It was at the front, with a ridge serving as a backboard. By midafternoon, only four shots found the water. And with hardly any wind and greens still moderately soft, good scores were available.

“If there was a day to get the course, today was it,” Rose said.

When: 2:20 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday Where: Wrigley Field, Chicago On the air: Root and WCCS-1160 AM All-time series: Pirates lead 1,257-1,187.

So far this season: Cubs lead 3-0. The Cubs swept the Pirates in a three-game series at PNC Park, May 2-4 Managers: Pirates: Clint Hurdle (sixth season with Pirates, 449-394). Cubs: Joe Maddon (second season with Cubs, 12273).

About the Pirates: The Pirates are 18-15 after splitting two games in an abbreviated series with the Reds. The second game of the series was rained out. ... Josh Harrison has collected a hit in 15 of his last 17 games. During that span, Harrison is batting .339 with six extra-base hits, 11 RBIs and nine runs scored. ... Since returning from the disabled list, Jung Ho Kang has found his power stroke. The third baseman has connected for a home run on three of his five hits. ...

Andrew McCutchen has reached base safely in his last 10 games. ... Jeff Locke has settled down recently, limiting opponents to five or fewer hits and three or fewer runs in each of his last three outings. During those three games, Locke has struck out 15 batters over 19 innings.

About the Cubs: The Cubs are 25-8 after losing two of three games in a series against the Padres. Prior to being swept in Wednesday’s doubleheader, the Cubs had won eight straight games. ... Ben Zobrist has reached base safely in 19 of his last 20 games. During that span, Zobrist is batting .368 with eight extra-base hits, 25 RBIs and 18 runs scored. ... Jake Arrieta has won 17 straight decisions, dating to last season. In seven starts this season, the right-hander is 6-0 and has allowed just six earned runs over 48 innings. He has racked up 44 strikeouts.

Probable starters • Francisco Liriano (3-1, 3.60) vs. Jason Hammel (4-0, 1.85) • Jeff Locke (1-2, 4.68) vs. Jake Arrieta (6-0, 1.13) • Gerrit Cole (3-3, 3.78) vs. Jon Lester (4-1, 1.96) Projected lineups Pirates Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. John Jaso 1B .288 3 12 2. Andrew McCutchen CF .248 7 14 3. Gregory Polanco RF .275 4 19 4. Starling Marte LF .336 3 14 5. Francisco Cervelli C .287 0 13 6. Jung Ho Kang 3B .333 3 6 7. Josh Harrison 2B .314 2 18 8. Jordy Mercer SS .289 1 14 9. Starting Pitcher SP — — — Bench: Chris Stewart (C), Sean Rodriguez (utility), David Freese (INF), Matt Joyce (OF).

Bullpen: Mark Melancon (R, closer), Tony Watson (L), Neftali Feliz (R), Arquimedes Caminero (R), Jared Hughes (R), Ryan Vogelsong (R), Kyle Lobstein (L), A.J. Schugel (R).

Cubs Name Pos. Avg. HR RBI 1. Dexter Fowler CF .333 3 17 2. Jason Heyward RF .216 0 13 3. Kris Bryant LF .285 5 22 4. Anthony Rizzo 1B .275 10 29 5. Ben Zobrist 2B .309 5 28 6. Javier Baez 3B .300 2 5 7. Addison Russell SS .264 2 22 8. David Ross C .204 2 9 9. Starting Pitcher SP — — — Bench: Tim Federowicz (C), Tommy La Stella (INF), Jorge Soler (OF), Ryan Kalish (OF).

Bullpen: Hector Rondon (R, closer), Travis Wood (L), Pedro Strop (R), Trevor Cahill (R), Justin Grimm (R), Clayton Richard (L), Adam Warren (R), Neil Ramirez (R).

Next: The Pirates welcome the Atlanta Braves to PNC Park for a four-game series, Monday through Thursday.

All is not well in Rio for Olympics Continued from Page 13 out of IOC headquarters in Switzerland.

“We have seen the great progress being made in Rio de Janeiro and we remain confident about the success of the Olympic Games in August,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement Thursday.

No, the official party line hasn’t changed, and there are no expectations that it will. There’s too much money at stake in the lucrative business of operating the Olympics, including the $1.22 billion that NBC paid to televise the games in the United States.

Besides, doping scandals and bribery are nothing new to the Olympics.

The games have not only survived but thrived through a succession of various scandals, boycotts and even the 1972 Munich terrorist attack.

What they haven’t had is a health risk as frightening as the Zika virus. Scientists are still learning about Zika, but it has already been proved to cause a range of debilitating defects in babies — abnormally small heads and neurological problems.

And there are indications it can cause a rare paralyzing — and potentially fatal — condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in adults.

The World Health Organization issued a warning this week for pregnant women not to travel to areas with Zika.

A Canadian health expert went even further,

calling for the games to be moved or delayed until the Zika virus is better understood or brought under control.

“But for the games, would anyone recommend sending an extra half a million visitors into Brazil right now?” University of Ottawa professor and public health specialist Amir Attaran said in an article published in the Harvard Public Health Review.

Yet soon the world will descend on Brazil, the epicenter of the outbreak.

Thousands of athletes in their prime — including a lot of women of childbearing age — will travel from countries around the world to compete for gold medals. Some will win. But some might really lose.

Meanwhile, Olympic officials stubbornly plow ahead as if nothing is amiss. Bring mosquito repellent and wear long sleeves, they say, and everything should be just fine.

Well, here’s a news flash: Everything is not fine. And there’s no reason to trust Olympic officials and their guarantees when they can’t even get their own act together and have a big financial stake in the games beginning in Rio on Aug. 5 as planned.

For fans and family members of athletes, it comes down to this: Are the Olympics so important that you will gamble with your health to attend them?

And should the world’s best athletes and their future families do the same?

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Clooney gets a conscience in ‘Money Monster’

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-like television personality who’s forced to grow a conscience when a disgruntled viewer holds him hostage on live TV in “Money Monster,� a serviceable, if slight, real-time thriller from director Jodie Foster.

Clooney’s character Lee Gates is one of those cable news stars who probably hasn’t spoken to a noncelebrity in decades. His flashy show opens with him dancing in costume with two gyrating ladies at his side like he’s in his own rap video, and the vulgarity just escalates from there with ridiculous graphics and sound effects that even a shock jock radio host would likely find tasteless.

We see him being dismissive of the pleas from his put-upon producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) to stick to the script, or at least give her a heads up as to where he’s planning to go, but Lee Gates is one of those roguish improvisational types who is somehow charismatic enough to get away with it. This is not really a likable guy, and it’s not even

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GEORGE CLOONEY is character Lee Gates in “Money Monster,� in theaters today. clear how smart a financial mind he is, but Clooney has that perfect combination of non-threatening smarm and swagger to make Lee not completely reprehensible.

It does, however, make it a little hard to care when Jack O’Connell’s character Kyle comes skulking in

through the back of the set with a gun and a vest full of explosives made especially for Lee. Kyle, we find out, trusted Lee’s advice on an investment that went awry when a stable company’s stock plummeted and he lost everything. The company’s explanation and the narrative in the press is that

it was just a computer glitch, but Kyle’s not buying it and wants some answers.

It’s an odd pairing, this somewhat daffy television dope against an unhinged blue-collar fool with a hunch that $800 million didn’t just disappear because of a glitch. Although it doesn’t make for the most

scintillating conversation, as Kyle wails about the system being rigged tension builds and it seems like perhaps “Money Monster� is heading somewhere significant — an all-out indictment of Wall Street corruption, maybe, that movies as different as “Margin Call� and “The Big Short� have done so well.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t.

Instead, “Money Monster� stays rather small and fictional in its aim. It’s partially interested in the idea of systemic corruption in the finance world, sure, but it seems to be even more critical of the cable news media types who have grown soft, complacent and careless.

Foster, in the director’s chair for the fourth time, proves once again to be assured and malleable in this role, ready to proficiently fulfill the needs of any genre with a steady, straightforward style. “Money Monster� feels like a solid ’90s studio thriller in some ways — a movie for adults and made by adults with a crop of charismatic A-listers at the center.

Clooney and Roberts, by the way, are very good together but hardly get any

Online channel-surfers may miss cable

By ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — It might feel cathartic to ditch your cable TV company. But if you’re looking to channelsurf online, you’re going to find services such as Sling TV or PlayStation Vue coming up short in some respects.

Both services offer live TV channels just like cable, but you can’t connect your own digital video recorder.

Dish’s Sling TV service limits you to whatever episodes a given network offers on demand. And while Sony’s Vue has an Internet-based DVR with “unlimited� storage, it deletes stored shows automatically after 28 days. Worse, arcane legal rights restrict what you can watch. Your channel lineup might differ depending on where you live because the services have rights to only a handful of broadcast stations around the country. And even from your couch, what you can watch changes depending on which device you use or whether you connect using home Wi-Fi or cellular.

Online alternatives to cable are taking root. Last week, Hulu announced that it’s working on its own online service; Apple and YouTube have also expressed interest, according to news reports. They’ll have to negotiate rights, too, though Hulu might have an advantage, as it’s owned by the parent companies of three major broadcasters — ABC, Fox and NBC. To be sure, there’s a lot to like about these services so far: • Price. Online alternatives tend to be cheaper than cable, though with far fewer channels. Sling TV, for instance, offers a base package of 26 channels for $20 a month. Plus, there’s no set-top box or other equipment to rent. • Easier navigation. Live TV, recorded shows and channels’ on-demand offerings show up in a central location with a single search. There’s also no need to memorize channel num-

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THIS FRAME GRAB shows Sony’s PlayStation Vue service. bers; just click on the network’s name. • More screens. Cable TV is designed for the TV. Sling TV and Vue also work on phones and tablets, though with limitations having to do with — you guessed it — television rights.

Sling TV and Vue are pioneers in delivering TV to homes over the Internet, and immediate perfection was never in the cards. It wasn’t for cable TV on Day One, and many people will argue that it still isn’t.

Yet online TV could be much more, even in its early days — were it not for these pesky rights. Some of these restrictions come from the channels; others come from the producers of the shows or sporting events themselves.

With both Sling TV and Vue, some sports channels are blocked when you travel to another city. Pro football games aren’t available on phones, even at home, as Verizon has exclusive NFL rights on phones.

On Vue, you can stream USA Network-aired reruns of “Modern Family� on an iPhone over home Wi-Fi, but not cellular, even at home; meanwhile, reruns of the same show on channels 5, 7 and 9 in New York stream just fine on your phone’s own data network or on a friend’s Wi-Fi. Some other shows won’t stream on a phone or tablet at all, even through a home Wi-Fi network.

True, cable TV has similar restrictions on mobile devices, but at least their services were originally designed for the TV. Online services stress that they aren’t bound to TV screens.

Plus, with traditional TV, you can get around these restrictions with a $150 Slingbox (unrelated to Sling TV). The device hooks to your DVR and replicates on a mobile app whatever’s on the living-room screen. Or you can get a TiVo, which lets you view live and recorded shows remotely through TiVo’s app. None of these options work with online services.

The good news: The number of blocked shows is declining steadily, as channels add streaming rights for shows whose contracts have come up for renewal.

But there are occasional hiccups, particularly with sports. A recording of the Super Bowl disappeared

from Vue after the game ended, so there was no way to catch up on the halftime show. Rather than risk missing the Olympics on NBC, I ordered a TiVo DVR last week and plan to hook up an antenna. (If you’re on Vue, chances are you can’t watch the Olympics via NBC anyway; Vue currently holds rights to NBC stations in only seven of the 210 U.S. markets.)

These services also need more flexible DVRs. Sling offers more than 10,000 hours of shows and movies on demand, but that doesn’t matter if your show isn’t one of them. As for Vue, Sony says most people watch shows within two weeks, so its 28-day expiration still gives people plenty of time. It’s nice not to deal with storage filling up, but you can’t binge on entire seasons at once or archive that one show you like to watch over and over.

There once was a better alternative called Aereo, which offered over-the-air channels and an Internet DVR with a set amount of storage for a monthly fee. If you wanted to store an entire season of “The Simpsons,� you simply had less

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Aereo was pleasant to use because it didn’t try to navigate a sea of rights. It reasoned that it could simply pick up over-the-air signals just like everyone else and record shows on a DVR just like everyone else.

But broadcasters and the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. Aereo was forced to shut down. What’s left are less-flexible services that have to cater to the idiosyncrasies of the TV industry.

‘Money Monster’ RATED: R for language, some sexuality and brief violence RUN TIME: 90 minutes RATING: Two and a half stars out of four time to just be charming in this tightly woven pic. It also seems like a cruel trick to have those two in a movie and to keep them in separate rooms for a large portion of it, communicating only through a speaker system as Patty attempts to “direct� the hostage situation from the control room.

O’Connell, while committed, is playing too much of a working-class stereotype to truly make an impact, and a third-act turn really doesn’t help. “Money Monster� might not be a great movie, but it is a comforting movie that’s still fun to watch even if it whiffed on being something more.

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BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, NICHOLAS MICHAEL HORCHAK AND RACHAEL M. HORCHAK ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GRANT COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2009-196155 TAX PARCEL 19-010-102.05 1790 MUMAU ROAD GLEN CAMPBELL, PA 15742 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF 1ST SUMMIT BANK VS NICHOLAS MICHAEL HORCHAK AND RACHAEL M. HORCHAK CS #12313 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: THOMAS A. YOUNG (814-535-3513) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DERRIK KUHNS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST WHEATFIED COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1627 PAGE 645 TAX PARCEL 41-022-271 181 CHESTNUT STREET ROBINSON, PA 15949 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK VS DERRIK KUHNS CS #12703 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: MATTHEW K. FISSEL (215-627-1322) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DOMENIC ROMANI ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, PARCELS; 39-019-105 DB 670 P 491, 39-108-113 DB 863 P 210, 39-018-113.01 DB 827 P 517 AND THE BOROUGH OF CREEKSIDE, PARCELS; 17-001-625 DB 683 P 477, 17-001-108 DB 846 P 486, 17-001-100 DB 863 P 210.

TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF CHRISTINE ROMANI-RUBY, JESSICA ROMANI, TRACY ROMANI VS DOMENIC ROMANI CASE #10769 CD 2012 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: CHRISTOPHER WELCH (724-463-6050) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, ROBERT FAILS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1587 PAGE NUMBER 221 TAX PARCEL #42-037-304 424 MAPLE STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS ROBERT FAILS CASE #10353 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: M. TROY FREEDMAN (215-572-8111) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, LIBBY G. SCHAFER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CENTER COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1486 PAGE 001 TAX PARCEL 12-037-106 147 FIRE ACADEMY ROAD HOMER CITY, PA 15748 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., A TRUSTEE FOR CENTEX HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-D VS LIBBY G. SCHAFER CS #10026 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: CRYSTAL ESPANOL (215-627-1322) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MICHAEL S. LAMER A/K/A MICHAEL LAMER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREEN COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUBER 2013-238960 TAX PARCEL 20-038-135 87 MUSSER STREET COMMODORE, PA 15729 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF THE BANK OF WELLS FARGO BANK, NA VS MICHAEL S. LAMER A/K/A MICHAEL LAMER CS #12105 CD 2013 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT P. WENDT (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MARK W. BENAMATI ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF SALTSBURG COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1333 PAGE NUMBER 724 TAX PARCEL 036-003-200 202 MARKET STREET SALTSBURG, PA 15681 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF MIDFIRST BANK VS. MARK W. BENAMATI CS #10473 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: LEON P. HALLER (717-234-4178) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, ROBERT B. ALLEN ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 84 PAGE NUMBER 622 INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2012-235007 TAX PARCEL 25-004-602.00..-000#25657 1369 WATER STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. VS ROBERT B. ALLEN CS #11191 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT P. WENDT (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, RYAN C. WOODS & VALERIE E. WOODS ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF GREEN COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2014-257110 TAX PARCEL #20-020-147-03 89 BLACK LANE COMMODORE, PA 15729 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF INDIANA FIRST BANK, FORMERLY INDIANA FIRST SAVINGS BANK VS RYAN C. WOODS & VALERIE E. WOODS CS #10257 CD 2011 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT F. MANZI (724-463-8791) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, CHRISTOPHER W. CALVERT, INVIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE R. CALVERT, GERALDINE C. CALVERT, THOMAS J. CALVERT AND CATEY M. CALVERT ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE BOROUGH OF INDIANA COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2010-211361 TAX PARCEL NO. 25-003-840 354 NORTH 8th STREET INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF PNC BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION VS CHRISTOPHER W. CALVERT, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE R. CALVERT, GERALDINE C. CALVERT, THOMAS J. CALVERT AND CATEY M. CALVERT CASE #11150 CD 2014 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: BRETT A. SOLOMAN, ESQ. (412-566-1212) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, MATTHEW J. FISHER & TIFFANY L. FISHER ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WHITE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK VOLUME 1606 PAGE NUMBER 362 TAX PARCEL #42-058-107.02 DEED BOOK VOLUME 80 PAGE NUMBER 96 TAX PARCEL #42-04-132 551 ROUTE 110 HIGHWAY NORTH INDIANA, PA 15701 AND NORTH BEN FRANKLIN ROAD INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF INDIANA FIRST BANK, FORMERLY, INDIANA FIRST SAVINGS BANK VS MATTHEW J. FISHER & TIFFANY L. FISHER CASE #10198 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ROBERT F. MANZI (724-463-8791) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

001 NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection plans to submit to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, proposed abandoned mine land reclamation projects for grant funding under Title IV, the Abandoned Mine Lands Program of the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, P.L. 95-87.

The project listed below is being planned to eliminate the public health and safety hazards associated with un-reclaimed abandoned mine sites. This notice is for the purpose of gathering information about the proposed projects. Reclamation will not be initiated until project design is completed.

Any comments on the proposed project and requests for project specific information should be directed to Brian J. Bradley, Chief, Division of Project Development, Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation, PO Box 69205, Harrisburg, PA 17106-9205, telephone 717-787-7669 or 717-783-2267.

Information regarding current bid opportunities can be found on the Department’s website at www.dep.pa.gov/ ConstructionContracts.

Requests for information regarding bidder’s lists, notification of bid openings, or contracting in general should be directed to Jennifer Slothower, Chief, Construction Contracts Section, Department of Environmental Protection, PO Box 8452, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8452, telephone 717-783-7994.

PROJECT NUMBER OSM 32(0592)101.1 PROJECT NAME Palmerton Road (HWA Waterline Pass Through Grant) TOWNSHIP Burrell Township COUNTY Indiana TYPE Polluted Water Human Consumption 5/13

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, DAPHNI L. SNOW & LARRY E. SNOW SR. ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHEATFIED COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 1145 PAGE 517 TAX PARCEL #40-021-300 RD 2 BOX 90 A/K/A 12250 ROUTE 56 HIGHWAY WEST SEWARD, PA 15954 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-RP2, BY ITS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS DAPHNI L. SNOW & LARRY E. SNOW SR. CS #10809 CD 2013 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ANDREW J. MARLEY (215-572-8111) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

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NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the SURFACE MINING CONSERVATION ACT, the COAL REFUSE DISPOSAL CONTROL ACT, the PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RULES AND REGULATIONS and the CLEAN STREAMS LAW, notice is hereby given that Consol Mining Company LLC, 100 Consol Energy Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317 has made application to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for renewing its existing coal refuse disposal permit and related NPDES permit for reclamation and water treatment only. The current permit, No. 32803712, was issued on January 16, 1986 and will expire on January 16, 2016. This renewal does not contain revisions to the existing operation. The receiving streams for the permit area are Coal Run and Aultmans Run. The operation (295 acres) is located in Young Township, Indiana County and is known as the Lewisville Recovery Plant. The permit area is situated approximately 1.2 miles southwest of the village of Jacksonville. The permit area is bounded on the northwest

by PA Route 3002 and on the east by township road T-660.

The McIntyre, PA U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic map contains the area described, approximately 6.1 inches north and 7.2 inches west of the bottom right corner of the printed area of the map.

A copy of the application is available for public inspection at the California District Office, 25 Technology Drive, Coal Center, PA 15423. Written comments, objections, or a request for public hearing or informal conference may be submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection, California District Office, 25 Technology Drive, Coal Center, PA 15423 no later then thirty (30) days following the last (4th) publication of this notice and must include the person’s name, address, telephone number and a brief statement as to the nature of the objections.

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NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO INVOLUNTARILY TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS IN RE: Child Laney, No. 39 DP. 2014; Orphans’ Court Division No. 32-15-0482 TO: JOHN CLARK, parent of Child Laney, DOB 5-11-2012 A Petition has been granted asking the Court to put an end to all the rights that you have to your child, Child Laney. The Court has set a hearing to consider ending your rights to your child. That hearing was held in the Indiana County Courthouse, Courtroom No. 2, on the 5th day of May, 2016, at 8:30 A.M. before the Honorable Thomas Bianco. You were warned that even if you fail to appear at the scheduled hearing, the hearing will go on without you, and any rights that you have to the child may be ended by the Court without your being present. On this date, any and all rights you had were terminated. You have 30 days to file an appeal to the Superior Court. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED AT THE HEARING BY A LAWYER. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER, OR CANNOT AFFORD ONE, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU CAN RECEIVE LEGAL REPRESENTATION. Office of the Court Administrator Third Floor Indiana County Courthouse 825 Philadelphia Street Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701 Telephone: (724) 465-3955 Robert F. Manzi Jr. Attorney for Indiana County Children and Youth Services Petitioner 832 Philadelphia Street Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701 Telephone: (724) 463-8791 5/13

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NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO INVOLUNTARILY TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS IN RE: Child Liggett, No. 8 DP. 2015; Orphans’ Court Division No. 32-16-0116 TO: The unknown father, parent of Child Liggett, DOB 2-19-2015 If you had relations with April Pardee between the dates of April and May of 2014, you could possibly be the child’s birth father. A Petition has been granted asking the Court to put an end to all the rights that you have to your child, Child Liggett. The Court has set a hearing to consider ending your rights to your child.

That hearing was held in the Indiana County Courthouse, Courtroom No. 2, on the 5th day of May, 2016, at 1:15 P.M. before the Honorable Thomas Bianco. You were warned that even if you fail to appear at the scheduled hearing, the hearing will go on without you, and any rights that you have to the child may be ended by the Court without your being present. On this date, any and all rights you had were terminated. You have 30 days to file an appeal to the Superior Court. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED AT THE HEARING BY A LAWYER. YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PAPER TO YOUR LAWYER AT ONCE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LAWYER, OR CANNOT AFFORD ONE, GO TO OR TELEPHONE THE OFFICE SET FORTH BELOW TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU CAN RECEIVE LEGAL REPRESENTATION. Office of the Court Administrator Third Floor Indiana County Courthouse 825 Philadelphia Street Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701 Telephone: (724) 465-3955 Robert F. Manzi Jr. Attorney for Indiana County Children and Youth Services Petitioner 832 Philadelphia Street Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701 Telephone: (724) 463-8791 5/13

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, JOSEPH GEISWEIDT & CORINNE GEISWEIDT ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST WHEATFIELD COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED DEED BOOK 1364 PAGE 36 TAX PARCEL #41-10-111.06 1268 GERMANY LUTHERN CEMETERY ROAD NEW FLORENCE, PA 15944 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) VS JOSEPH GEISWEIDT & CORINNE GEISWEIDT CS #12123 CD 2015 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: HEATHER RILOFF (610-328-2887) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

NOTICE EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Myron Hay Tomb, Esquire Attorney for the Estate NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Esther M. Wiley, deceased, late of Indiana Borough, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, have been issued to the undersigned. Those knowing themselves to be indebted to the said Estate are requested to make prompt payment.

Those having claims against the said Estate are requested to present proof of the same for payment.

Sandra W. Carr 1442 Philadelphia Street Indiana, PA 15701 4/29, 5/6, 5/13

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, LEO S. DZIADOS & NINA R. DZIADOS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BRUSH VALLEY COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 12520 TAX PARCEL #08-007-126 1303 CAMPGROUND ROAD INDIANA, PA 15701 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST VS LEO S. DZIADOS & NINA R. DZIADOS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CASE #10042 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: KERI P. EBECK (412-434-7955) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

NOTICE Barbor, Sottile & Darr, P.C., Attorney ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE Letters of Administration on the Estate of Harley Dawn Lowmaster, Late of Green Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said estate are requested to present them duly authenticated and those knowing themselves to be indebted are requested to make prompt payment.

Administrator: William L. Lowmaster, Jr. 31 Watsons Road Glen Campbell, PA 15742-8512 5/13, 5/20, 5/27

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NOTICE SHERIFF SALE NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HERE BY NOTIFIED THAT THIS ACTION CAN DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR PROPERTY. YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN ATTORNEY TO ADVISE YOU OF YOUR RIGHTS. YOUR PROPERTY IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A WRIT OF EXECUTION BASED UPON A JUDGMENT. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO OPEN THE JUDGMENT OR SET THAT JUDGMENT ASIDE. AFTER THE SALE IS HELD YOU STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURT TO SET ASIDE THE SALE AND/OR FILE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTION WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE FILING OF THE SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION.

BY VIRTURE OF CERTAIN WRITS OF EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF INDIANA AND TO ME DIRECTED THERE WILL BE EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VENUE OR OUTCRY AT THE COURTHOUSE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, ON MAY 27, 2016 AT 2:00 PM ALL THE RIGHT, TITLE, INTEREST, CLAIM AND DEMAND OF THE DEFENDANTS, JODI L. MUMAU ALL OTHER PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PIECES, PARCELS, OR LOTS OF LAND SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF PINE COUNTY OF INDIANA, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT NUMBER 2009-204026 TAX PARCEL #33-022-306 63 1st STREET HEILWOOD, PA 15745 TAKEN INTO EXECUTION AT THE SUIT OF BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP VS JODI L. MUMAU CASE #10046 CD 2016 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: ADAM H. DAVIS (215-563-7000) NOTICE TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST AND CLAIMANTS: At the time of the sale $100 or ten (10) percent of the successful bid, whichever sum is the greater, must be paid to the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be paid before the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution or the Sheriff will direct the Auctioneer to resell the property. The balance due shall be paid to the Sheriff by the date fixed for the filing of the Schedule of Distribution, otherwise all money previously paid will be forfeited and the property will be resold at which time the full purchase price of all costs, whichever may be higher shall be paid in full or under proper circumstances a receipt given by a lien creditor; also there must then be delivered to the Sheriff a Judicial Affidavit of Value, executed in duplicate on the form supplied by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of documentary stamps for the deed, (note that proper certification must be secured from the Department of Revenue if the amount of stamps is to be based upon monetary value or if exemption is claimed for a deed to a grantee such as the Veterans Administration). For each sale a Schedule of Distribution will be filed on JUNE 26, 2016. Distribution will be made in accordance therewith unless exceptions are filed within ten (10) days after the filing date.

ROBERT E. FYOCK, SHERIFF 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

NOTICE EXECUTOR’S NOTICE JOHN A. HANNA, ATTORNEY Letters Testamentary on the Estate of BETTY C. WEINSTEIN, a/k/a BETTY WEINSTEIN, late of White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, deceased, having been granted the undersigned, those having claims against said Estate are requested to present them duly authenticated for settlement, and those knowing themselves to be indebted are requested to make prompt payment.

WILLIAM WEINSTEIN c/o John A. Hanna 132 South 7th Street Indiana, PA 15701 5/13, 5/20, 5/27

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Real Estate Transfers Thomas J. Fooks to Bernard K. Bruns and Margaret L. Bruns, White Township, $40,000 Florence M. Peles TR by TR and Nestor V. Peles TR by TR to Stephen N. Peles and Beth D. Peles, Montgomery Township, Burrell Township, $1 Leslie P. Beresnyak Jr. and Faye Beresnyak to Frank V. Beresnyak, South Mahoning Township, $1 Alfretta Gale Klingensmith Est., Gale Klingensmith Est. AKA A. Gale Klingensmith, Joseph Klingensmith and Janie Klingensmith Kreidler to John R. Klingensmith, White Township, $100,000 Nancy Bain to Richard W. Phillips and Mary L. Phillips, Indiana Borough 2nd Ward, $20,000 Margaret Troska to Donna Jean Mitchell, Burrell Township, $1 Ronda G. Halldin and David Halldin to Ronda G. Halldin, Burrell Township, $1 James L. Wiltrout by SHF and Betty D. Wiltrout by SHF to Wells Fargo Bank NA, White Township, $1,450.36 Travis Trowbridge to Jacqueline H. Montgomery, Indiana Borough 2nd Ward, $125,000 Paul D. Cross to Chirstopher S. Showalter and Carol A. Showalter, Burrell Township, $140,000 LSF9 Master Participation Trust to Ashley M. Daley and Terrance Daley, East Mahoning Township, $16,000 Indiana Regional Medical Center to MKD Holdings LLC, Blairsville Borough 2nd Ward, $91,688 Abe M. Miller and Susanne B. Miller to Henry I. Byler and Fannie L. Byler, North Mahoning Townhip, $98,000

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The regular meetings of the Indiana Borough Planning Commission will be held in Council Chambers located in the Municipal building, 80 North 8th Street, Indiana, PA at 5:00 p.m. on May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17, November 21, and December 19, 2016.

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In Loving Memory of

Dolores Stockdale

7/ 22/29 - 5/13/12 Memories are precious possessions That time can never destroy For it is in happy remembrances That the heart finds its greatest joy Loved and greatly missed by Her Husband, Children, Grandchildren, and Great-Grandchildren

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LOST House Cat, In Ernest, Chocolate Siamese, answers to Simon, no collar.

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724-349-6900 888-349-6800 • Joyce M. Overdorff • Jaci N. Reefer • Donald Altemus MLS# 1083664

Marion Center School District REDUCED $35,000

1163 Grant Street, Suite 104 Indiana, PA

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Gorgeous fireplace. So popular that this model always in stock… It’s time to sell the model.

Re-order $129,500 model now $114,500. Riverview Homes – Rte 66 Vandergrift (724) 567-5647.

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ASTROGRAPH ❂✵✪ ❂ Your Birthday SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016

by Eugenia Last Spread out and explore what life has to offer.

Make personal changes and update your image, skills and knowledge. Step into the spotlight and don’t be afraid to take a stand for what you believe in. Make a difference by being a participant, not a spectator.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — You need to gather information and make a wellthought-out decision regarding your professional direction and personal desires.

Don’t worry what others do or say. Do what’s best for you.

GEMINI (May 21June 20) — It’s a good day to clean house and get rid of the things you no longer need. Have a garage sale and turn your unused items into cash. Let go of the past and move into the future.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — If you share your thoughts, you will be offered interesting suggestions.

Someone from your past will make a difference to how you proceed. Don’t shy away from love and romance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Mix business with pleasure, but don’t take charge.

Listen attentively in order to gather the knowledge you need to make a strategic move when the time is right.

VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22) — Join in, voice your opinion and head to where the action is. Don’t let domestic problems stifle your plans or a demanding individual make you feel guilty. Aim to have fun.

LIBRA (Sept. 23Oct. 23) — Money matters will take top priority. Handle your

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BRAND NEW: 1 Bdrm Apts, ALL UTIL. INCL. free dish & internet. East Pike $660/mo No pets.

(724) 549-2059

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Take a moment to think.

You’ll be manipulated if you let someone speak on your behalf. Anger isn’t the answer, but making your own decisions will improve your future.

1-3 BDR Apartments Westgate Group Apartments: Quiet community near campus and shopping. Pet friendly! Free parking! W/D on site.

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Lots & Acreage For Sale

STERLING HILLS Development, Indiana - Lots starting at $25,000 with Public Utilities. Call (724) 349-4914.

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Furnished Apartments

AFFORDABLE College Apts near Campus. Small & Large groups accepted. Houses also available for rent. runcorental@verizon.net (724) 349-0152 A NEW group of people are looking at the Indiana Gazette classifieds every day.

Don’t you want them to see your ad? We can offer suggestions to give readers a reason to call you first. Phone us at (724) 349-4949.

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BORO: 2 Bdr, W/D, Dishwr, wood deck, parking, Pet friendly, $600/mo.

Avail. 7/1 (724) 388-3388

affairs personally.

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Furnished 1 BR, central air, dishwasher, $585 + elec., pkg, np & ns . Call (724) 349-2638 SUMMER Special. 1 br, 4 rm. Intown. Prking & util. incl. Now thru mid-Aug. $1,250. (724) 463-8180

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Unfurnished Apartments

1 BDR, 1st floor, range & frig, parking, clean, no pets, $495 month + electric. Call (724) 465-2420

BLAIRSVILLE 2 bedroom, residential area, yard, porch, laundry hookup, no pets, $550/month + gas & elec (412) 527-2533 COLONIAL MANOR 1 bdr furnished. & unfurnished. 2 bdr unfurnished.

Call for info.

(724) 463-9290. 9-4pm. colonialmanorindianapa .com HEILWOOD: 2 bdr, includes all utilities except electric, appliances included. $500/mo + $300 sec. dep. Call (814) 948-4268 HOMER CITY: Two bedrooms, Royal Oaks Apts.

Phone (724) 464-9708 IN TOWN 1st FL, 3 bdrm unit. Rent incl. gas heat, a/c, water, hot water, garbage, sewage & off street parking. Rent $850/mo, 6 mo. lease, no pets.

Call (724) 349-5880 IN TOWN 2nd FL, 2 bdrm unit. Rent incl. gas heat, a/c, water, hot water, garbage, sewage & off street parking. $700/mo, 6 mo. lease, no pets. Call (724) 349-5880 Indiana Boro: 2 bdr on nice street , $625 plus gas & elec. Call (724) 422-8473 INDIANA: 2 story + bsmt , 3 bdr, 2 ba, townhouse, n/p, n/s, $600/mo. + utilities. Call (724) 465-8280 NEAR AULTMAN: 4 rooms & bath, over a 2 car garage, rent includes half the garage, $400/mo + sec. deposit. Call (724) 479-8824 NEW 1 bdr, Indiana, $540/mo. incl sewage, garbage & water. No Pets. Call (412) 289-0382 NEWLY Remodeled, 1 bdrm apt in Homer City, No pets, includes all utilities, $560/mo plus security. (724) 762-3520 Two BR, private patio, $542 - $695 + elec, ns, np. (724) 349-2638

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Houses For Rent

ARMAGH: Farmhouse, 4 bdr, 1.5 ba., $750/mo. plus util., ref., sec. & cr. chk req. (724) 676-2505 ATTRACTIVE 2 bdrm. Indiana, $625/mo. plus util., non smoking, no pets, Call (724) 388-3337 BLAIRSVILLE: Nice remodeled 2 Bdr, $695/ mo.+ util. & 1 Bdr $495/ mo.+ util. (724) 858-7813

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Houses For Rent

BLAIRSVILLE: Nice remodeled 3 Bdrm, $745/ mo. + util. (724) 858-7813 INDIANA BORO: 2 Bedroom, 1 bath, small house, $500/mo. plus utilities. (724) 349-5839 Indiana, 2 Bdrm, 1 bath, off street parking $650 + util., pets are additional fee (724) 465-8869 LARGE Farm House 2 miles from Ind. water & gas incl. $1,250/mo. Call (724) 388-0040. Ava 6/1.

MARION Center Area: very clean, 2 bedroom, some utilities. $410/mo.

Call (724) 349-9026

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Help Wanted

RECEPTIONIST/ GREETER Full time position.

Ideal candidate should have a great can do attitude, provide excellent customer service and have basic computer skills.

Responsibilities include welcoming our customers, working a switchboard phone, maintaining a professional appearance and completing light office work.

Experience helpful, but not necessary.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Apply In Person.

Colonial Motor Mart

Nice 2 bdr duplex in McIntyre , newly remodeled, $495/mo (724) 840- 2399

349 N. 4th St., Indiana Ask for Managers John or Mike.

Nice 2 bdr in Aultman, appliances included , $650/mo. (724) 840-2399

MOTOR MART

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Duplex For Rent

Ernest & Creekside, 2 Bdrm apt., $475/mo Creekside, 1 Bdrm apt., $400/mo, water, sewage & lawn included, no pets, (724) 840-3585 INDIANA Boro 2 Bdrm, 1st fl, off st. pkg., w/d hu, neat/clean. n/p, n/s, $600 + utilities. (412) 309-0379

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Mobile Homes For Rent

2 & 3 Bedroom on private lot. $450 plus deposit. No pets. (724) 354-2317 HOMER CITY area, 2 bdr, utilities included, $750/mo security deposit & 2 references required, no smoking & no pets.

Call (724) 422-1395

MCINTYRE: 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, garbage included. $525/month No Pets.

(724) 541-2361

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Vacation Homes For Rent

OCEAN CITY MARYLAND Best selection of affordable rentals.

Full / partial weeks.

Call for FREE Brochure.

Open daily.

Holiday Resort Services.

1-800-638-2102.

Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com

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Help Wanted

BEACON CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTER Now Hiring Experienced Child Care Workers, Applicants must have experience working in child care and be openly available to all shifts, including overnights. We are a 24/7 facility. Now providing Benefits. Please send resume to: Resumes@ beacondaycare.org (724) 349-0234

Help Wanted

FUEL TRUCK DRIVER CDL Class B, Airbrake and X endorsement required, Federal random drug testing, Full time Position, guaranteed 40 hr/wk, Local deliveries, home every day, Fully paid healthcare with other benefits. Send resumes to: Box 2936 c/o The Indiana Gazette P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701.

Kiski Prep School In Saltsburg is hiring in the Housekeeping Dept.

Full time with benefits.

Stop in at Old Main to fill out your application.

Monday thru Friday 8am-4pm.

LPN

ONE & 1/2 Story, 3 bdr, 1 bath. 1 Mile from YMCA. Phone 724-349-1780 VARIETY of Rentals, short or long term, furnished or unfurnished. $455/mo. to $1200/mo.

(724) 463-9000

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Elementary Principal,

Harmony Area School District, Available July 1, 2016: Pennsylvania Principal Certification K-12 required. Experience in administration preferred; seeking a strong instructional leader who possesses experience with curriculum mapping, data driven instruction, technology integration and special education. The successful candidate understands and employs exemplary organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, and is committed to professional growth and development.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume, standard application, transcript, praxis scores, copy of certificate, current clearances and three current professional references no later than May 31, 2016 to Harmony Area School District, Attn: Dara Campbell, 5239 Ridge Road, Westover, PA 16692.

Entry-Level Mechanic

A Full-time position is available in the BLAIRSVILLE AREA for an individual that has skills as a mechanic to assist with medium duty commercial equipment including diesel. Company medical insurance is available for the individual, vacation and paid holidays. Uniforms will be provided. The eligible person will be required to obtain a CDL license. Salary requirements should be submitted with your resume.

Please send resume to: Box 2935 c/o The Indiana Gazette P.O. Box 10, Indiana, PA 15701.

Due to growth, the Indiana County Transit Authority (IndiGO) has an opening for a ROAD SUPERVISOR. IndiGO operates both Fixed Route and Shared Ride services in and around Indiana County.

Applicants should possess strong communication and management skills.

Experience with employee scheduling, customer service and the ability to manage multiple projects is a plus.

A minimum of a high school education and at least three (3) years supervisory experience and experience in Fixed Route and Shared Ride transportation is required.

A Pennsylvania Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Class “B” and “P” endorsement is required.

Primary shift will consist of afternoon, evening and weekend hours.

This is a full time position with a benefit package.

Applicants should send resumes, references and salary requirements to: IndiGO, PO Box 869, Indiana, PA 15701 Attn: Human Resources.

Resumes will be accepted until May 27, 2016.

IndiGO is an EOE.

LPN for Mobile Psychiatric Medication Program in Indiana. Duties include providing assessment, medication management, education, skill building instruction, and coordination of services to adults in their homes. $26,490. Excellent benefit package. 35 hour work week, M-F 8:30-4:30 and flexibility of working from own home. Resumes can be submitted by e-mail to hr@fccc.org or mailed to Executive Director, Family Counseling Center of Armstrong County, 300 South Jefferson Street, Kittanning, PA 16201. www.fccac.org

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016

by Phillip Alder

DO NOT LOSE TRACK OF YOUR LOSERS Robert Orben, a comedian who is also a magician and was a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford, said, “There are days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.”

That is a good sentence for bridge players to remember.

Especially when in a suit contract, after the dummy comes down, the declarer should pause and count up his potential losers. How many should South see in today’s deal?

He is in four hearts, and West has led the club queen.

Well, let’s count them up. South has one in spades, one in hearts, one in ADVERTISE in the Indiana Gazette Classifieds Call (724) 349-4949 to place your ad!

diamonds and one in clubs — one too many.

At this point, it is a good idea to count winners. (If an opponent complains that you are taking too long, tell him that he has just broken your train of thought and you will have to start all over again!)

Here, declarer has one spade, four hearts, two diamonds and two clubs — a total of nine. Hmm ... things are grim. What should South do?

North, counting three points for the singleton, was well worth his single heart raise.

The spade, heart and diamond losers are theoretically unavoidable.

Declarer must eliminate that club loser. After taking the first trick, he must lead a diamond, preferably a sneaky jack. If West is asleep and plays low, suddenly South can collect an overtrick. But let’s assume West wins with his ace and plays another club.

Declarer takes the trick, discards dummy’s last club on the diamond king, and starts to draw trumps. Eventually, he will ruff his club six on the board to eliminate his loser and to gain a fifth trump trick.

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Marion Center Bank is currently seeking a qualified applicant who are outgoing, dependable and has a positive attitude for the following position: FULL-TIME TELLER II (Indiana Office) – A Teller II is responsible for operating a full service teller station, crossselling bank products and opening new accounts for consumer customers. Previous teller experience is necessary.

Marion Center Bank offers competitive benefits and salary. Interested applicants should submit resume to Marion Center Bank, Attention Human Resources, PO Box 130, Indiana, PA 15701.

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Gazette Media & Marketing, the full-service digital and marketing agency of Indiana Printing & Publishing, is looking for a Digital Media Assistant.

Day-to-day duties will include: Website Management • Social Media Management Marketing Campaign Development • Copy and Blog Writing We’re looking for an ambitious self-starter willing to bring new ideas to better not only the agency, but its clients’ initiatives as well. See full description on gazettemediamarketing.com Gazette Media & Marketing was launched in early 2015 as the full-service digital media and marketing division of Indiana Printing & Publishing. The agency offers services such as website development and management, social media management, branding, reputation monitoring and management, remarketing and more.

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Classified CHANDELIER, Includes light bulbs, good condition, $25 (724) 479-2041 CHAR-BROIL Grill- Tree Infrared/Tank included, like new , used once, paid $300 asking $150.

Call (724) 349-2383 DUST ruffle & pillow sham: beige eyelet, queen size, shams are new, ruffles like new. $25 for all or will sell separate. Call (724) 467-0556 ENTERTAINMENT Center, nice condition., asking $175. Call (814) 743-9074 GARDEN Treasures accent 3 vase fountain, fiberglass construction, ul listed, heavy duty pump, 26.77 in. x 26.77 in. x 33.7 in. , sealed new in box., Ppaid $300 asking $150.

Call ( 724) 349-2383 MATCHING 80” Sofa & 57” loveseat, dark green leather, good condition, $300 for both. (724) 465-8252

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Appliances For Sale

GE Upright freezer, excellent condition. Asking $100. (724) 388-0923 KENMORE Washer, 2 years old, high eff., excellent condition. $200.

Call (724) 783-6159 MAYTAG Refrigerator side by side, water & ice in door, $200. Manard range, smooth top $100.

(724) 349-6204

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Musical & Stereo Equipment For Sale

FREE Upright Piano, needs tuned, just haul away, Call (724) 388-5024 PANASONIC Stereo with radio, cassette, and turn table, $50. (724)465-4907 or (724) 840-8111

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Pets & Supplies For Sale

AKC Doberman Puppies, only 2 left, text (724) 464-8112 or call (724) 254-9741 before 8 pm

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Help Wanted

Saltsburg Boro Police Department is accepting applications for Part-time Police Officer.

Candidates must be at 120 certified and be available to work a variety of shifts including weekends and holidays. Please send a resume along with applicable certifications to Saltsburg Police Dept.

PO Box 104 Saltsburg, PA 15681 or drop off Resume/ application at 320 Point Street Saltsburg.

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Work Wanted

MCNAVISH & SONS QUALITY Lawn Care spring clean ups, mowing, landscaping, shrub pruning, Insured.

Free Estimates (724) 541-0680

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Caregiver Child Care Wanted Services

LOOKING for Personal Care for Elderly Couple in Rochester Mills, meal prep & light housekeeping included, developing coverage for shifts, clearances and references required, (724) 549-2012 after 6pm

CLASSIFIED helpline: (724)349-4949. Include a price in your ad.

Research shows advertising the price draws a much greater response because people are interested in what they can afford. If the price is negotiable, say so. We can help you create a customized ad for your needs. Call today.

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Remodeling Services

PA# 1621

AN HONEST & REPUTABLE CONTRACTOR SERVING THE AREA FOR 28 YEARS! 7248402143 8147490584

HAULING Need your unwanted items hauled away. Call 724-463-8254.

PRO 1 PAVING Residential & Commercial Paving • Sealing Line Striping

“A CALL FOR QUALITY”

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Special Services

Special Services

724-694-8011 095

TREE MONKEYS

Professional Tree Service - Pruning and Removal - Stump Grinding

We Specialize In Hazardous Trees

Fully Insured

724-465-4083 PA059590

Clothing

WOMEN’S Leather Motorcycle jackets, 1 white $70 & 1 Black $25, Large.

(724) 549-6312

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Machinery & Tools

HOMELITE Chain saw 150 with case, 16” bar, $45. (724) 479-9409

DR. VAC

VACUUM CENTER PARTS • BELTS BAGS • SUPPLIES

Repairing All Brands Kirby Specialist Authorized Dyson Parts Dealer OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN SERVICE & REPAIR

19 S. MAIN ST, HOMER CITY (724) 479-2021

Lots Of Craftsman Tools, wrenches, sockets, impact sockets, standard & metric + many more. asking $80/all, Call for pricing. (724) 464-8195

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Household Goods

Beautiful glass top coffee table & 2 end tables, excellent cond., $75, (814) 948-7529

REAL ESTATE AUCTION

Tues., May 17 @ 6 PM #601 Manor St. Marion Center, PA 15759

TWO STORY/6 BEDROOM HOME ON A 50’ x 150’ LOT with access also from back alley.

A GREAT Starter Home, or Investment Property.

Plan to inspect by appointment, or the day of Sale.

TERMS: 10% down, balance due at time of closing.

Sale will be subject to confirmation by Seller.

For details contact:

QUIC-SALE www.quic-sale.com

724-726-5462

Mark E. Dixon III • Realtor & Auctioneer Lic. #2410

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ADS FOR FREE PETS

Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home.

The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who may sell your pet for research or breeding purposes.

Please screen respondents very carefully when giving away your pet.

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Sports Equipment For Sale

Bo-Flex x-xtreme, like new, power rod technology, no assembly, only $375 Call (724) 599-5420 Total Gym Exercise Equipment, like new, excellent cond. asking $100 Call (724) 388-5597

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Miscellaneous For Sale

3/4” SOFT Copper Tubing, 19 ft, Two 12 ft, 21 ft, $1.00 per ft. (724) 422-1044 Bell Collection, assorted styles & materials, $200/all.

Call (724) 397-8124 Small children’s swimming pool, pump incl., used 1 summer, $50, (724) 422-3957 WINDOW Air conditioner, $25. (724) 349-6517

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Wanted to Buy

WANTED Front end parts for 1984 Pontiac Parisenne. Please call with what you have. (724) 549-4585 No answer, leave message.

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Swimming Pools For Sale

Pools: 19’ x 31’ above ground, $899 installed FREE- site prep extra.

1-800-548-1923

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Autos For Sale

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Autos For Sale

2001 PONTIAC Firebird Coupe, V6, auto., 106K, new red paint & tires, clean sharp car, Dynoflo mufflers, R Title, garage parked in winter. $3,200.

(724) 463-7623 2007 FORD F150, V8, 4WD, 185k, viewable at 17 Maple Ave, Blairsville.

Sealed bids accepted until 2:00 p.m. 5/17/2016.

(724) 459-8033

LAWN FARM

GARDEN CENTER

BRUNNER

-LANDSCAPING & SUPPLY-

•Mulch •Soil •Compost CARPORTS & STEEL BUILDINGS $ SALES $ WE DELIVER 38 Years in Business

1 mi. N. of the YMCA on Ben Franklin Rd. N. Mon-Fri 9-5; Sat 8-?

724-463-7980

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Farm Equipment For Sale

1954 ALLIS Chambers WD 45 tractor. Very good condition. Call (724) 762-2175 10ft. BRILLION Cultimulcher, inside, good condition, $1,500 GRAVITY Box, 125 bushel, $900. (724) 349-3652

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The Indiana Gazette Autos For Sale

NOEL FORD 151 Walnut St.

Kittanning, PA 16201

2011 FORD TAURUS SEL

V6, Gold, 14,000 Mi., Like New, Clean Int.

16,595

$

724.543.1015

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Motorcycles For Sale

GOLDEN Champion fold down handicap scooter, $950. 724-465-4907 or 724-840-8111 HARLEY Davidson 2008 Sportster 883 custom XL, 13k, Inspected, extras included, Indiana, $5,200 obo 717-512-5915

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ATV For Sale

SET Of Fieldline ATV accessories: saddlebags, cooler saddlebag, 2 gun rack, cargo pack. Never used. $50. for all. (724) 840-6446

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Garage Sales

Lawn & Garden Tools For Sale

Black & Decker hedge trimmer, 13” bar, single side. $20 cash only. (724) 349-8885

ALVERDA: 11155 Route 553 Highway Fri. 5/13 8-5 & Sat. 5/14 8-?, household items, kitchen bedding, curtains, pictures & frames, misc. decor., new metal folding chairs, coolers, vcr movies for children & adults

CRAFTSMAN riding lawn tractor with bagger $400, Lawn tractor without bagger, $350.

(724) 479-3124 SCOTTS Lime spreader, $15. (724) 463-1314 SIMPLICITY 20 hp garden tractor, 48” deck with snow plow, excellent condition, asking $2,000.

(724) 388-0923 WHEELHORSE Lawn mower c195 , 19hp, 5’mower, good condition, $1000 obo. Call (724) 840-1042 Farm & Lawn Services

DIXONVILLE: St. John’s Church Hall, Sat. 5/14 8:30am-2pm. over 40 tables including vendors & crafts. Also, Ethnic food!

Don’t Miss The Deadline to Advertise Your Garage Sale!

For Ads running: •Tuesday through Friday call before 1pm the day before.

•For Saturday, call before 12 p.m Friday.

•For Sunday, call before 1 pm Friday.

•For Monday, call before 4pm Friday.

(724) 349-4949

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ELDERTON Heights, near Town Hall, May 13; 8-3pm & May 14; 8-1pm Clothes, toys, tools, misc.

FREE ESTIMATE 724.954.2986 Locally Owned & Operated

HARDSCAPES • Outdoor Living Spaces • Patios & Retaining Walls • Firepits & Fireplaces • Stonework • Rock Gardening • Ponds & Waterfalls QUALITY WORK ~ FULLY INSURED Commercial & Residential

ELDERTON: 365 Old Elderton Hill Rd, Sat. 5/14; 8-3pm. Multiple items.

Boys 3T clothes, stroller, car seat, etc.

GAS TOWN past the churches. Elderton Area.

Huge 6 family estate sale!

May 13 & 14; 8am-3pm.

PA #055842

Office: 724-349-6696 Cell: 724-422-3333 MadererLandscapingInc.com Bob Maderer, Owner

Find Us

INDIANA: 1116 Chestnut St, Sat. 5/14; 8am-3pm.

Dishes, Housewares, and misc.

INDIANA: 1629 Wilson Avenue, Fri. 5/13 & Sat. 5/14, 8-2, some newborn, 0-12mo girls clothing, 0-6 mo. boys clothing, toys, baby shoes, mens & womens clothing, lots of misc.

INDIANA: 31 S. 3rd St, Sat. 9am-4pm. Indoor! Infant boy’s clothes like new, bird playard, kitchenware, home decor & more. (724) 422-7619

INDIANA: 342 Snyder Dr off Rayne Ch. Rd, Thurs, Fri, Sat; 8am-?, Rain or Shine, Antiques, riding toys, women’s/girl clothes, Christmas decor, comforter, strollers, bassinet, riding toys.

INDIANA: 750 White Farm Rd, Sat. 5/14 , 8-1, many girl toys, pool w/filter, 5t-7 boys clothing, furniture, queen poster canopy bed, ergo baby carrier

INDIANA: 80 Shaffer Drive, E. Pike - under roof, Sat. 5/14, 8:30-5, collectibles & vintage includes, Tonka Dumps, 33 & 78 RPM records, “Red” kitchen utensils, figurines, gate leg table, wooden tea cart, glassware, hand tools, linens & more. Also golf cart, books, VHS, Handy Man & Wood Magazines , bar stools, Christmas, Halloween, sm. appliances & electronics, linens, pictures, home decor & more.

INDIANA: 939 N Ben Franklin Rd. BIG BARN Sale, Sat 5/14, 9-4. Antiques, housewares, new plain T-shirts/hats/ sweatshirts, toys, collectibles.

Something for all!

INDIANA: 349 Walnut St, May 13 & 14, 9am-5pm.

No Early Birds! Furniture, household items, children stuff, dishes, much more.

Call Today d ffor a

1997 BUICK LeSabre, 103k, loaded, no rust, asking $1,800. Call John 724-479-8636 5-9pm only

CLASSIFIED helpline: (724)349-4949. Ads with a price always generate more qualified calls. We can help you create a quick response ad to fit your needs.

Livestock & Poultry For Sale

YEARLING Beef bulls for sale, Angus X, Simmentel X, 724-244-0765

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Phone us at (724)3494949 to place your advertisement

GARAGE SALES

GOATS, 4H / FFA / meat.

Call (724) 286-9986

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2012 HD Ultra Classic, 16k miles, all stock, new tires and brakes @ 12k miles, asking $16,000.

Call (724) 762-1051

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GRACETON: Rte 119 Storage, Sat.; 8-Noon, Tools, doors, windows, big metal desk, antiques, toys, lots of good stuff!

INDIANA: 520 East Pike , Sat. 5/14, 8:30-5, Vintage Vietnam-Era Military Clothing, graybar simulator 1920’s exercise machine, picture frames 4x5 -30x40, album pages, folders, mats, child-size wicker, director’s chair, misc.

INDIANA: 580 N. 9th St, Fri. 8-2pm & Sat., 8-noon 6 Families. Something for everyone!

INDIANA: 585 N. Ben Franklin, Fri. 5/13-Sat. 5/14, 8-4pm teen girls, boys, & adult clothes, office furn, tools, books, etc

INDIANA: League of Women Voters Bag sale, 527 Shryock Ave. near Indiana Jr. High, Sat. 5/14 , 8am-1pm, Fill a provided bag with clothing, household items, and much more for $5, other items as priced, Still available gas grill, bikes, lateral file cabinet, 1-2 pm sale of garage sale supplies, saw horses, table racks, etc.

INDIANA: Multi-Family 166 Martin Road ( Off of Fulton Run Road), Fri. & Sat., 8am-4pm both days, Rain or Shine, power tools, table saw, dressers, kitchen table & chairs, hoosier cupboad, fence, baby items, households

SAVE THE DATE!

INDIANA: Forest Manor Annual Sale! Sat. May 21th, 8am-12pm, 20+ families